A MODERN PLANT ASSURES WHEN YOU BUY PRINTING HERE SATISFACTION | i Che Dallas Pos. Move Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution FREE ADVERTISING ‘COUNSEL IS A DALLAS | POST FEATURE —d VOL. 42 THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PAY, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1932. "No. 43. H cadlines Of The Week i A summary of this week's ] news of international in- terest, reviewed for Post readers. . OPENING : ‘ a Always, the powerful Republican machine withholds its heavy artillery, anti a few months before election: {Herbert Hoover, in an address direc- ted to farmers, made his opening cam- paiign speech this week at Des Moines, Iowa. In harmony with the slogan “Hold On To Hoover,” the President told intimate details of the battle against depression and charged that the legislation proposed by Congres sional Democrats would “end the hope of recovery.” B.-E.-F. Around the roped ring of a boxing arena, members of the Bonus Expidi- tionary Force at Uniontown this week elected W. W. Waters as national commander. ‘Tattered delegates heard’ Jack Coffin, contact officer, attack Waters. STOCKS In prison at Bridgewater, Mass. for ‘a life term, 72-year-old Jesse Pomeroy, who acquired several thousand dollars «during his fiftysix year imprisonment ‘through writing articles on crime, died this week, penniless. All money he had earned during his imprisonment ‘had been lost in stock speculation. ATONEMENT In every ‘synagogue in the world the Kol Nidre will be sung on Sunday night to mark beginning of the Day of | Atonement, when, according to ancient law, Jews fast, ask each other for forgiveness and give to charity. MISTRIAL Because Henry F. Mobore, one of the jurors, approached defense counsel to report that an alternate juror was ‘putting in the poison against youl 3 #ide,” the trial of Senator James J. ‘Davis, indicted in connection with al- 1eged lotteries conducted by I. O. of M, was declared a mistrial this week. PEEVED Peeved because his son, Crown Prince Michael, was showing too much sympathy for his mother, Princess Helen, who has been living in London, King Carol of Rumania, Helen’s hus- band, ordered Michael to cut short his visit and return to Rumania. 399 DAYS Forty-three of forty-four collieries worked 399 days during the last two weeks of September as compared to thirty-seven collieries working 277 days during the’ preceding fortnight, records of Wyoming Valley Chamber of Commerce showed this week. HAPPY DAYS One riffle on “the Democratic sea smoothed itself this week when “Al” Smith walked across a stage at Al- bany, N. Y., to shake hands with Governor Roosevelt. It was their first meeting since they fought for the Presidential nomination The band played at . Chicago. “Happy Days are. Here Again” and the noisy crowd waved hats. KAW : | i . | Vice President Charles Curtis this | week denied charges that in 1903 he had registered himself as an “incom- petent Indian” in order to escape pay- ment of taxes on his Indian lands in Oklohoma. the Kaw tribe. FOOTBALL Foot ball games scheduled for this Saturday are: Yale-Chicago; Prince- ton-Columbia; West Point-Carleton; Dartmouth — Lafayette; Holy Cross~- Maine; St. Thomas ~ St, Bonaventure; Bucknell Fordham; University of Pennsylvania - Swarthmore. YANKS In the club house at Wrigley Field, «Chicago, late last Sunday members of the New York baseball club draped arms over each other's shoulders and sang “The Sidewalks of New York”. Mr. Curtis is a member of | This odd-looking gun, has been de- gigned for the protection of the mot- oriist on his travels along the highway. The weapon is strapped to the steering column of the car and isoperateld . by compressed air, which relieves the owner of the necessity of procuring a license. New School To Be Dedicated, Nov. 2. Kingston Townships New $100,000 Building Completed Py Kingston towaship’s new” $100,000 high school wag completed by the Gen- eral contractors. man Mailander last Saturday. With few odd jobs tc be done here by plumbers and steam | fitters, the school will be ready for f the furnishings to be put in place. | The date of the dedication of the ‘new building has been set for [Novem- IN BATTLE WITH FIVE OPPONENTS With the odds five to one against him, State Highway Patrolman Ben- jamin Frankliin got his men. While ‘on regular patrol near Schultzville, Wyoming county, on Sep- tember 4, Franklin signalled the driv- er of a car operated in an alleged] reckless manner to stop. His signal was not obeyed. Franklin gave chase on his motorcycle. In its wild dash the car forced one car into a ditch and another into a guard rail. Franklin overtook the car at Wino- la Lake. As he pulled along side, five men pumped frm it and attacked him. They were happy, because, by the | score of 13-6 they had 'won their | fourth straight game in the World's J Series with the Chicago Nationals. SURPRISES : | Out of their modest stadiums last | Saturday came five second circuit | When the battle ended, two of the pa- trolman’s assailants were unconscious, With the odds three to one in their | favor the others surrendered. All five were taken to Tunkhannock where af- [ter a hearing before Justice of . the Peace N. W. Doty they were held for elevens to tame. grid teams from big | court. universities. Scores of the Pri Patrolman Franklin, ruined both hig V7 ns sates 0; William & Mary, 6 blackjack and service pistol. = Both pe. Virginia “Polytechnic, o; Yes Virginia, 7; Maryland, 6; were sent inte headquarters here for replacement. Y 6; Southern Methodist, 0. CfH Gf l over 9,000 blocks. ber 2 at 8 p. m.,, when civic organiza- [ tions, the alumni association will take part. William H. Bristol, superinten- dent of the high schools of Pennsyl- vania will be the main speaker. To date the building has cost the township $97,438.15. The contracts and the firms receiving them are as fol- | lows: | Herriiani M “Flander, General 4 Contract Fadia $48,811.05 J. L. Turner, Nanticoke, Heating vip. hie duiri bss 10,849.00 J. A. Reddington, Pittston, : Plumbing df, i natn 3,511.00 D. W. Davis, Wilkes-Barre, Sewage: c.l 5 Nae 1,612.00 Jacob Laux Shavertown, Electricals... Sodio 2,272.00 C. W. Wagner, Plymouth, arading, os ae as 4,415.00 Dean Electric, Scranton Bixtures” ... a0... ue 990.00 Boston Store, Wilkes- Barre, Shades... J: coes 195.00 Mailander, Wilkes-Barre, Raving +... 5c vu. ee ayer. 1,550.00 Total Contracts .......... $74,705.80 Mack and Sahm, Archi- tects, Peegiv...c.cvivniiine $ 4,482.35 Ob I oh eras er $79,118.15 John Kashenback, Plot For SCHOOL 4 iter ors $ 8,750.00 Furniture-Equipment (estimated). 1... cd iv 9,500.00 Total Cost, Plot, School, Tixtures, vi. or eens $97,438.15 PATROLMAN WINS Tannery Waste Water Board O. Ks Plan To Protect Bowman's Creek sylvania at its recent meeting author- ized Dr. Theodore B. Appel, chairman of the board, to issue a letter to the J. K. Mosser Leather Co., Noxen, ap- proving the treatment of its tannery wastes in accordance with the plans of existing and proposed waste treat- ment works, as submitted with its for- mal application to" the Board. The “letter of approval” will be sub- ject to- cértain conditions, to make the waste’ treatment effective, which~are: units to be Kept in first class “€ondition consfantly, analyses made ‘at least once each month and submitted promptly to the Bureau of Engineering, State Department Health, and the Company to stand ready to add the so called “second step” in treatment works, whenever it shall be required to do so by the Sanitary Water Board. ‘ This tannery is located on Bow- man’s Creek, in the South. central part of Wyoming county, and is the only source of material "pollution on this ‘fishing stream, which is a tributary of the North Branch of the Susgue- hanna river. It is the purpose of the Board to so control the wastes of this | tannery as to preserve the waters of Bowman's Crek in condition to main- tain fish life. step” system will not be effective in times of drought, when the water falls to a very point in Bowman's Creek, even with the use of the vacuum evaporator, since the dissol- ved oxygen content will be so nearly depleted at such times, that it will render the condition of the stream un- fit to sustain fish life. This tion is provided against by the strictive instructions in the “letter of approval.” 207 Year-Old | | Quilt Shown Wilkes-Barre Store Encourages Old’ Craft low For the past two wack YBergman's Store, South Main street, Wilkes-Barre, has held an exhibition of quilts, af- ghans, and crocheted counterpanes. Over 400 pieces were received and dis- played in the windows and through- out the store. On Thursday evening the entire collection was set out on the counters and tables of the first and second floors. The quilts represented long hours of patient work and the designs gave evidence of great part of the ingenuity on the makers. The most popu- lar designs were the Rising Sun, or Star, the Tulip and Tulip-pot, the Double Wedding-ring, the Log-Cabin Rose-o-Sharon, and Patchwork quilts containing 12,624 blocks, with a back of Another is made of 1,000 I1-inch squares, while still another contains Some f the other designs were the Pineapple, mother’s Bouquet, Dresden = Plate, Forget-me-not, Friendship, Peacock, Round-the-World, Nancy Page. Sev- eral quilts presented designs with an optical illusion; one of these was the Block pattern, in which the use of light and dark squares gave the im- (Continued on Page 4.) + - tiny triangular Grand- Dallas Post Employee Announces Marriage Announcement a 2 made this week of the marriage” of Catherine Zeek, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Zeek of Hartford street,. Ashley, to John Tredinnick, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Tredinnick, Andover street, Wilkes-Barre, and who heads the machine composition department of Post Publications. The marriage took place in West Pittston on July 1, 1932. Mr. and Mrs. Tredinnick, who have a wide circle of friends in Wilkes-Barre and Ashley, will make their home = with Mr. Tredinnick’s parents, Mr. Tredinnick was graduated from Coughlin high school and has been as- sociated with The Post for a little more than a year and has filled with success one of the most important]. positions in the organization. : His associates .in. Post Rublications Mrs. Tredinnick in wishing them The Sanitary Water board of Penn- among of |. It is believed that the present “first- condi-~ re- | homespun. |’ a -certified copy of this join. with the many friends-of Mr: and |.Commissioners. AWAITS RET erected by John M. Davis, of Hi Tate wife. wife, with Davis seated in the fr nify her absence. This striking monument, built in Itally at a cost of $200,000 was Spaced about the monument are statues of Davis and URN OF MATE awatha, Kansas, in memory of his ont besides the empty chair to sig- DALLAS WYOMING 2 \! L JUPITER PLUVIUS TAKES CHARGE OF SEWAGE NUISANCE I / Jupiter Pluvius took a hand in the Dallas sewage controversy this week and sent hundreds of gallons of rain to wash out filth which has been lying along the | banks of Toby's creek all Sum mer. After the steady rains of Wea- | nesday and Thursday, the creek, which has been only a trickle of water in recent weeks, became a veritable millrace which over- flowed in several low spots and spread over marshy banks. While the rain was most need- ed by farmers whose late crops had suffered from the drought, the downpour brought relief also to persons who live near the gi banks of the creek and®who hag been forced ali summer to suf- fer the unsightliness and stench which the Post is attempting to have eliminated, | | 4 ‘Council Drops Fax Penalty Dall 7d Borough Citizens Benefit By Time Extension Dallas borough council following a plan being adopted by many communi- ties throughout the State has passed a resolution that all persons paying bor- ough taxes on December 1, shall be exempt from penalty as provided un- der existing laws. Ordinarily taxes unpaid after October 1, would carry a 5 per cent. penalty. regular meeting of the DALLLAS BOR QJGH: COUINCIL held September 6th, 1932. WHEREAS, The Law imposes pen- alties for non-payment of taxes, which in many instances have reached large sums of money, preventing a prompt paymeht of taxes, and WHEREAS, Many property owners due to present industrial conditions are unable to pay the taxes and large penalties, but are willing and should pay the taxes without penalties, if giv. | en an opportunity, and WHEREAS, A collection of taxes! without penalty should encourage de- linquents to afford themselves of the] opportunity to pay their tax obliga~ tions at a lower cost, thus enabling the Borough to decrease its delinquent tax balance. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT Rm- SOLVED, That all persons who shall bay Borough taxes on or before Ie- cember 1, 1932 shall be charged no penalty under existing laws on such taxes and such penalties charged be and are hereby abated. . 2 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That resolution be sent by: the Secretary to the County Wililiam J. Niemeyer great happiness and long married life. Secretary. TO CLASH WITH Resolutions as passed by Council follow: Extracts from the minutes of al HIGH SATURDAY Lon Spend & Week Erasing Mistakes Of Last Saturday ! Wyoming high school will be the foot- ball attraction nere Saturday after- noon at 2:30 when it meets the grid- iron’ warriors of Dallas borough high school on the local grounds. and plays all of the leading high schools of the valley this year. Dur- despite heavy ing the past week, over the mistakes of the good game is expected by all fans who Wyoming has a strong footbail team | rains, Coach Wormley has been going Kingston i ; i i high | ] ; ! township’ game swith his: Daljas £ | his time exclusively to his business in- 5 school team and many of the rougn spots have been ironed out so that a George Wright : Bank President Buried Tuesday. Served as Head of Local In- stitution Since its Organi- zation twenty-seven years Ao pr WAS OF FAMILY Following an illness of two week's during which his strength gradually ebbed away, George R. Wright, presi- dent of First National Bank of Dallas, died last Saturday night at 6:30 at the family home 138 South iRver street, ‘Wilkes-Barre. Had he lived until ) November 21, he would have iin 81 years of age. During his active lifetime Mr, Wright spent much of his time in Dal- las where he was the prime mover be- hind the organization of First-National Bank ‘twenty-six years ago. He was president of that organization from its inception until his death. : At one time he supported an amas teur base ball team in Dallas that was recognized as one of the best to be | found anywhere in the State. Mr. Wright was born in Wilkes« Barre on November 21,%1851, the son of Attorney Hendrick B. and Mary Ann Robinson Wright. His father for years was one of the leaders of the bar in Luzerne county until his death. in 1881. ; z George R. Wright was educated in the Wilkes-Barre private schools and at Princeton, being graduated with honors with the class of 1873. He studied law in his father’s office and was admitted to the bar in 1875. In his later years Mr. Wright re~ tired from law practice and devcied terests. In 1906 he organized the First National bank of Dallas, De- have been following the fortunes of the local outfit. use the same line-up as that which played against Kingston township. Kingston Twp. Game Kingston township when Coach Wal- ter Hick's eleven celebrated the open- ing of the Kingston township | | athletic field with a victory over Dal- | las borough by a score of 6-0. Vic tory coming as it did, after the over- whelming defeat the team had re- new lin high school, heartened the players and gave them confidence. for their forthcoming games. A glance at Kingston township's fifteen first downs as against five for Dallas might give the indication that Kingston township far outplayed Dal- las, but there were two occasions dur- ing the game when Dallas came with- ini /two yards of scoring touchdowns while Kingston township had only one real opportunity, a fumble, and con- verted on that opportunity. Dallas fumbled a punt on its own it over the goal line for the only touchdown. Although held scoreless in the first half and last quarter Kingston town- ships line was good throughout the game on defense and offense, with | Schuler performing brilliantly. ‘Acting Captain Smith who called signals for Coach Wormley will | It was a gala day last Saturday for] ceived the ‘week beto:é from Cough’ ten yard line and Danny Piatt carried ( spite his age he was active in the | bank's affairs going there each morn- ing and remaining until closing time, up until the time he was taken il | For twelve years he was a director i & j of Wilkes- Barre ‘Water Co., and serv=- | ed several years as its president. He [also was a director of Wilkes-Barre | Electric Light Co., many: years. / He was largely interested in philan« | thropic and civic work in the valley land from 1895 to 1901 served as presi ‘dent of the United Charities of Wilkes foil od TN Barre » Hy gt (Continued on Page 4) af —_————— — Circulate Petitions To - Retain Postmistress Petitions, addressed to Congressman C. Murray Turpin, are being ‘circu= lated among citizens of the borough asking for the retention of Ruth Wat- ers’ as postmistress of the local Post Office. : According to reliable political source : es a determined effort 1s being made to have Miss Water's position at the local office filled by some one more [ active in political circles in this re- gion. Those who are circulating the peti« tions say that they already have more than one hundred signers and that they will give every citizen of the com- munity -an opportunity to sign the petitions before they are presented to the township from full-back: position showed uncanny judgement in ' selec- tion of plays. Caddy LaBar was out- standing for Dallas. | The line-up: - the Congressman, To, date, practical- ly every person asked has signed the paper asking that Miss Waters be re- appointed. ~ ACCIDENT VICTIM King. Twp. Dallas Bore. Williams Tov EY, rai oih Besteder Ghiman:... ... YT. ore Ferry | CoPlatt aio Br Glu his Disque ROChER Lslvaett + OL an veins Lavelle | Stark... vn. Bo OL San, Jeter | Schuler. oR, Ty ve lie. Brace Metzgar ..... R. E. ...Matuskiewicz Riddell ..5.. > QB ied: Disque Kitchen .... SLSHIB. (wav. _LaBar D. Piatt. 7. R. H. B. . C. Besteder Smith 0.000 BB snl, Rook Tonuchdown:—D. Piatt. : Referee: — Austin; Umpire == Carr; Head Linesman — Jones. To Play Wilkes-Barre Township High School Kingston township “high school foot-| ball team will Journey to George - ACCORDED MILITARY HONORS AT GRAVE Members of Battery B, unit of 109th Field Artillery with headquarters at Tunkhannock, conducted a full mili- 2 tary service on Friday for’ Charles Wright of Noxen, member’ of th tery who was accidently Xi ed earlier in the week by aconcrete mixer.” The funeral of Mr. Wright was held at the (Noxen Methodist church, con- ducted by Rev. L. N.- Davis, of Mill City, and Rev. W. S. York pastor of Noxen church. Burial was in Orcutt’s Grove cemetery. The members’ of Battery B “who con town, tomorrow afternoon where they |. Qucted the military service at: the = will meet the Wilkes-Barre. township | high school team. Last week the lo-| grave were as follows: SIE tine Color “Suard—1st Sorgt Surlow W. cals showed much improvement in| Shotwell, Supply Sergt. Earl Reinhart; their playing when they met Dallas | colors carried by Beier Mechanic, Laeugh high school whom they de-!Ivan Ball feated by the score of 6 to 0. | (Continued on Page 2.) 1 '
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