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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.
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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.
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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
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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