(Courtesy of Ada Thomas)

This photo was taken at the Williams Grove Granger Picnic. The date is unknown. In the first row from left to right we find: Lydia Beaver, John A. Wetzel, Libbie Bingaman, Katie Beaver, William Engle, and Libbie Kline. In the second row left to right are: Charles Freed, Alice Middleswarth, William Greenhoe, Annie Hackenberg, Phares Reichenbach, and Ellie Walker. Five boys and seven girls of Beavertown out for some good clean fun.

This photo was taken on September 5, 1904.

(Can you name another “fun” Beavertown group of the past? Answer next month.)

Answer to Last Month

Johnny P. Kearns operated a used vehicle business called the Eureka Car Company in Beavertown. He was also a new tire and inter-tube dealer.

In last month’s BN, we showed a photo of a firetruck used in Lewistown. It credited the manufacture of this truck to the Eureka Car Company of Beavertown. If it was made here, it would have been a Kearns, not a Eureka. In 1907, J. P. Kearns did make Eureka Motor Buggies, but soon thereafter, his son Max took over and operated as the Kearns Car (and later truck) Company. So, it is most likely this was a Eureka used vehicle.