Sewickley Herald

              The Herald
The Sewickley Valley's Home-News Weekly
Vol. XXVIII.   No. 14.
SEWICKLEY, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1931
Price 5 Cents
The Edgeworth Volunteer Fire Department in 1911, showing the oil original hose reel. Back row: F. A. McPherson, N. II. Buckley,
John Evans, Harry Dolde, A. S. McPherson, Hugh Pearce, W. C. Hamilton. Middle row: A. 0. Pearce, Sol Tolliver, I). 0. Anderson,
H. Seigel, E. Henle, Charles Reno, 0. B. Alexander.   Front row:    Harvey Sali, C. J. Hatton, Sr., John McPherson, C. H. Paschold, C. T.
McCullough, R. J. Nesbitt, Edward McPherson, R. Robinson.
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TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL BALL
Edgeworth Fire Department Will Hold
Dance
Tho twenty-second annual ball for
tho benefit of the Edgeworth Volunteer Fire Department, will be hold on
Friday evening, February 6th, in the
Edgeworth School Auditorium. Seotty
Walker's Orchestra will furnish the
music and refreshments will be served.
Two tickets have been mailed to
each home in the borough and the entertainment committee, consisting of
C. T. McCullough, chairman, William
Scott, Andrew Thein, C. G. Plies and
John Boyd, enclose a letter saying that
assistance will be greatly appreciated,
as tho dance is tho only source of revenue to tho firo department for raising
funds to defray oxponsos for the ensuing year. Also oiiclosod in the loiter
is a card bearing tho Words, "In case
of Firo—Call 'Sewickley 041," with instructions to hang it near the telephone,
Tho Edgeworth Firo Department was
organized in tho latter part of the year
1004, when a meeting was called by
citizens of tho borough, to form a Are
department for the protection of the
borough, The mooting was hold in the
blacksmith shop of Henry Hartling,
Ohostnut Stroot, rind Edgeworth Hose
Company No. 1 was organized,
Tho officers elected at this meeting
were: Nathan Buckley, president; Robert Nesbitt, vice president; C. J. Hatton, Sr., treasurer; Charles Harrison,
secretary, and W. C. Hamilton, chief.
Arrangements wero made to ring the
school   boll  for   an   alarm.     The   first
equipment was a hand drawn hose reel
which was acquired from Loot Township at the time of the incorporation of
tho borough. Previous to the organization mooting, this reel was stored in
Ezra Young's barn, but after Hose Company No. 1 was organized, they moved
EDGEWORTH'S NEWEST FIRE TRUCK
This truck was built by itlio Edgeworth flremon on a Pierce Arrow chassis
they purchased last fall. It is equipped with two large chemical tanks,
1,000 feot of chemical hose, extra chemicals, 1,000 feot of 1% inch fire hose
and all the required nozzles; and other accessories. It was bought arid paid
for out of the fund raised by the annual dances.
the reel to Hartling's Blacksmith Shop.
The first donation was made by Alex
Laughlin on February 20, 1905, which
enabled the Company to get its first
supplies of stationery. In March, 1903,
the membership consisted of the following members, W. C. Hamilton,
George Hcrz, Henry Hartling, 1), ,17
Pierce, William Rogers, Frank McDonald, Norman Bedilion, George Sovin, 1).
C. Anderson, John McPherson, C. J.
Hatton, Nathan Buckley, Richard Robinson, John Patton, C. J. Collins, Robert Nesbitt, Sol Tolliver, Jefferson
Grannyson, Bernard Simon, C, T. McCullough, D. L. Lynch, James Gibson,
Harvey Sala, Nathan Buckley, Jr.,
George Knorr, Charles Reno, Jr., and
John Evans.
In 1911, the fire company realizing
the need of better equipment, named a
committee on the purchasing of a fire
truck, and on April 7, 1913, a contract
was let to tho Lango Auto Company for
a motor-driven apparatus, This was
paid for through the efforts of the members and a donation of $1,000 from tho
borough council. This truck was the
second motor-driven apparatus in Allegheny County; the othor truck was owned by the City of Pittsburgh.
In May, 1913, the Are department was
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