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ITEMS
OF INTEREST
On another note, If
you have a Lopez Centennial Plate, a Lopez 100 Years of
Pride history book, or a Lopez Fire book and no longer
want it, let me know as I will try to maintain a list of
people that don't want or are looking for said items.
That also goes for the Lopez Commemorative Mugs. I
did see a "100 Years of Pride" on Amazon the other day.
FLASH!!!!
Lopez Pa - The
Early History of Sawdust City
by Peter Tomasak
LATE BREAKING NEWS: I
have just been informed and pleased to announce that the new
book on Lopez history will be available at LOPEZ OLD HOME DAY
this year. Pete Tomasak, the author, will be at the Lopez
Civic Booth all day to sell and sign the books. This
will be his only day for signing.
Titled "LOPEZ PA - THE EARLY
HISTORY OF SAWDUST CITY" has many pictures and information on
308 pages and will be selling for $24.95 each. Get to
the LOPEZ CIVIC booth August 2nd to get your copy and copies
for friends and relatives signed by Pete. Books will then be
available only through this website.
Making a clothes pin as done in the Lopez
Clothes Pin Factory You started with
a tree cut into boards and then little wood blocks. This
block would then be turned into a profile of a clothes pin and
then someone else would put the slot in it and another
person/s would pack them up. In 1900 we know that
a 20 year old Mary Hunsinger was a "Turner" in the factory,
Grace Carrington at age 36, Maude Werkeiser (17 years old),
Pauline Gross (age 16), and Alta Fenner (age 16) were all
"Slitters". Then there was an Emma J. Steele all of 15
years old that did "packing"
Bundle of kindling made at one of the
several Lopez Kindling Wood Factories
Resting on an early wood stove, is a bundle of "Kindling
Wood". Slab wood and other scraps of wood were cut down
to about two and a half inches long and placed in a machine
that would tighten them in an egg shape about 8 x 10 inches
and they were then tied with twine and tagged. Over
16,000 bundles per day were made and shipped to New York and
Philadelphia where they were sold for $.05 each. The
tags were used to light the bundle.
Valentine's Day 2007 arrived with about 16 inches of snow.
This photo was taken the next afternoon and the snow compacted
down to 14 inches here. I knew we were going to get it,
just didn't know when.
Daffodils around the Centennial Park Rock
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