By JIM ZBICK
When the Mauch Chunk Daily Times announced that Theodore Roosevelt would be passing through town on Aug. 21, 1912, the news created quite a stir in the county seat.
Roosevelt, who was a third-party candidate for president, was headed for Wilkes-Barre where he was to attend a Jubilee Mass and service for Rev. J. J. Curran. Traveling over the Lehigh Valley Railroad, Roosevelt was expected to make a stop at the East Mauch Chunk station "for at least five minutes."