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THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, JANUARY 51901
Seer VT 1049
Rambling Around
Buy The Oldtimer — D. A. Waters
The family name “Santee” is best
remembered in Dallas history as
applied to Rev. Elijah L. Santee
(1848-1934) a native of Fermount
Township, first pastor assigned by
the Wyoming Conference to the
newly organized Dallas Charge in
1882. He served one year in the
charge ‘which at that time included
Trucksville and Kunkle. Compared
to the present, his reports show that
the church has changed considerably
in the interval. He reported one
hundred and forty-nine members
and ‘thirty-four probationers. Five
adults and one child were baptized.
Two Sunday Schools were operated
with twenty-nine officers and teach-
ers ard one hundred and fifty-six
scholars. These figures may, or may
not, have included Trucksville and
Kunkle.
The old church building at the
corner of Lake Street and Center
Hill Road was still in service, prob-
ably one of 'the oldest and best
known buildings in town. It is now
called Rosary Hall. Rev. Santee
served fifty-eight years in the min-
istry at a total of thirteen charges,-
four of them twice, which may be a
record.
Unlike many old families who
trace descent from a specific pioneer
who arrived on a certain date at a
certain point, sometimes in a certain
ship, the Santee family was, scat-
tered and had many members before
anyone started to look it up. Pre-
parztion of the genealogy was
started by Elijah M. Santee, believed
by this writer to be the father of
Rev. Elijah Santee, but this may not
be correct. It. was completed by
Ellis M. Santee, M. D., a grandson of
Elijah M. Santee, and published in
1927. Tt included then about 7500
names, and ‘a whole generation has
been born. since; perhaps in some
families two. Santee decendants,
mostly bearing other surnames, were
then scattered all over the country
and in some foreign places. About
two hundred fifty lived then in this
part of Pennsylvania. Of these
roughly a hundred were in the
Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys,
another hundred along the ‘Susque-
hanna from Hunlock Creek down,
and nearby points with large groups
up the river at and near Towanda,
and other points along the river and
in the rural areas.
Earliest known residents of the
family lived in America in the
1700's. Like many old families there
was wide variation in the spelling, at
least nine different spellings being
recorded. There is a tradition of
French origin, unproved, although
a Chateau Sante existed in France,
and the word “Sante” in [French
means “health.” This is thought to
be the reason for the name applied
to a river in South Carolina and a
plantation in Virginia. There was a
wooden sailing ship “Santee” in the
U. S. Navy at the beginning of the
Civil War, continued as a training
ship at Annapolis until 1912.
All the Santee family of record are
belived to be descended from Elias
Santee, who lived in Northampton
County.
In Dallas, Huldah Santee, wife of
John Norton, was a daughter of
Peter Santee, one of the signers of
the borough petition in 1879, and
the . eighth generation from the
original Elias. Her children were:
Robert, who died young; Nellie, who
married Philip Ritter and still lives :
here; and George, deceased, who
married Josephine Brodmarkle, who
survives him. There may be other
descendants of Peter Santee living
in the vicinity.
Charles D. Gregory, business man
in Dallas at the turn of the century,
was also an eighth generation de-
scendent of the original Elias Santee.
He married Lydia Winters and they
had a large family including fhe
following: Harry, who died in in-
fancy; Claude, married to Mary
Mahon with a son, Gerald; Ruth, the
present Mrs. Ruth Gregg of Pine-
crest Avenue; Laura, deceased, first
wife of Paul Shaver leaving children
Claudia and Paul; Charles B. the
Barber) married to Althea Garinger
with daughters Lois, Thelma, and
Marion, deceased; Mary, wife of
Claude Shaver with children, Naomi,
Carol, and Robert; John, married to
Mary Matlack having children, Ann,
Jean, John. John has resided many
years in the Philadelphia area.
Several of the above are married
and have children now.
There are numerous descendants
of the Santee family in ‘the rural
area between here and Williamsport.
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ONLY YESTERDAY
Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years Ago In The Dallas Fost
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IT HAPPENED 30 YEARS AGO:
{ Inland Utilities, owner of Dallas,
Shavertown, and Tunkhannock
water companies, is in the hands of
equity receivers, climaxing a year of
financial disaster. Liabilities exceed
3 million. The company took over
the local companies over a year ago,
and has made extensive surveys and
improvements.
Local sportsmen are distributing
grain for wild birds, to combat
hardship caused by heavy snows.
Feed is furnished by the Game Com-
mission.
Eighty needy families in this area
received = assistance at Christmas
time.
Fifty private planters in Luzerne
County have received 172, 000 forest
seedlings, red and white pine pre-
dominating. Local men who received
seedlings include John M. Elenchick
and Charles Macravitz, Trucksville,
1,000 apiece; William Major, Leh-
man, 1,000; Jacob Rebennack, Dallas
RD, 4,000; E. E. ‘Wagner, Hunlock
Creek, 3,000.
Kingston Township chief of police
Avery regretfully announces that he
has orders to shoot stray dogs.
State Department of Animal Indus-
try says a number of roaming dogs
have been bitten by a dog that had
rabies.
Local farmers are urged to go
along with the plan for lessened
acreage, heightened production per
acre, lessened production over-all,
which should bring higher prices.
An editorial says 1930 has been
hard. Business. has been slack,
money hard to collect, credits cur-
tailed, spending less, more people
out of work than at any time since
the last great depression in 1921.
Gay-Murray advertises heavy duty
batteries for $1.85 or $2.50; ice poles
for $2.10, and ice tongs for $2.15.
Ice cutting is in full swing.
IT HAPPENED 20 YEARS AGO:
#/The best business volume in his-
tory is predicted by Babson for
1941; whether this country goes to
war or not.
1“ No trace has yet been found of
ago struck down John Kuchta at
Alderson. The victim is at Nesbitt
with a broken pelvis.
Tax collections show big gains
over last year. Delinquent totals are
only half those of 1939.
Richard Davies, 43, Shavertown, is
semiconscious at General Hospital
after being struck by a car operated
by an Askam driver.
Dallas Borough Council is consid-
ering erection of street signs.
| Jack Sheehan's car was com-
pletely demolished at the curve near
Harter's Dairy when forced off the
road by a Buick which kept on its
way after the crash.
following a lead to a Bennett Street
home in Luzerne, has recovered
many antiques stolen from lake
cottages six years ago, including two
heirloom woven wool bedspreads
belonging to Rose Troxell. _Thirty-
five cottages were robbed, and the
old traction company depot at Har-
the hit-run motorist who two weeks
“Harveys Lake. chief Tra Stevenson,
veys. Lake furnished with the loot.
Dr. H. “A. Brown of Lehman
delivered two New Years babies
within less than an hour, a gaughéer
to Mr. and Mrs. Snyderite of Pikes
Creek at 5:15 a. m. and a daughter
to Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Price of
Outlet at 6
Dallas Borough high school band
and Dallas M. E. (Church carol sing-
ers led community singing on Christ-
mas Eve, outdoors at the Christmas
tree.
John N. Moore, lifelong resident
of Sweet Valley died at 78.
@Mrs. Margaret Evans died at her
home in Carverton.
The marriage of Mrs. Alice Hier of
Harveys Lake to Willard Race of
Dallas has been announced.
Catherine M. Rice of Trucksville,
became the bride of Howard Mor-
dan, Millville, on Christmas Eve.
Jack D. Honeywell of Dallas, and
Allen Ockenhouse of Shavertown,
are drawn for the draft, to report
January 16 at the induction center
in Wilkes-Barre.
Mrs. Z. Platt Bennett's white bull
terrier, imported ten months ago
from England, has ten puppies.
AND 10 YEARS AGO: ;
+/ Remodelling of thee American
Legion Home on Huntsville Road,
started in September, is practically
complete. The chrome and leather-
ette bar stools, knotty pine panel-
ling, asphalt tile floors, and modern
decor in the dining room, make an
attractive picture.
Kingston Township and Dallas
Borough are closer to a school join-
ture, with Supervising principals
James A. Martin and Charles James
in accord on advantages to be
gained.
% Dr. L. E. Jordan, chairman of
Citizens Committee for Better
Schools, gives a sharp answer to
critics. of jointure, in answer to a
blast aimed by C. J. Eipper in a
recent issue of the Dallas Post. Just
because it was good enough for stu-
dents of a former era, it is not
necessariyy good enough for pupils
of the present generation. A system
that does not progress, falls back,
as the world goes on around it.
/ Kingston Township proposes to
give several hundred acres of scrub
land on the extremity of Bunker
Hill, to Luzerne. School children,
much nearer Luzerne schools than
Kingston Township schools, have to
be serviced by bus running through
Luzerne. The move would save
Kingston Township school board
$1,500 annually;
Mr. and Mrs. James Kozemchak,
for the second successive year, won
the award for the most attractively
Christmas gift-packaged house in the
area.
Hislop’s restaurant will be re-
modelled.
Woodring Redmond, Dallas RD2,
and Walter Crispell, Dallas RD 1,
have joined the Air Corps.
Frank Jackson reports the first
robin.
Christmas sleds are meeting with
the usual slush of Christmas week.
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lished more than thirty years ago,
members of Dallas Rotary Club en-
tertained 104 children at a Christ
mas Party on the Saturday a week
before Christmas at Prince of Peace
Parish Hall.
From
stocking.)
to Dallas, grrr.
what happens.”
The car died.
filter.
missing for several days.
Washington ?”
plane.”
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ing.
“Skip it, it's too early.”
getting closer by the minute.”
And then,
time, go by air.
In keeping with a custom estab- | each child as well as stockings filled
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There were individual presents for | As usual it was hard to tell who
Pillar To Post
by HIX
It was one of those holidays when we should have stood in bed.
Saturday night, the car conked out, making a feeble attempt to
get out of the snow-choked driveway, and stopping dead in its tracks.
(A week before, it had received a nice new battery in its Christmas
With the time of arrival of the plane from Pittsburgh drawing
closer and closer, and no way of getting to the airport to meet it,
this power failure posed a problem. Have to tell Tom to take a taxi
The phone. Avoca airport. “Guess what? You won’t need to meet
me. Jimmie Kozemchak is meeting young Jim, and he'll drop me off
at the house on his way to Huntsville.”
So that hurdle was safely passed.
The following morning, with five inches more of the white stuff
in the driveway, the car was still deader than a smelt. Half an hour
later Clyde Birth’s truck was in the driveway.
“You must have flooded it, Mrs. Hicks.”
“Nope, guess again. I've been driving for thirty- five years, and
if I flood, I know what to do. Take your foot off the pedal and see
Another wait. Another phone call.
One seat on the 2 p.m. plane Eastern Airline,
with candy, fruit and nuts.
There was plenty of entertainment
and a jovial Santa Claus. Members
of the Couples Club of the Church
served sandwiches and: other re-
freshments.
Two men peered under the hood. One of them took off the air
And there was the automatic choke rod, dangling in mid-air.
At the garage, a dingus resembling a paper clip grafted the rod
to the works, and presto, the car obediently idled upon request. it
also gave out with a surge of power which had been strangsly
Back at the house: “Have you got your plane Feservation: for
“Nope, but I'll start working on it right after this cup of coffee.”
Bastern Airlines, Direct Flight; Allegheny Airlines, via Newark.
Waiting list on both, Verify Monday morning.
Monday morning: “Sorry, can’t let you know until noon at the
earliest. Best we can do, could be we could get you on the 2 p.m.
“That's too early. I don’t want to leave until early in the even-
still available.
“For Pete's sake, grab it. Every college kid in the United States
is up in the air today, or will be, getting back to school.”
“Let me have that seat on the 2 p.m. plane.”
“Sorry, but it’s gone. If you come out to the airport, we'll try
to get you on something in the course of the afternoon.”
The airport, 1:45. Nothing available. Allegheny says it has a seat
at 4 p.m. Wait a sec. Here’s one on the 3:05. Things are looking up.
Except that when the 3:05 came in, it had something the matter
with it. And the next flight would be delayed an hour.
It seemed like a good time to go home and sit it out, leaving
Tom at the airport over another cup of coffee.
A phone call from the airport to report progress.
“Haven't gotten out yet, but I've got a seat for Newark, and
am on the waiting list for Washington.”
Ten o'clock at night. A phone call from Washington: “Well, I'm
here, but it wasn’t my day. I'm still waiting here at the airport for
my baggage to catch up with me. It went on to Boston, but it’s
¢
“You'll have to call Dr. Lisses first thing in the
morning and tell him to dream up another pair of those special dark
glasses. I lost mine in the Newark Terminal Building.”
We have a new motto in the family. “If you've got plenty of
The Samueis Twins,
Karen and Sharon
SCHOOL AGAIN
We are all settled in our class
rooms after a joyous and happy
holiday vacation, which everyone
was glad to share after almost four
months since school opened in Sep-
tember. It will not be long before
our first term exams are held, and
we'll have to buckle down and study
hard. So back to the grind we go.
TO CLASSMATES AND TEACHERS
Just a brief note to wish all our
WESTMORELAND
High School News
teachers and classmates a New Year
that’s a joyful medley of all the best
things in life. We're hoping that
1961 proves to be for all of you a
year rich with the blessings of all
the good things that add up to
enduring happiness, health, success
and dreams fulfilled. We'd like to
go on record as wishing everyone the
happiest New Year ever for -you
and for all those dear to you. Happy
New Year to all!
Democratic Women
Install New Officers
Lake Township Democratic Wo-
man’s Club held its Christmas party
recently at Brennan's Restaurant
installed Virginia ' Sorber as
president, Susie (Crispell, vice presi-
dent, Helen Grey, secretary, Lor-
raine Grey, assistant secretary,
Anna Crake, treasurer, Frances
Desiderio, assistant ‘treasurer and
Margaret Grey as chaplain.
Decorations and favors followed
the Christmas motif. Gifts were
exchanged.
Present, besides the new officers,
were Helen Javers, Anna Humanik,
Ella McConnell, Frances Yankoski,
Mary Hennebaul, Rosemary Engle,
Helen Sgarlet, Betty Lopasky, Doris
Schooley, Ida Grey, Ethel Kocher,
Betty Hennebaul, Minnie Wesley,
Eva Kizis, Letha Tredinnick.
PTA Council Tonight
Trucksville PTA Executive Coun-
cil will meet tonight at 8:30 with
Mrs. W. A Shuster.
They Have Pleasant Memories o Chaistmas
had the most fun, all the members
of Rotary who planned. and took
part in the party, or all the young-
sters who responded to their invita-
tions .and received presents—each
present appropriate to the young-
ster’s age and requirement.
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