Susquehanna - It is estimated that over 4,000 people witnessed the exciting field meet of the susquehanna County Inter-scholastic Athletic Association, held at Victory Park on Saturday. Susquehanna business places and residences were decorated in colors for the occasion and the warm hand of fellowship was found extended everywhere. The Helping Hand Society of the Methodist church served dinner to about 300, while the majority brought basket lunches and picnicked. Refreshment stands were also liberally patronized. Over 1,100 automobiles were parked on the grounds.

Heart Lake - The Heart Lake Community Building Association is making application for a charter. The association intends selling 300 shares at $5.00 a share and acquiring a building at the lake to promote the amusement and cultural interests of the community.

Auburn Twp. - Don’t forget to hear the great musical treat of the season. Prof. E. J. Need, master violinist, accompanied by his orchestra, will offer a program of rare pleasure, May 29th, at the St. Bonaventure Community Hall. Old fashioned dancing will follow. Supper served by the St. Bonaventure ladies, who hold an unexcelled reputation in the catering line.

Rush - The high school will graduate a class of five this year. They are: Valedictorian, Blanche Sivers; Salutatorian, Frances Hardic; Oliver Haire, Francis Sivers and Edna Baker.

Dimock - The fiftieth anniversary of the Dimock Camp Meeting and will open on July 30th and run to August 8th. The boarding hall will be run by the association which will ensure good board. The price will be 50 cents a meal, except 75 cents on Sunday. One-half price to ministers and their families. The grocery will be closed tight on Sundays.

Harford - Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of Governor Pinchot, is expected to deliver the commencement address at the graduation exercises of Harford Vocational School. ALSO Harford has again organized an orchestra. We have some splendid musicians in our midst and so we can be assured of some fine music, which will be a benefit to the town.

Montrose - Richard Barthelmess, starring in “Classmates,” will be shown in the Ideal Theatre, benefit for the new fire engine. Everyone come and help swell the fund. A “Jimmy-dandy” picture. ALSO When the sleepers opened their eyes Monday morning and looked from their windows a strange sight met their eyes. The ground was covered with snow and the brilliant green foliage of the trees had a white covering. In some instances belated apple blossoms and lilacs peeped out from under their snow blanket, presenting a weirdly beautiful effect. It is not thought that the snow did much damage to fruit buds and early planted vegetables. There was a drop of 50 degrees between Saturday morning and Sunday morning, the mercury going down to 36. Tuesday morning ice was formed.

Snake Creek - The Snake Creek road to Binghamton, via Franklin Forks, Lawsville and Conklin, is being used extensively by motorists these days, owing to the Hallstead-Great Bend bridge being closed. This dirt road is in fine condition, free from ruts and stones, and it is a pleasure to ride over it. It is a compliment to the work of our Pennsylvania caretakers to note the variances in the roads of the two states. Any motorist can tell when he hits New York state by the necessity of slowing down.

South Ararat - A road is being built on the south west side of Fiddle Lake, from the head to near the outlet. Several who own cottages were here Saturday and a good big job was done. Harry Hall and the Boy Scouts came along and all put in a full day digging rocks and pulling stumps, and Marvin Sampson and Hobert Davis, with their teams and road worker, put on the finishing touch for the day.

West Lenox - Several from here attended the Field Meet at Susquehanna. We are proud to say that two of our young people, Sarah Powers and Elmer Smith, students at the Hop Bottom high school, brought home three medals each.

Forest City - Saturday was the warmest day of the season, the highest temperature for May 23 in many years. Late in the afternoon a cold thunder storm put a sudden end to the heat wave. At the peak of Saturday’s heat the temperature was 90 degrees. Sunday morning it had dropped to 28 degrees.

Uniondale - Richard R. Davies, who has seen 86 summers, decided that the graves of his old comrades of the Civil War should be remembered. He walked to the Lyon Street cemetery and performed his sacred duty, and he walked back home, making a distance of eight miles. ALSO Union services were held in the Presbyterian church. Only two veterans of the Civil war were present. There are only four living in this vicinity. Time has thinned their ranks.

Jackson - Hosea M. Benson Tells Story of Old Days- “More than 70 years ago, when a boy 16 or 17 years old, my father and I made butter firkins. I well remember taking a load to Tom Arnold in Dundaff. On my way back it was dark as a stack of black cats. When I got back to Welsh church I could see nothing but the lights in the houses. I knew very well I would have trouble getting through Bear Swamp. It was virgin trees, heavily timbered—road not worked—roots—zig zagging around the trees—all the way to South Gibson. I wanted to get to my uncle, Jefferson Manzer’s to stay all night but I found I could not make it. So I stopped to every house from the church to the last one before going down in the swamp. They all refused to keep me except the last place. When I stopped I told the lady my situation. She replied very quickly to go and put my team in the barn and told me where to sleep. She sat knitting alone—candle light—the rest all to bed, as it was past ten o’clock. I thought to myself what a wonderful good woman she was. She did for me what my mother would do for her boy, or any other decent boy. Soon it was light and I harnessed my team. I left six shillings on the table. Saw no one before leaving. Now, many years after, a young man, bright fellow, stopped at my place of business and asked me to vote for him for sheriff—gave me his card. I asked him if he knew Evan Jenkins. He told me he was his father. I took him by the hand and told him I would [vote], for his mother’s memory, so Zachariah D. Jenkins and I became fast friends. So, it pays to befriend a hard working decent boy.” [Zachariah won the election.]

News Brief: Among the enemies of the telephone are bears, who climb the poles to find the “bees” they hear buzzing and break the insulators; the gray squirrel that bites the lead cable and the white-headed woodpecker of the West that weakens the poles with his constant pecking.