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HE DALLAS POST Established 1889
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Editorially Speaking:
Good Sportsmanship!
Boys used to fight with their fists, matching their
strength with that of other boys.
Learning how to fight was termed the manly art of
self-defense, and fathers took pride in the prowess of their
sons, while mothers secretly wrung their hands or openly
advised junior that “it wasn’t nice to fight, don’t you want
to be a little gentleman” 2
Do fathers these days take pride in their sons when
the sons gang up on one boy and beat him to insensi-
bility?
Is it considered good sportsmanship for two boys to
hold another while a third boy kicks him in the stomach
and rains vicious blows on his face and head?
What has become of the old fashioned standards that
saw a boy matched with another boy of equal weight and
ability, while the circle of onlookers kept their hands off,
while yelling for their favorite?
. The boys who do the beating up shauld really have
switch-blade knives, in order to live up to the standards
of conduct set forth on television shows.
It would be so much simpler to just stab a boy in the
stomach than to go to the trouble of holding him and
kicking him until he is unconscious.
What on earth has happened to good sportsmanship?
There was a lot to be said for a good pummelling,
when two boys who had spoiling for a fight, mixed it in
the vacant lot after school.
usually cemented a firm friendship.
The fight cleared the air, and
A young boy brutally beaten in a lavatory by three
or four other boys cannot in all conscience entertain chari-
table feelings toward his assailants.
Gang warfare leads to more gang warfare, not to
friendship and a respect for the other fellow’s muscles.
It also leads to juvenile court, with family ranged
against family, and nobody the winner.
What, No Billboards?
It’s a beautiful stretch of road, as route 29 winds
-steeply down toward West Nanticoke, curve on curve,
through a gorge where mountainous slopes rise higher
and higher against the sky.
But there is something missing, something which
no educated motorist can do without.
+ Where are those highway billboards, those signs ad-
vertising septic tanks and convenient diaper service and
the Peek-a-Boo outdoor movie, and Honeymoon Hill
Tavern?
Those billboards should be overlapping each other
like shingles on a roof, obliterating the towering rocks
and standing with their feet in the creek.
Something to make the motorist feel at home, not
out in the wilds.
And the new spring greenery, why isn’t it browned
with chemicals along the right of way under the power
lines?
~ What is anybody thinking of, permitting a beautiful
piece of scenery to go undefiled? ?
Where is the garbage and the beer cans?
But relief is in sight. Just wait until route 309 is
pretty ‘much tied up with the construction job due to start
any minute now.
Traffic will perforce spray out into smaller roads,
and route 29 will no longer be neglected. Outdoor adver-
tising men will see the light, and the billboards will follow,
the advance guard of civilization.
Mother
Mothers are the queerest things!
"Member when John went away,
All but Mother cried and cried
When they said goodbye that day.
She just talked, and seemed to be
Not the slightest bit upset—
Was the only one who smiled!
Others’ eyes were streaming wet.
But when John came back again
On a furlough, safe and sound,
y With a medal for his deed,
. And without a single wound,
While the rest of us harrahed,
Laughed and joked and danced about,
Mother kissed him, then she cried—
Cried amd cried like all git out!
| time,
Better Leighton Never
by Leighton Scott
UPS AND DOWNS
The new bank Time 'n Temp clock
sure got a workout its first week in
Dallas. Temperatures ran anywhere
from freezing to uncomfortably
warm, in what was surely the wack-
iest beginning of May in many a
year.
FOR THE OPEN ROAD
Fred Lamoreaux had a time try-
ing to establish the new forty-mile-
an-hour signs as part of Overbrook
Avenue’s way of life.
Everybody wanted the signs in
front of somebody else’s yard.
The homeowner objected that a
sign was on his land. When it was
measured, he found out his mail-box
was in the road right-of-way.
Another threatened to remove the
sign after a week.
And yet nobody wants cars to be
allowed to do fifty in front of his
house.
TERROR IN THE STREETS
Of course I had a swell time at
the Pancake Festival, but couldn’t
do the gastronomic opportunities
justice, for a couple of reasons.
One problem was a cold, which
stifled my famous appetite, amd the
other was fear of bands of brigands
reported roaming the Back Moun-
tain.
Fortunately I was missed by this
reign of terror, but I understand it
consisted of teenage hoodlums using
gang methods.
We all know what gang methods
are.
I don’t know why the wires rang
with news of martial law in the
south, and completely ignored the
deplorable situation here. You'd
think it was just any other day in
Dallas.
Responsible parents and teachers
I ran into at the school Saturday
were pleased with the way the press
played it all down, because other-
wise youngsters would be encour-
aged to seek notoriety.
LAKE BLOOMING AGAIN
Was glad to see things picking up
at the Lake again this weekend,
which lent itself nicely to encour-
aging business. {
Rides are turnimg once again at
Hanson's, and hot dog and ice cream
stands at Sunset, Warden Place, and
Laketon were dividing their time
between fishermen and Sunday
drivers.
There might be reason to fear a
slow transient trade this summer,
once they get to tearing up Memorial
Highway. Even if they maintain
traffic over two out of three lanes,
those drivers who sweated it out in
past summers bumper to bumper
may; cry ‘Pnough” to apparitions
of ‘dust and flag-men, and stay
home.
TAMMY LINCOLN
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lincoln, RD
5, Shavertown, announce the birth
of a daughter, Tammy, bom April
28 in Nesbitt Hospital.
The couple have another daugh-
ter, Kim, aged two. :
THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1963
ER ER NNR S NINE RRR NES
Rambling Around
By The Oldtimer — D. A. Waters
In the horse and buggy days
when all transportation was slow
and difficult, the local distances
frequently traveled had to be short.
This accounts for the villages scat-
tered around the countryside every
few miles. The village was the lo-
cation of sawmills and gristmills,
blacksmith shops, general stores,
postoffice, churches, hotels, frater-
nal orders, some schools, doctors,
wagon shops, dressmakers, milli-
ners, carpenters, - painters, handy-
men, shoemakers, and sometimes
small industries. The small villages
were more important then than to-
day. ‘One such village is Lehman,
then frequently called Lehman
Center. 2
In wilderness days this was part
! of the Comnecticut Township of Bed-
ford. Tt was later, for a few years,
attached to the Pennsylvania Town-
ship of Plymouth, then made part
of the new Township of Dallas in
1817. In 1829 it became Lehman
Township. In its prime it had sev-
eral blacksmith shops, a hotel, two
large general stores, one run for
generations by the Major family and
another by W. R. Neely, an Odd
Fellows Lodge, and several churches
and doctors.
Pioneer Nehemiah Ide was a Pres-
byterian and rode horseback to
Kingston to attend church there.
Some Ides appear in baptismal ree-
ords of the First Presbyterian
Church at Wilkes-Barre before 1820.
Later Presbyterians formed a
church. The Methodist Church was
so thriving that it became the cen-
ter of a circuit, of which Dallas was
one of the preaching points, in 1852.
There was a Baptist Church, a cir-
cuit ‘there also. My grandfather,
Elder George Winters, lived there
and preached nearly ten years, leav-
ing in 1883. Two of his children
were born there in 1876 and 1880,
my mother being a small girl at the
time.
Dr. Joel Jackson Rogers, later of
Huntsville, first located in Lehman
followed by Doctors named Moody
and Frantz. Dr. Horace Greeley
Colley. went to Lehman as a young
man in the 1870s and practiced
there many years, later moved to
Wilkes-Barre. He had four sons.
Arthur, Albert, Fred, and Robert,
some born in Lehman, who all be-
came pharmacists. Albert, born in
Lehman in 1877, where he was
commonly called Bert, is currently
employed in Kygehn’s Drug Store.
His brother, Robert, retired, lives
in Wilkes-Barre. The others are
dead.
Dr. E. W. Wilkinson practiced in
the house adjoining that of the late
Dr. Harry A. Brown many years. He
also had a son named Albert. About’
the same time, Dr. W. S. S. Young
(1861-1920), of German descent
and from. the Pennsylvania Dutch
area, came to Lehman, shortly after
his graduation from a Philadelphia
College. He lived in the small house,
now red with white trim, on the
right on the Meeker road. His
daughter, Ann, absent many years
after the death of her mother, Min-
nie Miller, first wife of Dr. Young,
later returned and married Arthur
Major and resided in the same
house, until they built the present
residence next door. For his second
wife, Dr. Young married Carrie
Lain, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Morris Lain, who lived on the Meek-
er road im the house which burned
just' a few years ago.
In the Lain family were three
other daughters who grew up there
and all became physicians. Dr. Rach-
el Lain and Dr. Jennie Lain Nesbitt
located in Vallejo, Calif. Dr. Lizzie
Lain moved to Santa Rosa, Calif.
Later in life Dr. Young and his wife,
Carrie Lain, also moved to Califor-
nia. For a short period there was a
Doctor Richards in ‘the area, who
married a daughter of Charles
Learn.
To most people, when they think
of Lehman, “The Doctor” there was
Dr. Harry A. Brown (1877-1957).
Unlike all the others, Dr. Brown was
a descendant of a pioneer family,
living continuously in the township
for four generations. The pioneers
were Amos Brown (1775-1847) and
wife, Levinna (1785-1870). Their
son, Amos, Jr. and wife, Eleanor
Baldwin, of a pioneer family, were
parents of Timothy Browm (1846-
1915), who married Mary Jane
Ruggles (1844-1937), daughter of
Josiah Ruggles, of another pioneer
family. Dr. Harry A. Brown, son of
Timothy and Mary Ruggles Brown,
grew up in Lehman. He attended
Bloomsburg State Normal School,
taught at Limskill School, later at-
tended University of Vermont, and
was graduated from Medico-Chiru-
gical College at Philadelphia in 1903.
He served his internship at Wilkes-
Barre (General) Hospital and prac-
ticed at Lehman well over half a
century. He begam in the horse and
buggy days but was one of the early
users of an automobile in the Leh-
man area. Although he survived all
the nearby “old fashioned country
doctors”, he was always considered
well up to modern practices in his
vrofession and was on the staff of
Nesbitt Memorial Hospital for many
years. His widow, the former Kath-
leen Major, still lives where he
practiced at Lehman.
Mrs. Arthur Major recalls many
incidents in the life of a small town
or country doctor in the horse and
buggy days. There being no tele-
phones in the rural area, people
would come to the house in the mid-
dle of the night.
get up and dress seasonably, take a
kerosene lantern and hitch up a
horse to a sulky or buggy, hang the
lamtern under the wagon to give a
| little light on the road, and start
out. He would be’ gone all night,
sometimes all day and all the sec-
ond night, with his family mean-
while having no informatiom about
him. Then upon his return he would
bring in butter, eggs, etc, which
had been given him in payment.
The horse and buggy doctors
lived a rugged life, were very neces-
sary and helpful in the community,
and were respected accordingly.
Zz
. « . Safety
TRAFFIC CIRCLE NEEDED
Dear Editor:
Tell the lady who wrote in about
the danger of the intersection of
the Lake Highway with Route 118,
that we are with her 100 percent.
.| There should be a circle there, and
there’s plenty of ground to do it
now.
Mrs. W. Russell Ide
Note; It’s been a dangerous spot
ever simce the new Lehman road
went through a number of years
ago. Signs grow larger and more
numerous all the time, but motor-
ists simply cannot visualize a dead-
end. Still, there hasnt been any-
body over the bamk for quite some
It’s a problem getting onto
the highway from Route 118 on a
Valve . . .
busy Sunday afternoon, and just as
much of a problem making a left
turn from the highway toward Leh-
man under the same traffic condi-
tions. The ‘turnoff is practically in-
visible at night.
It was poorly engineered in the
first place, an abrupt turn when
the intersection could have been
laid out in a long curve. But in
the last analysis, it is the driver
who is to blame. If he can’t read
and obey signs, he has no business
on the road, and blaming it on the
engineers is a very poor alibi. A
traffic circle would probably involve
an underpass, which is an expen-
sive proposition, but there is
plenty of elevation to permit it. A
blinker light might help.
learn to love you.
not wrong with my feet.
“Keep me well shod.
off my tail.
cool water often.
the cold.
life in your service.
THE HORSE'S PRAYER
“To Thee, My Master, I offer my prayer, feed me, water and
8 care for me, and when the day's work is dome, provide
me with shelter, a clean, dry bed and a stall wide enough
for me to lie down im comfort.
“Always be kind to me. Talk to me.
“Your voice often means as much to me as the reins.
“Pet me, sometimes, that I may serve you the more gladly and
“Do mot jerk the reins, and do not whip me when going uphill.
“Never strike, beat or kick me when I do not understand what
you want, but give me a chance to understand you.
“Watch me, and if I fail to do your bidding, see if something is
“Do mot check me so that I cannot have the free use of my head.
“Examine my teeth when I do not eat; I may have an ulcerated
tooth, and that, you know, is very painful.
“Do mot tie my head in an unnatural position, or take away
my best defense against flies and mosquitoes by cutting
“I cannot tell you in words when I'm thirsty so give me clean
“I cammot tell you in words when I am sick, so watch me, that
by signs you may know my condition.
“Give me all possible shelter from the hot sum, and put a
blanket on me, not when I'm working but standing in
“I try to carry you and your burdens without a mwrmur, and
wait patiently for you long hours of the day or might.
“Remember that I must be ready at any moment to lose my
“Finally, O My Master, when my useful strength is gome, do
mot turn me out to starve or freeze, or sell me to some
cruel owner, to be slowly tortured and starved to death;
but do thou, My Master take my life in the kindest way,
and your God will reward you here and hereafter.
“You will not consider me irreverent if I ask this in the Name
of Him who was born in a Stable.”
—Amen.
(Author Unknown)
Sent in by Herman Thomas
| Mrs. Ben Banks Heads
Mercy Auxiliary
Mrs, Ben C. Banks will head Mercy
Hospital Auxiliary, Back Mountain
Branch during ‘the coming year.
Other officers installed at the
Spring Luncheon Tuesday at Irem
Temple Country Club were Mrs. Don.
ald McCrea, vice president; Mrs.
George Arzente Jr., secretary; Mrs.
Harry Gallagher, treasurer.
Mrs. Roger McShea Jr. introduced
the incoming president, Mrs. Banks.
Mrs. McShea was presented the
past president’s pin and received a
rising vote of thamks for an excellent
job.
Plans for the summer card party
to be held at O’Connell’s Twin Lakes
June 25 were discussed and a special
meeting scheduled for June 4 to
complete details.
Mrs. Banks was chosen delegate
to the Hospital Auxiliaries Work-
shop at Penn State University June
i7 . 20.
Announcement of ‘the Wilkes-
Barre Auxiliary Spring Luncheon
and Card Party June 12 at Fox Hill
Country Club was made by Mrs.
McShea.
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Does Full Color
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Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years
Ago In The Dallas Post
It Happened
30 Years Ago
With only $40.00 in the general
fund, a $115.00 insurance due and
tires on the fire truck in bad condi-
tion, Shavertown Fire Company was
seriously considering a half mill
assessment.
Rain and cold slowed crop growth
causing much concern among farm-
ers.
A new water tank on Hillcrest
Street, Shavertown, installed by
H. F. Goeringer W a ter Company,
‘was expectéd to greatly improve the
water supply in this area.
Additional white lines were paint-
ed on the county highway from
Trucksville to Dallas to improve
safety measures.
George Traver, Beaumont, pur-
chased a new Chevrolet, Ed Mac-
Dougall, a new Ford coach and Bob
MacDougall, a Chevrolet coupe.
Potatoes sold at 10 pounds for 29
cents, butter, 2 pounds for 47 cents
and picnic hams at 8% cents a
pound. :
Died: Mrs. Nettie Perrego, 75,
Laketom; Mary Ferguson Delay, 90,
Berwick; Bobby (Weaver, 4, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Weaver, Center-
moreland; Mrs. Amanda McCarthy.
It Happened
20 Years Ago
Mrs. Martha Swelgin, two star
mother, Jackson Twp. suffered a
fatal heart attack while viewing
movie, “Stand By For Action,” at
Nanticoke,
Gasoline shortage was plaguing
farmers in the operation of their
tractors.
Scores of citizens were assisting
in the Scrap Salvage Drive in Dallas
Township. :
Melvin Adler, US Marine Corps,
veteran of Coral Sea and Guadeca-
nal, after 35,000 miles of world
travel while in the service, still pre-
ferred the Back Mountain as the
place to make his home.
Local airplane spotters received
their first instruction at Dallas Bor-
ough High School.
Servicemen heard from: Ken Da-
vis, Earl Williams, Lewis Button,
! Frank Morgan, Lou Kelly, Joseph
i Polachek, Hermam Brislin, Harold
, Casterline, Ralph Antrim, Fred Wil-
‘cox, Larry Drabick, James Harris,
Glenn Kocher, Stewart Yorks, Len
Hooper, Peter Skopic, Lester Fiske,
Bill Oberst, G. A. Loveland.
Married: Ruth Crispell, Noxen, to
Carl Newberry, Beaumont; Frances
Darnell, Atlanta, Ga., to Samuel
Brace, Huntsville. :
Anniversaries: Mr. and Mrs. Merle
Shaver, Dallas, celebrated their 25th
wedding date.
Died: Mrs. Mae Roberts, Harvey's
Lake; Eugene Montross, Beaumont;
Mrs. Esther Purhen, Dallas.
It Happened
[0 Years Ago
Harry Steltz, 4, Hunlock’s Creek,
was badly injured when attacked
by the family dog.
Dallas Township began construc-
tion of the short cut road between
Fernbrook and 'Shavertown.
Commonwealth Telephone Com-
pany’s rate increase roused protest
among local users.
Bi-County League mumbered one
hundred members.
Mrs. Malcohm Nelson, Harvey's
Lake, was proud of her huge rain-
bow trout catch.
Marriages: Jeanne Margaret
Scott, Kingston, to Walter Schultz,
Fernbrook; Joan Shiner, Loyalville,
to Lt. William Smilinick, Denver,
Colo.
Deaths: E. R. Dymond, 41, Car-
verton; Fred Ide, 81, Nescopeck.
RETIRED TEACHERS
LUNCHEON JUNE 1
Retired teachers of Luzerne County
will stage a luncheon in the Adams
Room at Hotel Sterling Saturday,
June 1, at 1 p.m. Special guest speak-
er will be the Hon. ‘Bernard O'Brian,
State Representative from the leg-
islative district.
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19 B—ALAN MAJOR
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
22 A—HAROLD MAJOR
Lehman Township Republican
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"(Vote 2)
|20 A—BARBARA VIVIAN
|20 B—DEAN SHAVER
AUDITOR
22 B—BARBARA SIMMS
The LEHMAN TOWNSHIP
Sincerely Solicits Your VOTES for the Above Candidates.
REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE
From-—
Pillar To Post...
. By Hix
So much free advice is handed out these days that it is diffi-
cult to know what to believe and what to dismiss as some manu-
facturer’s pitch for customers. ®
What with the screaming about pain-killers for minor com-
plaints, each product outbidding the other, and all products tending
to put the corner drugstore on easy street as the gullible public
invests in first one and then the other, returning inevitably to
aspirin, pelief is just a tablet away.
There is one thing, however, that most doctors agree on, and
that is, if your back aches, your mattress is probably sagging and
you'd better do something about it. A bed-board doesn’t get fea-
tured on Television normally, because once you buy a bed-board,
that’s it, and there is no constant reordering to keep a store in
business.
It seemed a sound idea to buy a bed-board the other day, after
limping out of bed in the morning. Pills are all very well, but if
your mattress sags, your back aches, no matter how much aspirin
you take aboard. Start with a solid foundation. The first cost is
the last.
Business of ordering a bed-board.
One local store offered to order a bed-board. Another said,
what you mean is a bed slat, isn’t it, and we can cut slats to length
at so much a running foot. :
A town store said it had bed-boards, and a delivery on Mon-
day. It looked as if a table leaf inserted between mattress and box
springs would hold the fort until Monday, just a short weekend away.
Came Monday, with the happy thought of a bed-board by night.
Just leave it on the front porch, I had instructed, in giving directions
to find the house. The name's on the mailbox, and the house is
behind the picket fence, the only picket fence on Pioneer Avenue,
Dallas.
No bed-board on Monday, no bed-board on Tuesday, no bed-
board on Wednesday. The table leaf seemed to be growing steadily
narrower. : . ‘
Seems that Pioneer Avenue in Shavertown bristles with picket
fences, and the truck driver had become discouraged.
Eventually the bed-board appeared on the front porch.
Getting the thing properly located presented difficulties.
Ever try lifting a mattress and shoving a bed-board beneath it?
No space to stand at the side and jockey the thing into place.
Well try it at the end.
That mattress. It weighs a solid ton. It didn’t weigh that much:
before the back-ache developed. Just half a ton.
Lift it up at the end and start sliding the bedboard, beneath.
It can’t be done, not without something as a prop. And your head
_DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA
won't do.
Try a suitcase. Lift up the foot of the mattress and insert the
suitcase. Push.
There goes the suitcase, propelled by the bedboard, like clock-
work.
Now try getting the suitcase out at the head of the bed.
Business of lifting up the mattress again and delivering the
suitcase.
And now, where's that heating pad?
On account of by this
time no bed-board is going to reconstruct that back, and heroic
measures are now necessary.
And bring on the aspirin, four tablets worth.
... Marine
Charting The Course
BY BILL BARBOUR
Editor
Marine Products Magazine
What shall my new boat be, wood,
aluminum, or fiber glass? In recent
years this has become the most
popular of all questions asked the
so-called experts. Since no self-re-
specting expert ever passes up a
chance to hold himself out as an
authority, every question gets an
answer. Usually, in fact, the wise
expert comes up with at least six
different answers. This permits the
asker to pick his own answer, it
thoroughly confuses the issue, and
it lets the expert off the hook rather
neatly. This expert, so-called and
otherwise, is no exception.
There really isn’t an answer to
the wood vs. aluminum vs. glass
quarrel. The choice can depend on
many things: water and climate con-
ditions; docking, handling, and stor-
age facilities; economics; how and
for what the owner intends to use
the boat; and personal taste. Most of
all, the boat buyer should ask him-
self what he wants in a boat, and
what he expects out of a boat.
Notice, safety and reliability were
not mentioned. Obviously, these
should be any boat buyer’s first
two thoughts. But they have little
Notes...
to do with hull material. There are
extremely safe and reliable boats
afloat today made of all three hull
‘materials.* Unfortunately, the: oppo-
site also is true. }
Q. How strong is a glass boat?
A. Fiber glass reinforced plastic is
itself, pound for pound, stronger
than steel. Strength of the boat de-
pends on the job the builder does.
Q. Is fiber glass durable? A. Fiber
glass cannot rust, rot, or corrode.
After 11 years of service, a group
of 40-foot Coast Guard glassboats |
showed no deterioration. One boat
was in use 7600 hours, equal to
about 35 years of normal pleasure
boat operation.
Q. Will a glass hull stay water-
tight? A. Most glass hulls are mold-
ed in one piece with no seams to
open, no fasteners to work loose.
Q. Is fiber glass really mainten-
ance free? A. Frankly, there is no
such thing as a no-maintenance boat,
but glass comes closest. A coat of
wax and an occasional wash-down
help. Though you may want to paint
after a few years to freshen-up the
appearance, or use a bottom paint
to discourage barnacles and algae,
you never need paint a glass boat
to protect against deterioration.
Q. If I do paint, will I need a
special type? A. No, any good mar-
ine paint will do.
MOTHER'S DAY
MAY 12, 1963
TOMATO
#* *
CELERY
FRUIT SALAD WITH
SNOWFLAKE POTATOES :
BUTTERED FORD HOOK LIMAS
%* ®
ROLL AND BUTTER
* #
53.
FRESH SHRIMP COCKTAIL
BEEF CONSOMME WITH LEMON SLICE
RADISHES
ROAST YOUNG TURKEY AND DRESSING W /CRANBERRY. SAUCE
VIRGINIA BAKED HAM — RAISIN SAUCE
ROAST PRIME RIBS OF BEEF AU JUS
JUMBO STUFFED SHRIMP — TARTAR SAUCE
LOBSTER ALA NEWBURG WITH TOAST POINTS
~ Choice of Two :
BUTTERED FRESH CUT CORN . ! -
APPLE, BLUEBERRY, OR CHERRY PIE
COCONUT CREAM PIE
ICE CREAM OR SHERBET
WE WILL HAVE A SPECIAL CHILDREN’S MENU.
00
FRUIT CUP
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OLIVES
WHIPPED CREAM DRESSING
FRENCH FRIED POTATOES
CREAMED PEARL ONIONS
BEVERAGE
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PRINCE HOTEL
TUNKHANNOCK, PA.
6-6131