FREE! What do you want to know about Pennsylvania farms? The Dallas Post has a limited number of copies of the new 1935 Farm Census. You may have one simply by calling at The Post's office. <¢ e Dallas Post More Than A Newsbaber, A Community Institution RR a No NEW! . How do Luzerne County farmers’ com- pare with others in the State? The an- swer is in the 1935 Farm Census which you can have, free, by calling at The Post's office. Or telephone Dallas 300 for the point of information you want explained. VOL. 46 POST SCRIPTS CHICK-A-DEE BROOD X MARY CAR KIDLING —ie No one will believe this, but a chick- a-dee perched in a tree on Lehman Avenue last Tuesday, its shrill call echoing weird and lonely over the snowy fields, unanswered. —_—0— “Brood X of the periodical cicada”, known hereabouts mostly as “those dam seventeen-year locusts”, will be here in May, succeeding the eleven-foot drifts as Nature's method of keeping us mortals in our place. The last time they were here no one was even think- ing about the depression. Only an alert Secretary of Agricul- ture protects us against a surprise at- tack, As it is we'll be ready for the locusts when they come swarming out of the ground late in May, shaking their mere rudiments of wings and rolling their eyes at young trees. An old story, which we intend to ignore, says that if the locusts have a “W” on their fore-wings, it’s a warn- ing of war. You might look anyway. Our Entomology Editor, whose mail is continually being mixed with our Etymology man, says that thirty-five counties in the State will feel the wrath of the swarm this Spring. The males will be pretty noisy, he says, shrilling their discordant notes or “emitting a purring rattle with their air drums”. The females are not only noiseless and dumb but probably deaf, a tragic condition, and they “sip juices from tender plant tissues” and jab slits in twigs ‘and branches in which to deposit their eggs. ‘We'll entertain them until about the middle of June when, after seeing that everything possible has been done for the next generation, the adults will die. The young, upon hatching, will fall from their tree-top cradles to the ground and dig their way twelve to eighteen inches into the earth. There they'll feed upon roots, change clothes periodically (probably dressing for din- ner) and grow. We'll see them again in 1958, if we're all here, rattling their air drums all over the place and sipping juices from tender plant tissues as old. —— It’s not a strictly local item, but the new Cunard White Star Liner Queen Mary will ‘be coming over from Eng- land in May, too, just about the time the locusts get here. You may be pre- pared for as big a fuss as marked the Normandie’s maiden voyage. We've just had a long publicity re- lease from the Cunard people about the Mary’s bronze propellers and her 200,- 000 horse power engines. Being no hand for figures and having once ac- complished a horrible ascent, to . a ship’s crow’s-nest, we wer. interested most in the item that even the Queen Mary has one, a very de luxe, spacious one, to be true. According to the Cunard folks a pair of crows once made their home in a ship that was laid up at Bristol, Eng- land, in the early whaling days. After that they began to call the barrel where the lookout man clung a crow’s nest. The Queen Mary has air drums, too. but the only sipping of juices is done in the salon, safe from the noisy male of Brood X, —Oe— Impressions of a Street Car Ride: The mysterious-looking house on Wyo- ming Avenue, Kingston, just before the car swings into Division Street . . . gables and green shutters and desola- tion . . . a swell setting for a Universal picture . last year’s Barnum and Bailey posters flapping in the wind . The birds that hide under the tun- nel and fly away in clouds as the car rumbles through ... Why do railroads and street cars have to travel always in the rear of homes, beside muddy creeks and dumps? . . . Or is that a principle of engineering? . . . The car shaking itself loose from the main highway at the Narrows and plunging |. off along its own stubborn way in the shadow of a mountain . .. Signs of Co- ca Cola, streamlined bread and The Beer Supreme . . The fantastic ice formations lending beauty to Toby's Creek, and reminding all-year residents that beauty is only skin deep . . . Ice Cave, its sides covered with great, green icicles . . . poles plastered with last election’s posters . the smooth sweep of the snow over the graves on Mt, Greenwood Hill . . . the grey skele- ton of Fernbrook’s roller coaster tower- ing above the windows of the car . . . cemeteries . . . cemeteries , . . cemeter- ies . . . Dallas. —— Communications Dep't: Lieut. Lee: Postcard rec'd. After you read this why not sit down and write us a story about the Wiest. L. B.: McComas ex- plains many things neatly, but suggests new doubts, particularly by his un- satisfactory explanation of spirit writ- ing. Thank you for the book. Almost done with it. BE. C.: Glad you're getting The Post at last. Miss you pestering us, E. K.: Holding Paul Bunyan ma- terial. Thanks for sketches and note. HB. T.: Still waiting for promised ma- terial on Rosicrucians. Disque, LaBar, Templin or Westover, Attention: How about some news from Panama? et Intelligence Test: The name of what prominent Dallas citizens are spelled if the following letters are correctly re- arranged: Treep Karel Namfeer Narfeis Rogeeg Lakirdenkl Rarthu Nurter Mij Vilero Delecy Palp Dad Treowolb Any normal person should be able to figure these out in approximately four days, with favorable winds and clear weather, {Continued on Page 5.) Egegor Zrwast Larph Doro Dranelo Neoka Pernderats Make Biggest Gains In Dallas Area Registration Figures Expect- ed To Show Increases Of More Than 400 G. O. P. STILL LEADS Democrats made their biggest gains during the last year in this rock-rib- bed Republican sector, if registration figures for boroughs and townships be- ing compiled at Luzerne County Court House this week can be taken as a standard. The Sixth Legislative District, which includes Dallas and its vicinity, had a gain of 419 Democrats, about 200 of which are estimated to have come from Dallas and Dallas Téwnship. In only one other legislative district in Luzerne County, the Third, did the Democrats have a bigger gain than the Republicans. The figures will not be official until they have been certified by the court, but unofficial calculations show that this district now has 13,532 Democratic voters registered, as compared with 13,- 113 last year. Twenty-eight thousand seventy-two Republicans are registered, more than double the number of Démocrats, Last year 27,8564 Republicans were regis- tered, a gain of 218. These figures are for the entire Sixth District, which in- cludes Exeter and Wyoming. In Dallas proper the ratio is higher in favor of Republicans, although the gains in the last year cut that traditional lead ma- terially. In the county-wide registration, how- eyer, there is evidefhce of a strong swing to Republicanism. Returns show that Republicans gained 2,402 over 1935, while the Democratic gain was only 310. Total registraticn for the county shows 129,775 Republicans and 77,436 Democrats, a majority of 52,333 for the G. 0. PP, Light Rates Cut By Lake Company rem inn. Consumers Wil By Reduction By P. S. C. Consumers of Harvey's Lake Light Company will save $3,700 annually as result of a rate reduction announced this week and effective March 1. The Public Service Commission authorized the reduction on Wednesday. Harvey's Lake Light Company fur- nishes electric “service 0 Harvey's Lake, Dallas and Franklin\ Townships in this county and to Noxen and Mon- roe Towships in Wyoming County. Under the residence and commercial classification the net rate for each of the first 60 kilowatt hours was re- duced one cent, The consumer’s monthly payment guarantee under the company’s line ex- tension rule was reduced from two and three-quarters per cent to two per cent of the total construction cost of the line. ave $3,700 ized Poultrymen Meet At City Y.M.C. A. State College Men Speakers At Annual County Meeting Poultry experts will speak at the an- nual meeting of Luzerne County poul- trymen in the new Wilkes-Barre Y. M. C. A. On Tuesday. The morning session will begin at 10 and the afternoon session at 1:30. Speakers will be Kenneth Hood and D. C. Henderson of Pennsylvania State College Agricultural Extension Depart- ment, and Harry Blake, ' prominent poultryman of Wayne County. T. B. Tests Up For Discussion ... ..t1 Dairymen from Xingston, Franklin and Exeter Townships are asked to at- tend a meeting to be held tonight, (Friday), in Carverton Grange Hall. Arrangements will be made for the triennial county-wide Tuberculosis Test of cattle and also the Bangs Dis- ease Program. DALLAS, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1936 Sam Houston’s “Man” Gets a Job. “Uncle Ro” Adams, once body ser- ‘vant to Gen. Sam Houston, will be 100 years old; March 2, 1936, the day Texas, where Gen. Houston ever will be a historic figure, celebrates its one hundredth year of independence from Mexico. “Uncle Ro” is shown above as William A. Webb, manager of the Texas Centennial Exposition, which opens at Dallas June 6, assures him he will have an Exposition job. in this section. . Before the program, the new high school band will give a brief concert, under the direction of Howard Hallock. The band also will play between parts of the show. Grades from one to four will present an operetta, “Land of Dreams Come True” by Alan Gray Campbell, a fan- tastic story about children who eat magic berries which waft them to a Goose¢e and other legendary nursery rhyme characters welcome them. The operetta will be directed by Mrs. Col- well, assisted by = Miss Davis, Miss Gardner and Miss Mack. The second part will be a one-act play by Willis 'N. Bugbee entitled “The Fashion Show at Hicksville”, presented by pupils from the ninth and tenth grades. The action revolves about a hesitant suitor and his very willing fiancee, and involves daintily dressed modern misses, a ninety-year old couple, a fussy dressmaker and typical back country types. Miss Dymond and Miss Emmert are the directors. £ land. of make believe, where Motherds jis” whieh have accumulated for Crispell, As a climax, pupils from grades five | Nearly 300 Pupils In Colorful Program At Borough High School OPERETTA, FASHION SHOW, MINSTREL PLANNED A- musical operetta, a funny fashion show and a traditional minstrel show will be produced in Dallas Borough High School auditorium next Thurs- day night at 8, with nearly 300 pupils from the schools taking part. The color- ful performance will be one of the most ambitious entertainments ever staged to eight will stage the “Laffalot Min- strels”, a hodge-podge of laughter, song and dance, with an unusual array of juvenile talent, including the prize win- ners in the Blue Ribbon Club’s recent amateur show. Mr. Rood is directing, assisted by Miss Anderson and Miss Taylor. Benefit Athletic Council - "The receipts will be. used to liquidate athletics. : The complete list of children who take part follows: PART I: “The Land Of Dreams Come True”, Cast—Betty Jones, Paul Clemow, Edna = Ann ° Felker, Harold Shaver, Peggy Karns, Lydia Gailey, Claudia, Shaver, John Manning, Ro- mayne Harvey, Peter Clark, Eunice John Whipple, Georgia Ayres, Mary Roppelt, John Durbin, and Jona- than Houck. Others in Part I are: School Children Chorus: Thelma Cundiff, Jean Monk, Dick Oliver, Tom (Continued on Page 5.) Wild Dogs Menace - To Weakened Game Over Fifty Deer Have Fallen Prey To Dogs Ja Five" Counti Stray, half-wild dogs are a serious menace to deer and other wild life in this section as a result of the hard winter, sportsmen who have been dis- tributing food for game report. Farmers and other dog owners are asked to make every effort to. curb the attacks being made by dogs and to capture them. Game Commission offi- cials report that hundreds of deer have already been killed by ‘half-starved canines, made doubly ferocious because they have been hampered in their forays by heavy snows. Local sports- men have pointed out that it is even more important to keep dogs tied now than it is during the nesting and breeding season for game, because deer, rabbits dnd other creatures are so weakened and emaciated by the severe winter they are unable to es” cape. Reports from five counties show that over fifty deer have fallen prey to stray dogs. Game officials have been informed that ten in one herd of thirty-eight were killed by dogs. Rants Launch Try For Championship Series With Kingston Township The three-game series to decide the basketball championship of the rural scholastic circuit began on Monday night, with Dallas Borough scoring a decisive victory over an aggressive Kingston Township Five. The Dallas’ High School girls’ team played Lehman High girls and lost by the slim margin of 27 to 25. Dallas led the local league through- out the season, but rules demand that the league-leader play the second team, in this case Kingston Township at the end of the season to decide the cham- pionship. The winner of the series of three games will play Luzerne High School at Kingston High School gym- nasium on Monday, March 9, to decide the district championship. The second game in the series was to have been played last night, too late to be included in this issue of The Post. A second victory for Dallas would give that team the championship and eli- minate the necessity for a third game. If there is a third game, it will be (Continued on Page 5.) Beaumont Men Involved With Crime Ring Blamed For Burglary Wave Here Major Part of Loot Recovered At Ho Hallock And Honeywell Burglaries Admitted; Prepare To Identify Property FIVE CONFESS TO MORE The arrest of five alleged burglars, At Home Of Stanley ictims THAN FIFTY ROBBERIE including two men from Beaumont, by h State Police from Wyoming Barracks this week solved at least ten robberies in this section and may clear up others. Floyd. S. Jackson, 21, Beaumont, a member of a family well known in that section, was one member of the quintet, which is said to have confessed to more than fifty burglaries during the last year and a half. Thousands of dollars worth of loot was recovered at Jackson's home on Tuesday when State policemen, who have been trailing the men for three menths, made the arrest. Jackson and Evan Evans, 24, 637 C armalt Street, Dickson City, were des- cribed by police as the “brains” of the ring. The second Beaumont man arrested was Frank Taylor, 22, of Beaumont. He was held at State police barracks ‘the thefts. It is estimated the loot taken by the five men during their criminal career on a charge of being an accessory im in Luzerne, Lackawanna, Columbia and Wijyoming Counties totalled between $10,000 and $15,000. WILD GEESE HERALD } SPRING WITH REA URN FLIGHT OVER DALLAS _. A flock of about seventy-five wild geese, in V-formation flew over Wiest Dallas about 10 o'clock yesterday morning, Mrs, Ray Ste- vens reported to The Post. The Northward flight of the birds, which were flying low and honking noisily, was taken as a harbinger of Spring. It was recalled that a flock of about the same size flew over Dal- las early last Fall and was ac- cepted as the sign of a long, hard winter. Yesterday’s return to the . North may mean that Spring is close. Dallas Five Takes First In May Finish Annex Before Graduation Dallas Township Directors Ask Bids On Remainder Of Werk « _— The long-awaited /dream of Dallas Township School District for an aud- itorium may be realized before com- mencement if plans launched by direc- tors this week are successful. The board advertised for bids on the con- tract to finish the annex now being | constructed and if the bids are satis- factory when they are opened on! March 24 the contract will be awarded to be completed by May 16. More than a year ago the directors, in response to a widespread demand | throughout the township for additional | room and an auditorium, considered the advisability of financing the con- | struction with a bond issue. Bids ex- | ceeded the $25,000 estimated and were rejected two times. Finally it was agreed to construct an annex with" two rooms finished and complete the remaining four rooms and the auditorium as soon ds finances permitted. The contracts for the an- nex were awarded last October, total- ine about $22,000, and work began im- mediately. Severe weather has handicapped workmen all winter and prevented them from completing the contract as early as was expected but the annex is nearly finished, awaiting only work which is being delayed until milder weather for safety’s sake. The plans now are to finish the other four classrooms and an audi- torium which will seat about 400 pe-- sons ordinarily and 800 pers~-ms ~n bleachers at a basketball game. “lenrge J. Russ, Fernbrook, has the specifica- tions. The classrooms will alleviate crowd- ed conditions in the school and the au- ditorium will eliminate the necessity of township folk having to hire the borough high school for school affairs and athletic events. ; The township school district now has a splendid athletic field and its recently-installed pumping system has been functioning efficiently and with a sizable saving to taxpayers. If the directors can carry out their plan to finish the auditorium this Spring the township’s school will be one of the finest in this section. Will Money Spent On Farm Relief Help To End Hard Times? SAYS A SMALL FARMER: A man can say, farming, except to eat the food the better I like it.” doing it? Well, Because if I don’t get paid a fair price for the work I do, you won't have any job before you know it. I don’t care what business you're in—auto- mobiles, insurance, shoes ‘or radio— you're going to be out of a job if I and the other farmers don’t make enough money to buy automobiles and insur- ance and shoes and radios. That's the way this country is put together. I make milk for you and you make shoes for me. If you don’t pay me a fair price for my milk, I go bare- foot and you go out of a job. All the government is trying to do with its AAA’s and soil conservation If half the people in the country are poor as poverty’s bones, there isn’t going to be prosperity in this country—not for anybody. “I'm no farmer. I've got nothing to do with food that’s raised. And the cheaper I can buy that Steady, boy, steady. You think if you can make me get out and work from sun up to sundown raising food for you—you think it’s smart to keep me poor that’s just where you're wrong. programs and processing taxes and “benefits” to:farmers is fix it so my farm produce will swap for your shoes on a fair trade. If I skin you or you skin me, we'll both go on the town. So any non-farmer that knows what's good for him will be blame glad to see food prices reach a level that gives the farmers fair pay. And he’ll be blame glad to vote for farm bills that will help to get tHese prices straight. Because ‘there won’t be two cars in every garage in town until there is anyway one new flivver in those sheds behind the baras. D, F. SAYS A HATCHERYMAN: of national economic recovery. ridiculous. The modern factory can turn out better shoes at half the price and still show a good profit. The little cobbler’s day is simply done. The average farmer is exactly like that little cobbler. He was through, and long before the depression. For ex- ample, in 1920 the average yearly egg production per hen was 74 in Cali- fornia, 56 in Missouri, and 68 in Con- necticut. But at this same time, 29 commercial flocks in California aver- ager 130 eggs per hen, 400 flocks in Missouri: averaged 125, and 350 flocks in Connecticut averaged 142.58. What was the result Ege prices were based on a hen’s laying well over 100 eggs a yéar. The few trained poultrymen The grim truth is that the day of the old fashioned dirt farmer is N O over and done. His work is no longer needed, Giving him government money may well be a humanitarian necessity but it is ot a necessity I said this was a grim truth. I might have said tragic or even horrible. But it will be still more tragic if we do not face the issue squarely. Of course, an incompetent little shoémaker would like to see the govern- ment fix the price of shoes so high he could make a profit. But that would be raised most of the eggs and made all the money. The old time dirt farmer began to cry for ‘relief’. There are plenty’ of men right now producing hogs, wheat, strawberries, potatoes, eggs and oranges at a good profit. This minority of highly trained modern farmers can produce more food and consume more manufactured goods than all the old timers put together. They don’t want relief and resent gov- ernment interference. Goverament meddling with prices will only prolong the agony. It will riot save the old time farmer. And it will | were those of Thomas not hasten prosperity. A, deC. V. Confess To Thefts Although the quintet is still being questioned at State police barracks at Wyoming, police say they have con- fessed already to entering two homes in Dallas, three in Trucksville, one in Beaumont and others in Garverton and Center Moreland, The men made their criminal rounds in an automobile, police say, and posed | as old gold buyers. When no one res- ponded to their knock, the men jim- mied a window and place. ' Their first robbery is said to have been at the home of Mrs. Cora Nulton at Beaumont, on Thanksgiving Day, 1934. Mr. Nulton that she was away on that day and that when she returned her home had been entered and a gold necklace and $25 had been taken. . Two Dallas Burglaries The two local robberies solved took place last August, when Jackson and Feist entered the homes of R. IL. Hal- lock on Lake Street and D. P. Honey-/ well on Church Street. On that night the men entered the Hallock home first and were scared away, missing a pocketbook contain- ing $37 which was on the dining room table. A neighbor saw the men enter- ing the Hallock home and summoned Chief of Police Leonard O'Kane, who, with Joseph Jewell, rushed to the home. ; ] After they fled from the Hallock home, the burglars went to the home of Mrs. D. P. Honeywell, The family was away and the thieves escaped with loot estimated at between $300 and $400, including Mrs. Honeywell's wed- ding ring, her late husband’s hunting case watch, her son's diamond ring and |other jewelry. The burglars missed a pocketbook on top of the china closet, but took seven pennies they found |scattered on dressers. Jackson's father once worked for Mr. Honeywell at Hillside Farms. Among the homes in the vicinity of Carverton and Centermoreland entere: Stevens and John Scoble, police report.” Two Other Hold-ups The men were being questioned con- cerning two other recent hold-ups in this section recently, About four weeks ago two men knocked at the door of the home of El- mer Shrader at Center Moreland. After pretending that they were in need of direction to Fernbrook, the men point- dickson; recalled - yesterday on October 16, 1935. Jack- son says he entered these homes alone, : ransacked the ed a sawed-off shot~un at Mr. Shrader, who had been sitting by the tabl readings a paper. They took $8 fron him and then picked Mrs. Shrader’s watch and a ring from the table and fled in an automobile. : Although State police are question- ing the men regarding the Shrader | hold-up, opinion was expressed that it was another couple that perpetrated that robbery, since the quartet in cus- tody never used a gun. g A. second burglary being investigated is that at the home of William Cob- leigh on the Frantz farm in Dallas Township. One day last week two men she approached Mrs. Cobleigh while was hanging clothes on the line, forced her into an automobile, which they locked, and then burglarized the home. They secured about $11. State police are questioning Jackson and his con- federates about this case, too. Athletic Program At Lehman School The Dallas Township High School 11 wrestling team will meet the Lehman Township wrestlers at Lehman High School Friday night, March 13, at 7:15. On the same night the Duplan Mill girls’ basketball team will play the Lehman Township girls’ team and the Lehman Township boys’ team will meet a faculty five, Receipts will be given to the Senior class to defray expenses of its Wash ington trip. Borough Board Meets Next Week The meeting of Dallas Borough School Board scheduled for last Wed- nesday night was postponed to the second Wednesday, March 11, to per- - mit attendance of Harry Pittman, who . could not be present. Sellérs Addresses David’s Day Dinner Rev. Fred M. Sellers, pastor of Sha- vertown M. BE. Church, spoke at the first annual St. David’s Day dinner at First Welsh Presbyterian Church in Wilkes-Barre on Monday night. > a o
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