Herrick Center –Mr. Crippen, D & H claims News Brief: The fashion editor of the Woman’s Home Companion says: “Something is going into the summer girl’s trunk this year that has never gone into it before!  Have you guessed already that ‘it” is overalls, and that she has taken the hint from the busy, capable women in Europe, who have been doing men’s work since the war started?  The American girl is a level-headed young person, and when she is planning her clothes she considers carefully their appropriateness.  That’s why she is looking with favor this summer on the new overalls for women that have just been put upon the market.  “The shops are displaying them in cool, durable materials, selected purposely for summer wear.  They come in percale and denim in solid colors, and in most attractive stripes, and also in the very durable khaki shade. They consist of an easy-to-get-into coat, and overalls which are full enough to suggest in themselves that they will be donned not by mere man, but a very feminine young person. ALSO  A new bill to prohibit manufacture during the war of foodstuffs into distilled spirits and malt liquors, was ordered reported today by the senate agriculture committee.  Another provision of the bill would empower the president to requisition existing supplies of distilled spirits if necessary to conserve food supplies or to secure alcohol for war purposes. agent, was in town and called at Carl Bonham’s home.  Little Elsie Bonham, who was struck by a train at the crossing here on May 14th, is making a good recovery.

Springville – The marriage of Miss Grace Tuttle, of this place, to Mr. Olin Mittan, of Lenoxville, took place at the M. E. parsonage on June 6th, Rev. W. H. Stang officiating.  The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Tuttle, and for several years has been a popular and efficient clerk at Lee Bros’ store.  Mr. Mittan is the principal of the High school at this place and has made many friends.  The young couple kept the affair a secret until an hour before the ceremony, but their departure was enlivened by a merry party of young people.  They have the best wishes of their many friends for a long and happy wedded life.

Dimock – Perry Mills seems to be the boss fisherman hereabouts.  He returns many mornings from Elk Lake with a large string of bullheads and eels.

Little Meadows – Three young farmers of this place brought brides to their homes last week, namely: M. J. McNamara and Miss Lucy McKale; J. J. Purtell and Mary C. Murphy, and Frank Welch and bride.  All heartily welcomed the young couples and wish them a long and happy life in our midst.

Clifford – Our new jitney bus, from Carbondale, is now making trips to this town when occasion requires.

Montrose – Dr. H. V. Frink bought a Ford runabout recently.  He thought anyone could run a Ford, and started out.  Coming down Maple street he overtook E. D. Jenkins and Miss Hester Vreeland in an automobile, Miss Vreeland being at the wheel.  “Doc” got a little flustered and, although the street is wide at this point, he took off a wheel and a portion of the guard from Mr. Jenkins’ machine.  “Doc” is now taking instructions from H. M. Cole.

Brooklyn – Last Saturday evening, in the I. O. O. F. hall, a reception was held for Brooklyn boys who have been accepted and will leave this week to go in training for the service of their country.  They are: Hugh Weston, Wayne VanAuken, Archie Richardson, Arthur Tiffany and Allen Judge. Myron Craver, Lawrence Savige, Sidney Hughes and the Rev. J. A. Judge are already in the service. 

Fair Hill, Forest Lake Twp. – Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Brearley and daughter, Lillian, and Mrs. M. O. [Marion O.] Evans were over to Silas Jagger’s Sunday.  He had the misfortune to break the wishbone to his car.  Mrs. Evans is 93 years old and retains all her faculties and is piecing quilts. [Marion O. Evans lived to age 98.]

Heart Lake – Supt. F. J. Aldrich has opened the large ice house and is shipping ice regularly.

Silver Lake – Miss Mary Meehan died at her home here on Sunday, June 10.  The deceased was born and had lived in that township all her life and her kind disposition endeared her to all who knew her.  Her funeral was held from St. Augustine’s church.  She is survived by three brothers and two sisters: John, Dennis and Edward Meehan and Nellie and Margaret Meehan, all residing at home.

Flynn, Middletown Twp. – On Wednesday, June 6th, at St. John the Bap;tist church in this place, Miss Mary Murphy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Murphy, of Flynn and John J. Purtell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Purtell, of Apolacon, were united in Holy Matrimony by their pastor, Rev. J. P. Dunne.  They were attended by Miss Jane Guiton, cousin of the bride and Mr. James Purtell, brother of the bride. The bride was handsomely gowned in white silk taffeta, trimmed with white Georgette crepe, and wore a large, white, picture hat, trimmed with blue.  The groom wore the conventional black. The bride, a teacher and groom, who has been an enterprising merchant of the firm of Purtell & Coleman, has purchased a farm near Little Meadows, where he, with his bride, have gone to reside.

Ararat – Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Archer left for a trip to Lake Odessa, Michigan, to meet his brother, Thomas Archer, whom he had not seen in 52 years. He is now past 80 and came to Odessa to visit the widow and family of his brother, George Archer, deceased.  

Forest City News – W. T. Jones of the Bowery section is learning to ride a motorcycle.  He has had considerable experience with mules but thinks that for downright stubbornness the motorcycle takes the cake.  Were it not for his life insurance, which he prizes too much to have settled now, he might in time succeed as a rider.

Marriage Licenses were issued to: James Shields and Willa Zeller, of Susquehanna; Charles Morse and Helen Mulinex, of Great Bend; Ernest P. Chamberlin, of Hallstead and Florence E. Hamlin, of Great Bend; Stephen Carpenter, of Starrucca and Elizabeth Crissell, of Thompson.

News Brief: The fashion editor of the Woman’s Home Companion says: “Something is going into the summer girl’s trunk this year that has never gone into it before!  Have you guessed already that ‘it” is overalls, and that she has taken the hint from the busy, capable women in Europe, who have been doing men’s work since the war started?  The American girl is a level-headed young person, and when she is planning her clothes she considers carefully their appropriateness.  That’s why she is looking with favor this summer on the new overalls for women that have just been put upon the market.  “The shops are displaying them in cool, durable materials, selected purposely for summer wear.  They come in percale and denim in solid colors, and in most attractive stripes, and also in the very durable khaki shade. They consist of an easy-to-get-into coat, and overalls which are full enough to suggest in themselves that they will be donned not by mere man, but a very feminine young person. ALSO  A new bill to prohibit manufacture during the war of foodstuffs into distilled spirits and malt liquors, was ordered reported today by the senate agriculture committee.  Another provision of the bill would empower the president to requisition existing supplies of distilled spirits, if necessary, to conserve food supplies or to secure alcohol for war purposes.

200 Years Ago from the Montrose Centinel, June 22, 1817. 

*The late freshet has raised the creeks higher than they have been for years before. Last Saturday night the rain fell very fast.  Considerable damage was done to mill dams in this town.  Maj. Post’s saw-mill dam was nearly one half taken away; Messrs.Conner and Bliss’s dam received serious injury; and Mr. John Street had not only his dam entirely swept away, but his mill was started from its foundation.  Considerable damage, we understand, has been done to the crops on the flats, over which the water flowed, and the bridges over the creeks in many places were taken off.

*DISTRESSING SHIPWRECK.  The British vessel Angelica was lately foundered while on her passage from the Cape of Good Hope to the Isle of France, and all on board perished.  Among those unfortunate persons were John James Armstrong, Esq. late American consul at Teneriffe, and his family, consisting of Mrs. Armstrong, seven children, two nephews, and a servant.  Mrs. A. was formerly Miss Dumest, a native of the city of Baltimore.

From October through December 2014, Ken and Claire (these names were assigned for this column as their real names are unknown) had a romantic relationship.  After ending their relationship, Claire discovered that she was pregnant, but did not inform Ken.  Claire then decided that she was going to place the child up for adoption and contacted a private adoption service.  In August 2015, Claire gave birth to a baby girl and the adoption service placed the girl into the care of the proposed adoptive parents.

In July 2015, just prior to the child being born, the adoption service had begun its attempts to locate Ken to notify him of their involvement as well as Mother’s desire to put the child up for adoption, and to seek Ken’s consent to the proposed adoption.  Claire could provide no real information regarding Ken’s whereabouts or contact information aside from his name and a few potential addresses.  The adoption agency was able to identify a Facebook profile belonging to Ken and sent him a message through social media as well as several “friend” requests.  Ken did not respond to these social media communications.  The adoption service then attempted to call the employer that Ken had listed in his Facebook page, but that was not successful.  The adoption service sent several letters different addresses that they had for Ken and one of these letters eventually made its way to Ken.  Ken met with the adoption agency in September 2015.  After that meeting, Ken spent some time considering his options and, on October 14, 2015, Ken decided that he did not want the child to be adopted and that he wanted to exercise his parental rights.

At this point, complicated custody litigation ensued with the ultimate question becoming whether the prospective adoptive parents, who had cared for the child for the first two months of her life, had standing to seek custody of her.  During the course of the litigation, the child remained with the adoptive parents.  In April 2015, the trial court awarded primary physical custody of the child to the adoptive parents, and provided Ken with periods of partial custody over certain weekends.  In this regard, the trial court determined that Father had given his implied consent to the adoptive parents having custody of his child when he did not demand return of his daughter in September 2015; rather, Ken waited for approximately one month before making his decision that he did not want to give up his parental rights to his child.  As such, the trial court determined that the adoptive parents had standing under the doctrine of in loco parentis, i.e., where they had been acting as the parents for the child for an extended period of time with the permission of the natural parents.      Ken appealed and argued that the adoptive parents did not have standing to challenge his right to custody of his daughter. 

On March 6, 2017, the Pennsylvania Superior Court decided that the trial court erred in concluding that the adoptive parents had standing in the custody action.  The Superior Court found that the doctrine of in loco parentis had never been applied to a situation where consent was not expressly provided by the natural parents for a third party to take custody of a child. 

In making its determination, the Superior Court stated: “[W]e stress once again that Father has a fundamental constitutional right to care for Child, and that he is presumed to be a fit parent.  If a parent is unfit, this Commonwealth has a well-established system for adjudicating children dependent, terminating parental rights, and placing children in pre-adoptive homes.  However, these remedies are available only is a parent is provided essential due process protections, including notice, a hearing, and proof by clear and convincing evidence.  Here, we note with disapproval, Father has been deprived of Child without any evidence in the record that he is an unfit parent, and without the benefit of due process protections.”

As result of the decision, the adoptive parents were barred from asserting any custody claim to the child even though they had cared for her from August 2015 through March 2017.  The reason for the decision that the adoptive parents lacked standing was simple: Ken never expressly consented to the initial placement of his child with the adoptive parents and such consent cannot be implied.

Can a medication cause skin cancer?

Jan came into the pharmacy sporting a severe sunburn on her hands and arms. “I usually never burn but I was outside gardening and this is what happened. It hurts a lot.” Jan had recently been prescribed a high dose of ibuprofen for the arthritis in her knees. The result was a skin reaction caused by the sun.

Certain medications can make one more sensitive to the sun. The term for this is photosensitivity. Exposure to the sun results in rapid and severe sunburn, rashes, hives, and an increased risk of skin cancer. When a person experiences a photosensitivity reaction he or she actually undergoes one of two separate reactions, known as either a phototoxic reaction or a photoallergic reaction. In a photoallergic reaction, ultraviolet (UV) light structurally changes the drug molecule and triggers the production of antibodies which result in an eczema-like rash. By contrast, phototoxicity is the most common sun-sensitivity drug reaction. When skin is exposed to sun after a medication is taken, the medication absorbs UV light, releasing it into the skin causing cell death.

A phototoxic reaction, such as the one Jan acquired, occurs because of the damaging effects of light-activated compounds, such as certain drugs, on cell membranes and, in some instances, DNA. Anything that damages DNA can increase the risk of cancer. Phototoxic reactions develop in most individuals if they are exposed to sufficient amounts of light and drug. Typically, they appear as an exaggerated sunburn response. The most common phototoxic drugs are drugs for arthritis and pain, certain antibiotics, oral diabetes drugs, sulfa drugs, diuretics, and various drugs for heart disease and blood pressure control. Medications that are taken orally, topically – i.e. a cream applied to the skin – or injected can all cause phototoxic reactions. Ask your pharmacist if any of the medications you are on can cause phototoxicity. Although the medication that causes a phototoxic reaction might be stopped quickly, such a reaction can occasionally last 20 years after the substance has been removed.

Photoallergic reactions develop in only a minority of individuals exposed to a compound and light and are far less prevalent than phototoxic skin reactions. The amount of drug required to elicit a photoallergic reaction is considerably smaller than that required for a phototoxic reaction. Moreover, photoallergic reactions are a form of cell-mediated immunity; their onset is often delayed by as long as 24 to 72 hours after exposure to the drug and light. By contrast, phototoxic responses often occur within minutes or hours of light exposure. The outbreak is not limited to sun-exposed areas like a phototoxic reaction is. Rather, a photoallergic reaction can spread to all parts of the body. Men are more likely to have photoallergic reactions than women.

Patients need to be counseled regarding the possible photosensitizing properties of both prescription and nonprescription medications. Most often, sun protection measures prevent drug-induced photosensitivity reactions. So, always use sunscreen when you go outside. You should also avoid direct sunlight, wear sunglasses, and put on solar protective clothing. Finally, pay attention to the auxiliary stickers on the prescription bottle. Jan did not read the sticker on the medication that caused her painful sunburn, teaching her a valuable lesson.

Ron Gasbarro, PharmD, is a registered pharmacist, medical writer, and principal at Rx-Press.com. Read more at www.rx-press.com