Now and Then

Now and Then is the quarterly magazine of history, biography and genealogy published by the Muncy Historical Society and Museum of History. The little historical magazine was started by J. M. M. Gernerd in June 1868, and published irregularly, hence the name.

 

 

 

 

 

 

VOL.

ISSUE

DATE

ARTICLE TITLE

PAGE

AUTHOR

 

NO.

 

 

 

 

II

1

8/1888

FLORIDA REMINISCENCES

1

 

II

1

8/1888

CURIOUS MINI BALL COINCIDENCES

5

 

II

1

8/1888

THROWING MUD AT MISS CLEVELAND

6

 

II

1

8/1888

THE LAST OF MARY SCUDDER'S CHILDREN

7

 

II

1

8/1888

THE DOG NUISANCE

7

 

II

1

8/1888

THE INSECTS NOT ALL LISTED

7

 

II

1

8/1888

SALUTATORY

8

 

II

1

8/1888

OUR AIM AND SCOPE

10

 

II

1

8/1888

SOME REMARKS IN REGARD TO OUR TITLE

11

 

II

1

8/1888

HISTORY OF THE WEST BRANCH VALLEY

12

 

II

2

10/1888

HOW FORTY MUNCY BOYS BURLESQUED THE 40 HORSE SHOW

13

 

II

2

10/1888

WHITMOYER'S FAMOUS MUSICAL CLOCK

14

 

II

2

10/1888

A REMINISCENCE CONNECTED W/ THE CLOCK REMINISCENCE

15

 

II

2

10/1888

MEMORANDA OF A PIONEER

16

 

II

2

10/1888

GATHER UP THE FRAGMENTS

17

 

II

2

10/1888

THE BRADY MONUMENT UNVEILED 10/15/1879

18

 

II

2

10/1888

A WESTERN EDITOR ON MUNCY

19

 

II

2

10/1888

EDITORIAL EXPLANATIONS

20

 

II

2

10/1888

THE RAZOR BACK HOG OF FLORIDA

21

 

II

2

10/1888

BRIEF NOTES AND ANECDOTES

22

 

II

3

12/1888

CLUB OF OFFENSIVE & DEFENSIVE BACHELORS-50 YEARS AGO

25

 

II

3

12/1888

THE GRIST MILL INDUSTRY IN THE WEST BRANCH VALLEY

27

 

II

3

12/1888

REMINISCENCE SUGGESTED BY THE NOW & THEN

28

 

II

3

12/1888

BURIED INDIAN RELICS

29

 

II

3

12/1888

THE NUMBER OF INSECTS LISTED

31

 

II

3

12/1888

OUR CORRESPONDENTS

32

 

II

3

12/1888

THE POWER OF IMAGINATION

34

 

II

3

12/1888

A VENERABLE CORDWAINER

34

 

II

3

12/1888

A LARGE LOCAL FIELD

35

 

II

3

12/1888

IT IS SO EASY TO FORGET

36

 

II

3

12/1888

A VENERABLE NIMROD

36

 

II

3

12/1888

COL. RICHARD M. JOHNSON'S VISIT TO MUNCY

36

 

II

4

2/1889

THE OLD MUNCY BAND

37

 

II

4

2/1889

THE PIONEER GENERAL JOHN BURROWS

40

 

II

4

2/1889

MORDECAL MC KINNEY AND FAMILY

42

 

II

4

2/1889

LETTER FROM THE HISTORIAN WOLFINGER

44

 

II

4

2/1889

GRIST MILL RECOLLECTIONS

45

 

II

4

2/1889

OUR JOHN QUINN

46

 

II

4

2/1889

AN UNSTABLE STREAM

47

 

II

4

2/1889

SOME JESTS OF JOHN KEESE, THE NOTED AUCTIONEER

47

 

II

4

2/1889

NEW YEAR

48

 

II

4

2/1889

BRIEF EDITORIAL NOTES

48

 

II

4

2/1889

MUSIC IN THE AIR

49

 

II

4

2/1889

CURIOSITY & INDEPENDENCE OF A DRUMMER BOY

50

 

II

4

2/1889

SOME FLINT-LOCK MUSKETS WANTED

50

 

II

4

2/1889

WAS IT A PROPHETIC VISION OF THE BATTLE

51

 

II

4

2/1889

COLOSSAL SIGNS - KEYSTONE PAINT

51

 

II

4

2/1889

STRANGE CONDUCT OF A SQUIRREL

52

 

II

4

2/1889

SACRED MUSIC ON A HAND ORGAN

52

 

II

4

2/1889

A GOOD INVENTION FOR THE OLD MAN

52

 

II

4

2/1889

A PAINT MAKER WRITES A NOVEL

52

 

II

5

4/1889

OUR FIRST MASONIC FUNERAL

53

 

II

5

4/1889

INDIAN ADVANCEMENT

55

 

II

5

4/1889

THE STORY OF A SONG - ROBERT HAWLEY

57

 

II

5

4/1889

21 YRS. IN THE SERVICE OF UNCLE SAM - BENJAMIN REMSNYDER

59

 

II

5

4/1889

THE LOCUSTS ARE COMING

61

 

II

5

4/1889

DR. TREON'S EMBLEM

62

 

II

5

4/1889

A PRAYER FOR HOT BREAD - D. M. BARBER

62

 

II

5

4/1889

HIGHER AND BETTER THAN FENCES

63

 

II

5

4/1889

HOW NELSON BRUNER SILENCED A REBEL BATTERY

63

 

II

5

4/1889

A SUSQUEHANNA FISHERMAN

63

 

II

5

4/1889

THE COMING AGE

64

 

II

5

4/1889

RANDOM NOTES

66

 

II

5

4/1889

WE-UNS AND YOU-UNS

67

 

II

5

4/1889

SHERIDAN'S LAMENT

68

 

II

5

4/1889

ONLY AN ARROWHEAD

68

 

II

6

6/1889

THE REBEL APOLLON - JOHN FROCK

69

 

II

6

6/1889

THE LAW OF COMPENSATION

72

 

II

6

6/1889

INDIAN NET-SINKERS

75

 

II

6

6/1889

AT ANDERSONVILLE

77

 

II

6

6/1889

WINDOW GLASS IN THE WEST BRANCH VALLEY

78

 

II

6

6/1889

A SENSIBLE DOG

79

 

II

6

6/1889

ATTENTION SUBSCRIBERS

80

 

II

6

6/1889

EDITORIAL COURTESIES

80

 

II

6

6/1889

DOES THE WORLD OWE EVERY MAN A LIVING - KUBLER

80

 

II

6

6/1889

HARVESTING WITHOUT LIQUOR

81

 

II

6

6/1889

THAT OTHER MUNCY BAND

81

 

II

6

6/1889

A WORK OF GREAT VALUE

82

 

II

6

6/1889

IS MUNCY VALLEY FILLED WITH RICH TREASURES - MINERALS

83

 

II

7

8/1889

JAPANESE IN DANVILLE

85

 

II

7

8/1889

ADAM HART

88

 

II

7

8/1889

FIRST GRIST MILL IN MUNCY VALLEY

93

 

II

7

8/1889

ANOTHER WORD TO OUR PATRONS

96

 

II

7

8/1889

THE NOW AND THEN AND SWEET MEMORIES

96

 

II

7

8/1889

CLINTON LLOYD - 104TH ANNIVERSARY

96

 

II

7

8/1889

CAN BOYS BE RELIED ON

97

 

II

7

8/1889

A PIECE OF OLD NEWSPAPER

98

 

II

7

8/1889

VANDALS AT THE GRAVES

99

 

II

7

8/1889

THE HABIT AND EFFECT OF DRINKING LIQUOR

100

 

II

8

10/1889

MILTON OPP

101

 

II

8

10/1889

THE BOYS OF MUNCY 50 YEARS AGO

105

 

II

8

10/1889

DO ANIMALS POSSESS MIND

107

 

II

8

10/1889

THE LOCUSTS HAVE COME

109

 

II

8

10/1889

THE GREAT FLOOD OF 1889

112

 

II

9

12/1889

PEDIGREE OF AKROYD OF AKROYD

117

 

II

9

12/1889

SUTCLIFF'S TRAVELS

119

 

II

9

12/1889

CREMATION, NATURAL AND UNIVERSAL

124

 

II

9

12/1889

WAR SYMPTOMS 50 YEAR AGO

129

 

II

9

12/1889

THE NOW AND THEN AGAIN ENLARGED

132

 

II

9

12/1889

ENERGY OF WATER UNDER PRESSURE

132

 

II

9

12/1889

A GOOD WAY TO MAKE GOOD INDIANS

133

 

II

9

12/1889

SULLIVAN COUNTY COAL

133

 

II

9

12/1889

A GOLDEN WEDDING

134

 

II

9

12/1889

LAUGHTER

134

 

II

9

12/1889

DOGS HEREAFTER

134

 

II

9

12/1889

JOHN TURNER - TOO YOUNG AND TOO OLD

136

 

II

10

2/1890

LOCAL TOPOGRAPHY

137

 

II

10

2/1890

JOHN MC CARTY

146

 

II

10

2/1890

A TRIP ACROSS THE ALLEGHENY

150

 

II

10

2/1890

BULK IN MANURE

152

 

II

10

2/1890

DESICCATION OF THE DEAD

153

 

II

10

2/1890

THE YOUNG INDIANS AT CARLISLE

155

 

II

10

2/1890

MEGINNESS BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS

156

 

II

10

2/1890

EFFECT OF EATING TOO MUCH

156

 

II

11

4/1890

COL. CHARLES FRIBLEY

157

 

II

11

4/1890

FIRST ROADS CONNECTING THE WEST AND NORTH BRANCHES

162

 

II

11

4/1890

MILTON OPP

165

 

II

11

4/1890

ORIGIN OF THE NAME OF WILLIAMSPORT

166

 

II

11

4/1890

OUR NATIONAL FLOWER

167

 

II

11

4/1890

ENCOURAGE HOME INDUSTRIES

167

 

II

11

4/1890

EXTRACT FROM CHAMBERLAIN'S ORATION AT GETTYSBURG

168

 

II

11

4/1890

HOW SHERIDAN GOT SATISFACTION

169

 

II

11

4/1890

BEARS AND BALD HEADS

171

 

II

11

4/1890

A HUNGRY CATFISH - DAVID MC CARTY

171

 

II

11

4/1890

SHALL THE NOW AND THEN BE CONTINUED

172

 

II

11

4/1890

ERRATA

172

 

II

11

4/1890

CRITIQUE ON CRITICISM

173

 

II

11

4/1890

AGAINST GRAVEYARDS

174

 

II

11

4/1890

MUSSER POST. NO. 66

174

 

II

11

4/1890

LYCOMING'S FIRST BLOOD IN THE UNION CAUSE - JOHN DEHAAS

175

 

II

11

4/1890

ADVERTISING LETTERS 50 YEARS AGO

176

 

II

12

6/1890

A REMARKABLE GUNSHOT WOUND - DANIEL MOYER

177

 

II

12

6/1890

A COUNTY LINE CONTROVERSY - BRADFORD & LYCOMING

182

 

II

12

6/1890

JOHN BURNS, OF GETTYSBURG

185

 

II

12

6/1890

AN INDIAN'S VISIT TO MUNCY VALLEY - JOSEPH STAUFER

186

 

II

12

6/1890

WHO WILL ENFORCE THE LIQUOR LAWS

189

 

II

12

6/1890

MUSIC IN THE WOODS - DAVIS BROTHERS

191

 

II

12

6/1890

THE UNEARTHLY STEAM WHISTLE

191

 

II

12

6/1890

THE END OF VOLUME II

192

 

II

12

6/1890

ANOTHER VOLUME

192

 

II

12

6/1890

TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS

192

 

II

12

6/1890

MORE ERRATA

193

 

II

12

6/1890

OUR FIRST VOLUME

193

 

II

12

6/1890

CONCLUDING CRITIQUE ON CRITICISM

193