Sesquitentennial Activities Schedble Thursday, October 19th 7:15:P.M. Cavalcade to Sweet Valley, leave Dallas Bank for meeting at Mick Adams Store at 7:45 P.M. Dance and Refreshments. Friday, October 20 8:00 P.M. Centennial Show at Dallas Sr. High School - Tickets are $1.00 ~ Saturday, October 21st 8:00 to 12:00 Noon Pancake Breakfast - Lehman Fire Hall. Sisters of Skillet and Brothers of the Hills. Price $1.00 Adult and $.50 Children. Saturday, October 21st 8:00 P.M. Centennial Show at Dallas Sr. High School - Tickets are $1.00 Saturday, October 21st 7:30 to 9:30 P.M. Junior High Dance (Jr. High only) Groovey Blues Orchestra Sunday, October 22nd 7:00 P.M. Religious Service for Combined Churches at Dallas Sr. High Monday and Tuesday Time later Meet your neighbor night at Dallas Shopping Center. Bobby Baird Dixie Land Band [ Wednesday, October 25th 8:00 to 11:00 P.M. Dallas Sr. High Dance, Dallas Sr. High School - High School Students only Thursday, October 26th Information later Rotary Centennial Dinner Friday, October 27th 9:00 to 1:00 P.M. Kiwanis Centennial Ball at Irem Temple Country Club, Bobby Baird Orchestra, Tickets $2.00 each Saturday, October 28th or Time and Date to be an- Sunday, October 29th Dallas Sr. Women’s Club will plant a memorial tree on the Dallas Post Office nounced later Grounds. | Saturday, October 28th 4:00 Parade and Bazaar Dallas Firemen Parade to be routed later on. Bazaar to be held in municipal building in Dallas. Sunday, October 29th 2:00 P.M. Centennial Parade and Halloween Parade | Friday, Saturday and Sun- day October 27th, 28th and 29th There will be many activities at the Lehman Horse Show Grounds All types of games, booths for selling, food sales etc. Organizations are preparing hot soups, chili, hoagies, baked goods, hot coffee, etc. Centennial articles will be for sale. Old and new pictures of Dallas will be available for order. Costumes will be judged, beards will be inspected. All sorts of games will be played, contests for the young people. Spelling Bee, Pet show, kite flying contest, Wood chopping, can smashing and all sorts of things. One of the ‘most fascinating treasures to come to light during the Sesquicentennial observance was Carleton Kocher’s copy of an Atlas of Luzerne County, published in 1873, when the present Lackawanna County was included. Every township is mapped, at a scale of 1}% inches to the mile. Each house is marked, with the owner’s name. Schools, churches, mills and stores are identified. Roads and creeks too small for standard road maps are included. The reporductions of Back Mountain township maps have been re- duced to 75%of their size in the Atlas, making the scale 1 and 1/8 inches to the mile. This is still large enough to discover familiar land- marks, and follow roads which have long since been abandoned or turned into four-lane highways. aclual Suricis —_ Irom —_— i and under the direction of BEERS: Hoop skirts, bustles, and high stiff collars were unknown in 1817. While the frontier woman probably dressed somewhat differently, high fashion featured the low neckline, high waistline and straight- hanging skirt of the French Empire. The young lady above looked to Dolley Madison for style leadership. The gentleman, with his ruffled shirt, probably wore knee britches and buckled shoes. Long trousers, slim-legged and held in place by a strap under the foot, were starting to replace them. Dateline 1900 Mrs. Dungey sent items taken from a tattered Dallas Post, dated he ~~ 3 Seabee beeen vaameIvsenes HXTT IX DX XTX DOO HOX Decorative advertising cards were used by businessmen in the last century. Mrs. Carrie Caperoon found a number of them in an old picture frame and loaned them to the Post for the tabloid. OLR LX DOSSIER TOPOL P OPIOID IORI p00 PTT August 18, 1900. B. W. Brickel has torn down his tenant house that stood between his residence and store. It was a very old building although in a good state of preservation, and was said to be the first painted house in town. It was formerly owned and oc- cupied by Capt. Jacob Rice, and it stood where Wm. H. Rice’shouse now stands. The Post Office was kept in it fifty or sixty years ago.
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