(Courtesy of Richard C. Wagner)

Shown here are Harry Wagner, Bill Soles, and Paul Hassinger posing with their saddle horses in front of the planing mill. This mill was built in the late 1930s by Russel Benfer, using a building of Jim Wiand’s that was located near where Jim Etzler’s butcher shop is now. In the 1980s, Paul Kline moved it to his estate where it is today, used as a garage I believe.

(Name at least one other building in town today that was moved to its location. Answer next month.)

Answer to Last Month

“Roundy” Walker once told me that the Beavertown baseball team played a professional ball team in Lewistown as an exhibition, AND BEAT THEM!

“Butch” Rine was the fireball pitcher for Beavertown, and this pro team said they were fearful and could not get comfortable in the batter’s box, and thus lost.

While I am reluctant to name the pros that were beat, it was a world famous team from New York City.