4 Fr TELEPHONE : ) TELEPHONE YOUR NEWS ITEMS : YOUR NEWS ITEMS TO THE POST ® TO THE POST Dallas 300 : ; Dallas 300 di - More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution ! 2 EE —— — . — VoL. 41 DALLAS, POST. DALLAS, PA. FEIDAY, MAY 15, 1931 = I pa — v cosa stam y ‘Rural Leaguers Get Into Action Games Please Fans— Dallas, East Dal-| las And Beaumont Take Lead— Dallas Still Without Grounds LOCALS DEFEAT TUNKHANNOCK ‘The many fans who follow the rural - league were well pleased. ‘with the re- sults in Saturday’s games, which fur- nighed a variety of fast field work and good hiting of which ‘home runs proved): the downfall in two games. > 1 Shavertown-Dallas ‘What proved to be one of the most exciting games of the day was the DaMas-Shavertown game played at Idetown. The fans were treated to some good pitching by Peynton Lee for Dallas, and ‘Lefty” Thomas for Shavertown, fast fielding and a com- biration of hits, ranging from singles to home runs. The first run of the game in the fifth frame, when Ira Morris drove one of “Lefty's” slants within a short distance of Harvey's Lake to make the first cir- cuit clout of the season for the locals. But not to be outdone, the Shavertown boys went into actin in theior fifth frame, when Bill Thomas, product of Kingston township high school, drove a double to deep center and scored on another hit by young Piatt, pinch hit- ing for Miles. Kitchen then got a base on balls and when the fog had cleared the score stood 3 to 1 for Shavertown. In the next frame Wilson, 'Woolbert and Guy Scoutim put an act on with a, barage of clean base hits and tied the score at three all. Then to make things look blue again, Shavertown went on another wild rampage and it looked as if they had sewed the ball garie up when they made the count seven to three and one inning to go. But here is where the old tradition holds good that a game is never won until the last man is out in the last frame. The fireworks started when Reese led off with a double followed by a double by Lee and one of the longest hits of the day by Bill Griffen, which tied the game up at seven each. 'At this point “Lefty” Thomas seemed to be com- pletely lost ‘when Ted Wilson came through with his second hit of the day and scored the winning run when Bill LaBar connected for his fourth hit of the day, giving him the batting honors. Shavertown can be complimented on the type of ball ‘they played. Most of the boys are youngsters and with a little more experience should be a real ‘pennant contender in the rural league. . Beaumont- Meeker Beaumont had little trouble winning over Meeker by the score of 13 to 3. Archie Austin, speed ball artist, was in rare form and received gilt-edge support from his mates, Meeker used three pitchers in an effort to stop the heavy slugging done by MacDougall's crew, Idetown-East Dallas Bast Dallas kept up their winning streak when they nosed Idetown out in ‘the final innings. The Idetown boys had an advantage of a two-run lead until Prynn connected for his third home run of the season to tie the score. In the last frame the squeeze play was put into action and gave East Dallas the game by a 4 to 3 score. Pete Kocher and. Searfoss, former Alderson stars, ‘were the battery for Idetown, while Blank and Michales worked for the winners. Next Saturday Beaumont will have East Dallas at home and should give the hardest game of the season. Last Week’s Scores Dallas Voc. 8 Shavertown ..... 7 BE. Dallas ........ 4 Tdetown' ...:. iv. 3 Beaumont ..... 13 Meeker ......... 3 Schedule For Saturday East Dallas at Beaumont. Shavertown at Idetown. Meeker at Dallas. (This game may be transferred to Meeker.) League Standing ‘Won Lost Hast Dallas uaa ress ssns 3 0 Dallag.. J, i Nevins ven ise al 3); 0 Beaumont. . nivale Sides 1 0 TACLOWN iv sacs ss rans Powder 0 1 SHavertown =. . oie viii ns 0 2 MEEReT . iii ef rae an 0 2 Culver In Rare Form to Win From Tunkhannock Chet Culver, pitching his first game : of the season, led Dallas to a 3 to 2 victory at Tunkhannock last Sunday, allowing but five scattered hits and making twelve men fan the breeze. Ice Evans, ace of the Tunkhannock nine, was also at his best, allowing Dallas but six safeties, one being a double by Burgess, which gave Dallas a two-run lead in the first frame. The feature of the game came when Lasco stole home in the sixth inning) which proved to be the winning run. | Next Sunday Dallas will play at Mes-| hoppen with ‘Culver or Lee pitching, | Burgess catching, Wilson, MacDougall, | Griffen, Morris and Woolbert, infield; | Lasco, Reese, LaBar and Slayzak, out- | field. Players should be ready to leave] Dallas about 1:30. Junior Rural League Schedule | The Rural Junior League composed | of teams from Dallas, Trucksville, Shavertown, Fernbrook, Alderson and Idetown, were to open their 1931 sea- | son on Wednesday afternoon, but due| to the inclement weather, were unable] to get underway. The schedule for the first half of the season is as fol- lows: (Continued on page 4) CHILD HAD NARROW ESCAPE FROM INJURY OR DEATH Buelah Grey, Four-Year-Old. Child; «Strays Onto Railroad Tracks Car Passes Over Her Beulah Grey, four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Gay, of West Dallas, had a narrow escape from seri- ous injury or death on Monday when she strayed on to the L. V. railroad tracks near her home just as the eléc- tric work car rounded the curve and was too close to her to stop quickly enough. or. : Fortunately, her mother called to her at the moment, and the child started to run, but fell between the rails striking her head on ai'tie stun- ning’ her, and the car passed over her without touching her. -. The little child was rushed to ‘the hospital, where it was found that the only injury she had sustained was a bad bruise on the head, where she had come into contact with the tie. The work car was in charge of a crew from Wilkes-Barre and was not the local work car from Alderson. of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Grey, of West has been ill with convulsions recently is slowly improvng. Sunday Baseball Bill Is Approved Denning Measure Providing For Local Referendum Wins By Small Margin Of One Vote THE VOTE CAST WAS 106 TO 98 The storm of blue law modification which has been rocking the House for several weeks Tuesday swept into the Senate’ the bill of Representative Denning, Philadelphia, to legalize Sun- day baseball. By a vote of 106 to 98, one more than was required to pass the measure finally, the House took action which set a precedent in the 137 years through which the Act of 1794 has stood. The passage of the Denning bill permitting Sunday baseball between the hours of 2 and 6 P. M., unless pro- hibited by local ordinance enacted in compliance with a referendum of the municipaliity concerned, moved from the House calendar the last of the measures on which the blue law bat- tle has been waged for weeks. The ayes on the roll call checked exactly with those recorded a week ago when the proponents of modifica- tion mustered 102 votes in an effort to pass finally the Schwartz bill which was similar in effect to that passed on Tuesday. They had added three votes. Representatives Burne, Westmoreland; Graham, Crawford, and Miller, Phila- absent at the session a week ago. Hefferon and Roan voted for the bill but the other Luzerne representatives opposed it. rie (3 ANNUAL SPRING FLOWER SHOW WILL BE HELD Wyoming Valley Garden Club To Hold Exhibition in Wyoming Institute Tuesday and Wednesday Wyoming Valley Garden Club plans in the Wyoming Institute on Tuesday and STednesday. May 19th and 20th. Exhibitors are urged to present tlir entries for registration on Tuesday, May 19th, between 8:00 A. M. and 12:30 P. M. Competent judges have been secured and they will start judging at 1:00 o'clock on Tuesday and at 3:30 P. DM. the show will be officially opened to the public, remaining open Tuesday eevning until 9:00 o'clock and all day Wednesday from 9:00 A. M. to 9:00 P. M. Amateur and professional gardners are welcome to exhibit at this show whether they be members of the Wyoming Valley Garden Club or not and the general public is invited to visit the show during the two days. The following ladies from this sec- tion have been selected as part of the show committee: Miss Nellie Leach, Trucksville; Mrs. Alfred; Sword and Mrs. G. 'W. Dana, Carverton. 0 NOTED SURGEON ADDRESSED NURSES’ GRADUATING CLASS Donald Guthrie, Sayre, Brought Message to General Hospital Exercises Last Evening Dr. Dr. Donald Guthrie, superintendent of Packer hospital, Sayre, and a noted surgeon was the speaker at the forty- second commencement of the Wilkes- Barre Yeneral Hospital Training School for Nurses in Coughlin high school, North Washington street, Wilkes-Barre, last evening. Shavertown Frank E. Parkhurst, president of the board of directors of the institutjon, was chairman and presented diplomas to the forty-nine members of this year's graduating class. Following the formal exercises in the school auditorium, the graduates en- tertained their friends at. a dance in the school gymnasium. Among the graduates from the back mountain region were: Grace E. Ride- out, Dallas R. D. 4, and Margaret M. Sutliff, Trucksville. ’ ye i TO HOLD FIELD DAY Field Day. exercises of Kingston wnship schools will be held at the school this (Friday) afternoon weather permiting. This event was postponed from last Friday on account of rain. delphia, Republicans, all of whom were, to hold its annual spring flower show | ek For Banner We Received Order For 50 Machines From Pittsburgh Dealer With : Additional Orders For 200 OTHER ORDERS NOW PENDING Last week was banner week, for, Post-o-Graf Manufacturing Company of Trucksville. On Monday the com- pany received an order for 50 machines from Its Pittsburgh dealer. This was followed on Wednesday with an order for 100 additional, making a total order of 250 machines. A large number of these machines have been sold to the Carnegie Steel Company. A letter to the Post-o-Graf Company from the Pittsburgh Typewriter &\ Supply Co., which placed the order was as follows: “Enter our order for another 100 ma- chines, and ship them to us in lots of ten or twenty as fast as you can by Pennsylvania freight: Better put all the boys on extra night work for a while so we can get ahead a bit. We will handle from six to ten machines a day from now until the dull summer period starts. Sooner or later we hope to have a daily quota of twenty.” Pittsburgh Typewriter & Supply Co. Another large order for Post-o-Graf machines is pending with New York City Board of Education for use in. New York City schools. This order will be placed through the Post-o-Graf New York office. The Post-o0-Graf Company has been unable to find adequate facilities for a factory location in this region, but has received proposals from Pittsburgh men to establish its factory in that re- gion. Certainly Wyoming Valley and particularilly the back mountain re- gion cannot afford to see this rapidly growing company move to other terri- tory while local Chambers of Com- merce, service clubs and business men are clamoring for the establishment of more industries in Luzerne county. ea TO ENFORCE THE LAW : ON TRAFFIC TURNS Commissioner Eynon States That Many Driver Fail To Observe State Code In Making Turns State Highway patrolmen have been instructed to strictly enforce sections of the motor vehicle code covering turning at intersections and signaling by drivers, Benjamin G. Eynon, com- missioner of motor vehicles, today an- nounced. : The code provides that right-hand turns at intersections shall only be made from the right-hand curb or edge of the highway. It also provides that left-hand turns at intersections shall be made to the left of the center of the intersection from the lane -of traffic to the right and nearest the center line of the highway. “Many motorists are still following the old practice of going to the right- hand side of the highway and making eft-hand turns,” Commissioner Eynon said. “Still others persist in cutting across the lane of traffic from the out side left to make a right-hand trun. Both are dangerous and inconsiderate practices and cause many accidents.” Commissioner Eynon also finds that motorists are forgetting to give the signals pointed out that the code provides that signals must be, given when starting, » These signals are to be given by hand or arm, or by the signal device usually connected with the rear lamp. In the case of closed cars, signals must be given by the hand or arm held in such a way as to be visible through the rear window by the driven of a car follow- ing. er te nd JAMES W. MACKIE NAMED Entered Employ of Luzeren County Gas & Eelectric Corporation December 1, 1914 The Luzerne County Gas & Electric Corporation has announced the ap- pointment of James W. Mackie, of ation, effective at once. The appoint- ment comes as a reward for Mr. Mackie’s services to the corporation since he was a boy. He entered the employ of the Lu- December 1, 1914, and was given work transcribing consumers’ ledgers. He received his first promotion to office boy shortly after. to the position of consumers’ ledger and in March of the following year he was made a clerk in the acocunting department. Strict appliaction to his duties earn- ed for Mr. Mackie the position of as- sistant chief clerk in the acocunting department on June 1, 1918, a position which he held until August 1, 1923, when he was appointed chief clerk, He served in that capacity until Friday of last week, when the corporation an- nounced his. appointment as auditor. LS NAMED CONSTABLE Curtis Anderson of Dallas township, was named as constable of that baili- wick by Judges Mcl.ean, Jones, Valen- tine, Coughlin and Fine sitting en banc on Monday morning. They also amed may Register Assesors, Constables, High Constable and Judge of Election to serve in various sections of the county, A PARENT-TEACHERS ASSO. Post-O-Graf Co.| from the same dealer for 100 more ma~: chines and on Saturday with an order required Dy the ToEm—~—He stopping or tunring at intersections.|’ AS NEW AUDITOR ! Shavertown, as auditor for the corpor- i zerne Gas & Electric Corporation on; Another promotion’|| clerk was given to him in May, 1915, | i C Jin gather at Fernbrook Park for their t J = TO HOLD MONTHLY MEETING Dallas Township Organization Prepar- paring To Give Unique Entertain- ment Monday, May 18th Dallas Township Parent-Teachers' Association will hold their May meet- ing on Monday evening, May 18, at 7:45 sharp. The teachers have arranged a most delightful program. There will be a speaker of interest and election of officers. The P. T. A. of the town- ship is just one year old this month and growing nicely. In order to place more money in the treasury the women members have decided to hold a box party that evening. There will be an auctioneer who will auction the boxes to the men bidding highest. This affair gives promise of much success; also much fun. The ladies place their name in the box and the gentleman who pur- chases the box eats with the one whose name ‘was in the box. You can be as- | sured that there will be some splendid boxes and you are assured of plenty good eats as well. So listen, men, don’t forget to bring along your purse. We hope that the men who attend will not act Scotch, as the money will go into the treasury of the association. -g————— — Making Progres On New Road Three Per Cent Completed In Two Weeks—Must Be Completed By September 1st ROAD A FEDERAL-AID PROJECT Swift progress on construction of 8.42 miles of highway between Tunk- hannock and Nicholson, Traffic Route 92 (Legislative Route 479) Wyoming county, is reported by inspectors to Secretary of Highways Sam Lewis. The project is part of the Federal-aid; program, which must be completed on or before September 1, this year, un- der the ruling of the Federal Govern- ment. The field report of the project is typical of the pressure being exerted by the Department to assure timely completion of the Federal-aid program. A review of the report follows: This project was awarded to Connell and Laub, Dayton, Ohio, April 14, and they started operations immediately. In the ensuing two weeks, they have completed -azproximately 3 per cent of the entire contrat. There are employed 181 meh and the individual operaticns under way include rough grading, clearing and grubbing, which is prac- tically completed, placing of pipe and work on seven bridges. The County Commissioners are on the job, having the buildings moved from within the limits of constructjon, so that the contractors will not be in- terfered with in their progress. They have 61 individual pieces of construction equipment at work.” In- cluded among this equipment are 5 gasoline shovels, 8 10-ton rollers, 7 caterpillar tractors with dump wagons attached, 14 trucks, 2 construction mixers, while the rest is miscellaneous, such as graders, SCOOpS, COMPTressors, ete. : An inspection of this project shows activity and progress, which is ordi- narily seen on a road job after it has been underconstruction for at least six weeks. The contractors have a skele- ton organization who are thoroughly familiar with our requirements, especi- ally as they relate to the new tye of wgconstreetion, while the laboring end of ty’ work is being handled by mien who five in the vicinity of the contract. An inspection at this time indicates that the contractors will have no trouble in completing their work by September 1. ANNOUNCES FARMERS’ \ FIELD DAY PROGRAM Farmers’ Filed Day Program At State College June 10 And 11, Offers Wide Variety of Information : Farmers’ Field Day at State Colleg, June 10 and 11, will offer a wide vari- lety of useful, timely information to farmers and homemakers, according to County Agent J. D. Hutchinson. Demonstrations, exhibits: and talks will tell the story of successful prac- tices. On Wednesday evening, June 10, the levent will open with a program of en- tertainment. On the following day ‘there will be full programs in agricul- ‘tural engineering, agronomy, animal thusbandry, dairy husbandry, forestry, fruit growing, ornamental horticulture, vegetable gardening and plant breed- ing, poultry husbandry and home )economics. re ah | HOME MISSIONS The Home Missions Society of the iShavertown M. E. church held a icovered dish luncheon Thursday noon {in the church recreation room. Those ‘attending brought their own sand- wiches and tableware. The monthly imeeting of the society was held at the close of the luncheon. Opening of the Mite Boxes was a feature of the pro- gram. {mrt rr rn, D FELLOWS DAY CELEBRATE OD { ! Extensive preparations. are being made for the observance of Odd Fel- lows Day on Memorial Day. The members of the lodges in Luzrene ounty, together with their families, annual celebration. There will be danc- ing and other amusements both after- noon and evening and it is expected 1 ‘gest crowd ever will be To Enforce Law Against Dogs Peter 0. Lutz, Chairman of Game Committee of Dallas Camp, To Start Aggressive Campaign DOGS DESTROY YOUNG GAME Peter O. Lutz, who was recently appointed chairman of the Game Com- mittee of Dallas Camp No. 277, United Sportsmen, will start an aggressive campaign against unlicensed doge and dogs that are allowed to run loose. Mr. Lutz was appointed chairman of the Game Committee only on condition that he would see to it that the dog laws are enforced. Dogs allowed to run loose .destroy much small game, especially young! rabbits. They disturb pheasants set- ting and once a hen pheasant is dis- turbed from her nest she never re- turns to it. The laws of the State are specific with regard to the handling of dogs. Any unlicensed dog may be shot by the owner of land on which the dog is found. Licensed dogs may be shot by the landowner after written notice has been sent to the owner of the dog. Any licensed dog or unlicensed dog found running loose at night between the hours of sunset and surise may be shot by any policeman and the owner subject to fine or $10 for each day the dog runs loose and an additional fine of $5 for every game animal killed. The training period for dogs in con- trol of owner is from August 20 to the last day of February and at that pe- riod only from one hour before sunrise to 10:00 A. M. SHAVERTOWN SCHOOL EXHIBIT WAS VERY WELL ATTENDED Public Responded Generouslly To Op- portunity to Witness Work Of Shavertown Students The public most generously respond- ed to the opportunity to witness the work done by the students of the Sha- vertown public schools at the Shaver- town school house on last Friday eve- ning. The work of the students of the schools showed the results of the ca- paple--iraining. sive the ohiilion by able instructors. Each of the various grades had something on display and every exhibit was most interesting. During the evening the students en- tertained with a program. Ross Wil- liams, president of the Shavertown Im- provement Association, was chairman j of the meeting, which was sponsored by that organization. Following is the program: Invocation, Mrs. Ernest Keeler; se- lection by the school orchestra; song, by pupils of the seventh grade; read- ing, Mildred Isaacs; selection by the harmonica club, under the direction of Miss Myers, supervisor of Music in the township schools; piano duet, Jean Vercoe and Betty Williams; reading, Betty Transue; song, eighth grade pu- pils; recitation, June Williams; violin solo, Earl Newhart. President Nichols, of the School Board, gave a brief resume of the growth of the township schools in the last ten years. Prof. Thomas Carle, township supervisor of schools, gave a short talk. A. P. Cope, county Super- intendent of Schools, also gave a short talk. Benediction was offered by Rev. D. M. Corkwell. Appearing On Alternate Nights At Huntsville Church And Wyoming Avenue Church, Kingston Miss Mary O. Sheldrake, affection- ately called “Mary O.” by a host of young people whom she has led in youth conference and on other occa- sions, came from New York on Satur- day to open on Sunday a two weeks leadership training conference at the Wyoming Avenue and = Huntsville Christian churches alternating nights between the two churches. She con- ducted the youth friendship hour at the Wyoming Avenue church, Kings- | ton, Sunday afternoon at five and the youth night service at 7:30. A similar plan .will bbe carried out atl Huntsville on this Sunday evening. The purpose of calling Miss Shel-) drake is to develop leadership in the two churches, especially among Sun- day school teachers. She will be at Wyoming avenue, Monday, Wednes- day and Friday evenings and at Huntsville Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evenings. Q — TWO IMPORTANT ADS OF INTEREST TO READERS Boston Store, Wilkes-Barre, Chasin’s Store, Luzerne, Important Announcemeents And | Have There aretwo advertisements appear- ing in this issue of THE POST which extend unusual bargains to readers of this newspaper. Each week Sue Sayles, the Boston Store’s personal shopper, will offer a week-end bargain, especi- ally to readers of THE POST. On page 4 of this issue will be found the advertisement of Chasin’s Department Store in Luzerne. A special 10 per cent discount is extended to readers of THE POST on any’ item sold by this store. The only requirement be- ing that the advertisement must be clipped from the paper and handed to the ‘clerk when the purchase is made. ER 5 “M 2 AT HUNTSVILLE 8 BD ISTIAN-CHUREH | to locate ther in many instances. DALLAS PARENT-TEACHERS’ TO HOLD MONTHLY MEETING Interesting Program Arranged For The Coming Meeting To Be ‘Held Monday Evening The regular monthly meeting of the Dallas Borough Parent-Teachers’ Age sociation will be held in the borough high school auditorium on Monday evening, May 18. A most interesting program has been arranged for this occasion. Miss Katherine Bishop, of Luzerne( will render several soprano solos, and Harry Allen, of Alderson, will contribute several tenor solos. Mrs, Hull's Girl Scouts, who recently took part in the pageant, “Festival of Youth,” in Wilkes-Barre, and™who won much favorable comment, will give the Welch song as given in costume on that occasion. The girls will be un- der the direction of Mrs. Ralph Brickel. The mothers of the pupils of the first grade will serve refresh= ments at the