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Local Church Sorvicss
Church of the Prince of Peace—Ser-
vices Sunday will be held at St. Paul's
‘Lutheran Church with Sunday school
at 3 o. m. and evening services at 4
p. m.” Rev. Paul Weatherly, pastor.
school at
M. E. Church—Church
9:45; morning worship at rllioa sm.
“vesper services at 7:30 p. m. Rev. H.
Henry, pastor. :
St. Therese’'s—M23ses on Sunday are
at 8: 30 and 10:30 with Sunday school
following the 10:30 mass. Rev. J. J.
O’Leary, pastor.
Glen View P. M.—Sunday school at
10 a. m.; preaching service at 11 a. 'm.:
Christian Endeavor meets at 6:30 p.
ms; preaching service at 7:15 p. m.
Rev. A. Iveson, pastor ’
St. Paul's Lutheran—Sunday school
at 10 a. m.; morning service at 1's
m.; vesper service at 7:30 p. m. Rev
G Elson Ruff, pastor. ’
Troop Re-registered
Boy Scout Troop 231 of the M. E.
Church recentl filed application of the
troop with the National Council, Boy
Scouts of American. The troop is un-
der the direction, of Fred Eck of 22
Lehigh street. The committee com-
prises E. W. Guernsey, Charles Ayers,
‘Rev. W. H. Stang and /S. J. Woolbert.
The following boys are registered
for the year ending 1931: . Alden
: Ayers, Claude Brace, Charles Chappel,
oRbert Eck, Clifford iFnk, John Gal-
lagher, Charles Gossart, John Jack -
son ,Roland Kocher, Byron Kocher,
Alfred Metzgar, Leo Miller, George
Ohlman, Cleo Piatt, Daniel Piatt,
Warren Reed, Floyd Young, Raymond
Chappel, Beverly Perrego and Russei’
Holmes. ’
Firemen’s Supper
The firemen will hold a victory SUL
per at the basement of St. Paul's
Lutheran church on Monday eevning
at 8 o'clock. All members are re-
quested to be present and to bring
their friends along with them. A good
time is assured all. William Bod -
mer of Kingston, an engineer in the
road and bridge department of Lu-
zerne county, will give a talk on Con-
munity Progress.
Efforts are also being made to have
willard Shortz of
eBnjamin Jones of
Representative,
Kingston or
. Wilkes-Barre, a member of the State
Legislature, to give short talks. A
program of entertainment will also ke
given by local talent. There will also
pe solos and other musical numbers.
The supper is the outcome of a drive
that was held by the loca firemen
for new members some time ago. The
losing team, captained by H.'s
(Jiiggs) VanCampen, will pay for the
supper. In the drive the “Red” team,
captained by George Shaver, defeated
the “Blue” team captained by Herm
Vancaampen by the score of 27 to 12.
Mystery Social
The Young People’s Society of the
Church Prince of Peace will hold a
“mystery social” in the basement of
the Lutheran church this evening at
8 o'clock. A very interetsing program
has been arranged and a good time
is assured all who attend. The price
of admission will be 25 cents to all. -
Queen Esthers Meet
Queen Esther Circle of the M. E.
church met at the home of Miss Mil-
dred Holcomb recently. Miss Mar-
garet Jones, president, took
charge of the meeting. Mrs. Arthur
Leek assisted. Lunch was served by
Miss Mildred Holcomb and Miss
Eleanor Courtright, Ida Oberst, Marv-
waret Jones, Ruth Coolbaugh, Mildred
Oberst, Margaret Patton, Elsie Ritts.
Jennie Stark, Jeanne Appleton, Esthar
vice
Thomas, eJan Keithline, Ruth Hoff-
man, Edna Hunt, Dorothy Roberts,
Alice Hill, Jeanne Davis, Mrs. Etta
Holcomb, Eleanore Warmouth and
Mildred Holcomb.
Rainy Day Party
Members of Girl Scout Troop 9 will
hold a rainy day party at the M. BE.
church Wednesday, April 30. Mem-
bers of the troop committee and the
parents of the girls are invited to at-
tend. A program of entertainment
has been jarranged by Miss Beatrice
Williams and Eleanor Courtright. Re-
freshments will be served by a com-
° mittee consisting of Margaret Pat
and Charlotte Monk.
Baseball League Opens
The local high school baseball teain
under the coaching of Prof. Warren
Taylor, will open the Bi-County
League season at Dallas Friday after-
noon when it plays Dallas township.
In a practice game played Friday
afternoon the local boys defeated Dal-
las borough 5 to 0. “Pinky” Swingle
pitched for the locals and had the
Dallas boys eating out of his hand,
letting them down with three hits.
PAST RECORDS DO COUNT
Senator A. J. Sordoni has brought
five million dollars of State funds to
Luzerne county residents during his
term of office. Compare this record
with anyl man who preceded him from
the Twentieth District in the State
Senate~c {2
: 4 : “RED SCHWARTZ
To Sell Flowers z
At a meeting of the Ladies’ Aid’So
ciety of the M. E. church it was de-
cided to sell flowers for Memorial
day. Mrs. Harry F. Henry ism chair:
man of the committee. The Gin
Scouts will take orders and deliver,
Notes and Personals
Mrs. Sherman Wardan of Main
street is able to be about again afte»
peing confined to her home with ill-
ness.
Girl Scout. Troop 9 will go to Camp
Onowanda on the Susquehanna river.
above Falls, the week-end of May 3.
This troop. wir’ be the first to attena
They will be accompanied bg
camp.
Miss Edna Reese, director, and
Marion Gunner, field captain, Mrs.
Harry Henry and troop‘ committee.
Mrs. Edna, Howell and family of
Trucksville are occupying their home
on Centre street.
Mrs. John Lowe, Malvin Carey ot
Poplar street, and Mr. and Mrs. J.
TH. Keiser of Wilkes-Barre mototed
to Brooklyn, N. Y., over the Eastex
holidays, where they were the guests
of Mrs. Lowe's son.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Conyngham and
daughter, Dawn, of Washington, D.C.
were callers at the home of (Mra.
Kathryn Malkemes of Chestnut street
recently.
Mr. and Mrs. Parry Cobian and
daughters, Peg and Wanda, of Forty
Fort were callers at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. William Brace on Sunday.
Due to ideal weather conditions
Sunday traffic over the local roads
‘was very heavy. 2
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Williams ana
farmily have moved from Hill Crest
View to Pioneer avenue.
Mrs. aDniel Williams and son, Dan-
iel, of Wilkes-Barre, were dinner
guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
John DeWitt on Sunday.
Levi, Lionell and Ruth Snyder of
‘Wilkes-Barre were callers at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Brace on Sun-
day.
Mrs. Thomas Knox and daughter
Catherine of Carbondale, Mr. and Mrs
Ray Jones of Wilkes-Barre and Mrs.
John Alden and Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Elston of Plymouth were guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ayers on Sun.
day.
Russell Carey, who has been director
of the choir at the M. E. church for
the past two years, resigned as direc-
tor following the presentation of the
Easter cantata last Sunday. A suc-
cessor for his plaace has no been
named. The name of William Geyer,
local merchant, and well known musi-
cal member of the male chorus, has
been mentioned as a possible suc-
cessor to Mr. Carey.
Charles Huff, who suffereda cut on
the forehead recently is resting com-}’
fortably at his home on Main street.
Mr. Huff was injured while chopping
wood.
Mrs. Wheeler Hess entertained her
mother, Mrs. Mary Thomas and sister,
Elizabeth, of White Plains, N. Y., over
the week-end.
The Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Luth-
eran church will hold a poverty social
in the‘ church basement Wednesday
evening, April 30. All persons who 2t-
tend are requested to dress up in the
worst kind of clothes that they can
get their hands on. Valuable prizes
will be awarded to the person having
the best make-up. :
Kay Wardan, Edna Cease, Glendon
Sippel, of Bucknell; Paul Bertram,
Drexel; Frederick Malkemes, U. of P.;
Jackson Guernsey of Williams College
and Miss Frances Fletcher of West
Chester ‘Normal school spent the Eas-
ter vacation with their parents.
During his term of office Senator
A J. Sordoni has worked for Luverre
County as a whole. Cities have not
been favored at the expense of rural
communities; neither have the urban
communities been neglected. The
Lehman-Pike’s Creek road, Shick-
shinny-Benton, Kingston Narrows,
Harvey’s Lake road, Kingston town-
ship road, Plymouth-Kingston road,
the road eliminating the dangerous
Edge Hill at West Nanticoke and the
elimination of dangerous underpasses
and railroad crossings on the Ashley
ksulevard and the new and shortened
Hazieton highway were all Sordoni
projects.
SEEN AND HEARD
By Will Wimble
“Brick” Roushey did his stuff on
Faster Saturday night by going .over
town and doing a little shopping and
while ‘on his shopping tour “Brick:"
did not forget his girl friend, for it is
said he purchased a large candy
“kewpe”, doll for her. That is what
he bought for one of his girls but
what he got for his “many friends” is
Perhaps Asa Pembleton
What
not known.
could give us some this dope.
say, Asa?
We haven't heard anything of the
“Green Dragon’ lately. We wonder
if the “parking signs” have been
erected down that way-as yet.
The male chorus will meet at the
home of Prof. Ernest Wood at Dallas
tonight at 8 o'clock. All persons will-
ing to help the chorus in its rehearsals
How about the baseball movement
here in, Shavertown? = Has iti died the
death that it did in {previous years?
Too bad.
Now we hear that® Charles Ayers
and Lewis Button have gone into the
green trucking business and will serve
the territory from Kingston to Noxen.
Not in that Ford truck of Charley’s,
you won't, and we don't, mean maybe.
Last week one day Charles” Ayers
and his wife motored to Harrisburg on
a business trip. What kind of busi
ness we did not find out but we heard
that while on the way home Mrs.
Ayers spied some nice looking dande-
lions along the road and had to stop
and pick some. Aren't the greens as
good up this way as they are down
there, Mrs. Ayers? :
Who is the ladf who has been tak-
ing driving lessons lately from a
salesman from town for the past two
weeks and is not able to operate the
car as yet. From what we hear, for
the length of time tha is spent on a
certain street of the town the young
lady should be able to tell every Lolt
and nut on the car. Reminds us of
the friend who asked a man how long
his wife had been learning to drive.
Let's see, he said, it'll be four years
this October. :
Where are the fish stories that we
usually hear about this time of the
year. So far we haven't heard ooe
good story. How about you, Herb
Williams? How are things are at “The
Old Fishing Hole oDwn on the Farm?”
We wonder if John Eck had any
luck with This marshmallows last
week. ! ;
Who is the blonde who has gone
daaffy over a certain man about town,
who is described to the writer as be-
ing small in build and rather stout
and good looking.
Menace to life long marked travel
between Luzerne and: Trucksville,
points on the important route to Har-
vey’s Lake and adjacent places. Sen-
ator Sordoni led the effort that
brought State aid to removal of the
old narrow highway.
Who is the young lady from Fern-
brook who drives a Ford sport road-
ster to work each day and can't back
up with it? One day last week when
she was late for work and in a hurry,
driving down towards Shavertown,
she discovered that she had left her
pocketbook at home and being unable
to back the car to turn it around, she
walked the distance of about half a
mile to her home. No, Mary, we won't
mention your name. /
The person who knocked the
“Twenty Mile Speed Limit” sign down
is known and unless it is replaced ar-
rests will follow. The signs were put
there for a purpose and not to be
knocked down.
You can tell that the boy friend is
home from college during the past
week. The ‘light in the parlor has
been: seen burning until midnight in a
certain home in town. We told you
so. Well, ¥'s O. K. as long as the
light’s burning.
. William eGyer, local merchant, was
‘a busy man on Sunday. He sanz at
the services at the M. E. church. Mr.
Geyer took part in the cantata at 9:30
a. m., Huntsville church, at 11 a. m.
he sang at the local church and in the
afternoon he attended a rehearsal of
the local choir. \
That was Bill eGyer. Then we heard
of another mran about town who did
5
! known until then how
not go to church at all last Sunday
but found time to go to a ball game,
made a little home brew and then go
out and buy another gallon of good!
licker. Not so bad for a good day's
work.
The- Dallas baseball team opened its
season last week at Dallas by taking
a terrible lacing at the hands of Frank
Harter's All-Stars by the score of 11
to 5. Not very good when a bunch of
piickups can take over the local ball-
tossers. What will it be when thc
regular season gets under way when
teams such as Maltby, Ashley, Plains,
and Heights are tackled. Maybe it
was just a practice game. The Dal-
las boys will bear watching when the
regular season gets’ under way this
Sunday when the locals travel to Ash:.-
ley. Wish you all the luck in the
world, Bill, and may the best team
win.
—o
Anneke Jans
The maiden name of Anneke Jans
was Anneke Webber. William the Si-
lent is traditionally credited with a
clandestine marriage by which he had
two children, whom he christened Wol-
fert and Sarah Webber. Wolfert Web-
ber married Catherine Jonas, by whom
he had three children, one of whom
was Anneke. She first married Jan
Roeloff Jansen; her second husband
was Everardus Bogardus.
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Tower of Turquoise
A peculiar virtue assigned to the
turquoise during the Middle ages was
its power to divert to itself the con-
sequences’ of any fall suffered by its
wearer. Because of this useful trait
it was highly prized by horsemen,
who, if they did not themselves pos-
sess a fine turquoise, would hire one
as an amulet to wear in the chase or
| your
tournament.
unman’s Bluff
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CHAPTER XXV
Blackmail
Somehow Margaret knew that the
telephone message she had had from
Danton would be followed up by a
personal call, and she was not sur-
prised when she heard the bell ring. |:
She went to the landing.
“If that is Mr. Danton Morell will
you please bring him up?’ she said to
the footman who was hurrying to the
The first thing she noticed about
Danty was a certain unkemptness
which had never observed before.
Usually he was a most painfully tidy
man: every hair of his glossy head
was in place; his clothes were im-
maculate. But now his hair was un-
brushed, he wore ‘an odd coat and
vest, and she formed the impression
that he had risen hurriedly from his
bed. }
She sensed his hostility and the new
attitude he had taken to her, within
a second of his entering the room.
“Magaret, I am afraid I've got a
very unpleasant duty to perform,” he
said, almost jauntily. “It concerns this
lunatic husband of yours. He seems
to have got himself into a mess. What
on earth made him do it?”
“Do what?” she asked innocently.
He smiled.
“It's no use pretending you don’t
know, my dear girl. Luke has got
himself mixed up with a gang. I don't
know what is the pull they have or
who is the woman in it.” He added
this maliciously, and was disappointed
when she smled.
“Your mind runs on women, Danton.
Perhaps it was the same lady whom
you discovered- in Paris—you remem-
ber, your man telegraphed me about?”
“I swear to you—" he began, but she
shook her head.
“It isn’t worth while discussing that
at all. What do you want now?”
Danton shrugged his shoulders.
“Well, there's a man called Connor,
who seems to be petty sore with you
for not turning up tonight after you'd
made an appointment. He said you'd
promised him a thousand ‘pounds—"’
“I promised nothing of the sort, and
I shouldn't dream of giving him a
thousand pounds,” said Margaret, and
something made her add: “Or ‘you
either.” |
She saw him wince. She had not
important a
part money played in Danton Morell’s
life.
“There's no sense in getting up in
the air about this,” he said. “It won't
help you or Luke to fight Connor. He's
one of the powerful gangsters in Lon-
don, and unfortunately he knows that
ther man who robbed Tiffanny’s the
other day was Luke. What are you
going to do about it?”
“I still have no proposal,” she said.
“Connor wants 'money—a couple of
thousand pounds. I'm very naturally
anxious to save you from the disgrace,
and as the man came to me to ask my
advice I thought the best thing I
could do would be to act as inter-
mediary. You've been paying the
wrong man—by the way, you ‘don't
imagine the money you gave him to-
night will ever get to Luke, do you?”
When she did not answer, he went
on:
“It is nothing to do with me, and if
you like to fight Connor that’s your
business entirely. But—"
She interrupted him.
est I should pay this
blackmail tc
‘Do you sugg
two thousand pounds
friend?”
“He's not 'my friend,” said the man
testily, “and it is not blackmail. Ap-
parently Luke borrowed the money
from Connor.” :
She laughed softly at this,
amused eyes on his.
“How ter ribly unconvincing you can
be, Mr. Morrell! Well, I'm going to
tell you
either you or Mr. Connor. It will save
us a lot of unnecessary argument.”
+ “Haynes advised you not to pay,
eh?” 1 i
She shook her head.
her
} “No,” she said quietly, “Inspector
Bird. I got into touch. with him
after you telephoned, put a hypo-
thetical case to him—he is coming
here.”
There was a sharp rat-tat on the
door below.
“I think that is he,” she said, and
had all the satisfaction she required
out of the pallor that came to the tace
of Danton Morrell.
“You're not going to tell him?” he
asked agitatedly. “I mean, about my
asking for this money—abhout Connor.
It will all come out—you realize that?
About Luke, I mean. His name will
be plastered all over London as a
friend of murderers and a jewel thief.”
He tailed off incoherently, and' she
went out of the/room to meet, the
Sparrow. ;
In the carly hours of the morning
Mr. Bird was always in his most joviaY
mood. He had been at Scotland Yard
engaged upon a case when Margaret
had called him, and he seemed in no
degree surprised, when he was shown
into the drawing room, to find the dis-
comfited Danton Morell, standing
sl be
now that I'm not paying
y
to the little fire that oa
hearth. x ]
£ “Well, well, wontters’ ! wil neve
cease. I haven't been asked out to a
party for years. Fancy meeting you,
‘Danty!” he chuckled.
He looked inquiringly at Margaret,
‘and understood the signal in her eyes.
“Well, Danty, we'll .not be keeping
you 'much longer. Mrs. Maddison and
I have got a few private thoughts to
exchange on the subject of blackmail.
How's Connor?”
“I haven't seen Gorlior for months,”
said Danton loudly. /.
The detective rubbed his big chin.
“That's queer. #Herg¢ am I thinking
he called at your house tonight and!
that he’s waiting for you to come
back. Getting old, I guess—we have
these illusions at my time of’ life—
always fancy we re seeing crooks
when they're only stockbrokers, ana
not even that.”
It was a very uncomfortable Danton
Morell that went down the stairs, too
terrified to be angry. There was no
cab in sight, but a car that looked
suspiciously like a police tender was
drawn up near the curb a few houses
away. He hurried past this and was
glad when he turned the corner out of
the still bright glare of its head-
lamps. 3
Connor was playing euchre with Pi
Coles when he came in. »
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“Well, did you have any luck?”
The man was too cheerful for
Danty’s liking; he would have pre-
ferred a more despondent and unhop-
ing note in his tone.
“I've got no money, if that’s what
you mean—the Sparrow was there.”
Connor sat up ,his narrowed eyes
fixed upon his host. )
“That sounds like a damned lie to
me,” he said, but Danty took no
offense.
“He wasn't at the house when I got
there, but I'd hardly started talking
before he turned up. She had sent for
him.”
This time Connor was “convinced.
His lips pursed as though he were
whistling some inaudible tune.
“Did my name come into it?”
asked after a moment's thought.
“Yes, the Sparrow brought it in. He
said he knew you came to this flat to-
night and that you were waiting for
me.” | |
. Connor leaned back in the chair,
frowning thoughtfully.
“I wonder if that’s a lit, too?” he
said, speaking to himself. “It mightn't
he’s been trailing me for a week
—not he but one of his bloodhounds.
Did she squeal?”
Danty did not reply till he had hung
up his coat. \
“She didn’t and she won't. I know
‘her! She's got a bug in her head that
he’s an ill-used man ,and she's going
he
police know.”
Connor took a cigar from his pocket,
bit at the end and lit it. He puffed
slowly, his eyes on the peiling anu
then he said:
“I'm out of this. I don't go after
women who've got the brains to call
in the police. You go ahead, Danty,
and I'll take my corner. Twenty-five
the profit, eh?
wives.
his philosophical outlook, bore him
little or no malice for that incident.
to try to save him without letting the d
per cent is good enough for any man.”
/
As’ that TO
When did we float this company!
Connor smiled broadly. ’
idea? 7.
an
“I brought this bus‘ness.
answer td vou. I can’t affurd to be
mixed up in it now my name's known
and they've brought in ihe
You can handle these swells,
You'ie: wise enouzh to keer
cut o: trouble”
Danty.
“ourself |
He rose, reached far his coat
hat, ana moved to the door
doorway he stood for a little while
surveying the other man.
“Twenty-five per cent.” he
“You'll split that way or I'll % a bit
of splitting myself. ,
Danty followed him to the landing.
“Where' does the Gunner live?”
Connor shook his head. ©
“II tail him up and let you know in ¢
“He's got a
the morning,” he said.
quiet pitch somewhere.”
Danty went back to his flat and}
closed the door. Usually he did not
discuss matters with Pi Coles,
occupations, from larceny to felony,
and was a surprisingly well-educated
He was one of those men, so
man.
infrequently met with, who had occu-
pied his many visitations to prison in
reading and study; for though he spoke
with the vilest cockney accent and his
that's my :
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Sparrow.
and
In the
said. SE
but’
this little man was shrewd and under~
standing. He had touched most illicit =
‘English was more or less negligible,
he could speak French and Spanish
fluently—the former accomplishment
had served him remarkable well, for
he had served a year
prison.
For the first timé Danton showed
his hand. He had not before been very
communicative on the subject of Luke
Maddison and his'‘wife. But now he
opened up. Pi Coles listened with the
puckered face which was evidence of
his close application. It was when
Danton mentioned Gunner Haynes
that he shook his head.
“Td keep clear of him if T were you,
guv’'nor,” he said.
happened?’ He nodded significantly.
Danton knew all that had happened.
in a French
“You know what
put he flattered himself that he un- :
derstood the psychology of the crim-
inal mind. Such pe as he Gunner
forgave even the stealing of their
Probably Gunner Haynes, with
Anyway, the girl was dead ,and could
never tell the story that might bring
the Gunner at his throat.
‘Wasn't there anything he knew
about him—something he could hang
over the Gunner's head, some old
crime in’ which they had both partici-
pated? im :
(Continued Next Week)
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for 100 days, during which it is esti-
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