BEAVERTOWN AS I KNEW IT WHEN A BOY

BY ALTON CAMP

(APRIL 10, 1982)

AS ANNOTATED IN PART
BY CLOYD W. WAGNER
January, 1997
Copyright CWW Products, 1997.

Beavertown, as I knew it when a boy, was a typical country town with good churches, stores, a meat market and various types of businesses, a good school system and very good teachers, who were looked up to.   I was born in 1902 and grew up and remained in this town, so I was able to live and observe the lifestyle that prevailed at that time.  As I look back over this long period of time, my memory recalls many interesting happenings, that today are a thing gone, but not forgotten.   Things we ate, clothes we wore, games we played - this, with the people we associated with are history now.

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WWII Honor Roll

Mrs. Raymond Hassinger ( Geraldine Kline) and Ariel Hassinger pose by the Honor Roll-1943

Ada Hetrick Thomas once told me she went to Doc Strohecker to have a boil lanced, and after he was done, she asked him, "How Much?".

He replied, "Geb mir 'n vadle. Sis net fer duhah, sis fer der wissa wie."  TRANSLATION: "Give me a quarter. It's not for the doing. It's for the knowing how."

Cloyd W. Wagner 001 3-03-01

The ground on which our community has developed was granted to John Swift by William Penn sometime around 1770. Swift later sold the territory to Jacob Lechner and he laid out the town in 1810 and named it Swiftown in honor of the former owner.

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