| WAYS TO INCREASE YOUR BUSINESS e Da ty llas Pos 3 More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution A TIME TO ADVERTISE IN THE POST the comics, those a little older read ST RIPTS CEMETERY RICE ‘t. HESSIAN "» PRESS SOCIALS There ¥ was always a certain chal- lenge akbhout Rev. G. Elson Ruff’s visits to our office while he wags pastor of St. Paul’’s Lutheran Church at Shav- ertown. \ ; Rev. Mr. Ruff was always in a hurry, | but we alwiryg wanted him to sit down and talk a _while. He came into the shop, deterrnined to conduct his bus- iness and glet away; we were just as anxious to Lure him into conversation and keep hirm a while. He was some- what handiccapped by his inherent courtesy. Wfe had no such handicap. We were sol eager to get him into con- versation wle frequently skirted pretty close to rudeness in roping him into a discussion. Wie enjoyéd those conversations and learned a loft from them because, be- sides being %a good preacher and a pleasant comipanion, Rev. Mr. Ruff is a good néwspaperman. An alum- nus of the Philadelphia Inquirer he is now publicity’ head for the Pennsyl- vania Ministel*ium and he was always much more at thome in our office than we should have been in his pulpit. y —o— We have milssed those occasional visits since Riev. Mr. Ruff left last January to become pastor of Christ Lutheran Church at ‘Schuylkill Haven. Of course each’ week The Post goes to him, but we had heard nothing from him until this week, when this kind letter reached us: Dear Editor: This is from {a pleased subscriber, so expect no vituperation in the para- graphs to come. / I suppose there is always some little doubt in the editor's mind regarding ‘this matter when he opens a letter from a constant reader. Well, I hasten to assure you that The Post is gen- uinely a family mewspaper in our household (so youll have to keep it censored). The youngest in the family look at avidly the stories of sports encoun- ters among the local schools in their of the | seasonal progression, some grown-ups read the personal items regarding old friends. I read Post Scripts without fail, and also other colwmns and editorials when they give promise of not being reactionary. So you see we are good readers. Hope your shop is as busy as ever. I still consider The Dallas Post the) best weekly paper in the country, and one of the best of any kind, both for literary quality and typography. Yours, J. E. Ruff. —C— We know Rev. Mr. Ruff will be in- terested to learn that his successor, Rev. Herbert E. Frahkfort, is carry- ing on the tradition of visits to The Dallas Post. Rev. Mr. Frankfort not only pays enjoyable visits but has, on one or two occasions, contributed to these columns. And Rey. Frankfort seems to be just about as busy as Mr. Ruff used to be when we're in the mood for rambling, mellow conversa- tion. ? ig A gentleman telephoned us this week to ask us if we knew anything about the history of Wyalusiag Rocks. “pve asked about twenty people,” he said, “and I don’t know any more about it than that it's a big pile of rocks overlooking the Susquédanna.” We couldn't add much to his in- formation, but we recalled that some- where we'd heard that the Rock were, a long time ago, an important tation in a signal system through whith the powerful tribes around Sunbury thain- tained contact with their allis in New York State. They relayed snoke messages from the Council Cup at Wapwallopen, to Tilbury's Knob; to Campbell's Ledge, and then to Wra- lusing Rocks, great fires being hilt on each of those high points for he purpose. RT Actually though, there ig little be - gide scenic beauty to Wiyalusing Rocks. The territory surrounding th CWF COLONEL Mrs. Avenue, who has been selected to head the Division of West Side Municipalities in the sixteenth an- nual campaign for funds of Com- Floyd Sanders of Pioneer munity Welfare Federation. The campaign will take place next month. Mrs. Sanders led the Dal- lag group “over the top” last year. Farm House Stood On Station’s Site B. Frank Bulford’s Mother Was Killed By First Train B. Frank Bulford, who was~ born eighty-two years ago in the farm house which occupied the site of the present Lehigh Valley Railroad sta- tion, celebrated his birthday anniver- sary on Wednesday. After a full day of greeting friends who had come to felicitate him as one of this section's oldest and most re- of honor on Wednesday evening at a pleasant family dinner, dr. Beadord’s father, John, owned the farm which has become Dallas's business’ section. When promoters bering area about Dallas they cut di- rectly across the Bulford farm. The first train that passed through town killed Mr. Bulford’s mother. She lost her life when she tried to save a horse that was in the path of the locomo- tive. \ Mr. Bulford's great-great-great- great-grandfather founded ~Walling- ford, Conn., in 1670. One of his ances- tors was Jacob Johnson, who spent thirty years as a missionary to the Indians of Connecticut and Northeast- ern Pennsylvania and who founded the First Presbyterian Church of Wilkes- Barre. Mr. Bulford’s grandfather was Albon Bulford, an English sea captain. In the 1870's, when the people in the lower part of Dallag Township rebel- led against those in. the northern sec- tion, who had been getting most of the township offices, Mr. Bulford was one of he men who favored splitting the township and forming a new bor- ough. He was one of the signers of the petition requesting the change, which came about on April 21, 1879, when the borough charter was grant- ed. Ironically enough, Mr. Bulford, who began life in the old Dallas Township, and then helped to found Dallas Bor- ough, now finds himself living in Dal- las Township again, on a farm which hag been in his family for 100 years. He has been living there since he was thirty-two years old. y Mr. Bulford, at 82, believes youth is the best time of a man’s life, but he has learned, too, that life is pretty much what you make it, at any age. spected citizens, Mr. Bulford was guest built the railroad to tap the rich lum- | THE DALLAS POST, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22,1937 Goeringer Picks Local Woman As Division Head Mrs. Floyd Sanders Colonel Of Local Unit In Fund Drive CAMPAIGN NOV. 15 Division of West Side ae by Community Welfare € eration, which will its 16th annual campaign for funds next month. conduct Harry S. Goeringer, general chair- man of the campaign, announced the appointment vesterday. Mrs. Sanders will head the division which includes Forty Fort, Ply- Larks- ville, Courtdale, Pringle and Edwards- Dallas, Kingston, ‘mouth, Luzerne, Swoyerville, ville. Mrs. Sanders’ work will entail se- curing a major in each of these com- munities, assisting them' to build up their teams, and to supervise the work of solicitation in the various towns. In making the appointment, Mr. Goer- inger stressed that fact that this year’s campaign personnel hag been selected from the workers of past campaigns who have turned in the best organiza- tion and solicitation records. Mrs. ‘Sanders was 'major of the Dal- las Team last year and led her work- ers over the top, with 104 per cent of their quota subscribed. . The campaign this year will open on November 15 and continue through un- til the twenty-second of the month. Mrs. Sanders has announced that she will make public the names of her co- workers within the mext few days. Tracy Will Come East To Do Play May Visit Mother's Home In Shavertown This Winter iy “ Lee Tracy, stage and screen star, may visit his mother, Mrs. W, L. Tracy of Shavetown, when he makes a trip East this winter to do a new play in New York. ' Mrs. Tracy this week confirmed the report that Lee, who has just signed for a new picture with RKO, will re- | turn to the stage, his first And fondest love after his mother, this winter. She said Lee has agreed to appear in one more picture, “Lights Out,” be- fore coming East. He is on a deer hunt in Utah now, she said, and will begin hig new film upon his return. The picture will recount the advent- ures of a scenario writer who obtains a series of crime revelations from an exconvict which are real enough to smoke out a mob of gangsters and put them behind bars. Mr. Tracy made hig first great suc- cess as the tap dancer in “Broadway” and although he has made many pic- tures he has never lost his preference for the stage. In 1985 he returned from @ollywood to enact the role of Quinn Hanna in “Bright Star” by Arthur Hopkins but the play closed aftr a short run and Lee went back to Hollywood. Mrs. Tracy, who spent last winter with her son in Hollywood, will, of course, be in New York to greet him. He hopes, she said, to have time to return with her for a visit. Although the play he will be in has not been announced, reports are that it will be a much better role than that he drew in “Brigh Star” and his friends are predicting his succesg in it al- Mrs. Floyd Sanders, Pioneer Avenue, Dallas, has been named re ; ready. THREE-DAY DRIZZLE REPLENISHES WELLS IN COUNTRY AREA An almost steady drizzleh Mone" day, Tuesday and Wednesday raised dangerously-low wells in some of the country districts about Dallas and turned unim- proved roads into bogs. At the Huntsville filter plant it ‘was reported that .22 of an inch fell on Monday, 1.33 on Tuesday and .36 on Wednesday. Some water supplies, particular- ly in the lower end of the county, were unusually low, many creeks had been reduced to trickles and the dry spell had forced farm- ers to be especially carefully with fire in the woods. Roods Wedded 55 Years On Monday Will Observe Anniversary With Open House To Friends / Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Rood of Main street, Dallas, will observe tl pir fifty- fifth wedding anniversary ndxt = day. They will have “open house” all during the afternoon and evening and will be honored guests at a family dinner, Both are lifelong residents of this section. Mrs. Rood, who is 87, was born in Dallas, as Mary Honeywell, the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Honeywell, whose home oC- cupied the site of the present Parrish home on Main street. Mr. Rood; who is 81, was born in Bloomingdale, where his father oper- ated a farm. They were married in Dallas in 1882. Both are in excellent health and both have a wide circle of friends. i Mr. Rood’s father, “Uncle” Al Rood, was a drummer boy in the 143rd Penn- sylvania Volunteers during the Civil War and when he returned he taught many of the beats and tunes to his son. “Uncle” Al organized a drum corps and although many of the ori- ginal members have died, Joseph Rood still plays the old tunes each Memorial Day in tribute to the mem- ory «Of the -old 143rd. Annual Fall Fete Next Wednesday St. Therese’s Will Sponsor Annual Dinner Next Week The annual Autumn Supper of St. Therese’s Church, Shavertown, will be held next Wednesday night from 5:30 to 8, Rev. Harold Durkin, pastor, an- nounced last night. Mrs, Jacob Laux, chairman, will be assisted by Mrs. Jacob Beline, who will have charge of publicity; Her- man Sieber, reservations, and Andrew Fisher, games. Legion Installs Shaver As Head New Officers Of l.ocal Post Took Office Last Night l ££ Paul Shaver was installed ds com- mander of Daddow-Isaacs Post, Amer- ican Legion, last night at a regular meeting in the post’s rooms on Main Street. Other new officers installed were: Paul Winter, first vice-commander; John Garbutt, second vice-command- er; Arthur Dungey, finance officer; John Thomas, adjutant; Alvin Scott and GG: Adler, sergeants-at-arms; Claire. Winters, chaplain, AY Two Local Teams NEXT BURGESS Last month Republican voters in Daflas Borough approved Herbert A. Smith (above), prominent local business man, as their choice for Burgess in Dallas Borough. As the G.O.P. standard. bearer Mr, Smith will head the slaté at the General Election on Tuesday, November 2. (Clash At Lehman Dallas Borough Faces Stiff Opposition In Game Today The first step toward determining the football championship of the Back Mountain Scholastic Conference will be taken this afternoon when a de- termined Dallas team goes to Lehman to meet that school’s eleven. Coach Mal MecCullough’s Lelrman squad is the favorite on the face of comparative scores. Last week Dallas Borough wag defeated by Tunkhan- nock, 33 to 7. The week before Tunk- hannock defeated Lehman, 22 to 7. Lehman, which won the champion- ship last year, has one victory, one defeat and one tie to its credit. It tied a strong Shickshinny team, 6 to 6, last week-end. Dallas Borough has one victory and two defeats on its record. : Although local high school elevens have been playing fora month this will be the first meeting between two Back Mountain squads and will have a decided bearing upon the champion- ship. Kingston Township, Wyoming, 6 to 0, will play West Wyoming today at West Wyoming. Dallas Township has no game sche- duled for this week-end. Weather Again Delays Flight Rau And Comrades Assure Folks Trip Is of which lost to On Schedule Bad weather this week again lay ed the flight of Harold Rau"Army pilot, from Selfridge Field, near De- troit, to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Rau of Shavertown. Mr. and Mrs. Rau received a wire last week informing them that Harold and five other army pilots were plan- ning a cross-country hop from Detroit to Wyoming Valley airport and would be with the Raus for dinner. Later a telegram announced postponement of the flight because of bad weather and Mr. and Mrs. Rau looked for their son later in the week. : This week they received a letter, explaining the delay, and giving as- surance that the flight is still on sche- dule. Rain on he first three days of the week made bad going over the 'moun- tains to the Wiest of here, but with clearing skies My. and Mrs. Rau ex- pected to greet their son and his friends before the end of the week It will fly here. “Ghost Month” Recalls Old Superstitions Current point, particularly that section across the river at Azilum, where the French refugees planned to welcome thein Queen, ig crowded with historical in- terests. Our friend, some long-lost Rocks. x The most peculiar thing about the though, may discover Rocks to us has always been that it is ‘the only high place in Pennsyl- from which some white settler didn’t jump with his Indian sweetheart. ~—0— ANSWER TO A SUBSCRIPTION DUN: Dear Sir: I do not remember | ordering your paper. If I did order it, vou certainly never sent it. If you did send it, I never got it. Furthermore, If T got it T must have paid for it. And if 1 didn’t, T can’t now. (Continued on Page 8) of Wryalusing Here Once Legends of the supernatural, revived by the Hallowe'en season, are remind- hrs of weird tales reaching back hun- reds of years in the history of this action. . La Behind the gay celebrat ns. of mods eh youth — masquerades, jack-o-lan- {tens, corn-throwing and window- | Soping—ilie superstition and sombre seqets of the occult. Fren before the coming of the white piokers with their old-world beliefs, the Indians believed that during “the ghos month,” the wraiths of departed warrirs returned to rove their former haunt, Har, traders and settlers often whispeed of seeing strange forms moving swiftly, with light footsteps along Indian trails through the \ the darkness of eerie October nights. through the woods to their new homes Among the ‘most widespread ‘and powerful of all superstitions of early white inhabitants of Pennsylvania is that of the Wild Huntsman — the “Ewig Yager” of the Germans, and the “Chase Volant” of the Frencn. Reported seen in every part of the pi as well asgin, Elropd! the wild t auntsman rides through the sky of night, accompanied - by a pack of | hounds in full cry. Oftimes on nights when the sounds were heard, and packed clouds rode across the face of the full moon, mo- thers frightened misbehaving children by whispering, “The Ewig Yager will find you.” In Eastern' Pennsylvania, this leg- end is associated with ancient Corn- wall Iron furnace. Angered at his pack of hounds because a fox escaped, a hunting squire of 200 vears ago had \ Boo! Old Spooks Ride Again As Hallowe'en Season Nears: SIR. <4 the dogs thrown into the furnace alive, according to the legend. Ever since, the vengeful pack has pursued its master across the heavens and will, even to Judgment Day, oldtime resi- dents say the story goes. In the Western part of the State the legend ceners on Alliance ette County, by a Pittsburgh iron firm, One of the partners, Peter Marmie, a'of witcheraft.” Frenchrman, driven mad by financial losses, so the tale runs, drove his faithful hunting hounds into the fur- nace and followed himself: on stormy nights, often say," people of “The mad Now the region Frenchman is out again ‘with hounds | hewitched w and horn.” The witch rides her broom- stick across the face of the Hallowe'en moon also made her appearance here. The hardy settlers who pressed who were full of the wildest and crudest|from the gun, barrel Feared Wiles Of | : Witches | CNIS | superstitions, and they subscribed Furnace, | wite built about 1790 in what is now Fay- |, | heartily to the cruel laws against heraft. Although there were no | executions in Luzerne County, many poor old woman here “had the fame Records Show Local Folk ‘Old histories tell of one woman who bewitched cattle, of another near| | Tunkhannock who could bewitch | hunters’ guns, and of a third who be- witched cows and dogs. The favorite fethod of relieving the as to fill a gunbarrel with a certain saline fluid, plug up the muz- zle and touch-hole and place it in the chimney corner. This sent the witch into great pain, which could only be is not known how many ’planes they | mn, No. 42 G.O.P. Faces Big Test In Dallas November 2.4 Faces Complete Demo oe Slate For First To Rilo -In Years n TWO PARTY FIGHT et = g. ~The Grand Old Party; long the favor. ite of the majority of Dallas Borough voters, is marshalling its forces for its severest local tést in many years. Originally a strong Democratic sec- tion, Dallas began swinging into the Republican column just 100 years ago, and swung so far in seventy-five years that a Democrat became a rarity here- abouts. ; Few candidates in the last quarter of a century have had the courage to aspire as Democratic nominees. One exception was Burgess Harry Ander- son. While other Democrats fell be- fore the staggering ‘majority of Re- publican votes, Squire Anderson was elected and re-elected. The scattered Democrats here took courage from President Roosevelt's election in 1932 and began to mend their battered fences. Each year since then, the Democrats have recorded slight gains, but this is the first year in which Dallas Borough has had a complete Democratic slate in the Gen- eral Election. 9 In the last fifteen years Dallas Bor- ough has seen a number of contests in which strong pre-empted tickets battled the Republicans but next month’s election will be unusual in that it will have two complete major pary slates lined up against each other. G.0.P. Has Advantage There is little question mow that the Republican party holds the advantage. It has the greatest numbers of voters registered and it polled the greatest number of votes in the Primary Elec- tion in September. But the threat from a vigorous Democratic slate i3 a mew experience for the ordinarily safe Republican voters. : Carrying the standard for the Re- publicans is an exceptionally strong slate of twelve men headed by Her- bert A. Smith, candidate for Burgess. Probably the most noteworhy item about the Republican slate is the bus- iness experience of its members. Mr. Smith, “himself, a taxpayer here for the last twenty-three years, is head of H. A. Smith Interior Decorating Co. and was formerly associated with C. F. Murray Smith Co. in Wilkes-Barre. . The strongest candidates, because of their proved records, are the three aspirants for Council, Peter D. Clark, Jarmes Franklin and Morgan Wilcox. George Ayre, Willia/m Baker and John T. Jeter are the Republican candidates for school director, Arthur R. Dungey is aspiring to re-election as tax col- lector, A. S. Culbert was nominated for auditor, Clint Bollinger is the candi- rate for Judge of Election in the North District and Kyle Cundiff in the South District and John E. Roberts is seeking the inspector's job in the North District. The New Dealers, who base their hope on their ability to lure from Re- publican ranks enough voters to .| change the town’s political complex- ion, are: Arthur H. Rainey, Burgess; Ada G. Coolbaugh, tax collector; John H. Frantz, John I. Sullivan and Jo- seph H. Wallo, council; Grant Shaner, Irene C. Monk and Handel Thomas, school directors; Charles Stookey, auditor: Peter Oberst and Steve Tom- asick, election board, North District, and A. C. Verfaillie and Scott Van - Horn, election board, South District. THE LOW DOWN from HICKORY GROVE I don’t very often read enough to strain my eyes an awful lot, but I do try to keep half-way up on politics. And the reason I like to read something now and then on politics ig because it is most always good comedy. And if you like jokes, you will go a long ways ‘to find places ‘where they are better than in our Capitol. And you will read where one cabinet member is tellin’ us to lay off plantin’ so much —and solve the over-production farm prob- lem. And another cabinet mem- . ber he is goin’ pell-mell here and there, promotin’ dams for more water to give us new acres and bigger crops. So it is hard to savvy, how any farmer can plant less and also plant more, at the same time, and it looks ag if the fellers sponsor- in’ these great plants, they maybe never meant for anybody to take ‘em too serious, in the first place. And anybody doin’ so, it is quite a good joke on them—like lookin’ under the shell and findin’ no pea —and the other feller has our two- bits, .or is maybe re-elected. Tours, with the low-down, relieved when the liquid was poured JOE SERRA
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