50 YEARS AGO - NOV. 6, 1936
Luzerne County contributed generously to the
Democratic victory by sending New Dealers to
the State Legislature, a Democratic county
chairman to the state senate and congress. This
was the first time in many years that the Sixth
Legislative District, representing part of Dallas,
was represented by a Democrat.
Although many clung loyally to their Republi-
can voting, the residents of the Back Mountain
voted to upset tradition by voting in favor of
selling alcoholic beverages. The Carverton Dis-
trict was alone in retaining a dry municipality.
You could get - Land O’ Lakes tub butter 35c¢;
10 Ib. sugar 47c; salmon 21c tall can; apples 5
Ib. 23c; coffee 24c lb.; cocoa 2 lb. can 15¢;
spinach 6c 1b.; tuna fish 2 cans 25¢; fig bars 2 1b.
25¢; graham crackers 2 1b. 19c.
40 YEARS AGO - NOV. 8, 1946
Nine area residents were killed in the area’s
worst auto collision. The crash was so loud that
students and nuns heard it at College Misericor-
dia several thousand feet away.
Kingston Township and Lehman Township
schools sponsored -diversified programs aimed
at stimulating public interest in American Edu-
cation Week. Both districts held open house for
all area residents.
Engaged - Ruth E. Mann to Glenn T. Kocher.
Carey.
Deaths - Glen Hilbert, Chester Moyer, Jean
Moyer, Richard Denmon, George Jones, Jr.;
Jean Lavelle and Sgt. Gilbert Van Kirk.
You could get - Cod fillets 35¢c 1b.; eggs 69c
doz. mince meat 20 oz. jar 29c; Florida oranges
27c doz.; potatoes 50 1b. bag $1. 29; apples 3 1b.
29¢; grapefruit 3-22¢; Emperor grapes 2 1b. 33c;
Ivory soap, 2 personal cakes 9c; vanilla 35¢
bottle.
30 YEARS AGO - NOV. 9, 1956.
Miners National Bank, Dallas, moved ahead
with plans to double the facilities of its office,
which was inadequate to handle its constantly
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increasing business. Lacy, Atherton and Davis
were architects.
Mrs. Harry Goerginer, Jr. and Mrs. Robert
Weaver, Dallas Senior Woman’s Club represent-
atives, and Mrs. Robert Husband of the Junior
Women’s Club collaborated with area photogra-
phyer James Kozemchak in setting up the Back
Mountain Christmas Lighting Contest. The two
categories were exterior lighting of trees and
shrubs and indoor lighting of picture windows
which contributed to the outdoor scene.
Engaged - June E. Hewett and John Anderson
Married - Marion Seiple and Zone F. Garin-
ger; Faith Lois Hoover and Rev. LaMar Dinger.
Anniversaries - Mr. and Mrs. Ira Button, 50
years; Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Daley, Fern-
brook, 11 years; Mr. and Mrs. William Eckert 25
years.
You could get - Pork loins 27c 1b.; standing rib
roast 59c Ib.; bacon 29c Ib.; veal chops 69c 1b.;
chestnuts 1 1b. 19¢; brussel sprouts 25¢ basket;
Clorox 3lc % gal.; Pillsbury flour 10 Ib. bag
$1.10; rye bread 17c loaf; pound cake 33c ea.
20 YEARS AGO - NOV. 10, 1966
The Republicans swept the Back Mountain
area with only Congressman Dan Flood winning
a Democratic seat.
Student teachers from College Misericordia,
interning at Dallas Schools were Margaret
Casserly, Kathleen Dougherty, Katerine Kelly,
Mary McCormick, Maureen Morrison, Margaret
O’Brien, Noreen O’Leary, Theresa Stretansky,
Barbara Szabo, Patricia Townsend, Sophia
Verels, and Pamela Bauman.
Engaged - Susan Catherine Dorrance and
Jerome Lee French.
Married - Albert Dendler and Celia Helen
Nakoski.
Anniversaries - Mr. and Mrs. Jason Harding,
50 years; Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Baloga, 25
years.
Deaths - Martin Moss, Hunlock Twp.; Anna
Siegfried, Carverton; Frederick Greenly, Harris
Hill Rd.; Stephen Gregory, Hunlock Creek;
HALLOWEEN is a rather
weird holiday for me. It’s prob-
ably the only holiday that I
can’t seem to get into anymore.
I remember going trick-or-
treating when I was a child and
getting dressed in a costume
and filling my plastic pumpkin
with all kinds of goodies from
Dotty
MARTIN
your entertainment to be an
original.
And, we certainly didn’t travel
out of our immediate neighbor-
hood to go trick-or-treating,
unless of course Grandma and
Grandpa lived several blocks
away in which case Mom or
Dad would drive us there - and
Footbll players
Charles Repotski, manager.
manager; Thomas Jenkins, faculty
Steinhauer, David. LaBar, William Whittaker,
coach. Fourth
assistant coach.
Matthew Higgins, East Dallas.
You could get - Semi boneless hams 69¢ 1b.;
chicken breasts 49c lb.; boneless stewing beef
23c 1b.; bananas 9c Ib.; seedless grapefruit 5 1b.
bag 49¢; cauliflower 29¢ hd.; dates 39c Ib.; yams
2 1b. 95¢; Maxwell House coffee 2 1b. $1.75.
10 YEARS AGO - NOV. 4, 1976
Dallas Junior Ann Harleman placed fifth in
the cross country districts held at Emanon Golf
Course which earned her a trip to the State
competition. She was the only runner to repre-
sent the Mount runners either the boys or girls
cross country teams.
Harveys Lake Planning commission agreed to
recommend a municipal building site to the
borough council. Guy Giordano was commission
chairman and Bob DeRemer was commission
member.
Deaths - Grace Cave, Dallas; Joseph Hanks,
Midway Manor; Vera Lewis, Shavertown;
Joseph Alapac, Dallas.
You could get - Pork roast 89c 1b.; pork chops
$1.19 1b.; sliced bacon $1.29 1b.: : kidney beans 4-
$1; 22 oz. loaf bread 3-$1; Shurfine margarine 3
Ib. $1; Carnation evaporated milk 3-89¢; carrots
2 pkg. 35¢; oranges 10-79c.
the candy nestled neatly on
trays on the coffee table in the
livingroom this year, I waited
for the trick-or-treaters to come
to my house. They came - but
only about two dozen - not by
droves like they did when I was
one of those little types in cos-
fume.
joke. Just ‘“We’re from Hanover
Township. Give us some good-
ies!”
It’s no wonder I can’t get into
the spirit of Halloween any-
more. The spirit isn’t there. No
longer is it an evening to dress
up in wild and crazy costumes
with your brothers and sisters
now a ‘‘gimme, gimme,
gimme’’ type of holiday and,
frankly, I for one would rather
do without it.
(Dotty Martin is the Editor of
The Dallas Post. Her column
appears regularly.)
friends and neighbors. It was
kind of fun - probably more fun
then than it is now because 1
didn’t have to march down to
the local hospital to get my
candy x-rayed or have my Mom
and Dad sift through my pump-
kin for things that shouldn’t be
there.
It was just good clean all-
American fun for all of us kids.
We got dressed up, rehearsed
our song or our joke or our
dance or whatever we planned
to do to earn our treats,
grabbed a flashlight and our
mother’s hand and off we went -
to the neighbors, to the friends,
to the relatives. And, in those
days everybody had their porch
light on. We didn’t have to skip
any houses because ' they
weren’t accepting trick-or-trea-
ters — we simply went from one
house to the next. ;
And we had to do something in
order to get a treat. Walking
into someone’s livingroom and
holding out our pumpkin or
opening our bag was unheard of
without some kind of entertain-
ment. We had to do something -
something we had learned in
school and something we were
proud to do. We only hoped no
other trick-or-treaters before us
had done the same thing
because we wanted so much for
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that would always be the last
stop of the night because we’d
stay there longer than at any
other house and probably walk
away with more goodies from
them than we’d get from any of
our neighbors. But that was
okay - because that’s what
Grandmas and Grandpas are
for - to spoil little kids. Espe-
cially little kids in Halloween
costumes.
Halloween seems to be so
different these days. With all
And they came from far away
- a mother and her eight chil-
dren piled into the livingroom
and told us they were from
Hanover Township and the
reason they were trick-or-treat-
ing in my neighborhood in Forty
Fort was because nobody in
Hanover Township would let
them in their houses! All nine of
them - that’s right, Mother
included “- “then opened their
bags and awaited some candy.
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