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WPA Seamstresses
Double For Santa
Get $47,000 Appropriation
As Their Christmas
Gift
Generous clothing orders from the
Dallas Borough WPA sewing project
this week will make it a happy Christ-
mas for about 80 local families.
The packets of garments, issued
Saturday, contain everything from
dresses and slips to shirts and trous-
ers, and will provide a new outfit for
everyone in the family from baby to
father.
A new $47,000 appropriation for la-
bor and materialg, in effect Monday,
will extend the work for another year.
The project is sponsored by Dallas
Borough Council and the workers are
supervised by Mrs. Bertha 'W, Thomas,
experienced seamstress, who is said to
be one of the best sewing project
heads in the county.
Since its formation nearly three
three years ago, the sewing project has |
furnished aid to about 300 needy fam- |
ilies throughout this district, and the |
brand of work ranks with the best in |
the state. The rating of the local pro-
ject is A-1 in both Harrisburg and
Washington, according to Arthur
Rainey, former secretary of the Dallas
Poor Board. :
The WPA. project has regularly em-
ployed between 20 and 30 persons from
this district and the monthly payroll
has averaged above $1,600. The State
and Federal governments provide the
salaries and the material, while Coun-
cil provides all other expenses. Aver-
age monthly expense te Council has
been less than $59.
The mew appropriation swells the
total financing of the project to $90,-
000. When the first allocation of $42,-
000 ran out December 1st, $1,000 was
taken from the County WPA fund to
keep the project going until the new
appropriation went into effect.
When the sewing project was begun
in March, 1936, two-thirds of the wo-
man workers employed were inexper-
ienced in machine work. Under the
tutelage of Mrs, Thomas, however, the
women learned fast, and mow the 19
seamstresses work at top efficiency.
Also employed on the projects are one
cutter, one clerk, a watchman, janitor
and a repairman.
The latest garment patterns, pur-
chased by Council, are used in efforts
to keep the work up-to-date. An ex-
perienced cutter prepares each gar-
ment for sewing, and the finished pro-~
duct is closely inspected before it is
pressed. No faulty work is allowed to
go out. An order is given each of the
300 families on the list every three
months,
During the month of November, 3852
yards of material were used to make
2142 garments. The payroll for last
month amounted to $1601.22, and the
expense to Council $48.85.
Jackson
MRS. GUSTAV SPLITT
CORRESPONDENT
(Held From Last Week)
Ceasetown school, where Miss Mary
Blaine is teacher, will present a Christ-
mas program on Friday, December 23.
Olive Laskowski has returned home
after spending some time at Moosic.
Mrs. Jerry Kester of Hillside visited
her daughter, Mrs. Corey Smith, re-
cently,
Mrs. Norman Franklin spent Tues-
day might with Miss Elizabeth Breck-
enridge of Dallas,
Mr, and Mrs. Brrard Laskowski of
Nanticoke visited the fcrmer’s parents
on Sunday.
Mrs. Fred Shouldice is ill.
Mrs, Gustav Splitt and Mrs. Neual
Kester of Trucksville spent a day re-
cently at Wilkes-Barre.
The members of Jackson Ladies’ Aid
Society were entertained at the M. E.
parsonage at Lehman recently.
Jessie Ashton spent the week-end
with her parents here after being em-
ployed at Scranton.
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59 Public Square
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FOR
TO PROBE DROWNING
District Attorney Will Ask Grand Jury
To Study Case In Which Seven
Cripples Were Killed
District Attorney Leon Schwartz an-
nounced ' this week he will ask the
Grand Jury next month to consider
the case involving the drowning of
seven crippled boys and their drivers
in a Wilkes-Barre Township cave
hole.
A coroner's jury attributed
drownings of the children and their
automobile driver, en route to Kirby
Health Center, to negligence on the
part of Wilkes-Barre Township and
the Glen Alden Coal Co.
CARD OF THANKS
Alex Wilson and family wish to
thank all of those who sent flowers
and lent cars during their recent be-
reavement.
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THE DALLAS POST.
Refugee Stories
Investigate Rumors That
Stores Are Displacing
Employes
placed by German refugees.
liam Kromelbein of the
and promised to have organized labor
leaders report any instances of dis-
{ placement.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1938
Denied By Labor
Centermoreland
CORRESPONDENT
MRS. MAY BESTEDER
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Winters one night last week and help-
Leaders of the C. I. O. and A. F. of
I. joined this week with representa-
tives of civic and commercial groups
Grove,
cutting pole wood.
double-bitted axe and started for the
house and in some way slipped and
fell on the axe, cutting /a gash over an
| He was brought to the office of
Perkins, who closed the wouna.
Mr. Stule had bled freely and was in
He was removed to
{| Nesbitt Memorial Hospital, where he| young women of the M. E
is still a patient.
in an effort to head off spreading ru-
mors that hundreds of workers in
Wyoming Valley stores are being dis- | &V®:
Walter Harris and John Garis of the
C. I. O. and Edward Finney and Wil-
A PF. ‘of iL.
i agreed reports are grossly exaggeratea
critical condition.
Benjamin Stule Hurt
When He Falls On Axe|
The wedding of Miss Florence Kel-
ley and William Disque of Dallas will
take place in the Baptist Church on
Saturday might at 8.
ed themselves to $3 in money and
numerous articles of wearing apparel,
shoes, ete. and food stuffs. They en-
tered through a cellar window and
carried the goods out of the door.
Benjamin Stule, an aged man who * *
lives in one of the cottages at Faux
was injured last week while
He picked up his
Ernest Whipp and family and C. M.
Gay and family of Dallas were colling
at the home of C. S. Besteder on Sun-
day afternoon,
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Miss Beulah Brace of Wilkes-Barre
was a welcome caller in this town re-
cently.
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Miss Vivian Dymond entertained the
a Christmas party last Friday night.
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Christmas exercises will be held at
the Baptist Church Friday night and
at the M. E. Church Saturday evening
at 8:30.
$3 From Winters Home
Thieves entered the store of James
PICTURE LOCAL TRAGEDY
Chill winds whistle over the un-
marked grave of Robert Edwards in
Fern Knoll Cemetery, outside of Dal-
las, but his face still peers from pages
on which his “American Tragedy’ case
is periodically revived.
The latest magazine to revive his
tragedy is “Pic” which; in its current
issue, devotes five pages of pictures to
the story of the Edwardsville youth
who killed Fred McKechnie, his child-
hood sweetheart, at Harvey's Lake in
1934 and paid the supreme penalty for
his crime one year later.
The magazine carries pictures of
Sandy Beach, Harvey's Lake, princi-
pals in the case and trial scenes. Al-
though the case is four years old, lo-
cal newsdealers reported an increased
sale of the magazine.
. Church at |-
There was a good crowd at the
Grange Hall Mosday night to attend
the movies,
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Miss Tilly Gudmas of Vernon has
been working for Mrs. Carrie Schrader
for two weeks.
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