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THE POST, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1952
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HATCHING EQUIPMENT
Must Be Sold
Regardless Of Price
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W-B 3-7125
Ask for Mr. Nat Zeller
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Family Picnic
At Lungerville
omplete
nic last Sunday.
Guests included Mr.
and [Dorothy Meyer,
Hoover, Stillwater; Mr.
mount Springs.
Call
f | start at 8.
Gordner,
H. Kile, will speak.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Oberst, Lun-
gerville, were hosts at a family pic-
and Mrs.
William R. Sarley, and son Billy,
Midland Drive; Mrs. Marvin Meyer,
Lois, (Carl, Richard Howard, Harry
and Richard
and Mrs.
Willard Hutchins, Montgomery; Mr.
and Mrs, Charles Hutchins,
Ira and Charles, Lungerville; Mrs.
Myrtle Wesley, Mr. and Mrs. Die-
bold, John Lutz, James Knarr, Mel-
vin Knarr, Mr, and Mrs. Lawrence
Sipple and son James Larksville;
Mr. and Mrs, Darold Meyers and
children, Gordon and Anne, Fair-
Bloomingdale Grange
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Bloomingdale Grange will hold its
annual Flower and Hobby Show in.
the Grange Hall Tuesday. Entries
in flower and hobby classes will
be received until 2 PM. Entertain-
ment, followed by refreshments, will
State Deputy Thomas
and Pomona Master J.
Mrs, Christine Zuber is chairman.
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State Folklorist Henry W. Shoe-
maker today quoted authorities to
show that the extinct Passenger
Pigeon was mot only prevalent in
Pennsylvania at one time but nested
here in the nineteenth century.
Shoemaker quoted the late
Charles W. Dickinson, McKean
County Civil War Veteran and pig-
eoneer, to show how prevalent the
vanished Passenger Pigeon was in
this state.
He quoted Dickinson as stating:
“The only American nestings of
wild pigeons Were in Pennslyvania
in 1878 and 1880 in which one bil-
lion. birds participated. In 1870, I
say, the largest American nesting
of wild pigeons ever known any-
where was in McKean County,
Pennsylvania, though some believ-
ers say ‘the 1846 nesting, even
greater, :
“On March 28, 1870, I saw the
first pigeons carrying twigs and
sticks to build their nests. It was
seven miles long and two and a
half miles wide and embraced 30,-
000 acres, each bird keeping its
place as a soldier would; my father,
born in 1811, said the nesting of
1846, was quite as large or larger
than that of 1870. As a child of
four, I recollect looking out of the
window to. see the wild pigeons
completely covering a ten acre field,
to gather up the remaining buck-
wheat seeds from last year’s har-
vest,
“In 1878, the pigeons covered
20,000 acres in their nesting, show-
ing their decrease.
“They began on Spring Creek,
Forest (County, April 15, extended
northeasterly ten miles to north-
western Elk (County into McKean
County. It was a double nesting
as in 1870 and 1880: That is, five
days after the squabs left the nests,
the hens began laying again.
“The pigeons sometimes nested
in Oklahoma, Michigan and New
York, but those which nested in
Pennsylvania, 1846, and my father
noted the consecutive year, 1853,
54 '55 56 not in 1857 but did in
1858 mot in ’59, did in 1860, and
then not until 1867, then not until
1870, the nestings covered wide
areas, father noted the males and
females changed on the nests at
9:30 a.m.
‘The pigeons metted alive, were
mostly sent east from the Okla-
homa mnestings, the metters were
finding that the charges on live
birds gave the best profits.
“The first were shipped from
Alton McKean County on the Brad-
ford Branch of the Erie R. R.,
nine miles west of Smethport, also
from Lewis Run. Fifteen to 22
horse wagons were on the roads
daily shipping the barrels to New
York and Boston. Later when the
Sunbury and Erie Railroad was
completed in 1865, shipments to
Passenger Pigeons Once
Nested In Pennsylvania
Philadelphia and Baltimore began,
but never paid as well as to Boston
and New York. Charges were so
high from Michigan and Oklahoma
that most of the binds went for live
bird shooting clubs, 10,000 being
used at one shoot at Buffalo, New
York, in 1881. The 1880 nesting
began March 28 in much the same
territory at 1870, 1 assert, 1,-
000,000 at 1870, nesting as I fig-
ured them at the rate of one bird
to every four square feet. Figure
this out over 30,000 acres with me.
and you will find I am right.
“The Passenger Pigeon, was a
long-lifed bird, but they could not
be domesticated as they would not
remain if given their liberty.
“The wild pigeons never ‘co-oed’
like a mourning dove or tame pig-
eon, the sound of millions of the
wild birds was deafening, The Man
who shouted the loudest could not
be heard in a nesting. When they
are alarmed, they gave a sharp
flop or snap with their wings.
Dr. H. H, Beck in his admirable
brochure on the wild pigeons, says
that the last pigeon. in Lancaster
County was shot by William Ream
in 1891 but he himself saw a good
sized flight in 1888.
“C. H. Eldon mounted one killed
in Lycoming County, 1890 I my-
self netted 48'2 dozen pigeons in
one day, 18 dozen and 11 in one
cast of the met, which was a 2%
inch net
‘In the fall of 1856, aged 14
years, I killed 22 pigeons at one
shot, again in 1863, I shot 22 off a
scraggly yellow birch, The wild
pigeons were true to color and
the males varied between 16 to 18
the long pointed tail. I only saw
inches from tip of bill to end of
one white pigeon, but a few had
white heads, backs or wing feath-
ers.”
“Though the wild pigeons are
apparently ‘ gone, posterity owes a
debt of gratitude to veterans like
‘Uncle Charlie’ Dickinson who have
preserved accurate memories of the
‘vanished millions,” to adorn the
annals of Pennsylvania history and
folklore.” Shoemaker said.
&
Removing finger smudges from
the doors in the house, Mother
asked, “Ann, are your hands dirty?
Did you put them on the doors?”
“Oh, no,” replied Ann. “Those
can’t be my finger marks—I always
kick the doors open.”
A doctor was called in to see a
very busy patient. “Well, sir, what
is the matter 2?” he asked cheerfully.
“That’s for you to find out,” the
patient snapped, glaring.
“I see,” said the doctor. “Well, if
you'll excuse me for a minute I'll
phone a friend of mine—a veteri-
narian, He’s the only man I know
who can make a diagnosis without
asking questions.”
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Meeker, Mrs.
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Covered Dish Picnic
Council 224 will hold a covered dish
picnic at the home of Mrs. Alice
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at noon.
D. of A. Outlines Plans
Mount Vale Council 224 Daugh-
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their twentieth anniversary dinner
Church Thursday evening, August
28 at 6:30 p.m. Reservations should
be made with Mrs. Cecil Poynton
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chairman assisted by Sarah Straus-
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