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Bib §?ou I note QHjat Joseph Barnett, the patriarch of Jefferson County, kept a tavern at Port Barnett. The Indians came there and stopped for several days at a time. They cooked their mush over the tavern fire and set it out in the snow to cool. Then, one at a time, they would take a dipper and cat all they wanted. If a dog put his head in the pot in an Indian’s way, he would get a rap on the head with the dipper. When all had finished, the dogs would help themselves from the same pot. About 1802 the first bank was established. Joseph Barnett was the banker. The Indians living near were depositors. The private vault was a little hogskin-covered trunk with the initials “J. B. on the top. The money was deposited in the Indians’ presence. But soon they wanted their money back; so they made a “run” on the bank. Mr. Barnett handed over the trunk. Each Indian counted out his own. There was a shortage of one fifty-cent piece. Mr. Barnett persuaded them to count it again; still the one piece was missing. The Indians decided to shoot him. He pleaded with them to count their money just once more, and if the missing piece was not found, then they could shoot him. For the third time the Indians counted their silver pieces. One of the Indians discovered that he had one piece more than he should have. Mr. Barnett’s life was saved and his friendship with the Indians was restored. Bill Long, one of the pioneer hunters, was out on a hunting trip with Black Charlie” Sutherland. Charlie was very much afraid of wolves. That night while they were sleeping in the open, a pack of wolves came quite close to them and began to howl. Long, knowing Charlie’s fear, began to imitate thier howls. Charlie became alarmed. He said there must be about five thousand wolves. Long replied that he thought there were. He told Charlie to climb a tree if the wolves came after them. In a few minutes Long bounded into the woods, yelling, “The wolves are coming!” Into the darkness leaped Charlie. When his companion found him some minutes later, he was cowering among the branches of a mighty oak. Long heard him say, “Charles, you have to stick tight, for if dis holt breaks you are a gone nigger.” Long yelled to him that the danger was over, but it was harder for Charlie to get down than it had been to get up. Charlie “fell to the ground like a thunderbolt and doubled up like a jack'knife.” Brookville’s first newspaper, the “Brookville Gazette”, was established and issued in 1832 by John Jamieson Thompson. It was published every Monday at two dollars per year excluding, or two dollars and fifty cents including, postage. Grain, rags, beeswax, tallow, furs, and pelts were accepted in place of money. It was “printed on coarse paper thirteen inches wide and twenty inches long.” The first public conveyance in Brookville was a cab driven by a negro, Bill Henshaw. It was used as late as 1910. Several of the residents here can remember riding to the station in it. This year it was resurrected from the farm of Robert D. Morrison by the Junior class. They scraped the mud off the cab and upon them' selves and used it in the pre-Christmas parade. “In 1835, Brookville contained about one hundred and thirty-five people. The village had six merchants. The stores were lighted with candles and warmed by wood fires. To prevent too great accumulation of soot, a 'chimney'sweep’ was employed to clean out the chimneys. On dark nights the people then carried lanterns made of tin with holes punched in them, lighted by a candle.” A g % ocxxxxxaooooooooaooDexxxxxaoooaaaooooaoonoocxxxjDaooooooocxxxxxxpooaooooOTOooooaooric This page thru courtesy of SMITH FURNITURE COMPANY, Inc. 175 Main Street, Brookville, Penna. 'vgaes?
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fHExL-.-ECHCT 1 I MO Left ro r'ght Mr. Charles W. Evans. Miss Carrie B. Jenks, Mrs. J. B. McKnight, Judge William T. Darr. Mr. William A. Kelly SCHOOL BOARD OFFICERS Miss Carrie B. Jenk Judge William T. Darr—President Vice President Mr. Charles W. Evans—Secretary Mrs. J. B. McKnight- Member Mr. William A. Kelly—Member id: 3goamaQQpnrripnpnnnnriryTr»-«rCTTnririryir v v a-irinry-»rvvx»Tr«rw This page thru courtesy of PAUL A. BLAKE Roofer and Tinner xxxraioocxrjccLinncnrxYyxinmnooaoonoooi
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