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iniicoey iaciu yottagsrsat 1 75. TC HBaea parties PStig her. Shh ana fnfca fKa haM OHk Is Their Goal rat Bertine's knowledge, of potting aer saeicning rags into tha ear rod drivi rut nn to Violet Mraara. Even if Vlolat wat a ar lumu EST SIDE Katharine could set her easel ap ta ine garaen dsck of the little white bonse and work away busily and happily for hours. The Merser garden was a pleasant Jungle of old fashioned flowers, Zinnias.

nastnrtlnma. oMvabm snapdragons made a perfect riot of ICE CREAM Pt. 20c, 2Pts21c Evans Pharmacy .418 LUZERNE AVENUE TAYLOR coior nere. Hollyhocks, gone to eea, ieanea taiy against tha dap boarded walls and within a. nihw fence enclosure of tha drying yard.

a rocay pain wandered up the hills behind the house. Katharine tore mimheth Taylor, ner stockings and scratched her hands on tangled berry bushes. SPRING DANCE OF KiiiillWllliiiliiilili iiliiipiiiillllllllil lliiPliSillliiil llilllllllBIPlllilllil I i a lilplillPiliiiiiiiil Jl mini grew in a fragrant carpet behind the asters. It was all old fashioned and comfortable and sat lsfylng. Sometimes one of tht small girls, tin burned and batten witn tawny rarr SyiBg fncno breeae, would ran out to glanea over her shoulder.

"Oh. that's lovely! Corne, Mummy, see she's done the bird bath and the roses." Katharine loved it here. It meant release and escape. Her soul, feel One of the season's outstanding social affairs will be held next Fri day evening, June when the West Plttston members of the Catholic Junior League will entertain at a daughter of Mr and Mrs. Oscar C.

Taylor, 460 Blver street. Forty Port, and John Weiss, son of Mr and Mrs. Thomas Weiss, of 121 Washington street. West Plttston, were united in raarrtsge at no today Jty Lutheran Church, Kingston, oy ftev David a. Menses, pastor.

fMlsTCattoerlne Christ, of Wilkes barre was maid of honor, and Emer of Forty Port, bother ol the bride was the best man. The Vide was attractively attired to a white lace gown, with corresponding accessories. She wore a large hat and carried a bouquet of white roses and Ulles oMtae vaHey. Her attendant was attired a peach colored chiffon gown wltt blege accessories, and car tied a bouquet of sunburst roses. Following the ceremony, a reception was held for members of the immediate; families at Irem Temple Country Club.

Later In the day. Mr. tad Mrs. Weiss will leave on a wed Otm trip to New York City and Bos tonMas. After June 15 they will wslde at 666 Monument avenue, fVyotntag.

ing its Inevitable growing pains. semi formal dance at Fox Hill Coun try Club. Elaborate arrangements are now completed and the young ladies In charge have spared no effort to make the affair a successful one. Skeet and his orchestra will furnish music for danc expanded in this simple, uncritical atmosphere. Stanley Merser came back from his western trip and Joined the family group without destroying the charm.

He was a stooped, silent, gentle man in his late thirties. An artist, Stan Merser. and a good one. The little girls adored him. His wife was devoted to him, anxious for his comfort and happiness.

It was a good marriage a solid, ing. Tickets are selling' at 11.50 per couple and may be secured from Junior League members of the West Side or at the Country Club on Fri By Mabel McElliott 1939, NEA Soviet, Inc. BEGIN HERB TOOAI KATHARIlf STRYKHDRST, fecaattfal, ae, aewlated Htfc IflCllABlj HBATHBROB, eMlasr teaefeer, u4 aekaswMcea mm uwillJajf attractlm toward klai. Sh wantes aver tha aroarrrss at aa affair feetweea BOB PARKER, fear kcei frtcaa, ui GIBBS LARKIN. at wkaa Xaea areata tflaappreva.

Katkarlaa aa DR. JOHN HAVE, frita at the Strykaarat faarily, take Baa ta a aisht clak wlm ske aeea Glbka witk a as taHaas waataa. Baa tkraateaa tm kJII kersclt. Tkat aaaie alsck Hlekaal la velKled lata taklaat SALLY MOON, laeal eaawette, ta tha aaaie alaee. Sally, amfviaa; heaia late, farau kr father that aha aaS Iflehael are cawaceS.

Baa takea Dr. Kaye warks all alsht ta aava her life mm aaeeccia. Katharlaa heara that Michael la solas; ta arry ally Moos. ROW GO ON WITH TUB STORY CHAPTER XX TTATHARINE said, persistently. "1 want to get away.

Victor Strykhurst frowned. don't know what gets Into yon girls nowadays," he complained! "Zoe Parker has to be dragged all over Europe and even when she gets home she's not satisfied: why, you've got everything In the world yon want" Katharine listened patiently. Stubbornly she went back to her argument. "There's nothing for me to do here. Frankly, I'm bored.

I'd like a Job." The snowy eyebrows shot up. "What could you do? No, It's nonsense; I won't have it People'd say Bertlne hadn't been good to yon. And she has been good, hasn't sher It was almost pathetic, his desire for approval of Bertlne. Katharine thought Dryly she said, "Of course. But, Daddy, couldn't I have some of my own money now the money Mother left in trust for me? It will be mine anyhow next year." The merest shadow crossed Mi face.

"Eh? No, I think that wonld be irregular. The bank prob ably wouldn't hear of it" "I thought you had it in charger His high color deepened. "Little girls shouldn't bothei their heads about business. Youi money' will be paid over ta due time." He rose, terminating the interview, "Buy yourself a new hat and forget about it my dear." That Katharine told herself, wandering out into the morning, was that She had been a fool to think she could do anything with her father. But how eoald she bear Innleoek nowT Bertine's words of the day before rang in her mind.

Was it trnet Could it be true that Michael Heatheroe was going to marry Sal ly Moon? Incredible! Katharine's mind her heart rejected it day night. A very cordial Invitation Is extended to the public to attend. A I. permanent companionable marriage. Katharine, observing It felt that Violet Merser was a for tunate woman.

Still Violet had BREVITIES Mr. and 'Mrs. 8 vend Peterson are occupying a cottage at Wyoming Camp Ground. Mrs. James Coyne and son, James, told her one day that Sun hadn't been her first love.

No, their coming together had been the culmination of a more mature attachment Tet Violet was happy Maybe all the fevers and fury of first love were wasted. a a a of Fox Hill Place are spending sev era! days in Philadelphia. HAS RETlflEO AFTER SERVING 2S YEARS A change of much interest has taken ptece In the list of officials of the West Plttston Methodist Episcopal Church. At the quarterly conference beld on Wednesday evening, 8. Jud iatark wha has held the office Joseph Cray, of Spring street, is Li IS 1 confined to his home by a serious illness.

AND yet and yet Katharine couldn't bear to see Michael Regular meetings of the school Heatheroe Just now. Later, per board and council will be held Mon day night at 7:30 o'clock. haps, when she had got over the Phalanx Fraternity will meet Mon chock of knowing he was going to sf treasurer of the current expense marry someone else. When she'd day night at 7:30 o'clock in the Y. M.

O. A. All are urged to attend. managed to forget those scraps of fund of the church continuously ior at in nin and who has given mrene a slant balloon words she had treasured so Mrs. A.

E. Case, of Philadelphia avenue, is confined to her home by motC devoted and efficient service in illness. M. position, asked to oe reuevea lu a the office. "My ha had called her, holding her in his arms, that ay Gordon, young son of Mr.

and Mrs. Gordon Lewis, of Franklin street, Mr. Stark has reached the age of Fury had flung her. Or had she dreamed it? ROCHELLE HUDSON is quite ill of pneumonia. The Boy Scouts of the Methodist years and be said ne ieii tna ounger and more active man should be chosen for the responsible position, rh wHttat of Mr Stark was granted, RICHARD CROMWELL GEORGE BARCID Voices intruded Into her day dream.

"Katharine, we're going to have tea under the big maple. Want bounding aloft, carrying men and equipment for scientific 'research in the stratosphere will be re enacted soon in a natural bowl in the Black Hills, Bear Rapid City, S. D. Com siander of the 1935 venture, sponsored by the National Geographic Society and the TJ. S.

Army Air Corps, will be Capt Albert W. Stevens, right. He will be accompanied by Capt. Orvil A. Anderson, left, pilot.

The scene above pictures the start of last year's ascension. Church will meet on, Monday evening at 7:30. Jane Darwell Slim Sumntwrville to take time out?" The monthly Communion service will be held in the Presbyterian with regret, and there were many txpresriohs of appreciation by his fellow members on the official board for She put down her pencil. "On, fVooVcccf by Sol M. Wurtsd tea would be grand!" Church tomorrow morning at 10: o'clock.

the long and faithful service mac ne aiuUfM Thv exnressions cul tVrecteaT my Csorgs MartfcaB Suffcrlca' fey she book Wakcr I. PisWa 00 Joseph H. Wintle, of Susquehanna Lavinia brought the big silver tray with the quimper cups on tt and the thinly sliced bread and the avenue, leaves on Sunday for Wil Uamsport, Pa, where he will serve as silver pot a juror In the United States Court. "Anybody want it leed? Stan, minated In the appointment of a committee composed of William A. Hay, o.

B. Carpenter and Donald Notman to prepare a set of tesU monial resolutions, which will be read at a church service soon. Howard Fear was elected treasurer Mr. and Mrs. Vemon H.

Wintle, of rou? Or Evelyn?" Reading, are visiting the form Evelyn Vincent was ah English er's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. SUNDAY IIONDAT TUESDAY JfjF' woman, a friend of Violet's.

She now, balancing her cup, to Wintle, of Susquehanna avenue. Mrs. Harold Machlan and son, SWEET VALLEY MAN FATALLY INJURED IN AlfTO ACCIDENT a a Mr. Stark continues to serve as Edward, of Washington, are guests of T3ERTINE had said coolly. "Oi course the Moons are op ii Mr.

and Mrs. Edward F. Houser, of president of the board of trustees oi the church. Delaware avenue. arms.

But what can they dot Thi glance at Katharine's sketch. "Oh, that's very nice, my dear. Look, Stan, dont you think so?" "Mind if we look, Katharine?" The girl shook her head, smiling Funny, she didn't mind in the least If these people looked at her work. Seymour Rosen, a student at East girl's always been a wild one. And Stroudsburg State Teachers' College, has returned home for the summer undoubtedly the man's a fortunt hunter.

Sally Moon will have 1 very tidy little fortune of her owi vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Nuasbaum and With Bertlne, she would have WtUiam DelKerfc. aged 23 years, of Sweet Valley, died in NamUcoke Hospital yesterday, soon after feeing admitted, from injuries received in STEPHEN QRSZEW5K1 fairly squirmed.

Stanley Merser. tall and loose daughter, of Bethlehem, were guests of relatives and friends here this KjaassssgaHSalsMsftHsjBBJM an auto accident on the leke Silk week. Jointed In bis white cotton slacks and blue shirt, came over to squint Mr. and Mrs Fred T. Repp, of worth road.

Miss Mary Devore, aged UNITED IN MARRIAGE some day." She had dismissed the whole mat ter. Somehow Katharine bad go out of the room. No one. she wai sure, had noticed. Not even Johi Kaye.

who saw everything, usually She made the day pass somehow Strange how empty hours could when you hadn't anything to loo) down at the easel. 19 years, of Newton, N. a com Spring street, are visiting their daughter, Mrs. Carl Jenkins, at East Orange, "Why, this is awfully good. Eve FILM FANS, HERE'S lyn, you ought to be able to do ROM Al Two nonular Exeter Borough young panaon of DelKanic, is under treatment at the hospital tor injuries to her right shoulder.

Her condition is N. J. The regular monthly meeting of something with it" people were united In marriage this nun nina at 10 o'clock in St. John the Katharine, her heart beating FUN ADVENTURE not serious. The ecoMerub occured when Del very fast, looked from one to the Baptist Slovak R.

C. Church, this the Wesley Circle will be held Monday evening at 8 o'clock in the Methodist Episcopal Church. forward to. Swimming, tennis, French lessons sitting at tht SUNDAY ONLY wheel of some boat with an atten other. They weren't making fun of her; they were in earnest! She had tried so hard to get it all in city.

Miss Helen Bocash, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Socash, of 120 Drove street, that borough, became If you have been saving up laughs, prepare to shed them now, for Will Dr. and Mrs. Krlck, of Reading, spent Memorial Day here with tive, bronzed young man besldt Kanic attempted to round a turn from the Roaring Brook highway to the Lake Sfkwonth road and the car turned over.

DelKaric wag bom at LoyahtMe and was a member of Sweet Rogers' latest comedy, "Life Begins you. It was all a dream in which the rocks and the drooping gray the bride of Stephen Orzewski, son of yon moved and spoke Mrs. Krick's parents, Mr. and Mrs G. F.

Hunter, of Philadelphia avenue. Sir. am. ineuuwe ui At 40," opening tomorrow at the American Theatre, contains a bundle green plants clustered about them and the flame and burnt orange of 1 Valley Christian Church. 942 Grant street.

The bride had Miss Agnes Drobb as maid of honor and of hilarious situations that will act the nasturtiums So Michael Heatheroe was a for Mr. and Mrs. George Drury and Miss Kathryn Eean. of Susquehanna as magnets to the laughter chained "You've got something there, re tune hunter! Could she believt Miss Valeria! Kulakowsky as brides I mid. The bridegroom's brother.

Wil' within us all. avenue, and Miss Mabel Loeb, of ally," said Evelyn Vincent who ran that? Michael, witb his lean, 1 ham. was best man and Michael an art shop in Fifth Avenue. DUPONT This breesy comedy, suggested by the Walter B. Pitkin book hit, is de Philadelphia avenue, enjoyed a motor trip to Chambersburg and Gettysburg oimiar.

was. usher, tanned face and those eyes that were so shrewd and kindly could a man like that be really mean scribed as a hilarious fun test that The rjaitor. Rev. John J. Bednar on Memorial Day.

For the first time in weeks hope stirred in Katharine's heart Her "dabbling," as Bertlne had always called it contemptuously, might and base? works into a pandemonium of mirth. The inimitable Will is cast as a elk. performed the marriage ceremony na celebrated a nuptial mass at its W. B. Evans has returned to his home, on Philadelphia avenue, after Married Today Miss Marv Skmina.

dauahta. of Or aad he fallen desperately In country editor who proves that the viii.ln Mias Maraie Zavada. the Mrs. Juioi Slonina, of Lincoln street. completing a financial campaign for an Episcopal Church in Bellefonte, way to get a kick out of life is to put prove to be a way oat for her, after all.

(Ta Ba Coo tinned) love with the bundle of temlnini flutter and curls that was Sail church organist, played appropriate a double kick into it Vteiection wnue ine ceremony was Delias aedbrmed and during the mass, Moon? from other cities, reports tell of Pa. Beginning next Monday evening and continuing throughout the summer, the weekly meetings of the Klwanis this picture delighting aa the "clown The town bussed with the sensation for several days. Have yon heard. That crazy Sally Uoon'i gone and got herieJf engaged ing triumph" of Will Rogers' screen career. Youth and age roar in uni WYOMING The was attired in white 'satin with veil and carried a prayer hook showered with liUes of the val ley.

Both Miss Drobb and Miss Kula vtMkv wore olnk satin gowns and Club will be held in American Legion son with the mirth provoking hap Hall. Mrs. Donald B. Foster, of West penings. CHARLES JUMPER IS Plttston, and Mr.

and Mrs. John A. Rogers stampedes excitement Into carried. Colonial bouquets. X.

i his small town, tries his hand at The snewiyweos len on i .13 CLAIMED BY DEATH Watson, of Trucksville, spent yesterday at Buck HUT Falls Inn, in the trio to New York City aftc, match making, leads an army of vet and Andrew Kudej, son of Mary Kudej, of Main street, were married this morning at nine o'clock in Sacred Heart of Jesus R. C. Church by Rev. F. X.

Kurkowski, pastor. Tot at tendents were Miss Helen Poslusney, of Wyomir, and Stanley Laoomis, of this place. A reception fbttowed at the ome of the bride's mother. Dr. Patrick Pasquarelli, of Philadelphia, has returned after visiting at the family home here.

A meeting of the borough council will be held in Town Hall Tuesday night at 7:30 o'clock. A meeting of the school board will be held Wednesday night. A daughter was bom at Plttston hospital last night to Mr. and Mrs. John ShtmkosKo, of 498 Ptttatoo avenue.

titwt and wedding breakfast su the Chatties Jumpar, a hfelong resident of Wyomliw, died thlg morrang at eran hill billy hog callers into battle, kai nl tlu bridesroom's Darents Poconos, with the letter's son, Dr. William L. Watson, of New York City. Mead Schenck, son of Dr. and Mrs fights a frolicsome duel using wisecracks for every pistol bullet of his They will make their home at 144 tfiiri: 'f 4ttr M.

I. Schenck, of Luzerne avenue, adversary. Mason Exeter, upon their re 5:45 o'clock at the home of bis daughter, Mrs. Anna Smith, 308 Fifth street, following an illness of one week's duration. Mr.

Jumper was widely known here and bis death who is a member of the staff of the Tunny bones are in peril, from all turn. counts. The comedy of "Life Begins Chicago Dally Times, represented his newspaper at the Indianapolis auto At 40," is doubled with a tender ro 1 i i caused much sorrow. races on Memorial Day. mance.

As the editor, Rogers clears Dr. E. Merton H1U and wife, of the reputation of a youth "railroad J5ET OF SCHOOL OISTRICT ADOPTED He is survived by his widow and the foOowing children: Mrs. Amos Totteu, Mrs. Anna Smith, Mrs.

John Cress, Mrs. John Kelly and Arttwr ed'' to penitentiary, and so stirs up a hornet's nest of hostility. Fox Hill Place, left today to attend the 91st annual Institute of Homeopathy in New York City. Dr. Hill will also attend clinics at the Metropolitan hospital in New York.

They Sol M. Wurtsel produced this Fox Jumper, all of Wyoming. the man Kho run the riding eia Of eourte he's a nobody, my dear but quite good manner, and good looking! Oh. well, the It 00m are really outtidert, anyhow. Set mother teat a girl in a shop, $onu place.

And so on and so on, Small town gossip. Picked up avidly by the lunching, bridge playing women at the country club, tossed from mouth to mouth. Katharine thought it would drivi her frantic at first. But she steeled herself to It After a week two weeks she found she could beai the thought without flinching. She had not been back to ride flnce the formal announcement in the papers.

Therefore she had not met the slightly puzzled, unhappy look in the eyes of Michael Heath, troe. She had not been compelled to see Sally's triumphant smile 01 air of possessiveness. 0 "Well, I know one thing, my dear," she heard Bertlne say impressively to Mrs. Romantle. "1 know if she brings him to the club I shall complain.

I shall certainly expect all the members who know the man to cut him. It's not decent" Rage had ehoked Katharine. fn MONEY USED AS BOOKMARK Trie funeral will be held Tuesday ThaWS of the West Film picture, which George Marshall directed. The screen play is by Lamar Trotti, who collaborated on the script of "Judge Priest" afternoon at 3:30 o'clock daylight will return June 10. plttston School District, set at DM and based on a property tax as time, from the home of Mrs.

stnKh, At the Sunday evening service In the Methodist Episcopal Church, a People who books from the public library and return them without taking out their "boolcmarlu" aessment of 33 nulls and a per capita Witticisms pungent as any Will Rev. O. O. Summerson, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, wlH be In charge of services. Interment w4U tax of Ove dollars, was announced to himself concocts, leave his lips in have brought the city's libraries a I day as follows: 7 Estimated expenditures: be in the Wyoming cemetery.

this picture. They deal with politics, women, rusticity, wealth, self praise, love, youth and age. strange collection of "relics." Among the "bookmarks" found by librarians. Mrs. Ruth Rlrman nf th Mdenaral control 9,230.00 'instruction 104 400.00 I Auxiliary agencies 6,300.00 William Turaow, a student at Bloomsburg State Teachers' College, In the fine supporting cast are Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, says are: such screen personalities as Rochelle is spending the summer vacation at lllsjaia a a a i operation 13,600.00 Maintenance 3,500.00 his home on Monument avenue.

Hudson, Richard Cromwell, George Barbler, Jane Darwell, Slim Sum special feature will be vocal selections by a male quartette composed of H. J. Fear, and J. Donald Notman. of West Plttston; Daniel P.

Morgan, of Kingston, and Arthur C. Jenkins, of Forty Fort. The regular monthly meeting of the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society will be held in the parlors of the Methodist Episcopal Church Monday night at 7:30 o'clock. There will be election of officers and all members are urged to attend. Mrs.

W. D. Hopkins will be In charge of devotions, and Mrs. Thomas George will be in charge of the ''Wlxsd charges 4,570.00 Thomas Hughes, of Bellefonte, is A $20 bill. A strip of bacon.

A silk stocking. A record of alimony payments. In addition, there rnimtlui Debt service 48,400.00 spending the week end with his moth merville. Sterling Holloway, Thomas Beck, Roger Imhof, Carles Sellon, John Bradford and Ruth Gillette. er, Mrs.

Henry Hughes, of Seventh Total (110,00000 street. combs, photographs, nail files, an oc Estimated receipts: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Riley and INS duplicate family, of Brooklyn, N. are spend ROAD WORKER KILLED casional iiu Din, a kitchen knife and a bank bcok.

ntlineuent. taxes 10,000.00 ing the week end at the home of Mr and Mrs. William Riley, of Sixth John Walsh, aged 55 years, of Har .1120,000.00 street. FEDERAL INVESTIGATOR Ray D. Oruser.

of Montmae. has rlsburg, met death yesterday after, noon while employed as a superinten 43,000.00 8.000.00 20,000.00 Total ate appropriation president tuition mporaryoans sviUl MENCKEN'S WIFE DIES Baltimore. June 1 Mrs. H. L.

BAWLEY CHILD KILLED Joan, three year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Compton, of Cry had flung herself out of the house, unable to trust herself further. a a VOE was completely recovered now. Lisa Parker took her out to Colorado in late August 1 Dr.

Kaye came out less often these days. His practice was growing. Bertlne had told everyone proudly that he was Park Avenne's most popular specialist So Katharine was left more and store to herself. She began to refuse invitations to dinners and been appointed an Investigator in the Internal Revenue Department. Mr.

Cruser succeeds Herman H. Otto, of Brjoklvm. trim Ivan hM the Mencken, 37, writer, teacher and lecturer, aod wife of the editor aad dent for Sweeney brothers on the new Scranton Dalevllle highway. He was injured internally by a truck that backed over him and died five minutes after being admitted to Hahnemann hospital. He was an expert in explosives and had charge of the author, dJed at the Johns Hopkins stal street, Hawley, was fatally injured yesterday afternoon by being struck by an automobile on Hudson street, In that borough, and died last night at the home of her grand Hospital.

Death resulted from an vn eastern Oregon Loute, 90 office for a wumber of years. His tor rttxy includes five counties: Lackawanna, ausquehaona, Wayne, Pike and Wyoming. illness she had suffered at intervals for a year but that, became grave iA. PiXe.ehlet the town' blasting of rock on the new men tt chSotor, died here mother only recently. way.

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