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THE FOREST CITY NEWS, FOREST CITY, PA 18421 * WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 2016 * PHONE 570-785-3800 * email [email protected]

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100 years ago this weekItems from the Independent Republican, Montrose Democrat and Tri -Weekly Journal

Submitted by Betty Smith, Susquehanna County Historical Society, Montrose

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10 YEARS AGOJuly 19, 2006

A big crane placed the final sec-tion in place, on a pre-cast concrete foundation, to replace the former parsonage of the Forest City Unit-ed Methodist Church which was destroyed by fire on Feb. 26.

In this year’s Great American Race, the father-son team of Ed-ward and Steven Tourje placed 29th overall and placed 10th in Sportsmanship.

Trooper Timothy McDonough, Richmondale, recently graduated from the PA State Police Academy in Hershey.

The first annual Browndale Fire Company Carnival will be held from July 18 - 22.

Sponsors for this year’s For-est City Coal Cracker Race will be Community Bank & Trust, Dr. Ge-rard T. Genco, and NEP Telephone Co.

Deaths: Frank M. Kozlevcar, Forest City; Thomas R. Hobbs, born in Browndale; Helen Slavin-skas, Pleasant Mount; Eileen Car-son, born in Carbondale.


William T. Stratford, postmaster retired, Forest City, died on Sun-day, July 7, at Geisinger Medical Center.

James Kilker of Pleasant Mount was named to fill the vacancy cre-ated by the resignation of School Board Director Theresa Nebzy-doski.

The section of the Lackawa-nna Valley Industrial Highway, known at the Carbondale Bypass, is scheduled to open to traffic on November 28th. This six and a half mile stretch will allow motorists an alternate route to cutting through downtown Carbondale when trav-eling Route 6 from Carbondale to Scranton.

Deaths: Chester F. Chrapow-icki, Forest City; Micheal A. Hol-lick, born in Browndale; Matilda O’Mahen, formerly of Browndale.


The total of $1,255 was received in the recent fund drive of the For-est City Arts Council, according to Director Mary Ferraro.

The “S” Team, composed of members of the Swegel family, will be defending its championship cup at the third annual OHW Tug-of-War.

Greater Forest City Industries Inc. is presently examining several approaches to the problem of get-ting a replacement for Ames Show-er Curtain Company, Vandling, which closed its doors on June 30.

The fourth annual “Fun Run” a two-mile race through the streets of Forest City and one of the many OHW activities, will again be sponsored by Community Bank & Trust Co.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Arrow-smith, 227 S. Main Street, Forest City, mark their 25th wedding an-niversary.

Deaths: Mary Selinsky, Forest City; Julia Jaklitsch, born in For-est City; Antonia Ravnikar, Forest City, RD.


Formal dedication ceremonies for Kennedy Park took place Sun-day with Dr. Robert J. Zelechoski, former local school superinten-dent, as Master of Ceremonies, and State Rep. John Wansacz as princi-pal speaker.

Over 3,500 enjoy local bicenten-nial activities held last week in For-

est City.Renovations were begun at the

Browndale Fire Co. Hall. They will be completed in approximately three weeks.

Deaths recorded: Fred R. Kigerl, Forest City; Kenneth Hutchins, Bloomfield, NJ, Clifford native; Lucinda Painter, Manchester, CT, formerly of Forest City; Harry Rubin, Scranton, former owner of the Pearl Coal Co., located in the Richmondale area; Frank Korjack, Vandling.


Election of Lawrence A. Ka-meen, as vice president of RCA de Puerto Rico, Inc., a new wholly owned subsidiary of the Radio Corporation of America, has been announced by W. Walter Watts, Group Executive Vice President of RCA.

Mrs. Laura Christina celebrated her 90th birthday July 10th at her home, 213 Ash St., Vandling. She was the recipient of many lovely gifts.

Funeral services for Mrs. Myra Maxey were held in St. Paul’s Epis-copal Church, Montrose. Richard H. Paye, RD 1 Pittston, formerly of Union Dale, died Sunday, July 17, in the Veterans Administration Hospital, Wilkes-Barre, after an ill-ness of three months.

The State Workmen’s Com-pensation Board awarded Stanley Kniss a substantial sum for the loss of an eye according to an opinion rendered by the Compensation Bu-reau.


Stephen Latanision, 26, an en-gineer for the Lorado Coal Co., Lorado, Va., former Richmondale resident, was killed last Thursday when he was covered by a slate fall while supervising a mine opera-tion.

Raymond R. Hodnik, 509 Lacka-wanna Street, was drowned Sun-day while swimming in Lake Hori-con, near Lakehurst, NJ.

The Rev. Augustine Svete, O.F.M., of Willard, Wisc., former local resident, observes the twenty-fifth anniversary of his ordination.

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Non of Pleas-ant Mount observe their Silver Wedding Anniversary.

Miss Joan Fries, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.B. Fries, Vandling, has been notified that she has success-fully passed her Registered Nurse’s test for New York State.

Cadet Anthony J. Burshnick has begun training at the new Air Force Academy in Colorado.

Deaths recorded: Miss Augusta G. Curtis, 94, retired Baptist Mis-sionary, died Friday at Waymart; Fran J. Cherney, former local and Vandling resident, died in Lake City, Fla.


Fans and fellow teammates will honor Bill Gerdine, Browndale Brownies pitching ace, at special Appreciation Day game on Sunday.

A large power shovel is engaged in stripping the area south of St. Jo-seph’s Cemetery.

The Charles and Martin Sku-bic Post of the American Legion has purchased the land in the 700 blocks of Hudson and Susquehan-na Streets for a community center and playground.

Campers at Camp Geneva, Lake Como, have been placed under quarantine as a case of polio hits the camp.

Sister M. Regina, OHM, former

Theresa O’Neill of Hilltop, Pleas-ant Mt., a member of the Order since 1888, passed away Friday.


George Sutkus, 45, Delaware St., lost his life by drowning while swimming in Dunn’s Lake, Sun-day.

Fire last Saturday destroyed the barn on the property of Mrs. Anna Conrad, at Stillwater.

Nineteen fire companies, togeth-er with their fire fighting equip-ment, were represented in the Hill-side Hose Company parade here.


Gus Lipko and his brother Jacob who were atop a scaffold repair-ing the home of Anthony Opeka, Lackawanna Street, were injured by the fall of the scaffold. Gus was removed to the General Hospital.

Rt. Rev. Jeglac, Bishop of Slo-vene, will visit the St. Joseph par-ish here Saturday and Sunday.

The Borough Council held a special meeting with local busi-nessmen at which time the busi-nessmen voiced their opinions on the new peddlers ordinance recently passed by Council. The ordinance provides that peddler must take out special permits. Fees being $5.00 for one day, $60 for one month, and $200 for a year.

Davies and Hazer, local Ford distributors, unloaded a carload of new cars on Saturday.

100 YEARS AGOJuly, 30, 1916

The Rev. John Jurasko, who was recently ordained in Rome, will celebrate his first Solemn Mass in the Sacred Heart Church on Sun-day.

The Mt. Pleasant School Board has appropriated $13,000 for the building of a new school building.

Atty. W.J. Maxey and Martin Gerchman were business callers in Montrose yesterday. They motored home cross-country in one hour and forty minutes.

The employees of Joseph Bazaar enjoyed an outing at Crystal Lake on Sunday.

George Seifert, Scranton artist, is painting and decorating the inte-rior of St. John’s Church.


The Forest City School Board has renamed all of the teachers of the last year for the coming school term.

C. W. Lott of Richmondale has moved his family to his new resi-dence on Dundaff Street.

Jacob Kretchick has leased the wholesale business of J.D. Ken-nedy in Vandling.

James Kelly, W.S. Davies and C.R Travis of this place, Charles Arnold and Thomas Beer, of Vandling, have passed their mine foreman examinations. John James Connelly passed his assistant fore-man test.


The borough lockup was kept well filled Tuesday and Wednes-day. Payday usually makes a lot of men unwisely hilarious.

Fred Straub has purchased a new baker’s wagon for his local deliveries. It makes a very neat ap-pearance.

Miss Joanna Faatz was fatally burned Thursday evening when a lamp exploded in her home, corner of Main and Grand Ave.

W.J. Davies has sold all of his merchandise except that of his tai-loring establishment.

Hop Bottom – On July 3rd about 40 invited relatives assembled at the pleasant home of Mr. & Mrs. H. G. Wright to celebrate their golden wedding. An elaborate dinner was served at 1 p.m. Five were pres-ent that were, 50 years ago, at Wm. P. Crandall’s when the Rev. S. F. Brown, of Brooklyn M. E. church, officiated at the wedding of this estimable couple. [Two newspaper photos accompany the announce-ment, one on the day of their mar-riage, and one on the day of their 50th anniversary].

Hallstead – The death of George M. Lamb occurred July 11. He re-tired as a Lackawanna engineer about two years ago, having for 40 years been an engineer on a run between Binghamton and Wash-ington, N. J.

Scranton Times, June 23 – At the age of 100 years and nine months, according to the reckoning of her family, Mrs. Sarah Johnson, colored, formerly of Montrose, died at her home in Winton [now Jessup]. Last summer it was an-nounced that Mrs. Johnson had attained the 100th anniversary of her birth. John Johnson, husband, died six years ago, and it was then reckoned by the family that he was 106 years old. The husband was a slave before the war—escaping to the North through the famous un-derground railroad, which landed the refugees in Montrose. He joined the army when war came. Mrs. Johnson was born in Lacka-waxen twp, Pike county, and lived there for some time. She also lived for years in Moscow, and came to Winton about 30 years ago. From the time she was 10 years of age old “Granny” Johnson smoked, and up on the occasion of her 100th anni-versary she said her recipe for lon-gevity was: Plenty of tobacco, lots of good cheer and plenty of work. Until recently the old woman was able to walk daily to the Winton postoffice and to do most of the household work in her little home along the mountain road, includ-ing frequent baking of bread. Mrs. Johnson was never able to recol-lect the year of her birth. But she remembered that she was a young woman during the campaign of “Tippecanoe and Tyler, too,” that being in 1840, when W. H. Harrison was a candidate for the presidency.

Elk Lake – George Ridley is ad-vertising building lots on the shore of the lake. Lots at Elk Lake have been selling rapidly the past few years and not many desirable lo-cations will be left in a short time. Those for sale are located in heavy timber and are ideal for campers.

Apolacon Twp. – This township has troubles of its own. Not long since the supervisors were arrested for not removing the stones once each month during the summer season, from the highways, as pro-vided by law. They gave bail for appearance at court, but failing to remove the stones as the law pro-vides, they were arrested a second time on complaint of residents. Wm. Butler who drove the “kid wagon” that conveyed the students to the centralized school, has also brought suit against the school board, because he has not been paid for his services.

Susquehanna – A chair origi-nally owned by George Washing-ton, and now owned by Mrs. Polk

Palmer, of West Main street, is on exhibition in the show windows of Henry Perrine, the furniture dealer, and is attracting very much attention. The chair was one of a set presented to Washington by Louis XVI, King of France. When the capitol was moved from Phila-delphia to Washington, M. Ar-nous, a Frenchman, purchased the chair at a sale. He gave the chair to his friend, Samuel Simpson, of Philadelphia. In 1827 Samuel mar-ried Mehitable Vanaman Wade, a widow with one child, Eliza C. Wade. Samuel died Oct. 18, 1838 and his effects passed to his wid-ow. In 1842 Eliza Wade married Theo Abbett, of Philadelphia, and among the wedding presents was the Washington chair. Mrs. Polk Palmer is the only surviving child of Theo. and Eliza Abbett and after their death the chair passed into the hands of Mrs. Polk Palmer of Susquehanna. The balance of the chairs are in Independence Hall, at Philadelphia, and the Washington home, at Mt. Vernon.

Bridgewater Twp. – Two of-fenders, who persisted in dump-ing decayed vegetables, etc., near the road on the poor farm, some distance from the borough dump-ing grounds, were arrested and brought before Justice F. A. Davies last week. The dumping grounds are proving a nuisance, because those who dump rubbish there do not live up to the rules governing it. In some instances carters [truck-men] dump old cans and refuse along the roads in that section, greatly annoying those property owners who are obliged to attend to its removal. Friday is the only day in the week when rubbish may be dumped on the borough dump. Parties who disobey the rules will be hauled before a justice and fined.

Uniondale – Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Tinker entertained the Tinker re-union on Thursday, July 6th, about 40 being in attendance. Among those present were Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Tinker, of Philadelphia, Miss Jean Byall, of Sterling, Kan., Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Jones, the Misses Nettie and Jennie Russell, of Car-bondale, the Misses May and Janet Tinker, Mrs. A. H. Smith and Miss Faye Smith, of Uniondale.

Brooklyn – Dr. and Mrs. Charles Lewis and family, from China, who have been spending part of their furlough here, are about to return to China. Dr. Lewis will open a new hospital which he built in Poating Fu, in addition to the Tay-lor Memorial Hospital which he built in 1903. Mrs. Lewis’ sister, Bertha Savige, will return with them to establish a kindergarten at Poating Fu.

Thompson Borough - H. P. Meade and Dr. Hugh Barnes are the latest owners of automobiles here, swelling the number to 33, if rightly informed.

Harford – Anti-Aircraft guns now seem necessary to protect the products of the farm from the “en-emy.” At least Ray Tingley, one of our popular and progressive farm-ers, was strongly inclined to this belief the other day, when, with a trusty gun, he brought down an im-mense hawke, measuring five feet from tip to tip, which was about to swoop down on a flock of chick-ens on his farm. A few days later he shot a large owl and is having

both birds mounted by a local taxi-dermist.

Dimock – One of the most prom-inent events of 1916 will be the 44th annual session of the Dimock Camp Meeting, which will be held on the grounds of the Association at Dimock, commencing August 17 and closing Sunday night, August 27. An admission fee of 10 cents a day will be charged at the gate or a season ticket for 25 cents. Promi-nent speakers of world-wide repu-tation will be in attendance and will be announced later.

Great Bend – Homer Cobb met with an accident while riding on a cow’s back, he fell and broke his left arm at the elbow. He was taken to the State hospital, at Scranton, to have the fracture reduced.

Birchardville – As F. E. Fessen-den was coming from this place, Monday morning, with two tons of butter, his big auto truck skid-ded when near the farm of George Snell, and backed down the hill and off a bank. The top was torn off by a tree, but Geo. Snell and Wm. Larue helped him get the truck in the road and he proceeded to town with his big load—no one was injured.

200 YEARS AGO, THE CEN-TINEL, MONTROSE, PA, July 23, 1816. Extract of a letter, dated Waterbury, Vt., June 9, to a gentle-man in Windsor. “During the 6th inst. The snow fell rapidly in all the towns about here, but melted as it fell. Much snow fell on Fri-day night and on Saturday in the forenoon in many places; in Wil-liamstown it was 12 and in Cabot 18 inches deep! The ground at Mountpelier was generally cov-ered during the whole of yesterday, and the mountains, as far as we can see, are yet completely white. I can find no person who has ever before seen snow on the earth in June. This part of the country I assure you presents a most dreary aspect; great coats and mittens are almost as generally worn as in January; and fire is indispensable.

Week of July 25Monday - Chicken Philly

sandwich, corn chowder, tossed salad, ww club roll, apples & berries w/whipped topping.

Tuesday - Roast beef, mashed potatoes, roasted beets & carrots, ww roll, apple bread pudding.

Wednesday - Pork marsala, brown rice, snap peas, crack-ers, fruit salad.

Thursday - Penne w/meat sauce, Italian wedding soup, Italian green beans, sorbet.

Friday - Lemon pepper chicken mashed potatoes, steamed garlic spinach, ww roll, blushing pears.

For reservations, please call a day ahead at Forest City, 10-2, 785-3386. At Lenoxville, 10-2, THURSDAY ONLY, 222-9550, or you can call the Senior Service of-fice at: 278-7664 or 800-634-3746

Gino Merli playIn Simpson onSat., July 23

Scranton Public Theater and the Dimes from Heaven Foun-dation, of Simpson, wil pres-ent Tom Flannery’s “The Last Thoughts of Gino Merli,” the late Congressional Medal of Honor Winner from Lackawa-nna County.

The one man, one act play will be on Saturday, July 23, at 7PM at Trinity Banquest Facil-ity, Simpson.

Tickets are $10 and can be purchased by calling 570-222-4074. Proceeds benefit Dimes From Heaven.

July 21 - Lawn supper, ham and scalloped potatoes, Thurs., Starrucca baptist social rooms, 5 p.m. donation plus food pantry item.

July 22 - Lyme disease edu-cation & prevention, Fri., 10 a.m. Salt Spring Park, free.

July 23 - FREE Commu-nity Lunch, Christ Episcopal Church, Corner Delaware & Dundaff Streets, Forest City. Sat., noon – 1:30 p.m. Call (570) 785-3425 (please leave a message.)

July 23 - Salt Springs Park, 10 a.m., native Susquehanna county snakes, Sat., $5, mem-brs & children free, live speci-mens to see & touch.

July 24 - Bike the Border, Sun., 1:30 p.m., Salt Springs Park, Free-will donation.

July 28 - Wayne Co. trivia Night, 5:30 p.m., teams 4 to 6 adults, prizes, Contact Eliza-beth to register at 570-253-1220 or [email protected].

July 30 - Roast beef supper, Sat., 5 p.m., Thompson United Methodist Church, 586 Main St., Thompson, takeouts 4:30 p.m. $11 adults, $5.50 children 6-12, under 5 free

July 31 - Clarks Green As-sembly of God, FREE commu-nity pig host, Sun., worship 11 a.m., lunch 1 p.m., kid & adult games, live entertainment, 204 S. Abington Rd., 570-586-8286.

Aug. 5 - The Honey Dew-drops, Fri., 8 p.m., Harmony Presents, 8 Silk Mill Dr., Haw-ley, $19-22, www.harmonypre-sents.com.

Aug. 13 - Indoor flea mkt., bake sale, Sat., 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Hawley Fire House, 17 Co-lumbus Ave.,Diane 570-290-1488; 570-226-9820 firehouse; or [email protected].

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