GIVE A JOB! Classified Column FREE for Employ- ment Ads aii ANA -] _ MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION CIRCULATION THIS ISSUE 3871 NET PAID IN ADVANCE PRESS RUN—4,000 VOL. 40 Uncle Sam ~~ Goes to Sea Again American Flag Now Flies in Every Pori Only Rival. Uncle Sct as taken to the sea again. We have been hearing a great deal about the American Merchant Marine, these past few years, but few realize the extent to which shipping flying our national flag has regained ‘the commanding position on.the high seas 4hat it used to occupy before the Age of Steam. Before the Great War there were so few American ships sailing to foreign shores that our flag was almost totally unknown in many of the most import- ant ports of the world. For nearly sixty years that condition had. been zetting worse from year to year. Today the United States ranks sec- ond only to Great Britain in the num- er of our ships engaged in foreign ~ commerce, and only Great Britain ex- ceeds us in the annual volume of ship construction. And that condition is getting better, from our point of view, from year to year. In the old days of wooden sailing ships the United States led the world. In the first 75 years of our national existence Yankee shipyards built more craft than were built anywhere else. Our shipbuilders and designers strove to improve their models, until in the 1850’s the Yankee Clippers, the towel- ing wooden sailing craft which pene- trated to the utmost reaches of thé globe, were the fastest and most profitable merchantment afloat. They were at once the admiration and the despair of the British, our only rivals on the Seven Seas. * Then three things happened, almost at once. The iron ship and the screw propel- ler were introduced into the shiyp- building picture, and the United - States became embroiled in a war be- tween the States. So long as ships were built of wood | and propelled by sails, we had the ad-, vantage over everybody else; we had 4he timber, and the workmen and the expert knowledge of ship construc- tion; we also had a population living almost entirely along the seacoast, with a natural taste for the sea, and from this costal population we could # man our ships with the best naviga- “tors and sailors to be found anywhere. When it came to manufactures or jron and steel, we were woefully be- hind Great Britain. We had built a cood many steamships, to be sure, but 4hey were mostly sidewheel craft for river and coastwise use and unfit to voyage to China, India and around the ¥orn, in the wake of the old sailing clippers. We had not trained up a body of seagoing engineers who un- derstood machinery. Anr just as there innovations began to demonstrate that the day of the wooden sailing ship was past, all of our national energies were concentrated upon our own in- ‘ternal war.’ The Civil War over, we found that 4he British had captured our foreign carrying trade with their iron steam- ships. We did not worry very much, for we had the problem before us oi opening up and developing our own West. Stell ships succeeded iron, but it was almost fifty years before we had developed sources of iron ore; ana steel mills to utilize it, in suffiicent gtrength to enable us to divert any considerable part of our product to the building of modern ships. And just as we got to the point where we could compete on even terms for the water-borne traffic of the world an- other war broke out. As we had lost our ocean commerce to Great Britain when we were deeply involved in a war, so we began to re- capture it when Great Britain got into the greatest war in history. We seized our opportunity, and a com- prehensive system of Governmental aid to merchant shipbuilding and op- eration was adopted, comparing with ‘the Ciovernment subsidies with which the British had stimulated their own shipping industry. Now, as I have said, we are second only to Great Britain, and a very close second; and we are gaining every year. ee . Last year, for example, 41 per cent of all of .the ocean commerce between the United States and the rest of the world, was carried in American ships.. This year’s figures will be larger. In (Continued on Page 8) FIFTY APPLY FOR JOBS In last week's DALLAS POST carried two small classified ads: ‘“Workmen Wanted.” In commenting on the ad which she ran, Mrs. A. J. Moores, of Fernbrook, says that twenty-seven persons applied for the 7 job." The gother ad for “Woodsmen Wanted” was in- serted in: the POST by H. L. Johnson, of Willow Grange Farm, ‘Trucksville, Pa. Be- tween twenty-five and thirty men applied for this job. An ac- curate check of the classified ads run in THE DALLAS POST during the past two months shows that per cent of these little ads produced results. It pays to read and use the classi- fied ad column of THE DALLAS POST. The classified ad column makes an ideal place to seli farm products. issue THE 75 etl 4 ' | tion SCOUTS MEET ‘Troop No. 7, Dallas meet in the High School Auditorium, Wednesday afternoon, at 2 o'clock. There was a good attendance. The meeting gopened with singing, following which games were played. The meeting continued with instruc- in First Aid for the various classes, and closed with the singing “Taps.” This Troop is very present are working plays to he Girl © Scouts, active and at on several short given in the near future. Telephone Rates To Be Changed Luzerne Telephone Company New Schedule With Commission; Sweet Valley, Lehman and Part of Lake Township Effected. THE LUZERNE TELEPHONE COMPANY furnishing telephone ser- vice from Central Office Districts at Dallas has filed with the Public Ser- vice Commission a new tariff, which makes increases, decreases and changes in existing rates, effective De- cember 1, 1930. The territory effected includes all subscribers of the Luzerne Telephone Company on its lines between Dallas and Sweet Valley. It does not effect subscribers’ of the Commonwealth Telephone Company. INCREASES: The rate for extension bells with large gongs is increased from 20 cents to 25 cents per month. The mileage charge for individual line stations outside of the base rate area is increased from 40 cents to 50 cents per quarter mile. The mileage charge for two party line stations outside of the base rate area is increased from 25 cents to 30 cents per quarter mile. The minimum period for which ex- change service will be billed is in- creased from 6 to 7 months. Extension station business and resi- dence rates are increased from 50 cents each per month to $1.00 and 75 cents per month, respectively. The service connection charge for a wall type of telephone is increased from $1.50 to $3.00. The charge for a change in location of a telephone is increased from $1.00 to $2.00. DECREASES: The rate for small gongs is decreased from cents to 15 cents per month. The charge for change in type instrument is decreased from $5.00 $2.00. The service connection charge for a desk. type instrument is decreased from $5.00 to $3.00. CHANGES: A complete set of toll rates and pro- visions applicable thereto are estab- ished. The rules and regulations are re- vised .and re-written with new pro- visions. WFS:0 November extension bells with 20 of to 5, 1930. Wyoming County All Agog Over Oil Big Companies Lease Land for Pros- pecting Wyoming, Sullivan and Bradford Counties, : runni high in Wyoming county over e prospects of finding oil and gas wells there. With more than 300,000 acres’ of land in Bradford county already under lease for gas and oil prospecting, the citizens of that county are getting alarmed lest millions of dollars worth of fuel will be shipped or piped away with little to show for it. The recurrence of the gas and oil fever along the Susquehanna was caused by the striking of a gusher in Farmingham township, Tioga county, a few weeks ago. The uncontrolled flow of this gusher, which is the largest gas Well struck east of the Mississippi river in a generation, was 23,000,000 feet per day until it was capped with concrete two weeks after it was struck. This flow of gas was worth $100,000 per dayfl The well is now flowing at the rate of 2,000,000 feet of gas’a day into three and one- half miles of six-inch surface pipe connected with a trunk line. Many of the farmers in Tioga county now have their land under lease to agents who came there as soon as the gusher began to flow. The first price offered was 10 cents per acre to hold the land for one year. Competing agents began to bid the price up raising it first to 25 cents an acre and then to 50 cents until now it has reached $1.00 per acre. Oil and gas prospecting is a reoc- curing phenomenon in Wyoming county, considerable money having been spent at regular intervals during the past twenty years to drill wells in various sections of the county. Week before last H. IL. Daugherty, of Cities| Service Company, to view the situation and this week three other agents visited the scene. One of them is supposed to have rep- resented the U. G. IL of Philadelphia, another Cities Service, and still an- Excitement is visited the county | joo _DALLAS, POST, DALLAS, PA. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7 (1930 Tuesday, November 11, the weapons of war. cease. feeling of discontent and unrest the men and women of America for their sacrifices will be best TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, institutions of learning. prayer to Almighty God for the the price of their devotion. KO burg, this JIU and thirty, IEC By the Governor: BO the armistice which terminated the World War. a holiday by both National and State law and the President has proclaimed it and directed its observance throughout the Nation. The lessons of this great struggle should ever be kept in mind: They become more manifest with the passing of time. tha awful destruction of life and property, the bitter hatreds engendered and the evil passions loosened upon humanity, the unsettling of the social forces which enter intor the stability of government and the peaceful intercourse of peoples and nations, and the horrifying increase in the number and effectiveness of / Under the influence of these memories we . call upon every agency and invoke every noble impulse in our humanity for the establishment of good feeling, kindly relation- ships, and justice throughout the world to the end that all war may We earnestly hope and pray that the present widespread of the world may find peaceful solution. On this Armistice Day the patriotic service and sacrifice of remembered. The ideals for which they struggled are realized in greater freedom for individual citizens and more democracy in the forms of government throughout the world. Our gratitude votion to the cause for which they gave or offered their lives. Now, therefore, I, John S. Fisher, Governor of the Common- wealth of Pennsylvania, in obedience to law, do hereby set apart 1930, as a legal holiday, to be commemorated by all citizens of this Commonwealth, and es- pecially by patriotic organizations and the public schools and all “I enjoin upon all our people to abstain, in grateful remem- brance, from their usual occupations, and, at the hour of eleven o'clock in the morning, to suspend all business and employment for two minutes, when every head may be bowed and every heart may reverently remember the sufferings heroic dead, who offered their lives as a sacrifice for country and humanity; and let all citizens join in offering thanksgiving and year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred - one hundred and ffty-fifth. . Secretary of the Commonwealth. Proclamation 1930, 1s the twelfth anniversary of It has been made We recall now so manifest in many parts i: and her allies will be gratefully RN RL WN manifested by our renewed de- WAR] ROM WOU 1 DORR and secifices of our blessings of the peace which is Given under my hand and thg Great Seal of the Commonwealth, at the City of Harris- 1 fifth day of November, in the RB RO and of the Commonwealth the OR ARAR { Ca Sa Scores Knockout Harvey's Lake Boxer Wins Fans With Fine Sportmanship, an Living and Ability. 7 yd pr Johnny Loposky, Harvey's Lake's contribution to the fighting ring, fought his opponent, John Leonard, of Binghamton, N. Y. to a stand still Tuesday night at Carbondale Casino. Loposky, a boy of 150 pounds, has developed into rare form during a month of strenuous training at his private gymnasium at Sandy Beach, Harvey's Lake. In the five bouts that he has fought this season he has scored four knockouts and received referee’s decision in’ another. Loposky is a clean living, high type young man who through hard work and strenuous ‘training has attracted the attention of all local sports fans. The sportsmanlike way in which he conducts himself in the ring and his ability as a fighter cause many fans to favor him as the next welterweight champion of the Anthracite region. He is managed by Ben Rood, of Laketon, Both boys are products of Lake town- ship high schocl. LLOYD LAMOREAUX DIES Following a lingering poss, Lloyd Lamoreaux, aged 69, dnd’ a life long resident of Hunlock Créek, died at his home yesterday afternoon. He leaves the following children to mourn his passing: Mrs. Josiah Stephens, of Plymouth, Mrs. Dayton Lewis, of Hun- lock Creek, Clark and Luke, of Muu- lenburg, Howard, Millard and Bernard at home; also 26 grandchildren and three great-granchildren survive. Collector Makes Final Settlement School Board Grants Permission to Local Gymnasium. The school board on Wednesday night authorized the payment of the following bills: Books and supplies, C. R. Andrews, $20.60; Henry Holt & Co:;, $2.08; Allan & Bacon, $1.44; W. M. Welch Mfg. Co. $46.81; Webster Publishing $3.04; Scott Foresman Co., $32.05; Kurtz Bros. $2.84; South- western Publishing Co., $11.36; Will- iam Krause, merchandise and service, Co, | will enforce $15.00; George T. Bowen, $3.67; Good- Farm, $12: J. M. Reese, $12; R. ! L. Brickel, $15.95; Mrs. A. G. Kocher, | $32; Risleyr Major Co. $26.13; Rem-| ington Rand Co., $7; A.J. Roat Supply | Co., $14.28; Howard Leek, $18; 2us- | Oth r from that ever interesting com-| ity Wilkes-Barre. ! he LADIES’ AID TO MEET orem | The regular monthly meeting of Dat-J | las Ladies’ Aid Society will be held at| the home of Mrs. Harold Titiman, | L ake street, Nov. 13. Serving committee: jwines Oliver, Dean Still, C. A. . Stevens, Miss Mary Still. i Mesdames: Frantz, | 333. 39; | tric Co, | $22.42; [ $50. sell Evans, $7.50: J. R. Oliver, $9.69; R.|C I. Hallock, plumbing and repairs, | Luzerne County Gas and Elec- $43.89; stamped envelopes, New Jersey Seating Co., $100; Dallas Water Co. $60.50; Earl Monk, final payment on heating work, $19.60; J. H. Garrahan, stoker rental, | F. M. Gordon final submitted set- | | keeping | consumers have failed to co-operate by | | notifying the company of their removal | Searfass; house. | — Retains Chief of Police Discusses Merits of Mushro ‘At Dangerous Street Inte Town council met Tuesday night and paid the monthly bills for salaries and street work, including $224.15 for stone. Temporary loans aggregating $3,000 were ordered paid. This is the entire amount of temporary indebted- ness, approximately $14,000 in bonds being outstanding. Committees reported regarding the installation of a mushroom light at the intersection of Main and Hunts- ville streets, the establishment of a dumping ground, and adjustment of the complaint of C. N. Booth that re- grading Lehman avenue had inter- fered with the approach to his resi- dence. After discussion council decided to dispense with the services of the sec- ond officer during the winter. Officer Edward Avery was retained during the winter at a part time proposition at a salary of $25 per month. A committee was appointed to in- spect proposed lots in an effort to pro- vide some adequate parking space near the center of the town. HUNTSVILLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH With the banquet on Friday night the Huntsville Christian church closes the celebration of its 87th anniversary. Mrs. C. H. Frick, wife of the pastor, will fill the pulpit ‘Sunday morning at 9:30 as Rev. Frick speaks to the regi- ment of the 109th Field Artillery in the First Presbyterian Church in ‘Wilkes-Barre. Bible School follows the service. Water Company To Enforce Its Vacancy Rule Water Users Cause Trouble When They Fail to Notify Conipany of Vacancies. ¥ As will be seen in au advertisement appearing ¢lsewhere in this paper, Dal- las and Shavertown water companies “rule 5” of the general rules and regulations of the companies pertaining to allowancses for vacan- cies. This rule applies especially to those instances where families move from from one house to another and ail to notify the water company of] their removal, thus not permitting | | water company employees to shut off | the water and obtain record of va-| ancy. In the past the company has| experienced considerable difficulty in | accounts straight because the H. {and have then subsequently objected | Skapic; to paying for any portion of the bill | contracted ‘during the vacancy of the In order to overcome all misunder- {overwhelming (| STATE SIGNS MAY | BE COSTLY TARGET rm | Removal or destruction of signs or| posters put up by any department of | the State government is punishable | with a fine of not less than $10.00 or more than $50.00. State officials cite the act of the last session of the Legislature in warning hunters that State signs may prove costly targets. All fines collected under direct to the county in the act go which the offense was committed. Republicans Win In Rural Region Only One District Carried By Demo- in Wyoming sylvania since the final report of the “The outlook for our native chests ‘nut is more hopeful this fall than it crats—Terry Wins County. Voting districts of the back moun- tain region ran true to form in the General Election on Tuesday and gave majorities to the Re- publican candidates for election. Out- side of Luzerne borough the only other nearby district which was| carried for Hemphill, Democratic nominee, was West Wyoming, second district, where Governor Pinchot trailed his Demo- cratic opponent by nine votes, and Kmetz led Turpin by 100 votes. How Local Districts Voted Dallas Dallas Dallas Dallas Jackson Twp, Kingston TE -D.... Kingston T nwd.... Kingston T swd Lehman T swd Lehman T ned Lehman T M D Lake T N 56 13 152 118 72 106 W Wyoming 1D.... 172 181 W Wyoming: 2D.... 211 55 WYOMING COUNTY Charles IL. Terry, of Nicholson borough, Republican. nominee for Representative from Wyoming county, defeated Percy Brunges, of Faston township, Democratic nominee, by 624 votes. Governor Pinchot carried every district in the county, and L. T. Mc- Fadden ran far ahead in the Congres- sional race. With the exception of Noxen and Easton townships, where he carried good majorities, Brunges broke about even in the other dis- tricts on this side of the Susque- hanna rviver. While ' Tunkhannock borough came to ‘theair of Brunges with good majoritiés, Nicholson bor- ough and township and Factoryville gave Terry almost a clean sweep. 9 21 28 14 5 225 74 £ Bobby Eipper Breaks Ankle In Football Game Local Gridders Defeat Lehman 40-0 in Practice Game, But Lose Quarterback With Injuries. Dallas borough high school showed rare form on Friday afternoon when it held Lehman township hiigh school to one first down, while the Dallas ball carriers tore through the line, gambled around the ends and kept the Lehman backs bleary eyed looking for forward passes. When the dust of battle raised Dal- las had rolled ‘up as score of 40 points and Lehman was scoreless. Lehman showed a splendid spirit throughout the game and its good sportsmanship was evidenced when it allowed Dallas to play an ineligible man, The game was marred during the last quarter when Robert Eipper, Dal- las quarterback, received a broken ankle. Eipper played a splendid.game throughout the first three quarters, and his injury will probably remove him from the game for the remainder of the season. 3 rr pe Ci pr ty ‘LEHMAN BOYS ATTEND DISPLAY Several members of the vocational agriculture class of Lehman High School attended the display at Irem Temple. The boys won several prizes in judging and their exhibits. second prize in judging potatoes; The boys who won prizes in the Chestnuts Show. More Signs of ¢ Beating Blight Continued Survey Bolsters Forecasts Made Earlier in Season Continued field investigations of the chestnut tree during the past summer support the findings of the Pénnsyl- vania Forest Research Institute, which | last spring made public the results of 4 survey purporting to show that chestnut is slowly working its way back into Penn's Woods. The report then published by the State Depart- ment of Forests and Waters, was the first official document expressing the status of the chestnut blight in Penn- Chestnut Blight Commission in 1913. has been any year since the chestnut 3 blight made its appearance in Penn- sylvania,” says Research Forester John E. ‘Aughanbaugh, who has con- tinued the field studies up to the pres- ent time.- “This is particularly true in the eastern half of the State, which represents the region of earliest infec- tion. After a lapse of twenty years the sprout growth of chestnut is pro- ducing a crop of nuts.” During the past month of field ex- aminations by Aughanbaugh he saw and heard much encouraging evidence in favor of the chestnut tree. “The in- creased production of nuts has had much to do with stimulating interest in the eventual recovery of the tree inj/f Pennsylvania,” he said. “More chest- nuts are being gathered from sprouts ) this fall than any year since the origi- a 4 nal stand of chestnut fell victim to the blight.” ? Gathers Nuts AS > Blair Kauffman, towerman on the Snowy Mountain forest fire tower in the Mount Alto State Forest, Franklin county, collected a quart of chestnuts in, that section of the South Moun- tains. Forester Aughanbaugh also gathered more than a pint of nuts from sprouts which were only five years of age. At least one-tenth of the chestnut sprouts are now bearing fruit on ‘this particular area, which was burned over in 1926. Individual sprouts, ranging from six to ten feet in height, are each bearing from two to twenty burrs and older sprouts many more. Ome 12-year-old sprout on Pine Knob, Mount Alto State Forest. is carrying eighty-two well-formed burrs this fall. Another sprout has fifty-four burrs and counts on several others showed from twenty to thirty burrs present. r The encouraging feature of this vear's crop of chestnuts is the high percentage of well developed nuts which the sprouts are bearing. In previous years even when a few burrs were present, nearly all contained un- developed nuts. A large percentage of the burrs this year contain not only one, but three nuts, and most of them are of large size. The returning crop of nuts is hope- ful evidence that the chestnut tree can in time regain its lost ground. Aug- hanbaugh believes. Without new nuts there cannot be new trees and it is certain that the old chestnut stumps cannot indefinitely produce sprouts. Thees of seedling origin, furthermore, offer the greatest resistance to the chestnut blight. It is evident, there- . fore, that the chestnut is entering a new era in its fight against extermina< tion. - —0 MOUNT GREENWOOD KIWANIS CLUB As a result of the election held on Wednesday evening, the Kiwanis Club of Mt. Greenwood will be gov= erned for the year 1931, by the follow- ing officers: President—Clinton Roberts; 1st V. P.—Rev. H. F. Henry; 2nd V. P.—Rev. J. J. OLeary; Treas.—Archie Wool- bert; District Trustee—A. C. Kelly, and Directors—Dr. G. L. Howell and Sam J. Anthony. The Club’s major objective for the 1930-31 season will be the establish= ment of an upper valley Neighborhood Club for the benefit of boys and young men over the scout age. The following young men of the sec- tion met with the club and formed thes nucleous of such; an organization: Kenneth Woolbert, Temp. Chairman; James Garey, Phil Anderson, Daniel Richards, Phil Reynolds, Lester Squier, Fred Eck, Elwood Swingle, Willard Garey, Warren Phillips and Leonard Machell. Entertainment was judging were: Fred Winter, won Arthur Miers, second prize in judging | apples; Glenn Brown; fifth prize in| judging apples, and Kenneth Rice, first’ price in judging corn. ! Individual winners were: Fred Win- ter, John Nnezgoda and Wilbur Sear- fass, corn; Glenn Brown and Ziba Smith, onions; Fred Winter and Paul Rice, rutabagars; Wilbur Searfass and Ziba Smith, beans; Hale Branson, Robert Disque and Philip Disque, carrots; John. Niezgada, Alfred Iam- ereaux -and © Philip Disque, cabbage; John Niezgoda, Paul Rice and Alfred | Lamereaux, hickory nuts; Kenneth Rice and Basil Smith, walnuts; Ken- neth Rice, oats); Arthur Miers, squash; Michael Skapic, potatoes; Philip Dis-| que, pears; Hale Branson, eggs; Ken- neth Rice. i 1 Jumbo exhibits won by Lehman were: Largest apples, Wilbur; largest cabbage, Michael! largest potato, Harry Dietz. | prizes were awarded to potatoes, and to! boys Sweepstake { Philip Disque for | Fred Winter for apples. The boys attended a banquet at frem tlement of 1929 tax accounts as fol-! standings in the future the company Temple, after which they saw Amos (Continued on Page 8) tonnes on Page 8) ‘n Andy in Check An’ Double hec! [furnished by Pompilio Forlano, of Wilkes-Barre, cornet soloist, wand Lloyd Pohnson, pianist. GIVE A JOB Fifty men answered two small classified adds for work. That doesn’t just mean that MEN NEED WORK! Many of them need it badly to support their wives and children. If you have a job that will give a man an hour’s work, a day's work or a week’s work, give it to him NOW. "If you have any kind of job for a man or for a woman, THE DALLAS POST will be glad to run a classified ad for you free of charge. Don’t hesi- tate to make use of this service. Telephone THE POST right now while you think of it so that some worthy person can have a job this = week. The holidays aren’t far off. The spirit of good will is in the air. Make some hod, happier. Give a job!
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