ROOSEVELT AIRMAIL RING ; RHYME by TENNYSON Rives Matthews’ Starts More Fights Than Any Other News- paper Writer We Knew. Frankly, That's Why We Think His Col- umn Is One Of The Best In The Country. / More Than A Newspaper, HE DALLAS P A Community Institution OST Of All The Newspapers In The World The Post Is The Only One Which Puts The Back Mountain's Interest First Of All. Whatever You Read, Read The Post! Vol. 48 THE DALLAS POST FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1938 POST SCRIPTS We had hoped President Roosevelt would get around to answering our letter this week but he went off on a battleship fishing, leaving us with a column to fill without any help from the chief executive. In his absence, we'll have to rely upon another good Democrat, Joe Polacky, to stop the gap. : Mr. Polacky, who is acting post-; master in Dallas, has been working feverishly lately on plans for Air Mail | Week and we question whether any | employe of the post office department is taking that red, white and blue oc- casion more seriously. ' He believes in getting right down to which they live to achieve the highest rank of motherhood, she said. : fundamentals when he tackles any- | thing. For weeks he has been getting ready to make Dallas air mail con-| Day to 250 B. C. and described the be- The other day ‘he decided that, ginning of its modern observance in had , scious. it was tough for a fellow who néver been up in a plane to try to sell aviation to his customers so he went down to the Wyoming Valley Airport and took a ride. Felt more like cele- brating Air Mail Week when he came $ back, he said. Now Mr. Polacky is offering prizes of free airplane rides to the boy and the girl who build the best model air- plane. That was pretty new to Joe; too, until he went shopping in John Williams’ store and acquired a knock- down airplane. Mr. Polacky was in to see us one day this week, ‘You know,” he said, “it’s no cinch to build these model planes. I was up until 11:30 last night working on mine.” ~ He won't enter his in the trials though, he promised. —_—0— This is an old story, but one which we’d never heard until this week and it is such excellent proof of the the- ory that truth really is stranger than fiction that we hasten to pass it on to you. Sometime between thirty and forty years. ago Mrs, Amos Kitchen of Ald- . erson lost her wedding ring while working in the garden behind her home. Naturally, the loss dishearten- ed her and she and her husband spent days searching carefully in the garden. But the ring was not to be! found and | as time passed on the Kitchens gave up hope of recovering it. Years passed. The land where the ‘ring had been lost was plowed again and again. Finally the Kitchens gave up the garden and made a lawn of the plot. A few years ago, Sunday dinner, Mr. Kitchen and his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Leas of Kingston, strolled out across the lawn, chatting. During the conversation Mr. Kitchen recalled the story of the lost ring and related it, Mr. Leas was standing quietly, listening to the story., As it ended, he glanced idly toward his feet. Then he stooped over and picked up some- thing. “Is this the ring?” he asked quietly. Mr. Kitchen reached for it excitedly and examined it. He rushed to call his wife. It was the ring, the ring which had slipped from her finger ‘nearly four decades before. yn “It is no easy job into which Harry I. Tennyson will step when he be- comes supervising principal of Dallas Borough’s schools next Wednesday” said an editorial in The Post of June 26, 1936. The editorial continued: “The principalship of the borough's school system has been a storm center for many years. Within the last few months it has become again the pivot point for an unfortunate controversy. The dust from the latest trouble seems ta be settling now and perhaps a new chapter is opening.” “Mr. Tennyson comes with excep- tionally good references. The people who have met him have been impress- ed by his friendliness, alertness and fairness. The Post extends a warm welcome , . .” There was more to it. We looked it (Continued on Page 8) BOLT OF LIGHTNING TRAVELS DOWN CHAIN TO ELECTROCUTE DOG A setter owned by Scott Van Horn of Parrish Heights was elec- trocuted during a heavy thunder storm last Thursday night. The dog was on a chain which slid along a metal clothes-wire be- tween a tree and a barn in Mr. Van Horn’s yard. Apparently lightning struck the tree, travelled along the clothes-line and down the dog chain. Mr. Van Horn was unaware that a bolt of lightning had struck so near the house until he went to call the dog and found it dead. after a’ Mothers Hold Key To lis 0f World Speaker Believes Mrs. Frick Addresses Junior Women’s Club At Annual Dinner SPLENDID PROGRAM The ills of the world could be cured in one generations Ar) ithe mothers of the world cooperated toward that end, de- clared Mrs. Gharles H. Frick in an i spiring add Church in Kingston, stressed the need for queenly qualities in mothers today. Mothers must give, not only to their children, but also to the community in She traced the history of Mothers’ response to the efforts of Ann Jarvis. Mrs. Frick warned the young women that they must choose between two roads, one with a gleam, the other with a glare. “Don’t be disillusioned by thrills!” she pleaded. “Take the gleam, for the glare will leave you disappointed. i Mrs. Reese Finn was toastmaster. Invocation was given by Mrs. Charles Smith, Mrs. Peynton Lee gave a toast to the mothers and Mrs. Claude Cooke gave the toast to the daughters. The musical program included solos by Mrs. George K. Swartz, who who sang “Songs My Mother Taught Me.” The Glee Club sang several se- lections, a quartet having as members Mrs. Kenneth Oliver, Mrs. Robert Bodycomb, Mrs. Peynton Lee and Mrs. Arthur Oliver sang, and Mrs. Charles ‘Whitesell gave a reading. Mrs. Thom- as Robinson was song leader, with Mrs, Maude Baker as accompanist. (Continued on Page 8) Girls Have Chance Invited To Compete For Own Prize In Air Mail Week Contest result of Postmaster Joseph Polacky’s decision this week to have a model plane contest for them, too. Complete details of the type of plane to be built and the rules can be se- cured from Mr, Polacky. must have a wing span 22-inches or less and must be submitted to Mr. Pol- acky at the post office not later than May 16, to be displayed during Na- tional Air Mail Week. On Saturday of that week, May 21, the models will be tested before judges and the planes which fly the greatest distance, perform best and look best will be adjudged the winners. One boy and one girl, owners of the best planes, will receive a free airplane trip from Wyoming Valley airport over Dallas. In urging girls to compete in the contest, Mr. Polacky quoted Amelia Earhart, who said: “Girls have had few opportunities to express their mechanical bent. Yet some of them would prove better carpenters than cooks, just as some boys would make better pies than machines. Many girls are skillful with their fingers. Model- making gives a back-ground in aeron- autics that women, as well as men, will need tomorrow.” sang | “Morning”, and Mrs. Charlotte Payne, | The models | JAMES IN CHARACTERISTIC FIGHTING FORM JUDGE ARTHUR H. JAMES James, candidate for the Republican Almost from the sultry July 14 in odds. In boyhood, he fought with other whom the world had treated harshly. His red hair and jutting jaw are symbolic of the rise of a little slate picker from a Pennsylvania colliery to his present eminence as a Judge of the Superior Court. Judge James was born not a half ‘mile from his present modest, white For Airplane Ride, frame residence in Plymouth. He was the oldest boy in a family of five girls and three boys, six of whom sur- vive. His parents were James D. and Rachel Edwards James, natives of Wales who had emigrated to America. The elder James was a mine worker. Judge James’ mother, before her mar- : riage had been a teacher in a rural Pennsylvania school of the early 80’s. Arthur began early in life to con- tribute his share toward the precar- ious support of the family. He went down to the same colliery in which his father worked. They had a saying in the mine country that ‘you went down in the dark and came up in the dark.” Arthur worked from before dawn until after sunset, picking slate, driving mules, hauling wooden coal cars from face to passage. At the mine, as in school, the other boys taunted him because of his car- roty red hair. A taunted boy. has either to run away or to fight. Arthur chose to fight. He lost a lot of fights, because he was a frail boy then. But he won a lot, too. Study and work, with little or no time for play, was the program of the pugnacious red-head’s early days. Even after he had come home from school and delivered groceries, which was his after-school chore, and then studied his lessons, Art was not through by any means. His father, an ambitious man, had learned the bitter lesson that a full day’s work in the mines, even though regular, was not sufficient for more than bare existence. He sought con- stantly to better himself, imbued with (Continued on Page 8) Fought Way From Breaker To Superior Court Bench ARTHUR JAMES’ CAREER STUDDED WITH BATTLES (This is the first of two installments of the biography of Arthur H. The story of Arthur H. James is the story of a fighting man. the little mining city of Plymouth, Luzerne county, in the heart of Pennsyl- vania’s anthracite fields, “his life has been one long battle, uphill and against youth, he fought poverty to win his education.. In manhood he fought in- justice and evil and the battles, of those less fortunate or less gifted than he, nomination for Governor) 1883, when he came into the world in boys, because he couldn’t help it. In| Tourists To Come ticre During Trip To Pass Thro #7. On L May fia” A caravan of newspapermen and travel counselors from Eastern United States will visit Harvey's Lake and Dallas briefly on Saturday, May 14, during an eleven-day jaunt through Pennsylvania. More than 100 guests of the State Publicity Commission will begin the 1500-mile trip at Harrisburg after a breakfast with Governor Earle on Sunday, May 8. On Friday, May 13, Col. Ernest G. Smith, member of the State Commis- sion, and Norman Johnstone secretary of Wyoming Valley Motor Club, will meet the Good Will Caravan at Williamsport and on the following | morning will guide them to Wilkes- Barre. ‘The first stop near here will be at Kitchen Creek, where Colonel Ricketts will show the guests the first falls. The caravan will then proceed around Huntsville Dam to Harvey's Lake and then through Dallas on the way to the valley. Wyoming Valley Motor Club and Wyoming Valley Chamber of Commerce wil be hosts at a luncheon at The Sterling. Wednesday night. Tennyson Resigns As Head Of Dallas 1s Borough Schools Will Accept Position As Supervising Principal In Home Town In Western Part Of State; Local Board Prep To Appoint His Successor Soon As Possible ow DIRECTORS FIX 1937 BUDGET AND MILLAGE Harry L. Tennyson, supervising principal of Dallas Borough Schools for the last two years, has accepted a position as head of the joint districts of Smith Township and Burgettstown Borough in Washington County. Mr. Tennyson submitted his resignation to the school directors at their meeting on Wednesday night and after accepting with regret, the directors set in motion plans to appoint Mr. Tennyson's successor as quickly as possible. ——® Democrats Report Heavy Gains Here Back Mountain Rally Will Be Held At Shavertown On Monday Steady Democratic gains in registra- | * tions throughout the Ba. Mountgir| i reported hf Dem atic workers at a meeting a ome of region were Charles Youngblood in Shavertown on Plans were made for a rally to be held at the new home of Shavertown firemen on Monday night, when prom- inent Democratic candidates and party leaders will be speakers. All Demo- crats from this section are invited. Speakers at Wednesday night's meeting were Stephen Farris, chair- man of the Sixth Legislative District, Frank Correale, candidate for State Senator, and Edgar Lare, candidate] for Representative from this district. Advises Farmers To Study New Act Program Benefitted Local Farms Last Year, Stock Says Grover C. Stock, Carverton, chair- ‘man of the Luzerne County Agricult- Caravan Of NevpSnapement ural Conservation Committee, yester- day advised all county farmers who intend to participate in the 1938 Agri- cultural Conservation Program and who expect to carry out practices in- volving spring operations, to obtain complete information on such practic- | | es at once. | “Immediate and accurate informa- ! tion is imperative”, declared Chairman Stock, “where practices call for the, use of materials such as seed, lime, | and fertilizer, so that the proper types; and amounts may be obtained early, and the best place to procure such in- formation is committeemen or the county agricult- ural conservation office located at the Rear of 84 Scott Street, Wilkes-Barre. “The 1937 program in the county re- sulted in substantial gains in agri- cultural advancement in line with good farm management. Practically the same soil-building practices which were responsible for such gains are available to county farmers under the 1938 program. In fact, the new Farm Act continues them as the backbone of the present program. “We farmers have an opportunity in 1938 again to use practices calling for ‘the use of lime and superphosphates on hay and pasture land, to make new “I am absolutely certain, “says Roy E. Brownmiller, chairman of the State Commission, “that the views these guests will see on this tour will + seedings of legumes, to plant forest trees, improve woodland pasture by | excluding livestock, and the orchardist "and vegetable grower have an oppor- leave no doubt in their minds that | ‘tunity to mulch their land.” “Pennsylvania Has Everything” is no | idle slogan. And they will return home | to tell their readers and clients, too, what a wonderful scenic and historic State Pennsylvania is.” Conneaut Lake in Crawford County, covering 929 acres, is the largest nat- ural lake wholly within the State. from the community! The inexorable march of time will lay another local institution low soon when the 42-year-old trolley system ‘between Wilkes-Barre and Dallas is abandoned in favor of gasoline buses. Ten years younger than the Bow- man’s Creek Branch of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, the street car line will be severed when the by-pass is constructed at Luzerne, and modern buses will take the place of the elec- tric cars. Like the railroad, the street car line ‘has felt keenly the competition of trucks and automobiles and its volume of business has dropped steadily dur- ‘ing the last quarter of a century. The railroad, which had been built to tap the rich lumber section west and north of Dallas, had scarcely be- gun to profit from the boom business of the 1880°’s when financiers began to discuss the possibility of construct- ing a rival road. John B. Reynolds was the guiding spirit of the new venture. Arthur A Holbrook was another leading backef. They organized the Wilkes-Barre apd Northern Railroad and in 1896 th ‘began grading through the gorge at Luzerne. They met a number of obstacles, but in those days railroad financiers were accustomed to smashing away any- ‘thing that blocked their path. When a landowner balked at permitting the right-of-way to cut across his prop- erty the project was stalled only tem- porarily. A new charter was secured —for a “steam” railroad—and the company used the right of eminent domain to push its tracks onward to- ' ward Dallas. There was more trouble in town. The porch of the Odd Fellows’ build- ing stood where the company wanted its tracks to go. Unable to reach an agreement any other way, the promot- ers ordered the tracks laid to the end full-speed toward the building. The porch crumpled, the Odd Fellows’ gave in, and the tracks moved on again. |__. The first steam locomotive on the new line chugged through Dallas in December, 1896, to the cheers of a great crowd which was convinced that Dallas, with two railroads, was bound to be a thriving community. The original line had a good start, however, and before long the Wilkes- Barre and Northern Railroad was in financial difficulties which were cli- maxed by its judicial sale to the Wilkes-Barre, Dallas and Harvey's Lake Railway Co., a subsidiary of the traction company, on August 20, 1898. “The road at this ‘writing is being extended to Harvey's Penn Ryman wrote: Lake and it is expected before long to be connected with the electric trol- ley system at Wilkes-Barre, so that of the porch, then started a locomotive In the History of Dallas, William | Street Car Line To Dallas Began As Steam Road 42 Years Ago one can ride in the electric cars from’ Public Square in Wilkes-Barre to Harvey's Lake without change.” Mr. Ryman was correct. Soon after it changed hands, the line was electri- fied. The trolley car system flourish- ‘ed for years and was largely respon- "sible for the rapid development of the "Hillside, Trucksville and Shavertown sections, In the summer, cars were ‘jam-packed, transporting people to the traction company’s park at Fernbrook and to Harvey’s Lake, where the com- pany owned boats which carried the picknickers across the lake. The company's right-of-way at Lu- ‘zerne will become a part of the new ‘Luzerne by-pass. Later, according to plans being considered already by county engineers, the right-of-way from Mt. Greenwood past Fernbrook into Dallas will also become the base for a new concrete highway and the automobile will have made its con- quest complete. The new position will be a step up | for Mr. Tennyson. He will have sup- ervision of a faculty of 90 teachers in his new job. Burgettstown is Mr. Ten- nyson’s home and is only about seven miles from Midway, where he taught before he came here in 1936. He was appointed to the new posi- tion last Friday night and will assume his new duties on July 1. His tenure of office here has been extremely suc- cessful and his departure will be re- gretted by board members, pupils and faculty. At the same meeting the school board adopted tentatively its new bud- get, which will be presented for formal action on May 25. The millage will re- main at 29, the same as last year, and the customary $5 per capita tax will be continued. Amounts listed on the budget are: Expenditures: General control, $1,- 395; instruction, $21,672; auxiliary, $140; operation, $2,558; maintenance, $750; debt service, $4,000; capital out- lay, $9,425. Receipts were stated as follows: Cash balance, $2,000; current taxes, $17,800; state appropriation, $9,150; delinquent taxes, $3,000; tuition, $1,- 010; interest, $5; bonds sold, $7,500. miscellaneous, $200; Amateurs Invited To Enter Contest Talented amateurs in this section have been invited to compete for cash prizes in the Amateur Night to be con- ducted on May 13 at Kingston Town- ship High School under auspices of Dr. Places’ Men’s Bible Class of Shav- ertown M. E. Church. Franklin D. Coslett, WBRE announcer, will be master of ceremonies. Try-outs will be held on Wednesday night, May 11, at Shavertown grade school. Pastors Returned For Another Year M. E. Conference Makes No Changes In Its Local Charges For the first time in a number of years, no changes in loc charges were made at the annu session of Wyoming Conference of Episcopal Church, which sions at Kingston on Monday morning. and its vicinity were returned to their congregations for amother year. Local churches and their pastors follow: Alderson, Noxen, Guy Leinthall; Carverton, Charles H. Gilbert; Cen- termoreland, Thomas F. Kline; Dallas, Francis F., Freeman; Lehman, C. Duane Butler; Shavertown, Russell J. May; Trucksville, Harry M. Savacool. To Give Minstrel For Fifth Time The Honey Boy Minstrels of Kun- kle Grange have been invited to pre- sent their successful minstrel show at Centermoreland on Saturday night. It will be the fifth time the Kunkle gran- gers have given their show. It has been presented recently at Kunkle, Beaumont, Mooretown and Jackson. BAKE SALE The Junior Class of Dallas Borough High School will sponsor a bake sale tomorrow (Saturday) in the storeroom on Main Street formerly occupied by the Grand, Union. Seven pastors of charges in Dallas FUNDS ARE EARMARKED FOR LOCAL HIGHWAY JOBS BY ROOSEVELT Washington, D. C.,, May 5—Two projects in Dallas Borough were among those approved by Presi- dent Roosevelt this week, accord- ing to Congressman J. Harold Flannery. An allotment of $2,681 was ap- proved to improve Elizabeth Street on Parrish Heights. Anoth- er appropriation of $5,681 was au- thorized for improvements to Ma- chell Avenue. The projects must be approved vet by /the Comptroller General and the State authorities. Dallas Borough Council is the sponsor. xe.
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