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It there being. a male quartet, a.good brass -' -L -was created 4 ,40 m Great Bend township, and reed band and two -orehestrai : the villni s v.• 'Cif . , that - name lying' across among, its musical organizations .3 , - - the StiSquehanna- river, and almost im- the people Of the town:and visite nediately opposite: - : frequently regaled with mus; - ' The.town is situated on the apex 'of order. . ',.... the well .known fifty-mile curve of the A.......: good base Is- - river aid is'pestled amid the foot hilts. ganizati ,- e .of the Blue Ridge Mountains.. The .; ,.. -- - is .ole-. 131 river here is deep, wide and clear, a" -it affords fine fishing and .13c..- the numerous. visitors who go there iv, ..railroad -rest and recreation in the summer. .cge numbe' .Black - bass, pickerel and other species m have thr of fish are plentiful in season' and th e ‘ ' sport is so god that it has : given much ,e . 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' . • - t. ,<..ire,,.,';` ,42 .t.... s'7 . . :/-..T -:. ~ .1,-- : , ~, . ...,: „ „2 . -•\„. .• --,,•--- •• • , ..t , .." ~. . .• . . 4 , ,•,.._. ...-. :.... •••-,••,•-•,-,,,,,, AN : , , x 1 ,.,,,,.. N N..., 4 , ,, ..- , _ ~. ~,,,,.._, . - .• • '7. -=•t.-.4.i - - • - - - ' - • -•- . . . ~ • . . . , 1 - • -- 7 Largest and Leading Indus- Ira A. Thomas's Model Print- - -. try m Hallstead , 1., I, •in Plant and Paper • 23rE. HE American Chair Manufacturing ~-' CoMpany is one of , the important ni I HE "COU'nty Herald" is the name indtistriet• of Susquehanna countyi lo- W of; the local newpaper, and it is _cared at' Hallstead, It was ineorporat- One of the best and-most enterprising ed and begun' business in 1892. The . Weekliei-in the county.. It was estab- plant_ was moved to. Hallstead in, June, j lished iri 1893. 'ln zipor it waspurchai- rgoo. The company employ onll an ed by Mr. Ira A. Thomas, who, being , average about roo men, sometimes ! a, p ctical newspaper man, at once more u .sornetimes less, depending , uPon , est l isped new departments and other- the condition of business. The out= rejuvinated•tue plant. Besides a output is .from too to 2 l oo chairs I per fine job printing outfit, he • put in ap- day, depending upon style, qualityjetc. 1 paratus for t'.•.,e manufacture of post • They make a medium d high grade cards, and has done a good business line of , wood and uphols tered seat 'tick ever since, parti , cularly in cards of the ers,.morris and mission . I chairs,‘ selling beautiful snowy.' . nr; around Hall! . from as low as SE: -7- o for a little `Child's `stead arid-areir • t_i. erald" rocker up' to 520 for large handheavrd building is perhaps - -?, ' f ...neatest pieces in solid mohogany.' Their la r gest kept businessest; ••" '''.., :"': ;; - ' town. selling'market is in New York cis . and The interior '' - I ,t4Olierl'and in addition they are well represented, by PLANT OP THE BLACK HORN LEATHER COMPANY, GREAT REND. _ ,_ . ___ system and R TI ' ...;/ . "" elleteted their own salesmen and have. atarge ~ - . . _ .. .. ,-? upon lines en :- al , sit-the . trade established in Newl Englandi . the a silk , rooutio poSsesses num tkich,the Atlantic and Paci fi c states. '-, I' was first settled, -(11137Y, and the region ,sold throUghout the Eks lianc f rom itrindt, Pa. The present tern states. moved the machinery and other , ap . average i counts .--,. - Vaal. :is Slipshotteinsigh ... „., ...,r The officers of the comPany a :• Pres abounds with historical interest. Th-. 1 town supports (.41r,:_\bank.- ~,-, "' • • ~ bas . kryhis . ideal, Wil iarn. j i , d;'vice-pr sident.: operated: Unf n •ng4 at -- • - - erous a vantages ---t-sr e t I. • town re . ts a neat mill, a emote tif hotels, et ....._,-,--- 4-- i • over t t of the surrou _ _ .net 0 HQ., . „1,.... t. „ . , . ~...1 447c . .. m. latua.. 1 )... IncririFol'e,"7" l ,< T contnbard sur i .tiiiii!,!.:p u t,..' . as. - 4tr,..,1117i tlift 4 .. ." . rrZi1." 1 ;F 1.-P:. ' — ,(l . liighness" patent, the plea was later men r ilar 4 in Wyoming (opposite Wilkes: and adjoining counties was - avast ct• 1- . made" by Pennsylvania that Cormi:ctieut .) Twenty of them were mas- derness. Then and for a long time t i had relinquished all claims to land sacred by Delaware Indians the following terwards elk, panthers; beats. Vats, west of the Dela Ware. "Dutch courage': year, which disdouraged further efforts - wild cats and- Indians held full' sway. having arisen in the meantime the Van for nearly seven 'years. In 1769 two. Late in that year a few settlements by Vans got possession of the land once delegates wept to Philadelphia and - en- -white persons were made at Brooklyn: More; it:was again wrested from them deavored to bring about a peaceful set- Harmony, Great Bend and Oakland and by the British, and a new charter waS tlement "out of court" with the propri- ; the count} has since groan . slowly but issued to the Duke of York. , This, etaries,but their mission carnet° naught, •solidi} as compared N‘ith some other brought' on a fresh contention between Pennsylvania absolutelv refusing t:o tee- . ; counties in-the state, until todaV the `royalty and the Connecticut burghers. ognize the Connecticut claim. To the population (est imated)- is 40.2e6. In The tine between that of the Connecti- contrary. an act was passed in 1774 - area the county is Si;-square Miles of * cut colon`and the possessions invested creating Vestmoreland "town," attach; land surface. . • , : in His • Ro)-al H ighpess was finally ad- ing it to Litchfield county., This "town' ' • The topography of the county is gen- . - , ..justed. . . . was seventy miles.square and the town- , e . rally mountainous or hilly, diversified - Complicated " Rights. - . ships six Miles square: : by inland lakes and mountain streams. The 4 successive . gratis of different Hostilities then 'ceased on the re..com . " The landscape sic is one of mount:4,in „ mendation of a General Congres-of rep-. king, complicated matters to such an repose and quiet pastosal appearance extent that the proverbial Philadelphia resentatives:from all the colonies; as- The highest land is in the eastern Part sernbled at Philadelphia to consult up laWyer would have been (and mayhap on of the county, on the Moosic diVide. measures-of mutual defence against the • r was) puzz_ed to know who was who It formsa belt, five or six miles'v. .•4:1• i E., and "what was what. British. forces. - - and is the northern prolongation' of the In 1753 the foundation of the Sus- - TN 1 -r% •-1 xcevotuttortary Period .: - Carbondale coal basin. quehanna Company was effected. The . • I object of that "trust" may be inferred Not a civilized inhabitant was within : - . Water-ways Plentiful., . • from the fact that .two years later the the boundaries 'of the territory now con- Water-ways in the county are t nw - a ~.. General Aisembly of Connecticut - man i. stituting Susquehanna county When the erous. The Susquehanna rive,in its '•i ce •___ : . tested:their ready acquiescence" in the Revolutionary war was begun, but that- tortuous course, receives the wa t ers of 474 money, varying from $2OO down to I purchase (?) • made from the Indians by part of Westmoreland- in the vicinity all the creeks that drain the couity, in Es, towards building the first court house the Stisquehanna. Company, (lands we of WilkeS-Barre furnished nearly 300 whatever direction,they flow. Tie Sus- Were: Robert H. Rase, Stephen Wilson, now inhabit), and gave their consent _m ento the Continental service. quehanna enters the county from New Abirioam Hinds, Conrad Hinds. Isaac for ari application to His Majesty to When Cornwallis surrendered, the YOrk at its northeastern corner, hut:at- F,eckins,David Harris, Jonathan Wheat "erect them into-a new COlony." The ever recurring dispute between Connecti-• ter goingsouth- five miles it turns abruPt- on, James Trane, Simeon Taylor, Cyrus surveyors sent out were bushwhacked cut and Pennsylvania bobbed up again ly west, and after continuing abut ten Messenger, Samuel Quick, Joseph' Hub by the redskins, who at that time were and congress appointed a commission miles makes its great bend (from which bard, Samuel Cogswell, Joseph Chap endeavoring to cope with the French. to sit at Trenton and once • and forever Great Bend is named).. and passe north- Man, Edward Fuller; Joseph Batter - This caused our Yankee predecessors to settle the vexed question. That com-',,,tard back into New York. T,herkit 'field, Hen Post, 'Levi Leonard, John halt, and after see-sawing with William mission decided that Connecticut had no 'again veers west, and flows to the mouth Bard. Zebulon Deans, Edmond Stone, • Penn, :to whom a charter had been g ran t. right tr - least Freeman Fishback, Thomas Scott, Sam-.. „. ed to :Pennsylvania, the,Connecticuters -- - - tiel Scott ' were finally and effectually relegated to - • ;;The first court house was a' diminu • the rear by an act of the 'Pennsylvania - titre affair 'compared with the one now in existence . Its corner stone was laid legislature (2779) vesting in the corn- • monweath the, "right of soil and estate in 28/ 2, but the building was not finish of the late Proprietaries of Pennsyl- vania.!f Shazp Redskins. '` • The -Indians had already received- R2OOO sterling from the Susquehanna' ComPany'fbr the lands, which they after wards sold to Pennsylvania, and as they never returnedhthe £2OOO it' is one n - stanee and the only one 'ever heard of in which an 'lndian "gOt the best'!'of a Connecticut Yankee in a trade. The y'ennamite war .1.769 to . I 771 ) ended with the Susquehanna COmpany in full possession Or theseetion now - emall the ;territory in dispute "do of right" into Bradford. Wyoming and Lit bracied in Susquelta — nna county. •At that belong to the state of Pennsylvania. co-antic."... ' • - time the town and county of INTestmore- Thus. with the ctostc' of T 782, _by the „ nc „ • i I more mportant creeks are Tunk ce - land had asedtOexist. It was known Trenton decree, the jurisdiction of COn . hannock, Starrucca, Cana Wa eta, Drat 1:- as the Wyoming NT-alley and - included necticut ceased. That decree, however, 6r , s, Mitchell's, Martins Sal Litk, what , is now known as. Luzerne, I n.cica. did not "go down", with our Yankee Wiley's, Snake,4 Choconut, Apolaoo n, wanna, Wyoining, Susquehanna, Wayne brethren, nor .did ,an act of the Penn- Meshbppe' n. Tuscarora — gnd Wyalusing. and a part of Bradford counties. sylvania legislature in 1783, bouncing The Lackawanna river flows south alen g ' The Pennamite war comprised the the Connecticut settlers: - the eastern line of the county There struggles of Conneeticut.settlers to re- • en Lusenie Was Createct are many beattliful lakes in different rain possession of the • Wyoming lands A parts of the county. :Crys i t al lake,'Heart - second Pennamite !'war" ensued which they had purchased from the - Sus- extending over a year, and it two quehanna . Company, hut • which were__..._ , was_lake_ _a_re _Alie - ibpst important in size. Years later - tie ore_ `ng' — ineasures claimed also- by the proprietaries of , Among the - mineral wateis in the county Pennsylvania, who were determinedup- were adopted by tile state of Penns I '' a sulphur spring in Rush is perhapg the on securing either the recognition of vania creating: the i d coun ,r t i y of 'Luzerne best known. Salt springs near Great from Northurnber an itetmewcoun their claims or the ejection of the set- Bend, also on'Silver Creek near Fr 7T. tiers. - - ty extended from' the- mouth of the Nes- ~. „ :. lin Fork, exist. Ttte •VlTmluti" Massacre copec to the north line of the state (12 o ' ' - •.. • - °---- - ---- 7 • miles north;and south) and insoine pares •In the valleys and along ' the courses j Over zoo persons had come from Con- of 7o miles in width. , • ~ of rivers and creeks the lands are alluvial, necticut, in 176.2, and began a settle- Prior to r 787 i'he area c3varedhy: thisani various kinds of grain crops are . ; '' • The population ail' whole is cultured ed peaks of great beauty. The town ed the lightest, softest and Most stylish and refined. ' The high school building - derives its name from the bend of the leather sarment ever made for the bodi 1Y comfort of sportsmen, autmbilists, - , is one of the finest in - the state; •there river. , • • .-.. golters,..;skaters and for winter driving. are fine churches of several denomina- . _ •Itls as Warm as a fur coat, and as light tions . • . • . . s a' feather—weighs a little over six , ._ , _. It is quite a musical communitY:" .. ' BLACK HORN - LEATHER :unees.„,. • , . , . , .1 Besides manufacturing jackets, vests, there being a male quartet, agood brass -' L- - . COMPANY . drawer Sand what maybe.termed strictly and reed band and two orchestras . • as garMents, the corn any also turn out • large quantices of leggings and spats, among its musical organizations and - . - socks, ;hospital . • shoes, - heel pro the people of the town : and visitors are Ele t Garments From Tan. tectors,finger cots, mitts, foot slips, to. Elegant frequently regaled with music of a high. basso Ouches, razor, knife, scissors, order. ned Chamois Skins Comb, s abre - and gun cases, money bet s, ~ shop Pin a hot water bottle covers. _.. A good base ball team is another or- , 'WHAT is without doubt the largest table silver c :and, What is one oZ ganization. of ; which the citizens are _. ! V industry in Susquehanna county ,' • iS the tanning establishment of the. ' 1 the most Popular articleson the market , —funne s for gasoline straining. These justly proud and it prtivides enjoyaole . . Black Horn _Leather Company,.situated funnels have supplied a long-felt chant recreation during the season. in Great Bend. It is an establishment at garages - and among automebilists. sof the D. L. &W. that is fast gaining a foothold in the The funnels are cut at an angle so as, to The sho ps c mimercial circles of the United hang free all around. ' A draw string is afford employment fora large number States and its products are so excellentp ro 'deil. in .asid-the..whole gives full strain-% of men, many of whom have their and unique that, notwithstanding bun- ing surface instead.,of at ape. - v, as dreds of men and women ,are employed in the 4ise of a piece of eh ois ag ho mes in the town. -'-----, of the "AdVertiser" for in long tirne, and that the ' plant is fitted up with ail ged loosely into a funnel. . , conducted . .a jab office of, his own lot - • • i All the above .mentioned excellent The Hillsteacl Blue Stone `Company kinds of machinery and apparatus, it is awhile and later was foreman of a large is a large enterprise, handling fl agstone, difficult to supply the demand . . articles are made from the cod oil' tan- In July, Inca the cum ad purchased ned charnois skins and all are•actually lumber, mine .- prOps, telephone and moved to Hallstead in tB : 9 r., where he printing concern for siX years. it-le the Keystone factory and property v,' -ashable. " . - . has s i nce con d uc t ed the "Herald." telegraph poles, etc.. and its goods ar (some thirty acres) in Great Bend and The name of the company is derived • - from the black horns of ' the chamois, • and it will in all probability figure as ; . i - - one of the best known trade-marks in - i ; America... ; ' AMERICAN CHAIR MAN , .. . . , . . UFACTURING CO. I' BOAtING ON HEART LAKE. COUNTY 'HERALD MEM 1. , ; , '7?:F';';4!:• - -Y:;_`.':::: - :' ,f,s- ,-- --n :--,,,t;',,,";:-.%2 , where la• the county. /t 4/retn BOAT HOUSE AND LANDING, SILVER LAKE 1' shiftless and prone to idleness, he would better tic a milli stone abOitt. his neck and jump into mf,d-ocean than to try his "fortunes" in ourcounty. *e have few .paupers within oiir boundaties now and Niant less, but there is lots ,of room and good opportunities for hustlers and'men of brains, who care to come to this re gion and are willing to work and wait. Good, Induirtri l ous Men who are ,skilled i the ails, will also find splendid ,chances in Sus quehanna county to:engagO, in business on their own account First-clais, so ber, industrious Carpenters !can soon be come builders and contract'ors; machin i , „: - :,: -, : ,- ,:;'; - ,: - ,;_..:;,;y'.1-,ii,:: 7 „t! -.':-.''-''"C:::':,:s'i:-...';',':.}..f:',:.1-ir.,--.•.,'.:,3... SS =SE En 1522 El NT OFT lE.AMERIC-.4N , i INNE - p• •. " 7 . Vrt, ; "T-' • 't EMI of .their line fOrsele?tion - Mr. Jiarmes, the ir..!asurer. is alio the i local manager . H •is one of the most enterprising, enet etic young business men in tho. secti n, and much of .the success ,of the-connpany is due to . his unceasing watchfutnes.s of the com pany's interests 1 and fine executive ON V.' H. norbIAN Hall 'stead Blue Stone CO New. York and Pennsylvania Blue Stone, LUM.I BER, And Telegraph Poles. tiallstead, Mine and Raili r. 2 . tl Timbers Bov ir.477Mitititativo hand of fellowship to extend to those who are hozzestly ambitious, to succeed in life and are hampered imootfier 'sec tions of the World-by undesirable envi ronment. Farming and Dairying. .The plow and the • cow are Ahe ruling means_ of livelihood in Susquehanna• bounty. kinds of grairi,...esculents and many varieties of fruits are raised with profit in almost:every Part of, the county, I This region'is famous for its dairying interests: It 'is 'one of '-the most extensiveindustries in the County. merous ! creameries abdund—enters which buy the milk, bottle and ship 'it or make butter; cheese, etc. These lii , a~~,~~ reameriLeshandle large quantites of raw young. - ptCople who- would enter light milk every- day . and, pay farmers and factories as workers,, and we are far re-, dairyinri a good price for it. -:, .. moved' from all :labor . troubles • and • - - We frankly admit that the agricultural strikes.. • The question of wages, too; . is fectioti•S of our county are nevertheless' an - blip . dant factor in considering le= susceptible of the farm up . -lift President cations of enterprises in this Cowan . ltoos.e.Ve i lt is So anxious, about and for the cost of livirig, mats, etc., is snot_ so Which he has 'appointed a:cot:omission,. high as in the larger , cities. , - : .... . This co mission_ is intended to create Other tOwits in.the county, such as oriditi ns that will improve the r farnis Forest:City,- SUSquehanna,. Hallstedd rid fa ming- in the United States and • and Great T4end,-, New 'Milford, Iliiion•-• anythi g which wilt accomplish so .ale-• dale, etc., witli better railroad=facitfes , • . . , • .. . - . . 1 . .. '; 2. : .2 7F ACTURiNG CONti'AN . Y, HAIA.STE AD. ability4for h'e knows all that is going on, at nlUtnnes, in the mechanical de. , partment as well as handling the vol. qminous business of' the office. Mr. Harmes is .personSlly wry popUlar Hallateaddybere he'resides in a band. - somi.thorne . .incir4 , the Susquehanna river. • t - Wholesale Dealers in Mine Props, ' _. H _ _ _ EIFiD'S EYE YIEW- OF K IZCGSLEY P. S. 'Ross TELE. PHONII Pa. ,-, _. ,ag0.1116.:. ME clans and others 'of the learited 'prOfes sions are the intellectual equals of those in any part of the world. Lidlistrietr That Would Pay. . MOntrose' is not adapted ford general manufaCturing center, with - iisattend-.. • ant volumes of smoke and grime. There are unmistakable adiantages here, how._ exec\ for the Jighter industries - and en tems,ises embracing the fine arts and up-. f' on educational lines. No seetion . of the United States . atiOrds opening fora 'military , school for bOys, and a fe-, 'male college, 'a.; instances, andit is our sincere hope that movements may be started span looking to the-establish:. ment of such-enterprises:" MontrOse is also ripe for some enterprising-person of persons to inaugurate such concerns as: A machine. shop capable - of doing. ail kinds of Machinery repairing. . Woodworking establishments of. all kinds, inauding cooperage, the, manu facture of furniture,_ ax handles, hoe handles, etc... _ • Carpet weaving.. Fruit canning. A silk-bobbin factory A wagon and carriage manufactory. Brick Making. A large cheese manufactory. A large modern sanitarium. An incubator manufaCtory. A mill. . A basket manufactory. 'A hat manufacto;y. Knitting mills. • Novelty works. " • Glove manufactories. Toy manufactories. Pure food products. Mattress making. - - - There is. a s considerabre "amount of El RE - .
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