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FORTIETH YEAR
Himmler Theatre
Purchases Talkie
Picture Equipment
Vitaphone Engineers to Make Install-
tion Before Christmas—Sound Pic-
tures to Be Shown After Jan-
wary 1.
Talking motion pictures will soon be
heard in Dallas. Wesley Himmler,
owner of the Himmler Theatre, placed
an order with the Vitaphone corpora-
tion this week for one of its latest
and most ‘modern theatre talking
equipments. Although sound engineers
will work on the installation during
the next two weeks, it not expected
that the new equipment will be in use
before the first of the year.
Th Vitaphone equipment is manu-
[4 factured by the same concern that in-
+. Stalled talking pictures in the Capitol
Theatre in Wilkes-Barre and in all
of the large theatres of the country.
The equipment purchased by Mr.
Himmler is of the type now being
used by the leading theatres in New
York City and Philadelphia.
With the installation of the Vita-
phone, the local theatre will be able
to show the latest film releases in
many instances before they appear in
Wilkes-Barre and never more than two
weeks or a month later. Some of the
new pictures booked by Mr. Himmler
include Techni-color productions. A
few of the talking picture subjects are
/ pictures . not yet. released, such as:
The Thirteenth Chair, Ship Fron
Shanghai, Cotton and Silk, Mysterious
Island and recent releases like Hal-
“letuiah, Navy Blues, Dynamite and
Hollywood Review and Madame X.
The establishment of a talking pic-
ture theatre here will be a great as-
set to the community and gives Dallas
theatre equipment second to none in
the country.
In commenting on the installation
of the new equipment, Mr. Himmler
said that he had purchased the best
sound device he could get regardless
of price. If there is any change in the
price of admission to the theatre it
will not exceed 10 cents and this ad-
vance will not be made if the size of
the audiences justifies the present
price of admission.
COMES BUYER FOR
MONTGOMERY-WARD CO.
Rolland Stevens and Charles Greg-
vy left yesterday for New York City
ere Mr. Gregory will make pur-
RASES Lor his Taderdasheryand cloth-
1g store. « Mr. Stevens will go on to
Jbany on Monday where he has ac-
epted a position with the Montgom-
ry-Ward Company. Mr. Stevens was
In conference Saturday in Wilkes-
Barre with the eastern head buyer of
he Montgomery-Ward Company and
vas chosen out of a list of three hun-
ired applicants for trial as eastern
ardware buyer for the company. In
his new work. Mr. Stevens will do the
purchasing for 106 stores and two of
he company’s eastern mail order
jouses. One of his first duties will
be to inspect a factory in Connecti-
cut which has just received an order
om the company for 10,000 tents. It
s Mr. Stevens’ duty to see whether
he company has the facilities to turn
but the tents in the time specified by
he Montgomery-Ward Company.
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INSTALL BIG TRANSFORMER
lin
Wilkes-Barre Traction Company
mployees installed a big electric
ansformer this week at the Hay’s
orner power house. The transformer
as shipped here in a special car at- |
ched to a Lehigh Valley freight |
ain. The car was then switched to |
le traction company tracks and]
ic work car.
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SLIGHT BLAZE
Dr. Henry M. Laing fire
esponded to an alarm on Wednesday
morning about 10 o’clock when a ditch
fdigger on the Steele plot at Goss
Manor caught fire. Gasoline which
- was spilled over the motor while the
tank was being filed was responsible
for the fire, which workmen quickly
extinguished before the arrival of the
firef engine.
WHEN IN LUZERNE
EAT
WEIDNER'S
We have plenty of Oysters and
crackers and we're always ready to
serve you.
Ask for your coupons. These
litle tickets will give you free oil
at Weidner’s New Gas Station at
Hillside.
REMEMBER
yeldners Lunch
Established 1904
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oved to the power plant by an elec- |
company |
NE
Under
Motor Vehich
bile license plates
on and after December ’
morrow. The rush for tags will
begin in earnest at Harrisburg
twenty-four hours thereafter, the
sight of new tags operating as a re-
minder to hundreds of thousands
of motor car owners that the be-
ginning of a new year is near. The
highest tag in the 1930 series is
99999, a plate three and one-half
inches shorter than the high tag
for 1929, which is 999-999. Here-
after no Pennsylvania plate will
9 bear more than five characters.
Woodsmen Observe
Black Bear Behind
Pine Boughs
Harrisburg, Dec. 13—Hunters in
search of black bear may expect to
find them hiding in the branches of
red pine trees, if guided by recent ob-
servations of foresters in the Pennsyl-
vania Department of Forests and
Waters, who have been engaged in a
field study of this tree in northern
Pennsylvania.
Woodsmen and forest lovers have
often observed, says the report, how
wild apples, cherries and serviceberry
trees are ‘broken by bear climbing
them for food. Evidence now shows
that the bear frequently climb red
pine trees. Just what they have been
looking for has not, been determined.
It is considered unlikely that the bear
have a special antipathy toward red
pine, and since no fruit was found on
the trees discovered, the foresters con-
cluded that the hear delight to romp
and play in their attractive soft green
Crowns.
The injury observed on the pine is
of three kinds, according to Prof.
George S. Perry, of the St Forest Re-
search Station located at Mount Alto.
some trees of small size have heen
scarred at five to seven feet above the
ground. Claw and teeth marks are
plainly seen on such trees and the in-
jury is unusually frequent on red pine.
Bear are considered omnivorous in
their food habits and devour almost
everything they can find except wood
and foliage. They eat suculent fruits,
insect larvae, honey, frogs, reptiles,
fish and every other kind of flesh they
can obtain. It is hardly probable, says
Prof. Perry, that these bear were 100k-
ing for insects, since data collected on
red pine for some years past has
shown that it has probably fewer
enemies than any promising forest tree
in the Keystone State.
An adage among older woodsman
has it that marks made upon tree
bark at five or so feet above ground
are made by bears standing upright
and scarring the trees with their front
claws with the idea that the scars will
be a challenge to fellow bears that
later pass that way. Later comers are
supposed to measure their height
with the first scars and attempt to
put similar marks above them. Fail-
ing to do this they realize their physi-
cal deficiencies and, slink away rather
than risk a losing combat by remain-
ing in the neighborhood. They are
wise. /
A large number of trees from three
to ten feet tall show that their tops
have been bitten off a foot or two be-
olw the tip. Other trees 20 to 40
feet tall have een climbed and have
their tops bitten out at a considerable
height. This latter injury is believed
to have been done by cubs, since in
some instances the tree tops coull
of
been found
scarcely support the weight a
{| grown bear. No signs have
to show that bears eat any part of the
trees they bite.
been |
to
just another
the bears have
is not common enough
The damage
| doing he
| taken seriously, but is
| of the interesting temperaments of
this little understood big game animal,
is full of
the dark
| Woods in increasing numbers.
| 125 to 175 bear are usually killed an-
nually within the State forests.
168 were killed.
one-third of the total number
playful pranks and
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| which
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| haunts depths of
Last
year
killed annually in Pennsylvania.
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POPULAR OFFICER DIES
Officer
known and popular
Kingston police force,
Thursday morning of
while assisting school children across
Wyoming avenue
Officer Kelly was well known by resi-
Michael Kelly, aged 51,
member of the
died suddenly
to a code of fair play made him a
favorite among motorists who watched
ties daily at the intersection of Ben-
nett and Dorrance streets in Kingston.
He leaves three grown children, one
sister and three brothers.
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GEORGE L. CLEWELL DIES
George L. Clwell of 62 Butler
Kingston, well known to
this section and long
street,
residents of
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APPEARS IN THE
DALLAS POST
PAS POST, SAT URDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1929
on Have
unt Club
Pike County
Quiwaumick Club Owns 700 Acres
in the Heart of the Bear and Deer
Country
During the deer hunting season
whieh closes today, a large number of
local sportsmen have been hunting big
game in Pike county. The most popu-
lar rendezvous for local nimrods is the
Quiwaumick Rod and Gun ‘Club lo-
cated in the heart of the big region
near Walker Lake in Pike county.
The club was formed several years
ago by local men and now has a tmem-
bership of twenty-five. The majority
of the members are residents of this
section. A few, however, come from
Wyoming Valley and Honesdale.
The club owns over 700 acres of
land, sixty of which are cleared. On
the property are two houses and a
barn, affording excellent accommoda-
tions for large hunting parties and
good shelter for automobiles. During
the hunting season the club employs
a chef to take care of the commissary
needs and care for the clubhouse. The
main building is located about three-
eights of a mile off the main road.
During ‘the years that the property has
been under the ownership of the local
club, several thousand trees have been
planted and active conservation work
done in reforestation.
There is an abundance of big
in the immediate vicinity of the club-
house. "An evidence of the work ac-
complished by the State Game Com-
missioners in conservation work ’is
shown by the rapidly increasing num-
ber of deer in the Pike county section,
there being at least twice as many
deer in that region today than there
was six or seven years ago. This year
a number of good kills were made by
local sprtsmen who had their head-
quarters at the club. Frank Cleve-
land of Kingston is president of the
club. Harry Garahan is secretary and
Ralph Rood is the treasurer.
Members are: R. L. Hallock, War-
den Kunkle, J. R. Oliver, A. L. Tur-
game
ner, Harry Garahan, Paul Shaver,
Sterling Machell, Ralph Rood, Her-
man VanCampen, Ernest Keller, O. P.
Williams, Henry Sipple, Guy Wool-
bert, Stanley sTohnson, Russell Frantz,
Harry Lewert, W. A. Steelman, RoD-
ert Steltz, I. D. Hallock, H. G. Bor-
tree, A, M. Hildebrandt, Edward
Hildebrandt, David oRbertson, Frank
Cleveland and E. E. Hallock.
tm epee Se
ADJUSTED SERVICE CERTIFICATE
TO EXPIRE JANUARY 2, 1930
January 2, 1930, is the last day on
which World War veterans who have
not already done so may make appli-
cation for adjusted service certificate,
the so-called Federal “bonus.”
In 1924 Congress authorized the
issuing of a paid-up twenty-year en-
dowment insurance policy to all World
War veterans, both enlisted men and
officers below the rank of major. The
amount or face value of the certificate
is determined by the number of days
the veteran was actually in the mili-
tary or naval service.
In fixing i--, maturity
& date .Con-
gress was governed by two major con-
siderations. The first was a desire to
make the certificate payable at that
time of. life when 'most veterans will
be planning to reduce their hours of
labor, or perhaps to retire from active
business. In the event the veteran
died before maturity date of the cer-
tificate, Congress desires to help care
for the bereaved families. The second
consideration was the huge cost to the
taxpayers. The Government is al-
ready obligated for almost four billion
| dollars by reason of applications al-
| ready received.
While approximately 85 per cent. of
eligible veterans have already received
their certificates, it is estimated that
40,000 veterans- in Eastern Pennsyl-
have failed to submit applica-
tions. Friends and relatives should
urge all veterans to apply for adjusted
certificates if they have not
done so.
All ex-service organizations kep ap-
plication blanks on hand and offer to
give advice to veterans. Also the re-
of the U. 8. Veterans’
Bureau, 33rd and Arch streets, Phila-
delphia, and the sub-offices in Harirs-
burg and Scranton will send blanks to
those who request them by mail or as-
sist veterans who call at the offices.
O’LEARY CLASS INITIATED
of Father J. J.
of St. Therese’s
a class of 100
Named
O'Leary,
in honor
pastor
Barre Council, 302, Knights of Colum-~
bus, at the conferring of the first de-
gree in Wilkes-Barre Thursday night.
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W. C. T. U. TO MEET
The monthly meeting of the W. C.
| T. U. will be held at the home of Mrs.
Miller, Kunkle Road,
2 p. m.
Tuesday,
December 17, at The first
| chapter of the book, “Give Prohibition
a prominent resi- |
dent of the West Side, died Thursday |
afternoon at his home of pneumonia.
| Born in .Berwick, he was for twentv- |
five years a flour broker. He was a |
| member of the Masonic fraternity
Beside wife he. leaves two
| Gi. Livingston and French.
: wil held this afternoon
Mt. Greenwood
his
The funeral
he at: 2, with
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at
interment
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sons. |
| F.. Westover.
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UNLOADS TEAM
Marvin Elston unloaded a, fine team
| of horses last Friday night at the Dal-
las Lehigh Valley station. The horses |
had been shipped to hi from Dushn
| Its Chance,” will be given by Mrs. D.
Missing Girls
May Be White
Slave Victims
No Trace Found of Two Tunkhan-
nock Girls Who Disappeared Mys-
teriously on Night of November 30
No clue to the whereabouts of two
young Tunkhannock girls who dis-
appeared on the night of November
30 has yet been found, and it is be-
lieved that they 'may have fallen into
the clutches of the white slave net-
work that has been active throughout
Pennsylvania and New England.
The girls are Pauline Emmons,
aged 15, and Ruth Meyers, aged 14.
The girls went to the public library
in Tunkhannock on the evening men-
tioned wand after leaving there no
trace of them has been found. It is
thought, says the Tunkhannock Re-
publican, that they were taken away
by a young man who is said to have
had a car parked near the library. The
fact that the car is said to have
borne a Rhode Island license is not
reassuring, as very recently Federal
officials have started an investigation
of an alleged white slave ring with
headquarters in New England and
operating extensively in Pennsylvania.
Numerous girls from Bradford and
Sullivan counties have been lured away
by agents of the ring and it is quite
possible that the two Tunkhannock
girls are among their victims.
The Emmons girl is' the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Emmons of
Bridge street, Tunkhannock, and the
Meyers girl is the daughter of Mrs.
Belle Meyers of the same street. The
Emmons girl's father was one of the
'men who was seriously injured when
the automobile in which he was riding
overturned at Ruggles last summer.
Any information that will lead to the
discovery of the girls should be di-
rected to the parents or the Pennsyl-
vania State Police at Wyoming.
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
PUTS ASHES ON ROADS
Snow, rain and sleet made travel on
State and county highways extremely
dangerous on Thursday night and
Friday. In numerous instances auto-
biles skidded off the highways or were
damaged by impact with other cars.
Employees of the State Highway Dec-
partment were on the job with trucks
Thursday and Friday nights scatter-
ing ashes on wall of the hilly .portiors
of ‘the State highways and county
roads in this section, Provision: was
made for such emergencies: sarky in
the fall when large piles of ashes were
distributed at convenient points along
the highways to be distributed during
the snow and sleet season.
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WILL SAVE INDIAN RELICS
Indian drawings on rocks
Susquehanna river below Columbia,
said to be among the best Indian
hieroglyphics in the East, will be
saved at a cost of almost $10,000 when
the Safe Harbor Water and Power
Company builds its $30,000,000 power
plants on the river at Safe Harbor.
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The rocks containing the hieroglyphies |
will be covered by backwater from the
dam, bui the portions containin; the
drawings will removed before the dam
is built.
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FEW DEER SHIPPED BY EXPRESS
Although there has been ‘a record
kill of deer in the mountainous section
of Wyoming wand Sullivan counties
this year, only two deer carcasses
have been shipped out of that section
by express. In former years a great
many of the deer killed were shipped
out by trains and during the weeks of
the big game hunting season the
trains were loaded with hunters. The |
advent of the automobile has made it |
easier for hunters to get in and out |
of the woods and most of the deer |
now shot are carried on automobile |
running boards. "The change is one
that few people would have expected
or ‘anticipated a few years ago.
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SHOOT DEER
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Glen Rowley of Washington, D. C., |
and Charles Reigle of Fernbrook each
brought home an ‘eight-prong buck
from Pike county on Friday night.
| service Sunday morning at the
| diately
IMPORTANT NOTICE
The Dallas Post respectfully calls
attention to all correspondents and
advertisers to send their copy in to
the Post as early as possible durl
ing the next two weeks. All corre-
spondence should be in this office
by Wednesday in order to insure
its getting in the issue of that week.
Advertisers who anticipate placing
Christmas copy should let us know
early in the week so that we can
make provision for the increase in
space used by adding extra pages
to the issue. We can do this only
if we know the size of the ads be-
fore Wednesday and can thus pre-
vent any last minute disappoint-
ments.
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Birth Rate Is
Showing Marked
Drop In State
Figures Indicate Poor Record for
1928—Native Born Rate is Lower
Than In Many Years
The number of births registered so
far this year with the Bureau of Vital
Statistics is so far short of the num-
ber registered at this time in 1928,
that it seems likely that the birth
rate wil 1fall below 20 per 1000 popu-
lation for the first time in the history
of birth registration in Pennsylvania.
In spite of a large increase in popu-
lation there are no more births in the
Commonwealth than there were
twenty years ago.
The fall in the birth rate has been
particularly rapid since 1921. One of
the chief causes of this decline in the
birth rate is the rapid decrease in the
number of foreign born . women
child-bearing age.
The birth rate in the native born
population has been low for many
vears, but the general birth rate was
kept high by the high rate among the
foreign born. There have been few
additions to the foreign born popula-
tion in the past fifteen years, and as
of
most of the foreign-born women who,
were here before 1914 are now past
the child-bearing age, ‘the general
birth rate 'is now practically equal to
the rate in tile native born population.
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| .LADIES” COMMITTEE
GUESTS OF POTENTATE
The Ladies’ Day committee of the
Irem Country Club enjoyed a delight-
ful dinner party recently at the club
house, given by Potentate Harold
Rust. Mrs. Robert Scott, general
chairlady of the committee acted as
hostess. The dinner was served in the
private diningroom and the table was
beautiful decorated with Christmas
trimming. The favors were small
china, jardinieres. . Following the din-
ner military bridge was enjoyed in the
card room.
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FORT ETH YEAR
| Risley and Majo jor
Purchase Dallas
Hardware Stock
| Both Men Experienced in| Hardware
Those present were: Mrs. Shelby |
Dimmick of Scranton, Mrs. Breid- |
inger, Mrs. Schott and Mrs. Fowler of |
Wilkes-Barre, Mrs. Charles Terry,
Mrs, Parker, Mrs. Jacobs, Mrs. Henry
German, Mrs. ‘Olin Mullison, Mrs. Mil-
ler,
Kingston, Mrs. Z. R. Howell, Mrs.
Harold Rust and Mrs. oRbert Scott of |
Trucksville.
MRS. LONG TO SPEAK
Sutton,
Miss Ella teacher
| before in the history of
of the |
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Mrs. Murray and Mrs. Scheifly of |
| conervation,
second grade, will present an operetta |
as the entertainment feature
Monday |
night at the December meeting of the |
Dallas Parent-Teacher Association
the high school auditorium.
number of questions concerning the
schools will be discussed by Mrs.
Charles Long of Wilkes-Barre, who is
an officer of the tSate Parent-Teacher
Association.
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HUNTSVILLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
The Original Christmas Program
| Company.
pected that the line will
will be the pastor's theme at the 9:30 |
Hunts-
Interesting
presented in |
will imme-
vill = Christian Chuch.
Christmas plans wil be
the Sunday school which
follow.
Cabinet Models
JAMES R. OLIVER
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KENT G3»
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Business—Expect to Open Modern
Supply Store Here
Announcement was made this week
that W. B. Risley of Noxen and
Stuart Major of Kingston have pur-
chased the bankrupt stock of hard-
ware of the former Dallas Hardware
and Supply Company and will open a
thoroughly modern hardware and farm
supply store in Dallas. The sale of
the stock, which does not include the
present building, was made at the
ofifces of the referee of bankruptcy in
Wilkes-Barre on Tuesday. ‘
Both Mr. Risley and Mr. Major. have
had long experience in the mercantile
field and come here with a thorough
acquaintance of the local field. Mr.
Major was for a number of years as-
sociated with the A. J. Roat Supply
Company in Kingston and when that
firm was purchased by the White
Hardware Company became asso-
ciated with Harry Roat-in the opening’
of the Roat Hardware Company on
Wyoming avenue. During the World
War Mr. Major was a member of the
aviation corps of the United States
Army. He is well acquainted in’ this
section, having been born in Noxen
and lived in Kingston for the greater
part of his life.
Mr. Risley has been engaged in the
‘mercantile business for more than
thirty years. Until three years ago,
when the firm sold to G. A. Shook &
Co, he was co-partner with R. S.
Crosby in the firm of Risley & Crosby
at Noxen, which did: a large general
mercantile business throughout this
section. He was active in the organi-
zation of the Tanner’s Bank at Noxen
and is its present president. Before
moving to Noxen from Tunkhannock
he was associated with the N. J.
Thompson Company of Elmira, N. Y.
The new hardware organization will
make a specialty: of household ‘and
farm equipment. In érder to better
facilitate service, the interior of the
present store will be completed reno-
vated and modernized and equipped
with the latest in hardware. store lay-
out and fixtures. The firm expects to
handle - one of the largest general
hardware lines west of the “Susque-
hanna river and will announce itg
formal opening within a few weeks.
COUNTRY EDITOR
REMEMBERS WHEN
. DAILY WAS A PUR
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In its ol TE years ago items The?
Tunkhannock Republican had the fol-
lowing to say this week:
“Our plucky friend, A. A. Holbrook,
editor of the Kingston Times, at last
sces the consummation of his hopes —
a daily paper. He is now issuing a
breezy little four page, Six column
sheet at the price of a penny a day.
Success to it. (That wag the birth of
the Times-Leader, now one: of the
principal dailies in Wilkes-Barre).”
And again in those same forty years
ago items the editors have the follow -
ing to say:
“Deer and bears are becoming very
scarce in the wilds up Bowman's :
Creek and hunters will soon have to
forego the luxury of venison and deer
| steaks forever.”
Little did the editor of that former
ay think that the great State of
Pennsylvania would one day become
| the outstanding leader in wild life
so that today there is
| probably more big game in the hilsl
und mountains of the State than ever
the Common-
wealth.
LINE NEARS COMPLETION
Work is nearing completion on the
new electric line being run from
Kunkle to Beaumont and Bowman's
Creek by the Harvey's liake Electric
Many of the subscribers
along the line have already ha dtheir
houses wired and are now using the
power for the first time. tI is ~ex-
be extended
to Evans Falls sometime during the
coming spring and summer. Linemen
have been working for several months
setting poles and stringing wires.
There was considerable clearing of
the right of way and in many in-
stances trees and limbs had to be re-
moved to make way for the electric
lines and poles.
New Low Prices
Main Street
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