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DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA -
Old Tales Recount Harrowing Days
For Early Back Mountain Settlers
By GARFIELD JACKSON
Here is a bit of local history that
just came to mind, and I thought
it might be of interest to Dallas
Post readers who may have heard
the same story and could verify
or add to it.
It is concerning a family that
lived on the mountain near where
the old Wyoming Camp Ground
was. I read this story in a Sunday
School paper many years ago, but
have never learned the name of
the family mentioned in the story.
During the days before the Wyom-
ing Massacre the Connecticut and
Pennsylvania settlers fought for pos-
session of the Valley and much
property was destroyed. Settlers
ere driven out, and those from
nnecticat moved to the Back
Mountain ' wilderness until things
got quiet. They cleared land and
built log buildings for themselves
and their stock, waiting for things
to be settled so that they could -
again return to the Valley.
There were three husky boys
in this family, and the father told
the boys that they could each take
3 a bag. of grain and go to Pete Har-
ris’ mill and have it ground into
flour. The trip would require a
day. The boys got their grain ready
and intended to start early in the
morning to go to mill. So the father
took down the family Bible, and
while the family gathered round, a
chapter was read, and then they
sang a hymn and had prayer be-
fore the boys left.
When they were about ready te
leave on ‘their journey, the father
suddenly said, “Boys! Something
tells me that you should not go
to mill today. It seems like a divine
warning, and it is so strong that
I can’t let you go.” So the boys
were very disappointed, but re-
mained at home talking among
themselves of their father’s strange
behavior.
So late in the afternoon, one of
the boys took a walk from home,
to a place where he could look down
on the Valley, and he smelled
smoke and was anxious to learn
the cause. This was near what is
known as the Look-Out. He saw
many placed in the Valley where |
smoke was rising, and hurried home
to report, and the whole family |
came to see, and discovered that |
the Indians who had attacked the
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THESE WOMEN!
By d'Alessio
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‘Remember that Congressman we helped send to
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TE had spent the previous day | and girls in 4-H clubs in _Pecinsyl-
right on that spot and had never |
discovered the little: family that
had | been so close all the while.
I told this story to a well known
historian who said he thought it to
be folklore, as the early deeds for
never made out until some time
after the Wyoming Massacre. But
I have been told by my forefathers
that the settlers who were driven
out of the Valley came up over the
mountain and built buildings and
cleared land for crops and after-
wards had deeds made out for their
holdings, after surveys were made.
The mill mentioned was known
as the Tuttle (Tuthill?) mill, pow-
ered by a water wheel, and was
located on a creek near the Stone
Bridge in Forty Fort. This mill was
also operated by Pete Harris at one
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4-H CLUB NEWS
The first meeting of the Clover-
leaf 4-H Club of Luzerne County,
will be held February 15, at Trucks-
ville Fire Hall, at 8 p.m.
All last year’s members are re-
quested to attend. The Pins for
those members with a completion for
the past year will be given out.
Members are urged to bring
guests who are interested in join-
ing'a’' 4-H Club.” \,
This year’s slogan is “4-H is good
for YOUth and good for you.’
The 4-H is an international org-
anization. More than 55 countries
in the world have 4-H or an org-
anization patterned after 4-H.
4-H is sponsored by United States
Department of Agriculture and Penn-
sylvania Extension Servicce.
There are more than 50,000 boys
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property in the Back Mountain were |
boys and - girls
but from the
{ vania, not only
from rural areas,
city and towns.
Cloverleaf 4-H is a club with
members from the Back Mountain
Area. If you are interested in joining
a 4-H Club, attend the first meet-
ing and find the answers to any
questions you may have. No ob-
ligation to join.
Sack Mountain Toastmasters Install
New Officers At Dinner YogHw
| Officers of Back Mountain Club
1553, Toastmasters International
| were installed at a dinner meet-
{ing at Donachie’s Thursday :
Past President John Woychick
| called the meeting to order and
| after, thanking the group for their
i help afforded him during his tenure
| of office, turned the gavel over to |
{ P.M.
Fritzen introducecd the |
1 1963 Farm Show Will
| Jack Hogan; Educational Vice-Presi- |
' Precede Inauguration
the evening’s Toastmaster,
| Fritzen. Mr.
| new
Jerry
officers as follows: President,
| dent, ‘Jerry Fritzen; administrative
Vice-President, George Norton;
Treasurer, Don Edwards; and Secre-
tary, Dick Maslow.
President Hogan thanked
group for their faith in him and |
promised: that the year 1962 would
be a year of growth and accomplish- |
ment as far as the Club is concerned.
Speakers for the evening were
John Woychick, whose topic was
“Milk Price Control”, and Bill
Morgan, who recited from “The
Bombardment”, The evaluators were |
| Ward Jacquish and Walter S. Black.
Present at the meeting were the
following: Paul Monahan, Ward Jac- |
quish, Walter S. Black, John Woy-
chick, Jack Hogan, Keith Yeisley,
Don Edwards,
Fritzen, and George Norton.
Toastmasters International is a
non-profit, nonpartisan, nensectar-
ian educational organization of over |
2800 clubs, providing its members |
with opportunities to improve their |
the
Bill Morgan, Jerry |
also a
like to invite
to our next meeting to
e held at the Dallas Library Annex
building on February 15 at 8:15
great
Date for the 1963 Farm Show has
| been set by the Farm Show Com-
| mission for January 7 to 11.
Ordinarily the Farm Show opens
| the second Monday in January, as
it did this year. Next year’s switch
to the first Monday was occasioned,
(as explained by H. R. McCulloch,
| commission secretary, by the 1963
gubernatorial inaugural.
{| The State’s administrative code
| stipulates that its governors must be
| inaugurated the third Tuesday of
| January immediately following their
| election. Next year the third Tues-
day, January 15, comes in the same
| week as the second Monday, Janu- |B
ary 14.
| for the Farm Show Building. Gov-
| enor Lawrence was inducted there |
| three years ago when severe weath- |
er conditions — a combination of |
i rain, sleet, and snow—forced trans. |
fer of scheduled open air ceremonies
|
abilities to speak in ‘public, conduct in front of the Capitol—to the in- |
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Soon afterward the Legisla-|“
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future inaugurals be indoors at the
Farm Show.
So, to avoid a conflict with the
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