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~ ONEMOVIE
By JOH
The following article appeared
Many are the tales told of the
a primitive pioneering and hardships.
simplicity and hospitality,
@ Wilbur, octogenarian of the Back Mountain region, occupies the elevated posi-
~ tion,
- When your representative visited
“Aunt Bessie,” who on September 4
eighty-ninth birthday,
presents a picturesque pattern of the
~ fine sturdy stock that began the de-
velopment of the rural section, back in
the eighteen hundreeds, seeing it grow
to the thriving bit of country it is to-
day, with its paved roads, fertile fields
and good neighbors.
It was during the cold snap of last
‘Aunt Bessie” suffer-
ed her first serious illness in almost
ninety years of country life,
“The neighbors around here will tell
‘you how near death I was,” she told
“the writer,
“put I'm
every day. I'm nearly well!
Her face, wrinkled with age, beamed
getting
10%
~ joy and happiness.
Built First School
Mrs. Wilbur, or Bessie Blaine as she
was in the long ago, was born in the
early part of the nineteenth century,
in the old Linskill schoolhouse whicn
at one time stood at the junction of
Huntsville and Lehman roads in Leh-
man Township. Her mothér, Mary
was born in| England.
ssions
motjter
when she was four years old % Twas
leaving England for America. The Lin-
skills settled on Lehman road,
bought
a farm and built the first schoolouse
in that section,
“Aunt Bessie’s father, John Blaine,
‘was a carpenter by trade and carried
on most of his contracting business in
Plymouth. He was a second cousin
Blain, member of Con-
mination for President of the United
States in 1876 and Secretary of State
under President James A. Garfield in
1881.
gressman C. Murray Turpin of King-
will remain foremost in our mind.
better |
is a pictuke of Sir
Walter ‘Scott, celebrated i DOEE,
Blaine migrated from the West]
“with Charles Turpin, father of Con-
Ninety Years Old, Aunt Bessie
Has Record As “Crack” Marksman
SEEN ONLY
VOTED ONLY ONCE
RECALLS FIRST SCHOOL HOUSE HERE
N BUSH
in The Sunday Independent and is
used through the courtesy of that newspaper.)
conquests,
But there is one pioneer who, for her
“Aunt Bessie”
early settlers—their daring
the hermitage of the grand old lady on
‘Franklin street in Dallas the early part of the week, she was cradling back
or “and forth in her quaint old English rocking-chair, a woolen shawl protecting
her body from the chilly drafts, enjoyi
her side.
ng an afternoon repast—a cup of tea at
ston. Turpin served in the Civil War
as .a member of Company D, 143rd
regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and
was one of the engineering corps of
the Army which laid out the roads and
entrenchments during the Wilderness
Campaign.
Introduction To Politics
Education of the day consisted of
the primary grades. “Aunt Bessie”
attended the Linskill schoolhouse and
was instructed by an aunt, Betsy Lin-
skill. Other tutors of the building In-
cluded Elmer Bennett, Daniel Lutes
and Henriette Myers, all deceased.
Although she voted only once during
ago when she cast her ballot for ex-
vividly recalled: “A group of men from
Plymouth, came over the mountain one
night for a political speech. They wore
colored hats, canes and pins and called
themselves the” ‘Wide Awakes’.”
Rom pirig™ around the house several
‘days later, “Aunt Bessie” hummed thi
rhyme: “Tp I had known what I Xnow
| now, I wouldn't have been a ‘Wide
|'’Awake’.” She laughlingly concluded.
| ‘He (her father) was going to slap
| my ears.
Tere is how “Aunt Bessie” described
her first traveling venture at the age
of thirteen: “Uncle Charlie Linskill,
who was in business in Sugar Notch,
wrote my mother asking her to bring
his infant daughter Mary Ann, who
was living with us for a short spell,
down for his wife to see her. We got
Dr. Rogers’ horse and buggy from
Huntsville and he hitched it up for us.
When we got to Wilkes-Barre we
{idn’t have sense to ask someone the
way to Sugar Notch and we got lost,
We would get too near the mountain
CONFI
Based On
The farmer who manages his
people have tried the services of
This is very true of the Har
the respect for fair dealing .
things upon which our reputation
at Harvey's Lake, is synonymous
economy.
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the value of confidence in a man or an organization.
those services satisfactory—we say that such an organization enjoys
the faith that follows a good reputation.
The quiet understanding that comes with long experience . . .
. these are only the more obvious
DENCE
Experience
farm as he would a business knows
When many
one organization—and have found
vey’s Lake Light Company.
stands. It is a reputation which,
with service, quiet efficiency, and
he Light Cx.
her life-time, that being a short time.
President Hoover, it was during her
childhood that “Aunt Bessie” receive(
her first taste of politics. As she |
and then too close to the river. Shortly
after one o’clock in the afternoon we
arrived at my uncles’ home,
“We ate and talked for awhile anc
then my mother said: ‘Bessie, don't
vou think it's about time we be gettin’
home It will soon be dark and Mary
Ann is going with us. We got along
well until we reached a bald spot in the
road near Trucksviiie by the Ice Cave
Hotel. Here the shafts of the buggy
dropped down and horse and buggy
“There was no fast going with a
horse,” she remarked, “just like a cow.”
Doesn't Like Movies
“Aunt Bessie” is not a movie fan.
started back toward the creek. Quick,
I jumped out and grabbed the hors
by the bits My mother was deathly
afraid that we might all have drowned
Nelson Myers came along later and
helped us get out. When we arrived
home my father was coming down the
road scared that we got lost some-
where.
She had witnessed one moving-picture
in her entire life. She said she saw
the film in a movie-house “down along
the Boston Store somewhere,” accom-
panied by one of her constant compan-
ions Jeanette Osborne, late Principat
of Dorrance Street School in Kingston
borough. She did remember that the
plot concerned soldiers of the Civil
War. (Probably “Birth of a Nation”).
As a ‘“hair-flower worker,” “Aunt
Bessie” is regardea one of the best is
Wyoming Valley, although scarcely a
few remain. In her day and age
“hair-flower making” was as popular
as “quilting,” but was completed by
one person, somewhat of a ‘sample.
j One design ‘she exhibited containe:l
hair from the heads of one hundred
| different people and one dog hair. She
Water Spaniel and used it in the
wreath. Hair-flower making was an
art in itself and the aged lady, recall-
(ing her triumphs, said; “I couldn't
| make them as fast as I would think
of the different designs.” Hair wire
{used in the ‘task could be purchased
only in Philadelphia at seventy-five
cents a spool. Hair was woven on
this wire and the two shaped into
whatever flower-form was desired.
Known as the ‘little girl with the
gingham umbrella,” Bessie did the
shopping for the household at the Ry-
man store near Huntsville, when there
was scarcely a business house in Dal-
las.
combed the wool out of the hair of a!
Twenty-one years ago, ‘“‘Aunt Bessie”
moved to Dallas, where she resided
with a niece, Mrs. Stimm. Later she
married Harry Wilbur.. The ceremony
was performed by Reverend Day of
Luzerne Presbyterian church in the
preacher’s home in Luzerne.
Four years ago her husband passed
away. She has resided in her little
bungalow in Dallas, leading a quiet,
peaceful life ever since. She raises
ducks—just for pets. At first the
skunks from the woods nearby harmed
the web-footel, short-legged water
fowl. But no more.
It was near midnight one evening
not so very long ago, when ‘‘Trixie,”
inseparable canine companion of ‘Aunt
Bessie”, was attracted by a rustling
in the brush outside the bedroom win-
dow.
“I got my gun and we went out: to
1find what was making the noise. 1
put my foot in the thicket and almost
kicked it—then I knew what it was.”
Her story got more exciting with
each word and she continued, “He
didn’t pepper me but got away. ye
chased it under the front porch.
took the lantern and placed it A
the front steps. There he sat. He was
a big fellow and then I said, I'll fix
you—you sprinkled my dog.
Bags A Skunk
“I fired and the shot went through
his shoulder. ‘Trixie’ was well pleased
with the kill and jumped on me and
made such a big fuss. The dog went
after the skunk but it tasted bad—she
didn’t want to bring it to me. I got
a rake and pulled
skunk I ever killed.
“One shot?” we queried. “One shot,”
she answered. “That’s all I ever give
them.” Five other victims have been
addd to her record. She has dressed
and treated the skins of three skunks,
which she displayed, proudly,
“Aunt Bessie” Wilbur's hunting rec-
ord is one that a rabid sportsman
might envy.
5
Howard WOOLBERT
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