“The penalties and degradations of war
are too great; the agonies too horrible:
. the waste of wealth, the destruc-
tion of industry too vast to be endured
“Our real job is to get behind the peace
societies instead of Economy Leagues.
Elimination of war is the only way by
| which the world can ever hope to bal
| ance its budgets’—Roger Babson.
The Dallas
More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution
ost
when there is a way to peace.”—Car-
dinal Gibbons.
~ VOL. 45
[POST
[SCRIPTS
EASTER
ALMANAC
RELATIONS
RHYME
BOOKS
Packed with such: essential know-
ledge as a prognostication of Easter
weather and how to save a stale piece
of bread, The Old Farmer’s Almanac,
(144th issue) reached us this week by
courtesy of the new publishers, Little
Brown and Company.
Our review of the old New England,
a evade last year brought so many com-
ments that we had better explain,
right off, that we aren't selling the
“Almanac but we suspect you can buy
one at almost any news stand.
Col. Carroll J. Swan, the erstwhile
editor and publisher, died last March,
but his almanac retains all the quaint-
ness that he held sacred—in fact most
of the quaintness that Robert B.
Thomas breathed into it when it
founded it in 1793. Mr. Thomas, inci-
dentally, passed on in 1846.
—O—
~The old almanac is a good bit the
same today as it was back in the time
~ Abraham Lincoln referred to it to
prove that the moon was not full on a
certain night, thereby winning a fa-
mous murder case.
There have been a few concessions
to changes in form and time—like the
article on aviation and a long disserta-
“tion on The Supreme: Court and the
Son ne But the department de-
‘voted to “Poetry, Anecdotes and Plea-
‘santries and the endless tables are still
there—lonking much as they did 144
years ago.
President Roosevelt has a little mes-
sage in the front this year, as last, and
Jiteratnre is represented by Booth
Tarkington, who has written a neat
little piece called “Hoosier Thoughts
on the State of Maine”.
People buy The Old Farmer's Al-
‘manac because it takes them back. to
the time when the arrival of any al-
‘manac was an event something like re-
ceiving a new radio. Anyone who mon-
keys with the format or changes the
style would spoil something for about
1,000,000 readers.’
‘Our favorite story about the almanac
concerns the old farmer from Nashua.
‘New Hampshire, who wrote an irate
letter once, as follows, to the pub-
{ishers: )
Dear Sirs: —
wT have read the Old Farmer's Alman-
ac for the last seventy-five years and
I wish the damned fool that changed |
‘the heading for the Moon's place
column had died before he done it.
Yours respectfully, |
F. C. Crawford.
——r3iem
Tt will, incidentally, be fair, but al
little cold, on Easter Sunday. And the |
way to save a stale piece of bread is to |
toast it and store it until needed to |
‘© iserve as an accompaniment for soup or
salad.
Re Sy
It was Alexander Woollcott, we be-
lieve, who, when some mellow incident
kept crowding back into his life, call-
‘ed co-incident “life when it rhymes”.
We were reminded of it this week
when that matter of Christmas, 1914,
in France popped up again unexpect-
x edly.
You may remember that we told
“several weeks ago how a British sol-
dier had spun us a heart-warming
~ tale of how his regiment had frater-
~ nized with the Germans on that first
Christmas of the war, and how pleased
we were when we heard over the ra-
dio a verification of the story by that
same Mr. Wipollcott. Mr. Woollcott
gave names and places and ended, for
us, any doubt that there had been
—Ppeace 0 earth on that particular
Christmas, despite official denials then
and since.
We devoted most of a column to
the story of that Christmas, as it had
come to us from our British soldier
and Mr. Whollcott. We came across a
_ third version last night when we were
- reading Phillip Gibbs’ new war story
“Blood Relations’, .
The account by Mr. Gibbs (we never
can remember whether he or one of
his" numerous writing relatives is the
“Sir”) is amazingly like the story Mr.
Woollcott and the British soldier told,
except that, because he is writing
“about a young German nobleman, Mr.
Gibbs tells the tale from the German
angle. It is the same story, made in-
tensely interesting because the novel-
ist permits you to listen to the con-
(Continued on Page 8.)
DALLAS, PA.,
Mentors Select Stars For
All-Conference Grid Team
By EDWARD F. KOTCHI
The Post announces today the names of those football players from local
high schools who, by their stellar performances during the season just ended,
have won positions on the annual all-conference team.
The selections were made by ballots sent to the four local coaches and by
a secret and careful compilation of the votes returned to The Post. The two
teams follow:
FIRST TEAM
Montz, King. Twp.
Maznick, Lehman
Young, King. Twp.
Fritz, Lehman
Hoffman, King. Twp.
McCullough, Dallas Boro,
Oney, King. Twp.
Donachie, King. Twp.
Loveland, King..Twp.
Stevens, Dallas Twp.
Poad, Dallas Twp.
Left End
Left Tackle
Left Guard
Center
Right Guard
Right Tackle
Right End
Quarterback
Left Halfback
Right Halfback
Fullback
SECOND TEAM
Girton, Dallas Twp.
Royer, King. Twp.
Calkins, Lehman
Pattison, King. Twp.
‘Whitesell, Lehman
Ridler, King. Twp.
Mann, Dallas Boro.
Hemingway, Dallas Twp,
Kuderka, Dallas Boro.
Wilson, King, Twp.
R. Williams, Lehman
Fans Will Honor
Township Eleven
Champions Will Be Guests
At Dinner Program
Monday
Football fans from Kingston Town-
ship will pay enthusiastic tribute to
their championship football team at a
dinner on Monday night in the recrea-
tion rooms of Shavertown M. E.
Church.
Besides clinching the championship
of the Back Mountain League, the
township team took a majority of the
positions on The Post All-Conference
team, announced today. |
The Kingston Township Alumni As-
of
les there was
Kingston Township’s championship
eleven took more than half the posi-
tions on the first team and four berths
on the second eleven. Lehman ranked
second with five positions. Dallas
Township had two positions on each
team, and Dallas Borough had one
man on the first team and two on the
second.
Loveland Most Valuable
Ted Loveland, star Kingston Town-
ship halfback and who represented
this section in the Shrine game last
Saturday, had an overwhelming lead
for the captaincy of the first team.
| Loveland also ran away with the title
“most valuable player” and ‘best
offensive player”.
Pattison, Kingston Township center,
was voted “best defensive player.”
Valuable Suggestions
In the ballots returne« by the coach-
included a space for
general remarks, on the theory that
sociation is sponsoring the affair and these men, because they have more in-
reservations may be made with George timate knowledge
Smith at Trucksville.
W. A. Bishop, coach of wrestling at
Wyoming Seminary, and Tom Heffer-
nan, sports editor of the Sunday In-;
dependent, will be the speakers.
Without doubt, the team to be hon-
ored was the best eleven in the his-
tory of the school. It played a long
schedule and lost but two games, to
Luzerne and Meyers, both of which
high schools are in a higher class lea-
gue. The Kingston Township team won
ten consecutive games.
Coach Walter Hicks had a well-bal-
anced team. Not only did he develop
good backs but he had a strong line.
{With such men as Hoffman, Pattison,
Royer and Oney on the line and Love-
land, Donachie and Wilson in the back-
field the team presented a combination
difficult to beat.
Ted Loveland, chosen in The Post's
poll as the most valuable player in the
local conference, was captain of the,
| townships team and scored 113 points
‘in the eleven games he played, a rec-
ord, not cnly for this section but for
Wyoming Valley also.
The story next year may be different
because in June Coach Hicks will lose
Loveland, Pattison, Donachie, Wester-
man, Pushko, Lacy and Montz. He will
however, still have Wilson, Cross, Gar-
ris, Yorks, Bulford and Theis as a
skeleton for next year’s team.
The record for the championship
1935 team follows: )
King. Twp.
5
12
6
0
3
12
19
34
19
60
Opponents
71
2
34
mn
Luzerne
Alumni
Meyers
Forty Fort
St. Mary's
Nescopeck
Wyoming
Tunkhannock
Dallas Township
Dallas Borough
Sem. Jr. Varsity
West Wilyoming
Lehman
2
Z
7
ONO OODSDHOO
9
&
56
Man Fractures Ribs
When Truck Slides
Harold Dixon, Wyoming R. Des,
fractured several ribs on Monday when
the truck in which he was a passenger
skidded and crashed into a pole near
Carverton.
rtm AO re msi
$1,350 PROJECT
A $1,350 community service project for
Dallas Borough was announced by the
Works Progress Administration in
| Washington this week.
POST PREPARES TO CO-OPERATE
WITH SANTA IN CHEERING NEEDY
Today The Post makes its annual appeal for new or used toys to be dis-
tributed to children in needy homes throughout this section before Christmas.
Although no definite request has been
made before this issue, several of last
year’s donors already have brought toys to The Post.
Primarily, The Post is interested in
hearing from families who have toys
that can be painted or repaired and
sent to children in unfortunate circum-
stances. Last year, working with the
Boy Scouts, The Post distributed toys
to about 200 children from Noxen to
Luzerne,
Through John S. Hewitt, Boy Scout
commissioner, troops in this section
have been invited to help in the col-
lection, repairing ail distribution of
toys. Any persons who are unable to
bring their contributions of toys to
the Post's office on Lehman Avenue,
Dallas, may telephone Dallas 300 and
arrangements will be made to call for
the gift.
One of the first to do his part to
assure some children of a really Merry
Christmas was Robert D, Raeder of
Kingston who this week brought to
The Post a number of brand-new foot-
balls and games selected from the
stock in his Kingston store.
A. coupon on this page is to be used
by persons who know of families where
a gift of toys might help to make the
holidays merrier. Other names will be
secured from West Side Visiting
Nurse Association and through the
Boy Scouts. It is especially requested
that the addresses of families who are
to receive toys be written carefully in
detail so there will be no difficulty in
delivery on Christmas Eve.
of local athletics
than any other, should have important
suggestions. That they do is evidenc-
ed by their remarks.
One coach suggested “having offici-
als who are unprejudiced in their deci-
sions.
Another coach, whose team was de-
feated by the Kingston Township ele-
ven, noted, in sportsmanlike fashion,
that the township undoubtedly had the
“best all-around club.”
There were a number of players who
came within a narrow margin of win-
ning positions but since only two
teams are chosen each year their re-
ward must be in the satisfaction of a
season well-played.
To the coaches, Stephen (. Summer-
hill, E. E. Line, Donald T. Kester and
Walter R. Hicks, The Post is especi-
ally grateful.
Xmas Rush Starts
For Mail Carriers
Kirkendall Lists Mailing
Dates To Assure
Delivery:
Rural mail carriers in this section
knew this week that Christmas was
less than two weeks away.
‘The volume of mail at the Dallas
post office jumped sharply this week
and carriers distributed heavy loads.
To prevent disappointment among
people who are delaying their mailing
of Christmas packages Postmaster
George T. Kirkendall this week listed
deadlines on dates for mailing.
To be sure of delivery by Christmas,
parcel post for the different points in
the country should be mailed not later
than the following dates:
December 15—Arizona, California,
Nevada, Oregon, Washington.
December 16—Colorado, Idaho, Mon-
tana, New Mexico, North Dakota,
South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming.
December 17 — Arkansas, Florida,
Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Neb-
(Continued on Page 8.)
Lehman Théspians
Represent County
Will Compete With Columbia
Group At Bloomsburg
On Wednesday
A group of talented amateur actors
and actresses from Lehman will rep~
resent rural Luzerne County in the
district play competition to be held at
Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College
next Wednesday might.
The winner will go to Harrisburg in
January to represent Northeastern
Pennsylvania at the State-wide Farm
Show tourney. Last year a group from
Dallas Township, coached by Nan
Bryant, won fourth place in the State
competition,
The local group is sponsored by the
Ladies’ Aid Society of the Lehman
Episcopal Church and will present a
thirty-minute play, “Greener Grass’.
Two groups from Columbia County
will compete.
The case includes
Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Ide,
Charles Kinsman, Jr., Mrs. Charles
Kinsman, Sr., and Shildon Ehret. Mrs.
Arthur Major of Lehman is director.
Only one musical organization, the
Pike’s Creek Orchestra, was registered
so there will be no competition in this
class at Bloomsburg. The Pike's Creek
Orchestra will play two selections at
the Bloomsburg tourney but will be
selected automatically to represent this
Mrs. Francis
district at Harrisburg.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1935.
serves.
We're not asking that you
are’ sincerely grateful.
toys which are to be distributed
to us your suggestions will be
committee.
| School scored a decided hit
Action Is Keynote
Of Seniors’ Drama
Madge Space E Has Lead Role
In “Tiger House”
Tonight
Seniors of Dallas
Borough High
in their
initial matinee performance of Robert
St. Clair’s “Tiger House” before an
enthusiastic crowd of youngsters yes-
terday afternoon.
The only evening performance! will
bt “ver tonight at 8 in the high
school auditorium and ticket sales’ in-
dicate that there will be a large audi-
ence.
The play is directed by Miss Emily
Hill and tells the story of the adven-
tures of a young shop girl, played by
Madge Space, who has inherited the
estate of her eccentric aunt. Accord-
ing to the terms of the will she must
occupy the house for one year.
Miss Space’s cousins, William Tem-
plin and Thomas Murphy, her aunt,
Velma Haring, and Ruth Kintz, play-
ing the part of a fascinating modern |
woman, are house guests. Mary Wallo,
playing an extremely difficult role, did
well in the children’s matinee, as did
Ethel Maltman, Evan Brace, Willard
‘Westover and Robert Westover, all do-
ing justice to hard parts.
46 Babies Attend
Nurses’ Clinics
VNA Reports 204 Visits
Here During
November
Two hundred four visits, 135 of them
free, were made in the Dallas Section
by West Side Visiting Nurse Associa-
tion during November.
The report was made at the monthly
meeting of the association this week
by Miss HE. Pearl Wardin, executive
director. The Association nurses made
2,012 visits during November and
more than fifty per cent were free.
Each Wednesday afternoon from
to 4 the VNA conducts an infant wel-
fare station in the Sunday School
room of the Methodist Episcopal
Church on Pioneer Avenue, Shaver-
town. Dr. S. R. Schooley is in charge.
assisted by Miss Bertha Jopling, nurse,
and Mrs. David J. Thomas and Mrs.
Eckley Kocher gave nine hours of
volunteer
ber, =
Pledge Lives To
Missionary Work
2
a4
Speakers At Outlet Prepare
To Take Up Task In
Africa
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Glock, who
will speak at Outlet Bible Tabernacle
at 2:30 on Sunday afternoon will leave
for Africa within several months to
take up missionary work, their life-
long ambition.
The couple was married a short time
ago and cannot, according to rules of
the mission group which they will rep-
resent, assume their missionary duties
until a definite time has elapsed. They
expect to sail within a few months, as
workers for the inter-denominational
African Inland Mission.
Mr. Glock is a graduate of the Penn-
sylvania, Bible Institute and Mrs.
Glock is a graduate of the Philadel~
phia School of Bible, Both are natives
of Boston.
Other services at the Tabernacle will
be the Sunday morning services at 10,
the Bible School at 10:30 and the
Communion at 11.
*
ST a a Ma Mn a a a a
LEND A HAND, NEIGHBOR
You've been bothered a great deal with one kind of charity
and another in the last five years, and you've responded nobly.
You've paid in taxes, you've contributed to the Community
Welfare Federation, you've had your own private charities, yet
a simple request for toys to be distributed by this newspaper at
Christmas time has always brought from you enough old and new
playthings to make a hundred homes happier at Christmas.
You've done remarkably well—but there are still a hundred
homes which must have toys before December 25th if we're to
assure every child in this section of the merry Christmas he de-
contribute money—you've done
that generously. We're not even asking that you buy new toys,
unless you want to. ‘All we ask are toys that can be repaired, so
they will bring some happiness into toyless homes.
A great many people have responded already and to them we
/
A little more than a week remains before Christmas. All the
should be in before next Friday
and preferably before that if repairs have to be made on them.
In the lower right corner of this page there is a coupon on
which you may want to write the name of a family which de-
serves some of the toys which have been collected. If you send it
brought to the attention of the
Let's pile up the toys higher this week.
ST a a a Ma Ha ae Eh re Me Ra Ee ai sei
Kills Increase As
Deer Season Ends
“Antlerless Deer”
re
Counties
lecca For Local
Sportsmen
Although a number of local sports-
men are in Pike County, one of the
few sections of the state where killing
of antlerless deer is authorized for the
last three days of this week, most
hunters ended their vearly search for
venison on Wednesday, when the: ho, *
oben season on deer ended locally.
Before the season ended, however,
local hunters had lugged home addi-
tional kills, establishing themselves as
among the most skilled in Northeast-
ern Pennsylvania.
Until a bigger one comes along, the
400-pound bear killed by Homer Shaf-
fer, seventeen-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Shaffer of Eatonville, will
stand as the biggest kill of the season
service throughout Novem
in this section. Young Shaffer also got
ja fourteen-point buck while hunting in
| the thickly-wooded section of Sugar
| Hollow.
The second bigges. kill reported was
the 250-pound bear killed by Joseph
Lavelle of Dallas in Polk’s Swamp,
near Cresco, in the Poconos. Lavelle
was hunting with Arch Bush, Domin-
ick Detter, Forrest C. Evans, Kenneth
Hardy, R. D. Decks, and M. C. Seit,
the last-named of Philadelphia.
Albert Major of Shavertown brought
a 7-point buck, weighing 160 pounds
home from Stull; Stewart Yorkes of
Trucksville bagged a four-point buck,
Albert Williams, Jr. also of Trucks-
ville, got an eleven-point deer at Cen-
ter County, and Harvey Averett of
Shavertown and George Ryman of
East Dallas shot an eight-point buck
on North Mountain.
Paul Anstett of Lehman, hunting
with Glenn and Lawrence Brown and
Paul Warmouth of the same place,
killed a large twelve-point buck which
had been wounded three times at Fair-
mount Spring. The buck also had
shots in the hip from a previous sea-
son.
Harry Edwards of Huntsville got an
eight-point buck and George E. Lam-
oreaux of Huntsville got another
eight-point buck while they were hunt-
ing with a party of local sportsmen in
Lycoming County.
Justice of the Peace Ralph A. Davis
of Alderson got his deer on North
Mountain, where his party of eight
men bagged six deer.
————
NOXEN LOSES
Noxen High School basketball team
suffered its first defeat of the season
this week at the hands of Laceyveile
High School, 49 to 18.
Joseph Powlus,
Three Injured
When Scaffold °
Drops 15 F eet
ospital
After Being Knocked
Into Cellar
OTHERS TREATED
Three men were injured on Tuesday
when a scaffold at the new Dallas
Township High School addition broke
and dropped them fifteen feet into the
basement.
One man, Harold Shotwell, 42, 519
East Fourth Street, Berwick, a brick-
layer, is in Nesbitt Memorial Hospi- i
tal, suffering from a dislocation of the
left shoulder, fracture of the left leg
and abrasions of the face. His condi-
tion is fair, hospital attaches said
yesterday. ;
Mr. Shotwell was working under the
scaffold, which was erected over a
stairway to the basement. When the
boards broke, the load struck him and
knocked him down the stairway, bury-
ing him under the debris. His injuries
were the most serious.
Two other men were working on the
scaffold and were dropped into the
cellar way when the planks broke.
Stanley Hilbert, 29, of Star Route, Dal
las, a laborer, was admitted to Nes- 3
bitt Hospital. He suffered abrasions of
| the face and fracture of the right hand
and left the hospital after treatment.
34, of Nescopeck, a
brick layer, was treated for a bruised
back and discharged.
The men have been employed on the
construction of the annex to the high
school for several weeks. Mr. Powlus
and Mr. Shotwell are expert brick
layers and have been living in town.
Township school officials inspected the
scene and as soon as the debris was
cleared and work continued without
any delay.
Organize School
Basketball League
Martin Heads Back Mountain
Scholastic Circuit
For ’35-’36
James A. prin-
cipal of Kingston Township High
School, was elected president of the
Back Mountain Basketball Conference
at a ‘meeting on Tuesday night and
Ronald Doll, principal of Dallas Bor=
ough High School, was named secre-
tary.
The title, "Back Mountain Confer-
ence”, was chosen, thus dropping the
“Bi-County” which has been a part of
the title in previous years. Lehman,
Dallas Borough, Dallas Township,
Kingston Township and Laketon will.
be members of the circuit.
Tt was decided that there will be a
three-game play-off each year to cli-
max the season between the two teams
in the leading positions, in both boys’
and girls’ leagues. The complete sche-
dule will be announced soon.
As a move against the occasional
practice of officials who fail to fulfill
appointments, the coaches and prin-
cipals adopted a resolution to the ef«
fect that if any official fails to give a
day’s notice of his inability to appear.
‘his name will be dropped automatically
from’ the approved list of officials.
eect bef eee,
Township Starts
New WPA Project
Warden Avenue and Carver-
ton Road Benefit By
Funds
Several WPA projects have been
started in Kingston Township and sev-
eral more are under consideration to
be inaugurated soon.
The grading and laying of a stone
base, and the surfacing with gravel of
Warden Avenue, Trucksville, is under-
way and the crossroad between Porter
Michaels and Charles Cease farms in
the Carverton section of the township
will be improved. The first project will
employ fifty-seven men; the second
forty-seven men for about three
months.
School authorities are planning to
have Shavertown school grounds im-
proved at a cost of about $2,500 to the
district and $7,500 to the government.
(Continued on Page 5.)
The Dallas Post,
Dallas, Penna.
Gentlemen:
Number of Children ........
SENT IN BY
ADDRESS... tind,
(Give address in detail so there will be no difficulty in de-
livering the toys.)
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ehesesesiisecstaentnres
(Clip this Coupon. and mail it to The Post if you Know of a
worthy family which should have toys.)
I should like to see the children in the following family re-
ceive some of the toys which are to be distributed by’ your news:
|
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(Give Age And Sex)
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