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LOOKING BACK 100 years ago this week Items from the Independent Republican, Montrose Democrat and Tri -Weekly Journal Submitted by Betty Smith, Susquehanna County Historical Society, Montrose PAGE 6 - THE FOREST CITY NEWS, FOREST CITY, PA 18421 * WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 2017 * PHONE 570-785-3800 * email [email protected] Senior Menu Coming Events Upper Valley Oil Co. P.O. Box 57, Forest City HEATING OIL CALL 1-800-774-5600 If you experience trouble with our 800 number, please call 570-876-2500 SERVING FOREST CITY, VANDLING, BROWNDALE, UNION DALE, SIMPSON AND RICHMONDALE AREAS ONLY Call for price for other surrounding areas. NOBODY BEATS OUR PRICE! MAKE US YOUR FINAL CALL! SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE 10 YEARS AGO July 25, 2007 Old Home Week kicks off on July 29 at Kennedy Park and culminates on August 5 with the ever popular Cow Plop Bingo. Chairman is Jennifer Tighe and Co-Chairpeople are Eileen Lynch and Marci Kerzic. Adams Cable Service will be donating $3,200 for the OHW fireworks display for the sixth year. The Forest City Planning Com- mission denied a request by J.T. Spano, LLC, to convert two For- est City duplexes into two, two- family homes for the purpose of selling each side of the homes to separate owners. The Carbondale Social Securi- ty Office will officially close after business hours on Friday, July 25. Deaths: Margaret Kilonsky, Forest City; Patrick S. Kase, RR Jermyn; Sam Kowalick Sr., born in Forest City; John F. Kanavy Jr., Gouldsboro; Anna M. Jones, Union Dale; Joya Berry, Childs; Paul Knorr, Scranton; Joseph Tocki, Jermyn; Evan J. Griffiths, Carbondale. 20 YEARS AGO July 23, 1997 Bernice Lukus, Vandling, was named elementary principal of Forest City Regional School at a meeting of the Board of the Edu- cation. She replaces Mrs. Ann Cyzeski who tendered her resig- nation on July 9th. Forest City welcomes another Main Street business. Helping Hands Home Health Care Agen- cy, Inc. has opened offices at 519 Main Street in the Kerzic Build- ing, next to Kelly’s Pharmacy. Kate Dombroski, chairman of the 1997 OHW parade commiee, reported that a total of 12 floats have been registered to appear in this year’s parade. Deaths: Harriet M. Rohr, Thompson; Theodore P. Ma- linchak, Crystal Lake; Sister Jean Zaller, Cleveland; Gerry Wyzy- kowski, Lake Idlewild; Kevin Abe Lawler, Carbondale; Anne D. Payne, born in Carbondale. 30 YEARS AGO July 23, 1987 Mary Garm was sworn in as a new member of the Forest City Regional School Board. She re- places Dr. Michael Sterchak who resigned after moving his resi- dence out of that district. A team from Chet’s Place, Elk Mountain, will be defending its championship cup at the fourth Annual tug-of-war sponsored by the OHW commiee. Saturday, August 1st, is your chance to travel back to the “best days of your life” at the OHW’s teen town dance. Local barber and Forest City News reporter Paul Ferraro has accepted a call to serve as a contact representative for the Susquehanna County Environ- mental group RESCUE. Deaths: Catherine Strinsky, Forest City; Alvah Allen, RD 1 Union Dale. 40 YEARS AGO July 21, 1977 Joseph C. Chernesky Jr., serv- ing with the U.S. Marine Corps, Iwakuni, Japan, as crew leader, Station Weapons Division, has been promoted to the rank of Sergeant. Martin Saniski, Mayfield, has been notified he is now a licensed funeral director in the State of Pennsylvania: He served his in- ternship at and is now associated with Mr. Robert W. Jones of the Robert W. Jones Funeral Home, Forest City. Bill Lesjak has recently accept- ed an appointment by the Fed- eral Government Civil Service as a Career Guidance Counselor for the Dept. of Army in Grafen- woehr, Germany. Lou Zefran and Joe Debevec captured the championship in Wivey’s Golf Tourney. Deaths: Stanley Lubaszewski, Auburn, NY; Mrs. Iva Wells Rob- inson, Lenoxville. 50 YEARS AGO July 27, 1967 Miss Marie Siscoe, Susque- hanna St., and Miss Marie Marin- chak, Grand Avenue, enplaned by jet from Kennedy Airport, NY, for a two-week vacation in Spain and Portugal. Fred Spencer, Pleasant Mount RD, who would have been 101 years old on August 8th, died Monday, July 24th in St. Joseph’s Hospital, Carbondale, after an ill- ness. Frank Pevec, Browndale, who was a student pilot at Cherry Ridge Airport, took his wrien test in April. He completed his flight test July 16th, and after passing his flight test, received his private pilot rating. Mrs. Mary Stermole and Mrs. Cecilia Pavlovich of Forest City and Mrs. Joseph Konchar have returned home from a three-week overseas jet trip to Yugoslavia. Miss Sharon Ann Walsh re- ceived her certificate as a Certi- fied Laboratory Assistant at grad- uation exercises held July 6th at Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial Hospital in Binghamton. 60 YEARS AGO July 23, 1957 Frank Wilks, foreman of En- terprise Hose Co., named Chief of Forest City Fire Department, succeeding Richard Arrowsmith. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Orehek, Browndale, observe their Silver Wedding Anniversary. The Rev. P.B. Paukstis, pastor of St. Anthony’s Church, will be honored at a testimonial dinner marking his 25th anniversary as pastor of St. Anthony’s parish. Deaths recorded: Daniel “Lin- dy” Franceski, North Main St.; Mrs. Eliza Deming, Union Dale. 70 YEARS AGO July 24, 1947 Twenty-four local candidates have nominating petitions for the November Primary. A slow primary is foreseen with lack of opening for some offices. Louis Laurich, S1c, USN, in- curred fatal injuries when he fell off his bunk in the Norfolk Bar- racks. The family of Mrs. Mary Ger- chman held a family reunion at the Franceski farm grove at Clif- ford on Sunday. The local fire department and the Penna. Telephone Company issue a plea to local residents to refrain from calling operators at the telephone exchange includ- ing the whereabouts of a fire when the local siren is sounded. 80 YEARS AGO July 23, 1937 Emmanuel Freedman, Forest City High School, was awarded the Susquehanna County State Senatorial scholarship. Robert Ingalls, captain of the Railroad Police and former Chief of Police of Forest City, has been placed on probation by the Rail- road Company. Commiees are being formed at local organizations for the con- test of the Borough’s anniversary to be held next year. Honesdale Borough Council has been put on record to reduce its Burgess salary from $300 to $25 annually. 90 YEARS AGO July 21, 1927 Rev. R.E. Freꜩ, pastor of the Bethel Congregation, has an- nounced his resignation to the local pastorate. The street carnival staged for the local park improvement now has $1200. Elmer Brown, 85, Thompson, a war veteran, died last week. L. W. Cowperthwaite, RD For- est City, died Sunday as the re- sult of injuries when he fell off a load of hay. 100 YEARS AGO July 26, 1917 Susquehanna County has been ordered to furnish 236 men in the first draft call. Carl Kovacic has enlisted in the Air Corps of the U.S. Army. Daniel Franceski has sold his interest in his boling works to his brother, John Franceski. The Presbyterian Church, damaged by fire last November, will reopen for service on Sun- day. Tony Bradach, Hudson St., suffered the loss of his left arm in a premature blast while at work in the Gray Slope mine Monday. 110 YEARS AGO July 25, 1907 The Scranton dog catcher em- ployed by the Forest City Council to round up stray dogs, was ar- rested by the local Health Officer for not burying his dead dogs. The homes of Michael Caw- ley and Zara Carr were damaged when struck by lightning during a severe electric storm Saturday. York Staters are busy here buy- ing up the huckleberries picked by local people on the mountain east of Browndale. The local barbers gave the lo- cal clerks a free trim Tuesday by defeating them 14-10 in a base- ball game. 120 YEARS AGO July 29, 1897 Rev. J. Irwin Broadhead has accepted a call to the rectorship of Christ Episcopal Church. Frank Cunningham has opened a shoe store in the quar- ters formerly occupied by the post office. A Binghamton man has been arrested by Federal Authorities for opening his wife’s mail. W.H. Leek is proudly display- ing timothy heads measuring 12 inches in length. FOREST CITY’S FIRST 25 YEARS GROWTH OF FOREST CITY - In 1922, Robert Webb Jr., a student in Forest City High School, wrote a his- tory of Forest City’s first 25 years in the school’s newspaper “Nods & Nox”. A stack of these newspapers was recently donated to the Forest City Area Historical Society. Since this was wrien less than 60 years after Forest City was founded in 1864, it is probable that this information, about the town’s first 25 years came from people who were residents here during that time. Some of what is wrien is not found in any Forest City his- tory including the 1938 history by John S. Obelenus or the 2015 history by Mark Walsh. The Historical Society feels that it should be published in the Forest City News to make it a tangible part of our town’s history. It will be printed over a period of five weeks. PART ONE Founded by William Pentecost At some bygone period the Delaware and Hudson Coal Company purchased large tracts of primeval forest ly- ing in the three counties of Susquehanna, Lackawanna and Wayne, between Car- bondale and Stillwater. In 1864, Mr. William Pen- tecost, father of Mr. T. J. Pen- tecost, purchased large tracts of hemlock bark from this company and entered into a contract to manufacture lum- ber from year to year as the company may wish. He then proceeded to build a large dam and erect a mill on the Lackawanna River opposite Castle Garden. The Lacka- wanna River in those days was much larger than at the present time. This mill refused to do its part and thus was a failure. But this did not deter Mr. Pentecost in the least from continuing to fell trees and build new roads into the primeval forest which was at that time eight miles long and over six miles wide. At some previous time un- known to anyone, squaers invaded this land and culti- vated a few acres in Brown- dale and a few, in Vanding. The Browndale acres were formerly known as the Eaton lots. The only road to Carbon- dale turned at right angles at John Kennedy’s store, down a long hill and past a small stream. Half way down this hill were a few mounds where somebody in the past had been buried for the signs proved it so. To this day we may still see the graves in the graveyard. Opposite this graveyard in 1865, Mr. Pentecost culti- vated a field of potatoes. Also opposite what is known as the Vandling Picnic grounds he cultivated a large field of oats. This was practically the first produce in this place. The first coal that was dug here was done by the residents. It was taken from an old opening between the road and the river. Some years later Mr. Hiram Led- yard, from Pleasant, Mount, purchased this very same mine and put in a scale. He did a very thriving business supplying the farmers with the winter’s fuel. This district here was the Clifford Town- ship. To Be Continued Week of Aug. 7 Monday - Franks & beans, hot dog roll, yellow squash soup, cuke dill salad, coage cheese & berries. Tuesday - Baked fish w/ parsley buer, stewed to- matoes, steamed broccoli, macaroni & cheese, rocky road pudding. Wednesday - Lemon gar- lic chicken, green beans almondine, tossed salad, spaghei w/tomatoes & ba- sil, garlic bread, chocolate mousse. Thursday - Swiss steak, dilled carrots, mashed pota- toes, ww roll, orange. Friday - Pork w/pineapple sauce, Asian veggie medley, honey ginger carrots, brown rice, peach crisp. 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 office at: 278-7664 or 800-634- 3746 July 27 - Wayne/Pike Sui- cide Awareness Commiee, Thurs., Wayne Memorial Hospital, 601 Park St., Hon- esdale, 7 p.m. July 28, 29, 30 - Christ the King Parish picnic, grounds of St. Mary of Czestochwa Church, Eynon, beer, wine tent, ethnic & American foods, pastries, raffles, bin- go, children’s games, flea market, live music. July 29 - Clinton Center Baptist Church, Waymart, yard & bake sale, Sat., 9 a.m.-4 p.m. July 29 - All-you-can-eat pancake breakfast, Sat., 7 to 10 a.m., Union Dale Church hall. July 30 - Two-wheeled tour of Salt Springs State Park, Sun., 1 p.m., free. Aug. 4 - Comedy Night hosted by Zach Swan, ben- efit the NEPA Junior Golf, Fri., Aug. 4,, 7 p.m., Trinity Banquet Facility, Simpson, $20 per person. Call 570-687- 3309 for more information. Aug. 6 - Music in the Park, Sun., Rte. 106, Clifford Fire- men’s Fairgrounds, Clifford, 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m., rain or sine, 10:30 a.m. worship ser- vice, music 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Aug. 8 - Henry David Tho- reau at 200, Tues., 6:30 p.m., Carbondale Chamber of Commerce, 27 N. Main St., Carbondale, $5 donation. Aug. 11 & 12 - Perseid meteor shower, Fri. & Sat., 9 p.m. Salt Springs Park, Free will donation. County’s Young Men Drawn for War. – In its issue of July 12th, The Montrose Democrat pub- lished a list of all the young men of Susquehanna County who reg- istered for military service, with their registration numbers. The great loery of human lives took place in Washington. The gross quota for this county is 312, and out of this we have a credit of 76, leaving 236 men needed. Twice this number, of 472, will be called before the exemption board for examination and their names ap- pear in another column of The Democrat. Laurel Lake – The dances at Laurel Lake, given under the di- rection of F. E. Sullivan, are be- coming more and more popular with the young people. The hall has been greatly improved and beautified and the music is al- ways of the best. Forest City – The population of Susquehanna County is 37,746. Forest City, Pa., has sent more of her sons than the quota of the en- tire county. Over 100 young men of this place have enlisted in the various branches of the service since the beginning of the war. ALSO Sunday was the warmest day of the season. It was too hot for the Independents and they suffered defeat in a game with the Independents of Dickson City as a consequence. The crowd at the game was not as large as common and lile interest was shown by the spectators. Cavanaugh was in fine fele but received roen support by his teammates. Error after error by the locals at op- portune times proved costly and the game was lost after the fourth stanza. Next Saturday the locals will cross bats with a strong team from down the valley. Hop Boom – The first man to be called for military service, un- der the draft loery drawing, was Wade Squier, who registered with postoffice address as, “R. D. Hop Boom, Pa.” His number was 258, this being the first number drawn at Washington. Mr. Squier is a widower, with three small chil- dren, aged 2, 3 and 6 years. It would seem that he has claims for exemption. He has been living in Brooklyn township, but is now working in Nicholson township, just over the county line. He is a son of Lyman Squier. Springville – Two runaways within the last week. A span of horses belonging to James Bun- nell, and driven by his grandson, John, ran down the depot hill, after he had delivered the milk at the station. They plunged into the fence in front of W. E. Stevens’ blacksmith shop. Both horses were thrown in such a way as to place their heels together, but heads in opposite direction. A crowd of men soon gathered. The horses sustained no injury and with a new bolt, they were soon on their way home. On Monday, Bruce Williams, of Lynn, had a runaway also. He had been up to Springville with his milk and going home his team became un- manageable, and but for W. E. Stevens and Dean Baker, would have been a severe one. They were stopped in Lynn by Mr. Ste- vens wielding a big whip in front of them, turning their course in front of Mr. Sheldon’s house and were stopped by Mr. Baker. Montrose – The Bible con- ference opens tomorrow, July 27. One of the best programs in the history of the conference has been arranged. Commenc- ing Friday noon, George Halde- man, of Springville, will run his big passenger truck between the conference grounds and down town, making trips every half hour. Fare, 5 cents. The regu- lar conference auto will meet all trains. Fare to grounds, 10 cents. ALSO at the borough limits in Montrose are erected signs re- stricting the speed of motor ve- hicles to ten miles per hour in the borough and a certain Laceyville man, after trying to get over the various streets, is of the opinion that a sign denoting a speed limit of 5 miles an hour would be more compatible with safety. Brooklyn – The ladies of this place have been sewing busily for the last few weeks and have just sent to Red Cross headquar- ters a large package of completed articles, including bandages, bed socks, fracture pillows, covers for hot water boles, bed shirts, and operating gowns. Also knied wash cloths, scarfs and sweaters. New Milford – Ward Cobb has enlisted in the Thirteenth Regi- ment at Scranton. Lake View – Miles Tyler left last week for Newport, R. I., where he begins training in naval service. Harford – The South Harford Book Club will meet August 1st at the home of Mrs. Emily Payne, and may a large aendance be present. ALSO Berry picking is all the rage here these days and so is haying. Thompson – Walter L. Miller, son of Ay. John D. Miller and brother of Rep. Allan D. Miller, has enlisted and has been ac- cepted in the aviation corps of the United States. Mr. Miller made application for enlistment last winter while at Cornell Uni- versity, and was recently notified to appear for examination. He passed all tests, and was accept- ed, and will be called to duty in a short time. Susquehanna – Among the boys in the olive drab, who are doing their bit in France for Uncle Sam, are four from our own home town: Stanley Beebe, Harold Rundell, Thomas Lynch, Washington street, and Thomas J. Lynch, Franklin Avenue. Elk Lake – The drafting order hit this village hard, as it took in the majority of young men who registered. ALSO The Ladies Aid will meet in Grange hall on Wednesday for dinner. In the evening they will hold an ice cream social on the church lawn. Everyone come and go fishing. Heaps big fish in the pond. Friendsville – Camp Choconut is open, with the largest aen- dance in its history. Uniondale – S. H. Bronson, a few days ago, sold a large quan- tity of wool. It made us think of the days when every farmer had wool to sell. News Briefs: There is a move- ment on foot by which the bod- ies of those who lose their lives on foreign bale fields may be brought home for burial, and those in favor of this movement should write their congressman. 200 Years Ago Today from the Montrose Centinel, Montrose, PA, July 19, 2017. *Caution to the Public. All persons are hereby cautioned against purchasing a Note of hand given by the subscribers to Dana Fox in October Last, as no value has been received and we shall not pay it unless compelled by law. Joseph Jackson & Caleb Jackson. Waterford, July 24, 1817. *Ten Dollars Reward. Stolen from the subscriber on the night of the 17th inst. a first rate English WATCH, capt, set in diamonds, a round steel chain and gold key in the form of two 6’s with two small balls betwixt. Said watch was last repaired [by] George Gordon in Newburgh. Whoever will ap- prehend the thief that he may be brought to justice and secure the watch that the owner may get it, shall have the above reward, or five dollars for the watch. CHRISTOPHER LONGSTREET. Great Bend, July 18, 1817. *Will be disposed of at PUB- LIC VENDUE, ON Friday, the 8th of August next, at the house of Freeman Peck in Harford all the personal property of Truman Clinton, late of Clifford town- ship, deceased. HOSEA TIFFA- NY, FREEMAN PECK, Adminis- trators of said estate. By Forest City Area Historical Society
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LOOKING BACK
100 years ago this weekItems from the Independent Republican, Montrose Democrat and Tri -Weekly Journal
Submitted by Betty Smith, Susquehanna County Historical Society, Montrose
PAGE 6 - THE FOREST CITY NEWS, FOREST CITY, PA 18421 * WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 2017 * PHONE 570-785-3800 * email [email protected]
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10 YEARS AGOJuly 25, 2007
Old Home Week kicks off on July 29 at Kennedy Park and culminates on August 5 with the ever popular Cow Plop Bingo. Chairman is Jennifer Tighe and Co-Chairpeople are Eileen Lynch and Marci Kerzic.
Adams Cable Service will be donating $3,200 for the OHW fireworks display for the sixth year.
The Forest City Planning Com-mission denied a request by J.T. Spano, LLC, to convert two For-est City duplexes into two, two-family homes for the purpose of selling each side of the homes to separate owners.
The Carbondale Social Securi-ty Office will officially close after business hours on Friday, July 25.
Deaths: Margaret Kilonsky, Forest City; Patrick S. Kase, RR Jermyn; Sam Kowalick Sr., born in Forest City; John F. Kanavy Jr., Gouldsboro; Anna M. Jones, Union Dale; Joya Berry, Childs; Paul Knorr, Scranton; Joseph Tocki, Jermyn; Evan J. Griffiths, Carbondale.
20 YEARS AGOJuly 23, 1997
Bernice Lukus, Vandling, was named elementary principal of Forest City Regional School at a meeting of the Board of the Edu-cation. She replaces Mrs. Ann Cyzeski who tendered her resig-nation on July 9th.
Forest City welcomes another Main Street business. Helping Hands Home Health Care Agen-cy, Inc. has opened offices at 519 Main Street in the Kerzic Build-ing, next to Kelly’s Pharmacy.
Kate Dombroski, chairman of the 1997 OHW parade committee, reported that a total of 12 floats have been registered to appear in this year’s parade.
Deaths: Harriet M. Rohr, Thompson; Theodore P. Ma-linchak, Crystal Lake; Sister Jean Zaller, Cleveland; Gerry Wyzy-kowski, Lake Idlewild; Kevin Abe Lawler, Carbondale; Anne D. Payne, born in Carbondale.
30 YEARS AGOJuly 23, 1987
Mary Garm was sworn in as a new member of the Forest City Regional School Board. She re-places Dr. Michael Sterchak who resigned after moving his resi-dence out of that district.
A team from Chet’s Place, Elk Mountain, will be defending its championship cup at the fourth Annual tug-of-war sponsored by the OHW committee.
Saturday, August 1st, is your chance to travel back to the “best days of your life” at the OHW’s teen town dance.
Local barber and Forest City News reporter Paul Ferraro has accepted a call to serve as a contact representative for the Susquehanna County Environ-mental group RESCUE.
Deaths: Catherine Strinsky, Forest City; Alvah Allen, RD 1 Union Dale.
40 YEARS AGOJuly 21, 1977
Joseph C. Chernesky Jr., serv-ing with the U.S. Marine Corps, Iwakuni, Japan, as crew leader, Station Weapons Division, has been promoted to the rank of Sergeant.
Martin Saniski, Mayfield, has been notified he is now a licensed funeral director in the State of Pennsylvania: He served his in- ternship at and is now associated with Mr. Robert W. Jones of the Robert W. Jones Funeral Home, Forest City.
Bill Lesjak has recently accept-ed an appointment by the Fed-
eral Government Civil Service as a Career Guidance Counselor for the Dept. of Army in Grafen-woehr, Germany.
Lou Zefran and Joe Debevec captured the championship in Wivey’s Golf Tourney.
Deaths: Stanley Lubaszewski, Auburn, NY; Mrs. Iva Wells Rob-inson, Lenoxville.
50 YEARS AGOJuly 27, 1967
Miss Marie Siscoe, Susque-hanna St., and Miss Marie Marin-chak, Grand Avenue, enplaned by jet from Kennedy Airport, NY, for a two-week vacation in Spain and Portugal.
Fred Spencer, Pleasant Mount RD, who would have been 101 years old on August 8th, died Monday, July 24th in St. Joseph’s Hospital, Carbondale, after an ill-ness.
Frank Pevec, Browndale, who was a student pilot at Cherry Ridge Airport, took his written test in April. He completed his flight test July 16th, and after passing his flight test, received his private pilot rating.
Mrs. Mary Stermole and Mrs. Cecilia Pavlovich of Forest City and Mrs. Joseph Konchar have returned home from a three-week overseas jet trip to Yugoslavia.
Miss Sharon Ann Walsh re-ceived her certificate as a Certi-fied Laboratory Assistant at grad-uation exercises held July 6th at Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial Hospital in Binghamton.
60 YEARS AGOJuly 23, 1957
Frank Wilks, foreman of En-terprise Hose Co., named Chief of Forest City Fire Department, succeeding Richard Arrowsmith.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Orehek, Browndale, observe their Silver Wedding Anniversary.
The Rev. P.B. Paukstis, pastor of St. Anthony’s Church, will be honored at a testimonial dinner marking his 25th anniversary as pastor of St. Anthony’s parish.
Deaths recorded: Daniel “Lin-dy” Franceski, North Main St.; Mrs. Eliza Deming, Union Dale.
70 YEARS AGOJuly 24, 1947
Twenty-four local candidates have nominating petitions for the November Primary. A slow primary is foreseen with lack of opening for some offices.
Louis Laurich, S1c, USN, in-curred fatal injuries when he fell off his bunk in the Norfolk Bar-racks.
The family of Mrs. Mary Ger-chman held a family reunion at the Franceski farm grove at Clif-ford on Sunday.
The local fire department and the Penna. Telephone Company issue a plea to local residents to refrain from calling operators at the telephone exchange includ-ing the whereabouts of a fire when the local siren is sounded.
80 YEARS AGOJuly 23, 1937
Emmanuel Freedman, Forest City High School, was awarded the Susquehanna County State Senatorial scholarship.
Robert Ingalls, captain of the Railroad Police and former Chief of Police of Forest City, has been placed on probation by the Rail-road Company.
Committees are being formed at local organizations for the con-test of the Borough’s anniversary to be held next year.
Honesdale Borough Council has been put on record to reduce its Burgess salary from $300 to $25 annually.
90 YEARS AGOJuly 21, 1927
Rev. R.E. Fretz, pastor of the
Bethel Congregation, has an-nounced his resignation to the local pastorate.
The street carnival staged for the local park improvement now has $1200.
Elmer Brown, 85, Thompson, a war veteran, died last week.
L. W. Cowperthwaite, RD For-est City, died Sunday as the re-sult of injuries when he fell off a load of hay.
100 YEARS AGOJuly 26, 1917
Susquehanna County has been ordered to furnish 236 men in the first draft call.
Carl Kovacic has enlisted in the Air Corps of the U.S. Army.
Daniel Franceski has sold his interest in his bottling works to his brother, John Franceski.
The Presbyterian Church, damaged by fire last November, will reopen for service on Sun-day.
Tony Bradach, Hudson St., suffered the loss of his left arm in a premature blast while at work in the Gray Slope mine Monday.
110 YEARS AGOJuly 25, 1907
The Scranton dog catcher em-ployed by the Forest City Council to round up stray dogs, was ar-rested by the local Health Officer for not burying his dead dogs.
The homes of Michael Caw-ley and Zara Carr were damaged when struck by lightning during a severe electric storm Saturday.
York Staters are busy here buy-ing up the huckleberries picked by local people on the mountain east of Browndale.
The local barbers gave the lo-cal clerks a free trim Tuesday by defeating them 14-10 in a base-ball game.
120 YEARS AGOJuly 29, 1897
Rev. J. Irwin Broadhead has accepted a call to the rectorship of Christ Episcopal Church.
Frank Cunningham has opened a shoe store in the quar-ters formerly occupied by the post office.
A Binghamton man has been arrested by Federal Authorities for opening his wife’s mail.
W.H. Leek is proudly display-ing timothy heads measuring 12 inches in length.
FOREST CITY’S FIRST 25 YEARS
GROWTH OF FOREST CITY - In 1922, Robert Webb Jr., a student in Forest City High School, wrote a his-tory of Forest City’s first 25 years in the school’s newspaper “Nods & Nox”. A stack of these newspapers was recently donated to the Forest City Area Historical Society. Since this was written less than 60 years after Forest City was founded in 1864, it is probable that this information, about the town’s first 25 years came from people who were residents here during that time. Some of what is written is not found in any Forest City his-tory including the 1938 history by John S. Obelenus or the 2015 history by Mark Walsh. The Historical Society feels that it should be published in the Forest City News to make it a tangible part of our town’s history. It will be printed over a period of five weeks.
PART ONE Founded by William Pentecost
At some bygone period the Delaware and Hudson Coal Company purchased large tracts of primeval forest ly-ing in the three counties of Susquehanna, Lackawanna and Wayne, between Car-bondale and Stillwater.
In 1864, Mr. William Pen-tecost, father of Mr. T. J. Pen-tecost, purchased large tracts of hemlock bark from this company and entered into a contract to manufacture lum-ber from year to year as the company may wish. He then proceeded to build a large dam and erect a mill on the Lackawanna River opposite Castle Garden. The Lacka-wanna River in those days was much larger than at the present time.
This mill refused to do its
part and thus was a failure. But this did not deter Mr. Pentecost in the least from continuing to fell trees and build new roads into the primeval forest which was at that time eight miles long and over six miles wide.
At some previous time un-known to anyone, squatters invaded this land and culti-vated a few acres in Brown-dale and a few, in Vanding. The Browndale acres were formerly known as the Eaton lots.
The only road to Carbon-dale turned at right angles at John Kennedy’s store, down a long hill and past a small stream. Half way down this hill were a few mounds where somebody in the past had been buried for the signs proved it so. To this day we may still see the graves in the
graveyard.Opposite this graveyard
in 1865, Mr. Pentecost culti-vated a field of potatoes. Also opposite what is known as the Vandling Picnic grounds he cultivated a large field of oats. This was practically the first produce in this place.
The first coal that was dug here was done by the residents. It was taken from an old opening between the road and the river. Some years later Mr. Hiram Led-yard, from Pleasant, Mount, purchased this very same mine and put in a scale. He did a very thriving business supplying the farmers with the winter’s fuel. This district here was the Clifford Town-ship.
To Be Continued
Week of Aug. 7Monday - Franks & beans,
hot dog roll, yellow squash soup, cuke dill salad, cottage cheese & berries.
Tuesday - Baked fish w/parsley butter, stewed to-matoes, steamed broccoli, macaroni & cheese, rocky road pudding.
Wednesday - Lemon gar-lic chicken, green beans almondine, tossed salad, spaghetti w/tomatoes & ba-sil, garlic bread, chocolate mousse.
Thursday - Swiss steak, dilled carrots, mashed pota-toes, ww roll, orange.
Friday - Pork w/pineapple sauce, Asian veggie medley, honey ginger carrots, brown rice, peach crisp.
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 office at: 278-7664 or 800-634-3746
July 27 - Wayne/Pike Sui-cide Awareness Committee, Thurs., Wayne Memorial Hospital, 601 Park St., Hon-esdale, 7 p.m.
July 28, 29, 30 - Christ the King Parish picnic, grounds of St. Mary of Czestochwa Church, Eynon, beer, wine tent, ethnic & American foods, pastries, raffles, bin-go, children’s games, flea market, live music.
July 29 - Clinton Center Baptist Church, Waymart, yard & bake sale, Sat., 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
July 29 - All-you-can-eat pancake breakfast, Sat., 7 to 10 a.m., Union Dale Church hall.
July 30 - Two-wheeled tour of Salt Springs State Park, Sun., 1 p.m., free.
Aug. 4 - Comedy Night hosted by Zach Swan, ben-efit the NEPA Junior Golf, Fri., Aug. 4,, 7 p.m., Trinity Banquet Facility, Simpson, $20 per person. Call 570-687-3309 for more information.
Aug. 6 - Music in the Park, Sun., Rte. 106, Clifford Fire-men’s Fairgrounds, Clifford, 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m., rain or sine, 10:30 a.m. worship ser-vice, music 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
Aug. 8 - Henry David Tho-reau at 200, Tues., 6:30 p.m., Carbondale Chamber of Commerce, 27 N. Main St., Carbondale, $5 donation.
Aug. 11 & 12 - Perseid meteor shower, Fri. & Sat., 9 p.m. Salt Springs Park, Free will donation.
County’s Young Men Drawn for War. – In its issue of July 12th, The Montrose Democrat pub-lished a list of all the young men of Susquehanna County who reg-istered for military service, with their registration numbers. The great lottery of human lives took place in Washington. The gross quota for this county is 312, and out of this we have a credit of 76, leaving 236 men needed. Twice this number, of 472, will be called before the exemption board for examination and their names ap-pear in another column of The Democrat.
Laurel Lake – The dances at Laurel Lake, given under the di-rection of F. E. Sullivan, are be-coming more and more popular with the young people. The hall has been greatly improved and beautified and the music is al-ways of the best.
Forest City – The population of Susquehanna County is 37,746. Forest City, Pa., has sent more of her sons than the quota of the en-tire county. Over 100 young men of this place have enlisted in the various branches of the service since the beginning of the war. ALSO Sunday was the warmest day of the season. It was too hot for the Independents and they suffered defeat in a game with the Independents of Dickson City as a consequence. The crowd at the game was not as large as common and little interest was shown by the spectators. Cavanaugh was in fine fettle but received rotten support by his teammates. Error after error by the locals at op-portune times proved costly and the game was lost after the fourth stanza. Next Saturday the locals will cross bats with a strong team from down the valley.
Hop Bottom – The first man to be called for military service, un-der the draft lottery drawing, was Wade Squier, who registered with postoffice address as, “R. D. Hop Bottom, Pa.” His number was 258, this being the first number drawn at Washington. Mr. Squier is a widower, with three small chil-dren, aged 2, 3 and 6 years. It would seem that he has claims for exemption. He has been living in Brooklyn township, but is now working in Nicholson township, just over the county line. He is a son of Lyman Squier.
Springville – Two runaways within the last week. A span of horses belonging to James Bun-nell, and driven by his grandson, John, ran down the depot hill, after he had delivered the milk at the station. They plunged into the fence in front of W. E. Stevens’ blacksmith shop. Both horses were thrown in such a way as to
place their heels together, but heads in opposite direction. A crowd of men soon gathered. The horses sustained no injury and with a new bolt, they were soon on their way home. On Monday, Bruce Williams, of Lynn, had a runaway also. He had been up to Springville with his milk and going home his team became un-manageable, and but for W. E. Stevens and Dean Baker, would have been a severe one. They were stopped in Lynn by Mr. Ste-vens wielding a big whip in front of them, turning their course in front of Mr. Sheldon’s house and were stopped by Mr. Baker.
Montrose – The Bible con-ference opens tomorrow, July 27. One of the best programs in the history of the conference has been arranged. Commenc-ing Friday noon, George Halde-man, of Springville, will run his big passenger truck between the conference grounds and down town, making trips every half hour. Fare, 5 cents. The regu-lar conference auto will meet all trains. Fare to grounds, 10 cents. ALSO at the borough limits in Montrose are erected signs re-stricting the speed of motor ve-hicles to ten miles per hour in the borough and a certain Laceyville man, after trying to get over the various streets, is of the opinion that a sign denoting a speed limit of 5 miles an hour would be more compatible with safety.
Brooklyn – The ladies of this place have been sewing busily for the last few weeks and have just sent to Red Cross headquar-ters a large package of completed articles, including bandages, bed socks, fracture pillows, covers for hot water bottles, bed shirts, and operating gowns. Also knitted wash cloths, scarfs and sweaters.
New Milford – Ward Cobb has enlisted in the Thirteenth Regi-ment at Scranton.
Lake View – Miles Tyler left last week for Newport, R. I., where he begins training in naval service.
Harford – The South Harford Book Club will meet August 1st at the home of Mrs. Emily Payne, and may a large attendance be present. ALSO Berry picking is all the rage here these days and so is haying.
Thompson – Walter L. Miller, son of Atty. John D. Miller and brother of Rep. Allan D. Miller, has enlisted and has been ac-cepted in the aviation corps of the United States. Mr. Miller made application for enlistment last winter while at Cornell Uni-versity, and was recently notified to appear for examination. He passed all tests, and was accept-
ed, and will be called to duty in a short time.
Susquehanna – Among the boys in the olive drab, who are doing their bit in France for Uncle Sam, are four from our own home town: Stanley Beebe, Harold Rundell, Thomas Lynch, Washington street, and Thomas J. Lynch, Franklin Avenue.
Elk Lake – The drafting order hit this village hard, as it took in the majority of young men who registered. ALSO The Ladies Aid will meet in Grange hall on Wednesday for dinner. In the evening they will hold an ice cream social on the church lawn. Everyone come and go fishing. Heaps big fish in the pond.
Friendsville – Camp Choconut is open, with the largest atten-dance in its history.
Uniondale – S. H. Bronson, a few days ago, sold a large quan-tity of wool. It made us think of the days when every farmer had wool to sell.
News Briefs: There is a move-ment on foot by which the bod-ies of those who lose their lives on foreign battle fields may be brought home for burial, and those in favor of this movement should write their congressman.
200 Years Ago Today from the Montrose Centinel, Montrose, PA, July 19, 2017.
*Caution to the Public. All persons are hereby cautioned against purchasing a Note of hand given by the subscribers to Dana Fox in October Last, as no value has been received and we shall not pay it unless compelled by law. Joseph Jackson & Caleb Jackson. Waterford, July 24, 1817.
*Ten Dollars Reward. Stolen from the subscriber on the night of the 17th inst. a first rate English WATCH, capt, set in diamonds, a round steel chain and gold key in the form of two 6’s with two small balls betwixt. Said watch was last repaired [by] George Gordon in Newburgh. Whoever will ap-prehend the thief that he may be brought to justice and secure the watch that the owner may get it, shall have the above reward, or five dollars for the watch. CHRISTOPHER LONGSTREET. Great Bend, July 18, 1817.
*Will be disposed of at PUB-LIC VENDUE, ON Friday, the 8th of August next, at the house of Freeman Peck in Harford all the personal property of Truman Clinton, late of Clifford town-ship, deceased. HOSEA TIFFA-NY, FREEMAN PECK, Adminis-trators of said estate.
By Forest City Area Historical Society
