oo You Can’t Sell Them If You Don’t Tell Them Post Advertisers Know— @he Dallas Posi. More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution Post Advertisers Are Learning That Advertising Does Pay 4 tlt VOL. 45 oe DALLAS, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1935. 5 No. 4. Le = —— — —— ——— S————— POST SCRIPTS ADD GIRTY FACES GREATHOUSE BURGESSES BRUNOS One time when Harold Wagner was motoring along the Susquehanna helow Sunbury he had quite a talk with a fel- low who was acquainted with Simon Ciirty, who we mentioned in this col- umn last week. Girty, you'll remember if you paid any attention, was the des- perado who ranged along the Susque- hanna in the days before the Revolu- tion. There's a place along the river below Selinsgrove, says Harold, where you can see Girty’s profile in a natural formation of rocks. Harold also told about the old ferry that operated near Girty’s cave. Robbing the passengers was one of Simon’s greatest joys. He shot them first and then took their valuables. Harold seems to have a great ad- miration for him. . ns ee) Speaking of stone faces, there are two more along the river, besides Girty’s. You can see one as you pass Rilbury’s - Knob at Nanticoke. It's quite far from the road and high up. By exercising great imagination you can agree that it looks like an Indian chief. There’s another face on the West side of the river at Northumber- jand, high above the Susquehanna, half-hidden by scraggy pines and dwarf oaks. That's the face of Chief Shikellimy, viceroy of the Grand Coun- cil of the Iroquois, a big job in those days. As far as we know no one ever wrote any poetry about Girty’s face or the Indian’s face at Tilbury’s Knob but there's a poem about the Northumber- land stone face. It goes like this: “Half up those rocks, conspicuous in place Time’s hand has chisl’d Shikellimy’s face.” spot where aoma— “hey met like children, each admiring stood Between the river and the fringe of wood.” —tyn More anent the iniquitous Mr. Girty, this time from this column’s war cor- respondent, Fred M. Kiefer of Shrine View, whose volumes on the Civil War, if Jaid .end to end, would have paved sherman’s mareh from Atlanta to the sea. From the Florida front Mr. Kie- fer reports as follows: “Your interesting words on the ras- cal, Simon Girty under Post Scripts in last week’s Post, brings to mind an equally base character named Great- house, an Innkeeper near Fort Pitt in the early days of our Revolution. “Phe height of Greathouse’s vicious- ness culminated in the foul murder of the wife and entire family of the great Chief, Logan, after he had fed them raw whiskey to the point of uncon- sciousness. “Logan, the Mingo, had been a firm friend of the colonists up to this time and had been of inestimable value to Wise by preventing his tribe from affiliating with the British, as many of he New York Indians had done. Logan, 11 red men, finished his justification o the settlers wih these words, “There now runs not a drop of Logan's blood in any living person!” He then brought a, terrible vengence down upon the Americans.” —) “On the other hand, two local boys who made good were Daniel Boone, born near Reading, Pa., and Edward R. Bradley, born near Johnstown, Pa., who began life in the steel mills around Pittsburg. Wandering to the southwest Bradley fought in the Fron- tier Wars with the Apaches and learned 10 gamble and today owns the largest gambling house in the United States, at Palm Beach, and raises and races thoroughbred horses from his stables in Kentucky, the “Idle Hour Farms”. [ “Four times winner of the Kentucky erby with Bubbling Over, Bag Baggage, Burgoo King and Tip, he will try to repeat this spring. ‘All his horses’ names begin, you will notice,"with the lucky Bradley “B”.” mn (ye “For the evil doings of Simon Girty see the novel, “Betty Zane”, by Zane Grey; for the episode of Greathouse rate novel, ‘Cardigan”, by the late Robert W. Chambers; for the life of Boone see “Daniel Boone, Wilderness Scout”, by Steward Edward White, | and for a sketch on the life of E. R.| Bradley see the January 19th issue ‘of the “New Yorker.” ily A note from John V. Heffernan of | "The Independent always causes a flut- | ter of excitement in our particular cor- | ner of The Post, something like the] confusion which covers the second vio- | linist when the maestro singles him out | for attention, This time Mr. Heffernan has cna) us in an error—an error, we'll admit, | of which we feel a little ashamed. Last | | anonymous member of The Bucknell Bison Stampede staff. Jt was about a| kangaroo. You may remember it. Any- way, to impress our vast literary back- ground upon Postscripters we mention- ed, quite casually, that the poem was similar to those of Thornton Burgess. “The Bison Stampeder” wrote Mr. Heffernan “did a fine job in his rhyme | about the kangaroo. But it wasn't | Thornton Burgess who started that] sort of thing. It was Gelett Burgess | (Continued on Page 3) orobably the most brilliant speaker of | n’ Broker's and Logan see the historically accu- | {large for tthe Congressman’s Friends Deny Contest Rumor Indignant Over Reports That I. R. F. Will Bring Charges POLITICS SEEN Persons close to Congressman C. Elmer Dietrich of Tunkhannock this week expressed indignation over re- ports that a group known as the In- ternational Reform Federation intend- ed to contest Mr. Dietrich’s election to Congress. First intimation of the charges, which friends of Mr. Dietrich called ri- diculous, came from Gordon Mackay, Philadelphia newspaperman who con- ducts a column, “The Listening Post”. Mr. Mackay wrote that a Rev. William Sheafe Chase will direct the contest, “For weeks past” said Mr. Mackay, “emissaries and detectives of the re- form organization have been conduct- ing investigations into the election of Dietrich who, defeated Louis T. Mac- Fadden of Canton by 601 votes.” Since Mr. Dietrich already has been seated and is busy at work in Wash- ington, D. ., it was unlikely that the threats of a contest would materialize. Mr. Dietrich won the Democratic nomination and Mr. MacFadden, known |for his various attempts to impeach | President Hoover and for his tempest- uous antics in Congress, had the Re- publican nomination, In the general |election there was a tremendous swing [to Mr. Dietrich and as a result he won [the election, receiving a tremendous plurality from voters in the Southern end of Wyoming County. Close friends of Mr. Dietrich in | Tunkhannock said this week they had heard nothing of the charges and sus- Ipected them of being without founda- ltion and motivated by political preju- dice. Mr. Mackay's comment follows: | “Excessive use of money is one of {the charges. One man, a resident of | Towanda, is said to have boasted that | he personally spent $6,500 in the Die- [bution of $500 from that source. {Dietrich | backing and support of David T. Kauf- |mann of Towanda. The latter was de- feated for the Republican nomination for lieutenant-governor in the 1934 pri- maries an duttered loud ghouts that he {had been double-crossed. Kaufmann 1$10,000 into Philadelphia but received | few votes in return. | “The irate Mr. Kaufmann vowed vengeance on Congressman McFadden. After Li=icction heis said to have | boasted «7 being the principal contri- butor to McFadden’s defeat.” rim 5 2: — Miller Addresses Parents, Teachers Good Attendance Marks Session Of Borough Group Professor Joseph Miller, head of the Guidance Department of Wilkes-Barre City Schools, gave an interesting ad- dress before the large group which at- {tended the meeting of Dallas Borough Parent-Teacher Association on Mon- |day might in the high school. In the absence of the president, | James Ayre, Supervising Principal, Calvin McHose was in charge of the meeting. The entertainment was given by the pupils from the sixth grade, under the |supervision of R. H. Rood, teacher. A |geography lesson on the Common- |wealth of Pennsylvania was given by |several pupils. Naomi Shaver gave | several readings and Robert Niemeyer | sang German songs. | Harold Hallock of Shavertown played [trumpet solos, accompanied by Miss Lillian Rood of Dallas. | Attendance honors went to the sixth | grade. Refreshments were served by moth- ers of sixth grade pupils. 2 'U. of P. Professor Teachers’ Speaker Local School To Join Here For Institute { | | Five Areas | | A teachers’ institute will be held in {Dallas Borough High School on Mon- day afternoon at 1:30 for teachers of | Lake Township, Lehman Township, Kingston Township, Dallas Township and Dallas Borough schools. This will be the second meeting of the year. The first was in Kingston Township High School. (Continued on Page 4.) ’34 Crops Show 70 P. C. Gain Over Values Of 1932 Farmers Received Higher Prices; Corn And Hay In Lead POTATOES LOW : The value of farm crops produced in Pennsylvania during 1934 shows a seventy per cent. gain over the record low total of 1932, according to the State Department of Agriculture. Sub- stantially higher prices received by farmers were primarily responsible for this continued advance in aggregate value. The estimates for the past three years are: 1934, $142,000,000; 1933, $118,000,000; and 1932, $84,000,000. Value estimates must not be con- fused with cash income since a large proportion of the field crops grown in Pennsylvania is fed to livestock and sold in the form of livestock or live- stock products, Department officials | explain. Cash income estimates for 1934 | covering all farm products sold, which | will likely total roughly $200,000,000 compared with $171,000,000 in 1933, wil be announced at a later date. The records for 1934 easily sustain |the standing of Pennsylvania as one of the leading agricultural states. The Commonwealth had the most valuable potato crop despite the low price, the third most valuable apple crop, and the fourth most valuable hay crop of any state. Furthermore, Pennsylvania ranked, among all the states, first in the production of buckwheat and cigar- leaf tobacco, fourth in rye, fifth in | grapes, silage corn and cherries, eighth {in pears and oats, ninth in corn, tenth in winter wheat, twelfth in peaches, and fourteenth in the value of all | crops. | Corn Leads | The six most important Pennsylvan- |ia crops in order of their 1934 value lare: corn, hay, potatoes, wheat, oats The face is supposed to mark the |trich campaign but the expense report (and apples. The potatoe crop which was Shikellimy married Nen-|of the candidate reveals only a contri- |one and a half times as large as iit 11933, was worth only two thirds as . received the financial |much due to a drop from 90 to 41 cents | |a bushel in the average price paid | farmers. All the leading crops with the |exception of potatoes, showed an in- crease in unit value over 1933. The following table gives the total | production and estimated December 1 value of the principal crops produced |in Pennsylvania during 1934: Head Or ea : /Two motor, gefs wer. together in a terrific head on The injured: Nesbitt Memorial Hospital. Russell Steele, 71 Eley Street, Merithew was motorman on the car number of passengers, including a group of street car men on their way to work. There were only a few pass- engers on the Northbound car, which | was operated by Steele. | "The force of the collision demolished the vestibules of both street cars and Trolley Cars Crash AL Hillside were injured and a number of passen- erely shaken when two Dallas street cars came collision between Birch Grove and Hillside yesterday afternoon about 1:30. Charles Merithew, 59, 29 North Dorrance Street, possible fracture of left ankle, lacerations left foot, lacerations of the body, face and thigh, Forty Fort, minor lacerations of the face and body, discharged after treatment at Nesbitt Memorial hospital. Mrs. Harry DeWitt, Trucksville, suffered a head contusion. | dislodged both cars from the rails. bound for Wilkes-Barre and carried a | Windows in the cars were smashed by the impact. Confusion of schedules as a result of Wednesday night’s storm and possi- | ble failure of a signal light near the | accident were believed to have been | responsible for the crash. Dallas Five Lo 4 eginning of th reed into the lead. | ses Rural Lead To Noxen Five / LEHMAN IMPROVES STANDING IN RACE 31 team, which has held first place position in the e season, dropped into second place this last Friday night when the local five | lost to Trucksville, 33 to 25. It was | only the second defeat since the be- | ginning of the season and it resulted Bs [mn a tie between Dallas and Noxen. On Tuesday night Dallas lost to | Trucksville again, 38 to 27 and Lehman | defeated Shavertown, thereby crecping |up to within one point of the Dallas team. A game scheduled to have been | played between Lehman and Dallas on Corn ee RE $40,730,100 | Wednesday night was postponed be- [Winter wheal. ..auanis nse 13,482,400 | cause of bad weather. (Oats RA BNR 12,956,507 The schedule of games for next week (Barley: oo a as 1,214,000 | follows: Re a RL er 1,008,000 | Tuesday night, Shavertown at {Buckwheat ..... shad 1,615,000 | Trucksville. “White potatoes ... Wh... 00s 13,940.300 Wednesday night, Shavertown at (Tame hay «anti ree vasinain 39,711,200 | Lehman, Apples: (total) to. .onv divi. 7,699,000 Thursday night, Trucksville at Peaches: .. . .. cc inisie ds 818,000 Noxen. BOOTS. s.r ee neeas 289,000 | Friday night, Lehman at Dallas. | Grapes Tie iey we aah a OAS Ha 512,000 | = TT Lehman Grange To | Install Officers | Alfred Bronson Master; Grangers Present At Farm Show / Lehman Grange will megt tomorrow | (saturday) night to ingtall elected recently. Jackso ange will have charge of the installation. The officers, all re-elected, are: Mas- ter, Alfred Bronson; overseer, Elmer Wolfe; lecturer, Mrs. Jacob Reben- nack; steward, Clinton Brown; assis- tant steward, Theodore Cornell; lady (assistant, Mrs, Alfred Bronson; chap- "lain, Mrs. Herbert Payne; secretary, Mrs. John Hildebrant; treasurer, Jacob | Winter: gate keeper, John Rebennack; | Ceres, Miss Geraldine Cornell; Pomo- na, Mrs. Dana Davenport; Flora, Miss Iva Bronson; finance committee, Mr. | Davenport; executive committee, John | Hildebrant, The following grangers are attending [the Farm Products Show at Harris- burg this week: Mr. and Mrs. John Hildebrant, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Payne, Mr. and Mrs. John Rebennack, Steven ‘Wolfe, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wolfe, and Miss Letha | Wolfe, Laing Fire Compan Will Meet Tonight Members of Henry M. Laing Fire Co. will meet tonight to discuss plans | for two major events on the firemen’s | calendar, a dinner to be held soon and | the annual entertainment. Because of the importance cf the meeting a good crowd is expected. MORTALITY IN RACKETS KEEPS POSTMASTER KIRKENDALL BUSY Postmaster George Kirkendall has a busy time these days keeping the | rogues’ gallery at the postoffice up to date. week we ran-a nonsense poem by an | Justice eliminating public enemies, that the postmaster makes almost daily | checks of the pictures and descriptions of wanted criminals that decorate the walls of the post office. Whenever a dangerous criminal is some offense against the Federal government or post office de- partmont, reproductions of his finger- prints photographs and general des- | cription are sent out to all post offices of the United States. Of recent years there has been a marked increase In number of women a 1 at] So fast is the Department of Sometimes the postmaster doesn’t remove the picture of the criminal af- ter he has been apprehended by the Department of Justice agents or police but simply writes across the picture “killed by police” or ‘now in jail”. Tt has been thus .with Pretty Boy Floyd ohn Dillinger, Rok x : 2 J QO ons | | Annual Meeting Agricultural Association To Elect Officer And Hear Speeches The Luzerne County Agricultural Extension Association will hold its 20th Annual Meeting on Wednesday, Febru- lary 6th in the Kingston American Leg- |ion Home on Market Street, Kingston. | Every farmer in the county is a member of this Association and should attend this meeting. : The morning session starts at 10:00 o’clock with reports of the activities of the Association both in Home Econo- mics and Agriculture for 1934. These reports will be given by men and wo- men who have carried out one of these | projects during the year. Officers will be elected for the year 1935. The afternoon session will start at 1:30. This will consist of musical numbers and addresses. A detailed program will be announc- d the latter part of this week. It is intimated that if the company goes through with its threat to dis- continue service efforts will be made {to have the plant operated by the two | municipalities. re Stroh Is Speaker | Ie | | | Bert Stroh of the Commonwealth | Telephone Company was the principal speaker at the meeting of Dallas Ro- tary Club last night at Colonial Tea | Room. After the meeting the Rotarians inspected the local telephone exchange. Township P.T. A. | Dallas Township Parent-Teacher As< sociation met in the high school build- ling on Monday night with Mrs. Har- vey Kitchen presiding, ILLNESS OF JUDGE POSTPONES NEWS OF CONTEST WINNERS Because of the illness of one of the judges and the large number of letters to be read, prize-winning letters in the “Why I Like To Shop In Luzerne” contest sponsored by Luzerne merchants will not be an- nounced this week as stated in last week's issue of The Post. Prize winning letters will, how- ever, be announced in next week’s issue of the Post and placards bearing the names of the winners will be on display in all Luzerne stores which participated. First threat tc Dallas's lead came? On February 6 Threaten To Turn Canawacta Company Decides Action Would End Controversy Climaxing a bitter water rate contro- versy which has been under way for several years, the Canawgecta Water Co. has asked the Public Service Com- mission for permission to discontinue service in Susquehanna and Lanesboro. | The two boroughs have a combined population of about 5,000. Since April, 1931, when a new rate schedule was ap- | proved, there has been constant con- flict between the utility and the con- sumers. Many patrons have refused to pay more than the previous rates and the company claims it cannot af- ford to operate with the revenue pro- vided by those rates. The boroughs have given up a fire | hydrant service and depend upon the |water from the Susquehanna River and nearby creeks to fight fires. The Sus- quehanna school district and numerous householders have established their own water systems during the long rate fight. Tax Penalty Unless there is a last-minute rush among taxpayers of Dallas to pay their taxes, about fifty percent of the tax- ables in Dallas borough will have to pay the 5 percent penalty which will be imposed on all borough, county and state taxes remaining unpaid on Feb- ruary 1. According to the records of Tax Col- lector Arthur Dungey, not more than fifty percent of the county, State and borough taxes due in Dallas borough have been paid. A little over 60 per cent of the school tax is in. A 5 per cent. penalty was added to all school taxes unpaid on October 1, 1934. Those who wish to save paying the penalty of 5 per cent imposed on delin- quent taxes should pay Mr. Dungey during the coming week. BE a Township Alumni Meet On Monday A meeting of Dallas Township Alum- ni Association was held in the high school building on Monday night at 7:30 with Robert Eipper presiding. Plans were made for a dance: to be high school auditorium. Melvin Mosier nnd Robert Eipper are in charge of ar- rangement. The next meeting will be on | February 18. Off Water Supply held on March 6 at the Dallas Borough | Council Turns Down Plan For Community Hall PWA Funds Road Projects, Instead GUARD FINAXCES Expressing the opinion that the cone stuction of a compunity hall, even with PWA assistafice, would mecessi« tate an unfair t#x increase, members of Dallas Boroy&h Council, at a meet ing on Tuesd night, rejected unanps imously the p to build ough building. At the same session the councilmen moved to have approval for three local paving projects which would guarantee employment to a number of men. If Federal agencies allot funds to pro- vide for the labor, the borough will supply the materials and machinery to pave portions of Spring, Pinecrest and Ridge Streets. It is likely that there will be & prompt approval of the relief. projects |and that the work will be started | shortly. A The suggestion that a borough build- |ing, housing quarters for the fire truck, |a recreation hall, council chambers and a jail, was revived at a recent meet- ing of Henry M. Laing Fire Co. At the meeting on Tuesday night L. V. Lacey, architect, addressed council and explained the plan. 2 Councilmen were of the opinion that the cost of the project to the borough would be prohibitive and “would not meet with favor by persons who would resent the increase in taxes would pro- bably would be necessary. No More Hemlock Bark At Tannery Lumber Camps Once Buzzed To Provide Tanning Compeund Seeks For The last of jfs hemlock bark, an all-importght factor in g, was ground recegitly by » . K. Mosser | Tanning co at Noxen. Hence- forth the company will use only ex- tracts, shipped in from Southern States in its tanning process. No worker in the big tannery at Noxen can remember the time when bark has not played an important part in the manufacture of leather, al- though of recent years it has become a less important factor with the advent of new tanning processes and the pro- duction of tanning extracts. In the early days the tanning indus- try closely followed the Iumber in- {dustry and wherever there was a plentiful supply of bark a tannery could usually be found. Kunkle once had one of these thriving plants, So did Tunkhannock and scores of other |communities located close to the. bark supply. When the supply was exhaust- [ed the tannery not infrequently moved |away to other locations where supplies of Hemlock bark and Chestnut wood were more plentiful. When the tannery was established at | Noxen more than a quarter of a cen= tury ago, that community was the cen- ter of one of the most active lumbering cperations in Pennsylvania, and the big bark sheds were filled to overflow- ing while busy teamsters hauling fresh loads of bark to the bark mills were a daily sight. So great was the supply that much of the bark stored in those days was not ground until fifteen and twenty years later, long after lumber- ing operations had ceased in the im= mediate vicinity. (Continued on Page 3.) —— This Afternoon At 2 Reese Isaacs; aged 67, a native of Kunkle, died at the home of his. bro~ ther, William, at Youngstown, OQ, of heart attack, this week. The funeral service will be held this afternoon (Friday) at 2 at the home of Mr. Isaacs’ sister, Mrs. S. J. Woolbert a Shavertown. Interment will be 1 Woodlawn cemetery. Mr. Isaacs is widely known here, {having been born in Kunkle and [spent most of hig life in this section. |He left here about twenty years ago. The survivors include four brothers, [ John, Kunkle; Henry, Shavertown, and | William, Youngstown, O., and two sise [ters, Mrs. Woolbert and Mrs. Charles | Heidenreich of Wilkes-Barre. | INCREASE AT that section. A meeting to discuss th held last night. According to The Montrose- Indes pendent the increase is not an actual rate rise but is due to an item in the filed schedule of rates which the com- pany has not been including in its bill- ing for the past several years. Under a schedule approved and effec- tive April 1, 1920, the Consumers’ Water Company was entitled to charge 1$13 for a bath room in which there was a toilet, a bathtub and a wash basin. | This charge was made up of $5 for the toilet, $5 for the washtub and $3 for the wash basin, Until now the charge for the wash basin had been omitted from the billing. MONTROSE PEOPLE OPPOSE RATE Indignant opposition to an attempt of the Consumers’ Water Company of Montrose to collect an increase in water rental is reported by newspapers from TEMPT OF UTILITY e increase was scheduled to have been According to the present managaey, the decision to omit the wash basin charge was made by an official of a former holding company. J. 'W. Patterson, vice-president and division manager of the Consumers’ Water Co., promised to go to Montrose to meet consumers to discuss the in- | crease in billings. “The addition of the charge” | The Independent “has caused siderable indignation on the part of the says con- consumers, most of whom are paying |the increase under protest.”
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