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VOL. 45 oe DALLAS, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1935. 5 No. 4.
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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.”
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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.”
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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.
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'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 :
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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.)
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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.”