PAGE EIGHT
THE POST, FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1942
William S. Kunkle
Passes Away
Was Descendant Of
Early Settlers
A grand old man, whose half cen-
tury of leadership and service had
gained for him the deep friendship
and respect of an entire community,
passed from this region forever
when death came to William Shaver
Kunkle.
Mr. Kunkle, a lifelong resident of
Kunkle and grand-nephew of the
late Wesley Kunkle, for whom the
section was named, died Saturday
night at 10:30 at his home, Though
he had been in ill health for the
past two years, his last hours were
marked with the quiet comfort and
happiness Ww. tel
those whose lives have been well
and fully spent.
e
comes only to
Largely attended funeral services
were held Tuesday afternoon at 2
at the home, conducted by Rev.
David R. Morgan, pastor of Kunkle
Methodist Church. Burial was in
Warden Cemetery, preceded with
the solemn last rites of the Masonic
Order.
Son of the late Marvin W. and
Louise Austin Kunkle, Mr. Kunkle
was born September 20, 1859, in
the old family homestead across
from the Methodist Church in
Kunkle, barely a quarter of a mile
from his late home.
He wed Mary Caroline Hoover on
September 3, 1883, at the Presby-
terian Parsonage in Beaumont, and
that ceremony, though simple and
unpretentious, gave two fine people
nearly 60 years of happiness and
contentment together. It was per-
formed by the late Rev. J. McElroy.
Much of the early history of the
Back Mountain Region lived in the
memories of Mr. Kunkle. When he
was a young man he knew inti-
mately many of the old charatcers
who played a prominent part in the
development of this area from an
untamed woodland—Abram Ryman,
Joseph Shaver, William J. Honey-
well, John T. Fuller, Captain Jacob
Rice, William C. Roushey, and the
rest of the old guard, now long dead
—and the family line goes directly
back to the founding fathers of
Kunkle.
Mr. Kunkle, though a sincere and
out-spoken Democrat in a commun-
ity dominated by the Republican
party, was called upon to serve as
an official of Dallas Township on
many occasions. He was tax collec-
tor for 14 years, served two terms
as Poor Director and was also
elected Township Auditor for sev-
eral terms.
A successful farmer from his boy-
hood days, he was a prominent fig-
ure and pastmaster of Kunkle
Grange 930. For the past 25 years
he had been a member of the
George M. Dallas Lodge 531, F. and
A. M.
He is survived by his wife, the
following sons and daughters, Mrs.
Ralph Ashburner of Kunkle, Mrs.
Julia Kunkle of Kunkle, Mrs. Alex
Johnston of Philadelphia, Mark
Kunkle of Orange, Philip Kunkle at
home, and Wheeler Kunkle of Lake
Catalpa; two sisters, Mrs. Laura
Hartman of Scranton and Mrs. Cor-
ey Miers of Kunkle; twelve grand-
children and five great grandchil-
dren,
Pallbearers, all grandsons, were
Robert Ashburner, Paul Kunkle,
Forrest Kunkle, Jason Kunkle, Wil- |
liam Kishbaugh, Jr., and Robert
Williamson. Flower carriers includ-
ed Mrs. Elwood Condon, Mrs. Rob-
/
Elston Not To
Oppose Flack
Surprises Expected In
Committeemen Fight
Efforts of the County Republican
organization to have Walter Elston
of Dallas Township run against
Harold Flack of Shavertown for
representative from the Sixth Leg-
islative District at the coming Prim-
aries have so far proved unavail-
ing. Mr. Elston has steadfastly re-
fused to run.
At a meeting last week the Coun-
ty Chairman and others brought
out that Mr. Flack already has two
called strikes against him because
he lacks county organization sup-
port. Flack’s friends countered by
MR. AND MRS. KUNKLE
The late William S. Kunkle
posed with his wife for this pic-
ture when they celebrated their
56th wedding anniversary in
September, 1939.
.
Dick Cease Flew To
Bvenge Classmate’s Death
received from her son’s command-
ing officer. It read:
life in the sudden attack here
on the morning of December 7
was your son Louis Gustav. He
was killed instantly by the first
bomb dropped by the Japanese
in the war. He was temporarily
buried for the duration at
Schofield Barracks Cemetery
(Case No. 202) on December 9.
Lieut. Moslener was our senior
navigator and is greatly missed
by all of us. We have the
greatest sympathy for you at
this time.
(signed)
Major Richard Carmichael,
Hickham Field, T. H.
Mrs. Cease said that Dick had
known of his friend's death before
he left on his own fatal trip to she
Far East and that the knowledge
had made him all the more determ-
ined to seek revenge. The two boys
had been companions during their
training school days but had been
separated when Lieut. Moslener left
with a Flight for Hawaii. She also
revealed that Major Carmichael had
been a friend of Dick’s and that
she had often heard Dick speak of
him and circumstances surrounding
swimming in a mountain stream
| in Yellowstone Park.
Low Wage Scale
Lost Two Instructors
(Continued from Page 1.)
and science—requires a man teach-
| er, and these are extremely scarce,
due to the Selective Service and the
calling to service of all reserve of-
ficers. An appointment must be
made by Tuesday, when classes are
resumed.
To replace
ard Dorset of Mansfield, former
supervising principal of Fleetville
High School in Lackawanna County,
has been employed to teach mathe-
matics and science for the balance
of the year. Prof. C. S. Boston, prin-
shop.
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One of the men who gave his |
his elevation to major last summer |
after Carmichael’s superior officer |
had drowned during a storm while |
Mr. Counsman, How- |
cipal of the high school, will teach !
saying that by the same sign Don
Wilkinson, present incumbent had
two strikes called against him in
his two previous campaigns but that
he made home runs on his last
strike ach time.
While Flack’s campaign and that
of Don Wilkinson for State Senator
hold major interest in this area
there is no dearth of interest in
the committeemen contest through-
out the district.
In the northeast district, Idetown,
Kenneth Calkins will oppose Bruce
Williams. Calkins an employee of
Hazard Wire Rope Company, is sup-
ported by the county organization
while Williams will have the local
organization support.
In the Middle District of Dallas
District Floyd Chamberlain has
been selected by the Middle District
Republican Club as its candidate
for committeemen. He will probably
be opposed by Merle Shaver. At a
meeting of the club recently at
David Bevan’s at Demunds, Shad
Goss was elected president and
Charles “Pap” Jones, secretary and
treasurer.
William Cairl
Commissioned
(Continued from Page 1.)
being moved up to the front lines.
While the nervous little group wait-
ed in a railway station for orders,
they were picked up by a medical
officer who pressed them into ser-
vice at an evacuation hospital in a
| nearby chateau. Some of the men
were assigned as stretcher bearers,
others as ambulance assistants, but
Bill's new job was to administer
ether to badly wounded men
brought in from the front. The med-
ical officer giving Bill a sponge and
a can of ether, told him what to
do and his first day as an operating
room assistant began. That was his
first real taste of war. The oper-
ations continued all day long with
Bill as chief anesthetist.
He saw active service in the St.
Mihiel offensive from September 12
to 16 and then in the Meuse-Ar-
gonne Champaigne sector, from
October 1 to 10 and was with the
troops that recaptured the town of
Rheims.
It was during continued opera-
tions in the Meuse-Argonne offen-
sive from November 1 to 11 that
than 350 United States Marines the
night before the Armistice was
signed. Second Division engineers
had placed a pontoon foot bridge
across the Meuse and in the early
morning dark—less than seven
hours before the war ended, Marines
were crossing the river in single
file, A German star shell burst above
them and then German machine
guns opened fire sweeping the nar-
350 killed, bodies of many were
never recovered from the river al-
though the war came to-an end at
eleven that morning.
After the Armistice Bill's outfit
moved through Belgium and Lux-
emburg and entered Germany on
December 13 taking up stations at
Neweed. Life for the most part was
rather dull in Germany until July
Bill recalls the slaughter of more |
row bridge and its row of men. Of |
21 when there was some doubt
whether Germany would sign the
peace treaty.
The Second Division then took up
positions thirty kilometers in Ger-
many on the eastern bank of the
Rhine and prepared to resume hos-
tilities on July 27. The treaty was
signed in August 1919.
On his return to the United
States, Bill entered the employ of
the Bell Telephone Company but in
April 1920 enlisted in the United
States Navy, serving three years
until May 1923. While stationed on
the Destroyer McDougal he assisted
in making tests with depth bombs
and made trips to South America
and through the Pandma Canal,
| serving as Electrician's Mate, third
class. He took a year’s course at
the U, S. Naval Electrical School
at Hampton Rhodes, Virginia.
At the expiration of his enlist-
ment he again entered the employ-
ment of the Bell Telephone Com-
| pany, moving to Dallas in 1925 with
| years ago became wire chief with
the Commonwealth Telephone Com-
| pany moving to Dallas in 1925 with
this family, a year after his father
rand mother, Mr. and Mrs. William
{ Cairl, had moved here.
| He is considered one of the best
communications maintainance men
in this area and has handled the
| complicated dial switchboard work |
for the Commonwealth Company |
| for years. His early training in elec- |
| trical and communications work ,
| was obtained with the Bell Tele- |
phone Company, at the United |
| States Naval Electrical School and |
|in courses given by the Automatic
i Electrical Company, manufacturers
| of dial telephone equipment.
| He is a member of George M. Dal-
{las Lodge, Keystone Consistery.
Scranton, and of Dallas Methodist
| Church. He and Mrs, Cairl have one
| son Clayton, eighteen.
‘Marine Recruit |
| Ralph J. Sherin of Carverton en-
[listed in the Marine Corps at
Wilkes-Barre, Monday.
Mother IsIll
Miss Geraldine Crispell, supervisor
of music in the Noxen school, was
called to Whitney Point, N. Y., last
week by the serious illness of her
mother, Mrs. Floyd Crispell, who is
well known locally.
Wins Bond
Mrs. Floyd Mansfield of Noxen,
was the winner of the Defense Bond,
recently chanced off by the C. I. O.
leaders of the Noxen Tanerny to
pay the expenses of a delegate to
the state convention.
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