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LOOK-BUY     Arch Bristow (1882-1963) was an iconic cartoonist early in his career with the nationally published Zimmie cartoon, which ran from 1905-24; at its peak, it was in 152 newspapers with 14 million readers in the United States and Canada, and a very famous writer regionally with his Hay Rake Magazine which began in 1920. He was also the author of numerous columns in regional newspapers throughout his life, many running simultaneously in several newspapers.  
 

LOOK- BUY  Arch Bristow (1882-1964) was a prolific cartoonist. In 1905, at age 23, he began his simple owl cartoon in the Johnstown, Pennsylvania newspaper, the Tribune. He developed the owl into the Zimmie character, and by 1908, it gained syndication appeared in 152 newspapers with 14 million readers in the United States and Canada.   In 2009, Mary Grishaver collected many Zimmie Cartoons from this period of national syndication and found examples of the owl’s thoughts.

LOOK-BUY     Dr. Mary Ann Kibler (1901-2005) from very humble beginnings as an  economic refugee from Italy in 1906, she made her way into the nursing  profession in Warren PA.  She then worked for both Doctors Charles and  John Kibler at their practice in Corry PA beginning in 1926 and  eventually married Dr. John Kibler in 1931. Nurse Mary continued the  practice until 1951 when Dr. John Kibler died.   She then decided to become a medical doctor.  At her age and at that  time .....

LOOK-BUY   The Spring Creek Home Front was published between June 1943 and December  1945 as a monthly newsletter mailed to the servicemen from the Spring  Creek, PA area.  Mrs. Lois Sickler, of the Home Front Editorial staff,  saved the unmailed newsletters that were used for this book.....  

LOOK-BUY  Corry Business Men's Exchange wrote this book in 1909 to attract new  business to Corry. Corry was a boom town after the discovery of oil in Titusville in 1859;  it became the location of the new Downer Oil Works (Refinery) in 1862,  which started the city from nothing.  The facilities that built the oil  works then built the city to house the hundreds of workers for the  refinery.  The oil works attracted more people, and by 1866 Corry was an  incorporated city, and in 1870 .....

LOOK-BUY   Cider Dan, also known as Dan Byler (1939-2006) of Spartanburg, PA, was  an Amish Lumber Jack. The stories that he has written here give us a view into the Amish life  in western Pennsylvania and Ohio. He tells of his early life as a boy  and then a young man as he learned the lumber trade from his father and  others. Then as a married man with children, trying to both provide for  his growing family and try to be in business for his own at times. Then,  as an older man, he suffers ..

LOOK-BUY   Cider Dan, also known as Dan Byler (1939-2004) of Spartanburg, PA, was  an Amish Lumber Jack. He created this second book of his ramblings. The stories that he has written here give us a view into the Amish life  in western Pennsylvania and Ohio. He tells of his early life as a boy  and then a young man as he learned the lumber trade from his father and  others. Then as a married man with children, he tries to both provide  for his growing family and to be in business for his .....

LOOK-BUY      John Donaldson is a native of Spring Creek, PA a very small town in the  Allegheny Mt. foothills of NW Pennsylvania.  He attended high school in  Youngsville, PA a very small city, also in the Allegheny Mt.  foothills.   And he graduated from Thiel College in the small city of Greenville  which is also in Pennsylvania but not in the Allegheny Mt. foothills.......

LOOK-BUY       Eldred Hill is near Spring Creek in Warren County, Pennsylvania.  It was  settled in the early 1800s like much of northwestern Pennsylvania, with  farms of about 100 acres in which the timber had to be cut down to  establish each farm. Families worked on this land for several  generations before the time of small farms passed; by the 1960s the most...

LOOK-BUY       The church served the Bear Lake Community in Pennsylvania for over 160  years, from 1852 to 2016. The book takes at looks at records that were found in the church after  it had closed.  The records cover a period from the late 1890s to about  1960.  It has been indexed with the people in the records with over 2000  entries found.  Generations of Bear Lake families attended the church,  were baptized, married, and buried as part of this congregation. This  book is a remembrance of 

LOOK-BUY      This is a reproduction of the 1982 book by Bob Lindsey of the Corry, PA  native Charles Keating. Keating was a man who, at age thirty-eight,  enlisted in the U. S. Army to fight in France in World War I.  He had  recently graduated from embalming school and was assigned to Graves  Registration in the Quartermaster Corps.  After the war, as a civilian  employee of the U. S. Government, and was involved with the selection of  the Unknown Soldier..... 

LOOK-BUY       Erie Centennial 1851-1951 This is a reproduction of the City of Erie Pennsylvania’s 1951  Centennial.  Erie PA has had a long history, growing with the country as  it expanded west in the early 1800’s.  This book highlights the city in  its manufacturing heyday.  The country was just out of World War II and  industry was in full swing producing consumer goods and Erie  manufacturing was contributing to this economic boom.  You can see the  strong manufacturing history in Erie from

LOOK-BUY      This is a reproduction of the 1955 Program of the Stanford Hose Company  Diamond Jubilee in Corry, PA.  It is a wonderful look into Corry’s past  as a booming city of 8000 residents.    The book has several interesting chapters; History of Corry PA, History  of the Stanford Hose Company, and the History of the Corry Public  Schools 1863-1955.    Stories detailed in these chapters include Corry’s growth in the 1860s  with the Pennsylvania oil boom .......

LOOK-BUY    his pamphlet is a reproduction of the 1967 50th Anniversary schoolmate  get-together and Labor Day Celebration at Bear Lake, PA.  Elsie  (1921-1999) and Walter (1915-1993) Newhouse wrote this pamphlet for the  event. It not only captured much of the local history, but it includes a  street map of Bear Lake from 1880...

LOOK-BUY   Chances are you never traveled through Spring Creek during the thirties,  because not many people did.  When Turkeys Talked and Politicians Were  People, written by John Donaldson, is the author’s upbeat, whimsical  reminiscence of adolescent life in rural Pennsylvania during the  depression.  His father, LR, was a Republican who owned the general  store, while his mother was a pro-Roosevelt Democrat who served as a  deacon in the Congregational church. Despite poverty and passionate 

LOOK-BUY    As with many communities in northwestern Pennsylvania and elsewhere,  they rise and fall with the local economics.  Sulphur Spring was no  exception.  Although there have always been small farms, virgin timber  from the forests made great fortunes.  First, in the early 1800s,  rafting out timber in streams got all that it could, but Sulphur Spring  had to wait till the railroad came to the “upstream” parts of the county  in the mid-1800s.  They brought out timber from as far back ...

LOOK-BUY     He began in the newspaper business as a cartoonist with the owl  character “Zimmie,” which started in 1902 and became syndicated  nationally.   This book is a reproduction of Arch Bristow’s famous book published one  hundred years ago with most verses coming from his Hay Rake Magazine.He  began the self-published monthly magazine “Hay Rake” in 1920 at the age  of 38 in a modest shoemaker’s shop in the hamlet of Garland, PA.  He  grew it to a subscription of 20,000 in a few months an

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Achsa Tubbs was born in 1863 in Spring Creek, PA and lived there her entire life. She died in 1911 and was buried in the Spring Creek Cemetery. Her parents, Jackson and Dimmis Tubbs, were descendants of the one of the first two settlers that moved to Spring Creek in the 1790’s- Andrew Evers and Elijah Jackson. Elijah Jackson’s daughter, Sarah Jane Jackson was Achsa’s mother.

Achsa’s two diaries give a picture of life in rural Warren County Pennsylvania in the late 1890’s. 

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 At the beginning of the Great War, the 112th Infantry was created from the old 16th and 8th Infantry Regiments of the Pennsylvania National Guard. Using National Guard troops was the fastest way of getting soldiers to War. Led by Colonel Rickards, the Regiment was activated in October 1917, trained, equipped, and shipped to Europe in May 1918. The 112th fought as part of the 28th Division “Keystone” through the duration of the war.  The Illustrated Roster of 1917, created before...

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  John Donaldson (1928-2014) wrote The Spring Creek that was to capture  the Spring Creek that he remembered in his youth. Chances are you never  traveled through Spring Creek during the thirties, forties, or fifties,  because not many people did.   In addition to his short stories about Spring Creek, there a many photos and art created by John himself.

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This is a reproduction of the 1906 Corry Nurses’ School Handbook.

 The Corry Hospital was founded in 1894 and the next-door Nurses’ Home was built in 1903. Its first class graduated in 1906. Its students provided the nursing staff for the hospital.

In the mid-1940s the city decided that a new hospital was needed and after a long funding campaign in 1951 the new Corry Memorial Hospital was opened. It was larger and better equipped than the old hospital, but the days of the Nurses’ 

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The church used the booklet to help new couples or households get started in homemaking by discussing many topics, which included Banking, Bread and Rolls, Cakes, Dieting, Family Budget, Fish, Frozen Dainties, Writing Invitations, Key to Calories, Meats, Menu Hints, Pies and Tarts, Points on Etiquette, Salads and Salad Dressing, Sandwiches, Soups, and the Home