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"KINGSTON TOWNSHIP
ROYAL LYNE, Correspondent
Phone Dallas 408
SHAVERTOWN - MT. GREENWOOD - TRUCKSVILLE
Miss Ruth Evans of Carverton
Road has returned from a visit to
Trenton, N. J., where she attended
the graduation exercises at Ryders
College, Friday evening. Miss Evans
finished classes at Ryder earlier in
the summer and has accepted a sec-
retarial position with the Hessler
Laundry at Wilkes-Barre.
Miss Charlotte Cease of Oak
Street: has returned home follow-
ing a motor trip to Montreal and
Quebec.
Rev. Harry Savacool and Harold
Croom of Trucksville are building
a cottage at Dimock Camp grounds.
Arthur Garringer of DeMunds
Road is visiting at Woodhaven, at
the home of his sister, Mrs. Fred
Reuter.
The Friendship Class of the
Trucksville M. E. Church will hold
a wiener roast Friday evening at the
Carle farm on Harris Hill Road.
Mr. and Mrs. William Rhodes
and son, Paul, visited the Epworth
League Institute at Sydney, N. Y,,
over the weekend. Their son Paul
is attending the conference.
Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Swartz and
son, Ted, have returned following
a visit for the past week with Mr.
and Mrs. John Stewart of Brooklyn,
N.Y.
Ralph Finnen of Shavertown has
returned to his home after a week's
vacation in New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Houser were
visitors at the World's Fair the
past week.
Mrs. William Hunt and children,
Ida, Mildred, Wilma and Sanford
vacationed at Harvey's Lake last
weelk.
Mrs. Herbert R. Frankfort and
infant daughter have been removed
to their home in Shavertown from
the General Hospital.
School Board Meeting
Kingston Township School Board
met Monday evening with Directors
Appleton, Bennett, Earl and Hen-
ning present. Resignation of Miss
read by the secretary and on mo-
tion of Mr. Henning accepted. Fol-
lowing a discussion of the repairing
of the school typewriters by Mr. |
Dampf of Shavertown, the question |
was referred to the property com- |
mittee. The board voted to ap-}
prove the new contracts of the bus- !
es: Mr. Novicki, $135 per month;
Mr. Rineman, $140, and Mr. Corson,
$98.88 each for two buses. Teach-
ers’ payroll for the first of the
month was ordered paid when due.
Field Day Plans
Trucksville Fire Company -com-
mittees for the field day met Mon-
day evening with general chairman
Richard Rees presiding. Present:
athletic committee chairman Harry
Long, Royal Lyne, Jr, Glen Bul-
ford, and William Roberts; refresh-
ments, Eugene Considine, chairman;
Jack Lewis, William Hewitt, Fran-
cis McCarthy, Albert Groblewski,
Gene Piatt; publicity, Royal Lyne,
Sr.; amusements, Lyle Carle and
William Mathers. Plans were com-
pleted for a number of sports, in-
cluding races of all kinds for boys,
girls, men and women. Two of
the features of the day will be the
greasy pig catch and mush ball
game in the afternoon. The pro-
ceeds will be used to make repairs
to the fire hall and equip it as a
clean and pleasant meeting place
for the community.
LAKETON
MRS. MARIE OBERST
Correspondent
Mrs. Walter Hermebaul entertain-
ed Sunday at Croop’s Glen in honor |
of her husband who celebrated his
birthday anniversary. Present: Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Hermebaul, Sr.,
Wilkes-Barre; Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Hermebaul, Jr., Kingston; Rose
Mary Hermebaul, Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Hermebaul, Mrs. Oswald,
Bob Oswald, Mr. and Mrs. Edward
tubblebine, Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Pope, Fred Stubblebine, Mr. and
Mrs. Clarence Grey and children,
Doris and Bobby.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hermebaul and
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hermebaul, |
Kingston, spent Saturday evening |
with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Gay. |
Mrs. Frances Hoenger and son,
William, Mr. and Mrs. George Ar-
nold, Jamestown, N. Y., Adelbert!
Brown and daughter, Mary, visited |
Mrs. Marie Oberst on Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lerch and |
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Brown spent
the weekend at Binghamton, N. Y. |
Rev. Gerald Boice and family of!
New York are visiting Mr. and Mrs. |
Corey Gray.
A large crowd attended the Wo-
men’s Democratic picnic at Croop’s |
Glen on Saturday. Refreshments
were served and every one report-
ed a good time.
Mrs. Henry Titus entertained Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Ahlbrandt and Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Lerch on Tuesday
night.
A Farmer Dance will be held at
Pike’s Creek Hall, Friday night,
August 25, sponsored by the Wo-
men’s Democratic Club. There will
be good music and entertainment.
Grocers Feature
Big Rinso Sale
Housewives Stock Up
At Special Prices
A special sale is getting full sup-
port of many local grocers and at-
tracting the attention of a large
number of thrifty housewives.
The sale is featured as the
WHITE WASHER SPECIAL, and
is sponsored by the makers of the
new, richer Rinso, who advocate
the use of their soap for whiter
washes and cooler, easier washdays.
Numerous, colorful Whiter Wash
display posters and pennants which
feature the activity in stores all
over the community, indicate that
dealers are making the WHITER
WASH SPECIAL an outstanding
event.
Grocers feel that the sale of any |
product which lightens the work of
washday, and gets clothes snowy
white at the same time, is welcome
news to housewives and deserving
of the trade’s complete cooperation.
Rinso, as described in the adver-!
tisement on page 3, is ideal for
dishes and all cleaning, too. Mer-
chants report that women are
stocking up on Rinso, as the result
of the special prices now being
featured during the WHITER WASH
SPECIAL.
Hold Firemen Exams |
I
Civil service examinations were |
held in the high school on Monday ,
evening for those attending the |
State volunteer fire companies’ |
schools. Firemen from Trucksville !
and Dallas attended classes. Upon |
passing these tests a civil service |
rating and an intelligent knowledge
of fighting fire are guaranteed. All!
firemen in the back of the mountain
section should take advantage of
this free school. A new class in
finer fire fighting will be started |
in a few weeks.
Montrose Fair
The 93rd Susquehanna County
Fair closes tonight at Montrose.
Band concerts, horse-pulling con-
tests, flower show, and boxing bouts |
are on the program for this after-
noon and evening.
SWEET VALLEY
MRS. BASIL STEELE
Mrs. Truman Stewart and chil-
dren of Stroudsburg are visiting her
parents, Rev. and Mrs. Ira Button '
of Sweet Valley.
Mildred Jones of Noxen and Ken-
neth Jackson of Dallas were mar-
ried Sunday, August 13 at Sweet
Valley Christian Church by Rev.
Ira Button.
|
Centermoreland |
MRS. BESTEDER
Correspondent
| of pants and boots.
Fire Fighting Was Made Exciting
By Run-Away Horses In Old Days
John Merical Ought To
Know After 25 Years
Es Fire Fighter
Spry Jack Merical of 138 Lake
Street, Dallas, who will celebrate his
86th birthday come September 2,
is one of the few Wilkes-Barre fire-
men to have survived the horse
cart days, and still feel able to
answer a fire bell.
For 25 years Jack served as til-
ler man on the hook and ladder
truck of Fire Company Number
One—the Ross Street station. He's
been in retirement for some 17
years, now, but the instincts of a
quarter century of fire fighting still
live.
He entered the Wilkes-Barre Fire
Department back in ’97—in the
days when three stalwart horses
pulled the ponderous hook and lad-
der, and it took a real man to
manipulate the tiller wheel.
Up until his retirement in 1922,
he rode three trucks, two of them
motorized. The last truck he man-
ned still answers calls from Hose
House Number Five.
“When I first went to work as a
fireman,” Jack recalls, “we used to
serve a 24-hour shift. We were on
duty all hours of the day and night
—and you should have seen some of
: those nights.”
He and his wife and three other
couples used to keep house just
above the station on Ross Street.
Jack’s clothes were draped at the
side of his bed. When the fire bell
| rang, he would slide into his waiting
trousers and gum boots and make
for the rail. “I betcha those pants
and boots would have gone down
the rail by themselves from force
of habit, if I hadn't jumped into
’em quick.”
“In the winter time, being a fire-
man was pretty tough. That gong
used to pound us out of bed and
down that icy rail with the tempera-
ture down as low as zero, and some-
times below, young feller, you just
try turning out into a snowy night
with nothing on but a short, ‘pair
We earned
our money, all right.”
“Sometimes—in fact, most of the
time, I never got around to button-
ing up my pants until we were out
on the street. On cold nights, that
wasn’t so good.”
The recent fire on South Main
Street—and the one which razed a
| lumber yard in South Wilkes-Barre
—weren’t any worse or harder to
| handle than some of the ones which
N. Y., where he was born in 1853.
He lived with Charley Johnson,
who owned a big livery stable on
Mechanics alley—now State Street
—and worked for several years in
the stable.
He left the livery stable to drive
a team for M. B. Houpt, Wilkes-
Barre contractor. After a few
years with Mr. Houpt, he decided
to become an undertaker’s helper
and worked with Ed Phillips, one
of the prominent funeral directors
of the day, for a time.
“One of my pals in that business
was Lou Kniffen. If I had stuck
with it, I might be where Lou is to-
1day. But I wasn’t sorry to get into
some other line. Dead people didn’t
appeal to me.”
“I liked being a fireman from the
first—hard work and long hours
and everything else. I'm not sorry
I made that choice.”
When he was retired on a half-
pay pension at the age of 69, Jack
came out to Dallas and bought the
house where he and his wife now
live with their son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Art Dungey.
Besides being perhaps the oldest
city fireman still in these parts,
Jack is proud of another distinc-
tion.
“Isabelle and I have been live
still get along just as well as we
ever did.”
His wife, Isabelle Clark Merical,
was born in the home of her par-
ents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Alex-
ander Clark, at the corner of Union
and Franklin Streets in Wilkes-
Barre.
“The old canal,” Mrs. Merical re-
calls, “ran right through our back-
yard—where the Laurel Line runs
now.”
“Seems like my husband must
have run right past my home when
he first came to Wilkes-Barre. You
did come to the town on a canal
boat, didn’t you, Pa?”
“Nope,” Jack said, “I came on
train, from New York City.”
“Well, it would have made a good
story, anyway,” ‘said Mrs. Merical,
more or less disappointed.
They were married on May 86,
1877, and made their home first
on River Street and later on Frank-
lin Street, where the Central M. E.
Church now stands, before Jack’s
of diphtheria.
Mr. and Mrs. Merical had six
children, two. boys and four girls,
but only the two youngest girls—
Ruth Merical. Dungey of Dallas and
ried for nearly 63 years—and we.
THE POST, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1939
PAGE
FIVE
[FAIR CALF
oN 425)
NEW YORK—A maid, a calf
and a name. The maid has just
christened the calf with the name
Grover A. Whalen. If you need
to know, Mr. Whalen is President
of the New York World's Fair
1939. The calf took part in cere-
monies marking the laying of the
cornerstone of the Borden exhibit
at the_Exposition,
Tourists Spend
Large Sums
Visitors and vacationists spent
$296,600,000 in Pennsylvania last
year it was announced in Harris-
burg this week. The value of ex=
penditures equals about $30 per cap-
ita. The popularity of Pennsylvania
as a tourist State is steadily increas-
ing.
Will Hold Shoot
Overbrook Gun Club will hold a
shooting match, open to the public,
on Sunday, August 27 at Kozem-
chak’s farm on the Fernbrook-
Huntsville road.
Republican Lead
Susquehanna County registration
figures show that Republicans lead
Democrats in that county by two
occurred in the days when Jack | Jean Merical Strunk, wife of Rus-
served.
One of the longest stretches he
ever put in was during the fire
which gutted the Isaac Long build-'
ing on Public Square. |
“We were called out early in the!
evening, and worked several hours | than three years old. Emma, their
at top speed to get the blaze under
control. The fire was supposed to
| be out, and we went back to the
hose house. I no sooner got under
the covers for a good nap, how-
ever, when the gong clanged again.”
“The blaze had broken out once
more. Back we went, and we never
got home until the next night. That
was a real fire.”
Jack also helped to fight the fires
which destroyed the Weitzenkorn
| Clothing Store and Globe Store on
Public Square.
That Weitzenkorn
‘blaze broke out on one of the cold-
Samuel VanScoy, Richmond, Va.,
is spending his vacation with his
parents Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Van
Scoy.
The 4-H Club sewing round-up
will be held at Falls, Thursday, Au- |
gust 31.
Miss Helen Schoonover entertain- |
ed last week Miss Miriam Klein-'
sorge, Luzerne. |
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Howell,
Johnson City, spent the weekend
here.
Rev. Thomas Kline and wife visit-
ed relatives in Rochester, N. Y.,
last week.
Misses Marian and Wilma Gay,
Dallas, who have been spending the
summer here are guests of their
uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Her-
man Gay at Johnson City.
Sunday School picnic will be held
Saturday in conjunction with the
school reunion on the school cam-|
pus. |
A wiener and hamburg social
with pie and other goodies was held
at the home of Miss Florence Weav- |
er, Tuesday evening. |
Mrs. Clara Shook and family at-
tended the Shook reunion at the
home of Cory Turner, Laceyville,
last Saturday.
A number of local people attend.
ed the Evans Reunion at Fernbrook
Sunday.
Ball games between Dallas and
Vernon played on the Beaumont
Diamond last Sunday resulted in a
score of 6-5 in favor of Vernon.
Tony Pechkis, Tunkhannock, vis-
ited Farrington Hunter, Sunday. |
Camp meeting at Faux Grove
closed Sunday after a very success-
ful session.
Mrs. Mollie Gay has had charge
of the 4-H sewing club in the ab-
sence of Miss Gans.
Robert Baird, Kingston, is stay. |
ing with his grandparents, Mr. and |
Mrs. J. W. Winters.
Mrs. Edith VanTuyl who has been
an invalid for the past five years
died at her home Sunday evening. '
Her husband preceded her in death
by five months. She was a mem-
ber of the M. E. Church and a very
devout Christian woman.
est nights of the year. The hook
and ladder truck was covered with
ice, and for a time Jack himself
was frozen to his post at the lad- | things happen.
der crank.
“We used to have some real ex-
citement on the old hook and lad-
der,” Jack says.
“One time we went out to a
fire just off Hazle Street, above the
railroad tracks. But the horses got
scared and ran away—nearly pull-
ed old Dan Thomas, now dead,
right off the driver’s seat. If a
train had been coming along the
tracks when we crossed, I wouldn’t
| be here talking to you today.”
“With the rear end of the truck
swaying on and off the sidewalks
along Hazle, we went up that hill
hell bent for leather. Dan finally
‘got ’em under control at the top
and turned down Park Avenue to
get back to the blaze.”
Jack’s job was to steer the rear
end of the truck. He had two or
three bad crack-ups during his ser-
vices on the tiller wheel.
One of the worst ones he had, he
recalls, occurred at the corner of
South Main and Hanover Streets.
“One of the boys was running to
‘catch the truck, and I was watch-
ing him instead of the road ahead.
I didn’t see a street car that was
rounding the corner there.”
sell Strunk of Kingston—are still
living. ' The others died jn infancy |
of diptheria. i
Their two little boys, Edgar and)
Clarence, were taken away by the!
dread disease when they were less
first child, died in infancy and
Maud, their second, lived to be five
years old.
The couple had a grand celebra-
tion to mark their 60th wedding an-
niversary two years ago—but trag-
edy kept many of the firemen ex-
pected to attend, away from the
party. A couple days before their
anniversary, the young son of
George Reed, one of Jack’s best
firemen friends, was electrocuted
during a fire company practice ses-
sion. Firemen invited to celebrate |
with the Mericals attended his
funeral instead.
“I felt very bad about that acci-
dent,” said Jack, sadly. “But those
There’s a lot of
danger in being a fireman.”
Jack and his wife are intensely
proud of their three grandsons—
Jack Dungey, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Art Dungey, and Allan and Mal-
colm Strunk. They love the three
boys as much as if they were their
own. The youngsters remind them
to one. Democratic party has lost
more than 1,000 voters since May.
somehow of two little boys that
never grew up.
Mr. and Mrs. Merical belonged for
38 years to the Westminster Pres-
byterian Church of Wilkes-Barre,
but now attend services at Dallas
Methodist Church regularly.
They have a wide acquaintance-
ship on the West Side and in
Wilkes-Barre. Friday afternoon one
of their best friends, Mrs. Ross
Anderson of Dallas, came to call.
Jack was sitting on a bench in
the back yard of his home, taking
it easy after some vigorous weed-
ing in the flower garden, when we
went around to see him.
“Come to the house and see
Mamma,” he said. “She knows
more about me than I do myself.”
“I do know one thing, though,”
he said, with a little sigh. “I could
still manage that old tiller wheel,
but fire fighting is for young folks.
I can’t get around so good any-
more.”
But he strode up into the house
so fast we were out of breath by
the time we got to the parlor.
J
ANNOUNCING
THE OPENING OF
THE LADY'S SHOP
GRACE T. CAVE, Prop.
: 40 MAIN STREET
DALLAS,
\
PENNA.
‘out of the street car, and the crash |
| to have to crank the 85-foot ladders
To make a long story—and one |
of which Jack is a little ashamed— |
short, the rear end of the hook and |
ladder struck the street car head!
on. The driver couldn’t stop the
horses of the truck, and the protrud- |
ing ladders, took all of the windows |
so damaged the fire truck that it
couldn’t be used for nearly a week.
“The trucks the fire company has
now are swell. Press a button and |
the ladders go right up.”
But when he first went to work
at the Ross Street Station, he used
to the desired length, “and that
was real work, believe you me.”
Jack Merical dates his arrival in
Wilkes-Barre, appropriately enough,
with one of the biggest fires in the
history of the city. He came to the
city about 1865, shortly after the
SATURDAY
AUGUST 26th, 1939
With a complete Fall
of the newer fashions in apparel
and accessories for infants,
children and women.
Sa
Showing
7
CANNED
Vegetable
SALE!
No. 2 C
Red Ripe
TOMATOES
Case of 24 Cans $1.19
Iona New Pack
3 Ye 17c
Dozen Gans 67c : Case of 24 Gans $1.33
IONA TOMATOES or 3 29
Cans C
FANCY CORN A&P Golden
DOZEN CANS 89c : CASE OF 24 CANS $1.75
“Our Biggest Seller”
IONA PEAS 2 25¢
Dozen Cans 98c : CASE OF 24 CANS $1.95 .
KELLOGES OCTAGON
Corn Flakes
Soap
2-13¢ || 4. 15¢
Fresh Baked, A&P
Loaves I 5
No. 2
Can
No. 2
Cans
Big
Cakes
-
WHOLE or CRACKED WHEAT
BREAD
Pie Cherries tr 10
Smoked Pork Squares
Sandwich Spread an =
Sparkle Desserts 7 ....
Evap. Milk rouse J () cone
SUPER SUDS OAP
2% 37 || 5270
Pkgs.
: THIS WEEK'S CANDY SPECIAL :——
Assorted
Spiced Strings Ib. 10¢
yp 19¢ = 49¢
8 O'CLOCK COFFEE {-Ih. bag 15c¢ : 3-Ib. bag 43¢
MASON JARS Pts., doz. 59¢ : Qts., doz. 65¢
FAMILY FLOUR (Sunnyfield) 24-1b. bag 65¢
PASTRY FLOUR (Sunnyfield) 24-1b. bag 55¢
Full Podded
) Ibs. : Oc
Fresh Peas
2 Ibs. 19¢
ITALIAN PRUNES
MALAGA GRAPES 2 Ibs. 15¢
dez. 35¢
CALIF. ORANGES
ONIONS 5 Ibs. 10c
b Ibs. 25¢
Legs of : 23
LAMB ~~ &ael
Elberta Freestone
NONE PRICED HIGHER
PEACHES
1-1b.
Can
Genuine 1939 Baby Spring
Prime Cuts of Steer Beef
e c Best Center Cuts
ROAST * 15c ; 19c
NONE PRICED HIGHER
SMOKED PORK SQUARES
POLISH HAMS
Veal Loaf
Cheese Loaf
Home Style Loaf
Pickle & Pimento Loaf
FILLETS OF COD
GENUINE HADDOCK FILLETS Ib. 19¢
LITTLE NECK CLAMS {G0 for 53¢c
A: P Food Stores
Ehese prices é&ffective until close of business, Sat. Night, Aug. 26
Ib. 13¢
13/5=1b. can 99¢
i n.0c
ib. lc
big Avondale fire, from Kingston,