(Courtesy of Donald Mattern)

Shown here is a fully paid and non-assessable preferred capital stock certificate #4 for 2 shares at $10.00 each, payable at 6% per annum , issued to Reed A. Mattern on October 22, 1913, signed by James P. Umholtz, Treasurer, and N. W. Aigler, President. This company was incorporated under the laws of the state of Delaware.

(Another Kearns truck line was manufactured in the 1920s. What and where? Answer next month.)

Answer to Last Month

The dynamo plant of the Beavertown Electric Company was located on South Center Street, now a vacant small lot.

In 1913, when Beavertown was still part of Beaver Township, its citizens wanted to have the electric company install street lights to be paid for by the taxpayers. In a referendum, the voters outside of the town felt this was uncalled for, and defeated the proposal. This action resulted in Beavertown petitioning the court to become a borough, and the court so granted it on November 14, 1914.

(Courtesy of Dot Lash)

Shown here is the front of a stock certificate issued by the Beavertown Electric Company in 1908, to Ira Haines. While they supplied energy for only part of each day, it was an amazing step forward in our town’s progress. This privately held corporation was the principal reason why Beavertown sought to become a Borough in 1914.

(Where was the dynamo plant of this company located? Answer next month.)

Answer to Last Month

Your editor has an ice house that could be used in a day or so if needed, to store and keep ice. In it are ice tongs, ice saw, and other ice processing paraphernalia.

We used it as an ice house until 1948.

It has a concrete bottom with a sloped floor with a drain, and a frame top, with proper doors to put the ice in and take it out.

At present, various other items are stored in this building, but they could be removed, and it would be ready for sawdust covered ice slabs immediately.

(Courtesy of Lulu Stracke)

Be cool dear readers. Here is something you don’t see much of anymore, and yet it was a common sight in the 30s and 40s. Shown here are George S. Mattern and Ben H. Walter sawing ice on the East Branch stream that now runs just east of Tom’s. you can see the railroad bridge in this photo, and its foundation is still there today.

(Who today still has a fully functional old-fashioned ice house in Beavertown? Answer next month.)

Answer to Last Month

Unfortunately, no one resonded to last month’s question. “What kind of car is this?” in the photo. My guess is that it was a 1934 or 1935 Chevrolet or Ford.

In May on one of my webpages, we reviewed that “Dote” Wetzel had a Graham-Paige, George “Tickey” Norman had a Lafayette, Charles Schrader had a Willys and Bob Edmiston had a big Packard. What fun...