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VOL. 41
THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS, Fa
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1931
Council Discusses .
Police Situation
Members Undecided Wheth-
er to Have Full-Time Of-
ficer During Winter
Months
Discussion at the meeting of Dallas
Borough council on Tuesday night cen-
tered about the retention of a police
officer in the borough during the win-
ter months. With the exeception of
one councilman, all members feel that
there should be an officer on Main
street to protect children on their way.
to school. | They are, however, divided
in their opinion’ as to’ whether a full
time officer is necessary during the
winter because of the decrease of au-
tomobile traffic through the borough.
Officer Elwood Elston who is now on
full time is employed at a salary of
$125 a month. Officer Elston offered
to work during the winter months for
$100 a month,
The qjEtter of fines and arrests was
broughtfup to which Officer Elston .e-
plied that $125 had been turned in to
the borough treasurer. This, he said
. was less than fifty percent of what it
should be since in a majority of in-
&tances political pressure from Wyom-
ing Valley was put upon local law
"enforcement agencies with the result
that offenders escaped without having
to pay the fines imposed.
The street committee reported the
condition of work on borough streets,
more particularly, in regard to the
condition along Lehman avenue where
residents complain that since the hard
surfacing of ‘that street, springs
which previously . made the street
muddy are now seeping out onto ad-
jacent property. To remedy this con-
dition the borough will dig a ditch
along the street and lay field tila to
drain the property. Tile will be laid
on the lower side of the street frum
Oscar Culp’s property to the Patterson
home on the corner of Spring street.
Street Commissioner /Daddow was
instructed to erect a guard rail along
the dangerous path from the Raub
Hotel property up Church street. The
path will also be leveled and put in
better condition. yn
Building permits were issued to
Mrs. Kate Davidson for the erection of
a small house on Parrish Heights and
to Robert Moore for $500. repair work
on his Lake street property.
Rdsidents of Pine Clff street peti-
itioned the council for the erection of
. another street light in that section orf
the community. i
It ‘was decided to rouest the bur-
ough attorney to represent the coun-
cil at the Public Service Commission
‘hearing at the court house in Wilkes-
Barre and encourage the several bus
‘companies which are seeking a fran-
chise to operate busses on regular
schedule between Dallas and Wilkes-
It is reported that the fare
bus
Barre.
from Dallas® to Wilkes-Barre by
will probably be 10 cents.
Devens Is Host
To 250 Guests
Tiago-Empire Co., Cooper-
ates In Giving Supper At
Kunkle Grange Hall—
Speakers and Magicians
Furnish Entertainment
Devens Milling Company of Dallas
and Kunkle and the Tioga-Empire
Milling Company of Waverly, New
York, entertained two hundred and
fifty of their customers and friends
with a supper at Kunkle Grange Hall
on Friday evening.
Kunkle Ladies’ Aid Society served
the supper. A lecture and entertain-
ment followed, speakers were C. F.
Daniels of Waverly, New York, W. R.
Chubb, of Nerrivil, New Jersey. Their
subjects were the feeding of dairy cat-
tle and feeding and management of
poultry.
Leon Maxfield, magician of Wilkes-
Barre, delighted and mystified the au-
dience with a number of clever ex-
amples of' his art.
These suppers given by Mr. Devens
and the Tioga-Empire Co., have come
to be looked upon as community get-
to-gethers and year after year the
same persons return bringing friends
and others who have not yet attend-
ed.
It is in keeping with the Spirit Mr.
Devens has always shown toward
community affairs that the suppers
should be held year after year in Kun-
kle. It is also a shining exampie of
what a live civic minded businessman
can accomplish in his community. The
Devens-Tioga-Empire suppers provide
entertainment and educatipnal featur-
es and benefit the community. After
the supper Mr. Devens presented the |
Ladies Aid Society with a check for
, of this amount $115 represented
a profit to the society. This will go
a long way toward helping the work |
of the society during the : can |
Those attending were: Mr. and Mrs. |
Harvey Kitchen, Mildred Kitchen, Mr. |
and Mrs, Frank Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. |
Geor Armitage, Mr and Mrs. EF. Nel- |
son Garinger, Carl Garinger, Mrs.
Fil |
er Richards, Mrs. Joseph Shoemaker, |
Edwin Shoemaker, Roannah Shoemak- |
er, Mr. and Mrs. Ward: in Kunkle, Mrs. |
Elizabeth Kunkle, Earl Piatt, Mrs.
Roannah Landon, Miss Blalnche Mo-
sier, Charles Martin Charles Martin, |
Jr., Earnest Strohl, Owen M. Jones Jr., |
Clinton Sayre, Mr. anr Ms.
FE. 4 5) |
(Continued on page! 4)
CMIZENS
TICKET PREEMPTED IN
BOROUGH SCHOOL DIRECTORS CONTEST ,
Mrs. oie will
Open Conference
On Bible, Oct. 12
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For the fifth consecutive year Mrs.
N. H. Street of Lonoke, Arkansas, will
return to Wyoming Valley to conduct
the monthly Bible conference under
the auspices of Wyoming Valley Bible
Study Association,
Mrs. Street first visited Wyoming
Valley as the Bible teacher with the
Stevens Evangelistic campaign. Her
work at that time met with such an
enthusiastic response that she has re-
turned to the valley every year since
to conduct conferences.
Previously the conferences i
been held in Wilkes-Barre Y. M. C.
auditorium but this year because 3
its more central location, the meetings
will be held in Kingston M. E. church.
Parking facilities are also better in
Kingston and this will be a great con-
venience for persons living in the rur-
al sections who wish to attend the
sessions. | Nr
The conferences will be held morn-
ing, afternoon and evening. At the
‘morning sessions a nursery. will He
conducted where leave
their children of pre-school age und-
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Local Sportsmen
Home From Canada
Fred M. Kiefer Gets 1,200
Pound Moose in Quebec;
Father Displays Big Pike
mothers may
Adam Kiefer, son Fred and brother
Andrew have returned home after
spending several weeks on a hunting
and fishing trip up the Gatineau Riv-
er in Quepec, Canada.
Mr. Kiefer is a part owner of the
Gatineau Rod ang Gun Club about
51,000 acres of the finest hunting ter-
ritory in northern Quebec. There are
more than forty lakes in the reserve
seventeen of which are in one chain
and practically without portage. Since
June, Andrew Kiefer has been at the
club assisting in the construction of]
cabins and improvement of the
grounds in the vicinity of the main
club house. He will return in a few
weeks to spend the rest of the winter
in Canada.
The hunting and fishing in the re-
gion is uneéxcelled on the American
continent. While there Fred Kiefer
shot a large Moose weighing 1,200
pounds and having twelve and eight
prongs respectfully, Ross Weil of
Lake Carey also shot a Moose and on
his first morning in camp shot a black
bear weighing 225 pounds.
One of the many pike caught by
Adam Kiefer was 42 inches in length
and 17 inches in girth. He will have
the head mounted and display it lo-
cally. v7
Commenting on the country and the
extent of game and fish in the terri-
tory Andrew Kiefer says it is one
of the most beautiful regions he. has
ever visited. The lakes, just before
his return, were covered with thous-
ands of wild ducks and it is nothing
to see deer, bear or moose at almost
any turn in the woods.
The reserve is located 74 miles from
the nearest town of any size and can
be reached only by canoe.
Communication with the outside
world is sometimes slow and daily
papers mailed regularly from Wyom-
Valley reach the camp in about
once a week in bunches of five or six
or as did once in a bundle of
twenty-three.
The camp has one large club house
with accomodations for twenty-two
persons and. three other cabins with
accommodations for eighteen persons.
More eabins will be built this fall.
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LOSES HORSE
Ying
they
Paul Baker of Noxen had the mis-
fortune to lose a valuable horse this
week, In some manner the horse fell
in its stall injuring itself internally,
dying before assistance could be giv-
en it. Mr. Baker formerly had charge
of the Robinson farm near Idetown.
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{Dr. GK. Swartz ani Clifford
Space to be Candidates
of Newly Formed Party
Preemption of a Citizens’ ticket in
Dallas borough as the outcome of the
unfortunate “ball-up” of the voting
machines at the primary election is
stirring the interest of local voters.
The ticket was preempted by Mrs.
Lewis LeGrand and others interested
in the election of two directors at the
general election instead of' one as
would be the case if the results of the
election were
stand. : PRCT
On Tuesday Judge Ww. AL Valentini
signed a court order instructing the
County Commissioners to arrange the
voting machines for the general elec-
tion so that two directors for the six
year term .can be elected.
.Since Jack Roberts received the Re-
publican nomination and Dr. G. K.
Swartz the Democratic nomination at
tain of positions on the ballot but J.
T. Jeter who lost each of the major
party nominations by a small mar-
gin will be unable to run unless he
fuses a sticker campaign.
Had there been no preemption of
the Citizens’ party, Swartz and Rob-
erts would naturally become the new
school directors, but with a new party
in the field bringing with it the name
of “Clifford Space these two men will
have to fight it out in a three-corn-
ered race for the office. ; :
All sides admit that Mr. Space’is a
strong candidate for the office. He
has served capably as a school direc-
tor and is well liked in the commun-
ity, nevertheless, there is a strong
feeling that Mr. Jeter’s name should
appear on the Citizens’ ticket. This,
many contend, is only fair because of
the mix-up in the ballot at the pri-
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SCHOOL CONDUCTS
UNEMPLOYMENT SURVEY’
~In compliance with a request Gov-
enor Gifford Pinchot sent to all pub-
lic schools of the State, the Problems
of Democracy Clas of Beaumont
high school has recently completed a
survey of unemployment in Monroe
township among the families of school
pupils.
in the families of students, 140 are
employed as wage earners' under nor-
mal conditions. The students found
that out of this 140 only 10 were out
of work and doing nothing at all. In
the 10 cases out of work 9 were ac-
tually in need.
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PLAY PRACTICE GAME
In a practice game on Tuesday night
Dallas township football team and a
team composed of Irem Temple Coun-
try Club Caddies played a 6-6 tie
game on the township Athletic Field.
FET TREE
MASQUERADE PARTY
Jackson Ladies’ Aid Society will
hold a Halloween Social at the church
hall, Friday evening, October 16th,
Admission 25 cents which
supper. Prizes will be awarded for
costumes. :
allowed to.
the primaries, these two men are cer-
includes"
Outs of 244 possible wage earners |
Walls Completed
On Bank nk Building
Application of ‘Metal ‘Lath
and Plaster to Interior
Walls Will Start Next
Week
The gonstruction of the new build-
ing for The First National Bank, at
Dallas continues rapidly. The exter-
ior walls are now completed. Thesé
walls have been built of especially se-
lected face brick, with ornamental
trimmings of hand carved cast stone.
Openings have been left for insertion
of the steel windows at a later time.
The carved stone ornamental work
was carved by the mechanics from
designs prepared especially for this
building. For each piece of the stone-
work, plain or otherwise, a seperate
drawing was made, so that all the
work of cutting could be done efficien-
tly in the stone shop. As a result of
the precision with which this was
done, there’ has been practically no
cutting of stone to be done at the
building.
The face brick is of a pleasing soft
gray color similar to the color of lime- |
stone, and of irregular texture. It is
laid up in contrasting plain and fancy’
pattern with neatly tooled points.
Disc inserts of Grand ‘Antique Ira-
ported Marble will accent the exterior
walls.
All of the exterior walls ‘will have
an air space at their inner face, be-
tween the wall and the plastering.
This will prevent moisture from enter-
ing the plaster and injuring the inter-
ior decorations.
The next stage in the construction
will ‘be ‘the applying qf the Metal
Lath and plaster. The contract for
the plaster work has not yet been let.
Earl Monk will install the heating
system which is of the latest Vapo
system. The electrical work is being
done by Paul Shaver.
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NESBITT AUXILIARY
TO HOLD CARD PARTY
Shavertown branch Nesbitt ‘hospital
auxiliary will hold its first social ac-
tivity in the form of Card party,
Thursday evening, October 14 in Meri
dian Hall, Dallas.
‘Tickets for admission will®be 50
cents. “Beside a valuable door prize
there will also be prizes at every table.
Many other games will be played for
those who do not play cards.
Mrs: JF. H. Smith of Wilkes-Barre is
general chairman and she has many
capable assistants. 'All are assured
an evening of enjoyment and are ur-
ged to attend.
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NICHOLSON FACTORY +.
1S PROSPERING
The S. J. Bailey wood working fac-
tory at Nicholson, Wyoming County,
which has been doing business since
1910, has outgrown its present situ-
ation and will enlarge its facilities by
taking possession of the defunct toy.
factory building in that village. The
concern has been doing a business of
about $100,000 a year and stjll was
unable to fill all orders. New machin-
ery will be installed and it is expect-
ed that the business will increase to
$250,000 annually, with a weekly pay-
roll of nearly $2,000. “Not bad for. a
small town.” Says’ The Tupinannecs
Republican. ,
The past ‘summer has Blen a bad
season on hermits. Not long ago the
daily press reported the death of a
Wayne county hermit from snake
bite poison and now Wyoming Coun-
ty’'s own “hermit of Huckleberry
mountain” “Oc” Eastwood has been
found dead from the same cause in
his cabin on the mountain side near
Forkston.
Last Year the POST carried a long
story of Eastwood and his activities
as a hermit given to the editor by
Ralph Rood of Dallas who had visited
Eastwood in his mountain fastness
and had been interested in Eastwooji's
queer slant on life. On his freatitit
hunting trips to the Forkston region
Mr. Rood often took newspapers up
for Eastwood to read and these wers
always appreciated by the barefooted
hermit.
A few days ago in his humble shack
at the summit of the range that skirts
Mehoopany Creek, “Oc” 6 was found
dead from rattlesnake bites, his body
when discovered was swollen to
double its normal size because of the
injections of the reptiles’ poison.
The snakes according to those who
knew Eastwood, invaded his loosly
built shack while seeking refuge from |
the cold, and struck him down whe:
he attempted to eject them or at |
sometime when he least expected they
were around.
Castwood had omy one his
shack. The beaten grouna
floor. There was ample room arouE |
the base of the building for the snak-
es to crawl into the interior. Outsidiy |
field stone was piled high against ths
sides
sible
Te
enemies,
attire was
he shunned
normal
arment and
Eastwood's
homemade
shoes even
the snow piicd high about his cabin
door. The
deeply calloused and
hard ground, weather conditions or the
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Hermit of Huckleberry Mountain
Killed by Rattlesnake Poison
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of the shack to ward off Pos~|pig solitude, a lover of nature, the wild
a [ties of the
the dead of winter wita | talk with him say that he had a soft
soles of his feet became [that he apparently enjoyed conversa-
impervious to [tion with hunters and those from the
{ his life
| hundreds of times around the firesides
. the |
thorny underbrush of the mountain-
side. “Oc¢’’ secured his water supply
from a spring at some distance from
the shack. In the middle of the win-
ter he made daily trips to the spring
over ice and snow barefooted. He
seldom if ever wore a coat, a shirt of
the thinest cotten texture covering the
upper part of his body. Barbers were
of little concern to him, and he pro-
bably never saw a safety razor. His
closest haircut or shave probably re-
quired only the use ‘of shears.
His sustinance was gained from a
little truck garden which he kept and
from eggs from a small flock of chicks
ens which ranged about the cabin for
food. At one time he kept a couple of
pigs. During the huckleberry season
his menu consisted of huckleberries
and what fruits he could gather in the
woods. His health was for the most
part robust.
Recently failing health caused the
hermit to be placed on the Forkston
township poor list and he made what
is suppos.d to have been his first trip
to town in‘twenty years when he went
to get his poor board check.
Few visitors ever reached Eastwood,
the trail to his cabin being a narrow
and tortous one frequented only by
hunters ‘and infrequently by huckle-
(berry pickers, mevertheless ; Eastwood
{ managed to, become a tradition to
hunters and fishermen. Wierd tales of
and adventures were recounted
in hunters’ cabins during the big game
season. Little seems to be known of
| Eastwood's early life or why he chose
the hermit, existance of which he was
so fond. He was apparently happy in
animals of the forest and of the beau-
changing seasons. Those
who had the opportunity to speak or
in note, and
musical voice, pleasant
urban centres. {
lent showing with
GOVERNOR DIPLANS STEPS ~~
BEING TAKEN TO PUSH ROAD PLAN
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3y GIFFORD PINCHOT
Governor of Pennsylvania
1 am firmly convinced that the great rural population of Pennsylvania
must have year-round roads.
season.
pocketbook.
Preparations for this program began months before the roads were tak:
.Ldboratory experts made surveys to determine the location and
en over.
quality of suitable road materials.
Conversion of a dirt road into a year-round dependable hi
for progressive steps, which begin with drainage.
gravity by making a channel to carry off excess water.
but always necessary.
One of my pre-election promises was a pro-
gram to meet that need. But in any highway construction program two ma-
jor considerations must guide the conscientious public official—the psssing >
need of the moment, and the means available to meet that need.
The Department of Highways August 15 became responsible for 20,000
‘miles of dirt roads until then under township control.
miles were chosen for improvement during the remaining months of the 1931 0
With very little money in sight, the programy was fitted to the
Popular Kunkle
Woman Is Buried
Mrs. W. H. Conden Was Ac-
tive in Life of Community
and Loved by All
The community was eeply saddened
by the death of Mrs. W. H. Conden of
Kunkle at General hospital, Wilkes
Barre, on Monday night following a.
two months illness of complications.
Mrs. Conden was loved by all who
knew her for her winning personality
and fine traits of character and a
wide circle 'of friends will mourn her
passing. She was born in Kunkle and
was 55 years of age. She had spent
her entire life here except for a few
years residence in Dorranceton after
her marriage. She was a member of
the Kunkle M. E. Church, the Kunkle
Grange and the Dallas Chapter of the
W. C. T. U, and was active in all
church work and every movement for
community betterment. }
She was the daughter. of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Nulton. In Octor-
er 1893 she was married to William &.
Conden who survives her with two
sons Edward and Jacob of Alderson,
six grandchildren, one sister, Mrs.
eorge Bulford of Trucksville® ard
two brothers William and Lewis Nu'-
ton of Kunkle,
. The funeral. was “held from the |
Kunkle church on Thursday afternoon
at 2 o'clock, and the service was in |
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charge of Rev. W. S, York, of Alder-,
son. Pall bearers were: Charles
Herdman, Olin Kunkle, M. C. Mier |
George Landon, ‘A. C. Devens and Johu
Isdacs. Burial was in Fern Knoll
Cemetery.
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Fire Laddies Take
Part In Big Parade
Sweet Valley Fife and Drum
Corps Accompanies Dr.
Henry M. Laing Fire Truck Gas Drillers kel 18 0
Dr. Henry DM. Laing fire’ company
took part in the big parade of Penn-
sylvania fire companies at Wilkes-
Barre yesterday. The parade was a
part of the program of the State Fire-
men’s convention which is being held
in Wilkes-Barre this week.
The local company made an excell
its ‘big red truck
polished and shining as never before.
The Sweet. Valley Fife and Drum
corps of twenty-five members accom-
panied the local fire Aghters over the
line of march.
For several days prior to the par-
ade the local fire fighters spent a con-
siderable amount of time polishing
and burnishing the brass and nickle
work on the fire truck and on Wed-
nesday night prior to the parade had
a, regular polishing bee in ’ the® fire
house.
To John Yaple went the distinction
of being the first local delegate ever
appointed to attend a State Conven-
tion of firemen.
Members of the Maple Grove Drum
corps who took part
were: Drums; Joseph Rood, Edward
Rood, O. A. Rood, D." W. Davenport,
Eugene May, Claude Sorber, Tom
Lutz, Ralph Moyer, George Moss and
W. \H. Shupp; Fifers; «C. H. Wolfe,
Elmo Mott and Martin Wilkinson;
Cymbals; Mrs. D. W. Davenport. The
drum corps has been organized about
twenty years and is one of the only
organizations of its kind anywhere
that plays old time and Civil War
melodies exclusively.
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REGARDING SUBSCRIPTIONS
In accordance with a ruling of the
Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers!
Association and the Circulation Audit
Bureau of which this newspaper i§ a
member, all subscriptions remaining
overdue ‘on November 1, will be dis-
continued as of ‘that date. This ruling
is in keeping with the
the United States Post office depart-
ment and ‘the Publishers’ ‘Association.
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FREAK DEER
A black and white spotted doe
and a fawn spotted tan and
were seen by Ira Major, Stu
or and Fred Turpin while og
trip near Ricketts on Th
says the doe resemble
cow in coloring whil
appeared to be turg
or.
in the parade.
regulations of |
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Sections totaling 1700
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ghway alles)
Safety vs. Cost CI
Grubbing out the roadway to proper
width is the next step, with correction
of curves and grades on a sensible
basis, always keeping in/mind a ‘bal-
ance of safety and cost. Sy
These preliminaries, grading : : a
drainage, have been standardized with
long practice.
tive materials found in the laboratory
survey make it impossible to apply
stereotype methods to this program, 1 i
to save long hauls local Iuteie) is to.
be used for each project.
The foundation, or base al may
be local field stone, gravel, crushed
quarry stone, slag, or red dog. Red
dog is a material resembling brick
which comes from burning culm de=
posits in coal mining areds, No stan-
dard can be laid down for foundations:
except they must be deep enough and
strong enough to support the traffic.
In a section where deep clay is come
mon, earth roads usually . become &
bottomless quagmire during the fol=~
lowing rain. Enough solid material
must be placed on such a road, to
make a bottom.
Some sections of Pehhsvivanid offer
a natural limestone base for roads,
Here the grading is more costly, but
the foundation costs less. These are
the two extremes—bottomless. clay and
hard rock, Between are varying de
grees, and sometimes several are found
in a single stretch of road. The fin
ished foundation must be equally
strong in all parts to carry the ‘wear-_
ing surface andthe traffic. |
© | Surface Materials
/ Surface varies according to ‘mater:
tial at hand. It must be sufficientls
hard and substantial to withstand
traffic and _hold the bituminous sur-
face treatment which produces a wat:
erproof surface. This may be a twos
inch oilbound surface of three- -quarter
-inch stone covered with bituminous
material; it may be a heavy surface
A
treatment of bituminous material with
stone chips; a gravel surface treated
with oil, or a waterbound surface
treated with bituminous material.
Traffic is seldom detoured during
the construction of these
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Lease F arms
v
Expect to Start Operations:
Soon in Vicinity of Noxen
Many farmers in the vicinity of
Noxen have leased the oil and gas
rights of their farms to drilling come=
panies this week. Most of the leases
have been taken up by the same come
pany which has drilling operations at
Jenks along Bowman's Creek on she
Dallas-Tunkhannock roaa.
Among those who have leased their
farms in the Noxen valley are Thomas
Wright, Severn Traver, and Elmer
Crispell. The drilling company repre=
'suntatives have been active in the re-
gion for sometime, and are leasing
every available piece of land they can
find. On investigation a number of
farmers have found that the miner~
al, oil and gas rights to their farms
were reserved many years ago when
the farms were originally sold. This
is especially so .of farms bordering
Bowman's Creek below Lutes’ Corners.
Representatives of the drilling com -
pany say that operations will be start
ed in the Noxen region in the near
future but are not definite as to the
date.
a private enterprise backed by Lack-
awanna county capital. The man who
is in charge of the drilling on the Mons
tross farm at Jenks says that he fo
merly owned the farm and while li
in Florida last winter was told
spiritualist that if he went ba,
and drilled, he would be §
gas. The same predictioy
about farms near ‘No
what extent the drille
the predictions of spi
what of a question
Many are of th
thing more thg
tions aregd
Crew 4
Citi
of
g
Here the engineer assists :
This often is costly, a
The wide variety of na~ :
light-type |
Apparently the drilling company. 1s ic
=