~~. __ chapter ) : Post Advertisers Know— You Can’t Sell Them If You Don’t Tell Them The gz oot More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution _ Post Advertisers Are Learning That Advertising Does Pay DALLAS, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1935. —— » VOL. 45 | POST | SCRIPTS KINDNESS GREEKS NAP SCOOPS ERROR ‘One sticky summer night about seven years ago a city editor apologetically . assigned us to interview “Miss Wilkes- Barre”, who, surrounded by almost tomb-like silence, had just returned from the Atlantic City contest. On one of those-busses that find ‘their way miraculously through the ~ lapyrinth of South Wilkes-Barre Streets we rode glumly to the home of ! ‘the young lady, and found her sur- rounded by goggle-eyed relatives and friends, all quite enraptured by her story of conquests by the seaside. ‘She sat on a divan with her legs folded under her like a little girl and ‘we asked all the questions we'd ‘thought up on the way down. We wanted to ask her just how she’d been selected as Miss Wilkes-Barre but diplomatically we passed over that question, She talked a great deal about want- ing to go on the stage and we jotted down notes: “stage”, “Emerson College of Oratory”, “nice teeth”, “met Miss California”, “photographed with Eddie - Dooley”, etc. Then we went back to the office and wrote: “With eyes flashing and lips smiling happily, Miss Esther Cantor last night, upon her return from the Atlantic City Beauty Pag- -eant’. . 7. The next day she did something which for novelty and pure gracious- ness, surpasses anything which ever happened to us. We were banging at our typewriter when a lovely vision in pink chiffon swam across the narrow “horizon of our desk. It was Miss Can- tor. She had come to thank us for the story. It lasted only a minute but when she had departed and we were able to sense the amazement which was permeating the city room we ~~ knew that, as far as we were con- cerned, that visit, in full view of 'g sntlemen ordinarily more fortunate in their contacts with females, represent- .ed the apex of our journalistic career. Wee prayed for Miss Cantor's success. © Our horizontal wanderings crossed her ascending path again at a Scran- ton stock theatre. There, Esther Can- tor was playing a different role every 3 week, for five dollars a week, we have heard since. i We lost track of her then for some sn ed 14h pioht ava were plodding long a street oft Times Square in New York and saw a photograph of a strangely familiar face in front of a theatre. Pygmalion” was the name of ~~ the play, if we remember. There was a girl by the name of June Clayworth playing in it. We investigated when we came home. June Clayworth, we ~~ discovered, was Esther Cantor. ~ Last Saturday night we saw a mov- was quite good. She's making ancther picture now. Everything she wanted when she was Miss Wilkes-Barre has ~ come true. { ‘Moral: Fate smiles on people who are |g8rade pupils, with Miss Margaret Em- ermen and animals. prt men. Chatting with the proprietor of a ~ Greek candy kitchen the other night we got around to discussing the Public ‘Works Administration. The Greeks, it seems, had a word for it 2,000 years ‘ago, and it wasn't PWA. ‘Whenever things got bad back in . Greece Themistocles or Pericles start- “ed building things, just as Mr, Roose- velt does. The heavy industries were “their problem, too. We suppose that in 4,000 A. D. foreigners in the forty-first century equivalent of golf pants will be over- running Dallas and spreading their lunches on cracked corner-stones dated 1935. kind to newspap Tr cet. ¥ Lately we have been alarmed by our inability to get through more than one h of a book without falling asleep—a tendency which we take as a sure sign of general debilitation. ‘On Sunday we reached the decision that it was exercise we needed. | { We | found an old pair of bathing trunks | and a medicine ball and sneaked into the cellar. Blowing up the rubber in- sides of the ball almost licked us. We had to rest until the orange specks ‘stopped swimming in front of our bulging eyes. Then, quite vigorously, we began _ banging the ball against the wall and hopping around. Everything K went /swell until, in a wild burst of energy, we banged our head on a low-hanging fruit shelf. Sadly we put the ball and the trunks back in the closet and went and took a good nap. nee Pe News correspondents covering the Hauptmann trial sent about 10,000,000 . words, enough to fill 1,000 awverage- length novels, to newspapers all over the country, covering every conceivable amgle of the trial, but no paper which | we have read has reported fully what happened when the jury was coming in. Somehow, MANY JOBS TO BE AVAILABLE THIS SPRING rl ad FERA Projects Here Will Provide Employment For Hundreds ASK LOCAL LABOR There will be few men in the Back Mountain Section without jobs this Spring if plans which have been start- ed by the Dallas Borough Unemployed League, with co-operation of borough officials, are carried out successfully. Local representatives of the league have conferred with County Commis- sioners and members of the FERA board to ask that local men be given preference on local projects and it is assured that, as far as is possible, that request will be granted. The Commissioners were heartily in accord with the plan but have mo au- thority in selecting the men to be em- ployed. The Relief Board also was in sympathy with the request. On borough projects workers from the borough 'must be given first con- Isideration but on more general jobs, {financed by the county or the State, there is no precedent for compelling the contractors to hire local workmen. It is probable that the first project to be started in Dallas will be the re- sumption of work on Huntsville Road, where the cut at the top of the hill was started last year. About thirty men will be employed there as soon as weather permits. The major project, and the one on which local men are anxious to have local labor preferred, will be on the Orange-Dallas road. Two parts of that highway will be paved, at a cost of $61,828.05 and from 250 to 275 men will be employed. The projects, draining and paving the highway between Stations 42 and 62, a distance of 2,000 feet, and be- tween Stations 83 and 100, a distance of 1,700 feet, will be started within thirty days, it is expected. Approximately $17,000 of the amount appropriated will be for materials. The remainder of the amount will be fur- nished by the emergency relief organi- zation for wages. The Dallas Borough School Board also has several minor projects plan. ned. Rev. Mr. Ruff Is Speaker At "TA Co-operation In Schools Theme Of Pastor’s Talk Rev. G. Elson Ruff, pastor of Sha- vertown Lutheran Church, was the principal speaker at the meeting of Dallas Borough Parent-Teacher Asso- ciation on Monday night. About 125 persons were present. A program was given by the seventh mert, teacher, "in charge. Francis Freeman was the announcer. Recita- tions were given by Louise Space, Lawrence Ide, and Beverly Wagner. Anecdotes of George Washington were told by Jack Ruggles. Jean Miller and Reorge Race. Alvah Jones and Alfred Davis sang a duet and Audrey O'Kane a solo, Audre O'Kane, Fayrose Palletz, Rhoda Thomas and Helen Healy gave a pickaninny dance mumber. The en- tire class sang the final number. Miss Betty Cole gave a humorous reading and a preview of the musical comedy to be presented on March 11, by the Senior Class of the school. Attendance honors were awarded to the seventh grade. A vote of thanks was given to the Women’s Club of Dallas, for the pur- chase of soup for the undernourished children. ‘ [and lecturer, will Now It’s Radio For Cop on Beat “Calling all patrolmen!”— that phrase may soon be fa- miliar to many policemen. This pedestrian radio receiver, com- plete with batteries and loud speaker, that can be worn com- fortably by a cop on his beat, has been invented by a New Yorker. Eastern police organiza- tions are said to favor the de- vice. Crane To Speak Here On Monday Eminent Scranton Lecturer At Trucksville M. E. Church Dr. Henry H. Crane, pastor of Elm Park Church, Scranton, and who has achieved an « enviable recognition throughout this section as a preacher speak on Monday night, February 25, at 8 o’clock at the Trucksville M. E. Church. The missionary societies of the church will sponsor his lecture. Rev. Dr. Crane, a Methodist minister, is most widely known for his vigorous and liberal messages. His church at Scranton hassane’of the largest mem- and frequently crowds which attempt to hear his sermons are so great that they cannot be accomodated in the big church. The demand for his sérvices is great and the opportunity to hear him lo- cally ' probably will attract a large crowd, League Tie To Be Broken Tonight Township And Borough Will Meet In Booster Game Here Dallas Borough and Kingston Town- ship basketball teams, which are tied for second place in the local scholastic league, will. meet tonight in the Bor- ourgh High School’ Auditorium in a Booster Game to break their tie. Dallas Township will play the league leading Lehman team at Lehman, and Beaumont will meet Laketon at Lake- ton. The standing of the boy’s teams in the league now follows: Team ‘Won Lost Lehman 8 Dallas Borough Kingston Twp. Dallas twp. Beaumont Pet. 1.000 .750 .750 .250 6 6 2 0 .000 berships in the Methodist conference |’ Road Committee Zellner At High School March 5 Famous Protean Actor Is Next On Series Of Entertainments The sixth in the series of forum pro- grams being given at Dallas Borough High School will be the presentation of Magnificent Characters of Romance and History, by Zellner, famou$ Pro- tean characterist, on Tuesday evening, March 5. The offering, one of the most inte- resting of the entire series, is note- worthy for the colorful lighting effects and the quick changes effected by Zell- ner. All characters are to be presented in full makeup and costume. The aver- age time for complete changes from head to foot, is but thirty seconds. Some changes require oniy six or eight seconds each. Especially designed silk and gold draperies and colorful lighting effects form a stage setting that is out of the ordinary. The characters are new and distinct- ly unusual. The fancies and foibles of daily life are presented in crisp rol- locking comedy. Huckelberry Fin, the German Lady, and Abe Martin are es- pecially fine characterizatiions. Zellner also presented a series of famous gen- erals and statesmen and his famous figures from Bibical history are recre- ated with the all the vividness of reai- ity. 3 Mr. Zellner has spent years in care- ful research and in the authorita- tive study of these great leaders. David H. Traver / Dies At uth Run Engaged In Fruit Growing And Dairy Farming { | | i David H. Traver, 66, died at South Run on Wednesday February 13, after aboutg.four months of complications. Trine: Noxen M, E. Church, with interment at Orcutt’s Grove Cemetery. Mr. Traver was a member of the Beaumont lodge of I. O. O. F. for forty four years, and a member of the Grang® at Bowman's Creek for many vears. He was married to Florence E. Patton on Washington’s Birthday, 1895. He resided on the farm known as the Old Traver Homestead and engaged extensively in fruit growing and in the dairy business. Surviving are his. wife and the fol- lowing children: James, Alfred, Syl- vester, Richard, Mrs. Peter Hopfer, Mrs. Voyle Traver, all of Noxen; Ash- ley of Endicott, N. Y.; Mrs. Sheldon Wispell of Dallas; Emory at home; a brother, George, of Beaumont, and twenty grandchildren. The pallbearers at the funeral were Charles Smith, Frank Plelps, Charles Moyer, Elbridge Schaefer, Clarence Smith and Arnold Wright. 7th Birthday Mrs. Albertine Mayer was guest of honor at a party “held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mayer, Lake Street, recently in observance of her 77th birthday. Present: Mrs. Albertine Mayer, Mr. and Mrs. William Cobleigh, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Cobleigh, Edward Cobleigh, Edward Cobleigh, Theodore Cobleigh, Harry and Clinton Cobleigh, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mayer and son Graydon. MANY SPOTS FAMOUS IN WASHINGTON’S CAREER WITHIN EASY MOTORING DISTANCE OF DALLAS Motorists in this section have no difficulty in planning interesting pil- grimages to historic shrines in and about the State for it was in this: region that Washington passed some of the most eventful periods in his career. The people of Dallas are fortunate in being within comfortable motoring distance of many historic spots associated with the life of Washington and the War of the Revolution, The only Fourth of July address ever made by Gerrge Washington was de- livered at Lancaster, on Independence Day, 1791. Lancaster, then, was the largest inland town in the United States. In his dairy, Washington thus de- cribes the incident: “This being the anniversary of American Independence and being kindly requested to do it, I agreed to halt here this day and par- take of the entertainment which was prepared for the celebration of it. In ithe forenoon I walked about the town— | | at half past 2 o'clock I received and answered an address from the corpora- in the confusion which [tion and the compliments of the clergy | descending on Flemington when the bell (of the different denominations—dined tolled the news that the jury was pre- between 3 and 4 o’clock—drank tea paring to return to the court house, with Mr. Hand.” the signals on a short-wave transmit- ter were mixed up and the Associated Press flashed to the waiting news- papers the information that Haupt- mann had been found guilty, with a {company | | Fifteen regular toasts were given, and finally President Washingto gave the toast, “The Governor and State of Pennsylvania” and retired, when the arose and ‘volunteered a recommendation for life imprisonment. (toast, “The Illustrious President of the Telegraph editors and composing rooms on the big metropolitan news- papers had been waiting for the flash eleven hours. Seconds after it came “over the teletypes the machinery was functioning. By the time the A. P. flashed a retraction, eleven minutes (Continued on Page 3.) United States”. Philadelphia possesses hundreds of reminders of Washington’s triumphs, the majority of them ,such as Carpen- ter’'s Hali,"where ‘Washington attended the First Continental Congress, St. Peter's and Christ churches, where he worshipped, and the Billmeyer house, &>- 1732-1935 First and earliest portrait of Washington at Mount Vernon in 1772, when forty years of age, he was known as the “Virginia, Colo- nel”. The original of this portrait hangs in Lee Memorial Chapel of ‘Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va. from where Washington directed the Battle of Germantown, already being well known. Any motor pilgrimage to Philadel- phia should include the little house at 239 Arch Street where Mrs. Elizabeth Ross is said to have made an early American flag. Historians may regard I VITes Were on Saturday st Will Meet Highway Secretary Monday TUNKHANNOCK, WILKES-BARRE, AND DALLAS JOIN IN REQUEST Congressman Dietrich To Head Committee Which will Meet With Secretary of Highways On Demand For Improvement Of Route 92. A delegation of prominent men from Tunkhannock, Dallas, and Wilkes- Barre will meet with Warren Van Dyke, secretary of highways, next Monday morning at 10:30 to ask that the highway between Dallas and Tunkhannock be repaved this year. The conference will be the climax present worn roadway reconstructed and is the most forward point ever at- AR tained in the long campaign. Congressman C. Elmer Dietrich of to several years of effort to have the Tunkhannock will head the delegation, which will present a sheaf of petitions carrying the names of thousands of persons from this section who are in support of the request which the dele- gation will make to Mr. Van Dyke: \ 2 Projects Ready For State’s O. K. Pinecrost” and Spring Jobs To Harrisburg Within Ten Days J 4 Applications for Federal funds for the paving of Pinecrest and Spring Ave- nue projects in Dallas Borough have been filed and will be forwarded to Harrisburg within the next ten days, Borough Engineer, John Jeter, report- ed at a meeting of council on Monday night. The water company will be request- ed to make any repairs on lines under Pinecrest Avenue before the paving is laid. Councilmen renewed for three months a $5,000 note held by First National Bank. Bills totalling $116,66 were paid from the general fund and $4.40 from the light fund. A communication from the County Commissioners informed council that the assessed valuation of the borough for 1935 is $720,547, slight- ly less than for 1934. ee Local Residents Win Cash Prizes King Write Winning" «Letters Prize winners in the “Why I Like to Shop in Luzerne” letter writing con- test sponsored by Luzerne Business men during the Christmas holidays have been announced as follows by the judges. First prize, $50, Mrs. Charles See- bold, 67 Seebold Avenue, Luzerne, Pa. ‘Second prize, $25, Howard H. Wool- bert, Shavertown, Pa. Third prize, $10, Anna Firmanik, 344 Miller Street, Luzerne, Pa. Fourth prize, $5, Ruby Donner, 204 Courtdale avenue, Courtdale, Pa. Fifth Prize, $5, Mrs. Morris Shavertown, Pa. Sixth prize, $5, Esther I. Nicholas, 98 East Vaughn Street, Kingston, Pa. Judges in the contest were T. S. 'Wil- liams, superintendent of TLuzerme schools; J. H. Finn, superintendent of Swoyerville schools and Mrs. Ned Griffith, Pioneer avenue, Shavertown. Township Parents Hear Rev. Freeman King, Borough Group Has 125 At Meeting In High School : The necessity for co-operation be- tween teacher and parent was the theme of the talk given by Rev. Fran- cis Freeman, pastor of Dallas M. E. Church, at the meeting of Dallas Township Parent-Teacher Associa- tion in the township high school on Monday night. The subject of Rev. Mr. Freeman's talk was “What the Parent Expects of the Teacher and What the Teacher Ex- pects of the Parent.” Mrs. Harvey Kitchen, president, had charge. It was voted to give to the Senior as unsupported by fact the story of Betsy Ross’s stitching of the first American Flag, but no one disputes the fact that the legend has become part and parcel of American folk-lore. In any case, it is known that Wash- ington had an intense personal inte- rest in the creation of a national flag and may have had a part in its design. And no one disputes the fact that he accomplished more than any other American in giving that flag a meaning and in unfurling it over a strong and united nation. The honor of originating that fa- mous title, “The Father of His Coun- try” belongs to an old Pennsylvania German almanac, the Nord American- ische Kalender, which was printed in Lancaster in 1779. The frontispiece—the full size of the bage, an emblemic design—presents in the upper portion of it a figure of Fame, with a trumpet in her right hand and in her left a. medallion por- trait laureated, inscribed “Washing- ton”. From the trumpet proceeds the words “Des Land Des Vater’—The | Father of the Country. class the $25 proceeds from the valen- tine dance. Cake and ice cream were sold by members of the junior class. PLAYFUL WIND ROLLS 20-POUND SNOW BALLS ON HARVEY'S LAKE ICE The eyes of Harvey's Lake resi- dents, accustomed to strange sights such as big fish, matrons in bath- ing suits, and automobiles break- ing through the ice, popped this week as they saw a new phenom- enon—great snow balls rolling ac- ross the snow-covered ice ag if propelled’ by playful but invisible hands. It was the wind, cutting up a dido not infrequent on midwestern plains but never before recorded here. Sweeping gleefully down from the hills, it picked up parti- cles of ice and snow and relled them over and over until, gather- ing new layers of the wet snow, they stopped against the shore, some af them big enough to weigh twenty pounds. TY Howard Woolbert and Mis Club Committee 4 The meeting has been arranged by Norman Johnstone, secretary of Wyo- ming Valley Motor Club, in co-opera- - tion with Congressman Dietrich, who is a member of the club. State Senator Laning Harvey, chair- man of Wyoming Valley Motor Club Road Committee, will head the club's delegation, which will have as mem- bers John Malinowski, Dr. Leo C. Mun- dy, J. C. O'Donnell, Norman John- stone and Martin Keet, It was planned originally to meet with Governor George H. Earle but the Governor, in a cordial letter to the motor club this week, expressed his regrets at having a busy day which would prevent his meeting with the delegation. He assured the committee a receptive audience from Mr. Van Dyke, Upper End 0. K. From a Dallas man who has been in contact with the Department of Highways, The Post learned this week that the paving of the section from Tunkhannock to Bowman’s Creek has already. been approved as a Federal Aid project and its paving assured. No definite date for starting the work has been announced. Local people, and groups from Wilkes-Barre who have worked in the campaign, are anxious to have the section between Dallas and Bowman's Creek improved at the same time and will stress that in their petition. Fruit Growers To Sig Meet February 27 Southern End Of County To Meet On Day Earlier Fruit Growers of Luzerne County will hold their Annual Winter Meet- ings on February 25 and 27. The southern end Fruit Growers will meet at the Lutheran Church at Nes- copeck Borough on Tuesday, February 26th and the northern end will con- vene at the Carverton Grange Hall. on Wednesday, February 27th. At both sessions there will be local fruit growers who will lead discussions on topics relative to the grower’s prob- lems, such as the fertility problem, adaptable varieties, spraying practices and marketing, ete. The speakers for the day will be R. S. Kirby of the Plant Disease Exten- sion Department who will talk on Dis- eases, and will show a recently com- pleted movie, showing methods of ap- plying sprays in Pennsylvania. This new movie is very interesting and edu- cational for the growers, who are des- irous of applying spray completely and thoroughly. The other speaker, E. A. Richmond, Orchard Insect Specialist who will dis- cuss control of orchard pests; partic- ularly timely. There will be recom- mendations on control of apple tree borers. This pest, in the past two years, has done untold damage to young apple trees in all parts of Lu- zerne County. Many other apple insects will be dis- cussed by Mr. Richmond in his talk. All fruit growers in Luzerne County are urged to attend either of the two meetings. Dinner will be served at a nominal charge each - day at the respectiv meetings. : hee Pre-Lenten Dance ' At Hotel Sterling The young ladies of St. Patrick’s Church of Parrish Street, Wilkes- Barre, will sponsor their annual pre- lenten card party and dance at Hotel Mallow-Sterling on March 4 for the benefit of the church building fund. Beautiful prizes will be awarded at every table and a number of valuahle door prizes will be given. Dancing will begin at 9, with music by Junior McGuire's . orchestra. Miss Katherine O'Rourke is general chairman, under the direction of Rev. Martin Kilcullen, and she is assisted by a large group of church women. : Spaghetti Supper E x % Ladies’ Aid Society of the Center Moreland M. E. Church will serve a spaghetti supper in the church parlors on Friday evening from 5:30 until all served. 2 5
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