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Editor and Publisher—HOWARD W. RISLEY
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Because of lack of interest and indifference on the
| part of weekly newspaper editors of the country, this will
be the last appearance of 100 years Ago in the Civil War.
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100Years Ago This Week.. in
THE CIVILWAR
(Events exactly 100 years ago this week in the Civil War—
told in the language and style of today.)
Going Up!
RICHMOND, Va.—The use of balloons for battlefield observa-
tion was widespread during the second year of the Civil War.
Here a typical gasbag designed by Professor T. S. C. Lowe is
being inflated with mobile generators. (Library of Congress)
+ TARGET: “STAR OF SOUTH”
Fierce Naval Battle On
For New Orleans, La.
Farragut’s Forces Hammer Away
At Defending River Bastions
NEW ORLEANS, La.—April 24—A massive land and sea vattle
‘is under way with the City of New Orleans, star of the South,
the Union objective.
At dawn today, a fleet of 20
Union warships commanded by
Capt. David G. Farragut stepped
up its week-old attack on forts
and ships defending New Or-
leans, and the battle began in
earnest.
Primary targets for the Un-
ion gunners were Forts Jackson | boom below the forts.
and St. Phillip, which command 5 2%
the major approaches to the| LEADING a brief counterat-
historic, rich metropolis. tack was the Confederate ram
* x * Manassas, secure in heavy armor
IN THE past week Farragut’s | Plate. She rammed the first of
guns have sailed more than 15,- | the Union ships, but was hastily
000 rounds against the forts, but | beaten off and finally was run
their guns still were active at |aground.
the beginning of today’s hos- After sinking the Varuna,
tilities. the Moore bowed to concen-
Farragut’s flagship, the trated fire of smaller Fed-
U.8.S. Hartford, was dam- eral ships, and finally was
aged and run aground after run aground and sunk with
being rammed by a Confed- a loss of 60 dead and 20
| : erate fire-barge, but was re- wounded. 2
floated in time to participate - | Farragut then regrouped his
in the windup of the action. | battered forces into assault for-
| A major loss to the Union was | mation and headed upriver fo-
the sleek warship U.S.S. Varuna, | Ward New Orleans, which is
a 10- er noted for speed and | being defended by Confederate
Oe She was mortally | Maj. Gen. Mansfield Lovell and
damaged by guns of the South- | his 3,000 troops.
ern sidewheeler Moore. A Union force estimated at
During today’s pre-dawn con- | 18,000, under command of Maj.
flict the skies were as bright as | Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, re-
daylight. portedly is en route to New
Southern forces on shore lit | Orleans to bolster Farragut's
Ise ponfres to illuminate the |sea attack with a land assault,
the battle, Hebel fire-harges| ¢,Comrient, 100%, Toceviech ous
moved in ghostly fashion in and | Library of Congress.)
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around the towering invading
ships.
The pounding of the guns
reached a peak about 4 a.m.
when, in a daring move, Farra-
gut led his fleet into a channel
blasted through a protective
Safety Valve
LET'S BUY THE THEATRE
Dear Sirs:
I have been a resident of Dallas
for two years and have noticed
the lack of recreation for young
people in the Back Mountain Area.
In our town we have the YMCA
and the bowling alley. At the Y, the
facilities are very limited and in
order to go to the bowling alley,
there is always a transportdtion
problem.
As you can see, there is no
place for us to spend our spare time.
The opening of the Himmler
Theatre would be the first step
in adding to our recreation. If
your newspaper would give the
building more publicity, I'm sure
someone would buy it. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Dee Dee Pope
Dallas Sr. High.
95 Warden Avenue
Trucksville, Pa.
oThere’'s an idea! Why not have
the town buy it and run it as a
community theatre, profits, if any
to go to some worthy community
project. They do that in Hanover,
New Hampshire—Editor.
SUPPORT THE LIBRARY
Dear Sirs:
I have read your editorial on
the Dallas Library which appeared
in the Spring Edition on April 5.
I agree with your viewpoint that
the library should be given more
support. I, as a sophomore at Dal-
las Senior High School depend on
our library very much and I am
sure I could not get along with-
out it. It helps me quite a lot with
my school studies and extra re-
ports.
Also, I usually take several books
out a week for pleasure reading.
I believe that such a small com-:
munity as Dallas is really lucky
to have a fine library like ours.
I for one would really miss the
library if it were to close, and I
hope this will never happen.
Sincerely yours,
Susan Cheney
191 E. Center Hill Road
oTt's a wonderful institution, isn’t
it? If you enjoy books, why don’t
you ask Mrs. Wirt if you could
work at the library this summer?
There is a great shortage of train-
ed librarians in the United States.
You might want to follow library
work as a career after college.—
Editor.
APPRECIATES NEW HIGH SCHOOL
Dear Editor:
I would personally like to thank
those taxpayers in Dallas. Area
whose forsight has led to the con-
struction and use of the new Dal-
las Senior High School.
These people have taken a step
that will provide a better way for
Dallas, and: America.
With these new and better fa-
cilities and programs, Dallas will
cdimb one step higher among the
ranks of the best educational sys-
tems in Pennsylvania.
It is the duty of the students
of Dallas to show their apprecia-
tion by using this school to the
best of our abilities.
Sincerely yours,
Linda Tag
306 Huntsville Rd.
‘Your letter makes a great many
people happy—Editor.
Dear Sir:
1 am writing to you concerning
the Kingston Township Planning and
Zoning Commission and why I
think Dallas Township should be a
part of it.
The commission consists of five
independent individuals, working
together as an. advisory group for
future development “of Kingston
Township.
The aim of the commission is
to develop a comprehensive plan of
land organization which will expand
the community for the future. This
aim is being carried into effect
by the enactment of legislation to
control certain areas. For example,
the township will be sub-divided in-
to districts and each district will be
controlled to be either residential,
mining, agricultural or industrial.
As you can see, in fifteen or
twenty years, Kingston Township
will be a well organized commun-
ity. Dallas Township has the op-
portunity to join the commission
and it seems important to its. fut-
ure development that it look into
this, The people of Dallas Township
should reali¥e the advantage, and
those who advocate it should get
together and do everything they
can to become a part.
Sincerely yours,
John Farley
81 E. Center Hill Rd.
Dallas.
oWhy don’t you speak to the
Dallas Township Supervisors—Mr.
Krimmel, Mr. Brace and Mr. Lam-
oreaux about this?—Editor
GIVE THEM ALL A BREAK
Dear Sir: |
In reading the April 5th issue
of the Dallas Post, I noticed an
| editorial indirectly boosting the sale
of Blue Cross and Blue Shield Hos-
pitalization. 1 am referring to
“Editorially Speaking: A Barrier
Against Complete Catastrophe, Blue
Cross and Blue Shield.” I say “in-
directly” because had this sales
promotion been in the form of an
advertisement, I could readily un-
derstand that it would have come
directly from the company.
In thig particular instance, a
local newspaper provides space to
THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1962
a |
Rambling Around
By The Oldtimer—D. A. Waters
EE EASES EA 0 C3 CEASE EE
SINCE
The Do-Gooders and Welfare
Staters are working us around to
the point where the town dwellers,
if they vote right, can relax in cen-
trally heated, subsidized housing
and watch television, while they
wait for the mailman to deliver
their welfare checks. Not so the
birds. When they need housing,
they do something about it.
Just before Good Friday a pair of
chicadees selected a dead part of a
limb in the middle of an apple tree,
where there would be cooling
breezes all summer and an ample
cover of foliage overhead and
started their annual family duties.
Soon they had drilled a hole about
the diameter of a half dollar and
then started down the limb. The
opening was on the south side, pro-
tected from cold winds. They
worked in assembly line motion,
one entering the hole while the
other perched nearby on a handy
limb, and took turn. Soon the
ground for several square yards was
sprinkled with wood crumbs, about
like a coarse sawdust. Apparently
they spread these about as wide as
the limbs extended to avoid an ac-
cumulation which might call atten-
tion to the nest. It did not take
long to get the hole deep enough to
conceal the bird, and wide enough
for it to turm around and come out
head first.
Just once, in my early married
life, I looked out and saw at the
edge of the orchard a mother quail
and half a dozen little ones. Their
familiar “Bob-white"” is no longer
heard as much as in years gone by.
Once a porcupine appeared and
was treed at the corner of Parrish
and Huntsville Street, and a deer
crossed at the corner of Davenport.
Street and headed up to the
Reynolds property now occupied by
the Northrup family. We lost sweet
corn for several seasons due to
some animal that would break
down the ears, sometimes the whole
stalk, shred the husks lengthwise of
the ear with sharp claws and nibble
the kernels. While never seen, it
was the general opinion that the
animal was a raccoon. There are
fully as many rabbits around now,
apparently, as there were half a
century ago.
There are plenty of deer to be
seen about dusk out on route 118.
Recently we saw eight about fifteen
miles from home on the left side,
ACIIITIRCIHI
up in a field across ‘from the new
square blue house being finished
and three in a field beyond. A few
days before we saw even more on
the other side just beyond the old
red house about five miles from
Ricketts Glen Park. Probably there
are more deer now than years ago,
but it may be that we get out more
where we can see them.
Up to about half a century ago
every country store and also the
newer hardware stores sold steel
traps and every country boy owned
a string of them. Muskrat fur was
fairly common then, it may be now.
A few smart boys could catch mink.
Most of us had to be satisfied with
skunk. A family dog, thoroughly
impregnated with skunk’ odor, was
no novelty. A large skunk ambled
up our driveway in daylight only a
couple of years ago.
Most people today have got away
from early rising, but not the birds.
About daylight they put on a
chorus, fully as good as they did
years ago. And in the evening, we
who live near even a little water can
hear the plaintive cry of the peepers..
The roads are littered with the
bodies of small animals that can
not get accustomed to modern traf-
fic. Maybe a lot of them are smart
and quick enough now to escape
and are never seen. ‘Several pheas-
ants can be seen in a day’s drive in
almost any direction. |
Hedgerows of brush along the
roadsides and between the fields
made cover for many small animals
and birds. - Now the utilities are
engaged in a systematic annihilation
of roadside cover and the farmers
‘have removed most fence hedge-
rows, either to make bigger fields
or place wire or electric fences.
On the other hand, a lot of once
cleared farms are now growing up
to brush, either due to the death of
the older generation, removal of the
family to town, or closing off the
entire area.’
About the most depressing ride
that can be imagined is to ride
around a square in Jackson Town-
ship, near the new Correctional In-
stitution, where all the farms along
the road have been abandoned, the
buildings boarded up or falling
apart, and the fields given over to
brush and weeds. The same situa-
tion obtains where game refuges
and bird sanctuaries are being
created.
comment favorably on one specific
form of medical insurance protec-
tion when there are many more
companies which offer protective
services of this nature that are
equal, and perhaps in.some cases
much better, as far as the costs
and benefits are concerned.
According to recent newspaper
articles I have concluded that Blue
Cross and Blue Shield are con-
tinually increasing ithe cost of their
premium in comparison to other
well established companies who of-
fer such policies that rarely, if ever
show an increase in the cost of
the premium.
Perhaps I might suggest you give
similar newspaper coverage to other
companies who also have worth-
while offers regarding hospitaliza-
tion policies.
Sincerely,
Sharon Titus
184 Huntsville Road
Dallas :
eNow you've got me. Is Blue
Cross a public or private institu-
tion? That sometimes makes a
difference. If it is a profit making
Institution it should not be favored
over old line companies who have
to pay for their advertising. You
have touched on a subject that is
at the very heart of much of our
current political controversy. —Ed-
itor.
THE PRESIDENTS DARK CLASSES
LEtter to the Editor
To promote the general welfare
(as he sees it) the President on
April 11th used the awesome power
of his office to humiliate, coerce
and weaken the wonderful Private
Capitalism which has showered such
abundance on this fortunate nation
and on every nation in which it has
been tried.
Lenin did what he did — to pro-
mote the general welfare of his
people (as he saw it).
Hitler did what he did — to pro-
mote the general welfare of his
people (as he saw it).
Stalin did what he did — to pro-
mote the general welfare of his
people (as he saw it).
Mao Tse-tung does what he does —
to promote the general welfare
of his people’ (as he sees it).
Khruschev does what he does—to
promote the general welfare of
his people ( as he sees it.
Castro does what he does — to pro-
mote the general welfare of his
people (as he sees it).
A deep distrust of and contempt
for Private Capitalism has and will
prevent these six foreign Dictators
from promoting the general welfare
of their peoples.
Our President’s. education, his
votes in the U.S. House and Senate
and his actions as President all re-
veal him as a man who looks on life
through glasses darkened by the fis-
cal fallacies of Keynesian Socialism
—with its built-in pressures toward
inflation, its contempt for and dis-
trust of Private Capitalism and its
unjustified faith in the competence
and wisdom of government “plan-
ners” and bureaucrats who are
hamstrung (more often than not)
by the red tape engendered by their
[own regulations and procedures.
Our Founding Fathers took great
pains to bequeath to us a Constitu-
tion especially designed to prevent
any Damagogue from acquiring
enough power = to impose on the
Country his own fallible notions of
how best to promote the general
welfare. Let us hope and pray the
President will remove his dark
glasses before it is too late!
Sincerely yours,
Helen Payson Corson :
Co-chairman, Penna. Commit-
tee for Economic Freedom.
Plymouth Meeting,
Penna.
' ADVICE TO TEEN-AGERS
Dear Editor:
Will you kindly reprint the fol-
lowing which I believe bears re-
peating frequently.
The following is the reply Judge
Phillip Gillian of Denver, Colorado,
gave the teenagers when they ask-
ed what they could do? Where
they could ‘go?
“Go home. Hang the storm wind-
ows, paint the woodwork, rake the
leaves, mow the lawn, shovel the
snow, visit the sick, help the poor,
study your lessons, and then when
you are through and not .too tired,
read a good book. Your parents
do not owe you entertainment. Your
city or town does not owe you
recreation facilities, The world does
not owe you a living. You owe some-
thing to the world. You owe your
time, energy and your talents so
that no one will be at war or in
poverty or lonely again.
“In simple words, Grow Up, quit
being a cry baby. Get out of your
dream world, develop a backbone,
not a wish bone. You are supposed
to be a mature person, to accept
some of the responsibilities your
parents have carried for years. They
have nursed, protected, helped, ap-
pealed, begged, excused, tolerated
and denied themselves many times
so that you may benefit.
“This they have done gladly for
you, you are their dearest treasure.
But now you have no right to
expect them to bow to your every
whim and fancy because your sel-
fish ego instead of common sense
dominates your personality. In heav-
en’s name, grow up and go home!”
BELLS ACROSS NATION
Dear Howard:
Daddow-Isaacs Post 672, Ameri-
can Legion, Dallas, Ed. Buckley,
Commander, wishes to thank you
for the fine job you did to make
our program, “Bells Across the Na-
tion,” a success in Dallas.
Your timely editorial and explan-
ation of the program did much to
make the people aware that our
Freedom cannot be taken for grant-
ed.
Yours very truly,
Tom Reese, Adjutant,
Blessed are they who do not think
they could run a paper better than
the editor runs it. Yes, thrice
blessed are they, because there are
so few of them in the commun-
ity.
Only
Yesterday
Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years
Ago In The Dallas POst
IT HAPPENED 30 YEARS AGO:
Teachers and principal of Dallas
Borough Schools took salary cuts
to help balance the budget, and a
number of economies were affected.
In spite of these actions, millage
threatened to rise by 5, and a new
teacher had to be employed. Her
salary was to be $900. Millage
increased to 30, and per capita
tax of $5, brought millage to the
same level as that of Dallas Town-
ship.
Schools opened a campaign against
diphtheria, decided to give toxoid
shots to pupils.
Pennsylvania birth rate showed
a steady decline.
Camp Acahela lowered its camp-
ing rates.
Daniel TF. Westover, 45, died.
Failing health dictated his retire-
ment from Miner's Bank. He had
been with - Wyoming Valley Trust
Co., was its assistant cashier when
it merged with Miner's.
Postograph = expanded both its
physical plant and its work force to
keep pace with increased demand
for its: products.
Acme Market moved from the
Landau building to the corner of
Main and Center Streets. Rumor
was that Giant Market might oc-
cupy the former store space.
Lazarus was observing its 38th
birthday anniversary.
You could get your car washed
and polished for $3.
rr uAppENED 2() YEARS AGO:
Registration of residents for rat-
ioning was carried out by local
teachers.
A roaring brush fire endangered
three houses in Ferabrook. Students
helped extinguish the blaze.
Rev. Francis Freeman left Dallas
Methodist Church for Firwood, Rev.
Austin L. Prynn was the new past-
or. Rev. Harry [Savacool was trans-
ferred from Trucksville to Owego,
N.Y. Replacement was Rev. Clayton
Hoag.
Rhoda Eddinger was selected for
May Queen at Dallas Township.
Herbert Lundy bought the Sulli-
van Building, laid plans to remodel
it into three modern stores, a tav-
ern, and three. second floor apart-
ments. Price was under $10,000.
Heard from in ‘Safety Valve, these
service men: Charles W. Lamor-
eaux, Camp Livingston, Louisana;
Albert J. Crispell, Camp Pendelton;
Bill Rhodes, Newport, R.IL
Frances Sayre became the bride
of Stacy Schoonever.
The John Mericals observed their
65th anniversary.
Frank Swanson, native of Swed-
en and Harveys Lake resident since
1915, died after a long illness.
rr mappENED 1() YEARS AGO:
George Swan Jr., Shavertown, was
lost at sea with the Destroyer Hob-
son, which was rammed and sunk
by the USS Aircraft Carrier Wasp
in the North Atlantic.” Swan, 24,
had been with the Navy since 1949.
Back Mountain ‘fire companies
battled a stubborn blaze in the Burt-
on Roberts home, Shavertown.
Property owners were wondering
whether or not to lease their lands
to oil prospectors.
Melvin Crispell and Bert Cross,
Beaumont, decided to try out ‘with
the St. Louis Browns.
Westmoreland High School Girls
Swimming Team took second place
in . competition in Wilkes-Barre.
Married: Shirley Britt to Burt
Updyke. Florence Yokavitch to Ziba
Smith Jr. Shirley Anthony to David
Sutton. Sally Marie Roberts - to
Samuel Brown.
Dallas Township May Queen was
Joan Davis. [Lake Noxen Queen,
Alice Eppley.
Audrey Lutz, two year old daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lutz of
Orange, drowned in" a water-filled
excavation in her back yard.
Harold G. Payne, vice president
of Commonwealth Telephone Comp-
any, was elected president of the
Pennsylvania Independent Telephone
Association.
Carol Ann Will Write
For The Dallas Post
Guests at Westmoreland High
Schools commencement in 1959,
who saw Carol Ann Williams re-
ceiving her diploma from the hands
of Charles Mannear, who stepped
from the rostrum for the purpose,
will be delighted to know that
Carol Ann, who could not at that
time mount the steps, is now able
to take fairly long walks, attend
church services, and carry on some
fascinating occupations.
Carol Ann submitted some writ-
ing to the Dallas Post, and will
continue. She hopes to have an
electric typewriter for Christmas, to
make her work easier. Her parents
are Mr. and Mrs. G. Stewart Wil-
liams, Parrish Street.
For five months, she was a pat-
ient at the Rehabilitation Center
in Johnstown, taking occupational
therapy and learning to type, one |’
among 450 young folks overcom-
ing various handicaps and prepar-
ing themselves for interesting liv-
ing.
One thing you can still get for a
penny ia your incorrect weight.
DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA
NI Barnyard Notes
SE A EE Li
EENEERE NEE R EEE NER IR REE
Dear Mr. Risley,
1 am writing this to tell of an old doctor who served the
people of the Back Mountain many years ago.
You may have been old enough to remember him yourself,
as he was a familiar figure in Noxen and was known from Tunk-
hannock to Dallas and the surrounding areas, Centermoreland and
Vernon and along Bowman's Creek.
He made his own remedies using bark and roots, leaves and
bulbs.
He was known in those days as Dr. Coar. Some people called
him the old Indian doctor but the writer knows nothing of his
origin,
He was deeply Interested in politics and I am told that at one
time he ran for public office in Sullivan County but lost out. He was
truly the lone ranger.
The first time I ever saw the old fellow, I was with my father,
who was on his way to Tunkhannock to have a physical examination
by one of the other doctors in that town. Being a Civil War veteran,
he had made application to the War Department for an increase in
his pension and was told to report at Tunkhannock.
It was a very hot day, and the horse—as well as we, were weary,
when suddenly the horse stopped. We looked to see what it was all-
about and saw this strange man sitting by the roadside resting in
the shade.
He asked our names and my father and he were soon in con-
versation on then present topics.
He said that he was on the way to Harvey's Lake and that he
had ‘been at Tunkhannock the night previous and that there was a
political ring that he was hoping to’ break up{
I looked the old fellow over and thought he resembled Johnny
Appleseed whom I had read about.
He had a blanket neatly folded and thrown over one shoulder
and fastened to the blanket “was a coffee pot, frying pan
and large tin cup, also a pair of rubber overshoes.
I don’t recall how they were fastened but think they were
secured by large safety pins such as were used on horse blankets.
The next time that’ saw him was at L. B. Avery’s drug store at
Alderson. The drug store was a busy place especially at night. The
men of the region would gather there after their day’s work was over
at the Lewis saw mill or in the woods. They would play dominos or
checkers, and on rare occasions a game of chess would be in progress.
The chess game would usually be played between Dr. Avery and
some other chess expert from a distant town who would come and
stay a day or two hoping to outwit the drugstore man who i a
reputation of being one of the best.
Of all the times that I have been in Avery's drug store 1 never
observed the men playing cards. Sometimes the conversation would
turn to religion and there were some very wild and fantastic theories
expounded.
I well remember one cold winter night I came home from skating
on the lake and the ground was very slippery; and when I came in
the house my mother said that father was still out and she feared
that he might have slipped. I went to the lake again and put my
skates on and skated to Alderson to the drug store hoping to locate
him there. Sure enough he was in a heated argument with three men:
who were opposed to Bible doctrine of salvation by faith. So I waited
a while to hear the discussion. One man, a doctor who had a medical
practice at the lake, said to my father that it was all together impos-
sible for any one to know if his sins were forgiven till the time of
death.
My father, having been acquainted with the doctor’s mother and
knowing she was a Christian, asked the doctor if his mother was a
Christian and he quickly replied “yes she was.” Then my father asked
him if his mother had to die to prove it? So he answered by saying
that there are exceptions to all rules and his mother was the excep-
tiory I started to tell of meeting this old traveling healer in Dr. L. B.
Avery's drug store at Alderson.
It happened one night while there that the door opened and in
came the old ranger. Dr. Avery looked up and greeted him with
these words. “How is the great and only Dr. Coar tonight?” and
he answered by saying, Many people call my name Coar but thai
is incorrect. My name is James CARR.
There is a man living at the lake who is past 80 years of age.
Charles Anderson, who told me of Dr. Carr treating his mother who
was: seriously ill but took his remedies and lived for many years
but always kept a bottle of his medicine on hand. Another old
man who knew Dr. Carr said that he wrote the complete
Lord's prayer on the back of a common postage stamp and it could
only be read by using a magnifying glass. There are about 66 words
in this prayer which makes it a remarkable feat.
In the rear of my home lies the Barnum plot that was sold
many years ago and laid off into lots. !
One of these lots was taken by a Mr, Lutz who built a summer.
“home and lived in it many seasons. He became crippled and lame
and was obliged to sit in a chair for a long time so he called in two
local doctors and they treated him without success. He told me
that he got word to the old Indian doctor to come and see if he
could do anything for him. He came and asked many questions
and finally said that there was poison inside and that it would have
to be drawn out by heat. So he gave instructions to Mrs. Lutz to
put two common bricks in the oven and heat them very hot while
he would go in nearby woods and get some (‘“yarbs’) herbs which
he finally brought to the house. He placed them all in a pot after
washing and made a drink which Mr. Lutz says was quite bitter.
but not unpleasant.
other cup full.
Well, the old Indian doctor wrapped these hot bricks in several
thicknesses of newspapers and placing them on the floor helped Mr.
Lutz to put his bare feet on them. He soon began to sweat and
the doctor began to rub his legs with downward strokes and before
long he was able to stand on bricks and before the doctor left he
was able to walk around the room with some assistance. From that
day he improved and was able to return to work.
I was talking ‘with a man who formerly lived in Dallas as a
boy and he knew this old doctor and said that he had taken his
medicines and that several times he stayed over night at the Dallas
home and he remembered that after the supper was over the old
doctor would take his Bible and read a chapter aloud to all present.
Then comment on Bible themes, politics, and other interestink
topics. The young people finally were overcome with drowsiness
and retired leaving the older folks to finish the conversation.
Harry Allen Sr. who lives at the lake told me that he remem-
bers the old doctor walking the highway on his rounds to visit the
sick and ailing. The last time he remembers seeing him he was
lying in L. B. Avery's drug store at Alderson and Dr. Avery was
giving him medicine.
He seemed to be very sick probably pneumonia. It must have
been near the end of the old medicine man’s journey. If he really
was an Indian as he was reputed to be we trust that he has reached
the happy hunting grounds long ago.
His soft voice and pleasant smiles still linger in our memory.
ry Garfield Jackson
Harvey's Lake, Pa.
He drank a large cup and later on took an-
Mr. Jackson’s letter brings back memories of more than
fifty-five years ago. I, too, remember the beloved Dr. Carr,
a gentle harmless, character who in his own words gasiored
only the “crumbs from the rich man’s tab
My father and I were driving one day toward Tunkhannock
behind my father’s spanking roadsters, Bobby and Maude,
when we came upon Dr. Carr trudging up the old Copper Mine
Hill road. The horses stopped and Dr. Carr got up on the seat
beside us and rode with us to Tunkhannock. It was my first
introduction to this white whiskered John the Baptist. He
looked for all the world like & character out of the old Testa-
ment or maybe Rip Van Winkle with his flowing white hair.
The marvel to me was how he stood the summer heat, for
he wore not one, but several shirts and ms I recall several pairs
of trousers. The pockets of his coat were jammed with papers
and other mysteries.
His origin was, I believe, a mystery to most of the people
who knew him in Tunkhannock and Wyoming County; but alt
knew or knew of Dr. Carr. I never heard the term Indian,
applied to him,
He was treated with kindness and consideration, albeit
with curiosity, whereever he stopped.
I believe he was buried in Sunnyside at Tunkhannock by
those who appreciated the philosophy of this latter day Thoreau.
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