History and directory of Newton and Ransom townships, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; . story and base-ment building, size 26x46 feet, the upjier floorbeing used for a hall where the members meettwice a month. The first floor has a large frontroom furnished with tables, and a smaller room 94 HISTORY OF NEWTON TOWNSHIP in the rear for a kitchen, equipped with a stove,dishes and every necessary article for preparingand serving a first-class dinner. The camp is in a flourishing condition, hav-ing over $1,000 in the bank. There were sev-enty-seven members April 1, 1912. The camphas been running o
History and directory of Newton and Ransom townships, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; . story and base-ment building, size 26x46 feet, the upjier floorbeing used for a hall where the members meettwice a month. The first floor has a large frontroom furnished with tables, and a smaller room 94 HISTORY OF NEWTON TOWNSHIP in the rear for a kitchen, equipped with a stove,dishes and every necessary article for preparingand serving a first-class dinner. The camp is in a flourishing condition, hav-ing over $1,000 in the bank. There were sev-enty-seven members April 1, 1912. The camphas been running over nineteen years, and haslost by death only one beneficiary member andone honorarj- member. ticed for a few months after 1850, and was fol-lowed by Dr. J. Keeney, from Laceyville. Hedied in the Spring of 1852. Dr. James Deckerwas the next physician. He died here in J. A. Hann came to Newton Centre in 1860and practiced about twenty-five years. Dr. P. F. Hubler, of Huntington, Pa., gradu-ated from the University of Pennsylvania, atPhiladelphia, in 1877, and located in Newton. M. E. CHURCH AND SCHOOL-HOUSE, SCHULTZVILLE Bald Mount Lodge, No. 731, I. 0. or G. T. An Independent Order of Good Templars wasorganized at Newton Centre, July 30, 1869 withfifty charter members. For several years it wasin a flourishing condition, holding regularmeetings on Friday evening of each week inGood Templars Hall. (The old AcademyBuilding.) It enrolled over 300 members and had a fulltreasury. Miss Jennie Petty, a sister of Mil-ton Petty, was an active member of this lodge,and an earnest advocate and worker in the tem-perance cause. December 26, 1884 the Newton Division Sonsof Templai-s, No. 31 was organized in GoodTemplars Hall. They ran for about five years. The Physicians of Newton. Dr. Andrew Bedford was the first practicingphysician in Newton, and was succeeded byDr. Hiram Nichols, who lived in Abington. S. Cooper, who studied medicine with B. , M. D., of Tunkhannock, an
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