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DALLAS POST, SATURDAY, NO
, 1929
‘Established 1889
“An independent paper, of the people, devoted to the great farm-
ing section of Luzerne and other counties.
~ Trucksville, Shavertown, Leh.nan, Dalias, The Greater West Side,
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Valley, Harvey's Lake, Huntsville and Tunkhannock are circulated by
~The Dallas Post.
Also 100 copies for Wilkes-Barre readers;
y Luzerne and Wyoming Counties,
~ Pennsylvania; 200 copies to friends far away.’
Entered as second-class matter at the Post-Office at Dallas, Pa,
“i under Act of March 3, 1879.
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AS POST
Dallas, Pa.
A GOOD CITIZEN AND A SOUND POLICY
{ } Weiley Himmler, owner of the Himmler Theatre, is seriously considering
the installation of either an R. C. A. or Western Electric talking picture
quipment in his theatre here.
Such equipment will cost in the neighborho
of $8,000 and if Mr. Himmler has it installed it will give his theatre talking
_ picture equipment equal in quality with that in any of the large city play-
: es. There are several companies manufacturing sound equipment for
motion picture houses.
Some of the equipment is priced as low as $700 or
$800, but Mr. Himmler will consider none of these types in selecting sound
reducing apparatus for Dallas audiences.
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always giving the best service obtainable to his patrons.
dmire Mr. Himmler’s progregsiveness and his business philisophy of
It takes coniderable
~ courage and an unbounded confidence in the community for a man to invest
ousands of dollars in a community enterprise.
Though there were many in
Dallas who said thkt a theatre would not pay here when Mr. Himmler started
to build a good theatre and to put the very best equipment in it.
stop there. When he started showing
pensive releases for his programs.
He didn’t
pictures he secured recent and ex-
It is his philsophy of business to give the
best obtainable to the public at any price, then if failure should come it will
‘be because 1:0 man could make a success of the business in the field m
hich it is located. That, we think, is a sound philosophy and one which
ould bring the rewards of success in any community.
Contributors’
Column
November 5, 1929.
The Dallas Post,
In your editorial column of last aSt-
urday there peared an it me, the
der if you really mean to convey,
the ontwde ‘world the, impression
Br of keeping it so. Iam
‘sure you did not mean that.
May I give you some facts relating
the Trucksville Post Office, facts
you are not aware of according
' to your editorial?
About 1,500 people are
mail on the rural routes from this of-
165 subscribers receive the
Wilkes-Barre Record daily on these
routes and they may read their pap-
‘ers at not later than eleven o’clock on
the morning of the day the paper is
published. Ihave lived in some places
where carrier service did not better
his.
2 ‘A truck is required to haul the mail
entering this office, but<up to. this
th that mail has been hauled to
he office on a wheelbarrow, and yet,
in the record of five years not a single
parcel post package or registered let-
“ter has been’ reported lost. I have seen
“the carrier waiting at the station as
Nate as ten o'clock at night, waiting
i for the train to take the night mail
out, and there have been times when
he has had to wait until 1:30 in the
‘next morning, in order to remain true
to his trust. And while he was wait-
.Ang.at the station, the postmaster was
compelled to wait at her office for the
eturn. I have heard no complaint of
receiving
this because it was in the line of duty.
Here is another fact of which you
may not be aware. All parcel post is
ceived from: Wilkes-Barre after six
‘clock at night, but these same pack-
ges are delivered to the patrons of |
: this office the next morning. Having
lived within the city routes I can say
to you that this service is fully
‘zoodas we receive on those
routes and sometimes the city
° were far less prompt.
It seems to me, in fairness “to a
good woman who is faithfully trying
to perform her duty in the spirit of
real service, a woman who has the
respect of her neighbors and all the
people who have business dealings
with her, that you owe her a. note of
apology for this editorial.
i Very truly yours,
REV. A. J. CHAPMAN.
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city:
routes |
-Kunkle-
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Herdman enter-
tained Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Hepler of
Scranton over the weekend.
‘Miss Lois Laundon has accepted a
position as bookkepper for J. F. Be-
secker of aDllas.
Mrs. Owen Ide entertained recentyl
at dinner Mrs. Harry Miss
Frances Sweezey, Mrs. Jane Mann of
Wilkes-Barre, Mrs. Cragg Herdman,
Jane and Rebecca Herdman, Mrs.
Marion Elston and Mrs. Ralph Hess.
Miss Henrietta Weaver of Centre-
moreland was the guest of Miss Hel-
en Hess over the weekend.
Jane and Donald Ide, children of
Mr. and Mrs. Owen Ide are recover-
ing from a recent illness.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Conden spent
Thursday evening of last week with
Mr. and Mrs. William Miers.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Makinson and
daughter, Nellie were visitors at the
Olive Kunkle on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Fisher, Miss
Emily Fisher and Harold Fisher of
Trucksville were the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Hess on Sunday. -
Mrs., Gideon Miller entertairf:d the
teachers and officers of the Sunday
school with a delightful Halloween
party on Wednesday evening of last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Dana Valkenburg and
son, Franklin of Jenningsville called
on Mr. and Mrs. William Miers re-
cently. :
Mrs. W. H. Herdman, Mrs. S. JT.
Hess, Miss Vivian Herdman, Miss
Herdman and Rebecca Herdman [eft
on Friday last for a motor trip to
Hempstead, L. I., and Brooklyn, where
they visited with Miss Doris Herd-
man and Mrs. Margaret Allin return-
ing home on Sunday. A stop was also
made at Newark, N. J.
Russell Sayre and Donald Him-
mell are enjoying a thirty-day fur-
lough at their homes here. They have
been
Sweezey,
‘in military service about one
ee ee)
Agreed at Last
Wife—*“It is strange that men al-
ways want sons. My father was al-
ways sorry that I was not a boy.”
Husband—*“So am I.”—Kikeriki, Vien-
na.
You Can Get Stuck, Though
The difference between ticker tape
and adhesive tape 1s that the latter
has no quotations on it.—American
Magazine.
Riches Within Reach
We may not all be rich in material
things, but we may all be rich in
mental, moral and spiritual things
without impoverishing anyone.—C. L.
Quinron.
WE STAND BY OUR GUNS!
Considerable criticism has been
made of the editorial appearing last
week in the Post under the title, “A
: Weekly's Weekly Protest.” There fas
been almost an equal amount of com-
mendation. The editorial did not at-
~ tempt to deal in personalities nor did
it apply to any particular postoffice
in -this vicinity, although practically
every postoffice has taken it as a per-
sonal affront and resented it. In one
instance a copy of the editorial was
z ‘posted where everybody who visited
the postoffice could view it. We
n't expect this generous publicity
office before 12 o'clock Friday night
do not reach many subscribers on the
R. F. D. routes of this section before
Monday and Tuesday mornings. We
do not think the fault lies with the
services of any of the postoffice em-
ployees but perhaps with the arrange-
ment of the mail schedules in ‘this
section. It is rather discouraging to
spend a large part of Friday night
making every efort fto get the paper
out and then to receive constant com-
munications from Trucksville, Shaver-
town, Kingston, Wyoming, New York
City and other communities saying
that their papers are not reaching
them until Monday and Tuesday and
not
ih Vyoming as late as Wednesday. and;
infrequently in Xingston and 4
HEARD AROUND
THE CORNER
The Eletcion
DO YOU KNOW THAT?
Burgess Harry Anderson, sure sur-
prised the boys around the corner by
his election to another term as bur-
gess, defeating our smiling restaurant
owner, Thom Higgins.
man in town can: be
found -than John L. Sulivan, who do-
nated two machines to hauling
votes in the interest of burgess.
No happier
in
The old residents of the town rallied
closely around the banner of our bur-
gess, and this, together with the won-
derful vote he received on
feights, did the trick.
Parrish
As predicted by this column, Jim
Besecker won over tanley Doll by a
big majority. Mr. Doll with only the
Prohibition nomination, however, made
a good showing, but had no chance
against the affable Ford dealer.
Space won over F. F. Morris by
seventy-seven votes. We conceded
his election by twenty-five votes but
his neighbors on the Heights gave
him thirty-two majority and the old
Dallas district forty-five majority.
Ralph Rood, although losing to
Clarke Hildebrand, made a fine show-
ing with only the Democratic nomina-~
tion. The combination started in the
primary of “Garrahan-Franklin-Hilde-
brandt,” could not be headed
off.
however,
And
tion,
in speaking of this combina-
Councilman
into several
‘Parris is eoming
messages of congratula-
tions for he was the dady of the above |
combination.
That Hildebrandt’'s election,
Parrish will have a strong ally
council to back his program of im-
provements which he has in thind for
Parrish Heigths. tI is not known just
how Franklin will line up, and Garra-
han, too, although Harry has been
always friendly to the so-called anti-
Parrish faction on council.
with
on
Roland Stevens was about town, en-
joying the fun, and in this connection
we want to say that Dallas loses a
mighty fine councilman with his re-
tiring on the first of the year. Roland
was of good assistance to the town
during his tenure of office.
Ralph Eipper, the retiring council-
man, did not make any effort to suc-
ceed himself.
Voting was exceedingly light during
the morning at the downtown polls
and Judge of Election Stanley Doll
just had to put his foot dawn to keep
John Frantz inside of the election
polls. John felt that he could go out
and kill a few rabbits between votes,
but was “voted down” by the Judge.
H. B. Hale read the election laws
about no member of the election board
being allowed outside of the polls, and
steadfastly stood by his guns and
never went out to eat or anything. Of
course, this was Hale's first time as
a member of the local board and
wanted to make a good showing.
Corey Gordon, smiling and agree-
able as ever, was on the ‘board and
makes a fine clerk. Corey knows the
ins and out and is a help to the board.
we just want to recall
the many voters that have passed
away during the last five years or
less. Oliver Fisher, one of the oldest
judges of election in point of age an
has passed to the
In passing,
in years served,
great beyond.
Daddy
usual and his cheery hello appeared
to be the same, but we missed good
old Mother Parrish, his helpmate for
many years, who voted every time
since women had the franchise.
Parrish came to vote, as
B. W. Brickel was another who was
always anxious to exercise his right
of franchise, but he too, has gone.
Ofifcer Avery was little seen during
the day, probably Ed thought that the
warring aspirants would keep within
the bounds of the law of peace and
order.
In speaking of police, we wonder
now what will happen. Many rumors
have been around the corner in the
past month or two. , The chief does
not seem to worry, probably having
something up his sleeve.
We wonder what becarne of that
case down Kingston Township way
where a prominent person sure ae
smash things up a bit?
Who is the Main street fellow who
usually goes to sleep when opportunity
‘comes his way?
And Any Jury Would Acquit Hin
By Albert T. Reid |
SAY, STEVE" WASHINGTON WAS
REAL MAN. HE DRANK LIKE A
{PLAYED A STIFF OLD GAME
OF POKER. , TOO.
I'M CERTAINLY GETTIN FED
Ur ON THESE WISE BIRDS
DID AND WHAT HE WoulD
FISH; RAN AFTER THE LADIES;
TELLIN ME WHAT WASHINGTON
Nou KNaw IF WASHINGTON
WAS ALIVE HE'D SNAP iS
FINGER AT A LOT OF TMESE
DOGGONE LAWS WE HAVE NOW|
Roe. - You Kw THIS
MAN; GEORGE. WASHINGTo bp 2s
WELL, HE Ey « nh
| SEE WHERE Tey ADVERTISE
WASHINGTON WaULD DRIVE A
DINGFOD GAR IF HE WERE LIVING]
THATS APPLESAUCE. HED OWN.
A BLOOFER; THAT'S WHAT
rr
HE'D OWN,
Ryman Recalls
First Memorial
Day In Dallas
Also Tells of Early Schools and In-
teresting Incidents ‘in Connection
With Memorial Day Observance
The same enterprising citizen who
organized and started the first Sunday
school, famed for its abounding good
nature, generosity and forwardness in
starting and promoting new and use-
ful operations for the interest and
welfare of the community, is also noted
for the variety of his trades and ac-
complishments. He was born to handle
skillfully the tools of all trades. He
practiced a little law and medicine,
and in music he was at home with al-
most any instrument. After the war
when the 30th of May was first set
apart and made a holiday for the
decoration of the graves of the sol-
dier dead, he was the first to
provise a band of drums and fifes to
im-
| and
|
| take part in the ceremony of visiting
decorating the various graves in
the graveyards in and about Dallas.
The program of this first decoration
day at Dallas was to visit each sol-
dier’s grave and lay upon it a wreath
of flowers; and as the procession
marched from one grave to another,
music of the funeral kind was ,fur-
nished by this band. There were sev-
eral graveyards and a considerable
number of graves in each to be visited,
while the number of tunes suitable for
such an occasion in the repertory of
organized band was very
limited, and in visiting so many graves
there was of course much repetition,
so that by night, the services having
lasted most of the day, this band, and
especially its organized and leader,
were very tired of those particular
pieces. Finally the last grave had
been decorated and the procession was
headed for home. The program called
for more music, but to repeat again
any of those psalm tunes seemed un-
bearable to all. With a look of almost
of despair, one of the members ven-
tured to ask of the leader, “What shall
this newly
I play now?" “Oh, it, anything
—the
the reply. The relief was ,so great
that all marched away heartily enjoy-
ing the change, while the bluntness
and profanity of the
amusing yet literal
of the situation has since furnished
much amusement to many who were
present on that occasion. ¢
In the practice of medicine our own
Sunday school and band organizer has
also won some laurels. It is told of
him that on one occasion a dis-
tinguished and skillful practitioner of
the same profession,
was suddenly prostrated and became
unconscious in the road near the house
of our hero.
'noved to his house nearby and ordered
the two men who he had called as as-
sistants to apply cold water bandages
to the head, while he took down his
herb doctor book, adjusted his spec-
tacles and began licking his thumb and
‘with it turning the leaves one by one
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