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§ Barnyard Notes
ARI RDI ARDE DE
Well, the torture is over! Dartmouth has completed its football
season! There could be only one thing worse for a Dartmouth alum-
nus—he might have graduated from Penn.
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The teams of the Ivy League—Harvard, Brown, Yale, Cornell,
Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth—will welcome Penn back in the fold
now that her humiliation is complete! It were easier for a rich man
"to go through the eye of a needle than for a college with a winning
football team to enter the Ivy League.
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Murray Scureman, than whom Princeton has no more loyal son,
called Saturday afternoon to offer his condolences and say that the
Dartmouth-Princeton game was played in perfect skiing weather.
It must have been. typical weather for the meeting. In 1935, when
Dartmouth .had a 12th man in the line-up, there was a blizzard.
I saw that one. In 1950 the game was played in a hurricane. I heard
part of that one. With, all power and lights off in Dallas, Murray and
I listened to some of the game over my car radio in the barn. When
we figured the roof might blow off, we decided we’d had enough!
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When Gretchen decided to catch forty winks on the couch in the
living room, Granny protested. I reminded her that it is not much
fun having a dogiunless you can have it in the house. Pets create
many problems and some inconveniences but the compensation is
great. It’s darn little you pay for the fun you get. Anybody who
doesn’t see it that way shouldn’t have a dog!
Gretchen ‘is ‘a: lucky Doebermann—but not half so lucky as a
certain Boxer I know: The Boxer (without mentioning any names) —
sleeps on the guest bed ell of the time. There’s no problem—except
when guests come.. Then the dog doesn't know where to sleep. But
that’s easily solved. She ‘sleeps on the same bed with her master and
mistress. Sound. silly? It.all depends whether you own a dog.
its dil) ome
. “In answer to an inquiry as to whether dogs would be welcome
at his hotel, a Southwestern hotel operator replied: ‘I've been in this
hotel business for 30: years. Never have TI called upon the police to
eject a disorderly deg during the small hours of the night. Never has
a dog set fire to.a bed with a cigarette. I have never found a hotel
towel or a blanket in' a dog’s suitcase, nor a whiskey ring on the
dresser from a deg’s Kottle. ;
“ Sure the dog is welcome. P.S. If he'll vouch for you, come
along, too.’” = Ti,
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From this week’s mail—a pretty card; Congratulations and best
wishes. I'm sure Che Che will be very happy. We enjoy the aerial
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It can never be said that we don’t
have foresight here at The Dallas
Post. In the event that things don’t
go so well business-wise in the fu-
ture, we are all prepared. Since our
recent acquisition of ‘‘Che-che,” the
cinnamon monkey who chatters from
his cage near the fireplace at The
Post, we are ready to take up a
position down on Main Street as
soon as we get a tin cup. Oh yes,
we need a hand organ, yet, and then
we will be all set. If Russ Honey-
well directs traffic our way we will
probably do pretty well. Maybe we
new so we will be sure to have pri-
ority on the corner by the barber
shop.
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One day after school last week,
three attractive Westmoreland High
School girls came into Gavy’s Mar-
ket. They wanted to know if Gavy’s
son, who works after school at the
store, could leave work and join
them in some fun they had planned.
Gavy, always quick with an answer,
said, “I just get him raised to a
point where he’s beginning to help
me and now you want to take him
away. Why didn’t you come and
get him when he was four years
old?”
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Speaking of teen-age boys and
girls, I was talking to Miss Lathrop,
librarian at the Back Mountain Me-
morial Library, and she has gotten
in two new books that sound very
interesting for young folks. For the
water” which is the manual for skin
divers. If you're interested in this
popular new sport this will make
there is a new book “Ballet In The
Barn,” written. by Regina Woody,
which tells of great fun at a summer
camp and is particularly interesting
to the many young ladies in the
Back Mountain who are studying
ballet.
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1 don’t know whether it bothers
you or not but Pll feel like an actor
who has forgotten “his lines when
I have to carve the turkey this
Thanksgiving in front of all the
family. Maybe Pll take the cowards
way out and have Grace carve it
in the kitchen before she brings it
in.
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‘Winner this week of two free
tickets to the Himmler Theater is
Vincent McGuire, 18 Spring Garden
St., Trucksville. Stop at The Dallas
Post for your tickets Mr. McGuire.
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Did you every try to imagine
yourself in the position of the Pil-
grims who sat around that first
Thanksgiving table with the In-
dians? If you stop to think about
it perhaps you won’t take your
Thanksgiving dinner so much for
granted. If you had carved a place
for yourself and family out of the
wilderness, or had used the old
hand-blistering tools to build a
home, instead of simply buying it
from a real estate man, or had
fought the Indians to keep ii, in-
stead of fighting with your neigh-
bors about whose line the apple
with the crudest of tools to raise
Farm because I could see the spot where I was stuck in the mud
leaving from a party at Reynolds. Of course this week's ‘is Dwight
Fisher’s—I hope. We all enjoy The Post. It is really in fine shape
after we all peruse it. We still miss all you Dallasites. Dan is now
with your offspring.—0Olie Robinhold.
(And we might .add Dallas misses the Robinhold family. Their
departure for new fields in Dauphin County was a genuine loss to
this community. Good Luck, all of you.)
There never will be, there never can be: Thanksgivings like the
ones I enjoyed at my grandmother's Susquehanna County farm when
I was a lad of six, seven, eight and nine. Those are the years when
memories begin—and these are the Thanksgivings and Christmasses,
memories begin—and these are the Thanksgivings and Christmases,
too, that we try to recapture throughout a lifetime.
I think there was less difference between the Thanksgiving
dinners prepared by my grandmother and those prepared by the
Pilgrims than there is between those of forty years ago and the
present. - The factor that makes the big difference—is electricity.
Forty years ago without electricity on the farm, there was no
running water in the ‘kitchen, there was no mixmaster, electric
toaster, percolator, refrigerator, deep. freeze or electric light.
My grandmother’s place was no exception! All farms were with-
out electricity. The automobile has received credit for making great
changes on the face of the earth; BUT without electricity, the farms
of the U.S. would have about the: same conveniences as in. the
Pilgrims’ day:
market, or had faced the terrible
hardships of winter and disease, in-
stead of just taking anti-histamine,
then perhaps your prayer of thanks,
as you bow your head over your
bounteous board, would have a bit
more significance.
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Happy Thanksgiving to all my
good readers . . . watch your di-
gestion.
The testimony of a good con-
science is worth more than a dozen
character witnesses.
Poet's Commer
High Tide
JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER
I edged back against the night.
The sea growled assault on the
wave bitten shore.
And the breakers,
Like young and impatient hounds,
Sprang with rough joy on the
shrinking sand.
Sprang—but were drawn back slow-
ly
Whimpering into the dark.
Then I saw who held them captive;
| And I saw how they were bound
With a broad and quivering leash
of light, :
Only Yesterday - . .
Ten and Twenty Years Ago in The Dallas Post
From The Issue Of : |
November 30,.1945
Samuel Davis, Trucksville, is hit
a car at Mt. Greenwood, sustaining |
minor injuries.
Small fires in tHe Leslie Sutton |
on Julius Long Stern property.
Held by the moon,
As calm and unsmiling,
She walked the deep fields of the
sky.
is buried in Sidney, N. Y.
William Disque, Dallas, writes
A stove explodes in the Idetown
and Dallas firemen.
Dallas Methodists have
Thanksgiving Day at the home of | Pickett.
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Rice, Lehman. Violet Baer,
Fred Swanson,
gets the first black bear of the shinny.
season. »
St. Paul’s, Shavertown, dedicates |
stained glass windows.
Kingston Township. football. team |
Reyburn,
weds Charles L. Moore,
Valley.
las Township 14 10-6.
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Wesley Himmler, Jr., one of the
| best known athletes in the area,
Edward Dorrance, Dallas, and
Fred Hughes, Trucksville, win State
Highway appointments.
Zelma Schofield, Hunlocks Creek,
weds Alton Baggett, Roanoke Rap-
ids, N. C. :
Mrs. Margaret Price, Shavertown,
dies.
Babson Park, Mass. — So many
letters come to me, from both
teachers and taxpayers, that I
would like this week to answer
them all in this column in an im-
partial manner.
Teachers Deserve More Salaries
Let me start out by saying that
my sympathies are distinctly with
the school teachers and especially
with the school principals. It is true
that truck drivers are getting more
pay than school teachers. Morally
this seems unjust, but the fact is
that the employers have substituted
motors for horses and big trucks
for wagons. These trucks carry as
much in a day as the old horses
and wagons carried in a week. In
other words, the employers have
adopted methods which enable the
truck drivers to have increased
wages.
Painters today are paid double
what they were 20 years ago; but
employers have adopted sprayers in
place of hand brushes. Carpenters
are getting double; but the employ-
ers are supplying them with electric
saws instead of hand saws. The
school committees and the city
fathers, on the other hand, have
not done much of anything to help
the teachers do more efficient
work. As an employer, I pay my
typists double what I used to pay
them; but with electric typewriters
and other machinery they give me
double the work. The doctor costs
us more a visit; but he is making
us live longer. Hard-covered books
cost more; but we can get the
same thing for half the price with
paper covers. Radio, washing ma-
chines, and TVs. have all improved
in quality, and hence profit returns
offset the wage increases.
Crazy Legislation Is
Increasing Costs
Let us consider who benefits
from the increased costs of modern
school buildings. Twenty per cent
of this increased cost is due to
unnecessary classroom space, glass
windows, unused ventilation, and
rules or regulations put through by
the labor unions and similar asso-
ciations. Fifty per cent of the in-
creased cost is due to plumbing,
electrical work, modern kitchens,
fancy gymnasiums, auditoriums to
please the voters, not to improve
education. Thirty per cent has been
due to the increased costs of ma-
fifty-two per cent in taxes. In a
general way, this also explains the
increased costs of most houses.
School committees, by catering to
the voters, are largely responsible
for these high-cost school buildings.
They should not make the teachers
carry the burden of these costs by
accepting low salaries.
The doctors are not only deliver-
ing better services for increased
fees, but they are forming associa-
tions to conquer cancer, heart dis-
ease, and even polio. We, however,
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do not know of any PTA which is
developing new systems of instruc-
tion to assure the teachers better
salaries. We hear of very few cities
where the classrooms are giving
double service, with half of the
students coming in the morning
and the other half in the afternoon.
We hear of experiments with radio
and TV. Unfortunately, however,
too few parents are interested in
better teaching. Too many parents
want to work outside the home,
and use the schools for parking
places for their children.
Teaching Is Now In The
Horse-and-Buggy Days
Unfortunately, the teachers’ fu-
ture probably awaits some very im-
portant research. The schools are
spending billions a year to park and
lunch children; but — unlike our
large industries—are spending very
little on fundamental research. We
understand the psychology of a cow
better than the psychology of a
child. Those who control education
do not know the difference between
a “brain” and a “mind,” to say
nothing about the . probabilities of
extrasensory perception and the
use of numbers rather than sent-
ences. Possibilities of the mind are
tremendous. But teachers may be
obliged to supplement their teach-
ing by giving pupils prescribed
diets, or new undiscovered drugs,
or electric impulses. Education also
may take. an active interest in
eugenics. As Sir George Thompson
is reported to. say, “What the brain
can foresee presents the greatest
promise that lies ahead.” Surely,
al education will be cut 75%,
schools will graduate far more ef-
ficient pupils, and teachers will be
paid what they are worth, or else
they will be replaced by UNIVAC
machines. x
History Of Back
Note About History
Just ‘before Mrs. Florence
Foote and her daughter, Carrie,
left for their new home in Phil-
adelphia, Mrs. Foote sent some
items of furniture and other
household effects over to our
Barn for the Library Auction.
Among the smaller items
was the manuscript on the
History of Dallas which is ‘pub-
lished in this Thanksgiving
issue of The Post. We did not
have an opportunity to learn
from Mrs. Foote when or where
it was first read, but we found
it so entertaining that we
thought many of our newer
subscribers as well as old ones
would like to read it, too.
—The Editor
At one time the state of .Con-
necticut laid claim ‘to an immense
tract of land extending to the
shores of Lake Erie. Among the
districts formed from this claim
was the so-called town of West-
moreland.
The Westmoreland district was
held by Connecticut, until the
claims of William Penn forced her
to give up, giving rise, in the mean-
time, to a series of local disturb-
ances known as the Pennimite
Wars.
All of the “Back of the Moun-
tain” district was a part of this
original town of Westmoreland,
which then covered all the area
now comprised in Luzerne, Wyo-
ming and Lackawanna Counties.
The difficulties of settling this
mountain district are hard for the
present generation to understand.
The first path being cut with great
labor along Toby’s Creek, reaching
near the present site of Fernbrook
Park. This spot was a favored halt-
ing place of the Indians on their
way to and from fishing trips to
Harveys Lake. Some “braves” of
the present day have not outgrown
the habit.
This place was first known to the
white people as Leonard's Clearing
from the name of the first white
settler who purchased the land in
1795.
In 1800, at a spot not far from
this clearing, was born Deming
Spencer, the first white child to be
born within limits of the present
Dallas Township.
Ephraim McCoy is given by some
historians as the builder of the first
house in Dallas. His home stood
about half way between Raub’s Ho-
tel and the Goss School house.
John Wort and John Kelley were
pioneer settlers of this district.
Both were Revolutionary soldiers
and both settled on the present
road from Dallas to Orange about
1795. John Wort’s cabin was near
the present model farm of Ambrose
West and Kelley's was some dis-
tance farther back toward Orange.
Kelley's Clearing as it was called,
was well known to the early set-
tlers who traveled for miles to se-
cure hay there.
The Harris family settled ‘at Har-
ris Hill at a date so early that both
wolves and Indians were frequent
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visitors at their home.
In 1801 William Trucks bought
an immense tract of land at the
place now called Trucksville. Here
he built the first grist mill in the
country and himself cut the first
single pair of mill stones. ’
Those who now see on the old
mill site the modern electrically
equipped plant of John Ferguson
will find small resemblance to the
old log mill of William Trucks.
One of the prominent men who
helped build up the village of
Trucksville was Jacob Rice, a local
Methodist preacher. Mr. Rice was
like most of the earl settlers of the
district, a native of Warren County,
New Jersey, and his energy helped
many of the early enterprises.
Joseph Swetland at one time ran
ferent times stills were established
at various points of the ‘Back of
the Mountain” district. Although
the drinking of alcoholic liquor was
not held in popular disfavor at that
time, the distillery business gradu-
ally died out. In 1823 however we
find recorded the first tavern li-
cense, taken out by Peter Roushey.
In 1837, Jacob Meyers took out a
tavern license that may be said to
be the foundation of the present
hotel at Dallas. Thanks to the so-
briety and industry of the succeed-
ing generations, the saloon business
never has been a very prominent
factor in the district, and we feel
that the time is not far distant
when this so called “necessary evil”
will be entirely eliminated.
In 1812, Philip Shaver, a native
of Vienna, Austria, settled at the
present site of Shavertown and
three years later built a sawmill
there. The building of saw mills
was, in fact, thé first step towards
the busy life of the mountain dis-
trict at the present day. The New-
berry mills, at Monroe, now Beau-
mont, the Kunkle mill at Kunkle,
and the Baldwin mill at Huntsville,
were the practical foundations of
these settlements.
Lehman comes prominently to
our notice through a pioneer justice
of the peace, Jacob Bogardus, at
one time his court was the enly
one at Lehman, Dallas, and Jackson
Townships. It is said that the de-
cisions of his court were seldom
appealed, and even then seldom re-
versed.
The borough of Dallas was orig-
inally called McLellonsville for one
Jonah McLellan, who lived about
where Rayb'ey Hotel now stands.
The hame Dallas becate attachtd
to it from the name of the township
of which it was once a part. The
township was set off from the sur-
rounding country in 1817 in which
year Alexander James Dallas, Sec-
retary of The Treasury under
James Madison, died, the new
township being then named in his
honor.
After the war of 1812, the re-
turning ‘soldiers gave a new build-
ing impetus to the “Back of the
Mountain” country. As was to, be
expected, the settlers were usually
poor and often ignorant; but they
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