. The centennial history of Kutztown, Pennsylvania : celebrating the centennial of the incorporation of the borough, 1815-1915. iihouse, eorner of Main and Greenwichstreets, re-estabhshed the office in the quar-ters occupied some tvvent_v years before. WiUiani R. Sanders, becoming- post-master, took the office back to the Sanderhome. John P. S. Fenstermacher started inwhere C. D. Hermans clothing store nt)wis. Later he fitted up the room occupied bythe office in his own home until a fewdays ago. Llewellyn Angstadt beginning in theFenstermacher house has within the last few days removed the off
. The centennial history of Kutztown, Pennsylvania : celebrating the centennial of the incorporation of the borough, 1815-1915. iihouse, eorner of Main and Greenwichstreets, re-estabhshed the office in the quar-ters occupied some tvvent_v years before. WiUiani R. Sanders, becoming- post-master, took the office back to the Sanderhome. John P. S. Fenstermacher started inwhere C. D. Hermans clothing store nt)wis. Later he fitted up the room occupied bythe office in his own home until a fewdays ago. Llewellyn Angstadt beginning in theFenstermacher house has within the last few days removed the office to its presentlocation, which now, greatly improved andmore than ever suited to the purpose, isfor the third time the home of the Kutz-town post office. Xo one seems to have any recollection ofthe first postmaster, Jacob Harman, or ofthe location of the office while he was incharge. The present office force consists ofLlewellyn Angstadt; postmaster ; JonathanDietrich, assistant postmaster; Mrs. LynnKoch, clerk; Samuel N. Angstadt, sub-clerk. There are seven incoming mails daily andeisht outgoing and four rural Charles ONkilWho was a familiar figure in Kutztown years ago ,. r~ y ;t#^<^ ii::--^^m ■ .:<^, y .^^ m£ijm The above is a picture of Mrs. Mary Schlenker at her spinning wheel. She was married to Josiah Schlenker and they were the parenis of 17 children, five of whom are living. Mr. and Mrs. Schlenkerwere natives of Greenwich. She died at Grimsville in 1901 t20 lextennial history of kutztown THE PRESS OF THE CENTURY BY CONRAD GEHKING It is at the request of the historical com-mittee that I reduce to writing my exper-iences as an humble representative ot thepress which was one ot the strong forcesm the development of Kutztown in thecentury just completed. At the outstartI want to mention that the newspapers wereonly the mouthpieces of a strong progres-sive spirit that prevailed in Kutztown tromaway hack and in every new movement thepapers had the solid
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