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From :
Pillar To Post
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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
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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
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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. It would work to the ad-
vantage of everybody, providing a
legitimate safety-valve for the boys
and girls, and peace-of-mind for
their parents.
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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
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Penalties imposed by Section 3540
Auto Use Stamps
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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
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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
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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.
|
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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.
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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.
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