ESTABLISHED 1889 TELEPHONE DALLAS 300 A LIBERAL, INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING AT THE DALLAS POST PLANT LEHMAN AVENUE, DALLAS, PA. BY THE DALLAS POST INC, HOWARD RISLEY Managing Editor HOWELL E. REES ; RUSSELL WEAVER Mechanical Superintendent SPECIAL BE SENTATIVES==American Press Association, 225 West 45th Street, New York. ss The Dallas Post is on sale at local news stands. Subscription price by mail $2.00 payable in advance. .Single copies five cents each. Entered as second-class matter at the Dallas Post-office. Members American Press Association; Pennsylvania Newspaper Publish- ers Association; Circulation Audit Bureau; Wilkes-Barre-Wyoming Valley Chamber of Commerce. \ : Published by i THE DALLAS POST, INC . THe DALLAS POST 1s a youthtul weekly rural-suburban newspaser, I ed, edited and operated ‘by young men interested in the evel rons of the Righest ideals of Pe Thirty-one Sitoue 0 communities contribute ~ weekly articles to THE POST and have an interest in its editorial policies. : THE POST is truly “more than a newspaper, it is a community institution.” . i Congress shall make no law ry abridging the freedom of speech, or of Pross—From the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Subscription, $2. 00 Per Tear (Payable in Advance) . THE DALLAS POST PROGRAM e THE DALLAS POST will lend its support. and offers the use of its hy suburban territory which it serves to attain the following major improve- 2 ments: : 5 Municipal lighting plant. 2. A free library located in the Dallas region. 3. Better and adequate street lighting in Trucksville, ‘Shavertown, Fern- rook and Dallas. 4. Sanitary sewage disposal system for Dallas. & Closer co- ppsration between Dallas borough and surrounding town- ps. 6. Consolidated high schools and better’ g0-operation:.t between those that now exist. 8. The formation of a Back Mountain Club made up of business men and home owners interested in the development of a community consciousness in Dallas, Trucksville, Shavertown and Fernbrook. : WT 5 0. A modern concrete highway leading from Dallas and connecting the Sullivan Trail at Tunkhannock. x40, The elimination of petty politics from all School Boards in the region ~opvered by THE DALLAS POST. 2a { for fi rotection. 5 a1 Adequate water supply for fire p 12. And all other projects which help to make the Back Mountain section URIS Paani 4. Bava — N © Of all the police officers in the United States there are ‘none that win the admiration and hold the respect of the public more than the Pennsylvania State Police. This body of 1 men is trained in the ap- prehension of criminals, and the public a knows that every man holds his job not be- cause of political pull but because of his courage, intelli- gence and ability. Is it any wonder that the Pennsylvania ~ State police have the reputation of getting their man. <: The history of Troop B of Wyoming is as interesting, | ~ romantic and courageous as that of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police or Scotland Yard. Its members have cir- “cled the globe trailing their men. They work silently and not infrequently alone. No danger repulses them. Every men knows that the honor of the troop rests on the indivi- dual and with that spirit engrained in his beg he gets ‘what he goes after. Frequently the whole troop is engaged in dispelling x riot. That is spectacular. But not infrequently one troop- ‘er is asked by circumstances to do the same thing, and he does it or dies in the doing. Take for example the case this week when private Milligan of Troop B and patrolman James of Luzerne fac- ed a threatening mob at Dorrance colliery and got their men despite a severe beating at the hands of the mob. ~The courage of the two won the admiration of all. A week from today Milligan’s name will be forgotten but the work of Troop B will be remembered and is remembered because of the work of the individual. * THEY GET THEIR Le a wn wean Jest SE TE : : On Monday, September 4, 1882, the first commercial electric plant in the world started operation. It was loca- : ted on Pearl Street, New York, and served an area a mile square in lower Manhattan. Today that original square mile has been broadened until it includes the 743 square miles that compose greater New York. The electric industry has circled the globe. Every American community of more than 1,000 population now "has electric service, as have 50 per cent. of all communi- ties of 250 to 1,000 and 25 per cent. of all hamlets with less than 250. That little Pearl Street station had approximately 750 horsepower. Today the four unified companies serving ~ New York have 3,180,000 and the utilities of the nation control 46,000,000. The capitalization of the original utility in 1882 was $1,000,000. Today the value of the power industry’s plant ~ and equipment is around $13,000,000,000. ~All that has taken place in less than a lifetime. Liv- : ing persons have seen electricity develop from an element still in the experimental stage. so far as practical usage was concerned, to the most vital influence in domestic and industrial life. And what that first little utility meant to the world was best expressed by the late Thomas Edi- son when he said: ‘The operation of Pearl Street meant the end of one epoch in eivilized life and the beginning of another.” ® SSR wif p80 R Advertising Manager; .|same team playing as Jenks. ETTERS . C TO THE .... EDITOR — { A Dear Sir— : The Wyoming County Base Ball Championship is to be decided by three games to be played at the Fai Grounds during the Fair. The sched- ule according to posters will bring to- gether on Wednesday, Laceyville ver- sus Nicholson; Thursday, . nock, Beaumont; Friday, both games. winners “of the honors, as they were eliminated by the Fair management a week ‘ago. Originally we were included in the list of competitors and received notice to that effect. Twenty-four hours later had been selected to replace Noxen. Local fans are wondering what method was employed in selecting teams to participate. \Noxen has two wins over Tunkhannock against none lost, one won and one lost against the Tunk- hannock emerged from their series with Nicholson three to two. Fans ask what championship material is and how do you pick it. Yours in sport, - Noxen A. C. Poor Board Has New Relief Plan Money Distributed Helps Needy And At Same Time Aids Borough Street Work During the period between May 24 and July 20, Dallas Borough Poor dis- trict received $891.31 from the State for relief work under the recent Tal- bot Act. Of this amount more than $300 has already been spent for labor on the borough streets enabling Dallas borough council to extend its road improvement program to include the cebuilding of two more streets betore winter. The Poor district through its coop- eration with the borough has been able to give employment to thirty-one men with families, assisting them with food and fuel. Of the money received up- der the Talbot act more than 90 per cent. will be expended for labor on the borough streets. : This work system was planned by the local poor directors and so far as is known is the only one being opera- ted in the State under the Talbot act. Under this act the secretary of the poor district is required to make a report on case sheets every week along with application cards of every person receiving relief to the Auditor Gener- al's office in Harrisburg. In no instance are the directors al- s| lowed to spend any of the fund eith- er in direct relief or in overhead. Ald N the control of the Department of Wel- fare at Harrisburg. 5 The local board has taken out com- pensation insurance to cover the men who are working the borough streets so that it will not be respon- sible in case of any, injuries that may be incurred. Since January 1, 1932 the local board has given relief to forty-five families in Dallas borough. Each case has been thoroughly investigated and in the period from April 11 to the present time nine tons of government “floor have been distributed to sixty famil- jes. The secretary has made sixty- on one investigations. The board is also extending relief to families having residence in Cen- tral Poor district and is receiving pay- ments from the district for the relief work done. Two families seeking aid have been moved out of the district to the communities from which they came, namely Allentown and Mifflin- ville, where they have legal residence and will be cared for. One man has been committed to Ransom Mental hospital. The board is now working for dir- ect relief under the second State relief act and if successfull will be abl to give work to the borough’s needy un- employed during the winter months. School Board Meets Dallas borough school board held a special meeting on Tuesday night, with all directors present. Boy and Tunkhan-" Noxen will not be a Sontender for we were informed that another team | Poor districts of the State are under | Kimkle.- ‘Barb Wire Fence { Twins were born to Mr. and Mrs. Not Fohibited Wallace Perrin of Trucksville on Sun- | Officials Expla How Lows) day, Mrs. Perrin was formerly Miss | Wording C#ised Present Marion Miers, daughter of Mr. and View Mrs. M. C. Miers of this place. Mrs. aRlph Hess entertained with .l dinner party on Friday last, honoring | Mrs Jennie Norton, of Elkland. Guests | were: Mrs. Marilla Hbdover, of Dallas; ' Mrs. W. S. Kunkle, Mrs. Charles Mar- tin, Mrs. Marvin Elston, Mrs. Owen highways, alts Ide, Donnie Ide, Mrs. Jennie Norton, in ths cox Miss Francis Hess and Mrs. William ‘Department Weaver. that s0 tar as Mr. and Mrs. Olin Ellsworth spent! Sunday with Mr. and- Mrs. A. F. Stit- zer of Shavertown. authorize the construction of fences! {without barbs along highways and as {line fences, there is an improssion that | jhe rkbed-wire fences, especially along | egal. tion the Pennsylvania | Agriculture reports the State Legislative jcan find, thére is no State law pro- nibiting op reguiating the use of fen- Mr. and Mrs. Charles Herdman en- ces made whth barbs; tertained over the week end Mrs. A. | The Pdpce.Law of 1899 states: It L. Hepler of Pottsville; Mr. and Mrs. shan ang is hereby declared to be law: Leon ‘Cool of Scranton; and Mrs. Jen |T%l for |sny landowner with this Com-| nie Norton of Elkland. \monwealth to construct, build and Mrs. W. S. Kunkle, Mrs. Ralph Ash- {maintain along any of the highways of burner, Mrs. Julia Kunkle, of Kunkle; this Commonwealth, fences made in Mrs. Henry Isaacs of Shavertown; whole or in part of wire without barbs, | {Mrs. Wheeler Kunkle, Doris and, 'supject at all times to such restrictions Louise Kunkle, and Mrs. Jason Kun- ‘and prohibitions as may be imposed by | kle and daughter Phyllis were the. ‘the municipal authorities guests of Mrs. Alex Johnston of Dar thereto. 7 las at a birthday dinner on Thursday of last week. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Kunkle: argtars tained at dinner on Thursday evening Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Washburh, of West Dallas and Alex Was ibugner of | Hope, Arkansas, honoring ; their house guests Mr. and Mrs. Warren, Fish, of | Halstead, Pennsylvania’ The latter | are spending the week’ with Mr. and Mrs. Washburn at their simmer home | at West Dallas. / 7 ‘ - relative This same law also provides that “A fence in whole or in part of wire, | [ridout barbs, is hereby declared to be a legal and lawful fence, within the !meaning and provisions of any act of the Legislature of this State relative ‘to the building constructing and main- |taining of line fences, provided that isuch wire fence shall be of the height | required by such act or acts.” Wire Fence Law “It is evident that the Wire Fence [Act of 1899 was adopteed under the Mrs. dma, and i % Mss Se bi oe a Ne misapprehension that the Fence Law urs wi rancls ess Spep! 2 of 1700 was still in force,” officiaus of rs. Sherman we rdan of :Ehayertown, fii State Legislative Reference Bur- Wi. H. Herdmaln, fharles Herdman, | S. J. Hess, Charlies weezy and George Fo said, :I.andon enjoyed a “motor trip to Chan- dlers Orchargs, fLake ‘Winola and Scranton andi Nanticoke on Sunday. Mrs. Sager and son Harry of: “This law of 1700 required {landowners to fence corn fields and Lother enclosures with a log and rail [fence at least five feet high. If in 1899 the Fence Law of 1700 had still been in force, a new law would have been required to make legal wire fences at the Olfn Kunkle home on Sunday. | without barbs, since the law of 1700 Mrs. Cf W. Kunkle and Mrs. William | Trucksvillej called on William Baird | {required rails and logs, but the Fence Brace eftertained these guests at 2 Law of 1700 was repealed in 1889. It dinner fon Saturday. Mrs. ‘Maggie |. f.h and Mrs. A. F. Stitzer, of | Mrs. Jennie (Norton of | Le s i EIkL nd, Mrs. Olin Ellsworth and Mrs. lof such fences latwful, the nA Gwrdr Gidleon Miller and daughter : Mabel. | could not be charged with negligence Ms. Norton who has been visiting her ;, 2, any person suffered injury as biother S. J. Hess and family for ithe result of such a fence. While bar- ome time returned to her home 8th wire fences are not unlawful, the pay Tuesday afternoon. is, of course, possible, that some other reason prompted passage of the Wire {Fence Law. By making thé erection [question might arise if injury resulted Louis ‘Soldinski, of Nanticoke and | from such a fence, whether the own- {Mr and Mrs. Zigmund Soldinski, of er had been quilty of negligence in er- | Havana, Cuba, called on Mr. and Mrs. ecting it when he should hake known | | Reference Bureau and the Department Girl Scouts of the Dallas district [Fred Kunkle and William Baird and were granted permission to use the | the Olin Kunkle family Sunday even- high school building for meetings; Per. / ing. Mr. Soldinski is chief mechanic mission was also given Boy Sceuts 5 {for the Pan-American Airways Corp, | hold a Dallas District rally in the ayi- |at Havana and his bride is a Cuban, ditorium late next month. Mrs. Dajv- | who is enjoying her first visit to the ies of the Parent-Teacher associa ion [United States. attended to urge that children bef in-| Word has been received that Mrs, structed in the care of textbooks The |Oliver Fisher is critically ill at the board ordered Superintendent Ujber to {home of Mrs. Litz in Luzerne. Mrs. number all books and to keepf a re- |Fisher is a former resident of Kunkle jcord of the books inmued to eafch stu- [and is well known by the older resi- ont. dents. that injury might result.” Another fences along highways which has been point regarding farmers’ rather definitely settled by a number. of court decisions, is that a landowa- er is not required to build a fence along a public highway in order to fence out his neighbor's livestock. The responsibility rests entirely with the (owner of the livestock to build a fence 'along the highway bordering his fields, sufficient to keep his livestock from straying onto the neighbor's premises. Dr. App el | Walks For Health ‘Advises Three or Four Miles A Day During Autumn Season Because State fence laws specifically “With the approach of the crisp au- ‘tumh season there are literally many jthousands of persons who could pro- |fitably consider the value of systema. | tic daily walking several miles each day. As a matter of fact, quite ir- respective of weather and temperature, (this form of exercise is perhaps the ‘most beneficial of all. Unfortunately, its virtue is more likely than otherwise to be dimmed by the so-called exac- tions of the day, the lure of the rub- ber tire and the evening's recreation, Indeed, walking strictly for pleasure and health is for many people a lost art,” states Doctor Theodore B. Appel, [Secretary - of Health. “True there is an ever increasing number of both men and women golf- ‘ers, and this game combines an almost ideal situation for walking, The only lieu in this connection is that for | the majority of persons, golf is a lux- fury so far as time is concerned, and consequently is limited to the week- | tit or the occasional round. “Nor on the other hand is that daily exercise of the housewife, who unques- tionably takes many steps ' in “the course of her routine duties, outdoor air and the fact of walking for the walk’s sake are sadly lacking in this form of activity. Ski “However, making proper allowanc- es for golf, housework and the leg work that accompanies the job of the indor man or woman, there are yet many in these classes to whom the {walk for pleasure in the open would be highly beneficial. / “Even so, there yet remain large numbers of people whos daily de- mands include but a minimum of ex- ertion. And an even greater crowd to whom golf or most any other ath- letic relaxation is but a name. And it is these types of persons who un- doubtedly would be particularly bene~ fited by the pleasant and health-giv- ing discipline of the daily walk, “Of course, it would be folly to ine fer that the three or four mile walk a day is a vital necessity. Too many persons have in the past foregone it and apparently suffered little from its lack to make any such statement as that. On the other hand, if the prin- cipal business in life is to live, and in the living to get the best out of it that is possible, the thoughtful man and woman will include the walk as part of the daily program. “A half hour less with the newspap- er, or at the bridge table, or other favorite pastime may be required. But with that taken care of, all one needs is the will to do — in itself a rather tall order. 3 “Nevertheless, in. this life one must ) generally pay for what he wants. And some dividends. investment ?” Why not make the a little daily sacrifice for the daily . / walk will indeed. return most hand- /
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