Birchardville - Mrs. W. H. Allen has returned from Sayre Hospital, where she went for treatment for a broken hip. But little could be done for it. ALSO Dayton Birchard has returned to Colgate College, at Hamilton, N. Y., after spending Easter vacation here.

Heart Lake - Mrs. Lee Whitney is confined to her bed with congestion of the brain.

Dimock - The following make up the Dimock high school base ball team: catcher, Ceylon Ely; 1st base, Harmon Brown; 2nd base, pitcher, Freeman Thomas; 3rd base, Joseph Winans; short stop, George Howell; right fielder, George Heitsman; center fielder, John Titman; left fielder, Oscar Heitsman; pitcher, 2nd base, Donald Roderick. ALSO Francis R. Cope is spending the week at St. Helen’s Island, South Carolina, where a new community building is to be dedicated. [The Penn School was founded in 1862 by Quaker and Unitarian missionaries, from Pennsylvania, as an African-American cultural and educational center. The Cope family was very involved in the success of this school and instrumental in the building of the Cope Industrial Shop, now a museum. The site was declared a National Historic Landmark District in 1974.] See more on “Penn Center” on line.

Springville - Local talent will produce “Patty to Make Things Hum,” a hummer of a play, will take place on Friday evening, April 17. This play went over big in Brooklyn and Montrose and now Springville people will present it in the community building. The Holstein Quartet will sing between acts. ALSO Cyrus Marcy, an old resident and one of the very few left of the Civill War veterans, is quite ill at this writing.

Montrose - Paul Shea, driving a truck, collided with a telephone pole at the corner of Church and South Main streets. The pole stood the jolt well and the car was only slightly damaged, although it was a head-on collision. Paul was able to drive the car away even more speedily, owing to the large quantity of mud which was knocked off by the impact.

Uniondale - The sale of the late Mrs. Georgiann Larrabee’s property was held and attended by many. The house on Main street was sold to W. E. Gibson for $1,250. The collection of antiquated articles sold well. An andiron sold for $30. Candle sticks brought $5 and over. A large share of the collection was purchased by a party from Scranton. Ollie Richardson was the auctioneer.

Susquehanna - Andrew Blakeslee, aged 87, and Mrs. Marie Snyder, who admitted 71 years, both of Bainbridge, NY, were married by Justice J. M. Williams, in this place, on Wednesday, April 8th. Both of the aged people had been married three times previous to their last embarkation on the matrimonial sea, and fared forth on their fourth voyage hand in hand and happy, as they walked to the Erie station to take the train for Binghamton to spend their honeymoon.

South Auburn - Luella, daughter of Geo. Gow, and Charles Love, son of Mrs. Mamie Love, were united in marriage by the Rev. Charles Monroe, of Skinners Eddy, on April 8th.

Thompson - The Thompson High School basket ball team closed its season with 7 victories and 2 defeats. The players are: Arland Dickey, Roland Buck, Edward Karcher, Lamont Nelson, Donald Shelley and Laurence Shelley. “Rally” Buck, Lamont Nelson and “Don” Shelley played in every game.

Fairdale - While going to the creamery Frank Bolles’ horses became frightened, throwing him from the wagon and hurting him quite badly.

Harford - The barn owned by Mr. Corman, on the James Cameron farm, was destroyed by fire. Two horses and one cow perished in the flames. The other stock was rescued. Mr. Corman tried to save the horses and became entrapped in the flames. He is suffering badly from burns. Two automobiles were destroyed, a quantity of hay, wagons, farming implements and a silo, nearly new.

Forest City - Frank Supon, fire warden, and his assistant, Frank Flors, have organized a fire patrol. This year the patrol will consist of young men and not boys, as heretofore. They will be ready to respond at any time called. In the past the patrol has rendered valiant service and the future seems more promising. Experience has taught the officers the value of a trusted patrol, and now the fighting force is the best obtainable.

South Ararat - Lynn Cottrell has an order in for one of Edsel Ford’s tin dirigibles. ALSO Wilbur Brooks is home from Washington, D. C. He came by motorcycle and made the trip in ten hours flat.

News Brief: Only bottled milk may be sold at eating places in Pennsylvania after May 26. Gov. Pinchot has approved the bill that requires restaurants, hotels, soda fountains and dining cars to serve milk in the original bottle in which it is supplied. ALSO The ordinary taxpayer is not hard-boiled. He is merely soaked. ALSO Elwood Haynes, inventor of the first automobile, died at his home in Kokomo, Ind. When Haynes drove the first “horseless carriage” around Chicago, at a speed of eight miles an hour, in 1894, he was directed by officials to “get that contraption off the street.” He conceived the motor propelled vehicle as a means to travel about with greater speed than possible with horses. He was past 69 years of age and for some years successfully manufactured the Haynes car.

“200 Years Ago” from the Montrose Gazette and Susquehanna County Herald, April 15, 1825.

On Sunday morning last, one of the tannery buildings in the vicinity of this borough, belonging to Stephens and Foster, was destroyed by fire. The fire communicated with the roof from the chimney of their newly constructed steam works. All exertions to save this building were fruitless; but the one almost adjoining, and much more valuable, was saved by the due exertion of our citizens.

The bill to re-charter the Silver Lake Bank, under the title of the “Northern Bank of Pennsylvania,” has, it is said, passed both houses of the legislature.This Bank continues to redeem its paper with promptitude, and honor to the institution.

NEW LINE OF MAIL COACHES, From Philadelphia to Buffalo, via Bethlehem, Wilkesbarre and Ithaca, will leave Philadelphia every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday morning at 4 o’clock. The importance of this Line will readily be seen—it opens a direct communication between the city of Philadelphia and the Western parts of the state of New York. At Montrose it intersects a line to Harrisburg, &c. At Owego, to Elmira. Thus affording an opportunity to Gentlemen and Ladies who wish to travel in either of these directions, of a cheap and expeditious mode of conveyance. Seats taken in Philadelphia at the White Swan, near Third street, and at all the Stage Houses on the Line.