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DALLAS, PA., SATURDAY,
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY COMMUNITY WEEKLY IN LUZERNE COUNTY
SEPTEMBER 14, 32
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FORTIETH YEAR
Heights Folk
Disturbed Over
Water Supply
Water Company Official Says Pump
Now Repaired So That Supply Will
Be Uninterrupted In The Future
| Residents of Parrish Heights, ser-
iously inconvenienced at times during
the past two or three years by poor
water service, have recently upt into
circulation a petition asking for an in-
vestigation of Dallas-Shavertown
‘Water Company service by the Penn-
sylvania Public Service Commission.
A new pump was installed at the
Heights well about a year ago, but
even with this improvement in ‘equip-
ment,” water has been cut off fre-
quently during the summer months.
Heights citiens claim that there is
plenty of water in the well and that
faulty equipment is the cause of shut-
offs. Many times during the swmmer
the only water available on the
Heights has been that trucked up from
the borough in milk cans by William
Schmoll.
The most recent interruption in ser-
vice came last week when the pump
failed to operate and water company
employees worked three days to repair
it. Since that time the water has
been covered with oil and dirt, mak-
ing it unfit for drinking and cooking
purposes. /
iWhen interviewed concernig the sit-
uatio, H. L. Fortner, local superinten-
dent of Dallas-Shavertown Water
Company, subsidiary of Inland Utili-
‘ties, said that the condition on the
- Heights comes through no fault of the
company but through an unavoidable
breakdown in the pump, a situation ant
to arise in any kind of pumping equip-
ment.
The company, he said, is making
every effort to give first class water
service to all consumers and water
is not brought down from the Heights
to the borough at the inconvenience of
Heighas consumers as has been fre-
quently reported. Oily water which
followed the repairs of last week-end
is but a temporary condition and will
be eliminated as soon as the present
supply of water is drawn out of the
well, :
Employees of the company removed
the pump five times in three days
‘last week-end. It was found that the
trouble was caused by chips of wood
from one of the plungers becoming
lodged in the pipes. As soon as the
pump was returned to its place, chips
would again lodge in it. By installing
a rather ingenious type of screen this
blocking has ben eliminate and it is
believed that all further interruption
in Heights water service has now beee
elimiated.
ATTEND DEMOLAY
~~ PUBLIC INSTALLATION
menos oriune :
Misses Lillian Rood, Eleanor Machell
and Jean Disque with Leonard Machell
ad Jean Disque with Leonard Machell,
Walter Rau, James Hildebrant and
Kenneth iDsque attended the public in-
stalaltion of officers of the DeMolay
. chapter at Knights of Malta hall in
‘Wilkes-arre Thursday evening.
‘Young men who have been members
for some time but mow because of the
age limit become members of the
advisory council, installed the officers.
Rev. Clarence H. Russell, pastor of the
United Presbyterian Church of Ply-
mouth, was the speaker of the evening
land took for his subject, “Seekers After
Wisdom.” An interesting program of
readings and music followed by an
exhibition drill by the patrol furnished
further entertainment.
Ladies’ Aid
Plans Benefit
Motion Picture
Society Holds Regular Sessions At the
.Home of Mrs. G. A. Baur and Plans
Clam Bake To Be Held At Next
Session
The Ladies “Aid met at the home of
Mrs. G. A. Baur with a large member-
ship present, Mrs. Albertson took
charge of the devotions, Mrs. Whipp
the president spoke of the necessity
of earning some money, Mrs. Westoner
gave the report of finasces she reportd
a very small amount in treasury. It
was arranged tohold a clam bake at
the next meeting which will be held
at the home of Mrs. Fred Gordon.
Mr. Himmler kindly offered to show
a picture for the benefit of the Ladies
Aid. The Ladies Aid to pick ouf pic-
ture.
Four new members were added to the
list: Mrs. Culp, Mrs. Hofinerster, Mrs.
B. Allen and Mrs. R. Eipper.
The Ladies Aid played several
games on the lawn and several prizes
were awarded, Mrs. Harold Rood de-
lighted the ladies by singing two sel-
ections.
Gypsy Love song by Victor Herbert
At Dawning byCadman, Lillian Rood
playeh a piano solo. A most delighted
feaature of the afternoon were the
prizes given by Mrs. Baur, she offered
a prize to the division having the larg-
est number present. 2nd and 3rd divi-
sions having an equal number, the
prize was equally divided. The divis-
ions having the smallest number was
given a prize also. The prizes awarded
amounted to fifty dollars. This won-
derful donation was greatly appreciated
by the ladies.
A dainty lusch was served to the
following: Mrs. E. C. Stevens, Mrs. A.
J. Moores, Mrs. M. A. Wilcoz, Mrs. W.
Himler, Mrs. Ella LaBar, Mrs. Mary
Woolbert, Mrs. C. A. Frantz, Mrs. F.
M. Gordon, Marguerete Frantz, Mrs.
J. E. Hildebrandt, Amanda Zaple, Clara
Cook, Mrs. W. F. Daddon, Mrs. Elmer
Parrish, Mrs. Sterling Machell, Mrs. D.
P. Honeywell, Mrs. Addison Woolbert,
Mrs. Amanda Hoormeg, Mrs. George
Hofmeister, Mrs. Oscar Culp, Calvin
Culp, Wanda Culp, Mrs. A. Van Noot-
wick, Mrs. Ralph Eipper,, Mrs. George
Gaertner, Mrs. Sulu Beisel, Mrs. A. S.
Turner, Mrs. B. R. Turner, Mrs. B. R.
Hefft, Mrs. A.L. Thomas, Mrs. C. C.
Gates, Mrs. D. F. Westoner, Mrs. James
Oliver," Mrs. R. S. Hallock, Rickard Oli-
ver, Mrsr. A. D. Hull, Mrs. Harold
Rod, Mrs. Earl ‘Schoch, Elizabeth
Schoch, Mrs. George Patterson,, Elinor
Machel, Mrs. A. D. Hull, Mrs. Wm,
‘Whipps, Miss Faye Whipp, Mrs. Don-
ald Frantz, Mrs. John Frantz, Mrs,
Bertha Albertson, Mrs. F. S. Pealer,
Mrs. G. A. aur, Mrsr. G. A. Keuhn,
Mary Still, Mrs. R. H. Rood, Mrs. E.
G. Stevens, Miss Sillian Rood, Mrs.
Nelson Whipp.
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DALLAS TO HAVE NEW DENTIST
SEA el
Dr. Robert M. Bodycomb of Wiikes-
Barre will open a modern dental office
here in the apartment above the At-
lantic and Pacific store on or about
September 15. Dr. Bodycomb who is
a member of one of the old families
of Wyoming Valley will make his home
in Dallas, occupying “the apartment
next to his dental office.
A graduate of Wilkes- Barre City
schools and of Temple University, he
is also a member of Psi Omega frat-
ternity. For the past few years he has
been associated with Dr. Dutcher in
the Miners Bank Building in Wilkes-
Barre.
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ALEC WILSON
Respectfully Asks Your
VOTE and SUPPORT
At the Coming Primaries For His Can-
didacy as
SUPERVISOR
of Dallas Township
Railroad History
Interlaced With
That of Lumber
Celebration of First American Loco-
motive Trip At Honesdale Is Re-
minder of Coincident of Lumber In-
dustry
Celebration of the first locomotive
trip in America which occurred 100
years ago at Honesdale recently, is a
reminder of the joint role played by
lumbering and railroading in the de-
velopment not only of the Keystone
State, but of the entire Nation.
In Augustt, 1929, the Stourbridge
Lion, imported from England, made
what is recognized as the first run of
the steam locomotive in America. Of
special significancé to the romant.c
lumbering days that followed was this
short spin of three miles and return
in the woods of Wayne county.
The introduction and development
of railroads in the Keystone State fore-
cast great days of lumbering, which
in less than thirty years brought Penn-
sylvania to the front as a lumbering
state. Then for a like period she held
first or- second place in this great in-
dustry, and although her relat.ve posi-
tion was third among the states in 1890
and fourth in 1900, her total lumber
cut continued to rise to a peak of
2,333,278,000 board feet in 1899.
Time Changed Need
Railroads were intimately associated
with lumbering and pioneer settlement.
The needs of the early colonists for
lumber were easily filled, for there was
a forest wilderness on every side.’ The
occasional need for transporting timber
was met by wagons. Then, as the
pioneers went westward came the ex-
ploitation of the forests close to the
streams. Considerable quantities of
timber rafted for many years until the
railroad became the chief means of
timber transport.
however, the railways began to sup-
plement the waterways, and became an
increasingly important factor .as the
trees fringing the streams were Te-
moved. They made it possible to carry
lumbering into the remote regions
where most of the forests were located.
The first rail routes in many sections
were logging roads and the fore-
runners of many important rail divi-
sions today were humble little narrow
gauge logging tracks.
The Bowman's Creek branch was
once an important lumber carrier and
had its early history almost exclusively
connected with the great lumber in-
terests north of Dallas.
Many miles of such lines, that. for |
years served extensive forest areas
where farms were few and forests
plentiful, were long ago discontinued.
But out of the wilderness for many
jyvears came a steady stream of logs
and into the fastness of the forest
went ‘supplies and provisions for the
lumberjacks and their families. As
population multiplied and settlements
grew up and railroads were extended
the need for permanent railroutes de-
veloped. Lines that had come to take
out timber found they had come to
stay, and railways are still the chief
transporters of wood. The great roads
of the west; founded upon large tim-
ber grants from the government, and
among the nation’s 'most extensive for-
est owners are hauling trainloads of
timber back east.
Accustomed as we are to thinking
of these roads in terms of steel rails,
officials point out that the cost of
supplying wooden ties equals or eX-
ceeds the item of steel. With upwards
of 8,000 ties per mile of track, Penn-
sylvania’s roads alone need over
30.000,000 ties. The fact that ties and
other. wood requirements place the
railroads in the lead of all wood-using
industries, lends special significance
to that journey of the little Lion in
Penn’ s Woods 100 years ago.
F srm-Raised Boys
Have Better Chance
Penn State Head Urges Agricultural
Studies to Prepare. Boys For the
Future
That the farm-raised boy who takes
a four-year agricultural college course
finds himself upon graduation to enter
many phases of agricultural endeavor
that he never before cossidered pos-
sible, is the exprinc of officials at the
Pennsylvania State College.
President Ralph D. Hetzel and the
dean of the School of Agriculture, Dr.
R. L. Watts, in reviewing occupations
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At an early date, :
Wyoming County
Fair To Be Held
September 17-21
Military Program, Acrobatics, Races
and Address By Mayor Mackey of
Philadelphia Are Features
One of the outstanding county fairs
in this section of Pennsylvania, the
Wyoming county fair at Tunkhannock,
will be held September 17-21. There
are many features this year to make
it of special interest to people of this
section. Ome of these is the speech by
Mayor Mackey of Philadelphia.
Mayor Mackey, born at Montrose,
Susquehanna county, has many friends
in Wyoming county, and has a large
personal acquaintanceship among ‘Lu-
zerne county citizen as well.
Stepping away from wa precedent
set in former years which made
Thursday the “big day” of the fair,
Percy- Brunges, energetic new secre-
tary of the association, will attempt
to make every day of the fair a fea-
ture day this year. Mr. Brunges has
been a director of the fair association
for a number of years and.takes the
place as secretary made vacant by the
death of O. D. Stark, late representa-
tive in the State Legislature from
‘Wyoming county, and long time secre-
tary of the fair association, who died
early this summer.
Among the features of the fair will
be a greater array of free open air
attractions. The famous acrobats and
professional divers, Ione and Niles
Helkvists, have been engaged for a
part of this entertainment. Their per-
formance includes fancy high diving,
which concludes with a plunge into a
tank of fire. Instead of the Wyoming
County Band, as in previous years, a
nationally known band will entertain
with free bad concerts.
Wednesday will be known as Mili-
tary Day. Gattery B of the 109th Field
Artillery, stationed at Tunkhannock,
will give fancy riding exhibitions and
military drills. There will also be polo
games between teams from the various
batteries of the 109th.
Saturday will be Fraternal Day.
Many ' organizations will be present
from Luzerne and Lackawanna val-
leys with their uniformed patrols and
bands. An auxiliary of the Odd Fel-
lows’ Lodge from Scranton will havt a
band of forty pieces.
In the agricultural and livestock ex-
hibits a number of special premiums
Noxen Youths
Given Term At
Reform School
Wilbur iKtchen and asd Johnson
Steal and Wreck Ford Sedan—
Judge Terry Loses No Time In Giv-
Them Full Extent of the Law
Famed Wyoming county justice
moved swiftly this week with the re-
sult that two Noxen youngsters, Wil-
bur iKtchen, aged 14, and Harold
Johnson, aged 11, will have plenty of
time to plan further hair-raising ad-
ventures in the quiet of the Glen Mills
Reformatory during the next few
years.
On Tuesday afternoon the two boys
entered the garage of A. L. Meeker at
Noxen and stole the switch key from
a new Ford sedan in order to make
sure that the car would not be used
during the rest of the afternoon and
night.
Early Wednesday morning, equipped
with all necessary materials for a
long distance non-stop flight to an un-
determined destination, the boys re-
tured to the garage and stole the sedan
from its stall. In the equipment with
which they filled the back of the car
was a jug of cider, extra clothing and
a large supply of pipes, cigarettes and
tobacco.
The start from Noxen and the trip
to “Tunkhannock and up the Sullivan
Trail was uneventful until the youthful
badits reached Meshoppen, where the
Ford unable at high speed to make a
turn in the road, turned completelyy
over and was totally wrecked. Tem-
porarily thwarted in their plans for
adventure, Kitchen and Johnson
caught a ride on a truck and returned
to Tunkhannock.
In the meantime residents of
Meshoppen identified the machine and
called A. L. Meeker at Noxen, asking
hi mto come and get it. Mr. Meeker
said there must be some mistake be-
cause his car was in his garage. In-
vestigation proved otherwise and he
immediately got in touch with the
sheriff of Wyoming county, who was
able to apprehend the culprits. On his
trip to Meshoppen to bring the
wrecked car home, Mr. Meeker met the
two boys neat Eatonville, walking to-
ward Noxen. He offered the ma ride,
which they accepted and which was
to end at Glen Mills.
The boys were taken by Mr. Meeker
before Judge Terry at Tunkhannock,
will be awarded for the first time this
year. A numbtr of these premiums
are for community herds of cattle, a
fedture never before presented in the
livestock show.
The racd track has been put in con-
dition and during the summer a num-
ber of trainers have had their trotters
on the grounds and w number of young
horses have shown excellent prospects.
The prizes offered in each heat during
the fair dre good and are expected to
attract some of the best horsemen and
horses in the upper tier of counties.
Blaze Caused By
Over-Heated Iron
Fire Causes $500 Damage to Home of
Arthur Blewett of Fernbrook On
Thursday
Fire resulting from an overheated
electric iron parttally destroyed the
living room and contents, of the home
of W. Arthur Blewett-6f Fernbrook on
Thursday morning. Both Mr. and
Mrs. Blewett work in Wyoming Val-
ley so that no one was at home when
who, recognizing one of them as a#pre-
vious offender, and gave both of them
what he had promised to do some time
before if they ever ran afoul .of the
law again, namely, a term at the Glen
Mills reformatory for boys. Both boys
have been responsible for petty crimes
during the past year and have proved
unruly and a problem to their parents.
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WOMEN OF ROTARY MEET
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regular meeting on Thursday after-
noon and evening. Mrs. Nesbitt Gar-
inger and Mrs. James Besecker of Dal-
las and Mrs. George Metz of Trucks-
take the women to Montrose,
ner at the new Montrose Inn. The
motor trip, a short business sessios and
preceded dinner,
returned to
closed the
a brief social time
after which the club
Wilkes-Barre where they
evening with a theatre panty. Those
present were: Mrs. Clarence Boston
of Noxen, Mrs. James Besecker, Mrs.
C. N. Both, Mrs. Nesbitt Garinger,
the fire broke out and when smoke
issuing from the windows attracted
the attention of water company em-
ployees who were working at a house
next door.
But for the quick work of these men
the house would probably been more
seriously damaged, for it was several
minutes after the fire was discovered
before Dallas and Shavertown fire
companies werd summoned to render
assistance.
Breaking in a door and window the
chemical from extinguishers borrowed
from neighbors on the flames until the
fire companies arrived. The flames
were confined to one corner of the liv-
ing room. Damage included the de-
struction of a living room suite, car-
pets and clothing. The entire house
was filled with smoke so dense that
fire fighters had difficulty in getting
through it to open windows. Damage
was approximately $500.
Before leaving for work Mrs. Blewett
had been pressing clothing and in her
hurry to reach the valley in time for
work had overlooked turning off the
iron.
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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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Mrs. Thomas Higgins, Mrs. Lloyd Mc-
Henry of Dallas, Mrs. Myron Steele,
Diphtheria Rate
Here Is Second N
Highest Im Sta
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Animal Toxin—Anti Toxin Campaign
To Be Carried On This Year By
Welfare Federation With Renewed
Vigor
Members of the Wyoming! Valley
Toxin-Antitoxin Committee for the
prevention of diphtheria as an un-
necessary disease of childhood, learned
learned with alarm during the week
that despite the fact that Wilkes-Barre
is credited with having each year one
of the most thorough immunization
campaigns, the city ranking second
from the highest in Pennsylvania in
the number of dphtheria cases and fi
deaths per 100,000 population The
figures for 1927 furnished by the State
Department of Health were imparted
ty the committee by C. Raymond
Chase, secretary, in an especially pre-
pared bulletin. The Toxin-Antitoxin
Committee is making active prepara-
tion for the seventh annual valley-wide 4
diphtheria prevention campaign, <tart- al
ing the week of Septembcr 30. :
Pennsylvania itself is twenty-seventh
on the list of thirty-nine states report-
ing, Mr. Chase states, and the death
rate for Pennsylvania was 8.6 per 10
000 population as compared with
for the entire registration area of the
United States. Wilkes-Barra cily is re-
corded as having a diphtheria deat
rate of 26.1 per 100,000 population,
which is more than three times as
great as the Pennsylvania rate. This
city stands next to Johnstown with the
highest death rate in the state. ¥
In listing the number of cases of
list with
has. 207 .S.
1927. Johnstown heads the
281.2 and Wilkes-Barre :
Harrisburg has the least with 20.7
cases per 100,000 population. ‘While
Scranton has a case rate of 176.9 per
100,000 population, greater success
seems to attend the care of patients
in the neighboring city, for the death
rate per hundred cases is 5.9 as com-
pared with Wilkes-Barre's fatality of
12.66 per 100° cases.
Following his analysis of the figures, x
Mr. ‘hase summarizes his findings and
says: “The figures show an alarming
situation. Wilkes-Barre haviag one of
the Lest toxin-antitoxin organizations
in (he state. still numbers far below
average in the number of cases and
deaths resulting from diph thera. We
should not cease our fight or slacken
our pace until Wilkes-Barre is at the
top of the list. We must not think
terms of city price, but rather:
terms of the helpless little child
who go to make up these figures.”
The local Toxin-Antitoxin Comimit-
tee proposes a concentrated drive this
year for children of pre-school age.
Piphtheria works its worst ravages
among children between the ages of
five months and six years. Stations
Dallas Women cf Rotary held their |
ville very graciously used their cars to!
where
they enjoyed a beautifully served din-
|
for the administration of the Toxin-
Antitoxin will be established at con-
venient locations throughout the entire
valley. Injections will be given witn-
out cost and the immunity against
diphtheria from Toxin-Antitoxen is
said to be painless and practically cer-
tain.
Toxin-Antitoxen clinics will be held
ds usual throughout the Upper West
Side this year. Mothers should bear
the date in mind and plan to take
their children. oi
Mrs. Henry Sippel, Mrs. George Russ,
Mrs. Earl Monk, Mrs. Herman Van-
Campen of Shavertows, Mrs. George
Metz and Mrs. Ziba Howell of Trucks-
ville and Mrs. Marsden of Pittston.
Oliver's
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