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THE FOREST CITY NEWS, FOREST CITY, PA 18421 * WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 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 AGOFebruary 1, 2006

Forester Ryan Ogozaly, Vandling, scored his 1000th point on Jan. 24 at a home game against Bishop Hannon.

The new federal prison at Waymart is officially called USP Canaan. It has the capacity of 1,650 inmates including 1,535 in maxi-mum security and 144 in prison camp.

Betty Smith of the Susq. County Historical and Free Library As-sociation has been supplying the NEWS with her weekly column “100 Years Ago” for the past ten years.

Junior Achievement of North-eastern PA proudly announces the 2006 Business Hall of Fame Hon-oree Mr. L. Peter Frieder, Gentex Corp., Simpson.

Deaths: John J. McDonald, Mayfield; Gertrude M. Osborne, Pleasant Mount; Arlene Swegel, Seattle, WA; Clare A. Carroll, Hon-esdale; Richard A. Saldi, Pleasant Mount; Stephen J. Ott, Middle Smithfield Twp.

20 YEARS AGOJanuary 31, 1996

James McCusker Jr. was sworn in as captain of the Forest City Area Volunteer Ambulance Assoc. Jim Lowry is the new president.

Dr. David Tomazic, Forest City, has been recertified a Diplomat of the American Board of Family Prac-tice (ABFD), the certifying entity of the family practice specialty.

Donald and Laurie Cobb, their two children, and Melvin Cobb of Lakewood were killed in a freak accident in Delaware County, NY, when a road collapsed causing their vehicle to fall into the raging water in Tompkins, NY.

Stillwater Dam, Union Dale, was again credited with holding back large volumes of water and preventing damage in the down-valley.

Deaths: Anthony J. Zedar, Forest City; Sr. M. Germaine McCormick, born in Forest City; John Robert Jacques, born in Vandling; Don-ald Cobb Sr., Laurie Cobb, Donald Cobb Jr., Tyler Cobb, all of Lake-wood; Melvin Cobb, Hancock, NY; Mary A. Roque, born in Forest City; Isabelle H. Todd, RR 1 Union Dale; David S. Evans, RD 1 Forest City; Evan Kovacic, RD 2 Union Dale; Edward A. Lamoreaux, Dimock; Frank Kacer Sr., Waymart; Agnes Wood, born in Forest City.


Elk Mountain Ski Center, Union Dale, recently named Gregg Confer as General Manager.

Bill Matos was elected president of the Forest City Area Ambulance Association recently.

A $500 donation from the For-est City Lions Club has pushed the Forest City Commercial Associa-tion Christmas Lite Fund over its $5,000 goal.

Joseph Sisko, Vandling, has been named to the Dean’s List at the University of Scranton for the Fall semester. Mr. Sisko is a senior, majoring in chemistry.

Another break-in occurred at the Forest City Regional High School, either late Friday night or early Sat-urday morning.

Deaths: Mrs. Mary Garvey, born in Vandling; Jesse Bonham, RD 1, Honesdale; Francis Berneski, born in Forest City; Sophia Olszewski, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Gertrude Rice, RD3 Susquehanna.


Forest City Regional School teachers went on strike at 6 a.m yes-terday after a last-minute bargain-ing session failed.

Frank O’Peka elected secre-tary/ treasurer of the Susquehanna County Housing and Redevelop-ment Authority.

Miss M. Evelyn Pantzar was honored by the officers, directors and employees of Community Na-tional Bank at a testimonial dinner for 25 years of service at the bank.

Joseph (Penner) Conigliaro, Vandling, manager for Home Life

Insurance Co., died suddenly Sun-day while visiting in Pittston.


Gerald B. Franceski, son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Franceski, has been named a junior executive at the Sears Abington store near Phil-adelphia. Gerald has been named assistant credit manager.

Miss Ruth A. Rimsha, daughter of Mrs. Donald Rimsha, 102 Vine St., Browndale, was the recipient of the Service Key, the highest award made to students by Bloomsburg State College, in recognition of leadership and service to the col-lege community.

Deaths during the week: John Zebrowski Sr., 85, 528 Hudson Street; Andrew Hanchin, Erie, PA, a former Forest City resident.


Dr. Sidney Alexander, Forest City native, presently economic ad-visor to the Columbia Broadcasting System, will join the faculty of the School of Industrial Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on July 1, 1956.

Well known couples observe Golden Wedding anniversaries: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Krasovec Sr., formerly of Vandling, now of Whitehouse Station, NJ; Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Kutch, Crystal Lake; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Susman of Cleveland, Ohio, former local resi-dents.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Simons, 409 Maple Street, mark their 30th wed-ding anniversary.

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Pelick of Vandling observe their 25th wed-ding anniversary.

Forest City School Board went on record as willing to explore the possibility of jointure with neigh-boring school districts.

Fell High School defeated Forest City’s basketball team, clinching the first half pennant and stretch-ing their winning streak to 25 over a two-year period. The Foresters have a 6-3 record for the first half.

Deaths recorded: Mrs. Winifred O’Neill, 510 Main Street; Mrs. Wil-liam Bartholomay, Vandling; Mrs. Arch Pentecost, 12 Grand Avenue; Andrew Hisnay, Syracuse, hus-band of the former Helen Matircho of this place.


Paul Sredenschek incurred frac-tures of both legs while coasting on Grand Avenue as his sled struck the rear of a passing auto.

New state law cuts discounts from five to two percent on tax bills for those paying their taxes before the specified time.

Stanley Zielinski, Forest City native, killed in mine accident at the Olyphant Colliery of Hudson Coal Co.

Frank Halkyer named president of the Union Dale Dairymen’s Co-operative.

Deaths recorded: Charles Sy-mons, Vandling; Beverly W. Sher-wood, Vandling; Rudolph Phil-back, Simpson; Mrs. Phoebe Bille, of Pleasant Mount.


The Pleasant Mount Vocational High School was destroyed by fire Tuesday.

Many of the rural roads are still blocked by snowdrifts resulting from the recent storm.

Hillside Volunteer Firemen will present their minstrel at the high school next week.

Seventy five men under WPA have started work on widening the highway from Forest City to Her-rick Center.


John McLaughlin, one of the pioneers of the community, passed away at the age of 84.

The entire area is in the grip of a heavy snow storm impeding all regional traffic.

Prof. Eliakim Painter, assistant principal of the Vandling High School, has been granted a leave of absence and will enroll at Bucknell

University for advance study.Curtis Lee, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Curtis Lee of Stillwater, who re-cently fractured both legs, has re-turned home from the Carbondale hospital.

George Wilson Jr., formerly of Vandling, has been promoted by the D&H Railroad with new offices in New York City.


The first Golden Wedding An-niversary to take place in Forest City will occur next Saturday when Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Zaller will ob-serve the event. They were married in Austria, but have resided in For-est City a number of years.

During the past week four ar-rests have been made locally be-cause parents failed to have their children in school.

Mrs. John Brown has relin-quished her position as organist at Christ Church. Miss Helen Kehren will take her place.

Dr. F. F. Todd has left on a two-week trip to New York, Philadel-phia and Washington.

The marriage of Victoria Zaller and Louis Oslin was performed in St. Joseph’s Church on Monday by Father Tomsic.


The local Democratic party cau-cus has chosen Michael Krantz as their Burgess candidate. The Re-publicans selected S. J. Jennings last week.

The Forest City Steam Laundry has put a new wagon on the road because of increased deliveries.

There were twenty births in For-est City during the month of Janu-ary.

Cooley’s Milk Station is selling milk at six quarts for a dollar, so says Mr. Cooley’s advertisements.

Mrs. Mary Jane Jones Powell, wife of David Powell, died at the family South Main Street home on Friday.

NO 120 YEARS AGO

Feb. 6 - East Ararat United Methodist Church will hold a pancake breakfast, Sat., 7-11 a.m.

Feb. 7 - Breakfast buffet, Grattan Singer Hose Co. #1 Sun., 8 a.m.-noon, 702 Home-stead St., Simpson. $8 adults, $5 children under 12. The buf-fet breakfast will be held the first Sunday of each month.

Feb. 13 - East Ararat United Methodist Church, Valentine’s BBQ, Sat., 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. 1/2 chicken plus, pre-order by calling Jackie Burrows 570-861-9109 or Jan Roney 570-727-2051.

March 5 - Spaghetti & meat-ball dinner, Christ Episcopal Church, Sat.

March 5 - East Ararat Unit-ed Methodist Church, pancake breakfast, Sat., 7-11 a.m.

March 6 - Breakfast buffet, Grattan Singer Hose Co. #1 Sun., 8 a.m.-noon, 702 Home-stead St., Simpson. $8 adults, $5 children under 12. The buf-fet breakfast will be held the first Sunday of each month.

Brain gains forSeniors who Start exercise

Beginning an exercise program may help protect older adults’ brains and even reverse early mental decline, a small study sug-gests.

Researchers placed 34 inactive people, aged 61 to 88, on an exer-cise regime. It included moderate-intensity walking on a treadmill four times a week for 12 weeks. On average, heart/lung health im-proved about 8 percent over that time.

Brain scans also showed an increase in the thickness of the participants cortex, the outer layer of the brain that typically shrinks with Alzheimer’s disease. Those with the greatest improvements in physical fitness had the most growth in the cortex, according to Univ. of Maryland researchers.

The thickening of the cortex oc-curred in both healthy people and those with mild cognitive impair-ment, an early stage of Alzheim-er’s disease.

Exercise may help to reverse neurodegeneration and the trend of brain shrinkage that are seen with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s, the university said.

Many people think it is too late to intervene with exercise once a person shows symptoms of mem-ory loss, but date suggests that exercise may have a benefit in the early stage of cognitive decline.

The study can’t prove definitely that exercise led to the brain gains. However previous studies have found that exercise can benefit other areas of older adults’ brains.

The authors of the new study said further research is needed to determine if moderate physi-cal activity can delay or reverse mental decline and help- people remain independent as they age.

Franklin Forks – The ladies of this place and vicinity will hold a church rally at the Alliance hall, Feb. 9th. Dinner will be served and a free-will offering received. Pro-ceeds to apply on pastor’s salary. All come and have a good time and help a good cause along. (Signed) Mrs. Chas. Palmer, Sec’y.

Dimock – A. H. Button, who has been sick a long time with stomach trouble, is now better and drives the milk wagon from Parkvale to the Dimock milk station daily, as in times of the past.

ALSO The roads are in a bad shape for travel, as the frost is com-ing out of the ground, which makes the mud deep and heavy hauling of lumber and logs is suspended for the present.

Forest City – The burning of a note of $600, the last evidence of debt against the Northeastern Pennsylvania Telephone company, marked the morning session of the fifteenth annual meeting of the stockholders.

Auburn Corners – It is persis-tently rumored that Clark Voss, of this place, will succeed to the inter-est of the late J. L. Kent in the coal, express and dray business in Mon-trose. He will become associated with his son-in-law, Frank Pepper, the deceased’s partner, although this report cannot be confirmed. Mr. Voss has until recently con-ducted a general store at Auburn Corners.

East Rush – We sure have been having some great weather the past week. It makes one think that spring is about here.

Uniondale – The store room and garage being built by Douglas & Yale, Ford agents, is nearly com-pleted and will afford more room in which to conduct their automobile business. They are hustlers. ALSO The Erie Flyer and the passenger train coming north were held up Thursday morning between here and Forest City. A freight train was wrecked causing a delay of several hours. W. T. Churchill, Leon H. Reynolds, W. E. Gibson and L. A. Smith were aboard the Flyer. They walked from the wreck to Forest City and boarded the street car for Scranton, where they attended the automobile show.

Silver Lake – “The Don’t Worry Club” was pleasantly entertained at Jeremiah Mahoney’s on Tuesday evening. ALSO William Donovan had a large wood-bee on Wednes-day. They cut and piled fifty cords of wood. ALSO Mr. and Mrs. Jo-seph Ward celebrated the 60th year of their marriage on January 26th, 1916. Mr. Ward, who is 85 years old and Mrs. Ward, who is 82, were both born in the locality in which they now reside. They are both members of St. Augustine’s church.

Middletown Twp. – William Edward Fitzgerald, 14 years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Fitzgerald, died at the home of his parents on Tuesday night, Jan. 25. Anna Fitzgerald 9 years of age, sis-ter of the above, died Friday eve-ning, Jan. 28. Death in both cases was due to spinal meningitis. Both were buried within a day of their death, with a private funeral, in St. Francis Xavier’s cemetery.

Great Bend – The general store of Charles M. Hamlin was en-tered by thieves on Friday evening late, and robbed of twelve suits of clothes. The burglars entered through a rear window, and, find-ing no money or articles of much value, contented themselves by taking the clothing, leaving behind them articles of much larger value. This is the second time Mr. Ham-lin’s store has been robbed.

Montrose – The Daughters of

Veterans are already making great preparations for their annual Lin-coln Tea, which will be held in Vil-lage Hall on Saturday evening, Feb. 12th. Go and help the Daughters, who named their Tent in memory of that remarkable missionary, Dr. Ellen E. Mitchell, a native of Mon-trose. [Before becoming a doctor, Ellen Mitchell was a nurse during the Civil War.]

Susquehanna – Harry G. Pride was serving as juror in the county courts this week. Mr. Pride has, for some years, been in the Erie job printing plant and is a printer of exceptional ability. He was at one time employed in the government printing office at Washington.

Springville – The new milk sta-tion is a sure thing. The new com-pany opened for business on Tues-day, getting 129 cans of milk. For the present, or until a new building can be completed, they will receive milk in a box car located near the depot. It will be a decided advan-tage to the farmers here if the two companies can be retained, as it will tend to balance things.

Harford – A goodly number of men turned out last Tuesday and assisted in putting the [horse] sheds back of the Methodist Epis-copal church in good repair.

Dimock – W. J. Cronk has had new lights placed in his store and postoffice, which are far ahead of the old gas lamps which have been in use there for several years.

New Milford – The O. C. Whit-ney crate factory opened for busi-ness on Feb. 2, with a force of 25 men, this number to be doubled soon. Mr. Whitney has a contract with the government to furnish crates for the shipment of 200,000 bushels of potatoes to South Amer-ica. Until this last year, the South American countries have been get-ting their potatoes from England, Ireland and Germany. Owing to war conditions in those countries, they are now buying from the Unit-ed States. ALSO Rev. I. D. Mallery has resigned his pastorate of the Baptist church here and will take charge of a church at Washington, N. J. It is with much regret the peo-ple of New Milford see Rev. Mal-lery leave, regardless of denomi-nation. He commenced preaching here in 1886, was ordained in the Moxley church and was the first pastor of the church at New Mil-ford. Before the building of the church, Rev. Mallery was holding services in the A. B. Smith store in what was known as the Post rooms. Friday evening, Jan. 28, the people of New Milford held a reception for Rev. Mallery and family at the Baptist church.

News Briefs: Figures announced by the health department of New York city, of the number of persons arrested for spitting on sidewalks

and in public places last week, show that members of the health department, police and sanitary squads served 1,097 summonses. Of this number 976 were convicted and $1,631 was paid in fines. One man served a day in prison in de-fault of payment. ALSO In a ser-mon in which he said not enough young men are being married and that it is not the fault of most “old maids” that they are single, Rev. P. J. Murphy, pastor of St. Patrick’s church, at Olyphant, also came out in favor of a financial as well as physical examination for all pro-spective bridegrooms. He said that “it was almost as important that a young man about to be wed should be financially able to support a wife and family as it was that he should be in good physical condi-tion. Both are essential elements to a happy married life.” He is a brother of Mrs. McCabe, of Frank-lin Forks, this county.

Shingles canRaise heartProblem risk

Seniors who develop the painful rash known as shin-gles appear to face a short-term increase in their risk for having a stroke or heart attack. More than 67,000 newly diag-nosed shingles patients aged 65 or older were tracked.

Stroke risk more than dou-bled in the first week follow-ing a shingles diagnosis, with heart attack risk also climbing, though not as much. The risk for both appeared to return to normal within six months.

Shingles is the same virus that causes chicken pox there-for anyone who has had chick-enpox faces the risk of shin-gles. They are treatable with antiviral medicines, but a vac-cine, released in 2006 can cut shingles risk in half, while also significantly reducing symp-tom severity when shingles does strike.

Possible reasons could be the overall higher level of in-flammation in the body asso-ciated with a viral infection, or virus-induced blood ves-sel damage. Acute increases in blood pressure relating to shingles pain may also play a role.

Seniors should also know that shingles is not alone in its apparent ability to undermine cardiovascular health. Influ-enza, community acquired pneumonia and urinary tract infections have all been linked to a similar rise in the risk if heart complications. Getting your annual flu vaccine can aid in escaping that disease.Week of Feb. 8

MON. - Chicken strips, dip-ping sauces, ranch wedges, ca-lif. blend veggies, dinner roll. TUES. - Taco meat o/tortillas, all the fixin’s, rice, corn, black bean salad. WED. - Ravioli w/sauce, gar-lic bread stick, salad, seasoned green beans. THURS. - Chicken patty on a roll, lett. & tom., roasted po-tatoes, broccoli salad, apple-sauce. FRI. - No School. Alternate: Tuna salad sandwich, sun butter & jelly sandwich. A La Carte: Mashed potato bowl, BBQ chicken wrap or hoagie.

Assorted fruits, veggies, juices and milks available every day.

BREAKFAST Monday - Waffles topped w/warm strawberries

Tuesday - Pancakes w/syrup Wednesday - Ass’t yogurt w/

apple oatmeal barThursday - Breakfast sausage

pizza.Friday - No School.

*Choice of assorted fruit or juice, milk. *Alternate breakfast: assorted whole grain or reduced sugar cereals.

Week of Feb. 8Monday - Hot Open Face

Roast Beef Sandwich, mashed potatoes, parslied carrots, va-nilla ice cream. Tuesday - Chicken caesar salad, vegetable barley soup, crackers, fruit cobbler.

Wednesday - Vegetable lasagna, Italian vegetables, crackers, mandarin orange de-light.

Thursday - Pork & peppers, noodles, broccoli & carrots, crackers, bananas.

Friday - French toast, sau-sage, home fries w/peppers & onions, strawberries, cottage cheese.

For reservations, please call a day ahead at Forest City, 10-2, 785-3386. At Lenoxville, 10-2, THURSDAY ONLY, 222-9550.

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