The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-02-21
DAMASCUS.
Damascus, Feb. 20

of noble character to level with
themselves and this is generally done
behind backs.
Mrs. Katie Burke, widow of the
late Philip T. Burke, and who lived
on farm mile and half from
Galilee, toward this village, has
bought the Arthur Edwards house
and grounds in Galilee village. She
had moved to this place about De-
cember I.
While assisting at putting up a
| telephone line for Stanley Van Malta
| Charles Appley had narrow escape
from serious injury. 1t happened in
| this wise: Mr.. Van Malta did not
wish to set poles through the woods
and decided to fasten the wire to
small trees. To prevent strain upon
| the wire by the swaying of the
trees, it was concluded to cut off the
tops at the proper height for the
wire. Mr.. Appley scaled the first
tree with a pair of lineman's climb
ers on and had severed the top. In
lodging the falling top he lost his
balance and fell to the ground. He
but not seriously injured, but how
|
Nelson B. Alfast, writing from Los
Angeles, Cal, states that California
is even more than he expected to see.
There had been but one rainy day
since he had been there. The day
before he wrote he and his family
had visited the famous Busch Gard
ems; also an ostrich farm at Pasa
| dena.
Stanley Van Malta and a force of
men are engaged in denuding the
tract of timber land known as "The
Shaker Tract" This tract lies north
west of Fallsdale and formerly COM
! prised some 400 acres. But sections
of it has lately been sold off. A few
years ago the late William Penwar-
den purchased the remainder of the
lot. The timber is mostly or all hard
wood and of the very best quality.
1t is said that some of the trees show
! that there must have been a fierce
! fire passed over this tract very many
years ago as at the butt there is
| charred wood grown over with a
thick growth or layer Of sound wood.
Mr.. Van Natta took the contract to
cut and saw all the timber on the
tract. He erected a portable steam
saw mill that has a capacity of about
5000 feet a day 1t is reported that
the Messts. Penwarden have con-
tracted with piano company for the
entire output of lumber and it is
possible that the shipment will be
made from SINNERS Falls on the
Erie as this is the best grade to get
it to rail. Mr.. Van Natta came here
from Berwick, Pa, with his father
several years ago and cut off several
tracts of valuable timber cutting
/ from one tract alone nearly two mil
! lion feet, much of it a desirable
/ quality of pine. He is an expert as
= a sawyer, having passed nearly his
entire life at that work. He spent
several years in the pine forests of
Virginia. That climate and the wa
ter did not agree with him and he re-
! turned north again. Mr.. Van Natta
is a son-in-law of Fred S. Price of
Damascus.
Feb.-the abbreviation for Febru-
airy, but stands for freeze everybody.
That is generally the case and this
February has been no exception to
the general rule. The cold weather
fell upon everybody so suddenly that
they take bad with it. When the
mercury drops from mild to from six
to ten below zero no wonder people
go around bumped up like a half
open jack knife.
We said in our last letter that T.
F. Conklin was a ''stone carpenter"
and not 'stove carpenter" as it ap-
peared. This was only a slight mis-
take.
B. H. Dodson, who is denuding the
Yerkes lumber tract, has his mill
moved to a new location on the lot
That is one great advantage of these
portable saw pills-they can be set
at a location to favor stocking. 1t is
only a matter of small delay and
expense to move one of these mills
loaded upon skids, and it very much
facilitates starting in large, heavy
logs. He expects to have the job
all finished except the acid wood.
Everything large enough to make a
stick for acid wood will be cut. With
the exception of a few small clumps
of pine and hemlock reserved for
private use, the only remaining tim
Der available in this township is
hardwood, and that mostly beech.
There is one 400-acre tract of this
timber, but it has been cut over
once, taking all then that was con-
sidered suitable lumber.
The bi-weekly attraction at Laurel
Lake last Saturday afternoon drew
about half hundred of the sporting
class from the surrounding hamlets,
the magnet being speeding horses for
amusement only, no purse being put
up. Only four entries were made on
this date, viz. Doc" Cade, Thomas
Jackson, Jacob Bischoff and Free
man Brown. 1t was a walk-over
for Doe" He took third money
at Lake Huntington, N. Y, a week
ago.
Mrs. Dermody died at her home
in Cochecton last Thursday She
never fully recovered from the
shock of her husbands sudden
death at the home of his friend,
Michael McCue, whose home he had
just reached to see Mr.. McCue who
had died that day. That was in