The Juniata Valley Colony Club

Checked against the record. Checked on 1 November 2026: the Centre Reporter, 28 June 1928, p. 1; the Penn State Collegian, 4 June 1929, p. 3; the Democratic Watchman of Bellefonte, 27 August 1926 p. 8, 4 April 1930 p. 8, 20 June 1930 p. 8, 25 July 1930 p. 5, 5 August 1932 p. 4, 12 July 1935 p. 1 and 15 April 1938 p. 1, all in the Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive; and the 1937 Sesquicentennial book. Not in the story and still open: the March 1936 flood, the cottages and records lost in it, a trustee sale in June 1936, the court case, and the 1924 founding. The Mount Union Times for 1936 and 1938 is not online, so its reports were not seen. The Watchman issues of 20 and 27 March, 29 May, and 5, 12 and 19 June 1936, and of 23 and 30 July and 15 October 1937, and the Centre Reporter of 26 March and 2 April 1936, carry no report of the club. The court's opinion on the sale was not found online. Not yet in the story: the Watchman of 27 August 1926, p. 8, says Miss Anna W. Keichline, of Bellefonte, was the architect for a 30 by 45 foot club house being built by the “Juniata Country club two miles above Mount Union along the Juniata river.” That is a third name, and “above Mount Union” sits uneasily with the 1930 report placing the club near Newton Hamilton, so it waits until the club's identity and site are settled. Identity: the 1937 book does not use the word Colony. The reading that the two names mean one club rests on the matching 18 hole course, pool and Mount Union location in 1930 and 1937, on both names being used from 1928 to 1938, and on the 1932 Watchman listing Juniata Valley of Mount Union as a club separate from Birch Hill of Lewistown. Price: the Watchman says the $12,000 included $4,000 in back taxes, and only its figure is used. Date: the Watchman's “last year,” in April 1938, would mean 1937, but another account dates that earlier sale to June 1936, so the story says only “the year before.” Where it stood: open. The 1930 Watchman places the club near Newton Hamilton and the 1926 item two miles above Mount Union. It is listed under Mount Union here because the sources name it with Mount Union. The post number: the 1937 book names only the Simpson-Hunt Post at Mount Union. Quotations were checked against the archive's text of each page, not the page images.