(Courtesy of George Saylor)

Shown above is a snapshot of Charles M. Kearns Jr. (on the right) in leisure dress taken at the Beaver Community Fair on Saturday, September 26, 1995. Here he is looking over one of the few remaining Eureka automobiles, which were the first Kearns cars his father made in Beavertown beginning in 1907. Charles died out in Tuscon, Arizona on July 30th. See the front page for more on this great man.

(What event other than the Beaver Fair was held that Saturday in 1995? Answer next month.)

Answer to Last Month

Without using semantics to distinguish the Chief Burgess from the Mayor, and using the term Mayor for both, the man who served as the Mayor of Beavertown for the longest time was Charles M. Bobb, who served six consecutive terms in office from 1934 to 1957, a period of 24 years. His service began during the Great Depression and ended with Sputnik at the height of the Cold War.