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§ under Act of March 3, 1879.
2 Dallas ‘Borough High School needs books. .
neither should they be junk.
clear nights bring joy to us, a joy that is unknown to the city dweller.
‘there are those about us who fail to see these beauties so near at hand. Too
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GIVE A BOOK
Many other schools in this
~ vicinity feel a similar need. “Not for text books, to be sure, but for books
~ of literary value that may serve as a nucleus for a school library. Nothing
that any school can offer is of more value to students in their training for
college or for life than a small library filled with books of merit written By
good authors. Financially, it is impossible for the school boards to purchase
these libraries aet this time when school moneys are being used to meet build-
ing requirements to care for ever-increasing enrollments:
There are many persons in this vicinity who have good books which
they can donate to the schools. The books need not be the latest ediions,
If you have books that you have read and
that are of no longer use to you, give them td the schools. We know of no
better way to be of service to the schools at this time than to donate books
or the price of agood book. When you give a book be sure it is by a good
author and not merely a lot of pages bound in a cover and of no use to any-
one. Books like Ivanhoe by Scott; editions of poems; The Americanization
of Edward Bok; Franklins Autobiography and novels by recognized modern
“authors the are the type the schools need. Give your book this week. Call
the school or tell a student and a messenger will be sent from the school to
your home to get the book.
ANIMALS ON THE ROADS
‘A scarcity of animals, alive or dead, has been noticed on the highways:
It is said the heaviest mortality from motor cars is suffered by he skunk, which
1s hard to explain, for surely every driver would go far out of his way to
avoid hitting this animal.
Birds, once run over in great numbers, are now seldom hit. The box
tortoise, who years ago. never “speeded up” when a car was coming, now
fairly gallops to the safe woods when a driver toots the horn to warn him.
It is almost impossible to believe, but it really seems as though the
animals have developed a sense of the danger of cars and therefore avoid
the well traveled roads.
Some humans could profit by their example,
FALL BEAUTY
How fortunate we are at this time of the year to be living in the country.
The beauty of color in the changing countryside, the brisk mornings and
Yet
engrossed in work-a-day life they fail to stop long enough to view nature in
its greatest splendor. To them we say, “Get out of doors.” Forget the petty
things in life. Look at the stars. Take time to look at a sunset. See how
small you are in the great scheme of things. Then go back to your work
a better man or woman. The great English poet, Wordsworth, a lover of
~ mature, caught the spirit of the season when he wrote:
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky.
So was it when my life began,
So is it now I am a man,
Or let me die.
The child is father to the man,
And I would wish my days to be
Linked each to each in natural piety.
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Dallas, Pa.
| Ryman Recalls
~ Early Stores,
Food, Clothing
Manufactured Goods Had Hard Time
Displacing Homespun in Early
Days
HISTORY OF DALLAS
Franklin township in this year
(1845) set off from parts of Kingston,
Exeter and Dallas townships.
This was the last pruning, except
small corner from westerly end of
Lake township, that Dallas township,
as originially laid out and formed, was
obliged to suffer. This leaves Dallas
township with the same shape and
size that it now has.
1844-1845. Isaac Whipple appears
as doctor (second one), and Jonathan
Husted gets a pleasure carriage (sec-
ond one in township).
1845-1846. William W. Kirkendall
dies. Jessie Kreidler start blacksmith
shop near Goss or Corner school house,
afterwards continued by his son, Abe
Kreidler, who was accidentally shot by
‘William C. Smith about 1856, and
killed.
Joseph Orr. Justice of the Peace
this year. Elijah Harris starts the
first lath mill in Dalas township (near
present “Ryrnan’s Pond.” Abram Ry-
man gets a pleasure carriage (the
third one in the township). John
Rainow moves on John Honeywell
farm -(lot four in certified Bedford,
where John Welch now lives). Chris-
topher Eypher, wheelwright, moves
into township.
1846-1847. Gearl Cairl starts aa tan-
near Kunkle.
moves into
nery at Green woods
Anthony Peche, laborer,
township.
1847-1848. John Bulford starts his
blacksmith shop in village of Mec-
Lellonsville. Miner Fuller builds saw
mill on Toby's Creek one-half mile
above Jude Balwwin’s mil, near Leh-
mman township line. Almon Goss
made postmaster. Henry Hancock and
Joseph Shaver, as Hancock & Co., go
into lumber business at Jude Bald-
win’s, mill.
1848-1849. A. L. Waring starts a
hotel or tavern, which continues but a
short time.
1849-1850. Jacob Rice appears first
time as merchant. Albert L. War-
ring, tavern Keeper. John Thorn
makes application for hotel license.
Stores, Food, Clothing, Etec.
After the abandonement and re-
moval of the rolling mill from South
Wilkes-Barre, about the year 1844, the
firm of Stetler & Slyker, which had
been keeping a gerenal merchandise
store there, stopped business and re-
moved their remaining stock of goods
out to McLellonsville. Stephen Slyker,
one of the partners, who is still living
(1886), at South Wilkes-Barre, went
out with the goods to close them out.
There was then a wagonmaker’'s shop
owned by Jerome B. Blakeslee, stand-
ing on the southeastern . bank of
Toby's Creek, where the present store
of Ira D. Shaver in Dallas borough
now stands. Slyker secured this shop,
put in shelves and a counter and other-
wise fitted it for use as store and
moved in with is stock of gloods. This
was the first store started within the
present territory of Dalas township.
Before this time, about the year 1840,
Almon Goss kept a few goods at his
house near the Goss or Corner school
house, just north of McLellonsville,
from which he supplied his men and
others who wanted to buy; but the
Slyker store was the first real store
in a separate building devoted ex-
clusively to the business.
My father, Abram Ryman, also for
many years, kept a few goods in his
house at the homestead farm, between
Dallas and Huntsville, to accommodate
his employees and others who wished
to buy. He also began along in the
forties. He went once or twice a year
to Philadelphia and bought a few
staple articles. Some dry goods of the
commonest and most substantial kind
‘were kept in the “spare room’ laid out
on a board, which rested on two or
three chairs. Molasses, pork and
damp goods of that class were kept in
the cellar. Sugar, tea, coffee and that
class of groceries were kept upstairs
over the kitchen in a large room next
to the roof where we boys and some-
times the hired men slept. Many tines
were we awakened after going to bed
by my father coming upstairs with
some late customer to weigh out some
coffee or sugar or the like. His
counter in that room was a large table.
Just over the table, suspended from a
rafter, was a pair of balancing scales.
Weights were put in either side, and
the article to be weighed was put in
the other side. My father kept store
in this way until about the year 1856,
when he erected a separate building
for it near the road. After ten or
eleves years he erected another store
down in ‘the village of Dallas, which
is still in use by the firm of A. Ry-
man & Sons.
The Slyker store did not remain long
in McLellonsville. About 18466 Samuel
Lynch, now of Wilkes-Barre, leased
the Slyker building «ud started a
branch to his Wilkes-Barre store, and
thus conducted business tnere for
about two years. ]
About the same time that I.ynch's
store was started (Mr. Lyncn thinks
a little before) Henry Hancock came
up from Kingston and opened a store
in ‘the front part of the house where
J. J. Bulford now lives (ground since
cccupied by Lehigh Valley. Railroad
station). Bulford lived in the back
part of the house at the same time.
Lynch abandoned his Dallas stors soon
afterwards, and Hancock moved his
store to Huntsville, where he con-
tinued in business until just prior to
the war. hen the war broke out his
sympathies were with the South. and,
not wishing to shirk any duty toward
te Southern cause, he went South and
joined the Confederate army. He was
afterwards taken prisoner and died
during his confinement in one of the
western prisons.
About the year 1848 Jacob Rice, 2nd,
ct Dallas, and Dr. aJmes A. Lewis,
of Trucksville, former a copartnership
under the firm name of Rice & Lewis,
and continued business in the Slyker
building, which Mr. Rice had in the
meantime purchased, as sucessors to
Mr. Lynch. Dr. Lewis left the firm
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" Mr. and Mrs. John Ruff entertained
Mr. and Mry. William (MacWilliam)
Sigmund of Galveston, Texas, ‘this
week while Mr. Sigmund called on
schoolmates of his boyhood. Mr. Sig-
mund resided in Noxen with his foster
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Silas McWil-
liam, leaving here twenty-one years
ago. Mr. Sigmund motored from Gal-
veston to Dalton, Pa.,, where his
mother, Mrs. Jesse Lewis, lives. From
there he came to Noxen. The entire
trip was made in one week’s traveling
and spending nights in camp.
Mr. Sigmund says working indus-
tries in Texas are as bad if not worse
than in Pennsylvania but that the
weather is really a lot warmer there.
Mr. Sigmund visited the tannery, see-
ing a number of former schoolmates,
among them Harry Miller, now assis-
tant superintendent of the plant. Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Saxe entertained
them wat diner on Tuesday. On Tues-
day evening Mr. Sigmund called on
Marvin French of French Bros. and
Stewart Casterline of Kingston, also
school mates. Mr. Sigmund remarked
on the many improvements our town
has 'made in the twenty years he has
been gone.
Mr. and Mrs. oJel Dunlap of East
Stroudsburg called on Mr. and Mrs.
John Ruff on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Richards of
Wilkes-Barre visited Mr. Richards’
brother, Earl Richards.
Albert May and Calvin Keiper of
Noxen with Stephen Lasko of Center-
moreland have accepted the contract
to furnish music for the farmer dances
at Beaumont.
Mrs. Robert Hackling has returned
home from Wilkes-Barre f’s,
home from Williamsport, where she
visited Mr. Hackling’s father.
Mrs. Roy Roote is visiting her sister,
Mrs. Harry Keiper.
Mr. and Mrs. William Cuddy had
Mrs. Cuddy’s sister and family of Al-
bany as guests over the week-end.
dall soon followed,
Kirkendall, deceased, late of Wilkes-
Barre, as the junior partner. The suc-
cessions in that store since then have
been Ricme & Sons, John J. Whiney,
Whitney & Shaver, Brown & Henry,
Smith & Garrahan, Garrahan & Son,
and now Ira D. Shaver. The old store
building burned down about
while occupied by Brown & Henry,
was immediately rebuilt by Whitney &
Shaver.
Another store was started at McLel-
lonsville quite early in the fifties by
Charles Smith, now of Trucksville, in
a store building which until quite re-
cently stood on the ground now oc-
cupied by Dr. C. A. Spencer's resi-
dence. Still another store was started
there about the sace time as the Smith
store, on the corner where now stands
the residence of Chester White. | It
was more of a “fluid” grocery store
where oysters, cider and even stronger
drinks could be had. The Smith store
buildings was used for like purposes
after Smith went away.
The best of these fifirst stores in
Dalla wouldhardly be dignified by that
name now. Only a few necessaries
were kept in them, and “necessaries”
then had a much scantier meaning
than now. A few of the commonest
and cheapest cotton cloths were kept
in stock; the woolen goods used for
winter wear, for both men and women,
were all homespunn. It took many
years for the storekeepers to convince
the farmers that they could buy
heavy clothes of part wool and part
cotton that would be as durable and
cheaper than the all wool homespun.
The time spent on the latter counted
as nothing and the argument failed.
A few other goods of kinds in daily
use, such as coffee, tea, sugar, to-
bacco, molasses, powder, shot and
flints and rum were of course neces-
asry to complete tore. Hunting ma-
terials and supplies were in great de-
mand. A hunter's outfit at that time
was proverbially “a quarter of powder,
a pound of shot, a pint of rum and a
flint.” Tobacco was always in de-
mand. The flint was the box of
matches of that day.
(Continued Next Week)
with George W.
1861 |
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in 1841, and the firm of Rice & Kirken-
THE WEEK'S
DOINGS
The north bound Lehigh Valley pas-
senger train was held up at the local
station for twenty minutes on Thurs-
day morning while two beautiful, reg-
istered Guernsey cows were unloaded
from the express car for Dorrance
Reynolds, Goodleigh Farm. The ani-
mals were shipped here from the Os-
ceola Farms at Cranford, N. J.
Frank Morris, Harold Wagner and
Charley Johnson of Beaumont made
up a fishing party the early part of
the week at Nigger Pond, Wyoming
county. Harold caught pickerel weigh-
ing 3 1-4 pounds and measuring 21
inches. A day or so later the same
party of fisherman caught eighteen
pike at Nigger Pond.
The World Series daily attracts a
large crowd of fans to Olivers Gar-
age where Mr. Oliver has installed a
large outdoor radio speaker to give
Dallas residents the series returns.
Among the 'most enthusiastic folowers
of the game are Prof. Gerton and some
other teachers from the Dallas town-
ship schools.
Trainmen on the local branch of the
Lehigh Valley report seeing an abun-
dance of wild game along the tracks!
at this season of the year. On Satur-
day night they saw aa young cub
near the tracks at Mountain Springs :
and on several days recently they have
seen a number of deer in the same
vicinity. -
Thom Higgins has an interesting ex-
hibit of fossil coal in one of his show |
windows. The exhibit is a perfect fern
now hardened into coal. It is one of the
wonders of nature that a plant which
grew thousands of years ago is thus
hardened form to be
posterity. The fossil was
Higgins by a local coal
viewed by
given to Mr.
dealer.
State engineers have been working |
in this section making surveys for a |
new State and county road. The new |
road, it is claimed, will connect with
the State road somewhere near the in-
tersection of the Fernbrook and Up-
per Shavertown road and will then
follow a course along Lehman avenue |
in Dallas and later join the county
road in “the vicinity of Misericordia
college. The reason given for such a
location is that the road will ease the
traffic problem through the centre of
the borough.
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The Queen Esther Circle was enter-
tained at the home of Helen and Ruth
Kinsman on Wednesday evening of
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Ide spent
Sunday afternoon with the latter's
father, J. W. Pembleton, at Trucksville
Mrs. Albert Vocher has been ill the
past few weeks.
A. B. Ide, Jr, who has a position
traveling for the Watkins Company in
Wyoming county, spent the week-end
at his home here.
Mrs. reoGge Lewis has returned from
a two weeks’ stay in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Harry Howells’ division of the
Ladies’ Aid Society are preparing to
give an entertainment in the c¢hliurch
basement in the near future.
Mr. and Mrs. William Parks and
family spent Sunday at Wilkes-Barre.
IClifford Ide and son Dean of Dallas
and Howard Ide and son Byron of
Shavertown and Marcus Ids and
family were callers at James Ide's on
Sunday afternoon.
Rally Day was observed in the Sun-
day school on Sunday at which time
there were thirteen admitted to full
{in church circles,
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membership in the church.
Heard Around
The Corner
SOME FISHERMAN
Charlie Johnson of Beaumont seems
to be the premier fisherman when it
comes to getting pickerel.
ponds at Jenningsville, and on last
Saturday caught thirteen, one of them
measuring twenty-five and one-half
inches long. And we can verify the
length, for we were there and did the
measuring. F. F. Morris was also in
the party but did not do so well. Prob-
ably Frank did not pay enough atten-
tion to the fish, as his mind might
have been on school problems, or, me-
thinks, his coming campaign this fall.
LOSES TOO MANY
" This same fellow, Charlie Johnson,
loses more fish thamn/the average ten =
persons would. Whether it is because
he catches or haoks more thaw the
average, we don’t know, but Charlie
can usually tell of a few big ones that
got away, or the one the “turtle”
chawed up, or some other good alibi in
addition to his catch.
SHOWING ACTIVITY
This fellow Jim Besecker is sure full
of action. Besides being the hustling
Ford dealer of town, Jim is president
of the Rotary club, president of the
Henry M. Laing Fire Company, active
secretary of the
school board and what not? However,
Jim still thinks he has time to become
a school director. If his vote in the
primary is any judge of results he
should go in nicely in the fall elec-
tion. We have heard rumors that
Stanley Doll, his opponent on the Pro-
hibjtion ticket, is thinking of making
a fight for it.
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Land Hurt by Dam
The bottomland of Egvpt is not as
fertile as it was before the Assuan
dam was built. The mud that was
carried down the Nile by natural flood-
ing is stopped by the dam. It settles
back of the dam, and the clear water
which irrigates the land below lacks
| the fertilizing element.
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