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| Dr. Marvin Evans
The late Dr. Marvin " Marvie " Evans, who served for many years as the Lehigh Navigation Coal Company chief surgeon, is the star in the following poetic tribute. It's a tricky little verse about the days when Dr. Marvie was running wild on the Coaldale football field during his high school years . There are two spots where you'll have to supply the missing word, but that should be easy. As Groucho Marx used to say on the old "You Bet Your Life " TV show : " It's a common everyday word " ----------still used today. A STAR WAS BORN ( A Tribute To Dr. Marvie Evans.) |
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In the good old days of yore A real football score, Never was counted by sevens; But COALDALE went far With a real backfield star-------- A halfback they called Marvie Evans. |
The field wasn't grass When they slid on their- - - It really was hard on their seat; The boys usta' land On gravel and sand That felt like a bed of concrete. |
But that's not the thing ' Twas the old single wing, At which our young hero had shown; They kept off his - - - , He always knew where he was goin.' |
A stone they are carvin ' In honor of Marvin, A boy so courageous and tame ; " No player was a gamer, " Said COACH TOMMY RAYMER , Put his bust in the old Hall of Fame, |
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In the good old days of yore
LONG LIVE THE SAMMY BAUGH OF COALDALE ! ! |
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No. 8 L. N. C. Breaker
Coaldale. Penna. |
In 1906, the year Coaldale was incorporated as a borough, there were:---601 men and 119 mules working at Number 8. Together they produced....296,982 tons of coal that year.---438 men were employed inside.---mine foremen 2 ---assistant mine foremen 2 ---fire bosses and assistants 5---miners 125---laborers 29 ---driver and runners 30---doorboys and helpers 12---company men 112 ---others 121---outside there were 163 men employed:---foremen 1---blacksmiths and carpenters 5---engineers and firemen 12---slate pickers (boys )13---slate pickers (men) 22---bookkeepers or clerks 1---others 109
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DO YOU REMEMBER . . . . . . . . . .
---laughing at the end men in the annual minstrel show ---singing "Adeste Fidelis" while walking down the center aisle of C.H.S. ---ice skating on the pond at Fifth and Phillip Streets ---crowding on the bleachers at P.V.R.C. to watch the Irish American Day entertainment ---walking to Seek through Fosters for the end of the year school picnic or ---riding to Lakewood if you were in Jr. High ---listening to Bright's Saturday morning radio program ---flattening cans and taking them to school to earn your private or corporal stripes ---seeing horse stables at the corner of Howard Avenue and Second Street ---watching black faced miners trudge home ---buying candy at Stevie's on the way to school ---hanging around at the Angela Luncheonette, better known as " Bucks " ---riding the trolly to Manila Grove ---trying to get Mrs. Kinn's parrot to talk when it was outside on a sunny day ---eating good food and dancing polkas on the wooden platform at the church picnics on Lehigh Street ---picking huckleberries before the pool was built ---oohing and ah-hing at the 4th of July fireworks at the pool ---swimming at the No.12 even through you were told no to ---watching the men play golf on their home made course "out the back" of the WestWard Gun Club ---hearing about the lime flowing down Second Street when the trough broke while building St. Mary's school ---walking around Laurel Hill, Stumpy Street, Hunkey Street or Bucks Mt. ---seeing the C.H.S. majorettes in uniform with trousers. |
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Submitted By: Richard C. Rehatchek
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