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stmas Party Planned
llas Woman's Club
Plans were made for a Christmas
Gs Party and Tea to be held after the
~ business meeting Wednesday night,
December 9, by the Board of Direc-
tors of the Dallas Woman’s Club at
their meeting Tuesday. Each mem-
ber is asked to bring a ten cent
gift for exchange.
present in all his glory. There will
be group choral singing led by the
Santa ‘will be
Glee Club. Dr. Budd Schooley will
talk to those at the meeting on the
progress being made on the plans
of the community building. The new
members who were unable to at-
tend last month will be accepted in-
to the club. Present at the board
meeting held at the home of Mrs.
William Derolf were Mrs. Malcolm
Borthwick, Mrs. Clarence Adams,
Miss Mary Templin, ‘Mrs. Donald
Nelson, Mrs. George Stolarick, Mrs.
Fred Eck, and the hostess.
Girl Scouts Do Share
In Tuberculosis Drive
As part of their Community Ser-
vice program, Girl Scouts of the
~ District have been giving pep talks
throughout Back Mountain Schools
chase celluloid bangles
this week urging students to pur-
as their
share in the annual Christmas drive
against tuberculosis. Scouts who
talked in the Borough Schools were
“June Colwell and Ann Peterson,
grades 1 and 2; Beryl Colwell and
~ Barbara Clark, grades 3 to 6; Phyl-
lis Williammee, chapel.
Huntsville Quilting
Huntsville Methodist Church
- ladies held an all-day quilting party
at the church Monday. Present
were Mrs. T. W. Stoeckel, Mrs. Ruby
Elston, Mrs. Howard Jones, Mrs.
Alverna Carey, Mrs. Ira VanOrden,
Mrs. Malvin Wagner, Mrs. George
Learn, Mrs. Charles Behee and Mrs.
Fred Weaver.
Dallas, Church To Have
Universal Bible Sunday
Universal Bible Sunday will be
observed at the First Methodist
Church in Dallas on Sunday, by a
special service on the Evening Hour
of Worship at 7:30 P. M. The fea-
ture of this service will be a Bible
display which will include Bibles in
Hebrew and Greek and many of the
special versions which have been
produced recently such as ‘the
Bible as Living Literature” and the
translations into modern speech in-
cluding the translations by Moffatt,
Weymouth, Goodspeed and the
“Twentieth Century New Testa-
ment’. There will also be the trans-
lation of Luke's Gospel by A. T.
Robertson and the translation of
Luke's Gospel by Don J. Klingen-
smith into the everyday language
of the mid-western United States
for the Westcott and Hort text of
the Greek New Testament. Mr.
Klingensmith is the Superintendent
of the Ponca Indian Mission at Pon-
ca City, Oklahoma. And there will
be copies of the King James version
of the Bible, and the American Stan-
dard Edition. The minister, Rev.
Austin L. Prynn, will greatly appre-'
ciate having any interesting copies
of Bibles that are in the community
for this exhibit. If you have a copy
of the Bible or any portion of it
which is unique by way of language
or age or some other special fea-
ture, will you bring it to this Ser-
vice. The sermon subject will be,
“The Two Edged Sword.”
. CONTACT
for
Service
Men
Mr. and Mrs. David Williams of
Trucksville have receive word from
their son, Roger Williams, that he
is stationed at Camp Carson, Colo-
rado. Roger is in the Signal Corps.
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Sergeant Clarence = Montross,
home on a ten day furlough, spent
last weekend with his mother, Mrs.
Harry Jones of Ruggles. This was
his first furlough since his enlist-
ment 18 months ago. He returned
safely to his camp at Monroe, Lou-
isiana on Sunday night.
* * *
Elwood Renshaw, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert D. Renshaw of Idetown
has been transferred from Miama
Beach ‘where he was taking six
months basic, training, to radio
school in Madison, Wisconsin.
William G. Knecht returned to
Stuttgart, Arkansas, Monday after
spending a ten day furlough with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Knecht of Church street.
Sgt. William Baker has been
transferred from Mitchell Field, N.
Y., to Greenville Army A. B., South
Carolina.
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Squire and Mrs. Ralph Davis of
Harvey's Lake received a letter
from their son, P.F.C. Elwood last
Tuesday wishing them all a Merry,
Merry Christmas. Elwood who is
in the Marine Corps. says he’s seen
a lot of water since he left home.
He wrote that he'd received only
| one letter from home since he has
been there, though the family alone
have sent 8 letters and 2 packages.
He was using his sea bag as a desk.
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Pvt. Howard Kyttle of Cheriton,
Virginia has been visiting his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kyttle
of Sweet Valley.
* *
Staff Sergeant Joseph Sudimek
has been transferred from Langley
Field, Virginia to Fort Dix, New
Jersey. His present address is
Staff Sergeant Joseph Sudimek,
151st .Q. M. C., Service Grp. (Av.)
First ‘Service Group, Fort Dix, New
Jersey.
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Double congratulations to William
John Jennings. He has a new rank,
Sergeant, and celebrated a birthday
on December 1. Best of luck in the
coming year William John.
Corporal Kenneth William Hessler
Jr., returned to Cherry Point, N. C.,
Sunday after spending a week with
his mother, Mrs. Roxie Hessler at
Idetown. “Chubby,” is a parachute
rigger and just made his jump of
2100 feet. He said it was quite a
thrill. Good luck to you, Chubby.
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Velton Bean who is stationed at
Manhattan Beach with the Coast
family in Jackson.
Reformation Lutheran
There will be a change in sched-
ule of the Reformation Lutheran
Church at Laketon starting this
Sunday, December 6. The church
services will be held at 2 P. M. and
Sunday School at 3 P. M. instead
of at 9 and 10 A. M.
To Read “The Robe”
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George Howe of Lehigh street,
Shavertown—General. :
Each week this box will con-
tain the names of local patients
in the hospital. We are doing
this so that you will know which
hospital your neighbors are \in
and can cheer them up with
cards, gifts or personal visits.
Mrs. Elizabeth Conrad will read
| “The Robe” by Lloyd Douglas at a
| dessert luncheon in Shavertown
| Methodist Church December 30 at
!1 o'clock. The reading is sponsored
'by ..W.S.C.S. of the Shavertown
Church.
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| According to word received from
| the War Department by his parents,
John Joseph has arrived safely at
an undisclosed destination in the
Pacific area.
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Butcher
Is 59 Tomorrow
Fred Mintzer Recalls
How He Learned Trade
With meat rationing and other
problems even the butcher has dif-
ficulty remembering his birthday
anniversary these wartime days, but
Frederick L. Mintzer, who will cele-
brate his 59th on Saturday, came
out from behind his meat block at
Titman’s market this week to tell
us some things about other days
that made us know our neighbor
better and forget that we wanted
pork chops instead of hot dogs.
Mr. Mintzer was born December
5, 1883 on his father’s farm at Mt.
Yeager, along the Nescopeck
Creek. When he was ten years of
age he walked two miles daily to
the Riley school and evenings before
school home work he did farm
chores. When he was fifteen he left
school to take a man’s size job on
the farm handling all kinds of the
plowing and various other farm
work. About the time he was sev-
enteen, his father entered the lum-
ber business and young Fred, proud
as a peacock behind a spanking four
horse team, hauled lumber to the
Upper Lehigh Mines twenty miles
distant.
Three years later he married Min-
nie Coleman of Albert's Corners and
the couple moved to Sandy Valley
where Fred started to learn the
butcher's trade in the Millhoffer
Packing company. His first job was
cleaning hog casings. He didn’t like
that much, but stuck to it because
he had made up his mind to become
a butcher. He did his job well and
it wasn’t long before he was pro-
moted to the hog killing room. That
was something he enjoyed.
Fred recalls how the hogs were
shipped in from the west in double
tier cars, and unloaded into pens
where they were packed in so tight
that a man could walk over their
backs, knock them in the head with
a small hammer and cut their
throats without having a pig fall
over.
In turn Fred worked on the hog
scraping rack and at hog-shaving—
the last job one of the coldest he
ever had because only mountain
spring water was. used. = Later he
advanced to the floor where he split
the dressed hogs and cut them up
For a time he served a trick trim-
ming sausage meat and hams and |.
bacon, and packing them in barrels
for pickling and curing. After the
fresh hams were packed they were
sent to the cooler where brine was
poured on to cure them out ready
for smoking. He rounded out two
years of apprenticeship in the smoke
house where he hung hams and
bacon on trees to smoke. During
those two years he worked 12 hours
a day, from 6 A. M. until 6 P. M.
and he received 11c an hour as top
wages.
Contracts Small Pox
But Fred enjoyed every minute of
his work because he was learning
the trade he wanted to follow
through life. About this time, how-
ever, his apprenticeship was inter-
rupted when he was stricken with
smallpox. One of his neighbors who
had recently returned from Phila-
delphia was taken seriously ill. One
of the younger doctors in the com-
munity attended him and pronoun-
ced the ailment as “the rash.”
But the patient failed ‘to respond
to treatment and old Dr. Snyder
of White Haven was called in. He
diagnosed the disease quickly, call-
ed it “the rash” and then sent word
to the packing house owner to close
his plant at once because ‘‘small-
pox’ had broken out in the com-
munity. Mr. Kemmer complied and
immediately summoned a specialist
and nurses from Philadelphia to
stay in the ‘community until the
plague had run its course. Every-
body in the community was vaccin-
ated and confined at home, but nine
cases developed, one of which died.
It was many days before Fred came
down with the disease, but the
Philadelphia physician predicted the
exact day and time he would be
stricken.
how well he felt the day before and
how terrible the illness on the fol-
lowing day. After he was released
from the “pest house” he followed
the doctor’s orders and went home
to the farm for a year in order to
be away from the dampness of the
packing house. It was a hard year
for there was always the urge to
complete his apprenticeship. As
soon as he was strong enough he
returned. Fred was happy because
he had been advanced to 13c an
hour.
When the packing house closed
down because of economic condi-
tions, Fred came to Wilkes-Barre
where he worked in the Payne
Packing House and then for a while
as safety appliance man on the Cen-
tral Railroad.
But the butcher trade was in his
blood and it wasn’t long until he
| went to work for Charles Croll in
Fred will never forget!
Miss Alice C. Eipper whose engagement to Leslie H. Tinsley of 224
Poplar Street, Wilkes-Barre, was announced this week.
, sprinkling lightly with salt,
Freeland. There he peddled meat
on the road. After supper at night
Fred killed the beef for the next
day’s trip and got up in the morn-
ing at 2 p. m., cut the meat and
loaded the wagon ready to start out
again at 5 A. M. Fred worked for
Mr. Croll eight years until he re-
tired from the business. He worked
part time for other butchers, but
had just about decided to give up
the trade entirely when he got a
job as caretaker for the Sisters of
Mercy farm in Dallas. It was while
working there that he met Herman
Garinger who offered him a job
as clerk in his shop in Dallas. Mr.
Mintzer worked with Mri Garinger
until /C. A. Frantz opened his meat
department in 1927.
Mr. and Mrs. Mintzer are the
parents of seven children, three of
whom are living; Mrs. Reed Chapin,
Dallas, Lemon, employed in the
Hazard Rope Works, Wilkes-Barre,
and Charlotte, wife of Rev. Daniel
Davis, Primitive Methodist pastor in
Boone, Iowa.
Mr. Mintzer has been active in
church work himself, and is super-
intendent of the P. M. Sunday
school in Dallas. He says he doesn’t
mind another birthday because he
is enjoying good health and is at
Peace with God and that is all that
any man can ask for.
THRIFTY PEOPLE APPRECIATE
THE POST CLASSIFIED ADS
Hunters Contribute
Deer Skins
(Continued from Page One)
cox, subsidiaries of the Keystone
Tanning and Glue Company; the
Mt. Jewett
branches of the
Curwensville
Brothers
Tannery; Loyal Fur Manufacturing
Company, 1346 Church St., Dan-
ville; or Queen Premier Fur Dress-
ing and Dyeing Company, St. Jo-
seph and Ann streets, Easton.
Leffler said the Commission is dis-
tributing thousands of posters and
flyers to each hunter in the field so
he will not overlook this patriotic
obligation if he kills a deer. He
and
Howes
further emphasized that all deer’
should be skinned properly and
carefully, removing the head and
feet and all flesh from the hide,
and
delivering hides as
quickly as possible. The literature
handed to hunters contains dia-
grams showing how properly to skin
the animals, and how properly to
butcher them in order to waste no
flesh.
M. W. Whitaker, superintendent
of the Noxen tannery, said that
none of the hides received there
will be tanned in Noxen, but that
the tannery will act as a receiving
station and ship the hides to a cen-
tral tanning point. Hides received
shipping or
at Evans Drug Store will be turned |
over to the nearest game protector
for reshipment to the Game Com-
mission.
DALLAS CHURCH NOTES
Dallas Methodist Church, Rev.
Austin L. Prynn, minister, Mrs. Har-
old Rood, organist-director: Church
School 10 a. m., Morning Worship
11 a. m. Sermon by the minister,
“Am I Meek?” Junior sermon,
“Christmas Is Coming”; Youth Fel-
lowship 6:30 p. m.; Evening Worship
7:30 p. m.; sermon “A Two Edged
Sword.” This service is to be our
observance of Universal Bible Sun-
day. Monday, Executive Board
W. S. C. S.; Tuesday, 7:30, Board
of Education; 8 p. m. Church School
Worker's Conference at home of
Lewis P. LeGrand; Wednesday, 7:30
Mid-Week Prayer Service; Tuesday,
1 p. m. W. S. C. S. Luncheon; 2 p.
m., W.S.C.S. business meeting and
program; 4 p. m., Chance] Choir Re-
hearsal; 7 p. m., Junior Choir Re-
hearsal; 7:45 p. m. Senior Choir Re-
hearsal.
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