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Many Services
For Christmas
—
Christianity’ s Holiest Day
Lo Be Marked By Music
~~ And Worship
BUSY SCHEDULE
The Sof¥ides in observance of Christ-
as in local churches will begin with
special sermons on Sunday and will
be climaxed by the religious pageants
and masses which will mark the holi-
- next Wednesday.
he observances will be traditional;
‘with a variety of musical programs be-
ing presented in churches which keve
been decorated in greens and Christ-
nas dress for the festivities. Every
church ‘has announced some special
‘event or program of events to mark
the holiday, and it will be a busy four
ys for clergymen, especially those
Fo have two or more churches with-
n their charges.
St. Paul's Lutheran
Christmas will be ushered in at St.
aul's Lutheran Church at a Holy
Communion which will begin at 11:30
next Tuesday night, Christmas Eve.
~ There will also be administration of
Holy Communion at 11 on Christmas
morning, Rev. G. E. Ruff, pastor, an-
nounced yesterday. Earlier in the
vening on Christmas night, there will
be a children's program.
On Sunday, Rev. Mr. Ruff will preach
at the morning service on the subject,
‘Come, Lord Jesus”.
Shavertown M. E.
is The busy Christmas schedule at
Shavertown M. E. Church, of which |
|
~ Rev. Fred E. Sellers is pastor, will be-
gin on Sunday morning when the
choir will sing a Christmas cantata,
“The Christ Child”. In the evening the
Junior Choir will conduct a candle
light service, with special music and
ritual under direction of Mrs, Vester
Ve ‘Vercoe, organist.
On Christmas Eve the Sunday school
¥ 02 ‘the church, including the primary
and beginners’ departments, will pres-
‘ent a short pageant and the children
vill bring gifts which will be distri-
ted among the needy of the com-
Ruggles M. E.
hough there is no regular pastor
. Ruggles M. E. Church the young
es Free Methodist
One #f the first Christmas services
be held in anticipation of the holi-
will take place on Saturday night |
"7:45 ‘at Dallas Free Methodist |
urch, of which Mrs. Gertrude Ross is |
ton The Sunday school will have
“on Sunday there
sche ol service at the church at 2, a
TOYS FOR NEEDY
CAN BE COLLECTED
UNTIL NEXT MONDAY
Toys for the children of needy
families in this section will be col-
lected by The Dallas Post until
next Monday.
Boy Scouts who are ‘revairing
toys are requested to bring their
collections to The Post on Monday
afternoon or Monday night, when
the packages will be wrapped and
prepared for delivery.
A number of toys have been
brought to The Post this week, the
majority of them new ones, but
more are needed.
The Post is extremely grateful
for the co-operation being shown
by ail those who are helping in its
effort to make Christmas a. bit
brighter for children whose holi-
day ‘might otherwise be bitter.
Three Local Boys
Returned To Homes
Travelers’ Aid
City
‘The search for three local boys who
left for school on Wiednesdav morning
and then disappeared ended yesterday
when they were intercepted at Wilkes-
Barre railroad station by Travelers’
Aid workers.
Mrs. Paul Scott told Chief of Police
Leonard O'Kane the missing bovs were
will be a Sunday |
her two sons, Robert, 13, and William,
11, and Carl Eveland, 16. Carl’s erand-
father, Siles Eveland, told police that
the youth had taken $20 which was be-
ing saved by the family to pav the
rent,
They said they went first to Loyal-
ville, secured a revolver, then went to*
Kingston where they enjoyed a movie
and slept in a used car lot. Police re-
to go to New York.
Culbert Is T{amed
orough Auditor
h Jewell Presents Re-
signation To
Council
Jos
Joseph Jewell presented his resigna-
| tion as Borough Auditor to Dallas Bor-
ough Council at its special meeting on
|T uesday night. A. L. Culbert. a. former
auditor, was elected immediately to fill
[the unexpired term.
At the same meeting a request was
{made for one or two more trucks for
Runaways Intercepted By.
covered $12 of the $20. They intended’
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More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution
DALLAS, PA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1935.
THREE FAMOUS SMITHS
T'S never happened before in the
entire fifty ‘years since Walter
Camp, father of modern football,
originated the idea of picking an
all - America foothall team every
year. Three men of the same name
on the all-America! But that’s the
way it has come out this year—and
the selection ig the final and zreat-
Year's Highest Football Honors Go to Them.
est of all the all-Amerigas—the Col-
lier’s team which ‘is a perpetuation
of “Walter Camp’s original and ofi-
cial one. The three Smiths are from
Minnesota, Ohio State and Alabama,
and they are placed at tackle, guard
and quarterback positions. Left to
right, Richard Smith, Minnesota;
Inwood Smith, Ohio State, and
Riley Smith, Alabama,
Officials Close
LCERB Office Here
New Application Center To
Be Open Tuesdays And
Fridays
The local offices of Luzerne County
Emergency Relief Board, which have
been located in the quarters of Arthur
Rainey on.Main, Street, were closed
this week on orders from James Y.
Humphrey, county administrator.
lished for the time being, Mr. Hum-
phrey said, because the requirements
in other districts still demand the vore- |
sence of an office.
Although the former headauarters
has been abandoned, an application
ervice at 8 and an evening service at | use on the WPA project on Pinecrest
7:45. | Avenue. The treasurers’ report was ac-
center has been set up in a, store room
next /to Himmler Theatre where per-
|sons in this district can apply on Tues-
day and Friday mornings.
oe ERO
| Rev. Sellers Discusses
“Honesty Is Best Policy”
|
FLASH-
Santa Sends
Thanks
North Pole, December 19— (Via rein-
deer to Hudson Bay)—Between stomp-
ing excitedly about between his work-
hop and his reindeer stable, checking
the IZst-minute preparations for his
| from The Post that,
No other district offices will be abo- | ing, the behavior of the boys and girls
:
being
annual trip Southward, Santa Claus’
tool: time today to assure a reporter’
generally speak-
in and near Dallas has pleased him.
| “Unless there are unusual monkey-
shines between now and Christmas”,
he said, as he scratched Blitzen be-
{tween the horns, “I'll have to stop at |
every house in your section. I've got t|
my eves on a couple youngsters who
haven't been good all the time, but I
| suspect they're going to make up by
:xtra-good for the next few days |
tand I've got something for them if |
[they are.” : |
One of his elves called him back to
|the workshop and after he had check- |
jed up a shipment of red automobiles |
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"PHONE YOUR
NEWS ITEMS TO
DALLAS 300
Two Local Groups
Victors
in Bi-County Play Tourney
MUSICIANS AND THESPIANS TO GO TO CAPITOL
‘Two local groups—one made up of amateur actors and the other of musi
cians—will represent Luzerne and Columbia Counties in the annual State-wide
play tournaments to be a feature of the Pennsylvania Farm Show at Harris-
burg next month..
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They achieved the honor on Wednesday night in the elimination finals at
Bloomsburg, when they were selected by judges after competition.
Six men and women from Lehman, appearing under sponsorship of the
Ladies’ Aid Society of Lehman Methodist Episcopal Church, presented Bessie
C. Gray's “Greener Grass” to defeat two Columbia County groups.
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POST DECLARES
CLOSED SEASON
ON REPORTERS
Faced with the threat of Civil
Wiar between followers of Jim Be-
secker and Bob Hislop over the
comparative sizes of the deers they
shot for the Blue Ribbon Club’s
game dinner tonight, Dallas sports-
men this week appealed to The
Post to call for arbitration.
An attempt is being made to fix
the war guilt upon the prominent
officer of the law, who, upon look-
ing at one ‘of .the carcasses in C.
H. Frantz's store, remarked that it
should be tender because it looked
small enough not to have been
weaned yet.
‘On the face of the evidence that
both men can shoot straight
enough to kill a deer, whatever its
size, an accomplishment yet to be
proved by some of the other mem-
bers of their party, The Post cau-
tiously declined to serve as media-
tor.
Rev. Fred M. Sellers, pastor of the he ruffled through the pile of letters |
Board To Discuss
Audit At Meeting
Seek To Clear Confusion
In Board’s 1934-35
Report
Several inconsistencies in thé audit |
jof Dallas Borough School Board for the
1534-35 fiscal year, completed imme-
diately before the reorganization early
this month, will be discussed by the
new board at its meeting early next
month.
Because of the widespread public in-
terest and the conflicting claims made
regarding the financial standing of the
school district a detailed study of the
new audit compared to the audits for
ithe previous four years will be made.
filed this week at the
court house, analyzes the finances
the district during the year
jended early last July. Several note-
worthy improvements have heen intro-
duced by the auditors in making up
their statement, most important. pro-
bably, being that of deducting the al-
The audit,
of |
which |
~ Mrs. Ross is pastor also, a special pro-
gram by the Sunday School is sche-
duled for Monday afternoon. There will
also be morning and evening services
at Trucksville on Sunday.
Laketon Lutheran
Miss Pauline Davis, choir leader and |
‘organist at Laketon Lutheran Church, |
will direct a musical program to be |
given in that church on Christmas |
night.
te Dallas M. E.
The celebration of Christmas will be
- marked impressively at Dallas M. E.!
© Church from Sunday until Christmas
Eve, Rev.
a keynote of Cchristmas at the 10:30
service on Sunday when he will preach
on “Christmas Possibilities”. At that
service Lola Pittman will sing “Gesu
Bambino” by Pietro A. You and the
Senior Choir will contribute two an-
thems, “Sing, O Sing, This Blessed
Morn” by
‘Was Born of
French melody.
“In the evening there will be a candle
light procession by the
Noel”, by The Senior Choir there will
«choirs. After an anthem, ‘The
will be a Christmas cantata, “His Na-
tal Day” by Edward W. Norman, ren-
“dered by the girls’ choir, under direc- |
tion of Mrs. Arline Rood. The evening |
service will he concluded with a beau-
tiful picture of the nativity with Mary
~ Fedor portraying the role of Mary.
‘The combined choirs will carol at
the homes of townsfolk on T
evening, December 26. Gifts
Mary Free’, an old
will be
used for the choir’s music fund. Friends |
are asked to be prepared to receive
them in their singing.
Th music at both services on Sun-
day will be under the direction of W.
Alpert Collett, nist.
arverion
Rev. Judson Bailey of Carverton.
who has recovered from his recent ill-
. ness and is again preaching at the
~_ Carverton, Mt. Zion and Orange M. E.
? churches, will have a busy schedule for
Christmas.
* The Sunday services will begin with |
the 9: 30 worship and Christmas ser- |
. mon at Carverton. At 10:30 the Orange
. Sunday school will have its program |
which will include baptism of children.
“There will be an evening service at |
- Mt. Zion.
t The Christmas Sunday school exer-
cases at Mt. Zion will be held on Mon-
day evening. The Carverton charge will
(“have its cantata and Christmas ex 1
Jeises on Tuesday night.
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Francis Freeman will strike |
Shelley, and “When Christ
combined |
First |
Thursdav !
were ordered paid.
‘Hunters Provide
| Deer For Ba anquet
Eighty Pounds Of Venison|
Awaits Blue Ribbon
Guests
|
{| Eighty pounds of venison are being
cooked today for the First Annual |
Jame Dinner of the Blue Ribbon Club
of Dallas M. BE. Church in the new re-
creation rooms at the church tonight
(Friday) at 7.
The meat is from three dbor shot bv
Robert Hislop, Jr., James Besecker and
William Lauderbaugh in Bradford
County early in the hunting season |
when a hunting party made up of Blue |
Ribbon Club members went out to se-
lcure the meat for the scheduled din-
ner.
Judge W. Alfred Valentine of Lu-
zerne County Common Pleas Court and
Judge E. Foster Heller of Orphans’
{Court will be the speakers.
| The program will include novelty se-
lections by a quartet having as mem-
bers V. A. Shindel, William Baker.
{Peter Clarke and Rov. Francis Free-
|man. One hundred fifty guests have
| been invited to the Game Dinner.
en Nom
Officers At Meeting
°
Th
ninate
Officers were nominated at She meet- |
1 fire Com- |
ing
pany
of the Henry
held
rthur Newn y
ison W colbert, secreta
ver; treasurer, Robept Allen;
James Besecker; 1st’ assistant chief,
| Clarence Gay; 2nd assistant chief, Les-
lie Warhola; trustee, C. A. Frantz.
| Since all the above are unopposed, the
| secretary will cast the ballot at the
| next meeting.
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| DRAWN FOR JURY
| The following local people were
drawn for jury for the January term
of common pleas court before Judge
| Valentine last Friday: Edward Myles,
driver, of Kingston Township. John A.
| Joseph, clerk. Kingston Township:
seph Tondora, laborer, Dallas T
] Fown-
ship; Thomas Robinson, farmer. Dal-
‘las,
ident,
Addi-
Milford
; bointed
ymeans committee. She will be assist-
At the Trucksville church, of which |cepted and bills amounting to $547.76 |Shavertown M. E. Church, gave a con- on his desk. “Here's a letter from your |
vincing talk on the
is the Best Policy”
familiar adage
“Honesty at ‘the
| meeting of the Dallas Township Par-
jent Teacher Association Monday |
evening. Rev. Sellers spoke with decid-
ed carncsthosy and sinceritv and left
with his audience a fitting
| message, X
A business ' meeting followed
| which Mrs. William Vivian was ap-
chairman of a wavs
led by Mrs. Thomas Kepner and Mrs. |
| John Hildebrant.
| Entertainment was furnished bv a
| playlet, “The House Gnomes”. «
grade students under
ss Leona Smith. Characters: Ger-
|aldine Stanton, Bobby Boyd, Donald
Smith, Marguerite Nichols. Marguerite
Sawyer, Ida Kunkle, Thomas Adolph
land Harry Martin,
—a
| County Directory
Lists Board Wrong |
In the current issue of the Luzerne
County School Directory, H. J. Disque,
a, member of Dallas Borough School
Board, is listed as president, and Har-
ry Pittman is listed as secretary, al-
though other revisions, such as the |
{membership of C. N. Lapp, new di-
rector, are made. Dr. G. K. Swartz is
‘Waters is secretary.
Sha- |
a
chief,
The Dallas Post,
Dallas, Penna.
Gentlemen:
I should like to see the > childr
ceive some of the toys wh
paper.
ADDRESS ..
(Give address i
Yuletide |
at |
and |
given bv |
the direction |
president of the local board and Daniel Edward N.
(Clip this Coupon and mail it to
worthy family which Fondd] have toys.)
ich are to be
in detail so there wi Il be no Gificalty 7% de
livering the toys.)
lowance for depreciation from the val-
| ne of property, instead of adding it to
[the liabilities, as in former years. Al-
though it makes no Giftrerce in the
[net worth of the district, which is the
| difference between the. assets and lia-
| bilities, it’ does reduce the apparent;
town” he said. “Ought to interest you.
It’s from a little girl whose parents
{aren’t—well, they aren't very well-off. |
| She’ s afraid I'll give her some presents |
rand make her parents feel badly be-
cause they won't have any. She's ask- |
fed me not to leave anything for her total liabilities considerably.
|thig year. Because she really wantsy| It is evident from the audit that the
that, I'm not going to; but Im going to |SC¢ hool board operated. under favorable
{put her in my special gold book ‘and | circumstances during the last two
when her parents are able to buy each | | years, having received a total of $6,500
|other presents in a year or so I'm go- |i special “appropriations from the
ling to give that little girl so many | State. There were no teachers’ insti-
| presents she’ll have a different toy for tutes held, permitting a saving of
every day of the year.” [about $240 annually. Because of de-
in a green and red suit|pression factors, the State reduced the
1 id in under a great load of let- [legal minimum salaries, and an exces- |
ters. Santa chuckled. “Will, I must sive over-supply of teachers exists. The |
get through these letters. Before you | board was able to cut salaries to lower |
though, I wish yowd carry back | levels.
{my personal thanks to the Dallas 'Wo- |
| man’s Club and thé Boy Scouts and |
ithe other fine people who have been
helping me dcwn there in your sec-
tion. Through their help I'm going to
be able to stop at every home.” He
| sighed. “If it weren’t for them”, he
| whispered, as he showed us to the
door, “I guess there wouldn't be any
Santa Claus.”
—— a
| 2,500 Find Work
| Twenty-five hundred Wea oforicers
{in Luzerne County have found( jobs ja"
private industry since SeptemPel 1,
Jones, State WPA Admin-
istrator, announced this week.
st
80,
A change in the
one-sixth of the
to teachers each July
quiring that much additional cash to
be secured from temporary loans. Al-
though this item is budgeted in the
audit, there is no inclusion of it under
“Accounts Payable”, an omission which
reduces that item considerably in ¢he
audit.
The board has had a very small ex-
pense for capital outlay. The old build-
ings were renovated, repainted and
mostly refurnished and the high school
building was practically new when it
began to function. What has been done
has been with relief labor at a great]
saving in school funds. The recent
| plastering will not appear until
next ‘audit.
The constantly-decreasing debt re-
quires much less interest than former-
\y, thereby making greater payments
| possible on the principal.
§, The auditors classify
{ment eight hea xs 1A}
to H. The first six are expenses of
PS - > | various kinds. The money spent under
distributed by your news- CG. or “Debt Service! and FL or “Caps
ital Outlay”, really affects the stand-
ing of the districts. For the past five
years these show the following:
(G) (FH)
Debt Capital lls
Service Outlay —%
$10,872.89 802.57 30
10,733.11 96.99 25
11,641.38 933.31 30
1932 14,001.00 2,651.35 25
1931 15,076.51 8,950.16 25
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KILLS DEER
Basil Frantz, 17, of Carverton killed
an auterless buck oa Red Rock Moun-
tain ¥riday. This was ‘his first a
(hunting trip.
pay basis leaves
annual salaries due
1, instead of re- |
The Post if you know of a
the disburse-
under 3
en in the following family re
Year
Ending
July 1
1935
1934
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Same Play
‘The victory of the I.ehman Thes«
pians was made more noteworthv be«
cause one of the groups against which
the local amateurs competed presented
the same play, forcing the decision of
the judges to rest solely upon talent.
For each of the actors. it was the
first play competition, although all of
them have won some recognition for
their skillful participation in amateur
theatricals in this region. :
Members of the cast included Louis
Ide, Mrs. Francis Lewis, Emma Ide,
Charles Kinsman, Jr. Sheldon Ehret
.jand Mrs, Charles Kinsman,
The cast was enthusiastic yesterday
lin giving a great sharé of credit for
the victory to Mrs. Arthur Maior. who
directed the production.
The play will be repeated for the
Parent-Teacher Association of Leh«
man on Monday night, Januarv 13.
Musicians Win
The Pike’s Creek Orchestra was the
only entrant in the musical combeti«
tion and was selected to represent the
bi-county district at the farm show.
Members of the orchestra are Joh:
Rebennock, Charles Williams. Otis
Allen, Herbert A. Bronson. Alfred
Bronson, Walter Wolfe, Albert Ide and
Mrs. Albert Ide,
The exact date on which the local
group will compete at Harrisburg :
has not been fixed. They will meet
other groups from all parts of Penn=
sylvania. About 250 organizations were
among those which entered the ovre-
liminary competitions several weeks
ago.
Champions Honored
By Township Fans
Heffernan Stresses Value
Of Football In
Education
Even though overemphasized, foot~
ball must be thanked for holding in
school or college many young men who
otherwise ‘would face the world with
out much education, Tom Heffernan,
sports editor of The Sunday Independ-
rent, told a crowd of about 150 persons
| who gathered in Shavertown M. HEH.
{Church on Monday night to honor the
champion Kingston Township football
team.
Another
speaker was Arnold Kraft.
coach of Plains High School team;
who stressed the importance of fieht«
ing spirit above weight and size. S. R.
Henning, principal of G. A. R. High
School in Wilkes-Barre, a former nrin-
cipal of Kingston Township schools.
was toastmaster. >
Edward Kotchi of The Post snoke
briefly, . explaining this newspaper's
method of selecting names for its All
Scholastic Foothall Team and an
nounced a revision in last week's line
ups through which Pattison of King-
ston Township becomes a member of
the first team and Fritz of L.ehman he=
comes a member of the second team
An impromptu trio, having as its
members “Red” Swartz, Bill Luksic.
and Adolph Eddinger sang and Mr,
Hunt, a magician, entertained. For the
team, Ted IL.oveland presented a wrist
watch to Coach Walter Hicks. Mr.
Hicks acknowledged the gift graciously
in a talk in which he expressed his
for the co-operation and
team work of the boys during the sea-
son.
Howard Isaacs was chairman.
Among those who made the dinner
possible through their financial assist-
ance were Edward Hall, Harold
Houghton, Sheldon Evans, Howard
Woolbert, Dewey Edwards, Howard
Edwards, Clarence Myers, Rev. J. J.
O'Leary, Kenneth and William Cob-
leigh, Frank Leonard, Herbert Lundy.
Fred J. Frace, Earl V. Lacey. William
Harry Montz, Attorney Ar-
thur L. Turner, E. Earle Newhart. Sr.
|and Harry J. Harter.
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PRFCOMRES
bHUCOMED
HISTORY ...
. + During the past twelve
months billions of words have
flashed over news wires, rattled
through typewriters and been
splashed across newspaper pages.
Now, as the last days of 1935
slip into the past, special Post
writers complete their review of
local, domestic, foreign, inter=
national and sports news of the
year. A good part of next week’s
Post will be devoted to those re-
views. Watch for them, ?
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