. fair grounds.
. front, watching the rhythmic spasms
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SCRIPTS
FAIR
INDIANS
FIFE
LIFE
WAR
The pleasant weather last Saturday
afternoon attracted us to the Blooms-
Burg Fair where, besides seeing a
number of Dallas folk, we ran up a-
gainst a bunch of Indians who were
selling hand-made trinkets, which ap-
parently had been shipped from the
reservation to be stamped and wrap-
ped by a famous Chicago novelty firm.
Saturday, you may remember, wasn’t
a particularly promising day. After a
week of glorious weather, the last day
of the fair brought overcast skies.
Then, about noon, the sun burst forth
and people began jamming into the
It was perfect weather,
and the Indians were doing swell busi-
ness. They wouid sell their trinkets
while the crowd was good and when
it began to thin they would begin to
thump their tom-toms and dance what
they announced was the “Snake
Dance”, and another crowd would
gather. We were standing well up
of the Red Men, when we heard the
gentleman next to us snort. What's
wrong?’ we asked. “Some one ought
to stop them,” he said, snorting more
vociferously. It looked harmless to
us. “Why?” we asked. “Well,” said
the stranger, casting his eyes over
the crowd, “I happen to know about
that dance. That one they're doing is
supposed to be a sure prayer for rain.”
Or -
About the most interesting thing in
The Post these days is the weekiy in-
stallment of William Penn Ryman’s
History of Dallas on page 6. A great
many people speak to us about things
they've read in it. This week Mr. Ry-
man describes some of the old Fourth
of July shindigs and pays tribute to
John Hazletine, whose selections on
the fife were a traditiona: feature of
those celebrations.
Shortly after we read the proof we
were talking to Ralph Hazletine and
we thought he’d be interested. BR We
mentioned that this week’s installment
mentioned a John Hazletine. “He
must have been a relative of yours,
wasn’t he,” we asked. Ralph smiied.
“He was my great-grandfather,” he
said. We asked him if he had read
Mr. Ryman’s account of Mr. Hazle-
tine’s mastery of the fife. Of course
Ralph had and, what’s more, he owns
the very fife with which his great-
grandfather thrilled the Indepenaence
Day picnics here 100 years ago.
Mr. Hazletine, incidentally, com-
mands our profoundest respect for his
amazing knowledge of the history of
this section, We have sat dumbly
while old timers drew old tates from
their memories but we have never
met anyone as young as Mr. Hazletine
who could match him for authorita-
tive information about the early days
here.
He is a member, of course, of one
oldest and best respected families of
this section. His great-grandfather,
John Hazletine, was the youngest of
thirteen children. It wag the oldest
of the thirteen, Amos, who taught hin
to play the fife, and John's swift fin-
gers and gay tunes enlivened more
than one party hereabouts a century
ago as a result of his brother's 'ies-
sons. Today Ralph treasures three
old files from those days. One of the
instruments is at least 150 years old,
Mr. Hezletine estimates.
=
Until this week we never knew that
Dallas aimost had a tuberculosis sani-
tarium once. In 1897 the Luzerne
County Medical Society indorsed a
plan to construct a sanatarium here.
Dr. Johnson, the scholarly editor of
the Wilkes-Barre Record, was one Of
the leaders of the movement. The plan
didn’t fade permanently until about
1921, when the county decided to use
the White Haven sanitarium.
tive
With a tardiness that is somewhat
disiilusioning, “Life”, which makes
BERT HILL ELECTED
DIRECTOR IN PLACE
OF LATE ASA LEWIS
Herbert Hil, Shavertowsi flor- -
ist, was/ elected a dirgefor of the
Dutch / Mountain ay Products
Co. Inc, this wel to fill the va-
cancy “left y the death of Asa E.
Lewis,
Mr. Hill will serve with the
group of loca! men who are dev-
loping valuable clay deposits near
Lopez, on the old Daddow farm,
The company announced this
week that the Blaw-Knox Co. of
Pittsburgh is preparing to: erect
the building which will house the
machinery at the ciay deposits and
other preparations for production
are being rushed by Bert Wiolliv-
er, plant superintendent.
D.T. H.S. In First
- Home Game Today
Sem Jayvees Play Borough;
Ashley At Trucksville;
Lehman Away
Three of this section’s high school
football teams wiil be playing home
this week-end, the best gridiron fare
the local fans have had this year.
Topping the week-end schedule in
interest wil be the Dallas Township-
Factoryvilie contest on the township
field this afternoon. Coach Doll's e-
leven, which won only one game last
year, has been creating somewhat of
a sensation as a result of a scoreless
tie with Exeter and a near-upset with
West Pittston, both teams in an ad-
mittedly higher ciass than the local
circuit.
All eyes will be on Mahler, speedy
township halfback, who is given credit
for a bit of Dallas Township's show-
ing against Wiest Pittston last Sat-
urday. West Pittston won, 25 to 20,
but Mahler's brilliant play late in the
game almost changed the outcome.
Ripping through the line for gains
ranging from twelve to forty yards,
Mahler carried the ball across twice
then Broke away for a thirty-yard
gain which put the ball on West Pitt-
ston’s three-yard line so Knecht, the
township ¢uarterback, could take it
over on thé néxt piay. In the last
‘ninute of play Mahler intercepted a
pass and was through half the Wiest
Pittston team before he wag downed
and the final whistle blew.
Borough Plays Sem
Dallas Borough, which made a bad
start last week, bowing to Factory-
vile, 20° to 0, will play its first home
game thig afternoon (Friday) when
it entertains the Wyoming ‘Seminary
Junior Varsity on McVeigh Field.
Coach Tinsley of Dallas felt the big
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NYA Aid Locally
Cut $318 For °37
Four Schools To Get Less For
Worthy Pupils Who
Need Help
A slash in NYA appropriations will
make itself felt in four loca school
districts, where young people who
have been receiving government aid
will have to get along on $318.90 less
for 1937-’38.
One of the least-known of the Fed-
eral heip plans the National Youth
Administration makes it possible for
worthy pupils to continue school by
paying them for part-time jobs, usu-
ally about the school.
Last year worthy young people of
Dallas Borough, Dallas Township,
Kingston Township and Lake Town-
ship received more than $2,000. This
year, as the result of a 75 per cent.
slash in the State and a 16 per cent.
slash in the county, the four schools
will received only $1,736.70.
The appropriations for
compared with last, follow:
this year,
Friday of each week bright for us,
(Continued on Page 8)
'36-"37 '37-’38
Dallas Borough $ 280.00 $235.20
Dallas Township 391.60 328.94
Kingston Township 1,168.00 981.12
Lake Township 216.00 191.44
MOTORMAN RECALLS OLD NAMES
ALONG DALLAS TROLLEY E
By RAMBLER
Riding down on the trolley to Wilkes
Barre, the other day, we got to alk-
ing with the motorman, J. B. Rood.
Mr. Rood has been on the Harvey's
Lake line for seventeen years. We
thought he ought to know everybody
in this region then. He said no, but
he knew where they ali lived.
Baffled we were quiet for a while,
occupying ourselves by shifting from
one side of the car to the other as the
doors opened behind our back to let
passengers on and off.
Evidently feeling our discomfort, Mr.
Rood relented enough to point out
Toby's Creek and explain that it used
to be called Bloody Run along some
of eS NEnEE
slaughter houses on its banks. That
used to be the name of Shavertown,
too, he said,
According to Mr. Rood Shavertown
was Toby's Creek, Luzerne was Mill
Hollow and Sweet Valley was Pleas-
ant Hill at some time during their
histories ,
But the quick change artist among
locatities was the present Oakdale
which wag successively Pritchard's
Corners, Wagner's Corners, and final-
ly Oakdale. It seems that every time
a new postmaster was appointed he
changed the name.
Wie “wondered if Mr. Rood knew the
reagon why the other towns had their
names changed, but he said no, may-
because of the fourteen)be they just got tired of the old ones.
| middle 1920's.
THE DALLAS POST,
Ku Klux Klan
Eager To Regain
Its Lost Power
Spotlighted By Black Affair,
Klan Drives For New
Members j
Lor
TEN YEARS DORMANT
Fiery crosses may blaze again on
the hills above Dallas-if the Ku Klux
Klan, which has been spotlighted by
Klansman Hugo Black's appointment
to the Supreme Court, succeeds in its
efforts to regain its onetime power
here.
Far from being dead, the Klan to-
day numbers many local men as its
members. Reliable sources informed
The Post this week that the Ku Klux
Klan is gaining new strength in this
section.
The Klan which is rising from the
ashes today, however, is a different
one from the one which claimed so
many local' men as members in the
It is as strong as ever
for what is called “100 per cent Am-
ericanism” but its leaders are emph-
atic in forbidding any vioience. It
retains its religious and racial pre-
Jjudices, but it intends to concentrate
this time on a holy war against Com-
munism and Fascism.
Leaders in the revival, many of
whom were big shots in the hooded
order ten years ago, are charting their
course carefully, in the hope that by
avoiding the pitfalis which brought
about disintegration of the Klan here
in 1927 ‘they can win public support
for the secret society.
Once Powerful Here
The Ku Klux Klan had tremendous
power in the rural sections surround-
ing Dallas a decade ago. Many prom-
inent men were affiliated with the
weird conclave. At first the scattered
members heid their membership a
dark secret, but as its power grew
and it gained more and more members
the Klan shed some of its secrecy.
Occasionally Klansmen saluted each
other boldly in public. In Forty Fort
a whole army of white-hooded Klans-
men paraded in broad day:.ight. At
the height of its membership the Klan
ever invited, the public to some of its
ceremonies.
Such public demonstrations were
generally conducted in igolated sec-
tions. Accommodating Klansmen stop-
ped cars, made a brief examination of
the occupants and directed them to a
parking place from which they could
watch the ceremony, the climax of
which usuaily was th burning of a
huge ¢ross which had been wrapped
in gasoline-soaked burlap bags. The,
only restriction was that visitors
should not turn their headlights on
the hooded men and women who were
taking part in the ritual. i
At one time the Klan was a domin-
ant factor in local elections and there
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Patience Tried
By Luzerne Pave
Letter - Writer Describes
Traffic Tangle This
Week
Voicing the sentiments of hundreds
of 'motorists who pray for a by-pass,
a Dallas woman who experienced Lu-
zerne traffic at its worst on/Tuesgdy
night has sent the toilowing~”com-
munication to The Post.
Editor:
,"Is there no redress?
“We have had statements by impor-
tant people, key men in the county.
Wee have had thousands of words
written on the subject of the Luzerne
by-pass.
“I wish it were possible to think
that these few. sentences might be
fanning a flame already kindled by the
foregone pronouncements,
“But it seems to the long-suffering
public that forms the continuous
stream of traffic through Luzerne that
the project promised his community
has gone as dead as the proverbial
door nail .
“Any one coming through Main
street, Luzerne, on Tuesday evening
of this week must have been impres-
sed by a particularly bad condition.
,'Cars iined both sides of the street.
A. truck was parked inside the right-
hand line, and just there the .pave
next to the car tracks ig broken, mak-
ing a small but effective rut into
which one car after another was forc-
ed to settle. The road was slippery
from rain and the cars forced to skid
out of the rut past the aforesaid truck.
“It was frightening in the extreme
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1937
St. Paul's
Church of
where special services will
be held Sunday to dedica-
te a new Hammond elec-
Rev. Herbert
E. Frankfort is pastor.
Lutheran
Shavertown,
tric organ.
ST. PAUL'S DEDICATES ORGAN ON SUNDAY
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SECOND CENTURY OF
LIFE IS UNDER WAY
FOR HANNAH LOOMIS
Mrs. Hannah = Tunk-
hannock is well started on the
second century of her tiife today.
Yesterday she celebrated her
101st birthday anniversary at her
home in Tunkhannock. Hundreds
of greeting cards flooded her home
at 56 Putnam street and scores of
friends came to pay their personal
tributes.
Mrs. Loomis was born in Ly-
nianville, Susquehanna county. A
freak’ storm on the night of her
birth, October 7, 1836, blanketed
the earth under three feet of
snow. She can remember wolves
howling around her father’s home.
She can remember, too, when the
trip from Lymanville to Wilkes-
Barre was a week's journey.
She lives with her daughter,
Mrs. Virginia L. Leighton, who is
in her seventies.
Gibsons Arrive
Safely In Japan
Left Here In August After
Spending Summer With
Washburns
Mr, and Mrs. Frank Murray Gib-
son and their two children, who left
here in August bouna for Japan, have
arrived safely in their home in Tokio.
Mr, and Mrs. Gibson spent the sum-
‘ner here with Mrs. Gibson’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Wiashburn of Ide-
town. Mr. Gibson is a veteran repre-
sentative of the Bethlehem Steel Co.
in the Orient.
The Washburns have received no di-
rect word from the Gibsons since they
sailed from Honolulu but Mr. Gibson
cabied his home office upon arrival
and the news was relayed to the
Washburns, who are anxiously await-
ing further reports of the conditions
the Gibsons found in the Orient.
As far as can be learned Mr. and
| Mrs. Gibson have made no cnauges iu
their plans, which were for them to
make their home in Tokio, where they
had lived for several years before re-
turning to this country for a holiday.
Mr, Gibson also had plans to visit
Shanghai this month and presumably
wilt carry out those plans unless deve-
lopments prevent.
Shortly before they left, Mr.
Mrs. Gibson graciously told a Post re-
porter about their experiences in the
Orient. They knew personally many
of the figures whose names have been
important in news of the Sino-Jap-
anese conflict.
Fall Partially
Paralyzes Baby
Nine-Month-Old Child Falls
From Bed; Condition
Serious
Partialty paralyzed As the result of
a fall from a bed on Sunday after-
noon, Ralph Fitch, nine-nonths-old
son of Mr .and Mrs. Ralph Fitch of
Parrish street, Dallas, was still in a
serious condition yesterday.
to see cars preceding ours accomplish
this perilous feat, but much more so
for
collision had resulted? Isn't it time
the motorist begins to demand dammn-
ages for the impassable condition of
roads which hig taxes are supposed to
keep in repair? Could we sue the
County, the town or the State?
“Is there any redress?”
The baby was taken to Genera: Hos-
pita on Sunday and has been under
us to experience it ourselves. atfobservaiion all week. At first it was
whose door would the fault lay if a!reported the child had infantile para-
lysis, but doctors reported different.
They also expressed opinion that ne
baby’s spine had not been broken but
[It is still suffering from partial para-
| lysis.
|
i bed and struck on the back of its neck.
and
| The child feil while playing on the
To Dedicate New
Organ On Sunday
Prof. E. H. Bénnett To Play
Recital At Evening
Program
The congregation of St. Paul's Lu-
theran church of Shavertown will de-
dicate its new Hammond electric or-
gan at a special service on Sunday
morning at 11.
Rev. Herbert E. Frankfort, pastor,
will preach the dedicatory ser.non, us-
ing as his theme “Music, A Universal
Language”.
In the evening Prof. E. H. Bennett,
organist and choir director of Kings-
ton M. E. church, wil: play a program
designed to show the versatility of the
instrument. Mrs. Benjamin Rhorer,
soloist at. Emmanuel Lutheran church,
Lancaster, will sing several solos.
Prof. Bennett's program follows:
“Elegy”, Lemaigre; “Pilg v's" Chuvns”
by Wagner, “Reverie”, C/ Jacob-Bond
Eddy; “Jubilate Deo”, Silver; Impro-
visation, D flat, E. H. Bennett; “To
a Wild Rose”, MacDowell; “Pomp and
Circumstance”, Elgar; “O Thou Su-
blime Evening Star”, Wagner;
“Marche Solennelie”, Lemaigre.
Weighs Only 300 Pounds
The Hammond organ is a recent
development, having been presented
formally to the musical world in Aprils,
1935, at Rockefelier Center. The res-
ponse to its performance was im-
mediate and since then thousands of
instruments have been placed in pub-
lic auditoriums, schools and churches.
The tones are generated electrically
and the range equals that of any pipe
organ. It has no pipes or reeds, no
air ‘pressure system or vibrating
parts. The console is smalier than
that of the conventional upright
piano. It weighs barely 300 pounds.
The program Professor Bennett has
friends of the St. Paul's congregation
an opportunity to hear the unusual in-
strument at its best.
Vespers will be. entirely musical in
selected will give members and
character at St. Paul’s on ‘Sunday and
the offering will be taken for the
music fund.
Request County
To Pay Borough
Council To Get Rent For
Polling Place In
Future
| The Dallas Borough building on
Rice street will not be available as a
polling place next month uniess the
county pays for it, as it does for other
polling quarters, borough council de-
cided on Wednesday night.
William Niemeyer, secretary, was
authorized to inform the County Com-
missioners that in the future rent will
be asked when the borough building
is used as a potling place.
No. 41
Mundy Promises
Road Contract
By Year’s End
Says By-Pass Construction
May Not Start Before
Spring
FUTURE PLANNING
formed directors/6f WyomingValley
Motor Club this“Week that the ey
tract for the long-awaited Luzerne
by-pass will be awarded before the
end of this year, but construction
probably will not start before Spring.
Senator Mundy, chairman of the
club’s road committee, assured Nor-
man Johnstone, secretary, that the
contemplated highway improvements
zerne County.
Negotiations between the State
Highway Department and Wilkes-
Barre Railway Corp, are understood
to be the chief cause for delay now.
the by-pass would be started yet this
year. :
See Super-Highway
needed Luzerne by-pass is well on its
way toward construction next year,
the groups which have crusaded for
the improvement for the last ten
vears are aiready considering future
Wiith the Luzerne problem solved,
the worst link in the Dallas-Wilkes-
Barre highway will be between
Trucksvil.e and Dallas, where motor-
ists have the choice of following the
hilly route over Mt. Greenwood or the
winding road through Shavertown,
both too narrow for the volume of
traffic they must carry in the summer.
If the by-pass is laid over part of
the right-of-way of the Wilkes-Barre
Railway Corp. the traction company
wili abandon its street car service and
substitute busses. This will leave the
right-of-way available for
highway @ construction and Wyoming
Valley Motor Club/ already has dis-
cussed with officiais the advisability of
of -way between Trucksville and Dal-
las for a new highway.
By that plan the new road would
begin at the end of the present con-
following the traction company’s right
of way through Shavertown and Fern-
brook and come into Dalias
Toby's Creeb, below Main street. The
new highway would cut across Main
street to join Lake street at its junc-
tion with Machell avenue, i
In some distant day that super-
leaving the present road out of Dallas
and cutting across the’ fields to join
the present road at the Robinson
Farm, a route which would shorten
the distance between Dallas and Har-.
vey’'s Lake considerably.
PTA To Enlarge
Scope Of Work
Borough Unit Establishes
Card System For
Members
As a part of its drive to enlarge
the scope of its work, Dallas Borough
Parent-Teacher Association plans to
sponsor a number of interesting iec-
tures and entertainments this winter
and is seeking new members.
ced by a casual system of dues which
were fixed at ten cents a month. In
the next week a new plan will be put
into effect whereby members will pay
fifty cents dues for the year and re-.
ceive
signed by the treasurer. TE
The next meeting of the Parent-
Teacher Association will be held in
the high schooi on Monday night Oc-
tober 18. Officials have extended a
warm invitation to all persons who are
interested in the schools, , regardless
of whether they are parents or teach-
ers. !
‘Officers of the local PTA are Mrs.
Reese Finn, president; H. L. Tenny-
son, vice-president; Mrs, Lewis Le-
-
Some ruture coach of Dallas Bor-
ough High School's football team will
inherit a snappy bunch of football
candidates if all the youngsters who
are after Post footballs make the
grade,
Tops among the juvenille subscrip-
tion salesmen who enlisted this week
is Dick Phillips, who has already
earned a football and is well on the
way toward a motion picture camera.
‘Among the other local youngsters who
tare after some of the 350 gifts which
|are available are Henry Lee, Dana
i Lee, Donala Atkinson, Thomas Atkin .
Ne
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JUVENILE SALESMEN LIKE 350
: FREE GIFTS OFFERED BY POST
son, Donald Still, Peynton Lee, Harold
Weyenrmeyer and Patrick Spurgeon.
Most of them are working for foot-
balls.
The Post is anxious to hear from
some energetic young go-getters in the
towns about Dallas. They should be
ten years of age or older. A catalogue
of all the exciting free gifts can be
seen at The Post. The boys have been
planning to use the street car right-
State Senator Leo-CT™ “Mindy in.
in Luzerne are foremost among the =
road projects he is seeking for Lu-
Earlier in the year Dr. Mundy said
With fair assurance that the much
highway developments in this section.
future
crete near the Mt, Greenwood station 3
along
highway ‘may be further improved by
In the past the PTA has been finan-
a printed etl ‘card,
¢
Grand, second vice-president; Mrs.
Richard Templin, secretary; Arthur
Dungey, treasurer.
instructed to be as polite and courte-
ous as possible in soliciting subscrip-
tions. ! ;
Any disobedience of that rule shoud
be reported promptly to The Post.
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