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:::: ::::y ~y ~x »',', .~(* ~:~: This is Frank Mekailek's Saloon on Water street, Mekallek. He f9ught In the Philippines for thr!f! years ~~:~ Mahanoy Plane on Christmas, 1915. Pictured are with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders In the Spanish ~~~,::: (from left) Julia Vesalusky, Mrs. Frank Mekatlek, American War. He served as corporal and was :::* x:.: Anna M. Wersholsky, an unidentified patron and awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action, and :~::: Frank Siovick. the Purple Heart for wounds received. These medals :::.." -..::~ were awarded him at ceremonies held at Philadelphia ~::: Notice the picture of Mr. Mekallek In his Spanish in 1944. His military papers list the year of his :~*: American Uniform; the sign which reads "Don't treat honorable discharge as 1899.He moved to Mahanoy :~:~ your friends at my expense", the double lamp stan- Plane when he returned from the service and worked ::::::: ding on the bar, and the china coffee urn, all on the left as fire boss at East Bear Ridge Colliery In addition to ~::~ side of the picture. Fly paper is hanging from the owning a saloon on Water street. He moved to Frack- :~:::: ceiling in the center. Nebo cork tip c1Qareffesat five ville in 1925and built a home at 107North Sixth street. :::::~ cents a pack, Lucky Strike nickel cigars and taro He was a member of St. Aim's Church, Charter :~I Pepsin gum were sold In addition to Ita shot and a member of Friendship Fire Company and honor~ry ~::~ 'b~Notice the exposed electrical wiring and the member of the Frackville American Legion Post 398. ~~~: si"gle bulb hanging at the ceiling. A sign In the bar Mr. M~kallek, Mr. Bollnsky and Mr. Beecroft were ::::~: reads: honored at a testimonial dinner at the BVM Hall by the ~~~~ My friend did come, And Idid trust him, Friendship Fire Company. Each gentleman was ::~~:: I lost my friend, And lost his custom, presented a Kennedy, Rocker at th.ls aff.,ir. He died ::~~ To ,lose my friend it grieves me sore, May 28, 1970,while visiting his daughter and sen-In- ~:;~ So I've resolved to trust no more! law, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wershoskl, In Seattle, .:~~~ Washington. Participants in the military rites were ~:;~:: Frarik Mekailek was born September '1877in . the Frackville American Legion and a firing squad ::::~ Shenandoah, the son of Andrew and Mlchalina detachment from Indiantown Gap. .~;~. _ ~_ >;-' if .:.:.:: ::::::: ::::-.. -.-,

~ Old·Timers Folks prominent in Frockville in .18~· , . ,. ~-.. ...e.. •••::: ::: .::~ William M. Dampman, foreman of the man, was a fire-boss in the mines at ~j::~ repair shops of tile Philadelphia & Reading Mahanoy Plane. He married Elizabeth ::::::~ Railway Company at Gordon, was born in Coles, and they had eight children: James, ::::~~~ Lebanon,LebanonCo., Pa., sonof James a residentof St. Louis,Mo.; Charles,living [~11:~ M. and Elizabeth (Irons) Dampman, both at Mahanoy 'Plane; Margaret, wife of ;=::::~ natives of Pennsylvania. The father Is of James Garraway, of Frackville; George, a :::::~ German descent. resident of Lansdale, Montgomery county ; :~:~~~ James M. Dampman was born in Mrs. Dampman; Elizabeth, unmarried; !~~::: Reading, March 27,1851,and moved thence Samuel and Elmer, deceased. :.::~ N.'.: to Lebanon at an early age. He has been .:.:;~~ connected with., the Reading Railway Willi.am S. Sanner. Among the leading ~~~~::~ Company from boyhood, first as and progressive business men of the ~:::::: messenger, then at other employments thriving town of Frackville, must be placed ~:;:~: until he was made an engineer at Reading the man whose name heads this sketch. He ' :~:::~ in 1875; he now holds that position at is a son of John T. and Catherine (Sander) :~~:: Mahanoy Plane, and resides In Frackville. Sanner, and was' born In Minersville, on :::':::: Mr. Dampman married Elizabeth 1rons, February 24, 1859. :=:-::~ and they had four children: William M.,· He is of German ancestry, and belongs to :~::3 mentioned below; Jennie, living at an old and respectable family. His father :~11~ Lebanon; Mary, widow of George Kienzle, was born in the kingdom of Prussia in the ~•••. of Frackville; and Daniel, a resident of year 1824, and emigrated to the United .:-.1~~ Frackville, in the employ of the Reading States about 1856or 1857.His' first place of, ~:~~~, railroad. Mrs. Dampman died in 1884. residence was in Minersville, from which :~:::: James Dampman, the grandfather of place he removed to Mahanoy Plane In ~::: William M. Dampman, was a native of 1869,thence to Frackville in 1874,where he ~~::: d- d F b 3 1880 H ' ::;::.: Chester county. He was connected with the Ie e rlJary 1 , . e was a miner, :~:::: Reading Railway from its earliest days and which business constituted his life's work. ::::::: had the honor of running one of the first ,He was connected with the Lutheran :::;:~~~ hard-coal burning engines on the road. He church and held the office of elder, and was 1~:::: had eight childi-en, five sons and three always active in his support of the various ;::.~:: daughters, of whom four are living. Philip lines of church work. He was united in ::::::: is a resident of Point Pleasant, N.J. David marriage with Catherine Sander, by whom :~~~~ took part in the Civil war, was afterwards he had four sons and six daughters. Mrs. i~~::: employed by the Reading Railway Com- \ Sanner died on December 24, 1870,at the ::::::: pany, and Is now deceased. Mrs. William age of thirty-eight. ~~,~~ I Livingston resides in Philadelphia; Mrs. William S. Sanner was united In the ~~:>.~ Harry Rlppm'an in Norristown, Mrs. Harry bonds of marriage with Catherine S. ::::1~~ Bailey, in Philadelphia. Holzer, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, on .~~,::~ William M. Dampman attended school In January 28, 1886.This union has resulted in J :::

:::: Philadelphia during the time his parents the birth of one child, Catherine, born *::~ resided there, completing his education In January 9, 1888.Mr. Sanner received his :::~~~ Frackville. After his school days he came education iti the common schools of his ~~~: to Mahanoy Plane, and on the 1st of native town, and began life as a baker in :~.', December 1889 became m f Frackville, in 1875. He continued in this' -:.>.:' "a essenger or :-:~~ the Reading Railway Company. He was capacity until 1877,when he embarked in :=:~ rapidly advanced to caller, and from that to the general mercantile business, which has ~::.:. other positions, until in 1891he was made remained since that time his chief line of -:.i stationary engineer at u-hano PI I work. In 1891he erected a new store house :::~~ .. 'YlCI Y ane. n :::::~ July, 1894, he was apprenticed to the in Frackville to keep pace with the growing :::~ machinist trade in the shops, working thus demands of his business. This new building :~* until December, 1900,when he was tran. is one of the most complete and substantial ~::~~ sferred to his present position of foreman, structures in the town, and Internally is ~~~~~ of the shops at Gordon. arranged with exceeding neatness and ,~~~ In 1898Mr. Dampman was married to good taste. ::::~ Harriet Cobley, of Mahanoy Plane, and Mr. Sanner is a Republican in his :::~: they have had these children: James, political tenets, and is now serving his :::::: Beatrice, Samuel, Douglas and Jennie. Mr. sec~>ndterm as a school director. He is a :::::: Dampman is a member of the Lutheran member of the Lutheran Church in which ~~~; Clhurch, and in politics a, Republican. He he, has been an elder for five years, and ~:~::; has been president,of the school board of actively throws his eneFgles into any ::::>.~ Gordon for four years, is secretary of the movement, religious or social, which ::::~ board of health and treasurer of Citizens' conduces to the wellbeing of his community ~~~~~ Fire Company, Ashland Lodge 294, F. & A. and Its moral advancement. He is a ::::::~ M., Patriotic Order.Sonsof America, and of member of camp No. 66, Patriotic Order ;:::::; the Royal Arcanum. Sons of America, and. the Independent ::~~~~ Samuel Cobley, father of Mrs. Damp- Order of Odd Fellows at Frackville. ~~

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