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THE HISTORY OF DALLAS * ®
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Oh HER LLICKY NUMBER. TWO YEARS. HE Before the invention of the lucifer match the
XY : matter of keeping fire in a house, especially in the
winter, was one of extreme importance in this very
sparsely settled country.
Every one burned wood then, and fire was
kept overnight by covering a few live coals’ with
ashes in the fireplace. Sometimes this failed and
then, if no flint and punk were at hand, some
other member of the family had to go to the near-
est neighbor, probably a mile or more away, and !
bring fire. It is not difficult to imagine their suf-
erings during the winters in this respect. Had
food, clothing and other things been plenty and
good, this hardship could have been better endur-
ed; but they were not, and, worst of all, there
were almost no means of procuring them.
There was an abundance of game and fish for
a time, but they did not satisfy a civilized people.
Buckwheat was early introduced in Dallas, and
was afterward so extensively raised here that the
expression “Buckwheat Dallas” was frequently used
by way of marking this fact in connection with
the name. It is a summer grain and quick to ma-
ture. In ninety days from the day when the crop
is sowed it can be grown, matured, gathered, ground
and served on the table as food, or, as has been
often remarked, sold just in time to meet a three
month note in the bank.
Another practical benefit from raising = this
grain was that, in gathering it, a large quantity of
it shook off and was scattered over the fields. This
afforded a most attractive pigeon food, and during
the Fall and Spring seasons, and often during a
great deal of the winter, pigeons would flock in
countless numbers all over that country. They
came in such quantities that it would be difficult.
to exaggerate their numbers.
When a boy I used to see flocks that extended
as far as the eye could reach, from end to end, and
these long strings or waves of birds would pass over
so closely following each other that sometimes two
or three flocks could be seen at once, and some
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THE EH MY CHIEF! THISLL TELL YOU EGYPTIAN heavy cloud. Often they tlew so low as to be most
WOUNDED XX = Ce WRO I AM! VERY h MUMMY easily reached with an ordinary shot gun.
BUCK ; SOO: Ba || MYSTERY” The skilled way of capturing them in large
WILSON, . sesececs quantities however was with a net. Wailliam, or
VIOLA, ys IN WHICH Daddy, Emmons was a famous pigeon trapper as.
AND THE T 1 DETECTIVE well as a fisherman. He used decoy pigeons. They
SECRET Ebel RILEY were blind pigeons, tied to the ground at some de-
AGENT B oq IS P ise sired spot, and when they heard the noise of large
LAND a NY flocks flying overhead they would flap their wings.
AT THE CUNNING OF as if to tly away. Attracted by this the flock would
3 SHANGHA be CRIMINALS come down and settle near the decoys, where plenty
AIRPORT! i. fill . “THE / of buckwheat was always to be found. When a
5 3 L SPHINX” sufficient number had settled and collected oa the
ES [ls EE= cones right spot, Mr. Emmons, who was concealed in a
133 = + bush or house nearby, would spring his net over
them quickly and fasten them within. After prop-
erly securing the net the work of killing them be- :
: \ gan. It was done in an instant by crushing their
heads between the thumb and fingers.
Hundreds were often caught and killed in this
way at one spring of the net. Pigeons were so y
LITTLE BUDDY
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was almost, if not quite, a parallel with the great
shad fishing days in the Susquehanna.
On the morning of September 5, 1887, while
walking along the roadside in Dallas Borough, Dad-
dy Emmons was knocked down by a wagon loaded
with hay, through some sarelessness of the river.
Emmons was pushed off the lower bank of the road-
side, a broken thigh was the result, and he died
from the shock at the house of his daughter, Mis.
Davis, in Dallas village, within a few days at the
age of ninety-two years.
I quote the following tribute to Daddy’s me-
mory, written soon after his death by Hon. Caleb
E. Wright, formerly of the Luzerne bar:
“The first time I met this ancient fisherman was
at Harvey's Lake, where he had a summer cabin.
At our first interview, I thought I discovered his
merit; and then and there we grew into bonds of
affinity. With every yard square of the noble
sheet of water, Daddy Emmons was familiar, A RR A
man may be good on water, without much know-
ledge of woodcraft. This was once demonstarted
when the old fisherman undertook to guide (George
Lear of the Bucks county bar and myself from the
north shore of the lake to Beaver Run. We wish-
ed to reach the run at the foot of the great mea-
dow. It was once a meadow, but of late years an
inextricable confusion of alders, through which the
stream found its way, a mile or so in extent. In-
stead of reaching it below the jungle our conductor
brought us in above. Our Bucks county friend
started in first. A short distance brought him to
the alders. We found his track, where he had
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igh AS Srp 3 > WHERE I CAN 2 SECOND HAND FOR trapping in Dallas twenty-five and thirty years ago
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WOULD SHAKE HIS HAND AND
THUS, THEY BECAME ENGAGED!
cross to the hotel.
penetrated the tangled undergrowth, but that was
all. The future attorney-general of the Common-~
wealth was lost.
“In hunting for him, having wound up our
lines, we got lost, too. I don’t know how many
hours we wandered in the dismal slough, chiefly
in circles, but Squire Kocher, hunting his cattle,
found and rescued us. Mir. Lear, getting out upon
a long road, following it to the Lake, had encoun-
tered a lad of Judge Barnum’ who rowed him a-
“There was pleasing simplicity and honest
candor in this old navigator of the lake that com-
mended him to the regard of men far above him
in social rank. Judge Paxson of our Supreme
Court, for many years a summer resident of the
celebrated resort, spent his days in company of
Daddy Emmons. Their communion was a pleasant
thing to behold, and the distinguished jurist, in
common with many other, will ever bear a kindly
remembrance of this piscatorial veteran, deploring
the sad catastrophe that hastened his descent to the
tomb.”
Daddy came to Harvey's Lake from New Jer
sey. Until two years before his death he lived in
a hut in a copse of woods on the banks of the lake
and was looked upon as the ideal fisherman of the
neighborhood. He knew just where the finny tribe
was most numerous and seldom failed to make a
catch.