History and directory of Newton and Ransom townships, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; . Barker was the firstsuperintendent. Ezekiel Bennett was the next,and later N. G. Reed. Plenry Zilks is the pre-sent superintendent. Milwaukee I. 0. 0. F. Lodge, No. 267 This Lodge was instituted Feb. 28, 1883, withtwenty charter members which follow: JacobBedell, Peter Bedell, Charles V. Decker, JosephGeary, Rev. Francis Gendall, P. K. W. Ace, Moses Ace, E. K. Townsend,John Roszler, William Mover, Lester Griffin, first teachers. Later he went to California,where he was twice elected State Sen
History and directory of Newton and Ransom townships, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; . Barker was the firstsuperintendent. Ezekiel Bennett was the next,and later N. G. Reed. Plenry Zilks is the pre-sent superintendent. Milwaukee I. 0. 0. F. Lodge, No. 267 This Lodge was instituted Feb. 28, 1883, withtwenty charter members which follow: JacobBedell, Peter Bedell, Charles V. Decker, JosephGeary, Rev. Francis Gendall, P. K. W. Ace, Moses Ace, E. K. Townsend,John Roszler, William Mover, Lester Griffin, first teachers. Later he went to California,where he was twice elected State Senator. The present school buildius was erected about1861. MiLWAUKiE Sixty Years AgoWritten by P. K. Richards, West Pdttston, Pa. At the western base of old Bald Mount, nestl-ed in a quiet little valley through which the(Gardner creek flows in all its beauty, the pleas-ant little hamlet, known to our readers as Mil-waukie, is located. Not unlike many othereountrj towns, it is considered by the farmersin the immediate vicinity as headquarters,because here are located the blacksmith and. MILV^AUKIE SCHOOL-HOUSE AND SCHOLARS. John Wilson, John Hoffman, Jacob Courtright,Charles W. Blackwell, William Zeiss, I. , Thomas Huthmaker and Andrew Hopkins. The following officers were elected: Jacob Be-dell, noble grand; P. K. Richards, vice-grand;C. V. Decker, .secretary; I. H. Sax, financialsecretary; William Zeiss, treasurer. Ninty-eight members have been admitted byinitiation, and five by card. The present mem-ber-ihip (Jan. 4, 1912) is fiftj^-six members. The original charter was issued to AljingtonLodge, No. 267, Oct. 8, 1847, which wasVir-renclered hj them in 1859. School-houses The second school-house in the territory nowknown as Ransom township, was built at Mil-waukie about 1835. This building was built oflogs, a short distance above the present resi-dence of William Zeiss, near the corner of. andon the south side of the road leading to Moun-tain Valley. Judson CaiiDenter was on
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