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COLUMNS: MONTROSE: Claude Miller, an erstwhile Binghamton printer, formerly of Montrose, was at M. S. Cohen’s store, Tuesday, looking at a pair of shoes which he wanted to pay for with a $30 check he wanted Mr. Cohen to cash. Mr. Cohen didn’t like the looks of the check and refused. So shortly after 5 o’clock young Miller grabbed up the shoes saying, “I must catch this train,” and started on a run up Public Avenue for the station. Likewise did Mr. Cohen. Miller caught the train and so did Mr. Cohen - when it was moving. Miller assumed a pugilistic attitude in the aisle of the car and things looked interesting for a few minutes, Mr. Cohen demanding payment. After some words, a friend of Miller, a Mr. Button, produced the requisite amount and Mr. Cohen walked in from Tiffany, two miles out, having won the race. The check, it is claimed, was cashed by a local man, and was alleged to have been drawn by one J. L. Button. The local bank would not accept it. ALSO, Glenn L. Voss, clerk in the Farmers’ National Bank, has purchased a 22-horse power runabout from Homer Young of Springville, the local representative. Mr. Voss has sold his horse and believes he will like motoring better. It is a Maxwell car. NEW MILFORD: The New Milford constable is “on the job” Sunday as well as week days and a couple of automobile drivers were held up at that place on Sunday for exceeding the speed limit. The speed limit is 12 1/2 miles, and when W. H. Stone, of Binghamton, came through the main street of the borough at a lively rate, the constable ran out, jumped on the running board of the machine, and placed the driver under arrest. It was claimed by the constable he was going at the rate of 30 miles an hour, and Mr. Stone paid a $10 fine. Col. C. C. Pratt’s car was held up, but the driver refused to pay until the constable showed him he was driving faster than the law permits. SUSQUEHANNA: Justice Williams refused to send eight men, charged with train riding on the Erie, to jail last Saturday. By so doing the justice saved the county a couple of hundred in costs, although the results are not satisfactory to the Erie, whose detectives rounded the men up. The laws permit a 30 to 60 day sentence in this state, although New York is much more lenient. As a result, little effort is made to arrest offenders until they get over the line. The justice figures the railroad gets the chief benefit at the expense of the taxpayers and the company should find some other method of stopping the practice of train-riding without a preliminary visit to the ticket office. DIMOCK: Whartleberries are said to be a large crop on the mountain this season - as well as snakes. ALSO, a ball game between East Lemon and Dimock took place on the large meadow of W. L. Stilwell, on Saturday last, resulting in favor of the Dimock boys. BRACKNEY: Sister Ursula, of Dennison, Texas, and Mother Leo, of Buffalo, N.Y., visited the former’s brother, John Walsh, in this place last week. CHOCONUT: Sister M. Rosina, a gifted poetess of this county, who now resides at Mount Saint Mary’s Seminary, in Scranton, is visiting her old home near Carmalt Lake - the birthplace of her beautiful book of poems, “Lakeside Idylls.” She was accompanied by Sister M. Anastasia, and both teachers called on Montrose friends. WEST AUBURN: C. A. Jayne, of Laceyville, came up on Saturday with his new automobile, which he is learning to operate. SPRINGVILLE: Mail carrier Swanick, of Route 1, made his trip by auto on Saturday for a change, arriving home several hours sooner than usual. Dr. H. B. Lathrop was also trying one recently. ALSO, in Lynn, a grand concert is held every Saturday evening at the Red Store. UNIONDALE: Say, the farmers are going to charge $15 per ton for hay out of the field this season; that means $3 a ton more than last year, but then we are so glad that girls need not buy any. They let the other fellow do it. It is so agreeable to have a friend like that. ARARAT SUMMIT: Leon Potter has placed an orangeade fountain in his store, a “charm” to the thirsty, this hot weather. HOP BOTTOM: Work is progressing finely on the State road. A car load of horses and wagons were unloaded here Saturday to help complete the work. FLYNN: Many fellows in this place are greatly interested in base ball but now several of the girls are. NIVEN, SPRINGVILLE TWP.: Frank Oakley is having good success selling autos to the farmers around here. Henry Strickland, Myre Strickland, William Johnson and Eugene Johnson have each purchased one. GIBSON: N. W. Wilmarth has been elected principal of the Gibson school and Miss Hattie Baldwin has been chosen primary teacher. The school will begin the last of August. HALLSTEAD: Dr. L. W. Rosenkrans has returned from an extended visit with relatives in New York City and Newark, N. J. He is making preparations to remove to Alberta, Canada, where he has purchased a large tract of land and where he expects to locate. FOREST CITY: The directors of the First National Bank of Forest City, declared a semi annual dividend of three per cent payable August 1. This places that institution on a six per cent basis, a raise of one percent. KEEP AFTER THE FLIES: The health of the town and of the individual demands it. They are one of the principal causes of disease and death - and the co-operation of everyone is needed. Window and door screens help - so do devices for poisoning or killing the pests - but the best method is to cut down the supply of flies by destroying their breeding places. Remove the filth. See that the garbage can is frequently carried away. Keep swatting the flies.
From the Desk of the D.A. I have written quite a few times about the social security fiasco - and I have attended some town hall meetings where the issue of social security inevitably arises. Our elected officials and the social security administration itself have assured us that the social security trust fund is solvent for several more decades. In fact, the notice that I received last year from the social security administration made clear that the trust fund had sufficient assets for another 25 years or so. At that point, the letter indicated that the trust fund will have to cut benefits in order to remain solvent. The date sticks in my mind because it is roughly around the same time that I would become eligible for social security benefits. In other words, the government was telling me (and everyone my age and younger) to keep paying for benefits that you will never receive. On the other hand, I had to give the social security administration some credit for being partially honest with the American people. It was a blatant admission that the social security pyramid scheme was crumbling rapidly into financial oblivion. I say partially honest because there is no way that the social security trust fund has sufficient funds to get through the next few decades - not unless you are using accounting practices accepted by Enron and Lehman Brothers. Then again, perhaps those folks learned from the government how to balance the books! The social security trust fund is busted - plain and simple. It was not designed appropriately from its inception, it was never invested in a financially responsible manner (or even invested at all!), it was never a real trust fund as politicians have been robbing from it for years, and the trust fund lacks the ability to continue paying the benefits it has promised millions of Americans. This reality was actually underscored by President Obama a few days ago when he candidly admitted that he could not promise that social security checks would go out unless the debt ceiling was increased. Finally, some honesty from Washington! President Obama went further to underscore that there were a variety of benefit checks that may not go out unless the debt ceiling was raised. President Obama tacitly admitted that there is no money in the social security trust fund - and other entitlement funds - necessary to pay recipients. Otherwise, the social security checks would go out regardless of the debt ceiling as the trust fund is supposed to have its own funds to cover its obligations. The stark reality of this statement needs to be recognized. President Obama was telling the entire nation that we have no money in the Social Security trust fund, i.e., without the ability to borrow money, there is no guarantee that social security will continue to operate. So much for the letter I received indicating that the fund was solvent for the next few decades! I also agree with President Obama’s assessment that it is “time to eat our peas” in the context of this ongoing budget/debt debate. The President plainly indicated that there are difficult decisions that have to be made and we are not going to like them, i.e., eating peas. I actually like peas so I think the President would have been better using the old phrase - our chickens are coming home to roost. The financial disaster that is looming is one that has been in the making for several generations - and the blame rests with both parties. The federal debt is a smidgen compared to the unfunded entitlement programs scheduled to come due over the next several decades - and at some point we have to stop taking out new credit cards to pay for them. If we do not make that decision, someone else will make it for us when we no longer have the credit to borrow one more red cent. If we cannot figure out how to balance an annual federal budget, there is no hope of avoiding a total financial collapse. There is simply no way to balance the federal budget without making hard decisions (eating peas) with respect to entitlement programs - and no amount of increased taxes will ever be sufficient to cover these looming entitlements. Given the estimates about the unfunded entitlement obligations coming home to roost over the next several decades, there is simply no way the government can fund them without fundamentally altering how the entitlement programs work. And unfunded entitlements are the pink elephant (or donkey) in the room. The only question is whether there is any leadership in either party willing to address the problem. I suspect that both parties will refuse to eat their peas. 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. How does an MRI work? Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) uses a magnetic field and radio waves to create pictures of cross-sections. In many cases, MRI gives more information than other types of diagnostic imaging. Sometimes contrast agents are used to enhance the images. Most MRI machines are large cylinders. Inside the machine, the human body produces very faint signals in response to radio waves. These signals are detected by the MRI machine. A computer then interprets the signals and produces a three-dimensional representation of your body. Any cross-section can be extracted from this representation. There are MRI machines that are open on all sides. These newer open MRI scanning systems are useful for the claustrophobic, obese or anyone who feels uncomfortable about lying inside a cylinder. The MRI often helps with the diagnosis of central nervous system disorders such as multiple sclerosis, because it produces such high-resolution images of the brain and spinal cord. Q. Why is it so important to complete an antibiotic prescription and not stop taking the medicine when you feel better? Taking antibiotics unnecessarily and not completing your prescription are the leading causes of “superbugs,” bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. These superbugs are one of the most serious threats to global public health. The first thing you should know is that antibiotics are used to combat bacteria, not viruses. So, these potent drugs should be used for infections of the ear, sinuses, urinary tract and skin. They’re also used to treat strep throat. They should not be used for viruses that cause most sore throats, coughs, colds and flu. However, doctors in the USA write about 50 million antibiotic prescriptions for viral illnesses anyway. Patient pressure is a major cause for these prescriptions. When you don’t finish your prescription, your antibiotic doesn’t kill all the targeted bacteria. The germs that survive build up resistance to the drug you’re taking. Doctors are then forced to prescribe a stronger antibiotic. The bacteria learn to fight the stronger medication. Superbugs are smart, too; they can share information with other bacteria. More than 70 percent of the bacteria that cause hospital-acquired infections are resistant to at least one of the antibiotics most commonly used to treat them. About 100,000 people die each year from infections they contract in the hospital, often because the bacteria that cause hospital-acquired infections are resistant to antibiotics. Q. What causes muscle cramps? A cramp is an involuntarily contracted muscle that does not relax. The common locations for muscle cramps are the calves, thighs, feet, hands, arms, and the rib cage. Cramps can be very painful. Muscles can cramp for just seconds, but they can continue for many minutes. Almost all of us have had muscle cramps, but no one knows for sure why they happen. However, many healthcare professionals attribute cramping to tired muscles and poor stretching. Other suspected causes are dehydration, exerting yourself when it’s hot, flat feet, standing on concrete, prolonged sitting, some leg positions while sedentary. Muscle cramps are usually harmless. However, they can also be symptoms of problems with circulation, nerves, metabolism, hormones. Less common causes of muscle cramps include diabetes, Parkinson's disease, hypoglycemia, anemia, thyroid and endocrine disorders. Geezers are more likely to get cramps because of muscle loss that starts in our 40s. And your remaining muscles don’t work as efficiently as they used to. Studies show that about 70 percent of adults older than 50 experience nocturnal leg cramps. If you would like to read more columns, “How to be a Healthy Geezer” is available at www.healthygeezer.com.
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