A EE a ee -—— -_—— a A A A a a A CE SE Brown, Clyde Only yesterday Ed Fielding, Flower Finney. It flower girl Doug 1949 in a vehicle called 10 years ago, November 22, 1935 Main traffic arteries were cleared by Menday. but secondary highways suc the Idetown-Kunkle Road remained impassable today following a blizzard Sunday night. Fullfilling the highly idealistic principals which are the keystones of Rotarianism, members of the Greater Dallas Rotary Club have agreed to devote certain meetings during the next two months to general discussions of pertinant problems that face the world today. The climax of this sections inter- scholastic football season will be reached Thanksgiving morning when Lehman Township football team tries to end Kingston Township's long string of victories. Coach Walter Hicks’ - Kingston Township team is favored. however. Alterations and improvements which have been underway at the Dallas ME Church on Church Street for the last three months are com- pleted and will be open for inspection after special services on Sunday. To the traditions that insist ‘‘the mail must go through'’ and ‘the show mustgo on’ add “‘the pumps must be insp2d”. Dallas Water Company Phil "Anderson and Walt Covert oll their inspection tour last ween skis. Deaths--Almira Kocher, Dallas: John Kessler, Hunlock Creek: Conden. Alderson: Hunlock Creek. You could get--Lard, two pounds, 29 Jacob can: rolled oats, two packages, 21 cents: chocolate cream drops, 10 cents a pound and fresh cruellers, 10 cents a half dozen. 30 years ago, November 23, 1945 As a memorial to the men and women of Kunkle Methodist Church who have given their lives in the service of their country. Silver Leaf Club of Kunkle this week gave the Back Mountain Memorial Library a complete set of the latest edition of the Encyclopedia Americana. William Burnafor. Shavertown, will diregs the Dallas Junior Woman's Club in their production of ‘‘The Dixie Jamboree’, Nov. 28 at the Knigston Township High School. Continuing = on their regular Thursday night schedule, robbers returned to the Back Mountain region for the third consecutive time and this time entered Lehman Township High School. Discharged from the Navy today under the point system: Lt. Jg. Jean I.. Williams, Dallas. D. H. Hontz has made application for a charter to establish a bus line between Tunkhannock and Wilkes- Barre through Noxen. Engaged--Natalie Louise Kresge to I.t. Lawerence M. Isaacs. Deaths--1.t. John Reese, Shavertown; Cora Nulton. Beaumont. Playing at local theatres--*‘Crime, Inc.” with Leo Carrilo and Tom Neal. You could get--Square circulating heaters. $54 and up: slab stove wood, $1 per cord: complete lunch 25 cents. 20 vears ago, November 22, 1955 An order for a LaFrance Crusader pumper was placed last Monday for delivery to Daniel C. Roberts Fire Company. April 15. Sixty-nine taxpayers have petitioned the Take Township supervisors. to close all dumping grounds not maintained as public dumps operated under the super- vision of the municipality. The possibility that a Giant or and A&P supermarket will locate along the Luzerne-Dallas Highway in Luzerne was revealed this week by John Connolly, Luzerne Building contractor. A 500 pound safe stolen from the Turrell Motor Company 16 months ago was found by a rabbit hunter near Harveys Lake this week. Atty. James I. Brown will be honored at a testimonial dinner tendered him hy the Back Mountain Protective Association. Dec. 15. Engaged--Nancy Dymond to Richard V. Bartlebaugh. Playing at local theatres--“Rebel Without a Cause’ with James Dean. You could get--Cocktail napkins, 120 for 19 cents; 50 asprins, 69 cents: Stell 836-3163 N 7 DAYS wagons, $1.98 to $14.98: olive oil, eight ounces, 33 cents and baby food, six jars, 59 cents. 10 vears ago, November 23, 1965 Don Peterson, representing Dallas Rotary this week presented Dallas coach Edward Brominski with the traditional ‘‘old shoe’’ award for winning the Lake-Lehman-Dallas game. Open house for residents of the Back Mountain is scheduled Saturday at Hayfield Farm, the newest Com- monwealth Campus of The Penn- sylvania State University. On Friday night, a citizen's com- mittee headed by William Purcell will present the Lake Township super- visors with a petition signed by those ‘exceptions’ to the proposed borough establishment. As estimated 1000 new Christmas lights have replaced old enes;in Dallas Borough. contributions are being accepted from Dallas businessmen. The wires for the lights were donated by Kingston Borough. If things go as scheduled. the Dallas Post Office will not be ready by Christmas for the rush. Engaged--Cindy Dymond to Norman Weaver: Carol Pope to James R. Martin; Susan Elaine Spencer to Glen Lee Johnson, Barbara Hurtt to Joseph Walton. Jr. Deaths--Gertrude Lindsley, Dallas: L.erov Gowen Hess, Noxen. By Michael A. Guido An atheist wrote this on a blackboard, “God is no where!” But his little niece said, “Uncle, you’ve made a mistake.” She moved the let- ter “w”, and made the sen- tence to read “God is now here!” Wherever we are, God is here. There is no place, there can be no place, where He is not. | Seven billion people stand- | ine at seven billion different places can say with equal certainty, God is now here. No one is in distance any se to or any further from God than any other person. God sent Jonah east to Ni- |neven. But Jonah went west by Terry Bonifanti (Editor’s note: This historical series on the Back Mountain is written from the memories of those now living who made or remember the interesting incidents of the area. Anyone wishing Back Mountain life in the past is asked to call the Post at 675-5211. It was a lovely night in November 1949. the 18th to be exact, when six foot “‘bride’’ Don Finney first married his five foot ‘‘groom’-Walt Phillips. The couple was to repeat their ‘‘uproariously funny wedding’ some 30 times over the next few months in a vehicle called ‘“‘Womanless Wed- ding”, “a mock wedding with a lot of side effects’ sponsored by the men’s club of the Trucksville Methodist Church, Kingston Township High School. Nov. 18 and 19, 1949. The production, described by Vern Pritchard as ‘‘one big laugh from beginning to end,” was open to all males in the community and em- ployed about 50 all together. There was the bride and groom. the bridesmaids, cigar-smoking Clyde Birth and ‘‘hairy’” Luther Brown, visiting dignitaries-bermuda-shorted “Daniel Flood and Mrs. Flood”, Bill Clewell and Shermy Harter: “Mr. and Mrs. Harry Truman”, Clifford and Bobby Johnson and Byron Schwartz s “Digger” O'Dell. Entertainment was provided by Rockettes Vern Pritchard, Clifford Zimmerman and Willard Bullock: and Burt “Carmen Miranda” Fennell and his helper, ladder-sitting Vought Long. The production was written by whoever happened to be on stage at the time you were watching. “The performances were crazy. We had no practice. All we followed was the set procedure for the wedding.” Prit- chard remembered. He explained. “We wanted to make money. Minstrel shows had 12 weeks of practice for one or two nights. We decided on the wedding and after we sat down and decided what costumes, procedure and whatever, that was it.” In total, the production grossed over $2,500, “‘a lot of money for 1949’, and played in over 30 different houses from ‘“‘every church in the Valley to Hunting Mills and Plymouth High Schools to the old Noxen Theatre. Yi The group was invited all over on a 50-50 -basis. The sponsoring group furnished * the audience, the men furnished the fun and the ladies came along to apply makeup. And apply make-up they did. ‘We lodked like the ‘Happy Hooker’,” Prifchard remembers. And the Nov. 4, 1949 issue of the Dallas Post bills the upcoming production as ‘‘The Womanless Wedding’ or, ‘“The Ideal Fashion Show.” PAGE ELEVEN Miranda’ The production itself, though changing with each performange, ¥ i reception, ‘‘we had the whole gim- mick’ with side ventures into skits with ‘‘Carmen Miranda’, a big baby being ‘powdered’ by a flour sifter and constant jeering by the ‘three bad boys,” Louis Wilcox, Harold Croomb and Dick Mathers. If Luther Brown coming up the aisle in an evening gown followed by cigar smoking Clyde Birth didn’t make you laugh, :