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One Of The Favorite Hobbies
Of The Father Of His Country
Whas “Looking Out For George”,
Says Rives Mathews in His Col-
umn on The Editorial Page.
The Dallas Pos
More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution
Next Week's Post Will Bring
You ‘Our New Serial, “Maid Of
Salem”, An Historical Novel Writ-
ten By Samuel Hopkins, Who
Wrote “The Gorgeous Hussy”.
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VOL. 47
POST
SCRIPTS
DRAWING
DUCK
FLANNELS
TEA
STRAIN
Anyone who has ever seen any of
the drawings of Severn Newberry of
Noxen will admit to that young
man’s talents. It is an amazing thing
to us that he has not already won
wider recognition for his work and
we cannot help but feel that his op-
portunity for fame is not far around
the corner.
There was one time when oppor-
tunity knocked and found Severn too
worried to bother about it. His draw-
ings had attracted the attention of a
firm “which was manufacturing ani-
mated pictures for the moving pic-
tures and ‘Severn was invited to come
to New York to try his hand. Z
Now Severn lived in a town which
had a full complement of domestic
poultry so you would expect that he
would not be daunted when someone
told him, as his first assigment, to
draw a duck. But, as Severn once re-
lated the story to us, on that day his
wits were addled, and stare as he
would at his drawing board he could
not visualize a duck. After several
desperate starts Severn, who was then
very young, got up, walked out, and
came home.
We recall the story every time we
sit in the movies and see Walt Disney's
fabulously famous Donald Duck wad-
dle across the screen and wonder where
Severn Newberry would be now if he
had been able to draw a duck thatday.
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The directors of Dallas Borough
School Board crossed paths with a
basketball game at their last meeting
and almost had to retire in defeat.
The board meeting, scheduled origin-
ally for Wednesday, was changed to
Thursday might as a .convenience to
several members and it so happened
that on that night there was also to
be a program of sports in the gym-
nasium.
As a result the directors had no
sooner applied themselves to the busi-
ness of the district than they began to
be interrupted by curious groups of
people sauntering casually into the
room, staring at the board for a few
minutes and then departing.
—O0s
Jack Roberts, one of the directors,
felt the full weight of the conflict in
dates for before he knew that the board
was to meet he had promised to play
in a comic basketball game scheduled
as a part of the gymnasium program.
Divided between his desire to fill
his sworn duties as a school director
and his equally strong desire not to
break his word to the athletic commit-
tee, Jack shuttled between the meet-
ing and the game most of the evening,
presenting himself once in a suit of
red flannel underwear which was his
costume during his more athletic per-
iods.
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It was evident that the monotonous
routine of administering a school dis-
trict could not compete against the
competitions in the gym. Art Dungey,
Pete Clark, Ira Cooke and a few others
stuck loyally by the directors, sitting
through most of the meeting, but the
majority of the visitors just dropped
in, took a look at the board, discover-
ed everything was harmonious, and
left.
The constant ebb and flow of its au-
dience put the directors in a difficult
position. Of course it was a public
meeting and as citizens, the visitors
were welcome, But the excitement
certainly wasn't contributing to the
mental efficiency of the directors and
the spirit of camaraderie couldn't be
called the best atmosphere for men
who were anxious to get their work
done.
Qe
The high point of the evening came
when Dr. G. K. Swartz, the board's
president, was called away. By that
time Mr. Roberts, who is vice-presi-
dent and presides in Mr. Swartz’s ab-
sence, was invelved in the basketball
game, Surviving directors suggested
that Henry Disque, as senior member
of the board, preside, but he begged off
and the job finally went to Clyde Lapp,
who, with Stanley Davies, new director,
was the only member of the board who
sat through the meeting from its be-
ginning to its end.
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Next week, we are informed, will
mark the 4474th birthday of the world’s
most widely consumed beverage—tea
It was discovered in 2737 B. C. Since
then it has become the world’s fore-
most drink, next, of course to water.
People drink about 304 billion cups a
year now, enough, someone has figur-
ed, to make one cup of tea 42% feet deep
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THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1937
Backwoods Born, Humbly Raised,
She Gave Lincoln To The World
“ALL THAT I AM, I OWE TO MY ANGEL MOTHER”
‘A little girl, reared in poverty in the backwoods of Virginia, destined for
a brief and none too happy life, was to grow up and bear a child whose career
more than fulfilled all her highest dreams for him.
Born at Patterson’s Creek, Virginia, in 1784, Nancy Hanks went at the
age of twelve to live with her aunt and uncle, Thomas and Elizabeth Spar-
row, in Mercer County, Virginia. She had a chance to Attend school there,
and made the most of it. In a community where many of the men could
neither read nor write, she learned to do both. :
DIRECTS 1939 FAIR
Grover Whalen, erstwhile offic-
ial greeter for Manhattan and once
the ~metropolis’s police commis-
sioner, now is President of the
New York World's Fair Corp,
which is beginning to construct
buildings for the 1939 internation-
al exposition. The fair will be
dedicated to a more effective re-
lationship between man and his
world. Fifty million visitors are
expected from all parts of the
world.
Township Expects
Spirited Contests
Six Major Offices at Stake
In This Year’s
Election
The political influences = in Dallas
Township, where six gmajor offices
will be at stake in the Fall elections,
are already busily at work aligning
slates and attempting to smooth out
political rivalries which may be cli-
maxed by a spirited battle for Re-
publican nominations in September,
One of the wanmest contests will
center about the school board posi-
tions. «The terms of Arthur Neiman
and Harvey Kitchen, incumbents, ex-
pire this year. The names of George
Gregson and Herbert Lundy, both
prominent residents of the township,
have been mentioned as possible can-
didates.
“John Isaacs, tax collector, is being
urged to be a candidate again. Also
mentioned about town are the names
of Merle Shaver, Alec Mahoney,
Charles Reigle and Mrs. Minnie
Kunkle.
The term of one Township Commis-
sioner, William Martin, expires. John
Anderson’s name has been mentioned
in connection with the election to that
office.
A flock of candidates are said to be
considering the Justice of the Peace
offices, now held by Frank Neyhardt
and John Yaple, whose terms expire.
Both men will probably be candidates
for re-election and their opponents
may include Ray Henney, Ered Huey,
Bill Vivian- and Nelson Moore.
Near-Zero Weather
Spurs Ice Cutters
Between 40 and 50 Tons
Daily Being Shipped. Over
Loeal Li
Between forty and fifty carloads of
ice are now being shipped down over
the Bowman’s Creek Branch daily as
the result of the ice harvest at Splash
Dam. Recently sixty carloads were
harvested in one day. The ice is
about 12% inches thick and is of ex-
cellent quality, making this one of the
busiest seasons at the Splash Dam in
years.
Because many other natural ice
companies have been unable to cut ice
this winter due to the unseasonable
weather, the cutters at ‘Splash Dam
have received ‘a great number of or-
ders. All ice’ now being harvested is
immediately loaded on cars and ship-
ped although recent repairs to the ice
houses there have made provision for
the storage of a large quantity of ice
this winter.
Many of the ice companies in the
Poconos have been without ice of suf-
ficient thickness to do any harvesting.
This is especially true at the big ice
houses located at Gouldsboro where
the community is almost entirely de-
pendent upon the ice harvest and
shipping for the employment of its
men.
COURT CANNOT RETURN $10,000
BAIL FORFEITED IN LAKE CASE
The final chapter to q story which
began ten years ago when the automo-
bile of Robert Murray, Wilkes-Barre,
fatally injured Arthur Lewis at Har-
vey's Lake, was written in Luzerne
County courts this week.
Murray was released on $10,000 bail
but when the case was called he had
disappeared. All trace wag lost of him
for nine‘years until last fall when he
‘was arrested at San Antonio. Tex.
and returned here for trial. He was
sentenced ‘to two years in Luzerne
County prison.
Jacob Simon of Mocanaqua, who
had qualified as bailsman at the re-
quest of Patrick Lenahan had, for
his own protection, secured a judg-
ment note for that amount from Mir.
Lenahan and after the bail was for-
feited Lenahan asked the court to re-
turn the forfeit, alleging he could not
afford the loss. 5
Judge W. S. McLean, acting for the
court en banc, this week dismissed the
petition on the grounds that the court
has no authority to remit such a for-
feiture.
After deducting costs, the balance
of the forfeit was @ distributed to
Wilkes-Parre Law and Library As-
sociation.
pT
She was skilled at needlework, too,
and hired out to families in the neigh-
borhood. Though worked - for
wages she was never regarded as a
servant, but sat at table with the
household wherever she went. Report
says that she was tall and handsome,
with a frank open countenance and a
voice pleasing both when she sang
and when she talked.
A. young apprentice named Thomas
Lincoln was learning the trade of car-
pentry in the shop of Joseph Hanks,
uncle of Nancy. The two young peo-
ple were attracted to each other, and
were married on June 12, 1806. Thom-
as took his bride home to a tiny house
fourteen feet square.
He could not write his own name
until the ambitious Nancy taught him
how. But his ambition could not
keep pace with hers. Her disappoint-
ment at his easy-going ways was for-
gotten in her children: first, a little
girl, Sarah; then, in 1809, the son
known to history as Abraham Lincoln.
Between this child and this back-
woods mother there was a powerful
she
bond of sympathy. They understood
each other/without words. Perhaps
she felt ih him her own fiere€ hung-
pra
er for NT larger, richer
world.
“Abe’s mind and: mine, what little
I have, seem to run together,” she is
reported to have said once.
She was thirty-four years old, and
Abraham Lincoln was nine, when she
fell ill of an epidemic disease known
in. Southern Indiana, (to. which the
family had migrated) as the milk
sickness. Ih seven days she was dead.
Abraham helped his father to make
her coffin out of green lumber cut
with a whipsaw, helped to bury her in
a, forest clearing. There was no cere-
mony. This troubled the boy until,
several months later, they secured a
wandering preacher to deliver a, fun-
eral sermon over the lonely grave.
His mother’s influence stayed with
him always, and was voiced in that
most famous of filial epitaphs: “All
that I am or hope to be, I owe to my
angel- mother.”
Church Revives
Jogsh’s Custom
Dallas M. E. Will Call For
Gifts at March 7
Service
A unique method of raising funds
will be employed by Dallas M. E.
Church on Sunday, March 7, when it
revives an ancient custom of Joash,
King of Judah.
Joash, who reigned over Judah for
forty years, found himself troubled by
the condition of the temple, which was
impoverished and in need of repairs.
Being minded to restore the House of
the Lord, he ‘gathered together the
Priests and Levites and commanded
them to make a chest, and set it at
the gate of the Temple to - receive
money from all Israel.
Money was thus gathered in abun-
dance and the Temple of the Lord
repaired and maintained. The chest
of Joash suggests the plan to be fol-
lowed by the local church on March
7, when it will ask its parishioners to
contribute money for its upkeep.
At the morning service the young
people of the church will take part in
a “Joash” pageant, and arrangements
will be made for an especially large
attendance. Chief purpose of the
unique plan is to enable the church to
balance its budget before the end of
the conference year. Rev. Francis F.
Freeman is pastor.
Growers To Talk
Of New Methods
The fruit growers of Luzerne Coun-
ty will hold their annual Winter
Meeting on Tuesday in the Carverton
Grange Hall.
The morning meeting will convene
at 10, with John Reuf of Pennsylvania
State College talking on “Soil Fertility
in the Orchard.” Later, H. E. Hod-
gkins, head of the Entomology De-
partment at State College, will speak
on ‘“ More Important Apple Insects
and. Their Control.” He will also
show motion pictures..
Dinner will be served at noon by
the women of Carverton Grange,
In the afternoon, at 1:80, John Reuf
will speak on “Small Fruit Varieties
and Cultural Methods.” The next
speaker, the guest of Luzerne County
Horticultural Association, one whom
most of the fruit growers know, will
be Dr. G. F. MacLeod of Cornell Uni-
versity.
The program will conclude with a
growers’ discussion. All fruit grow-
ers of Luzerne and nearby counties
are imvited to attend the meeting.
Perrego Dies 19
Days After Wife
Was Oldest Member Of Local
Masonic Lodge; Buried
Wedpesday
Nineteen days dfter the degth of his
wife, James D. Pérr€go, 85, passed
away on Monday at his home in
Trucksville. Mrs. Perrego had died on
January 20 .
Mr. Perrego, a member of an old
local family, belonged to Trucksville
M, E. Church and was the oldest
member of George M, Dallas Lodge,
F. and A. M.
Funeral services were held from the
home Wednesday afternoon at 2 with
the Rev. Harry M. Savacool, pastor of
Trucksville M. E. Church, and Rev.
Gertrude Ross, pastor of Trucksville
Free Methodist Chureh, officiating. In-
terment was in Trucksville cemetery.
Surviving Mr. Perrego are the fol-
lowing children: Mrs. Frank Rogers,
Trucksville; Mrs. A. W. Stephens,
Endicott, N. Y.; Mrs. Harvey Averett,
Shavertown; Mrs. Dane Dimmock,
Ferndale, N. Y.; Russell- Perrego, of
Kingston, and Raymond Perrego, of
Huntsville.
Local Boy Scouts
Observe Birthday
Kunkle and Alderson Troops
Hear Hewitt Talk on
“Habits”
In observance of Annual Boy Seeut
Week, members of Troops 331 and 352,
Boy Scouts, of Alderson and Kunkle
M. E. Churches, held a supper in
Kunkle Community Hall on Monday
night.
Hans Kramer, scoutmaster of the
Kunkle troop, was toastmaster and led
group-singing. A deliclous supper was
served by the Kunkle Ladies’ Aid So-
ciety.
After the supper, John M. “Samson”
gis, executive director of Wyo-
ming Valley = Council, Boy Scouts,
spoke on ‘‘Habits” and entertained
the scouts with moving pictures tak-
en at Camp Acahela, scout camp in the
Poconos.
The following attended:
John M. Hewitt, Hans Kramer, John
Parsons, Rev. Guy A. Leinthall, Nile
Campbell, Stanley Hoyt, Raymond
Hoyt, Willard Hoyt, Fred Boston,
Gilbert Boston, Lawrence Smith, Har-
old Smith, Raymond Elston, Gomer
Elston.
Marvin Elston, John Isaacs, Clayton
Cairl, Reynold Deater, Edward De-
laney, Isem Pennington, Harold Hoov-
er, Elwood Hoover, Xenneth Davis,
Theodore Davis, Alfred Jackson, El-
liot Enders, Carl Garinger, Nelson
Garinger. :
Harold. Hess, LeRoy Hess, Nile
Hess, William Brace, Charles Brace,
Dewey Mitchell, Bud Mitchell, Phillip
Kunkle and Allen Brace.
Cast Is Announced
For O. E. S. Comedy
The cast for the three-act entertain-
ment, “Uncle Ephraim’s Summer
Boarders,” to be given on Friday
night, February 26, at Kingston Town-
ship High School, was announced this
week. Mrs. Stephen Johnson is the
director.
Members of the cast are: Sam John-
son, by Eva Ray; Squire Briggs; by
Don Herbert; Ephraim Higgins, Clif-
ford Ide; Uncle Ephraim’s daughters,
Lena Appleton, Marie Wolfe, Helen
Hontz, Mildred Bronson;
Briggs, Durwin Farr; - Mrs. Higgins,
Della Parrish; Mr. Phalen, Ross Wijl-
liams; Mrs. Phalen, Elizabeth Ide.
Tom Phalen, Bert Hill; Katie Pha-
len, Vonnie Shaver; ' Maude Phalen,
Mabel Johnson. Herr Cominsky, Rob-
ert Appleton; Drucina Ketchum, Beu-
lah Frantz; Percy Augustus Wither-
spoon, Walter Wolfe; Mrs. Bangs,
Dorothy Schooley; Mr. Bangs, Charles
Lewis; Harold Bangs, Fred Eck.
Ebenezer Saunders, Kenneth Wlool-
bert; Madame ¥ilsuvn, Jesse Moore;
Dorothy Elson, Miriam Shewan; Mrs.
Robert Lindsey Von Cleave, Eliza-
beth Keller; Lucile Von Cleave, Grace
Moore. Marguerite Von Cleave, Thel-
ma Whitby; Mrs. Briggs, Agda Lewis;
Polly Flanders, Mabel Johnson, and
Silas Stubbins, Bert Hill. os
PTA After Money
For Playgrounds
As its first step in raising money to
equip a local playground next summer,
the Parent-Teachers Association of
Dallas Borough will sponsor a card
party at the borough high school on
February 17 at 8 p. m.
Refreshments will be served and a
prize will be awarded at each table.
Guests are requested to supply their
own cards. The committee is solicit-
ing all persons willing to assist in
providing doughnuts or coffee or cash
contributions,
Mrs. Reese Finn is chairman and
has .as assistants Mrs. Florence Phil-
lips, Mrs. Earl Monk, Mrs. Karl
Kuehn, Miss Charlotte Mack, Mrs. M.
L. Brown, Mrs. James Oliver; Mfrs.
Arthur Dungey, Mrs. F. J. Ferry, Mr.
Moran and Ralph Brickel.
Ralph |
“RAILSPLITTER”
“
Wer
“The ship is anchor'd safe and sound,
Its voyage closed and done.
Irom fearful trip the victors ship
Comes in with object won.
©xuit, O shores, ani ring, O bells.
But I with mournful tread
Walk the deck my captain lies,
I allen cold and. dead.”
Another Serfiee :
Station Robbed
Bandits Flee With $20 From
Michael Fieger’s At
Hillside’ :
A
The second gas
within two weeks to
held up attendants at Michael Fie-
ger’'s Hillside Service Station and es-
caped with $20.
Al Thompson and Ben Crosley were
in charge of the station when the
bandit car stopped near a gas pump
and the gunmen demanded money.
The car, which had been stolen from
Exeter, fled toward Dallas.
Exactly two weeks before three
hold-up men had robbed Fred Wiool-
bert’s gas station at Trucksville.
Boro. Five Back
In First Place
Lehman Slips’ Back As
Kingston Township Forges
Toward Front
Dallas Bo sugh’s basketball team,
getting ba
feats, worked its’ way into first
e
which
last
third as Kings-
ton Township forged into second.
Coach Line’s borough five took a
close game from Lehman, 31-27, last
Friday night and swamped = Laketon,
32 to 7, on Tuesday night. Lehman
lost its hold on second place on Tues-
day night when it went down before
the fast-stepping Kingston Township
squad, 28 to 20,
More Contributions
To Local Flood Fund
The amount contributed to the Red
Cross Flood Relief Fund by local peo-
ple was’ increased this week by the
following gifts: Girl Reserves, Dallas
Borough High School, $5; E. L. Rog-
ers, $1; Miss Glendola Hice, $1; the
Ladies’ Aid Society of Glen View FP.
M. Church, $5; Mrs. William J. Frank-
lin, $1. Additional from Dallas Bor-
WN
ough Schools, $2.02.
No. 6
Farmers Gather
To Hear Talks;
Plan For Year
Annual Meeting of Farm
Bureau Thursday, Feb.
2b, at Y. M. C. A.
OUTLOOK IS GOOD
Along about this time of*the year
farmers, whose year begins with the
first warm rains of” Spring, put aside
their chores for altime while they trav-
el around to the meetings which al-
ways herald the end of win
Straggling in from all parts of the
county they listen critically to agri-
cultural experts, explaining discoveries
of the last twelve months. They see
moving pictures of farms in other
parts of the country. They learn how
to fight diseases which could kill
their cattle or destroy = their crops.
They elect officers for their different
groups for the coming year.
Between talks and meetings they
consume good, country dinners, pro-
vided by the ladies, or spend pleasant
minutes swapping experiences and
news with old friends from another
township. .
Then, their heads filled with facts,
their business done, they turn home
to get to work putting into practice
the things they have learned.
Bees to Vegetables
No longer a great agricultural cous
ty, Luzerne has nearly 3,000 fa
worth something over $12,000,000,
in February the men who till |
:| county’s farm lands still meet to
over their problems.
Throughout the rest of the gr
there may be other meetings, but
is the month when the biggest mi
ings are held, because this is
month when the farmer has time £@
give attention to such gatheringsj
Biggest of all meetings will be '#]
annual one of Luzerne County Agi
cultural . Extension Association at
Wilkes-Barre Y. M. C. A. on Febru-
ary 25.
Known popularly as “The Farm
Bureau,’ the L. C. A, E. S. is a long-
established agency, financed by State
and County, which serves as a big
brother to every farmer but seldom
gets much attention from city folk.
In Luzerne County its director is
personable, farm-wise J. D. (Jim)
Hutchison, who covers 13,800 miles a
year over the county's roads, visiting
farmers and holding meetings. Farm-
ers give him a warm welcome always.
Their wives know Miss E. Nitzkowski,
his~“energetic assistant, better. She
Specializes in home economics, or-
ganizes clubs, has a deep admiration
for the modern farm woman.
Busy every month of the year, Jim
Hutchison moves especially fast as the
time for the annual meeting nears.
This month, besides preparing his vol-
uminous annual report, he must be
with the vegetable growers today at
Kingston, the fruit growers at Carver-
ton next Tuesday, the bee keepers at
Wilkes-Barre Y. M. C. A. on the
twenty-third and at the Y. M. C. A.
| again on February 25 for the climax,
the annual meeting of the Agricultural
Extension Association.
Morale Up, Eggs Down
This year farmers__with exception
of poultrymen, who are getting .less
and less for their eggs and chickens
are in good spirit as Spring nears.
Land values are up slightly, farm-
ers are learning to work together to
protect their markets, the government
is acting to conserve soil, and there is
~very indication that the farmer may
pect to share in revived economic
vnditiens,
into form after two’ de- Farming is still a tough business.
but it is being recognized fore as a
business and farmers are using meth-
ods of grading and merchandising in
their selling. Standards are being
established, outside-the-state competi
tion is being met, new methods of
fertilizing and growing are being
pushed.
‘Most important of all, the farm is
being made attractive for young peo-
ple through such things as rural
dramatic contests, recreation pro-
grams and the Future Farmers of
America.
As a distinguished visitor recently
said: “They have made the honorable
but harrowing privilege of farmin
something for these farm youngsters’
to look forward to. By organization ©
they have found opportunities. for
self-expression not otherwise provided
in rural life, . . . To have seen all
this, and to admit for a moment any
lack of faith in America would be but
the thought of a grossly incompetent
observer.”
‘And, as his ancestors have since the
first man learned to cultivate seed,
the farmer prepares for Spring.
i
VEGETABLE GROWERS DISCUSS
PROBLEMS AT MEETING TODAY
Vegetable growers—both commercial
growers and general truck farmers—
have been invited to attend meetings
to be held this morning and this af-
ternoon in American Legion Home,
Market Street, Kingston, for farmers
from the northern end of the county.
An all-day meeting for farmers in
the southern part of the county yes-
terlay was a big success.
Today’s meeting will begin at 10 a.
m. with J. M. Huffington of Pennsyl-
vania, State College reporting on
“New and Worthwhile Vegetable Var-
ieties” and
Methods.”
O. D. Burke, a nationally known
vegetable disease authority, will talk
on “Seed Treatment” and the “Con-
trol of Important Vegetable Diseases.”
The afternoon session will begin at
1:30, when there will .be motion pic-
tures shown, relating to vegetable
problems. Fy
The growers also will participate in
a discussion of such subjects as
“Tomato Fertilization,” “Use of Trac-
tor Cultivators,” “Cover Crops V8:
Manures.’” etc.
“Improved Fertilization
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