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DAN
It was a great idea former residents of Stull, deserted
“MM yoming county lumbering town, had a few weeks ago
when more than’ 175 persons gathered to
RELIVE OLD hold a reunion and Old Timers’ Day. Noxen
aud many other communities throughout
Hi this section of the State are holding annual
on iui
ompany. Why not a that event with some kind of
[Qos Day for Shavertown and all of the adjacent
year when old residents’ return, when acquaintances are
newed, and everybody in this section takes a day off to
enter whole-heartedly into the spirit of the occasion?
. Since the days of the old Dallas Fair there has never
been a similar community project where residents of all of
these communities could gather and renew acquaintances.
‘he all-day program sponsored by Shavertown firemen
Ye offers this opportunity. Many of us live the year around in
Dallas, Shavertown, Trucksville or, Fernbrook and never
meet our fellow townsmen. After all we are not above the!
: ' communities in which we live. We have failed to join to-
gether as one great community and show that we have any
community loyalty. Potentially the communities of this
region are strong enough, pretty enough and worthy of
some show of community loyalty. Let’s all get back of
! Kingston Township’s All-Day Cel#bration and invite old
friends and residents to come back for the day.
The committee in clrarge of the program is working
Bf (make the = affair a success, but however hard they
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lt: Baseball teams in the Rural League complain oh they
get little support from their communities. The Dallas
& team is unable to find suitable grounds for
E | NINE CEME- a diamond and there isn’t enough public
- TERIES— spirit here to stir up interest enough to help
= No LIBRARY the boys get one.
; Whether in the baseball team, the schools,
; the churches or any other community project, the continual
hue and cry is, “we get no support and no co- operation.”
~~ Taken all in all there is hardly a citizen in the whole
territory who hasn’t voiced this opinion oncé or a dozen
times during the past year.
~~ Of pure selfishness, the community has plenty. And
when we say community we mean the back mountain re-
gion. We fail to see that through working together we can
accomplish more individually than we can by taking a pure-
ly selfish and personal view of the community. Any per-
son, whether he be a newcomer to the community or an old
citizen, soon finds himself crucified, if with a little more
daring than the usual run of citizen, he attempts to voice
a different opinion than the group holds or attempts to lead
‘any community project. The simple truth is that most of
“us haven’t the good old American “guts” to say our soul is
our own or the brains to be real leaders. If there are any
“real leaders in the back mountain region, they are so effec-
tively hiding their light under a bushel that neither they
or the community is benefitting by their ability.
is Here we are, potentially a great community. Our
‘population is large—large enough to support the very best
. schools, excellent churches a good library, a community
club, baseball teams and every community project any per-
son could reasonably expect to find here. Plain unadulte-
rated cussedness prevents us from having these things.
Our existence is more that of a hermit crab than that of an
‘up and coming community. Instead of working together
we continually work at loggerheads.
It would all be very nice to write sugar coated editori-
_ als telling what a wonderful community we are. It would
look better in print, especially in the ‘hands of persons liv-
| ing outside this area, but what's the use of kidding our-
selves. There are many things to be done before we can
do much honest boasting.
There will be lots of persons who will agree with this
“editorial and there will be many more who won't. Maybe
somebody will tear the paper up and send it back to us as
somebody did a few weeks ago with the remark that POST
editorials are written by a young upstart. Be that as it
may, we don’t expect anybody to have enough courage to
say whether he thinks this editorial is right or wrong or to
send us a note over his own signature saying that we are
right or wrong. No, that would be too much to expect from
a community « of nine cemeteries and no public library.
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Her parents di played no great emo-
tion at the wedding, but I imagine her
father shed a few cheers: —Boston
Transcript.
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. Wives should remember that the
average man is like an egg. If you
keep him in hot water, he soon be-
comes hardboiled.—Canton Repository.
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Things are reported to be bad in
Hollywood, and many of the lesser
lights of the film-world are out of
work. Indeed some of them are mak-
ing this year’s divorce do till things
are better.—~Punch (London). |
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Most of these love triangles turn in-
to wrecktangles.—Boston Transcript.
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Maud has made some swell marri-
ages but divorced all her husbands.
Having outgrown select circles, she
now moves, so to speak, in the best
triangles.—Boston Transcript.
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/ MODERN YOUTH
Mother: You know, Geoffrey, Norma.
is mearly 17 years old, so today I had
a frank discussion with her about the
facts of life. ¢
Father: Ah Did you learn anything
new ?—Everybody’ S.
Zilia)
Young girls of ‘today holdly reach:
their teens before they are at their
nicoteens.—Boston Transcript.
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Familiarity breeds
nell Widow.
attempt.—Cor-
Lot
She doesr’t kiss or neck or any-
thing—she is nobody's fuel.—Colgate.
Banter.
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‘You are burning the candle at both
ends,” said a parent, admonishing his
spendthrift son.
“But, dad,” the youth Feturned, ‘you
always told me I should try to make
both ends meet.”—Boston Transcript.
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WOMEN y
The Scotchman said he loved
blondes because of the lighter over-
head.—Baptist. J
TE iy 8
She is always complaining that sine
has so little to wear—and last night
at the ball she seemed to be wearing
it.—~Pathfinder.
Akal
That girl must be 25. She's stuck to
the same story all the years I've
known her.—Pathfinder. : f
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She’s the kind of woman that talks
on and cn about the things that leave
her speechless.—Pathfinder. :
/ myles Wr
She is a rarely beautiful girl—very
rarely, indeed.—Boston Transcript.
re (re
Dubioys., compliment: She is as
pretty as can be.—Pathfinder.
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CHILDREN
Little girl: “My, what a pretty baby.
How old is it?”
Mother: “Two months.”
L. G.: “Is it your youngest?’—Car-
negie Tech Puppet.
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“Sam, Ah jes’ seen a alligator eatin’
our younges’ chile” : :
“Umm-uh Sho’ nuff? You know Ah
thought sump’n been gittin’ our chil-
lun”—Life.
| Postscripts’
Among the modern American poets
none is better known than Dorothy
Parker, writer of sentimental poems.
Recently W. W. Scott in “Life” took
occasion to write in her style. He took
Mother Goose rhymes and revamped
them in the style Dorothy Parker likes
to use so well. Here they are:
If Dorothy Parker Had Written
7 “Mother Goose”
' Tears for a Pillow
Rub-a-dub-dub
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YOU CAN BUST THT
NINETY Tor DAY !
LEAVE ORE TLL —
START RINGING | —r"
MINUTE YOU'RE
out THAT DOOR
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® 1928 Bomwner- Brown
And who do you think they be? ¥
The- butcher, the baker,
The candlestick maker,
And none in love with me.
To oe
Reward of Inconstancy
Mistress Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With. cockle-shells and silver bells
And broken hearts all in a row:
Verse for a Tombstone
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Jack Spratt would eat no fat,
His wife would eat no lean.
And that my dear's the silly way
Our love has always been.
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Introspection
Sing a song of sixpence, i
A pocket full of rye, {=
Four-and-twenty blackbirds
Baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened
The birds began to sing; ! A
I wonder why I stick around
And write this sort of thing.
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Frustration
Little Tommy Tucker
Sings for his supper.
What shall he eat?
White bread and butter.
How shall he cut it
Without any knife?
You said it, Tommy,
It's a bum deal—life.
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Lines to a Passion
Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet
Eating of curds and whey,
Along came a spider
And sat down beside her.
All men are funny that way.
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' To a Forsaken Lady’
Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,
And can’t tell where to find him.
Leave him alone and he'll come home
And many lads behind him.
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Subject Matter
Humpty-Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty-Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king's
men
keep my
Can't heart from breaking
Three lads ift a tub,
again.
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A garage is a place where a man
keeps his oil can, wrench and SO, Mapy
of the wife’s contraptions that he has
to keep his car parked in the drive-
way, says Charles Howe.
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A woman can sit in the living room
all dressed up the entire afternoon and
nobody comes. But let her start to
take a bath!
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(George Still tells us that his kids
found the stone he had taken out of
his bladder over in mamma's rock
garden.
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Jim 'Oims says loving in ‘a sport
coupe is so much more comfortable,
folks have about given up sleighride
parties.
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Quitting time in a bank doesn't
means a thing to the teller who's a
couple bucks short in ‘his ¢ash, says
Freddy Eck.
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Ma says it ‘was six months after Dad
lost his front teeth before he got over
the habit of covering his mouth with
his hand every time he laughed at a
funny story.
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Maybe they say a candidate con-
ducts a promising campaign because
it is nothing else but.
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As summer wears on, one becomes
more and more undecided whether he
really prefers mowing the lawn and
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SEEN AND HEARD
By WILL
WIMBLE
trimming the hedges to shoveling coal
and checking on the alcohol in the
radiator. ;
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The' fact that fish can’t close their
eves is the only think that keeps them
from winking at some ' of the local
fishermen. \
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Which reminds us that some one
once described the oyster as a fish
that was built like a nut. Who was
that?
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A health expert advises keeping
baked goods in the ice box in hot
weather. And if it’s huckleberry. pie,
the missus also advises locking the
ice box,
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It is because the fish in the streams
are so unfriendly that thé canned
salmon season succeeds. Ask Al
Lasher.
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A bridge player about town was
playing at a very nice club, when his
partner for reasons we shall not at-
tempt to go into, threw all his 13
cards at him. This insulted Mr.
Blank, as we shall call him, and he
left the room. Flushed and nervous,
hé paced about, and in so doing came
upon one of the board of governors.
Mr. Blank told him what had hap-
pentd and demanded that some sort of
action be taken.
“My good fellow,” said the gover-
nor, who was not one of the more
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LETTERS....
TOTHE
....EDITOR |
Mehoopeny, Pa.,
August 2, 1931.
Neighbor Risley:
My Post arrived this wou right on
the minute. Thanks for your courtesy
and business enterprise—but, however,
I wish you ‘would appologize to your
readers for publishing my kind of rail-
ing stuff. 1 wrote you upon the im-
pulse of the moment not thinking that
my. request would ever be known in
print.
sk wish in this to congratulate you
upon your editorial effort and to com-
mend ‘you for presenting the matter
of house numbering, road hogs and
woman school directors. The last has
been tried out in some districts, how-
ever, and not been found a perfect suc-
cess. I would not dare to express an
opinion upon this matter for fear it
would lead to conflict with those near-
er home. Ly
There is another home ynafter that
should receive your attention and that
is the audit of the Dallas borough.
Over four years and not a statement
by thosegin official charge to show
whether Dallas borough is in exist-
ence financially or not. =
There is suspicion of insolvency,
when unusual financing is offered by
calling a bank note against the
school district as an asset, and pass
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Fit up that way by some members of
the board.
When the audit does come I am
anxious to see how far my prediction
of a borough school indebtedness of
$65,000 at the close of the past year
was out of the way, and I am con-
scious that the auditors - will
have trouble in gathering in all the
numerous debts that are now out-
standing.
‘Turning to agriculture I might add
that all crops here are bountiful. Oats
are equal to last year; corn is rank,
good color and luxuriant; stand clover
unusual yield and all put in the barns
in fine: condition; buckwheat jumping
with perfect weather conditions; Tim-
othy is the weakest crop, and potatoes,
barring bugs ana wlight, will be a
bumper crop. 4
Milk is the money resources for .
these farmers, but the
price is discouraging. They received
last month $1.84 per hundred for their
milk. They pay 22% cents per cwt for
cartage to station leaving them $1.11%
a hundred pounds or 2.23 cents a quart.
Now think of that, when you in Dal-
las pay 12c a quart for milk.
What puzzles me is that some wide-
awake farmer with a nice herd of
cows in that district does not start in
with a clean outfit and good milk and
offer to the consumers in that town
and vicinity milk at something near
a reasonable price. Coal, milk and
baker's bread are the ‘only three things
that seem to be controlled by monop«
oly or syndicate. Drugs and medi-
cines and spirits of fermenti are, of
course, in a class by themselves.
Now the mosquito annoyance that I'
spoke of in my last, ‘we have in a
measure overcome—by simply spread-
ing a sheet of Tangle-foot over the
‘top of our heads. This | prevention
might not be the most delightful in a !
pillow case point of view, and we ex-
| pect to hear the echo of this novelty
on wash day when we get home.
There is still another menace to
solid contentment which has over
taken us, and that is we are unable
to remove our inner garments without
pain and! blasphemy, owing to.the in-
numerable fishbones protuding through
the epidermis over the entire surface
of the body. To make this thought
more inelegant I might explain that
we can’t get our shorts off on account
of fishbones sticking through the skin.
This condition, we are satisfied, is due
0 excessive indulgence in the “Menu”
provided for the regular members of
the tribe.
The prospects for game this fall are
flattering. Plenty of rabbits and ring
necks, a few of native grouse, while
deer are the pest of the farmer's life.
They are now barding the buckwheat
fields on every hillside.
+ I expect to be located in some se-
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A MAD WORLD
“Ha! Ha!
A mad world, a mad world.”
—Lord Mayor of London
&
Atlantic City are
both bidding for the Republican Na-
tional Convention. Bidding is liter-
ally true. Cities usually pay for the
privilege of acting as host to the 15,~
000 delegates more or: less who at-
tend the conventions of the two
great political parties. The sums paid
inte the party's campaign fund range
Philadelphia and
from $100,000 to $150,0000 If the
convention = lasts several days the
city soon makes ‘this amount up
through the spendings of delegates.
Philadelphia in all likelihood will not
get the Republican National conven-
tion, because Pennsylvania is a
strong Republican State. Conven-
tions * are usually held in doubtful
states where their presence will
stimulate votes for the party they
represent. For the same Treason
Presidential candidates are frequent-
ly selected from doubtful regions to
help bolster up the vote. ' Strongly
Republican, only one United States
President has come from Pennsyl-
vania. The State’s staunch Repub-
licanism has helped to bring this
abouts
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The Pennsylvania Game Commission
sends the following: On the track
ahead of his engine, Engineer John
Stapleton, of the Philadelphia & Read-
ing R. R., saw something fluttering.
flopping. He stopped the train, cli
ed out, preceived it was a hen 00d
cock broken-winging to szve her
chicks, who were betweer the rails.
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United States railrfads in the first
six months of 1931 placed 6,951 new
freigat cars in service as against 49,-
208 for the same period last year and
82,794 two years ago. On July 14
there were 571,410 surplus freight cars
in good repair and immediately avail-
able for service.
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Recently an alligator was shot in
the Lehigh River. Usually alligators
are not found in the Lehigh. Inter-
esting as it was there was nothing
funy about finding the alligator in
the river for it had escaped from
its keepers and sought shelter in the
river. But out in Sandusky, Ohio, re-
cently something really funny did hap-
pen. For many months there have
been rumors of a giant sea serpent in
Lake Erie, Two traveling salesmen
fishing from a row boat suddenly saw
a hugh heavy coil, grey on top and
white underneath break the water be-
side their craft a yellow, black-crowii-
ed head, six inches across the fore- «
head, rose up and cold glittering eyes
stared at them unblinkingly. Moke
timid souls than the il wold
have started rowing for Shore
right then. But not so thes Siro mon.
They unshipned their oars struck the
head, stunned #i¢ Credit ®, fished its
18-foot lénetr out of the WRAET: wad-
dedi the boat and brought it to
shite; crated it and locked it if their
+utomobile. As soon as it was grated
it came to life. Crowds numbfring
thousands came to see it. Dirpctor
Henry L. Madison, of Cleveland's! Mu-
seum of Natural History, came to ave
a look and declared it to be apython,
a snake of Bast Indian variety 2nd
strong. enough to crush a horse. ‘No
one could decide how a python ever
got in Lake Erie,
prevailing
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