We'll post some of our favorite photos from time to time. Drop back in again soon and we'll have a new one. If you have a favorite that you would like to share, feel free to send it along to us. Thank'Ye!
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The above photo is of the Benton Readers Group.
| Seated, left to right- Anna Cole, Grace Hosler, Lou
Cole, Ruth Welsh, and Helen Ash. Standing- Hope Merrill, Unora Mendenhall, Carrie Yost, Ethel Laubach, Hazel Hess, Pearl Bailey and Claire Parker. |
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Marilyn Stevens Fritz and Dick McHenry at Flag
Day festivities at Benton High School in 1952 (their freshmen year).
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Picture courtesy of Deb McHenry
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Yes, Benton had a football team. We
just can't identify everyone now... Can you help? |
Our picture for this week was
taken in familiar territory for us,
but we can't quite make out a couple of things. For example,
we don't recognize the barn in the left rear and we wonder
about the lack of a staircase to the second floor of Howdy
Brewington's cafe. And if you are still lost about where the
picture was taken, the large building in the center is the
Hess Hotel; then the Harry Hess Store.
Picture courtesy of Joyce Fritz Letteer, the charming little girl sitting at bottom left.
| Standing, left to right: | Back row: Virginia Koons, Delores Hess, Robert Appleman, Joselle Confair, Jimmy Laubach, Mary Louise McHenry, Ross Pennington, Elizabeth ("Liz") Coleman. | |
| Standing, second row: | Janet Laubach, Barbara Keller, Shirley Savage, Larry Taylor, Alex Ash, Joyce Hess, Joel Confair, Bill Confair, Jack Healy, Bob Baker, Shirley Buck. | |
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| Seated: | Joyce Fritz, ?, Mary Ruth Pennington, (behind Mary Ruth Pennington, ?), Margaret Ann Ash, Joan Polk, Karlamea Hess, Gary Hess, Carol Taylor, ?, ?. | |
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Picture courtesy of Jill McHenry
Kriner
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| Front Row: Mahlon Strauch, Irvin Diltz, Emerson Stoneham. Ross Smith, Harold (Skinny) Moore, Clyde Fritz, Max Horn 2nd Row: Issac Strauch ( Mahlon's brother) |
Thanks to Hube Conner, Dot Hess Burlew, Don
and Dottie Rabb, Joe and Betty Helwig for adding names to this picture. |
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Class Officers of Benton High School,
for the class of '37
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Dayne Kline, President |
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The Hoboken Huskies
Little League Team, Ronald Keller and Whittier Letteer, Managers |
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Row 1, from the left: Keith Pennington, John Evans,
David Keller, John Wech, Bruce Hilley, LeVan Cleaver, Nick Hile.
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Row 2, from the left: Ronald Keller, Manager. Craig
Rhinard, Ronnie Kisbauch, Mark Beishline, Jerry Beishline, Gary Pavalonis,
Danny Litwhiler, Whittier, Letteer, Manager.
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The McHenry House, Stillwater
Photo by David R. Kline |
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The Main Street Boyhood Home of
You may remember the building as the
former |
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Will you please help us out with names of the unknown people in this photo... (Republicans are encouraged to help, too!) |
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Democratic Women's Baseball Club of
Benton
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Back Row: Lottie Knouse, Hazel Hess, Mrs. Jay McHenry, Rhoda Hess, Inez Brewington, Unknown, Bertha Dresher, Faye Letteer, Hazel McMichael, Edith McMichael
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Laubach,
PA
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Laubach
was a small village between Camp Lavigne and the town of Central, on
the west side of Fishing Creek, in Sugarloaf Township. The village was
originally called Guava, for reasons we don't understand, then Laubach.
The name Laubach came from the name of the first postmaster, Andrew
Laubach, the grandfather of Dr. Frank Laubach. The stop on the B &
S railroad was called "Laubach's Station." The store in the
picture was the second store.The first one was robbed and burned in
the 1800's by a
gang they thought was from Fairmount. The Stauffer's farm was built by Andrew around 1880 after the original buildings that were down by the creek were distroyed in a flood. |
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| Benton High School seniors. The picture was taken in 1925. How many people can you recognize? |  |
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the back of this photos were labeled "nicknames" and are presented
as written. Remember that when the classmates signed the photo in 1925,
they were not as staid as we now remember them!
Front- Rip Ripple, Jake McMichael, Doc Stoker, Larue Evans, Ernest Hess, Honnie VanHorn, Frank Pealer. 2nd Row- Margarite Peaterman, Mable McHenry, Phoebe Yurko, Mary Hartman, Doris Fritz, Mabel Coleman, Anna Polk, Haiser Savage, Clete Hartman. 3rd row- Zup Mather, Hilda Knouse, Gladys Hilerman, Elda Keifer, Gertrude Quick, Evelyn Harrison, Katherine Dodson. Back Row- Bake Baker, Sir
John Laubach, Duke Zarr, Chape Wenner, Skipper Hess, Charles Jones,
Colie Cole, Cop Carpenter, Bill Bonham Photo courtesy of Sheila Brandon, Broadway. |
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Photo Taken at the Site of Rabb's Drug
Store, Main Street
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The year this picture was taken is
unknown, but we assume that it was when the building was used as a harness
shop, and owned by Fred Wood. Later, the building was owned by Bruce
Cole and operated as a pharmacy. In 1922, Robert Rabb purchased the
store and continued its operation as a drug store.
Calvin Kitchen, great, great grandfather of Monica Diltz, is driving the buggy. Monica is the buckwheat meister of the Brass Pelican, Elk Grove. The house on the right was owned by Hosea Ash and occupied by Hosea, Bruce and Grace Whitenight and sons Ted and Hobe. Photo courtesy of Dr. and Mrs. Donald Rabb |
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| What? You never saw a three-legged horse before? | |||
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From the left: James Casey, Engineer Harry Bittenbender, Fireman Joseph Winfield Scott, Conductor John Bunting |
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