~~ PAGE TWO WILL FILE IT AWAY Dear Editor and Staff: Congratulations on your Thanks- giving Issue of The Post. It came about noon today and I have spent most of the afternoon and evening reading it. I find it extremely interesting and informa- tive. Local history has always been a hobby with me. While living in Wilkes-Barre, I made quite a study of Wyoming Val- ley history and occasionally gave talks on that subject. After mov- ing to the Back Mountain area I soon realized that I was living in a community with a very interest- ing early history and I have been picking up scraps of it from time to time. Today The Post arrived with a wealth of interesting material. Not only does it depict that early his- tory but it also shows the progress | and development of the community throughout the years in a most | attractive manner. That copy of The Post will be filed in my library as a ready refer- ence on Bdck Mountain people- and places. ; Again my heartiest congratula- tions. x : Sincerely, - George W. Houck, 831 Grove Street, N. St. Petersburg, 4, Florida. HELPS TOWARD UNIFICATION Dear Dallas Post Staff: What' an issue! You folks have done a magnificent job. Like a master welder, certainly there has been more accomplished toward unification of the Back. Mountain area than dozens of committee meetings. ; You have proved that all have a great deal to be proud of and each community is working toward a similar goal. In a fast moving and speedy age, the only boundaries are man made. May we place an order for a booklet, just like the paper, each section having its grand pictorial sheet—just as you published it. Although it cannbt be read in a day—it sure will be—every word of it—. Again—Ilike all the Back Moun- tain—you have our sincere admira- tion for so tremendous a task that has been so well done. Sincerely, Alfred and Mildred Bronson, Sweet Valley. DOESN'T RESENT SCOOP Dear Editor: May I join what I am sure is a host of others in congratulating you on your Thanksgiving Issue. It is an outstanding job and I am read- ing it with much enjoyment. In- cidentally, I cannot find it in my heart to resent the front page scoop you gave to the “Miners.” Sincerely yours, Frank Anderson, President Miners National Bank. ENJOYED BOYHOOD SCENES Dear Editor: Mrs. Buckman and I both enjoy- ed last week’s historical issue of the “Post.” You made a grand effort and produced a strickingly fine special issue. Congratulations. I have personally enjoyed read- ing ‘about, and seeing pictures of the old Dallas and Lake area which I knew summers as a boy. Sincerely ycurs, Lewis T. Buckman, M. D., Wilkes-Barre: } ACROSS THE YEARS Dear Editor: You sure did a bang up jub with the anniversary issue. It sure took me back to scenes and experiences which I had in the days when mother and I drove to Dallas to take the trolley to Wilkes-Barre, perhaps once each season. And Billy Goss, I have often seen him look just like that. If you ever again get the urge to print old pictures I have some oldies of father and mother at the Céntermoreland home, father in the cart or mother in ‘the sleigh, driving through a tunnel of snow which was nearly as high as the horses’ back. I like the picture of old Dr. Laing. Dr. Henry, Dr. Spencer, and father began practicing about the same time. Many of the articles book. Am curious to know whose house it is near Centermoreland; will ask you sometime. Sincerely, Edna B. Howell, Shavertown, Pa. Mrs. Howell is the daughter of the late grand old country physi- cian, Dr. C. L. Boston, of Center- moreland and Noxen.——Editor. REMARKABLE JOB Dear Editor: I want to tell you what a really remarkable job I think the Com- munity Progress edition of your newspaper is. I could never have imagined that you could have put together anything nearly so ambit- ious and I can readily see how much effort and thought has gone into it. _ It is a remarkable achievement. Kindest regards and best wishes for the holiday season. Yours sincerely, Julius Long Stern, Idetown, Pa. PRESS WORK IS PERFECT Dea Editor: May I compliment you on the splendid job you and your staff did in publishing the Dallas Post Com- munity Progress Edition. In all my years with PNPA I do not think I have seen its equal: in weekly newspaper publishing. Your press work is. perfect and content is such that it will be read thorough- ly by anyone identified with, or interested in, the “Back Mountain’ section.” TheodoreA. Serrill, Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers’ Assoc., Harrisburg. -— PERPETUAL TREAT Dear Editor: Your 64th Anniversary issue is a pictorial and reportorial delight. And it couldn’t have been publish- ed at a more appropriate time. Many thanks to you and all the others for the perpetual treat of this issue of the Post. This is one paper which is going to be saved. Sincerely, Margie Stout, Shavertown, Pa. ’ LIKED THE PICTURES Dear Editor: Your special edition on the Back Mountain area done in brown was a fine piece of work. The unusually sharp reproduction of your numerous cuts, both in the news stories and the ads, certainly attracted the eye . However you did it they certainly did stand out. Wishing you continued success, I remain, Sincerely, Charles A. Berry, Wilkes-Barre Record. ! Has 30! Been Mailed to the . of the Main Office Market and Franklin ECKS 50.00 - WANTS TO KEEP IT Dear Editor: I just received and looked through my Post. Will you please send one to my sister, Mrs. K. KE. Fitzgerald, Huston, Texas. I don't want to send mine on for I want it myself. Lena T. McNeal, St. Petersburg, Fla. THE DALLAS POST “More than a mewspaper a community institution’ ESTABLISHED 1889 Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers’ Association A non - partisan liberal progressive newspaper pub- lished every Friday morning at the Dallas Post plant, Lehman Avenue, Dallas, Pennsylvania. #Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Dallas, Pa., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscrip- tion rates: 43.00 a year; $2.00 six months. No subscriptions accepted for less than six months. Out-of state subscriptions: $3.50 a year; $2.50 six months or legs. Back issues, more than one week old, 10c. Single copies, at a rate of 8c each, can be obtained every Fri- day morning at the following news- stands: Dallas—Berts Drug Store Bowman's Restaurant, Evans Res- taurant, Smith's Economy Store; Shavertown—Evans Drug Store, Hall's Drug Store; Trucksville— Qregory’s Store; Idetown— Cave’s Store; Huntsville — Barnes Store; Ternbrook—Reeses Store; Sweet Val- ley—Britt’s Store; Lehman—Moore’s Store. : ‘When requesting a change of address subscribers are asked to give their old as well as new address. Allow two weeks for changes of ad- dress or new subscription to be placed on mailing list. We will not be responsible for the return of unsolicited manuscripts, pho- Sograpis and editorial matter unless self-addressed, stamped envelope is en- closed, and in no case will this material be held for more than 30 days. National display advertising rates 68c per column inch. Transient rates 76c. Local display advertising rates 60c per column inch; specified position 70c per inch. Political advertising $1.10 per inch. Advertising copy received on Thursday will be charged at 75¢ per column inch. Classified rates 4c per word. Minimum charge 75c. All charged ads 10c addi- tional. Unless paid for at advertising rates, we can give no assurance that an- nouncements of plays, parties, rummage sales or any affnir for raising money will appear in a specific issue. Preference will in all instances be given to editorial matter which has not previously appeared in publication. Editor and Publisher HOWARD W. RISLEY Associate Editors MYRA ZEISER RISLEY MRS. T. M. B. HICKS Advertising Mafiager ROBERT F. BACHMAN Photographer JAMES KOZEMCHAK , AGAINST SPECIAL EDITIONS Dear Editor: Congratulations! That paper of yours this week was a masterpiece of which any publisher could well be proud. Generally speaking, I'm against “special editions’ for they're usual- ly something that the reader glances at and discards. But I am sure that everybody who sees that splen- did paper of yours will do just what I'm going to do—take it home to read through over the week-end. My very best wishes to you for a happy holiday season and years of continued success ahead. Sincerely, Pauline Lacey, MISSED THE Dear Editor: Last week’s Post was just stup- endous, super-colossal and some- thing of which you certainly could be very, very proud. I read each page with keen interest and real delight. I am awfully sorry, however, that we missed the opportunity of men- tioning the Back Mountain YMCA in any part of that entire issue. Most of us feel that a definite contribu- tions has been made in the life of the youngsters from their experi- ences in the Back Mountain “Y.” Next time I hope we will be sure and include the Back Mountain “Y.” Cordially yours, J. H. Godtfring, YMCA, Wilkes-Barre. “yn A GRAND JOB Dear Editor: What a grand job you did cn last week’s issue! Appreciatively, Oce Beryl Austin, Beaumont, Pa. Oce did a swell job of bringing the old history at Beaumont up to date, telling who lives in the old houses now and what became of the descendants of the early set- tlers. It took hours of research and visiting with old timers. Incidentally she wmsed the facts in her class room—all of which adds up to a good teacher. A “MASTERPIECE” Dear Editor: Just a short note to congratulate you on the splendid special edition of the Dallas Post which appeared last week. All of us here at PNPA thought it was truly a “master- piece.” Interestingly, I note that the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independ- ent thinks quite highly of your work according to an editorial ap- pearing in yesterday's Independent. I am enclosing a clip of this in case you have not already seen it. Very truly yours, M. W. Denison, Mid-Atlantic Weeklies. Harrisburg, Pa. ONLY YESTERDAY From The Post of ten and twenty years ago this wee From The Issue of December 3, 1943 Rolland Stevens, Dallas, is made vice president of Montgomery Ward & Company, Chicago. Howard Harrison, 3, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Harrison, Hunts- ville, was fatally injured in a fall from a beam while playing in his grandmother's barn at Noxen on Thanksgiving Day. Lester Humphrey, 17, Lake Town- ship senior class president, is in- stantly killed in a hunting accident on the first day of deer season shot by a lifelong friend near Loyalville. Deaths: Mrs. Elizabeth Staub, 61, Trucksville; Mrs. Joseph Bertram, 66, at Chase; Mrs. Frances Hunt, 68, Shavertown. EL In the Outpost: Don Metzger, APO New York; Alan Kistler, South Pa- cific; Al Jones, California; Walter Meade, Fort Bliss; Mark Waltick, Colorado; Dean Kocher, Fort Jack- son; Edward Crezke, Walter Reed Hospital; Gilbert Boston, North Af- rica; Glenn Kocher, Fleet PO, N.Y.; Stacy ‘Schoonover, Fresno, Cal; Lloyd Garinger, Fort Eustis; Ken Davis, England; William Malkemes, Camp Davis; Tony Yeager, New York APO; Russell Transue, San Francisco APO; Bill Johnson, Macon, Ga.; Theodore Davis, Camp Polk, La. Maude Jones, joins the WACS. Mildred Bird, Binghamton, and Paul Taylor, Lehman, are married. Citrus marmalade, 2 Ibs. for 29¢; coffee, 2 lbs. for 47c; potatoes, 5lc per peck; leg of lamb, 32c per 1b., 6 pts; link sausage, 39¢; meaty spare ribs, 24c per 1b. pigs feet and neck bores, no points, 9¢ per lb. From The Issue Of December 1, 1933 Junior Misson, Dallas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harley Misson, was acci- dentally shot in the jaw when he approached a group of young boys. who had been hunting. He lost two teeth . Irem Temple Country Club will remain open all winter for winter sports. - Mrs. Mary Woolbert, 73, dies at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Garrahan. Mrs. Josephine Risley, mother of W. B. Risley, dies at Sayre, aged 85. - Butter, 2 lbs. for 49¢; milk 3 tall cans 17c; coffee, 17c per lb.; baked beans 4 cans 19c; whole milk bread, 9c per loaf; chuck roast, 10c per 1b.; pork loin roast, 10c per Ib; dres- sed fowl, 17c per lb. : Dallas Township, STATE POLICE SAY To really enjoy your jour- ney—Slow down and Live. . or
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