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POST
SCRIPTS
MIGS
GRAVE
WISHES
VALENTINE
POEMS.
| SEASONAL NOTE: On one of those
sunny days this week Ralph Rood was
iving a. few ‘pointers to a couple of our
youngsters who were playing marbles on
the school grounds, a certain sign of
Spring.
SH
j Ordinarily newspapermen aren't news,
as ‘something that happened to Whitney
~ Genns, The Post's roving center, this week
must be news.
Back in 1919 Whit served in the 107th
nfantry in New York with a man by
the name ‘of Sam Kapowitz. He saw
: Kapowitz occasionally but since 1921 they
had not met. Whit often wondered what
‘had happened to Kapowitz, or where he
: ‘had gone.
Last month Whitney came to The Post
po ‘work. The other day, while taking a
short cut out through Mt. Greenwood
! ~ Cemetery, he happened [to glance at a
tombstone. .. . and stopped in his tracks.
Ir was Sam Kapowitz's grave.
Alexander Woollcott calls incidents like
hier “life when it rhymes.”
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Fred Kiefer, who has been absent from
this column too long, dropped in the other |
Borough Five Will Play At
day and we prevailed upon him to con-
tribute ‘something. He responded by get-
ting a few pet peeves off his chest, as fol-
~ lows:
da WISHES
1 wish people would stop referring to
_ that spreading chestnut of the air waves,
Charlie McCarthy, as the ace comedian
of the times.
1 wish we could stop people from re-
ferring to every new prison as “the Penn-
sylvania Alcatraz” or the “Georgia Alca-
7itranY, ete.
1 wish someone would slap a Japanese
in the face.
1 whl the eleventh Arendiaent to the
Constitution would be further amended
so Federal and State employes (including
~ school teachers) could be made to pay
‘an income tax on inoney earned in these
“official capacities.
1 wish Dallas had a combined fire ap-
paratus and community house.
1 wish the President would definitely
“define his policy toward business.
I wish the robins were back.
I wish I got paid for writing this.
I wish this hadn't been written.
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In the spirit of the month, Dorothy
Ames Carter comes through with a few
Valentines, patterned to suit every pur-
pose. She labels each one, as follows:
ki OLD VERSION
Roses are red and violets are blue.
Sugar is sweet and so are you.
HOLLYWOOD VERSION
_ Roses are crimson and violet cerulean.
‘Kid, I can put you in iouh with Ma-
moulian.
DEMOCRAT VERSION
* Roses smell nice and vi'lets are fragrant.
Except for Relief I'd still be a vagrant.
REPUBLICAN VERSION
"Talk of roses and vilets is simply digres- |
sion.
I'll be nobody's Valentine during Reces-
sion.
COMMUNIST VERSION
Roses are red.
OUR VERSION
Roses are red and villets are blue.
If you don’t read The Post
Then phooey to you.
—Heartily your .Valentine. Also
your Lincolnian and your Wash-
ingtonian.
Dorothy Ames Carter
Legion To Sponsor
Concert On March 8
Daddow-Isaacs Post, American Legion,
will sponsor a concert by West Pittston
Legion Band in Dallas Township school
auditorium on Tuesday night, March 9.
$34,000 Divided
Among 7 School
Districts Here
Kingston Township. Receives
Biggest Slice From
State
FRANKLIN SMALLEST
\
~ Seven local school districts received ap-
proximately $34,000 this week as State
(Treasurer F. Clair Ross disbursed semi
annual appropriations to fourth-class
school districts.
Kingston Township School District re-
ceived the largest slice, $15,198.97, and
Franklin Township came in for the smal
lest share, $951.50. Only one district,
Avoca Borough, received a larger approp-
riation than Kingston Township.
‘The next appropriations will be due
August 1. Amounts received: by local
districts: i
Dallas Borough
Dallas Township
Franklin Township
Jackson Township
. Kingston Township
Lake Township
Lehman Township
Lehman And Dallas
Are In League Tie
$ 4,223.15
5,329.04
951.30
1,189.13
15,189.97,
4,049.41
3,920.94
Kingston Township
Tonight
This sections scholastic basketball leas
gue developed into a bang-up battle be-
tween Lehman and Dallas High Schools
this week as snl of Lehman's sensa-
tional upset of * ocal five last Friday
night.
Although Lehman and Dallas are not
scheduled to meet again each team has
two games yet on its schedule. A de-
feat by either one would give the cham-
pionship to the other.® If bth teams win,
they will have to play a post-season series
to decide the championship. Such a ser
ies was played last year by Dallas Borough
and Kingston Township, with the Bor-
ough winning.
Dallas Borough's winning streak came
to an abrupt end last Friday night when
Lehman snatched a victory in the closing
minutes of a game which thrilled a ban-
ner crowd. Trailing 39 to 38, with two |
minutes left, Lehman turned the tables |
when Edmund Ide and Howard Rice tal- |
lied a goal apiece to change the score to |
42-39." Droposki of Lehman scored 18
points and Templin of Dallas {7 points |
during the game. Dallas girls won over |
Lehman girls, 26 to 10.
On the same night, Dallas Township |
scored a 32 to 16 victory over Laketon. |
Dallas Township girls lost to Laketon |
girls, 31 to 24.
‘On Tuesday night, Lehman downed
Kingston ' Township, '32 to 28, but the!
township girls’ team defeated Lehman, 23 |
to13.*
Templin of Dallas went on one of his |
best scoring Specs of the season on Tues- |
|day night when he scored 2 points to |
{help Dallas defeat Laketon, 48 to 11.
Tonight, Dallas Borough will be at |
Kingston Township, and L:hman will be |
at Dallas Township.
The league standing:
Dallas Borough
Lehman
Dallas Township
Kingston Township
Laketon
Board Purchases
~ Amplifier System
Dallas Township rekon purchas-
ed a loud speaking system for the school
auditorium at a meeting on Monday night.
A cabinet will be purchased to keep the
equipment in.
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FIREMEN TONIGHT
§ 233
833
.600
.250
.000
Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Company of
Dallas will meet tonight at the hose house.
will be entertainment and refreshments.
VALENTINE TEA
The Teen-Age Class of East Dallas M.
E. Church will hold a Valentine Tea on
Monday _night at 7:30 at the church.
73-YEAR-OLD PAPER DISCOVERED
BY LEEK AMONG DEBRIS IN BARN
Hospital patients were paying $3 a day |
for ice, 500 barrels of yellow snuff was
being stored for southern women and
prairie hens were becoming extinct
July, 1865,
newspaper which Arthur Leek of Trucks-
ville uncovered while razing an old barn |
of Abram Nesbitt at Kingston.
The newspaper is Moore's Rural New |
Yorker, dated July 22, 1865. Re
well preserved, it notes that the
government property, such as war }
mules and wagons rendered of no
ther ‘use since termination of the war,
expected to. bring $100,000,000
in
in |
according to a 73-year-old |
| pired after
the | fair to be
next two or three montis, farmers being
{the most extensive purchasers.’
|
{Other news of the day:
“Five hundred barrels of
are stored at ‘Greensboro, N.
Souther n women to chew.”
yellow snuff
C., for the {
34 National
a total
the past week
> been gstablished with
ore :
The Ghote. bbe: patent has ex-
years and yield
$40, 000,000 in profi ts.”
running 21
ing near
R
“The season at Newport, I
the gayest ever experience
., bids
do
lold Sixth Legislative District
New members will be initiated and there |:
| years,
{urday night, 8s a result of
“THE DALLAS POST,
TO BE CANDIDATE
Willard G. Shortz of Kingston, who
has announced he will a candidate
for Representative to i Legis-
lature from the new Seventh Legisla-
tive District.
Shortz Is First
To Enter Contest
Will Seek Nomination As
Representative From
New District
“First to announce himself formally as
a candidate for Representative to the
State Legislature from the new Seventh
Legislative District is Willard G. Shortz
of Kingston, who agreed yesterday to en-
ter the race for the Republican nomina-
tion at the Primary Election on May 17.
Mr. Shortz was Representative from the
for four!
terms, from 1929 to 1935, and was de’
feated in 1936 by Robert Bierly.
Although a score or more names have
been mentioned in connection with the
contest to be representative from the
sprawling *‘Gerrymander” which resulted
when the Demacratic Legislature changed
district lines in the county, Mr. Shortz’s
announcement is the first by any candi
date.
The new district stretches from the
north to the south border of the county
and is made up of parts of the old Sixth,
Second, and Fourth Districts. Since it is
|admittedly a Republican area, the candi
date who wins the G. O. P. ncmination
{this Spring will be virtually assured of el-
ection in November.
A lifelong Republican, Mr. Shortz won
icredit for considerable progressive legis
{lation during his period at Harrisburg.
Among some of his more important ac-
complishments were the bill requiring the |
Ischool districts to use their State approp-
riations only for teac ers’ salaries, a flood
{control bill permitting municipalities to
co-operate, and the restoration of a $150,-
1000 cut from the appropriation for mine
{inspection. He was a staunch supporter |
{of labor and agricultural groups.
Mr. Shortz has been a resident, of
[Kingston all his life. He served nine-
teen years on the school board. He is
especially active in affairs of the Methodist
| Church, having been president of the Lay-
Imen’s Association of Wyoming Conferen-
ce. He, is an ardent advocate of temper-
ance and Sunday observance.
He has been a member of the printer's
union for fdrty years and is active in the
Jr. Mechanics, the P. O. S. of A. and
the I. O. O. F. He has held a number
of high positions in the Odd Fellows.
John Frantz Heads
Dallas Democrats
Officers Flecte ~ By New
Political Club
Tuesday
John Frantz was elected president of
the Dallas Democratic Club at a meet-
ing on Tuesday night at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Wallo.
Other officers are; Charles Randall,
vice-president; Eleanor Machell, secretary;
Mrs. Joseph Wallo, treasurer; John Frantz
Scott Van Horn and Mrs. Wallo, exe-
cutive committee. The next meeting will
be held at the home of Scott Van Horn
on February 15. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Polacky also attended.
Alpheus Odell Dies
At Eatonville Home
Alpheus Odell, a well-known contrac-
tor in the Tunkhannock section for many
died at his home, Fatonville, Sat-
a paralytic
stroke. His wifer§trvives him. The
eral was held on Tuesday afternoon
2 at Eatonville Brick Church with
ment in the/ch urch metery.
TEEL WO JRK
fun-
RISES
rtown
this
open
new Shave
steel work
The theatre is expected to
The contractor on the
theatre be gan erecting
week.
in April. |
' Salvation Army.
at |
inter-,
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1938
Adjutant Kirkman
Tells Masons How
Men Are ‘Remade’
On Work Of Salvation
Army
SPLENDID PROGRAM
“I have no home,
gone.
My people a are ll
The only home I have is with the
If you don’t have any
room for me I don’t know where to go.”
“How often have I heard those words,”
mused B. §. Kirkman of Wilkes Barre,
adjutant of the Salvation Army, in his
addreds before 300 Masons and their
friends in Dallas M. E. Church last
night. “The remaking of such men has
ages, and even in this modern day it is
one of « civilization’s austnding tasks,”
he declared.
The principal speaker at the banquet
of George M. Dallas Lodge, F. & A. M.,,
Adjutant Kirkman painted an inspiring
word-picture of the Salvation Army's
‘|work in rebuilding broken lives and en-
couraging poor and dispirited men to re-
capture hope and independence.
“When William Booth started this
great movement,” Adjutant Kirkman rex-
plained, “he had no idea that it would
grow into such an organization as it has.
His vision was to take the Gospel of
Truth to those who did not, or could
not, go to church.
“He was in his study one evening when
his son, Bramwell, came in and said,
and children are going hungry, and are
cold, sleeping outdoors without the pro-
per care to keep life going?”
“William Booth replied, “Then go had
take care of them.’
“I have been asked many times of the
people who wear the uniform live in the
same building, and if they receive a sal-
ary. The people who wear the uniform
and take part in the open air and indoor
meetings are just like the members of any
church. They have their own homes and
work in the mills, mines, stores and many
other vocations. They do not receive any
salary or money from the Salvation Army.
All the bandsmen and songsters give of
their \ime 4nd talents gladly, and do not
receive any reriuneration for their ser
vices.”
Mr. Kirkman is manager of the men’s
isocial service center on 'Hazle Street, in
Wilkes-Barre. Of that place he said:
“The Social Service Center is an institu
tion in which hard work and simple re-
ligious truths are combined as a cure for
human waywardness, for those who are
less fortunate than we are. Men spend
varying periods in the Center for the pur-
pose of working themselves back to respec-
{tability. In other words. they strive to
| work out their own Salvation.
“The Salvation Army strives to help
the kind of men God intended them to |
Li They are not receiving charity, be-
| cause work is provided for their hands
land’ minds.” He explrined how Army |
[officers direct the activities of the men
who apply to the Center and how these
men reclaim their lives.
In personifying its motto, *‘Service to
Others”, the Salvation Army recognizes |
man’s needs, not his creed, and Sr to |
administer compassion, | not criticism,
jutant Kirkman said. In closing 2 ex |
pressed the gratitude of the Army to all
who, by their moral and material support |
make its work possible.
Calvin McHose was toastmaster during
the splendid program which followed the
dinner. Rev. Francis B. Freeman, pastor
|of Dallas M. E. Church, invoked divine
blessing and Clifford Ide welcomed the
guests cordially. Group singing was led
by Franklin D. Coslett. The program
also included vocal selections by Mr. Mit-
chell, Miss Jean Waters, and the Wyo
ming Valley Choristers. Dr. U. D. Rum-
baugh gave a humorous talk.
THE LOW DOWN
from
HICKORY GROVE
Around a farm you find roosters
flappin’ their wings and perching on
the highest places they can find—and
showin’ off. But if you happen to
be lookin’ for something for an omre-
let you don’t waste your time up
there on any roof.
And in getting business
and going ageln % is gonna be the
same, and whatever gettin’ ahead is
bein’ done, it will be by the average
kind of person who is still gettin’
up at 6:30 A. M., and not by the
fellers up there in the tree tops.
And the commotion in the high
places, it just keeps people upset and
confused, and not knowin’ what is
coming next. Like when a hawk
flies over—the chickens under
the house; and do not come out till
the danger is over,
But one of these days, people will
fed up, as you might say, and
will ‘mosey out there and pick
few roosters from the
s—and invite in the neighbors
—for some fricassee.
Yours with
JO
revived
run
the low down,
SERRA
300 At Banquet Hear Talk ;
been one of the great problems of the
‘Father, do you know that men, women |:
these men to see the mistakes of their:
{kind of life, and that they can again be
week, probably today.
ped from the local] station.
weeks ago at 250,000 bushels, biggest in
I'woO MORE CARS OF APPLES
~ PURCHASED BY GOVERNMENT
ve Other Cars Loaded Nearby Make Sizable Dent In Serious
250,000-Bushel Apple Surplus In County; More To Be
Loaded Here; FSC To Take 180,000 Pounds
FARM BUREAU ASKS HOUSEWIVES TO HELP
of
, Two more carloads of apples from local orchards were shipped from the Le:
high Valley Railroad station at Dallas for the Federal Surplus Commodities Corp.
on Tuesday and other cars for the same government agency will be loaded yet “this
In all, 1,800 bushels of U. S. No. 1 apples, at 60c a bushel; Tavs been hip
With cars going from other points nearby, the purchases
by the FSC are making a sizeable dent in the county apple surplus, estimated three
the history of the county.
HONOR GUEST
Prof. Willis L. Dean (above): will
be able to name most of the hundreds
of Wyoming alumni who come to
Hotel Sterling next Monday night to
attend a dinner in his honor. A mem-
ber Sek Seminary’s business school
faculty for sixty-five years, Professor
Dean has a remarkable memory and
frequently surprises old students by
recalling pranks they had fo: #ten
themselves. Wyoming Seminary nam-
ed the Dean School of Business in his
honor.
Gasoline Station
Scorched By Fire
Two Companies Respond To
Blaze At Hillside
Wednesday
cuit scorched the interiorfof Hillside Tire
Service Station, owned by Michael Fieger,
on Wednesday afternogn about 2¢
The fire destroyed feveral tites,* crack-
ed glass in the doorsf and bafrned the in- |
terior but was confined tos fhe garage side |
of the building. Trucksville and Shaver:
town companies responded. The building
[is insured.
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0 Directors Tackle
| Delinquent Taxe:
‘Dallas Board Confers With
| Dungey On Past-Due
Amounts
Directors of Dallas Borough School
District conferred with Arthur Dungey,
|tax collector; at a special meeting on
Wednesday hight in an effort to stimu-
late receipts from delinquent taxes.
Amounts are still owed the school dis-
trict on the 1934, 1935 and 1936 dupli.
cates and collections on the 1937 dupli-
cates are so slow the board faces the
possibility of financial strain next Spring
unless delinquents pay up.
RR Dl
TO BE CANDIDATE
William H. Martin of\ Dallas’ Township,
South District, has announ@d he will be
a candidate for Democratic Committee-
man this year.
Movie stars are a hospitable lot, in the
opinion of Capt. and Mrs. John Kirken- |
|dall, who are aboard a liner bound for |
{the Philippines, after an unexpecte ed en
| counter with a few of the screen’s lumin.
| aries.
|, On his way from San Antonio to San |t
| Francisco to sail, Captain Kirkendall, who
lis a son of George T. Kirkendall of Dal-
las, stopped in Riverdale, Calif, t
{an old friend, an army major. It was late
when they retired and next morning
i Captain and Mrs. Kirkendall and their
hostess arose late for a lazy breakfast.
While they were eating a shiny limo-
| usine rolled up outside and the hostess
0 visit
; bushels;
Local farmers who had apples in Phe :
week's shipment were Isaac Coursen, 100
Russell Race, 200 bushels; Ira
Frantz, 300 bushels; Sterling Farms, A
T. ioorlon, 250 bushels. John Hildebrant,
100 bushels. and Silas Ide, 250 bushels.
J. C. White, inspector for FSC, was
here while the refrigerator cars were be.
ing loaded. Yo
Although the price paid by the gov-
ernment does not give farmers a satisfac.
tory profit it does give them needed cash
and helps to relieve the pressure caused ,.
by one of the most serious surpluses re
corded. Bumper apple crops throughout
i
Flames which start:d from a short-cif:
the nation last year left farmers with tres Lil
chards were no exception.
James D. Hutchison, agent of Luzerne
County Agricultural Extension Associa
tion, has appealed to housewives and res-
tauranteurs to co-operate by using apples
on every occasion possible. He points out
health food and that increased use of them
for school lunches and for a variety of
tasty dishes will not only help farmers
but will result in better health.
Luzerne County Horticultural Associa
. |tion, of which Nelson Y. Lewis is presi
dent, and Harold Brace is secretary, ar.’
ranged for the purchase of local apples
by the FSC after conferences with Con. «=
gressman J. Harold Flannery. Nine cars
were purchased two weeks ago, in the in-
itial order. This week, according to Con-
_|gressman Flannery 180,000 pounds of ap.
ples will be shipped from Luzerne county.
Farmers To Meet
At “Y” Wednesday 4
Will Elect Officers And Hear
Reports For The 3
Year
The annual meeting of Luzerne County
Agricultural Association, each year a
significant date on the farmer’s calendar,
will be held next Wednesday at Wilkes-
Barre Y. M. C. A.
Officets will be elected and reports will
be given at the morning session, which
{will begin at 10. At (1:30 the afternoon
[session will be held, ‘with Paul Eddinger,
| assistant director of Penn State Extension
(Service, and Rabbi Samuel L. Wolk of
Wilkes-Barre as the speakers.
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'Sund lay Services At
| St. Paul’s Church
|
“The Laborers in the Vineyard,” an
|explanation of the parable of Jesus, will
be the sermon at the Sunday morning
service at 11 at St. Paul's Lutheran
Church, Shavertown, Rev. Herbert E.
Frankfort, pastor. Sunday school will be
at 9:45, ¢
“The Garb of Serving Love,” an ex-
|planation of the work of the Diaconate,
will be discussed by Laura Adler at the
Luther League devotional service at 6:45.
Ruth Hontz will lead devotions. The
birthday of Lincoln will be commemorated
at Vespers at 7:30. ‘‘Abraham Lincoln,
His Life and Work” will be the sermon
subject.
Choir Will Sponsor
Musical Tea Feb. 15
The choir of St. Paul's Lutheran
Church will hold a musical tea on Tues
day evening, February 15, at 8 at the
church. Proceeds will be used to purchase
new equipment for the choir. Mrs. Isa
belle Santiago of Shavertown, Miss Lil-
lian Rood of Dallas and Kenneth Scovil
of Luzerne will be featured. Reservations
may be phoned to Mrs. Newton Ness,
Dallas 245-R-2.
KIRKENDALLS HAVE UNEXPECTED
ENCOUNTER WITH MOVIE STARS
| jumped up and cried “My goodness, it's
[Carol and Clarke.” While Mrs. Kirken-
'dall and their hostess fled to make them-
{selves presentable, Captain Kirkendall
{found himself greeting Clarke Gable and
| Carol Lombard, who had come calling on
he Major and his wife. J
{ Later Miss Lombard and Mr. Gable
[showed the Kirkendalls about and intro-
{duced them to a number of film actors
and actresses, among them Spencer
| Tracy.
{ Captain Kirkendall is on his way to re
{port for duty with the United States air
|forces in the Philippines. Both he and
'his wife have visited here frequently.
mendous stores and Luzerne county or «=
that apples are generally recognized as a i