Wyoming County PA News
Miscellaneous
Bardwell Reappointed Postmaster
Gazette Bulletin (Williamsport, Pennsylvania)
January 8 1883
Postoffice Contests
Major H. W. Bardwell was reappointed postmaster at Tunkhannock Saturday. His appointment was contested by the friends of ex-Congressman Overton, who met with such an overwhelming defeat last fall.
Mrs. Cyrus Adams' Hunting Skills
Indiana Evening Gazette, Indiana, Pennsylvania, November 28, 1906
A Great Huntress
Woman Has Killed 55 Rabbits, 117 Squirrels and Much Other Game
Tunkhannock, Pa., Nov. 28 – Perhaps no woman in the state has so excellent a hunting record as Mrs. Cyrus Adams, of LaGrange, Wyoming County, near here. She is a fine shot and has been in the woods frequently this season. So far she has killed 55 rabbits, 117 squirrels, 2 foxes, 10 pheasants, 6 hanks, 3 owls, 1 opossum and several fur-bearing animals.
Her hunting costume consists of a hunter’s coat and a short walking shirt. Her husband and two children frequently accompany her upon her hunting trips.
George Miller Sr. and Jr. Voted for Every President of US
New Castle News (New Castle, Pennsylvania, July 18, 1913
Have Voted For Every President
Father and Son Held Suffrage Record Unequalled by Any Pair in Country
Tunkhannock, Pa., July 18 – George C. Miller of Tunkhannock, claims that he and his father George Miller, Sr., are the only father and son in the United States who have voted at every presidential election commencing with Washington in 1788 to the present time.
The father voted until 1852, being then 90 years of age. He and his son George C., then 22, both cast their ballot for Winfield Scott for president. The son has voted at every presidential election since and is now in the 83rd year of his age.
The father when about 30 years old, removed from near Harrisburg to Tunkhannock, where he opened the first gun store in that place. He died at the age of 93.
The son is the last of the family of ten children and is in good health with a prospect of voting for some years to come.
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