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By William J. Robbins Jr.
PRIZE BEAR KILLERS
Of the 429 legal bears bagged in
Pennsylvania during the six-day
season last November, there were
11 that weighed 400 pounds or
more, rough-dressed. At least, so
say individual reports made by the
How many of these bears were
actually weighed is mot known, but
on the basis of weights shown on
kill tags the largest bear, a male
545 pounder, was taken ‘in Pike
County by Robert (A. Beers, of R.D.,
. Nazareth, Pa. ;
Still going on. weights submitted,
the secomid prize went to John J.
Kucinski, Erie, Pa., for a 501 pound
bruin killed in Warren County. Third
place was taken by Samuel Norris,
of ICurwensville, Pa., who bagged his
prize, a 465 pounder, in (Clearfield
County.
The 11 big fellows were taken in
9 different counties. Only one of
' them was a female.
DEFENSE AGAINST RABBITS
Cottontail rabbits perennially an-
noy residents of [Pennsylvania towns
sand cities with their flower and bulb
eating in early spring and their |
vegetable garden raiding ‘later:
Game [protectors and trappers em-
ployed by the Game Commission re-
move tens of thousands of these un-
wanted bunnies from municipalities
every winter, thus reducing the’po-
tential rabbit damage. But some al-
ways remain to plague gardeners. |
However, with choice foods avail-
able it is almost impossible to bring |
rabitts to trap in late spring and
summer.
Many gardeners become incensed
at ‘the bunny depredations, but re-
lent when they realize that if a
mother rabbit were taken from her
tiny young they would perish.
The best way to beat the problem
appears to be more defense spend-
ing In ‘the ‘case of small gardens,
where the outlay is within reason,
18-inch mesh' wire, 6 inches of it
buried in the ground to prevent
burrowing under, solves the protec-
tion problem. Openings in the mesh
must be no larger than one inch if
~ little rabbits are to be kept out.
Sprays and dusts, such as dried
blood, rotenone and ‘tobacco dust,
sold by merchants handling seeds
Directions on
effective repellents.
the package shculd be followed im-
plicitly. A line of moth crystals,
poured around ‘the garden border,
often proves an effective bar to the
invasions of Brer Rabbit.
FUR BEARER CRUELLY SLAIN
Irwin ‘A. Meibel, Jr., Susquehanna
game protector reports this despic-
able incident:
“On, Sunday evening, April 20,”
he says, “I went to the outlet of
Montrose Lake to view a dead ani-
mal a man reported finding while
fishing, Sorry to say, I found it to
be a large male otter. Its skull had
been crushed, possibly by someone
fishing the stream.”
Two Umbrellas Gone
Mrs. Robert Kubasti, Fernbrook,
would appreciate information about
two brand-new umbrellas, left at
the [Pen-Fern Service Station for
the mse of her sons during a heavy
rainstorm, but would appreciate
still more deeply the return of the
umbrellas,
THE POST, FRIDAY, JUNE
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In the Swim
BLONDE Marilyn Monrcz2, who has
been recently linked romantically
with Joe DiMaggio, prepares to
cool off at a pool in Hollywood.
Marilyn displays here some of the
charms that have prompted film
folk to call her the most exciting
blonde to come along since Jean
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"YESTERDAY
From The Post of ten and
twenty years ago this week.
From The Issue Of
June 12, 1942
Peter Clark elected as Republican
chairman by a narrow margin, 37
votes against Arnott Jones, 35.
Howell Rees, former editor of Dal-
las Post, speaks at Memorial Day
Committee Dinner on the Bahamas,
where he has spent the past two
years.
A tie between Merle Shaver and
Floyd Chamberlain for Middle Dist-
rict ICommittemain, was decided by a
drawing in favor of Shaver.
Elwood Davis, Marine, is leaving
for the War Zone after a 25 day
leave.
Bill Casterline escapes death by
narrow margin when truck body
pins him to cab. Bill, after escaping
from near-drowning last February
when his truck went through the
ice at Sunset, says, ‘I'm getting
used to this sort of thing”.
Large supply of road-oil, frozen
by government, delays road work in
Dallas.
Onions, 3 lbs for 10 cents; new
beets, 5 cents per bunch; spaghetti,
two cans for 25 cents; bread, two
large loaves for 17 cents; solid cab-
bage, mew, 5 cents per lb; fancy red
salmon, 35 cents tall can.
Helein Boice marries Fred Hoover
May 29.
Helen Kirkendall announces en-
gagement to Robert D. Appleton.
Harry Kresge, feed merchant of
Fernbrook, was buried Thursday in.
Mill City Cemetery.
Harry Hoover celebrates his
eightieth birthday with an open
house.
Mrs. Anna Parks mourned at Ide-
town.
Patrolman Fred |Swianson got an
orangeade shower at. Harveys Lake
when the restrained a violent
woman, near Sunset Saturday aftter~
noon.
From The Issue Of
June 10, 1932
Text of Rockefeller's plea for
change in prohibition law published.
Dallas Post, entering a new field,
has completed publishing of King-
ston High School Year-Book,
Misericordia graduates thirty-five.
Gliders, $12.50.
Sheldon, Mosier graduates from
State (College.
Jim Hutchison says (bouquets
placed in trees will help in pol-
lenation.
Dallas Borough graduates mine,
Kingston Township holds com-
mencement.
“The Man Who Played God”, with
George (Arliss, at Himmler Theatre.
It's a four page paper.
13, 1952 ; ’
SAFETY VALVE
Dear Editor:
Bert Stitzer's ‘Sharpshooters’,
the best team this side of Paradise,
takes ‘this opportunity to accept the
challenge of Back Mountain Lumber
and Coal Company’s ‘Playboys’ for
a three-game playoff on a neutral
alley. The ‘‘Sharpshooters” hope the
prize will be a dinner or some other
award suitable’ to their ability.
Bert Stitzer
for the [Sharpshooters
TAKES EXCEPTION
Dear Editor:
Two weeks ago in your valuable
paper there appeared quite a boner
in, Fin, Fur and Feather about the
offspring of the English [Sparrow
and the Starling which I would like
to «call to your attention. ?
It was stated that the Grackle
was a cross between the [Sparrow
and the Starling. Now the Sparrow
which is of the Finch family was
introduced into the United States
in, the year 1850 and the Starling
was introduced in 1890.
Mr. Audubon who died in 1851
drew beautiful pictures of four idif-
ferent (Grackles during the early
part of his life—say about 1825—
and John Burroughs who once was
one of America’s outstanding or-
nithologists and was consulting edi-
tor of ‘Birds of America” states on
page 270 of “Birds of America” that
the (Grackle was named Jackdaw by
our early settlers of the country on
account of its superficial resem-
blance to the European Jackdaw
which of course is an entirely dif-
ferent bind.
The three Grackles which we have
here at Harveys Lake are the Boat-
Tailed Grackle. the Purple Grackle
and the Bronzed Grackle. Now you
name the one which is a cross be-
tween the [English Sparrow and the
Btarling for me.
[Sincerely yours
Frank Jackson
Harveys Lake.
FIRE IS NO JOKE
Dear Editor,
Fire in the country is a dread-
ful thing because ‘of lack of ad-
equate water supply, and because by
the wery mature of the volunteer
system a certain amount of delay
is almost inevitable, The Back Moun-
tain Fire companies get to a blaze
with phenomenal speed, but dis-
tances are long and hills are steep.
[Seeing a house in flames is a ter-
rifying thing. It is easy to vision
‘Jour own house going up in smoke,
your prized possessions stacked on
the lawn, your bedding amid clothing
flying out of an upstairs window to
lie smouldering beneath the ladder
while a fireman chops holes in the
siding and lets out another burst of
flame, and smoke curls from the
eaves.
Unless a switch could be made
to chemicals, the crux of the situ-
ation seems to be water amd more
wiater.
It is only in the centers of popu-
lation that fire plugs are available.
In times of drought when fires are
the most likely to occur, it is doubt-
ful if there would be enough pres-
sure on top of the high hills to
make fire plugs practical for the
outlying districts.
We seem tio remember that some
years ago it was suggested that a
large tank truck be financed for the
use of all Back Mountain Fire (Com-
panies, filled and waiting for an
emergency call in some central loca-
tion.
It is true that such a truck would
move fairly slowly, but the fire
companies ‘could hold things in
check until it got to the scene, and
once there it could furnish enough
water to make speedy work of put-
ting out the fire.
I have a very selfish viewpoint
on this. I am located on Pioneer
Avenue in ‘an area where there
are no fire-plugs, where there is no
city water, where home-owners
either have their own drilled wells,
powered by automatic electric
pump, rent water from a neighbor's
supply, or subscribe to one of the
several private water companies.
I feel that with Borough taxes,
water company water should be
available.
As it is not supplied, and there
are mo fire plugs, I would feel a
lot better if there were a large tank
truck in readiness to supply enough
water to save my home if my own
bottled gas tank ever lets go, as
was the case in the recent fire on
the Roushey Plot, with the New-
berry home gravely endangered from
an explosion.
I will subscribe twenty-five dol-
lars here and now to such a tank
truck, if the other folks out here
will go along on the proposition.
It is very moderate insurance against
total loss. No amount of insurance
ever covers the actual loss by fire.
Let’s see if it isn’t possible to
start something. Two bad fires in as
many weeks are two fires too much.
Hopefully yours
Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks.
columns. Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks had
SKUNK HOLLER NEWS
Deer Mr. Edytor.
Mrs.
veterinariun. Doc taped up her j
hit—about hit not bein’ any wor
spouse back. Bessie Pilsner run
argyment.
was.
more’n my old foxhound, but you
She sed, Hit's a downrite lie and
man. You acted hasty. Alben sed
Yep, Bessie, Alben kilt thet old
between me and my spouse.
burnt his little self.
The Skunk Holler Wimmin’s
tea this afternoon.
§ Barnyard Notes fe
The Post this week welcomes a new correspondent to its
hardly covered her typewriter for
a two-weeks sojourn at the Columbia University School of Jour-
nalism in New York City when this new contributor arrived: with
his column of news from Skunk Holler.
received it without editorial tampering on our part.
Here it is just as we
BY HUGH SMELME II
Here's my news for this week.
Jacob [Stonecob had the misfortun’ of dislocatin’ her
jawbone wile talkin’ away at a laidees aid meetin’ other aftermoon.
Her jawbone slipped slonchwise and the wimmin had to call the
aw so’s she kaint talk none fer
a few days. The Hon. Mr. Stonecob, who is air belovud presydent
ov the Skunk Holler First Nationul Bank, shore is happy about
se’'n hit is.
Alben Pilsner has axed me to appeel nashun wide to get his
off a few weeks ago after an
Alben sed him and Bessie got to talkin’ about how fat she
He sed, I bet you air heavier’n air old brood sow rite mow.
She sed, I hain’t neither and I bet you luv thet old sow more'n
you do me. He sed, Thunderashun thet hain’t so. I even luv you
shore air heavier’n thet old sow.
you know hit.
Rite heer is whar Alben admits he flew off the handle. I was
stedy up to then, he sed, fer I was statin’ only facts and I stand
on my facts. What made Bessie leeve was the next statement of
Alben. Why don’t you go weigh? he shoutud. A
Bessie Pilsner, wharever you air, you kin cum back to yor eld
go weigh, not go a-way. So cum
@ on back so’s your man kin have somethin’ to eat beesides sowbelly.
hog. He sed, No sow kin cum
Little Mort Smelme, the youngust of the Smelmes, learnt
hisself a big lessun this week. He set on the kitchun stove and
club will close the seeson with a
Tee time two ten.
The rain last week sartinly was apprecyated by the farmers.
Only thing, hit rained so hard hit floated the chapul from route 1
to route 2. So, reemember nabors, Sunday schul at 9, preachin’
frum 10 to 12. Don’t go to route 1 and xpect Deacon Wulker to
fer onct.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester, White
he’s still as gud as any yung whi
naborhood.
show up. Hit’s route 2 whr he'll be. Let's all git to church on time
war honored on their 50 years
ov wedded bliss last Sunday with a surpriss potluck. Chester proved
ppersnapper in the Holler and et
the most. Mrs. White et little. She jist sat there, bless her sole
a-thinkin’ back 50 yars, and a-shakin’ her hed.
Lots ov indeegestun in the naborhood. :
Mrs. Lola Loon had 2 teeth tuk out. They was her last 2 teeth.
Gingur, thet’s my spouse, sed thet with them last 2 tobaccy-staned
teeth gone, Mrs. Loon now has won ov the sweetiest smiles in the
BS!
Poet's Comer
at -—
The following poem was lent to
the Post by Mrs. Marvin Elston who
thought some of our readers would
enjoy it and wish to clip it for their
scrapbooks:
My Grandmother, she at the age of
eighty three,
One day in May was taken ill and
died;
And after she was dead, the will of
course was read
By a lawyer as we all stood side by
side,
To my brother, it was found, she
had left a hundred pound,
The same unto my sister, I declare;
But when it came to me the lawyer
said, “I see she has left to you
her old armchair.
How they tittered, how they chaffed,
How my brother and my sisters
laughed.
When they heard the lawyer de-
clare
Granny’d only left to me her old
armchair,
I thought it hardly fair, still I said
I did mot care,
And in the evening took the chair
away.
My brother at me laughed, the
lawyer at me chaffed,
Ang said, “It will come useful, John,
some day.
When you settle down in life,
Find some girl to be your wife,
You'll find it very handy, I declare,
On a cold and frosty night,
When the fire is burning bright,
You can sit in your old armchair.”
What the lawyer said was true,
For in a year or two,
Strange to say 1 settled down in
married life, :
I first a girl did court and then a
ring T bought,
Took her to the church, and then
she was my wife.
Now the dear girl and me
Are happy as can be,
And when my work is done, I de-
clare,
I ne'er abroad would roam,
But each might I'd stay at home
Amd be seated in my old armchair.
One night the chair fell down,
And when I picked it up I found
The seat had fallen out upon the
floor.
And there before my eyes
I saw to my surprise =
A lot of notes, ten thousand pounds
or more.
When my brother heard of this
The poor fellow, T confess,
Went nearly wild with rage and tore
this hair. :
But I only laughed at him,
And T said unto him: ‘Jim,
you wish you had the old
armchair 7”
No more they tittered, no more they
ichaffed,
No more my brother and sisters
Ww laughed, :
When they heard the lawyer declare
Granny's only left to me her old
armchair.
Westmoreland Seniors
Enjoy New York Trip
Forty-eight members of the gradu-
ating class of Westmorelanid High
School left by bus early [Tuesday
morning for New York under the
chaperonage of Walter Mohr and
Robert (Somerville.
In the city, part of the students
took a boat trip around the island
and the others toured New York in
a bus. They attended a play in’ the
evening and returned to their homes
early Wednesday morning.
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