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The Sentimental Side
By EpiTH BLEzZ
There may be a few readers who
remember “The new youug lady in our
house.” It has been some time since
1 have written about my fair daughter
but I though you might be interested
in her career at this point.
One lovely morning last week I
stood with all the other mothers and
fathers on the campus of Oberlin
College, in Oberlin, ‘Ohio, and listened
to the sweet tones of the buglers who
‘heralded the graduates to let them
know that it was time for the line
to form for the march into Finney
Chapel.
The band which was seated in the
center of the campus began a slow
inspiring march and the long line of
black-gowned graduates began their
‘slow procession to the steps of the
chapel. There was something inspir-
ing and at the same time heart-warm-
ing about that march because all along
the line were returned GI's who were
finishing college careers which had
begun back in 1937 and 1938.
The graduates swung along four
abreast and the tassels on their mortar
boards seemed to sway in perfect uni-
son in the early morning breeze. All
the proud parents were milling around
trying to catch a glimpse of their
particular offspring on this great day.
Some of the braver relatives marched
along with the graduates just as people
do when men are marching off to war.
The chapel was beginning to fill
as the long line approached the steps
and the stirring strains of the music
/
faded into the background as the last
graduate disappeared into the chapel
and the exercises began.
I went into the chapel before the
line reached the steps because it was
a little too much for me to stand there
watching my fair daughter swing along
with her classmates. For some reason
my entire life seemed to unfold before
my eyes and that stately creature who
was just a small part of that long, long
line didn’t seem to be the same child
I had brought into the world. She
seemed like an utter stranger.. She
seemed to be entering a new world,
a world in which I, too, was a stran-
ger. I went into the chapel; found
a seat, and as my fair daughter passed
where I was sitting, I wondered how
I was going to be able to ‘take’ a
wedding if a graduation was too much
for me! I certainly had a terrible time
trying to appear calm, cool and col-
lected when all I could see was that
chubby little girl who took life so
casually. Surely this noble calm young
person walking up to receive a diploma
did not belong to me. She had sud-
denly become an adult and while I was
trying to be very proud and grateful
that she had reached this point in
her life I couldn’t help but feel that
she was taking a little side path which
led somewhere else, somewhere apart
from me. I can understand now
why mothers are always so silly at
graduation and weddings! It is just
a little tough to take, isn’t it?
Trucksville Auxiliary
Sponsors Garden Party
Sixth annual garden party of Ladies’
Auxiliary, Trucksville Fire Company,
will be held at the Fire Hall, Friday,
July 18, at 2 o'clock. Mrs. Elizabeth
Conrad will read, “The Ebbing Tide,”
by Elizabeth Ogilvie. Mrs. Joe
Schooley and Mrs. Harold Turn will
pour.
Mrs. Conrad Orchard is chairman
of the affair assisted by the following:
Mrs. N. E. Silverman, Mrs. Gwilliam
Evans, Mrs. Wallace Perrin, refresh-
ments; Mrs. Niles Hess, Mrs. R. Perry,
Mrs. William Robbins, Mrs. Dorman
Schooley, Mrs. Myrtle Rineman, Mrs.
Norman Ringstrom, Mrs. Verne Pritch-
ard, Mrs. N. E. Silverman, Mrs. W.
Cease, Mrs. S. Miller, Mrs. J. Carle,
Mrs. J. Kennan, tickets; Mrs. Norman
Ringstrom, tea table; Mrs. Cedric
Griffith and Mrs. John Kennan, decor-
ations.
In ‘case of rain the affair will be
‘held inside. The public is cordially
invited.
| Bible School Closes
Closing exercises of the Lehman
charge Daily Vacation Bible School
| will be held this Sunday at 10 o'clock
I at Idetown, and 11:15 at Lehman.
Rev. Frank K. Abbott, director of
"the Bible School, announced that the
classes, in session for the past two
| weeks, were attended by fifty-two stu-
dents. !
‘Rev. Abbott asked that anyone who
' could provide transportation for the
| exercises Sunday contact him at his
home. His phone number is 470-R-7.
THE POST, FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1947
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Mrs. Geraldine Rood
Is Buried at Mossville
Mrs. Geraldine Rood, 69,
Creek, was buried last Su
ley. She died at N
Hospital where she ha
for several months.
ticoke State
‘een a paiént
Born in Fairmo
had resided for years in Ply-
mouth but spent the past several years
with her daughter, Mrs. Oscar Neely
of Lake Silkworth. She was a member
of Plymouth PM Church.
Surviving in addition to Mrs. Neely
are a daughter, Mrs. Charles Foreman,
Plymouth; five grandchildren; one sis
ter, Mrs. Catherine Frace, Nanticoke,
and one brother, Isaac Gregory, Scran-
ton.
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Button. Interment was in Mossville
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Your Health
Lemon juice in concentrated form
may injure the structure of the teeth.
Persons using lemon juice to any
considerable extent in their diet suffer
from etching and decalcification of the
substance of their teeth.
Since lemons are a cheap, rich and
convenient source of vitamin C, their
use is widespread.
Many persons suck lemons, and this
can result in marked defects on the
surface of the upper front teeth.
The most insiduous and most popu
lar way lemon juice is taken is in water
on arising. :
Persons who frequently seek medical
aid, and especially those who have
some chronic illness, comprise the
largest number of drinkers. of lemon
juice.
Patients are aware of the high vita
min C content of lemon juice, and
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Lemon juice is used to overcome
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used as part of a reduction diet, the
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THE LOW DOWN
FROM HICKORY GROVE
“Corporations,” that is my sub-
ject. I will tackle any subject.
Some of ‘em I know less about
or more about than others, but
more folks know less about cor-
porations than faost other subjects.
Maybe you work for a small
outfit or company—or your hus-
band does—and you kinda over-
look that such outfit is also a
“corporation” —a group of per-
sons joined together in business.
A group can get together—put
their dinero in a jack-pot—form
a company, and do things that
one person could not do so easy.
Take a railroad, who do you
know that could build a road
from Boston to Seattle? And
before we had a railroad, and
you craved to go from St. Joe
to San ‘Francisco, you saddled
up a horse. - Or you take gas—
how many folks could afford their
own oil well and gas pump?
Corporations, instead of being
pointed at with suspicion by some
slippery gent who is trying to
get himself elected, they should
have an encouraging word. They
have made our U.S.A. click. They
have given us super-duper stream-
liners, bright electric lights, the
best gasoline, moving pictures,
modern stores. And fire insur-
ance, try letting your house burn
down sometime and having no
policy in a fire insurance “‘cor-
poration.”
Hard working
well run—I give
on the back.
Yours with the low down,
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corporations—
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Barnyard Notes §
THE WOODPECKER
The woodpecker pecked
And made him a house
out a little round hole
in the telephone pole.
One day when I watched he poked out his head,
And he had on a hood and a collar of red.
When the streams of rain pour out of the sky,
And the sparkles of lightning go flashing by,
And the big, big wheels
of thunder roll,
He can snuggle back in the telephone pole.
—Elizabeth Madox Roberts *
HUMMING BIRDS AND DELPHINIUM
Two ruby-throated humming birds come daily to sip the nectar from
the delphiniums blooming near the rose bed. For minutes they flit from
flower to flower working methodically from the bottom to the top of each
tall spike; never missing a blossom as they thrust their long slender bills
into the throats of each bloom. The furious pace of their wings holds
their bodies momentarily stationary in mid air.
If there were no other good reason for growing delphiniums, their
attraction for these smallest, most exquisite of our birds would be enough
to warrant their inclusion in any garden border.
But if the humming birds have been gentle with these beautiful flow-
ers, the winds and heavy rains of the past week have played havoc with
their stately beauty.
Every stormy day thas seen us staking and tying them to protect them
from the winds and every morning has seen us gather up the broken spikes
and take them into the house where they will last for a day or two in. water.
Perhaps I have a special fondness for the delphiniums that are bloom-
ing this year for I raised most of them from seed gathered last year from
the old plants.
If you. think that is no trick, try it this August.
The
crop two years ago was a failure but I'll match the one this year against
any professional gardener!
Myra can have her beans, tomatoes and Brus-
sels Sprouts but I'll take delphinium and roses any time and eat canned
beans and tomatoes for the rest of
the season. One of those spikes is
five feet seven inches tall—and that ain’t no dandelion.
TOMATO BLIGHT
Don’t take chances with tomato blight.
ture every ten days.
Spray with Bordeaux mix-
We've been taking chances and lost several dandy
plants this week. The same old blight that hit them last year. Wet, cool
weather with temperatures hovering around 55 degrees is what the blight
thrives on.
HOLLYHOCK RUST
If you are wondering what those little yellow spots are underneath
your hollyhock leaves, it’s probably rust.
may ruin your plants.
and may stop it.
Spray or dust with sulphur.
Remove all badly diseased leaves and burn them.
If not properly attacked now it
It will control it
WANDERER RETURNS
Saw our old friend, Uncle Dudley, running around in the maples
in my mother’s yard. First we've seen him for weeks. Here we go again,
boys, more peanuts.
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Led by Commander Robert E.
Riera, Drexel Hill, Pa., Air Group
Eleven participated in 19 separate
engagements including the October
fleet action off
the Philippines
and the January
invasion of the
China Sea. It
sent 2,370 strike
sorties against
the enemy, piling
up a total of 5,400
landings aboard its base carrier.
According to members of the
group, the greatest day was Janu-
ary 11, 1945, off the coast of Indo-
China when Eleven took a leading
part in totally wiping out two
enemy convoys discovered creeping
along the shore line.
Eleven’s fighter squadron, known
as the “Sun Downers,” was led by
Lt. Commander Eugene G. Fairfax,
Pensacola, Fla, and is credited
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the squadron dropped more than
360 tons of bombs during the four-
month tour, helping sink 8 Jap
ships totalling 56,000 tons.
The bomber squadron is proud-
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plishment of Lt. Robert W. J.
Cocks, Morenci, Ariz, who was
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in Leyte only a few hours after it
had been seized from the Japs.
Setting his plane down safely
amid numerous shell holes and
fires, for several hours, he stood in
the open at the edge of the field
“sweating in” 27 planes under his
direction, although intermittently
under Jap attack. For his courage
and ability, he was awarded the
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