Established 1891 An independent paper, of the people, devoted to the great farm- ing section of Luzerre and other counties. - : Trucksville, Shavertown, Lehman, Dallas, Luzerne, The Greater 5 West Side, Shawanese, Alderson, Centermoreland, Fernbrook, Lake- ton, Sweet Valley, Harvey's Lake, Huntsville and Tunkhannock are circulated by The Dallas Post. Also 100 copies for Wilkes-Barre readers; 150 copies outside of . Luzerne and Wyoming Counties, but within the boundaries of Penn- ~ sylvania; 200 copies to friends far away. 2 Entered as second-class matter at the Post-Office at Dallas, Pa., under Act of March 3, 1879. \ : ey Subscription $1.00 per year Payable in advance ey Address all Communications to THE DALLAS POST. ~ Lehman Avenue Phone Dallas 300 Dallas, Pa. EDITORIAL COLUMN Gs Devoted to the Current Topics of the Day : WHAT ABOUT THIS UPPER WEST SIDE? What is this Upper West Side? To answer the question we ust say it comprises the largest area of any community in Great- er Wyoming Valley. In addition it has some 20,000 people and an assessed property valuation of nearly ten million dollars with an actual valuation of more than fifty million. It begins at Hillside and encompasses Carverton, Orange, Centremoreland, ‘Beaumont, Noxen, Outlet, Pike's Creek, Sweet Valley, Chase and all the territory in the middle. A great majority of its people own their homes. They are 100% American and practically all American-born. There are three fire companies. Huge sums are invested in public school buildings and in a mass of churches. A fortune is spent annually to support these schools and churches. Strange to say it has only two banks. It has one of the best sum- mer resorts in the State of Pennsylvania; a girls’ college; one of the very best country clubs in the State. Just this brief surface view of the Upper West Side reveals a wealth of assets. It is growing, growing unbelievably fast. It has much—it needs more. Ask yourself and ask your neighbor: “What does the Upper West Side need most?” If you will then mail your replies to the con- tributors column of The Post and be reasonably brief, we will print them all in forthcoming issues. > Ga DALLAS MILK ORDINANCE _ The Dallas Milk Ordinance is one of the best ordinances ever passed by the local council. The members did not wait for the horse to be stolen before locking the door. Happily, we never “have had an epidemic caused by contaminated milk. Now we never should. Happily again, the ordinance causes practically ‘no hardship whatever to our retail milk dealers. They were for ~ the most part already voluntarily doing what the ordinance now demands. 7 03 - CONTRIBUTORS COLUMN need the lights, fer there is already too much light thrown, on it. At the outset the building was to cost about $41,000, according to your dictator, but on authoritative information, it has actually cost about $65,000 to date and is not finished yet. Never mind the dedications. You people back here.in the woods don’t under- stand such things. The vogue is to dedicate each part as it is hauled on the lot, such as the cinder ‘blocks that form the artistic ner walls, the disappearing clothes closets and the nobby heating plant. This latter, by the way, is unique. The coal is in one corner of the cel- lar, the furnace in another. The ashes are placed neatly alongside of it. The | | reason for the inside ash pile is that! if the fireman attempted to carry] them out after he had coaled his fire, che fire would be out before he got | Dh But oy is all according to | : ers, and destroy- (tne plans and specifications of your | ; BE and it cost him | lietator’s hand-picked architect, . so | ; Bout. thirty cents = -day for feed | here is another proof positive of the | Ach they took from his garage: and | vacuum-equipped ‘one-man school | barn. There must be a law, or there board, ; ; ' should be, to compel people who keep | The masterpiece of the entire lay- | chivkens to build a fence and keep | out appears to be the combination | them on their own property: I am| auditor.um, dance hall, gymnasium. | struggling with a new lawn myself, | Jhis was supposedly installed to mop | at a great expense, trying to howe ap all the Stragglers in thought who a respectable looking place, but I can| were not in entire accord with the not spend more than half my time | rest of the scheme as 1t sized up while | fnrow.an at my neighbor's | in the course of construction. Much | i. chickens, . : | emphasis is placed upon the empty. fips. iL: C. JETER. | space on the secoad floor, another| Re | Little bit of unfinished business. When | Views of An Outsider | this section is dedicated the visitors! ) a () mam am RD oe ; Chickens Editor Dallas Post: - Some time ago your paper printed ~ complaints sent in about the dog nuis- ance. How they ruined lawns, gar- ! dens, and doing much damage. The law took it up and imposed a fine on dogs allowed to run loose. Since ' then, most owners of dogs have kept _ them at home, but there is another nuisance which is/ greater than the dog, the chickens. They do more damage to neighbors property than | dogs could do. One man told me | last summer his -neighbor’s chickens not only about ruined his lawn which had taken years to make, but ithey Seals {years Wyoming County commission- end as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. M. Between $400,000 and $500,000 has been allotted to Wyoming County this year by the State Highway De- partment for road repair work. = This is a small amount compared with that allotted to other counties throughout the State. For several ers have failed to take advantage of opportunities for State aid in road construction and have been severely criticised by State Highway officials and citizens. He was just an odd job man and con- sidered poor financially, but when Michael Breagan, 70, died this week in the Athens Hotel in Bradford County, the coroner found nearly $11,000 in his pockets. Two nieces in Grand Rapids, Michigan, are Breagan’s only heirs. Fifty-eight men and two officers now make up the roster of Troop B, State police at Wyoming. Seven new members from the State training school at Hershey were transferred to the barracks this week. The average age of the new troopers is 24. Lon Chaney, screen actor, famous for his character portrayals, is seri- ously ill with influenza at his home in Beverly Hills, California. Scranton-Spring Brook Water Sup- ply Company, often called Water Oec- tupus, gougers and similar disparag- ing names, this week placed advertis- ing in many newspapers. The adver- tising called attention to happenings of thirty years ago as compared with incidents of today. The company claims not to have raised its rates during a thirty year period and points | out the percentage increase in costs of many other commodities. The Scranton Times, ever active in the campaign against increased rates, is called upon the carpet for its great increases in advertising rates over a period of thirty years while water rates have remained constant. The Saturday Evening Post last week caried more than ten pages of Woolworth 5 and 10 cent store adver- tising. The occasion was the fiftieth anniversary of the great chain which now stretches around the world. The advertisement was written by McNel- is-Weir Advertising Agency, of our city and New York. Catherine Mec- Nelis, former advertising manager of the Boston Sfore, Wilkes-Barre and Hugh Weir, free lance newspaper man, are the two partners of the ad- vertising firm. Na | Huntsville | The Ladies’ Aid of the Huntsville Christian Church met at the church on Thursday, April 25, for its month-|' ly meeting. An excellent dinner was served by the third division. Miss Ella Frantz spent the week- C. Frick, of Sweet Valley. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Culp, Lewis and Howard Culp and Mrs. Bertha Jenkins visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Peter O. Lutz on Tuesday evening. Mrs. Hazle Bogart spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Moore, of this place. Mr. and Mrs. Alva Jones and fam- ily, Miss Rachael Evans, of Kingston, Miss Gertrude and Arline Culp of | this place, were callers at the home| of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Covert on | Sunday. A fairly large crowd attended “Ye Ole Tyme Singin’ Skule” which was | presented at the Christian Church by | the members of the Firwood Church | of Christ. The cast consisted of | about fifty persons. All were dress- ad in old-fashioned clothes and were a great source of amusement to the audience. Elwood Terry and Stephen Bom-| bick attended a party given at the] home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kins-| man of Hayfield Farm recently. i Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Moore have %aken up their residence in the Lam- oreaux home at Huntsville. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Moss are now Without doubt the most appalling | mess any siaall community ever got| jtselr 1.awo, pol-tocally ana otherwise, | HS aiowW Deli enpeniviced Dy Dallas | Boru gu. Lie vhuie Tor reconsider- | ing has long since passed. ‘Lhe epi-| demic or al:bis that has been offered to the citizens of this town, as well as being carried far beyond its bor- ders, has become absolutely nauseat- ing. Whatever happens from now on must, in the very nature of things, be | in the order of anti-climax. Action, and plenty of it, well directed, is the only thing that can save the situation as it now stands. = Reference is here made to the political phase, with special emphasis on the activities of your far-famed school board. Let us review the misdeeds of Ss st body and then proceed wi Ee a Before going further it must be noted that these remarks are not addressed to the minority group of the board. : From all outward indications, the man who has been personally re- “sponsible for the catastrophy in ques- tion, has tried to set up a self-impos- ed dictatorship for all things pertain- ing to public school education in your midst. Now, in order to run g suc- cessful dictatorship, the most vital ad- junct is brains. Fortunately for the ‘borough, this item is not listed among your dictators assets, and what's ‘more, he even admits that he was denied the privilege of obtaining any when he went through the Dallas school, so he is going to fix it so that others won’t have the same misfor- “tune. And how? Simply by re- moving the Sopchens of merit and re- aining the others. I ii can’t compute that one, put ‘yourself down as a dud. But lets go back to your nice new fire-proof school house. We'll sit on the steps so he cant throw us out, we won't | those presenting cards at the door. | | the effect that he was going right| the dictator after deserting the only will be introduced to an altramod.| living in the new part of their house. ern, super-convenient means of ap- They have been having their place re- proach to the second floor of the last | modeled for the past several weeks. word in building construction. Tnjiimer Hajor, of this place is doing| the days of our forefathers this de-|*¢ 2 : vice was called a ladder, but the term |, Me and Mes: Harty mary fod applied in this case is held strictly in| 22VINg their road stand remodeled. reserve and will be passed on only to| Wwe hope that the stand ‘will bring] . y many customers this summer. as. it | When the State representative from | has done in the past. : the Department of Education came | rT here to inspect this cross between a|a bank refuses a loan to the school garage and a zoo, his first question board? As a rule they are out after upon entering the ih poviels hii | this kind of business. I there is Buy en are you going to finish it?” | question about where the money is to as was Bddrassed to your dictator. | dome from to pay for the dictator's ust to show you how far astray the | wild orgy of frenzied finance, look untrained mind can go at times my| gyer So tax cards when they come answer would have been, “When we | along. In this: connection I wonder get the money,” but not so with your if ii least two members of the coal-| dictator. He nonchalantly replied to| ition that linked themselves up with | ahead with the work. This little in-| brains that the board can boast of, cident was injected merely to show |nave had any heavy thoughts. These you what a clever dictator you have| members are substantial property when he is put under extemporaneous owners in the borough. It won’t be strain. Now the funds which were] tough though to be required to intended to handle this enterprise | help pay the bill; look at all the glory played one of the minor roles up to| you have shared. The foregoing the time that it was brought to its|iyas intentionally meant as a critic- present state of unfinished comple-| jm if you have not interpreted it tion. But as to what happens from | that way. Since I don’t believe in now on, your guess is as good as | criticising without offering something mine. The following data are alleg-| better in its place, I will suggest the ed to be approximately accurate: following line of procedure which is 1. The school board has already |based on sound business judgment. borrowed more money than it is leg-| Rid yourselves 1 1 ally permitted to. now. Don’t wait for ‘elections or 2. The bank has refused the board | other formalities, but go about it any further with sufficient rigor to impress his y further loans. h toeth {1 not 3. Undaunted by these two set.| Successors that such, tactios will no. backs, the board is still gunning for |2¢ countenance gh, hod : necessary resort to the courts. Some- nih yone whodswill. time if he made a statement in the of the dictatorship public press that he was going to re- Ordinarily, and to the average per- ! sign anyway. son, the situation would seem a little 8 yw ; on ahead in the end. depressed. How it sizes up to your| —An Outsider. dictator is a matter of conjecture.; You will be money} A A A SY RR RR A RRR SR SR RR A SR RA C. J. Eipper What is your opinion, brother, when ro - By Alber: T. Reid | Lipa IA ALR 1. a THERE, SPEC. = IF THAT DONT HOLD You MERBY WE Ki THINK. OF SOME- MN” ELSE / Som N— =m Se i ANSE NOSYIw 40 SGNA0Q 5 Reid — AUTOCASTER - ETT =ARD Base Ball It /is too bad that our local base ball team cannot have a ball diamond. It seems that we have sufficient land about town to donate same, let alone use of it. Petty Robberies Several stores in our locality have | been visited by petty thieves and more particularly the A. & P. Store at Shavertown. It is about time that a few examples be made. A certain few young men in our locality have been rather active and they should be apprehended. The Sunday Telegram We note that Dallas is once again appearing in the Wilkes-Barre Tele- gram. It sure started off quite spicey and just a little too aggressive. However, the new owners of the Tele- gram are trying hard to give us a first class paper and will expect real news from their correspondents. The Milk Ordinance A little comment has been heard on the Milk Ordinance which in the main is quite favorable and now that it has been passed it should be en- forced. ‘Miss Margaret Knoor, of Wyoming; SOUDER-RINUS —(— The wedding of Miss Elsie Rinus and Albert T. Souder was solemnized in Lutheran Church at Shavertown, Tuesday, at 5:30 p. m. Rev. E. Elson Ruff officiated and the ring ceremony was used. The bride was attractively gowned in white crepe de chine, trimmed with real lace and tiny rosebuds, studded with pearls. She carried a shower bouquet of white bridal roses and sweet peas. Her veil was coronet style, with orange blossoms, brilliants and pearls, edged with real lace to match her gown. She wore a string of pearls, the gift of the groom. The maid of honor was Miss Ger- trude Weaver, of Centremoreland, and the best fan, Wayne Weaver of Centermoreland. Bridesmaid were Miss Dorthea Smith, of Larksville; Miss Carolyn Allen, of Plymouth. Flower girls, Blanche Marcy of Wilkes-Barre; Clara Weaver, of Cen- tremoreland. Edward Rinus, broth- er of the bride and Elliott Miller, of Larksville were the pages. Ushers were Joseph Mertis, of Plymouth, and Myron Marcy, of Luzerne. Before the ceremony Mrs. Elliott Miller, of | a 7 tid 4 Larksville, sang an oppropriate num- | (; arden ‘) ber, accompanied on the organ by J ° Mrs. Elsie DeWitt Swartz, the church organist. A wedding supper was served to about a hundred guests. THE BOSTON STORE You'll find everything you The bride was the recipient of many ! need here! Rakes, hoes, beautiful gifts. They will be at inkling home to their friends in a newly fur- sprinkling cans, spades, nished home at Mt. Greenwood after ete. No work to garden- May 15th. TY Ame sentiment. 1 VV NV NN A RIP Ny pny OUR CANDY WILL BRING A SMILE TO MOTHER’S FACE ON MOTHER'S DAY Just get her one of our special Mother's Day selections of pure candy. All wrapped nicely with a special Moth- er’s Day card on which you can pen a choice Our candy is delicious—every bite a delight. POPULAR PRICES, $1.00 TO $5.00 Happiness, Norris, Mignonette WE DELIVER OR MAIL HIGGINS GOLLEGE INN DALLAS A | 1 with POO OOD POOTOOOOOOVOOYIODYOIOOOOOOUIVOOHUOUDODIOOOOUN & \ 3 np handles. timely special. (Garden Rakes $1.00 Spading Forks $1.00 ing these good, new tools. You'll find these stoutly made garden rakes just the thing you need for your spring gardening. Easy to use spading forks smooth polished Lawn Brooms 95¢ Fourth Floor WILKES-BARRE Of steel. A These lawn brooms will clean up your garden in a jiffy. They pick up every- thing! Garden Hoes Another good special! Garden hoes and onion hoes at this price. Steel hoes at $1. Fowler Dick a Walker i)
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