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Mt. Zion
MT. ZION
Ira Crawford, Sutton Creek Road,
and Thomas Reid of Methodist par-
sonage both had birthdays on Sept.
10. Mr.
and Tommy Reid is 5 years.
It is reported that Ira Crawford
and Mrs. Alice Beam are not doing
well in health.
Mrs. Howard Lewis was taken to
Nesbitt Hospital last Thursday
night, where she is undergoing |"
treatment.
Tina Kinsey, arriving at Sunday
School last Sunday, saw Catherine
(who had come out from church to
get something from the car) and
asked her: ‘Are you going to
church? Where is Tuffy ?”
We were * pleased Jast Saturday
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Friday Nights 5t0 8
when Hilda Coen brought Mrs. A.
W.; Fielding for a call. Mrs. Field:
ing used to live gver on the Bodle
Road near the Schweitzers. She is
now living in Florida in a develop-
| ment known as Sherwood Park,
land her place is on Nottingham
Road ‘with other references to
Robinhood’s haunts around thare.
She likes it in Florida, living alone
and looking after herself.
Last- Sunday we wen: to Wyo-
ming to receive our Sabin Oral
Polio Vaccine. We noted how well
organized the whole procedure was
and no delay in passing along the
line for our lumps of sugar. What
a sweet way to wipe out that dread
a.sease! From my. experience at
Valley Crest ‘I wish Parkinson's
Disease could be also eliminated.
And arthritis. And hardening of
the arteries. The Christ of the New
Testament is at work in all this
healing business, and more of it is
taking place today than, in that
| century.
| Happy Hill is especially “Happy”
'now, for Rev. and Mrs. Ralph
| Weatherly are grandparents for the
| fifteenth time. They have fourteen
, living grandchildren. The latest is
| Philip Weatherly born on Septem-
[ber 12 to Rev. and Mrs. Theodore
| Weatherly, Homestead.
Our family attended the Episco-
pal Service of Witness Sunday at
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St. Stephens Church, and I partici-
pated in the clerigal processional,
Rev. Mr. Weatherly graciously in-
vited me to walk with him. This
was a diocesan affair in which Bish-
op Frederick Warnecke marked the
tenth anniversary of his consecra- |
tion as bishcp of the diocese of |
Bethlehem by renewing his vows.
Wesley Lewis left last Thursday |
to attend a meeting in Chicago of |
the Gemeral Conference Commission |
on Lay Activities, and returned on |
Saturday.
Sunday night along with Brainerd |
Daniels, Roy Thomas, Mr. and Mrs.
Wesley Lewis, I attended a Group |
Quarterly Conference at Trucks- |
ville Methodist church educational
building. This gathering repre- |
sented 21 congregations of over |
5600 Methodists from 9 parishes |
with 9 pastors in the Back Moun- |
tain area. The group considered |
the necessity of making a thor ough |
study of Bible, of the mission or
business of the Christian church, |
and the social implications of the |
Christian gospel as it confronts the |
problems of the moral life of the |
world. You can expect that |
churches of the Back Mountain will |
be listing amnouncements cof study |
classes of all sorts at various times
Many of the themes studied are
sure to be controversial. ]
Sweet Valley
HOLD CORN ROAST
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Walsh, Main
Road, Sweet Valley, entertained re-
cently at a corn roast at their
house. Attending were Mrs. Irene
Eheret and Glenn, Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Foss and Gladys, Jack
Chapple, Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon
Eheret, Billy, Shelly, Douglas and
Dale, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Eheret,
Mr. and Mrs. William Calkins, Ste-
wart and Pamela Calkins, Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Powell, the hosts and
their son, Robert Walsh, Jr.
Mrs, Margaret Aton, Bingham-
ton, has returned to her home after
spending a two week vacation with
her sister, Mrs. Caroline Ferrey.
Mrs. Emogene Davenport, enter-
tained at a family dinner Sunday
with the following attending: Mr.
and”Mrs. Richard Davenport, Dottie
Jean, Billy and Richie Berwick; Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Bridall, Lisa and
Ricky, Sweet Valley.
Miss Grace Croop, Washington,
D. C., has returned to her home
after being the guest of Mrs. Rich-
ard Davenport, Sr. While here, she
also visited with Mr. and Mrs. Ho-
ward Eheret, Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon
Eheret, Lehman; Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
liam Calkins, Oak Hill, Mrs. Irene
Eheret and Glenn, Mr. and Mrs;
Robert Walsh and family, Sweet
Valley and Mr. and Mrs. Willard
Cornell, Pikes Creek.
Mr. and Mrs. Cleon ' Dribelbis,
Pikes Creek, were recent guests of
their son and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Norman Dribelbis, Saugerties, N. Y.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Raysor, Read-
ing, had as guests last Sunday the
following local relatives, Mr. and
Mrs. ‘Albert Allen, Raloh' and |
Mitchell; Mr. and Mrs. - Albert Fer-
rey; Mrs. Edwin Britt; Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Sayre, Tommy, Karen,
Beth, Debbie; and Mrs. Caroline
Ferrey who remained with the Ray-
sor’s for a two week visit.
Mr. and Mrs. William Naugle,
Pikes Creek, were the guests last
week of their son-in-law and daugh-
ter, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kuczawa,
Reading.
Josevh Konigus, Jr.
and Mrs. Joseph Konigus, is con-
fined to his home with a badly
cprained back. He is a sophomore
at Lake-Lehman High School. Mrs.
Anna Konigus and daughter, Elean-
or, both employed at Retreat State
Hospital are enjoying their annual
two week vacation.
son of Mr.
Barbara Bescomon Ruggles,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Kasmerski is a patient at Nanticoke
State Hospital where she submitted
to surgery. Mr. and Mrs. Kasmer-
ski had as recent guests their son
and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Besconon, Ernie, Jr. and Diane, now
residing in Virginia. Mrs. Besconon
is the former Sandra Cragle.
Lt. Michael Lewis Winnicki,
Kentucky and Geraldine Margaret
Lutz, Plymouth, will be married
October 12, at St. Mary's Roman
Catholic Church, Plymouth. Lt.
Winmnicki is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Michael Winnicki former local resi-
dents. Miss Lutz is ‘the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Lutz,
Plymouth.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Graham,
Meridian, Mississippi, enjoying an
extended tour of the United States,
spent last week with the latter’s
‘in the woods.
THE BALLAS POST, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1963
It Was A Rough Life, Lumbermen
Burning Beds And Bugs Impartially
by George W. Buckingham
Fifty years ago this August, little
did I realize that I would be at-
| tending a fiftieth anniversary for
| two such fine people as Frieda and
Henry Strohl. I knew Friedd would
| be here, but as she was such a
good cook, I had my doubts about
Hinkel because with Frieda’s fine
cooking and Hinkel's insatiable ap-
petite, I thought he would eat him-
self to death. But judging from
his longevity and the number of
| his offspring, I can see he has used
discretion. I wonder if he really is
a Strohl?
Things have changed a great deal
here in Wyoming County since that
| day in ‘August when I first met the
new bride. There were thousands
of acres of virgin timber in Wyo-
ming County in those days.
was an abundance of Beech, Birch,
and Maple trees and large tracts
of Spruce and Hemlock. . The most
outstanding trees of them all, to my
memory, and which are now extinct,
were the Chestnut trees. We are
approaching fast the season when
Jack Frost opened the chestnut
burrs and we kids would go nutting
at every opportunity.
Henry's father, John Strohl, and
Ebcena, his wife, ran one of the
lumber camps for the Trexler &
Turrel Lumber Company, up on
South Mountain outside of Noxen
and Ricketts. The lumber camps
were pretty crude. - The principal
room was one large dining room in
which were tables running length-
wise of the room and along which
were -hardwood benches ‘on which
the men sat while eating their
meals. Table manners were, when
compared with today's manners, al-
most nil. As the men had been
working hard in the woods from 7
o'clockk in the morning until 5:30
at night, they were pretty hungry.
Upon reaching the dining room, it
was every man for himself.
Meals were plain but very whole-
some. Potatoes, canned vegetables,
salt-cured meats, such as Red Tiger,
Spec, and Bacon were pretty much
the only meats we had in the sum-
mer time unless fowl. In the late
fall, however, there was an abund-
ance of fresh pork made from the
pigs Mr. Strohl owned and which
ran wild in the summer and fall
These porkers were
very fat and. the meat was juicy
and tender as they fed. largely on
roots, herbs, and nuts plus table
scraps.
The recreation room, if you could
call it such, was a large lobby in
which was _ one large pot-bellied
stove in which large slabs of wood
were burned. This lobby was de-
void of any furniture other than
plain, crude hardwood benches
which lined the walls.
around the stove there was a sand
box, and about the room in dif-
ferent places were buckets filled
with sand in which men who chew-
ed tobacco, and most did, could spit. !
The sleeping quarters consisted
of one large room which covered
pretty much the entire secend story.
The beds were roughly made out
of rough boards and were two and
three decks high. Some of the
beds had mattresses, but most of
them were lined with just Hem-
lock and Spruce boughs. It was
very common for the sleeping quar-
ters and beds to become pretty
much infested with bed bugs and
lice. About every three months
the men would rip out the beds,
stack them outside, and set fire
to them ' while cursing themselves
and the vermin into Purgatory.
Lumber camps themselves were
made out of crude rough unfinished
boards, taken directly from the saw
mills. They were insulated along
the outside with tar paper and on
brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Albert L. Ray.
There.
Usually
the inside with rolls of brown or
red building paper.
When I first met Henry he was
a teen-ager, probably fifteen years
of age. He wore long pants that
he and I could both fit into. He
had long hair that may have been
cut a year or two before. It curled
up over his neck. Henry's father,
like my own and others in the
woods, was pretty much a task
maker. I can remember when
Henry first went to work. He work-
ed hard driving a team of horses.
For recreation he used to ride a
railroad bicycle to Ricketts, seven
or more ‘miles away. Henry was
very good to me, and I used to
ride on the rear axle of his bicycle.
He used to take at times his little
brothers, Francie and Johnnie, and
his sister, Rose, and sit them in a
basket and take them for rides.
Rose and Johnnie have long since
passed on to Happy Toy Land, but
Francie is still hanging on.
My father was a foreman for the
Trexler and Turrel Lumber Com-
pany. We lived, believe it or not,
in an old boxcar which sat on rails
and was moved from one location
to another as the lumbering pro-
gressed. My sister, Edith, and
brother, Albert, both of whom are
here, were born in a boxcar.
The Ricketts lumber job was back
many miles in the virgin timber-
land, and the only way we could
reach it was to go by the company
log train. All groceries and every-
thing we had to eat were trans-
ported into the camps by the com-
pany train.
Men were segregated in groups,
each having their own camp and
particular style of food to which
they were accustomed. There was
a German family who ran one camp.
It was there that I remember dis-
tinctly one Sunday morning having
seen old Andrew have a free-for-
all battle with his wife, take a large
butcher knife and slit her throat
with it from ear to ear before
breakfast.
The Hungarians had their own
camp, as did the Italians. I believe
it was a result of the different
lumber camps and styles of cooking
I experienced that my own appetite
developed, pretty much into a cos-
mopolitan one.
There were quite a few trout
brooks back in the woods and it
was there that I developed my fish-
ing habit and learned to duck man-
ual labor. My father put me to
work in the woods when I was
thirteen years of age carrying water
to a bunch of hunkies. I carried
water in two,two-gallon jugs slung
on a crotched stick, one on each
shoulder.
On the Ricketts job all of the
logs were skidded or sledded and
stacked on the skidways along the
railroad tracks, and later on loaded
lon log cars and taken to the mills
in Ricketts. Ricketts was a thriv-
ing town. It had stores, schools,
churches, stave mills, spool mills,
as well as saw mills. Today there
is nothing left there but old found-
ations and memories of the past.
On the South Mountain job the
. mill was on the mountain. The logs
were sawed manually during the
summer months and fall, and then
sledded to the skidways near the
mills in the winter time by company
horse teams or by farmers, when
their fall work was done, who would
bring their own teams of horses or
oxen into the woods and pick a
dollar or so. After the logs were
sawed into boards, they were taken
on sleds down the mountain into
Noxen and shipped away to market.
The company maintained their
own store. They had medical facili-
ties for the men, and as I remember,
the single men had fifty cents per
month deducted from their wages
| and the family man paid one dollar.
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Mr. and Mrs. George Edwards,
Susan, Judy and Sandra, Hyatts-
ville, Md., were guests of Mrs. Mar-
garet Weiss, Ryman Road, for ten
days. Mrs. Edwards is the former
Marian Weiss, now living with her
family in their new home in Hyatts-
ville.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Weiss, Jr.,
Fullerston, were also guests of his
mother, Mrs. Margaret Weiss.
Over Labor Day weekend the
George Edwards family, Margaret
and Carol Weiss were guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Weiss, who reside
in Fullerton.
Mr. and
guests of Rev.
Mrs. Ted Wilson were
and Mrs. Ned Lin-
tern, Chinchilla, Sunday, Sept. 8.
They celebrated four birthdays:
Ned’s and Ted's were August 20,
while Jules and Evelyns were on
September 18.
Ella Moore Memorial Class of the
Methodist Church met in the social
room Tuesday, September 10. Betty
Kintzer presided. Mary Ryman
led devotions after which business
was conducted.
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Members present were Bea Moore,
Margaret Weiss, Viola Brace, Jean-
ette Dickinson, Myra Carlin, Mary
Ryman, Gladys Brace, Jule Wilson,
Helen Sie, Betty Kintzer, Irene
Moore.
WSCS of East Dallas Church will
meet at the home of Florence Mar-
tin . today. ;
There will be all day quilting fol-
lowed by the business meeting in
the afternoon. Those going all day
are requested to bring a covered
dish.
Ted, Jule, Pete and Hazel Wil-
son left last Saturday for Michigan,
to visit their brother, Nelson Wilson
who is seriously ill.
' Chased By Bull
Betty Kintzer, Demunds Road,
visited Betty Norman and family,
Wilkes-Barre, last week. She was
lucky to be able to visit anyone,
as she was chased by a bull which
broke through their fence. Making
The men in those days worked ten
hours a day and, I believe, up until
1916 when I left the woods, the
maximum amount paid was $1.60
per day. The boarding house charg-
ed the men sixty cents for board
and room. Counting on inclement
weather, there wasn’t much left
for a man’s pay check at the end
of the month. Everything wanted,
clothes, tobacco, et cetera, was
bought on tic and charged to their
account. The company made their
own prices and, frankly, they were
considerably higher than what was
charged on the open market in the
larger towns and cities. Life was
hard and life was earnest in those
days and I used to get very sick
of it, but after reaching maturity
and approaching the later years in
my life, I realize how pleasaht my
childhood was and between you and
me, I wouldn't swap a single day
of my childhood - with any one
brought up in the city.
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is a patient in Veterans’ Hospital,
a mad dash for her porch, she fell
flat on her face. But the bull got
scared, turned and ran the other
way.
Carl Derhammer, owner of Willow
Grove Fruit Stand, Demunds Road,
Lebanon.
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Miller, Ran
som Road, flew to Hartford, Conn.
last week, to visit his son Henry,
who had a serious operation.
Our sincere sympathy goes out
to Mrs. Ira Carle and family, De-
munds Road. We also sympathize
with Mrs. Wilson Ryman over the
sudden passing - of her brother,
David T. Isaac.
Members of the Orange Boys’
Club met at the home of their coun-
selor Richard Hislop.
Officers elected: Dale Rozelle, pres-
ident; Brain Duffy, vice president;
Rickie Reese, secretary; John Smith,
treasurer; Jack Prebola, doorman;
Buddy Carle, chaplain; Berry Reese,
Noel Duffy, Bill Mohner, game com-
mittee.
The club held a camp-out from
August 23 to August 25 on Cool~
baugh’s Baseball Diamond in Or-
angle. There were twenty-five boys
who slept in sleeping bags and tents.
They enjoyed hoagies the first eve- |
ning and had a corn roast Satur- |
day evening. “Oh! The joys of
childhood!” .
Alice and Fred Stevens visited
their daughter Linda in Washington
over the weekend. She is employed
there and is greatly missed by her
East Dallas friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Good,
Shickshinny, were Sunday visitors
of Mrs. Arthur Newman, who is
recuperating at her home after be-
ing hospitalized recently.
Mrs. Myrtle Miller, Hildebrant
Road, had Mr. and Mrs. James Derr;
Maude Lampman, and May Schoon-
over as Sunday guests.
Little Robin, two and one half,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Irvin
Lamoreaux, is a patient in Mercy
Hospital. She has a very high fever
and had tonsilitis but is too young
to have them operated on.
Thomas and Janice Siley, Phila-
delphia, were guests of Mr. and |
Mrs, Russell Siley last Thursday and |
Friday. ; |
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Myra Carlin drove to Snowshoe
Saturday, to spend a few days with
her brother, Raymond and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Shutt, Han~
over Green, visited Sunday his fath-
er, Walter Shutt, whose condition
is fair. Other visitors were Mr. and
Mrs. Lester Moss.
Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
| Alex Cook on their wedding anni-
versary Friday.
Mrs. Ann Spencer is convalescing
at her home aiter having had a
surgical dentist do extraction last
Saturday. - She is pleased not to
have had to be hospitalized as e
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