» ® 9» @ ® @ © The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, December 16, 1998 5 ONLY YESTERDAY - » 60- Years Ago - Dec. 23, 1938 DALLAS BOROUGH PLANS TO DRILL NEW WATER WELL A plan to drill a well beside Dallds; Borough High School for an iridependent water system, to prevent danger of service inter- ruption most likely will be adopted b-Dallas School Board at its next meeting. Directors who have been considering the proposal for a month discussed it at the meeting last Thursday and agreed tenta- tively to seek bids after the next meeting. You could get - Turkeys, 29¢ 1b.; cranberry sauce, tall can, 10¢; flour, 24-lIb. bag, 77¢; Chase & Sanborn Coffee, 21¢ Ib.; Califor- nia prunes, 5¢ Ib. 50Years Ago - Dec. 23, 1948 TEXTILE COMPANY MARKS 60TH YEAR IN BUSINESS With the opening of Fernbrook Park Mill, Bloomsburg Mills Inc. will mark its 60th year as a Penn- sylvania textile manufacturing firm. Through 60 years the com- pany has expanded gradually in Pennsylvania from a small begin- ning in 1889 when Joe Ratti, an Italian silk manufacturer moved fom Patterson, NJ to Bloomsburg and established a small specialty weaving plant. 40 Years Ago - Dec. 19, 1958 CTCO HOOKS KIDS TO SANTA IN TIME FOR HOLIDAY Special hook-up with the North Pole has been arranged by Com- ‘monwealth Telephone Co. so the ‘kids in the Back Mountain can communicate directly. A news leak on Tuesday alerted the genial ‘old saint three days ahead of time and he is already being run ragged by -enthusiastic children, but he thinks he can manage to clean everything up everthing in his toy factory in time for delivery for Christmas Eve. You could get Turkeys, 37¢ 1b; rib roast, 63¢ lb.; oranges,doz. 39¢; tomatoes, cello pkg., 19¢; fruit cake, 1 1b:, 99¢. Pendragon Ctr. (Grange Bank Bldg.) by 165 S. Memorial Hwy. Shavertown, PA Tel: #696-3749 Tasty treats Cindy and Lee Evans carved a ham that was on the menu at the free Christmas dinner put on by the women of the Huntsville United Methodist Church last week. Below, Brianna John dug into a plate of good food. POST PHOTOS/CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK 30 Years Ago - Dec. 23, 1968 HARVEYS LAKE TO FIND NEW DUMPING GROUNDS Residents of Harveys Lake Bor- ough will have to find a new dump- ing area after January 1 accord- ing to Walter Hoover, chairman of Lake Township Supervisors. When the new borough was cre- ated an agreement was made be- tween the two governing bodies providing that the borough be privileged to use the sanitary land- fill system operated by the town- ship on condition that the dump truck shall be used as necessary 20 Years Ago - Dec. 21, 1978: LAKE-LEHMAN TO BUILD NEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL After a lengthy and occasion- ally heated school board meeting last Tuesday. = Lake-Lehman School directors voted 8-2 to con- tinue plans for construction of a new elementary school on the site of the present Lake Township School. Votes followed comments by a number of persons, includ- ing individuals who were opposed and those who favored the project. Elegant Peis Wear sizes 2 -24 Register to win a $100 Gift Certificate Florist Quality ...And more! 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