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Silver Lake – Jerry Mahanna, of Mud Lake, is the first young man from this county to be reported wounded in the fighting on the French front. He writes that he received a bullet in the right shoulder, but expects to soon be up and at 'em again.
Lanesboro – D. O. Buckley has asked the aid of the police in finding his son, John Buckley, who left home several weeks ago. The boy is described as being 11 years of age, fair complexion, light hair and blue eyes. He wore a dark green suit and blue cap.
Friendsville – Mr. and Mrs. Woolsey Carmalt and son, Woolsey Carmalt, Jr., of New York city, are occupying their summer home near Lake Carmalt.
Susquehanna – A farewell reception was tendered to Father McHugh, as he leaves this week for Camp Meade. He has joined the army as a chaplain and been given a commission as lieutenant. ALSO Camps for the workmen are being constructed at Lanesboro for use during the period needed to complete the D. & H. railroad track building.
Nicholson – The spire on the Presbyterian church, at this place, has been removed. Church steeples are out of style with modern architecture.
Harford – It is said that if Henry S. Jones drove one of those flying machines like he used to drive a car, "something would have to get out of the way, or they would get a wheel took off." [Referring to Henry S. Jones, son of E. E. Jones, of Harford, who is home from France where he is a member of the Lafayette Escadrille.] ALSO Miss Elsie Tingley is stationed at Fox Hills Base Hospital, Staten Island, as a Red Cross nurse. This is one of the largest military hospitals in the U. S. They are ready to receive wounded or sick soldiers returning from France.
Montrose – The work of laying the concrete pavement is going along rapidly with a good force of workmen. The South Main street paving is completed to the Church street corner, near Cooley & Son's store, and work is now going on near the Baptist church, on West Church street, and will be continued the length of that street, and on out Grow avenue to the borough limits, where it connects with a fine macadam state road. The curbing and gutters along the pavement are to be laid following the completion of the paving.
Rush – Alvin N. Smith and Franklin Peterson, of Utah, Mormon elders, passed through Rush last week, distributing literature on the Mormon faith.
Scranton – Seated in the cab of his engine, with his hand on the throttle, John S. Loomis, aged 58, of Scranton, one of the oldest locomotive engineers in the service of the D. L. & W., was found dead last evening by his fireman. For the past few years Mr. Loomis had been running one of the yard engines and when he left his home last evening he seemed to be in the best of spirits and health. Just before the end came he drove his engine in front of the passenger station and stopped. When given a signal to move and he did not respond investigation led to the finding of the body. Mr. Loomis was born at Lenox and came to this city nearly 40 years ago and for the past 36 years worked for the D. L. & W., where he was known as one of the most efficient men in the company's employ. He was married to Susan Snover, daughter of Anthony Snover, the pioneer hotel keeper of Lenox.
Tirzah, Herrick Twp. – N. E. Lee, E. A. and A. T. Price left with their teams for Scranton this morning where they will load a sawmill and engine and bring it to South Gibson, where it will be set up on the W. Owens tract of lumber, recently purchased by H. C. Taylor
Lynn, Springville Twp. – Miss Georgia Loomis has received her auto license and is running her touring car around the square with the best of them.
West Lenox – The ladies and gentlemen of this neighborhood gave Walter Adams and bride an entertainment last Monday evening. The music started with the "bang" of a small cannon then later it was joined by the harmonious sound of bells, horns, guns, pans, etc. We wish to extend congratulations to the young couple. [Believe this was called a shivaree or horning.]
Alford to Kingsley – The old roadbed of the Lackawanna railroad from Alford to Kingsley is a part of the Lackawanna Tail, which the State Highway Department accepted as a pubic highway. This section, with a very little cost, could be used now, and would be much better than most of the roads in this section. The surface of the road is fine gravel and is well drained. We understand that an effort is to be made to get the road open for travel from Hop Bottom to New Milford this fall.
Thompson – Mrs. Rachel Cory has just completed a quilt, called a T quilt, which contains 3072 pieces. Some work about it. We are not able to give the number of stitches.
Forest City – The bazaar to be conducted by the congregation of St. Joseph's church the last three days of this month, promises to be an affair of more than usual interest. Some fine specimens of needle work are on exhibition in the store windows and many other articles, both useful and ornamental, will be disposed of. The society has refrained in the past from asking aid, but at present their church is undergoing repairs at a great expense, hence the call for assistance.
News Brief: Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt, youngest son of the former President, has been killed in an air fight, the semi-official Haval News Agency announces. His machine fell into the enemy lines.
200 Years Ago from the Montrose Gazette, July 18, 2018.
*Died. In this village [Montrose] very suddenly yesterday morning, Mr. James Thayer, aged 24 years.
*Wool Carding. The subscribers informs the public that they have purchased a Carding and Picking Machine of a superior quality to any in this country which they will have in operation by the first of July next at Ross' Mills on the Wyalusing Creek, six miles S. W. from Montrose. As one of the subscribers is perfectly well acquainted with the business, they flatter themselves that they shall, by diligent attention to business, be able to give satisfaction to such as may see fit to employ them. ISAAC H. ROSS, JONA. C. SHERMAN.
*An Active Schoolmaster. According to a German Magazine, there died lately in Swabia a schoolmaster, who for fifty years had superintended a large institution with old fashioned severity. Upon an average, inferred by recorded observations, one of the ushers has calculated that in the course of his exertions he has given 11,500 canings, 12,400 floggings, 209,000 private whippings, 136,000 tips with the ruler, and 22,700 tasks to get by heart. It was further concluded that he had made 700 boys stand on peas, 600 kneel on a sharp edge of wood, 500 wear the fools cap, and 1,700 hold the rod. How vast the quantity of human misery inflicted by a single perverse educator.
South Dakota has a sales tax imposed for good sold and upon service provided by in-state businesses. South Dakota was concerned over the loss of sales tax revenue as a result of out-of-state providers selling goods and services in South Dakota through the use of catalogs and/or the internet. As a result of prior Supreme Court precedent, South Dakota could not collect a sales tax from a business which had no physical presence within the state.
The South Dakota legislature enacted legislation that targeted large out-of-state retailers with the purpose of attempting to collect the sales tax – and challenging the prior case law related to the ability of states to collect sales taxes from out-of-state retailers. In that legislation, an out-of-state retailer was deemed to have a physical presence if it delivered more than $100,000 worth of goods or services to South Dakota or had more than 200 or more separate transactions for the delivery of goods of services to South Dakota in a calendar year. Numerous online retailers challenged the legislation as it would have required them to collect and remit sales taxes for goods delivered to South Dakota even though the retailers had no physical presence in South Dakota. Based upon established Supreme Court precedent, the South Dakota Supreme Court declared that the legislation was unconstitutional. The United States Supreme Court agreed to hear the case.
The United States Supreme Court reversed its prior precedent that required a retailer to have a physical location in a state in order for the state to compel the retailer to collect and remit a sales tax for goods and services sold in that state. The Supreme Court recognized that states cannot discriminate against interstate commerce, i.e., such as enacting a tariff for products that come from other states. South Dakota was not discriminating against interstate commerce; rather, South Dakota was seeking to treat interstate commerce the same as transactions that occurred in South Dakota.
The majority also noted that the physical presence rule provided out-of-state retailers an advantage over the in-state retailers who had to charge a higher price to cover the sales tax. This resulted in an adverse economic impact upon South Dakota retailers represented by a loss of sales of in-state goods and services. Moreover, South Dakota estimated that it was losing between $48 and $58 million in sales tax revenue based upon the inability to impose a sales tax upon the out-of-state retailers that were selling goods and services in South Dakota.
The Supreme Court opined that the rapid advance of e-commerce had demonstrated that the prior case law was no longer workable as the existence of a physical presence for retailers was rapidly disappearing and being replaced by online marketing. The Supreme Court noted that 40 other states had filed briefs supporting South Dakota's position that the "physical presence" rule should be abandoned and that the states should have the power to impose a sales tax whenever any residence purchases goods or services within the state – even if those goods and services are ultimately delivered by an out-of-state provider.
After abandoning its prior precedent, the majority concluded that South Dakota's legislation was appropriately tailored to identify major online retailers that were selling large quantities of goods or services within South Dakota. As such, the legislation was targeting those business entities with a "virtual presence" in South Dakota even if no physical presence existed. For these reasons, the legislation was appropriately tailored to pass constitutional scrutiny.
"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder." ~Ralph W. Sockman
The movie "Goodbye Christopher Robin" is presently being shown in theaters around the country, and focuses on the happiness that A.A. Milne's "Winnie the Pooh" books have brought to generations from a ravaged England after World War I to and including present day and, will continue, hopefully, for years to come. However, there may be some little known facts of which you are not aware. The true story of the real Christopher Robin wasn't a whimsical, magical one highlighting the joys of childhood. It was, in fact, a dark, strange story, full of moments that will never show up in any Disney Movie.
Did you know that the real Christopher Robin (son of A.A. Milne and Daphne de Selincourt) actually hated Pooh and that the stuffed animal inspired series was a source of great unhappiness for both the author and his son? The inspiration for the beloved books was Christopher's teddy bear, named Edward—the name "Winnie" came from a bear they saw at the London Zoo. Mrs. Milne was the one who gave her author/husband the ideas for the series by watching young Christopher play with his bear, making up fantasies with his toys.
A.A. Milne might have seemed like the perfect father, but when he was in the midst of his writing, he didn't have the time or gift for children, not even for his son. Christopher was almost exclusively raised by a live-in nanny, named Olive Rand. At the age of seven, his parents made him the face of a publicity campaign. Christopher's father was astonished, and, perhaps a bit jealous that fans wanted to shake hands with his son and attended in droves just to catch the slightest glimpse of the little boy of whom they had read about, not his writer/father. The fame was not all "tea and crumpets" for the youngster, for as he got older, the notoriety got him bullied and beaten up, eventually driving him to hate his father (and Pooh) for exploiting his childhood. When he finally left his parents' home, Christopher Robin Milne never again held the stuffed bear that inspired the books—he left it with his father, who, in turn, gave it to his publisher, E.P. Dutton. Some forty years later, Dutton offered to give Christopher his well-worn bear back—but he refused. He suggested Dutton donate the bear to the New York Public Library. As an added piece of trivia, the original map of Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood, by the Artist E.H. Shepard, just set a world record for a book illustration sold at auction. The map, which was privately owned and unseen for nearly 50 years, has been sold at the famed London auction house—Sotheby's, for more than $430,000. It is captioned "Drawn by Me and Mr. Shepard helpd" ("Me" being Christopher Robin) and is littered with spelling errors like "Nice for picnicks" and "100 aker wood".
Sadly, as an adult in the 1950's, Christopher Robin Milne fell from a life of fame and landed a job selling lampshades to support his wife and physically challenged daughter and was shunned by his mother.
One of his last quotes is: "Fame has nothing to do with love".
As I find a quiet moment to read another chapter or two, I leave you with this thought:
"Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world." ~Ada Louise Huxtable
Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds—Homegrown Tomatoes—Parades
ENJOY!!
When Joey came into the pharmacy, the pharmacist thought this patient found yet another doctor who was willing to write him a prescription for a benzo, like Xanax®, or an opioid. Joey is likely a pill popper – but he plays by the rules. No requests for early refills. No lame excuses that his medicine accidentally got flushed down the toilet. The prescriptions do not appear forged or altered in any way. His reasons for getting these drugs were vague: nervousness, pain, insomnia. So when Joey saddled up to the pharmacist and motioned for him to come closer, he was curious as to what Joey wanted.
"Hey, Doc," Joey said. "I heard that hemp oil was legal and you do not need a prescription for it. Does it really work? Heh, heh." "Depends on what you want it to do," replied the pharmacist. Now, the pharmacist knew that Joey heard the word "hemp" and assumed it was liquid marijuana. So, the pharmacist wanted to set Joey straight on this topic so that Joey would not be disappointed.
First, there is hemp oil and hemp CBD oil. They are two different products and neither of them is "medical marijuana". Hemp oil is made from industrial grade hempseed and is manufactured from varieties of Cannabis sativa that do not contain significant amounts of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive element present in the cannabis or marijuana plant. It is used as a food supplement and can replace other edible oils that are higher in saturated fats. Hemp oil also has omega-3 and omega-6, which, theoretically, can lower cholesterol levels. Cannabidiol (CBD) is also a natural component of industrial cannabis or hemp. It is extracted from the flowers, leaves, and stalks of hemp and not from its seeds like hemp oil. While hemp oil is a food, hemp CBD oil has medicinal properties. While it might not get Joey high, CBD-rich products have the potential to treat a wide range of conditions— pain, cancer, Crohn's disease, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, PTSD, heart disease, anxiety, seizures, multiple sclerosis, schizophrenia, and autism. Unlike medical marijuana, no prescription is needed to buy hemp CBD oil.
The tricky part of about manufacturing CBD oil is that you need a certain amount of THC to make it work medically. This is a balancing act: too much THC can make the patient psychotic, paranoid, and anxious. Also, if the ratio between THC and CBD is high, then the beneficial effects of the CBD are lessened. With a 1:2 CBD:THC ratio, you will still feel the high from the THC but due to the presence of CBD, this will result in a much more relaxed feeling with minimal side effects from the THC. A higher CBD content, such as 2:1, completely gets rid of the commonly associated effects of THC – the good (euphoria) and the bad (paranoia). This ratio is ideal for sensitive patients, or those who prefer not to get high. Of all the cannabinoid ratios, patients seem to find that a 1:1 CBD:THC ratio provides the most effective medicinal properties for a vast range of medical conditions. Using a cannabis strain or product with this ratio delivers a relaxing effect with a minimal high. Patients describe feelings of mild euphoria, calmness, and tranquility, with very few side effects.
If you buy hemp CBD oil, get it from a reliable source, and not from a company that promises it will cure everything that ails you. Check the CBD:THC ratio to find the concentration that suits you. The pharmacist could not help but notice that Joey was disappointed with this information. After all, he was expecting something entirely different. Heh, heh.
Ron Gasbarro, PharmD, is a registered pharmacist, medical writer, and principal at Rx-Press.com. Read more at www.rx-press.com