Don Waltman's old fashioned pork kettle, other items, reflect bygone era | News, Sports, Jobs
Feb 10, 2021 A black iron kettle used to boil hog parts to make sausage, liver pudding and scrapple. KAREN VIBERT-KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette A wooden block table used for butchering. KAREN VIBERT-KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette A brown paper bag from Smithgail & Ging Neats Packers, which was orginally established in downtown Williamsport in 1932. KAREN VIBERT-KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette These were the days when city butchers knew the products the customers wanted. That is what Don Waltman, a retired butcher and owner of Waltman Meats, 338 Court St., said about his shop and its predecessor, Smithgall & Ging Meat Packers...