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VOL. 47
THE DALLAS POST,
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBR 10, 1937
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No. 37
POST
SCRIPTS
FORECAST
FOUNDER
POST
WHIGS
MAJORITY
The chill touch of Autumn over last
week-end produced the first flock of
prognostications on the coming Win-
ter’s weather.
So far, it looks like a mild winter.
Someone reports having seen several
brown caterpillars crawling over a
barn door, and anyone who knows
“caterpillar signs” knows that you can
bank on a brown caterpillar to bring
a mild winter.
If the caterpillars are black, or very
dark in color, the winter will be se-
vere, but if the caterpillars are light
brown or yellow, as the ones seen lo-
cally the other day, settle back in
your chair, light your pipe and enjoy
a balmy winter.
Of course, if the caterpiller is light
at both ends, and dark in the middle,
it means the late fall and early spring
will be pleasant, but mid-winter will
‘be bad.
There's always the chance, though,
that the caterpillars may be wrong,
so don’t saw the handles of your snow
shovels just yet.
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While checking on the date of The
Post's birth this week, we were re-
minded that this newspaper will be
able to celebrate its fiftieth birthday
anniversary in two years. y
The Post was founded in 1889 by A.
A. Holbrook, whose motto was “There
is nothing too good for Dallas.” Mr.
Holbrook published every week, with-
out a miss, and was succeeded in 189
by W. B. Capwell 8
The Post's founding father was a
native of Susquehanna county and
the son of a Methodist minister. He
was educated at Wyoming Seminary
and imrmediately upon leaving school
began work on the Kingston Times, a
weekly paper which had just been
started.
Mr. Holbrook had worked for that
newspaper only a few months before
he purchased it and changed it to a
semi-weekly, which he continued until
the fall of 1889, when Mr. Holbrook,
who was called “the youngest news-
paper publisher in Pennsylvania,”
bought out The Morning Times, a
daily newspaper.
Apparently all was not smooth, be-
cause the paper was eventually taken
over by the Times Printing Co., which
however, retained Mr. Holbrook as
manager. In September, 1891, C. B.
Snyder secured the paper and moved
it to Wilkes-Barre.
Mr. Holbrook came to Dallas in 18-
92, and assumed the management of
The Post.
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Williazm Harrison Capwell, who suc-
ceeded Mr. Holbrook in 1895, was from
Clinton Township in Wyoming county.
An attack of rheumatism at the age
of sixteen had left him a cripple. He
gave up teaching to learn the print-
er's trade and purchased the Nanti-
coke Tribune im 1885. In 1891, he
moved the office to Plymouth and
made it the Plymouth Tribune,
An inventory of Mr. Capwell’s plant
‘at Plymouth included “one heavy
Cottrell cylinder press, a Washington
hand press, and two job presses’.
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The Republican party, which never
is disappointed in the election returns
from Dallas, might well hang up a
memorial placque to the eleven men
who, just about 100 years ago, laid
the foundations for this section's very
stubborn loyalty to the G. O. P.
Originally, Dallas was almost un-
animously Democratic. The Jersey-
men who settled the community were
almost as faithful to their political be-
lief as to their religious principles.
Dallas was, in fact, known widely as
a Democratic stronghold.
It was in 1836 that three men, Fay-
ette Ollen, Christian Rice and Alex-
ander Ferguson, decided to part com-
pany with the old line Democrats.
They became united with the Whigs
and for three or four years this trio
stood against the tide. By 1840 they
had made eight new converts, John
‘Williams, Abraham Ryman, Jacob
Rice, Charles Ferguson, Joseph Shav-
er, Henry Simons, Samuel Worden
and Joseph Richards.
These eleven Whigs were the very
creators of a local Republican organi-
zation which built so well that it was
strong enough to resist Democracy’s
strongest tide 100 years later. They
converted Dallag and its meighboring
communities so thoroughly that al-
most 100 years later there were dis-
tricts that had eight Republicans to
every one Democrat.
“The stubborn loyalty of the major-
ity of voters to the Grand Old Party,
in goed times and bad, has been an
amazing thing. Dallas gave Hoover
a majonity when the rest of the coun-
try was bent on shooting him out of
office, Dallas stayed Republican while
the state was electing a Democrat ‘for
the first time in forty years. And
Dallas yoted for Landon while forty:
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LIGHTNING STRIKES
100-YEAR-OLD TREES
ON HUNTSVILLE FARM
Two pine trees on the fapm of
B. Frank Bulford on the JFunts-
ville-Fernbrook Road wen strael
by lightning during the severe el-
ectrical storm last Saturday af-
ternoon.
One of the trees was split from
the top down and toppled across
the road, which was blocked un-
til the tree was moved on Sun-
day morning,
The second tree was not des-
troyed entirely, but the bark was
badly broken. Mr. Bulford esti-
mates the trees were 'nore than
100 years old.
Youths Arrested
By Chief O’Kane
Were Creating Disturbance
At Dallas Township
High School
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Seven Luzerne youths who were
charged with having credited a dis-|
turbance at Dallas“=@$wnship High |
Chief of Police Leonard O'Kane on
Wednesday morning after they had
returned to annoy teachers and pu-
pils again.
Township school officials said the
boys entered the high school Tues-
day, while school was in session, and
were responsible for considerable of
nqise and some damage. Then they
went outside and annoyed classes by
yelling. When they returned on Wed-
nesday morning the janitor notified
Chief O'Kane, who arrested the youths
whose ages ranged from 16 to 20, on
Main street. :
They were given a heaning before
justice of the peace John Q. Yaple on
Wednesday night.
Ambrose Dowling
Taken By Death
Dies Within 2 Weeks After
© 7 bixtieth Wedding
Anniversary,
Less than two weeks er he and
his wife had observed their sixtieth
weddineg anniversary, Ambrose Dow-
ling, 85, of Lake Township, died last
Friday night.” ot
Mr. and Mrs. Dowling celebrated
their anniversary on Saturday, Aug-
ust 21, and several hundred persons
visited their home on that day. Mr.
Dowling had been seriously ill but his
condition seemed to improve some-
what. On the evening of the anni-
versary he had to retire before the
well-wishing crowds had departed.
Mr. Dowling was born in Wales,
and came to Edwardsville. He mov-
ed to Harvey's Lake about thirty
years ago. Besides his widow, Mr.
Dowling is survived by a daughter,
Mrs. Sadie LaRue of Harvey's Lake.
The funeral was held om Tuesday
morning at 10 at the home with Rev.
John Albright of Noxen officiating.
Interment was in Fern Knoll bumial
park, Dallas.
Youth’s Council
Convenes Today
Outlet Young Man To Give
Adress Of Welcome
At Wilkes-Barre
The annual conference of the North-
eastern Pennsylvania Youth's Tem-
perance Council will be held Septem-
ber 10 and 11, at the Central M. E.
church, Wilkes-Barre, with delegates
from 13 counties, including a number
from the Dallas section, attending.
The conference will reach its cli-
max Saturday night, when State offi-
cers take charge of the program.
Planning the conference are the fol-
lowing officers: William J. Williams,
president, Wilkes-Barre; Harold W.
Kocher, Outlet, vice-president; Dor-
othy Belles, Kingston, secretary;
William Ashburner, Outlet, treasurer.
‘The ‘following state officers of the
Y. T. C. will attend: James A. W.
Kilip, Philadelphia, president; Delmar
E. Wiggins, Philadelphia, E. Mae
Weiss, Tunkhannock, James Stevens,
Kingston, recording secretary, Xen-
neth A. Beaner, Johnstown, treasurer.
Harold Kocher of Outlet will deliv-
er the address of welcome at the e-
vening session at 8 tonight, and Dr.
Verne Leslie Smith will be the speak-
er.
Tomorrow services will begin at
9:45 a. m., and continue all day, with
evening session at 8.
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SCHOOL OPENS
Dallas Borough Schools Were open-
ed on Wednesday morning with an
enrollment about the same as last
Jyear.
School on Tuesday were arrested hy!
Season Of Fairs
Lures Visitors
To Gay Midways
Tunkhannock Exposition To
Start Tuesday; Ends
On Friday
OTHER FAIRS ON
Brakes scream wildly as flying
autos skid around curves in clouds
of dust — the drumming of flying
hoof-beats thunders over the grand-
stand—wheels of chance spin madly
while crowds wait for their num-
bers to come up.
The raucous voices of barkers
mingle with the lowing of cattle, the |}
squeals of fat, prize swine and the
mournful cries of a lost baby.
Amplifiers split the air with mar- |}
tial music, slightly off key, and al}
tom-tom marks a slow, seductive
rhythm for Little Egypt's wiggles.
It’s County Fair Time again, and
although Dallas’s own fair is no long-
er, the people of this section are
staunch Fair Fans, For the next few
weeks they will be busy attending the
great expositions which are held with
in easy motoring distance of Dallas.
Tunkhannock Ready
Tunkhannock’s Wyoming County
Fair will begin next Tuesday and
continue until Friday, with a fast-
moving program of fireworks, horse
racing, baseball, vaudeville, agricul-
tural exhibits, cattle shows, midway
events, grange exhibits: and band con-
certs.
The entertainment before the grand-
stand will include the Carlos Comedy
Circus, a review with dogs, ponies
and a bucking mule; Mike Cahill, in-
ternationally known aerialist, Made-
line Berlo, performing high, trick and
fancy diving into a glass tank, and a
host of clean, lively acts.
Allentown Fair
Among Luzerne County exhibitors
at the great Allentown Fair, to be
held in Allentown, September 21, 22,
23, 2%, and 25, will be Carter Hache
of Nanticoke. Mr. Bache will again
show his choice Guernsey Cattle, on
which he won a first prize at last
year’s Allentown Fair.
‘This year the Allentown Fair will
reach a new peak as fan as interesting
exhibits and entertainment are con-
cerned. It will be truly an educational
fair in every respect, and the program
includes races on Tuesday, Wednes-
day, Thursday and Friday and auto-
tmobile races on Saturday.
“The Revue of Tomorrow” will be
the theme and title of the big out.
door extravaganza. One of its fea-
tures will be the appearance of the
internationally famous Gay Foster
Girls, the same dazzling beauties that
feature the chorus in the Roxy The-
atre in New York City.
Million Dollar Fair
The stage is set, the principals
ready for Pennsylvania’s million dol- |
lar agricultural exposition, the Great
Reading Fair. §/
Recognized as the largest county
fair east of the Mississippi, Reading's
eight-day harvest festival will open
this Sunday. As an opening attrac-
tion, the management of the fair has
booked Edwin Franko Goldman and
his famous concert band. The musi-
cians will play at 3 p. m. and 6 p. m.
Reading’s five-day Grand Circuit
horse race meeting will open Monday
and will feature a $2,100 futurity for
two-year-old trotters. Big-time sulky
competitions will be presented also on
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
Friday, with stakes estimated at a-
bout $12,000.
Every evening from Monday to Sat-
urday, Gay Foster's Roxyetteg will be
presented on the grandstand stage.
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less and illegal hunters.
Seth Gordon, executive director of the Pennsylvania Game Com-
mission, center, Wi. C. Shaffer, director of the Bureau of Protection,
left, and Judd Turner, assistant director of the commission, night,
destroy unsafe firearms, confiscated during the past year from care-
Under a new state game. law, guns which
are in poor condition are to be junked in the interests of safety.
STATE TO DESTROY UNSAFE FIREARMS
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TINSLEY TAKES LINE'S PLACE
AS COACH OF BOROUGH ELEVEN
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Dallas Opens’ Football Sea-
son On September
Twenty:Foufth
SHORT ON MATERIAL
Howard Tinsley, assistant coach of
football at the Dallas Borough High
School last year, has been promoted
to be coach, succeeding Ernest Line.
Mr. Line, who is still a member of
the borough faculty, will retain charge
of the school’s physical education de-
partment.
Dallas Borough will begin its sea-
son on September 24, when it meets
Tunkhannock High School at Tunk-
hannock. Other games scheduled are:
October 1, at Factoryville; October 8,
Wyoming Seminary Jayvees, here;
October 16, at Nicholson; October 22,
at Lehman; November 11, Dallas
Township, here; November 19, Kings-
ton Township, here. X
An effort is being 'made to have a
game either on October 29 or Novem-
ber 5, both of which dates are open
vet,
Coach Tinsley, who played football
at Meyers High School, Wilkes-Bar-
re, before he went to the Millersville
Teachers’ College, has issued a squad
call and is in the midst of trying to
develop a team from the nucleus Ieft
after graduation.
Only 3 Regulars Left
Eight of last year’s first string men
were graduated or have left school.
1 Bill Mann, captain and end, Bill Nie-
meyer and Ray Kuderka, halfbacks,
Gerald =~ Sullivan, quarterback, Bob
Fleming, guard, and Karns Harding
and Bob Hull, tackles, were graduates.
Earl Mason has left school.
Of last year's regulars only Phil
Templin, center, this year’s captain,
Evan Brace, back, and Loren Fiske,
end, are left over to start this year’s
teams. Wilson Garinger, Odall Hen-
son, Carlton Rogers and Clyde Vietch,
all of whom showed promise last fall,
will however, be standbys for Coach
Tinsley.
Township Opens With G. A. R.
Kingston Township gridders, who
have been out working under Coach
Water Hicks for some time, will open
their season by playing G. A. R. at
Wilkes-Barre.
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and a loud pop-and then go out,
the noise. :
And in this Senate war.
Yours with
THE LOW DOWN from HICKORY GROVE
Some kind of a battle seems to be goin’ on just about everywhere
and right here in the U. S. the paper it says, that war has been de-
clared on the Senators. And the Senators the war is called on, they
call ‘em rebels. And they are rebels because they didn’t say, yes sir,
to the boss. So they are going to eliminate this type of person.
And the side trying to eliminate the Senators, they have plenty
of guns, but lots of them are pop-guns and squirt-guns. But the really
big (guns, they just keep on shootin’ up in the air, people are not
payin’ so much attention to them, any more.
like when you watch roman candles and rockets go up with a hiss
I would not want to be on the other
side, and tackle some of these senate rebels, bare-handed, for they
have backbone and are smart ducks. And when it comes to votin’
they are the kind of hombres the people like.
JO SERRA.
And it is something
and after awhile you get tired of
the low down,
| to maintain the high standards,
NIMRODS!
PASTE THESE DATES
IN YOUR HATS!
General small game, including
wild turkeys, rabbits, ring-neck-
ed pheasants, black birds and
squirrels__November 1 to Novem-
ber 25. No open season on wild
turkeys in these counties: Clar-
ion, Clearfield, Forest, Schuylkill,
Venango and Warren,
Snowshoe or varying hares, ruf-
fed grouse—November 1 to Nov-
ember 13.
Deer—November 29 ito Decein-
ber 11.
Antlerless Deer — Open season
this year, November 25 to No-
vember 27, inclusive, in 54 coun-
ties. Special license must be ob-
tained.
Bear—November 15 to Novem-
ber 20.
Premiums At Fair
To Total $20,000
Annual Hloomsburk Expo-
sition Will Open Septem-
ber Twenty-Seventh
Bloomsburg Fair Grounds are be-
ing put in A-1 condition these days
in preparation for the 83rd annual fair
opening on ‘September 27 and contin-
uing day and night for a week.
Although the opening of the exhib-
it is almost a month away, officials
have been busy since Spring in ar-
ranging what they are confident will
be the finest all-round programm in
the history of the fair.
Interest in the event, which annu-|
ally draws its crowds from a wider]
radius, is manifested at every ha®d.
Schools of the region, opening this
week, have started preparation for
the school exhibit, one which is a dis-
tinct feature at Bloomsburg.
‘While the children are busy in
work, mothers and older sisters are
putting aside their choice canned and
dried foods for exhibition later and
placing finishing touches on the need-
lework which will be included in the
40,000 exhibits placed in competition
for $20,000 in premiums.
The runners are coming back. to
the fair this year and one or more
running races will be on the program
from Tuesday through Friday, when
some of the best harness horses on
the circuit this year will race for
premiums totalling $8,000.
Free acts have been selected with
utmost care, the board being anxious
as
Bloomsburg has long been recognized
as setting the pace in regard to en-
tertainment. “Revue of Tomorrow” is
the presentation for the mammoth
night show. Lucky Teeter and his
Hell Drivers are on the program for
Friday afternoon and Ralph Hankin-
son promises thrills galore when the
automobile races are held on Satur-
this
day, October 2.
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FIREMEN TO MEET
Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Co. of
Dallas will meet tonight (Friday) in
the hose house. Reports will be made
on the clam bake last Saturday.
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DEMOCRATIC RALLY
© About 1,500 persons attended the
Democratic Rally held on Tuesday
night in Fernbrook Park. All county
candidates spoke. :
Quiet Election 3
Expected Here
Borough Calm In Contrast
To Battles In Two
Townships
SCHOOL FIGHTS HOT
rivalty in Kingston Township and
Dallas Township, next Tuesday's e-
lection in Dallas Borough will be one
of the quietest in many years. =
There is no opposition to the slat
ed candidates for the Republican
nomination and there are no Demo-
crats aspiring yet, although some
names may be written in on Tues~
day. The county contest may draw
some voters to the polls, but the vote
probably will be exceptionally light.
The situation is different in Dallas
Township, where the election revolves
about a heated battle for two school
director posts. Strong slates are lin-
ed up in the contest for the coveted
Republican nominations ang Tuesday
will probably see a spirited struggle
at the polls.
The school director contest will al-
so hold the political spotlight in King-~
ston Township. The complexion of
the election was changed somewhat
there this week with the withdrawal
of Daniel M. Shaver, one of the can-
didates for the Republican nomina-
tion for school director.
One. change in polling place has
been announced by the County Com-
missioners. A change has been made
in Dallas Township from the Van
Campen residence to the Shavertown
Volunteer Firemen’s fire house.
Boy Scout Dies
On Journey Home
Nephew Of Mrs. Stevens Was
Returning From Dutch
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News of the death of yer nephew,
aboard a ship bringing /him home
from the Boy Scout jamBoree in Hol-
land, was received thig fweek by Mrs
Hattie Stevens, who A ji rs.
Emma Shaver of Mill{ street?
The boy's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
James Hoyt of McKeesport arrived at
the Boston pier on Tuesday to greet
their seventeen-year-old son, James,
on his return from the world-wide
rally of Boy Scouts, only to learn the
boy had died Sunday night as the
liner Scythia neared the coast.
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Man Injured When
Car Turns Turtle
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Evan R. Brown, 23, Dallas D.
3, was seriously injured last ida
night at 5:30 when his automobile
skidded and went down a 15-foot em-
bankment. He suffered lacerations of
the scalp.
Kingston Township ;
Schools Open Monday
About 12,000 pupils in Kingston
Township will return to their class
rooms for the 1937-'38 term on Mon-
day morning, September 13¢ The
board recently accepted the MOAEL Dg"
new annex and its classrooms will be
used for the first time next week.
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EXPLANATION!
This issue of The Post will be
the last to come from the old
Babcock press, which has served
so well and so long.
As soon ag the faithful old
press ended this week’s rum, the
workmen began dismantling it,
breaking up its concrete base and
making way for a fast, modern,
ten-and-one-half-ton Miehle that
will arrive here today from Phila-
delphia.
‘The climax of an expansion
program which has been going on
all summer, the mew press will
occupy a place of honor in The
Post’s remodelled basement which
has been undergoing extensive al-
terations,
Massive steel beams have been
erected to support the tons of
new equipment added this sum«
mer and the basement, which
formerly was divided by a parti-
tion into two long rooms, is now
one long, light, airy floor.
These changes, and the neces-
sity for running the paper early
so the press could be dismantled
in preparation for installation of
the new Miehle are responsible
for the reduced size of The Post
this week. HE x
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