(Courtesy of Hobart Baker)

“Firemen from seven towns battled a fire at Beavertown Sunday afternoon (January 22, 1939), which destroyed the Aurand Funeral Home causing $10,000 loss.”

(Whose house stood just to the east of this funeral home? Answer next month.)

Answer to Last Month

While hard to see, the livery stable was the building to the lower left in last month’s photo. Here you could rent a horse and buggy, as many peddlers did that came in on the train, to reach their customers in the nearby countryside.

In our last month’s answer, we incorrectly stated that Charles Dreese owned the home where the WWII Honor Roll stood. Charles Freed was the owner. He himself was a WWI veteran, and a dear old friend of the editor’s maternal grandfather and he always was kindly and cheerful to the editor who as a child lived right across the street from this house.