or prefigure of a universal reunion of . souls in the upper regions. At Beau- | mont last Friday I arrived early 5; enough to visit a couple of people un before going to the funeral home. | .+, Ada Stone and daughter Frances I| cx used to know ‘way back” when | » { SECTION B — PAGE 4 DALLAS, Carol Ann Williams FERNBROOK, Mrs. George Shaver HARVEYS LAKE, Mrs. Albert Armitage IDETOWN, Bess Cooke MT. ZION, Rev. Charles Gilbert 639-2544 o NOXEN, Mrs. Elida Beahm Kelly 298-2149 674-4109 ® RUGGLES, Mrs. Charles Williams 639-5422 674-5460 ® SHAVERTOWN, Mrs. F. W. Anderson 675-2001 639-9531 ® SWEET VALLEY, Mrs. Thomas Sayre 477-3731 639-5137 ® TRUCKSVILLE, Nelson Woolbert 696-1689 388-7261 % EAST DALLAS, Mrs. Irene Moore 675-3080 rower OUTS DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1966 ~~" NEWS FROM POST CORRESPONDENTS BEAUMONT, Mrs. William Austin MOUNT ZION Funerals are 3a sort of reunion] which we would like to think is a i. they had the Dark Hollow Inn and Sr DIF an 2 ae .. helps out with the music in Sunday ' giso. we €Vening services over there at Beau- finding Hiram: and Elsié Harris I used to stop there on my way , from Meshoppen to Kaiserville and pick up Frances to attend church. | . We . through the years and they are; .. interested in Dorothy and her work | have kept up acquaintance in Africa. Then I went on and spent a few more minutes visiting with! Marian Parrish with whom and her ly acquainted at Carverton. interested to find that she. keeps __. up her music now by use of an elec- tric organ in her home. tells me she is taking summer school, , courses in psychology. at Miserecordia with special emphasis on ‘the exceptional child”. She mont. At the funeral home I. met acquaintances, for instance Nelson and Althea Dymond, David and Celia Emanuel and Leon. They: were of course. part of the family. I was surprised and pleased’ too at there and to learn that. Hiram is now ‘helping’ on the farm which son Charles operates successfully. Maybe Browning was right when he wrote, “Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.” T have yet to find how far into old age that bestness goes. But there are. ad- vantages in living along a few years to renew friendships which seem riper and richer than ever. THE DALLAS POST “PARISH” AGAIN! It was Huntsville for me last Sunday. Rev. Henry Westfield, the former pastor is now taking theo- logical : studies ‘down in Maryland | this summer. Carl Coates, the min ister of music had been vacationing | i in Fort Lauderdale Florida and just little while. got. home. They had the adult choir. Tt sang for an anthem a lovely adaptation of “God Will Take Care of You”, a song 1 had known for more than half ‘a century, al- though it is. not really an ‘old song”. It was fairly new when it was used in our church in Bingham- ton. ‘splashes, then the downpour. name I had not learned greeted me | cordially with the refrain I have learned to expect in this region: “I always mead your “column in The Dallas Post”. ‘I better keep trying to do better! And Mrs. Paul Shou- dice, a relative of Melinda Sutton, | greeted me before service in her | usual cordial way. There was a face in the congregation that looked familiar but I could not associate her face with the present locality, harking back to some former parish. | After church when I greeted her she identified herself and husband as Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wyrsch and her college graduate daughter whom we knew. up in Maine, N.Y. | 2 | She taught in the room. adjoining late husband Charles we were close- | I was! the one where «Catherine taught. Catherine ‘was thrilled “when. I got'| the counter in this eating place and | ard Martin, Arthur Karichner, Dale | home: and. told ‘her who was visit- | something ‘to do with ‘the chime | mechanism in the Boulevard church , in Binghamton." They were visiting | Mrs. Wyrch’s aunt; ‘a Mrs. Elston whose. face was quite familiar to me: ; When 1 saw the comparatively | congregation I felt at home dnd an- | nounced -a children’s story. A whole | seatful came down front. | Sunday ' afterneon ‘Tuffy asked | Cathy “to ‘take him for a walk but she stalled, “Wait till:it gets alittle | cooler.”. ‘After awhile it got just a her. Ruth and I sat on the porch. | Suddenly’ we heard big plops and 1 got into Cathy's car, backed out and | drove over to the cross road. . Sure | enough there stood the two just be- | sinning to get soaked. Neither | looked mournful for Cathy had been | wishing for rain for her mlants. I opened the car door an ffv (no gentleman?) * jumped in ‘and “Cathy - ‘after. She’ said; later that on her | way past: Krams house Mrs.” Krish - called to her, “I'don't wish you 'anv | bad luck but I hope you’ get wet!’ | To which Cathy renlied. she "hoped Iv rain. cooling “the air for only a! HUNTING UP A CHURCH | Sometimes when I'm asked to supply “a, pulpit in advance .l take | the family for a ride to find ‘the | church. Can be a good idea. Sun-| day morning is no ‘time to get lost | along the ‘way! “So for July:31 I'm | to ‘preach at West Nanticoke and) A tenor singer in the choir | Slocum. Where's Slocum? : vhom I have met before but whose! Fathers’ Day I was taken out to’! Mrs. Lee Givens of West Wyomiing. | land Rev. , of times. ‘Slocum ‘ought to be, but it was -f large ‘number’ of, children in the somewhere beyond Alden and per- i us : h Cathy rend : To Go To she got drenched. That was a love- fi = 2 ! ) | 5:4 Class Petty Officer Arthur | Dorrance, Orange, left last week for Lehman Bible School successful Vacation dinner. The place we thought of | eating at was piled full and so we! A went on to Nanticoke and found a! School restaurant. Come to discover we Methodist Church last week. The were eating right over a spot where , following children attended and re- Bible was held at the Lehman] Idetown | Mrs. David Haines and children and Mrs. West of Emerson, N. J, Trucksville Fire Company will visited Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hoover | meet in the municipal building to- last week. They came up for Mr. | morrow night at 8. They will meet Hoover's 70th birthday on Friday. | there again Tuesday night for prac- Saturday night Mrs. Elmer Hoover | tice in the handling of equipment. entertained at wa picnic supper in| Mrs. George Swales and children, | the Idetown Fire hall. Present were | Janet, Lois and David, Northamp- | Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hoover, Mrs. | ton, are spending the week with Stella Evans, Dewey Hoover, Mr. | her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert | and Mrs. Corey Hoover, Mrs. Bruce | DeWitt, S. Pioneer Avenue. Crispell, Mrs. Helen Crispell, Mrs.| Ensign and Mrs. Peter Laweon, Esther Weaver, Alberta Weaver, Yorktown, Va., will spend the week | Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hoover, Mr. end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. and Mrs. Lester Hoover and chil- Charlles Lawson, Holly Street. En- { dren, Miss Ruth Husted, Mrs. Roxie sign Lawson will report for: duty Hessler, Mr. Bert Bidwell, Mrs. | with the U. S. Coast Guard at Port- Myrtle Hoover, Mrs. Letha Mayor, land, Ore., on July 8. an Indian skeleton had been found. | ceived certificates. Near the cash register was a photo- Beginner Dept.: Bryan Hospador, graph of the present proprietor, | Tadd Cragle, Greg Simms, Howard Robert Webster and! Cosgrove, Jackie Williams, Gary others looking reflectively into a Tough, Joan Williams, Debra Mar- pile of bones. We thought we could | tin, Karen Cook, Betty and Esther find out where Slocum was. already asked my friend Ralph | ichner, Wayne Sutton and Dorothy Weatherly if he knew, for he’s | Spencer. preached up at Nuangola a number | Primary Dept.: Cindy Ide, Joanne He felt real woeful that | Weaver, Lauree Watson, Rachel he didn't know where Slocum was. | Miers, Debra Cook, Rosemary Ly- He had heard of a place that used | ons, Roger Miers, Eric Major, Cindy to ‘be ‘called + Slocum: Holler 150 | Sutton, Kevin Cragle, DaleEhret. years! Well, there was a Statey at| Junior Dept.: Debra Mekeel, Leon- 1 éomplimented him by saying I. Sutton, Paul Adamshick, Chris ing. ‘Mr. W yrschiused to have knew that a Statey would know Dawe, Cindy Casterline, Jean John- | Also she, everything about everywhere and | son, Joanne Casterine, Cindy Sut-| so could -he tell me where Slocum | ton, Susan Brown, Harriet Kocher, was. Apologetically he said he’d g0| Carole Eddy, Linda Tough, Glenna out to his car telephone and find | Brown, Helen Jean Earl, William out. and ‘report back. His report | Frey and ‘Mike Frey. was no route numbers up where| Teachers: Mrs. Edwin Wright, Mrs. David Eddy, and Mrs. Gordon i Dawe. Helpers: Kathleen Lyons, | Linda McKee], Linza Sutton, Mrs. Alvin Cragle, Mrs. Arlene Hospador Mary Lou Casterline and David Eddy. A picnic was held at Dawes Pond for children and their parents at the close of the program. RB haps near: Nuangola. He mentioned Hobbie and Wapwallopen too. I thanked him and we drové on. to- ward Alden; up and up and around -and ‘around some lovely mountain | road (No, I didn’t dare look out | while. driving up that road.) and | ‘little. cooler and away he’ dragged |finally I stopped to ask a lady | s * where Slocum was. This was d part | of Slocum and if you want to find the church go down this hill and ¢éross a bridge, turn left up a hill and the church would be there. | Just so. ' There was just such a Wot foe) : rieat little church and a lady in a ge a Se? Toe Sas Toware lawn: chair across the street gave | iy : me. 1 bulletin and crpecied bn. be must keep America beautiful. If Band Auction Lake - Lehman’ Band Sponsors | wish to thank all who helped make the auction a success. Question? Where does our gar- y 1807? at church when I would be preach- | go. 17 Where, dosstiour garbege to Ing. 0 Fish ‘ : | ROW.¢ 4 There was Slocum! a Camp Counselors Jack Mallin, son of Mrs, Doris ‘Mallin, Dallas, and Stanley Dor- rance, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Officer Arthur Owen y Mississippi {Camp Brooklyn, Lake Wallenpau- Owen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Osmyn | . Owen| Carverton, has been assign- | pack, where they will serve as cabin during the summer ed to Gulf-Port, Mississippi, after counselors having a fifteen day leave from months. ; the C: B's where he was previously Jack is a student at Bloomsburg stationed at R.I. | State College and Stanley grad- I had | Watson, Lesa Cochran, Sandra Car- | | with the guest of honor and the| Mr .and Mrs William Jones and | hostess. | family, Anaheim, Calif., arrived Elizabeth Anne: Shaver is attend- Tuesday to spend ten days with his ing the summer session of Penn | brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. David Jones and family, Har- Johnnie, | ris ‘Hill Road. | State” Uuniversity. | John Connor and son, 1 | Wilmington, Delaware, spent the Eighth Birthday g i | w eckend with his mther Mrs. Pearl | Barbara Johnson, daughter of | Connor. | Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Johnson, Car- * ! | verton Road, celebrated her eighth Serving. and Waiting | birthday on Friday, June 17. A Mrs. Jesse Boice and Mrs. Pearl| party was held at her home. Out- | Connor were the hostesses for the | door games were - enjoyed: by the | | Serving and Waiting Class Thurs- | group. Twenty five : guests” were day night. : Rev. Kelley had charge | there. : ‘ p= of the program. It was decided to [. “Mrs. Edward Blazejewski and in- have a covered dish luncheon prior fant son have returned ‘to : their i % %* % = DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA Trucksville Mrs. Stanley Smith, Cortland, N. Y., are expected home this weekend from a motor trip to Florida. Mr, and Mrs. Warren DeWitt and family, S. Pioneer Avenue, are spending the week at Ocean Grove, N. J. Tenth Birthday Helen DeMarco, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adrian DeMarco, Sutton Road, was feted at a party cele-| brating her tenth birthday on Wed- nesday, June 23. Games were en- joyed by the group. Seven guests were present. William Hewitt, Carverton Road, | is spending two weeks with his son and daughter-in-law, "Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Hewitt and family, Roches- ter, N. Y. Card Club Mr. and Mrs. Carverton Road, entertained their card club on Saturday night, June 18. Guests were: Mr. and Mrs. Ed- ward Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Ray- mond Kuhnert, and Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Parker. Mrs. Wallace Perrin, Sr. Street, is spending several weeks with ‘her son-in-law and ‘daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Michae] Philbin and family, New York City.7 . Sergeant ‘and “Mrs.” Covel Fritz- gerald. and family, Fort Bragg, N.C, W. D. Johnson, | Holly | | Sweet Valley | Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Dunham, | Apalachian, N. Y. spent Monday night. with Bess Klinetob. They left for home on Tuesday. Bible School closed at.Maple | Grove Methodist Church on Thurs- | day. Thursday evening the chil- | dren entertained their parents in the church. Refreshments were | served in the hall after the program. | Tom Sayre has returned home | after spending two weeks in Fort | Gordon, Georgia, with the army re- | serves. ICE CREAM SOCIAL The Maple Grove Charge will hold an Ice Cream Social on July 2 at the Maple Grove Church Hall. Bar- beques, pie, homemade ice cream, coffee and soda will be serve start- ling at 5 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ferrey, Mrs. Caroline Ferrey recently spent the day in Reading, visiting Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Raysor. Mrs. Burl Updyke has returned home after being a patient in Nes- | bitt Hospital. | Mrs. William Ferrey returned last | week after being a surgical: patient | at Nesbitt Hospital. Tes } ICE CREAM SOCIAL Ladies’ Auxiliary of Sweet: Valley | Fire Company will, hold. an Ice | Cream Social on July 16 at.the fire | to the next meeting. Present were | home at 26 Meadowcrest from Nes- | | Rev. Kelley, Mrs. Knupp, Marie | Spencer, Hazel Gordon, Mrs. Virgie | Montross, Mrs. “Lydia Meade, Ms. | | Emory Hadsel, Mary Baker, Barbara | | Williams ® with Mrs. Pearl Connor and Mrs. Jesse ‘Boice. * W. S. C. S. Meeting | Mrs. Ralph Antrim and Mrs. George May were hostesses for | W. iS. C. S. meeting held in the | church: house on Wednesday night. | Mrs. Winfield Kelley led devotions. | Mrs. May presided at the business | meeting. It was decided mot to have a meeting during July, but to | have! combined Confidence Class and W. S. C. S. covered dish picnic | on the: first Tuesday of August at | Welsh's Grove. It was announced | that-.a workshop is to be held in | the Nanticoke Methodist Church on Monday night June 27 and another | in® :the Eatonville Methodist = on Wednesday, June 29. Present were Rev. and “Mrs. Winfield Kelley, | Mesdames: “Grace Knupp, Ralph | Welsh, Alfred Hadsel, Pearl Connor, | Leslie Sabo, George May, Ralph Antrim, “Dean Shaver, Frank Len- | gyel;=Lydia Meade, Loren Keller; | Bess Cooke. Mr. and Mrs. John Sutton visited | Rev ‘and Mrs. George Sutton of High: Falls, New ' York during the] week. They brought back their | grandson Philip for the summer. | Sunday the Suttons entertained at bitt Hospital. Sli Mr. and Mrs. Lawton. “Culver, Carverton: Road, will - sperd: the weekend with their son and ‘daugh- ter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Dale Cul- | ver ahd family, Goldsboro, N: C. Georgina: Weidner and her:sister, | | arrived" Wednesday: to spend sev- | hall. = Strawberry shortcake, coffee, etal Weeks “with Mr. and Mrs. Fred pie, soda and three flavors: of ice Blair “and ‘family, Highland Avenue. | cream will be on the menu. Serving Mr. + and” Mrs. Charles Lawson, Will begin at 5:30 pm. ~~. Holly * Street, will entertain at al Community Bible Church, closed | family dinner on’ the Fourth of their Bible School on June. 17. A Local Men Complete : Training At Gordon A Trucksville man, Col. Carl B. Olsen, is the commanding officer of the 402nd Military Police Prisoner of “War Camp, a Wilkes-Barre re- serve unit which completed: two | weeks of summer training last Sat- | urday ‘at Fort Gordon, Ga. “Operation Brown Thrasher” was a three-day field exercise employ- ing. five reserve outfits and a ‘group of regular-army soldiers from the fort. The 402nd "operated: a pri- soner of war camp in the exercise. The Back’ Mountain Area supplies |. a lot of talent to the 402nd. In |: addition tg Col. Olsen, Lt. Robert Richardson, Dallas, is the company commander and Sgt. Robert Erank- lin, Trucksville, is first sergeant ‘in charge of enlisted men. = 7, 4 Slat Heads Board % The annual meeting, of the Board of Trustees, Retreat State Hospital, was held at the hospital on? June 15 when Frank Slaff, Dallas, was ‘PuoIE [IM SisonS. ussjueadg Amp ‘program presented by the ‘children wy ar ———— was held on Sunday evening at the | church. EC - | Mrs, George Haines was gffgcent | patient at Nesbitt Hospital. {== Church of ‘Christ, will present a Harveys Lake 7 funsi Sb. i men Hinge ment se ogi” Sunday ML 3 rad iY 5 | church in conclusion with two visiting ‘her’ daughter-in-law, grand- | Ls of Vabation Bible. School childrén and her mother Mrs. Edith | esha ol Na HO lo ‘Whitmire. | home of Mrs. Robert wills on Mr. :and Mrs. Nolan Wilson, Run- | Wednesday evening. Eleanor Hum- nymede, N. J., visited me on Thurs- phrey presided, devotions were giv- day. ; They are spending a week len by Mrs. Theodore Heness. Re- with Mike Langel in Shavertown. ports were given. The July 27 Mr. ‘and Mrs. Ernest Gummo of | meeting will be at Mrs. Alfred | Port. Matilda, Pa., visited Mr. and | Rogers. with. Mrs. Ida Allen. assist- Mrs. Lee Mintzer and family on ing. Others present weré: Mesdames Sunday. Their daughter” Mary, who | Ida Rogers, Howard Higgins,. Ray- “with “them, is staying for a mond Grey, Albert Armitage, Helen v's visit. Mary is ‘a niece of | Hartman and Mrs. Ruth Williams, Mrs. Mintzer. . 2 | who assisted in serving. Le ; Mr. and Mrs. Leamon Mintzer and | son Fred spent the weekend ‘fish- | ing at;Seneca Lake, New York. = | Mrs,, Arnold ‘Garinger and - chil- | dren and Mus.. Lynn Marsten and | four daughters, Berwyn, spent Mon- | day with Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Garinger. They enjoyed swimming, | boating and the rides at the picnic | ground. | IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE DALLAS, READY -MIXED CONCRETE Phone 675-1155 \ a Father's Day dinner Mr. and Mrs. The: Gleaners Class of the Alder- GLEANERS’ CLASS | Petty Officer Owen is in charga | uated this month from Dallas Senior of training men in the heavy High School. equipment. He is married to. the! 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