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Only Yesterday

After 10 years of serving customers in the Back Mountain the IGA Market located in the Dallas Shopping Center has closed. The doors of the Dallas store were closed last Saturday night at 10 p.m.

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Jeff Brown, district manager of the area IGA Markets, said that the Dallas store closed due to a drop in the volume of sales. He said the work on Route 309 made it difficult for customers to enter the highway after shopping at the store and after construction was completed, the volume of business never picked up.

Miss Nicole Gardner, member of the Key Club at Lake-Lehman High School, was the winner of the first scholarship prize, consisting of a $400 savings bond, awarded by the Back Mountain Kiwanis Club. The award was made at a recent breakfast meeting of the club held at Pickett’s Charge Restaurant, Dallas.

Marilyn Santarelli recently was appointed Director of Annual Giving at College Misericordia, according to Dr. Pasquale DiPasquale, Jr., Misericordia president.

Santarelli graduated summa cum laude from Misericordia in August 1989, with a bachelor of science degree in liberal studies. She has served as a volunteer in various positions at Wyoming Seminary, including her present post as secretary of the Parents’ Council.

1979 - 30 YEARS AGO

Senior Shari Sutton was elected as Lake-Lehman’s Homecoming Queen at the high school’s homecoming activities last weekend. Shari, escorted by Joseph Dylewski, was crowned as queen during halftime activities at the Lake-Lehman-Wyoming Area football contest last Saturday. Members of her court were Judy Major, Holly Nitsche, Toni Pall, Sandi McCarroll and Kippie Steele.

The Dallas Boro Elementary School will soon be sporting brightly colored cartoon murals on hallway walls thanks to efforts of the Parent Teachers Organization and several very talented juniors and seniors from Dallas High School. Each teacher’s doorway will have a special cartoon relating to that teacher or an interest of the majority of the children in that room. Also Sesame Street and Star Wars characters will be depicted on the walls opposite the classroom doorways.

Students sharing their talents and giving time are Seniors: Cheryl Federici, Lori Lutsey and Wayne Beakley; Juniors are Gino Matioli and Tom Sincavage.

1969 – 40 YEARS AGO

Sandy Beach reports that it has misgivings about replacing its movie screen, wrecked last year in a storm. It was not missed this past summer, as picnickers were not attracted to lakes and beaches in such numbers as usual, because of a long succession of rainy weekends.

The reason Mrs. Slomowitz is hesitating to put up another movie screen is because of the quality of motion pictures now available for family viewing. The pictures available, now widely shown, she feels are not the right type for family enjoyment. The choice, she says is so limited that not more than six films in a season could pass her standards.

“Sex,” she says, “is all right in its proper place, which is in the bedroom with the door shut.”

Auxiliary to American Legion Unit 967, Harvey’s Lake, held installation of officers recently at Ruggles Methodist Church. Officers installed were: Fran Desiderio, president; Laura Carey, first vice president; Marion Oplinger, second vice president; Mille Bozek, secretary; Fran Yankoski, treasurer; Rosemary Engle, chaplain; Mary Engler, historian; and Ann Crake, sergeant-at-arms.

1959 – 50 YEARS AGO

A new business enterprise, The Treasure Gift Shop, owned by Mrs. Thomas Cease, opened yesterday morning at its recently completed building on Memorial Highway with ribbon cutting ceremonies attended by borough officials, the clergy and friends.

Taking part in the opening program were: Rev. Russell Lawry, pastor of Dallas Methodist Church; Burgess Thomas Morgan; Fire Chief Alvin Shaffer; Allen J. Cease, Rev. Robert Yost, pastor of Shavertown Methodist Church and Howard Risely, editor of The Dallas Post.

Executive Board of Harvey’s Lake Woman’s Service Club met at the home of Mrs. Earl Crispell, Noxen, recently when they completed plans for their Halloween Dance to be held Oct. 23 at O’Connell’s. Present were: Mesdames Carl Swanson, Ruth Deets, Elwood Davis, Alyce Shafer, Walbridge Lienthall, Joseph Rauch, Elwood Whitesell, Harvey Kitchen, Clarence Montrose, Wilfrede Ide, Calvin McHose, Dan Smith, George Bray, Richard Williams, Albert Armitage, Earl Payne, Pauline Davis and the hostess.

1949 – 60 YEARS AGO

Life wasn’t as somber this week in Dallas nor on the busses to and from Wilkes-Barre. The sophomores at College Misericordia were putting the freshmen through their annual initiation …the twenty-fifth annual initiation incidentally.

The victims – or were they? – were gaily costumed in styles of the gay 20’s (Oh so long ago). They took it all in good spirits even though their runnered stockings were rolled below the knees and tied with multi-colored rags.

Many of them wore old dresses, exaggerated strings of pearls and some had lemons suspended from their necks. Placards announcing the name and address of the wearer were on every freshman’s back. Hair was tied in two tight curls above the ears and lacquered so that it would stay in place. Rouged cheekbones and deep painted lines under bright eyes gave every freshman a macabre expression.

Back Mountain Holsteins owner Ralph Sands of Carverton made an excellent showing against stiff competition at the Bloomsburg Fair last week. The Holstein exhibit was the largest in the East this year and comprised seventy-nine animals shown by thirteen exhibitors.

The Sands’ herd of eighteen was the third prize exhibitor’s herd and also won first for the four best uddered cows in the show.

1939 – 70 YEARS AGO

The oldest fire engine in America will be only one of the historic relics which will be brought to Dallas next week to arouse interest in Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Company’s observance of National Fire Prevention Week.

Through the efforts of the committee which has linked the local firemen’s membership drive with the national observance of Fire Prevention Week residents of this section will have an opportunity to inspect one of the most valuable collections of old-fashioned fire-fighting equipment in existence.

The new Trucksville grade school, which was dedicated last Friday, cost $63,218.09, according to a compilation of costs made this week. The building, which began construction on October 28, 1938 contains eight classrooms and typically up-to-date features such as sound-proof ceilings and the “electric eye,” which automatically switches on electric lights when clouds cut off the sunlight which ordinarily streams through the broad high windows.

Information for “Only Yesterday” is taken from past issues of The Dallas Post which is 120 years old. The information is printed here exactly as it appeared in the newspaper years ago.