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RTS for Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008
CROOK FARM: Always a great way to spend a day (or two) is the annual Crook Farm Fair being held today and Sunday at the historical location on Seaward Avenue Extension. The event features a wide variety of crafts and food and a full schedule of old-time country music. A Civil War re-enactment is planned, too. We also enjoy touring the renovated buildings and getting a feel for “the good old days.”
NOT RIGHT: Another gas price report, today’s from John Freaney of Downingtown on Wednesday:
“Gasoline prices in Downingtown, Pa., (30 miles west of Philadelphia) were $3.49/GALLON this morning! Gasoline prices on the PA turnpike are cheaper than Bradford prices. That is just not right!”
We know, John, we know. We’ve been reporting on this for about 30 years. And they wonder why journalists get jaded.
CALL ME: Hal Harmon of Bradford fills us in on the switch of phone service from four to seven digits telling us it occurred in the 1950s or 1960s. We carried an item the other day about some old phone numbers with four numbers only.
Hal tells us that the word, “forest,” on the telephone keys were the origin of two of the first three digits — in Bradford, 36. The number 2 or 8 was added to provide original numbers for Bradford telephones.
ON PATROL: Pat Franco of Rew follows up on our many items about school patrols: “During the second World War the patrols weren’t allowed to go to Washington, I believe for security reasons. Instead, they went by boat to Detroit. I don’t know but believe they sailed out of Buffalo.”
Just by coincidence, we received a letter and some photographs from Don R. Odell Jr. of Marcellus, N.Y. , about just such a boat trip that he believes took place in 1947.
“My cousin Edward Cummiskey, Orlo Hess and I were awarded a boat trip to Dearborn, Mich., for our efforts as patrol boys on school buses.”
His photos indicate the boys did indeed travel by boat. The Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Co. also issued tickets for Edison Institute and Greenfield Village, and it’s evident, too, from the polar bear pictures, that they visited a zoo.
JACK WELLS: Our old RTS buddy Jack Wells is nursing a broken leg at Bradford Nursing Pavilion where he’ll be a couple months. Go see him!
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