1911 WB Record Almanac, Record of Local Events for 1910

Principal Happenings in Luzerne County, Unless Noted  Under Special  Headings Elsewhere, for the Year 
Beginning December 1, 1909, and Ending November 30, 1910.

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December, 1909.
1. Drought continues and situation grows more critical.
3. Announcement made that property of Wilkes-Barre & Wyoming Valley Traction Go. has passed into the hands
of local people by a long term lease. Annual Wilkes-Barre C. E. Union rally at Ashley. Visiting Nurse Association
decides to engage an assistant nurse, owing to large demands. Miss Saidee Kaiser and Ernest Bennett give 
concert in Y. M. C. A. auditorium.
4. A. A. Sterling, cashier of the People's Bank since 1876, made vice president of the board of directors and 
Samuel Mc'Cracken, assistant cashier, promoted to the position of cashier.
5. Frederick W. Orr of New Haven the orator at the Elks' memorial service.
6. Wilkes-Barre's first holiday shopping carnival opened with addresses on Public Square by Mayor Kniffen, city
solicitor McHugh and W. L. Raeder, president of the Board of Trade: city brilliantly illuminated. Art exhibit at the
Y. M. C. A. under the auspices of the carnival committee the most notable ever seen in Wilkes-Barre, the value 
of the pictures aggregating $280,000; "The Crucifixion of Christ" by Franz A. Lundhal; "The Village Blacksmith;" 
"Old Darby," by Rosa Bonheur; The "Venus de Milo," by David C. Lithgow; and "The Toiler." Work started on the
 big new sewer from Pennsylvania Avenue to the river, over Union Street.
7. First council of the new borough of Larksville organized. Eighteenth annual rally of the Baptist Young People's
 Union of the Wyoming Baptist Association held at Dorranceton. Schubert concert, with Miss Dorothy Hoyle, 
violinist, as soloist.
8. Annual Y. W. C. A. dinner served to about 1,500 people.
9. Reception by the congregation of the First Baptist Church for the new pastor, Rev. Edward C. Kunkle, and wife.
10. First annexation rally in Hanover Township, under the auspices of the Wilkes-Barre Board of Trade. United 
States Senator Dolliver of Iowa lectures in the Y. M. C. A. lecture course. Prof. Arthur C. Foster of Albany, N. Y., 
lectures before Historical Society on Indian tribes.
11. Railroads and mines preparing to haul water from the river, owing to the protracted drought. Beginning of
 Pittston's holiday carnival with much enthusiasm.
12. Rabbi Isadore Rosenthal of Lancaster lectures in the South Washington street temple on "The modern
 emphasis of religion."
13. One of the fiercest wind storms in Wilkes-Barre in many years, lasting most of the day, a number of buildings
 damaged and roof of West Side Park grand stand completely blown off. Com. Peary delivers his first public
 lecture on his discovery of the North Pole in Irem Temple, the house being crowded; price of tickets, $2.50 for 
the best seats. Farran Zerbe's collection of coin, paper money and other things used as money by all nations and
 people for five thousand years shown in Dime Deposit Bank. Rain of nearly two inches breaks the long drought
 at a time when the water company was greatly worried.
14. Three children of Mr. and Mrs. William James of Wyoming die within four days of scarlet fever.
15. William Dickover, Wilkes-Barre's oldest inhabitant in point of residence, celebrates his ninetieth anniversary.
 Property of the Glen Summit Hotel & Land Co. purchased by a number of the cottagers.
16. Sacred Heart and Slovak cemeteries at Plains affected by mine caving. Wilkes-Barre health department
 begins a campaign of education in relation to the spread of disease.
18. Stock and store of B. Oppenheimer of Pittston destroyed by fire: loss about $30,000. Orders given out at
 Harrisburg for the reorganization of the National Guard in accordance with the provisions of the Dick bill, making
 the guard a branch of the federal service.
19. Wilkes-Barre school board agrees to the appointment of a committee to consider the advisability of having a 
medical and psychological inspection of the school children made. Issue of $200,000 county 4 per cent bonds 
sold to Baker, Ayling & Co. at a premium of $1,338.79.
21. Pittston acquires its first park site—two lots leased from the Pennsylvania Coal Co. for ninety-nine years.
22. Application for an audit of the campaign expenses of District Attorney-elect John H. Williams.
23. Cornerstone of the old courthouse opened and the contents turned over to the Historical Society.
24. T. A. Wright made vice president arid general manager of the Wilkes-Barre Street Railway Co. Stanford
 Richardson of Pittston killed on railroad at Lehighton.
25. Snow and blizzardy Christmas weather—seven inches of snow by night; traction and railroad traffic somewhat
 interfered with.
26.   Good sleighing.
27. St. Mary's Needlework Guild gives a tea at Hotel Redington.
28. Charity ball of the Heights Settlement in Irem Temple a brilliant event. River frozen over in most places.
29. Two hundred and fifty messenger boys, newsboys and bootblacks attend the annual feast given at the
 Y. M. C. A. by a Wilkes-Barre philanthropist. Farewell reception in the Edwardsville Congregational Church in
 honor of Rev. O. Lloyd Morris, who goes to Lima, Ohio. Breaker boys from many collieries given sleigh rides.
 Chief Roderick instructs mine inspectors to strictly enforce the new law requiring boys employed at the mines
 between 14 and 16 years to be able to read and write English Intelligently.
30. Northeastern Pennsylvania Alumni of Syracuse University organized at Scranton. Court hears argument for
 revision of mine examining boards owing to alleged serious fraud. Annexation of West Hazleton to Hazleton
 defeated. Lodge 61 gives a complimentary dinner to Col. L. A. Watres of Scranton, recently installed as right
 worshipful junior grand warden of the grand lodge of the State.
31. Mrs. William Minnigar of Yatesville drops dead after a son-in-law had fired a bullet at her daughter. Assembly
 ball held in the armory again. Two members of mine examiners' board placed under arrest while sitting in the 
courthouse on the charge of issuing certificates contrary to the law. Judge Fuller throws out petition for an audit
 of the campaign expense account of John H. Williams, district attorney-elect; on the ground that one of the
 petitioners is not a qualified citizen, this leaving an insufficient number of qualified petitioners to make the
 petition valid.

January, 1910.
1. Inspection of new banking rooms of the Kingston Deposit and Savings bank attended by about six thousand
 people. Gloomy New Year weather. Annual open house of the Y. M. C. A. one of the most successful affairs of
 the kind yet held.
2. Death of George S. Bennett, one of the Wyoming Valley's most prominent residents. Parsons Baptist
 congregation worships in new church.
3. Warden Sutherland conducts class for prisoners desiring to learn English and expects to extend the system
 of instruction in jail Change in county officials—John M. Garman takes his seat on the bench in place of Judge G.
 L. Halsey. Trucksville M. B. church destroyed by fire, causing a loss of about $4,000.
4. Cold snap sets in suddenly and mercury drops twenty-five degrees in a few hours—three degrees above zero
 in Wilkes-Barre. In conformity with the commodities clause of the Hepburn act, the Delaware & Hudson changes
 the name of its mining department to the Hudson Coal Company. Project to annex the Lee Park and Newtown
 sections of Hanover township to Wilkes-Barre defeated by 258 votes, the vote in the Lee Park district being 34
 for and 164 against and in the New-town district 39 for and 167 against.
5. Sleet, followed by snow and rain and a decided rise in temperature,— sidewalks and streets a glare of ice.
6. Chairman W. W. Hall of the Republican county committee gives a banquet at Hotel Terminal to about fifty party
 workers and recently elected candidates. Many accidents owing to falls on slippery sidewalks.
7. Superintendent Coughlin decides to open a school for children who cannot pass the educational test for
 employment under the new certificate law. Traffic delayed on account of the storm and ice. John O. Kane of
 Carbondale, formerly of Plymouth, killed on a railroad.
8. Parsons Baptist church dedicated. Many skaters on the river, the ice being smooth for the first time in about
 fifteen years. Will of George S. Bennett leaves about $25,000 to local institutions.
10. Court abolishes rule creating- a board of masters for hearing divorce cases; such cases to be heard 
originally by the judges or by masters appointed for each case, as formerly. Dr. Donald Guthrie of Wilkes-Barre
 named surgeon-in-chief of the Robert Packer Hospital at Sayre.
11. Seven men killed and five injured by an explosion of gas in the Nottingham mine of the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre
 at Plymouth.
12. Body of John J. O'Donnell, constable of the Second ward, Wilkes-Barre, found at the bottom of a shaft at the 
Conyngham colliery. Campaign started at a meeting of prominent citizens at the residence of Thomas H. 
Atherton to raise $30,000 for the preparation of the Stegmaier building for the beginning of separate boys' work
 by the Wilkes-Barre Y. M. C. A. Annual banquet of Luzerne County Medical Society.
13. Death of George K. Powell, one of the leaders of the Luzerne County bar and a very estimable citizen. Rev. 
William Smith Barnes, D. D., installed as pastor of the West Pittston Presbyterian Church.
14. Record prints description of the invention of a Wilkes-Barrean, W. 8. Carpenter, for the elimination of the coal
 dust nuisance from breakers. Another heavy snowstorm, seven inches in Wilkes-Barre, with considerable
 interference with traffic.
15. Bar Association pays tribute to the memory of George K. Powell. Marriage of Frederick L. Huntington and
 Miss Gertrude Bell. Major David Schooley of Carverton, who recruited the famous Schooley's Battery, dies.
16. Rabbi Henry Berkowitz of Philadelphia lectures in the South Washington street temple on "Education and 
Democracy." Another spell of frigid weather, thermometer registers near the zero mark in Wilkes-Barre. River
 frozen to a considerable thickness about its entire length with smooth ice.
17. Concordia society decides to not undertake trip to Europe during the summer, on the ground that there is not
 sufficient time for preparation of the chorus.
18. All day rain upon the heavy accumulation of snow causes very disagreeable conditions.
19. Two days' strike of the miners at the South Wilkes-Barre colliery terminated by the company allowing the
 men to employ a docking boss: company complained that the petition was not properly made out. Bachelors' 
ball at Pittston a brilliant affair.
20. Luzerne County School Directors' Association meets in Wilkes-Barre. South Main street sewer completed. 
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Smith of Wilkes-Barre celebrate golden wedding anniversary.
21. Death of Harry G. Merrill, for many years a Record employee. All day rain causes some fear of a flood, 
Solomon's Creek stops street car traffic in South Wilkes-Barre.
22. Very little Interest in the primaries in Wilkes-Barre.
25. Harry H. Weintraub and Miss Dora Salsburg, both of Plymouth, married at the Franklin Club house. Woman's
 Civic Club petitions Wilkes-Barre councils to decree that six days be set apart each year to be known as 
cleaning up time.
26. Forty-second anniversary of the founding of Conyngham Post observed with a banquet. Engineering firm of 
Barry S. Reets and Charles S. Miles dissolves, the former retiring from business.
27. Ex-Prisoners of War Association of Northeastern Pennsylvania meets in Wilkes-Barre. George L. Marion 
found guilty of murder in the first degree for killing his common law wife.
28. Musical under the auspices of the Y. W. C. A. at the residence of F. M. Kirby. George L. Marion, convicted of 
murder in the first degree, attempts suicide at the jail by cutting his wrist.
29. Michael Baab, who pleaded guilty to shooting and killing Philip Richards sentenced to a minimum of three 
years and a maximum of twenty years. James C. Gordon of Plains, who caused the death of his mother-in-law, 
sentenced to a minimum term of three years and a maximum of twelve years. Elbert Hubbard of Roycrofters fame 
lectures in Irem Temple. Another heavy snowstorm,
assuming the proportion of a blizzard, and streetcar travel again interfered with.
31. Sudden death of Prison Commissioner Frederick J. Roth, who was also a former jail warden.

February.
2. Court hands down a decision— Judge Fuller excepting—that Burgess Fenner of Ashley is entitled to continue
 in office by re-election. Kressler, violinist, at Irem Temple. St. Aloysius Society of Pittston burns mortgage on 
building.
3. Delegation of Philadelphia Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association makes a visit to Wilkes-Barre. Death
 of George Shoemaker of Forty Fort, a member of a. prominent pioneer family of Wyoming Valley. Concordia 
concert, with Ernest Bennett and Arnold Lohmann as soloists'. Death of James Auld of Pittston, a veteran of the 
Mexican and Civil wars.
4. F. Hopkinson Smith gives a reading and lecture in the chapel of the First Presbyterian Church. Death of Father
 Francis T. McNally, former pastor of the Georgetown Catholic Church. Moelwyn Male Chorus from Wales gives
 a, concert in Y. M. C. A. auditorium—Prof. Cadwalader Roberts, conductor. Luzerne County Bar holds its first me
morial meeting in memory of a female member—Miss R. Laura Cannon.
5. Many fraudulent miners' certificates being discovered by the new board of examiners. Death of Palmer 
Handing of West Pittston, descended from one of tine prominent pioneer families of Wyoming Valley.
7. Court hands down an order for the dissolution of the Hiverview Dairy Farm Co.
8. Rev. William Barrison Decker installed as pastor of the Nanticoke Presbyterian Church. Holy Savior Church 
bazaar, one of the most successful in the history of the parish, brought to la close. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Touhill of
 Pittston celebrate their golden wedding anniversary and on the same day their daughter Julietite weds George
 S. Quimby.
11. Jail warden Charles F. Sutherland dies. Examiners decide that all miners in their district must be re-examined
 for certificates. Six inches of snow and much colder.
12. Some of the coal companies make preparations to build dams and create private water supplies to obviate 
such distressing experiences as they have been having in drought periods.
18. Joseph H. Keenan of Wilkes-Barre dies two days after his wife. Hugh Flynn of East End dies while attending
 services at Holy Savior Church.
14. First concert of Wilkes-Barre's first symphony orchestra, under the direction of Charles Pokorney. Guy W. 
Moore of Kingston and Harry F. Mooney of Wilkes-Barre appointed prison commissioners. First annual banquet 
of Sunday School Superintendents' Union in the Y. M. C. A. building.
15. One of the quietest municipal elections . in Wilkes-Barre in many years—the last February election in the
 State, the adoption of the constitutional amendment having changed municipal election to November of the odd
 numbered years.
17. Wreck on the Lehigh Valley cutoff results in the death of two employees, their bodies being pinned in the
 wreckage arid then burned beyond recognition. Colder weather turns rain into sleet and snow, covering the street
s and sidewalks with a coating of ice: traction traffic seriously interfered with. Ralph W. Ferrel, city editor of the
 Record, elected secretary of the Wilkes-Barre Board of Trade to succeed Nelson Bennett, resigned. About a 
hundred remonstrances to saloon licenses filed.
19. Robert T. Reilley, formerly of Hazleton, killed by accident In South Carolina,. River again frozen over for a few
 days.
20. Smallpox breaks out in Glendale, Luzerne County.
21. Peculiar accident at Warrior Run —gas which oozed into the cellar of the home of Miss Bridget Brislin set off
 by a light; Miss Brislin fatally burned and the home destroyed; her brother, who for years had been an invalid with
 a broken back, rescued by neighbors. Judge Garman creates astonishment by granting all new liquor license 
applications against which remonstrances had not been filed, on the ground that it is not the duty of the court to
 say, without evidence, that the place is unnecessary or that the applicant is unfit.
22. Six men burned by explosion of gas in the Pettebone mine. Ninth annual eisteddfod of the Calvinistic
 Presbyterian Church of Plymouth.
23. The troop of the State Constabulary stationed at Wyoming leaves for Philadelphia to do duty during the street
 car strike disturbances.
24. Wilkes-Barre Automobile Club secures concessions from Laurel Run Borough council and the hill climb for
 June 11 is assured. City attorney Mc-Hugh renders an opinion that Wilkes-Barre councils cannot regulate fire
 insurance rates and cannot tax the board of underwriters. Thomas Alles, formerly of Wilkes-Barre, killed by
 accident at Buffalo.
27. Rev. Parke Richards, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Plymouth, resigns to go to Waverly, N. Y.
28. Out of several hundred applicants John A. Shymononich of Plymouth is appointed tipstaff in the courthouse.


March.
1. Wilkes-Barre bank clearings show an increase of $6,910,855 over the previous year ending with February, the
 best showing made since the organization of the clearing house. Jeremiah McAvoy, father of county
 commissioner McAvoy, elected warden of the Luzerne county jail.
2. Death of Frank Deitrick who took the greater responsibility in the planning and erection of Irem Temple and
 who took a leading part in other large Wilkes-Barre enterprises.
3. River reaches a height of twenty-six feet at 3 a. m., all streetcar traffic stopped. New town hall at Plains 
dedicated.
5. First of three University Extension lectures by Prof. Schmidt of Cornell.
6. Gen. Ballington Booth of the Volunteers of America addresses an audience in Irem Temple. Roadway on 
Market street flats damaged and sidewalk badly torn up by the flood, traction service resumed.
7. Committee of the Wilkes-Barre Board of School Government reports in favor of medical inspection of school
 children.
9. Death of Mrs. Susan Hurlbut of Wilkes-Barre, 102 years old. Terminal Hotel passes into the hands of Harry 
Brown and Frederick Hooper. Attempt to get rid of the sparrows on Public Square by turning fire hose upon the
 trees.
10. Wholesale Grocers' Association of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware meets in Wilkes-Barre.
11. Ten mules cremated in a barn in the Parrish colliery at Plymouth.
12. Seven men killed in the South Wilkes-Barre mine by an explosion of gas.
13. A number of Wilkes-Barre pastors criticize the court for its liberality in granting new saloon licenses. Concert
 in the Poll theatre under the auspices of St. Aloysius church by Miss Julia Alien and others.
14. Boys of the Y. M. C. A. break ground for the proposed new boys' department building. Judge Fuller refuses
 all new liquor licenses and states his reasons in a forcible opinion.
15. Judge Fuller receives strong popular endorsement of his attitude on the liquor license question.
16. Record prints cut of the first street car manufactured at the Wilkes-Barre shops of the local traction company.
17. John Mitchell speaks at Plymouth St. Patrick's Day celebration. Testimonial banquet given at the Terminal by
 Frank McCormick in honor of Judge Garman. Cynonfardd Literary Society's eighteenth annual eisteddfod at 
Edwardsville, Gwent Glee Society wins the chief choral competition from the Anthracite Chorus of Taylor, prize
 $100, "On the Sea," by Dudley Buck.
18. Board of Trade takes up inquiry into insurance rates in Wilkes-Barre. Adder Machine Company sales 
agents and managers hold a convention in Wilkes-Barre.
19. Extension of the East End traction line to Miners Mills opened.
20. Death of District Attorney John H. Williams after being in office less than three months. Benefit concert at the
 Poll theatre for the widows and orphans of the seven miners killed in South Wilkes-Barre shaft. Edward J. 
Barrett, son of James Barrett of Miners Mills, ordained to the priesthood at South Orange, N. J.
21. Census Supervisor J. B. Graham of Ashley announces the list of enumerators for Luzerne County. City 
engineer directed to make a survey of route in Hanover Township over which it is proposed to run Solomon's
 Creek. Opening of the Savoy, the new vaudeville and moving picture theatre on Public Square. Numerous
 churches and associations indorse Judge Fuller's stand in liquor license court.
22. Cass Emanuel, a former resident of Plymouth Township, meets death by accident in Oklahoma.
23. Funeral of District Attorney John Williams, one of the largest ever held in the Wyoming Valley. Executive 
council of the State Federation of Labor meets in Wilkes-Barre and decides to not call a statewide strike in 
sympathy with the Philadelphia traction men.
24. Adder Machine Company employees in the tool and die depart-tnents go on strike claiming that the
 company did not keep its promise that wages formerly paid were to be restored. New gasoline fire engine of the
 Wilkes-Barre department given its first test. Mahon appointed new postmaster of Pittston.
27. Beautiful Easter weather. Rev. Edward J. Barrett celebrates his first mass in St. Dominic's church at Parsons.
28. Strike at the Adder Machine Company's plant adjusted. Lllanelly Welsh Choir gives a concert in the First
 Baptist church after making a tour of the country. St. Cassimer's Polish Catholic church at Pittston dedicated.
29. Members of the Wilkes-Barre St. Aloysius Society celebrate thirtieth anniversary with a smoker. Annual
 Wyoming Conference of the Methodist church being held at Binghamton. Rabbi Schulman of New York lectures 
in the South Washington street temple on "The Hebrew prophets and modern religion."
30. Large euchre, dance and bazaar held at Concordia hall by the Ushers' Association of St. Nicholas' church. 
Terminal Hotel passes into the hands of Frederick Hooper and Harry Brown.
31. New fire engine received in Wilkes-Barre christened the George J. Stegmaier. Large euchre and bazaar
 held in the armory by members of St. Mary's church for the gymnasium fund.	
 
April.
1. Lafayette musical clubs give a concert in Irem Temple. The sum of $1,040 collected by concerts and otherwise
 for the widows and orphans of the seven miners killed in the South Wilkes-Barre shaft. Streetcar fender
 ordinance finally laid on the table by Common Council.
2. Standard Brewing Company of Scranton refused a license in Luzerne County.
3. Unusually dry and warm weather for this time of year. Langcliffe Presbyterian Church at Avoca, replacing the
 one destroyed by fire, dedicated.
4. Nathaniel Davis, formerly of Glen Lyon, killed by accident in Carbondale. John Kosek defeats H. P. Fell for the
 chairmanship of Select council in Wilkes-Barre and Lawrence B. Jones re-elected chairman of the Common
 branch.
5. Bodies of Owen Vahey of Harvey's Lake and Alevsey Juravil of Wilkes-Barre found floating in the river
 opposite Wilkes-Barre, both having been missing from home for some time. Movement begun for the federation
 of the men's bible classes of Wilkes-Barre. Standard Brewing Co., which was denied license by local court to 
sell in Luzerne County, secures a State wholesale license.
6 Elaborate banquet given by Ambrose West to the Wilkes-Barre Press Club and other friends in his new
 hardware supply building at Plymouth. West Side Visiting Nurse Association employs an additional nurse.
7. Bishop Quayle lectures at the First M. E. church on "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Falling Spring Lodge of Pittston
 celebrates its fortieth anniversary. Andrew Haggerty, formerly of Pittston, killed by accident at Lansford.
 Carpenters of Wilkes-Barre and vicinity come to an agreement with their employers on the basis of an advance
 of twenty cents a day.
8. Joshua Rozelle of Wyoming celebrates his one hundredth anniversary. Muhlenburg Glee Club gives a concert
 in Irem Temple. Mrs. James McCabe and son Alexander of Miners Mills die within a few hours of each other.
9. Miners at the Nottingham at Plymouth strike because of alleged excessive dockage. Ladies of Wilkes-Barre
 Civic Club request Sheriff Rodda to appoint a special deputy to enforce the anti-spitting laws.
11. James E. Daley, first assistant chief of the Wilkes-Barre fire department, drops dead at Plymouth. John S.
 Kulp, son of Mr. and Mrs. George B. Kulp of Wilkes-Barre, promoted from major to colonel in the regular army, 
chief surgeon of the military department of the State of Washington.
12. Only three candidates present themselves for the mine inspector examination.
13. In a communication to the Record Mayor Kniffen comes out in favor of .the commission plan of government.
14. Bergin & Company's mill, two barns and dwelling at West Nanticoke destroyed by fire.
15. Announcement that the Susquehanna Railway, Light & Power Co. has secured operating control of the 
Wilkes-Barre Gas & Electric Co., the Wilkes-Barre Heat, Light & Motor Company, the Parsons Electric Light Co.,
 and the Anthracite Heat, Light & Power Co.
16. Nottingham employees decide to return to work pending an adjustment of their grievances.
17. Corner stone of St. Michael's Polish Catholic church at Glen Lyon laid. Justices of the peace and aldermen 
of the county form an association.
18. Spring session of Presbytery of Lackawanna meets at Avoca. New Fort Pittston school opened.
19. General Theodore A. Bingham, late police commissioner of New York City, lectures in Wilkes-Barre on
 police administration.
22. Garden plots in the Bennett lot on North Main street, Wilkes-Barre, distributed to the children. Largely
 attended reception for Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Mogg of Central M. E. church.
24. Many Wilkes-Barre pastors deliver addresses on tuberculosis in accordance with the request made for the
 observance of Tuberculosis Sunday.
25. Headquarters of the new Democratic club at the corner of Market and Washington streets opened. River
 rises to twenty feet owing to heavy rain storms.
26. Dedication of the East End engine house with a banquet. Ordinance introduced in Wilkes-Barre councils
 prohibiting the sale or discharge of fireworks after August 1, 1910.
27. Body of Major Edward J. Dougher of Wilkes-Barre found in a creek near Towanda. Philip Smith, a former 
resident of Pittston, killed in a mine near Pittsburg.
28. Death in Connecticut of Miss. Elizabeth H. Rockwell, who for twenty-one years was principal of the 
Wilkes-Barre Institute.
29. State Department of Health declares a quarantine against dogs in the section of Wilkes-Barre bounded by 
Academy and Division streets,. Carey Avenue and the river. 
30. Court revokes Martin Garrahan's detective license. Company employees of Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co.
 given a six per cent, increase in wages. Attorney General Wickersham delivers address at banquet of Lehigh 
alumni in Wilkes-Barre.

May.
2. Dr. Charles Zueblin lectures in Wilkes-Barre on civic topics. First Clean Up Week in the city inaugurated, the
 movement begun by the Women's Civic Club and indorsed by the mayor, councils and the Board of Trade. 
Supreme Court decision ousts Burgess Fenner of Ashley from office, on the ground that his resignation just 
before the expiration of his previous term in order that he might be a candidate again did not comply with the law,
 which prohibits a burgess from succeeding himself. Paul Wyoda, convicted of issuing fraudulent certificates to
 miners, sentenced to a fine of $1,000 and not less than two years and six months and not more than ten years in
 the penitentiary. City superintendent Coughlin recommends the maintenance of a special school for neglected 
children of school age. Strike at No. 9 colliery of the Pennsylvania Coal Co. in the Pittston region, because of 
alleged excessive dockage.
3. Men at No. 9 colliery decide to return to work pending an adjustment of their grievance.
4. Third annual .banquet of the Wilkes-Barre Mining Institute, under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A., attended by 
about seven hundred men. Mrs. Martha Generals of Wilkes-Barre, a colored woman, awarded a Carnegie hero 
medal for bravery exhibited in rescuing a boy who was in danger of being electrocuted by a live wire. Record's
 prize of a season ticket to all the ball games of the season and grand stand privileges for the person who would
 guess the nearest to the number of paid admissions on the opening day was awarded to Robert Williams of
 Pittston, his guess being the exact number—2,976; about sixteen thousand votes received. Jenkins Township
 has a celebration in honor of the turning on of the electric light.
5. First good sight of Halley's comet In the eastern sky just before sunrise. Edwardsville traction car runs into a
 cave-in at Edwardsville and several passengers are injured. Gwent Society carries off the honors at the Mahanoy
City eisteddfod. Concordia special concert in Irem Temple, with Leo Schultz, cello, and Miss Margaret Keyes, 
contralto, as soloists.
6. News of the death of King Edward of Great Britain causes profound sorrow among Englishmen in the 
Wyoming Valley. Edward Mackin appointed as second county detective. Experts report that the cost of the
 Plymouth bridge will be $265,000, instead of the $175,000 originally estimated.
7. David Chase Harrington of Scranton celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of his admission to the Luzerne County
 bar. Explosion in the Dupont powder mills at Gracedale causes the death of three men. John W. Fenner named
 by the court as burgess of Ashley to take the place of his brother, J. K. P. Fenner, who was ousted because of 
an adverse decision in relation to his eligibility under the constitution.
8. Tenth anniversary of the pastorate of Rev. L. Lindenstruth, D. D., of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Wilkes-Barre, 
celebrated.
10. Thirty-ninth annual convention of the Diocese of Bethlehem (Episcopal) convenes in St. Stephen's Church. 
Ordinance Introduced in councils granting a franchise to a new corporation to furnish electric light and power in 
Wilkes-Barre, and at the same time the old company announces a reduction in electric light and power rates.
11. Annual county W. C. T. U. convention held in the Presbyterian Church at Ashley.
12. Health authorities of Wilkes-Barre on the hunt for immigrants who came from a ship on which smallpox was 
discovered. Nine County Funeral Directors' Association meets in Wilkes-Barre.
13. Automobile Club run to Harvey's Lake and banquet at the Oneonta. J. H. Perkins, manager of the Wilkes
Barre Gas & Electric Light Co., promoted to be consulting engineer for the Susquehanna Railway, Light & Power
 Co.
14. Case of smallpox discovered near Freeland.
15. Rev. James Eley assumes the pastorate of the Second Primitive Church at Plymouth.
16. Citizens' National Bank of Parsons opens for business. Judge W. A.. Covington of Georgia speaks on local
 option and temperance in the Y. M. C. A. auditorium.
17. Record prints Interviews with Mrs. Mercy Fell Behee, Mrs. Sarah Johnson and Mrs. Elizabeth Hillman. who
 remember seeing Halley's comet on its previous visit, seventy-five years ago. Bar Association holds a meeting
 in memory of Frank Battle. State tuberculosis exhibit opens in Wilkes-Barre Y. M. C. A. building. Announcement
 that the D., L. & W. intends sinking a shaft near Suburban Park for the development of a tract of 150 acres of
 coal it owns there, the intention being to transport It across the river to the Pettebone breaker.
18. Earth supposed to begin passing through the tail of Halley's comet shortly after 11 o'clock p. m.; hundreds of
 people at points of vantage watching for phenomena, but none were visible.
19. Luzerne Borough High School Alumni Association has banquet at the Oneonta, Harvey's Lake. Men at Nos. 
5, 6 and 11 collieries of the Pennsylvania Coal Co., in the Pittston region, go on strike because of alleged 
excessive dockage and a reduction in yardage.
20. County commissioners grant right of way across the Market street bridge in Wilkes-Barre and the Water 
street bridge in Pittston to the West Shore Railway Co.
21. Synod of Welsh Calvinistic Methodist churches convenes in Parrish street church in Wilkes-Barre. Fifty-fifth
 annual conference of the Welsh Baptist Association of northeastern Pennsylvania convenes in the First Baptist 
Church at Parsons.
22. John Nobel Doberstine of Alden ordained to the deconate by Bishop Talbot. Second concert of the Wilkes
Barre Symphony Orchestra, under the leadership of Charles Pokorney. Hoyt and No. 14 shaft men join the 
strikers in the Pittston region.
24. Fifteen nurses graduate from Mercy Hospital training school. Zeiser Bros, of Berwick awarded the contract 
for laying the stone walks in Public Square Park for $8,234.20. Buffalo Bill's farewell appearance at West Side 
Park. Susquehanna Dental Association holds forty-seventh annual meeting at Harvey's Lake. Serious disorder
 at No. 14 mine when women and male foreigners interfered with men on their way to work; hundreds of strikers
 later march over the streets of Pittston. Severe electrical and wind storm does considerable damage in some
 parts of the county.
25. Management of the North Wilkes-Barre lace mill announces the intention to spend about $500,000 on im-
 provements and give employment to about 1,000 more people. Schubert concert, with Janpolski, Russian
 baritone, as the principal soloist. Grace Lutheran Church property on Ross street sold to Dr. Sickler, the
 congregation intending to build on another site.
27. City Hospital graduates eighteen trained nurses.
28. Two persons killed outright and forty more or less seriously injured in the wrecking of a Lehigh Valley train
 near Stull by a misplaced switch. Susquehanna and Kingston Coal companies also raise wages.
29. Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts speaks in the First Baptist Church and in the Y. M. C. A. Announcement that Harold 
James, assistant bookkeeper in the Record office, was successful in passing the competitive examination for 
appointment to the West Point Military Academy.
30. Dedication of St. John's Slovak Catholic Church at Luzerne Borough, Father Jedlicka, pastor. Memorial Day
 parade the largest and most impressive in the history of Wilkes-Barre. Dr. Mason Glee Society eisteddfod in
 the armory largely attended and a pronounced success, chief choral competition won by Wilkes-Barre, male
 chorus by the Gwents and female chorus by Utica.

June.
2. Funeral of George J. Stegmaier one of the largest ever seen in Wilkes-Barre. Oreste Formigli awarded the
 contract to erect an electrically lighted fountain in the centre of the Public Square plot as a memorial of the
 centennial celebration of 1906, the work to be done with the surplus money left over from the centennial.
3. Death in Seattle of Major John S. Kulp, son of Mr. and Mrs. George B. Kulp of Wilkes-Barre, who achieved
 distinction as a surgeon in the regular army.
4. Mine laborers so scarce that Delaware & Hudson Co. imports several hundred foreigners to work in its 
collieries. Primaries vote very light. Ringling circus in Wilkes-Barre. New rifle range of the Ninth regiment at 
Hilldale formally opened. Father Gramlewicz, pioneer pastor of the Polish church in the Wyoming Valley, passes
 away at Nanticoke.
5. Nearly five hundred children confirmed by Bishop Hoban in St. Mary's Catholic church.
8. Fifteen students graduate from Hillman Academy. Work resumed in the Pennsylvania Coal Co. collieries
 largely through the influence of the Italian consul, who induced the men to accept the promise of the company to
 immediately take up the grievances with the men. Serious allegations of fraud in some of the districts at the 
primaries. C. P. Shoemaker of Wilkes-Barre and George Fichter of Hazle Township appointed the first process 
servers in the history of the county. Annual convention of the International Lithuanian Union in session in Plymouth.
9. Newspaper men, automobilists and other gnests attend opening dinner of the Glen Summit Hotel under the
 new management, Messrs. Warburton and Browne.
11. Newspaper men's outing of the New Jersey Central run to Wilkes-Barre. Warrior Run election board 
arrested on the charge of conspiracy to defraud at the primaries.
12. Death of George Loveland, oldest member of the Luzerne County bar, admitted in 1848. Cave-in at Avoca
 wrecks Catholic church and parsonage and damages a number of other buildings.
14. City councils pass resolutions that the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co. be compelled to pay taxes due in
 1909. Four nurses graduate from Pittston hospital.
15. Forty-one students graduate from Wyoming Seminary.
16. Committee of the Central Poor District reports in favor of the erection and maintenance of a sanitarium for 
indigent consumptives, but by a vote of four to three the board tables the report.
17. Patrick Costello, of Wilkes-Barre, first engineer to be pensioned by Lehigh Valley Rairoad Co. One hundred 
and thirty-eight pupils graduate from the Wilkes-Barre high school.
18. Severe hail storm. William H. Berry speaks in Luzerne Borough M. E. church.
19. Dr. James T. Williams appointed the first medical inspector of the Wilkes-Barre schools. Nine young ladies 
graduate from Mallinckrodt convent. Holy Family Polish Roman Catholic church at Sugar Notch struck by lightning
 and destroyed by fire. Spell of very hot weather—thermometer ninety-five degrees.
20. Street Commissioner Barrett of Wilkes-Barre resigns. Liedertafel Society of Wilkes-Barre wins first prize in
 State Saengerbund at Reading.
22. Forty-four students graduate from St. Mary's parochial school. Edward Mills of Wilkes-Barre appointed a 
special deputy by Sheriff Rodda to enforce the State anti-spitting law. Liedertafel Society given an enthusiastic 
welcome home after its victory at Reading.
23. M. D. Wood, for three years in charge of the boys' work at Calvary parish house, appointed physical director
 of the new boys' department of the Y. M. C. A.
24. Miss Eva Booth, commander of the Salvation Army in America, lectures in Irem Temple on "Rags."
28. Appointment of Paul Dasch as street commissioner and E. L. Lutsey as assistant confirmed.
30. Conference between officials of Pennsylvania Coal Co. and committee representing the men who were on 
strike comes to an agreement on most of the points and decide to refer others to the Conciliation Board.

July.
2. Address at the commemorative exercises at Wyoming monument delivered by Dr. William Elliot Griffis of
 Ithaca.
3. Spell of very oppressive weather thermometer registering ninety and above for a number of days.
4. Ideal Fourth of July weather— the usual number of accidents in Wilkes-Barre and vicinity.      Kingston Coal  
Co.  public  park  and  playground at Edwardsville formally opened.
5.    Peter Forve of Wilkes-Barre named as a poor director to succeed George J. Stegmaier,  deceased.
6. Members of Wilkes-Barre councils and city officials have their annual outing at Bear Creek.
7. Spirited meeting of the Central Poor District board over the proposition to erect an anti-tuberculosis 
sanitarium, another committee appointed to look into the subject. Matheson Motor Car Co. applies to the court
 for the appointment of a receiver. Banquet given for E. P. Bardo, for five years manager of the Wilkes-Barre 
district of the Bell Telephone Co., who has been transferred to Wilmington, Delaware.
8. West Side Park purchased by Dr. Parke C. Sickler and others for $46,000. Colonel Asher Miner, William C. 
Shepherd and H. L. Pope appointed receivers for the Matheson Motor Car Co.
9. Wilkes-Barre's initial water carnival a success.
10. Spell of heat reaches the climax with a temperature of 95 degrees.
11. Rev. Hugh Davis, former pastor of the Second Welsh Presbyterian church in Wilkes-Barre, killed by a train 
at Allentown.
12. Cornerstone of new Methodist church at Trucksville laid.
13. Formal acceptance on the part of the Edwardsville borough officials of the fine playground given by the 
Kingston Coal Co.
14. First banquet at Hotel Hart of the Wilkes-Barre organization of Beavers. The William Miles paint factory, a 
new Wilkes-Barre industry, opened. Stockholders of the proposed Heights bank effect a permanent organization.
18. Unusual number of tyhoid fever cases in Wilkes-Barre causes anxiety.
20. Preliminary injunction granted restraining council of Larksville from erecting a town hall. Northeastern
 Association of the ladies of the G. A. R. holds a reunion at Fernbrook Park.
21. Wilkes-Barre post office employees get substantial increase in salary. H. J. Newburger of Freeland, and
 David Heiman of Pittston, take. over the London and Liverpool shoe house in Wilkes-Barre, Messrs. Wiseman 
and Blatner retiring.
24. Rev. Dr. Piper of the First M. E. church announces his resignation, having accepted a call to Pittsburg. 
Twenty-fifth anniversary of the ordination of Father Brehl of Pittston observed. Pastor Charles T. Russell of the 
Brooklyn Tabernacle lectures in Irem Temple.
28. Nine young women take the white veil and twelve the final vows at Mallinckrodt convent.
29. Central express train thrown from tracks at Pittston, some one having tampered with the rails, three of the 
four cars being derailed and the engine turned over; some almost miraculous escapes.

August.
1. Order of Foxes organized in Wilkes-Barre. Wealth of the Wilkes-Barre school district placed at $1,528,712.
2. New cases of typhoid reported every day in Wilkes-Barre and the situation grows alarming. Colonel Theodore
 Roosevelt makes an unexpected visit to Wilkes-Barre to study the social life of the mine workers and their
 families, the guest of Father Curran; councils tender him the freedom of the city.
3. Colonel Roosevelt tours the Wyoming Valley and is tendered a hearty reception, entertained by Albert Lewis 
at Bear Creek at dinner in the evening, reception later at Holy Savior rectory.
5 Wyoming Valley members of the Jr. O. U. A. M. brigade leave for encampment at Lake Lodore.
8. Metropolitan life insurance agents of the Wilkes-Barre district go on .strike for higher commissions. Wilkes
Barre councils decide to try the experiment of oiling some of the dirt streets. Announcement that Rev. Dr. 
Fullerton will not be able to resume his pastorate at the First Presbyterian church.
9. C. T. A. U. regiment in camp at Boston at the national convention of the organization Eight County Veteran 
Association meets at Fernbrook Park. A. J. Davis, one of the pioneer coal operators of the Wyoming Valley, 
passes away. Anthony Pebish of Nanticoke drowned in Lake Carey while bathing. L. A. Ferrandini becomes 
manager of the Luzerne theatre. Hodcarriers and building laborers of Wilkes-Barre and vicinity go on strike for 
more wages. Typhoid situation in Wilkes-Barre near the proportions of an epidemic, civil engineer Snow and a
 force of inspectors of the State Department of Health arrive to make an investigation of the cause of the 
outbreak.
14. Cornerstone of St. Joseph's Slovak church at Pittston laid.
15. State health authorities reinforced by more inspectors, all people warned to boil the water, water company 
ordered to install a filter for the purification of the river supply as soon as possible. John J. Casey of Wilkes-Barre
 accepts nomination for secretary of internal affairs of the Keystone party.
17. Death of Hon. John Lynch, president judge of Luzerne County courts. William H. Mathewson, formerly of
 Pittston, killed on a railroad at Binghamton.
18. German Day celebrated at Harvey's Lake. Third annual Welsh Day celebrated at Sans Souci Park.
19. First annual field day of the first aid to the injured corps of the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre and Parrish coal 
companies held at Sans Souci Park. Goer-inger Sanitary Carpet Sweeper Co. begins operation in South 
Wilkes-Barre. Typhoid fever epidemic in the town of Nescopeck. Bar Association holds a meeting in Judge 
Lynch's court room and pays tribute to his memory.
20. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Little of Wilkes-Barre observe their golden wedding anniversary.
21. Henry F. Reap of Avoca, Patrick F. Cawley of Pittston, and Joseph A. Boyle of Hazleton, ordained to the 
Catholic priesthood.
22. Parsons and Miners Mills trolley cars held up by highwaymen and the conductors and one passenger robbed.
 Forty Fort council decides to abandon municipal ownership of electric lighting as too expensive and orders the 
execution of a contract with the Luzerne County Gas & Electric Light Co.
23. Chlorinated lime solution being put into the water pumped from the river and some of the dams treated with 
copper sulphate to destroy the germs.
24. Fire in the large No. 5 breaker of the Susquehanna Coal Co. at Nanticoke put out by prompt effort before it 
did much damage. Reunion and picnic of St. Mary's congregation at Sans Souci Park for the benefit of the
 gymnasium fund largely attended.
26. Typhoid fever continues increasing at the rate of from three to eight cases a day.
29. Opening of the Luzerne County fair.

September.
2. Weston, famous pedestrian, at the Luzerne County fair.
3. Brooklyn Saengerbund spending its annual outing at Glen Summit.
4. Michael Gelsleichter of Wilkes-Barre dies in Scranton as the result of injuries sustained on a railroad.
5. St. Alberta's Catholic Church at Glen Lyon dedicated. St. Vladianar's Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church at 
Edwardsville dedicated. New .home of the Hanover Hose Co. of Nanticoke dedicated.
8. Shoe firm of Murray & Maier dissolved, Martin Murray taking over his partner's interest.
12. Dr. Dixon sends another warning to boil milk and water. Mayor Kniffen decides suit against water company
 to compel it to filter its supply by imposing a fine of $100; the city solicitor gives notice that he will institute 
a new case each day.
13. Severest electrical storm of the season, several places in Wilkes-Barre struck by lightning, including the 
Kidder Street P. M. Church, South Main street and Pennsylvania avenue flooded. Pennsylvania Electrical 
Association holds convention at Glen Summit. Ordinance introduced in Wilkes-Barre councils for the creation of 
a Board of Health.
16. Announcement of Wilkes-Barre's population for the 1910 census given as 67,105, an increase of 29.7 per
 cent.
19. First report of the first medical inspector of the public schools in Wilkes-Barre shows that among the limited
 number of pupils examined about 14 per cent, are defective. Fortieth anniversary of the Presbytery of
 Lackawanna observed at Wyalusing. where Presbytery was organized.
20. Death of John Shumacher of Parsons, who at the age of 83, was street commissioner of the borough. 
Thomas J. Chase, a member of the Luzerne  County bar,  found  dead  in  the Universalist Church in Wilkes-Barre.
21. Hazleton Charities decide to build a new home, to cost about $25,000. Charles Sheridan, formerly of
 Wilkes-Barre, killed by an automobile in New York.
24. Luzerne Gas & Electric Co. gives an outing for its employees at Fernbrook Park.
25. A number of Sunday Schools prepare for the season's work by holding rally day exercises.
26. Statistics compiled show that there are 276 Sunday Schools in Luzerne County with a total enrollment of
 59,330 pupils. William Pozlunas, a Duryea hotel keeper, drowned in Lake Carey. Mr. and Mrs. George F. Siegel
 celebrate golden wedding anniversary at Nuangola Lake.
28. Three men killed by a fall of rock in No. 14 mine at Port Blanchard.
29. Kingston and Dorranceton considering plans to construct a dike along the river from Forty Fort to the West
 Market street bridge to hold back flood waters.
30. Brigadier General C. Bow Dougherty of Wilkes-Barre appointed major general commanding the National 
Guard of Pennsylvania. Spring Brook Water Supply Co. files its answer to the equity suit instituted by the city.
 Luzerne County Sunday School convention held in Wilkes-Barre.

October.
2. District convention of the C. T. A. U. decides to take a hand in opposing the granting of new liquor licenses in
 license court and in hunting up evidence of violations of the law.
3. Marriage license clerk refuses a license for the marriage of an Italian girl of eleven years, even though her
 parents consented.
4. Ministers and laymen take dinner at the Y. M. C. A. and arrange for a large missionary revival in Wilkes-Barre.
5. Five Hazleton Italians found guilty for the third time on the charge of Black Hand operations. Dieu Le Veut
 Commandery takes part in field day outing at Hazle Park.
6. Wilkes-Barre architects—McCor-mick & French—selected to prepare plans for State armories at Honesdale
 and Tamaqua.
7. Record offers a handsome silver cup as a prize for the annual field day of the Catholic Gymnasium 
Association. Rev. H. E. Hayden of Wilkes-Barre elected president of the Federated Humane Societies of 
Pennsylvania.
9. Rev. Dr. Piper preaches his farewell sermon at the First M. E. church.
10. Father Mathew parade in Wilkes-Barre one of the largest and most picturesque demonstrations ever seen in 
the city. Joshua Rozelle dies at his home at Wyoming at the age of one hundred years and six months. Jack 
Johnson, heavy-weight pugilist, visits Wilkes-Barre.
11. Rev. Andrew M. Brown installed as pastor of the Plymouth Presbyterian church. First annual convention of 
the National Columbus Association meets in Hazleton.
12. Columbus Day observed with parades by Italian societies in various places in the county. Handsome new
 building of the Young Women's Christian Association of Wilkes-Barre dedicated.
13. George R. Daniels, for many years manager of the Western Union Telegraph Co. in Wilkes-Barre, promoted
 to be district manager for northern Pennsylvania.
14. Record trophy, a silver cup, won by Co. B of the Ninth regiment permanently for highest standing.
15. Tag day of the Shelter and Day nursery a success. Death at Honesdale of Rev. William Dassel, the first
 priest to serve Monsignor Nagel at St. Nicholas church in Wilkes-Barre.
16. Bells of St. Hedwig's Polish Catholic church at Edwardsville blessed by Bishop Hoban. Celebration at the
 White Haven Lutheran church of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the pastor, Rev. Dr. H. H. Brunning, the close of
 the fiftieth year of his ministry and the thirtieth year of his pastorate at White Haven.
17. Central Poor District awards to Saxe & Abbott of Philadelphia the contract for the erection of the addition to 
the Retreat almshouse for $101,795. A. A. Stock made manager of the Wyoming Valley Lace Mills in place of 
Joseph Atkins, deceased.
18. Wilkes-Barre policemen's ball one of the largest yet held in the armory. Judge Garman sentenced five
 members of alleged Hazleton Black Hand gang to from three to six years in the penitentiary. Judge Fuller
 decides that the sale of a beverage containing only the small quantity of twenty-nine hundredths of one per 
cent, of alcohol without a license is contrary to the law.
20. Bartels Park, near Edwardsville, opened with a flag raising.
21. Thirtieth anniversary of Willow Grove Council, Jr. O. U. A. M., of Luzerne Borough, celebrated with a banquet.
 Benjamin R. Jones appointed judge to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Lynch. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin 
Davenport of Plymouth celebrate their golden wedding anniversary. Fortieth anniversary of the founding of the
 Masonic lodge of Ashley celebrated with a banquet. Philander Moon, formerly of Pittston, drowned in Wayne
 County.
22. Luzerne County court hands down decision in the coal assessment cases, sustaining the county 
commissioners in assessing coal in Wilkes-Barre at $67 a foot acre.
23. Rev. J. Aspinwall McCuaig, vice president of the National Christian League for the Promotion of Social 
Purity, speaks in Wilkes-Barre.
24. Sensation created by the return of the will of the late Hon. C. D. Foster, which had been taken from a safe 
after his death, precipitating a long-drawn-out contest over the disposition of the estate,—the missing papers
 received in envelopes posted in New York without disclosing the identity of the sender. Annual county teachers'
 institute opens in Irem Temple.
25. The Record prints a list of a hundred or more old buildings and sheds condemned by the city authorities.
 Dinner at Central M. E. church, served by the men, preliminary to the organization of a men's club.
26. Wyoming Association of Congregational churches meets in Puritan church, Wilkes-Barre.
27. Charity ball for the benefit of the Pittston hospital a great success. Missing pieces of the Foster will found, 
the theory being that they were cut off and sent to interested parties in order to stimulate the offer of a reward 
for the return of the entire document. Announcement that the Wilkes-Barre traction company is to spend 
$500,000 on improvements. Benjamin Jones takes the oath of office as judge, his commission having arrived. 
Bloomsburg  and  Stroudsburg alumni of Luzerne County  hold  banquets.
28. Sheriff Rodda, deputy sheriffs and a detachment of the State police make nine arrests in the vicinity of 
Pittston on speakeasy charges in the course of a raid.
30. Rededication of the Wanamie Methodist church, after improvements.
31. Considerable rowdyism on the streets during the Hallowe'en celebration. Judge Benjamin R. Jones performs
 his first duty in charging the .grand jury. New Dana street school opened. Carnegie Hero Commission awards
 medals and money to nine Luzerne County men out of fifty-eight awards for the entire country. Judge Fuller
 delivers dissenting opinion in the coal assessment cases. Judge Ferris renders important opinion interpreting 
the act of 1909 into meaning that counties shall maintain roads built by them unless they are accepted by the
 boroughs and townships through which they run.

November.
1. Record makes note of the fact that George W. Horton of White Haven has been constable of the Ninth ward of
 that borough for thirty-five years, overseer of the poor for the same period and tax collector for thirty-three
 years. New Heights bank opened for business.
2. Nearly a thousand men attend the banquet in Irem Temple of the Wyoming Valley Laymen's Missionary 
Conference. Bishop Hoban consecrates additions made to St. Mary's Hanover cemetery.
3. Unique barn dance given in the armory by the Catholic Gymnasium Association. Five inches of snow in 
Wilkes-Barre, accompanied by high wind, street car and railroad traffic blocked.
4. Walter McClintock lectures in Irem Temple on "The Blackfeet Indians."
5. Grand jury recommends the construction of sixty new bridges in the county.
7. Request made of the Wilkes-Barre Board of School Government by the anti-tuberculosis society that it 
establish an open air school for children suffering with tuberculosis.
8. Gloomy election weather in the morning but brighter in the afternoon. Ransom Young of Butler Township 
celebrates his one hundredth birthday anniversary by going to the polls to vote.
9. Woman's Home Missionary Society of Lackawanna Presbytery meets in the Presbyterian church at Kingston. 
D. & H. Co. makes an offer of a site for the federal mine rescue station in Wilkes-Barre.
10. Jefferson Medical Association Alumni banquet at Hotel Sterling.
11. Moses Millington and two children of Slocum Township die from mysterious poisoning of some kind and other
 members of the family seriously ill.
12. Mysterious shooting at Ashley, resulting in the death of Anthony Golemiski. Vote of the Fourth district of
 Pittston Township thrown out on account of irregularities. Orrin A. Reed of Scranton, formerly of Plymouth,
 killed by accident.
14. University Extension lecture course in Wilkes-Barre opened by Prof. Powys.
15. W. C. Shepherd becomes president and general manager of the Matheson Automobile Co. Mrs. Sophia 
Johnson of Slocum, follows her son-in-law and two grandchildren, the Millingtons, in death, the result of eating
 food which it is supposed was poisoned by accident. "The Seal of Confession" given by an amateur cast from 
St. Nicholas church in the Grand Opera House.
16. Testimonial dinner given at the Westmoreland Club by some of the friends of General Dougherty in honor of
 his appointment as major general of the National Guard of Pennsylvania. Keystone party workers' banquet at 
Hotel Sterling. Mrs. Daniel Richards, formerly of Nanticoke, murdered at Pottsville, by a burglar.
17. Women's organizations of Wilkes-Barre and vicinity begin a movement for the encouragement of early
 Christmas shopping. Hoffman, pianist, at Irem Temple. Monsignor O'Malley, rector of St. John's church, Pittston, 
receives a cablegram from Rome conveying the Pope's blessing on the occasion of his forty-fifth anniversary as 
a pastor.
18. Novel test suit instituted by Plains Township against the D. & H., claiming $100,000 damages to a public 
highway by reason of cave-in. Reception at the First M. B. church to Rev. C. E. Guthrie, the new pastor, and his 
family. Prof. W. Earl Flynn delivering a series of health lectures in Wilkes-Barre. Rev. Wilfred R. Memmert of 
Minnesota becomes pastor of the Reformed church in Plymouth.
19. Death at Washington of Henry M. Hoyt, counsellor for the Department of State and formerly Solicitor General,
 a native of Wilkes-Barre and a son of Governor Hoyt, deceased. Dr. Jennie B. Merrill of New York speaks to 
Wilkes-Barre teachers on kindergarten work. Junior Guild gives its first social affair—a euchre in Irem Temple.
20. Rabbi Joseph Leiser, field secretary of the National Farm School near Doylestown, lectures in the South
 Washington street temple on the care of the immigrant. Cantata, "Olivet to Calvary" rendered at St. Stephen's 
church with augmented choir and orchestra.
21. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Coup of Dorranceton celebrate their golden wedding anniversary. Concordia

 concert with Edwin Grasse, violinist, and Miss Newitt of the west side, soprano, as soloists. Catholic Gymnasium
 Association gives a euchre at Hotel Red-ington.
22. Funeral of Henry M. Hoyt in Wilkes-Barre. Rev. Wilfred R. Memmert installed as pastor of the Reformed
 church at Plymouth. Fortieth anniversary of St. Vincent's Total Abstinence Society of Plymouth celebrated with 
a banquet and social session. Charles Gordon, who was serving an eight year sentence in the Luzerne County
 jail for burglary, escapes.
24. Raising of the flag presented by the Jr. O. U. A. M. councils over the new Dana street public school. Union
 Thanksgiving services in Central M. E. church, with address by Rev. Charles E. Guthrie of the First M. E. church.
27. Petition circulated at Central M. E. church asking the mayor to enforce the anti-cigarette laws.
28. John D. Long, representing the National Association of Manufacturers, speaks before the Wilkes-Barre 
Board of Trade on the development of foreign trade. Ten persons charged with conducting speakeasies, who
 plead guilty, set at liberty by the court on the payment of costs. Lulu, daughter of Mrs. Nellie Nash of Wilkes-Barre
, 5 years, dragged to death on a runaway horse at Stroudsburg.
29. Rev. LeRoy Daniel installed as pastor of the Wyoming Presbyterian church. James L. Ewell of New York 
speaks before the Board of Trade on the American merchant marine.

Contributed by Patty Matthews,  February 2004