. | ever. fie Da las Post | : Established 1889 An independent paper, of the section of Luzerne and other counties. X y Trucksville, Shavertown, Lehman, Dalias, The Greater West Side, hawanese, Alderson, Centermoreland, Fernbrook, Laketon, Sweet ‘Valley, Harvey's Lake, Huntsville ‘The Dallas Post. “Also 100 copies for Wilkes-Barre readers; 150 copies outside of Luzerne and Wyoming Counties, Pennsylvania; 200 copies to friends far away. Entered as second-class matter at the Post-Office at Dallas, Pa., under Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription $1.00 per year people, devoted to the great farm- and Tunkhannock are circulated by but within the boundaries of Payable in advance Address all Communications to THE DALLAS POST Phone Dallas 300 ‘BELL YOUR PET ‘Bird protection in the country is not a fad nor a piece of sentiment. We because bird protection is the strongest weapon in the defensive war of uman race against insects. And this leads us to speak of cats. Cats are not the sole enemies of song and insectivorous birds, but they are among the most dangerous. Many families can not, perhaps, put up bird- boxes and make the farm a bird refuge, but no family need see its bird population slaughtered by cats. \ i Tramp cats should be mercilessly valuable shot. Household pets should be pre- ‘sented with a set of bells, preferably of the kind with a strap passing between h forelegs and around the kody. That will warn and protect adult birds. But every cat, no matter how tame, must be suspected of murderous de- signs on young birds and fledglings. UNITY OF PURPOSE g Progress in this twentieth centur ments in every line are being pushed NEEDED IN SCHOOLS yv is rapid and breath-taking, develop- day and night ,new things appear and before they are in use any time at all, comparatively speaking, the original models are old, out of date and ineffi ~ With such rapid movement in the cient for whatever purpose they might commercial world, boys and girls have a greater and greater task to prepare themselves to cope with the environ- ment in which they find themselves. Not only must they know more, but they must know better the things they use as weapons in their fight for a ‘recognized place in the world of affairs. ducator and taxpayers must use tne To meet this necessity parents and ir wisdow to See ahead, their training and energy in teaching and their ‘money to fit their children and the children of their community to take their places in the world of affairs, to keep pace ith the accelerated speed of industry ,trade and civilization generally. © In the Upper West Side there is a. population now of 20,000, served by seven high schools, namely, Dallas Township, Beaumont, Noxen, Laketon, Leh- man, Dallas borough and the high school at Trucksville, which serves Shaver- town as well. Three of these high schools are housed in new buildings, the best the taxpayers were able to provide in their respective sections. Beaumont voted bonds for a new building at the - 1 deal of cooperation up to the present in the county school affairs or in the election just past. Separated as these schocls are by a few miles, there has not been a great tine. contests Not much part has been taken in the Valley where other ‘schools have been represented. Things are starting differently this year, how- Never has so much school spirit been manifested by the tudents. New ines of interest, correlative to the curriculum proper, are being provided in “every one of the seven schools. A fine spirit of willingness to cooperate is ‘manifested by the faculties of the seven schools, and indications are that the county at least will have to wake up to the fact that these students of the ~ Upper West Side can and will take their places alonside of the best students of the country. Just now the world is waiting for its annual football thrill. The students ym these schools who get out every night to tackle the dummy, to punt and fall, and pass, are learning courage, ry one of the seven student bodies )oys who represent its own school. ‘choose an all-star team from the Upper West Side? cooperation and good sportsmanship. will root and cheer and encourage the Then at the end of the season why not The best from the sec- tion will be OUR team. The whole seven schools should be OUR school, who can take their places alonside of the best in the country. THE WEEK'S t DOINGS —~ ~The 1200 new students who spent the past week in the annual freshman ~ week program at the Pennsylvania State College, according to President ‘Ralph D. Hetzel, are the best prepared of any similar group at any public in- ;stitution of higher education in the country. Because of the careful ‘method of selection that the college ~ smust observe in admitting students, due to the crowded conditions on the campus, it is announced that two- thirds of the freshmen ranked in the upper two-fifths of their high school classes, and 90 per cent of the new students stood in ‘the upper three- fifths of their preparatory school classes. ‘Bill Dunlap, of Rochester, N. Y., a junior pilot for the Syracuse Aviation | Company, was in an unusual accident at the Elmira airport on Sunday after- noon. Dunlap had just taken the air with a Comnmandaire plane carrying two passengers when the engine failed. Be- ing at low altitude the pilot was un- able to get back into port, but he skill- fully circled his plane into an orchard | adjoining the airport where he skimmed the top from an apple tree. ripping the engine from the plane, and landed right side up on the top of a sulky cultivation. Howard Clifford and Clayton Em- mons of Tunkhannock, who were ser- jously injured in an auto accident near Ruggles station three weeks ago, when Ernest Wagner was killed, returned to _ their homes in Tunkhanock last week ' after being patients in Wilkes-Barre General hospital. Clifford was imme- diately placed under arrest to answer a charge of possessing and transport- ~ ing liquor. Tt is said by men who were at the scene soon after the accident that the wrecked car had an ingenious device underneath the hood where a large quantity of liquor was stored for transportation. There was also a quantity of liquor scattered about the vicinity and all of the occupants of the car were said to be drunk. Harry Zacharias of Harvey's Lake, talked with the "nen shortly before their fatal trip from the Lake to Ruggles. AV warned them that they had better pull to the side of the road and sober up before continuing their journey. They responded by telling him it was none of his business what they did as long as it was their automobile. A half hour later Zacharias was told of the fatal accident at Ruggles. ‘Penn State College freshmen have een organized into the largest har- monica band in the world, it is said. ~ Fach of the 1,290 new students has j ned a mouth organ and the cheer rs and music istrncrors are teaching them to play theinstruments as a part of the freshman week pro- gram for creating class spirit and friendliness. The 1200-piece band is expected to be ready for its first pub- lic appearance at the. first football game next Saturday. Miss Susan Fisher, aged 30, an em ployee of Benesch & Sons’ store on Public Square, Wilkes-Barre, was SO seriously burned last week in the base- .ment of her home that she died a few hours later in a Wilkes-Barre hos- pital. Miss Fisher had gone to the basement to clean a coat with naphtha gasoline when the fumes ignited and she was horribly burned. A. W. Cooke of Tunkhannock, well- known insurance man and former resi- dent of Noxen, defeated Fred I. Wheel- ock, Eatonville merchant and present | associate judge, at the primary elec- tion for the nomination on both major | tickets for the office of associate judge in Wyoming county. Throughout the entire campaign Mr. Wheelock was a patient at Robert Packer hospital, | where he had ben taken to recover from a serious gland disease. be the first woman to appear on the Republican ticket for the office of as- socnate judge in Sullivan county at the | der | Mrs. Floyd Davis of Sonestown will general election in November. At the | primary election Mrs.- Davis, “house- wife,” received 551 votes as against 250 for B. T. Martin of Dushore, present associate judge. Dr. C. Sayle Taylor, lecturer on sex, | is attracting large audiences in Wilkes- Barre. Lecturer Taylor, a wise man, knows how to get columns of free pub- licity in Wilkes-Barre by the simple process of retaining a local newspaper- man to write his stories and paying him well. Department stores and other large users of space in Wilkes-Barre | bapers find it harder to get free news | write-ups and publicity past the | vigilant eyes of Wilkes-Barre editors. School children of Columbia and nearby counties will have their in- ning® at the seventy-fifth annual Bloomsburg fair, opening September 30, and will again contribute one of The finest features of the exhibitions. For the fifth year a school exhibit comprising about 10,000 separate dis- plays of articles made or products grown by the young people of the schools will be staged this year in the old exhibition building, display space in which has been given oven entirely to the youngsters. A new method of display that will bring the products and articles of a similar nature together promises to make the show much better from the standpoint of the spectator. Schools throughout Columbia and nearby counties will close on Tuesday of fair week when the youngsters will be the guests of the association and when the judging contests will be held. In addition to judging poultry, swing, dairy cattle and sheep, the young Heard Around The Corner ELECTION AFTERMATH Quite a little bit of interest was shown on primary day in regard to the local borough offices, more particularly that of burgess and ‘councilman. Many persons around the corner are now trying to dope out the outcome of the burgess fight in November. While Anderson polled more votes than Thom Higgins. Higgins was not on the Democratic ticket and his strength in November on this ticket is not known, although one has the right to split his ticket at the general elec- tion. We predict a very close contest for this office. BOROUGH COUNCIL The program of the borough council in not only repairing but building per- manent roads throughout the borough is meeting with many favorable com- mendations of taxpayers throughout the borough. While the mostly traveled roads will be repaired with permanent paving first, in due time the borough will have fine macadam roads throughout. The council has shown what can be done with this type of program and we heartily recom- mend their continuance of this road program. Whp not curtail expendi- tures in other departments for a year or so and push this road program. We have no doubt that the citizens of the town will overlook curtailment other departments in order to have their roads put in the same condition as Norton and Machell avenues. ROBBERIES The petty thievery of the past few weeks about town is believed ended with the arrest of two men who were burglarizing W. S. Moore's meat mar- ket. George Moore, Wes’ father, sure handled the situation in fine shape. “Wes” was attending a business con- ference on Church street and upon hearing of the robbery drove home and found Moore, Sr. in full charge of 'the situation. (Detials furnished in news article in this issue). AT THE FAIR Several people attended the Tunk- hanock fair last week. Many base ball enthusiasts traveled to the fair to see Dallas get a fine trimming from Hun- lock’s Creek. Several sheiks about town with their best girls and others also took in the fair. RIGHT UP TO THE MINUTE Dallas has its bridge clubs, its five hundred enthusiasts, so why not a real vinochle tournament. There are sev- eral good players about town, and with our thoughts turning to winter, which means more or less confinement about the house, methinks it is a good idea. RIGHT UPP TO THE MINUTE This man Wardan Kunkle is right, up to the minute in giving tenants of | his building on Main street the best of conveniences. Wardan had Ralph Hallock this week install the latest furnace equipment in the way of an automatic coaler and forced draft sys- tem. We even hear it takes the ashes out. Thom Higgins and Hal Wagner, who live in the apartments and are naturally interested in the furnace, are sure smiling these ‘days. No coal shoveling or bothering with ashes. Thom, in particular, could use the exercise. FIREMEN’S DANCES With cooler weather, why not start the ball a-rolling with some firemen dances? OFFERED POSITION It is rumored that Chief Avery has been offered a very nice position with an outside concern along police lines. It is not known just what the Chief intends doing, but he is giving it ser- ious consideration. Contributors’ Column _ Connellsville, Pa. Dear Editor: . You probably will be surprised to hear from ime, but here goes, and I'n hoping you will be able to read it. I'm teaching in a large high school this year—over 600 students and about thirty-five teachers and believe I WN enjoy the work. I have only five classes and all in the same subject. Beside this schedule IT am also assistant coach of the football team. Now to the real purpoe of this let- ter. Please send the Post to my present address. I'm anxious to hear frox. Dallas and to learn what all my friends there are doing. With all good wishes, Yours respectfully, EARL BOWMAN. Seattle, Wash. Dear Editor: Thank you so much for publishing my poem to Mrs. G. Murray Roat on her birthday anniversary. She was pleased and surprised to read it in her home paper. Please send me three copies of the Post of that issue. I am sending you a copy of the Seattle Sun- day Times, which will give you some idea of the growth and expansion of the city. Cordially, CLARE M. PHILLIPS. Editor's Note—Mrs. Phillips, a for- mer resident of Dallas, is a poet and writer of more than local note and has people will have added interest through the judging contests of breed and garments of the girls of the home economics courses. In addition, there will be selected through a judging contest the most suitably dressed girl in the vocational schools of the county, a practical contest begun last year which attracted wide interest. The interest of the young people in agriculture is kren, as demonstrated by the fact that the students of voca- tional agriculture in Columbia county alone last year made a profit of more than $8,000 on their projects in a year when many older fanmers lost money. in |- immediately ] in The Little Mind-Reador — Co hn I et Ye EE new, and in thé spri ve would have 4 *] know what you are thinki fou it away. put it Mary That’ of new rooms on our place = Know Just, exacely,~Chat Ghat hat locks jist as good 35 | what you do each year : ve had all the Storage space ithas at this time, Caken li ——— ST asa = 3 contributed literary work to a number of newspapers and journals. Her poem to her sister, Mrs. G. Murray Roat, was published some weeks ago in the Dallas Post. The Post is always eager to hear fromm friend at a distance and welcome their contributions. -Ruggles- Tuesday. evening was the scene of a happy gathering at the home of Wal- ter Anderson at Ruggles, it being in honor of Mr. Anderson’s eighty-third birthday anniversary and his sister, Laura Wilcox, seventy-fifth birthday anniversary. During Iuncheon the guests were entertained with jokes and music. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Lou Schuler, Mr. and Mrs. James An-| derson, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Bennett, Mr. and Mrs. John Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Archie Woolbert. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Lewis, Bobbie Anderson, Mrs. Florence Worthington, Donald Worthington, Gert Sutton, Madge Anderson, Marion Anderson, Betty Lewis, Jean Lewis, Fred Anderson, Mrs. Jennie Lawson, Mrs. Anna Knorr, Ruth Bennett, Esther Bennett, Mrs. Nellie Reese, Frances Anderson, Walter Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Bronson, Iva, Marion, Walter and John Bronson, C. E. Bron- son. ’ Still Life in Canada Ontario Pan r—"The colony and 2on sists of 200 pes of pleasant gives and corpses “oston Transerips By GRACE VIALL GRAY Household Science Institute, TOMATOES Tomatoes are one of the easiest of vegetables to can. They are an acid vegetable and as such do not present any of the dif- ficulties that some- times arise in can- ning the non-acid vegetables. Toma- toes are so rich in vitamins that they are quite neces- sary in the diet, and fortunately re- tain their vitamin value after being canned. All wise Grace Viall Gray. homemakers will can many quarts of tomatoes for their winter menus when vitamins are not so plentiful. For canning, use only sound, firm ripe tomatoes. Cut off any green, unripened parts. Secald 11% to 2 min- utes to loosen the skins. Putting the tomatoes in a square of cheesecloth facilitates this process. Dip in cold Making Tomatoes Ready for Canning. water, core and peel. Pack in jars. There are two styles of packing to- matoes. One way ig to pack them solid or whole. The other is to pack them mashed in their juice. For the solid pack, pack the toma- toes whole, pressing down firmly enough to fill all air spaces; add only the juice which drains from the to- matoes during peeling and cutting. If the tomatoes are to be sold, this is the type of pack that government od OFFER $5,825 IN PRIZES IN NATIONAL CANNING CONTEST To ward off a threatened surplus of farm products in many sections and to impress more housewives with the economy and healthfulness of home canned foods, a Na- tional Canning Contest is now under way to find the best jar of canned fruit, vege- é° tables and meat in the country. Two hun- dred and twenty-two cash prizes totalling $5,825 have been hung up by the Sears- Roébuck Agricultural Foundation, including a grand sweepstakes prize of $1,250 for the best jar of canned food entered in the contest. Any woman or girl is eligible to enter the contest, but entries must be in not later than October 1, 1929. Further informa- tion on the contest and free jar and entry blanks for sending in entries may be had by writing to Anne Williams, director, Na- tional Canning Contest, 925 S. Homan ,Avaittie, Chicago, IIL + regulations require. Add 1 teaspoon- ful of salt to every quart. Seal and process. Process means sterilize. For the other type of pack, the irregular, broken or extra large to- matoes can be used. Scald and cold dip to remove the skins. Mash. Fill jars. Add 1 teaspoonful salt to each jar. Partially seal and process. Whole canned tomatoes look more attractive and should always be canned this way for exhibition pur- poses. They should be canned whole, alse, when desired for salads. The other type of canning enables one to get more tomatoes in a jar and is excellent for soups. Tomato puree can also be made by cooking tomato pulp until it is the consistency of catsup, after which it is seasoned, strained and packed hot in jars and canned. It is all ready for use when the jars are opened. After the jars of tomatoes and to- mato puree are ready for canning, put them in the steam pressure cook- er. Have boiling water almost to reach the rack in bottom of cooker. Fill cooker with jars, adjust cover by tightening clamps opposite each other, At the same time, see that all clamps are tight and no steam es- capes except through the petcock. When steam comes from the petcock, close petcock completely, and allow pressure to rise to 10 pounds. Sterilize 10 minutes at this pressure. Xeep uniform pressure to prevent loss of liquid in jars. Remove cooker from fire at the end of the processing period, and allow gauge to register zero before open- ing the petcock, then open gradually to prevent loss of liquid in jars. Re- move jars, completely seal, invert, cool, watch for a few days, then store in a cool, dry place. But Try to Buy It! Worn by Napoleon during his re- treat from Moscow, a topcoat which is now one of the priceless posses- sions of the Invalides Military mu- seum, Paris, is regarded by govern- ment inventory makers as a mere sec- ond-hand garment. As such it is list- ed in the state assets at an appraised value of 80 francs or $3.20. First National Bank | DALLAS, PA * * * Members American Bankers’ Association * x » DIRECTORS R. L. Brickel, C. A. Frantz, D. P. Honevwell. W. B. Jeter, Sterling Machell, W. R. Neely, Clifford W. Space, Wm. Bulford, George R. Wright. OFFICERS George R. Wright, President D. P. Honeywell, 1st Vice-Pres. C. A. Frantz, 2nd Vice-Pres. W. B. 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