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Only Yesterday
IT HAPPENED 30 YEARS AGO:
School Director contests were
steaming up, with the front page of
the Dallas Post, featuring a spate of
letters giving the points of view of
signed
by the usual initials, “Irate Tax-
payer”, and in a few instances by
a name and address, denoting a
man willing to stand up and be
counted. ~~,
Earl Booth was running for Road
Supervisor of Lake Township. Clare
Winters was a candidate for Dallas
Township constable. John Jeter for | L
| Louise
school director in Dallas. Richard
Hoover, Overseer for the Poor at
Lake. :
Chuck roast was 15 cents a
pound, veal roast 15. Butter was
two pounds for 67 cents, rice 6
pounds for 25 cents.
IT HAPPENED 20) vears aco:
Several residents protested that
they had listened all evening for
air raid signals the week before,
had heard nothing, and had left
their lights burning because they
did not know the practice alert was
being sounded. Anyhow, it was a
good practice, and showed what
could be done in a hurry by way
of relaying information to out-lying
areas from a central control room
in Wilkes-Barre.
Harold Titman had his fingers
grazed by a rifle bullet shooting
rats on the banks of Toby's Creek.
Dorothy Moore was appointed
secretary of the Cival Service board
in Dallas.
A. J. Sordoni offered a gift of $500
toward erection of a community
building in Dallas.
Roushey was appointed
director of Girl Scouts in Blooms-
burg.
Jim Hutchison, farm agent, urged
farmers to adopt measures to halt
sail erosion.
Margaret Roberts became bride
of Jacob Harris, Rev. David Morgan
performing the ceremony in the
Alderson parsonage.
Mary Chersin was wed to Robert
Mathers in St. Therese’s Rectory.
Rita Beardsley and Earl Nielson
were married by Rev. Francis Free-
man at Dallas Methodist Church.
ir HAPPENED |() YEARS AGO:
Hoover and Milbrodt bulldzers
were moving tons of earth, grading
the library grounds. A terrace,
created to the rear of the lot, pro-
vided space for parking of 100 cars.
David Jenkins bought eighty acres
for a housing = developement.
Gerald Jeff Schultz’ arrested in
Maryland solved the mystery of four
robberies in Dallas, including that
of Henry the Jeweler.
William Dobson, 87, died at Sweet
Valley.
Open house at new Huntsville
Christian Parsonage, with Rev. Char-
les Frick receiving the key from
H. J. Major.
Back Mountain Welfare drive was
falling short of its quota of $7,600,
with only 79% subscribed.
E. Sterling Meade was honored
on his 40th anniversary with the
Bell Telephone Co. and his ap-
proaching retirement on pension.
Flannigan’'s Furniture Co. erected
the largest neon sign in the Back
Mountain.
Mary Durbin became the bride of
Dr. Michael Bucan.
Five generations posed for a pic-
ture: ‘Robert Snyder, his mother,
Mrs. Charles Snyder; his grand-
father, Robert Culp; his great-grand-
mother, Mrs. Rose (Culp; his great-
great grandmother Mrs. Bertha Jen-
kins, 87.
Georgia Johnson became the bride
of James Besecker Jr. Rev. Ralph
Weatherly performed the double
Church.
Westmoreland crushed Tunkhan-
nock 30 to O.
Singing Stars Honor
Mrs. John Roberts
The [Singing Stars, choral group
of Dallas Chapter No. 396 Order of
| Eastern Star honored Mrs. John
Roberts with a farewell covered dish
dinner at the home of Mrs. Joseph
T. Battisson, Sweet Valley, October
23. A
After dinner the group enjoyed
singing and playing bingo. The guest
of honor was the former president
of the .choral group and soloist for
the Dallas OES. All members of the
Chapter regret her moving to North-
umberland.
Mrs. Roberts was presented a
lovely. gift of appreciation.
Guests were: Mrs. John Roberts,
guest of honor; Mrs. Raymond Gar-
inger, Worthy Matron; Mrs. Daniel
Meeker, Associate Matron; Mes-
dames Madeline LaBarre, Charles
Gosart, Burton Riley, Harry Allen,
Otis Allen, Calvert Birnstock, Joyce
Ward, Evelyn Hauck, Cletus Hol-
comb, Earl Johnson, Russell Transue,
and Fred Swanson. Mrs. Russell
Ide was unable to attend.
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THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1961
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At an unpretentious crossroads
restaurant in the northeastern cor-
ner of the state, we settled down in
a dimly lighted corner booth and
observed on the wall a menu, the
most striking line of which read,
“Regular dinner 12 cents’. Prices
of separate dishes were listed in two
columns, which for convenience are
grouped in paragraphs below:
For ten cents: Ham and eggs,
hamburger steak, roast chicken.
For five cents: Liver and bacon,
roast beef or veal, roast mutton,
veal cutlet, chicken stew, fried eggs.
For four cents: Beef or mutton
stew, corn beef and cabbage, fried
fish, beef steak, pork chops, pork
and beans, sausages, pudding.”
For three cents: Fried liver or
heart, hash.
Pies four cents, half pie two cents,
soup two cents, one cent crullers cof-
ee or tea one cent cup, bowl two
cents.
Then we happened to think we
had seen this before somewhere and
looking up to the top it turned out
to be a reproduction of the menu
(New York City) issued in 1834.
Lorenzo Delmonico is credited with
being the first to issue printed list
for his customers.
We finished up by paying a dollar,
plus four cents tax, for a hot roast
i beef sandwich with a scoop of mash-
ed potatoes, a piece of pie, and cof-
fee, all home cooked and very tasty.
The tax stood out- in 1834 it would
have bought half a pie and two cups
of coffee,
After returning home we dug out
a pocket size “Complete Ready Reck-
oner” used by our canal-boat
grandfather, printed in 1839, five
years later than the menu, when
prices were probably about the
same.
It showed wage tables from one-
fourth day to twenty-six days at
rates per week ranging from fifty
cents to $9.50, based on a six-day
week. Taking a middle rate at ran-
dom, it was found that at $6. per
week, one-fourth day poid twenty-
five cents, or just about enough fol
two of Mr. '‘Delmonico’s dinners.
These were probably long days, at
least ten hours, and a quarter of a
day would probably be at least two
hours and a half.
Since what we paid would be just
about the minimum at present
for an hour of work and wages gen-
erally much higher than that, per-
haps the good old days were not too
different: than at present. They
handled much less money, but got
much more for it.
The same book showed rates for
board by the week ranging from
$2.00 to $6.00, all based on a seven
day week. For one day the ‘table
shows, for the respective rates, $.29
to $.86. Imagine getting board for
twenty-nine cents a day or even the
eighty-six.
Interest was computed at six per
cent, one item not changed much.
Apparently the oldtimers did not
like to multiply, and the book gives
over three quarters of its pages to
the value of units up to a hundred
and then by hundreds up to a thous-
and, at prices ranging from one-
fourth cent per unit to five dollars.
The little book gives almost all the
forms an ordinary person would
need including, a note, note with
security, bill of exchange, promis-
sory note, note with interest, judge-
ment note, inland draft, bill of lad-
ing, landlord’s notice to tenant, lay-
ing out a road, review of a road, re-
port of viewers, vacating a road,
letter of credit, filing lien, lease of a
farm, and assignment of lease. Ap-
parently every man had to be his
own lawyer.
And modern pupils might work
out what 27 yards cost at “three
tive-penny-bits’’. Answer $5.06%.
“Receipted bills for the burial of
well known Dedham (Mass.) re-
sidents, from 1837 to 1845, includ-
ing coffin, attending the service and
three tollings of the meeting house
bell did not exceed $11.50” (From
the Dedham Transcript). Probably
funerals were cheap elsewhere dur-
ing the peridd.
The extremely high change in
prices and wages today is not the
result of a slow growth over a hund-
red and twenty-five years since the
menu and little reckoner were is-
sued, but most of the increase has
occurred in our own time. Before the
first World War, I worked on the
local section of the Lehigh Valley
for $1.75 per day for ten hours, hav-
ing quit that summer another job
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which paid $1.50 for ten hours. But
with some of my earnings I went
down to the old Simon Long's Sons
Store on South Main Street, Wilkes-
Barre, and bought a good wool suit
that I wore for years for $13.50. In
fact most of their business was in’
two grades of suits, $1350 and
$16.50. And a really good, large
oyster stew then cost fifteen cents
and a breakfast a quarter.
And taxes all along the line, pil-
ing up one upon another, are re-
sponsible for much of the increase
according to research made by com-
petent people. No doubt unions have
had a large influence in wage in~
creases in this country.
Our national government, also in |
our own time, deliberately devalued
our money which fooled no one in|
the world excepting the American
voters, who were persuaded that the
government was getting and there-
fore would give out ‘something for
nothing”, This philosophy still pre-
vails,
SAFETY VALVE
AS IT SHOULD BE SAID
Dear Editor:
It occurs to me that there is. a
crying need for letter-writers in
the Peace Corps. It should be not
only a lucrative position but a
world-shattering one as well
think how the diplomats would be
clamoring for my services. Young
people wanting to: deseribe for-
eign living conditions to their folks
back home could send me their
impressions and I ‘could then
translate ‘heir well-phrased, hon-
est first-hand reports into the
words I know they really meant
to say in the first place: As the
old saying goes, “It ain't what you
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say, it’s the ‘way that you say it!
- The recently publicized le'ter
waylaid in Nigeria could have
read thusly:
Dear Robert:
‘With all the interesting little
courses we took, we were really
not prepared for the conditions
which exist in both the cities and
suburbs — so quaint, so unsoph-
isticated — untarnished by mod-
ern science and unfettered by rid-
iculous ma‘erial comiforts.
We had no idea what “under-
developed” means. It is a revela-
tion to know that Nigeria ‘could
hardly be classified under this
heading. It is a rewarding exper-
ience to live in a country so abun-
dant in everything good and with
none of the evil one might find
even in the United States. Would
you believe that the people here
have adopted the American cook-
out as their very own, and are so
delighted “with their barbeques
that they hold them every day re-
gardless of .the weather? They
scorn the use of houses and joy-
fully commune with nature twenty
four hours a day. And I simply
must tell you the cleverest thing
of alll These ultra-modern people
have commletely dismensed with
the bathroom, thus saving all sorts
of small change for better uses
‘han wasting it" on rolls of toilet
vamer. They make me feel so old-
fashioned and extravagent I am
almost ashamed of myself.
The university is very enlight-
ening and 1 ifieel completely at
home here being the only white
student in an alldAfrican univer-
si‘ty.
IT do hobe they do not repeat
last year’s little squabbles over
Lumumba. Ome does so dislike to
hear any voice raised above a
lilting speaking tone, doesn’t one?
You must feel so cut-off from
the world back in the states, that
instead of just corresponding with
me. why don’t vou leave what you
foolishly consider the comforts of
home and come work with me in
this great modern land of oppor-
tunity and nature lovers. From
thic day for‘h I absolutely refuse
to live in mv room any longer —
vou will find me on the corher of
Main Street cooking hotdogs over
an oven fire.
P. S. Please bring the mustard.
Hix’s Youngest,
Persis Skoggins
FROM CALIFORNIA
Dear Editor:
People of the world had better
spend less time figthing one a-
nother and pay more attention to
fighting the forces of nature, such
as insects, water shortages and di-
minishing resources, things that
have the final say about how we
live.
Wiliam R. Sullivan
v1 1116 8, Flower
[he Aageles 15 Calif,
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H. LONG
By Hilda Newberry
Last Monday morning at dawn I
drove to Tunkhannock to place the
Caddy in the capable hands of the
Cadillac garage there.
When I left, the head foreman
said, “Want a ride?” “Nope,” I
answered, ‘I'm hiking today.”
It was cold, I tucked my heavy
fur-lined leather jacket tighter; and
swung my grey-flannel clad lags
briskly along. Air was brisk, clean,
and showed signs of clearing.
I kept an eye out for rare birds.
Heard the lowing of just milked
cattle; farm dogs came out barking,
sniffed; went back satisfied I was ho
enemy; horses feeding at a trough,
{ and finally I was well on my way
toward Beaumont. Squirrels ran up
cornstalks, excitedly grabbing a cob
and hurrying to the burial ground
with it. A raccoon took off fast and
a lowly opossum waddled across the
road.
At the high ledge of rocks near
Kloyd Meyers’ restaurant, the birds
took over, greeting me in turns,
very bold and very busy cleaning
bark of insects. Chickadees, cardi-
nals, song sparrows, cedar wax-
wings, blue=jays, gold finches, red-
Horseshoe 4-H Club
Back Mountain Horseshoe 4-H
Club met Saturday morning at the
home of Connie Bogdon, to study
different types of bridles.
Present were: Tommy Estes, Judy
Crispell
Marjorie Waschek, Ellen Bidwell,
Francis Wentzel, Ann Lacy, Connie
Bogdon, David Spencer, Leslie and
Erica Vivian, Resia and Tim Carroll,
Linda Mckeel and Mrs. Tony Bog-
don.
hold a hayride and a square dance.
The next meeting will be at the
Lehman Fire Hall,
To Leave For Germany
Mike Dubil, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Michael Dubil of Huntsville will
leave tomorrow for Fort Dix from
where he expects to be sent to Ger-
many with the U.S. Army for a two
year stretch. His wife,
girl, Dawn Michelle, will
the former’s parents, Mr.
Harry Williams, Kingston,
are able to join him.
stay with
and Mrs.
until they
" Doctor at the bedside of a dying
patient: “Have you any last wish
before you die?” ‘Yes. I wish I
had called another doctor.”
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Lee Johnson, Ron Post, )
On Fr iday evening the club will
and little |.
It Was A Long Cold Hike For Hilda,
But She Did It, And In Record Time
| wings, meadowlarks, wrens, barn-
swallows, kingfishers, and last a
family of crested tit-mice (tiny grey
birds with crest like a cardinal).
Here I was picked up by Bob
| Smith and Ed MdDougal driving the
school bus drivers home to Beau-
mont.
Letting me out at their last turn
(I asked to walk the rest of the
way) I started out again. Suddenly
a great black bird was hit by a car.
When it landed, I picked up its
quivering body, and lo, it was no
crow but a granddaddy raven! I
whispered, “You had many more
things to do, didn't you? But that’ s
life — and death.”
I settled it in my arms baby-
fashion, and hiked on. Bob Smith
came along half an hour later with
his coal truck, and took me along
to my own driveway. Then I hustled
to the phone and the nearest taxi-
dermist.
DALLAS. PENNSYLVANIA |
Free Methodist
Evangelist This Weekend
Rev. Howard Artz, Spring Arbor,
Michigan, will be guest minister at
Trucksville Free Methodist Church
Friday and Saturday, in evangelistic
services 7:30, and Sunday morning
at 10:30.
Saturday afternoon at 1:30 Rev.
! Artz, denominational Director of
Field Services for Free Methodist
Sunday Schools, will conduct a
workshop. Rev. Artz is an authority
on the Sunday School. While past-
oring the Pontiac, Michigan, Free
Methodist Church, that church won
the National Christian Life Sunday
School contest. The next church Mr.
Artz served received Honorable
Mention in the same contest.
The workshop is open to the pub- 5
lic, regardless of denominational af-
filiation.
Following the Workshop, a Fel-
lowship Supper will be served in
Trucksville Firehall.
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