Mountain Home Magazine Celebrates Ward Manufacturing, LLC’s 100th Year

January 2024 – Don Knaus of the Tioga County Mountain Home Magazine (a Beagle Media publication) highlighted Ward Manufacturing, LLC's ("Ward") 100th year in business, titled "The Big Save". 

"Ward Foundry, with its various names, was the foundation for the small town of Blossburg. The company's payroll sustained Blossburg families like Helen Manikowski's. In her words, 'You'd take your paycheck to the bank on Friday, cash it, and pay the mortgage. Then, you'd start up the street. There was O'Donnell's Pharmacy, Dr. Berzito's office. (I skipped the bowling alley and bar.) But along the way you paid your bills at the electric and gas company offices, stop at Martin's Meat Market and the grocery store to buy food for the week, and pay your insurance at Demchak's Nationwide. If you had anything left, you could walk down the other side of Main. There were two restaurants, a barber shop, Morely's Jewelry, Monk's News Stand, a department store, an appliance store, and the town library. I'd drop my girls off at Mabel's Dairy for a milkshake while I rested at the library next door.'

In truth, the foundry saved the declining town, turning Main Street into bustling businesses. And the people of the town saved the foundry...."

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