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Idetown — Cave’s Market; Harveys Lake — Javers Store Kocher’s
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Yesterday
Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years
Ago In The Dallas Post
Nature will cover the scars, a
! comforting thought when we see the
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30 Years Ago
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" Creek. Excepting the ghost towns
| caused by industrial changes, the
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Editorially Speaking:
~ Will The Railroad Go?
It comes as no surprise to the Dallas Post that Lehigh
Valley Reilroad is petitioning to abandon its service be-
tween Luzerne and Dallas, a move which will put a period
to a colorful facet of Back Mountain life.
Construction of the newly located highway is the oc-
casion, not the cause. Long ago the Dallas Post read the
signs and commented on them editorially.
For years, the volume of traffic by rail between the
Back Mountain and Wyoming Valley has-been steadily
lessening, producers switching to trucks in the interest of
speed and economy, using roads supported by the tax-
payers instead of rails financed by private industry.
In spite of projected relocation of Lehigh Valley
tracks by construction crews, and present beginnings of
, the necessary cut through the mountain, the Lehigh Valley
Railroad will doubtless vanish from the scene, just as it
did from Noxen, and Harveys Lake, and long ago from
Stull and Mountain Springs.
Residents who used to thrill to the sound of the deep-
toned whistle on the old puffing steam locomotives, be-
came accustomed to the braying of the newer Diesels,
waking at night to the whoo-whoo-whoo as a freight
engine warned motorists at crossings.
~The rallway used to be a big thing in the area.. At
the turn of the century, picnic crowds came up from New
York to spend a day at Harveys Lake, returning late at
night to the steaming city.
In the ice-harvest days, before artificial ice became
the norm, trainload after trainload of ice cut from the
clear and unpolluted waters of Mountain Springs, travel-
led to New York by steam-powered trains.
The Lehigh Valley stations are disappearing. The
Dallas Post carried a picture of the station in Trucksville
some years ago, just before it was torn down.
Very few residents will regret the Dallas station. It
could have been made a charming tribute to early days.
Many moves have been made to refurbish it, paint it,
furnish it with flower-boxes and suitable planting, as a
conversation piece, and an advertisement for Dallas.
As late as four years ago, a group of solid business-
men thought it would be a lark to get together on Hal-
lowe’en and paint the station a bright barn red, but aban-
doned the idea.
When it goes, and it will go, the Back Mountain will
have lost one more link with the past.
That dingy structure was once a vital link with the
outside world.
Act Before It Happens
~ Before glaring billboards crowd out the scenery on
the new Highway between Luzerne and Dallas, is the time
to wage war against them, not after they have been erect-
ed and the advertising paid for.
This will be a scenic route. Just as scenic as it was
before, in spite of the elimination of the wide bend lead-
ing into Luzerne.
The scenery is a heritage for the entire community.
Now is the time to decree NO MORE BILLBOARDS.
It is a pleasure to drive down Route 29, through
the gorge beside the stream. Going through State Game:
Lands, it is not defiled by advertising.
Route 309 from Luzerne to Harveys Lake could be
equally beautiful.
Dallas Borough has an ordinance against billboards.
A move is on foot to preserve the beauty of the natu-
ral scenery in this area by prohibiting blatant outdoor
advertising. .
Look it up in the yellow pages if you want a septic
tank or a diaper service, and enjoy the scenery while on
the road.
by Daniel Waters.
Lake Street was flooded during !
a devastating down pour,
Fire destroyed a barn on the Z..
Platt Benmett farm, set off by a
severe electrical storm,
Lower trolley rates were sought
by the local taxpayers association.
Lauren Dymond was saved from
death by drowning, when his bro-
ther, William grabbed his hand as
the former fell into a step off at
Cummings Pond.
Philip Reymolds, local pilot, took
part in the greeting extended to
Balbo’s world armada.
Dallas fire truck was taken to
Allentown for renovation.
Deaths: Mae Stock, 49; Mrs. Isaac
Denmon, 82; both of Shavertown.
It Happened
20 Years Ago
Memorial Park Fund established
by Trucksville residents received
$10 gift from Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Klump, Provo, Utah.
Ralph Hazeltine, Raymond Kuhn-
ert and T. A. Williammee, Com-
munity Security Panel, arranged for
local stores to ration amd distribute
sugar,
Mrs. Ida Covey, 51, Trucksville,
died following sudden heart attack.
Huntsville Christian Church: an-
nounced plans to celebrate 100th
anniversary, this year.
Paul Shaver relieved Ray Garing-
er at Dallas Observation Post when
latter suffered severe toothache,
while on watch.
Howard Hendricks was named
supervising principal of Lehman
Schools.
Sum of $510 was reported raised
for Dallas Honor Roll.
Terrific electrical storm uprooted
victory gardens in area.
George Kostembauder, Chase,
Spanish War veteran, died at his
home. :
Servicemen heard from: Staff Sgt.
‘William H. Baker, Mississippi; Earl
D. Williams, Georgia; Karl Borkow-
ski, Texas; Bill Renshaw, Fleet P.O.
San Francisco; Tommy Evans, North
Africa; Bob Lewis, Shavertown; Ro-
land Masters, Colorado; Billy Price,
Jr., South Pacific; Howard Wilcox,
Nebraska; Louis Kelly, Illinois; Lt.
George Turn, Hawaiian Fronwer
Patrol,
It Happened
0 Years Ago
Thirty unit motel proposed for
Dallas Area. opposite intersection of
309 and Memorial Highway.
Power rate hike for Natona and
Bloomsburg Mills suspended for six
months.
Ground was broken for the new
John Durbin was chosen to fill the | vicinity of the Correctional Institut-
Dallas School Director. post vacated | jon, rural homesteads usually died
a more tranquil death, although once
in a while they were felled by fire.
Along a roadside when you see
telltail signs of old lilac bushes and
glimpse dimly im the brush rem-
nants of old fireplaces and chimneys,
with maybe a few old apple trees
nearby, is is safe to look for old cel-
lar walls. Some of these spots once
had happy families in the long ago,
sometimes not so long either. Farms
I visited in childhood are now brush-
land with houses gone.
Family housing is one field
where the “Bigger is always better”
bubble has burst, as far as the rural
area is concerned. We are getting
back to smaller houses with big
kitchens. The extreme jump back
to the very small ‘trailer was too far,
like the primitive houses first built
in Plymouth and. Salem, Mass., which
were too small and not comfortable
The: fireplace, the most import-
ant part of the house, including the
chimney, was built and plastered
with clay or mortar, forming all of
one end. In front of it was built a
frame of /bent poles shaped about
like a short loaf of bread, with a
wooden door framed into the other
end. The frame was covered with
bark or thatch. This crude dwelling
was called a “wigwam’”. Soon stone
fireplaces and chimneys had to be
used to prevent fires. Dugouts in the
side of a hill, with fronts of vertical
poles plastered with clay, served as
outbuildings.
Better houses were of frame con-
struction with pine boards placed
hoirizontally, one room with steep
roof and loft, windows of oiled pap-
er, and wood shutters outside. Fires
in the thatch roof were a serious
problem. Every house had to have
a ladder long enough to reach the
roof and later thatch roofs were
prohibited by local laws. Some of
the more wealthy had been accus-
tomed to manor houses im England
and imported carpenters, who built
a few of them, but the style did not
appear suitable for the country.
A two-room house, one above the
other, with fireplaces in each next
came into use, a small stairway
James Eckerd, Shavertown, won
the Soap Box Derby.
Franklin Township Firemen
burned their mortgage at a Corn
Roast.
Back Mountain All Stars announc-
ed plans to seek ‘State title.
Married: Mrs. Emma Ayre to Clyde
Bullard, S. Carolina.
‘Died: Honeywell, 70, Alderson;
Evelyn Williams, 80, Loyalville; John
Rice, 56, Trucksville; Henry J. Wolfe
18, Loyalville; Elisa Hopper, Pitts-
burgh, formerly of this area; Mamie
Thomas, 81, Shavertown; Mrs. Har-
ry Lord, 71, Outlet; Louise Gabel,
Masonic Building in Dallas.
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Rambling Around
By The Oldtimer — D. A. Waters
clinging to the chimney. This was en-
larged as the family grew by adding
other rooms, each with fireplaces,
at the back or end, sometimes sev-
eral such additions being made over
the years. A common one was to add
‘a room at the back, sloping the roof
down over it, creating the “saltbox”
house.
The log cabin, in roughly the same
design, was introduced by the
Swedes, and became popular in for-
est areas, including this area. Some-
times several were built in success-
jon on the same foundatiom as they
were destroyed by Indians or burnt.
When settlements became firmly
established, the people went in for,
better housing. Seaboard towns had
a lot of brick houses, and some of
the wealthy merchants, etc. had very
elaborate homes. English architects
published drawings and some Am-
ericans became noted artisans and
builders. ;
When a settler got ready to build
a mansion house, like the big old
houses scattered around the. country
he went into his own woods and cut
logs of oak and hemlock for the
framing, and pine for the. boards
and trim. Framing was done with an
adz. Pine boards were sawed at local
sawmills. Maybe a year would be re-
quired by the carpenter and owner,
working in the barn, planning the
finishing lumber, putting tongues
and grooves in the flooring (some-
times maple), and making the doors,
windows, and panelling, before the
frame was put up.
Lime was usually procured not too
far off and samd was fairly plentiful.
Nails were ordered in advance and
made by hand by local blacksmiths,
who also made hinges and latches.
Window glass was usually imported,
and in most places pigment for paint
had to be bought, but the linsead
oil to mix it was made: in local mills
from home grown flax. Shingles were
split out by old men by hand, some
making a good business of it.
In his HISTORY OF DALLAS
TOWNSHIP, Mr. William P. Ryman
quotes from a letter written by John
R. Barton, who lived in. Dallas in
the early 1800’s:
“I can count many families living
in log houses with a ladder omly for
a stairway to the loft, where one or
more beds and sometimes house
plunder and grain were kept; while
the room below-kitchen-diningroom-
and parlor-where the wool was card-
ed into rolls, spum and sometimes
woven into cloth, prepared for the
puller, to be made into good warm
winter goods. Here, too, flax goods
for summer wear, sheets, towels, etc.
were made. It was a busy place.
And then, sometimes grandmother,
in her younger days had carried to
Wilkes-Barre butter and eggs... . I
have been told that she cleared off
the ground where ‘the old Fergeson
house stood on the day before a son
was born. That son was a leader in
debates at the old log school-house
debating elub, involving questions
of history amd science. . . This boy's
father kept books in the house, took
a weekly paper, and was a kind of
Socrates in the home circles and
neighborhood. Pine knots were plen-
tiful and they made a good light.”
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YOU'RE NEXT
The way I felt after an all-day
broil im the exotic Laurel Run sun
Friday at Giants Despair hillclimb
races, I wouldn't have minded if
someone pushed me into a swim-
ming pool with all my clothes on.
Still suffering from heat madness
at the drivers’ party at the Host
that night then, I didn’t really ob-
ject when it happened, just like at
the best Washington parties.
It didn’t really take ten guys to
throw me in. It’s just that I had
made myself such a popular target
by encouraging everyone else to push
his meighbor. Cocky to the end, I
refused early warnings from some
buddies that I should at least take
off coat, tie, and shoes, and, in fact,
led the mob a merry chase several
times earlier. ;
The hero then edged up to pool-
side for the fourth time, unmoticed,
stopped abruptly, sat down, and ask.
ed two girls (it always works in the
movies) if they had, as he suspected,
actually just had the nerve to yell
“Hey, here comes the guy again!’.
‘When he glanced ‘a precautionary
glance over his shoulder, his view
was filled as far as the eye could see
with dripping, grinning faces, plainly
honored with a visitor from the dry
race.
It was too dark to identify mem-
bers of his lynch-band, except that
one of them was very, very big.
When I get a chance, I'll ask some
of my friends, many of whom seem-
ed to have already heard of my fate
the next morming, Tom Hillyer asked
me a couple of times at the Devils
Elbow turn if I had brought my
bathing suit.
FANS LAMENT
A whole lot of people turned out
at Tunkhannock Thursday night to
cheer and cry for Bob Horlacher
League All-Stars who played Sayre
for one of the contenders for district
championship. They lost 4-3 in an
extra inning.
The little sportsmen fought hard
for the title, and were really Sayre’s
match, but the winners had, of
course, had last bats, and one was
all they needed.
SPEEDING ALONG
One bunch who found the con-
dition of Memorial Highway to their
liking were the amtique car bugs
from New Jersey, who can go just so
fast anyway. They were on tour,
hosted by our local antique club, and
Tiny Gould saw to it that they were
able to parade their cars around
Harvey's Lake Saturday.
A Key-Club Custom
Key Club indoctrination, says
George McCutcheon, holds over to
adult life, after the kids grow up
and get out of school. Here's George
Jacobs taking his leftover sweet
corn last Sunday night to families
where once he delivered Christmas
baskets as part of the Key Club pro-
gram of community welfare. He was
accompanied by Mr. McCutcheon
and Steve Silic.
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By Hix
It must be fun to write a column of advice to the lovelorn,
hints to prospective brides, how to get along with the boss, what
to say to Junior when he stays out late for the first time, and how
to peel an onion without burstinginto tears.
Sounds as if it might be the life of Reilly.
Every once in awhile I toy with the idea of writing letters to
myself and answering them.
% Like for instance:
Dear Old Sag:
My mother-in-law is wearing me down. What do T do to keep
her off my neck? She interferes with the children’s discipline. And
you know yourself, times have changed.
Despondent
Dear Despondent;:
Don’t look now, but it's breathing down your neck. Two more
years, and you'll be a mother-in-law yourself. And then you won't
have time to worry about your own mother-in-law’s shortcomings,
you'll be too busy covering up for your own.
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Or this one:
Dear Old Sag:
My twelve-year-old son is just too bright. I start spreading
out the slices of pineapple from the can, so I can cut them up into
small pieces for a salad, and he stacks them back. in the can, runs
a knife up and down, and there they are, cut up neat as a pin.
How can I keep his respect? .
Worried
Dear Worried: :
Buy chunk-style pineapple. You're behind the times.
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Dear Old Sag:
You seem to know everything. So tell me what to do with two
leftover sardine. Must be a good recipe somewhere for turning them
into a tasty luncheon dish.
Wondering
Dear Wondering:
It isn’t worth it. Open your mouth and drop them in; or feed
to the cat. Bie
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Dear Old Sag:
That woman I see on the Television commercial, the one with
the minus front tooth. When she gives that happy start of surprise
when she finds she’s been on T-V without ever suspecting it, she’s
looking right down into that broadcasting dingus, the one just barely
showing above the vee of her blouse. Do you suppose that she
KNEW it was there? All the time she was telling how much nicer
her wash looked when done with the new detergent ?
Suspicious
Dear Suspicious: : t
Well, what do YOU think? And frankly, nobody, but NOBODY,
could look quite so much like a downtrodden housewife without a
whole flock of make-up.
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Dear Old Sag: :
How does that typist on T-V get away with bawling out the boss,
just because she needs a slugof headache remedy ? ;
Headachy Typist
Dear Headachy Typist: She doesn’t. She got fired.
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Yeah, it might be fun. But you'd have to remain strictly anony-
mous, or you'd be hightailing it out of town, one leap ahead of the
sheriff,
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