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PAGE THREE
Effie And Lem
Discuss Affairs
01 The Day
Notes On Cracker Box
Philosophy From The
Cuff Of Our Mr. Riche
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By javie aiche
“A thing just is or it ain't,” said
Effie Lang. He projected a splatter
of tobacco juice that had the force
of tongue and exhalation back of it
and watched it trickle over the sun-
baked earth on an ant-hole where
it began to disappear.
“S’posin’ there ain’t no trials of
this here highway scandal; it don’t
bring back the money what was
spent, does it? And if the Dees-
treek Atturney didn’t put up the
cases the way courts like to have
’em, why didn’t the courts stop ’im
and point ’im out the right way?
They was there all the time, wasn’t
they 2”
Lem Egger casually regarded Ef-
fie and nodded his head. “ ‘Pears
to me ye’re right,” he said. “Yessir,
them courts was right there all the
time. Now as I look at this here
fumma-ma-dugit the State says it
lost nigh onto a millyun dollars.
Down to Harrisburg they blame it
onto a feller and they git a jury
that agrees with ’em. Then they
trace the money up hereabouts and
they find out who it was that spent
it. And the Deestreek Atturney up
and hauls into court the fellers
what says they done it.”
“There ye have it,” agreed Effie.
“That’s just the way she lays. But
they’s fellers what don’t want them
cases to come to trial and so they
goes about pickin’ of flaws against
how they otta be caught up. And
they say the Deestreek Atturney
didn’t arrest all them fellers, but
hauled ’em into a grand jury room
and let them tell on themselves.”
‘“ ‘Pears to me,” said Lem, “that
was a mighty cheap way of gettin’
down to the nub of it. If them fel-
lers that spent the money was wil-
lin’ to tell on themselves, who wants
to stop ’em? If it wasn’t regular,
wasn’t the court there to switch ’em
on the right track?”
“Sat there all the time,” said Ef-
fie. ‘Yessir, the Deestreek Attur-
ney and them there fellers that
spent the money millin’ round like
cattle in a corral and no one said
em aye, nay, or fiddlesticks. I just
can’t understand it a-tall.”
“Mebbe we'll understand it bet-
ter if the Deestruk Atturney goes
ahead and arrests all them wit-
nesses. Seems like to hold a special
hearin’ for each of ’em is gonna
cost the taxpayers a heap o’ money
and not get any place diff’runt from
where we're at.”
“I see it in the paper,” said Effie,
“I see it where some feller writ in
a letter and says a dog has been
sittin’ nigh onto three days right
in the spot where he was left by
some people what was callin’ out
here in the country and romped off
without the little feller.”
“Yessir,” said Lem, ‘“Ye're right
on that. Feller says in his letter
that these Sunday motor folks is a
heartless crew. They driv out
here som’eres and didn’t want that
dog; so, when he gits off with ’em
they up and drives off without 'im.
But it seemed like to me that the
paper didn’t make much o' that
story. I'd like to-a seen Ray Good-
'un write it.”
“Fact is,” said Effie, “there ain’t
no’'un could say just where that
dog was left and there ain’t no’un
could say what way you'd go about
’dentifyin’ the folks what left it.
Seems like that was the purpose of
the folk what driv away from the
pore critter. They didn’t want no
one to find out about ’em. If I
was the paper and got a letter that
I knew where it come from I'd sic a
good reporter out on that story and
get what's behind it. Seems like
that would be the way to punish
those folk and save that dog.”
“Ye know,” said Lem, “I been a
figgerin’ out how these here postal
fellers is gonna git their work done
after they git this new union rule.
Thirty hours they want for a week’s
work and not a jit more. Iffen they
go ahead and keep cuttin’ down on
what hours they is to work the first
thing they're gonna know is they
won’t have time to git themselves
settled down to a job, before time’s
up to go home.”
“I red about that,” said Effie.
“But there ain't nobody cares
whether them fellers work or not.
I hear how they was three marriag-
es over to the holler last week and
all three couples went onto Relief.
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Robert Young and his family enjoy an afternoon of romping on
the lawn of his 16-acre Tarzana ranch. Left to right, Mrs. Young, Carol
Ann, Barbara Queen and Bob.
It's the same i-dee. Just handin’
the responsibility over to the guv-
ment. Folks in Civil Service think
the less they work the more there
is gets the jobs and plain folks look
on it as the same thing when there's
no rain and no crops and plenty of
Relief. One way or t'other we're all
brothers under the skin game.”
“What yuh think about this here
picnic beer fuss-up? asked Lem.
“lI see as how it’s crime if you buy
a picnic ticket to drink beer of a
Sunday, but if you buy the ticket
on Saturday and do yer guzzlin’ on
Sunday it’s the same thing except
that it ain’t nothing wrong bout it.
Looks to me like that’s goin’ out to
the woodlot to bring coal up from
the cellar.”
“That ain’t worryin’ me none,”
said Effie. “What I'm a wonderin’
’bout is what's wrong with ev-ry-
thing. I see where Guv-nur James
was caught on the second Plymouth
bridge by a fire and had to git off
it. The fust bridge burned, closed
in May and here the second 'un was
’bout to do the same thing. Do you
think Art’ur is tryin’ to burn all his
bridges back of im?”
“Seems like that’s zackly what
he’s a-doin’,” said Lem.
“Who's who in this here leckshun
business ?” asked Effie. “I can’t get
the hang to it no-how., Pitty near
ev-rywhere I go I hear talk for John
MacGuffie but I see by the paper
that most of the talk’s up the rain-
spout. I got the i-dee that Scotch-
man was a-savin’ of us money, but
the paper don’t mention John’s
name a-tall, just says what taxes
ain’t c’lected now-a-days is what
was shifted over to the State by
gettin’ rid o’ the road and bridges.
Seems like that was a kinda back-
alley way to take a slap at Mac-
Guffie.”
“I don’t know ’bout that neither,”
said Lem. ‘John’s a purty pop-lar
feller, but it ain’t no more of a
mystery than these here Labor fel-
lers. 1 reed here t'other day of
how they git behind the finest judge
the land ever had, this here young
feller Valentine, and then next
thing I know they’s tradin’ off for
a hull Democrat ticket where
there's two other candidates. How
they gonna git around that? Yuh
can’t elect three fellers for two
judges, no more than you can git
milk from a new-borned heifer.”
“l don’t pay much tenshun to
them Labor fellers,” said Effie.
“Seems like to me that Judge Val-
entine don’t need any sponsors no-
how. All he needs to do is run for
the office where the people want to
put ‘im. The i-dee with most of
these here endorsers is to git first
say in favor of the feller what's
gonna win and then do as they darn
please about the leckshun. Listenin’
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“Been to the fair yet?” asked
Lem.
“Why, the darn thing ain’t open
yet, is it?” asked Effie.
DeRemer Will Enter
Electrical School
Howard DeRemer left Tuesday,
July 11, for Chicago to enter Coyne
Electric School. Mr. DeRemer just
completed a year as bookkeeper and
training guard at the Laquin CCC
camp.
Before leaving, Mr. DeRemer and
Miss Joanna Fice of Athens spent a
few days with Mr. DeRemer’s sister,
Mrs. Thomas Bottoms, and brother,
Russell DeRemer of Dallas.
Bishop Hafey To Mark
His 25th Anniversary
Most Rev. William J. Hafey, bi-
shop of the Roman Catholic Diocese
of Scranton, who celebrated the
25th anniversary of his ordination
quietly on June 16 will be honored
by priests and lay people of the dio-
cese at a formal celebration in Oc-
tober.
Will Check Soon
On Farm Program
Checking on compliance under the
1939 Farm Program will start soon,
the Luzerne County Agricultural
Conservation Committee announced
today. The farm checkers have
received instruction in this work
and will soon start making their
annual visit to farms in order to de-
termine to what extent the farmer
has participated in the program
and to assist him in making out his
application for his conservation
check.
Loyalville Folk
Return For Day
86-Year-Old Woman
Sings At Home-Coming
Many former residents of Loyal-
ville came home last Thursday for
the supper and get-to-gether spon-
sored by the Ladies’ Aid Society of
Loyalville M. E. Church in the
church hall. Rev. Corey B. Kline-
tob of Peckville M. E. Church was
toastmaster.
One of the high-lights of the even-
ing was a vocal solo by Mrs. Louisa
De Long of Lehman, a former resi-
dent of Loyalville and who is 86
years old.
The Ladies’ Aid Society received
$20 in contributions from the fol-
lowing who attended the supper:
Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Klinetob, Miss
Bessie Klinetob, Rev. Corey B.
Klinetob and son, Arlo B. Kline-
tob, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Brown, Mrs.
Louisa’ De Long, Mr. and Mrs. Olin
R. Mullison, Mr. and Mrs. John Hil-
debrant, Miss Charlotte Hildebrant,
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Payne, Miss
Mildred Payne, Mr. and Mrs. Clin-
ton McDaniels, Mr. and Mrs. Freas
Kinney, Mr. and Mrs. Otis Allen, Mr.
and Mrs. George Smith, Mr. and
Mrs. Dorman Wolfe, Mr. and Mrs.
Freeman Robbins, Mr. and Mrs.
George Bronson, Mrs. F. H. Garra-
han, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Keller,
Mrs. Viola Schmoll, Mr. and Mrs.
Silas C. Ide, Mr. and Mrs. Donovan
Ide, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hurlinger,
Mrs. Mary Williams Bowman, Mr.
and Mrs. Aubrey Williams, Mrs.
Clark and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dixon.
After the supper D. G. Klinetob
presented to the Ladies’ Aid Society
as a surprise gift an envelope con-
taining $55 which had been con-
tributed by the following, all former
residents of Loyalville:
Mrs. Viola Schmoll of Dallas; Mrs.
Bessie Klinetob, Sweet Valley; Mr.
and Mrs. D. G. Klinetob, Sweet Val-
ley; George Bronson and Alfred
Bronson, Sweet Valley; Rev. Corey
B. Klinetob, Peckville; Mrs. Maud
Keller, Shavertown; Oliver Williams,
Shavertown; Mrs. Rita Robbins,
Shickshinny; Mr. and Mrs. Clinton
McDaniels, West Nanticoke; W. G.
Allen, West Nanticoke; Mrs. J. D.
Holmes, Broadway; Mrs. Florence
Garrahan, Kingston; Olin R. Mulli-
son, Kingston; Mr. and Mrs. G. A.
Booth, Blakeslee; Mrs. Lillian Hur-
linger, Kitchen Creek; Mrs. Mary
Williams Bowman, Mooretown;
Donovan Ide, Montrose.
JOKE ON ADMIRAL
Rear Admiral Clark H. Wood-
ward, commandant of the Third
Naval District, is telling a joke on
himself these days. To attend an
official function at the New York
World’s Fair, the admiral arrived in
full uniform. Mistaking him for an
attendant, a visitor stopped him and
said, “Call me one of those motor
chairs.”
“But I'm an admiral in the United
State Navy,” said the astonished
sailor.
“All right, then,” the visitor
snapped, ‘‘call me a boat.”
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Japanese Beetle
Invading County
Farm Agent Describes
Methods For Control
An invasion by the adult Japanese
Beetle, cause of so much damage in
the Philadelphia area every year,
has been reported in Wilkes-Barre
and vicinity within the last ten days,
J. D. Hutchison of Luzerne County
Agricultural Extension Association
reported this week.
The adult beetles are about one-
third to one-half inch long, have
heavy bodies, green with white
marking on the sides“and on the ex-
posed tip of the abdomen, and with
burnished coppery red wing covers.
They feed on rose bushes, fruit trees,
shade trees and ornamental plants.
The adults live three to five weeks
and each female deposits 60 to 70
eggs during her life, laying eggs
two to four inches deep in the soil.
Usually preferring to lay eggs in
well cared for lawns and greens
rather than in waste or woody land.
The eggs hatch in 10 to 12 days,
and the tiny larvae which closely
resembles the common white grub,
feed on organic matter and roots in
the soil. The grubs grow to full
size by October, passing the winter
four to eight inches deep in the soil.
By April, they again become active
by feeding on the roots, and in May
they transform to pupae or the rest-
ing stage, and the adult beetles
emerge in June.
The beetle damages the plants by
eating the tissue between the leaf
veins and skeletonizing the leaves.
Uneaten portion dry out and fall to
the ground.
Ripening fruit and portions of
flower and rose blossom also are
eaten.
Shade trees, shrubs, etc, can be
protected by spraying with lead
arsenate to which is added a sticker,
such as wheat flour, skim milk
powder or fish oil.
An excellent bulletin on the con-
trol of the Japanese Beetle in gar-
den, orchard and turfs has been
published by the Pennsylvania Agri-
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Bldg.,, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., phone
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Tunkhannock Studies Plan To Buy
Sister-Company Of Local Utility
Believe Water System Could Be Acquired For
$115,000; Public Asked To Study Plan Carefully
A suggestion that Tunkhannock Borough acquire the town’s water
system from Southeastern Gas & Water Co., which is also the owner of
Dallas Water Co., is being studied by citizens in the up-river community.
A plan to buy the utility for a price fixed tentatively at $115,000
was presented to Tunkhannock council last week, but no action will be
taken until the public has had full opportunity to express its opinion on
the suggestion.
The move is similar to one started
here last Spring and shelved when
the Dallas Water Co. launched a
$7,000 improvement program in re-
sponse to complaints of inadequate
service. Dallas, Shavertown and
Tunkhannock water companies are
owned by the same holding com-
pany.
Buckingham Miller, who present-
ed the plan to Tunkhannock coun-
cilmen, said the utility can be ac-
quired now at a price ‘substantially
lower than would have been pos-
sible at any time within recent
years.” He contends that the op-
portunity for a bargain is brought
about “through the weakness of the
holding company, which owns the
stock of the water company. Its
financial condition . . . is such that
there is apparently no probability
of its refinancing its holding com-
pany issue under which the stock of
the water company is held.”
It was suggested that Tunkhan-
nock council form a “Water Au-
thority” under the Municipal Au-
thority Act and buy the supply and
distributing systems, issuing revenue
bonds to finance the transaction.
It is understood that the firm of
E. H. Rollins & Sons, Inc., is pre-
pared to negotiate a contract for
the purchase of the bonds, serials
maturing up to 30 years and at an
interest rate of 3% per cent. The
annual charges would be $3,738 for
interest and $2,342 for serial ma-
turities.
Mr. Miller expressed the opinion
that revenues based on the report
for the year ending May 31, 1939,
would enable the water system, if
publicly-owned, to pay interest and
amortization costs, cut rates about
10 per cent and still have a balance
of $1,040 for reserve.
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Priest Honored
On Anniversary
Silver Jubilee Mass Is
Followed By Reception
World War veterans, visiting
priests, distinguished leaders of civic
life in this section and hundreds of
devout admirers joined with Rev.
John J. O'Leary, pastor emeritus of
St. Therese’s Church last Sunday to
help him observe the twenty-fifth
anniversary of his priesthood.
ver Jubilee mass at St. Therese’s
and continued through the after-
noon at a reception and dinner, at-
tended by about 150 persons.
Assisting Rev. Father O'Leary at
the solemn high mass in the morn-
ing were Rev. Harold J. Durkin,
deacon; Rev. Joseph Luksic, sub-
deacon; Rev. John Walsh, master of
ceremonies, and Rev. Thomas Mec-
Hugh of Marywood College, Scran-
ton, who preached the sermon.
The mass was followed by bene-
diction of the Sacrament. In at-
tendance was the Wyoming Valley
Chapter, Disabled American Vet-
erans of the World War. Rev.
Father O'Leary, who was wounded
during the war, has been chaplain
of the Valley Chapter since its or-
ganization and is a former national
chaplain of the D. A. V.
Speakers at the dinner were Rev.
William Farrel, chancellor; Rev.
Charles Murray, Judge Thomas Far-
rell and Rev. Frank McHugh, Musi-
cal entertainment was by Mrs. Nora
Lowrey Law and Mrs. Emma Morris,
accompanied by Miss Alice Fisher.
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