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A R FORD %vas named at the sng. eyint: H E town of .
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:AR , gest! -ri ref I 10, ea Tiffany in 18°8. '-') 11 k• - rld in the township of ihe same 1 .
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AR Prier to ttii t. ear r I rI I a d sky ii k•a,3 W n as .r -- : .: L r a It u h e i iv"; e ti ll o iln a n c l g te . .s e c o ;u lu •. n l . -. l. c: i i i i . .
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'Nine Partners - this unusual tame
having been (let. rininid u p on i n i7s9 bo ch : - ‘.. d n e i r i s o b f u i
i S etr u i : :: q na u
v e c h aan a l l n e ;!ti tc:lin c :a e n
j u ns n n t l : a.p • •
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bp nine
w r n i ld ne s of ' u P n e g nn i s n y c l i v i an u i c a to rro c‘ intTl l e u - tutary is
the Meshopren ereek. ' It is ,
- z °rough. !kla's Tle y were Hosea Tif- hill. - fromi the t•lp of : -.
fany, Caleb Richard: on, Lzekial Titus. .
Robert Collet, John Carpenter, Moses • surrounded .by
w ic i a p . •
Thacher. Daniel Carpenter,' Samuel , views 13 •
Thacher and Josiah Carpenter. These Springville takes its nairie from the
nine were the original purchasers of the
fact that theme are so 'many springs
land upon which Harford is built.
Harford enjoys a .wide reputation for
the culture and refinement of w
its peo- around• the place, and itt spite of the
drouth of the last w s a u t m er me to rth be erewas a w l:
ple, a majority of whom are the direct ways plenty of had,
descendants of its first settlers No
though some of
c mmunity• of its rize in the county has Lakes and-ponds arequite numerous in
,
paid, more attention to educational af
faiii and in; none -can one find more the wells • were dry.
churches and schools. The place th g is . section and they aflird good fish
. ;1 '
full of interest from a - historical stand- is in
here are two churches; The Meth
point—history df the Sort which makes .
for the belterrnerit of mankind. oiist church was built in t 892. Rev. A.
_
The Harford Fair ha: for many years El Potter is the pastel:
,Ahe Episcopal
been a eature or the social lite of Sus; c A urc h r , , , N hi t
quehatida connty. • 'nese faireare held' ~....;:- ....,,,.- ~..„,; .., 1= , Q , 4 ,
annually and are _ largely attended. r...1.V•t..'.f..M17 * _:r•••••-
Farmers, dairymen and-.others make -1111tverry" p , ty
fine exhibits, and awards. medals- and 1 1;14004A
1
ribbons •of this association which co.n-- - _,Tti er iti - - - 4 0 .,„
duors the exhibitions are closely sought ~- - • -, _.:: 4 • - • .
_in friendly competition , as they are' 5 1 1. 4 .-11 3 A 9 .---, .;-
soutn e lektea. _ . 2 ,,APi ; util e ro7 l4 iT
held in great value.--- - • ,
Harford village Is pleasantly situated_ A high school is ' logi s ted here, in
. in a valley - Amid lofty hills It is reach. • -
'-':-.; ' ' : • which four teachers sire employed.
• - ed ` by: a mail stage twice turily,from
romimmomminummilmimitimil. mimmilimmummiummumminin King,..3,:- - • • bcholars - aredraWn frordiliffeCent parts
of the township, some4anaing in from
r. , ,
= 1 - . —.. '1 he first stare Harrold: was •estab- neighboring towns. J. `Lee •Tittany.is
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lash b chn Sevtr , ur in 'Se Since
Y i ° • the principal of the school. •
. then the business interests of the
,vi 1....
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...- 1 .. ge have undergone nu :net( uschE- nge . A_branch of the Lehigh Valley rail
-1: _ , _ , li her - 'nd Spring
0. rMaynard ;
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Ready-Mad Clothing,
Hats and Caps
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SHIPPING POINT:--Kingsley. Pa.. D.. Lf & W. R. R
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C. F. Maria. is at present the
pro-
PENN'A. ; •
E prietor of the oldest established
general hood
have improved wonderfullyin the
.--•- store in Harftrd. - He deals in dlast. = goods, groceries, notions, ready-made l feW year and several up-to-date
. = clothing, hats, caps, etc., and carries a
. ,
_...„ houses liave keei:built in tcwn. ,D. D.
.... ' ' = fine stock of goods. V. Mr. aynard is a Layton has a new one with all modern
. - . -"i ' .• I
am
..== native of. Scranton but - has lived in improvements. R. L. Avery - and E. W.
..=., •
pp, , Beginning February sth , Sixty and contuning tor oxty Days, Harford nearly all of his life. H
e is a
"".=
determined to reduce - mstock "f Big Reduction in Prices will do
y i a Lott have each remodeled houses that
,=- son of T. M. Maynard. Some four , . .
, = years Igo he bought out the e.stablish- t ta. et town. in 1v
.... are an .ornament ,th
= it. • B es t bargains you ever got in, Men's. Boys . Ladie s and Misses - = meat from Frank Lott . and has since. modeling E. W., LOU deitroyed an cld
_.......
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it with much success. ,
.... • Underwear'. Shoes. Stable Blankets. liats and Caps. Overcoats,' a" conducted landmark of the . towel. Cyrus W. .
, Harry E Miller, a native of Harf d
or ,_
. ~ . Bard used to live there and before the
Gloves. lipaiery, e tc. It will pay - you to travel a long. distance to get =is the proprietor of a very
.popular es- , • .
...... tablishment dealing in general merchan--
,
= your share of thes e bargains. • -. ..
war his house was an underground rail
_ . = dise. No. young business man in Sus- - road station for runaway,. naves. Thq.
. .
= quehanna county stands• higher as a would,come from a. 'Station between
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lishd and courteous mantes
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Harry and
Falls and Lagrange, in Wyoming coun-
- an up-n than
1 1l Miller. Br 'gib. • and to con- ty..and from bere• they !went to a sta
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James William
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Gurdon —ms. came iv, _ _ was against ti
Milford, May, 6, 18 12 .
.In 18 t &lie came
to : - .7arford by marked trees, andcleared a rana:wa 3' *lave. 1 ; .•_
a place to build a house in the wilder
ness. He was a soldier in the war of tBl 2 groin Springville_tbe - fiVe Hungerford
broths rs went to the 'Civil war. A ll
and drew a pension. His father, .
Nathan Darrow, of Groton. Conn., was were soldiers gOod andl true and came
a soldier under Gen: George Washing- back *Safe and all liv. : ed for over forty
ton. Served as .a private, later as a years', to tell the story. John R. of
• sergeant. He fought at Fort Griswold
Tunkhannock died le'ssthan a year ago!
and White Plains , and was granted a
' pension in 1832, when in the 73rd year You piight:s.earch.the records at Wash I
of his age. ingtion and not- find another family so
.
Luck Perkins, grandfather cf Austin { rtuna
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Darrow, on his grandmother's - side. was te. -
killed in defense of Fort GriWold, and H. B. Lathrop is the resident physi
Joseph Moxlev, west grandfather. on cian.: He has a large practice as he is •
his mother's side, was also killed in the
the
Only doctor - between Montrose and
fort. - • Tunkbanncck.
.
Austin Darrow was .a carpenter in
early Manhood, and was a farmer man y
years. Still ,active in politics; member' the l argest and most important busi
af the Baptist church. One of the
nes
founders of the Harford Fair, Oct. 1858;
' Stuart Rile,y's - general store is one of I I
~.
sestablislaments in tht line in this
has attended every exhibition, last year section of the county. It is stocked at '
,spv making the gist. tie not only comes to all times with's complete assortment of
, I t
4 4,.4, 4, • „.............goae. • the tairs , but: brings the.products of his and
own labor. Through-his exerts , ns Live
fancy dry goods, groceries.
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staple .
Oake_Lodge was instituted in Harford. boots. shoes and notions and Mr. Riley 1
l i t alikirolra*-A*4otrofiram 4-m-, GT-6.;TB:Ar-oir-.*A*-dtr4-Joirotr-4-%'
e 'w), It is one of the foremost in the 1. 0.0. takes pride in his claim that it is the
r F. in the county. site
, . , sit of: the oldest mercantile house in
, •
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• . ;usquehanna county; the p r esent store
1 • An Aged Minister. was built te .pi: 188. by his father,
', It.
_ J a s. W. Raynor was 'born in Mont- ,Mitiot Riley , and .Dr. :I. B. Lathrop. ,*
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__ __....t)... rose, Dec. 23, 1822, in a house located : prom inent mercantile
. _ among the
' Sr Ille, R. L. Airery's is
Dry Goods,
,
DR! G-S,
0- Groceries,
Notions,
Boots, Shoes,
Hard Ware
-AND_
Farm Implements.
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ewhere :Jas. Cooper's' • '
feed store houses of Springville, ..,
, now stands.. He was a son of Nathanery popular with the purchasing pub-
Raynor, who came to Montrose in r 8 z s
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,_-----"IIMOCK, or Dini — cck Corners, as it _ stone, quarried in the vicinity—a' stone from Long Island • ,
• lic. Mr. Avery is a native of the town
_ ivas called in the early days, is which, on account of its superiority. When Mr. Raynor was a boy. Mont
c' Burnsr.- - li one of the principal villages on has a large sale at various points.. . Mr ; rose had 200 to 300 inhabifants. His • has been in business iti the town the
parents moved to Carbondale in 1829.
the'Lehigh Valley brinch railroad run- Chase has been an honored and respec t-pilot seven years. i i
the time of the openin of the coal
sling• from Montrose to Tunichannock. ed- merchant 'of Dimock for twenty -Stephen Tuttleconducts the only un-
mines there . the first coal goom known
It is the main 'business center in Dimock three years and he enjoys a very satis- Young Mr Raynor Cilmetuck to Mont- d !staking establishment here. He is a
township. - - , factory trade in feed, shingles and yall - rose in 1840, and. clerked for Iwo years regularly licensed undertaker, does em
-lin W. L. Post's store. (where the Farm- balming and is prepared to take entire
This township was named in honor of ions forms of merchandise. ~
, - is. Bane now stands.) In 1844 he went charge of funerals. He , alsd carries a
Davis Dimock, associate judge of the The other general.store in Dim is. to Amherst College: ( Mass ) for four
•
=linty at the time the township was owned and operated,by Mi. V. L. Van- y ears .
_ then later taught. school in New full line of furniture - and keeps a fine
formed. .Its dimensions are about seven Camp , who makes a specialty of dry York-city, and studied for the supply of confectionery. He also
miles friun east to west and four_ and a goods. Mr- VanCarrlP . is a native of becomei i i i n s d , a Presbyierian t clergym an,
. n frames picturei to order and his prices,
' half mines from north to south. The New, jersey. but was faised in Dimock. s'usqn.rsal• past orate
fr trro ing ye a at U s; Pw th il e v n i set for anything in his line are very reason.;
form products are mainly those of the .He owned a -store in Corbettsville, N. Springville. Auburn and Dimock for able• Mr. Tuttle is a native of the
dairir, and much attention has been Y. in 1906 and in the, spring of 1908 ten Years; Leßaysvlle, four years; later township and no citizen of the county
paid to the breeding of fine cattle. • purchased a general store in Dimock and •at Uniondale and Pl-asant Mt. churches, is mole highly esteemed. ,He' is post
removed back to his: old home. It is five Years, and later served home mis- master of Springville kind 'hashe Id the
Mr. O. W. Chase conducts one of the one of the neatest, best-kept country sionary churches for , several years, and
two general stores located in.:Dimozk. stores in the county and its proprietor in 1876 retired to his • pleasant little office since Nov . 12, 1:90 I. . Previously,
He is also the producer of fine blue is popular in his neighborhood. home near Montrose. Though in his he had been constable and township
-_,- ,87th year, he is in,excelleut healthtar, -
collector. ' . '
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0. W. CHASL,,
'PRODUCER OF I ' --
. Fine Blue 'Stone
,
General Merchandise
Feed ail. Shingles.
Country-Produce Taken in Exchange. • .
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Dry Goods, Groceries
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Local C and Long Distance _Telephones
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THE MONTROSE DEMOCRAT, x MOMOSE, PA. Februqry 18,1909.
. 7 - - in — the ersonnel of those' ton- .road passes throug _ , rp,
= dUcted its stores, mills and, - sh •ps.. un- yille i 5 the chief stationlbetween
til at p•ezent tt.e three mercantile con • . rose a nd TunkhanPock.::'; A large quail
= ctins the . placeare or erated by g
men ti of milk is shippea• is. the
I.cts shipping point . for Auburn, Auburn
-.=.-.- . James A. Williams owns and condus.
= one of the largest and most impoitant Center and Elk Lake - Atout a car!o3d
_l. -
=
central . stores in the village, He is a of . butter is •shippeerfrona l.ere each
= pr)gresiiye,_pub!ic-sp;rited young bur . .
= ness Iran and has built up a very :at s- - - -
week in the summer seaslon brought in
=, factory trade. He succeeded E. E. from these places. Apples are ex•en
,
= Jones and has been in business at the sively grown in the township and large
= same IGcation'about five years. He is. - .
shioMenis are made fr'o'th here in the
= a native (. f Harlot& and very popular • '
fall.
= with all classes of people. i,• . •
t"- -2 '1 - M —rd -- at - The farm" buildings ia' the rieighbor.
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The Springville H otel, conducted by r": UNDERTAKING 9 .
~9 EMBALMING - ' %• a4-.
J. H. Kelly. is one of the best-kept - ,t% • ' . 44,,
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hostelries ; in the county. The rooms -:' ••
a neat rind comfortable and the table '2;' .• S.ILTIONERY, CONFECTIONERY. - ,„
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s supplied with the best the markets R;" • . - , A s'
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afford. This hotel is very popular with R _ . •
commercial" travelers. Mr. Kelly has O-' ' Picture Framing and Repairing.
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conduCted the hotel about 'seven years. - ~,
Lee, Compton is the "Democrat'.:' rf. ' . - '- ~ 'l4'
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agent in Springville. 'He is an expert ?_:--,
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Postoffice Bu ildi ng, . ' SPRINGVILLE, PA.' 6.%' --
phcitographer and the Springville illus- `6 , , , ,,,>, , _ I u"VS
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trations were made from photographs . --c •,
,57,-.SMW-,,- .:.`)''-. 6 /2±-•=7„,i'-' - WZ-S t rt r.- 27 1 ' . .f-T'':LVR ,5 ": l `. -- ; c9-5 ' . j. --S :`*.r +!, fx
taken by him. th-v_o•l,-,4.±,-szenzzaltai>l.-W,..5t,-,:,1354.&,Ltr,&.(215)..t,b5uktikt--,..-0-6-ut.li•Lia6s4c,blim.tr-,,,-.,
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_ Colgate) University, and graduated in one-half years of a ze. "To God be all
Rev.
eW. C. Tilden 18 - -
a • • the . Glory." is the'yfay he puts it. ,'
,
A brief summary of his work shows
On November 12, 1857 be was ordained these remarkable fi gures: Number of
• to the the work•o1 the ministry. on the ,
sermons in regular serv ice , 5.835; funer
a
An Aged Pastor with a Most call of the - Foreit Lake and Middletown I sermons in addition, 918; Miles
Baptist churches, for which he has been traveled by per . so_ . roal conveyance, 15e,- •
Remarkable Record. . preaching since April of that year. He 000; (many other miles by railroad;)
served these , two claurches then continu- marriage ceremonies performed •348;
William Clark Tilden was born at ously 22 years. and in the same time the individuals baptised, 240.
Lebanon, New London Co., Mass.. May Rush Liberty church for i 3 years and the
a. i 829. His parents, Augustus Tilden church several years. During these . 1
, Ye Olden Times.
and Milinda (Clark) Tilden, were years he taught' four. select terms, of
natives of the same township. but school, at Forest Lake, and fourteen Fifty years ago it was the custom to•
moved to, - now, Forest Lake, Susque= weeks as principal of the Montrose toll the church bell at the death £4 some.
henna county Pa..thc last of April 1833, graded school. and served nine years as member of the community. • A relative -
seeking a farmer's home, which remain- superintenderit. of common '
schools: or would I inform the sexton, who im
ed as their home .to the end of earthly ,
Susquehanna county. i . . ' •mediately rang t e bell, for perhaps'
life. -- In 1879-8 o he was principal of Key- two minutes . ter a silence of os
His early education was its the corn- 'stone Academy.. Returned to work as moment, during bleb' he' climbed to
mon school for few months of each year. pastor, serving for a time at Hallstead, the belfry, he st k three blows for at
At sixteen and seventeen years, a few Rush aid again the Forest Lake and girl, fivejor , ailxoY, seven for a woman
weeks of each Year the privilege of it- Middletown. churches, and continued none for a Min. Then followed about
tendance in Montrose Academy. taught with the Forest Lake church since 5857, ten blows or strikes. a half minute
by Calvin C Halsey, M. D., was enjoy- excepting one year and eight months. apartj closed by striking the age in
, ed. . In - the fall of 1845 he cammenced He has preached many .sermons in groupes of ten strokes each.
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'as teacher in common school, and Auburn. Dimock. Catroptown, Jackson. People within three milecinalicillec. ,
'i taught for five winter terms. In the New Milford, South New' Milford. and tions, could guess correctly the name of
': tea of 185 i he went to Candor. N. Y., as other places. He had health' for con- the person. The cutitom was good. It
•:4cher for the school year, and in 1853 tinuous work, not having been con fi ne d reminded men that were they mortal.
'joined the regular classin Madison (now to the bed but one day since two and i ,' •:'W. L. THACHER.
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GENERAVMERCHPIDISE. '
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