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CITY OF DUBOIS Page 119
"The meeting on Thursday evening last was organized by
electing J. B. Taylor, Esq., (probably J. P. Taylor) president, and
Mr. W. H. Stanley secretary. Upon taking the chair, Mr. Taylor
stated the object of the meeting; after which there was quite an
interchange of views by the parties present. Mr. Hiram Raught put an
end to their sparring by inquiring the object of the making a
Borough and what benefit could be derived from it. He was answered
in such an able and convincing manner by Messrs. P. S. Weber and W.
H. Stanley, that not only Mr. Raught, but others present, were shown
that the town needs city government and needs it at once.
"Committees were then appointed to make a survey of the
boundary and also a committee was appointed to secure a census, and
then the meeting adjourned to meet at the school house on Thursday
evening, September 6."
No record of the meeting of September 6 can be
obtained. However, from a person present at that meeting, it has
been ascertained that it was the concensus of opinion of that
meeting that a town should be secured first, to get as far away from
Brady Township as possible. This opinion was sustained, and an
application was made to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Clearfield
County for the erection of a new township, principally from the
north end of Brady Township, a small section from Union Township and
a part of Huston Township. This move was successful, and the new
town was organized in 1878.
It will be noted that from 1867, the date of the Pomroy
Map, to June 20, 1873, the population of DuBois had increased from 4
families to 16. Hence the center of the population in Brady Township
in 1870 was far south of DuBois.
Prior to this date a public road had been obtained,
extending from North Main Street, northerly to the Low Grade
Railroad, which road is now called DuBois Street, and it was on the
corner of the road leading to Beechwoods and this road that Mr.
Weber purchased his lots. The first railroad station was a plank
platform.
No one seems to have any knowledge of a schedule of
trains, either passenger or freight, of that day, and the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company seems to have lost all trace of the
train service. However there were two passenger trains a day, one
going east and the other west. Of course they carried mail after the
establishment of the Post Office.
The mail contract for carrying mail between the Post
Office and the railroad station was let to William McIntosh, who,
with his brother, owned a livery stable. Mr. McIntosh employed
"Billy" Rumbarger to drive the mail hack. One day a stranger landed
on this platform and inquired of Billy how to get to Luthersburg.
When he explained to him that Luthersburg was six miles away, the
gentle-
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