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31 minutes ago, conservativeman633 said:

Thank you !!   I was looking for the location of "Shantytown" in particular-------------------can't seem to open your site.      I was wondering where, exactly, Shantytown was in relation to D-Hill.....?

Try copy and paste in your address bar.

Not sure if there's anything in this one either, but it seems somewhat more...encompassing.

http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/history/city-of-dubois.txt

2 hours ago, conservativeman633 said:

St. Michaels was the Polish Church---there was no other.  St. Michaels is also in the First Ward as the news item mentions.

It appears that in 1891(not 1890, my error) the people were gathering to discuss and plan a Polish Church which was to become St. Michaels when finally built.  St. Michaels is "not far" from St. Catherines, especially the original church which was closer than the present one today.      In other words, as the title of the thread suggests, the "birth" of St. Michaels church.

 

St. Joseph was the Lithuanian/Slovak Church....not Polish....

 

Just thought others would have some interest in this subject, and apparently some do !

Again, you're likely mistaken about what church was being discussed. There was a progression of Catholic churches with St. Mike's starting up  somewhere around 1911-12.

St. Josephs, which was built roughly two or three years after this piece, falls in the time-frame you're looking at.

I read this piece several years ago, and it deals primarily with the succession of parish priests at St. Joe's, but it also includes many of the relevant dates and events surrounding other parishes as well. It's actually a very good read. There's some items about St. Mike's on Page 3.

https://dioceseoferie.org/stcathstmikedubois/images/pdf/StJosephHistory.pdf 

This one seems to discount your thoughts out-of-hand.

https://liturgicalcenter.org/media/parish_pdf/E/e-7.1.pdf

9 hours ago, conservativeman633 said:

FOUND THIS IN THE 1890 DUBOIS COURIER...……...

That's the wrong time frame.

The church being mentioned here is likely what is now St. Joseph's (originally St. Mary). St Michael's wasn't started until somewhere around 1912.

The library?!?! That must have been the shortened "straight-line" route when cruising was starting to flatline.

Back in the early- to mid-80's, it was out of McDonald's with a right at Park, down to Shankel's and left up through town. Of course, that was when there were actually a few things, other than old-age homes, still in the downtown area.

2 hours ago, disgruntled said:

I know some are upset by it only being a $12k fine, but please remember that fine is only what is being paid to a government agency.  That is not intended to place a dollar value on the life lost.  Hopefully this will set a precedent so that it doesn't happen again and that Mr. Pierce's family is able to pursue a settlement that will allow them to at least be a little more comfortable while they attempt to heal their hearts from their tragic loss. 

You are correct. However, the fine seems insufficient to dissuade others from such practice in the future.

If you were never added as a poster there, you shouldn't have been able to view it. Perhaps it just caught up to you.

38 minutes ago, sapphire said:

Mine works intermittently too. Sometimes I have to scroll, other times, I don't. ?

I find that happens to me as well.

Also, when I get the notification box that someone has replied to the thread, when I click on the link in it to see the post, it does nothing. I usually have to go up and refresh the page manually to see the latest post.

Still, I consider that to be a minor inconvenience in the grand scheme of things. I think, as a whole, it's been a much easier transition than what I first envisioned.

"It took a little while to get her warmed up. She sure is a stubborn one, and then POW all at once."

Petee, all of DooBwa and part of upstate SC are waiting to see your chicks. I'll give you until tomorrow to produce, or I'll start posting pics of their brothers and sisters

So it all comes down to this...it seems all you're after are "chick pics". BWAHAHAHAHAHA

Well, if you're going the heritage route, then you gotta add Sue. Landy Sue, redneck hen of DooBwa

And they will, quite literally, have red necks

Sounds like Petee already has some banding to do.

Landy - Landfillguy

I appreciate the vote, but these are DooBwa birds now

Sorry my man, I'm voting with Bon.

Let's face it - you gotta remember where you've been before you can figure out where you're going.

I have 4 out, 2 zippers, and many pips. This is Petee's show, though

She is already having a great hatch. Shipping is hard on eggs. Black coppers are notoriously hard to hatch. She is using a Styrofoam incubator. Anything near a 50% hatch rate would be phenomenal

You know, despite your thorough and detailed explanations throughout this thread, someone just stumbling across this post could be easily confused by exactly what you're trying to discuss here.

This is the drawback of the written word.

that soccer game will continue for about the next 16 hours. it's always a hard call between letting the chicks kick them around, or risking opening incubator to take them out.

don't give them any sweet tea or grits, once you start down that road it's hard to turn around

And don't get them wet or feed them after midnight.

Wait. Wrong species.

I guess this will mean that Bon will now have to draw up new escape plans in case of a winter disaster.

Cheesesteaks? Um, no. That's representative of Philthadelphia not Pennsylvania as a whole. I'd say that a simple Hershey bar would have been far more appropriate.

   I would have to say the picture is taken from Brady Street , just as you would crest the hill between Olive Ave.and Weber Ave.

The church steeple in the back ground looks to be the church at the corner of High Street and Long Ave. and the large building to the right of it looks like the old Courier Express building.  Look closely at the house on the right in the foreground, if you remove the front proch it looks like the red apartment building that is near the corner of Brady St. and Weber Ave.that sits on the right as you are leaving DuBois.

I do believe you are spot-on. If you look further, the building at the extreme front-right of the photo appears to be the same church that still stands on the corner of Weber and Brady.

I didn't know about the annex of St. Catherines?   how many graves are there?

Not sure that it is an annex. I've always known it as the Oklahoma Cemetery. If there was an "annex" I'd think that it would be the little dog-leg that runs off St. Catherines cemetery from the corner of Weber down Simmons St. I know for years that part was unused but I saw recently that they've added a mausoleum or something.

You either build on a knoll or make you're own knoll when you build next to a stream.

True, again. But it would have to be one heck of LARGE knoll. It also doesn't take into consideration that, even though that part of the city might seem like a low area, it's actually on a small ridge. Now look at the positioning of the house you pointed out earlier.

Those houses don't sit on a ridge.

Trust me, I thought I had this nailed too but, that ridge and other items that "should" be there, keep getting in the way.

The buildings in the old picture are in a low land area, pretty much the only low land area of DuBois.   Note the bigger hills in the background, which are to the south.

 

Also, it wasn't uncommon for photographers to take pictures from higher positions, which in turn would alter the perspective of elevations.

 

The only place that can be in DuBois is from the YMCA, eastward towards the mall.

I agree. But the problem isn't perspective. If you look at the slope of the land those two house sit on (look particularly at the house on the left from the corner of the porch to the left of the photo), they clearly sit on a higher piece of ground. Without some major excavation, that limits where those two houses could be.

I highly suspect that is Liberty Blvd.  And those building are on what is now the Legion and park/ball fields.

 

Also not the roof and "dormers" of the building to the right of the one I pointed out.   Pretty much the same between then and now.

That's a good guess. I've been caught in that same area. The only problem is that those houses in the front sit higher that the one that you have highlighted. That has never been the case with the park/legion area. It's always been a lowland.

Im thinking some where uptown near main steet area  just because of all the houses in the background

I think that's a much better guess considering the placement of the houses.

I think that might be the meadow. Possibly the Business College.

Don't think that it could be in the Meadow. The rise on the ground is too high and it would also put the houses behind it there, too. I don't think there was ever that kind of building out there.

Turns out the guy was right! There was no stump! Of course, he neglected to mention that either he or some of his cohorts went in and took it out but...well, that's another story. After reading his response to the comments, it should have been easy to spot the hoax. After all, how did he manage to correctly spell "My first sighting from the road" that was labeled on his original pic! HAHAHAHAHA.

Looks like an old rotten tree stump to me.

Good call on the stump. It looks like the only thing "moving" in the numerous photos is the camera position.