PAGE SIX
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THE POST, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29,
, 1943
F rom ing breath. The baby book holds, with her sister, Mrs. William Gesse, HUNTSVII LE
Pillar To Post
(Continued from Page One)
As the bottle passed from hand
to hand the stories grew like
Jonah’s gourd, and the sound-
waves crowded past the upper berth
and down the green-curtained aisle.
There was a stir and a creaking of
springs. Heads emerged, and the
porter’s bell began a systematic
buzzing. The porter, torn between
prospective tips, estimated the
probable pay-dirt among the pas-
sengers whooping it up in the wash-
room, and went for the M. P’s.
The M. P’s passed competently
among the merry-makers with a
baseball bat, and there was a dense
silence broken only by tiptoed
passages to yawning green berths.
Did I add to the clamor of the
other passengers for an abatement
of the nuisance? I did not. I kept
my head discreetly hidden inside
the curtain. With horrid clarity I
could see another time and another
occasion some twenty-three years
ago, when I had kept the entire
populuation of one car very thor-
oughly awake and frothing at the
mouth, and for a much longer per-
iod than the service-men on leave.
The baby was eight months old
at that time. He sat interestedly in
the berth and took in the crowding
passengers as they milled around,
colliding with each other as they
worked large suitcases under their
berths. He was pleased with the ex-
citement, and said so’ in’ liquid
strings of doodle-doodles and gag-
gle-gaggles. The passengers stopped
to admire his glossy blonde ringlets
and his beautiful blue eyes, and they
gathered about while he absorbed
his eight ounces of formula.
What a good baby, and what a
relief after some of the babies they
had met on their travels. The porter
looked skeptical.
Came time to close the green
curtains. The baby thought the
little green nest was lovely. He set-
tled down, replete and content.
Then the train stopped with a jolt,
and a crowd of hilarious college stu-
dents came aboard. Ignoring the sign
which said QUIET FOR THE BENE-
FIT OF THOSE WHO ARE SLEEP-
ING, these irrepressibles took over
the car and the contents.
They got results. The baby woke
to find himself in a strange place
with strange noises going on about
him, and he gave tongue.
All baby books will tell you with
a straight face that a baby is incap-
able of yelling for more than half
an hour at a clip and without draw- | combat plane in India.
and quite logically, that at the end
of half an hour the baby will .of ne-
cessity stop long enough to draw
breath, otherwise he will smother.
This deduction is based on a fallacy.
A baby can yell and breathe at the
same time, on the same principle
that allows a small colored boy to
take watermelon in one side of the
mouth and exit the seeds from the
other as a continuous and unbroken
operation. This is known as the
Georgia Grind.
So far as I know, the baby never
wears out. It is the parents who
emerge from the ordeal broken in
spirit and but shadows of their
former selves. The baby can go on
and on, far, far into the night,
Heads began coming out from
the slits betwen the green curtains.
Bells began buzzing for the porter.
Muttered curses. The man in the
berth above flounced around and
creaked the thin springs under his
mattress. The baby redoubled his
efforts. Things were closing in on
him new, and even the ceiling, a
piece of architecture which he had
always taken for granted as some-
thing stable and comfortingly silent,
was conspiring with the walls
against him.
The porter came and suggested
between clenched teeth that I take
the little darling to the ladies’ room
so that the tipping public could get
some sleep.
The night lengthened out into
months, but it was finally at an end.
The baby looked dewey-eyed and
rested. He had had a brief nap along
about five A. M., and he sat against
the pillows blowing bubbles serenely
and at peace with the world. The
man in the upper berth paused on
his way to the washroom, tousled
and heavy-eyed. “SO that was what
was making all the racket,—was
it ?”” he marvelled. The baby smiled
engagingly at him and waved his
bottle. The passenger shook his head
and passed down the aisle.
We were assisted from the train
by the glummest of porters.
“Awful hard on us porters to have
a crying baby on the car’, he sug-
gested, with a calculating eye on my
pocket-book, ‘‘Cuts down the tips
something awful”.
“Not so easy on the mothers,
either”, I said, handing him some-
thing to bolster up his lean pick-
ings. The baby waved the dusky face
a beaming farewell, and the porter
grinned a rueful grin. :
No, I make no complaint when
there is a ruckus in a sleeping car.
Sooner or later the M. Ps will clear
up the situation, and in the mean-
time, who am I to raise a fuss.
That blonde baby is now flying a
Charter No. 8164
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE
FIRST NATIONAL
in the State of Pennsylvania, at the close of business on October 18, 1943,*
published in response to call made by Comptroller of the Currency, under
Section 5211, U. S. Revised Statutes.
ASSETS
Loans and discounts (including $ none overdrafts)............... $ 295,427.43
United States Government obligations, direct and guaranteed 554,724.00
Obligations of State and political subdivisions.......ccccceeceeeaecn 60,880.00
Other bonds, notes, and debentures... cviisisiociesioinins 89,676.50
Corporate stocks (including $4,500.00 stock ‘of Federal ‘Re-
servewBank) bb Ge 4,500.00
Cash, balances with other banks, including reserve balance,
and cash items in process of collection......................... 291,468.22
Bank premises owned $39,000.00, furniture and fixtures $1.00 39,001.00
(Bank premises owned are subject to $ none liens not
assumed by bank).
Real estate owned other than bank premises ...................... 2,145.44
otal? ASRets ia i] $1,337,822.59
: LIABILITIES
Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corpora-
BOS a Cel hd $ 421,787.33
Time deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations 637,852.83
Deposits of States and political subdivisions ........cccceeeieeeene 95,402.54
Other deposits (certified and cashier's checks, etc.) ............... 3,751.59
otal Deposits lt cnn ni har nd $1,158,794.29
Other liabilities... ea isn 221.65
Reserve District No. 3
BANK OF DALLAS
Total Liabilities
Capital Stock:
(¢) Common stock, total par $75,000.00.........ccoreiectenicnann. 75.000.00 | Mrs. Wright, who has been spend-
Surplus isa . 75,000.00 | ing a few months with Mr. and Mrs. | §
Undivided profits 28,806.65 | Ellsworth, left Friday to spend the |
winter with her son, Claude Wright,
Total Captal Accounts itll... i...ti eee i 2 $ 178,806.65 | of West Nanticoke.
— | Miss Florence Redmond, of De-
Total Liabilities and Capital Accounts.......ocoooeocecicincnnnns $1,337,822.59 | ;munds, spent Tuesday night with.
MEMORANDA | Felice Miers.
Pledged assets (and securities loaned) (b ook value): Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wright, of
(a) United States Government obligations, direct and Nanticoke, are spending several
guaranteed, pledged to secure deposits and other days with their son and daughter-
HabDIlIEIes eee $ 27,000.00 in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wert-
ee man
TOMAL ..ecerrrreerrreertsesissserss senses eerste $ 27,000.00 | yr. ang Mrs. William Richards
Secured liabilities: : and Karen, Mr. and Mrs. Hancock
(a) Deposits Secured by pledged assets pursuant to require- and son, David; of Endicott, N. Y,,
ments Of JAW eevee $ 43,993.26 visited Mrs. Ann Richards, Sunday.
Totals raat 0 A $ 43,993.26 Mr. and Mrs. James Miers enter-
State of Pennsylvania, County of Luzerne, ss
I, W. B. Jeter, cashier of the above-named bank, do solomely swear
that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
(Seal)
Sworn to and subscribed before me
(Seal)
My Commission expires March 12, 1947.
Correct—Attest:
CLIFFORD W. SPACE,
R. L. BRICKEL,
C. A. FRANTZ,
Directors.
Tl Ba SRN $1,159,015.94
CAPITAL ACCOUNTS
W. B. JETER, Cashier.
this 23rd day of October, 1943.
ETHEL OLIVER, Notary Public.
Letter Recalls Civil War Tragedy
Seventy-eight years ago this
young soldier was fighting in the
Civil War. He is Rufus Parrish, the
lad whose recently discovered
letters were published by The Post
Idetown, has been lent to The Post
along with a letter in the possession
of Mrs. Parrish’s family since May
14, 1888. This communication from
Captain E. R. Whitebread of the
Office of Depot Commissary of Sub-
stance, Washington, D. C. addressed
to the late Mr. and Mrs. Elihu W.
Parrish, Lake, Pa., is the tragic
finale to the life of the young man
who died in a Confederate Prison.
The letter reads: ‘Dear Mr. and
Mrs. Parrish, I hereby enclose check
| drawn on the Assistant Treasurer of
the United States at New York, of
this date for, $2,295. In payment
i | of your claim for commutation of
rations while your son was a pri-
soner, of war—Whitebread, Captain
1 U..8.°A
Thus closed the saga of one
young Beaumont man who gave
his life for his country. But the
saga has closed, too, for those who
stayed at home and for those who
fought through and returned from
the rebellion, for there is now
hardly a man alive who remembers
those tragic days. So, too, ‘it will
be with all of us a few generations
hence.
EAST DALLAS
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Banta have
opened a small store at their home,
on Shaver avenue, Fernbrook. Mr.
Banta is slowly recuperating from
a nine months’ illness.
His picture, the
property of Mrs. E. R. Parrish of
a few weeks ago.
KUNKLE
There will be a Masquerade Dance
at the Community Hall tomorrow |
night with farmer and modern
dancing. A. Belles, of Wilkes-Barre,
will call. Prizes will be awarded to
children and adults for the prettiest, | Myr, and Mrs. Thomas Rundle, of
most original, and funniest dressed. Forty Fort, spent a day with Mr.
Refreshments will be served. Spon- | and Mrs. Albert Jones, recently.
sored by the Silver Leaf Club. | Violet Miller, of Plains, spent the
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Dendler, | weekend with her grandparents, Mr.
Royce and Ralph, Jr, and Mrs. Ea and Mrs. Charles Miller. Mrs.
ward Dendler, of Berwick, called on
+ B , M d M David Mill
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Smith, recent- | apo 7s; an rs. Davi How
ly.
and daughters, of Plains, spent Sun-
day with Mr. and Mrs. Miller.
Howard Gilsleichter and Carol |
Jean Mitchell spent the weekend Mrs. David Morris spent Thursday
of Larksville. Mr. and Mrs. Gesse
and children, Beverly and Sandra,
were guests Thursday evening of Mr.
and Mrs. Eugene Banta.
Howard Lavalle is spending the
winter with his sister at Trenton,
N. J., and will attend school there.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wagner, of
East Dallas, have moved to the Har-
riet Cragle home at Fernbrook.
Leo Hires, of Shavertown, has
nearly completed his new home, in
East Dallas.
William Griffith and family have
moved to Kingston. He is employed
by Phillips’ Sea Food Market.
Mary Lou Tremble has returned
from her work in New Jersey, to
attend’ school at Dallas Township
High School.
Mrs. Rish and son, George, have
vacated their home on the Reyn-
olds farm.
James Jones has returned to Bal-
timore, after spending the summer
with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Albert Jones.
Mrs. Frances Shunk and family
have moved from Jersey City to
Fernbrook. Mr. Shunk, brother of
Mrs. Russell Banta, is in the Army.
Byron Keener and family have
moved into their home, on Main
street.
Mr. and Mrs. Ike Schaff and
daughter, of Baltimore, spent Sun-
day with the latter's mother, Mrs.
Agnes Morris.
Herman VanCampen'is remodel-
ing the Charles Reigle place, which
he purchased recently.
Louis Banta, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Eugene Banta, has enlisted in the
Army Engineers. Louis has been
marxgjed seven years and has a 3%
months old daughter, Diane.
Cut On Bottles
Romaine Morris, who is spending
some time with her grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Banta, fell on
some broken milk bottles on her
way to the store and injured her
leg. The leg is swollen so badly from
cuts, that it cannot be determined
whether it is broken.
George M. Lamoreaux has entered
Aviation Cadet Training School, at
Moorhead College, Minn.
Quarterly Conference will be held
in the Methodist Church on Thurs-
day night, November 2, for Shaver-
town-Huntsville Congregation.
" Mrs. Howard Jones returned to
Baltimore after spending two weeks
with Mrs. A. R. Holcomb and Mrs.
George Ide.
Mrs. Frank Wyrsch spent Tuesday
afternoon with Mrs. Fred Riley, at
Dallas.
Mrs. Gordon Johnson, Mrs. Mal-
vin Wagner, Mrs. G. A. Learn, Mrs.
Clarence Elston attended the Wyo-
ming Conference W. S. C. E. at Elm
Park Church, Scranton.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert McDonnel,
and children, Beverly and George,
of Nassau, N. Y. returned after
spending several days with Mr. and
Mrs. G. A. Learn.
Home From Hospital
Glen Ray, son of Mrs. Edna Ray,
who was seriously injured when an
automobile hit him while riding his
bicycle on July 30th, returned home
from Nesbitt Memorial Hospital.
Glen wears a cast, but is able to be
around on crutches.
Mrs. Ira Van Orden is ill.
Pvt. Russell Johnson is at Fort
Bragg, N. C.
More and more people are
using Lazarus Budget Check
system, which enables them to
take from 30 days to 5 months
to pay for their purchases, ac-
cording to a recent report from
the management. The Budget
. Check system was inaugurated
at the Lazarus Store some five
years ago and has steadily
gained popularity with custom-
| ers who want a simple credit
plan.
Budget Checks are one of the
things which enable the Laz-
arus organization to offer qual-
ity merchandise for less, under
their Lower Price Policy. With
the elimination of the costly
charge account system and oth-
er unnecessary expenditures,
the management is able to pass
on to the customers substantial
savings on the same quality
merchandise which has always
been sold by this store.
Any one with established
\credit can obtain Budget
Checks by applying at the Laz-
Lazarus Budget Checks
Increasingly Popular
arus Credit Office. There is no
red tape and no delay. Custom-
ers can obtain any amount of
these small green coupons and
spend them like cash for any-
thing in the store. They can
obtain additional Budget Checks
at any time and if they should
get more than they need, they °
can be turned back in on the
account.
Budget Checks eliminate end-
of-the-month bills; the account
is paid off in convenient, pre-
arranged installments. In addi-
tion, they save shopping time
often wasted in waiting for
credit authorizations.
Budget Checks allow up to
five months to pay for the
things you want now. Another
interesting feature of the plan
is that there is no fee for the
service if you pay your account’
within thirty days. :
Because of these many valu-
able features, Budget Checks
have found unusual customer
acceptance. [Advt.}
with Mr. Gilsleichter’s family, in
Washington, D. C. |
Mrs. George Steltz, of Loyalville, | §
spent Friday with her daughter and )
son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Hoyt.
Mrs. Gideon Miller visited Mrs.
Ralph Hess onWednesday. Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Warden visited Mr. and
Mrs. Hess Wednesday evening. Mrs. | §
Cragg Herdman, Mrs. Owen Ide and |
Carl Ide were dinner guests Tues- J
day evening at the Hess home.
Mrs. Julia Kunkle and Mrs. Jane
Isaacs, of Shavertown, are visiting
in Philadelphia.
| Mr. and Mrs. Owen Ide called on
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sutton, of Ide-
town, on Sunday.
Donald Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Smith, has returned to State
College after spending two weeks
with his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Elston en-
tertained recently, Mr. and Mrs.
Kimmer Moore and Mrs. Emma
Moore, of Broadway, and Mr. and
Mrs. Freice Long, of Wisconsin. The
Elstons had as Sunday dinner
guests, Mrs. Raymond Elston and
Jay Elston.
Mr. and Mrs. Corey Besteder en-
tertained at dinner Monday night,
Mr. and Mrs. Welford Scouton, |
Bobby and Jimmie Scouton, Conrad
Honeywell. ]
Conrad Honeywell is spending
some time with his sister and broth-
er-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Scouton.
Mrs. Mary Root and son, Bobby,
visited friends in Wyoming, Satur-
day.
Mrs. John Dido, of Larksville, is
spending three weeks with Mr. and
Mrs. William Wesser.
Lorraine Wasser, who underwent
a tonsilectomy Saturday, is recov-
ering nicely at her home.
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Ellsworth,
Mrs. Sarah Wright and Mrs. Albert
! Kunkle had dinner with Mrs. George
Hoffman, of East Nanticoke, Friday.
tained at dinner Friday night, Petty
Officer George Smith, of Philadel-
phia, Miss Mildred Devens, Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Elston and ‘son, Jay, Mr.
and Mrs. William Weaver, Mr. and
Mrs. Fred ‘Dodson, Mrs. Claude
Wardan, Miss Margaret Harris, Wal-
lace Perrin, Dorothy Ann Miers.
Pvt. Ralph Richards, of Fort
Bragg, N. C, called on Mrs. Ann
Richards, Saturday night. Miss
Roannah Shoemaker and Mrs. Jo-
seph Shoemaker visited Mrs. Riche .
ards Thursday evening.
7
FOOTBALL SCORES
for the Men In Camps And Overseas
Presented by
STEGMAIER BREWING CO.
Brewers of Famous Gold Medal Beer .
\
Football Resulis
WEEX ENDING OCTOBER 23
SCHOLASTIC
Saturday ®
Meyers 20, Hanover 14.
Berwick 19, Coughlin O.
Plymouth 29, GAR 6.
Larksvil e 15, Nanticoke 7.
Edwardsville 12, Luzerne O.
Ashley
Forty Fort 14, Clarks Summit 14.
Wyoming 13, Kingston Twp. 7.
Pittston 0, Exeter O.
Wes: Pittston 34, Dallas Twp. 0.
6, Newport 6.
Wyoming Sem. 7, Scranton U. 6.
Duryea 7, West Wyoming O.
St. John’s 6, St. Dominick's 6.
Naval 7.
Dunmore 13, Scranton Tech 6.
Scranton Cent. 25, Carbondale 7.
Old Forge 7, Mayfield 0. :
Williamsport 7, John Harris 6.
Friday
Kingston 25, Plains 6.
Dupont 12, Jenkins Twp. O.
~ Tunkhannock 12, Canton O.
Hazleton 12, Sunbury 7.
Hazle Twp. 27, Freleand MMI 6.
Stroudsburg 0, Whitehall 0.
Phillipsburg 17, Morristown 13.
Allentown-Pottsville, postponed.
COLLEGIATE
East
Penn 33, Columbia O.
Navy 28, Georgia Tech 14.
Lafayette 39, Lehigh 7.. ’
Brooklyn C. 25, Buffalo Army
© Gunners 0.
Pittsburgh 18, Bethany O.
Tufts 18, Camp Edwards 7.
Brown 62, Camp Kilmer 3.
Army 39, Yale 7.
Coast Guard 27, Bates 6.
Sampson Naval 7, Rensselaer 0.
Colgate 20, Cornell 7.
F & M 28, Muhlenberg 6.
Swarthmore 79, CCNY 0.
Penn State 45, Maryland 0.
Villanova 27, Lakehurst 14.
West
Notre Dame 47, Illinois O.
Nebraska 7, Kansas 6.
Purdue 28, Iowa 7.
Michigan 49, Minnesota 6.
Northwestern 13, Ohio State O.
Indiana 34, Wisconsin O.
Ill. Normal 6, Ill. Wesleyan 0.
Oklahoma 37, Kansas State 0.
Rolla Mines 18, Missouri “B” 0.
Miami (0O.) 29, Ohio Wesleyan 0.
Tulsa 55, Utah O.
Fort Riley 13, Camp Grant 18.
South
Tulane 12, SMU 6.
Texas 58, Rice 0.
W. Virginia 32, Carnegie Tech 0.
Ga. Pre-Flight 20, N. C. Navy 7."
Camp Lejeune 20, Jacksinville
Vanderbilt 40, Camp Campbell 14.
Wake Forest 21, VMI 0.
Camp Davis 27, Davidson O.
LSU 27, Georgia 6.
Carson Newman 27, Howard 20.
Texas A&M 0, N. Tex. Aggies 0.
Far West .
Washington 27, March Field 7.
Colorado Coll. 16, Colorado 6.
So. California 6, Coll. Pacific 0.
St. Mary’s Pre-Flight 39, Cal. 0.
Alameda CG 46, San Francisco
Navy 6
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