PAGE EIGHT
From
Pillar To Post
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strict conventions of a mystery
"story, possibly have committed the
crime.
That
Her golden curls and her delicate
features automatically rule her out
of the picture,
six-year-old for instance.
The boy-meets-gir] combination.
The love interest, male or female,
is never led to the electric chair. If |
| Mrs.
Township Students
Purchase Projector
Dallas Township students have re-
ceived priority and placed an order
for a moving picture projector to be
delivered about April 1st. They
earned enough money to complete
funds for the projector in their cur-
rent Curtis magazine campaign,
during which they sold $610.50
worth of magazines. Approximate-
ly $225 of this goes to the stu-
dents. High scoring rooms in the
campaign, which lasted from Feb-
ruary 22nd to last Wednesday, were
Dorothy Teresinski’'s home
it develops that it is the boy who is | room with $173, and Miss Estella
guilty, his crime is the result of a
pitiable lapse into the subconscious
or an outgrowth of a split person- |
ality. Just before the Law, in the
person of a sympathetic Inspector,
regretfully takes him into custody,
he will shoot himself or take poison,
and the lady-friend will collapse
prettily into the arms of the sterl-
ing child-hood friend who has been
hopelessly in love with her’ ever
since the fourth grade.
The gardener is, of course, a sus-
picious character and will bear
watching. We mark his name with
.a red question-mark, and go on to
the next character.
That maiden aunt must be kept |
in mind. She has peculiarly strong |
and restless fingers.
The butler is apt to be a shady |
character, knowing entirely too
much about the family soiled linen,
and bringing forth his gleanings at |
times calculated to do the most |
harm. A butler who can not heave
at least six bombshells in the
course of a Whodunit is not worthy
of the profession.
That errand boy who comes ped-
alling up the front walk, whistling
so blithely. Probably he has noth-
ing to do with the actual plot, but
freckles and a plaid shirt are al-
ways suspicious, particularly when
in combination with a telegraph
blank.
By this time, we are on page
twenty-one, and we settle down to
steady reading, We may as well
pursue the plot to the bitter end, |
pitting our small deductive powers
against those of the author. The
author always has the distinct ad-
vantage of having started from the
crime itself and worked backward,
planting small hints and laying
traps as he goes.
The corpse is but a piece of stage
property, invoking no slightest par-
ticle of human interest. He needed
killing, or he would not have been
killed. With this comforting re-
flection, we can settle down for a
solid three hours, secure in the
knowledge that no matter what
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EVANS’ DRUG STORE
Shavertown
- ® With medicated
discs. 12 pads in
a box.
Goldsmith’s home room with $124.
happens in the course of the un-
ravelling of the plot, nothing will
upset us in the slightest.
That is probably why mystery
stories are so popular. The plot un-
folds according to a conventional
pattern, the murder and the mur-
dered have no claim to sympathy.
A good mystery story is a perfect
escape mechanism.
The midnight trip to the cellar
to bank the furnace does not en-
gender grisly fears of that dark
| area under the stairway or that
closet door on the other side of the
laundry.
But twenty-five years ago there
was a short story in a magazine
that raised the hackles on the back
of the neck. It haunted me for
years. I still see, on occasion, a
small and ferociously intent little
skull leering around the door-jamb,
patienty waiting for a chance to
even the score with her murderer.
Common-sense tells me that this
is ridiculous, The laws of gravity
do not countenance the suspicion
in midair, with no visible means of
support, of a neat little skull con-
cealing in its innards a large lump
1 of lead.
And probably even the most
vengeful of skulls would find diffi-
culty in clamping the teeth tightly
together over the jugular vein of
the murderer, thereby putting him
quite completely out of circluation.
It was a very well-told story.
And it has a moral.
If you must put your wife out
of the picture, do it in some less
spectacular way than pouring melt-
ed lead down her ear while she is
lying drugged and helpless.
I am considering writing a Who-
dunit myself. But I shall employ
different tactics in bringing the
murderer to justice.
I plan to follow convention to
the extent of implicating the gard-
ener, throwing suspicion upon the
first wife, winding a net of circum-
stantial evidence about the butler,
and grilling the maiden aunt. But
the actual murderer, gentle reader,
will be something new and differ-
ent. i
The last page will show, simply
and conclusively, that it is the read-
er himself who committed the
crime. }
STANDARD SIZE EGGS
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Pullets
NOW LAYING THEIR
HEADS OFF
35¢ Ib.
2 DOZ. Tic.
STRICTLY FRESH
Howard Risley
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wick to Bloomsburg
Monday,
Elmer Shaffer
Fourth Big Horse Sale
Another express load of those good Iowa horses are com-
ing and will be sold at Shaffer’
s, on Main Highway from Ber-
March 13
If you want good horses and at a price below them all
attend one of
Shaffer's Weekly Sales
Will have for this sale also 35 good second hand
horses -and mules.
Free Delivery Anywhere
Runyan Auctioneer
Briar Creek, Pa.
i A Post Classified Ad is the place to
Reservations Chairman
Miss Rhoda Thomas
Reservations for the card party,
first social function of the new Ju- |
nior Dallas Woman’s Club to ve.
held at Dallas High School Wednes- |
day, March 15, can be made with |
Miss Rhoda Thomas or any of her
assistants: Eleanor Bartells, Elsie
Ayre, Susan Rice, Nancy Nichol,
Aileen’ Dymond and Marjorie
Nichols. Reservations must be in
by Saturday, March 11. The party
begins at 8 o'clock.
Over Township
Borough Wins
(Continued from Page One)
tenbender, center, was next high- |
est scorer for Township, with eight!
markers. He dropped in three from |
the floor and two from the 15-foot
marker.
Referees were: McGowan and Leo
Levy.
Borough, Luzerne Game
Dallas Borough, Back Moun-
tain champions, were landslided
Wednesday night at Kingston High,
by Luzerne, leading team in the
valley, in a P. I. A. A. play-off
game. The borough team was handi-
capped from the beginning, since Lu-
zerne’s bovs were, on the average,
six inches taller, and several pounds
heavier. During the first few min-
utes Borough was ahead, 6-5, but
Luzerne lead for: the rest of the
game, At the end of the first quar-
ter, Charlie Moore, Borough guard,
sprained his: ankle, and was re-
placed by Besecker. Final score was
72-37. Leo Levy and Boyer ref-
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THE POST, MARCH 10, 1944
| Service Held
'For Mary Brobst
(Continued from Page One)
Pheobe Frantz Hay, * Mrs. Brobst
was born on June 17, 1864, in the
old homestead at Carverton, now
occupied by her brother,
Hay. She attenided Harris Hil] grade
school, and later married Frank
Brobst, of Glen Lyon. They made
their home in Glen Lyon, where Mr.
Brobst was Supply Superintendent
at the coal company for several
years,
where Mr. Brobst operated a gen-
eral store. Later he had a store in
Scranton, and then retired at his
home on Walnut street, in Dor-
ranceton. About seventeen years
ago they came to Trucksville. Mr.
Brobst has been dead fifteen years.
Mrs. Brobst leaves one son, Clar-
ence, of Buffalo, two grandchildren
Carverton, and John Hay, of Phila-
delphia,
Rev. Clayton W. Hoag, of Trucks-
ville Methodisut Church, officiated
at the’ services. Flower carriers
were: Mrs. Neual Kester, Mrs. Ced-
ric Griffith, Mrs. Morris Lloyd,
liams, Mrs. Sheldon Jones,
Floyd Wells and Mrs. C.. A, Per-!
kins. Casket bearers were: Ray- |
mond Finney, Archie Woolbert, |
William Hanson, Arthur Johnson,
Frank Mathers and David Wil-
liams.
Burial was in Hanover Green
Cemetery.
Rosie The Riveter's
Reputation Redeemed
(Continued from Page One)
nor tough and were neatly dressed i
Both Mrs. |
| Bonning and Superintendent Peter
Racovich agreed that the girls made
an excellent job of the difficult work
which required the use of scales,
micrometers and gauges.
Such a ticklish job would never |
|
suit us, but Mrs. Bonning told us
that the girls enjoyed it and would
come back at a moment's notice.
And here's why. Imagine working
at a long table in front of a win-
dow which overlooked a garden
that rated an annual visit from the
Garden Club and simultaneously
enjoying the sweet fragrance of
apple blossoms. And if you like ap-
| ples—all you have to do is take
one from those that are being
handed around by Mrs. Scott, And
if you get thirsty—there’s a cooler
near at hand, supplied with soda.
And who knows ? Maybe it will turn
out to be someone's birthday and
you'll all celebrate with cake and
ice cream.
The cooler, which Mr. Scott
bought and supplied until it could
pay for itself, turned out to be a
good investment for the employees.
At the end of the season, there was
a $55 profit which went into a pic-
nic of fried chicken, corn on the
cob and all the rest, with water-
melons supplied by Mr. Scott.
And’ now that we know why
Rosie rivets, we're thinking seri-
ously of joining her—provided we
have enough energy after filing our
income tax return.
On The Air
| MON.-WED. & FRI.
Night
615 to 6:30
Over Station
STIG HAIER BREWING COMPANY
WILKES BARRI... SCRANTON
HAZLETON =
Edwin '
then moved to Nanticoke, |
Ben Post, Mrs. Herbert Wil-
| new double garage, barn, 4 acres
Mrs. |
| ming 218.
| Six room coal burning heater, six
I tains, club aluminum canner, con-
. Shaver, Pioner avenue, Shavertown.
A POST CLASSIFIED AD
The TRADING POST
RESULTS QUICKLY AND CHEAPLY
Stockerts Purchase
IS THE PLACE TO GET C. W. Bertels Farm
The farm owned by C. William
Bertels at R. D. 2, Dallas, has been
PHONE DALLAS 300 ® TWO CENTS PER WORD @ 25¢c MINIMUM
purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
| For Sale—
liam Stockert, who are preparing
to move there within the next two
months.
BRuction Sale—
Slab stove wood. $1 per cord. At
| mill, near Beaumont, Ruggles
Bros. 10-tf
Baled hay, excellent mixed alfalfa,
clover, timothy. Norton Montross,
Tunkhannock at LaGrange. Phone
5458. 10-3t
Jamesway Brooder stoves, wood
and oil, have arrived. Coal stoves, |
waterers and feeders are on thy)
way. Hilbert’s Hatchery, Beaumont. |
Phone Harvey's Lake 3422.
10-3t
|and two brothers, Edwin Hay, of Baby chicks available at all times. also shoats of various sizes.
Taking orders for last two weeks
in April and May, now, Hilbert’s
| Hatchery, Beaumont. Phone Har-
vey's Lake 3422. 10-4t
| Lawn Acres, Harvey's Lake High-|
way, Dallas;" House, 7 rooms,
‘ bath, drilled well, new steam heat, |
( fruit trees. F. J. Williams, Wyo-
10-tf
room oil burning heater, 2 kit-
chen ranges. Call Dallas 247, be-
tween 5 and 7 in the evening.
10-1t
Washer, curtain stretcher, curtains, |
rugs. Watkins, Pioneer avenue, |
Above Methodist Church, Shaver-
town. 10-1t
Horses, collars, harnesses, cows,
baled hay and straw. Stolarick
Bros., Lehman. 9-tf
Book case, rocking chair, table
lamps, davenports, gate - leg
table, electric whipper, card tables, |
toaster, iron, electric shaver, cur- |
vertible auto bed, bassinet, curtain
stretchers, maple kitchen table and
chairs, and Savage electric mangle.
Watkins, Pioneer Avenue, above
Methodist Church, Shavertown.
9-1t
Pennsylvania Emergency Seed Po-
tatoes, grown by A. W. Rice &
Sons, Dallas, R. D. 2. Telephone
469-R-9. 9-tf
Oak slab wood at mill, near Beau-
mont. Ruggles Brothers. 6-tf
Fire Wood: Stove wood, furnace
chunks, fireplace logs. Walter B.
Phone 158-R-13. 4-tf
Black Scranton Coal Range. $25.
Dallas 300. 50-1t
1936 Plymouth Coupe.
Risley, Dallas.
Howard
53-tf
Coal—Ralph DB. Lewis, 128 Shaver
Ave., Shavertown. Phone Dallas
253-R-8. 43-48
Parts and service for all makes of
washers and vacuum cleaners.
Rebennack & Covert, 267 Wyoming
Awve., Kingston, Pa. Phone 7-4514.
Baby Chicks—March and April New
Hampshire and Rock Red Cross.
Straight run 12c, Pullets 24c, Red
Cockerels 8c, Cross Cockerels 10c,
delivered. Fresh blood test and best
breeders. Joseph Davis, Leraysville, |
Pa. Phone 31-R-11. 3.tf |
Miscellaneous
We repair and sell irons, washers,
cleaners. Highest prices paid for
old appliances. Authorized Maytag
Dealer. Lundy Electric Co., 28 N.
Main St.,, Wilkes-Barre. Phone
W-B. 2-4200. T-4t
Who To Call—
For Sale Or Rent—
SALE: OF PERSONAL PROPERTY
Saturday, April 1, 1944
Will sell personal property at
They wil] also operate the busi-
ness of Mountain Evergreen Com-
pany from their new location. As
farm on Middle Road, Wilkes- [soon as the weather permits, they
Barre to Nanticoke, Hanover Town- | wil] start building a modern stable
ship, Pennsylvania, a quarter mile | to accommodate their riding and
north of Askam. Known as the Pig driving horses, among which are a
Farm. I matched team of bob-tailed Hack-
TEAM OF GOOD WORK HORSES, | neys.
several sets of harness, collars, cart, After
harness, etc. |S
’ | Stockert expect to open a large
TWO gone fo En close | work shop to be used in the manu-
Spr: i . B. and Bang Disease |r, t,rc of Florist supplies, the same
tested. ! as they operated at Lehman before
SEVERAL SOWS, with little pigs, | nce
the war Mr. and Mrs.
McCORMICK DEERING MACHIN- | NOTICE
ERY: Farmal tractor F-20, gain] Notice is hereby given that ap-
binder, mower, 2 cultivators, ma-
| . .
nure spreader, tractor disc, tractor | Plication has been made to the
plows, rake, hay tedder, two row | Pennsylvania Public Utility Com-
corn planter with fertilizer attach- mission, under the provisions of the
i ments, feed grinder, mowing ma- Public Utility Law, by Elizabeth
ins Sharper Y Di and Joseph Wallo and Dallas
NTL en ag No | Water Company for an order evi-
plows, 2 spring tooth harrows, dencing the Commission’s approval
spike harrow, culti-packer, 3 sec- [of (1) the sale by the former and
tion steel roller, single cultivator, | the acquisition by the latter of all
hand cultivator, lime spreader, | the property and rights of Elizabeth
Favorite grain drill, Ohio No, 13 and Joseph Wallo (2) the aban-
fodder cutter, Champion threshing donment by Elizabeth and Joseph
machine, corn sheller, Fairbanks Wallo of the exercise of the rights,
scales, 4 water carts, dump wagon | POWers, franchises, and privileges
and dump cart, water troughs, 3|2°V possessed or exercised by
farm wagons, 3 hay flats, circular them, in the Borough of Dallas and
saw, 60-ft. endless belts, grindstone, the Township of Dallas, Luzerne
2 swinging gates, chestnut posts, County. (A. 62762). :
lumber, several hog self-feeders,| A public hearing upon this appli-
hog self-waterer, 2 ¢hicken houses! cation will be held in the Court
with double floors, 1 Stewart clip- | House, at Wilkes-Barre, on Wednes-
ping machine, and many other ar-|day, March 22, 1944, at 10:00 A.
ticles too numerous to mention. M,, when and where all persons ir
Sale One O'clock, Sharp. interest may appear and be heard,
Dr. Ernest W. Hogg. if they so desire.
J. M. Seltzer, Auctioneer. ELIZABETH AND JOSEPH WALLO,
DALLAS WATER COMPANY.
EEE | 10-2¢
1:7 Ge: dd ud
ELECTRICAL,
Service
, FOR ALL MOTOR CARS
I ara casei
Reasonable Prices
UDOLPHS’
ELECTRIC SERVICE
33-35 E. Jackson St.
Phone W-B 2-5868
10-2t
Wanted—
Kitchen or cellar cupboard for
canned fruit: State price and
when it can be seen. Box R, Dallas
Post. 10-1t
For Rent—
Apartments, 3 and 5 rooms, bath
with shower, laundry,
heat furnished. Rent reduced.
Main Road, Fernbrook. Mrs. Maude
Klug, Phone 241-R-2. 8-4t
Wanted To Rent—
Want to rent farm with option to
buy. icinity Lehman, Dallas, or
Harvey's Lake. Box W, c/o Dallas
Post. 8-2t
garage,
Grinding Wheels
We have a fine assort-
ment of “Norton” and
“Berea” abrasive grinding
wheels, with bushings to fit
any sized shaft. _._.
Three or four room heated apart-
ment for mother and son. Hus-
band inducted in Navy. Mrs. Rob-
ert Williamson, 101 Welles Street,
Forty Fort, or notify The Dallas
Post. 7-1t
Help Wanted—
$20 and board to reliable woman
to take full charge of home. Call
31-R-16. 9-1t
Girl or woman for house work.
Good wages. Sleep in. No laun-
dry. Own room and bath, Mrs.
Thomas Kehoe, Phone 47. 10-2t
$20 per week for housekeeper,
light laundry, plain cooking, pri-
vate room and bath. Mrs, J. Reese,
Pioneer Ave., phone 31-R-16.
10-1t
Johnson and Johnson
milk filter discs, 61% inch,
box of 1,000, 45c; 7 inch,
box of 1,000, 50c; 71% inch,
box of 1,000 55c.
Milk bottle caps, box of
1,000, $1.15.
Shopping Baskets
We have these in a var-
iety of colors, with strong,
well-built handles and rein-
forced sides and bottoms.
Roof and barn paint, made
to withstand the ele-
ments, $1.75 gal.
Special
Just received another
supply of eaves troughs and
gutter pipe in 5 inch and 4
inch sizes.
Six-room house, all improvements,
Main street, Dallas. Write or
phone Susan Orr, or call 249-R-3,
between 8 a. m. and 5 p. m. 10-1t
Notice Do you need iron cord
and extension cord? We
We remove dead
charge. We refund telephone call
expense. Call Dallas 433-R-9. Las-
kowski Rendering Works. 51-1
stock free eof
For prompt removal of dead, old!
disabled horses, sows, mules, |
phone Carl Crockett, Muhlenberg |
19-R-4. Phone charges paid. 24t |
Found—
Rear wheel shield at Richardson’s |
Garage. Owner may have by paying |
for ad. 10-1t |
Wanted To Buy—
Jig saw, washer, rugs, iron, food
" mixer, electric motor. Phone Dal-
las 117-R-16. 10-1t
By Ike Mellner,' Livestock dealer,
fresh cows and close springers |
and all kinds of beef cattle and
calves. Will pay highest prices.
Write to Ike Mellner, 114 Second
Avenue, Kingston or phone Kingston
72746 and we will call on you. 1-1t;
Baby chicks direct from hatchery
to you. Save money. We employ
no agents, salesmen or wholesalers.
Hilbert’s Hatchery, Beaumont, Pa.
10-4t
have them.
We have in stock special
electric bulbs for Delco
Farm Systems. :
Personal— 26 inch—8 pt “Key-
stone” handsaws, made by
Disston. These are a fine
value in handsaws at $2.50.
DALLAS
HARDWARE
& SUPPLY
Telephone Dallas 121
Main Street Dallas
Let Marguerite give you yeur next
permanent wave, if you like ex-
Right on
Marguerite's Beauty
perienced workmanship.
the bus line.
Shop, Main road, Fernbrook. Phone
397. 23-tf
Reupholstering—
prices—guaranteed work-
7-5636
Street,
Lowest
manship write or phone
John Curtis, 210 Lathrop
Kingston.
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