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ST. PAUL’S CHURCH
St. Paul's Lutheran Church,
Shavertown, lists services for Sun-
day, May 6
~ The pastor of the Church, the
Rev. Frederick W. Moock, Jr., will
preach at both the 8:30 A. M.
and the 11:30 A. M. services on
the subject, “The Comforter is
Coming.” Incidentally, the two
services are similar and are being
held for the ‘convenience of the
congregation. The Luther League
hoir will be present this Sunday
at 8:30 A. M. while the Senior
Choir leads in the singing at 11:00
CACM.
Sunday School is at the usual
~ hour—9:45 A. M. We invite all
age groups to study with us and
thereby learn more concerning
God’s Word. The lesson for this
Sunday is. “The United Kingdom”
based on II Samuel 5-8 and I
Chronicles 22:17-19.
- The Luther League meets regu-
larly every Sunday at 7:00 P. M.
Plans are being made for a Straw-
berry Festival and a one act play
for Friday, June 15, at the Church,
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SHAVERTOWN METHODIST
~ Sunday School, 9:45; church 11
A. M. with preaching by Rev. How-
ard Goeringer, secretary of the
Council of Churches; candlelight
service, 7:30, Miss Loretta L. Olver,
narrator. This is sponsored by
~ Trucksville and Shavertown WSCS.
Special singing is by Gwendolyn
~ Clifford.
TRUCKSVILLE CHURCH
Sunday, May 6, regular morning
services will be held at the White
~ Church on the Hill, with Sunday
School at 9:30, classes for all ages.
The regular morning worship ser-
vice will be at 10:45 A. M. A
nursery is provided for pre-school
age children.
~~ Sunday evening, May 6, 7:30
=P. M,, our W. S.'C. S. will unite
with Shavertown W. S. C. S. in the
~ Shavertown Church for a special
~ service entitled “We Seek Him To-
gether.” This is a candlelight ser-
~ vice with a speech choir, special
} singing, and a pageant of lighted
ba symbols. A social hour will follow.
~All are invited to take advantage
of this wery worth while service.
Wednesday, May 9, at 2 P. M,,
the Study Groups of Shavertown
‘and Trucksville W. S. C. S. will
unite in a meeting at Shavertown
~ Church to hear Mrs. Earl Hons
finish the study book “Rural Pros-
pects.” Transportation from Truck-
~ sville will be provided. Please con-
tact Mrs. Sheldon Jones.
‘Wednesday, May 9, the Reynolds
~ Bible Class will meet at the home
of Mrs. R. A. Finney, Carverton
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Road, at 8 P. M.
Thursday, May 10, the ladies of
the Trucksville Church will meet
at the Church at 10 A. M. to house-
clean the church kitchen. Each
one is requested to bring her own
cleaning equipment and sand-
wiches. Coffee will be furnished.
Any one who would like to help is
invited to come. There will be
plenty of work for every one.
Friday, May 11, Womanless Wed-
ding and Fashion Show at Parsons.
If any member of the cast cannot
take part, or if any one would
liké a part, please contact Rev.
Webster or Mrs. S. D. Finney.
Sunday, May 13, at 7:30 P. M.
Mr, Charles DeWitt of Towanda,
Pa., who was in charge of schools
in Occupied Germany for a year,
will speak and show slides taken
while he was there. This service
will be sponsored by the W. S. C. S.
Every one is welcome to this very
worthwhile program.
Wednesday, May 16, Mother and
Daughter Banquet at the Church,
All Mothers and Daughters are in-
vited to attend. Tickets may be
secured from any member of the
Friendship Class not later than
May 13th.
DALLAS METHODIST
Sunday—Sunday School —10:00
Classes for all ages above three
years. All children’s work is closely
graded. Morning Worship—11:00.
The minister will continue the
series of sermons on “Great Texts
of the Bible” by speaking on the
theme, “So God created Man in His
own Image”. Youth Fellowship—
6:30. Worship led by Carl Bailey.
June Owens will lead the dis-
cupssion. Sunday Evening Fellow-
ship—7:30. A brief worship service
followed by the sound, motion pic-
ture, “In His Name”. This picture
tells the story of a boy who threw
a stone through a church window
and became a winister. Showing
time—45 minutes. An offering will
be received.
Monday—Troop 281 will meet in
the Social rooms at seven o'clock.
Tuesday—4:00 Intermediate Girl
Scouts and Brownies.
Thursday— All choirs will re-
hearse at the usual hours.
The flowers this Sunday are pre-
sented in memory of Mr, and Mrs.
John Merical by their daughters,
Mrs. Arthur Dungey and Mrs. Rus-
sell Strunk.
At recent meetings Warden Kun-
kle was elected chairman of the
Auditing Committee; Robert Ro-
berts, chairman of the Recreational
Committee; Sheldon Mosier, chair-
man of the Evangelism Committee;
Richard Oliver, chairman of the
Music Committee; and Clark S.
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WILLIAM JACKSON ROBBINS, 3rd
Here is William Jackson Robbins,
3d, modelling. two live fox-skins.
He found himself in the baby fox
business after buying a vixen which
had been caught in a trap. The
vixen, its broken leg splinted and
healed, gave birth to a pair of
foxes. These are the babies, which
grown to ‘adulthood, Mr. Robbins
used in laying a fox scent for a
hunt out at Sgarlat Lake.
He usually has a pet fox around
the premises. There was one time,
though, when he had to abandon
his plan to rescue a beautiful red
fox from a trap and add it to his
breeding stock. The creature froze
onto his wrist and could not be
dislodged. Even after death, its
jaws refused to open, and had to
be pried apart. Mr. Robbins still
has the scars. He says, reminisc-
ently, that a fox’s claws are like
razors, almost as deadly as its
teeth. ,
Mr. Robbins has a way with wild
life, and a deep-seated urge for
conservation, something which he
may have inherited from his Mo-
hawk ancestry. The lean face,
prominent nose, high, cheek bones,
coupled with the erect carriage and
the lithe stride that gets him over
the ground without apparent ex-
ertion, are his by right, dominant
characteristics handed down to him
from the Indian maiden who was
his great-great-great- grandmother.
It is not by accident that he could
have modelled the Indian on the
old copper penny.
Wearing the deerskin jacket
which he made and elaborately
beaded and fringed at the time he
and his father were giving lectures
on Indian lore, Mr. Robbins needs
only a war-bonnet to complete the
picture.
Ancestors of Mr. Robbins figured
in the Cherry Valley Massacre. In
speaking of this, he said that
something which might not be
Hildebrant, chairman of the Pas-
toral Relations’ Committee.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Blake, New
Goss Manor, son Robert and Mrs.
Blake’s mother, Mrs. Emma Shar-
rock, were received into church
membership on Sunday by transfer
from the Trinity Methodist: Church,
East Lansdowne, Penna.
Tuesday—The Woman’s Society
of Christian Service will hold its
regular, monthly meeting at the
Church. The Devotional Service and
Program will begin at seven-thirty
o'clock. Mrs. Clark S. Hildebrant
will lead the devotional service. Mr.
B. Everett Lord, of the Science De-
partment of Wyoming Seminary,
will be the guest speaker. He will
speak on the theme, “Be Strong in
the Lord”. The problem for dis-
cussion will be, “Alcohol and Nar-
cotic Drugs”. Business meeting and
social hour will follow. All women
are invited.
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' generally known is that it was the
squaws who followed along in the
wake of a raid and put the wound-
ed out of business with a toma-
hawk, practicing euthanasia long
before moderns argued pro and con
on -the ethics of putting suffereres
out of unbearable agony.
High on the side of a hill in
Trucksville, abutting the Staub
farm, the Robbins have built their
nest in a location with a marvelous
view of the valley beneath. This
present home is the” second house
that has stood there, replacing in
1929 the summer cottage in which
the Robbins family had summered
since 1907, two years after the
present William Jackson was born.
Ancient apple trees with their
gnarled and silvered limbs have
been carefully preserved, and more
and more wild flowers have been
transplanted to the rock garden.
Bloodroot and hepaticas bloom in
the sheltered shade, gleaming gold-
fish weather the winter in the deep
pool.
On the other side of the house,
sloping toward the sun, the flower
gardens have pale primroses long
before they blossom anywhere
else, and the deeper gold of daf-
fodils is everywhere.
There ‘are white painted bird-
houses on every convenient limb,
dozens of ‘them. Bluebirds nest
here every spring in a house top-
ping a bare pole.
Mr. Robbins is a member of Wy-
oming Valley and West Side Gar-
den Clubs, as well as a charter
member of Camp 274, Harveys
Lake, United Sportsmen of Penn-
sylvania. It was he who fought
for district soil conservation in
Luzerne County some years ago,
carrying the torch against a bloc
of determined farmers and land-
owners who saw no relation be-
tween denuded and eroded hill-
sides and the rapidly lowering
water table.
During the lifetime of Mr. Rob-
bins’ father, the family rug-weav-
ing plant was operated on Wyom-
ing Street, Wilkes-Barre, in the
same location for 55 years. It was
the elder Mr. Robbing who set up
the chair caning and rug-weaving
shop for the Blind Association,
moving his own looms and appara-
tus to the organization rooms to
instruct in their use.
For a time business boomed,
with materials available from war
surplus, waste from selvedge edges
which could be bought by the
pound, all new material, which
worked up into excellent rugs. Mr.
Robbins remembers with a chuckle
that there was a great demand
for pure white rugs for the Pitts-
burgh market. These were woven
from waste from shrimp net ma-
terial. \
With the death of the elder
William Jackson ' Robbins, three
years ago, the plant in Wilkes-
Barre was closed and two of the
looms, one a two harness, the other
a four, were set up in the base-
ment of the house on the hill. It
is in this smaller plant. that rugs
are now woven and chairs caned,
while a pet fox looks on morosely
from her corner near the furnace.
The other looms are stacked in the
shed, crowding the Indian relics,
until a better place can be found
for them.
The four-harness loom can weave
a variety of patterns. The rug cur-
rently being woven is a herring-
bone pattern of warp, known to
early settlers as Kersey weave, a
much more durable kind of weav-
ing than the straight over and
under of the primitive loom. Wear
comes on the material itself in a
herringbone weave,” not on the
warp threads. The shuttle, filled
with strips from striped polo shirt-
ing, shoats back and forth and the
rug grows before your eyes. It is
hand-powered, but astonishingly
quick.
As for chair caning, Mr. Robbins
puts himself on record as stating
that plastic cane is not as good
as natural cane, and that natural
cane seats can.be preserved prac-
tically indefinitely if properly cared
for. A beeswax preparation will
pr canis nn
keep the canes pliable and prevent
brittleness.
Good rush, he says, is practically
impossible to obtain. Salt water
rush does not stand up well in this
climate. There used to be a huge
tract of satin-rushes growing in
fresh water down near the river
near South Wyoming Avenue, but
since the building of the dike they
have disappeared. These rushes
worked up beautifully pliable and
made excellent seats. But with that {|p
source of supply cut off, Mr. Rob- !
bins has turned to an imitation {|
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Among his treasures, too numer-
ous to list, Mr. Robbins has a sa-
ber presented by his men to Lieu-
tenant William Jackson Robbins in
1865. That William was a brother
of James Stewart Robbins, who,
home on leave before the close of
Civil War hostilities, was killed
by rebel sympathizers at Fishing
Creek. He has some odd clocks,
one tall one with wooden works
which keeps perfect time. And
Indian relics by the hundred.
A brief summary of vital statis-
tics shows Mr. Robbins born .in
Wilkes-Barre in 1905; attending
North Street grade school and
Coughlin High, with a course at
Wilkes-Barre Business College; en-
tering business with his father;
marrying the former Margaret Jane
Humphreys of Kingston; fathering
two children, Wilma, now 18, and
a senior at Kingston Township, and
William Jackson Robbins, 4th,
twelve! years old; and carrying on
the family business in a more re-
stricted form.
Just before we left, Mr. Robbins
lifted into the rear of the Dallas
Post station wagon two small
chairs which he said had been
left for repair and never called
for, the owners having moved
away. ‘Might as well let the Li-
brary Auction have them”, he said,
giving the small splint rocker and
the outmoded high chair a final
boost, “good new work in both of
them.”
Mrs. Anna L. Swanson
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Mrs. Anna L. Swanson, 78,
mother of Chief of Police Fred
Swanson of Harveys Lake, is show-
ing improvement following a stroke
suffered two weeks ago today.
Mrs. Swanson who lives alone at
her home in Ruggles was dis-
covered lying in a coma on the
floor of her bedroom about 4
o'clock in the afternoon when Fred
stopped in for his daily call. He
gave first aid and summoned Dr.
Lester Saidman of Noxen. It is be-
lieved that Mrs. Swanson had the
stroke about 10 o’clock.
Her sister Mrs. Bertha Hanson of
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