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GREATER DALLAS
THIRTY-LIGHTH YEAR
DALLAS POST, DAL! AS, PA, SATURDAY, JES 8, 1929
THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR
Dallas and West Wyoming Furnish
Thrills and Upsets in Rural League;
East Dallas and Beaumont Threaten
Season Now Well Under Way With
All Teams Showing Strength As Po-
ential Pennant Winners—Roaring
Brook in Cellar Position Upsets
Beaumont Team
INTEREST IN -LEAGUE GROWS
Many upsets were seen in the Rural
League in the past two weeks when
East Dallas walloped the Dallas nine
by a 14 to 0 score only to see Beau-
mont trounce the league-leading West
‘Wyoming by a 9 to 1 score.
East Dallas, all primed up over its
Dallas victory, took a trip to Roaring
Brook where it lost what it gained at
Dallas by a 15 to 10 score. Dis-
couraged over this defeat, only part of
the club turned out Saturday to meet
Beaumont. What a surprise the boys
got when they trounced Archie Austin’s
clan by a 7 to 2 score.
While all these changes were being
made Dallas came to life and took a
hard-fought game from Hunlocks
Creek by a 6 to 5 score and set Roar-
ing Brook boys back to a 8 to 2 score
to kep on the top of the heap with
West Wyoming. Huntocks Creek,
which led the league in the first part
of the season, has lost four straight
games, although it maintains second
place position in the league. All clubs
seem to be of equal strength and
should furnish some real excitement in
baseball before the season is over.
Last Week’s Results
Decoration Day (May 30)
Dallas 6, Hunlocks 5.
Beaumont 9. West Wyoming 1.
Roaring Brook 15, East Dallas 10.
Saturday (June 1)
Dalas 8, Roaring Brook 2
East Dallas 7. Beaumont 2.
West Wyoming 9, Hunlocks 2.
Where They Play Today
(June 8)
Dallas at Beaumont.
Hunlecks at Roaring Brook.
West Wyoming at East Dalals.
League Standing
West Wyoming
Hunlocks
Beaumont
East Dallas
Roaring Brook
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WILLIAM A. MARTIN
BURIED WITH HONORS
AT ARLINGTON, VA.
Lieutenant Commander Martin Com-
manded Vessels Which Carried First
American Troops To France
The Wilkes-Barre Record of Thurs-
day morning carried the following con-
tributed article concerning the burial
of Lieutenant Commander Martin of
untsville, whose death occurred Mem-
orial Day morning.
The burial of Lieutenant Comman-
der William A. Martin in the aNtional
Cemetery at Arlington last- Monday
afternoon finely illustrates the
thoughtfulness of the government for
those who have been in national ser-
vice. On the previous afternoon in the
home at Huntsville a funeral service
was held by Rev. C. H. Frick, assisted
by Rev. Harry Henry. The Mt. Green-
wood Kiwanis Club of which Mr. Mar-
tin was an active member, were con-
spicuous in the service, and a guard
of honor was stattioned at the casket.
The body started for Washington
accompanied by a funeral party of
nine on the 5:17 Lehigh Valley train
last Monday morning. Undertaker A.
C. Kelly of Trucksville turned the body
over to naval agents at Washington
who took it direct to the receiving
vault in the cemetery and the friends
to the gate. At 2:30 a caisson drawn
by six horses and accompanied by pall
bearers from Fort Myer led the funeral
party to the receiving vault. The pro-
cession was led by a large section of
the famous United States Marine band
and a guard of honor composed of 32
marines armed with rifles and blank
ammunition followed, and these were
followed by the friends.
The procession passed the Amphi-
_|proved during
Farm Crops
Make Gains
During Week
Hot Weather and Showers Make Up
For Unfavorable Weather of
Early July.
With the exception of scattered local
showers at many places during the
first half, the week was generally fair
with an abundance of sunshine. Tem-
with an abundance of sunshine. Tem-
peratures were above the normal dur-
ing the first four days with maximna
in 90 degrees at most stations on Fri-
day., A reaction to cooler set in on
Saturday night and light frosts formed
in exposed places in western ePnngyl-
vania on Monday morning. No reports
of damage were received, however.
Cor planting is well under way in all
the northern counties except in a few
localities in the extreme northeastern
portion of the State. In southern
counties planting is completed except
in a very few places and the crop is
growing nieely. :
Winter wheat and rye are reported
as very good and are heading nicely
in nearly all sections. The warm
weather of the week was very bene-
ficial to oats and the crop made ex-
cellent progress. ain will be needed
soon, however. Postures and meadows
continue in good to excellent condition
and are furnishing excellent feed for
cattle. Clover is in bloom in most
sections.
The potato crop, while getting a
late start on account of unfavorable
early spring weather, made excellent
progress during the week and planting
of the late varieties is progressing
quite generally. There has been very
little damage ‘from bugs this season
although a few appeared in western
sections this week. Truck crops im-
the week under favor-
able weather conditions and are malk-
ing up some of the ground lost earlier
in the season. Tobacco planting con-
tinued, with some blight reported at
scattered stations, although the crop
generally is fair to good. Fruits, as a
whole can be described as in only fair
condition with many corespondents
very pessimistic; some kinds promising
only half a normal crop. The berry
crop is reported as good to excellent,
although rain will soon be needed. The
week as a whole was the most favor-
able of the spring for crops, and farm
work.
Y. W. Missionary Society
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The regular meeting of the Young
Women’s Missionary Society will meet
at the church Tuesday eveinng. Don’t
forget to bring your mite boxes. Miss
Eva Mitchell will have charge of the
study book. The committee will be
Edna McCarty, Altheda Holcomb, Mrs.
Him, Hortense Shaver and Alice Gor-
don.
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theater and Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier and paused under the hill. The
band, stationed to the left of the grave
played Nearer, my God, to Thee as the
flag-draped casket was carried to the
grave, and while the services was con-
ducted the bearers held the flag as a
shelter over the casket. Rev. C. H.
Frick, chaplain of the 109th field
Artillery and pastor of the deceased,
was assisted at the grave by Captain
Dickens, chief of naval chaplains. Three
volleys were fired by the escort,
bugler souned ‘‘taps,” the sailor's good-
night. So ended the ceremonies in
honor of the one who conveyed the
first American soldiers to France and
commanded vessels which bottled the
German and Austrian submarines in
the Aegean Sea. The widow and mother
and sister were tendered the sympathy
of the Navy Department at the hand
of a Naval captain, and after pausing
at the grave of the Unknown, the
friends returned to Washington and
took the train home.
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CELEBRAT TES ANNIVE RSARY
With former pastors present to take part in the program, the con-
gregation of Dallas Methodist Church will celebrate the fortieth anni-
versary of the church Friday night with appropriate exercises.
Pre-
ceding the program members of the Ladies’ Aid Society will serve
a chicken dinner in the church parlors.
Early History Of Dallas And
Surrounding Communities To Be
Recounted In The Dallas Post
Wyoming Historical and Geological Society Gives this newspaper the exclusive
right to publish the famous Ryman history.
HISTORY OF DALLAS
Some time ago the Dallas Post x
fortunate in securing one of the now
few remaining copies of the Ryman
history of The: Early Settlement of
Dallas Township. So interesting
the book that permission was asked
of the Wyoming. Historical and Geo-
logical Society to print the
volume in the ‘columns of The Post
where everyone might have an oppor-
tunity to read it. The request was
cheerfully granted and with this issue
the first installment appears.
The history, was originally prepared
by William Penn Ryman as a brief
paper for The Wyoming Historical
and Geological Society, and was read
before the Society, by request, Decem-
ber 11, 1885. It was so full of imterest
that it was at once referred ‘to the
publishing committee, and Mr. Ryman|
was unanimously requested to prepare
a second paper on the same subject.
This latter paper was also read before
the society. At his own suggestion,
that a much larger amount of data
was still unrecorded about the town-
ship, both papers were returned tv. the
author for enrichment. This task was
with him a labor of love, taken up dur-
ing his leisure hours, and the last
touches uere added after the disease
which ended his useful }Jife had 1uliy
developed.
Even in his last days he still hoped
to to have strength to add a chapter
on the part played by Dallas townsnaip
in! the- late Civil War. But the p=n
fell from the hands too weak to hold
it, and this chapter remains unwritten.
Was
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Biographical Sketch of the Author
By Wesley E. Woodruff
William Penn Ryman, one of the
most prominent citizens of Wilkes-
Barre, and a leading lawyer of the Lu-
zerne Bar, passed into his final rest at
his home on South Franklin street,
July 31, 1899, just as the shades of
evening had closed around the bright-
ess of one of nature’s loveliest days.
Mr. iRyman had not been a well man
for years, for he had recovered from
a former desperate illnecs only by
force of will and by extreme care in
his routine life. In this way he was
spared to those whom he loved, -and
who loved him, and for useful en-
deavor, until some months when
he again failed in health. Such was
his strength of resolution, however,
that he kept up, until exhausted na-
ture made it impossible to do so
longer. Even as he felt the shadows
deepening he never lost his conrage,
his serenity or his cheerfulness of
spirit, and he still had the pleasant
greeting and the smile of a cordial
spirit until a merciful oblivion closed
his eyes. For several hours before the
end he was not conscious, and the end
child falling into slumber at the clos-
ing of the day.
William Penn Ryman was born
Dalas August 23, 1847. He was t}
son of Abram and Jemima (Kunkle)
Ryman, whose family was of German
extraction, and settled originally in
New Jersey, though three generations
were born on the old homestead farm
at Dallas. William ©P. attended the
schools of Wilkes-Barre and then pre-
pared for college at Wyoming Sem-
inary. He entered Cornell [Tniversity
as a sophomore at the first opening
of that in<titution, and completed the
usual four years’ course in three years.
He was graduated in the class of 1871.
He then took the two years’ course at
Harvard Law School, completing it one
year, and afterwards came to Wilkes
Barre being admitted to the Luzerne
bar from the office of the late Edward
P. Darling September 20, 1873, and and
to the United States Court 1882. He
axe,
in
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entire |
continued the practice of law from that
time. In 1892, at the building of the
Wilkes-Barre and Eastern Railroad,
he accepted the presidency of the cor-
poration. and held that position until
the merginb of the road with the Erie.
He still retainel official connection,
however, as counsel for the road.
He organized the Algonquin Ceal
Company, 1893, was its president from
the time of its inception until his death
and was one of the largest stock-
holders.
He was elected 'a member of the
Wyoming Historical and Geological
Society January 7, 1881, and became a
life member February 12, 1897.
Mr. Ryman was a man of the most
studious habits, and the atmosphere
of the scholar was always about him.
His law library was a particularly fine
one, and his private library was one
of singular richness, excellence and
variety. He was beloved by every-
body who knew him, and close ac-
quaintance invariably added to the es-
teem and the afection in which he
fwas held. As a citizen, he was a
man who considered duty above all
else, and his sense of duty was clari-
fied by an appreciation of the priv-
ileges and the obligations of the in-
dividual, as they stand related to gov-
ernment and to authority. AS a pro-
fessional man, his acquirements were
of the highest type—moulded in a
thorough knowledge of the law and
framed in honor and unimpeachable
ntegrity. He was a man also of
broadest culture, of an innate and a
developed refinement. He was always
a reader, and his researches extended
to history, to science and to the lan-
guages. . Art and music wera his re-
laxations, and he was a connoisseur in
the highest realms of culture n short,
whether in professional or merely per-
sonal attainments, he was a man of
the type of which communities hoast,
and a man whom any city might well
be proud to call her own. In the
home, in the associations that make
life perfectly rounded and beautiful, he
was esteemed and beloved as few are.
These associations from which the
beauty and the fragrance of life exhale
are not for the public ear, nor for the
analysis of a public chronicle. A heart
of the most generous impulses was his
—a heart of the tenderest sympathy
and of sincerest yielding to duty. The
community is poorer because of this
loss, and the business world has lost
one of its brightest ornaments. All
who knew his will breathe a sigh of
the sincerest regret at this summons of
death, and, indeed, the expressions
that have already come to those be-
reaved have been many and have been
‘rom the heart.
Iiager to secure more historical data
on Dallas township, borough and sur-
rounding communities, The Wyoming
Valley Historical and Geological So-
has asked that any literature,
, pictures or other information
of historic interest be sent to its head-
quarters, Franklin street, Wilkes-
Barre. - Any of this material sent to
the Dallas Post wil be immediately
forwarded to the society.
The Post respectfully asks that its
bscribers who have the bent for
writing and who know interesting his-
torical incidents pertaining to the
communities and old residents of this
vicinity send them in to the Post
where they will be printed. Since this
is the fiftieth anniversary of the char-
tering of Dallas borough and the
fortieth year of the publication of the
Dalas Post it is especially fitting that
the history be run at this time.
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THE BRIDGE INN
“JUST ACROSS THE BRIDGE”
At Trucksville, Pa.
Afternoon Teas, Luncheons and Dinner Parties a Specialty
Ella Cox Hughes, Hostess
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Republicans Elect C.
Cars Smashed In
Serious Accident
On Lake Road
Drivers Held By Local Police For
Hearing Before Local
Squire
‘What might have been a serious ac-
cident occured Sunday night about
9:15 when an Essex sedan driven by
C. E. Coyle of Plymouth sideswiped a
Chrysler sedan driven by George
Blizard of Kingston on the State road
just in front of the home of James
Robinson.
The Essex car was being driven in
the direction of Harvey's Lake and
the Chrysler was coming toward Dal-
las After the crash both cars were
completely disabled and had to be
towed to Oliver's Garage. The left
front wheel of the Chrysler and both
mud guards were torn away The Es-
sex suffered similar damage on its
right side.
Opinion differs as to who was to
blame for the accident. At the hear-
ing before Squire Malkemes of Shaver-
town on Monday . night, Blizard was
told to prepare an itemized statement
of the costs of repairing his machine.
In the event an amicable agreement
cannot be reached bétween the two
drivers, Blizard says he will sue for
damages.
In the machines at the time of the
accident were Mr. and Mrs. Blizard
and his wife’s father and mother.
Coyle was accompanied by another
young man and two girls.
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MANY ACTIVITIES
SCHEDULED FOR WEEK
IN LOCAL CHURCHES
Children To Have Large Part in Ser-
vices to Be eld Sunday
Children’s Day programs will feature
the services of Dallas M. E. Church’
and St. Paul's Lutheran Church of
Shavertown on Sunday morning, The
week will be a busy one for the con-
gregation of Dallas M. E. Church and
wil be climaxed Friday evening. with
the celebration of the fortieth anni-
versary since the erection of the pres-
net Ehren balding.
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Dallas M. E.
The week's program .for Dallas DM.
E. Church follows: Children’s Day
exercises and baptism of children, Sun-
day morning at 10:30; Epworth League
devotional meeting, 7 p. m.; evening
worship, theme, “A Changed Life,” at
7:30 p. m. On Monday the Epworth
League district rally will be held at
Mt. Zion Methodist Church. The offi-
cial board of the local M. E. Church
will hold its meeting on Tuesday night.
The same night at 8 the Young
Women’s Foreign Missionary Society
will hold its mite box opening. Mid-
week prayer and praise service Wed-
nesday night at 7:30; choir rehearsal
Thursday night at 8.
The entire community has heen in-
vited to attend the fortieth anniversary
program Friday evening. The program
will be featured by brief recitals of the
history of Dallas M. E. Church. A
number of former pastors have signi-
fied their intention to be back for this
affair. An added feature of the eve-
ning will be the chicken diner served
at 6 by the Ladies’ Aid Society of the
church.
St. Paul’s Lutheran
In St. Paul's Lutheran Church Sun-
day morinng at 11 o’clock the chil-
dren of the church will sing the
liturgy. There will also be a program
of children’s songs and speeches, tak-
ing the usual sermon place.
Various parts of the service have
been assigned to departments of the
Sunday school, including all children
enrolled. nI addition to these a num-
ber of the children will have special
recitations and songs. These are:
June Batey, Mary Mackey, Frederick
Rau, Elton Avery, Fred and Charles
iGrton, Ruth Schwartz, Florence
Roberts, Ruth and Thomas Hontz,
Ruth Dressel, Peggy Pealer, Richard
Murray Turpin
To Represent This DistrictinU. S.
Congress; Leads By 1 000 B Ma jority
| Lect Districts Poll Big 5 Vote For the
| Republican Candidate and Luzerne
| County Swings Back to Its Republi-
can Majority With Forty Per Cent.
of County Voting
LOCAL WORKERS ACTIVE
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On Tuesday last Luzerne County
elected Dr. C. Murray Turpin to repre
sent this district in the halls of Con-
gress. With the election of Dr. Tur-
pin, a Republican, the Comonwealth of
Pennsylvania is now represented with
a hundred per cent delegation of Re-
publicans. :
The election was unusually quiet,
only here and there were there smal
demonstrations. of rowyism or noise.
Election night, due to the vote bein
unusally close on the first returns, ex-
citement ran high in the respective
political headquarters. Towards morn-
ing when practically all of the county
had been heard from, Dr. Turpin’s lead
was close to three thousand votes.
owever, -scveral Democratic strong-
holds came in, reducing the majority
to twelve hundred,
fall, local districts made a very fine
showing which was greatly appreciated
by county leaders.
The vote in the districts in and sur-
rounding Dallas was as follows: bg
District Turpin. Casey
Dalas Boro., N. D. 182
Pallas Boro. E. D...... on. 80
Dallas Twp., S. D
Dallas Twp., Kunkle D....
Exeter Twp.
Franklin Twp.
Jackson Twp.
Kingston Twp., N. D.
Kingston Twp. Shaver. D. 266
Kingston Twp., Trcks. D. 215
Lehman Twp. S. D
Lehman Twp. Idetown D.
Lehman Twp., Leh. Cen...
Lake Twp., N. D....
Lake Twp, SS. Diode.
Lake Twp., Mid. Dis.......
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No Caseys Here
Lehman township southwest sure
are real Republicans. The vote being,
Turpin 23, Casey 0. They sure hate
Democrats down below Lake Silke-
worth, which is the southwest distrite.
- Local Workers Active
In most elections, especially
here is a chance to receive pay for
their services, there are many workers
around the polls. This election no
workers were hired due to the re-
stiction in spending money in a special
congressional election, there were only
a few workers at the polls, but they
worked hard and deserve great credits
for their services.
Dr. Turpin will leave early Monday
morning and wil ltake his oath of
office in the House of Representatives
at Washington at 10 o'clock Monday
morning.
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Entertains
J. C. Lewis of Trucksville enter-
tained at diner at the Bridge tea room
on Monday evening. His guests were:
Charles Traian, Ernest Voight, Arthur
Bradbury, Norman Ringstrom and
Charles Price. Following dinner the
guests adjourned to Mr. Lewis home
where cards were played.
Mr. and Mrs. William Toomb and
son, Robert, were guests at the Bridge
tea room on Sunday.
Drum, Valerio Hunt, Louise Malkemes
Mary Jean and Margaret Elaine Lay-
cock and Ernest Bush.
The program is in charge of Mrs. M.
J. Girton, primary superintendent. She
is assisted by Mrs. K. G. Laycock, or-
ganist; Mrs. Christine Malkemes,
Misses Dorothy Hck, Mae Hontz,
Emerat Dressel and Mrs. John Eck.
Lutheran Church at Lake
Church services will be held this
Sunday evening at the Lutheran
Church at the West Corner, Harvey's
Lake, at 7:30, and regularly through-
out the summer at this hour every
‘Sunday. Sunday school is held at
10:30 a. m. : PE
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