DALLAS POST, SATURDAY, NOVEVRER 2. 1929 rn rome Tr vfesenis— Have Somethin 1 Have Never Seen Before in hadio | 2 ERA ’ 3 ome in for a Demonstration v 5 v 1ave seen and heard plenty of radios with suf= 1tly good tone and power when you tune in stations. We would like to show you some-= >w in radio. A set that brings in the station 1t. : gram you want may be from some weak Nearby and more powerful stations may be 0p shoulder it off the air. e in that station on your C. A. Earl Radio, and you are concerned, it is the only station that You get it as clear and true as ever you got est’’ station. | what ‘we mean by the C. A. Earl’s ‘“Hair=- 1per=Selectivity. her radio might give you as good tone, power ity as the C. A. Earl on certain selected sta= but what we do say is this: “Own a C. A. Earl own the air.” a » the €. A. Earl with any other radio, sta- tation, clear around the dial. Compare the rl’s perfect performance on thvse stations 1e in blurry, or not at all, with the others. air=Line’’ Super=-Selectivity is worth an extra irs of anybody’s money: But—compare the rl prices with those of any other first-class re=- You will find that C. A. Earl Radio sells from a good many dollars less. Ps for a demonstration, and then let us quote payment terms to suit your convenience. rt Radio Service Department 1k Hardware HE ERTOWN, P ® pare 4 AAT \\. TS SSSZZ Oo PRICES ARE CUT “That the MODEL 31 All-Electric 8-Tube Set Sells for % (complete with tubes)” ................. ccc ceenn. 138. 50 “That the MODEL 41 All-Electric 9-Tube Set Sells for = 3 (complete with tubes)” .......... hn 187. 50 -H un tsville- Services at the M. E. Church Sun- day: 9:30 ‘a. m., Sunday school; 110:30 a. m. Christian Church: Sermon, 9:30 a. | m.; Sunday school, 10:30 a. m.; Young People’s meeting, 7:30 p. m. Mrs. Albert MacDonald of Alban, N. Y, is spending the week-end with | | her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Learn. Harry Hufford spent the week-end with his family, returning to his Dosi- tion at Comstock, N. Y., on Tuesday, accompanied by Mrs. Hufford ana children, who will spend the month at Comstock. | Mrs. Lewis Shaver entertained Miss Addie Eiston of Dallas over the week- end. Mrs. James Lewis and son Howard of East End boulevard has returned home after spending several days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Headman. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Ide, son Glenwood, Mrs. Asa R. Holcomb spent Sunday with relatives at Scranton. Mr. Ide, after spending several days with his farmily, left Sunday afternoon for Schenectady, where he has a posi- tion with the General Electric Com- pany. Mr. ,and Mrs. G. A. Learn enter- tained on Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Rus- sell Learn of Scranton, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford L. Oberst and son George, and Charles Learn of Kingston. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Castner of rorvy kort visited Mr. and Mrs. Fran: burord on Sunauay. rue B. “A. Ciass of the M. E. Sun- day school held’ a meeung at the fowie of Mr, and Mrs. Clifiord ube. ul Kingswn ou eriday evemig., Al biol supper was served to the rollow- ig Misses bertna kadiuali, Jalie keener, Louise obertram, Ciara Hung, dadured peruraw, Dorowny: Bertram, Lorotny perans, Mrs. G. A. Learn, irs. Josepn Opeist, Alired Logers, raul Johnson, Walter Palmer, Paul iuckert, Cuarles Learn, George Oberst, Harry Edwards, Jr, Mr. and Mrs. neuuetn werry, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Edwards, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Oberst. Mrs. Harry Hufford and daughters, Betty and Edith, visited relatives' at Luzerne on Wednesday. Mrs. A. R. Holcomb, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Ide spent Thursday after- noon with Mr. and Mrs. Rummage at Sweet Valley. Miss Emma Headman spent several days last week with her sister, Mrs. Paul Bogert, at Town Line, Mr. and Mrs. George A. Learn en- tertained at dinner Saturday evening in honor of their birthdays and wed- ding anniversary, also the wedding an- niversary of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Bert- ram. Those present: Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Daniels of Forty Fort, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Bertram, Mr. and Mrs Learn. Mr. and Mrs. Jones and family have moved to Hillside. Bertha, Thomas, Elizabeth Brecken- ridge, Ruth Creasy, Margaret Girvan and Jennie Thomas of Dallas spent Sunday afternoon with Ruth May Nagle. | turned Mis? school Mr. aR family sp home of ticoke. The local Ladieg meet on Wednesd the home of Mrs. W all day quilting. All quested to be present! Prayer meeting s¢ Baptist Church were I evening at the home of MT Ered Shouldice and Walter have accepted positions with I Brown & Co. at Wilkes-Barr=8 Irving Briggs is ill at the Ea his grandmother. \ $ A number of little girls gathered A the home of Helen Splitt on Saturday afternono to help her celebrate her thirteenth birthday anniversary ang enjoyable time ws hd by all. Ej were won by the following: Do Smith, Ruth May Hazel and Kejorski. Lunch was serve following: Gladys and Jess Iielen, Jane and -Marjc Evelyn and Caroline Rice, Helen Kejorski, Ruth, Leona Linsinbigler, Stell Elma Rekus, Dorothy an Smith, eJzsie and Dennie Velton Beam, Richard Sew Durwood Splitt. History of Dallas In the practice of medicine our own Sunday school and band organizer hast also won some laurels. It is told 0 him that on | oneoccasion galls tinguished and skillful practitios Ca the same profession, being overce with heat or from some other cau was suddenly prostrated and beea unconscious in the road near house of our hero. ith quick prese of mind, our hero had the patient r moved to his house near by and © dered the two men whom he halls called as assistants to" apply cold water bandages to the head, while he took down his herb doctor book, ad justed his spectacles, and began lick# ing his thumb and with it turning thé leaves one by one’ and carefully scans ning each page, while his thumb wag resting against his protruding tongué so that it might be dampened on thé instant that the next leaf was to he thumbed over, After nearly an hou thus doubled over this volume of medi] cal lore, a cry broke out: * > boys, I've found it} we've otto ; S him! One of you go for a pound ground mustard while I steam some; hemlock boughs.” Quicker than I can ‘ write it, one of the attendants darted out to the store near by, but in his hase he asked for and obtained a pack='/ of ginger instead of mustard. In the 4 excitement and hurry, however, no one # discovered the mistake, and soon the | patient was nicely encased in uf cc ing of ginger plasters, steaminfz hem lock boughs, etc. The effect was all | that was desired—it woke! up. the pa- tient. He was quite restored and still} The Ladies’ Aid Society met at the M. E. Church on Thursday for an all | day quilting and meeting. It was de- | cided to spend a day with Mrs. Learn | to quilt, the date to be announced later. Dinner was served by Mrs. J. A. Rogers, Mrs. Frank Bulford, Mrs. Ellen Kelly, Mrs. Clarence Elston to the folowing: Rev. H. F. Henry, Mrs. Harry Hufofrd, children Betty and Edith, Celeste KX. Prutzman, Mrs. Martha A. Prutzman, Mrs. Ralph W Shaver, Mrs. Frank H. Johnson, Mrs. Gordon Johnson, Lynn Johnson, Mrs. Harry Chase, Mrs. T. W. Stoeckel, Mr. and Mrs. George Ide, Mrs. Asa R. Holcomb, Mrs, H. A. Randall, Miss Elizabeth Risewick, Mrs. Ruth Doron, Mrs. R. Lee McHenry, Mrs. Harold Shepard, Mrs. H. A. Randall, Charles Learn, Jan Beachmam, David, W. Thompson, Lawrence Jackson, Mrs. | Harvey W. Danks, J. A. Rogers, Mrs. | | A. J. Hadsall, Mrs. O. L. Harvey, Mrs. G. A. Learn, Mrs. J. A. Rogers, Mrs. Ellen Kelly, Harold B. Elston, Mrs. | Clarence R. Elston. rene —-Carverton- Mrs. Mary Knorr, son Herbert, Mrs. Bertha Anderson and daughter Ida spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Knorr of Kingston. Mrs. Kate Rozelle of Mt. Zion spent a few days at the home of her daugh- ter, Mrs. I. L. Coursen. Luther Coolbaugh of Russell Hill visited at the home of his mother-in- law, Mrs. Mary Knorr. § Sunday. services, day school at 9:30, followed by church at 10:30. Mrs. Bertha, Anderson, Bertha Cool- baugh, Ida Anderson and Mabel Cool- baugh recently called on Mrs. William Brown, who is confined to her bed suffering injuries from a recent fall. Miss Ida Anderson caleld on Mrs. I. L. Coursen recently. Sun- Miss Mary and i.eigh Hefft are ‘near central line. The date of opensy | lives to tell the tale—if he would. Schools One of the first schools—probably 3 the first—taught in Dallas, was in an old barn near the Treg¥Snte of 1 hill Kunkle, on lot 53 of certified Bedford] ing this school I cannot obtain with | any degree of certainty, nor can I learn the name of the teacher, though | there are two or three people still li ing who attended and well rememb the school. The date was probab about 113 or 18141, and the teachd fas either Mr. - Sell or - Josep Sweazy. My informants do not agre on this point. It seems to be undi puted, however, that both of the daught private schools in barns and} private houses ‘of that neighborhoods before the "log school-house ss erected in 1816. ‘What’ became of Rely I cannot learn. Joseph Sweazy re=- mained in Dallas until about the yeas 1843, when he sold his farm and moved down to Wilkes-Barre. He bought, and for several years owned a considerable tract of land between.Ross and South streets through which Franklin street hos since been opened. The three old houses still standing (1886) on north- easterly side of Ross street and next South, east of Wright treet, now owned by estate of Isaac Osterhout, were erected by him. Joseph Sweazy was a devout Methodist and an educated | man. He was of too find a. grain to i enjoy the rough life and experiences that time in Dallas. His last yea were pitiable in the extreme. death of his wife and a stroke of A alysis coming nearly together in advanced years caused Sorrows more thanhe could stand. His religious ‘meditations became nearly or quite an insanity. At last he lost the power of speech and began to write down his religious thoughts. In. the year 1248, just prior to his death, he sent out a written appeal to the publig as fol- lows: “By rpason of palsygj am ren ; 3 i) 3 spending some time at he home of their brothg kha! Hefft. dered spe«th o s and my #hright hang ina 0 dng
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