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We’ve bought the things you need in carload lots and passed the savings on to you. It’s time to get set for winterso buy now and save. Check the deep-cut prices listed below, then come down and see the scores of GLF Values for your home, your farm, your car— the newest and best in design, quality and price. Visit us today! TIIDoT TRReoY SIX-TINE UTILITY FORK Pitch one of these in with your Golden Harvest buys. Built to last and to work with you — oval tines are 12%” long. 4 ft. handle. 53-1074. reg. $4.85 MNTYTIANTYYT MEY MM Rambling Rround By The Oldtimer—D. A. Waters William Wheeler . Kirkendall, commonly called Wheeler, born in New Jersey in 1805, came to this area as a young man and was un- der forty when he died. His mother, in a second marriage, was the wife of Conrad Kunkle. Wheeler was a carpenter, also a carder, fuller, and cloth dresser by trade. He assisted in setting up Jacob Rice’s carding and fulling mill at Trucksville, later was a partner in the Ambler and Kirkendall wool carding mill at New Troy, (Wyoming), where he resided for some time. His wife was Maria Dereamer, who survived him by nearly forty years. They had seven children. Con- rad, John, and Charles died un- married. George, Ira, Anna, and William Penn had families and be- came well known in the Back Moun- tain and Wyoming Valley areas. The family moved to Dallas Town- ship between 1833 and 1835. Kirk- endall bought 30 Acres from John Orr in 1830, 60 Acres from Abram Thomas in 1839, and 83 Acres from Chester Butler in 1841. Most of this land, apparently, was in the Kunkle section, butthey had a farm abutting on Center Hill Road be- tween the Machell and Goss proper- ties, extending at least as far as the present Methodist Church. He was auditor in 1836 and supervisor in 1840. When the borough was formed, the farm became a corner, described in the proceedings as “Maria Kirkendall’s corner”. The children were small when their fa- ther died and had few educational advantages, but were hustlers and stood among the prominent people of the county later in life. The second generation, born in Wyoming and Dallas, grew up here. Some were in the west and elsewhere for short periods. They moved back and forth between Dallas and Wilkes-Barre, main- taining homes sometimes in both places. Most of the larger, older houses on Lake Street werebuiltby the Kirkendalls, their in-laws, and PLASTIC UTILITY PAIL This Squire Applegate pail is just the thing to carry 10% quarts of harvest home. It’s light, because it’s plastic. It’s Tres rnd CIR ava r en 240 ein A cer SN business partners. George W. Kirk- endall and wife, Almira, deeded to the Trustees the lot upon which the Methodist Church stands in 1890 for $750. and abouta year later the widow deeded the parsonagelotfor $300. George W. served as trustee. Dwight Woolcott and John T. Phil- lips, whose wives were Kirkendalls, were church trustees and Phillips was superintendent of the Sunday School. William P. Kirkendall was a trustee, his wife Olive, a steward. George T. Kirkendall was a stew- ard. Another early steward, when the charge included also Shaver- town and Trucksville, was B. P. Kirkendall, a butcher of Shaver- town, whom this writer cannot fit in the family. The Kirkendalls and relatives were also stockholders in the High School, the Dallas Broom Company, and were active in the Dallas Fair and other local enter- prises, including the Masonic or- ganizations. George W. Kirkendall (1833- 1891) married Almira Shaver. Of seven children, two resided here and were well known. Marie Louise married John T. Phillips, who had extensive lumber operations up Bowmans Creek, in Kentucky and West Virginia, and elsewhere. They built the big house, later owned by George T. Kirkendall, now oc- cupied by James Oliver. After her husband’s death she lived in an- other house on Lake Street, and for a while was a partner with her sis- ter-in-law, Anna Phillips and Flora Brown, operating a women’s fur- nishings store on Church Street across from the Hotel. George Talmadge Kirkendall, ‘son of George W., was married twice. By his second wife, Mrs. Amelia Ruffner, hehad no children. By his first wife, Helen Dennis But- ler, he had three sons and three daughters. One daughter, Marie, died as a very small child. George B., John P., Henry, Helen, and Ruth grew up here, married, and most of them have not resided here in recent years. John, who attended West Point, recently retired as a brigadier general, U.S.A. F. Ira M. Kirkendall, bornin Dallas in 1835, married first Hannah Driesbach, second Sarah Bartlett. By his first wife he had a daughter, Grace, who married Charles A. Bartlett, and a son, Frederick C., whose wife was Eleanor Gearhart. They had children: Frederick C. Jr., Eleanor, and Cordelia. The present Frederick C. of Trucksville, the third of the name, is a son of Frederick, Jr. Fredrick, Sr., men- tioned more fully below, had a sum- mer home on Terrace Street equipped with a private railroad, a great delight to the youngsters. William Penn Kirkendall, bornin Dallas in 1843, youngest son of Wheeler, married Oliver A. Patter- son. A daughter Cary died in in- fancy. They built a big house on aor Ls La et ost LT % ; 3? Sr 3 7 PAGE 4— 5-1 Looking =—=gat I-V With GEORGE A. and EDITH ANN BURKE VIVIAN VANCE is back again as Lucy’s sidekick. Three years ago she said no more television for her. Since then she has married John Dodds, aliterary agent. They own a lovely home in Connecticut. Fortu- nately her husband has clients on the West Coast. Otherwise she wouldn’t sign the new contract. This past summer Vivian did Summer Stock. She found that she enjoyed being before an audience again. In the new series Lucy and she play a couple of women who live in the same house with their children. Lucy is a widow with asonanda daughter. Vivian, who usesher own name in the series is a divorcee with one son. In real life Vivianhasno children of her own but she does come from a large family. As a young girl she helped to bring up her four sisters and one brother. When she had a | nervous breakdown not so many years ago her family increased by many nieces showed their love and gratitude. The stress of being an entertainer has forced many to a state of col- lapse and visits to psychiatrists. As a rule it is a closely keptsecret. Not so with Vivian Vance who is chair- man of the ‘Operation, Friend- ship” for the Connecticut Associa- tion for Mental Health. She says, “I had a severe emo- tional breakdown. It was the love and devotion of my family, plus psychoanalysis that made me well. It’s a terrible mistake to tell the mentally ill ‘to snap outofit’. These unfortunates are in their mental state because they feel they are fail- ures. They need to be encouraged. They need affection. “It’s most rewarding when I vi- sit the Connecticut state hospitals. Some of the patients know me from TV and they open up and talk freely. And that’s what will help them —talking and discussing what’s on their minds. My own crack-up puts us on a common ground and the fact that I became cured is an inspiration to them. “I work hard to get volunteers but most people ask: “What can I do? TI tell them to contact the vol- unteers in the hospitals. They’ll show them how to help.” She also had praise for Rescue, Inc. the organization which is listed in the frontofmosttelephone books. This is an organization for thesole purpose of preventing suicides. “I can’t stress too much the value of the telephone. The alcoholic, the mentally ill and the would-be-sui- cides can be helped by a telephone talk. It’s a wonderful crutch to hang on to . . . when the urge to do something comes, to be able to ‘hang on’ just a little longer does the trick.” THE NURSES— If anyone had his doubts that a hospital is a dis
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