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Submitted by Betty Smith, Susquehanna County Historical Society, Montrose

PAGE 6 - THE FOREST CITY NEWS, FOREST CITY, PA 18421 * WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2017 * PHONE 570-785-3800 * email [email protected]

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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.

By Forest City Area Historical Society

Part 4Time to Name it Forest

CityAt the close of the year

1865 the standing popu-lation of this place was about thirty and Mr. Pen-tecost’s family consisted of one third of the number.

Marvin Price, then a contractor from Green-field, had all his lumber conveyed from here and taken to Carbondale by teams of horses which then made two trips a day.

The bark was picked up along the lumber roads and from there taken to the Morse tannery by horse teams. The men that did this work were John Blake, Henry Webb, (my grandfa-

ther,) James and William Pethick, Robert Beardslee and Ephraim Jenning.

The only paper which came here at that time was the Wayne County Herald. There was only one sub-scriber here at that time and he was Mr. W. Pente-cost.

All mail that was sent here was addressed Car-bondale, Forest Mills. But later on it was addressed Carbondale, Forest City.

John D. Blake and Hen-ry Webb were responsible for this getting its regular name. One day when they were in Carbondale the people began to kid them in a good natured way about the lumber camp

and they replied, “We have a Forest City up there.” The name stuck to this place but for several years it was officially designated as Pentecost.

When the Post Office was established Decem-ber 15, 1879, this place received the name of Pen-tecost. However since Sep-tember 8, 1886, the railway stations and Post Office have borne the name they now have.

David R. Lumley was the first Postmaster and the Post Office was locat-ed with the depot, which at that time was situated where now stands the weigh scales down at the breaker.

10 YEARS AGOAugust 15, 2007

The Forest City School Board agreed to add five buses to lower student riding time in the dis-trict. The new buses will not cost the district any money.

The Cornerstone Baptist Church and Mike Orehek’s For-est City Karate will have to find another place to conduct their business instead of the Forest City Borough Building.

This year marks the 150th Har-ford Fair which begins on August 20th and runs through August 25th.

Forest City Borough Council received a $25,000 grant for the purchase of a new police car.

Deaths: Austin Edward Smith, Pleasant Mount; Randy Ewain, Forest City; William Puntar, Scott Twp.; Margaret (Marge) Barna, Waymart; Lottie Johns Bosher, born in Vandling; Emma Salansky O’Hop, Union Dale; Helen E. Phillips, born in Union Dale; Betty Bunnell, Honesdale.

20 YEARS AGOAugust 13,1997

Kristen Bernarsky, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Bernar-sky, Vandling, and James Marsi-cano, son of Barbara Marsicano, Vandling, and James Marsicano, Vandling, were recipients of this year’s American Legion Eighth Grade Medal awards.

Denise Yankauskas, a former Forest City High School athletic star, has been appointed wom-en’s volleyball coach at Lackawa-nna Junior College.

Forest City residents are still concerned about getting their homes and businesses connected to the new gas lines.

La Fontana Pizzeria & Italian Cuisine recently opened its doors in beautiful downtown Lenox-ville.

Deaths: Sally Gulbin, born in Forest City; Beatrice Bartholo-may, born in Curtis Valley; Glen-don L. Sutton, Dalton; Geraldine Zablocky, RR 2 Thompson; Jean Marie Emmanuell, Scranton; Mary Tolle, Carbondale.


In the midst of OHW the for-mer Newberry Store, now com-pletely remodeled, was opened under the name “M & M Variety Store.” The store is owned by Joan and Bill Maile.

Joe Sheptak has agreed to serve as head of the 1988 OHW Committee. He has chosen Linda Fitzsimmons and Kate Dom-brosky as his co-chairpersons.

Early Sunday morning two men drove around Forest City and removed five brand new bor-ough street signs, a garage sign and three of the brand new me-morial flags from the Main Street display. A $150 reward is being offered for info.

A total of 124 participants played in this year’s OHW Golf Tournament.

Deaths: Stella Dobon, for-merly of Thompson; Mabel Hou-man, Prompton; John Chehotsky, Conn.; Mark Boylan, Harford; Homer Brooking Sr., born in Pleasant Mt.; Beatrice Hess Rizzi, Folsom; Nancy Tinklepaugh, Hop Bottom RD 1.


Miss Susan Cicco has com-pleted a year of study at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital School of Medical Technology fulfilling the requirements for a bachelor of science degree in July.

After 6 1/2 years of hard work, John M. Graytock has decided to

step down as leader of the Car-bondale Chamber of Commerce.

Technical Sergeant Joyce M. Thom, Thompson, has been named Outstanding Noncom-missioned Officer of the Quarter for U.S. Forces, Azores.

Robert Francis Gleason, a former local resident, has been elected Senior Vice-Commander of VFW Post 6495, Levittown.

Deaths recorded: Joseph Ma-rinchick, Ford, NJ, former lo-cal resident; Clara A. Mead, RD 1, Waymart; Andrew G. Slish, Honesdale, former Forest City resident; Dr. William Dutch-man, Muncy, Ind., former local resident, killed in auto accident; Mrs. Pearl Roberts, Binghamton, NY, native of Elkdale.


The altar boys of St. Michael’s church, accompanied by their pastor, the Rev. John Balberchak, will visit Montreal and Expo 67. The boys making the trip are John Smith, Joseph Celbusky, Paul Smith, Mark Smith, Joseph Valentine, Walter Sosnoski, Jo-seph Svecz and David Hiznay.

Miss Marlene Franceski, a se-nior of the Forest City Regional High School, is a member of the High School Fashion Board sponsored by the Scranton Dry Goods Company.

Dr. Robert J. Suhadolnik, Chairman of the Department of Bio-organic Chemistry at the Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, will travel to For-mosa and Korea to give lectures at medical schools.

A Forest City merchant was the victim of a bogus check passed late Saturday afternoon. Victimized to the tune of $54 was Joseph Kameen of Kameen Hard-ware Co.


Borough Council petitions State Highway Dept. for survey of traffic prior to request of in-stallation of several signal lights on Main Street.

Sister Mary Josephs, the for-mer Frances Piorkowski, made her final vows in the Bernadine Order at the Mount Alverina Convent in Reading.

The long sought resurfacing of Route 247 from Browndale to Aldenville is now underway.

Mr. and Mrs. John Lenio, Delaware St., observed their sil-ver wedding anniversary August 10th.

Miss Angeline Cerar, Vandling, received her Masters degree in Education at Cort-land, NY, Teachers College. Mrs. Maude Boland Griffin, Vandling, received her Masters degree in Education. at Marywood Col-lege, and Miss Harriet Grunski received her Bachelor of Science degree at Marywood.


The Enterprise Hose Co. has gone on record to purchase a new fire truck replacing trucks ac-quired in 1919 and 1923.

Borough Council orders more identification signs to continue street marking project.

Lightning struck the barn of Steve Urda in Herrick, destroy-ing the hay filled structure.

Weddings of note during the week: Florence Payne and Albert Planishek; Pauline Zigon and Joseph Chernesky; Marion Pien-iazek and Joseph Gulbin; Marga-ret Garrick and James Kilonsky, all of this place.

Frank Hornbeck and son, Atty. Lyle Hornbeck, have returned

from a tour of Canadian provinc-es that took them as far as North Hudson Bay.


Frank Zeranski, proprietor of the Forest City Bakery, passed away Tuesday in St. Joseph’s Hospital.

A local food store advertises eggs 19 cents a dozen; smoked bacon at 26 cents a pound.

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mc-Givern of Pleasant Mount have departed to Akiag, Alaska, where Mr. McGivern will teach school.

Frank Hornbeck and son, Atty. Lyle Hornbeck, have returned from a tour of Canadian provinc-es that took them as far as North Hudson Bay.


Patrick J. Sheridan was admit-ted as an attorney of Susquehan-na County Bar.

Because of poor working con-ditions locally, the Vandling Hose Co. has cancelled its carni-val planned for next week.

Mrs. Helen Murnin and Mrs. Walter Brasso attended sessions of the Legion’s State Convention held in York, as delegates of the local Legion Auxiliary.

Tony Stevens has a stable of promising young boxers ready for the coming series of matches to be staged in Carbondale.


The Susquehanna County Draft Board has called up 450 men for examination. The first quota is set for 221 who will re-port for services.

Martin Gerchman, local busi-nessman, has been selected as an interpreter for the County Draft headquarters at the county seat.

The W.U. Lott family is on an extended automobile trip to the southern part of the state.

George Garrick and A.H. Pen-tecost are engaged in taking the annual school census of the Bor-ough.


The school directors of Clin-ton Township have let the con-tract to Varcoe and Knapp of Al-denville for the erection of a new school building in Browndale.

David Hughes and son Harry have returned to their home here after an extended visit to Wales.

The general convention of the St. Barbara Society is being held in Forest City this week. Del-egates from many state and out of state lodges are in attendance.

Sgt. M. W. Fleming, a 20-year veteran of the New York Police Force is visiting his brother, Pat-rick Fleming of this place.


Sheriff Ward Devel, of Mon-trose, was a busy man here dur-ing the past week. He sold the personal effects of three different people.

H.F. Aldrich is making exten-sive improvements on his hard-ware business building.

The Methodist Church will run a special excursion Friday to Lake Shawnee.

Aug. 19 - Mushrooms & Mycelia, Sat., 1 p.m. Salt Springs Park, $5.

Aug. 19 - East Ararat Unit-ed Methodist Church, chick-en barbecue, Sat., 11 a.m. -2 p.m.

Aug. 20 - Women Wilder-ness Warriors Part II, Sun., 11 a.m. Salt Springs park, Free.

Aug. 25 - Lumber River Quartet, Finch Hill Baptist Church, Greenfield Twp., Fri., 7 p.m., free will offering, more info. 570-282-7062 or wwwlumberriverministries.com.

Aug. 26 - Round & square dance, Sat., 7 - 10:30 p.m., Sts. Peter & Paul R.O. Church hall, 2105 Belmont Tpke., Union Dale, food & refresh-ments.

Aug. 27 - golf tourney, dinner & raffles. www.union-dalefire.com.

Aug. 27 - Two-wheeled tour of Salt Springs Park, Sun., 1 p.m., free.

Sept. 2 - Salt Springs field, forest & falls trail race, Sat., 9 a.m. $15 pre-register or $20 thereafter.

Sept. 2 - Salt Springs Cel-ebration, Sat., 11 a.m. free mu-sic, hikes and demonstration, vendors, silent auction, dis-plays, exhibits.

Sept. 10 - Nicholson Bridge Day, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., Sat., Main St., Rte. 11 & 92, vendors, food, live entertainment, more info. call 570-942-4191.

Sept. 16 McAndrew Me-morial Golf Tourney, Sat., Memorial Links, 4-6 person captain & crew, $55 person, tee off 1 p.m., more info call John 570-448-9200 or 570470-0030.

Sept. 23 - Sat., annual For-est City Area Emergency Ser-vices gun raffle, 5 to 9 p.m., 380 Railroad St., Forest City, Sat., $20.00 per ticket. Phone 570-785-5025 or 570-785-3226 for more info.

Montrose – Does Montrose want a factory that will provide a pay-roll of from $25,000 to $30,000 yearly? Such a proposition is now advanced to the people of the town by a silk mill owner, now estab-lished in the city, who wishes to increase his output by erecting a branch factory in Montrose that will employ at least 50 persons at the outset. The proprietor was in town and impressed his audience with his thorough knowledge of the business, having started in a small way and now is operating a plant with 72 looms. He outlined the building’s needs which would cost about $10,000 and it would manufacture two kinds of silk, which in commercial use would be used to line caskets, jewelry boxes, etc. Beginners are paid $5 per week while learning and experienced girls can earn $2 and upwards per day. A committee was selected to visit the mill owner’s plant and investigate the proposition. ALSO Don’t throw away your magazines when you have finished read-ing them. Send them to the free library, to be forwarded to army camps, the front and hospitals.

Lymanville – James H Bagley, another one of the Civil War veter-ans has fallen. He was a member of Co. H, 141st P. V. in which he en-listed in 1862, and from which he was honorably discharged on June 30, 1865. He was born in Dimock, Jan. 20, 1826 and answered the last roll call at the home of his daugh-ter, Mrs. S. J. Hitchcock, near this place, July 29, 1917. He was the son of Thomas and Abbia Bagley, who moved to Auburn township shortly after the birth of James.

Susquehanna – Dr. H. W. Brandt has received his commis-sion as first lieutenant in the Den-tal reserve corps of the U. S. Army.

Elk Lake – E. E. Stevens and Bert Carlton, of Kasson Corners, made a trip to the huckleberry mountains last week. They report a large crop of berries but a scarcity of pickers. They kindly shared their pickings with their neighbors. The whole-some blueberry is selling at “two for a quarter” in the Electric City.

Silver Lake – S. S. Raynor was greeting friends and acquaintances in town on Saturday. Mr. Raynor, who has charge of the gardens and grounds at Sheldoncroft, says the work has been much delayed by the rainy season. The great lawns, which have usually been cut with the horse drawn mower, have been cut by hand mowers instead, to avoid defacing their smooth sur-face.

County Jail – Sheriff H. E. Taylor and six deputies went to Hunting-don Mills reformatory yesterday morning with six young men sen-tenced during the week to that in-stitution. The deputies were: Bruce B. Lott, Lewis Hart, Edson Barnes, E. G. Foote, Otis R. Cook and R. H. Donlin. The boys who they accom-

panied were: William Paugh, Harry Louden, Amasa Lee, Daniel Craft, Alfred Lynch and Howard Pettis. The youths were “some bunch” at raising a racket, and made the nights hideous with their noise at the jail, and other inmates were glad to see them depart.

Harford – Some of the city dai-lies have been printing pictures of the famous Lafayette Escadrille, which is doing such effective ser-vice in France against the Germans. There are about a score of members in this noted aviation squadron and it seems quite singular that both Susquehanna county and Wayne county, neighbors in the “old Keystone state,” should both be represented. Henry Jones, son of Hon. E. E. Jones, of Harford, and David M. Peterson, of Honesdale, Wayne county, are both aviators in this squadron.

New Milford – O. C. Whitney loaded two cars with crates here the first of the week. These crates are to be used in the South Ameri-can trade, and Mr. Whitney says there is a big demand for these crates at this time.

Tunkhannock – Thomas Morris, although 33 years of age, registered under the draft on June 5 and was the first to be called for examina-tion. Morris wasn’t sure how old he was, so decided to register and be on the safe side. Now he has obtained positive evidence that he is 33 years of age. His number, 258, was the first drawn.

Thompson – Mrs. J. W. VanHorn has just purchased a new washing machine of D. D. Moore, the May-tag Multi-Motor, which she thinks is very fine. She has a good Majes-tic machine with wringer and fold-ing bench, which anyone desiring something in that line might strike a bargain with her. ALSO J. S. Mul-vey installed a Comfort Chemical closet in the M. E. church at North Jackson.

Herrick Center – John J. Camp-bell was in Forest City yesterday. Mr. Campbell is a veteran of the Civil War and is past 82 years of age, but is still active.

Forest City – Martin Gerchman will attend the sessions of the ex-amination board at Montrose to act as an interpreter. ALSO John Churney has opened a cigar and confectionary store in the Muchitz building. ALSO The Y. M. I. team went to Olyphant and defeated the Leaders of that town. Score 15-2. Koplova pitched for Forest City.

Uniondale – Miss Jennie Rounds has returned to her home here after operating the N. E. P. Telephone company’s exchange at Jackson.

200 Years Ago from the Centi-nel, Montrose, Pa, August 16, 1817.

*GREAT FRESHET. On Sat-urday, last, the rain began to fall about 6 o’clock A.M. and contin-ued until about sunset. A more stormy day we do not recollect to

have ever seen. The quantity of water that fell in twelve successive hours was by far the greatest ever experienced by the oldest inhab-itants. The creeks, as far [as] our knowledge extends, appeared like mighty rivers, carrying destruc-tion in every direction—Mills were started and much damaged—dams swept away--hay and grain situat-ed on fields adjacent to the streams was greatly damaged. The bridges in all directions are carried away and the roads greatly damaged. The weather since that time has been continually wet, and fears are entertained that the grain will re-ceive serious injury unless there is a change of weather immediately.

*MARRIED. In this township on Sunday last, by the Rev. Davis Dimock, Mr. Mathew Baldwin to Miss Betsey Vaughn.

*OBITUARY.On the night of the 9th inst. David Harris aged 56 years, was drowned in the Wyalus-ing creek. The circumstances are as follows: The creek having been raised by a heavy rain was flowing in every direction across the mead-ows, wheat fields, &c. of the de-ceased. He arose about midnight, with the avowed intention of going to a neighbors, on the opposite side of the creek, with a full knowledge that the bridge had been carried away—He was found on the morn-ing of the tenth at 9 o’clock, under water, thirty rods below the road; and it is somewhat singular, that having been kept 30 hours after taken from the water, there was no other appearance in the body than that of a man in sleep.

Week of Aug. 21Monday - Chicken ba-

con ranch salad, onion soup, crackers, strawberry-banana gelatin.

Tuesday - Chicken philly sandwich, corn chowder, tossed salad, ww roll, orange.

Wednesday - Tomato basil fish, potatoes au gratin, broc-coli & cauliflower, ww noo-dles, vanilla ice cream.

Thursday - Pork marsala, snap peas, orange-glazed car-rots, ww noodles, brownie.

Friday - Honey mustard chicken, steamed garlic spin-ach, mashed potatoes, ww roll, angle food cake.

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

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