(Courtesy of Margaret Kearns)

Pictured here is Edna Buck Kearns sitting in Max Kearns’ glider in front of Kearns Car Company on Center Street in Beavertown in 1910.

Later, this glider was taken over to the ridge north of Beavertown via Center Street, past here Herb Oberlin now lives. At the time a Mr. Coleman, Rudy Coleman’s grandfather, was living there. Mr. Coleman said “If that thing flies it will be the end of the world.”. Rudy, a small boy then, was so frightened by this prospect that he rand and hid in the outhouse. Only when later the parties returned with the glider in pieces because it crashed, did Rudy feel safe to come out.

Still later, Max teamed up with another man as this piece in the Middleburg Post of April 13, 1911 states: “Max Kearns, the hustling manager of the Kearns Motor Car Company, Beavertown, in connection with Robert Blair of Mifflintown are building an air ship of the Bleriot type and expect to make an ascent in the early future. Mr. Blair is fashioning the wings, while Mr. Kearns is doing the mechanical work. it will be a one passenger mono-plane.”

(What three businesses were housed in the building to the left of the Kearns Motor Car Company shown in the picture? See next month’s issue!)

Answer to Last Month

The POS of A parade photo in the June issue was taken from where Christopher Weller now lives at 205 South Center Street, and is looking north on Center Street past the railroad and the still standing Central Hotel building.