The following news briefs were published in the “Gratz Items” section of a local newspaper for the week of 3 November 1926:
Quite a lot of our sportsmen were out hunting on the first day. Some of them went up in the mountains of Lycoming County. The cotton tails will have a hart time this week.
O. T. Tobias raised some large potatoes on his farm this year. He weighed one that tipped the scales at 1 1/2 pounds, and 7 that weighed 8 pounds, and also a number that weigh 1 pound each.
Albert Bower and wife and Mrs. Henry Bower motored to New York on Saturday on a visit to the latter’s son, Clarence Portzline.
The funeral of Harry Hess last Thursday was largely attended. The floral tributes were basket of White Chrysanthemum, Ray Snyder; basket mixed chrysanthemums, Mr. Charles Suenders; spray yellow chrysanthemums, Gratz Water Company; spray white chrysanthemums, Family; spray mixed chrysanthemums, C. Portzline; spray pink carnations, Reformed Sunday School; spray pink roses, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hess.
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