A scene from a mechanized anthracite mine of the late deep-mine era shows coal being transported via underground conveyor belt, while miners operate a tugger engine with steel cables to move timber, mine cars or anything else they wanted to tug.       (Evening Herald, Frackville Edition, April 4, 1975)  James Williams of 141 South Lehigh Avenue has lived at this same residence for fifty-seven years. It was formerly the Hicks homestead and later owned by Frank Deitrich.      He attended a one room schoolhouse on Broad Mountain Avenue where the B.V.M. Church is now located. Students of all ages were taught here and his teacher was Miss Barbara Leiser who was later killed by an automobile while crossing Lehigh Avenue.      His first church was a small one room Episcopal Church on the left of Dr. Miller's where the Methodist Church is now located. This was then dismantled to make way for the new building.      The first car he remembers was a steam automobile which had chain driven wheels (like a bicycle), solid rubber tires and the steering wheel was on the right side of the car.      At the age of ten he worked at Draper Colliery as a slate picker at fifty cents for a ten-hour day. Saturday was usually an eight-hour day but, if there was a breakdown on the machinery at any time, the boys had to wait until the machinery was fixed to make up th lost time.      His next job was running a gig at Lawrence Colliery for six dollars a week. A "gig" was a machine that separated coal from rock and whatever slate was left was picked out by the slate pickers who were very young boys. When he was fifteen years old, he lost three fingers and half his thumb from his left hand in a revolving screen that sized the coal.      He was a member of the junior Mechanics of Frackville and has been in the Odd Fellow Organization for 67 years.      One of his favorite subjects was the Band House where the Meredith Band practiced. He and his wife sat on the porch many evenings while the band played. He claims this was one of the finest bands in the county. James Robinson, Sr., who was a yardmaster for the Reading Company, was the director. They marched on each Memorial Day and Fourth of July and led the funeral cortege if any of their members passed away.      He remembers the first bank in town, the First National "Brownstone" Bank which was first organized in the building formerly occupied by Gordon Gradwell. The first cashier was George Postelwaite and after that tehre was Robert Garret, Frank HOppes and Ben Stone.      Mr. Williams was a foreman at Hill and Suenders for nine years. This company repaired heavy equipment such as shovels, tractors, etc. He remembers some of his friends that worked here. Clarence Brosius, mechanic; William Beecroft, pressman; Larry Wolfgang, latheman; John Wagner, blacksmith; Vic Wagner, truck driver; Norman Bretz, bucket repairman; and Lester Bretz, electric welder. The paymaster at this time was Tom Dewey.      He was secretary of the Broad Mt. Building and Loan when it was located in the small building next to the Mason Building. This was owned by Tom Reed at that time but is part of the Kehler estate today. They tehn moved to the rear of the Wagner Building and then to the Haupt Building on Frack Street.      Jim is now 89 years old and still gets together with his friends, smokoing cigars and reminiscing about their fond memories of Frackville.