The Dallas post. (Dallas, Pa.) 19??-200?, January 12, 1940, Image 8

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    CLASSIFIED ADS
WANTED TO BUY
Wanted—A good second-hand coal
heater stove for the Dallas Free
Methodist Church. Phone 339 or
write to Rev. Albert Reining, Box
171, Dallas, Pa. 21
FOR RENT OR SALE
New modern 6-room house; garage;
steam heat. Midland Avenue, Dal-
las. Just off Center Hill Road. In-
quire Mathers Construction Co., 10
Carverton Road, Trucksville. 52tf
FOR SALE
For Sale—Seasoned oak fire-place
logs. Call 298-R-10, Dallas. 21
For Sale—Combination Radio-Vic-
trola. Cost new $265. Will sel] for
$20. Good condition. Magazine
Store, 61 Main Street, Luzerne. 21
For Sale—9-pc. Oak Dining Room
Suite, Brass Bed, Two Dressers,
Edison Phonograph, Holton Trom-
bone. Tel. Dallas 180-R-13. 21
For Sale—D & H Anthracite Coal—
egg, stove, nut, $7.75; pea, $6.25;
buckwheat, $5.15; rice, $4.40. De-
livered. Bag coal. Edwards Coal Co.,
Main St., Dallas. Phone Dallas
437-R-3 or 121. 2tf
Coal—Nut, stove, egg, $7.50; pea,
$6.00; buckwheat, $4.90; rice,
$4.25. Delivered at Shavertown. 25¢
per ton additional in Dallas.
Stewart J. Eustice, Dallas 460R9.
For Sale—2 sets Dayton Computing
Scales, National Cash Register,
Slicing Machine, McCasky System,
Electric Refrigerator large enough
for side of beef and vegetables.
Many other store fixtures, priced
cheap. Box W, Dallas Post 524
For Sale—Washer, in good condi-
tion. Mrs. David Evans, 3 Spring |
Street. Phone 227-R-13. 521
For Sale—Orders taken now for
early baby chicks; New Hamp-
shire Reds and white leghorns; also
custom hatching. Hilbert’s Hatchery,
Beaumont. Phone Marvey’s Lake,
3422. 524
For Sale—Baby chicks, New Hamp-
shire Red; January hatches; every
Friday; Penn. official blood test; 8c
delivered. Joseph Davis, LeRays-
ville, Penna. 50tf
For Sale—Rental Leases, For Sale
signs, No Trespassing signs, Nc
Hunting signs, For Rent signs, efu
Dallas Post 40t.
Guaranteed rebuilt Ford V8 engines
4,000 mile guarantee. $7 month
Stull Brothers, Kingston, Pa. 19tr
We Buy Used Cars For Cash. Perry's
Service Station, 375 Bennett St.,
Luzerne. 26tf
| tersection of Market,
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THE POST, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1940
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so his rule was almost absolute.
It was not just that men owed
their livelihood to him. It was that
they scarcely ever crossed the
boundaries of his empire. Quite
likely, they lived in a company
house. At dawn, they went into
his mines to turn black diamonds
into hard cash for him. They bought
mining drills and beds and woolen
socks and sharp cheese in his four-
story company store at Market
Street and Page Avenue. If, as was
quite unlikely, they had anything
left after their store bill, rent and
mining supplies had been deducted
from their wages, they entrusted it
to Mr. Edwards’ bank.
In those day’s Kingston's business
section extended from Kingston
Corners to the D. L. & W. railroad
station and in its middle, at the in-
Page and
Chestnut, was the nerve center of
Mr. Edwards’ industrial system,
On one corner there was the bank.
Opposite was the company store.
Up the street a short way was the
ivy-covered building “of Kingston
Coal Co. Every day, harried clerks
shuttled back and forth feverishly
from one of these buildings to
another, bent on Mr. Edwards’ busi-
ness.
About this hub of commerce
sprawled one of the wealthiest sec-
tions in the valley, an area whose
good fortune was rivalled only by
the gold coast along Wilkes-Barre’s
river bank. Within a space of four
blocks there were a score of pre-
tentious mansions, presided over by
families whose names carried weight
in banking circles throughout the
State. There were fabulous stories
told of the goings-on in the elegant |
homes of those coal barons.
Noxen Woman
Called By Death
Mrs. Maude Coolbaugh
Was Buried Yesterday
A six-month illness ended in
death for Mrs. Maude Coolbaugh,
42, Noxen, on Monday night. Her
passing grieved innumerable friends
who knew her as a devout Christian
of cheerful and kindly disposition.
Mrs. Coolbaugh was the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wright of
Noxen and had lived in that town
all her life with the exception of
10 years spent in Wyoming Valley.
She was a devout member of the
Noxen Methodist Church.
Stricken about six months ago,
she underwent a serious operation
and seemed to recover some after
it, but her condition has grown
steadily worse in the last month.
The funeral was held yesterday
afternoon at 2 in Noxen Methodist
Church. Rev. David Morgan, pas-
tor, and Rev. Harry Rundell of Nox-
en Tabernacle, officiated. Inter-
ment was in Orcutt Cemetery, Nox-
en.
Surviving are her husband, Ralph;
two sons, Carl and Leon, and one
daughter, Arlene, all at home; her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Wright; two sisters, Mrs. Edward
Nafus, East Dallas, and Mrs. Gordon |
Johnson, Lehman Heights, and one
brother, Ernest of Detroit.
Maurice J. Girton
Is Laid To Rest
Funeral services were held on
Saturday at St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church for Maurice J. Girton. Rev.
Herbert E. Frankfort, pastor, of-
; : | ficiated, Flower carriers were Bur-
By the time our family had|ton Bonnell, Robert O’Boyle, Wil-
moved into that thin atmosphere jim Snyder, Eugene O’Boyle and
the glamour was beginning to wear Kenneth Brace. Carriers were C. J.
off. Mr. Edwards’ Middle Euro-'gmipper, Giles Wilson, Lloyd Drake,
pean immigrants were overflowing! Gerald Snyder and Ronald Doll.
From removal of dead, old, | earth, though. A few of them still
the railroad tracks. Clouds
smoke from the roundhouse made;
housewives’ lives miserable. And
men had learned that by organizing |
they could gain strength to break’
REUPHOLSTERING
All work guaranteed, large selec-
tion fabrics. Write or phone 7-5636.
John Curtis, 33 S. Goodwin Ave.,
Kingston. 10tf | uncomfortable bonds. Still strong
at his death, Mr. Edwards’ empire
MISCELLANEOUS was undergoing a kind of social re-
A : . | volution.
NOTICE—Miss Munley’s’ Lending I
Library moved to 38 Church 7 l
Street. 11] Most of the old families stayed |
{loyal to their particular bit of God's!
cows, mules, | cling to lonely mansions. One of Mr.
Muhlenburg | Edwards’ three daughters fled to
40tf | aristocratic Montclair, N. J. Another
| retreated from her turreted castle!
Wanted To Buy —Old horses. We | and spent the lonely last days of |
pay highest cash prices for old | her life drinking champagne and
live horses. Must not be diseased. | dining occasionally from gold ser-
Write or phone Ralph R. Balut, Dal- | vice in a modest white home a
las, Pa. Phone 371-R-3 and re- | block away. A grandson held the
verse charges. 34tf | fort-like brick mansion at Maple
Street for a while, but he finally
LEGAL NOTICE [left its stout brick stockade behind
is hereby given that for a more rural environment at
disabled horses,
phone Carl Crockett,
13-R-4. Phone charges paid.
Notice
August and Josephine Sobolefski |
have filed a petition in. the Court |
of Common Pleas of Luzerne Coun-
ty to 90 January Term, 1940, pray- |
ing for change of name. The Court!
has fixed February 20, 1940, as the’
date and 10:00 A. M. as the time of |
the hearing. i
John B. Nanorta,
Attorney for Petitioners. |
Notice is hereby given that let-
ters testamentary have been grant- |
ed in the Estate of Walter B. Ris- |
ley, deceased, late of Dallas, Lu-|
3 |
zerne County, Pennsylvania,
to |
Howard W. Risley, Dallas, Pennsyl-|
vania and Clarence A. Boston, |
Nicholson, Pennsylvania. All per-|
sons having claims or demands |
against said Estate are requested to |
make known the same and those in- |
debted to said Estate to make pay-|
ment to said executors.
Howard W. Risley,
Clarence A. Boston.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
Notice is hereby given that letters
testamentary have been granted in
the estate of Rebecca T. Monk, late
of Dallas, Pa. All persons indebted
or having debts against the
said estate to present same to
executors, Alvin Shaffer, Dallas,
Mrs. Clyde Monk, 15 Cemetery
Street, Pittston, Pa.
ALVIN SHAFFER
ANNA MONK,
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
SCHOOL BOND SALE
The School District of the Town-
ship of Dallas offers for public sale
and will receive sealed bids for the
purchases of twenty school district
coupon bonds of one thousand dol-
lars each three per cent annual in-
terest payable semi-annually, free
Harvey’s Lake. One by one, Mr.
Edwards’ heirs migrated, until they
were scattered across the world.
Trade at the company store shri-
velled, despite attempts at modern-
ization. Finally, in desperation,
some of the departments were
pruned and the establishment was
moved to Kingston Corners, but
it never revived, and a few years
ago it closed. Mr. Edwards’ bank
left the brown stone building and
moved to a glistening new build-
ing on Wyoming Avenue, where it
continues to flourish. Kingston
of annual state tax, dated February
1st, 1940, to become due and pay-
able one bond on February 1st each
year from February 1st, 1940, and
callable August 1st and February
1st in any year in order of the low-
est outstanding number, on thirty
days prior notice.
one or more or all of said bonds at
not less than par and accrued in-
terest, will be received by the sec-
retary until 8 o’clock P, M., Monday,
January 29th, 1940 and will be
opened at that time at the directors
meeting room in the high school
building. Every bid must be ac-
companied by a cashier’s or certi-
fied bank check in the sum of ten
dollars for each bond bid upon pay-
able to the Treasurer of the school
district of Dallas Township, to be
forfeited to the school district as
liquidated damages if the bidder de-
faults after acceptance of bid. Any
bid not accompanied by such check
will not be considered.
By order of
Board of School Directors,
C. J. Eipper, Secretary,
of Interment was in Bloomsburg.
Sealed bids for the purchase of:
Coal Co., bankrupted by the depres-
sion, is still searching for some way
to re-open. The coal compan .of-
fices are empty, the four-story com-
pany store, shortened to one-story
by a disastrous fire several years
ago, is occupied by a cut-rate
grocery and now the bank, proudest
symbol of Mr. Edwards’ fortune, is
to be razed to save taxes.
We left the Second Ward of King-
ston some years ago, and we seldom
see it now unless we are on our way
to catch a train. We never pass
Jimmy Nesbitt’s barber shop and
the old bank and the old company |
store and Lohman’s drug store, |
though, without a twinge of nostal-!
gia. Time has dealt harshly with |
Daniel Edwards’ empire, but there
are ghosts who lurk before the un-
lighted windows of vacant store-
rooms and one of them, we think,
is the ghost of a kid we recognize,
A fragment of our own youth will
go down with the bank, for we lived
in its shadow for at least seven
years, We had our first savings ac-
count there. In a fearful office on
its second floor we braved our first
dentist’s drill. When the Masons
had their smokers on the third
floor, our orchestra used to play,
not beautifully, perhaps, but earn-
estly. On summer evenings we
played tag on the broad sidewalks
in front of the bank, or roller-skat-
ed. And once, right in front of it,
we were struck by an automobile
and, by clutching a headlight and
riding the bumper, escaped with no
damage beyond a broken shoelace,
although a maiden lady who was
passing by insisted the sight had
snipped 10 years from her life.
We don’t know why, at this late
date, we should be feeling sorry all
of a sudden for Mr. Edwards. We've
never had very much in common.
Mr. Edwards’ ghost and your Post-
scripter—who are feeling badly
| about that old bank.
MASONIS CAFE
231 Bennett St., Luzerne
Farmer Dance
TONIGHT AND EVERY
FRIDAY NIGHT
Floor Show
And Orchestra
Dallas, Pa.
| West Nanticoke.
Has First Sight
Of German Plane
Tells Post Readers
Of England's Christmas
(Continued from Page 1)
Engineer on one of the ships the
Graf Spee had sunk. His wife told
me that she had come from her
mother’s home in Scotland only a
few days before I saw her in order
to get her house ready for the re-
turn of her husband at Christmas.
She was listening to the German
radio when she heard for the first
time that her husband's ship had
been sunk. Can you imagine the
hell she went through then—alone
with her 13-year-old daughter? All
that night she sat up listening to
the radio and hoping for more news.
And then the next day—the day I
saw her—came a telegram from her
mother in Scotland to say that her
husband had cabled the news of his
landing at Montevideo.
I am afraid the war at sea re-
mains very remote to one until one
meets someone who has suffered
from it.
And. now,
week’s Post.
cheerio until next
Pastor's Sermon Based
On Transfiguration
“Our Friends in Heaven”, a study
of the Transfiguration of Christ, will
be Rev. Herbert E. Frankfort’s ser-
mon at 11 a. m. Sunday morning
at St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Lu-
ther League will meet at 6:45. At
vespers at 7:30 Rev. Mr. Frankfort
will preach on “Things Present”
and the newly-elected members of
the church council will be installed.
WPA Project Started
At Harvey's Lake
Eighty men have been assigned
to begin work on improvement of
Highway 40064 at Harvey’s Lake.
The project will continue for five
months and will cost the Federal
Government $43,000 and the High-
way Department $19,000.
River Frozen Over
For the first time in many years
the Susquehanna River has - been
frozen over from Shickshinny to
The river was
partly covered with ice previously
and the recent severe cold snap
closed the remaining channel.
Truck Plunges 200 Feet
. A Chevrolet pickup plunged over
the 200-foot ledge at Wyalusing
Rocks, one of Pennsylvania's scenic
wonders, last week. The driver had
parked the car while he went into
Dying Man Calls Police;
Trip To Hospital Futile
Stricken with apoplexy earlier in
the day, John Hayes, 72, who lives
alone on a farm at Idetown, phoned
Harvey's Lake police Wednesday
night last week when his condition
became worse. He was taken to
Wilkes-Barre General Hospital in
the Harvey's Lake cruiser, but died
at 7:35 Thursday morning.
Mr. Hayes, wno was 72, had lived
on a farm at Idetown for years. His
nephew, William P. Gardner, Wil-
kes-Barre, found him lying un-
concious on the floor in the after-
noon. There was evidence that he
had done his chores before Gardner
arrived. Later that night Mr. Hayes
called the police and asked them
to take him to a hospital.
Skaters To Get Bargain
At American Auto Store
The advertisement of American
Auto Stores in this issue of The
Post will be of timely interest to
the unusual number of persons in
this section who are enjoying the
revival of skating as a result of the
cold weather. Any person who clips
the advertisement from The Post
and presents it at the American
Auto Store, 300 Wyoming Avenue,
Kingston, today or tomorrow will
be able to buy a pair of nationally-
famous full tubular shoe skates for
$1.98.
Dallas Township PTA
Meeting Is Postponed
Dallas Township Parent-Teacher
Association has postponed its meet-
ing which was scheduled for next
Monday night until Monday night,
January 22.
King’s Daughters’ Party
Mrs. Thomas Moore was hostess
on Monday night at her home to
members of the Kink’s Daughters
Class of Shavertown Methodist
Church. Mrs. Malcolm Borthwick
assisted Mrs. Moore.
ONA
DALLAS, PENNA.
MEMBERS AMERICAN
BANKERS’ ASSOCIATION
DIRECTORS
R. L. Brickel, C. A. Frantz, W. B.
Jeter, Sterling Machell, W. R. Neely,
| low.
But there are at least two of us—!
Clifford Space, A. C. Devens,
the Log Cabin. When he came out Herbert Hill.
he saw the truck heading for the
precipice. It came to rest among
the trees and boulders 200 feet be-
OFFICERS
C. A. Frantz, President
Sterling Machell, Vice-President
W. R. Neely, Vice-President
W. B. Jeter, Cashier
F. J. Eck, Assistant Cashier
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“SMILING SERVICE ALWAYS”
OLIVER’S GARAGE
Packard and Hudson Cars
White and Indiana Trucks
DALLAS, PENNA.
ls lin din lion ll Blinded di
Vault Boxes For Rent.
No account too small to secure
careful attention.
Interest On Savings Accounts.
|
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19 MONTHS TO PRY
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ON CARS PRICED BELOW $300
115 Used Cars To Choose From
Lot at Wyoming Ave., Kingston
OPEN EVENINGS
SATURDAY NIGHTS
Sarah Thomas, 83,
Dies At Noxen
Funeral Will Be Held
On Saturday Afternoon
Mrs. Sarah Thomas, 83, a native
of Danville and a former resident
of Shavertown, died on Tuesday
night at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Wheeler H. Hess, Noxen. She
had been ill 10 days.
Mrs. Thomas was born in Danville
on May 29, 1856. After her mar-
riage to James J. Thomas she moved
to Wilkes-Barre and lived in the
Heights section for many years. She
also lived in Shavertown before go-
ing to Noxen.
She was one of the founders of
Puritan Congregational] Church of
Wilkes-Barre and at the time of her
death was a member of Noxen
Methodist Church.
Surviving are two other children,
Miss Elizabeth V. Thomas, White
Plains, N. Y., and Jay Halsey,
Thomas, New York City, and one
grandson, Wheeler H. Hess, Jr.
The funeral will be held on Sat-
urday afternoon at 2 with Rev. Da-
vid Morgan of Noxen Methodist
Church officiating, assisted by Rev.
John R. Albright of Noxen Lutheran
Church. Interment will be in Ever-
green Cemetery, Shavertown,
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adjusted—Brakes and mechani-
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RENN'S CAFE
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Mrs, Fannie Sutton has returned
from visiting her son, Lawrence, at
Plains.
Mrs. Beryl Cisco called on a num-
ber of her neighbors recently.
Miss Anna Salansky has gone to
Detroit for the winter.
Mrs. Adda Garinger observed her
82nd birthday anniversary recently.
She is very youthful for one of her
age.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kocher call-
ed on Mr. and Mrs. George Wilson
on New Year's Day.
Mrs. Adda Garinger and relatives
called on Mrs. Myrtle Isaacs at Dal-
las on New Year's Day. Mrs. Isaacs
is seriously ill.
Mr. and Mrs, Raymond Garringer
i and son, Arnold, and Mrs. William
Hausch and daughter, Florence,
visited Mr. and Mrs. Klyne at Kings-
ton recently.
Mrs. Lyman Hausch is gaining
slowly since she underwent a ton-
sillectomy:.
Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Rood visited
Mr. and Mrs. Abbot at Nanticoke
on Sunday.
Miss Winnie Baird of Shickshinny
visited her mother on Sunday.
Vernon Rood is improving in
health since he has been taking
treatments at Nanticoke Hospital.
SHOE REPAIRING
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188 Main Street, Luzerne
RING BALOGNA
LIVER PUDDING
15¢ Ib.
Frankfurts Ib. 15¢
BEEF
Chuck 1b.12%2¢
Boiling Ib. 8c
Boneless
Rib Roast Ib. 27¢
Hamburg 1b. 122¢
PORK
‘Shoulders 1b. 10c
Pigs Feet |b. 5c
LAMB
Chops Ib. 18¢
| Stewing 1b. 8c
— LIVE CHICKENS —
Dressed To Order
IVORY SOAP
Medium Bars
4 for 33¢
Save With
Butterine " 12V%¢
Cheese Ib. 5c
Eggs doz. 21¢
Fresh Ground
Coffee 1b.10c
TANGERINES—ORANGES
10c doz.
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Potatoes 5 Ibs. 10c
Tender
Carrots 31bs.10c
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