Valley Girl Views: Record & Star Anniversary Edition Page 2

Find An Index To All Of This Newspaper Here:

https://susquehannavalley.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-watsontown-record-star-silver.html

============================

The Home Of the Record & Star

The Watsontown Record was first published in 1869 by a stock company with Oscar Foust as manager and Rev. Mr Coup as editor.
In 1871 John J. Auten and F. Algert purchased the plant
In 1875 Mr Algert "sold his interest to Mr Auten tho, as he was wont to say, published the paper 'without character, capital, or brains" until 1877 when he sold to D.L. Sollenberger.
After 8 months, he sold out to Oscar Foust, S.M. Miller, & G.W. Hess, who retained Fosnot as editor.
In the early part of 1880 a branch office was opened in Montgomery and the Montgomery Mirror was established.
That was sold two years later.
In March 1800 Lew. C. Fosnot assumed sole ownership of the Record & Star.

About the anniversary edition - "We regret that a number of business houses and people worthy of a place in these pages were not represented, but we did the best we could under the circumstances and hope to do better next time."

Biography Of Lew. C. Fosnot (not from this paper)

LEW C. FOSNOT, the subject of this short sketch, the able editor of the

Watsontown Record and Star, was born February 8, 1848, in Cumberland County,

Pa., and is a son of Jacob and Mary (Vanderbilt) Fosnot.

Jacob Fosnot, our subject's father, was born in 1804, and died in 1850. He was a weaver by trade. He married Mary Vanderbilt, who was born in 1804, and died in 1872, surviving her husband twenty-two years. Their family consisted of twelve children, eight of whom grew to maturity, as follows: William C.; Mary Jane; Martha M.; John C.; Joshua V.; Edward W.; Lew C.; and Henry J.

Lew C. Fosnot, our subject, received a good education in the public schools and then learned the printer's trade. Feeling it his duty to serve his country in her hour of need he enlisted as a private on January 30, 1864, in Battery G, 2d Reg., Pa. Artillery, and served until January 29, 1866, going with the armies of the Potomac and James. He was also employed in the United States Weather Bureau for three months. In 1877 he became the editor of the Watsontown Record, and in 1882 began the publication of the West Branch Star, which he has continued to edit with marked success until the present time. In 1884 the Record was consolidated with the Star under the name of the Record and Star. In

politics the paper is independent, always championing that which is best for the town and county.

Mr. Fosnot has ever upheld the principles of the Democratic party, and is a member of the G. A. R. and I. O. O. F. On January 23, 1871, he was united in marriage with Belle Westafer of Newville, Pa., and three children blessed this union, but only one son, John Clyde, survives, the two daughters, Lulu Maud and Bessie Irene, having gone to a better world.

Extracted from: Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District

Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)

Fosnot, Burr, & Diehl

======================

The Babcock "Reliance" Press

=========================

\Watsontown As It Is Today

Continued From Page 1

=====================

L.H. Moutney

The Lewisburg, Milton & Watsontown Trolley

Read (and see) more about the trolley here:

https://susquehannavalley.blogspot.com/2020/02/when-milton-had-trolley.html

===============

S.C. Klapp, Druggist

Additional Information, not from this paper:

Samuel Clarence Klapp

Born March 5, 1875, son of Samuel L Levi and Susannah Hoffman Klapp..

S.C. Klapp decided that instead of selling “soda water” and ice cream, he would install new cases and shelving to maximize his selling space and add more stock for customers. He sold the large counter and soda fountain from his store to John Oakes, who moved it to the former Krisher building a “few doors down.” Mr. Oakes opened an ice cream store there in a vacant store room, selling ice cream by the dish or quart, along with soda and candy.

=============