—Tunkhannock New Age (Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania), Thursday, November 26, 1931, p1.

TUNKHANNOCK PARTY

Large Number Made Merry At “Pepper Pot” In New York City Monday Evening

More than eighty former residents of Tunkhannock, or their descendants, including nearly a dozen hardy tourists who make their present homes in the valley of the Susquehanna, met in enthusiastic reunion Monday evening at one of New York City’s best-known nocturnal rendezvous, “The Pepper Pot,” at 146 West Fourth street, in the heart of Greenwich Village.

The reunion had been called by J. Herbert Leighton, of the Irving Trust Company, 1 Wall Street, New York. Mr. Leighton, the son of the late James G. Leighton, introduced the toastmaster, the Rev. Herbert Robinson, formerly of Mehoopany, and now of Oyster Bay, L. I., and the evening was on.

John Turn, the first speaker, kept well within his allotted three minutes and spoke feelingly of the fact that although he was not a native of Tunkhannock, the only home which he calls a home is now located there.

Victor H. Lyman, editor of the Republican and New Age, was introduced as a man noted for his tall stories, but despite his introduction, Mr. Lyman appropriately spoke of his pleasure at being present, and expressed the home that this first get-together was only the forerunner of many more to come.

William A. Kittredge, another honored guest from the home town, and according to the toastmaster, “the man who puts out the best products to be found anywhere in the world,” reminded his sympathetic audience that Tunkhannock’s first school was erected in 1816, on the site where Horlacher & Sherwood’s garage now stands. The first teacher, he recalled, was Sally Kellogg, to whom the mother of H. F. Metcalf went to school. And Mr. Metcalf, incidentally, has in his museum the first hand bell ever rung to summon the youth of the town to their books. It is a relic of one of the steamers which ran up and down the Susquehanna, and was first used in the brick building erected in 1845. Mrs. Jennie Hoadley, of Putnam street, is the town’s oldest teacher, and Mr. Metcalf is credited with having sat in her classes, according to Mr. Kittredge.

The brevity of the speeches delighted the assembly. Enthusiasm reached its height with the advent of circus whistles and toy balloons, and many a bald head, known to Tunkhannock only when its owner was in flourishing youth, resounded to the crack of deflated balloons and paper bags. Opinion was unanimous that the affair should be repeated, although no definite date for its recurrence was mentioned by the committee in charge.

The following persons are believed to have been present, although the hilarity of the guests precluded more than an approximate check-up:

Floyd D. Titman

Sarah (Billings) Titman

Louis L. Ansart

Mary Ansart

Mrs. Homer Asheld

Walter R. Betts

Ella Bliss

Miss Amy Brown

Edward J. Calahan

Molly (Camp) Hegeman

John G. Hegeman

Rose Cosgrove

Lulu (Cuddy) Lynch

Margaret Lynch

Frank Dietrich, Jr.

Blanche (Dietrich) Brasefield

Floyd W. Kellogg

Fannie (Borden) Kellogg

Dorothy (Dietrich) Joyner

Roderick Donley

Mary (Adams) Donley

Robert Farr

Florence Hufford

Stuart Hufford

Edna Kiethline

Cecil K. Krewson

Lucinda (Lyman) Krewson

Reba (Kittredge) Tyson

Levering Tyson

William A. Kittredge

Donald Tiffany

Mae (Kutz) Miller

Harry Miller

Victor H. Lyman

Josephine Lewis

J. Herbert Leighton

Margaret (Carver) Leighton

William Loftus

George Ross Leighton

Margaret (Leighton) Richards

Edward Richards

Lloyd Miller

Clara (McKown) Janeway

Jacob Janeway

Helen (McKown) Titcomb

G. Sheldon Titcomb

Fred Newman

Evelyn Hope Northrop

Angelique Prevost

Paul M. Rainey

Mrs. Paul M. Rainey

Adelene Reed

Rev. Herbert Robinson

Mrs. Herbert Robinson

G. Harry Ross

Mrs. G. Harry Ross

Louis K. Ross

Mrs. Louis K. Ross

Jessie (Ross) Royer

Dr. B. Franklin Royer

Emma Sickler

Edson A. Stark

Gladys (Graves) Stark

Charlotte Stark

Fanny (Stark ) Miller

Harry A. Miller

Anna (Sterling) Harber

W. E. Harber

Manning S. Taite

Marie (Platt) Taite

Beulah (Titman) Whitely

William G. Whitely

Guy Titman

Mrs. Guy Titman

Lucia (Titman) Keller

Omar H. Keller

Florence D. Townsend

John S. Turn

Alberta (Townsend) Turn

B. M. Van Dyke

Izetta (Zimmer) Dotts

Walter M. Dotts

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