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PAGE SIX
Know Your Neighbor
EDGAR R. KERLIN
A Tree-Man For
Forty-Odd Years
As The Twig Is Bent,
The Tree's Inclined
It is no accident that Edgar R.
Kerlin grew to manhood with a
consuming interest in fruit and
trees. The little ‘twig, from his
earliest childhood, was inclined
toward becoming a tree-man by an
intensive diet of seed and nursery
catalogues.
It was a long time before little
Eddy knew there were any dither
kinds of picture books.
Mammoth cherries, blushing ap-
. ples, downy peaches, filled his eyes
from the time he could lie on la rag
rug in the kitchen, propped on his
‘elbows, and drink deep of the heady
draught of spring fruit and flowers.
‘When he learned to read, it was of
- Baldwins and Elbertas and Montimo-
rencies.
Family conversation revolved
for Jacob and
Young Edgar, after finishing his
: schooling, went automatically into
. ‘the orchard business, farming it for
a number of years on the home
place, and then stepping out into the
commercial orchard field.
As a logical sequence to accum-
ulated knowledge of the meeds of
orchards over a period of years, Mr.
Kerlin is mow in the chemical fer-
tilizer business, with ‘headquarters
in Baltimore, and ‘a territory cover-
ing nine mortheastern Pennsylvania
counties for Miller Chemical Com-
pany.
The company is fortunate to have
a representative who can step into
an orchard, diagnose the situation,
and state with certainty just what
the trees meed to make them pro-
duce to the limit. :
Experience in handling huge or-
chards in Moorestown, Leesburg, and
in the [Shenadoah Valley, with (their
need for carloads of assorted chem- | pany
icals, have given him a background
far superior to that of a man who
| potent chemicals are required. Be-
: | are required for safe handling.
' on money—raising activities, the
has handled chemicals from fthe dis-
tribution or manufacturing end only.
An ailing orchard to Mr. Kerlin
is a patient requiring spoon-feeding,
and a balanced diet.
He says that with a large potato
acreage in the area in addition to
larger fruit acreage, and insect
life on the crease, more and more
fore dilution, these solutions are so
lethal that masks and rubber gloves
Since moving to Kunkle in 1948,
occupying ‘the old Devens place, Mr.
Kerlin has become a power in the
community,
When the women of Kunkle
Methodist (Church send in a report
Dallas Post always expects mention
of Mr. Kerlin.
And it is mever disappointed.
It is Mr. Kerlin, Superintendent
of the [Sunday School and chairman
of the building committee, who
erects ‘the tent for refreshments at
the Grasslands Festival and the
Bloomsburg Fair, who arranges for
connections of gas for snack service
at the Farmers Market, and who
rounds up a ‘truck to transport
supplies.
Kunkle Church has need for
expansion, its one large Sunday
School room inadequate for proper
segregation of adults and children.
Mr, Kerlin is digging into the sit-
uation with his customary enthus-
iasm,
Remember ‘that minister who
made a plea for contributions to the
church supper menu? He didn't
want airy promises, he warned, but
THE POST, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1952
their roots.
Recently he is taking orders for
fruit trees, with Stark Nurseries as
his source of supplies.
There is a son, (Charles, who has
a dairy farm in Wyoming County
near Tunkhannock; a daughter, Mrs.
Ruth Schonk, who lives in Big Pool,
Maryland; and a younger daughter,
Mrs, Donald Lunger, who holds the
same position with Lehigh County
Agriculture Extension service that
Mrs. Ruth Darbie holds in Luzerne
County. .
It is folks like the Kerlins who
are needed in the Back Mountain,
folks who are not willing to sit back
and let George do it, but dig in and
do it themselves, \
Girl Scout Troop 75
Studies First Aid
Girl Scouts of Shavertown 75 are
the first in the Wyoming Valley
Council to complete a first aid
course featuring the back pressure-
arm lift method of artificial respir-
ation.
Mrs. Odus Moore, leader, says
that fifteen girls completed fifteen
hours of work, meeting Wednesdays
at Shavertown Methodist Church
under instruction of Charles Davis,
chairman of First Aid for the Red
Cross in Wilkes-Barre.
Last Wednesday, Mr. Davis
awarded each girl a Junior Red
Cross badge. All girls gre now eli-
gible for the first aid award from
headquarters, which will be given
later in the spring with suitable
-ceremonies.
concrete biscuits.
Every time Mr. Kerlin engineers
another money-making program, |
that's another concrete biscuit for |
the new foundations, |
Kunkle wonders how it got along
before the Kerlins moved ‘into the
community, *
Vital statistics:
Jacob and Hannah Reinwalt Ker-
lin, natives of Chester County, across
the river from Pottstown, had seven
children, four boys and three girls.
Four of them are living: Edgar,
Kunkle; Clifton, who farms in (Ches-
ter mear the old home place; Anna
Herman, Douglasville; and Mary
Marquette, Pottstown. |
At twenty-two, in 1911, young
Edgar married [Sara Miller, born in
Elverson, Chester (Countly, and school |
teacher in that area. The couple are |
just seven days apart in age, but
Mr. Kerlin did mot state in which
direction. 3
He handled orchards, first on the
old home place, then in commercial
fields, . beginning with Common-
wealth Orchard in 1918.
In Leesport, from 1921-1929, he
was in charge of 1000 acres of trees,
peaches and apples predominating.
From Leesburg he went to West
Virginia Fruit Growers in the Shen-
andoah Valley, managing a large :
apple orchard, and later working
out of Martinsburg with both apples
and peaches,
From 1944 to 1948 he managed
orchards for Scoblick Brothers, mear
[Lake 'Winola, specializing in peaches,
plums and apples.
Thiat brings the saga up to his
affiliation with the fertilizer com-
But Mr, Kerlin can’t be satisfied
without dealing with trees them-
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selves instead of what's good for |
The new method, ‘explains Mrs.
Moore, doubles the amount of air
taken into the lungs, 1000. cc as
against the 400 taken in by the
prone-pressure method. It has been
used in Denmark for years, but
only recently adopted in this
country.
- Mrs. Moore took over the troop
in January, with Mrs. James Gates,
Dallas, as assistant. Up until that
time, the troop, though formed, had
lacked leadership and was not able
to function.
Stationed At Sampson
Albert John Rebennack, only son
of Mrs. Carl Rebennack of Meeker,
left March 21 for Sgmpson, N. Y.
to join the Air Force.
Al graduated from Lake Town-
ship High School in the class of
1949 and has since been attending
the Academy of Aeronautics on
Long Island. He was graduated
from there February 21.
His new address: Pvt. Albert J.
Rebennack, A. F., 13409219, 3652
Tr. 'Sqdn., [Flight 1580, Sampson
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Noxen Plans To Start
Girl-Scout Movement
Plans for formation of Brownie
and Intermediate Girl Scout troops
will be discussed at a meeting for
parents of girls between seven and
fourteen tonight at the Noxen Fire
Hall, 7:30.
Mrs. Earl Crispell has consented
to teach the Brownie troop, Mrs.
Ralph Lutes the intermediates.
Representatives from Wyoming Val-
ley Council will be present.
Mimeographed slips printed
through the courtesy of Lake-Noxen
school, have been distributed this
week to parents having girls in the
designated age group. Mrs. John
Byrne, principal of Noxen elemen-
tary school and teacher of second
and third grades, compiled a list of
mothers to be contacted.
Installs Television
Kingston Township Veterann’ As-
socigtion has installed a new tele-
vision set. Trucksville Radio did
the work.
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DANIEL MEEKER, owner
Kunkle, Pa. Phone 458-R-13
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18 MILES WEST OF WILKES-BARRE
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FORAGE HARVESTERS—I1 New Holland with motor (like new, must be sold), 1 John Deere,
good condition. Others coming in.
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CLERKS—Warren Casterline and Benjamin Rood.
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Lunch will be served by the Ladi es of the First Christian Church
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