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VOL. 45
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KINDNESS
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‘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.
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‘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.
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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
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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
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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
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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—
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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
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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
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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,
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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:
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2 Projects Ready
For State’s O. K.
Pinecrost” and Spring Jobs
To Harrisburg Within
Ten Days
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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.
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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.
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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. :
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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
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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