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: THE LOW DOWN
FROM HICKORY GROVE
KEEP THEM
under
YOUR
ROOF
If your house is run down,
the. children play elsewhere.
As they grow older they are
out evenings at the homes of
their friends—not at their own
home,
is’ where freedom rings.
likely a nice kind of person,
too—and would like ideas.
And as a first suggestion
You can borrow enough to
repair your house, stop house .
and family deterioration and
start pride of ownership, and
then repay us in convenient
installments.
its own affairs about labor?
The Head Man there in the
Labor Dept. in Washington says
to see your
The cost of the Loan is only
$5.00 a year for each $100 bor-
ing, just be quiet—say nothing,
rowed.
—don’t write.
From old St.
and Seattle to Utah and back,
their
scribblin’ or off-shoot,
some hard sleddin’.
Yours with the low down,
a
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You know, you head down
Main Street and talk to diff-
erent ones you meet, you won't
talk long ’till you get around
to what the heck we are com-
ing to, if the Government don’t
stop its juvenile antics of but-
tin’ in on everything, and go
back to being just the umpire
and seeing to it that the game
is run square—and our U.S.A.
: But while good citizens re-
lieve their blood pressure and
pop-off local, they don’t go
down to the telegraph office or
postoffice and tell the new man
they just shipped off to con-
gress. This new guy is most
and sample—take the closed
shop. Where are we coming
out if each ‘State cannot run
let him run the shebang. Sis-
ters and brothers, if you want
right to work
where you choose go glimmer-
Joe to the
Chesapeake and from Mobile
mama and papa better start
when he grows up, is in for
JO SERRA
Anyone desiring a loveable, little
coach dog puppy for a pet and able
to offer it a good home may have
same by calling John Stahl of Shav-
~ AUDITORS REPORT
LAKE TOWNSHIP SUPERVISORS
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
From January 10, 1948 to January 7, 1949 >
Total
Rix
Twp. Acc’t State Acct
A. RODELL KOCHER,
ELWOOD WHITESELL,
HARRY H. ALLEN.
Cash balance at beginning of year....$ 130.74 $ 306.47 § 437.21
REVENUE RECEIPTS
Current. year LaXes.......ccnvisiernive. 9691.33
[PIOri years taxes ....c.arriiirinnines 3212.96
Miscellaneous receipts wie lle 4434.74 3288.54
NON-REVENUE RECEIPTS
Temporary: Loans ..............ccecn... 6562.50 845.75
TOTAL RECEIPTS :
AND BALANCE ...... Aa $24032.27 $4440.76 $28473.03
EXPENDITURES Eg
General govt... idan 1188.72
Police and Fire .....c....civiinii, 2500.00
Highways ............ 1503.67 3501.30
Miscellaneous 1112.38 66.05
Unpaid bills of prior years
(Fire and Police)
Interest on notes :
Principal for notes maturing.......... 6250.00 845.75
Cash balance at end of year.............. 380.00 27.46
TOTAL EXPENDITURES
AND BALANCE ..................; $24032.27 $4440.76 $28473.03
BOTAL RESOURCES... iimininisisiineioe $22170.21
LIABILITIES
Outstanding bank note ........c......... $ 3000.00
Outstanding unpaid vouchers........ 3804.70
BOTAL LIABILITIES .............ci i viiinintmirsasissiiessvssns $6,804.70
ASSESSED VALUATION... ii. ii sirniaisineiinnnsanee $1,348,591.00
Re a R $12,879.78
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The winter flew by and to say
my social life was gay would be a
deliberate lie. Besides the bridge
club I am willing to wager I attend-
ed every cooking utensil dinner
held; plus two very enlightening
brush demonstrations. Of the two I
feel the cooking utensil dinners will
live on in my memory and as near
as I know they are not yet extinct.
Some enterprising salesman would
find out about a woman whose
pots and pans were in a deplor-
able condition; or else clip the
picture of a new bride from the
paper; and to use a trite phrase,
their goose was cooked.
The salesman would call on the
lady of his choice and give her a
super special sales talk and at the
same time would be eying with
obvious nausea the beat up sauce-
pan reposing on the stove. If you
agreed to have a demonstration
you would be given some small
token in memory of the occasion.
One of my friends was presented
with an omelet pan so naturally
eggs became the major item on her
budget. Her husband finally started
to raise chickens to make possible
the frequent use of the gift. I have
always been thankful that Norm
fell for the twelve cup drip coffee
pot; so. while my friend crawls in
and out of an fincubator I remain
indoors and drink coffee.
Assuming that the woman wvic-
tim and her family alone were not
enough to justify this great interest
in the future, the hostess was asked
to invite a few friends in for din-
ner. To me it was always an easy
group to be with as we all had so
much in common; loose handles,
warped bottoms and makeshift
double boilers.
All conversation centered around
food and what it was prepared in.
Once the guests all arrived the
entertainment started. The sales-
man had a short little thirty min-
ute talk scheduled which gave the
dinner ample time in which to
wither and decay. All speeches were
in the same vein and you always
received the impression that you
had been poisoning your family for
years by not using his specific
brand of utensils. I was always
tempted to race to the phone to
call and inquire if any of the
Smiths had been taken by the gol-
ash I left in some innocent looking
pan.
After that terrorizing chat we
were asked to partake of the din-
ner. We were shown at close range
how the potatoes had been riced,
not mashed in a cumbersome gad-
get slightly smaller than a washing
machine. The only two drawbacks
as far as I could see was that it
was almost impossible to wash said
gadget clean and it would take up
the entire cupboard space in the
average American kitchen. We were
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By Phyllis Smith a community institution The Bookworm is conducted for
= _ Be ESTABLISHED 1889 and in the interest of Back Moun-
tain Memorial Library.
DOWN CAPE COD
By Jean Hutchison
How soon the day of restitution
catches up with us and my glib,
“Of course I'll write the Book
Worm” has caught up with me.
I asked, “What shall I write
about?” and Mrs. Kear said ‘Tell
what you think of our library and
its books.”
It is very easy to tell you how
Arch and I feel about the Back
Mountain Library and its able
librarian; for to us it is one of the
brightest stars in the Back Moun-
tain.
Now about its books. I'm going
to take just one that I loved and
tell you about it. It's “Down Cape
Cod.” A salty title and it’s just
that—written by Katherine Dos Pas-
sos and Edith Shay. Those two
gals have lived on the Cape many
years and been keen observers of
al that went on.
The book first gives you the
fact that the Pigrims stayed ten
days at Provincetown while Miles
Standish scouted around and found
beautiful Plymouth Harbor and its
Rock. When you first wisit the
Cape and talk with a native be
very careful about this bit of in-
formation. The Cape has always
had such wonderful fishing banks
near it and in the early days its
wealth of furs attracted many of
the early explorers. There is a stone
cellar in Orleans believed to have
been a foundation of a house Leif
Ericson lived in, in 1003.
Captain John Smith later stopped
here to fish and gather some furs,
and Martin Ping visited the spot
seeking sassafras, The natives even
boast of having had Portuguese
Pirates on that Cape.
They go on to tell you how the
Cape changes almost before your
very eyes. The storms and strong
winds, close harbors with sand bars,
build new beaches and do all sorts |
of things, causing our government
to change its lighthouses situated on
the Cape continually. There's a
whole chapter on the powerful
lights up there.
Then about their houses. The
grand sea captain's house with his
cat walk on top so his lady could
watch for her best beau’s return,
and the wee cottages of the fisher-
men, small but so beautifully pro-
portioned. Build one if you don’t
think they're tricky.
They are popping up all over the
Back Mountain, and there is no
sweeter house than a Cape Cod
Cottage with its old apple tree in
the front yard, and a climbing
pink rose over its doorway; the
lovely windmills and old - white
churches. They speak of the main
busines of the men of the early days
which, of course, was the sea, fish-
ing, which they sold in the East
and as the plentiful cod had to be
salted before being taken on this
journey, a thriving salt business
grew up. The salt being evaporated
from the sea water.
Again there is a chapter on their
lovely flower gardens. They are
famous for their herbs. Have you
ever sent to the “Crossroad” herb-
ery for your herbs at Orleans? I
always do, and they are so nicely
done up and very reasonable in
price. If you don’t own a Cape
Cod Cookery Book you'll find splen-
did recipes for fish chowders,
Blueberry Slump,
and cranberry sauces in one. You
know the cranberry grows right on
the cape so abundantly that it is
(Continued on Page Seven)
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Notes
Look To This Day
Look to this day! he
For it is life, the very life of life. -
In its brief course lie all the varieties and realities
of your existence:
The bliss of growth;
The glory of action;
The splendor of Beauty
For yesterday is already a dream, and tomorrow
is a vision; .
But today, well lived, makes every yesterday
A dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a
vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day!
Such is the salutation of the dawn!
—From the Sanskrit
Once more Buck and I have escaped the house. This time at 5:45
—and nobody stirred. The arrival of a pair of noisy vellow-shafted
flickers in the tree outside the bedroom window awakened us.
A few rays of the sun—not vet above the 1
grounds—bathe the front of Warren Reed's h
strike the eastern porch of Mrs. Mason’s house on Norton Averiue
It’s a new day—a clean slate on which to write. :
evel of the school house
ouse and in the distance
—o00o—
I Saw God Wash the World Last Night
I saw God wash the world last night
With his sweet showers on high;
And then when morning came
I saw him hang it out to. dry.
He washed each slender blade of grass
And every trembling tree;
He hung his showers against the hills
And swept the rolling sea.
The white rose is a deeeper white;
The red a richer red. g
Since God washed every fragrant face
And put them all to bed.
There’s not a bird, there's not a bee
That wings along the way,
But is a cleaner bird and bee
Than it was yesterday.
I saw God wash the world last night;
Ah, would He had washed me
As clean of all my dust and dirt
As that old white birch tree.
—William L. Stidger
Mrs. George Budd would have been delighted Friday afternoon if
she could have been in our office a few minutes after school let out.
A week or so earlier she had called from her home in Druid Hills
to offer us a collection of birds, gathered and mounted more than
100 years ago by her grandfather. j
“I'm a reader of the Barnyard Notes”, she said pleasantly,” and I
know someone would get considerable pleasure out of this collection.
It is no good to us stored in the attic.”
As she spoke, we could hear a canary singing in the background.
“I get a great deal of pleasure from the birds,” she continued, i |
have feeders all around the house, but not many birds stop here to
enjoy them; the canary mwthe cage, however, sings all- day long.”
We asked about Mr, Budd, and she told us that he is seriously ill
—unable to help or feed himself; and that he must remain in bed all
of the time and have constant attention. In addition to her house-
hold cares, Mrs. Budd for many months has also had to manage their
store on Wyoming Avenue in Kingston.
We know that she would have been pleased Friday afternoon to
have seen the reception her grandfather's birds received shortly after
they arrived in our office.
Frank Jackson went down to her house to get them. Mrs. Budd
wasn’t home, but the housekeeper gave them to him. Frank was so
excited that his hands trembled when he gently placed the case in
the back of his Packard and hurried back to the Post.
He was unloading them, when the kids from the second grade
spied him. “Hi ya, Mr. Jackson! Hi ya, Mr. Jackson! They came run-
ning. Bobbie Moyer, Dougie Cooper, Tom McKenzie Horace McKenzie,
and David Estes.
They trailed across the mud that serves for the Post’s front yard,
and completely surrounded him as he placed the case with its color-
ful contents on our knotty pine counter. For a few minutes Frank
Jackson, the kid’s hero, was out of the picture, as in excited expos-
tulation the kids pointed out the birds. “Gee, lookit the Blue Jay.
And there's a red headed woodpecker, and a purple finch and his
wife.” x
* and a Baltimore Oriole and a Bob-o-link. Oh, Oh see there a
Scarlet Tanager. Let's get Mrs. Mason.”
They posted Davy Estes at our picture window to watch Mrs.
Mason’s house so that she couldn't get home without their knowing
it. Then two of them raced out the front door and down to Main
street in search of her. They found her in the Acme Market, her
arms filled with packages. :
They surrounded her. Words tumbled over each other zs they
recounted all the details of their wonderful discovery.
Shortly they were back in the office with their teacher—and it
would be difficult to say who was the more enthusiastic. Bobby Moyer
scooted home to get his bird book—almost as big as he is. Doug
Cooper scrambled through the door with his book on Pennsylvania
birds that Clyde bought him several weeks ago. .
The gang was completely oblivious of the older folks who were
watching in amused silence.
Before they were done those second graders, on their own hook,
identified seventeen Pennsylvania song birds and one waterfowl.
Bobby Moyer turned the trick when he rightly identified a Black
burnian warbler and the Cape May Warbler. . :
and the hourly visits of second graders every day since we have had
the case of birds on exhibit. :
. and Joe Peterson has missed it all.
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somethin’.
He has “measles or
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all. .
—Ogden Nash.
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That’s a pip! -
Alfred D. Bronson
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