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tik DALLAS POST Established 1889
“More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution
Now In Its Tlst Year”
Member Greater Weeklies Associates, Ine.
,Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Dallas,
Pa. under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates: $4.00 a
year; $2.50 six months. No subscriptions accepted for less than
six months. Out-of-State subscriptions: $4.50 a year; $5.00 six
months or less. Back issues, more than one week old, 15c.
When requesting a change of address subscribers are asked
tu give their old as well as new address.
~Allow two weeks for changes of address or new subscription
to be placed en mailing list.
The Post is sent free to all Back Mountain patients in local
Fiospitals. If you are a patient ask your nurse for it.
We will not be responsible for the return of unsolicited manu-
scripts, photographs and editorial matter unless self ~ addressed,
stamped envelope is enclosed, and in no case will this material be
held for more than 30 days.
‘hat announcements of plays, parties, rummage sales or any affair
for raising money will appear in a specific issue.
Preference will in all instances be given to editorial matter which
has not previeusly appeared in publication.
Editor and Publisher—HOWARD W. RISLEY
; Associate Publisher—ROBERT F. BACHMAN
#eaneiate Editors—MYRA ZFEISER RISLEY, MRS. T. M. B. HICKS
Sports—JAMES LOHMAN
Advertising—ILOUISE C. MARKS
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; Some of our problems develop so gradually that it is
difficult to realize the seriousness of their impact. One
such is inflation. Oscar Schisgall tells in the March Read-
er’'s Digest, for example, how when his son was born in
1931 he arranged to have $2,000 for his college education.
At that time tuition costs at major private universi-
ties ran to about $500 a vear and it seemed a reasonable
idea. But by the time the boy was ready for college
tinuing. inflation.
Despite U. S. cost-of-living figures which show only
an average rise of 23.1 percent] over the past decade,
Schisgall writes, many essential costs have risen from
100 to 300 percent. Medical costs have gone up 47.4 per-
cent. The poor and aged, many of whom live in rooming
houses and eat in restaurants, face similarly spiraling
costs.
aA A pencil that cost two cents ten years ago now costs
six cents, Schisgall writes; a typewriter which cost $130
ten years ago was replaced this year by a new one costing
well over $200.
The article, titled ‘Hidden Hazards of Inflation,” also
notes that the tax collector profits on the 32.1 percent in-
crease in the cost of living: the man who earned $4000
ten years ago, must get about $5000 this year just to
keep up. Yet he paid 20 percent income taxes on his $4000
salary and must pay 22 percent on the higher figure, with
no increase in his real income.
‘ Inflation,” Schisgall concludes, “is a national prob-
lem, a national hazard which affects the lives and for-
tunes of each of us.” Those who wonder how wild infla-
tion can become may well recall that in Germany in 1923
it took a trillion paper marks to equal the value of just
one in 1914. Thus, all Americans should read this article
now—or be prepared to weep later.
Dallds Woman's Club Sponsors ~
Annual Vogue Pattern Contest
Mrs. Fred Eck, narrator for the Vogue Fashion con-
test, sits at the left by Mrs. Raymond Goeringer, one of
‘ the judges. Standing are Mrs. Gustay Kabeschat and
Miss Marian Wolfe
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Peggy Hall, Olga Jerista,
and Barbara Prokopchak,
home-making students, ‘and Mrs. Victor Cross and Mrs.
Robert Milne are modelling outfits of their own making.
Winners of the Vogue sewing con- | to appear at the Wednesday meet-
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sponsored by Dallas Senior
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Member Audit Bureau of Circulations 5
Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association ADL
Member National Editorial Association Cas
Unless paid for at advertising rates, we can give no assurance
tuition costs had more than doubled as a result of con-
and Junior Woman's Club, with
prizes awarded on Monday at Dal-
las Senior High School, are: Peggy
Hall, first prize; Barbara Prokop-
chak, second; runner-up, Olga Jury-
sta; among the women, Mrs, Victor
Cross and Mrs. Robert Milne.
Judging was done in the Home
Economics Room by Mrs. Gustav
Kabeschat, Dallas, regional manager
for Beauty Counselor Make-Up; Mrs.
Raymond Goeringer, sewing instruct-
or at Dallas night school; Mrs.
Marian Wolfe, fashion coordinator
from Fowler Dick and Waker.
First Prize winner may enter the
district contest at Bethlehem March
15. The winner in this contest will
enter a State contest. The National
contest offers a first prize of $1,000.
~ Contestants locally had planned
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ing of Dallas Woman’s Club, but
the meeting was postponed because
of heavy snow.
Mrs, Cross modelled a beige woo!
ensemble with brown hat and ac-
cessories. Mrs. Milne showed a basic
lack wool suit with short box jack-
et and three-quarter sleeves.
Peggy Hall wore a jacket dress
in powder blue brocade, a basic
sheath with jacket.. Barbara Prok-
opchak modelled a gold brocade
afternoon dress, cut in a low V front
and back, Olga Jerista wore a
royal blue outfit with separate
| jacket, and jewel neckline, three
‘quarter sleeves,
Tea was prepared by students
in Mrs. William Watchulonis’ Home-
making class, and served by stud-
ent teachers from College Miseri-
cordia,
Only
Yesterday
Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years
Ago In The Dallas POst
rr mappeNED 3{) YEARS Aco:
Renovation of the old Bank Build-
ing was being speeded for Com-
monwealth Telephone Co. and Harv-
eys Lake Light Company occupancy,
Luzerne County Gas and Electric
planned to have offices in the same
building.
Fred Kiefer owned a page from
the famous Gutenburg Bible. The
single page was valued at $1,200.
Ice was six inches thick at Beech
Laie, and the ice harvest was about
to commence.
Ruggles-Noxen road was to be
relocated with the coming of good
weather, with elimination of a bad
curve ‘at Miller's Corner.
Lehman held the lead in the Rural
League, | with Orange in second
place.
H. A. Bronson, Alderson, had a
lamb that! when ten days old
weighed 29! pounds.
James Oljver unloaded a car-load
of Dodge trucks, the: third car-
load of automobiles for the year
to date. \
An Auxiliaxy to Dr. Henry M.
Laing Fire Company was formed.
Shavertown and Trucksville were
slugging it out Shavertown threat-
ening to withiraw from Kingston
Township. An @ditorial pointed out
that Dallas Bawough and Dallas
Township were | struggling against
financial odds #0 maintain high
schools up to Stalte standards, asked
if the population of Kingston Town-
ship preferred tw® second rate high
schools to one fhest class building
and faculty, ‘a goal which could
be reached by hwmrying a jealous
hatchet. \
Prohibition. was | a ; sore subject,
many thinkers urging its repeal
because of inability: to enforce the
law. i ]
Butter was 2 pounds for 49 cents,
lard 3 pounds for 20; pineapple 2
large cans 29; eggs 21 cents a doz-
en, evaporated milk '3 ‘tall cans for
29, hams 15 cents a pound.
IT HAPPENED 20 YEARS AGO:
Lt. Richard Wellington Cease was
killed in action somewhere in the
Far East, the first Back Mountain
boy to die im World War 2. He
was a navigator on an Air Force
Bomber, Twenty-six years old, he
was son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson
Cease of Trucksville.
Orchard Knob Farm was sold to
Donald Wilkinson and Fred Brok-
enshire, the Johson ‘property passing
for $23,000. x
James Ellsworth Jones, 7, died
after. spending most of his short
life in hospitals with a baffling ail-
ment.
Only eighty acres of tomatoes
were promised by local farmers in
conference with a canner anxious
to tpurchase 350. ;
Registration for the draft showed
467 names, including two father and
son teams and 12 of foreign birth.
Henry Fritzes and son Robert Henry
comprised one father-son team;
Charles E. Gensel and William Gen-
sel another. Many World War 1
men were on the list, including
Robert Bulford, Sheldon Drake, and
William McIntyre.
The rule for no smoking in Dal-
las Borough school buildings was
enforced on visiting organizations.
Names of more than 100 soldiers
were added to the. Post’s mailing
list, gratis, and a precedent was
established to send the home pap-
er all over the world for boys in
service. Letters were beginning to
come from the boys, giving news
of themselves. 4
‘Wardens were given instructions
to turn off street lights at once
when the “red” alert was sounded
in air raid drill.
Mr. and Mrs. A. YA. ‘Neely ob-
served their 55th anniversary.
rr narpeNED 1() YEARS aco:
Mad foxes were still the main
front page news, with four people
getting shots, and manv foxes men-
acing the area. Mrs. Richard Culver,
the registered nurse who had seen
Mrs. Harold Dickson through her
last tortured days at .Nesbitt, was
taking the Pasteur treatment be-
cause of possibility of scratches on
her hands becoming infected.
Donald Derby was bitten on the
“and while changing a tire: Mike
Rrupsha on the heel by the same
animal; Claude Campbell, retrieving
his dog in Loyalville, was’ bitten.
The dog had become infected while
AWOL after a hunting trip. Foxes
were reported everywhere, all of
‘hem acting strangely unafraid of
'uman beings. The Game Commis.
sio was starting a program of trap-
sing.
The Whitesell Brothers were
working on a 180 home develop-.
ment at Oak Hill, expecting to
get twenty homes finished the
first year. )
Chick Smith was mamed head
of the Sixth Library Auction.
Paul Winter had his hat in the
ring for Congress.
Married: Irma Marcini to Dennis
Ferry; Mary Tomascik to John J.
Comer.
Died: Mrs. Burton Wilcox, 52, Out-
let. Mrs. Alex Mahoney, 45, Fern-
brook. George ‘Youngblood, form-
erly of Shavertown, at 61. Chester
Puterbaugh, 58, formerly of Harv.
eys Lake. t :
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Well known in this area for near-
ly seventy years and in Dallas
Borough for about half that length
of time, John H. Frantz died rec-
| ently in Cleveland, Ohio, at age
84.
A little over fifty years ago, with
his’ father-in-law John B. Hilde-
brant, Mr. Frantz bought the Char-
les D. Gregory grist mill along the
railroad: tracks on ‘the southeast
side: of Rice or Mill Street. It was
a grinding mill then, quite an
interesting operation, which elev-
ated grain and then passed it
down through various processes,
until it came out as flour or feed
or both, The firm also sold processed
products of a similar nature, hay,
straw, fertilizer, coal, etc. This is
the building used by A. C. Devens
for storage, across the street from
his office. The adjoining building
up the street, several times since
remodeled, was the barn used for
the heavy teams used in the busi-
ness. These were soon followed by
trucks.
The partners built adjoining new
houses on Norton Avenue. Mr.
Hildebrant owned and lived in the
corner house at Spring Street, now
occupied by the Joseph family. The
Frantz family, including Mrs. Frantz,
Ola Hildebrant, and daughter
Arline, lived next door. Arline be-
came a teacher and taught in Dal-
las schools for a time.
In 1911, Mr. Frantz was elected
a trustee of The Methodist Church
and served on the official board in
various capacities for many years.
Ola Frantz sang in the church choir
and was active in the women’s org-
anizations of the church. Mr. Frantz
was active In civic affairs and held
various borough offices. His signa-
ture appears on my high school
diploma, 1911, along with W. H.
Whipp, F. M. Gordon, Chester White,
F. M. Garrahan, and William Bul-
ford. He survived all the others.
Mr. Frantz was noted for a smile
or a grin, which ever seemed ap-
propriate, and liked to chuckle and
laugh heartily. One day I happened
to go into his place of business
SE EE EE EET TU HET CT ET ERA
Rambling Around
By The Oldtimer—D. A. Waters
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and he was laughing with no one
in sight. Said he, “I just started
something, and you watch a few
months and see if I am not telling
the truth.” Then he went on to
explain that he had just arranged
a nice local girl, of rather uncertain
age, to a likely fellow from a near-
by town. His laughter was justified.
Shortly thereafter they were mar-
ried and some of their descendants
live in town to this day.
Another time we fell to discussing
the public schools. Like many others,
he felt that the modern schools
(this was before World War 1) were
not as efficient as the old ones.
Then he gave me a problem used
extensively in old Dallas High
School by Prof. Frank F. Morris:
“A farmer with a barn fifty feet
square tied a cow at the middle of
one side with a hundred and twenty-
five feet of rope. How many square
feet can she graze?”
I went home and used up a
couple of sheets of foolscap and a
lot of time before I fell on a solu-
tion. Since that time I have used
this problem regularly to take the
wind out of the mathematical smart
alees, and usually get them in a
daze on a few. minutes. Then. they
sneak off to some high school
teacher for help.
Also, quoting Mr. .Morris, Mr.
Frantz said he would like to see
any present day high school pupils
start out from scratch and trans-
late the Lord’s Prayer into Latin
and make it come out like the
official Church Latin version. Of
course the trick in this was that
the several English versions do not
in them selves agree in every word,
and the official Latin version does
not include the final clauses at all.
In a friendly letter to my wife,
Mrs. Bertha Blockage, wife of David
Blockage, one of the first printers
on the DALLAS POST and long
time barber, printer, and local pol-
iticlan in Dallas, asks about her
old friends and comments on this
column. She says they are both
well.
Safety Valve
APPRECIATES CONCERT
Dear Editor:
On Sunday, February 18th we
had the privilege of attending a
concert and recital on the organ at
the new High School. We would
like to extend our congratulation
and praise to the Dallas Area School
District for putting its equipment
and facilities to such use, whereby
the public is able to enjoy this new
building as well as to have their
cultural needs full filled.
Recently we read or heard that
our new modern expensive schools
are not being fully utilized in many
respects, but we feel that the Dal-
las Area Schools are proceeding in
the right direction in this matter,
with evening classes for adult edu-
cation and such an affair as was
held Sunday.
We hope in the near future more
opportunities of this mature will be
made available to the residents of
the Back Mountain Area. Once
again we say to our local school
authorities, “Thank you.”
Mr. and Mrs. Percy Love
and Family
WE MISS HER, TOO
Feb. 13, 1962
Dear Mr. Risley:
As everyone knows the ‘Dyer’s
loved every part of Dallas—but
Norton Ave., especially, will never
be the same without Maggie.
She meant so very much to each
of us and the most beautiful words
written about her in the Dallas Post
just received were to us the most
gracious expression of love I've
ever read.
Thank you,
Sincerely,
Virginia K. Dyer
Largo, Fla.
The line between properties is
never more closely defined than
when your meighbor shovels his
front walk,
Local Bovs Combletina
Basic Training In 8S. C.
Two Back Mountain boys are
completing basic training at Fort
Jackson, S. C. They entered the
service January 3, their numbers
drawn in the draft.
Pvt, Arthur Spencer, and Pvt.
| Donald G. Steltz, both attended Leh-
Iman Schools, Steltz graduating in
| 1957.
| Spencer, a pole-man for Sordoni
{ Construction Company, is son of Mr.
rand Mrs. David L. Spencer, 33
Elizabeth Street, Dallas.
Steltz, son of Mr, and Mrs. George
Steltz Jr., Sweet Valley RD 1, was
a mechanic at Meeker's Garage in
Kunkle before induction.
During the last two weeks of
the eight weeks of basic training,
soldiers live in the field under sim-
ulated battle conditions, applying
knowledge gained during the first
six weeks.
Both boys are with Compay C,
18th Battalion, Fifth Training Regi-
ment.
Cavnles Club Sea Slides
Of European Trip
Idetown Couples Club were host
to Lehman Methodist Couples Club,
Saturday night at the Idetown
church house.
Sam Davenport showed slides of
his recent European trip.
Present were: Rev. and Mrs. Nor-
man Tiffany, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Bergstrasser, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Al Swelgin,
Mr, and Mrs. Richard Ide Mr. and
Mrs. Merrel Burnett, Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Ide, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall
Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Stroud, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Sweit-
zer, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Fox, Mr.
and Mrs. Arlington Vanderhoff, Mr.
and Mrs. Sterling Barnes.
Mrs. Marshall Harrison and Mrs.
Joe Ide served refreshments,
Rubber Stamps
Made To Your Design
THE DALLAS POST
Turn Signals
Now Required
On All Autos
Trucks Must Have
Additional Flashers
Under New State Law
Owners of passenger and com-
mercial vehicles in Pennsylvania
must bring vehicles into compli-
ance with new lighting and reflector
equipment requirements as quickly
as possible.
Recent amendments to the Motor
Vehicle Code require that all ve-
!hicles including passenger type be
equipped with electrically operated
directional signals, and that com-
mercial vehicles meet new standards
involving approved lights and re-
flectors, plus the installation of a
hazard warning switch.
Commissioner O. D. Shipley, Com-
mission of Traffic Safety, said, “Al-
though the deadline for compliance
with the new amendments has been
extended until October 31, it would
ibe unwise for vehicle owners to
{wait until the last minute to have
new equipment installed. The best
time to have this work done 'is
during the semi-annual inspection
periods.”
The electrical turn signal require-
ment will affect older model autos,
other than those registered as ‘‘an-
tique,” as well as foreign-made cars
and commercial vehicles not
equipped with turn signals.
Among the more important of the
new lighting provisions affecting
commercial vehicles is one requiring
hazard warning switch equipment.
“The new hazard signaling is an
important safety innovation that
will reduce the number of rear-
end collisions at night,” Commis-
sioner Shipley said. So
The law states that every motor
bus, motor omnibus, and every
commercial vehicle including pickup
trucks and house trailers must be
equipped with a switch which will
cause signals to flash simultaneous-
ly when the vehicle is disabled on
a highway or its shouder.
The hazard switch regulation also
calls for a red “tell-tale” indicator
either installed on the dash or
incorporated in the switch itself.
Equipment must be of a type ap-
proved by the Secretary of Reven-
ue.
Shipley pointed out that the
switch requirement is patterned af-
ter a recent Interstate Commerce
Commission rule and that Pennsyl-
vania is the first state to adopt
and apply the I.C.C. standard on a
state-wide basis.
The Commissioner said, “The new
lighting standards give Pennsylvania
the most complete vehicle lighting
program of any state in the nation.”
Mrs. Arline Rood Wins
PTA Life Membership
Those, who attended the Dallas
Borough PTA meeting on Monday
evening were enthraalled by ‘the
program. Miss Enid Housty, sen-
ior in the music department at
College Misericordia, from George-
town, British Guiana, gave a brief
piano recital, brilliant and inspir-
ing. i SH
A birthday party in recognition
of Founders’ Day was held, and
a collection taken for Pennsylvania
Congress of Parents and Teachers.
Mrs. Arline Rood was given honor-
ary life membership in the PTA.
Mrs, Stephen Hartman, Jr., pre-
sided [Plans were revealed for a
movie which will be held March 3
at the Dallas Township school,
open to children of all ages.
Room visitations were held, and
a social period folowed. Refresh-
ments were served by mothers of
Mrs. Steele’s and Miss Davis’ third
grades. The attendance award
was won by Mrs. Fleming's second
grade.
More Trout For Area
Lakes This Week
Pennsylvania Fish Commission
planted 1500 brook and 1500 rain-
bow trout at Lake Silkworth on
Monday.
Two plantings of trout were sched-
uled for this week at Harveys Lake,
one on Monday, of 2,500 and 2,500
rainbow trout, and one on Wednes-
day, 4,000 each of brook and rain-
bow trout.
The first planting took place last
Friday, 4,000 rainbow, 4,000 brook.
Plantings of large trout are made,
not fingerlings. 2
Electric Home Heating
Advantages Outlined
If you're planning to build or re-
model, heating experts claim your
home will stay modern if you sel-
ect electric heat. They state that
{ there are no fumes, no smoke or
soot, because there are no ducts,
chimney, or furnace!
That means electric heat system
installation costs are .lower. And
with an electric heating system
there are no seasonal check-ups and
clean-ups to get ready for the heat-
ing months. Service is reduced too,
for electric heat has no moving
parts, There is less chance for break-
downs in the middle of a cold
snap.
For full electric home heating
system details, call your electric
power company.
A smart man never tells his wife
a secret—he just thinks he does.
From
Pillar To Post...
by Hix
I had been looking forward to getting back my savings account
pass-book. Like a miser gloating over his coins, I had figured out
the amount of interest due since the last deposit some three years
before, and visualized the nice black figures added for free to the
total. ~
There were things about that pass-book that I treasured.
Twenty years old, it was, and its entries sketched a history.
There was the happy time when a small legacy came my way,
and was prompty stashed away to hatch.
There was the year when everything was going out and nothing
coming in, a painful account of withdrawal after withdrawal.
There was the sizable figure representing the down paymen*
on a house, and a correponding entry from my mother. How many
years ago? Twelve? Thirteen? '
Then, for a time, there were steady deposits. Birthday presents
and Christmas presents. “An occasional welcome bonus. Repayment,
me to me, of moneys abstracted for the account with a firm resolve
to replace them.
One withdrawal indicated a drilled well, and a pretty penny
THAT took out of the account.
A graph of a period, a whole middle of a life. :
There were some important dates to remember. They were
doubtless entered in the House Book, but they would also appedr
in the pass-book.
Let’s see, now, when it was that a daughter-in-law was at the
point of death? Ten years ago, eleven? The pass-book has the
answer. The years are beginning #o fly: The pass-book holds
them all. Important transactions, personal things, Not to be
entrusted to a check book, buried in the anonymous mechanization
of a modern bank.
The envelope from the bank. The decision not to open it until
evening, when there would be time to go over it at leisure, and
run a finger down the entries, the tragic and the triumphant, re-
living an important period of time.
The envelope seems strangely glossy. How nice of the bank
to replace it with a new jacket.
And now for the pass-book.
Stiff and new and gleaming, it emerged from the jacket.
Only one entry, the latest. Plus of course the interest.
the total
And
Twenty years reduced to one line. :
“You can’t do this to me,” I wailed over the phone the next
day.
“Where is my old pass-book?”
“But you have a nice new passbook, and it is all up to date,
interest and all.
You NEEDED a new book.”
“It isn’t the same. 1 need the entries and the dates. Puhlease
send me my old book.”
“We changed ALL the books some time ago.
The only reason
your's wasn’t changed is because you haven't made any deposits
recently.”
(Maybe I should let the bank in on the news that Savings
Loan Associations yield a better rate of intérest, and that any
little spare change that came my way was automatically put to
work in a more fertile soil.)
“Won’t you see if you can locate it?
I need it for reference.”
“We'll look. Could be it’s down in the storage room instead’
of having been destroyed.”
“Oh, THANK you.”
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THE CIVILWAR |
(Events exactly 100 years ago this week in the Civil War—
told in the language and style of today.)
Jefferson Davis Becomes
South’s First President
RICHMOND, Va.—Feb. 22—Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as
permanent president of the Confederate States of America in a rain-
soaked ceremony here today.
The 53-year-old native of Mis-
sissippi gave a crackling inaugu-
ral address, criticizing the north’s
President Abraham Lincoln. on
several points, but seemed unahle
to draw the crowd out of its gen-
eral air of gloom.
Accounts reaching this Confed-
erate capital of decisive defeats
in Tennessee, notably at Fort Don-
elson last week, have plunged
the city into despair and for-
boding.
Alexander H. Stephens of Geor-
gia, 50-year-old former Congress-
posts provision-
ally when the
STEPHENS = ago.
Davis is a striking-looking man
—more than six feet tall, with
finely-etched features and eyes
the color of pine cone smoke.
He served as secretary of war
under President Franklin Pierce
from 1853 to 1857 and was twice
a U.S. Senator from Mississippi.
* * *
BORN JUNE 3, 1803, in Ken-
tucky—ironically, only 100 miles
from the birthplace of Lincoln—
Davis was the 10th child of
Samuel Davis, a tobacco planter
who served in Georgia during
the Revolutionary War. :
Davis attended Transylvania
University in Lexington, Ky., and
later the U.S. Military Academy
at West Point, graduating in 1833,
23rd in a class of 33.
He served in the Blackhawk
war and with distinction in
the Mexican conflict, being
wounded at Buena Vista.
Personal tragedy blighted his
young adulthood.
His first wife Sarah, daughter
of former president Zachary Tay-
lor, died three months after their
marriage. The present Mrs.
Davis, the former Anne Howell,
is the daughter of a rich Missis-
sippi planter. ; ;
The Davis plantation, ‘“Brier-
field,” on the high banks of the
Mississippi, is a Southern show-
place.
* *
WHILE SERVING in Congress
as a representative of Georgia,
Stephens, a small, intense man,
earned a reputation as a hard and
unswerving fighter.
He and Lincoln were allied, as
fellow Whig congressmen, in op-
posing the Mexican war, and
Stephens has battled incessantly
Begins six-year term
nterim Con-|84
against the Know-Nothings and
anti-Catholic movements in Geor-
“He is widely quoted as once
having told a Know-Nothing
group:
“I am afraid of nothing on the
earth, or above the earth, or
under the earth, except to do
wrong.”
Earlier this week, the Confed-
eracy’s new permanent constitu-
tion went into effect. The docu-
ment differs from the original
U.S. constitution in many re~
spects, notably:
—The president is elected for
a six-year term and cannot suc-
ceed himself.
—Specific mention was made of
slaves and the rights of slave
owners, although further importa-
tion of slaves is prohibited.
President’s
Son Dead at 11
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Feb. 21—
The capital was saddened today
by the death of William Wallace
Lincoln, 11-year-old third son of
President Lincoln.
The chief executive and his wife
were reported to be plunged in
grief. Their eldest son, Robert
Todd, is enroute from Harvard
University to join them.
The death of young William is
the second severe blow to the Lin-
coln family. Another son, Ed-
ward, died in Springfield, IIl.,
home of the Lincolns before the
election that proclaimed Mr. Lin-
coln president.
And their youngest son, Thomas
—whom they call “Tad”—is re-
ported to be dangerously ill, con-
fined to his White House room.
Cause of William’s death has
not been determined, but typhoid
is suspected. }
(Copyright, 1962, by Hegewisch News
Syndicate, Chicago 33, Ill. Photos:
National Archives (Brady for Signal
Corps) and Library of Congress.)
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