i
Jr., RD 1, Noxen, announce the
engagement of their daughter,
Cheryl Lynn, to Lee Robert Reeves,
son of Mrs. Bonnie Reeves, Falls,
and Mr. Elwood Reeves, RD 1,
Pittston.
Miss Holmgren is a graduate of
Lake-Lehman High School and Luz-
Dallas Post/Ed Campbell
erne County Community College.
She is employed by Rural Health
Corp. as a medical receptionist at
the Monroe-Noxen Health Center.
Mr. Reeves is a graduate of Wyo-
ming Area High School and is
employed by Fumanti Construction
Co. of Old Forge.
No date has been set for the
wedding.
The 27th annual reunion of the
Weber family will be held Sunday,
Sept. 2, at noon at Hanson's Park,
Harveys Lake. Those attending are
requested to bring their own lunch.
Pot
(Continued from page 1)
Jr. for a court order to burn the
plants which Gillespie obtained
from County Judge Patrick Toole:
Before the plants were burned,
Trooper John Nopwillo, Troop P,
Wyoming, visited the township
building to weigh “and count the
plants for verification and to esti-
mate the ‘‘street” value. There
were 124 plants weighing 200
pounds.
Miers said they estimated the
street value of the plants to be
about $250,000. ‘“That’s a conserva-
tive estimate,”’ said Miers. ‘And
that’s not considering some of the
crop may have been processed into
hashish which is more expensive.”
Miers stated he did not want to
release the name of the owner of the
farm where the crop was found
because he was certain he (the
owner) knew nothing about the
plants. In fact, the owners are out of
the country and have been for some
time. However, Miers did indicate
that the township police have had
the full cooperation of persons living
on or near the property and have
several leads which they are inves-
tigating.
The township chief believes the
plants were probably started under
artificial light during the winter
months then transplanted this
spring. Ordinarily, a marijuana
plant grows to about three feet tall,
but the smallest of those found in
Dallas Township were six feet tall.
As plentiful and as large as the
plants were, once the police placed
them in a pile surrounded with old
tire casings and wood, using fuel oil
as a fire accelerant, it took only an
hour and 15 minutes to burn them
with the exception of five bags full
which police will keep for future
evidence and which will be sent to
the State Police Crim Lab for analy-
sis.
“If the ‘“‘pot’’ farmer didn’t see us
removing the plants, he was in for a
big surprise when he watched the
news or read the papers Wednesday
night or Thursday morning.” Chief
Miers said. ‘We certainly ruined
someone's plans for this winter. The
plants would have been ready for
harvesting in about three weeks and
I have no doubt that person was
counting his dollars.”
Frances
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Inside the home at the time were
Mrs. Slocum and her four children.
Mrs. Slocum and two of the children
managed to escape and hide in the
nearby woods. Frances, aged 5, and
a brother Ebenezer, aged 12, how-
ever, weren't as lucky.
Both were captured by the raiding
marauders.
As the Indians began to leave with
their “‘spoil,” Mrs. Slocum gave up
her hiding place and pleaded to the
Indians for her children’s lives.
Ebenezer was lame, so the Indians
finally agreed to leave him behind
with his family, but Frances’ story
was different. The Indians refused
to give her up and disappeared into
the dense forest with the little girl.
Her mother was to never see her
again.
Legend has it that Frances and
her captors spent the night under a
rock shelter in Kingston Township.
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A ledge formation, believed to be
the same one mentioned in the
legend, is located in the 1,006-acre
park which now bears the name of
Frances Slocum.
Frances came to light once again
in 1837, 59 years after her capture.
Members of her family discovered
she was living in an Indian village
in Indiana. Having grown up with
the Indians, she adapted to their
customs and culture. She became
the wife of a Miami Chief, bearing
him four children, and adopted the
Indian name of Maconaquah.
Frances’ family requested that
she return home with them, but she
declined, having lived almost her
entire life with the Indians. Frances
Slocum remained with the Indian
tribe until her death on March 9,
1847. She was buried in the Indian
village that she had spent all but
five years of her life in.
BARON'S
STICKS, DEVILED CLAMS,
FROZEN FOODS
Dallas Post/Ed Campbell
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Statf Correspondent
More than 800 members of the
Back Mountain Youth Soccer Asso-
ciation practiced daily since August
1 for the opening day of competition
on August 25.
There are 56 teams, divided into
five divisions, who will play during
the week and on Saturdays until
September 29. Beginning Sept. 29
and continuing for the following four
weekends, they will compete in a
double elimination tournament
within the association. The drawing
to pair the teams for the double
elimination will take place next
month. Following the double elimi-
nation, the championship game will
be played October 21.
After Oct. 21, any of the Back
tion Association Tournament, a
single elimination event with tro-
phies awarded to the winners.
Few people realized when soccer
was introduced to the youth of the
Back Mountain eight years ago how
popular it would become and the
number of youngsters who would
become involved.
That first year about 50 to 60 boys
and girls showed up on a Saturday.
They were divided into teams, prac-
tice and then take part in a scrim-
mage type contest. Each year the
association becomes’ more organ-
ized until now the teams have full
uniforms consisting of shorts, shirts
and socks, a long way from the first
year when team members were
issued tee shirts only.
This year the teams are in five
divisions according to age desig-
nated U-8’s, six and seven year
olds; U-10’s, eight and nine year
olds; U-12’s, 10 and 11 year olds; U-
14’s, 12 and 13 year olds; and U-16’s,
14 and 15 year olds.
There are nine teams in the U-8
Division; 14 teams in the U-10 Divi-
sion; 16 teams in the U-12 Division;
12 teams in the U-14 Division and
five teams in the U-16 Division. The
teams average 14 players on each,
coach for each team, in many
instances not a parent, and several
volunteer assistants either parents
or other interested individuals.
The teams in the U-16 Division go
very much on their own and play in
the Luzerne ‘County Recreation
League against three teams from
Mountaintop, two from Wyoming
Valley and one from Clarks
Summit.
The names of the teams remain
the same each year, but the colors
of the uniforms usually change
SEAFOOD
DEVILED CRABS, SHRIMP,
This is soccer
League.
since the boys and girls are
assigned to different teams each
year in order to give them a
broader perspective of the game.
Association officials believe that by
being assigned to different teams
the players have an opportunity to
learn a wider range of defense,
offense and other aspects of the
sport.
The names in each division are
the same in numerical order such
as Team No. One, Rowdies; Team
Two, Cosmos; Team Three, Kicks;
Team Four, Strikers; Team Five,
Sting; Team Six, Sockers; Team
Seven, Roughnecks; Team Eight,
Fury; Team Nine, Comets; Team
10, Arrows; Team 11, Express;
Team 12, Wings; Team 13, Charg-
ungsters
ers; Team 14, Lancers; Team 15,
Aztecs; and Team 16, Stallions.
The Back Mountain Youth Soccer
Association uses six fields in the
Back Mountain and are assigned
according to age groups. The U-8’s
play at the Dallas Intermediate
School field; U-10’s play at Lehman
Junior High; U-12’s play at College
Misericordia and Kingston Town-
ship; U-14’s play at Penn State’s
Wilkes-Barre Campus; and the U-
16's play at the Dallas Township
Elementary field. On Saturdays, the
first game starts at 9 a.m. and there
is a game every hour and a half
until the final game starts at 4:30
p.m.
When soccer was first organized
in the Back Mountain, the group
joined the American Youth Soccer
Organization but three years ago
the association became members of
the Eastern . Pennsylvania Youth
Soccer Association. !
Many of the boys and girls who
played during those first years have
continued their interest in the sport,
some going into the high school
program while others are still in the
Back Mountain Association.
Officers of the Association are
Paul Saneholtz, president; Rod Sen-
nett, treasurer; Herb Wiedlich, sec-
retary; Frank Chadwick, registrar;
Ted Fisher, head coach; Arno
Miller, head referee; George
Schrlau, equipment manager; Dick
Snowdon, field manager; Linda
Ross, publicity, (first female
member on the board); and Ken
Kozel, head of the advisory commit-
tee.
Many of the team coaches have
served for many years but their
names are too numerous to men-
tion. Since soccer's beginning eight
years-ago in this area, the sport has
had the full cooperation and support
of hundreds of volunteers, not all of
them parents but many interested
individuals who are enthusiastic
about the game and willing to help
make the program possible.
Cowboys in
grid opener
Middle linebacker Bobby Luke
recovered a fumble in the end zone
for the only touchdown as the Kings-
ton Township Raiders defeated the
Dallas Cowboys, 8-0, in Back Moun-
tain Junior Football action on
Sunday.
Luke’s score in the early minutes
of the fourth quarter was the result
of a high snap from center on an
attempted Dallas punt. The two-
point conversion was added by run-
ning back Bernie Ryan on a seven-
yard run.
In a game dominated by defenses,
Kingston Township managed four
first downs while allowing Dallas
only two. Leading rushers in the
game were Ryan with 43 yards and
running mate Jim Hutchins with 30
yards.
The Raiders ‘‘A”’ team also
defeated Dallas with a single touch-
down, 6-0. That score also came in
the fourth quarter, the result of a
one-yard run by quarterback Steve
Shotwell.
The Raiders will host Larksville
“A” and “B’” teams at 1 p.m. next
Sunday at the Dallas Senior High
School field.
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