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VOL. 40
ANTLMASONIC PROPAGANDA
SHOWN NEARLY PAPERS
Recently subscribers to THE POST
have sent the editor many old copies
of Pennsylvania newspapers as well as
old copies of THE DALLAS POST.
THE POST, although established for-
ty years, is relatively a youngster as
compared with these older newspapers.
The following news article taken from
the American Press sheds some inter-
esting light on early journalists and
early Pennsylvania newspapers:
To the newspaper man of today one
of the most curious and interesting
discoveries in examining the early
newspapers of the United States is the
volume and the bitterness of the pub-
lic discussion of Freemasonry in their
columns.
It has been impossible to check ac-
curately the number of newspapers
which were founded for the avowed
purpose of attacking the Masonic or-
der, but there must have been fifty or
more. Between 1810 and 1835 or so,
Freemasonry was as live an issue in
American politics as Prohibition is to-
day, and the press was even more out-
spoken on the subject. \
By their opponents the Masons were
accused of every crime in the calendar
from plotting treason against the
young republic to the murder of trait-
ors within their own organization.
Numerous books and pamphlets pur-
porting to expose the secrets of Free-
masonry were ‘advertised.
The anti-Masonic agitation reached
its climax in 1826, when the direct ac-
cusation was made against the mem-
pers of the Masonic lodge at Candan-
daigna, N. Y., that they had murder-
ed, or procured the murder of one
William Morgan, said to have betrayed
certain Masonic secrets. It was re-
garded as good journalism in those
days to make accusations which could
not by any possibility be proved. The
only fact that was ever proved in the
Morgan case was that Morgan had
disappeared.
A body was found in the whirlpecol
below Niagara Falls and was said to
be that of Morgan. The anti-Ma-
sonic papers accepted the identifica-
tion without question. Political cam-
paigns were based upon this assumed
proof of Masonic villainy. The leader
of the. anti-Masonic party in New
York State was Thurlow Weed, owner
and editor of the Albany Journal and
grandfather of William Barnes, whose
recent death in retirement recalled his
own editorship of the same paper.
When word ‘was brought to Weed that
there were grave doubts of the iden-
tity of the Niagara corpse, his reply
was a phrase which for three-quarters
of a century afterwards was a famil-
jar catch-word: “It's a good enough
Morgan till after election.” :
At any rate, the anti-Masonic agi-
tation had the effect of putting Free-
masonry in the United States on the
same non-political plane as that on
which it stands in Great Britain and
some other countries, whereas in
France and Italy the order is an act-
ive political factar.
Several readers have commented up-
on the anti-Masonic references in the
pages of old newspapers, hence the
foregoing explanation.
The single old newspaper, the prog-
enitor of the Indiana, Pa., “Progress,”
founded in 1813, devotes nearly two-
thirds of its first page to anti-Mason-
jc news and comment. In it the an-
nouncement of a proposed “Pamphlet”
to be entitled “A Solemn Warning
Against. Free Masonry,”
Southwick, Editor of the National Ob-
servor at Albany, and most of the last
v,
by
Y : i ag
two columns is occupied by an excerpt
journal, the
of the
Mr. Southwick’s
anti-Masonic
from
leading
time.
There were plenty of newspapers
in Pennsylvania in 1827, as the ad-
vertisement of a newspaper for sale
in one of the populous western coun-
ties suggests. Twenty-two weeklies
and ten dailies established in Pennsyl-
vania before 1830 still survive and
prosper. None of the dailies began
as such, all started as weeklies.
Until 1820 and for some time there-
after Pennsylvania was the most
densly-settled part of the United Stat-
es, Philadelphia the largest city. The
opening of the Erie Canal in 1823 gave
New York the impetus which put it
in first place. But in the beginnings
of the Republic Pennsylvania's influ-
ence was dominant and its newspapers
were supported by a numerous and
erous population.
Cat os aw, originally the
“American and Republican Gazette,”
has as its owners and publishers to-
dav the grandson and greatgrandson
Af Alexander T. Moorhead and James
Maocrhead.
Some of these century-old Pennsyl-
vania papers still own parts of their
¢rieinal printing equipment. In the
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paper
FRUIT GROWER
PRAISES POST'S
CLASSIFIED ADS
Ira Frantz, who has his fruit
farm over near DeMun’s corners,
is one of the largest fruit grow-
ers in this section.
Commenting on THE POST'S.
classified - ads and the results
they get, Mr. Frantz, says:
“I pan a fruit ad in the city
newspapers and in THE POST.
I checked up to see which had
brought me the greatest results
and found that the little classi-
fied ad in THE POST brought
me twice the results of the com-
bined ads in other newspapers.”
Solomon |
"DALLAS, POST, DALLAS, PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1930
: Prof. Wood's Chorus to Give Concert
Herman Bauman; Middle row:
ERE
Above is a picture of the chorus which will give its first concert Friday evening, October 10 at
Dallas High school auditorium under the auspices of the Dallas Troop of Girl Scouts.
Front row: G. W. Reynolds, Dave Morris, H. H. Hill, Ernest Wood, directon; J. R. Richards, C. T. Jones,
B. C. Hicks, G. J. Reynolds, Ray Gemmel, S. C. Shannon, Wm. Czule-
gar, Hobart Culp, Alfred Rogers, Sam Davis; Back row; K. Howell, Prof. M. J. Girton, George Turn,
O. M. Phebey, Calvin A. Fisher, Russell Carey, Dr. G. K. Swartz, and Fred Feley.
Diphtheria Clinics
To Be Opened Here
Toxin-Antitoxin Campaign Starts
September 29 and Continues Until
October 16.
Dallas and vicinity will be included
in the movement to safeguard child-
ren against the dread diphtheria men-
ace, according to. Dr. G. A. Clark,
chairman of the Wyoming Valley
Diphtheria Prevention committee.
From September 29th to October 16th,
free diphtheria prevention clinics will
be established in Dallas, Shavertown
and Trucksville, where local children
from 6 months to 10 years may re-|
ceive the benefit of the toxin-antitox-
in treatment.
This treatment, which consists of
Final Payment |
On Truck Near
Adam Kiefer Promises $100 If Firs.
men Raise $300 Balance on $15.-
000 Fire Truck Debt.
Commendable effort being made by |
members, of Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire |
Co. to pay off the debt on its equip-
ment may reach its goal tonight, when
the company will meet in the borough
building to learn if enough money has
been raised to pay the final payment
on the truck.
Since the equipment was purchased
about two years ago, nearly all of the
$15,000 has been paid. The balance
of $1,400 on the truck is due on
three doses, with an interval’ of one|
week between each dose, is harmless
and painless, and immunity from
diphtheria is practically certain. Local
physicians and nurses will assist the]
committee in making the drive a suc-
cess by giving their services and time
gratis:
The greatest cooperation that the
committee may expect must come
from the parents. Mothers will be
spared future anxiety by taking ad-
vantage of the opportunity which is
highly commended by health author-
ities. In order to have the child re-
ceive the = toxin-antitoxin treatment,
parents must sign the consent slip, a
form which authorizes the health au-
thorities to inoculate the child after
the parent's signature has been ren-
dered. The consent slips will be
distributed at schools and clinics,
The diphtheria prevention commit-
tee is making a special effort to reach
the pre-school child, as statistics
show that the greatest number of
diphtheria deaths occur among child-
ren under 6 years. Even when death
is not the result of diphtheria, the af-
ter effects may be serious,
authorities claim. However,
every evidence that diphtheria may be-
come as infrequent as small pox, if a
sufficient number of children are given
the toxin-antitoxin treatment.
The Diphtheria Prevention commit-
tee will announce the location of clin-
ics next week. The members of the
Wyoming Valley Diphtheria Preven-
tion committee are:
Dr. Louisa Blair, Mrs. E. U. Buck-
man, Harry M. Carey, Dr. G. ‘A. Clark,
Dr. W. F. Davison, Dr. W. J. Daw, Dr. |
F. E. Donnelly, Dr. G. R. Drake, Dr.
Vivian Ewards, Dr. A. H. Gabriel,” Dr.
A. W. Grover, Dr. R. J. Haugen, Mrs.
medical |
there is |
September 22, next MondAy.
By dances, the clam bake, subscrip-
tions and dues, $1,000 has been raised
and is in the bank. If $300 of the
balance owed is “raised, Adam P.
Kiefer, one of the outstanding back-
ers of community movements in the
Back Mountain region, will contribute
the remaining $100 and the equipment
will be cleared of'debt. 3
The remarkable work of the men in
raising enough to meet payments on
the equipment has won for them the
admiration of the ‘community. Not
only from this region, but from near-
by sections has come commendation
for the fire company.
reer { J ree
George F. Metz
Seriously Ii!
Local Man is Putting up Grim Strus-
gle After Serious Operation at Gen-
eral Hospital.
George Metz of Trucksville, chief en-
gineer of the Lehigh Valley coal comp-
any is in a serious condition at Wilk-
es-Barre General hospital following a
surgical operation on Monday for ad-
hesions. Mr, Metz has not been well
for some time and about two weeks
ago was admitted to General hospital
for observation. On Monday it was
found necessary to operate and though
he showed marked strength and vital-
ity following the operation, his condi-
tion is considered extremely serious by
surgeons.
Mr. Metz has been a resident of this
vicinity for a number of years and is a
man of marked ability as an engin-
eer, his decisions from an engineering
Harriet Houtz, P. F. Kielty, Dr. J. W.
Kirschner, George B. Kirkendall, Dr.|
Joseph Kocyan, Dr. F. J. Kosek, Rev. |
J. J. Kowalewski, Dr. John Lavin, Dr.
Julian Long, Dr. L. C. Mundy, Dr. E.
L. Meyers, Mrs. Charles H. Miner, Dr.
Charles H. Miner , Miss Elizabeth
Pringle, Dr. Marjorie Reed, Dr. Nath-
aniel Ross, Dr. S. R. Schooley, Dr. C.
L. Shafer, Mrs. Stanley Theis, Dr. H.
G. Templeton, Miss Victoria M. Tras-
ko, Miss E. Pearl Wardin, W. O.
Washburn, Dr. Sarah Wyckoff, Miss
Harriet F. Young.
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Officials of Kingston Bank
Co. held their annual outing
country club on Tuesday.
& Trust
at Irem
Psa ER EAR A ana iiheee
Pomona Grange, No. 44, will meet
tomorrow at Beaumont with Monroe
grange. (H. G. Eisaman, State lectur-
er, will speak. Dinner and supper
will be served. :
ANNOUNCES MARRIAGE
The
of John
given a’
many friends
Steele were
surprise a
few days ago when
he returned from a
motor trip south and
announced his mar-
riage to Miss Ethel
Blaine, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Clar-
ence Blaine of Ber-
wick. The groom is
a son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Steele of
Sweet Valley. Mr.
Steele is a student at
- Temple university in
Philadelphia, where he is taking a
four-year course in the school of
angle being final in all operations of
the Lehigh Valley Coal. Recently he
was offered a position at $12,000 a
year with wan American engineering
company building a large manufactur-
ing city in Russia. Under the terms
of the contract he would spend three
years in that country and all expenses
to Russia would be paid by the comp-
any. The company also offered to pay
all traveling expenses once a year for
him to visit Paris and for his wife
and family to meet him there. Mr.
Metz refused the offer in order to live
in this region and be with his fam-
ily.
Blaze Destroys
Wilson’s Barn
Despite efficient work by Dallas fire-
men, the barn on the farm of John
Wilson on theroad to the Irem coun-
try club, burned on Monday and was
totally destroyed. Firemen saved two
small buildings nearby.
Quantity of hay was stored in the
barn. Origin of the blaze is unknown.
House across the street was threaten-
ed for a time by leaping ffames but
was not damaged.
Re pe Sed ny
JOB GIBBS DEAD
Funeral services for Job Gibbs, who
died last Friday at Lis home on Leh-
man avenue, were held on Monday
afternoon from the home. Rev. W.
E. Webster officiated at the services,
which were held in Dallas Methodist-
Episcopal church. Interment was in
Woodlawn cemetery.
commerce. Mr. and Mrs. Steele will
leave for Philadelphia on Thursday,
September 18th, where he will resume
his studies on the- 24th.
Mr. Gibbs had been a resident of
Dallas for about sixteen years.
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Girl Scout Troop
Patrols Announced
Regular meeting of Troop 7, Dallas
Girl Scouts, was held in the auditor-
ium of the borough high school on
Wednesday afternoon. The troop has
been divided into four patrols as fol-
lows:
1—Valeria Lawrence, Patrol leader;
Oliver, corporal; Elizabeth
Monk, Roberta Van Campen, Elsie
Culp, Elsie Johnson, Alice Weaver,
Verna Sheppleman.
2—Clementine Lawrence, Pa trol
leader; Helen Jeter, corporal; Helen
Himmler, Doris Roberts, Faith Beeh-
ler, Clara Newberry, Alberta Himmler,
Thelma Ide. ;
3—Judith Beehler, Patrol Leader;
Peggy Shindel, Corporal; Marion
Scott, Jean Templin, Ruth Him, Elea-
nor Murphy, Theta Meade.
4—Ruth Kintz, Patrol I. e a d e r;
Madge Space, Corporal; Alice Davies,
Margaret Culp, Catherine Davis, Ver-
onica, Wiallo, June Williams, Jane Le-
Grand.
After instruction in the various act-
ivities, games were played and the
meeting closed with the singing of
“Taps.”
Mrs. A. D. Hull, captain, announced
that a weiner roast will be held -at
Space's farm on Monday after school.
Scouts will meet at the high school
building at 4.
Monroe To Talk
To Poultrvmen
A poultry meeting will be held in
Christian church community hall at
Sweet Valley, on September 23 at 7:45
P/M, The subjects discussed will be
handled practical and
many definite suggestions will be giv-
that can be put into practice at
small cost and with very profitable re-
in a manner
en
sults.
Prof. H. D. Munroe
The meeting is free to everyone and
is being held under the direction of
Prof, H. D. Munroe, service man for
the Wayne Feed Mills.
Poultry floeks have paid their own-
ers good profits in recent years where
modern methods of feeding and man-
agement have been applied to birds of
good breeding, housed in comfortable
houses., R. O. P. flock figures show a
labor income over feed cost, interest
and depreciation of over $2 per bird
for the past four years.
The methods used on these demon-
stration farms and the successful large
scale poultry plants from the back
ground of the information and meth-
ods that will be discussed at this
meeting. Prof. H. D Monroe, former-
ly with Pennsylvania State college,
who will be the speaker, has been in
charge of the Extension Department
in Pennsylvania State coliege for eight
vears and he is well known over Pen-
nsylvania. He has had a splendid
opportunity to study the methods in
common use on the most successful
poultry flocks in addition: to keeping
up with the latest experimental work
was sixty-nine years old.
Surviving
are his widow and a sister. |
i other States.
and knowing what is being done in
DALLAS PARENT-TEACHER
ASSOCIATION HAS SESSION
Prize to Parents of Third Grade|
Students and Hear Report.
ns |
Parent-Teacher asso- |
First Dallas
he |
with a good attendance.
tion.
freshments were served by the girls’!
est number Of parents present at the |
meeting.
Reserves for the girls.
board has also subscribed for eight]
new magazines to be placed in the
school library to use of pupils it was
announced.
Next meeting will be held on the
third Monday in October.
Dallas High
School Ready
For Football
GOOD TEAM
Squad Trains Daily in Preparation
For Season Opening Against For-
ty Fort High School Saturday.
Rapidly reaching a strength and
machine-like precision which will make
it a threat to any worthy opponent
on the gridiron, Coach Wormley’'s
Dallas high school football team is
nearly ready for the first game of its
season.
Scrimmage was begun yesterday on
the athletic field and the candidates
had ample opportunity to display
brains and brawn. Varsity squad
members will be chosen by Mr. Worm-
ley early next week it is expected.
Schedule announced by high school
officials yesterday follows: September
27, Forty Fort, at Dallas; October 4,
Wyoming, away; October 11, Tunk-
hannock, here, (pending); October 17,
Ashley, away; October 25, open; Nov-
ember 1, West Pittston. away; Nov-
ember 8, Plymouth Reserves, away,
(pending); November 15, Kingston,
here; November 22, Wyoming, here.
Twenty men, ranging in weight from
120 to 180, in height from five feet,
three inches to six feet, three inches,
and in age from 15 to 17, are on the
squad now. Seven candidates are
from the twelfth grade, three from
the eleventh, three from the tenth and
seven from the ninth.
Average weight of the twenty play-
ers is about 136 pounds. Average
age is 16. Members of the squad are:
Alva, Eggleston, William Sutton, Har-
ry Rook, Il.econard Machell, Richard
Templin, Kenneth Disque, Irwin Cool-
baugh, Kenneth Oliver, Earl Van
Campen, Bill Brickel, Richard Eipper,
Richard Disque, Robert Rogers, John
Jeter, Charles Story, Sam Brace, Ken-
neth Besteder, Clarence LaBarr, Corey
Besteder. ;
Kunkle Farmer
Shoots Himself
espondency is given as the motive
for the method taken by Wesley S.
Johnson, aged 62, Kunkle dairy farm-
er, to rid himself of his worries. Mr.
Johnson shot himself through the
head on Monday morning at his home.
Funeral services were held on Wed-
nesday afternoon at 2 from the home,
with interment at Kunkle.
Mr. Johnson had been worried for
"| some time, it was said, especially be-|
cause of his inability to provide a new |
dairy house. His wife heard the shot
with which Johnson killed himself and
ran to the home of James Kunkle,
nearby. A. C. Kelly, deputy coroner
at Trucksville, investigated.
The dead man was found in a pool
of blood in the kitchen pantry, with
the revolver close to him. He is sur-
vived by his widow, a brother, Charles
of Beaumont, and two sisters, Miss
Maud Johnson of Beaumont and Mrs.
Wilbur Downing of Wilkes-Barre.
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DALLAS M. E. CHURCH
Services Sunday evening at Dallas
M. E. church will be in charge of the
members of the Ladies’ Aid society of
the church. The speaker will be Mrs.
W. S. VanLoon of Forty Fort. Mrs.
Georgia Patterson will lead the devo-
tions. There will be a duet by Mrs.
Wilson and Mrs. Hildebrant, ‘and a
solo by Lola Pittman.
Morning worship will be' charge of
the pastor. His sermon subject will
be Spiritual Infirmities.
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POULTRY BULLETIN
U. S. Department of Agriculture has
informed THE POST that the depart-
ment has a new bulletin, Business
Records for Poultry Keepers, which
gives several kinds of poultry records
useful to raisers of both large and
analyzing the records to get the most
out of them. The publication, Farm-
ers’ bulletin 1614 F, may be obtained
from the Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C. "Wide variations
in results obtained on poultry farms
indicate that larger returns from poul-
try could be gained by using better
marketing of poultry and eggs.
business methods in production and
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No. 38
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LOCAL PEOPLE G0 ON
Parents Meet New Teachers; Award | Nature Lovers
| Julia,
| bottle of root beer.
small flocks and suggests methods of] :
GARDEN CLUBS TOUR
Visit Garden Beauty
Spots in Wyoming Valley and Are
Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Peck,
A
Wyoming Valley Garden club, which
ciation ‘meeting of the fall was held on| has many local members, motored to
Monday at the borough high school, | Moscow cn Tuesday afternoon to view
Prof. George | beautiful gardens. For the past three
Bowen, principal, introduced the new | years it has been the
teachers, who reecived a cordial recep- and Mrs. W. 8S. Peck
| entertain the members
Mrs. Husted sang several solos. Re-|the Peck home at Moscow.
of Pittston to
of the club at
custom of Mr.
Mr. and Mrs. Peck accompanied the
cooking class. Third grade pupils were | club members to the Martin gardens
awarded the prize for having the larg-|to view landscape work that is only
{two years old but is one of the beau-
ty spots of the country. From there
zey conducted the club members :
through the grounds and explained the
culture of the beautiful flowers.
The next gardens visited were those
of Mr. and Mrs. Brooks ati Brookview.
Mr. Brooks is a great lover of the out-
New features introduced were the the members proceeded to the Lindzey
Hi-Y club for the boys and the Girl | Gladiola farms at Daleville, which pre-
. The school|sents a wonderful sight.
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Mr. Lind- = X
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doors and his place is one of nat~
ural beauty. 2 %
The club then went to the Kaiser
gardens, where a treat was in store
for lovers of flowers and shrubbery.
Following this the members went to
the Peck home where, through the
hospitality of the host and hostess, ev~
eryone took tea.
Everyone agreed that it was a day
long to be remembered. Mrs. Sword,
the president of the club, announced
that the next meeting will be in the
form of-a dinner.at the D. A. R. hall
in West Pittston ony Thursday night,
October 2. Reservations must be made.
Among local persons who were on
the tour were Mr. and Mrs. Ed Eyer-
man of Shrine View|; Mrs. Hugh Mur-
ray and Mrs. John Girvan of Dallas
and Mrs. Sword of Carverton.
WORLD’S NEWS
IN REVIEW
COMMUNISTS, FASCISTS
‘When the Reichstag general election
was held in Germany this week foun-
dations of the natives
government were shaken by the land-
slide of Fascist and Communist votes
cast. It was the sixth election since
the Republic was founded and meant
that Chancellor Henrich Bruening’
Sentrist party had lost power.
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FRENCH FLIERS
Coste and Bellonte, France's foremost
aviators and recent conquerors of the
Atlantic, are making a 15,000 mile
good-will tour in their scarlet sesqui-
plane, “?”, over America. Nearest
point to Dallas on the tour of the
Frenchmen is Philadelphia, where the
fliers will be on October 9. :
Wer gel ge
UNITED STATES .
Kl
In Geneva, Switzerland, on Wednes-
day, groups of men from all over the
world began studying the proposal
made by Aristide Briand, French For=- ¢
eign Minister, for a United States of
Europe. Encouraging to Monsieur
Briand was
Henderson of Great Britain would sup-=
port the plan, :
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MISTAKE
When George Kosminitis came from
work to his home, Wilson Corners,
Plainsville, on Monday night, his wife,
went into the cellar to get a
She poured her-
self a glass first and drank it. Mrs.
Kosminitis became violentdly ill, was
taken to the hospital and died soon
after admittance. Mr. Kosminitis re- .
| membered that root beer and ‘poison
had been stored in the same type of
bottle in the cellar. :
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PENNANT
From th flag pole in the Northwest
indication that Arthur
:
corner of Artillery park for a year will po
fly the New York-Penn banner to
testify to the ability of the 1930
Wilkes-Barre Barons, who won the
pennant last week for the first time
since 1911. To head the NYP league
teams, Mike MecNally's baseball play=-
ers won seventy-eight games and lost
fifty-nine, gL
ss ® “|
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EMPLOYMENT
For the first time since March, wage
payments last month in Pennsylvania
manufacturing, plants showed an up-
ward trend, statistics announced this
week show. Wages in the State ad-
vanced 1.5 per cent from July to Aug-
ust. Though optimists smiled, pess-
imists remembered that resumption of
operations after the usual July vaca=-.
tion period always results in an in=
crease of wage payments. 3
\\F DELUSIONS ARE A 9\GN
OF INSANITY, THEN WE'VE
GOT %OME CRAZY MEN
AN THIS TOWN THAT THIN
THEY'RE BO%9 IN THEIR
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