PAGE EIGHT From : Pillar To Post (Continued from Page One) up were allowed to leave school early in the spring, in order to put in an intensive three-weeks’ course at State College. Most of them had never been on speaking terms with a horse before they were exposed to this training-course, but at the end of the three weeks they had a work- ing knowledge of how to hitch and unhitch, how to care for the harness as well as the horse, how to plough and harrow, how to -fertilize, and how to milk the gentle cow. In addition to their studies in applied agriculture, the thirty local boys, along with groups from other sections of the state, were taught to drill by regular army officers. They were issued, for the period of their training course, standard army khaki uniforms, These uniforms were decidedly second-hand, and the way they did not fit was quite astonishing. The slim youths gath- ered the capacious waist-bands “about them, cinching in the surplus with a tight belt, and stuffing the overflow beneath into spiral puttees. The tout ensemble made them feel very military. Dr. Kniffen says that the food was not so hot, but that the State Col- lege Dairy Farm was close at hand. The boys bought a pint of ice- cream from the Dairy-Farm every evening after supper, and the added calories saved their lives. With the three-weeks’ training period behind them, the thirty boys were stationed near Dallas, in the triangle where the road to the Irem Country Club branches off from the Tunkhannock pike. They lived in a double row of tents, army style, with a mess-hall and all the fixings. The man in charge of the camp had a French horn, on which he performed night and morning in lieu of a bugle. The morning Reveille was rewarded by thirty sleepy youngsters scrambling out of their cots, but Taps was usually unpro- ductive: The thirty boys had solved the problem of perpetual motion. All day long they labored in their re- spective fields, and at night they patronized Fernbrook. By the time the dance broke up they were so Do You Like To Sew? Maybe you can thread a needle just as easily as ever if your eves roperly fitted with glasses are p. Dr. Abe Finkelstein OPTOMETRIST Main Street, Luzerne AUTO IGNITION AS SPEED-UP, AMERICA! Celebrate The Fourth—power- fully. Let our experts Tune your Car’s Ignition up! America is “motorized” today, military AND civilly. Get in line—and stay there, in front, with our Ignition Service’s "aid! RUDOLPHS’ Electric Service 38-35 E. Jackson Street sleepy that they. locked arms for mutual support and came up the final rise to their tents fast asleep. For additional recreation they swam in what is now the water- hazard on the golf-course, and dunked the town dim-wit in the creek at Fernbrook. By the end of the summer the boys had covered a lot of territory. They had set out cabbage-plants for two weeks on the Isaacs farm, an experience which left them feeling that they ‘had mistaken their call- ing, and that they should have been hop-toads; they had taken care of a garden for Miss Rogers at Hunts- ville Dam; they ploughed and har- rowed ' and ‘pitched hay wherever their services were called for. The older generation out Dal- las-way, as is the custom of older generations from time immemorial, viewed with alarm the influx of thirty city-slickers from Wilkes- Barre. Romance flourished, fanned by community singing on the church lawns with the necessity for escort- ing the fair damsels of Dallas back to their homes through the warm sweet-scented dark. Thirty staid and sedate business and professional mén of Wyoming Valley still reminiscence with nos- talgic voices. Gone are the memor- ies of the backaches, the calloused hands, the sunburned noses, the poison-ivy. All that remains in the halcyon interval, an interlude in living which excused thirty boys from the school-room from early spring until late frost, gave them their first taste of adult responsibil- ity, and provided them with love's young dream in a setting of rural beauty. “That was probably the happiest summer of my life,” said Dr. Knif- fen, removing the bolsters with a pair of forceps and allowing me to come up for air. “How about next Tuesday morn- ing, nine-thirty ?”’ Writer Takes Exception To Use Of High School (Continued from Page One) place where they are merely toler- ated by adults. A plan such as this would work to the advantage of not only the High-School crowd, but the adults who have a right to their own fav- orite brand of entertainment. The average adult bores the average High-School student, and the reverse is equally true. Most boys and girls prefer their own brand of soft drinks to the beers and mixed drinks of some of their elders. There is a feeling among High-School boys who are patronizing a dance floor with a bar attached, that they will be re- garded as panty-waists if they do not order something more authorita- tive than a coke. This gesture of maturity is designed to impress the female of the species in much the same manner as the head-stand or the series of handsprings on the part of the sixth-grader. A dance-floor run on decent lines, intended for High-School students and . High-School students only, would have the whole-hearted sup- port of many parents in the com- munity who ordinarily hesitate to allow their offspring to do any eve- ning-stepping at all, no matter how innocent. 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X55 Mascarat—for dark silken lashes. directed on the label, - Pat. 2,007,245. Other patents pending. THE POST, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1942 Mrs. Finch Was | Practical Nurse Aged Woman Buried Monday At Sunnyside Mrs. Frances London Finch, aged 85, died Friday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Albert W. Weid, of Main street, Dallas. : Mrs. Finch was the daughter of the late Theodore and Elizabeth Jackson and was born March 15, 1857, on a farm between Nichol- son and Factoryville in Wyoming County. She spent the early years of her life at East Lemon and Tunkhannock. After the death of her husband, George Landon, eigh- teen years ago, she remained at Tunkhannock for five years and then came to live with her daugh- ter in Dallas. Mrs. Finch was for many years a practical nurse and was widely known throughout Wyoming Coun- ty for her ministrations to the sick, and many were the early morning or late night trips in a buggy with the late Dr. Bert Bidleman of Tunk- hannock racing the grim reaper or in a neck and neck race with the stork. Later she worked with the late Dr. Lazarus and other Wyoming County physicians who considered her outstanding in her field. After moving to Dallas, Mrs. Lan- don met and married the late Joseph ¢ Finch, and at his death continued to make her home at 107 Main street until last September when failing health made it necessary for her to return to her daughter's home again. She was a patient, kindly woman who bravely faced failing health and her declining years with fortitude and a gentle spirit. She liked to recall and talk about the youngsters she had helped to bring into the world, many of them now grown to man and wo- manhood with children and grand- children of their own. She frequently talked of old War In qr Re: RE Egypt Are Now On Sale | Bticker. Penalties imposed by Section 3540 Auto Use Stamps (Continued from Page 1) States, except that stamps for less than a full fiscal year are not avail- able at post offices of the third and fourth classes unless such post offices are located at county seats. Stamps may be purchased by mail but only from collectors of internal revenue. In such case a letter should be addressed to the collect or, accompanied by money order, certified check, or cash for the value of the stamp. No order form or application blank is necessary and detailed information concerning the motor vehicle for which the stamp is desired is not required.” The new stamps issued this year contain a serial number and this serial number is to be entered on the gasoline rationing coupon book to be issued by the Office of Price Administration. This number will serve to identify the coupon book as applying to a particular vehicle and, in effect, means that in those areas where gasoline is rationed or will be rationed the service station attendants will not be authorized to’ dispense motor fuel unless the number on the book corresponds to the number on the stamp. The Auto Use Tax Stamp should be affixed to the lower right hand corner of the windshield adjacent to the Pennsylvania Inspection are as follows: “Any person liable for the tax under this section who uses or per- mits the use of the motor vehicle Top: King Farouk (left) with his Aide de Camp inspecting anti-air craft batteries in the Egyptain Desert. Bottom: In Cairo modern maids form bat- talions of death in the event of a spring invasion by the Nazis they will do their part in defending their country. friends in Tunkhannock and Wyo- ming County and of the home on Susquehanna avenue where she spent more than 22 years of her life. She leaves three daughters, Mrs. A. W. Weid, Dallas; Mrs. Theodore Rogers, Tunkhannock; Mrs. F. O. Wintermute, Chicago; two sons, Evans London, Chester; Aljada London, Harvey's Lake; a sister, Mrs. Merton Purdy, Dalton, and eighteen grandchildren and eighteen great-grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted at 2 o'clock Monday from Brickel Funeral Home with services in charge of Rev. Austin Prynn of Dallas Methodist Church. Pall bear- ers were: John / Roberts, Weid, M. J. Brown and Harry Howell. Interment was in the fam- ily plot at Sunnyside, Tunkhannock. Few Streets Bre Without Signs (Continued from Page 1) contribution so that the borough- wide project. can be completed on every street. No contributions have been re- ceived from a number of streets and with the exception of Franklin, Ma- chell avenue and Huntsville road no signs have been erected on them. Streets on which no solicitors were named and from which no con- tributions have been received are: King, Lincoln, Oak Orchard, Still |from any of the above streets in | and Pioneer avenue. | Arthur Streets on which solicitors were named and from which no contribu- tions have been received are: Machell avenue, Burgess H. A. Smith; Center Hill Road, Councilman Joseph MacVeigh; Huntsville road, Helen Anderson; Walter street and upper Huntsville road, Postmaster Joseph Polacky; Ridge street, Mrs. Thomas Reese; Spring street, John Joseph; Franklin, Mrs. Ella Harvey. For a whirlwind windup of the solicitation the following have been appointed to collect contributions on streets not previously solicited: King, Eugene A. Fiske; Lincoln, Steven J. Tomascik; Oak, Cris D. Stahl; Orchard, M. A. Scott; Pioneer avenue, Mrs. Hugh Murray; Still, Mary E. Still. Minimum contribution | order to have a sign is $1.00. a SE ——————ad shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than $25.00 or im- prisoned for not more than 30 days, or both. Any person who uses or operates a motor vehicle or boat at a time when the stamp, sticker, or tag does not appear on the motor vehicle or boat in the manner pro- vided in the regulations prescribed under subsection (e) or (f) shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and. upon conviction shall be fined not more than $25.00.” Man Killed When Skidding Car Crashes (Continued from Page One) celerator indicating that gas could have been applied when the vic- tim’s foot slipped from the brake pedal. Police were able to recon- struct the course of the car in its fatal skid. Tire marks on new seeding in front of the Pinola home indicated that the death car ran off the highway on the wrong side of the road near- est the lake and skidded 108 feet before crashing into the tree with an impact that was heard in many sections of the Lake. Engleman is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Engleman of Noxen. Trowbridge, who had been living with Heber Bellas at Beaumont, had been doing bridge construction work for Banks Construction until he quit his job last week. He was the nephew of Henry Altamus of Noxen. His parents at Birchardville were notified of the death by State Police from the New Milford Sub or boat before tax has been paid Station. THE GUMPS LOOK , Forks! REQ FROM. MY THOUSANDS TAKE PART OF TH EMPLOYEES ASKING ME TO SALARIES TO BUY SAVINGS BONDS FOR. THEM // BY. 4US EDSON BESTS OF EIR Bl THE PAYROLL 1 SAVINGS PLAN “IN Your, OFFICE YE FLIES AS HIGH AS 29,000 FT.— AS HIGH AS MT. EVEREST .... FACTS YOU NEVER KNEW!!! 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