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COLUMNS: FOREST CITY: William Healey, the 8 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Healey, was drowned in the McLoughlin pond while swimming with a number of companions Tuesday morning. The little fellow went to the pond at about 11 o’clock and soon after plunging in, sank to the bottom, his companions being unable to save him. The pond was dragged and the body recovered at about 12:30 p.m. A brother and sister also survive him. MONTROSE: Leon P. Chesley, employed in Miller’s barber shop, has been granted a patent on an advertising sign that is of very ingenious construction and on which Mr. Chesley has been working for some time. The sign is cylindrical, rotating horizontally and perpendicularly, simultaneously on the same stand, a principle which inventors and dealers have been working for years to solve. Around the barrel of the sign are a number of people properly attired to suit the wishes of the advertiser, alternately changing with the wording: Compare yourself with the man below. Below is a mirror and you are it. The idea is to show you as you really are and as you might be if you wore Arrow brand collars or a Knox derby, etc. A responsible firm has offered Mr. Chesley $17,000 for the patent rights, but he has not yet accepted. Chesley says he has other ideas in his head that he is working out. HALLSTEAD: The Hallstead High school graduated a class of six students at the Clune opera house, Wednesday evening, as follows: Edith Corwin, Nora V. Callow, Mary B. Knoeller, Lucy M. Van Wormer, Floyd H. Watkins and Robert F. Wells. Rev. A. B. Browe, pastor of the Baptist church, delivered the commencement address. ALSO, at the Clune Hotel about 75 people, nearly all automobilists, took dinner recently. Mr. Clune conducts one of the most up to date hostelries in this part of the state and is progressive with a big P, and these things are appreciated by the traveling public. AUBURN TWP.: Elmer B. Lacey, of Union, NY, visited relatives here during the past week. Mr. Lacey formerly resided here, where he did an extensive business in silo manufacturing. He has continued this work in Union, and there are many who consider the Lacey silos the best on the market. To supply the demand in this vicinity, he is making provisions to erect a large number during the coming summer. ALSO, in Auburn Center, on Saturday, while Ziba Lott was getting ready to go to Meshoppen, the horses became frightened and started to run. His little boy was in the wagon and was thrown under the horses’ feet and seriously injured, having a bad gash on the back of his head and being otherwise cut and bruised. Dr. Harrison was called and under his treatment the boy is improving nicely. Considerable damage was done to the wagon and harness. SOUTH GIBSON: Mrs. Earl Davis and sister, Miss Wilmot Warren, left here May 23 for a trip to England to visit their parents, brothers and sisters. Mrs. Davis came to this country at the age of 11 years and has been here over 20 years, during which time two brothers and one sister have followed her to this country. ALFORD: Archie Betts, Jay Sickler, Wm. Snow and Ralph Case were fishing at Upper Lake last Thursday night and came home with a lot of bullheads. SUSQUEHANNA: One prominent member of the Board of Trade purchases a large portion of his supplies from Sears, Roebuck and Co., of Chicago. Another can only get satisfactory printing done in Binghamton. Still others buy their groceries and provisions at wholesale in New York city. And all of them are loud in advocating a bigger and better Susquehanna. Their motto is “do as I say, not as I do.” NEW MILFORD: W. Harding, of New York city, a tourist, is in town with a Metallurgique car made in Belgium, costing $12,000. LITTLE MEADOWS: Christine DeKay left Monday for Binghamton where she has accepted a position. HARFORD: A slight shower on Tuesday evening did refreshing work in our section at least. Old timers say never within their memory have we had such extreme hot weather in the month of May. UNIONDALE: Parents take notice: you should keep your children in your yard during play hours. I rode with a gentleman the other day and almost ran over two boys playing with a little wagon in the middle of the road. It is a common occurrence for children to hit horses with stones and sticks. Parents watch your children a little and you may soon see what they are at, and you may some day feel well paid for this little bit of advice. KINGSLEY: Accommodations for the traveling public at Kingsley, where they can find board, lodging and stabling at the first door back of the postoffice. SPRINGVILLE: Homer Young is agent for the Maxwell automobile. He recently took a trip to Philadelphia, with a purchaser of one of that make, last week. A couple of agents were here demonstrating a new machine. Many in the town had a fine ride, thanks to Mr. Young. WEST LENOX: Measles, fishing and planting potatoes are the order of the day. ALSO, in Lenox Twp., Frank Brundage, of Scranton, recently purchased the Killean and Titus farms and during the past few days has been setting out a large number (about 1100) of fruit trees, including apple, pear, plum, cherry, peach and quince bushes. DIMOCK: Andrew Conrad now drives the large Cooksley mule to and from the milk station daily, drawing nearly as large a load as must of the double teams of Dimock. NEWS BRIEFS: Operators in telephone exchanges can usually tell an hour or two ahead of time whether or not a thunder shower is approaching. While in the Commonwealth telephone exchange Tuesday afternoon, the chief operator asked a Republican reporter if he thought there was going be a shower. Looking weather-wise and seeing that there were no clouds in sight he ventured the remark that it didn’t look much like a shower. “The electricity is coming in over the wires,” was the reply, “and they are getting storms somewhere, and it is likely we will soon.” The crackle of wires was ominous and a couple of hours later mutterings of thunder told of the approaching shower. It’s a wise person who carries an umbrella if he sees the “telephone girls” carry one. ALSO, list of new music just received: (12 cents a copy) Honey Love, Nightingale, That was Before I Met You, That Paradise Rag.
From the Desk of the D.A. As anyone who follows capital cases in Pennsylvania, even when imposed, it is unlikely a death penalty will actually result in execution. Since 1978, the date when Pennsylvania’s new death penalty statute was enacted, there have only been three executions in Pennsylvania - two in 1995 and one in 1999 - and all occurred during Governor Ridge’s administration. These executions all have another common denominator: each of the defendants waived their appellate rights and requested that the execution take place. In other words, the only defendants sentenced to death who have been executed in Pennsylvania in the past three decades are the ones who wanted (or were willing) to die. Where a defendant has not consented to execution, none have occurred. A cynic might opine that in practice our death penalty statute is more akin to assisted suicide than actual punishment. Currently, there are over 200 inmates sitting on death row in Pennsylvania, which ranks Pennsylvania as one of the top states for condemned killers awaiting execution. What is the hold up? The challenges to the imposition of the death penalty are endless - in both state and federal courts. Where does the money come for all of these legal challenges? You pay for it mainly through your federal tax dollars. Generally speaking, most of the legal challenges to the death penalty are mounted by the Federal Public Defenders. There is a reason for this phenomenon. A defense attorney has to have special qualifications in order to represent a defendant in a death penalty case. In many counties, there are no attorneys with those qualifications - and the Federal Public Defenders come in and “volunteer” to take the case. To put it bluntly, these Defenders have the ability and the resources to literally cripple a prosecutor’s office with a legal blitzkrieg. But the Defenders are also crippling the courts. Chief Justice Castille recently took the extraordinary step of authoring a concurring opinion in a death penalty case solely for the purpose of pointing out the devastating impact that the Defenders were having on Pennsylvania’s criminal justice system. Chief Justice Castille complained that the federal courts were funding the Defenders and sending them off to do battle in the state courts with little or no consultation with the state court judges - and he wanted to make sure that the federal courts were aware of the terrible toll that the Defenders were having on the state courts. Chief Justice Castille complained of the Defenders undertaking “prolix and abusive pleadings,” “abusive briefing,” and “ethically dubious strategies and activities.” The Chief Justice charged the Defenders with intentionally paralyzing the state courts with voluminous legal filings and then following that up with separate federal actions contending that defendant’s rights have been violated because the state courts are struggling to sift through the volumes of frivolous legal filings initiated by the Defenders. In other words, the Defenders are creating a problem in the state courts and then using the problem they created as a claim for relief in federal court. Chief Justice Castille finally called them out. Chief Justice Castille essentially told the Defenders to go back to federal court where they belong and stay out of the state system. His language was strong: “[T]he Defender has decided that federal tax dollars should be deployed to conduct [the defendant’s] state collateral attacks; and the federal authorities who finance their state litigation strategy apparently approve this tactic. The resources the Defender was able to bear in litigating this state collateral attack border on the perverse, and this fact, combined with the tactics employed, and the obvious goal of the Defender to obstruct capital punishment in Pennsylvania at all costs, strongly suggests that there is more at work here than non-political, professionally responsible ‘zealous advocacy.’” The Chief Justice has thrown down the gauntlet - and the Defenders beehive is swarming. Predictably, the Defenders responded with a legal filing. The Defenders filed a motion demanding that the Chief Justice retract his opinion! The Defenders filed a 54-page motion to seek retraction of the Chief Justice’s 34-page concurring opinion. Does anyone see the irony? I can guarantee that the Defenders are oblivious to it. The Defenders could not have done a better job of highlighting the Chief Justice’s point - and you get a glimpse at your tax dollars hard at work. Please submit any questions, concerns, or comments to Susquehanna County District Attorney’s Office, P.O. Box 218, Montrose, Pennsylvania 18801 or at our website www.SusquehannaCounty-DA.org or discuss this and all articles at http://dadesk.blogspot.com/.
The Healthy Geezer Q. My grandson has been told he has a “personality disorder.” What is that? People with a personality disorder have serious trouble getting along with others. They are usually rigid and unable to adapt to the changes life presents to all of us. They simply don’t function well in society. People with personality disorders are more likely to commit homicide and suicide, and suffer from social isolation, alcohol and drug addiction, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and self-destructive behavior such as excessive gambling. About one in seven U.S. adults has at least one personality disorder, and many have more than one. Personality disorders are usually first noticed around the teen years. However, personality disorders can surface at any time, including old age. Childhood experiences and your genes play major roles in personality disorders. However, personality changes can be brought on in older adults if they have trouble handling the losses of family and friends, other major life changes or their own medical problems. Psychotherapy and medication for symptoms such as anxiety and depression can help. The symptoms of some personality disorders also may improve with age. Q. I believe in herbal products. Do you? You have to be very careful when you use herbal health products and dietary supplements, especially if you are a senior. Always consult a doctor before taking any of these products, which I like to label “alternatives.” These products may not be safe if you have cancer, an enlarged prostate gland, high blood pressure, diabetes, glaucoma, heart disease, epilepsy, Parkinson disease, psychiatric issues, or problems with clotting blood, your immune system, liver or thyroid. You should be especially cautious about these products if you are taking drugs that treat any of these health problems. Alternatives can interfere with the way your body should process medicine. For example, you may not absorb enough of the medicine that you need. These products can cause difficulties during surgery, including bleeding and problems with anesthesia. You should stop using herbal products at least two weeks before surgery. In the United States, alternatives are regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as foods. Therefore, they are not held to the same standards as medicines whose manufacturers must prove they are safe and effective. Q. Is shortness of breath part of aging? The likelihood of suffering shortness of breath or “dyspnea” (disp-nee-ah) becomes greater the older we get. As we age, our air passages get smaller, chest muscles weaken, and our lungs become less flexible. These changes reduce our air flow. Dyspnea should happen rarely to healthy people. It can be brought on by exhaustive exertion, high altitude, extreme temperatures. Otherwise, shortness of breath is commonly a sign of a medical problem that should be checked by a doctor. Dyspnea is associated with the major breathing disorders that can develop in seniors. These disorders are chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, obstructive sleep apnea, pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary thromboembolism and aspiration. Shortness of breath can be caused by a variety of abnormalities in organs other than the lungs. When the heart fails, it loses its ability pump blood. This elevates pressure in the blood vessels around the lung. Sometimes fluid collects in the lungs and interferes with breathing, causing shortness of breath, especially when a person is lying down. A low red-blood-cell count causes dyspnea because the red cells carry oxygen. When their number is extremely low, your body doesn’t get enough oxygen. In addition, a high thyroid level, shock, systemic infection, kidney or chronic liver problems, stroke, nerve and muscle disorders, and anxiety can bring on dyspnea. If you have a question, please write to fred@healthygeezer.com.
Library Chitchat This is an invitation to participate in the Susquehanna County Library’s annual Summer Reading Program. This year’s activities will be expanded to include adults. Registration for these programs for children, teens or adults will begin online on June 1 at www.susqcolibrary.org or in person at your local library in Susquehanna, Forest City, Hallstead-Great Bend or Montrose beginning on June 13. Programs and age-groupings vary at the different library locations. Please check with your local library for specifics. “One World, Many Stories” is the children’s program theme. The kick off will feature games from around the world and the final party will teach participants about birthdays and other celebrations around the world. There will be a free book give-away the week of July 18. The teen program, “You Are Here,” is currently only planned for the main library in Montrose. The county-wide Adult Summer Reading Program is called “Novel Destinations.” When you register on line or in person, you will pick up a “passport” to keep track of the books you read through August 11. Your name will be entered in a drawing for a prize each time you earn a ”passport stamp” by reading five books, or prepare a written rating of a book you read, or by attending one of the special adult programs that are being planned. I hear that the prizes may include restaurant or gas cards! These programs are just another way the Susquehanna County Library seeks to become your resource for lifetime learning. Sign up and join the fun!
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