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THE DALLAS POST, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1937
Ninety-Three Candidates File
VOL. 47
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. GARDEN
There have come to us a number of
PUMPERNICKEL
SEEDS
SCHOOL
FOOD
tales concerning the miraculous things
that happen in the garden of Peter
Roushey. - We are indebted to Chief
of Police Leonard O’Kane for the news
that Mr. Roushey’s corn grew so fast
it threw gravel up on the tin roof and
prevented Mr. Roushey from sleeping
nights.
A few weeks ago a passer-by saw
Mr. Roushey climbing a ladder up into
the branches of what was apparently
a full-grown cherry tree.
“OULD MUG” STAYS IN U. S.
Opposing Forces Line Up For Hot
~ Primary Fight In Dallas Township
“JEEPIE”, ROE’S PET Ss
MONKEY, INSISTS HE
NEEDS VACATION, TOO !
“Jeepie”, a pet monkey owned by
Mrs, Irving Roe of Shrine View, is
on his vacatign—only he left rath-
er suddenly.
“Jeepid!, who is a popular pet
in the Shrife~View= section; chew-
ed his collar Wednesday afternoon
and escaped, and Mrs. Roe is anx-
ious for word of him.
The monkey, which is about 3
years old and of the sfraight-tail-
ed variety, is harmless and friend-
ly. The Roe’s have had him since
last December and ‘Jeepie” has
left on similar excursions before.
| Kingston Township Interest Centers In School Contest;
Four Nominations Still Open In Lehman; No Candi-
dates For Justice At Jackson; One Out In Lake
ENTRIES HEADED FOR PRIMARIES, SEPTEMBER 14
The battle for major party nominations in the Fall election was well on
{its way this week, with ninety-three candidates racing toward the thirty~
five or so municipal offices which will be at stake next November in the
| seven townships surrounding Dallas. rT
Actually and officially the selection of public officials will not take place
J
§
“What are you doing, Pete,” the
friend called.
“Well,” said Mr, Roushey, “This po-
tato plant is coming along pretty well
and I figured I'd better climb up here
and see if it has any blossoms on it.”
One day Mr. Roushey complained to
some of his cronies that his potatoes
certainly have him worried. They're
so big he can't move them into the
cellar 'thout he puts them on greased
skids. |
And another day Mr. Roushey start-
led a few innocent ladies along Main
street when he stuck his head in the
‘A. & P. store, waved toward a row
of extra-large watermelons, and hol-
lered: ‘Hey, George, how are these
cucumbers growing that I brought up
from my garden?”
ee (
In revolt against the advertising de-
partment, which ‘insists that nothing
be called good until its creator has
plunked down the ascribed forty cents
an inch, this column intends to sneak
across a few of what are known vul-
garly as ‘free plugs”,
After all, when you find something
that is good, something that is unus-
ual, you are neglecting your duty to
your readers if you withhold the in-
formation from them, just because the
advertising department wags its fin-
ger.
Wee think there is news, for instance,
in the pumpernickel bread -which you
can buy from Joe Schmerer on the
Heights, If you like catch-as-catch-
can suppers which consist primarily
of huge slabs of bologna, cheese,
wienerwurst and relish wedged be-
tween great, round slices of toothsome,
brown, crisp - crusted pumpernickel,
Joe's your man. His loaves even look
old-fashioned, because they're dome-
shaped and unsliced. Even a person
with little or no imagination can feel
like a Westphalian peasant with a loaf
of Long and Schmerer’'s pumpernickel.
We're intensely loyal to pumpernick-
el, defending it often against the at-
tacks of the more effete wholewheat
forces, but it has one great disadvan-
tage. Some day we shall find a pum-
pernickel with seeds so large they will
never lurk between your teeth, to come
out hours later and give a strange,
exotic flavor to the most innocent of
foods.
— )
Still thumbing our ncse at the ad-
vertising department, we move on to
a few words of sincere admiration for
the way Luzerne County Gas & El-
ectric Corp. conducted its cooking
school here last week.
‘We don’t know whether Sales Man-
ager Bill James and his men are sell-
ing many electric stoves around Dallas
now, but we think they deserve some
sales. A great many people try to
sell things to Dallas folk, but few give
as much in exchange as our local u-
tility,
In the first place, it takes quite a
bit of time, effort and money to con-
duct a cooking school. Wie know. It
can’t be all advertising, either. It
has to be helpful. It has to be inter-
esting. It has to be free. All that
costs money__and any woman who at-
tended the session in Dallas Borough
High School last Friday afternoon
knows that Luzerne County Gas & El-
ectric Corp. didn’t skimp anywhere.
But the light company went beyond
free admission. For every woman
who was present, Luzerne County Gas
& Electric Corp. paid ten cents to
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Riding ahead of light breezes, Harold Vanderbilt's sensationai
American defender, Ranger, defeated England's challenger, 'T. O. M,
Sopwith’s Endeavor II, in the American Cup Races off Newport, R.
1., this week.
er four straight victories.
Superb handling by.
Vanderbilt gave the speedy Rang-
“Sissy” ships, which would be lost in a
heavy sea, the half-million dollar craft are good only for coast-wise
sailing in 'moderate breezes.
seaworthy in the future.
There is talk of making them more
Three Local Boys
Back From Panama
LaBar Stays For Another
Year; Disque And Tem-
plin Visit Parents
Their two-year adventure in the Pa-
nama Canal Zone at an end, three of
the four Dallas youths who enlisted
in the United States army two years
ago are either home or on their way
to Dallas.
One of the quartet, Paul LaBar, likes
army life in the tropics so well he has
enlisted for another year. A private,
first class, now, he will probably be
promoted to corporal shortly.
Kenneth Westover is returning by
way of the Pacific, wills land at San
Diego and will “propiily visit her after
he sees his family, which has moved
to Syracuse, N, Y., since he left Dal-
las.
William Disque and Richard Temp-
lin sailed from Colon, Pana'ma, on the
St. Mihiel on July- 21 and reached New
York on “the twenty-seventh.
Disque visited his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Disque, over the week-end
and expected to be discharged this
week.
Templin came home Monday night
to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R.
J. Templin, and returned Wednesday
to New York, where he will undergo
a minor operation before he is dis-
charged. He will return to Dallas at
that time. |
The quartet left in June, 1935, for
Panama. LaBar and Westover were
stationed at Fort Sherman on the At-
lantic side of the isthmus and Disque
and Templin were sent fo Fort Ama-
dor on the Pacific side. Both Disque
and Templin attained corporal’s rank.
Bronzed and healthy from the tropic
sun, the boys explain they do not re-
gret their army experience but are
anxious to become civilians.
They want to get a job, and settle
down to normal life.
Directors Name
Three Teachers
Township Board Adds Music
Supervisor. To Its
Faculty
Three new teachers were elected at
the meeting of Daltas @ownship School
Board on Monday night, Miss Evelyn
Van Antwerp, Montrose, music; Miss
Margaret Lynn, Phillipsburg, mathe-
matics; and William Banks, Wilkes-
Barre, geography.
The board appointed William Meiers
as janitor for the year at $90 and el-
ected Attorney G. J. Clark as solicit-
or at a salar of $100 per vear. Cal-
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MULTI-COLORED PAPERS GUIDE
CHILDREN BACK TO NOXEN CAMP
The old game of “fox-and-geese”,
has been put to practical purpose at
the camp of Wilkes-Barre
Children’s Home two miles above Nox-
en.
So none of the children will be lost
when they hike in the woods about
the camp, Miss Agatha Hill, director,
gives them a box of colored pieces of
cardboard. They scatter the bits a-
long their path and if they lose their
bearings all they have to do is to fol-
iow the multi-colored trail back to
camp, The success of the scheme is
testified to by the fact that none of the
children are ever lost.
There are fifty-eight children of as-
annual
sort ' ages and sizes at the camp this
hp creek
year. Originally the property of Ar-
thur L. Stull of Spring Mountain Ice
Co., the land was first used as a camp
eighteen vears ago. In 1922, Mr. Stull
donated the land to the Children’s
Home and at that time pernfanent
dormitories and a superintendent's
cottage was built.
The children help Miss Hill care for
the flower and rock gardens, search
for new flowers in the woods, fish,
swim in their home-made pool, and
help with the chores about the camp.
In September, bronzed and hardy,
they return to the city to resume their
studies. Visitors are welcome at the
camp, which lies abou two miles up
: from Noxem
spre
Expect Big Crowd
At Camp Meeting
Rev. Elmer McKay Principal
Speaker At Meetings
August 12-22
The largest crowd in its history is
anticipated for the 27th annual Camp
Meeting of tHe Free Methodist church
at 'B. TT. 1 rtS§ Memorial Grove in
East Dallas from Thursday, August 12
‘to Sunday, August 22.
Among the visitors will be a number
of distinguished clergymen and mis-
sionaries from distant places. The
chief speaker will be Rey. Elmer Mc-
Kay, mationally - known evangelist
whose services are in such demand he
is usually booked two years in ad-
vance. ; 3
McKay, who is an eloquent speaker,
has travelled throughout the United
States and Canada.
Miss Persis Phelps, a missionary
from Heotmal, Berar, India, will alse
be among the speakers. The male
quartet from Chesbrough, Seminary,
North Chili, N. Y., will be here from
August 13 to 15. v
The camp ground services are Spon-
sored by the Wilkes-Barre district of
the New York Conference of the Free
Methodist denomination.
~ T. M. Holcomb of Trucksville, dist-
rict elder, will preside.
Girls On Hay Ride
Uninjured In Bump
Twelve girls from Blue Triangle
Lodge of Y. W. C. A. at Harvey’s Lake
escaped injury Saturday night when
an automobile bumped the rear of the
hay wagon on which they were riding.
Two of the girls were thrown from
the wagon but were not injured. The
car which collided with the hay wagon
was driven by Robert Hoyt of Dallas.
Ben Smith of Alderson was driving
the team which drew the wagon.
arty At
Holcomb’s Grove
Garden
The Ladies Aid Society of Shaver-
town M. E. church will hold a gar-
den party at the home of Mrs. Walter
Hawke, Holcomb’s Grove, on Wednes-
day, August 11 ,at 2. Members of the
committee assisting Mrs. Hawke are
Mrs. Alonzo Prutzman and Mrs. Fran-
cis Honeywell, The King’s Daughters’
Sunday School cass will serve.
Eaeh time he has sought a house
ang has been returned. Mrs. Roe’s
telephone number, in case ‘‘Jeepie”
calls on you, is Dallas 371-R-13.
Directors Award
Supply Contracts
Borough Schools Will Open
September 8; Close
June 8
Hundreds of dollars worth of sup-
plies and coal contracts were awarded
at a meeting of Dallas Borough School
Board on Wednesday night. ;
Successful bidders were: Osborne A.
Thomas, installation of fire alarm in
frame school, $25; John Laux and Son,
replace lights in frame school, $45;
John Laux and Son, install fire alarm
in high school, $25; Kurtz Brothers,
schopl supplies, $328.25; B. R. Andrews
Paper Co. janitor supplies, $60.50.
Norman C. Hayner, janitor supplies,
$26.50; J. B. Holcomb Company, jani-
tor supplies, $58.75; Nolnerden Co.,
janitor supplies, $3.75; Royal Type-
writer, $45; Office Appliance Exchange
three typewriters, $135; Chicago ADp-
paratus Co., laboratory supplies, $134.-
75; Uambasco Company, scientific
supplies, $5; Dorrance DeWitt, 25 aons
of egg coal, $158.75; William Cobleigh,
150 tons of buckwheat coal, $600.
Swimmers To Seek
New A. A. U. Title
After Northeastern Pennsyl-
vania Crown At Easton
. Tomorrow
¥ \
Already the holders of two A. A. U.
championships, this section's’ erack
swimming team will go aftepfa third
tomorrow, when it compet in the
Northeastern
Championship at Easton.
Last Sunday the local swinrmers be-
came Middle Atlantic Champions when
they rolled up the highest team score
at Lake Ariel, despite the loss of El-
wood Davis, who' was forced out of
the race with cramps.
Irving Roe of Shrine View led the
local team across the finish line, tak-
ing sixth place in the event. His team
mates, Bob Jackson of Harvey's Lake
and James Campbell of Hanover
Township finished seventh and elev-
enth places’ respectively.
Davis, Roe and Campbell won the
National Junior A. A. U. long dis-
tance crown at Fall River, Mass,
three weeks ago. They are training
now for competition in the President's
Cup Race in the Potomac at Washing-
ton late this month.
Davis was leading his team-mates
last ‘Sunday when he developed a bad
stitch in his side which prevented him
from using his right arm. He swam
for about half a mile under the han-
dicap before he admitted his inability
to finish thes race and was pulled into
a boat. He recovered quickly and was
able to row for some of the swimmers
in later events.
and it is considerable money.
year.
THE LOW DOWN from HICKORY GROVE
I was skimmin’ through the paper and I see where it costs 650
million to run the U. S. Farm Dept., which is nearly 2 million a day,
And I also see that the farmers, they will maybe raise 800 mil-
lion bushels of wheat. And if they was to sell it for one dollar a
bushel, they would have enough cash left over, maybe, after payin’
the cost of the Agriculture Dept., to buy the seed to plant next
And when us boys we was there helpin® our father, he told us
how to sell whether it was gonna rain, by; listenin’ to the trains over
on the Lehigh Valley, and the Govt. it don’t predict any closer now.
And we raised as much corn as they do to-day, and we didn’t have
any Govt. feller followin’ us around and tellin’ us things that we
could tell him better than he could tell us. ©
But I reckon if I had a U. S. automobile and free gasoline, I
would not be here, like I am, but would be ridin’ around too, and
tellin’ some farmer how to feed a calf or something. Hot ziggity!
Yours with the low down,
JO SERRA. #
Pennsylvania Te-am.
Republican
slate.
center about the school fight, which
to Mr. Martin.
As announced
until the General Election in November, but since the Republican nomina-’
tion is tantamount to election hereabouts the Primary Election on Tuesday,
September 14, will be the important date in loca} campaigns.
Hottest of those campaigns is likely to be the
which has the largest number of candidates.
e in Dallas Township,
Oppdsing=factions-of. the
party were lined up there this week, each with a complete
In Kingston Township, where seventeen candidates filed, interest will
probably will echo rivalries aggrava-
ted by the attempted dismissal of Supervising Principal James Martin by
the school board, which was later ordered by the court to grant a contract
Post, Dallas Borough's Independent
Republican slate has no opposition,
Republican or Democratic. Some
Democratic candidates ill be “‘writ-
ten in” at the primaries and their
names will be on the ballot for the
General Election but the campaign
here bids fair to be the quietest and
most one-sided in many years.
One Withdrawal
Only one withdrawal was announc-
ed locally this week. Joseph ‘Salansky,
a candidate for the Democratic no-
mination for school director at Har-
vey’s Lake, withdrew, leaving a field
of two Republicans and two Demo-
crats.
Although definitely the minority
party here, Democrats have put strong
slates into several of the municipat
campaigns, notably at Lehrman, Lake,
and Kingston Townships. Reflecting
the advance of New Dealers in other
parts of the county, local Democrats
have strengthened their forces consi-:
derably in the last few years and al-
|though it is unlikely that they can
{marshal enough votes to take any
I municipal offices they will roll up a
vote bigger than they have contribu-
ted to the county total in years.
Until the permanent registration pe-
riod is over no sure figures on com-
parative registrations between the two
parties here can be compiled but un-!
official reports indicate that Republi-
cans are leading in most districts by
two to one and are extending that lead
in" some of the rural sections. A few
years ago Republicans led in most lo-
cal districts by four to one ratio.
Kingston Township
One of the strongest Democratic
slates is in Kingston Township. Thru
some mishap only one Démocratic can-
didate for school director filed a pe-
tition but it is understood a candida-
te for the second school board job will
be in the General Election to com-
last week in The®
«lican nomination, with Merle Shaver
as his opponent. There is ne Demo-
cratic candidate for the office in the
township. : :
Four Republicans and two Demo-
crats are after the two school direc-
tor positions which will be at stake.
George Gregson, Herbert A. Lundy,
Harvey Kitchen and Arthur Newman
are seeking the two Republican nom-
inations and Charles Deitrick and
Ralph M, Elston will probably be the
two Democratic nominees.
For supervisor there are three can-
didates, Charles W. Van Buskirk and
John A. Anderson, Republicans, and
Michael Walko, Democrat.
Nelson J. Whipp is practically as-
sured the Republican nomination for
auditor and will most likely be oppos-
‘ed in the General Election by Lester
R. Schultz, who will be the Democrat-
ic standard bearer. 27
The fight for justice-of-the-peace
will be almost as warm as that for
School director. John Q. Yaple and
Frank Neyhard, present justices and
candidates for re-election have as op-
ponents for the Republican nomina-
tion, Ray F. Henney and Fred Spen-
cer. Wash M. Spencer and Nelson
Moore have filed as Democratic candi-
dates.
A strong group labelling itself “Re-
gular Republicans” this week announ-
ced a slate which consists of Isaacs
for tax collector, Lundy and Gregson
for school director, Yaple and Ney-
hard as justices of the peace, Ander-
son as supervisor and Nelson Whipp
as auditor. These: candidates will run
together as a local slate.
Lehman Township
At least three Democratic nomina-
tions and one Republican nomination
are open in Lehman township, a sit-
nation which is common this year as
a result of the stiff fees levied on the
candidates.
plete the slate. Samuel Davis, prom-
inent in affairs of the Trucksville M.|
E., church, heads the slate as the can- |
didate for tax collector. Another prom- |
inent aspirant is Paul Hughey, of the
Trucksville Water Co.
‘A. complete list of ahe candidates in
Kingston township follows:
Tax Collector: Harry L. Bogart, Re-
publican; Samuel Davis, Democrat.
School Director: John L. Earl, Re-
publican; Daniel Shaver, Republican;
J. Earl Newhart, Republican; S. R.
Henning, Republican; Charles A. Per-
kins, Democrat. :
Supervisor: S. J. Woolbert, Repub-
lican; Bruce O. Long, Republican;
Raymond Schmoll, Democrat; Paul
Hughey, Democrat.
Auditor: William Hewitt, Republi-
can; Benjamin Hicks, Democrat.
Justice of the Peace: William C.
Roushey, Republican; G. Harold Lloyd,
Republican; Herbert R. Williams, Re-
publican; Charles Dressel, Democrat.
Dallas Township
John Isaacs, present tax collector in
Dallas township, is seeking the Repub-
EELS
No candidate, Republican or Demo-
cratic, has filed for the justice of the
peace ofiice in Lehman, and no Demo-
ts filed for tax collector or auditor,
Any of these nominations can go to
aspirants whose friends write in their
names on the machines in the pri-
maries.
The two candidates for the Republi-
can nomination for tax collector are
Geore L. Rice and Stanley B. Wempa.
A spirited, three-cornered race for
school director is anticipated in Leh-
man. Clinton J. Brown and Chauncey
EF. Terry, incumbents, are seeking the
Republican nomination. Also after that
nomination are William Naugle and
Leonard Ide. Benjamin Honeywe
and George Stolarick are the only can-
didates for the Democratic nomina-
tion.
Nelson Roberts and Davi Ide seek
the Republican nomination and An-
drew P. Stolarick the Democratic no-
mination for supervisor.
F. L. Ruggles has no opposition on
either party as yet for auditor.
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Although no official check on popu-
lation in the rural-suburban region a-
bout Dallas is due until 1940, esti-
mates by state agencies indicate a
steady movement of families from the
metropolitan region in Wyoming Val-
ley to the outlying communities to the
west.
This gradual levelling out of the
population is responsible for an esti-
mated three per cent decline in the
population of Wilkes-Barre since 1930
census. A major part of the families
who have moved from Wilkes-Barre
and the West Side have come to the
rural-suburban region about Dallas.
DALLAS GAINS BY MOVEMENT
FROM CITY TO RURAL AREA
The last thorough check on popula-
tion in Dallas was made in 1934, when
it was shown that the population, of
the borough had increased from 1,188 ©
to 1,368 in four years, despite the fact
that the population of Luzerne County
had decreased more than 12,000 in the
same length of time.
High rents, flood dangers and the
desire for a more pleasurable use of
leisure time are primarily responsible
for the growth in population here. The
elimination of the Luzerne bottle-neck,
last handicap in this section’s growth
as a residential area, is expected to
spur movings here even more, :