PAGE TEN A THE POST, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1950 Mrs. Catherine Risewick Stoeckel Celebrates Her 89th Birthday Remembered by dozens of old friends and neighbors who sent cards and gifts and dropped in to visit, Mrs. Catherine Risewick Stoeckel celebrated her eighty ninth birthday anniversary quietly at her home on Huntsville road yesterday. Born in Bloomsburg, she spent the greater part of her girlhood in Nanticoke. A few years after she married Theodore W. Stoeckel, she came to make her home on Huntsville road where she now lives. Mr, Stoeckel, a carpenter, and his wife moved to Newport News during World War I- where he took part in the war-time building. Later the couple and their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stoeckel conducted a hot- house business between their homes on Huntsville road. Mrs. Stoeckel has two grand- | children, David Carpenter and Miss | Helen Stoeckel, a registered nurse; | a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Harry Stoeckel, and four sisters: Mrs, F. B. Hess, Miss Elizabeth Risewick, Mrs. Howard Schole of Nanticoke and Mrs. Ida Gilchrist of New. Jersey. Active and still filled with a! zest for living, Mrs. Stoeckel en- | joys nothing better than to at- tend suppers and social activities at Huntsville Method’st Church. When the Newcombs, her friends who live downstairs can’t drive her to her own church, she listens to Sunday services over the radio while she bustles around with her housework and cooks her own Sunday dinner. Wilson College Club All members of the Wilson Col- lege Club are asked to attend the monthly meeting that will take place Tuesday evening, November 21 at the home of Mrs. Richard Jones, 542 Delaware avenue, West Pittston. Mrs. R. Jones, president, has an- nounced that plans for the Christ- mas Tea will be made. This is an annual affair held in honor of present Wilson students who will’ be at home for the holiday season. Mrs. Herbert Lloyd, Mrs. Thomas Harkins and Mrs. Richard Jones will direct a social hour following the business meeting. Soot Is Dangerous You'll wake up dead some morn- ing if you don’t have your chim- ney cleaned. This bit of free ad- vice from one who has just had! her furnace blow up on account of a clogged flue taste . . Corn Roast Turkey $1.75 MasuED POTATOES Peas anp CArroTS CerLerY, CARROT STICKS, DRESSING, SALAD Tender juicy slices of Turkey, Duck or Chicken, filled with your favorite stuffing and seasoned to your . a Thanksgiving meal guaranteed to be re- membered for a long time to come. CHOICE OF JUICES CuickeN NoobrLe Soup CHickeN $1.50 Cazoice oF Two VEGETABLES BuTrTERED Limas Breap aAxnp HoT RorLs Tea, CorreEg, MiLk—Pies—MiINCE MEAT AND PUMPKIN Prum PubpbIiNG Dinners Served From 12 P. M. To 7 P. M. “CHILDREN HALF PRICE” CANDIED SWEET POTATOES CRANBERRY SAUCE ‘SHERBERT Duck $1.50 BOWMAN’S EARLY AMERICAN RESTAURANT 4 400 PAIRS OF MEN'S ALL-LEATHER SHOES $4.% ALL-WOOL DRY BACK HUNTING COATS $12.9 MEN'S GABARDINE SUITS $29.50 Blue Brown Gray The Big MEN'S DRESS $1.95 SHIRTS All Colors MEN’S GABARDINE FULL LINED $19.15 TOP-COATS OPEN NIGHTS Ralph Rood Remembers The Last Canal Boat In reminiscing about an old set- tler, a former resident of Beach Haven, who has recently been sathered to his reward, Ralph Rood recalled to mind the passing 5f the last canal boat at Beach Haven, on November 20, 1900. Mr. Rood and his bride were setting up housekeeping and about to sit down to their first supper ‘ogether | when they heard the bray of a horn outside their kit- chen. window. The canal boat, apparently afloat in the back yard and convoyed by a team of horses and a mule, entered the lock and was discharged to a lower level, disappearing silently around the bend and out of the Pennsylvania picture... That was the last load of coal from Wyoming. Valley breakers to be delivered via canal to Havre DeGrace, Maryland, at the head of the Chesapeake Bay. Tugs towed the coal boats from Nanticoke to West Nanticoke, where they en- tered what was known as the six- teen-mile level to Beach Haven, the first lock with a lock tender. Over- flow locks, designed to del'ver the canal of flood water in case West Nanticoke delivered too great a volume, operated automatically along the route, Canal boats once handled a great proportion of inland freight, but with increas’ng competition from the railroads and a speed-up tempo of living, the leisurely ‘pro- gress of the nineteenth century bowed to the haste of the twen- tieth, and canal boats along with the horse and buggy ‘were doomed. LEIDINGER'S 117 S. Washington St. Wilkes-Barre, Pa.—Phone 3-9459 Don’t sell your antiques be- fore calling LEIDINGER’S. Rifles, Revolvers, Guns, Fur- niture, Glass, Silver, and Coins. Entire Estates Bought. Norma Illuminated Angel-Lite with Star Wand (tree top or wall plaque) $1.75 Norma Seven-Light Indoor Sets Each light burns independently $1.98 Twenty Light MULTIPLE SET $5.88 Norma Bubble Light Set Eight 5” Candles Asst. Colors FRIDAY & SATURDAY — BON TON — LUZERNE MEN'S SHOP $2.39 Norma Ad-A-Lite with Clips Set of Seven Place Lights where you want them. Each light burns independently. $2.55 Also sets of fifteen EIGHT LIGHT Indoor Set Assorted Colors Series Type ~ 85¢ Tree Ornaments Wide Selection—Dozen - 36c to $1.28 Christmas Cards 2 for 5¢ up Gift Ribbon 20-foot spool i0c RONSON LIGHTERS $6 and up NYLONS from $1.35 American Flyer Electric Train Sets and Accessories Dolls, Push Toys, Mechanical Toys, Aeroplane Models Johnson's Boxed Candy WILLIE’S WILLARD REESE, prop. Fernbrook Corners Lacy Shows Film Of European Trip L. Verne Lacy, architect, Pioneer avenue, Shavertown, presented color film, taken during his recent trip abroad, at the dinner meet- ing of Wyoming Valley Torch Club on Monday night. Shown were modern buildings of cities in the Scandnavian coun- tries, Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki. There were pictures of the devista- tion in Hamburg, Germany, the cities of Amsterdam, The Hague, Brussels, Paris, and London. Mr. and Mrs. Lacy visited Eur- ope last summer, sailng on the Gripsholm and returning by air. Plan Sauerkraut Supper Brotherhood, St. Paul’s Luther- an Church, Shavertown, will serve a saurkraut supper with all the trimmings tomorrow night at the church. Serving will start at 5, continue until 7 P.M. Trucksville PTA Plans Bake Sale, Card Party Ways and Means Committee of Trucksville Grade School PTA met Tuesday evening, November 9 at the home of Mrs. Edmund G. Hil- debrand to make plans for a bake sale and card party to be held in Trucksville Fire Hall, December 9. Any one wishing to contribute articles to the White Elephant Booth should contact any member of the committee. Present at the meeting were Mrs. Warren Unger, Mrs. Sheldon Bennett, Mrs. Joseph Blases, Mrs. Thomas Cleasby, Mrs. C'aude Wag- ner and Mrs. Hildebrand. Entertain At Shower Mrs. Arthur Dungey and Mrs. John Dungey of Lake road enter- tained at a variety shower honor- ing Miss Jean Dougherty of Ashley Friday evening. Miss Dougherty will marry Master Sgt. Alan Strunk at Fort Bliss, Texas, next Saturday. The couple will honey- moon in Mexico. Mr. Strunk is a nephew of Mrs. Arthur Dungey. Z , Francis Quare Improves Francis Quare, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Quare, Center Hill Road, seriously injured in the troop train wreck on September 11, is now so far improved, two months later, that he has been fitted with a brace to replace the original cast. Indications are that he will have complete use of his legs, at first thought paralyzed. to visit her son. = out of a window by the force of the concussion, was in actuality pinned in the wreckage directly beneath the huge Diesel. He re- members intense heat from the engine, but nothing else. 112, 114, 116 Gl Misses and women’s close woven Pretty and warm! nightgowns Boys’ All sizes and colors— $1. 98 to $2.98. GLOBE DEPARTMENT STORE “Your Nearest Department Store” chenille robes. All sizes and colors —$8.98 Children’s Sizes Large selection of hand- cloth, plastic: finn. $2.98 (Plus 20% Fed. Tax) 4 bags, leather Cowboy Shirts. MAIN STREET Pastel flannel $1.98 to $2.98 B Mrs. Quare leaves tonight for Ohio Francis, at first reported thrown LUZERNE, PA. Pa REDDY KILOWATT THE MIGHTY ATOM oti Person’ S, Reddy for ANYTHING! Yes, you just flip the switch in your home, shop, or plant at any time, for any job—and electricity is ready. Reddy Kilowatt Power helped you win World War II, and NOW he has DOUBLE THE POWER for our coun- try. American Businessmen have planned it so that plenty of REDDY KILOWATT POWER is ready for ALL jobs—in your home as well as on the production line. e The business-managed electric industry is the one industry that has doubled its capacity, e So, your government need not spend your tax money for Public Power (Political Electricity). . Luzerne County Gas and Electric Corp. x Tell Your Congressman and Senators. Tell them to cut need- less government ex- pense ...no tax money for unnecessary Public Works or Political Electricity.
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