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DALLAS, PA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14
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The Dallas Post
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ing section of Luzerne and other counties.
Trucksville, Shavertown, Lehman, Dallas, The Greater West Side,
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Valley, Harvey's Lake, Huntsville and Tunkhannock are circulated by
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‘Luzerne and Wyoming Counties, but within the boundaries of
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YOUTH
“This is the age of youth.” How often we hear that said, sometimes
in extenuation of youthful exuberance which shocks the elders, sometimes
with the hopeful view that youth, somehow, is going to make the world
over. 3
Every age has been the age of youth. Young folks are more vocifer-
ous just now than they were before the war. They get more publicity, mainly
because there are more mediums of publicity. But in al history it has been
youth which has gone adventuring, which has injected new ideas into the
world’s thought, which has started movements which have, in time, changed
social and economic conditions.
It was youth that settled America. The Pilgrim Fathers were mostly
boys in their twenties when they landed on Plymouth Rock. The pioneers
of Virginia and Pennsylvania were no older.
From the beginning, young folk have done things of which their
“elders did not aprove. “The only sei vice the young can render the old is |
. to shock them and sa keep them up to date,” says George Bernard Shaw |
in one of his plays: A man or woman must be very old indeed or have
a very. poor memory, to havi forgotten that in his or her own youth the
oid folks seldom approved of the activities and interests of the young.
.And when the young people of ioday have become the parents of
boys:-and girls of eighteen or twenty, they, too, will be shocked by the
things ‘their children will do or want to do.
) A DANGEROUS PASTIME
‘Coasting is great sport and no child should be denied that health-
ful recreation, but when children use their sleds on the State highway
and on hills with dangerous streét intersections the sport becomes one of |
the most dangerous. Durning the past week there have been no serious
have been coasting on the State highway and on Huntsville street. In
Trucksville, youngsters make a practice of using the highway as a coasting
places This practice should be broken up even if it becomes necessary to
arrest ‘and fine boys and girls who indulge in the healthful pastime of
coasting. In most instances parents are not aware of the danger in which
their children are running. Few are the parents who would knowingly
let. their children use the highways as a coasting place. When your child
leaves -the house with a sled be sure you know the hill on which he is going
to luse. it.
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The Corner
MANY POLICE CANDIDATES
Our local scribe of the Sunday In-
dependent has carried several interest-
ing article the past few weeks on the
police situation, dwelling particularly
on who might be the new Dallas chief
after the first of the year.
This question has created quite a
feeling “Around the Corner,”
many people of the town sometimes
stop and pass the time of day.
Many names have been mentioned
and the writer was surprised to hear
of the effort being put forth to have
council give some consideration to
Russell Abraham Morris, better known
to his legion of friends as “Abie.”
Upon interrogating the young man
in question, he emphatically denied he
is a candidate, using the much quoted
where
‘We ‘were quite surprised to hear
that Abie has real qualifications for a
first class police chief; but, then we
were reminded that he spent consid-
erable time in New York State a few
years ago and was a student of the
New York State Police. We
again reminded that Abie has atetnded
the Tunkhannock [Fair every year
since the New York tSate Police have
been giving exhibitions, and he has
always been in the front row.
Until we hear of a better qualified
candidate state of
status quo on the question.
were
we remain in a
ON AGAIN OFF AGAIN
One day we hear the chief of police |
is resigning, then it’s the chief will be
fired J: 1st, then -its that coun- |
cil is afraid to fire
nuary
him, and now the
dope -is that he is to be the new chief
Kingston and doesn’t
in township
want the job anyway. Well, i
i off
the
council
t's a good
case of “On again,
gone
again Finnegan” with Chief, still
in the saddle .and remaining
{ quiet.
HALL WE HAVE A COMMUNITY
CHRISTMAS TREE?
haven't heard whether
a
We
we are going to
or not
| merit or qualification.
have a community
Christmas tree. For several years
Paul Shaver not only supervised this
but
and money to make it a success and
he still
money due him for electrical supplies
It’s too bad that there
is not some community organization
to take up this work and take care
of it each year.
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Historian Tells
Story of Early
Dallas Schools
Ryman Recounts Incidents Leading
to Formation of Dallas School As-
sociation and Other Interesting
Happenings
HISTORY OF DALLAS
(Continued from Last Week) .
As the village of McLellonsville
grew and the wealth of its inhabitants
increased,
community work gave his time
we guess has considerable
and equipment.
new ideas began to creep
in, and some of the parents began to
grow dissatisfied with the idea that
their children should live and grow up
without some of the advantages of
“’Tis- wonder-
ful,” said Emerson, “how soon _a piano
gets into a log hut on the. frontier.
modern civiilzation.
| You would think they found it under ®
a pine stump. With it comes a Latin
two
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grammar.” A or
piano and one
organs, a latin grammar and
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one
two of “ologies’ had found
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who sola
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1 BROOKLYN BRIDGE
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Wer the Indians
really owned it.
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ROCKEFELLER ;—WHAT
TL TR SER I ETE
Teach oftener chosen
because of
write. rs w
the meagerness of the sal=7
be
accept than for
which they could induced or
forced to any’ other |
A. lady school |
| teacher was one-time discharged from |
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The real]
because
one of the schools ‘there.
and well known reason was
she had the temerity to flog a son of
of the $uhool directors. Not wish-
to give the.true cause for remov-
one
ing
ing
the
ness.
her, this school director pht it on
broader ground of aleged unfit-|
He defended his action as fol- |
lows: “I don’t profess to know much
about. school teaching myself,” said he, |
“put I can sometimes spell. g simple
word like b-o0-k book, whieh is a'——-
more than she can do, if I do say it
Haint that so, Jim?”
Bad seemed to grow worse until this
myself.
state of thing became unlg.rable to:
the villagers in and about Mcl.elons-
ville. = All other efforts having failed, |
separation began to be thought of |
and discussed. At first it was thought
that a separate school district might |
be cut off from the township. That |
plan did not seem to be just at that |
time, because of the long fight and |
delay that might ensue if the matter |
was contested, as it was most likely |
to be. They wanted immediate relief
in the matter of better school accom-
modations and to
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were determined
their |}
way out to Dallas early in the sixties, | 3
about the winter of 1862-3, but there |
was no one in the township who could | 3
such and
the
elsewhere
teach branches, only
to
by
sending children away
ston and
to
tax could such instruction
tuition in addition regular school
had. A
few were able to do this and did do it,
be
while the common. schools of the town-
get much above the
the
Great efforts were made, mostly
riculum of famous “three R's.
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MclLel- |
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of.
school,
a few who lived in and near
to
things and establish a graded
lonsville, Improve this state
grew up among those who lived in the | i bg
remoter portions of the township, and Ei es uaran
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wilth it a combined effort tod oppose
all
been good enough for their fathers and |
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such schemes. Schools which hac
grandfathers were for
This
ment to many
good enough
them.
was unanswerable
of
away every opposition in the outsias |
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argu-
them, and swept
districts. Those village folks, though
they, must not be indulged in any |}
such extravagant and visionary no-. |
tions. A to|
offer himself as a candidate for school |
director
mon enemy by this class, who honestly |
reformer who ventured
was looked upon as a
believed that debt and financial ruin
were the natural and certain sequences
of his election, so that such candidates
by chance elected, were left in such
were almost invariably defeated, or, if|
minority as to be powerless for good.
The typical school director was often |3
a man who could neither read nor ¥
| HIGGINS
but a jealousy of the village folks | %
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