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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, MontroseBack issues of 100 Years Ago can be accessed at www.susqcohistsoc.org

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byRobert Cole

The following short stories are of life as a young boy in the Forest City Area and are written by Robert Cole, Bordentown, NJ. His parents were Alfred and Jessie At-kinson Cole. He was born in 1940 in his grandparent’s house on Railroad Street. His grandparents were Richard and Jessie Atkinson.

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10 YEARS AGONovember 4, 2009

A large crowd attended the annual Taste of the Town event sponsored by the Marian Com-munity Hospital Auxiliary on Sunday afternoon.

The Forest City Commercial Association should be commend-ed for the hard work that went into this year’s Haunted Ware-house.

Forest City Regional School held its 2nd annual Scholastic Honors Banquet in the Elemen-tary Gymnasium on Wednesday, Oct. 21.

The Forest City Commercial Assoc. recently completed the in-stallation of a new sound system to be used for Old Home Week and for other downtown events

Deaths: Nicole Miszler Pinch, Thompson; Harry C. Lewis, Dal-ton; Harve Hornbeck, Crystal Lake

20 YEARS AGO November 3, 1999

Forest City native, Command Sgt. Major (Ret.) Joseph Lupyak, was honored with the prestigious “Commanders Award for Public Service” by the U.S. Army’s JFK Special Warfare/Museum Assoc.

George C. Maile, 89, of For-est City, died Thursday, October 28 in Moses Taylor Hospital. He was co-owner of the Big Chief Market, Forest City, before its closing.

This weekend is the grand opening of Forest City Beverage and Tobacco Shoppe, the former Beer Place. New owner is Jeff Loomis.

Deaths: Anna Fox, formerly of Finch Hill; Helen Powell, RD 1, Carbondale.

30 YEARS AGO November 2, 1989

Rich Curtis is the new owner of the NAPA Store in Forest City. The store will be known as Cube Auto Supply.

The Lady Foresters won the District 12 Volleyball title by de-feating the Susquehanna Sabers. The win improved the season re-cord to 13-0.

Nearly 200 persons have be-come members of the “Susque-hanna County Historical Society and Free Library Association in the first month of the current membership drive.

Temperatures approached the 70’s last week. It is, of course, just the lull before the storm as winter will soon be upon us.

John J. Williams, former Vandling resident, who recently had successful heart transplant surgery in Pittsburgh, stopped by last week. He looks great and says he he’s feeling fine.

Deaths: Donald B. Pelick, Vandling; Caroline Lebert, Pleas-ant Mount; Michael Yessen, for-merly of Forest City; Theodore Stipulkoski, Vandling; Steve Clifford Upright, RD 2, Thomp-son; Raymond Alu, Sr., born in Richmondale; Anna Hoiditch, Simpson.

40 YEARS AGO November 1, 1979

The Hometown Club an-nounced plans to put specially designed playground equipment at the Babe Ruth Field.

A system of Block Parents to aid children in distress is an-nounced by the FCR Home-School Assoc.

Isabel Kaminsky DeWitt, for-merly of here, is honored at a tes-timonial dinner by Susq. County Democrat Women’s Club.

Andrew Mudry named Dep-uty Commander of 15 District American Legion.

Michael Drop, RD 1, Forest City, was a $10,000 winner in the PA Lottery.

Michael Goskowski is reap-pointed president of Northeast Tri-County Mental Health/Men-

tal Retardation Unit. Michael Scepita was found

dead of natural causes in his room at the Main Hotel.

Other area deaths: Emil Demi-anovich, RD 1, Forest City; Ray-mond Callender, RD 2, Thomp-son; Louis Malaker, Blakely; Mrs. Emma Brain Carpenter, Port Blanchard.

50 YEARS AGO November 6, 1969

Anne M. Pavlovich won the lo-cal tax collector post and Joseph Suchy was school director victor, both on write-in votes, the first time such a feat had been done locally.

Edwin A. Bloxham is the new mayor.

Ed Semenyshyn, Browndale, is elected to head the Hometown Club.

A Young Adult Committee for Action was formed here last week with the following officers: Chairman Frank O’Peka, Jr.; vice chairmen Jeff Roeckel and Bon-nie Foster; secretary Diane Cross and treasurer Margie Bodnar.

The Central Bar and Grille, now owned by Eddie Zielinski, Simpson, has changed its name to Duckers Central Bar and Grille.

John J. Chernesky, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Chernesky, has been promoted to Marine Lance Corporal while serving in Viet-nam.

60 YEARS AGO November 12, 1959

The Borough Council, inter-ested in a year-round recreation program, because of their finan-cial contribution to the local Rec-reation Board, was enlightened by Julius Prezelski, head of the Physical Ed Department of the Forest City Joint School System. His talk gave the Council some ideas of what can be done in the community, thus affording a good recreation program.

Atty. McHale will address the Forest City Joint School Parent Teacher Association, Wednesday evening, Nov. 18. Atty. McHale has chosen “A Better World for all Children.”

Deaths: Frank Kelleher, well known Scranton Springbrook Water Service Co. foreman, died in St. Joseph’s Hospital after suf-fering a cardiac attack while driv-ing a company truck on South Main Street; Walter Cleary, 60 West 76th, New York City, a for-mer resident of Forest City, died at Belleview Hospital after a brief illness; Fred Faatz, retired carpen-ter of 39 North St., died Tuesday afternoon after a brief illness.

David E. O’Neill, Pleasant Mount, RD 1 mail carrier, retired from services as a U. S. Mail Car-rier on October 31st.

70 YEARS AGO November 10, 1949

In Tuesday’s election, Dr. A. B. Cimochowski re-elected Burgess, John Smith and Edward Bartosh school directors in Forest City Borough. August Lauriha elected Burgess of Vandling and Atty. Jo-seph Carrigg elected Burgess of Susquehanna.

Mrs. Rudolph Tusar, N. Main St., institutes $15,000 damage suit against Forest City Borough for injuries Mrs. Tusar claims she in-curred in a fall on a sidewalk on Hudson Street.

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Patsey of Richmondale observe their silver wedding anniversary.

Mr. and Mrs. Louis Sherosick of Browndale observe their twen-ty-fifth wedding anniversary.

Local PTA in concerted drive to enlist all parents to join local association.

Miss Anna Mae Sheave, Car-bondale, became bride of Luke Wozniak, RD 2, Forest City; Miss Betty Bielon, Forest City, be-comes bride of John J. O’Malley, Philadelphia.

80 YEARS AGO November 9, 1939

Walter I. Davies, Guy B. Rob-inson and M. M. Coleman were elected County Commissioners in Tuesday’s election.

Gaylord Reynolds was elected Register and Recorder; Edward Bazil and Joseph Konchar elected to Forest City School Board.

Frank Shema, Railroad St., had his car stolen Friday by a Jermyn man who abandoned a previous-ly stolen vehicle. Mr. Shema gave chase and turned the man over to police.

Mrs. Elizabeth Bayless was honored at the home of Mr. and Mr. H. L. Bayless on the occasion of her seventy-fifth birthday.

Leon Edwards named presi-dent of the Methodist Men’s So-cial Club.

Vandling High School basket-ball team with Francis Kilpatrick as coach is ready for the season. Starting players will be Domi-nick and Ricco Amadio, Sam Bi-anco, Tony Mlinar, John Ferraro, Thomas O’Boyle, Benny Pietro and Thomas Sisco.

NO 90 YEARS AGO 100 YEARS AGO

November 12, 1919 The first snow of the season

fell yesterday. Michael Peterka accompanied

his son Joseph to a Philadelphia hospital where the latter is receiv-ing surgical treatment.

J. F. Wellbrock will open a Modern Model Bakery in Car-bondale.

Edward Mayers and Patrick McKernon have harvested a bum-per crop of 15 bushels of potatoes they dug from a plot they rented on the Whipple farm.

In Tuesday’s election, W. W. Lott was elected Poor Director; L. L. Decker, Justice of the Peace, and Stanley Kolenda, High Con-stable.

Miss Sophie Bucinell and Carl Kovacic were united in marriage Saturday in St. Agnes Church by Rev. M. L. Manley.

110 YEARS AGO November 11, 1909

Joseph Bucinell and son Jo-seph Jr. have purchased the Mod-el Lunch business in the Freed-man building.

James Smith, N. Main St., was the victim of an unfortunate acci-dent which cost him his leg Satur-day at Clinton Colliery.

Mrs. Clara Jones, chief opera-tor for the Anthracite Telephone Co., has resigned her position to accept a clerical position with the Bartholomay Brothers Store in Vandling.

Otis Caffrey has incurred blood poisoning in his hand due to neglect of a slight injury in-curred some time ago.

Frank Wargo has secured a de-sirable position at Hotel Walton in Philadelphia.

120 YEARS AGO November 9, 1899

W. J. Maxey of Forest City, was elected Sheriff of Susquehanna County in Tuesday’s election. He carried Forest City by 249 votes.

Rev. Johnson Davis will be ordained minister of the Welsh Congregational Church next Sun-day.

The local post office clerks fin-ished a survey showing that 5,899 pounds of mail were checked through the post office last month.

On November 17, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Crandall will observe their twenty-fifth wedding anniver-sary.

130 YEARS AGO November 7, 1889

Benjamin Maxey is readying plans for the erection of a new building on the site of his build-ing recently destroyed by fire.

The Hillside Coal Co. is build-ing a structure on N. Main St. for its fire company.

The building near the Clifford Breaker will house equipment on the ground floor and have social and meeting rooms on the second floor.

H. W. Watrous, local lawyer, has been admitted to practice in the Wayne County Courts.

Councilman Daniel O’Keefe has purchased a property on Spruce Street in Scranton. He ex-pects to move there shortly.

The Presbyterians of this place have named a board of trustees and have organized themselves

When growing up in Al-denville, we lived in my Grandmother’s home. She was Minnie Snedeker Cole and she also lived with us there.

I can remember the tele-phone that hung just inside the front door. It was very large and made out of Oak wood. It had 2 medium sized bells on the top that rang very loud when there was an incoming call. It was a party line, not heard of now, and it was determined by the number of rings who the call was for.

There was a large mouth-piece that extended out of the front of the phone and that was what you spoke into. There was a receiver on the side of the phone that you heard the caller talking, and there was a crank on the side of the phone that you would turn to call the opera-tor.

The operator handled all calls. When you got a call you could sometimes hear the other people on your line listening in to your con-versation.

When we moved to Forest City in 1948 we had a black phone sitting on the living room table. It had no dial and it was also a party line. You knew by the amount of rings from the operator which party the call was for. Also had nosy people listen-ing in on your phone calls.

I still have a phone like that one in my bar area that I have hooked up and can answer incoming calls. Nice conversation piece.

It was the late 1950s be-fore we got a dial phone. I also have one of them set up on my computer desk. It can call out by dialing it, but you can not dial 1 for English.

Now we have push-but-ton phones and cell phones that the younger generation can not seem to do anything without the phone in their hands.

LIFE WAS A MUCH SLOWER PACE WITH OUT ALL OF THIS TECHNOL-OGY.

Week of Nov. 4 MON. - Popcorn chicken w/dipping sauces, mashed po-tatoes w/gravy, glazed car-rots, dinner roll, fruit, cookie TUES. - Bacon hamburger or cheeseburger, twister fries, baked beans, fruit. WED. - Rotini w/Meat Sauce, garlic breadstick, gar-den salad, steamed broccoli, strawberry cup, fruit. THURS. - Seasoned Pork Sandwich, plain or with homemade BBQ sauce, oven crisp fries, corn & carrots, fruit. FRI. - Cheese Stix w/ side of sauce, garden salad, sea-soned green beans, fruit.High school alternates: Mozzarella sticks, grilled chicken Caesar wrap, Mon & Thurs: cheeseburgers are available for high school Tues, Wed, & Fri: chicken sandwich BREAKFAST Mon. - Sausage, & Ch. on Crois-sant. Tues. - Egg & Ch. Croissant Wed. - Bacon, Egg & Ch. on a bagel Thurs. - Ham, Egg & Ch. Crois-sant Fri. - Egg & ch. on a bagel*Choice of assorted fruit or juice, milk.

Week of Nov. 4 Monday - Open-face hot turkey sandwich on ww bread, chive mashed potatoes, veggie soup, fresh honeydew melon. Tuesday - Beef & Bean chili, chuckwagon corn, brown rice, fresh fruit salad.

Wednesday - Italian Pork Chop, Italian green beans, roasted red potatoes, ww dinner roll, grapes

Thursday - Pineapple Chicken, tropical veggie medley, cilantro lime brown rice, crackers, tropical fruit

Friday - Beef Monterey, cheesy mashed potatoes, sauteed peppers & onions, ww dinner roll, scalloped peaches

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

Forest City – A benefit perfor-mance will be given in the Family Theatre on Thursday evening un-der the auspices of Ruby Chapter, Eastern Star. The attraction will be “The Woman on The Index” and other single reel favorites.

Uniondale – The Woman’s Suffrage Club will meet on Fri-day evening with Mrs. Glenn Wolfe for the annual election of officers. All members are request-ed to be present.

The masquerade social held in Payne’s hall, under the auspices of the school, was a grand success socially and financially. The sum realized was $28.90. There were many fancy and grotesque cos-tumes that created much mirth. Harold Conrad won the prize for the best costume. He was dressed as a Broadway belle and carried his part perfectly to the great sur-prise of all.

Susquehanna – An unfortu-nate shooting took place in the railroad yards here early Sunday morning. Arthur Bradstreet, a switchman, and one of the best-known and best-liked men in town, was shot through both legs by J. F. Duryea, lieutenant of the Erie police. Duryea claims that Bradstreet was trying to get away with a box taken from a freight car, which had been broken open. Erie Officer Guysee was with Duryea at the time and makes the same claim. Bradstreet is in such a serious condition that he has been unable to make a state-ment, but fellow railroaders are frank in stating that there was no reason for the shooting. Men at work in the yards at the time and within a short distance of where the shooting took place say that the officers made a mistake. Lt. Duryea says he will prefer charg-es against Bradstreet, and the in-dications are that Duryea will be prosecuted for doing the shoot-ing. It is a most unfortunate case.

Montrose – S. G. Fancher, while hunting on Tuesday, was struck by a stray shot, which grazed his head, just back of

the ear, but fortunately failed to pierce the scalp. It was a close call. He was sitting by a tree when startled by the report of a shot gun and a stinging sensation, and for a moment suspicioned that the open season for rabbits had been enlarged to include politi-cians. A shot had been fired by a companion hunter, which, strik-ing a ledge of rocks rebounded at a sharp angle, with the above result.

The D. Y. O. S. Club took up a collection amounting to $18, which will be used for little Ruth Smith, of Heart Lake, a wee suf-ferer with infantile paralysis. Ruth, with her brothers and sis-ters, was cared for by a widowed mother, who had generously opened her home, also, to an or-phan child, a relative. The Club members became interested in Ruth and, through the help of Miss Borthwick, a state nurse, obtained admittance to an insti-tution for children suffering from infantile paralysis. About three weeks ago, Miss Borthwick took the child to Philadelphia. After an examination it was decided that an operation was necessary and she was operated on at the Episcopal hospital. The mother’s name, before her marriage, was Miss Van Hoesen.

Harford – Miss Floretta Dar-row has accepted a position as teacher of the Hoover school, near West Clifford, and she began her duties on November 3.

Kingsley – W. H. Wilmarth was in Montrose to bring the election returns. Although 78 years of age, he is as straight as an arrow, and says he feels as well as he ever did in his life. He is an admirer of District Attorney Ferguson, who taught school at Kingsley many years ago, walking to and from his home in Cameron’s Corners, Lenox township, each day. He says “John” was always a faith-ful, industrious, young man.

Veterans Service Sun., Nov. 11

The Bethel Community Church, 248 Welch Hill Rd. in Clifford, will hold a Vet-eran’s Recognition service with patriotic music by the Tri-State Gospel Singers on Sun., Nov. 10 at 6 p.m.

The event is free, but do-nations are gladly accepted. For more information call 570-222-2520

Nov. 9 - Princess Camp Trinity Church Hall 58 River St. C’Dale 10 a.m. to noon $25

Nov. 9 - Purse Bingo FCRHS cafeteria 5 p.m.

Nov. 9 - Soup Sale E. Ara-rat Church 3 to 6 p.m.

Nov. 10 - Chicken BBQ Browndale Fire Station 620 Marion St. 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. $9 570-785-5300

Nov. 10 - Veteran’s Day Luncheon E. Ararat Church

Nov. 10 - Veteran’s Recog-nition Service Bethel Church Welsh Hill Clifford, 6 p.m.

Nov. 10 - Taste of the Town Anthracite Center 2 to 5 p.m. $25

Nov. 11 - Pasta Buffet 4 to 7 p.m. Montrose VFW Rte. 706 $10

Nov. 11 - Veteran’s Service 6 p.m. Bethel Com. Church Clifford

Nov. 17 - Powersport Auc-tion Arlo’s Tavern noon.

Nov. 20 - Movie “Home for the Holidays” Montrose Library 2 p.m. FREE

Nov. 23 - Free Lunch Christ Church Dundaff & Delaware St.s noon to 1 p.m.

Nov. 24 - Cash Bingo, St. John’s Center Mayfield 4 p.m.

Nov. 24 - Shopping Ex-travaganza Anthracite Hotel Carbondale admission $5