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(By A Staff Correspondent)
Suffolk, Va., (By airmail)—The song was wrong, all
wrong. Remember it? It said:
“Nothin’ could be fine-a than to be in Carolina in the
mornin!’
Come a few miles north and take a look at Suffolk, Vir-
See it, feel it, smell it, breathe it.
surprised if you suddenly are aware of the nostalgic urge to
think of Luzerne County and Wyoming Valley, because very
much of anthracite inspiration has found its fulfillment in this
capital city of the lowly goober, this greatest peanut market
in all the world. You'll forget for the time being that bitum-
ginia.
inous is burned here. How
could it be otherwise with
West Virginia so near—and
paying dividends to some of
your neighbors, too.
Suffolk is the home of T. Cover
Johnson, Marion Saunders, Jack
Nurney, Amedeo Obici, Planters’ Nut
& Chocolate Company and (tempor-
arily, of course) Wilkes-Barre Ba-
rons of the Eastern Professional
Baseball League. Johnson is Mister
Big at the Chamber of Commerce,
Saunders equally important in the
sanctum sanctorum of the News-
Herald, Nurney is only the Mayor.
And what of Obici? All he and the
Planters’ company contribute -is
about 68 percent of Suffolk’s em-
ployment and somewhere near to
100 percent of the self-sufficiency of
Wilkes-Barreans who had the good
sense to buy Planters’ stock when
“Obici almost had to give it away.
You come down here to write
news about the Barons, for which
purpose your correspondent did in-
deed come, and first thing you know
Suffolk is 78 degrees in the shade,
and its possibilities 100 percent on
your mind. You wonder if there
isn’t something about peanuts that
is more devastating than that tidal
surge of Sherman on his way to At-
lanta in the war and to immortality
in the hell-and-gone novel of Mar-
garet Mitchell. Then you look over
the gigantic Planters’ plant with its
thousands of employes and its bil-
lions of peanuts and you know that
A. Obici built for peace and Suffolk
is its embodiment.
The Elephants Had A Feast
Maybe there is unemployment
here. If there is, no one has men-
tioned it and the panhandler is as
minus as milk at an Elk’s clam-
bake. Not so long ago these enter-
prising folk had a circus come to
town and they threw $400 worth of
peanuts into Main Street and the
elephants lumbered up and fed
down to the last husk and ultimate
raw kernel. The picture went
around the world by way of Fox
Movietone.
You get the idea, the one about
the world’s greatest peanut market,
when you see great trucks pound-
ing down the business center, laden
in tiers six deep with sacked tubers
* that Obici once sold by the nickel’s
worth at a stand in the shadow of
Wilkes-Barre postoffice and now
ships and freights and airmails,
candies and salts and olive oils and
blanches and chocolate covers until
nowhere in this civilized world is it
possible for the eye to dwell long
on the marts of commerce and com-
fort without meeting a cocktail can
or a glassine bag chock-full of jum-
bos, hand-picked or run-of-the-mill
halves to feed a vagrant whim or
top off a gourmet’s feast.
Your old neighbor Obici lives his
leisure among the flowers of Suf-
folk, 30 acres of them—and among
the cows and goats and chickens
and ducks and geese and peacocks
and peahens, by bevies, by coveys,
by herds and by flocks. Anything
that is bucolic, rustic and supremely
natural you may mention as con-
tributing to the Obici estate and
esteem and if you get the fine old
gentleman’s confidence he will tell
you that being close to nature is
being kin to God. How else would
it be possible, at the end of the
day when the sun has slipped be-
hind the Blue Ridge mountains—
how else would it be even believable
that a man might sit by his window
and talk to the helpmate of his
bosom long since gone the way of
all flesh? As the essence of roses
holds true to its clay, so does the
spirit of Signora Obici hover about
the garden paradise in Suffolk.
Even Barons Talk With Drawl
Your correspondent sought Suf-
folk to learn about training camps
and the prospects of Wilkes-Barre
Barons in this year’s campaign to
relieve Scranton of the gonfalon at
the end of the goalward trail. Then
in Suffolk he saw jonduils, poly-
chromatic and effulgent; he saw
Japanese quince blooming in the
back gardens and a King Midas
trail of forsythia gilding the hedges.
Yes, and he saw trellis spiraea and
he believed Suffolkian ladies and
gentlemen when they declared a
two-inch fall of snow on Easter was
a phenomenon not to be duplicated
in half an average life-time. Snow
on Easter Sunday, and 78 degrees
in the shade at mid-week. Reckon
it out for yourself.
Barons’ Manager Earl Wolgamot
had an Iowa twang when he came
here and when you’all hear it on
a southern drawl he acquired h’yee-
about you can’t be less than in-
trigued by the Cleveland Indian who
BARONS’ INVASION OF SUFFOLK PROVES IT!
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On April 24
And don’t be at all
BOWLING
NOTES
Echoes of the Bowlers’ Jamboree.
WATER, water everywhere Satur-
day night, but not a drop we drank.
o®e
The stormy weather did put a
crimp in the attendance, but those
present made up for their absent
mates. Angelo Costello, master
pianist, presided at the piano and
the Junior League presented its
1940 version of a party as it should
be. All the late popular song hits
were rendered by various Juniors.
o@e
John Sobeck, as general chair-
man, outdid himself in putting
across a very enjoyable affair. Ev-
ery person present went home satis-
fied.
o@e
John Rahl, master cook, made a
tasty array of the eats on the tables
and made sure there was enough
for all. We enjoyed your efforts,
John. Thanks!
o@o
The pin boys acted as waiters and.
kept those glasses filled all the time.
Joe Martin was in charge of the
bar and kept his department busy.
Debates were plenty among the
various bowlers as to the merits of
the different leagues, but all argu-
ments ended amicably.
o@e
The West Side Merchants’ League
will be officially ended this week
and the teams of this league will be
called the Orphans for the next
nine weeks and continue with a
new policy, with a new list of priz-
es to the winners, on Wednesday
night, May 29. Prizes will be paid
on that night which will come in
handy for Memorial Day which falls
on the day following.
e@eo
Joe Schwab will be godiatior of
the Orphans and his suggestion has
made the new league possible. Nine
teams of the Merchants’ have agreed
to finish in the new league and the
tenth team will be made up of sur-
plus bowlers who will have a chance
to get into the money list,
All teams of the Merchants’ will
be awarded their prizes as soon as
the league treasurer computes their
records.
o®e
Bruno Spinicci, president of the
Merchants’, is handicapped in his
efforts to bowl, due to a sore back
which he injured in a bowling game
in the Garden alleys at New York
City on St. Patrick’s Day. Bruno
had the rare opportunity of bowling
on an alley adjacent to the one on
which Sonja Henie was bowling.
Sarge was the other member who
bowled there, but Sarge, accustom-
ed to celebrities, was not disturbed
and came home all in one piece.
o@e
Sam Carpenter, local Pontiac
leader, wanted to touch Queen Eliz-
abeth and he had that opportunity
on St. Patrick’s day in New York
City as she lay at her berth at the
foot of 50th Street. She was cold
to Sam.
guested with the southern planters
to learn how to provide professional
ball for the hard-coal patches. Doc
Eddie Potsavage is red as a rasp-
berry that isn’t black and his coat
of tan will be everywhere that
isn’t covered by shorts and a sweat-
shirt. Secretary Mike McNally took
off a pound of pilsener pork each
day so far and will be able to wear
a uniform in a pinch. Your corres-
pondent is suffused in the poetry of
the Southland
And oh, yes, the Barons are here
—42 of them. Jones of the Three-I
League just got in with his record of
top-hitter and most stolen bases.
Hibbs is here and Carl McNabb and
Jack Conway, Bob Lemon, Bob La-
Mothe, George Hubal, Bryan Steph-
ens, Bobby Lange and others, all
fresh out of the Cleveland X-ray
room and pointed to Suffolk to]
blaze from there the trail of the
majors.
Suffolk has provided a fine new
radio station, a fine new baseball |
diamond with flood-lights on the
way, a super-fine populace and a
kind of hospitality that is all-suffi-
cient and always short of surfeit.
The sun and the South are un-
kinking the Barons and when that
opener comes around April 24 just
have down a couple bets that Scran-
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— NT
Bon Ton Men's Shop
J. Shimko 595
Schwab 607
Banks 510
Kraynak 548
P. Tomek 627
Total 2887
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Buddies’ Men's Shop
Dorish 525
Lavelle 477
Hudock 523
Simmons - 539
Kovacs *186
Low Score *%340
Total 2590
Blight Bros.
A. Leandri 469
Costello 533
D. Leandri 413
Karlunas 514
Low Score 383
Total 2312
Quarteroni Bros.
J. Caladie 601
Pickarski 488
Radovic - 474
J. Mizencik #%316
Hrivnak 498
Total 2495
Central Cafe
A. Leandri 442
P. Evans 497
Bulford 435
Karlunas 477
D. Leandri 467
Total 2318
St. John's
B Mizenko 387
Krehely 419
Walko 507
Low 413
Low 453
Total
2179
BOWLING SCORES
Greenwald's
Tracy 516
G. Bednar 512
Ondish 487
Kurpis 557
J. Bednar 545
Total 2617
L. A. Office
Perry 541
Lowe 533
Higgins 409
Rosnick 537
Low Score 455
Total 2475
Stegmaier’s
Kender 604
Govier 528
Schultz 460
Comorosky 581
Tibus 518
Total 2691
Rahl Market
Gelso 533
Chorba 480
Zawatski 727
Allen 549
G. Tomek 640
Total 2959
West Side Ice
J. Titus 396
Jones 475
Dorosky 502
R. Titus 537
Low Score 474
Total 2352
L. A. Truckers
Psolka 490
Spinicei 453
Caladie 460
Stelma 524
Merli 503
Total 2430
*Indicates one game.
**Indicates two games.
Flood Imprisons
Many Bowlers
Business Men's League
Has Uninteresting Week
The Luzerne Business Men's
Bowling League lacked interest in
its games this week as all top teams
were matched against the bottom
teams with the odds in favor of the
boys. Only the Luzerne Anthra-
cite Truckers made a stand against
Stegmaiers with the result of one
game win for the Truckers. Psolka,
Stelma and Merii kept the game
interesting for Stegmaiers, who had
Kender and Comorosky doing the
heavy scoring.
Rahl’s Market enjoyed a four
point win over the short-handed
West Side Ice, who had members
of their team in the flood waters
at Kingston. Zawatski led the Rahl
team with a 727 score to go into a
tie for three-game individual high
with Zoeller of the Luzerne Anthra-
cite Outside team. Ray Titus
starred for the West Side Ice team
with 505 pins.
Bon Ton Men’s Shop won all three
games from the Buddies’ Men's
Shop. Polly Tomek took all highs
for the Bon Ton with a 234 game
and 627 total, Simmons with 539
pins was high for Buddies.
Greenwald's won all three games
from the Luzerne Anthracite Office
team. Captain Kurpis came into
the game when Mike Balogh report-
ed he was stranded in the flood at
Edwardsville and took the highs
with a 195 game and 557 total.
Chick Perry took Phil Richards’
scoring honors with 541 pins. Rich-
jards was another victim of the flood
{ waters.
Pete Smith’s team was unable to
bowl when they learned the Piledgi
Tavern were in Wilkes-Barre and
unable to appear, but the Piledgi
team made the trip by the way of
Pittston and arrived after the Smith
team had left. This game will be
bowled later. Luzerne Anthracite
Outside bowled its average against
the Prudential team, who likewise
were flood victims, and the Pru-
dential will bowl its average against
tor will be on the sho’t end 0’ that
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the Outside team’s score later.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
W. H. WINTER
vs.
DUTCH MOUNTAIN CLAY
PRODUCTS COMPANY, INC.
In the Court of Common Pleas
of Luzerne County.
In Equity.
No. 13 May Term 1939
NOTICE
TO ALL CREDITORS AND OTHER
PERSONS INTERESTED:
Take notice that on the 15th day
of March, 1940, the Final Account
of Edmund P. Whitby, receiver for
Dutch Mountain Clay Products
Company, Inc. in the above en-
titled matter, was confirmed by
the Court of Common Pleas of Lu-
zerne County.
It is further ordered by the Court
that the Account will be confirmed
absolutely on the 8th day of April,
1940, unless exceptions thereto are
filed in the office of the Prothon-
otary on or before that date.
Hopkin T. Rowlands,
Attorney for Receiver,
March 18, 1940.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
LEGAL NOTICE :
Estate of Luella M. Neely, late
of Lehman, Luzerne County, Penn-
sylvania, deceased. Letters testa-
mentary upon the estate of the
above named decedent having been
granted to Walter M, Neely of 906
Mifflin street, Huntingdon, Penn-
sylvania as executor; all persons
having claims or demands against
the estate of the said decedent are
requested to make known the same,
and all persons indebted to the said
decedent are requested to make pay-
ment to said executor without de-
lay.
EDWIN SHORTZ, Jr., Attorney.
In the Big Ten race, Zoeller con-
tinues to rank first. Soggy Tomek
climbed into second place, displac-
ing Gelso, who dropped into fourth
place when Polly Tomek took third.
Schwab forged ahead of Tibus into
fifth place with Titus dropping into
eighth place. Zawatski, by his 727
game, climbed into sixth place.
Kender held his position in seventh
place. Comorosky and Barnhart
held onto their places as ninth and
tenth. Baker is runner up with 192
average,
Team Standing
BUSINESS MEN'S LEAGUE
W. L Pts
Rahl Market 67 17.90
Bon Ton Men’s Shop 63 21 85
L. A. Outside 58: 26 81
Stegmaier’s 53. 31 71
Greenwald's 49:35". 63
Pete Smith 39° 42° 53
Piledgi Tavern 39 42 52
Buddies’ Men’s Shop 38 46 51
West Side Ice 33-46 51
L. A. Truckers 23:61. 32
L. A. Office 23 61 28
Prudential Life Ins. 12 69 15
Schedule For Monday
7 p. m., Stegmaier’s vs. Pete
Smith; Greenwald’s vs. L. A. Out-
side; Prudential vs. L. A. Office.
9 p. m., Buddies’ Shop vs. L. A.
Truckers; Bon Ton Men’s Shop vs.
Rahl Market; West Side Ice vs. Pi-
ledgi Tavern.
JUNIOR LEAGUE
WwW. L Pts
Quarteroni Bros. 58 23 80
Buddies’ Juniors 5520.73
Kelly St. Market 53.28 71
Central Cafe 50 31.64
Ferraro Truckers 35 46 47
Mullay Shoe Repair 27 54 37
Al's Barber Shop 22 59 "30
General Cigar Co. 20-5729
Schedule For Tonight
7 p. m., General Cigar Co. vs. Kel-
ly St. Market; Mullay Shoe Repair
vs. Central Cafe; Quarteroni Bros.
vs. Ferraro Truckers.
9 p. m., Buddies’ Juniors vs. Al's
Barber Shop.
MERCHANTS" LEAGUE
(Final Standing)
WL. Pts
Spinicci Garage 75 6 101
Ben Sterling’s 71-16. 95
Luzerne Anthracite 57 27 79
Lipo Insurance 37. 47 51
Blight Bros. 345-50 «45
Buddies’ 32 43 41
Bileggi Cafe 300 54 39
Grablick Dairy 26 49 36
St. John’s 27-51 35
Orioles 17. 558 20
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
An Ordinance of the Borough of
Dallas, Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
vania, fixing the tax rate for the
fiscal year 1940.
Be it ordained and enacted, and
it is hereby ordained and enacted
by the Council of the Borough of
Dallas, Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
vania:
Section I. That a tax be and the
same is hereby levied on all prop-
erty and occupations within the said
Borough, subject to taxation for
Borough purposes, for the fiscal year
1940, as follows:
Tax rate for General Borough
purposes, the sum of fourteen (14)
mills on each dollar of assessed val-
uation:
For Sinking Fund purposes, the
sum of one and one-half (17%)
mills on each dellar of assessed val-
uation; making a total tax rate for
all Borough purposes of fifteen and
one-half (15%) mills.
Section II. That any ordinance,
or part of ordinance, conflicting with
this ordinance be and the same is
hereby repealed insofar as the same
affects this ordinance.
Adopted the fifth day of March,
1940.
PETER D. CLARK,
President of Council.
Attest:
WM. J. NIEMEYER,
Secretary.
Approved this fifth day of March,
1940.
H. A. SMITH,
Burgess.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
TAX ORDINANCE
An ordinance of the borough of
Courtdale, Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania, fixing the tax rate for the
fiscal year 1940. Be it ordained
and enacted, and it is hereby or-
dained and enacted by the Council
of the Borough of Courtdale, Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania:
Section 1. That a tax be and
the same is hereby levied on all
property and occupations within the
said Borough subject to taxation for
Borough purposes for the fiscal year
1940, as follows:
Tax rate for general Borough
puoposes, the sum of fifteen (15)
mills on each doilar of assessed val-
uation:
477 pins.
Schwab Bowled
In Every Game
Merchants’ League Ends
Its Regular Season
With the West Side Merchants’
Bowling League closing its 1939-
1940 season last week, statistics
show that Joe Schwab bowled every
game of the schedule and finished
with an average of 192.
John Mellus holds league high
average with 200 but did not par-
ticipate in all games. Starting last
Wednesday, the teams which com-
prised the Merchants’ went into a
new nine-week schedule to end May
29 with a new prize list which will
give all teams another chance to
win prizes. All the kitty will be
paid out in the final week which
will be classed as the play off week
when all the teams will be matched
against their nearest rivals with
each two teams winning out in the
play off.
The price of games will also be
dropped which will afford a greater
number of bowlers the opportunity
. | to bowl.
In last week's games, Ben Ster-
ling’s had a tough time with the
Orioles in taking four points. Lipo’s
Insurance team took four from the
Bileggi Cafe. Blight Bros. took four
from St. John’s. Luzerne Anthra-
cite took four from Blody Karlot-
ski’s Dairy team.
Girl Keglers Defeat Truckers’ Team;
Al's Barbers Take Two From Kellys
The Mullay Shoe Repair girls again proved their superiority over the
men when they soundly thrashed the tough Ferraro Truckers to the tune
of four points, taking all three games by large margins.
546 pins for the girls and “Honest John Sully” led the Truckers with
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
For debt purposes, the sum of
three (3) mills on each dollar of as-
sessed valuation;
For other purposes, as follows:
Light and Water, four and one-half
(4%) mills on each dollar of as-
sessed valuation.
Making a total tax rate for all
Borough purposes of twenty-two and
one-half (22%) mills.
Section 2. That any ordinance,
or part of ordinance, conflicting with
this ordinance be and the same is
hereby repealed insofar as the same
affects this ordinance.
Adopted this 16th day of Feb-
ruary, A. D., 1940.
ARTHUR JONES,
President of Council.
Approved this eighth day of
March, A.-D., 1940.
HULME S. DARON,
Burgess.
Al's Barbers finally found th
right combination with the addition
Psolka led with
il
of Joe Cook, and took two points
from the Kelly St. Market.
took all highs for the Barbers with
a 198 game and 519 total.
continues to star for the Kelly St.
team and rounded out a 550 score.
Buddies’
who came near to upsetting th
Buddies with some high scoring and
making the Buddies exert them-
to win all three games.
selves
George Kovacs and Moses starred
for the Buddies with Kovacs tak-
ing high game with 218 pins and
Moses total pins with 596. Clemmy
Cywinski, hitting a 194 game for the
General Cigar team, came in with
Cook
Juniors were given a
hard test by the General Cigar boys
x
Renoe
total pins high with 527. Stepanic
also put up a good game with 485.
Central Cafe met the leaders with
a victory in the first game over the
Quarteroni Bros. Quarteroni’s came
back in the second and third games
to take three points. “Yonno” Cala-
die hit a 234 game and finished
with 601 pins for Quarteroni’
Polly Evans bowled below his usua
standard but still held up the Cen-
tral team with a 190 game and 497
total.
With “Bazako” Stelma elminited :
from the Big Ten due to insufficient
games Radovic climbed into the se-
lected list. Psolka leads, with Re-
noe second and the other eight fol-
low in order: P. Evans, J. Caladie,
Miss Honeywell, Moses, S. Hrivnak,
“Mushy” Mesencik, Radovic and
“Dizzy” Leandri.
Starting with tonight's games, all
bowlers will be registered and no -
new men can be signed for the bai~
ance of the season. This rule is in
effect in order to protect the teams
from “Ringers”
hand to get on the band wagon
when the prizes are nearly due,
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
ESTATE OF LOUIS HOCHREITER,
Late of the Borough of Luzerne, Pa.,
Deceased. Letters of Administra-
tion in the above estate having been =
granted to the undersigned, debtors
will make payment and creditors
present claims to
JOHN HOCHREITER,
Administrator.
Henry Greenwald,
Attorney for Estate.
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