A THE DALLAS POST Established 1889 Barbara Balut was crowned West- moreland May Queen, Rent Control offices closed per- manently. Died: Wesley Schenck, 78, Noxen. Mrs. Ann Vavrick, Demunds, had a letter from her son, John, held prisoner in Korea. Everything comes faster to the person who hustles as he waits. Fiat 2 —The Plaindealer Urbanna, Virginia y | Queen Aliquippa. On this trip Wash- THE DALLAS POST, TH SA SE RR TH URSDAY, JUNE 6, 1963 Rambling Around By The Oldtimer President Kennedy stirred up a lot of interest when he dug up an old order of Theodore Roosevelt regarding 50 mile hikes. If he ever heard of Roosevelt's order that every army officer should ride horseback 90 miles in three days, he discreetly said nothing about it. There are too many officers today and few riding horses. Ninety miles in three days would have been noth- ing in colonial times. George Washington was an out- standing horseman and rode thou- sands of miles. He wrote that his habitual gait was five miles an hour and estimated distances accordingly, his estimates being pretty close to distances between the same points as measured today. He rode from Mt. Vernon to Boston, and traveled, | sometimes by foot, carriages, boats, etc, part time, as far south as Savannah, Ga., north to Kittery, Me., and inland almost to Lake Oneida, N, Y., Lake Erie, and the Kanawha River, now W. Va. One time he rode 560 miles in 16’ days, sometimes averaged over 35 miles a day for over a week. Frequently he made maps, and always kept ex- | pense accounts and diaries. On hard trips he took several horses and on one trip he recorded that one horse had been killed outright and four others practically done up. Al- though he was an aristocrat, he put in his teenage years traveling and working as a surveyor, for which he received good pay, in good weather only, equal to $7.16 to $21.50 per day, but for it he had to live the hard life of the frontier. He did a lot of horseback riding in Pennsyl- vania. It was his frontier experience that caused Gov. Dinwiddie to select him to bear a message to the French commandant in the Ohio Valley re- questing the French to get out. This was an elaborate expedition with Christopher Gist, a pioneer as guide, an interpreter, two white servants, two Indian traders, and several horses loaded with baggage and supplies. ‘At the moment a white man could go safely anywhere, but the Indians were angry at the French. He met Chiefs Shingiss, Half King, Jeskake, White Thunder, and Guyasuta (spelling of all names varies), the latter accompanying them as a hunter to provide food. The first French officer he met in- vited him to supper but refused to accept the message, which required a long journey to the senior officer at Fort LeBoeuf. He received a re- ply and returned in bad weather,’ partly with only Gist on foot, call- ing enroute at the town of Indian ington covered the country from Cumberland, Md., to the Forks of the Ohio and a little beyond, then nearly up to Lake Erie and return. Later as a lieutenant colonel he — D. Al Waters French but had to surrender, with honors of war, at Ft. Necessity. As every schoolboy knows, he accom- panied Gen. Braddock into Pennsyl- vania on that disastrous campaign. But not as well known, he was also in command of a Virginia regiment when Gen. Forbes occupied Ft. Duquesné on Christmas day, 1758. In between, while in command of sone mountain® forts, he got into a dispute with an unassigned British captain, who claimed any Kings commission outranked anything in the colonial forces. Washington took off for Boston, on horseback, passing Philadelphia in February, 1756 to see Gen. Shirley, who decid- ed in his favor. On this trip he also met John Adams and others, who were good friends and useful to him later in life, In 1770 he returned to western Pennsylvania taking up land for himself and other veterans, at which time he bought the land on which Ft. Necessity had stood. The Indians he had met on his first trip welcomed him warmly. In 1773 he | passed through Pennsylvania again to enroll his stepson in college at | New York. In 1774 he attended the { First Continental Congress, and the next year the Second at Philadel- phia, from which he again went to Boston to take command of troops. During the Revolution he was in eastern Pennsylvania just prior to the Battle of Trenton, moved all around Philadelphia before that city fell after the Battles of Brandy- wine and Germantown, wintered at Valley Forge, then went toward the Hudson. He made a fast march south to attack at Yorktown. After the War, he visited Phil- adelphia in 1784 for a meeting of the Society of the Cincinnati and in 1787 as a member of the Constitu- tional Convention. In between he made another trip in southwestern Pennsylvania on land matters. Being rich in land, but poor in cash, he borrowed 600 Pounds and. went across Pennsylvania to become President in New York. In 1790 the capital was moved to Philadel- phia and he made his home there until 1797. During his term he made a state visit to the southern states and a trip westward as far as Bed- ford to put down the Whiskey Re- bellion, ' also visited Philadelphia again in 1798. His travels around Philadelphia during the war and his later residence there would make a map like a piece of chicken wire. In all, Washington did a lot of horseback riding in our state: up ‘from Virginia and Maryland by at Jeast six routes; Wilmington via Philadelphia to Trenton; York, Lan- caster, Valley Forge, to the Hudson; Chambersburg, Carlisle, Reading and Easton; across the state about where Route 30 is now; and all the southwestern corner, including the started a campaign against the first trip almost up to Lake Erie. . . . Safety About The Doll Booth Dear Editor: Due to my health and over load of sewing I must ask for help from parents, teachers, and high school boys and girls. My expenses are greater this year because of my an- tique dolls and prizes on chance books I never turn in a bill to the committee for my booth and don’t want to start this year. I have 400 books of tickets I want sold before the last of June as there will be other books for sale during the Auction. If every parent and high school boy or girl will buy a dollar book send it to me with name and address and if they belong to Key Clubs or bands add this infor- mation T will see you get your stubs at the Auction unless you wish to stop by my home. Mean while prizes are No. 1 An- Valve . . . tique doll, sister to last year’s double size doll quilt, and bycicle, a de- response and many thanks to every one. Mrs. Arthur Newman Mrs. Howard Risley Dallas Post Dallas, Pa. 3 Dear Editor, ‘ / On behalf of the Old Ladies Home, I want to thank you for the public- November before our annual Dona- tiom Day. The Board is very grateful to you and your staff for your cooperation. Sincerely, ’ Elizabeth P. Everett Corresponding Secretary Larry Pedersen Honored By National Foundation Larry Pedersen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Wall, Noxen, and jun- ior at Lake-Lehman High School has been selected as a participant in the 1963 Clarkson Summer Science Training Program for high ability Secondary School students. Program is sponsored by the Na- tional Science Foundation and is Recognition Accorded Shavertown Athlete The Frank Hering Award, was recently given to George Bednar, senior guard on Notre Dame foot- | ball team, for the Best Blocking Guard in spring practice. The award, presented annually, is named for the late Frank Hering, Notre Dame head coach, shortly aftér the beginning of the century. Bednar, of Shavertown, won his first monogram for Notre Dame last season, when he played as starting right tackle. His 45 tackles was held at Clarkson College of Tech- nology, Pottsdam, N. Y., from June 30 to August 17. Professor Harry Bingham is Direc- tor of the Program, which consists of lectures and labratory science taught by the college staff. Larry is one of twenty-five stu- dents selected for their ability in Chemistry and Physics. EERE ERNE RENEE REE £ Wheeler's Cafe Lake - Noxen Road Harveys Lake EVERY ' FRIDAY an SATURDAY NIGHT Lobster Tail Platter '/2 Spring Chicken Club Steakette the highest figure on the squad. 75 ANEEEEE EN EAE EEE REE EY ANI EO E33 CS E20 TEESE IR, Graphic Arts Services INCORP Offset Negatives Sereen Prints, Art Work Phone VA 5-2978 EEE STEED SIR ED a GR OE eee SER SEE SE SURE ETT CI EE bd |] ¥ ORATED PHOTO-ENGRAVING and Platemaking Better Leighton Never by Leighton Scott JOIN UP We are thinking of starting a Smokers Anonymous chapter for the Back Mountain. "But there are problems. For one thing, we'd publish a bulletin for members, like the automobile clubs, but there’d be the problem of keep- ing it up to date. Chances are four out of five new members would disqualify them- selves before the bulletin came out. We would have gift memberships, and award prizes. Only, since the goals of the club are abstinence and self-denial, a star member or a life member would be given the prize of having to give up all his cigarettes. 'A regular or associate member would only have to give up one pack. Everything he or she smoked beyond that pack (which of course he or she couldn't do, because of already giving it up), would be free and clear. There would be a handicap, of course, Camel smokers would only give up smoking—no prizes. People who smoked that cotton candy that comes in green packages would al- most have to give up living. Maybe we'll skip the prizes, and just run the club. But don’t ask me to be in charge. I might start again any day now. I'll just be the secretary. Please mail me all nominations. Tip to wives: If your husband gives up smoking, mail me his name without delay. He’ll have to stay with it just to save face. [SEEN AND HEARD! Seen and Heard around the Back Mountain: ‘Who's that girl buzzing the area on a turquoise motor scooter? Boys jumping like pigeons on bread-crumbs for the ejected shells from firing squad rifles at Woodlawn Cemetery on Memorial Day. Jackson police chief Bob Cooper very pleased at the cooperation be- tween his force and Lehman in the rounding up of two juvenile New York car thieves recently. Jack Berti talking about the meat truck that got mired almost on its side below the Space farm last week: “Bill told me there was an Armour truck upset, and I ran up here to pick up some of the money.” Admiration from some other fire companies at the parade Thursday for the work, pluck, and appearance of Harry S. Smith Company, Kunkle. Good year for catfish at Harveys Lake, it is said. DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA From— Pillar To Post as Tt was just day before yesterday that the twins were tumbling around the floor at the Pump-House, beating each other amiably over the head with their rattlers, and getting their heads stuck be- tween the banisters. Outdoors under the pear tree, hitched by a stout length of clothesline apiece to the trunk, and tethered short enough so that they could not escape into the blazing sun and burn to a crisp, they rocked themselves to sleep, sterns high in the air, bald heads pillowed on the soft grass. And Friday, grown miraculously tall, bass voices booming, the twins erupted from the battered DeSoto, announced that it had taken a little longer than they expected because of their having gotten off the road at one point, and then introducing that classic gambit, “When do we eat?” The first 250 mile trip with the newly acquired driving license is like the first paycheck, something that should be framed instead | of thrown into the hopper. ! } I had been waiting for slave labor to be delivered into my hands, and here it was, beaming, equipped with dungarees and sneaks in case Nonnie’s requirements should be of an exacting nature. It seemed a fair trade. There was the gallon of grey deck paint, flanked by two large brushes; and on the other hand, there was the refrigerator with the makings of substantial meals. We marked a chalkline down the middle of the porch and twin ‘brushes made tracks down the midline, working out to the steps on either end. The pressure cooker coped with the braised beef, and in no time at all supper was ready and the front porch was finished. The kitchen porch took: a little more organizing. During the winter it had accumulated this and that, ’including at least ten chair frames which were in need of caning. _ But the kitchen porch now gleams with its grey deck paint and the trash barrels bulge. The chair frames hang on hooks far above the caning table, and the chest of caning materials is pushed under the work table. There is an amazing amount of floor space. The twins, cleaning off their hands with turpentine, betrayed interest in the attic. There was probably something up there for a bonus. Nonnie usually arranged a bonus for services rendered, in addition to plenty of hot groceries. So, up to the attic, the twins running their hands easily along the banisters instead of sticking their heads through the railings as they did fifteen years ago. And, up in the attic, the prize. Twin prizes. A ship’s_clock and a ship's bell, relics of a shopping binge in Seattle years ago, the bell's brazen tongue muffled in newsprint of 1946, the clock all ready to tick when shaken gently, panting to chime four bells, six bells, eight bells. “Eight bells, sir.” “Make it so.” with its clamor. “Better stow the clock and the bell in the trunk for the trip back to Virginia, kids.” “Hide the clock and the bell in the trunk?” “Oh, well, maybe they WOULD ride better on the seat. But you better not go clanging down the road. The ‘State Police will take a dim view of any extra racket coming from that DeSoto. Could be it might call attention to your lack of a turn signal.” ; And the twins are gone, leaving behind them shining grey decks, and looking forward to installing the ship's clock and the ship’s bell in their room in Herndon. ’ ® And the ship's bell rouses the neighborhood light to teen agers as well as ones | small children hoping for your quick | : ace | S&H STAMPS With 5.50 Purchase | | | | ity, especially during the month of ! and Coupon Below. GIFTS sure to please DAD’ on Father's Day, June 16 100| Globe in Luzerne [100 100 S&H STAMPS In Addition to Regular Stamps on Cash Purchases of 5.50 or more. 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