Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-01-26
IF CARNEY SAYS THEY !
CANT PASS THEY DON'T
New Road Blocked by Home
of Football Star.

| VI VOOIO01l 0I0Es
Scranton, Pa.-Johnny Garvey, hero
| of the Yale-Dartmouth football game
and Old Ellis latest football luminary,
came by his stubborn fighting spirit
naturally.
Especially the stubborn part. i
That unsuitable will to do that sent
him crashing time after time through
the Dartmouth line when every men,
Der of the big Green team was mutter-
ing, "He shall not pass; that deter
mination that he wouldn't and that
conviction that he couldn't be stopped,
are natural heritage.
Stubbornness is an outstanding trait
Of the Garvey family, as witness what
was going on at home while Johnny
was booting the football around for
his alma mater.
Carney halls from the borough of
rMoosic, suburb of Scranton. The
road between Scranton and Wilkes
Barre, which passes through Johnnys
home town, long has been described as
one of the worst in the state. For
years and years motorists have spilled
more cuss words to the mile on this
road than there are freckles on q
turkey egg.
Then new road was planned that
was to provide a direct route over
concrete. But the powers that be,
even as the Dartmouth football team,
reckoned without the name of Garvey.
Try and Get 1t.
The Garvey homestead lay in the
path of the proposed road. A Garvey
had built the home 45 years ago, and
a Garvey lived in it ever since. And
when Garvey makes up his mind to
keep anything, whether it be football
or three-story, frame dwelling, try
and get it from him.
When the new road was laid out a
board of viewers appraised the prop
erty and set valuation on it. This,
the borough of MOosic claimed, was
excessive and refused to pay. The
borough officials have taken an appeal
to the Superior court and have filed
exceptions to proceedings which went
on two years ago.
Meanwhile, the Garvey home stands
on its original site.
The new road leads right up to its
very back door, and there stops alb
ruptly. In order to pass the Garvey
barn piece half the width of the
road for the length of the barn was
loft Tn oh I'll
complacently as of yore. To pass the
Carney house the motorist is COM
PEELED to detour through 15-foot
alley running alongside the building.
The Pennsylvania department of
highways has shown how it feels about
the matter by posting sign in front
of the building at the point where the
highway halts by reason of the OBJ
struction and the detour begins, read
ing:
'This highway will be completed as
soon as the Moosic borough authori-
ties remove the house in the middle of
the road.
PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT
OF HIGHWAYS"
Family Is Undisturbed.
Members of the Carney family, and
especially Johnnys mother, are as I'M
perturbed over the matter as they are
over Johnny's successes on the grid
iron. Mrs. Garvey is a quiet, mother
ly woman, happy in her boys success,
but seeing nothing in it over which to
make fuss.
She was asked how she felt that,
memorable Saturday afternoon when
Johnny got his chance in the Dart
mouth game and made good with such
q vengeance.
Il was busting around here In the
living ROOM" she said, "and l thought
I'd see what was on the radio. tuned
it on and the first words heard were
'Garvey's got the ball. so I tuned it
off quickly.
"When Bill (Johnny's father) came
home he said, Did you hear about
the game?
81 said, NO
"He said, Johnny made two touch
DOWNS
"But l didn't see anything to get
much excited about in that. Oh, of
course, was glad he got his chance
and made good. But it was" and she
gave a deprecating laugh, sit was
what | expected John to do. Hes n
fine boy in his classwOrk. as well as in
football, and that means more to me
than anything else"
And her brown eyes twinkied hap
PLY.