/ There Is Printing—And Then There Is Good Printing. People Who Buy Their Printing At The Dallas Post Are Assured Of Craftsmanlike Work, At Fair Prices. : “The Dallas Post More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution . : If You Do Business In The Rich Area Surrounding Dallas You Need A Reg- ular Advertisement In The Post. Why Not Test The Pulling Power Of This Paper With A Small Ad Next Week? —® ; VOL. 45 [POST SCRIPTS AUDITOR ODDS ENDS SHAKESPEARE FALL Although the men he surcharged felt frequently that he carried his consci- entiousness to extremes, the late Charles Cooke, when he was auditor for Dallas Borough, displayed a zeal which is recalled with nervous shud- ders by many men who felt the weight of his passion for obeying the laws, however minor. Mr. Cooke was a deep student of municipal law and his broad know- ledge of the subject made him the per- fect auditor. Other residents of Dallas recall a~-number of incidents which, al- though they were aggravating at the time make good humorous stories now. For instance there was the case of the hitching post lantern. The lantern hung on the post at Huntsville and Main Streets and was lighted every evening at dusk. The handiest—and probably the only—place to get kero- sene was a Store nearby which was owned by a councilman. Without the slightest idea that he was doing any- thing wrong, the constable had the five-gallon can filled at the council- man’s store. Since the can had to be kept in the store so the lantern could be filled afresh there every night it was a fair enough bargain. The cost of kerosene for a year was eighty-seven cents. The bill was duly recorded and paid to the councilman’s store. But when Mr. Cocke studied the | books for the year he shook his head | gravely over the eighty-seven cent item for kerosene. Legally, the borough could not buy anything from one of its elected borough officers. Holding firm to his sworn duties, Mr. Cooke refused to allow the item and surcharged the embarrassed councilman for the full and total amount of the eighty-seven| cents he had received for the year’s supply of kerosene. Cae ODDS AND ENDS DEPT: On old maps, Toby's Creek is called Trout Brook . .. The creek received its pres- ent name from Toby, a legendary woodsman who is supposed to have kept house in a cave near the mouth of the creek—and if you think the stream is unsightly in Dallas you should see it when it passes through Edwardsville . . . The Hebbe tribe, near " Timbuctoo, in West Africa, punish a murderer by causing him to ‘marry the sister of the murdered man . . . Sug- gestion for Congress: All law-propos- ers in Northeastern Greece were forced to wear a rope around their necks, so that if their law failed to pass they could be hung immediately . Our deepest thanks to Senator A. J. Sor- doni for his kind remarks about The Post before Dallas Business Men's As- sociation last Thursday night . . . The Indians in this section had a game something like our baseball The bat was like a tennis racquet and the ball was covered with deerskin . . . Three hundred and fifty years after Thomas A. Becket died he was tried and convicted on a charge of unsurpa- tion of the Papal Throne. . . . Henry the Eighth ordered Thomas's skeleton brought into court for the duration of the trial . . . A 3,000-pound car making a turn of 500-foot radius, something like the one outside of Luzerne on the main highway, has to overcome a cen- trifugal force of about 156 pounds at 20 miles an hour .. . but when the car is making the turn at 60 miles an hour there is a weight of more than 1,400 pounds trying to push the car off the road! . Jack Benny, the radio star, met his stooge and wife, Mary Living- stone, when she was twelve years old. is Could Shakespeare, currently reviv- ed for motion picture fans, have been a prophet, as well as a playwright? The person who sent us the following lines from Julius Ceasar scribbled across the corner “Put your money on this prediction”. The betting tip fol- lows: “A curse shall light upon the limbs of men: Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all parts of Italy; Blood and destruction shall be so use, And dreadful objects so familiar, That mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quarter’d with the hands of war: pity chok’d deeds: And Caesar’s spirit, raging for revenge, Shall in these confines with a mon- arch’s voice Cry “Havoc”, and let slip the dogs of war: That this foul deed shall the earth, ‘With carrion men, groaning for burial.” Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I —O— in All with custom of fell smell above Vhen the motion picture of Shakes- peare’s “Midsummer Night's Dream” opened in New York City last week thousands of persons jammed the streets and sidewalks to get a glimpse of the opening night celebrities. One man, after fighting his way through the frenzied throng, burst into the clear with his hat gone, his collar twisted, and his coat sleeve torn. “What fools these mortals be” he quoted at the cop nearby. “Move along, Jack” the cop said. —O At twenty miles an hour, the average driver goes twenty-two feet before he can even start to use the brea it takes another 18 feet to stop com- pletely, with good brakes, good tires ‘and favorable road conditions . . . Twelve million persons in United States cannot read or write . . . Most theatre managers don’t want Sunday movies . . . They would increase the {Continued on Page 8.) Signer Of Borough a juror in criminal court, celebrated his of his early experiences for The Post. Celebrates Eightieth In a little green-and-white house at the south close by Huntsville Dam, lives B. Frank Bulford, the last of the fifty-two men who, in 1878, signed their names to the petition which made Dallas a borough. Last Sunday Mr. Bulford, who is hearty and alert and only last month was DALLAS, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1935. a? = Po Charter nativersary tip of Dallas Township, eightieth birthday anniversary by play- ing host to scores of relatives and friends. One day this week he recalled some Seven generations of Mr. Bulford’s family have lived on American soil, his great-great-great-great grandfath- er having founded Wallingford, Conn., in 1670. His grandfather, Albon Bul- ford was a sea captain and some of |his relics are preserved by Wyoming Historical and Geological Society. Mr. Bulford’s great-great grand- father, Rev. Jacob Johnson, spent thirty years of active work in ministry to the Indians of Connecticut and Northeastern Pennsylvania and found- ed the First Presbyterian Church of Wilkes-Barre, Mr. Bulford’s father, John, owned a farm which was located where the cen- ter of Dallas Borough is now. The home in which Mr. Bulford was born stood where the Lehigh valley station is now and his father kept a store labout where the Commonwealth Tele- phone Co. offices are. The rough rutted road which cut through Mr. Bulford’'s farm later be- came Dallas’s. Main Street. Along it farmers from this section drove their teams of horses or oxen on the long, tiring trip past Bloody Run, over the narrow road through the Luzerne nar- rows, past the toll gate and on to Wilkes-Barre to sell their produce. Mr. Bulford recalls trips to the city vividly. The farmers started at dawn and, since it was difficult sometimes to sell their hay or produce immediate- ly, it was dark when they reached home again. Mr. Bulford chuckles over the time he drove his team of oxen to the city and about Public Square pull- ing a load of hay. In those days, oxen were invaluable for hard work on rough land and drivers developed a great pride in the pulling-power of their yokes. During the Civil War, Mr. Bulford’s father organized a company of local reserves and Mr. Bulford remembers how, as a youth, he watched with deep admiration the regular drills of the lo- cal militia, captained by the senior Bulford, with a feather in his hat. Although Dallas always was smaller than the towns about it, it was a cen- ter for Fourth of July celebrations and |were pioneering here were tough, har- dy farmers and woodsmen and their get-togethers ended many times in rough-and-tumble fights which were as much a teature of the program as lany other scheduled item. “I never looked for a fight” Mr. Bulford ex- plains, “but sometimes I had to protect myself and I never got hurt.” The center of population in those days was north of Dallas and the pre- ponderance of votes in the Kunkle sec- [tion resulted in giving that region most |of the major town offices. Finally the ‘people in the lower section rebelled and |circulated petitions for a separate and |incorporated borough. Mr. Bulford was one of the signers. On April 21, 1879, the charter was granted and the boun- |dary lines were set. | Dwight Wolcott was chosen first {burgess and the councilmen were {Jacob Rice, Ira D. Shaver, William ‘Snyder, Theodore Ryman, Charles Hen- (derson and Philip T. Raub. The new railroad, built primarily to {tap the rich lumbering region around | Harvey's Lake, cut directly across the {Bulford farm. It was ironic that Mr. | Bulford’s mother should be killed by ithe first train that passed through the town. She lost her life when she at- {tempted to save a horse that was in |the path of the locimotive. | Later the Bulford home was razed land the Lehigh Valley depot was ecert- ed on the spot. | Although he helped to separate Dal- ilas Borough from Dallas Township, Mr, Bulford now finds himself living |again in the township, on a farm which |has been in the Bulford family for |nearly 100 years. He moved there {when he was thirty-two years old. Today, although he does not culti- {vate all the land he owns, he is active [about the farm. Last summer he tend- {ed to a large garden and each day he performs his chores without help. He believes youth is the best time lof a man’s life, but he has learned, (Continued: on Page 5.) EXTORTION NOTE BELIEVED TO BE JOB OF AMATEUR A note calling for payment of $5 and threatening injuries to a mem- ber of the family unless payment was made was left under the door of a local home one night this week, Since the extortionist asked for cash “or an I.” O. U.” the attempt is believed to have been the work. of a thrill-seeking youngster, who, through his fooling, has exposed himself to imprisonment. Chief of Police Leonard O’Kane is investigating and it is expected that an arrest will be made shortly. Contract Awarded For New Highway Ohio Firm Bids $237,899 On Tunkhannock-Dallas Link community amusements. The men who | A contract for construction of 3.11 miles of reinforced concrete pavement, twenty feet wide, in Eaton and Mon- roe Townships, was awarded by the State this week to Holmes Construc- tion Company, Wooster, Ohio. The construction will be the first de- finite response to the long-time de- mand for a better highway between Dallas and Tunkhannock, a campaign which has been supported by scores of civic groups throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania. Lake Highway The contract also was awarded this week for 2.11 miles of reinforced con- crete highway, twenty feet wide, on Route 115, Lake and Lehman Town- ships. There will be three reinforced concrete structures of native stone base with bituminous surface, variable in width. The contract also includes .24 of a mile of native stone base with bitumin- ous surface, fourteen feet wide. Tyler; and Cole, Meshoppen, was the success- | ful bidder. The contract will be $135,206. Another local project approved by the WPA this week was highway grading and paving Laketon. East Dallas Woman Receives Tranfusion job in Mrs. Alice Hinz of Dallas, a deaf mute, received a transfusion of blood yesterday at General Hospital, where she has been a patient since March. Mrs, Hintz and her husband, August W., also a deaf mute, have been mar- |ried thirty years. They are the par- ients of five children residing at Fern- brook. ee TE re FIRST AID ANNOUNCEMENT Any local groups ;who wish to form jadult or punior classes in first aid are |adult or junior classes in first aid are garet Elliott at the Red Cross Rooms, | West Union Street, Wilkes-Barre. One adult class has already been organized in the Idetown district under the lead- lership of Mrs. Eliza Gillman. The class meets Saturday evening at 7 o'clock in {the Idetown Church House. PR | ANNOUNCEMENT : | The Sparton Club of DeMunds will ‘hold a trap shooting contest Saturday, | October 26 at Hess's Farm at De- | Munds. Every one is welcome. There |will be a special contest for women. | ee EE pre LUZERNE RANKS SIXTEENTH | Luzerne county with an area of 892 miles rates sixteenth in size among [the sixty-seven counties in Pennsyl- |vania and seventh in number of per- |sons to the square mile of territory. a $15,000! i FOR BY-PASS Senator A. J. Sordoni, who has added his influence to the move- ment to have a by-pass construct- ed to shorten the route between Dallas and Wyoming Valley. Sen- ator Sordoni called for a revival of interest in the plan at a meeting of Dallas Business Men's Associa- tion last week. Luzerne By-Pass Plans Move Ahead , ty Jurchak Express Project Is “ Conclusio Opinion rego Confidence that the Luzerne By-Pass is a “foregone conclusion” was ex- pressed this week by Attorney Jurchak. Attorney Jurchak is chairman of a committee appointed last Thursday night by Dallas Business Men's ASSo- ciation to co-relate forces working for completion of the by-pass plans. A conference of the local committee- men, county cemmissioners and offi- cials of the State Highway Department will be held soon, Attorney Jurchak said, and more definite plans for the project will be decided upon. Ati.last Thursday night's meeting, Sena’; J. Sordoni gave new im- petus to the plans during his talk, in which he said that only concerted and co-operative effort is necessary to bring the plans to a successful climax. As a result of his talk, Peter Clark, president of the Business Men's Association, named Attorney .Jurclhak chairrian of a committee, with W. H. Shepherd, Asa Lewis, Arthur Turner and Attorney Bert Lewis as the other members. Another, speaker Thursday night was stone, secretary of Wyoming Valley Motor Club, which has given stauch (Support to the plans since they were [first suggested and which deserves a great deal of credit for removing ob- stacles that stood in the way. According to an Act of the Assembly through which provisions to accept the proposed route as a State Highway have already been made, the route will begin at Wyoming Avenue and Union Street, Kingston, move North- westward over Union, and follow Toby’s Creek to the main highway, in- stead of passing through the Luzerne business district. re Qt GE rs CALL FORMER MEMBERS ‘Westmoor Church of Christ, in King- ston, which once had a Sunday school in Shavertown, has called former mem- Home-Coming Day next Sunday. There bers who live in this section to a will be special services in the morning and evening. TRUCKSVILLE ESTABLISHED In 1803 William Trucks established |a saw mill on the excellent mill site af- forded by the falls of Toby's Creek a little above the present large grist mill site in Trucksville. In 1804 it was men- tioned as the terminous of the high- way. Lx, at’ the meeting Norman John- {nated D. | Unemployed Hit Conditions In Noxen Schools Charge Unsanitary Condi- tions, Neglect Of Relief Projects CITE EXAMPLES Charges that Noxen school board is i responsible for unsanitary conditions in the schools which might be elimi- through ‘government-financed projects which would give work to un- employed men of the vicinity were made this week by Noxen Branch, No. 41, Luzerne County Unemployed League, Inc. 3 Signed by a committee which has as members William Besecker, Edward Saxe and John Heddis, ang authorized by four officers of the Noxen Branch, the charges follow: 1. That the condition of the boys’ toilet and that of the girls’ is unsani- tary and unclean. 2. That coal fumes from the fur- nace seep through the building and cause headaches. 3. That drinking fountains are un- clean. : 4. That parts of the larger build- ing need plastering. y ,5. That facilities for escape in case of fire are inadequate in the larger building. 6. That similiar conditions exist in the smaller building. : 7. That the tannery sump is only 300 feet from the schoolhouse and that on |damp days windows have to be closed |because of the sickening odor. “The question is”, the statement con- cludes, “is: the school board going to allow these conditions to go on for- lever or do the citizens have to start action? Let’s have inside toilets and clean fountains for our children, as the school directors have in their homes. Let's give the unemployed some pro- jects on which they can work. Let's paint the buildings and fix them up while we have the chance to do it.” Name Clark Member Of Protest Group Local Cou { Peter D. Clark, Dallas Councilman, {was named this week as a member of [the committee which will demand dis- |continuance of alleged favoritism in [the placing of men on relief projects for unemployed. Mr. Clark took an active part in dis- (cussions of supposed inefficiency and. political pressure at the conference of |representatives of 300 Luzerne County {municipalities in the court house last | week. | Other members of the committee are | Michael J. Clarke of Pittston, Dr. Wil- [liam A. Weaver of Wilkes-Barre, May- lor Evan J. Williams of Nanticoke and | Michael Karboski of Freeland. | The committee will insist that muni- |cipalities have a voice in selecting per- | sonnel on relief projects. ‘St. Therese’s Church Holds Dutch Supper Members of the St. Therese’s Church at Shavertown held their annual Dutch {roast beef supper in the church base- |ment Wednesday evening. The supper, |served in country style, started at 5:30 and continued until after 8 o’clock. There were about 500 members and guests present. The tables were attractively decorat- (ed with fall flowers and a general at- |mosphere of good fellowship prevailed. ‘Bingo was enjoyed by many of the younger group after the supper. The proceeds of the evening will be used to pay for the fine mew pyrofax stove and handy cupboardsirecently in- stalled in the church kitchen. ———— —————— ANNOUNCEMENT The annual fall iuncheon of the Irem Temple women golfers will be held on ‘Wednesday, October 30, at noon at the club house. Reservations may be made through Mrs. Byron HH. Creasy of 17 Terrace Street, Wilkes-Barre. Before Mrs. Tracy left for home last week-end Mr. Tracy had received three plays for reading and was considering two offers from radio. Mrs. Tracy was accompanied by Mrs. R. M. Scott of Trucksville, her sister. At the brilliant opening night they were seated directly in front of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was reported to have enjoyed the play tre- mendously. The closing of “Bright Star” was a severe disappointment to Mr. Tracy's friends in this section. Early reviews, particularly after the trial perform- ances in Boston, were enthusiastic and critics were especially generous in their praise of Mr. Tracy's acting as Quin Hanna, admittedly an pnusually diffi- cult role. Even in New York critics agreed upon the cleverness of the acting. They were divided, though, upon the play it- self and although Philip Barry, the au- thor, held his faith in the vehicle even after critics had disapproved it was the concensus of opinion that it lacked the elements necessary to make it a hit. ‘While he is in the East, Mr. Tracy may visit his mother here. TRACY FLOODED WITH OFFERS AS “BRIGHT STAR” TERMINATES RUN Lee Tracy, whose new vehicle, “Bright Star”, closed after a brief Broadway run, already has a number of offers for new engagements, according to his The danger of serious forest fires | been springing up since October 1. RAIN CHECKS WOODS FIRE DA FIFTEEN SINCE FIRST OF BACK MOUNTAIN BIOGRAPHIES: 0. 11 Joseph Harter, who was born in Septembe son, N. J., and Reading, before the H three houses, and later swapped then Harter France was represented among this section’s early settlers by Joseph r- 15, 1818, and was brought to this country when he was eight years old. His father, Francis, had restless blood in his veins and the family lived for varying periods in Maine, Pater- arter’s came to Wilkes-Barre, bought 1 for ninety-six acres of land in Dal- las Township. Francis died in 1844, at the age of 97, and Joseph, the oldest of seven children, became the family the calico-printer’s trade, but later h the other side. On one of these tracts, Joseph, Jr., served with valor in the he effects of exposure. head. In his early life he had learned e went to farming. In 1865, he bought two acres of land in Trucksville and, finding himself pleased with it, bought fifty-four acres on one side of Toby's Creek and then fifty-four acres on Mr. Harter discovered an unexpected feature, an ice cave in which there was ice all the year round. Joseph Har- ter married twice, His first wife was Miss Margaret J. Riker, who gave him ten children. His second wife was Miss Addie Pritchard. Joseph's son, Civil War, as a member of Company A, Fifty-Second Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and died in 1886 from in this section as a result of the dry condition of the woods was lessened this week by drizzling fall rains which A — mra ov 5 ap ANS XT oxy | Pp i mother, Mrs. W. L. Tracy of Pioneer Avenue, Shavertown, who has returned | drenched newly-fallen leaves and checked the number of blazes which have from New York City where she visited her stage-and-cinema-star son. Fifteen fires and a number of brush fires have been reported in the local area since the beginning of the month, according to E. W. Whispell, fire war- den, who maintains a sharp vigil each day from the high tower above Irem Temple Club. Location of the fires in Mr. Whis- pell’s territory, which includes most of the land on this side of the river, from Nanticoke north, follows: Pringle, 3; Exeter, 1; Larksville, 4; Lake Town- ship, 1; Courtdale, 1; Trucksville, 3. Maltby, 1; Lehman Center, 1. The largest fire was at Courtdale, where about four acres were burned Mr. Whispell was aroused from bed to dispatch men to extinguish a blaze near Farmer's Inn at Lehman. It was extinguished at 4 a. m. Mr. *Whispell asks that fire fighters no not report a blaze extinguished until they are certain that it is out, and sug- gests that a close watch be kept for a time after the blaze is extinguished. At Trucksville on Monday a blaze was re- ported under control at 2, but the fire burned slowly under ground, broke out again, and was not extinguished finally until 8 p, mM. - iin » | Mr. over. At 1:30 a. m. Sunday morning, |, No. 43 Check Spread + Of Rash Among School Pupils Twenty Cases Reported In Dallas Borough Schools LIKE IMPETIGO Prompt action by school physicians was believed to have checked the spread of a rash similar to impetigo in schools throughout this section this week. ; ; Reports of appearance of the highly infectious but not dangerous skin eruption were received from widely scattered points. : En In Dallas Borough about twenty cases were reported and the children were removed from school until the condition’ is cured. / Noxen was among the schools to res port “sores” among its pupils. At Kingston Township it was report ed that the epidemic, which appears almost annually, had been checked early in the year by action of school and arranged to give pupils effected a safe remedy for the rash, which can, with medical treatment, be cleared up within a few days. : The rash is similar to impetigo, a pustular cutaneous eruption, and it is spread by contract. Cleanliness and medical treatment cure the rash promptly. ER Dallas To Be Host : To S. S. Convention | District Meeting Will Be Held Here On November Ninth It will begin at 10, with worship ser- trict of the Sunday School Association will be held on Saturday, November 9, in Dallas M. E. Church. It will begin at 1, with worship ser- vice at 10:30 and a business meeting at 10:45. Reports will be made by Mrs. Howard Crosby, Elma Major, Esther Wolfe, Mrs. Ernest Kellar, Mrs. C. B. Henry, Clark Hildebrant, Mrs. E. R. Parrish, Mrs. Shaver, Mrs. Margaret Patton, Beatrice Cornell and Letha, ‘Wolfe. Stanley Kendig of Philadelphia will lead a forum at 11:15 on the question “What Are The Challenges of Today”. Rev. Lynn Brown will conduct the noontide prayer service at 12. The 1:30 worship service will be opened, with a temperance discussion by Mrs, Ashur Templin of Pottsville. Other addresses will be by Stanley Kendig, Mrs. Howard Crosby and Rev. ‘F. M. Sellers. Pastors will confer with Mr. Kendig in the afternoon. There will also be a Mexican exhibit by Mrs. Howard Cros- by and Miss Helen Thompson. In the evening officers will be installed and I Kendig will give an address, “Changing the Church To Meet The Challenge of Today”. County Institute Late In November Local Teachers Prepare To Attend Annual Sessions The annual institute for Luzerne County teachers will be held at Wilkes-Barre in Irem Temple on Tues- day and Wednesday, November 26 and 27, according to word received by Dal- las Borough School Board this week. Although some of the larger school districts in the county conduct their own institutes, hundreds of teachers from the smaller district converge on Irem Temple auditorium each fall. Schools are closed for the duration of the meetings. At the borough board meeting on Tuesday night the balance of a bill owed Tloyvd Keiper was paid and re= quisitions for supplies were acted upon. The building committee will investi- gate the cost of covering the school playground with tarvia, in place of the PEG ers now used. Home-Coming Day Saturday will be Home-Coming Day at Bloomsburg State Teachers’ Col- lege, which has a number of alumni in this section. The program will be at 11 a. m. with a concert by the school band and end tomorrow night with a dance. REPORT ATTEMPTED MOVE TO EMBARRASS MINORITY DIRECTOR An attempt to remove one of the minority directors of Dallas Bor- ough School Board was reported to have been launched this week. Although no one could be found who had actually seen the peti- tions, a minority director against whom the move is aimed told The Post that he is attempting tw ¢on- tact the~persons responsible for the movement and will use legal means to protect his name. Ousting of the minority directors and immediate oppointment of a director favorable to the policies of the present majority would give that group the balance of power even after the reorganization sche- duled for early December. officials, who conferred with physicians
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