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It’s Hime to get ready for the annual influx of the grandchildren. QL,. 62, No. 29
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FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1952
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in a safe spot, if you can find one. The bottom of a locked trunk is about’
right, and you can wear the key around your neck for extra security.
Make it a va +ithout heart-
burning. The small fry will handle
everything in sight. It is simpler
to clear off all horizontal surfaces
than to tag around after the in-
fants, screeching, “Now Willie, you
mustn’t touch that.”
If there isn’t anything to handle,
the children will handle nothing.
Q.E.D.
Don’t expect the young mothers
to wear their responsibilities too
heavily. Mother senior has always
been adequate, she’ll be adequate
now, why worry? Mother is get-
ting a real treat, revelling once
more in the patter of little feet, the
prattle of little tongues, the clatter
of china bowls, and the splatter of
oatmeal on the floor.
To which the average grand-
mother mutters under her breath,
“Nuts to that,” provides Willie with
a paper napkin or a shovel, depend-
ing on the size of the catastrophe,
and invites him to clean up the
mess.
Any grandmother who wishes to
make herself solid with the chil-
dren will feed them outside on the
grass where spills don’t matter and
can be ignored. And shell buy a
grist of plastic bowls to take the
wear and tear off the china. If
Willie crowns Bobby over the head
with a plastic bowl of oatmeal, the
birds will clean up the mush, and
you can put Bobby under the out-
side tap for a quick shampoo, slid-
ing him out of his shorts like
shucking a pit out of a stewed
prune.
Your daughter will be in town,
catching up on her lifelong friends,
and you'll have a free hand. By
the time she gets home again, worn
" out from a day of renewing her
youth, the shampoo will be for-
gotten, the young sinner will be
wearing a clean sunsuit, and all
will be rosy.
Do, by all means, buy five tons
of sand well in advance. Save up
all the bricks you've been digging
from the flowerbed borders. They
are unrivalled for outdoor building
blocks in conjunction with the
sandpile. Save up the small con-
centrated juice cans, made safe by
opening with a wall can-opener
which leaves no rough edges: Punch
holes in the bottoms of half of
theds, fov sifters, leave the otter’
half as is for holding water.
Fill a tub alongside the sandpile
with water, keeping it in the shade
to avoid reflected glare and sun-
burning. Or invest in one of these
inflatable wading pools. The tub is
really more practical, as it does not
invite experimentation with the ice
pick.
The sand will kill off the grass.
Close your eyes to this. You can
rake it up after the kids go home,
and a bushel of topsoil and a good
soaking rain will repair the damage.
Keep the cookie jar filled. If it’s
too hot for cookies, bread and but-
ter spread with brown sugar will
make a good substitute. Children
need food between meals. The three
meals per day constitute a mere
skeleton of intake. Pad it out be-
tween meals, but not too close to
the next one. .
Have you investigated the possi-
bilities of dried milk ? Willie loathes
dried milk? Bosh and nonsense.
Mix it up when Willie is in the
sandpile, let it cool thoroughly in
the refrigerator, and when the bub-
bles are all gone, combine it with
an equal quantity of milk from the
dairy. Youll be surprised how it
will cut down on that mammoth
milk bill, and if Willie can tell the
difference he’s an unusual child,
too smart for his age, and needs to
have his ears pinned back.
Right here is a good place to in-
sert a discovery that has made life
simpler in the summer.
Don’t follow the directions on the
box of powdered milk. They're the
bunk. Sprinkling a box of pow-
dered milk on top of a bowlful of
warm water and then trying to
reduce it to liquid is something
that shouldn’t happen to your dear-
est enemy.
Dump the whole package into
the bottom of a two-quart pitcher.
Add a half pitcherful of water at
room temperature and let the
pitcher alone for half an hour.
Then beat vigorously with an egg-
beater, adding more water if you
need it. As soon as the little lumps
have all disappeared, fill the pitcher
with cold water.
Now line up four milk bottles,
dividing’ the concentrated milk be-
tween them equally. Fill the bot-
tles with cold water. Put them in
the ice-box and as soon as the bub-
bles have gone, fill to the brim.
Don’t rush it, you're not in any
hurry. You now have four bottles
of milk to combine with four bot-'
tles of milk from the dairy. Do it
one bottle at a time, just as you
need it, making two bottles grow
where one grew before.
Directions. on the dried milk box
call for five quarts of water as
dilution. Four quarts is better.
The price is reasonable, and there'll
be just that much more of the milk
solids for the youngsters. It's good
for them.
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Dr. Schooley's
Condition Shows
Little Change
Respected Physician
Is Stricken While
Attending A Patient
Condition * of Dr. Sherman R.
Schooley, Shavertown physician
who is a patient at Wilkes-Barre
General Hospital following a heart
attack Saturday afternoon while
calling on a Dallas patient, remains
about the same with little change
for the better or worse.
He is being treated by Dr. Mal-
colm Borthwick in consultation
with Drs. John Giering and Rus-
sell Stevens, heart specialists, and
by a Philadelphia specialist who
was called on the case yesterday.
Dr. Schooley is in a room where
air-conditioning has been provided
by his Wyoming Seminary class-
mate, Clinton Ide of Huntsville.
It was Dr. Schooley who refused to
permit amputation when Mr. Ides
son, Dick, had his feet nearly sev-
ered in a mowing machine accident
many years ago.
Dr. Schooley was stricken about
4:30 Saturday afternoon while
making a call on Lee Gregg of
Pinecrest Avenue. He had barely
got in the house and asked Mr.
Gregg a few questions about his
condition, when he asked Mrs.
Gregg for a glass of water. He fol-
lowed her to the kitchen where he
slumped in a chair saying that he
had an awful pain in his chest. As
the pain grew more intense, he
went to the other room and with
Mrs. Gregg searched in his bag for
some heart pills which she found
and poured into his hand. About
that time Joe Norton came in and
they were able to remove his shoes
and collar and have him lie down
while he instructed them to call
one of several physicians. None
could be reached until Mrs. Borth-
wick logated her husband who was
"out on 'a call.
When Dr. Borthwick arrived, he
gave Dr. Schooley a hypodermic
and told him that he would have
to go to the hospital in an ambu-
lance. With that Dr. Schooley pro-
tested insisting “I'm going to the
Library Auction tonight!” It was
not until Dr. Borthwick laid down
the law—‘your’re my patient and
I'm your doctor” that Sherm gave
in. He said he could walk to the
ambulance but they had him lie
down on the cot that Hod Wool-
bert had provided for the trip.
The big crowd at the Auction
was saddened when it learned the
news over the loud speaker sys-
tem. It was the first knowledge
Mrs. Ralph Hazeltine, his sister,
and Mrs. Joseph Schooley, his
sister-in-law had received of his
illness. Only that morning ‘‘Chick”
Smith, Auction Chairman, had
gone to the Schooley garage for
the fur coat and hat that hang
there from Auction to Auction
until Auctioneer Harry Ohlman can
sell them once again to ‘‘Sherm”
along with ‘some special office
equipment”.
The Auction is a big spot in
Sherm’s all-too busy year. In a
favored spot in his consultation
room at Shavertown stands a
Roger’s group of statuary depict-
ing a youngster and a physician
astride a flying horse. It in en-
titled “Fetching the Doctor” and
was one of the items along with
specimen jars, fur coats and crock-
ery that he bought last year.
Mrs. Schooley, who recently lost
her father and mother and who
has herself recently undergone a
long illness, is in constant atten-
dance at her husband’s bedside.
Buction Chairmen Asked
To Make Final Reports
Al] chairmen of Auction, Commit-
tees are asked to drop into The Dal-
las Post. Tuesday night after 8 with
their reports, H. W. “Chick” Smith,
general chairman, will be present to
go ver reports and receive the
names of those who are to receive
special thanks for their contribu-
tions.
Grandchildren begin prowling
around the house at crack of dawn,
hoping a grown-up will come to life
and stir up the oatmeal. Be a good
sport, pry your eyes open when a
small barefooted cherub, pink with
sleep, leans over your bed to start
conversation, hoist yourself out of
the sheets, and feed him. He'll re-
member, and day after tomorrow
he'll be telling his own children
how much fun it was to wisit his
grandmother. x
A visit from the grands can’t be
recommended as a rest cure.
But it’s fun.
Four New YMCA
Playgrounds
Now Operating
Fifth Will Open
When Kunkle Folk
Decide On Site
Four YMCA playgrounds re-
ceived proper initiation, in spite of
the competition offered by the down
pour of rain and wet grounds last
week. The mewly organized play-
grounds at Lehman, Dallas, Shaver-
town and Orange turned in a very
commendable report.
Back Mountain YMCA and re-
spective committees are sponsoring
the playgrounds and all got off to a
flying start with the exception of
Kunkle, where the task of agreeing
on a suitable site for a playground
still remains. A local committee is
working on this problem.
Ralph Rozelle, the YMCA’s “roving
playground director”, is in charge
of the work, The present schedule is
as follows: Lehman iHgh School
grounds, Mondays, 2:30 to 8:30 p,m.;
Dallas Borough Grade School
grounds, Tuesdays and Fridays, 9
am, to 5 p.m.; Orange (Franklin
Township) Play (Center, Thursdays,
9 a.m. to 5 p.m, Final plans and ar-
rangements for Kunkle will be“an-
nounced later. Michael Saba, of [Penn
State, is directing activities at the
Dallas Borough playground, while
Mr. Rozelle directs the Da-Camp at
the ‘Y’ Headquarters Building in
Shavertown,
All youngsters are invited to
make use of these playgrounds, on
other days, but especially when the
“Roving Playground Director” is on
hand. On these special days new
sports and crafts will be introduced.
The children are kept busy with,
soft-ball, horse-shoes, volley ball,
basketball, soccer, badminton, crafts,
stories and other informal games.
The cooperation of the parents of
children is solicited so that the Baclk
Mountain YMCA may have a better
idea of how this mewly inaugurated
program is being received. This
playground service, for both boys
and girls, has no fee involved.
Mills Bros. Has
Many New Acts
Circus Will Come
Here From Towanda
Mills Brothers Three Ring Circus
will arrive at the show grounds on
Route 415 northwest of Dallas early
on the morning of July 26 to pre-
sent two shows, one at 2 and one
at 8 p.m. Bigger and better than
ever this year, the circus, featuring
stars from 18 nations, is sponsored
by Back Mountain YMCA and Dal-
las Kiwanis.
George Strongman, advance agent
taking the place of Dallas Dean
MacMurray, announces that all the
acts are new this year. Under acres
of canvas 40 tons of elephants
trained by Hugo Schmidt will per-
form,
Among the feature acts are the
Wang Hong Schu troupe, a Chinese
group of performers who were flown
out of the Russian sector of Ger-
many to join Mills Brothers. Two
new pageants are ‘“‘The Conquest
of Coronado” and “Putting on the
Ritz” r
Every continent in the world is
represented in this kaleidoscope of
entertainment. There are clowns
from England, Australia, Italy,
Chili, and, of course, the United
States. The Kentons from Amster-
dam are among the aerial artists
featured, and Austria’s astounding
Eris will balance on one finger.
Those who attended the eircus
last year will remember “Doc” Wy-
dell, the minister of the circus. A
former press agent of William How-
ard Taft, Buffalo Bill, and Annie
Oakley, Dr. Wydell, now 90 years
old, will not be here this year.
Because of ill-health, he is resting
in the Masonic Home in Columbus.
A huge crowd is expected for
this year’s circus because of the
people who will be drawn here from
Wyoming Valley by the Sports Car
Club of America Road Races. Cir-
cus reserved seat tickets may be
obtained at Joe's Men’s Shop, Main
Street, Dallas.
The circus will come here from
Towanda.
Installs Bir Conditioning
Power Engineering Company,
headed by Clinton, Ide of Huntsville,
has completed the installation of
iCarrier Air conditioning equipment
at Al Bowman's Early America Rest-
aurant. Always on the alert to pro-
vide for the comfort of his patrons,
Mr. Bowman is being commended for
this latest improvement to his fine
restaurant,
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To the People of the Back Mountain Region:
Greetings from your Libmry Association and con-
gratulations on another successful Library Auction, made
possible by a marvelous united community effort.
As president of the Librery Association, it is my
proud privilege and pleasure to thank each ome of you
for your share in the wonderful work done for the Auc-
tion's success—those who gave so generously of their
treasures and merchandise, those who gave so untiringly
of their time and strength both in the preparation and
the actual work of those busy auction days and last, and
far from least, the enthusiastic crowds who came to
enjoy and buy, crowning the Committee workers’ effarts
with an amazing return.
To all these my sincere thanks go out, even though
words are inadequate, to express them. Now we shall
look forward to amother splendid year of library service
to all the people whose library is theirs because they have
made it a living, working community project—one which
could mot continue without
the annual auction.
Here's hoping we'll beat the record again in 1953!
With all good wishes, cordially
Frances DORRANCE
All Star Game
Monday Night
Little League Stars
Will Meet Nanticoke
Back Mountain Little League
All-Stars will play Nanticoke Little
League All-Stars in the first game
of the National Tournament Mon-
day night at Shavertown Field.
The winner of this contest will
play host Thursday night to the
winner of the Edwardsville-King-
ston game, and the winner Thurs-
day night will be host to the win-
ner of the West Pittston-Plains
game.
These eliminations are being
played in order to pick the regional
winner on August 12 and the
World's Champions in the Little
League World's Series at Williams-
port.
Every Friday night is a Special
Events night at the Shavertown
Field with merchandise gifts
awarded free. Some of the events
scheduled are children’s night,
mother’s night and father’s night.
On father’s night a $50 man’s
suit will be awarded:
Trucksville Fair
Going Strong
Baking Contest
This Afternoon
Trucksville Fair baking contest
will take place this afternoon, with
entries closed at 1:30 and judging
starting at 2 P.M.
‘Wednesday night featured the an-
nual Pet Parade, last night the
Westmoreland Band (Conicert.
The four-day fair will close late
Saturday might. There are rides for
the kids, a fish-pond, a baked goods
sale Friday evening at 5, games and
entertainment for everybody.
The satin quilt will be chanced
off Saturday night, and winners an-
nounced for the annual Bond draw-
ing.
Elmcrest Residents
Protest Shortage
Residents of Elmcrest are up in
arms about the scarcity of water.
A chart kept by one house-owner
shows twenty-one days in June
when water was turned off at 6
a.m. back on again at 6 p.m., off
again late at night.
Saturdays and Sundays water is
restored. Residents can see no rea-
son for paying for water service
that they are not getting, and have
registered complaint with the PUC.
They claim that the water situation
has been very bad for two years.
Mrs. Hildebrant
Rites Wednesday
Native Of England
Dies At Daughter's
The funeral of Mrs. John Hilde-
brant, who died Monday morning
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Harry Harter of Trucksville, was
held Wednesday afternoon from the
family home at East Dallas with
services in charge of Rev. Thomas
E. Davis. Interment was in Ward-
an Cemetery.
Mrs. Hildebrant had been in fail-
ing health for the past two years.
Ill with a heart condition she spent
the greater part of her time with
her daughter, but within limitations
was able to be about the house, and
early this month had taken a little
ride through the country she loved.
Born in Chestermoor, England,
the daughter of the late Henry and
Mary J. Fisher, she came with them
to this country when she was sev-
en. She was one of five children
born in England. Three others were
born in America.
She was reared in Wilkes-Barre
and when she was fourteen came
to Dallas where she married Sher-
man Hildebrant who survives her.
Last Christmas Eve they celebrated
their 59th wedding anniversary.
She was a thoughtful and de-
voted mother and a kindly neigh-
bor and friend. She was a member
of East Dallas Methodist Church
and the WSCS. For years she and
her husband conducted the big
truck and fruit farm on the old
homestead at East Dallas.
Besides her husband and daugh-
ter, she leaves a son, John E., East
Dallas; five grandchildren, four
great grandchildren and the follow-
ing brothers and sisters: Henry
Fisher, East Orange; John E. Fish-
er, Kingston, and Mrs. Mary Cavan,
East Orange.
Funeral arrangements were by
Alfred Bronson.
Capping Exercises
Capping exercises were held
July 7 at Hillcrest Convalescent
Home. Mrs. Esther Dunbar, Am-
herts Avenue, Wilkes-Barre, re-
ceived her cap after passing satis-
facorily her examination for prac-
tical nurse.
Mrs. Laura Robertson, R. N.,
instructress, presented the cap and
addressed the class who have re-
ceived their caps in the past.
Mrs. Margaret Faull, R. N., su-
pervisor . of the home, also
‘addressed the class.
Lake Street Resurfaced
The [State Department of High-
ways has put a fine new black top
surface on Lake street this week.
John, 6, Owes Life To Quick
Action Of Passing Motorist
John Bunney, Demunds Road, six
years old and in deep water Satur-
day afternoon, owes his life to quick
thinking on the part of a passing
motorist,
Mrs. Sherwood Baker, on her way
past Payne’s Pond at 5:30, heard
a little girl screaming from the
bank, jammed on her brakes, and
leaped from her car. Wasting no
time when she saw John going
down, Mrs. Baker didn't even kick
off her shoes, but plunged in for
the rescue.
Grasping the child, she pushed
him ahead of her to shallow water
and up the bank. John had not
taken aboard enough water to be-
come unconscious, but he can’t
swim, and the water was over Mrs.
Baker's head, He was too far away
to be reached from the shore,
The pond, property of Harry Goer-
inger, is posted against swimming.
In time of high water it is danger-
ously deep. The recent heavy rain
had swelled it to the danger point.
Mrs. Goeringer states that every
effort is made to keep children away
from the pond, but that it draws
them like a lodéstome in hot,
weather,
Mrs. Baker, drenched, left John in
care of John Morgan, whose place
adjoins the pond, and went on home
to change her clothes.
Mr. Morgan saw to it that John
and his older sister Mary Ellen got
home safely to their parents, Mr.
and Mrs, Thomas Bunney, Fern-
brook.
Mrs. Harry Nolf, who witnessed
the rescue, called the Dallas Post,
to tell the story. [She says she never
saw anybody act as quickly as Mrs.
Baker did, that before she knew it,
Mrs. Baker was in the water and
out again with the child.
Mrs. Baker is wife of the manager
of Brown [Fassett Feed Mill, Fern-
brook,
Sixth Annual Library Auction Tops
All Others For Crowds And Sales
Off to a slow start Thursday night because of threatening weather,
and definitely in competition with the Republican National Convention
Friday afternoon and evening, the Sixth Annual Library Auction crashed
through to a spectacular ending Monday night establishing a record
gross income of more than $10,300.
Buction Chairman
Expresses Thanks
H. W. Smith, general chairman
of the sixth annual Library Auction
held Thursday, Friday, Saturday
and Monday wishes to express his
sincere thanks to the hundreds of
Back Mountain people who worked
before, during and after the
auction, to those who gave mer-
chandise for the auction, and to
those who so spiritedly bid.
Tree Crushes
Brace Cottage
Twister Creates
Lake Waterspout
The Samuel Brace cottage at Syl-
van Lake was badly damaged Tues-
day afternoon when a twister ac-
companied by torrential rain, swept
along one side of the lake, uproot-
ing tall trees and creating a water-’
spout which dashed water from the
lake against the cottages.
Many ‘trees were felled, one of
them crashing into the roof of the
cottage, smashing the rafters, and
demolishing the fireplace.
[Sweet Valley was ‘the scene of an
unusually strong wind and heavy
downpour. Dallas got a few sprink-:
les.
The clocks stopped at Slyvan
Lake at 4:45, and power was not re-
stored until 1 AM.
Summer residents claim that this
is the second twister which has
visited that side of the lake, the
first two years ago.
Convert To
Dial Monday
Phone No.s Change
Monday Night At 11
All telephones in the Dallas area,
comprising approximately 3,000
subscribers of the Commonwealth
Telephone Company will be changed
over to dial operation Monday night
at 11.
New and larger telephone direc-
tories are now in the mails listing
the new numbers and giving com-
plete dialing instructions on the
first page. The directories will also
contain telephone listings for Har-
veys Lake, Wilkes-Barre, Kingston,
Tunkhannock and Shickshinny.
All Back Mountain numbers can
be dialed directly but calls to
Wilkes-Barre and Kingston and out-
side stations will be placed through
an operator.
Those who are wondering what
their ring will be can obtain it by
looking at the last digit of their
phone number and comparing it
with the chart on special notice
now being mailed out with all tele-
phone bills. If the last digit is 1 the
ring is 1 long; 2, is 2 shorts; 3, 3
shorts; 4, 4 shorts; 5, 1 long 1
short; 6, 1 long; 7, 2 shorts; 8, 3
shorts; 9, 4 shorts; 0, 1 long 1 short.
The company asks that the tele-
phone be used only when neces-
sary during the two or three days
following the cut-over.
Trailer Play House
Mr, and Mrs. John Tibus have
rented an automobile trailer from
Tony Toluba of Idetown and have
stationed it at their Carvel Ice
Cream Store as a play house for
their daughter, Dorothy.
Hay In Hospital
Edwin Hay, Bast Dallas, is a
patient in [Wilkes-Barre General
Hospital. Mr, Hay is a former King-
ston Township [School Director.
Stationed In Korea
Cpl. William A. Borton, son of
Mr, and Mrs. H, J. Borton, Harveys
Lake, stationed in Korea with the
45th Division, recently graduated
from ‘the Division's replacement
training school.
Patching Main Street
Dallas Borough (Street Depart-
ment has been filling in and patch-
ing holes in lower Main Street’ this
week, Efforts are being made by
members of he Borough. Council to
have ‘the State take over this stretch
of highway and resurface it.
© A record crowd of 3,000 to 3,500
persons bid- briskly for everything
offered Saturday might. But with
three auctioneers working at a rapid
pace not all the merchandise that
filled the barn could be sold. The
committee was forced reluctantly to
announce that the Auction would be
continued Monday night. This was
something it had hoped to avoid.
The crowd Monday might was the
second largest of the four-day sale,
and was in the mood for buying so
that prices were generally good. A
new $260 Westinghouse Electric Re-
frigerator, however, went for $160.
and there were many other similar
bargains, ;
Business at all .of ‘the booths
and stands exceeded previous years.
In round figures the income was as
follows: Refreshments, $1,630; Baked
Goods, $510; Book Stall, $363; Odds
and Ends, $353; Plants and Produce,
$213; Candy, $110; Picture Frames,
$63; Parking, $70; (Comic Books, $12;
Auction $5,570; Television $500;
Play House, $131; Duncan Phyfe
chairs, $160; IChild’s Decorated chair,
$61; Quilt, $53; Contributions ac-
counted for another $407,
Income by days in round figures
was: Thursday, $888; Friday $2,664;
Saturday, $4,978; Menday $1,373.
Of the items going over the Block
more than $2,000 was accounted for
by antiques. 5
In range amd quality the merchan-
dise offered was better than at any
previous auction, but until [Satur-
day night bidders were slow to re-
cognize values and to bid enthusi-
astically, Many apparently came for
entertainment alone and there were
some who were present at every
session but who bought nothing.
In the crowds were antique
dealers and collectors from Allen-
town, Reading, North Carolina,
Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, Montrose,
Binghamton, Harrisburg and 'Chi-
cago.
There was a brisk demand for
puppies of all breeds and descrip-
tions. Old glass and antiques brought
good prices with an ancient print
bringing $17. while a genuine hand
carved [Adam chair, more than 150
years old brought, only $20. A dil-
apidated steamer trunk brought
$7.50 while a new $50. duplicating
machine brought $13,
‘Gardenia corsages, 122 of them,
furnished by Herbert Hill, brought
$1. each.
So ingrained has ‘the [Auction be-
come in the community, that scores
of women brought cakes and. baked
gods to the Baked Goods Booth with
the remark, “I wasn't solicited, but
I get so much fun, out of the Auction
that IT want to bring you something
to sell.” Several bakers brought
elaborately decorated cakes. One
was in the form of a closed Bible,
with floral cross on the cover, and
a golden book mark inserted be-
tween the pages. Another was an
open book inscribed on the left
hand side ‘Memories’ and on the
right hand side, ‘Back Mountain
Memorial Library Auction 1952.”
Mrs. Marshall Nunlist, who thor-
oughly enjoyed her first auction,
was fortunate to get the Esty organ
at $20. The organ went up late Sat-
urday afternoon when the crowd
was small and was bid in for her
during one of her (infrequent ab-
sences from the four day sale by Dr.
Lester Jordan of Trucksville.
Ray Wichter, Allentown dealer,
who never misses tthe regular ses-
sions of the auction but always
misses the final Monday night sale,
bought a truck load of antiques
among ‘them several choice beds,
picture frames, and a marble top
dresser. Ray thought prices were
generally fair. Much of what he
bought will be trucked on to |Ash-
ville, North [Carolina where he also
operates an antique shop. He was
most pleased with a pair of very
old oval walnut picture frames.
During the heavy rain on Wednes-
daly night before the auction opened,
Mrs, Walter Smith of Idetown drove
up to the Barn with an old plank
bench which had belonged to her
uncle who died thirty-seven years
ago in his late eighties. Mrs, Smith
vouched for the bench being more
than one hundred years old, adding
that her uncle often, slept on it dur-
ing his younger days shortly after
he arrived fin this country from Eng-
land. The bench was one of the
prized pieces in the Auction. It was
sold to Mrs. William Powell of
Shrine View who was fortunate to
obtain it during a Iull in the bidding
at a price approximately ome half
of what she was willing to pay.
Abe [Simon (Tony) bought a car-
ved settee for $3 and the following
day sold it for $27 to a woman who
had watched him bid it in.
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