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THE POST, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1941
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Tories Disturb
Early Settlers
Early Militia Was
109th Forerunner
In October, 1777, Lieutenant Asa
Stevens was detailed to go on a
scout up the river with a squad of
nine men from Wilkes-Barre. They
were ‘ gone several days and re-
turned with five suspected persons
as prisoners. In the latter part of
November Lieutenant John Jenkins,
Jr., in command of a scouting party
from our regiment, was captured by
a band of Tories and Indians near
Wyalusing and sent to Fort Niagara.
About the twentieth of December
Lieutenant Colonel George Dorrance,
in command of a force of 111 offi-
cers and men of the regiment went
up the Susquehanna as far as Wy-
sox, Towanda and Sheshequin to
disperse or capture a settlement of
Tories in that locality. They suffer-
ed considerably from cold and hung-
er and a severe snowstorm, but suc-
ceeded in capturing twenty-eight
men who were brought down to
Wilkes-Barre.
The Connecticut Assembly con-
vened in special session at Hartford,
January 8, 1778, and continued in
session for several weeks. Near
the close of the sitting the follow-
ing memorial was presented:
“The Memorial of Nathan Deni-
son of Westmoreland in the county
of Westmoreland Humbly sheweth
that he Being Colonel of the 24th
Regt of militia Belonging to this
State and on the 20th day of De-
cember last Being Informed that a
band of Tories ware forming on the
west ward of sd Town of West more-
land in order to stur up the In-
dians of Tioga to Join sd Tories &
Kill & Destroy the Inhabitants of
this State upon which Information
your memorialist ordered part of
his Regt to be Immediately equipt
and marched to supres sd consper-
ators and also sent an Express to
the Tribe of Indians at Tioga sd Ex-
press being seven days in service
-which service & expences amounted
to £5:9:6 and the officers & men
who march’d ware as follows (viz)
1 Lt Col 1 Capt 5 subalterns 7 ser-
geants 5 corporals & 93 rank &
file who ware Nine Days in service
and also one subaltern & eleven
privates who ware four Days in
service, and ware suplied with one
Hundred wt of Powder & about
Three Hundred wt of Ball which
was Delivered out of Town Stock
& expended in sd expedition.
“Which service & expences being
all for the Defence of this & the
Rest of the United States the me-
morialist therefor Humbly Prays,
your Honours to Grant the wages
& expences of the officers & men
(who marchd About 80 miles up the
River and Took sundry Tories and
happily contented the Tioga Indians
and Intirely Disbanded the Conspe-
rators) ‘and also alow the Town of
Westmoreland the amminition ex-
pended as aforesaid and order the
expences of sd Tories confined in
Goal paid out of the Treasury of
this state or in any other way
Grant to your memorialist and men
such a Reasonable Reward as your
Honours in their Great Wisdom
shall think Just & your memorialist
as in Duty Bound shall ever pray.
“Dated at Hartford the 26th Day
of Jany; AD 1778.
(Signed) Nathan Denison.”
“To
Militia, State of Connecticut,
Litchfield.”
TROMBONE COLLECTIOIN
The Trombone Choir of the Mo-
ravian Church in Bethlehem owns a
complete set of slide trombones, in-
cluding the very rare soprano and
F-bass trombones, which are not to
be found anywhere else in America.
| Verna Lamoreaux, treasurer;
RUG SUBS FOR MOTHERS OF THESE TIGER CUBS
Three tiny tiger cubs cuddle up to a tiger-skin rug in the Rockland Lake, N. Y., home of Captain Roman
Proske, animal trainer. They are the survivors of two sets of twins born to two tigers on the captain’s cat
farm. Zoologists were amazed at the blessed events, for tigers seldom breed in captivity. The cubs were taken
away from the mother tigers because they frequently eat their young.
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Young Of Church
ToBe Rewarded
W. S.C. S. Will Entertain
Regular Church Goers
Children who have conscientiously
attended church every Sunday in
the past year will receive their re-
ward in the form of a delicious din-
ner served by the Woman’s Society
of Christian Service of Dallas Metho-
dist Church at 5 o'clock Thursday
evening. Those who have attended
half of the Sundays will pay half
price for the dinner and others in
accordance with the number of
Sundays present. Music and recita-
tions will make up an interesting
program. Adults are welcome and
can make reservations with Mrs.
Ray Shiber.
Plans for the banquet were out-
lined at a meeting of the Executive
Board of the Woman's Society of
Christian Service held at the home
of Mrs. Shiber on Monday. Present:
Mrs. J. C. Fleming, Mrs. Eugene
Fiske, Mrs. Harry Snyder, Mrs. Wes-
ley Himmler, Mrs. Peter Clark, Mrs.
William Niemeyer, Mrs. Joseph Sch-
merer, Mrs. William Baker and the
hostess.
Fred Mintzer To
Serve Third Year
Heads Sunday School
Officers At P. M. Church
Mr. Fred Mintzer, of Dallas, was
re-elected, for the third consecutive
year, superintendent of the Glen-
view Primitive Methodist Sunday
School, at a meeting of the School
Board on Monday evening. Other
officers elected were: William Comp-
ton, assistant superintendent; Miss
Jane Case, secretary; Miss Ellen
Gerlach, assistant secretary; Miss
Miss
Charlotte Mintzer, pianist; Primary
Department superintendent, Mrs.
Lewis Stritzinger; Home Department
BACK MOUNTAIN DAIRY HERDS
LEAD IN QUALITY PRODUCTION
Back mountain dairy herds were
again among the leaders in high
production for the month of Decem-
ber as reported by Walter F. Teel
of the Columbia-Luzerne Dairy Herd
Improvement Association.
Sterling Farm, where a program
of grass feeding is in effect, was
leader of the ten highest producing
herds, with Hillside Farms in fourth
place and Goodleigh Farm in
seventh.
Among the highest producing
individual cows, Lake Louise Farm
stood second with Hillside Farms in
third and fourth places and Sterling
Farm in fifth place.
In the twenty-six days worked,
seventeen herds were tested. Four |
hundred and eighty cows were in
milk and ninety-nine cows were dry.
One cow was sold for dairy purposes
and twenty-eight were sold for non-
dairy purposes. One hundred cows
produced over 40 lbs. of fat and six-
ty-one cows produced over 50 lbs.
fat: Those cows producing over 1,000
numbered fifty-four and those pro-
ducing over 1,200 lbs. milk num-
bered one hundred.
HIGH PRODUCING COWS IN BUTTERFAT FOR THE MONTH
Breed Age Lbs. Lbs.
Owner Name of Cow Cow Yrs. Milk Butter-
fat
Fairchild... oo. oo 0 82A R. J. T 1159 75.3
Lake Louise Farm Nora R.G. 4% 1407 73.2
Hillside Farm, Inc... H. H. Pontiac Bess R. H. 6 1869 69.2
Hillside Farm, Inc........._.. H. Ormsby Bess R.H. 4% 1721 67.1
Sterling Farm... .... Fair Oaks Tessie R. G. 5 1314 64.4
Danville Hospital... 258 G. H. 7 2294 108.8
Danville Hospital ........_... 362 G. H. 3 2130 100.1
Danville Hospital... 335 G. H. 415 2155 86.2
Danville Hospital... 381 G. H. 2 2263 81.5
Danville Hospital... .2333 G.H. 8 1885 81.1
Danville Hospital 349 G. H. 4 2182 74.2
Danville Hospital ............. 264 G. H. 1 1752 68.3
Retreat... no 0 ti ly 23B R.H, 4 2204 68.3
AVERAGE PRODUCTION OF TEN HIGH PRODUCING HERDS
Owner Breed No. Cows Milk Fat
Sterling Farm... . G. 47 776 37.40
Danville Hospital... H. 105 1001 33.74
Clarence R. Hack... . G. 55 670 32.99
Hillside Farm, Inc eH. GR. 29 819 32.8
Fairehild..... 5 os. HO & RJT. 46 815 32.56
Roland H. Seely. . G. 12 654 30.54
Goodleigh . G. 50 580 30.48
Berwick Farm . & G. H, 26 899 28.5
Shoemaker Bros......... sn . A. & R. H. 29 752 27.6
Geo. L. Rice & Son........__.. R. A. . 16 632 25.6
Price In Wheel Chair
In a letter this week to his par-
superintendent, Mrs. Corey Crispell; |
Cradle Roll superintendent, Mrs.
Lewis Stritzinger. Rev. Herbert
Hoyes presided at the meeting. Sun-
day school meets every Sunday
morning at 10 o'clock, preceding
the church services at 11.
JOHNSTOWN’S INCLINE PLANE
The incline plane at Johnstown,
which hoists passengers and motor
cars up a mountainside 502 feet
high, is claimed to be the only one
of its kind in the United States.
The runway is 896 feet long up a
71 per cent grade.
THE READER'S DIGEST SETS
WORLD'S CIRCULATION RECORD
The Reader’s Digest now has the
largest circulation of any magazine
in the world, according to an an-
nouncement made today by the edi-
tors at Pleasantville, N. Y. In reach-
ing a paid monthly figure of 4,100,-
000 copies for the current January
issue, the magazine has established
a new record in publishing history.
This is doubly significant in view of
the fact that the Digest which car-
ries no advertising sells for 25 cents
a copy.
The editors state that this figure
of 4,100,000 includes the British Em-
pire edition, printed in London,
(180,000 copies), and the new
Spanish language edition, ‘‘Selec-
ciones del Reader’s Digest,” distrib-
uted throughout Latin America,
(225,000 copies).
“When the Digest first appeared
in 1922 it was generally believed
that a magazine of serious articles
without fiction or illustrations, could
never attain a circulation exceeding
200,000. The fact that each month
more than 4,000,000 people now
purchase a magazine made up en-
tirely of thought-provoking material
is an encouraging commentary on
our times,” the editorial statement
declares. “That so large a propor-
tion of our population gives this ev-
idence of wanting to widen its men-
tal horizons speaks well for the
alertness of our citizenship.”
The Reader's Digest established
editorial offices at Pleasantville, 40
miles from New York City, in 1923.
In 1939, an office building housing
an average of 800 employees was
erected in the rolling hills north of
Pleasantville.
The Reader's Digest is owned and
edited by Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Wal-
lace, who founded the magazine in
1922. Its editorial staff of 45 men
and women read more than 1000
magazines and books each month,
from which final selections are
made.
A unique feature of the magazine's
activities is the publication every
month of a Braille edition which was
started about 12 years ago on a non-
profit basis in cooperation with the
American Printing House for the
Blind. This is now read every
month by blind people throughout
the world.
For those of the blind who have
never learned the Braille system,
the Talking Book of The Reader’s
Digest, composed of phonograph
records, is distributed monthly.
Each issue consists of ten 12-inch
double-faced discs, prepared for spe-
cial phonographs, which are played
at 26 library centers throughout the
country. In this way some four-
teen or fifteen thousand blind per-
sons enjoy a ‘“hearing-reading” of
the Digest every month.
Recently the editors announced |
that a contribution to Canada’s de-'
fense efforts would be made by al- |
lotting fifteen per cent of all money
received from Canadian subscrip-|
tions for the purchase of Canadian- |
built Hurricane fighter planes.
ents, William Price, Jr., says he is
able to be about in a wheel chair
and his nose looks as good as new.
Bill it will be remembered is the
Dallas lad who broke his nose, leg,
arm and army gun while on duty
| with the United States army in Ha-
wail. Before the accident and be-
fore he had to pay the army for the
gun, Bill was one of the leading
boxing contenders on the Islands.
OLD PRINTING PRESS
Pennsylvania had the third print-
ing press in the Colonies and the
first outside: of Massachusetts. It
was built in 1686 by William Brad-
ford at Shackamaxon, now Kensing-
ton. The earliest publication is said
to have been an almanac in the year
1687 by Daniel Leeds. A copy is
still in existence in the Philadelphia
Library.
Mrs. Fleming Will Be
Hostess To Auxiliary
Mrs. J. C. Fleming will be hostess
at the next meeting of Shavertown
Branch Nesbitt Memorial Hospital
which will be the first Friday after-
noon in March. Hostesses will be
Mrs. Charles Fisher, Mrs. S. P.
Frantz, Mrs. Fleming, Mrs. John
Girvan, Mrs. E. W. Guernsey, Mrs.
Edward Griffith, Mrs. Albert Grob-
lewski, Jr., Mrs. Lina Garinger, Mrs.
J. H. Gabel and Mrs. G. L. Howell.
Mrs. R. B. Taylor was hostess at
Friday’s meeting.
CONESTOGA WAGON
The Conestoga Wagon received
its name from the valley of that
name in Lancaster county inhabit-
ed by Mennonites.
Pittsburgh’s Highland Park Zoo,
covering 28 acres, has 750 mam-
mals, reptiles, birds, valued at $640,-
000.
ON GUARD
Mrs. D. Montross
Buried Saturday
Was Life-long Resident
Of The Noxen Region
The funeral of Mrs. Dora Mon-
tross, aged 70, life-long resident of
the Noxen region, who died Wednes-
day following a lingering illness at
the home of her son, Elijah of South
Run, was held Saturday from the
home of her son Bert of Noxen.
Until a few months ago when ill
health made it necessary to give up
household duties, she had lived with
her unmarried son, Paul, on the
family homestead .at South Run.
She was the widow of the late
Charles Montross.
Funeral services were in charge
of Rev. David Morgan of Noxen M.
E. Church and Rev. E. M. Greenfield,
a nephew, of Forest City. Pall bear-
ers and flower carriers were all
grandsons. Honorary pallbearers
were Alton, Ernest and George Mon-
tross of Noxen. Interment was in
Orcutt’s Grove.
The deceased leaves five sons,
Elijah and Bert of Noxen, Paul and
Floyd of South Run and Arthur of
Idetown. She also leaves a sister
Mrs. Wesley Bellas of Luzerne and
a brother, Frank Monroe of Clear-
field, also thirty-four grandchildren.
Church Leader
Called By Death
Helped To Organize
Episcopal Mission
The funeral of Mrs. Frances M.
Renard, who died Thursday, Janu-
ary 2, following an illness of com-
plications at her home in Dallas, was
held Saturday afternoon from the
Doran funeral home, Kingston, with
services in charge of Rev. Ralph
Weatherly, rector of Grace Episco-
pal Church, Kingston. Interment
was in Forty Fort Cemetery.
Mrs. Renard was born at Blooms-
burg, the daughter of Sara and Ja-
cob Mosteller, Throughout her life
she was devoted to the Episcopal
Church. For years she lived in
Kingston and was active in the so-
cieties of Grace Episcopal Church,
where she was president of the La-
dies’ Guild. When she and her hus-
band moved to Dallas about fourteen
years ago she lent her energy and
devotion toward the establishment
of the Prince of Peace Episcopal
Mission here. The meetings of the
mission were held at her home on
the second Sunday of each month.
Besides her husband, Frederick H.
Renard, she leaves a sister, Mrs.
Clara Balliett of Williamsport.
Pallbearers were all nephews:
Wallace Dunlap, Herbert Harmon,
John and George Price and Freder-
ick and George Ferguson.
Band Parents To Meet
Edgar J. Adolph, president of the
Dallas Township Band Parents’ Or-
ganization, announces a meeting to
be held on Monday evening in the
High School Library. All parents
of band members and interested
persons are invited. At this meeting
the By-law committee, which met
last Monday evening will present
their report for approval.
Card Of Thanks
The family of the late Mrs. Dora
Montross of Noxen wish to thank all
those who assisted during the illness
and death of their mother. They
also wish to express their apprecia-
tion for the beautiful flowers and for
the kindness of those who furnished
automobiles.
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