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  1. IF INTERESTED IN RARE HISTORY OF THE DUBOIS IOOF LODGE, HERE IS INFO LIKELY UNKNOWN BY LOCAL RESIDENTS..................THE TWO ARTICLES FROM OCTOBER 1877 ARE IN REVERSE ORDER.....
  2. HITHERTO UNKNOWN MOMENT IN THE LIFE OF JOHN DUBOIS......1877
  3. THESE WERE FOUND IN 'OUT OF TOWN' PAPERS FROM THE LATE SUMMER OD 1877 . DON'T BELIEVE ANY OF THE DUBOIS NEWSPAPERS EXIST FROM 1877....
  4. That is also the site of a half marathon this year
  5. You were right, and I was wrong.  

    I see on the forum rules not to insult "anyone", so I take that to mean even national/world figures.

    I had previously thought it meant only posters/members.

    My fault.

  6. Thank you ! Excellent information.
  7. Thank you for the history !! Hallton hasn't changed much !!
  8. FROM AUGUST 1892-----------FIRST TIME EVER AND SINCE...…? GOT THE WHOLE ARTICLE, BUT OUT OF ORDER...…...
  9. Found this rather incredible piece in the 1892 Courier about a tree cut in Penfield...…..
  10. 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.....?
  11. THIS ARTICLE MENTIONS A "SHANTYTOWN" NEAR DONEGAL HILL IN DUBOIS...…...DOES ANYONE KNOW EXACTLY WHERE IT WAS ?? THIS IS FROM AN 1892 NEWSPAPER IN DUBOIS.... tHANKS !!
  12. Just a reminder that snowball fights were a bit more "encouraged" in 1892, at least at the local schools, or by the local paper...….?
  13. This must have been the track near present -day Martins ?? Thank you for the interesting history !
  14. Here is a clip from February, 1892 in the local DuBois paper
  15. Excellent history----thank you very much !! I know the authors of the first one, but I don't know who wrote the second. They were great to read! Again, the news item I posted was the "birth" of the Polish church in the first ward, though years from the actual building. Remember a "church" is far more than a 'building', and it started far before 1911-12. Much like St. Catherines started far before the first actual building of a 'church'... It seems that , in 1891, the idea of their own Polish church was "born" in their minds & hearts, and a mere 20 years later it came to pass. No, it is not St. Joseph at all. The article of 1891 is the earliest known mention of what will eventually be St. Michaels Church (building) in DuBois.. BTW, Fr. Urbonas is the namesake of the local K of C council because of his devotion to the order......
  16. 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 !
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