CREA SECTION B— PAGE 2 : THE DALLAS POST } ESTABLISHED 1889 “More than a mewspaper, a community institution’ Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers’ Association \ National Editorial Association A non-partisan, liberal progressive mewspaper pub- lished every Thursday morning at .the Dallas Post plant, Lehman Avenue, Dallas, Pennsylvania. year; $2.50 six months. six months. to be placed on mailing list. Shavertown—Evans Drug Store, baugh’s Store; . Orchard Farm Restaurant. Entered as A matter at the post office at Dallas, Pa., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates: $4.00 a No subscriptions accepted for less than Out-of-State subscriptions: months or less. Back issues, more than one week old, 15c. When requesting a change of address subscribers are asked to give their old as well as new address. Allow two weeks for changes of address or new subscription $4.50 a year; $2.75 six Single copies at a rate of 10c each, can be obtained every Thursday morning at following newsstands: Store, Dixon's Restaurant, Helen's Restaurant, Gosart's Market; Dallas—Berts Drug Hall's Drug Store; Trucksville— Gregory’s Store, Earl's Drug Store; Idetown—Cave's Store; Har- veys Lake—Garinger’s Store; Sweet Valley—Davis Store; Lehman —Moore’s Store; Noxen — Scouten’s Store; Shawanese — Puter- Fernbrook — Bogdon’s Store, Bunney's Store, eld for more than 30 days. } Transient rates 75c. . Political advertising $1.10 per Monday 5 P.M. at 85c per column inch. Preference will in all instances We will not be responsible for the return of unsolicited manu- scripts, photographs and editorial matter stamped envelope is enclosed, and in no case will this material be unless’ self - addressed, - National display advertising rates 84c per column inch. inch. Preferred position additional 10c per inch. Advertising deadline Advertising copy received after Monday 5 P.M. will be charged | Classified rates 4c per word. Minium if charged $1.00. Unless paid for at advertising rates, we can give no assurance that announcements of plays, parties, rummage sales or any affair for raising money will appear in a specific issue. be given to editorial matter which has not previously appeared in publication. Circulation—MRS. Editor and Publisher— HOWARD W. RISLEY Associate Publisher—ROBERT F. BACHMAN I Associate Editors—MYRA ZEISER RISLEY, MRS. T. M. B. HICKS Sports—JAMES LOHMAN Advertising—LOUISE C. MARKS Photographs—JAMES KOZEMCHAK DORIS MALLIN Editorially Speaking: There's B New One Barnum said it . . . ‘minute. “White Collar Bandits’ over person. ‘facts have to be faced. ousewife. "She "hands him never hear of again. hich could have been done leaners. ‘next year, © ¢ountry roads. furnace. ~ They do not use smoke the Better Business Bureau furnace is doing fine, there - ;make it any more efficient,” on any newspaper. that it would constitute the have, something which could at any price. In the meantime, let the is not at hand. and don’t sign at all unless sulted with another firm. sights when confronted with a disinterested party. Born Every Minute There's a new one born every National Better Business Bureau recently exposed high pressure artists in an hour-long broadcast entitled CBS. There are always people who will “take” a gullible It reflects upon human nature that this is true, but A magazine salesman who is putting himself through “Collitch” and needs $200 more by evening to entitle him to a bonus, beating the bushes from Sparsely settled area, preys upon the sentimentality of the oor to door in a the price of a subscription, [usually to some magazine she has never heard of and will A salesman for siding, with charity in his heart, lets a home-owner in on a sure-fire bargain, an expensive job for half the price by a local ontractor who would not dare take his neighbors to the A man who represents himself as a farmer from the Poconos, offers apples in the Back Mountain where apple rowers abound. Half a dozen large apples are on the top of the basket, and underneath are the marbles. But there is the wagon at the door, and the customer falls for it. | Orchardists in this area have good apples on hand at reasonable prices. They know that their neighbors must have value received if they are to do business with them A furnace company sends representatives to patrol They ask to come in and inspect the bombs, as the characters in broadcast on “White Collar Bandits,” were pictured as doing, but they always find something wrong with the installation. If one of these super salesmen should ever dust off his hands, beam at the housewife, and say, “Madam, your isn't a thing we could do to it would make the front page Not only that, but the story would be so astounding best advertising a firm could not be bought in any market, buyer beware. The millenium Don’t sign anything until you have read the fine print, you yourself have called the company in question and asked for service. In any event, do not be frightened into signing up for anything which will bleed you white, until you have con- It is astonishing how rapidly a company will lower its an tmpersons) appraisal from The Back Mountain Memorial, Library, as well as housing over 35,000 books, receives approxi- mately thirty-six periodicals. Cur- rent issues of these magazines are available at the reading table while back issues can be borrowed for a two-week period giving you an op- portunity to see them at your lei- sure. > The magizines carried include many of the most popular such as The Saturday Evening Post and Holiday as well as several seldom available on the newsstand such as Pennsylvania History, Hobbies, Aud- ubon, and American Heritage. World happenings are adequately covered with Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, World Outlook, Time and Life. Of special interest are Changing Times and ' Consumer Reports. [Fishermen will find Pennsylvania Angler published by the Pennsyl- nia Fish Commission. This maga- Your Library by Mrs. Hanford L. Eckman zine carries many articles designed to help make your fishing trips successful. It also contains news of the commissions work. The ardent fisherman may enjoy reading more about his sport and on the library shelves are several fine volumes. With trout season opening soon Telling on the Trout by Edward Hewitt should be of interest. Pond, Lake and Stream Fishing by Ben Robinson, a book of general advice on fresh water fishing, also includes several chapters devoted to landing the trout. Those of us planning to improve our house or garden will be pleased with the wide wvariety. of home magazines. House and Garden, House Beautiful and Better Homes and Gardens are sure to give inspi- ration. A particularly fine book The House For You will help you put the ideas you get from the magazines as well (Continued on Section B, Page 6). \ : Ja ) 3 TRB PRISAWPOARIL § 3 EER RSPR IRAY Fie GR SAS School of Arts 1 hair’ and Flze’ eyes. FATAL AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS AND INJURIES SINCE JANUARY 1, 1957 Mospitalized Killed Dallas {731 1 1 1 Dallas Twp... | 8 | 3 | Franklin Twp. 2.0 Ld Lake 3 1} Lehman Twp. 3 | Kingston Twp. 12°07] | Monroe Ra a Noxen | | Ross ha 3 Total 7 31 01 147] EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS Ambulance ...........c... . 4.2121 FIre niin 4-2121 State Police .......... .. BU 7-2185 Looking at T-V ‘With GEORGE A. and EDITH ANN BURKE Chet Huntley didn’t start out to be a newsman—he had medical am- bitions—but winning a debating | contest in high school turned’ his career toward expressing ideas vividly. In Montana State College, he con- tinued a pre-med course for three years but also maintained his inter- est in public speaking. He won a national oratory tournament in 1932, ending his medical ambitions. With a scholarship to the Cornish in Seattle as his prize, Huntley went on to study speech and drama. After a year at Cornish, he transferred to Washing- ton University and obtained his B. A. Degree in 1934. When the Seattle Star hired him to read items over a local station, Chet was finally launched on his news career. He worked next on radio stations in Spokane and Port- | land and then joined CBS on the West Coast in 1939. He worked | out of Los Angeles for CBS until 1951. ; In 1951, he switched to ABC. Huntley joined NBC in 1955. Chet is best known to millions of TV viewers for “NBC News—The Hunt- ley-Brinkley Report, » and for “Chet Huntley Reporting.” In the past five years he has won six top awards for his reporting. Chet is a tall man, six feet, one inch, weight 195. He has brown He was born December 10, 1911," in 1 Cardwell, Montana. His favorite ‘hobbies are reading and fishing. In the past year he traveled some 50,000 miles gathering background material. THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1959 SUCCESSFUL INVESTING... by ROGER E. SPEAR Investment Adviser and Analyst SHREWD INVESTORS PROTECT THEIR PROFITS BY USING “STOP” ORDERS INTELLIGENTLY Q R., Ohio, writes, “I own a list of stocks on which I have some good profits. These include J. I. Case, Fruehauf Trailer, Alleghany Corp., General Instruments and Minnea- polisMoline. Some of these were bought on your recommendation last summer. What do you think of these stocks at present? I buy to make profits rather than te hold permanently. Do you think I should sell them all out before leaving for a month’s trip to Europe which has been planned for some time. A. Let me answer your last ques- tion first. If you mean; do I think’ the bull market is over the answer is, no. There is a great deal of un- derlying « strength which becomes manifest when the market gives up some ground. If you mean, do I | think steps should be taken to pro- tect profits while you're away, the answer is yes. All of your holdings are speculative. All have run up sharply in a comparativly short period of time and all could suffer setbacks in any reaction that might occur. And a reaction is always pos- sible after the long, sustained rise we ‘have been experiencing. I/like your holdings and believe that they have not yet fulfilled their speculative potentials. If you sell them out, you will probably not re- place them, especially if they are selling higher when you return. Why not use what many of the big- gest and shrewdest investors regard as a sound method of protecting gains? I'm referring to the Btop Order. Stop Orders are encouraged by the Exchange as a method of safeguarding part of your profits. The easiest way for me to explain the use of Stop Orders is by giving you an example, “SELL 100 JI AT 21 STOP GTC” I'm going to assume that you bought your Case stock at around | 15. It has recently been selling near | 25 To protect at least part of your | profit in the event of decline, you tell your broker to put in a Stop Order at 21, good until cancelled, on your 100 shares of Case. He writes out your order as you can see it in the heading above. The order goes from your broker to the specialist in Case on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The latter enters it in his book. If Case (symbol JI) sells, down to 21, your Stop Order becomes an order to sell at the market. You don’t necessarily get an execution at 21, but you should get a sale near that figure. In the event of a serious sell-off, you have safeguarded a good proportion of your profit. Take a look at the action of American Motors. This stock sold Coming: “The Big Ear,” examina- tion of wiretapping and electronic | eavesdropping will be the subject of next Sunday NBC Kaleidoscope series. Claudette Colbert escorts Perry Como on a ‘visit’ to Friends of | Broadway during Pontiac Star Par- ade telecast, Tuesday, 8-9 p. m. Gertrude Berg, Sir Cedric Hard- wicke, Frances Nuyen and Cyril Ritchard will be guests. Fess Parker, the famous Davy Crocket of TV a few years ago, has a mew contract in his pocket, this time in films. Paramount Pictures has him signed for twelve motion pictures during the next six years. Specials For Women—The first of a new series of one-hour daytime “specials,” aimed- on television’s vast audience of women, will be launched on the CBS television net- work in May. The series will be called man!’ herself, her family, world, her future. First of the special programs, eur- rently in preparation, will revolve around the topic, “Do They Marry Too Young?” and will probe the enormous increase in teen-age mar- riages and the trend toward larger and larger families. Other program subjects currently under consideration for presentation include: “Who Tells Me How to Dress ?”’, Is the American Woman Losing Her Feminity?” and “You Can’t Raise (Children by the Book.” “Fibber McGee and Molly” be- comes a TV series next fall without Marian and Jim Jordan however. Bob Sweeney and Cathy Lewis have been selected to play the title roles. Others in the NBC drama include Hal Peary as Mayor LaTrivia; Ad- dison Richards as Do¢ Gamble and Barbara Beaird as Teeney, “The Little Girl Next Door.” Arthur Godfrey has an invitation from Governor William F. Quinn of Hawaii to spend two weeks in the islands. So the Godfrey shows of March 30 through April 10 will come from Hawaii via video tape and radio recordings. Native enter- tainers will be featured prominently. C. W. Gordon Takes Training Course Charles W. Gordon, Jr., represen- tative of Nationwide Insurance in Shavertown, was one of twenty- seven agents attending the Training Program conducted by his compan- ies at Hotel Sterling. Mr. Gordon qualified to attend this program, one of a series of training courses held periodically. to help him render better service to his policyholders. “Wo- her | Save A Life—Drive Carefully! at 43 in mid-January. It began to "sell off after Ford’s announcement | that it was entering the small car | field. After a 450% runup in a year, American Motors was vulner- able. Investors who put in stop orders at 40 were very fortunate./ | American Motors sold recently at 25. In individual cases the Btock Exchange has authority to suspend Stop Orders but this authority has rarely been exercised. READER ADVISED TO SWITCH HOLDINGS Q. Mrs. F., New. York State, writes, “We own 2 stocks bought in 1950 that have acted very poorly. These are Underwood bought at 46 and Curtis Mfg., which cost 7% adjusted for a stock split. Do these have any prospect of coming back? What would you advise doing about them ? We are interested in’ a good return when my husband retires.” ‘A. 1 don’t like either of your holdings, particularly as a backlog for retirement. Underwood is a big manufacturer of typewriters and other office equipment. Earnings have declined sharply in recent years because of increased competi- tion and special charges arising from their punch-card and electronics operations. Underwood may ulti- ately come back, but dividends appear unlikely’ for a long way ahead, I would sell this stock and reitvest the proceeds in Central Hudson Gas & Electric, selling at arourd 19. Central Hudson pays an annual dividend of 80 cents and yields over 4%. The company serves your community, among others. The stock has doubled in value since you bought Underwood. [Curtis Manufacturing sells at about 9%. The company makes garage equipment, paints, refrigera- tion equipinent and a number of other thinzs. This is not a bad stock but it hes got nowhere in recent years and the return is about nil, I think tte prospects for Curtis are pretty Imited. Since you will need income I suggest you switch this holding into American Water Works which owns the largest group of privately held water com- panies in the country. At the pre- sent frice of 14, you would get a return of 4.3% here and, in my opinicn, good growth in the years ahead. (Sen( your investment questions to Mr. Yodger E. Spear, c/o ‘this paper.) Issues Warning Chief of Police Irwin Coolbaugh warns all residents of the Back Mountain area not to purchase magazine subscriptions from itener- ant salesmen unless they can show ships. ‘the Methodist authorized permits from local town- | Rambling Around y THE OLDTIMER D. A. Waters Just prior to World War I, the Chester White family lived on the west corner of Main!and Huntsville Streets. Mr. and Mrs. White had both been married before, their early spouses having died young, and had nearly grown children when married. Included in the family were Ches- ter’'s son George, George's son Mel- vin, Mrs. White's daughter Grace Snyder, and Herman White, son by the second marriage. White was a daughter of Ira D Shaver. Chester White was one of the best known and capable citizens of the town. As a young man he took part in establishing the high school, org- anizing the Borough, the Dallas Fair, the Broom Company, and the Ceme- tery Association. He was elected a school director in the first borough election in 1879 and was serving as school director just before his death in 1914. For a long time he was | tax collector. He operated a meat business, slaughtering and curing his meat and making his own bologna, pud- ding, etc. He owned the farm on the lower side of Main Street op- posite the corner of Franklin Street but in the writer's time used it only for pasturing stock, and slaughtering animals in a building near the Woodlawn Cemetery. v He built a small house on Church Street near Goss Corners for his son George who had some kind of af- fliction and thereafter lived alone until his death some years later. Both Melvin and Herman White served in World War I and neither lived here much afterward. Herman became a dentist in the Philadelphia area. All the family as of the time we write are now deceased excepting Grace Snyder. A few years later she married John Rustine, a railroad employee, who died young, in an accident if my recollection is correct, leaving two small daughters, Beat- rice and Millicent who still reside there. Beatrice was employed in local stores and became the wife of Wil- lard Schmoll, then of Parrish Street, and has a son recently in the ser- vice. Millicent was employed in the Dallas Bank, married Joseph Hand who conducts a store in an adjoin- ing building. They have a teenage son and daughter. Across Huntsville Street was the residence of the Rice family. The family at the time consisted of William H. Rice, son of Captain Jacob Rice, his sons William and Arthur, and his sister Sarah. All are now deceased .excepting Arthur. Upon his graduation from college he married Hattie Eddy of Ashley and presently lives in Forty Fort. They have several children. In the house for many years the home of the Fleming family, which at the time was much smaller, there lived a family including Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Fillmore and their daugh- ter Jean who is occasionally seen in | Fillmore was a | Wilkes-Barre. Mr. salesman here only on week-ends. He taught a class of young men in Sunday School. The Fillmore’s were exceedingly proud of a bed of tulips in their front yard. One night some vandals stole some of them and destroyed some in the process. Mrs. Fillmore was full of wrath, whereupon the next night the perpetrators and others gathered in front of the Rice barn across the street and sang, “When You Wore a Tulip,” currently popular. Juvenile delinquency is nothing new. In the present Library building lived Mr. and Mrs. John J. Ryman, then in their sixties. Mr. Ryman’s first wife had been dead about thirty years and his daughter Edna had recently died in the west leav- ing a blonde daughter Mary who was the apple of his eye. His other daughter by his first marriage, Edith, was the wife of a banker at Ithaca, N. Y. Lynde Ryman, son by the second marriage, was a civil engineer not living here. The second wife Jessie lived until the Second World War. John Jacob Ryman was a big man in Dallas, physically and in other ways. He had the first telephone in Dallas, being one of the owners of the company. He was a stockholder when the railroad was started. He was a stockholder in the high school. He was a signer of the ap- plication for the borough charter and held office for years, being ‘a school director and president of the board when the old building was en- larged and remodeled in 1916. He was principal owner and man- ager of the Dallas Water Company, an incorporator of the Woodlawn Cemetery, and a principal stockhold- er of the Dallas Broom Company. He managed the Ryman store and other enterprises from which he derived a good income and was a liberal contributor to many causes. He made a practice of making Christmas contributions to children of his customers, graduation gifts to high school graduates, and many similar gratuities. An early and long time trustee of the Methodist Church, Mr. Ryman was a regular attendant. His daugh- ters taught in Sunday School and assisted in numerous ways, Edith being organist for some years. The Resurrection Window at the Metho- dist Church)was installed by him as a memorial to his first wife Mary Atwater Ryman and daughter Edna Ryman G:.ge. The bdlance of Main Street will be continued later. - ¢ Cora Snyder | ONLY YESTERDAY Ten and Twenty Years Ago In The Dallas Post From The Issue of March 18, 1949 The surprise coal strike has left many people with lowered bins in this area. Coal stocks above ground are in the main destined for ship- ment out of the area. Back Mount- ain Lumber Company is rationing | his stocks. He states that he sees no | reason why anybody should suffer "| hardship. John L. Lewis’ two-week | holiday, declared unexpectedly, has cut off supplies to independent loperators like Norti Berti, who de- pend upon breaker service. Breakers are now closed. The Pyramid Club is on the wane after feverish activity, with a num- ber of people in the area receiving large amounts of money, but none the maximum of $2,048 on their payoff nights, twelve days after the | first party. Nobody came across with the $64 donation required by the pyramiding demands. Payoff parties were held in Shavertown, Parrish Heights, and Dallas. Scores of clubs have been in operation. Girl Scouts are celebrating thirty- seven years of service nationally, twenty-five in Wyoming Valley area. Bill Berti broke his arm when he fell from his father’s truck. Ralph Williams, Main Street, ad- mitted to General Hospital by am- bulance Tuesday, is somewhat im- proved. Sweet Valley is planning its third annual Memorial Day Parade. Co- operating with the fire company are Back Mountain Lions, Lake Silk- worth, Lehman, and Jackson fire companies. Chairmen and cochair- men are Alfred Bronson and Sher- man Kunkle. Cancer Society’s local goal is $2,000. Two German women thank the Back Mountain Book Club for a Christmas (CARE package. "Frank Jackson, Harveys Lake, made a big hit with second grade pupils at. Dallas Borough School. Mrs. Antoinette Mason invited the bird-man to tell her pupils about birds. He was astonished at how much they had already been taught. Five senior home-economics stu- dents under direction of instructor Ruth Shellammer, were hostesses to eighty members of Lehman, Jack- son, and Ross iSchool boards, the faculty, and the custodian staff, serving a turkey dinner in the audi- | torium. Girls who took part in pre- paration and serving were Albina Pall, Leona Lord, Janet Wright, | Alice Culp, and Charlotte Culp. The new 4-H Club at Carverton ‘has attracted nineteen members | who have signed up for calves. Mary | Weir of Goodleigh Farm will advise children on Guernsey breeding and care; Shoemaker Brothers and Ralph Sands, on Holsteins; Kenneth Rice on Ayreshires. Russell Race, Center Moreland, got kicked in the face by a horse, with resultant painful injuries. Phyllis Smith writes another in- stallment of “Three Acres and Bix Dependents,” pulling no punches. Everybody in the area turns to the column when the Post is first de- livered, enjoys it thoroughly, and then calls the Dallas Post to say they don’t think the Post should run it. Harold Mugford, West Dallas, poultry farmer died at General Hospital. Jay Bloomer, Franklin Township junior at Dallas Township high school, lacerated middle fingers of ling a short piece of wood in the school shop. It may be necessary to amputate one joint. Charles K. DeWees, Shrine View, fishing in the fourteenth annual Miami, got a seven pound two ounce bone-fish. From the Issue of March 17, 1939 Rev. Francis Freeman installed Mrs. Himmler as president of Dallas Methodist Ladies Aid Society. Charles Herdman, pioneer resi- dent of Beaumont, died at 73. Mrs. Mary Crispell, Loyalville, will be buried tomorrow. ber of Jackson Grange, died at 55 after a long illness. Two.ice boats have fallen through the ice at Harveys Lake this past week. Elwood Davis pulled his boat out with a car and tow rope, and sold the fifteen foot craft to Charles Lacey. Edward A. Parrish, former super- intendent of the Newberry estate, is mourned by a host of friends. Frank Randall, 52, lifelong resi- dent of Harveys Lake, died Saturday morning at his home at the Inlet. Dallas Township cagers end the, season as champs of the Back Moun- tain. Democrats carry their battle to the Supreme Court, holding that election returns gave Luzerne county fair and square to their party, not to Governor Arthur James. Many election bets await the outcome. Rear Admiral’ Harold Stark has been named head of U.S. Navy operations. Grand Jury is Stirtopating wit- nesses in the alleged payroll padding scandal. Steel work is completed on the new Trucksville grade school. lector for Monroe Township. | both hands on a planer while hand- | Metropolitan Anglers Tournament at’ Lewis Linsinbiger, charter mem- & Barnyard Notes > 2, 20585] These old bones were warmed Thursday night by one of the hottest loving parties we've ever seen on television. It came during the first installment of Playhouse 90’s For Whom The Bell Tolls. As Myra and I sat there watching abashed, I noticed that she squirmed in her chair like a little boy whose hero pauses to kiss is, oY gal in a favorite western. ¢ : As the action become hotter there in Roberto’s sleeping bag, Myra. said she guessed she’d better put the dogs out for the night and come back later when there was more shooting in the Spanish Civil War. But I remained fascinated wondering just how Roberto gi his upper and lower plates in a kissing situation like that. TANS ANS Orr WK a FATT AR) General Electric Corporation celebrated its seventy-fifth anniver= sary on October 15, 1953. On that day all children born to employees of the giant electrical firm received five shares of GE stock as a birth: EEL day gift. There were 191 babies ‘born on that lucky day. That was just five years ago and the five shares given to each’ di of the babies had a total market value of $390. Since that date the babies have grown; so has General Electric, and the stock market has : boomed. Directors of GE split the stock three for 1. Now each of the children has fifteen shares of stock instead of the original five. ok The directors have declared dividends every year so each child has received a total of $148.50 income over the five years amounting to about 38 percent of the original market value of the stock, enough to help each of the youngster’s daddies pay for a lot of diapers. SE But the stock market has helped a lot more. General Electric is an active stock on the big board and prices have risen. Each child now has shares with a total market value of $1,200. Who said some .,-, youngsters are born lucky! What about another youngster who received five shares of stock in a fine old company, a world leader in its field, that has paid regular bi dividends since 1887. At birth five years ago his five shares were worth $225. Since then dividends have been cut and the stock is tt selling at $15 with a total market value of $75. Who said kids aren’t born unlucky, too! Lhe OLD LETTER FROM OLD DESK Mrs. Michael Traver writes: . “Some time ago you published a piece about a long lost letter, found by Mrs. Blase in an old desk. The letter I am enclosing was found in an old desk your father may have owned. According to the letter the desk must be more than 50 years old. I now own it and remodeled it into a flat top. The letter gives a little of the history of Monrovia, California. If any one should claim it, I shall be happy to, : let them have it.” a I enjoyed reading the letter and there may be others of our. readers who will enjoy it, too, and who will remember Mrs. Jennie A: Stone and others who lived in Stull. I suspect that the desk belonged to G. A. Shook rather than to my father. ana I well recall Mr. Ed Stone who moved from Stull to Tunkhannock =" 7 where he became county surveyor and a member of the staff of + Wyoming National Bank. He was a fine man. As a youngster I knew'” him there and was delighted when he held me in his arms to Took through his’ transit while he surveyed the streets. Au Here is the letter. v « November 9, 1906 Monrovia, California’ = i ia Dear Jennie: I have been waiting, thinking you might come with Alph and.” Tip... \ i I think you will come as socn as you can get things in shape in and can leave Mr. Stone's folks. I know it would be very hard for ; pe Mrs. Stone to part with you. a 3 We are all well and Hiram has his house nearly rads to move’ 7, I Rive just given Laura her bath in a big pan. She enjoys it sc much. She spats and jumps in the water and has such a good time... then I get her to sleep. She is such a bright and goodnatured baby that one could not help loving her. There are lots of buildings going up all over the place. The boys are so (dbusy that they have to hire help. Wages is good. Help i" scarce.) 0, ; I would Tove to see you and Abbie and Howard, too. I would love ~ to have you all . . .. and we will be near each other and have lovely. hi times. There are 104 of men and horses working on the street by my; house getting it ready for oil. They are grading and oiling all of the street with curb gutters and sidewalks, improving as fast as they can. A large library is being built. John D. Rockefeller gave $10,000 for it. It is being built in the city park, one block from my home. There are so many people coming all of the time that they can’t build" fast enough for the demand. | Henry's father died: the last day in October and I see by the: papers that John Shotwell has gone to rest . Remember me kindly to Mrs. Stone . . ( Abby and Howard. Your auntie H. H. Newman From Pillar To Post’. . By MRS. T. M. B. HICKS, JR. The vernal urge seems to be triggering off an anust number of skunks in this area. it Disarming the warhead of a skunk is accompanied by occupa- tional hazards. The dope is that a skunk restrains himself unless he ~~ is frightened, but who knows what is going to annoy a skunk? The Game Commission is willing to set a box trap, but there, again, who knows whether it will be a skunk that emerges wild-eyed from confinement, or a pampered household pussy ? There ought to be small portholes i in such a trap, through which the characteristic white stripe on the glossy black chassis could be noted. One thing is for sure, while the skunk is in the trap, he is harm- less. Back Mountain Memorial Library caught one of the a creatures over the past weekend, the whole process entirely without. incident. There is a famous tale about a skunk catcher, one which appears in various guises, the amount of butter varying from one tub to an: entire warehouse filled with cartons, but the skunk remains the’ villain. We The original story seems to have as its cast a down-East spinster of uncertain age, a neighboring jack of all trades, a tub of butter in the cellar, and a skunk. : The spinster, clutching her pocketbook firmly, dickered with the handy- -man. . Asa offered, for six bits, to get the skunk out without harming the butter. Beaten down to four bits, he philosophically accepted defeat, and’ shambled down cellar. ot TREE Twenty seconds later he was up again, holding the skunk by the tail, and resisting its efforts to get a purchase on his hunting shirt, with its hind’ legs. “Well, if it’s that easy,” was the tart rejoinder of the lady with, the pocketbook, “you! 11 just have to be satisfied with a quarter,” and | ** she extended the coin. Hv “Nope, fifty cents was what we bargained for.” 3 reper “Take it or leave it.” : ! : “I'm leavin’ it,” and Asa tossed the skunk back down the cellar ‘stairs. Myrtle Martin was named tax col- | For Modern Printing. NS EZ Cl 8 = oO 7:30
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