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Footnotes On
Sands Of Time
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Lake Highway.
Consumers asked to conserve
water as drought deepens.
David Lutes Ide dies at 82.
Resuscitator saves William Mur-
phy from drowning at Harveys
Lake.
Mr. and Mrs. William Cairl, plan-
ning for family reunion on sixtieth
anniversary, have plans cancelled
by illness of Mr. Cairl, requiring
hospitalization. ;
Family reunions on every page.
Charles Nuss terminates twelve
year presidency of Lehman school
beard. y
Primaries are dull, but Demo-
crats show signs of life. Chamber-
lain and Moore win in Township.
Louis Banta gets a good vote in
the Back Mountain but is defeated
by incumbent for Luzerne County
Sheriff.
Sunday school picnics.
Toll Gate Lions ask speed limit
of 35 miles through residential
areas.
August
William Cairl holds his own after
operation,
Bass are biting.
Beaumont Cannery in operation
for early vegetables.
Willard Sutton is service manager
for Olivers Garage.
Glenn Spencer and Lewis Sick
capture rattler with nine rattles.
Alive.
Thirty hy register for Beauty
Contest at Harveys Lake Lions An-
nual Beauty Show.
Joint Board approves kinder-
garten. Will open in former Dallas
Borough elementary school build-
ing.
Verus Weaver resigns as music
director of Kingston Township.
Mary Jane Neely dies at 85.
Theron Dickinson's hand is pain-
fully injured in a hay-baler.
New Commonwealth Telephone
Company building on Lake Street
is. making good progress,
Dickie Clark judged best boy
handler at Kennel Club Dog Show.
James Martin says don’t push
children into school too young.
Mrs. Allie Morris is eigthy-seven.
Big Circus shows to big crowd.
New construction and real estate
sales reaches new peak in area.
Colonel Norman Smith resigns
from Seminary, becomes recreation~
al director at Spring Lake Camp,
Vermont. Phyllis heads a depart-
ment. there, too.
Eighty-six. blood donors at Dallas
Borough School Blood Bank Day.
Record.
Dallas Township Veterans Agri-
culture students erect a new poultry
September
Lt. George Guthrie Conyngham
has replaced his brother, Lt. John
Conyngham on the Korean: fighting
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THE POST, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1952
front. Both officers are in the
Marines.
Area schools open, with excep-
tion of Gate of Heaven, not yet
completed and Lehman-Jackson.
registration of over eighty.
Frank Brown, Tunkhannock, gets
award for best green pasture in
state.
Odus Moore, replaces John D.
Griffith as superintendent of Fern-
brook Mill,
Dallas Bank opens Friday eve-
nings. )
Mrs. Margaret Evans, 87, dies
at Harveys Lake.
Fred Eck graduates from School
of Banking, University of Wiscon-
sin.
LaRue M. Swazey, Fernbrook,
dies of polio. Fourth case in area.
Library Board approves exten-
sive building and grounds improve-
ments, with grading of rear prop-
erty for parking.
Book Club stages first big party
in Library Annex. «
Atty. Jim Brown heads Demo-
crats’ fall campaign.
Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey Owen
celebrate sixty-second anuiversawy,
October
Lt. Guthrie Convighans is seri-
ously wounded in Korea, gets eight
pints of blood.
Hospitalized in
house at Beaumont for a disabled Henan
veteran, Wilson Furr, working *
under flood. lights at night. New well gushes for Dallas Water
Company, promises to relieve
drought on the hills.
Frederick Renard dies at 80.
Amos Kitchen passes away at
Harveys Lake, aged 84.
Democrats elect Don Clark chair-
man.
St. Paul's Lutheran rededicated
after extensive remodelling.
Earl Monk dies of heart attack.
Natona Foremen organize.
Kingston Township-Dallas Bor-
ough School system renamed West-
moreland.
Frick family moves to new par-
sonage at Huntsville.
David Jenkins buys eighty acres
for housing development,
Luzerne County Voters Guide,
League of Women Voters and Dallas
Post.
Big Hallowe’en Parade.
November
Flannigans Furniture store has
big opening in big storm.
Rev. J. J. O'Leary elected Man
of the Year.
Pump installed at new Dallas
well.
Whitesell Brothers will develop
a 90 acre tract near Idetown.
Gate of Heaven Parochial school
is dedicated’ by Bishop William
Hafey.
Joe Wallo sails from Japan.
Peg has quintuplets.
Traffic jam between Trucksville
and Luzerne from November 18’s
ice storm.
Russel Ruble resigns from Leh-
man-Jackson faculty.
Bear season.
L. L. Richardson grand reopen-
ing
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Kenneth Crocker dies suddenly
of heart attack.
Wheeler Kunkles passes away.
Dallas loses its oldest native res-
ident, Mrs. Allie Morris, at 87.
Redskins defeat Westmoreland
20-19 at the Thanksgiving Day
classic.
December
Many hunters get big game. Lake
school closed first day of deer sea-
son.
First local boy reported killed in
Korea is Cpl. Frederick Brown.
Back Mountain supervising prin-
cipals report to Better Citizens’
Committee on benefits stemming
from jointure.
Citizens’ Committee considered
for national award.
William Compton gets the prize
buck of the area, 195% pounds,
hog-dressed.
Louise Kamn and Donald Watch-
ulonis win prizes for best essays
on origin of name Westmoreland,
new name of Kingston Township-~
Dallas Borough high school.
Holiday mail sets record at Dal-
James Rn 8l,
Dies on Tuesday
To Be Buried Today
At Oaklawn Cemetery
James Keiper, 81, died New
Year’s night at his home on Frank-
lin street after an illness of over
two years. He will be buried in
Oaklawn Cemetery this afternoon
at 2, following services by Rev.
Robert Yost from a funeral home
at 1442 Wyoming avenue, Forty-
Fort.
Mr. Keiper retired from the
carpenter business where he was
employed by E. E. Reilly, when
75. Unable to remain idle, he
gardened for Clinton Ide until he
suffered a stroke two and a half
years ago.
Born on a farm near Fern
Ridge, Monroe County, of pioneer
Pennsylvania Dutch stock, one of
las Postoffice,
Trucksville Firemen gets delivery
on new fire truck.
John E. Vavrek is listed as a
POW on released communist lists.
Louis Banta and Charles Metz-
ger, Shavertown police, laid up
with injuries received within forty
eight hours of each other, both
due to icy roads.
Bob Grose has been drafted by
West Palm Beach Club, Class B,
Florida-International League.
Mr, and Mrs. George Wilson cele-
brate their fiftieth anniversary.
Merry Christmas and Happy
New Year.
fourteen children, he assisted his
father Amos in one of the first
Christmas tree ventures in the
area, importing trees from Canada
and cutting locally. As a young
man he worked in the lumber
woods at Stull and in the Poconos,
taking up the carpenter trade in
1902.
Married to the former Maria
Ellen Eckhardt, who died 1936,
the family lived for a time in
Noxen and in 1924 bought the
home on Franklin street, Dallas.
He was cared for during his
illness by his son, Lloyd, and his
grandson James. During the warm
weather he enjoyed sitting out
on the porch in the sunshine, and
his chief recreation was listening
to western stories and music on
the radio.
A daughter, Grace, died during
the influenza epidemic of 1918,
and another daughter, Mrs. Alice
Merrill, died some years ago.
Surviving are six sons: Harry
and Clifford, Kingston; Arthur,
Ashland; Raymond, Wilkes-Barre;
James, Shavertown; and Lloyd, at
home. There are twelve grand-
children and eight great grand-
children; four brothers, Emanuel,
Tobyhanna; George, Albrightsville;
Ben, Allentown; Theodore, Kunkle-
town; and a sister Amelia, Slating-
ton.
Funeral arrangements
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M-S Charles Remphrey
Awarded Bronze Star
AN AIRLIFT BASE IN JAPAN—
Master Sergeant Charles W. Remp-
hrey, Dallas, was recently pre-
sented the Bronze Star Medal by
Brigadier General John P. Hene-
bry, Commanding General 315th
Sunshine Class
Reelects Officers
Sunshine Class, Meeker Metho-
dist Church, held its annual
Christmas party at the home of
Mrs. William Drabick.
Election and installation of of-
ficers resulted in reelection for in-
cumbents. President for the com-
ing year is Mrs, James Davenport;
vice president,” Mrs. William Dra-
bick; secretary, Mrs. Walter Wolfe;
treasurer, Miss Letha Wolfe.
After a program and games, re-
freshments were served to Mes-
dames Morton Connelly, Glendora
Shilanski, Lawrence Steltz, Walter
Wolfe, Arthur Hoover, Harry Dav-
is, George Weintz, John Hilde-
brant, Lawrence Wolfe, Helen Van
Buskirk, Harold Ross, Lynn John-
son, James Davenport, Walter
Kittle, Minnie Hoover, William
Drabick, and Miss Letha Wolfe.
To Install Officers
Mount Vale Council 224, D ofA,
Friday, January-11 at 7:30 for
will meet in Odd Fellows Hall
installation of officers. Officers are
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in connection with military opera-
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period 18 March 1951 to 25 March
1951, as Line Chief and Air-
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Through his resourcefulness and
superior performance of duty he
contributed immeasurably to the
success of the airborne assault of
the 187th Regimental Combat
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assisted greatly in the maximum
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Sgt. Remphrey has reflected great
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Mrs. Claude Cook, Mrs. Della
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