1925 WB Record Almanac, Record of Events for 1924


Principal Happenings In Luzerne County For The Year Beginning
December 1, 1923, and Ending November 30, 1924.

DECEMBER 1923

1.     People's State bank of Newtown, Hanover Township, begins business; THOMAS A. CURLEY, president;
        CALVIN M. KELLER, vice president; ROBERT J. LYNOTT, cashier; 
1.     Mr. and Mrs. HENRY NORTHEY of LUZERNE BOROUGH observe their golden wedding anniversary.
2.     Announcement made that Rev. Dr. JAMES M. FARR, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, intends 
        relinquishing his pastorate because of the health of Mrs. FARR and in a desire to engage in travel for study.
2.     Mrs. CHALRES LONG of WILKES-BARRE as president and Mrs. ISADOR COONS of WILKES-BARRE as
        as secretary of the State Council of Jewish Women, tendered a reception by the local organization.
3.     (Almanac skipped day 3)
4.     Strike begun on July 1, 1922, by D. & H. Railroad shopmen, in common with other shopmen, officially declared 
        off and the men given leave to make application for re-employment.
4.     Public Square merchants have a gala night to mark the opening of the holiday shopping season, the Square
        illuminated with ropes of light bulbs and most of the stores have concerts, or dancing or display of goods open to
        visitors; the Square packed with dense crowds.
5.     By order of Judge FULLER three school directors of Lake Township are removed from office on the charge that
        they neglected to provide proper school accommodations and were otherwise delinquent.
5.     Jury awards verdict of $37,150 for about seven acres of land on Scott Street, near the railroads, taken by the city 
        for park and playground purposes, after some real estate experts had fixed the value as high as $121, 200.  How-
        ever, the city will have to pay only $27,163, since B. F. WILLIAMS gave the city as a gift his one-fourth interest
        in the property.
5.     The Republican County Committee reports to the court that it had a campaign fund of $21,654 this year, about
        $3,000 more than the Democrats had to spend.
5.     Mr. and Mrs. MOSES THOMAS of PLYMOUTH celebrate their golden wedding anniversary.
6.     In an opinion Judge FULLER orders the return of the State License fees paid by the brewers of the county as a
        matter of precaution; it has also been settled that brewers are in the class as retailers, who need no longer have 
        licenses for the sale of non-intoxicating beverages.
7.     Reports show more arrests for drunkenness in Wilkes-Barre in 1923 than the previous year; it is not believed that
        more people are drinking but that the poisonous nature of the stuff now being sold makes the drinkers more 
        frequently intoxicated than formally.
8.     (Almanac skipped day 8)
9.     Fiftieth anniversary of the Welsh Baptist Church, Edwardsville.
10.   Liberty State Bank of Wilkes-Barre opens a trust department.
10.   Hearty demonstration in Wilkes-Barre in honor of General JOSEPH HALLER, commander of the Polish army,
        who performed distinguished service during the war, who came as a guest of the American Legion; parade, 
        closing of stores in the central part of the city for a few hours, a mass meeting in the armory and a banquet in the
        Sterling.
10.   AARON HURWITZ purchases the Laning building on Public Square from the Luzerne National Bank for the sum
        said to be $750,000.
11.   William J. Byars Council, Jr. O. U. A. M., of Wilkes-Barre celebrates its thirty-fifth anniversary.
11.   Demolition of the old Westfield house on West North street, opposite the top of Franklin street hill; part of the 
        structure was erected prior to 1790 and was occupied as a residence by Rev. JACOB JOHNSON, a pioneer
        minister in the Wyoming Valley, the first settled pastor of the First Presbyterian Church.
11.   Death of Dr. W. CLIVE SMITH of WILKES-BARRE.
11.   Rev. W. D. THOMAS and wife of PITTSTON observe their sixty-third wedding anniversary.
12.   JAMES GIBBONS, one of the new Wilkes-Barre councilmen, given the department of streets, and CHARLES
        MAURER, the other new member, given the department of fire and parks.
12.   Local hunters kill a number of deer and bears around Bear Creek and White Haven and in the Pocono and North
    .   Mountain regions.
13.   Members of the Wilkes-Barre Real Estate Exchange adopt a plan to change moving day from April 1 to May 1 by
        having leases made out on April 1, 1924, to cover thirteen months; the charge made because May 1 is likely to 
        have more favorable weather for moving.
14.   Mr. and Mrs. PETER SCHMIDT of WILKES-BARRE celebrate their golden wedding anniversary.
14.   Death of JOHN STEPENS (colored) of WILKES-BARRE, who was well known to the older people of today as 
        figure going along the streets constantly whistling; this he did, being blind, to attract his attention to his coming; 
        he was a veteran of the Civil War.
14.   Thermometer 62 degrees in Wilkes-Barre.
14.   Death of FRANK BAAB of WILKES-BARRE, a well known business man, one of the most active members of
        Conyngham Post, G. A. R.
14.   SALVI, harpist, in the Temple concert course.
14.   HARRY T. BUTTS of WILKES-BARRE named mercantile appraiser for Luzerne County for 1924.
15.   Coroner Dr. THOMAS warns people against drinking moonshine liquor during the holiday celebrations, stating
        that so far this year thirty-six deaths that came under his official observation were due to poisoned liquor.
15.   Dr. ADOLF LORENZ, a famous Austrian surgeon, the guest of the Luzerne Medical Society for a day.
16.   Death of Dr. S. L. UNDERWOOD, a well known PITTSTON physician.
17.   State convention of Disabled American Veterans of the World War meets in Wilkes-Barre.
18.   Death of ALBERT LEWIS at his Summer home at Bear Creek, aged 85 years, popularly known as the lumber
        king because of his extensive lumbering operations in this part of the State; constructed many miles of good roads
        on the mountain adjacent to Wilkes-Barre for the enjoyment of the people; known as a capitalist and
        philanthropist.
19.   Wilkes-Barre council increases the tax levy from ten mills to twelve mills.
19.   HARRY DELINSKI of WILKES-BARRE elected State Commander of the Disabled American Veterans of the
        World War.
20.   Death of Dr. L. L. ROGERS, Sr., of KINGSTON, one of the most prominent physicians in the county.
21.   Mr. and Mrs. Christian B. KUSCHKE of PLYMOUTH celebrate their golden wedding anniversary.
21.   Spring like weather on the first day of Winter, thermometer 60 degrees in Wilkes-Barre.
22.   Mr. and Mrs. A. H. BROWN of WILKES-BARRE, observe their fifty-fifth wedding anniversary.
22.   Headquarters of the 53d Field Artillery Brigade, National Guard, to be moved from Wilkes-Barre to Corapolis,
        owing to the retirement of General ASHER MINER and the appointment of General CHURCHILL B. MEHARD
        to be commander.
22.   Turkeys for the Christmas Trade selling for from thirty to forty-five cents a pound, considerably cheaper than
        in other years.
23.   (Almanac skipped day 23)
24.   Washery of the Avoca Coal Co. at Avoca destroyed by fire; loss about $40,000.
24.   A number of local organizations send out Christmas cheer to poor people, to children housed by illness, to 
        disabled veterans and their families; entertainments given in various club houses.
24.   Salvation Army sends out 255 Christmas baskets as a result of contributions in the kettles placed on the principal
        streets.
24.   City employees who receive less than $3,000 a year to receive an increase of twelve and one-half per cent. in pay.
25.   Gloomy Christmas weather most of the day, rain and snow in the afternoon and evening, temperature about
        forty degrees.
25.   Rev. NICHOLAS CHOPEY, rector of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church of Greek rite in Wilkes-Barre, observes
        the twenty-fifth anniversary of his ordination with elaborate ceremony.
25.   More than 800 children remembered by the Wilkes-Barre lodge of Elks, each child presented with a pair of 
        woolen stockings, woolen sweater, pair of shoes, woolen mittens, knitted wool cap, box of candy and oranges, the
        total outlay contributed by members amounting to about $7,000.
25.   Luzerne County taxables have increased 103,726 during the past ten years, according to a report forwarded to the
        State Department by the county commissioners for the year 1923.  This is due mainly to giving the vote to women,
        although many of them were formally assessed as taxables because they had property.  There are other marked 
        changes during that period, mainly in the increase of wealth in the county.  The value of all real estate has 
25.   increased over $70,000,000, and the value of salaries and occupations increased nearly $2,408,000.  The county 
        also shows a tendency to fall off in agriculture, there being a loss of 76,287 acres of cleared land in the ten year
        period and a loss of 27,000 acres of timber land for the same period.  Automobiles are showing their influence 
        as there are 6,227 less horses in the county than there was ten years ago, and also 1,000 less cattle.
25.   Rev. and Mrs. THOMAS R. WARNOCK of ASKAM observe their fiftieth wedding anniversary.
26.   Thirty-one barrels of real beer taken from a truck as its load was about to be delivered to a Public Square saloon,
        the beer valued at $4,000.
26.   Luzerne County Dallas Fair Association, which takes the place of the former Dallas Fair Association, applies for
        a charter.
27.   First snow storm of the season, though the fall was of the soft, sloppy kind.
27.   C. F. HUBER, president and general manager of the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co., relinquishes the position
        of general manager and DOUGLAS BUNTING is appointed to that office.
28.   (Almanac skipped day 28)
29.   (Almanac skipped day 29)
30.   Armour & Co. plant in Wilkes-Barre wrecked by fire; loss about $115,000.
30.   First Reformed Church of Wilkes-Barre observes its fiftieth anniversary.
31.   1,299 deaths in Wilkes-Barre in 1923, 2,239 births, contagious diseases reported 1,512, an increase in the latter
        of about 50 per cent. over 1922.
31.   New Year Eve hilariously celebrated in a number of Wilkes-Barre resorts, much intoxication among boys and 
        girls at some of the dances and other festivities.
31.   Building permits issued in Wilkes-Barre in 1923 reach a total value of $3,307,543, a falling off of about $30,000
        from the previous year.
31.   Wilkes-Barre had its annual assembly ball in the armory, on a more elaborate scale than ever before.
31.   A total of $310,623 spent on Wilkes-Barre streets during 1923, in paving, construction of sewers and maintenance.

JANUARY 1924

1.     Sharp, crisp New Year weather.
1.     Big increase in number of deeds recorded in the court house in 1923, the number being 10, 613, compared with
        9,376 for the previous year; 4,656 mortgages recorded and 3,333 other papers.
1.     Orpheus Glee Society and Sheldon Choral Society capture the chief prizes for male choruses and mixed choruses
         at the Utica (N. Y.) eisteddfod, the prize in each case being $1,000.
2.     (Almanac skipped day 2)
3.     Mrs. ISABEL CAIRNS MCCLINTOCK, widow of Dr. ANDREW T. MCCLINTOCK of WILKES-BARRE, 
        establishes a memorial to her late husband in the form of a gift of her entire estate, estimated at $500,000, the 
        income of which is to be used for investigation of gastro-intestinal diseases; the memorial particularly appropriate 
        in view of the fact that Dr. MCCLINTOCK died of colitis.
3.     After having been divided over the appointment of a board of County Assessors for some days the Judges 
        reappoint the members of the old board--PAUL BEDFORD of WILKES-BARRE, THOMAS GRACE of 
        PITTSTON, and MAX FRIEDLANDER of HAZLETON.
3.     Mrs. C. P. ELLIOTT, EUGENE B. and ANDRE A BEAUMONT of WILKES-BARRE present to the local
        Historical Society the excellent collection of Indian relics which belonged to the late Col. E. B. BEAUMONT,
        who obtained them personally during his service in the United States Army.
4.     CHARLES DORRANCE , vice president of the Hudson Coal Co. resigns because of ill health.
4.     PADEREWSKI, pianist, in Irem Temple concert course.
4.     Wilkes-Barre has 114 miles of sewers, constructed at a cost of $1,156,677.
5.     (Almanac skipped day 5)
6.     (Almanac skipped day 6)
7.     Supreme Court of the State upholds the constitutionality of the State tax on anthracite.
7.     Wilkes-Barre council reorganizes, the new councilmen, CHARALES MAURER and JAMES GIBBON, taking 
        their seats; a number of changes made in city hall.
7.     In the county the new officials sworn in.  The two Republican County Commissioners, AMBROSE WEST and
        DAVID M. ROSSER, fail to agree on appointments and Mr. ROSSER and the Democratic Commissioner,
        M. J. MCCLAUGHLIN, go together and dictate the appointments; Mr. ROSSER was forced to see a score of his
        friends and appointees sacrificed; the chief trouble arose when Mr. WEST refused to agree to the discharge of
        WILLIAM MORRIS as superintendent of buildings and then over WORTHY CARVER as assistant chief clerk.
7.     The Supreme Court decides that the county must pay $30,000 to CARRERE & HASTINGS, who were employed
        as architects for the proposed West Market street bridge, which was not built.
7.     Luzerne County Bible Society at its one hundred and fourth annual meeting reports that 3,282 Bibles, testaments
        and parts were sold and donated during the year.
8.     (Almanac skipped day 8)
9.     Some ice seven inches thick cut at Bear Lake, but the crop so far not very promising owing to the mild weather.
9.     Death of M.W. O'BOYLE, one of the most prominent residents of the PITTSTON region.
9.     Two endowments of $5,000 each for the City Hospital announced, one by the children of ABRAHAM and
        EMILIE STRAUSS and the other by Mrs. CHARLES F. RICHARDSON of BOSTON.
10.   Threatened strike of 25,000 miners of the Hudson Coal Co. between Plymouth and Forrest City averted at a 
        conference with employers at which most of the differences were adjusted.
10.   Heavy wind and rain storm does considerable damage in washouts on steam and electric railroads and in the 
        flooding of streets.
10.   ROY CHAPMAN ANDREWS, leader of the American Museum of Natural History to Mongolia, during which 
        many fossil remains of prehistoric animals were found, together with the famous dinosaur eggs, lectures in the
        Grand Opera House in the Osterhout Library course.
10.   Death of HAROLD G. FRANTZ of WILKES-BARRE, well known real estate broker.
11.   (Almanac skipped day 11)
12.   Chief HOCHREITER of the WILKES-BARRE fire department reports that there were 383 alarms in 1923, 
        29 more than were in 1922, and the loss on buildings and contents by fire was $244,017.
12.   Chief of Police BROWN of the WILKES-BARRE police department reports 3,826 arrests for 1923, 3,608 males
        and 216 females.
12.   River goes up to 15.5 feet owing to heavy rain.
13.   (Almanac skipped day 13)
14.   City of Wilkes-Barre settles two of the cases brought in disagreement over the price to be paid for park land on 
        the West Side, to be included in Kirby Park.  The J. B. PIERCE estate to receive $29,010 for nearly five acres
        and MARY ARLEDGE to receive $20,650 for four acres; both sites include buildings; the settlement comes close
        to the awards made by viewers.
14.   State convention of Master Decorators and Painters in Wilkes-Barre.
14.   STANLEY PRICE seriously burned and two of his children burned to death in their home at Nanticoke.
15.   Lincoln Deposit and Savings Bank, located at Barney and Horton streets, opens for business with about 500
        depositors and deposits aggregating about $160,000 the first evening.
16.   One of the severest Winter wind and rain storms in many years; many telephone and electric wires in the 
        Wyoming Valley blown down and service interfered with; streets and homes darkened for various periods in the 
        evening; plate glass windows broken and some houses unroofed; two of the ninety foot smokestacks at the
        Prospect colliery blown down and ventilation stopped; a number of men brought to the surface by the use of
        ingenious emergency measures owing to the disabling of the hoisting engines.
16.   A. J. SORDONI re-elected president of the Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce.
17.   Application of the Heller Amusement Co., to operate ferry boats on the river between Wilkes-Barre, Pittston and
        Nanticoke is opposed by property owners and residents on River Street and Riverside Drive on the ground that the
        boats are intended for dancing and, because of physical conditions in the river, they could be moved only short 
        distances along the Wilkes-Barre shore; the noise would be a constant nuisance.
17.   The county and the traction company, in a hearing before the Public Service Commission, object to helping
        Wilkes-Barre financially in the construction of the proposed South Street bridge, the county on the ground that the
        bridge does not traverse a highway in which the county is interested, and the traction company on the ground that
        it is not interested in the project; city solicitor announces that action will be taken to compel the county to pay
        part of the cost.
17.   Death of RUDOLF C. HITCHLER, a prominent resident of WILKES-BARRE.
17.   Knights of Columbus give a big banquet at the Sterling in honor of Mayor DANIEL L. HART, to celebrate his 
        re-election and as a mark of appreciation for his aid in organizing the Knights of Columbus in Wilkes-Barre
        twenty-six years ago.
18.   (Almanac skipped day 18)
19.   Death in WEST PITTSTON of WILLIAM E. GRIFFITH, well known mining engineer and geologist.
20.   Fire in the Davidow building, corner of Public Square and South Main Street, does damage to building and
        tenants' property amounting to about $75,000.
20.   Rev. F. L. FLINCHBAUGH delivers his first sermon as rector of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church.
20.   Baptist Tabernacle at Regent and Division Streets dedicated.
21.   Announcement made of an additional gift of $120,000 by F. M. KIRBY for work on the park bearing his name, 
        his total gifts for that purpose now amounting to $370,000.
22.   Coldest weather of the season, thermometer in Wilkes-Barre five degrees below zero; the cold spell only of two
        days' duration.
22.   Ice harvesting begun by some of the companies; ice from seven to ten inches thick.
22.   Luzerne County allotted $201,516 for State aid from the $50,000,000 State road loan, the money, to be expended
        on highways to be constructed partly out of State and partly out of county funds, on the fifty-fifty basis.
22 or 23 (Almanac made an error)
      - FRITZ KREISLER in Temple concert course.
      - 109th Field Artillery and 313th Infantry, Reserve Corps, move their headquarters from the armory in Wilkes-Barre
         to the partially constructed armory on the Kingston flats.
24.   Annual report of the United Charities and Humane Association show expenditures during 1923 of $31,189.
25.   (Almanac skipped day 25)
26.   (Almanac skipped day 26)
27.   A number of members of the American Legion of Wilkes-Barre go to Concordia Hall and break up a meeting of 
        about 200 members of the Workers' Party and friends held in memory of NICOLAI LENINE, Russian dictator.  
        The Red flag but no American flag was displayed and speeches of the Red order had begun when the Commander
        of the Legion stated that the meeting would not go on; thereupon the members dispersed, threatening again to 
        under the right of free speech.
28.   Automobile show, "the best ever," opens in the automobile plant of the Matheson Company of Forty Fort.
29.   (Almanac skipped day 29)
30.   About 1,000 men attend the annual dinner of the Wilkes-Barre Ming Institute in Irem Temple.
30.   ABRAM G. NESBITT gives plot adjoining Nesbitt West Side Hospital for future needs of the hospital, a frontage
        of 82 ½ feet on Wyoming Avenue and a depth of 200 feet.
30.   A. J. HURWITZ of WILKES-BARRE agrees to purchase a tract of land, about fifty acres, at White Haven, for the 
        establishment of a Jewish Consumptive Hospital, also offers a contribution of $1,000.
30.   Death of JESSE B. SCHOOLEY of WILKES-BARRE, a member of one of the Wyoming Valley's oldest families.
30.   Luzerne County Federated Women's Clubs, embracing a majority of women's organizations of the county, formed
        at a meeting at the Women's Club House in Wilkes-Barre.

FEBRUARY 1924

1.     State Public Service Commission issues an order that the county of Luzerne shall be made a party to the South 
        Street bridge project, which has been taken before the Commission on the question of apportionment of costs.
1.     THOMAS THOMAS appointed county tax collector for Wilkes-Barre, in place of THOMAS POWELL, who held
        the place for a number of years.
1.     One of the largest coal land sales in recent years, purchased by the Glen Alden Coal Co., formally the D., L. & W.,
        of a tract embracing over 200 acres, on the flats between the river and Edwardsville, from the WOODWARD 
        estate; the coal rights had been leased to the company for more than forty years by the present owners, 
        descendants of GEORGE WASHINGTON WOODWARD, grandfather of the present Judge J.B. WOODWARD.
2.     (Almanac skipped day 2)
3.     (Almanac skipped day 3)
4.     LOUIS GRAVEURE, baritone, in the Temple concert course.
4.     Death of ROWLAND R. METCALF, aged 81 years, postmaster at ASKAM for forty-nine years, having been 
        appointed during the Administration of President GRANT.
5.     (Almanac skipped day 5)
6.     During the funeral of ex-President WILSON in Washington  members of the 109th Field Artillery fire a 
        Presidential salute in Kirby Park and a bugler on Public Square sounds taps as a signal for traffic to halt for a few
        minutes in obedience to Mayor HART's proclamation.
7.     (Almanac skipped day 7)
8.     (Almanac skipped day 8)
9.     Death of ADOLF F. HITCHLER, one of the oldest jewelers in Wilkes-Barre.
10.   Federal government agent says that eight paid organizers of the Workers' Party of the World, affiliated with the 
        Russian Socialists are at work in Wilkes-Barre and vicinity.
10.   First real snow storm of the season, about four inches in Wilkes-Barre.
11.   Luzerne County Funeral Directors' Association decides to abolish Sunday funerals except in case of death from a
        contagious disease or of bodies brought in from the outside..
11.   Pennsylvania Conference on Social Welfare meets in Wilkes-Barre.
11.   Mr. and Mrs. J. H. KEAST of PITTSTON celebrate their golden wedding anniversary.
12.   GLENN FRANK, editor of the Century Magazine, lectures in the Irem Temple in the Osterhout Library course.
13.   (Almanac skipped day 13)
14.   (Almanac skipped day 14)
15.   County Commissioners increase the county tax levy from five and eight-tenths mills to eight and nine-tenths mills,
        because of new road and bridge projects which the Commissioners believe should be paid for in large part out of
        current revenue..
15.   Judge MCLEAN oust six school directors of Wilkes-Barre Township on charges of negligence and irregularities.
16.   (Almanac skipped day 16)
17.   (Almanac skipped day 17)
18.   (Almanac skipped day 18)
19.   Another heavy snow storm, about six inches in Wilkes-Barre and deeper in country districts.
19.   Rev. JOHN WAGNER, D. D., pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Hazleton, resigns to effect June 30, at which
        time he will have been in the ministry fifty years, all of the time in the one church.
19.   Wilkes-Barre council lets contract for the installation of an electric signal traffic system on the central streets.
20.   (Almanac skipped day 20)
21.   Luzerne County files an answer with the Public Service Commission denying that the county should be held for
        any payment for the South Street bridge.
21.   Judge HELLER of the Orphans' Court presides for a day in criminal court, the first time that the law has been 
        taken advantage of in this way.
22.   New school dedicated at Mocanagua with elaborate exercises.
23.   (Almanac skipped day 23)
24.   Memorial Presbyterian congregation observes the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the church by 
        CALVIN and FANNY D. L. WADHAMS in memory of their three children who died.  Rev. WILLIAM H.
        SWIFT of HONESDALE, the first pastor of the church, preaches in the morning.  Present at he service were
        the only surviving members who aided in the chartering of the church--Mrs. ANNA M. WELLES, 
        Miss ELIZABETH DORAN and Mrs. ELEANOR GROFFITH ARMSTRONG.
25.   State Commissioner of Labor and Industry denies that there is general employment of boys under the legal age in
        the anthracite mines.
25.   850 Elks attend a banquet of the Wilkes-Barre lodge in celebration of its thirty-fifth anniversary of the lodge, and 
        in a big ceremonial session 200 new members are added.
26.   After a lecture by Judge WOODWARD on the duty of the Grand Jury to have no prejudices against the 
        prohibition law in considering liquor cases, the jury ignores twenty bills and sends only two or three cases to court
        for trial.
26.   Country roads in fairly good condition again after recent heavy falls of snow.
26.   Mr. and Mrs. ELI LEIBY of PARSONS celebrate their golden wedding anniversary.
27.   SIGRID ONEGIN, contralto, in the Temple concert course.
28.   Death of WINFIELD L. PARSONS of WILKES-BARRE, a descendant of pioneer stock in the Wyoming Valley.
28.   Hazard Wire Rope Works fills orders for wire rope for the dirigible Shenandoah, with which it is intended to make
        an expedition into the polar region.
28.   Local radio listeners hear a talk from the explorer MACMILLAN, whose ship is ice-bound in the polar region.
28.   United Mine Workers' officials say a number of the outlaw strikes so frequent in the anthracite region are due to 
        radicals who are attempting to destroy the union and set up one having "red" principals.
29.   JAMES J. DAVIS, Secretary of Labor in the President's Cabinet, speaks at the St. David's Day banquet in 
        Wilkes-Barre.
29.   Central District poor board fixes the tax levy at two and seven-tenths mills, a decrease of three-tenths of a mill
        from last year.

MARCH 1924

1.     Local 109th Regiment Field Artillery begins a recruiting campaign to bring the regiment up to peace time strength.
1.     Another Luzerne County Grand Jury ignores practically all of the liquor cases presented, on evidence gathered by 
        the State Police, the action calling forth a good deal of criticism, and surprise expressed by Judge FULLER.
2.     (Almanac skipped day 2)
3.     Mr. and Mrs. ALEXANDER PATTERSON of WILKES-BARRE celebrate their sixtieth wedding anniversary.
4.     Considerable surprise caused by the action of the County Assessors in discharging their mining engineer,
        JOHN D. JONES and naming WILLIAM B. PAXSON in his place, on the eve of the triennial assessment, without
        giving reasons.
4.     Ground broken for a girls' dormitory addition to St. Stanislaus Polish Orphanage near Nanticoke.
4.     CURTIS HARROWER and JEAN HANNON appear in concert in Irem Temple sponsored by the Women's Club.
5.     (Almanac skipped day 5)
6.     Luzerne County W. C. T. U. observes the fiftieth anniversary of the general organization.
6.     Dedication of the FREDERICK E. ZORBEY school in Pringle Borough.
7.     Ice in the river breaks and flows without gorging; the water not high enough to create alarm along the lowlands; 
        conditions not favorable for a severe flood.
8.     Dr. EMILIE COUE of FRANCE, who achieved fame with his system of helping or curing ills through the 
        imagination, through the supremacy of the mind, lectures in Wilkes-Barre.
8.     HERBERT BREESE of WILKES-BARRE elected president of the Wholesale Hardware and Supply Association.
9.     (Almanac skipped day 9)
10.   JOHN H. JONES appointed a member of the Wilkes-Barre School Board in place of HENY WEIGAND, who
        moved out of the city.
11.   Blizzardly weather and a heavy fall of snow in the country districts.
12.   Wilkes-Barre council asks the court to appoint viewers to fix the value of a strip of land adjoining Nesbitt Park, 
        owned by the L. D. SHOEMAKER estate, 440 feet front on Pierce Street and 712 feet deep, to be added to the 
        park system.
12.   RINALDO CAPELINI, president of District No. 1 of the United Mine Workers, attributes a number of the 
        frequent outlaw strikes in the upper part of the anthracite region to dangerous radicals who are attempting to 
        disrupt the union and put Communism in control.
13.   Wilkes-Barre police raid abut forty houses in the Brookside section and confiscate a lot of liquor and stills.
14.   (Almanac skipped day 14)
15.   (Almanac skipped day 15)
16.   Six dwellings destroyed and ten families made homeless by fire in Midvale.
16.   Train crews of the Lehigh Valley Bowman's Creek branch complete nearly a week's battling with snow.
17.   Heights Choral Society under the leadership of NORMAN RODERICK wins the chief choral competitive contest
        at the thirty-second annual eisteddfod of the Cynonfardd Literary Society of Edwardsville.
17.   Ground broken for the new Temple Israel on South River Street.
18.   (Almanac skipped day 18)
19.   County Commissioners dispense with the service of eight bridge inspectors and appoint twenty-three caretakers 
        for county highways.
20.   Stockholders of the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co. meet in Wilkes-Barre and decide to increase the capital 
        stock from $10,000,000 to $30,000,000, one-third of the amount to be in preferred stock and the rest in common
        stock.
20.   $12,000 set by a local committee as Wilkes-Barre's share of the Palestine Foundation fund for the rebuilding of
        Palestine as the Jewish national home land.
20.   New York Symphony Orchestra in the Temple concert course.
21.   Latest deep therapy X-Ray apparatus installed at the City Hospital.
22.   (Almanac skipped day 22)
23.   Special services to celebrate the fifty-fifth anniversary of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Firwood
        M. E. Church.
24.   Wilkes-Barre School Board decides to purchase a plot of ground on Carey Avenue, at the intersection of Hanover 
        Street, for a junior high school to be erected in the near future.
24.   Mr. and Mrs. FRED HOEFFNER of PITTSTON celebrate their golden wedding anniversary.
25.   Due to mild weather the river rises rapidly but no fear of a flood.
25.   Three one-act plays given in the Grand Opera House by the Wilkes-Barre Drama League.
26.   County Commissioners finally decide that they will not contribute $125,000 towards the cost of South Street 
        bridge but will leave the question to the Public Service Commission.
26.   F. G. WILCOX of DUNMORE appointed president and general manager of the West End Coal Co. at 
        Mocanaqua, the Melville Coal Co. and the Price-Pancoast Coal Co. 
27.   Wilkes-Barre High School musical clubs present the opera "Iolanthe."
27.   County Salary Board abolishes the office of County Engineer owing to the quarrel among the County Assessors 
        over the appointment of an engineer; the court to decide whether the Salary Board had a right to abolish the office 
        and whether the Assessors have the right to appoint an angineer.
27.   Contest begins for prizes offered by the local camp of the Pennsylvania United Sportsmen for shooting or trapping 
        crows, foxes, hawks, bob cats, weasels, mink and other animals and birds of that class.
28.   Tow more houses dynamited in Inkerman, presumably out of revenge.
28.   Public meeting held in the Y. M. C. A. auditorium, addressed by medical experts and laymen, to acquaint the
        public with cancer, which is causing the death of nearly one hundred thousand people a year in the United States.
28.   Acting Mayor JOSEPH G. SCHULER starts an investigation into another alcohol mystery in city hall; parties 
        detected in taking 150 gallons of alcohol from junk yard into an automobile, but the alcohol and the vehicle
        disappear, apparently without knowledge by the police authorities.
29.   One of the most severe thunder storms in years, streets flooded so that street car traffic is blocked for several 
        hours.
29.   Notice given of the dissolution of the coal operating firm of A. PARDEE & Co. of Hazleton, founded by ARIO 
        PARDEE, one of the pioneer operators in the Hazleton region.
30.   (Almanac skipped day 30)
31.   At a mass meeting local Jews pledged $6,300 of the $12,000 Wilkes-Barre apportionment for the Palestine home
        fund.
31.   Wilkes-Barre journeymen plumbers granted an increase of one dollar a day, making the wages nine dollars.

APRIL 1924

1.     Six inches of snow in Wilkes-Barre and freezing temperature.
1.     Painters and paper hangers of Wilkes-Barre secure an agreement on wages of nine dollars for an eight-hour day
        and Saturday holiday during June, July and August; the old agreement called for seven dollars with no Saturday 
        holidays.
1.     Annual moving day a battle with snow and generally disagreeable weather.
1.     Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Church meets in Binghamton, N.Y.
2.     Re-dedication of Bennet Presbyterian Church in Luzerne Borough after extensive improvements.
2.     Branch of the Osterhout Library opened in North Wilkes-Barre.
3.     Announcement made that HARRY C. SHANN, president of Lazarus Bros., has acquired an interest in the Mac-
        William store and will take up active management.
3.     JAMES J. MCCARTHY, superintendent of Temple Coal & Iron Co., and president of the Merchants' and Miners' 
        State Bank, dies at his home in LUZERNE BOROUGH.
4.     Two more Luzerne County men die and a third sent to an insane asylum from poison liquor.
5.     Eighty-nine automobiles and trucks destroyed by fire in the garage of the Pauxtis Motor Sales Co. at Edwards-
        ville, loss estimated at $200,000.
6.     River begins rising rapidly as a result of several days of warm weather melting the snow that fell on the first day
        of the month, the warm weather followed by a day's heavy rain.
6.     Death of GEORGE FAIRCLOUGH, pioneer resident of YATESVILLE, the only remaining charter member of
        the borough, which was organized sixty years ago.
7.     River goes up to 23.1 feet, with predictions from Harrisburg that a 26 foot stage will be reached; much anxiety by
        residents living between Wilkes-Barre and Kingston and on the lowlands.
7.     J. I. SHOEMAKER of WYOMING, State Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, celebrates his eighty-
        fifth birthday anniversary.
7.     Mozart Choral, assisted by Miss RUTH RODGERS, soprano, HERBERT LLOYD, baritone, and the Gloria 
        Trumpeters, gives a concert in Irem Temple.
7.     Wyoming Methodist Conference makes only one change in local pulpits, Rev. CHARLES H. REYNOLDS, pastor
        of St. Andrew's M. E. Church, Wilkes-Barre, going to Wyalusing.
8.     Judge FULLER sentences five liquor law violators to $100 fine and from six months to a year in jail.
8.     River goes up a maximum height of 23.5 feet; Riverside Park and most of Kirby Park, together with all lowlands,
        covered with water.
9.     River drops rapidly to 18.5 feet.
9.     The old ATHERTON homestead on West River Street sold for a sum said to be $103,000, the purchasers 
        intending to erect single dwellings on the site.
9.     County Commissioners award to Davis & Sons the contract for straightening out the hairpin curve on the Bear 
        Creek boulevard and relocating part of the road; the contract cost $210,231.
9.     Work started tearing down the old St. Cloud Hotel building, corner of East Market and South Washington Street to
        make room for store and office building.
10.   (Almanac skipped day 10)
11.   (Almanac skipped day 11)
12.   (Almanac skipped day 12)
13.   Strike of 10,000 miners of the Pennsylvania Coal Co. in the Pittston region averted by promise of a settlement of
        miner difficulties.
14.   Congregation of the First Presbyterian Church, Wilkes-Barre, extends a call to Rev. PAUL S. HEATH of NORTH
        TONAWANDA, N. Y.
15.   (Almanac skipped day 15)
16.   State Highway Department takes over from the county control of the road from Luzerne Borough to Dallas.
17.   (Almanac skipped day 17)
18.   Lehigh Valley Coal Co. presents West Pittston borough with a deed for seventeen acres of land fronting on the 
        river, at the southeastern corner of the borough, for park purposes.
19.   Abut 9,000 children participate in the annual Easter egg hunt in Riverside Park, preceded by a parade; many prizes
        awarded.
20.   Easter weather showery and cool.
21.   Nanticoke's second Easter egg hunt, under the auspices of the local post of the American Legion attracts about
        5,000 people.
21.   More than 500 gallons of wine seized in an Italian restaurant in Wilkes-Barre.
22.   Light vote in the primaries; by clever political scheming State Senator P. F. JOYCE of PITTSTON again wins the 
        Republican nomination owing to a split in the Republican vote; also wins the Democratic nomination.
22.   Duryea citizens defeat a proposed loan of $200,000 for a new school building.
23.   (Almanac skipped day 23)
24.   Contract for the Ferry bridge in Pittston awarded to Whittaker & Diehl of Harrisburg for $689,706.50.
25.   Property at 52 Public Square purchased by PETER and PAUL CONLON of HUDSON from the J. LEWIS estate
        at $4,651 a foot front.
25.   Lecture in Wilkes-Barre by PERCY WHITE, associate of HOWARD CARTER, discoverer of the underspoiled
        Egyptian ruler's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor; the tomb that of Tutankhamen, who ruled 3,000 
        years ago; the tomb was recently opened and rich treasures found.
26.   (Almanac skipped day 26)
27.   (Almanac skipped day 27)
28.   Counsel for HARRY T. BUTTS, Republican candidate for State Senator, appeals to the court from the decision of 
        the return board setting aside allegations of fraud and irregularities in some thirty-nine election districts.
28.   Plains Township school board receives through an intermediary a conscious fund of $300 from a former member 
        who says he took it in graft twenty years ago; the board gives the money to the Salvation Army.
28.   RICHARD LLOYD, Sr., of EDWARDSVILLE, retires from the employ of the Kingston Coal Co. after having 
        been a hoisting engineer for forty-seven years without an accident.
29.   Announcement that GEORGE W. WILLIAMS, managing editor of the Evening News, is to become publisher of 
        the Sunday Telegram.
29.   Local movement organized to raise $25,000 for the starving children of Germany.
30.   Wyoming Valley Historical Commission orders two bronze tablets, one to mark the building which was used as
        the Fell Tavern, erected in 1787, where Judge JESSE FELL first burned anthracite in an open grate without forced
        draft and laid the foundation for the great anthracite industry; the other tablet to mark the old ROSS house on 
        South Main Street, which was occupied by Col. TIMOTHY PICKERING, who figured prominently in the 
        Revolutionary War and in the Yankee-Pennamite War, and was Secretary of War and Secretary of State during
        WASHINGTON's presidency, was also occupied by General ROSS, who effected the release of Colonel 
        PICKERING from his abductors.

MAY 1924

1.     At the annual banquet of the Law and Library Association of Luzerne County the toastmaster, Judge HENRY A.
        FULLER, introduces the guest of honor, lawyers who served before the bar for forty years or more --
        GEORGE R. BEDFORD, 62 years; WILLIAM S. MCLEAN, Sr., 57 years; ISAAC P. HAND, 51 years:
        EDMUND BUTLER, 55 years; JOHN A. OPP, 51 years; B. M. ESPY, 51 years; FRANKIN C. MOSIER, 50 
        years; JOSEPH D. COONS, 50 years; Q. A. GATES, 50 years; the meeting addressed by Chief Justice ROBERT 
        von  MOSCHISKER of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
1.     DAVID W. THOMAS re-elected chairman of the Republican city committee.
1.     State Senator contest in the primaries assumes an interesting phase by the action of the court in returning 
        suspicious returns to the County Commissioners for correction, with instructions to proceed with the opening of
        ballot boxes, if necessary, to correct the returns; attorney's for HARRY T. BUTTS, the Republican candidate,
        determined to get at the bottom of suspicion.
1.     Fifty-four graduates of the Wilkes-Barre night schools receive diplomas.
2.     (Almanac skipped day 2)
3.     State Police and city detectives make what is believed to be the largest seizure of alcohol and apparatus in
        northeastern Pennsylvania since the beginning of prohibition; the plant raided being that of a varnish company
        in Wilkes-Barre; about 4,800 gallons of denatured alcohol and five large stills taken.
3.     WILLIAM H. CONYNGHAM re-elected Republican county chairman.
4.     (Almanac skipped day 4)
5.     Court opens a number of ballot boxes in the State Senator primaries dispute but finds no evidence of fraud; 
        attorneys for candidate BUTTS allege that many of the boxes contain evidence of fraud in the deposit of ballots
        in the names of persons who did not vote, but the court refuses the admission of testimony on that point, the 
        court stating that the evidence should be confined to what the returns show; Mr. BUTTS' attorneys give notice 
        of an appeal to the higher court for the admission of oral testimony.
5.     Concordia Spring Concert has Mrs. HELEN NEWITT EVANS and JOHN BARNES WELLS as soloist.
6.     Larksville borough school board adopts plans for $270,000 school building.
7.     Governor PINCHOT holds a conference with Mayors of Pennsylvania cities to secure better co-operation in the 
        enforcement of law, especially prohibition, Mayor HART of WILKES-BARRE favoring legalizing beer as a
        means of securing greater respect for the law.
7.     Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton railway car runs into an open switch near Ashley and twelve persons injured, though
        not seriously.
7.     Mr. and Mrs. GEORGE MAUE of HAZLETON celebrate their golden wedding anniversary.
7.     Mr. and Mrs. HERMAN WEISS of FAIRVIEW celebrate their golden wedding anniversary.
8.     (Almanac skipped day 8)
9.     Jury awards S. S. ROBY and others, heirs of STERLING R. CATLIN, $40,548 for 18.6 acres of land in the 
        Fifteenth Ward taken by the city as Miner Park.
10.   Explosion of a liquor still in Askam causes the death of a child and injuries to several other inmates of the house.
10.   Mr. and Mrs. ALBERT E. MERREL of WILKES-BARRE celebrate their golden wedding anniversary.
10.   JOSEPH BREON of ASHLEY dies at the age of 94 years.
11.   Dedication of M. E. Church building at Muhlenburg, erected to take the place of a building destroyed by fire.
12.   Wilkes-Barre School Board raises the tax levy from fourteen to fifteen mills and increases the per capita tax
        from $4 to $5.
12.   F. M. KIRBY resigns as president of the Miners Bank owing to the state of his health and CHARLES W. 
        LEACOCK chosen in his place.
13.   (Almanac skipped day 13)
14.   River reaches a height of 15.7 feet owing to heavy rains.
14.   Jury awards JOHN and ANDREW BARNEY of KINGSTON $9,504 for about four acres of land to be added to 
        Kirby Park.
14.   Schumann - Heink sings in Irem temple.
14.   Grant Street Presbyterian congregation holds a reception in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of the pastorate of 
        Rev. JOHN B. CRAVEN.
15.   Serve Your City Club of Wilkes-Barre decides to establish a local Hall of Fame to contain the pictures of persons 
        in the community who are noted for outstanding meritorious deeds.
15.   12,000 miners of the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. go on strike over dispute as to yardage at two of the collieries, all of 
         the company's mines tied up.
16.   (Almanac skipped day 16)
17.   Six dwellings and a store room destroyed by fire at Port Griffith; loss about $40,000.
17.   Orpheus Glee Club of Wilkes-Barre again wins first prize in Philadelphia, $1,000, competitions "Dance of the
        Gnomes" and "Cambrian Song of Freedom."  Sheldon Chorus of Wilkes-Barre comes in second in the chorus 
        contest, though in the opinion of many it should have been awarded first prize.
18.   New church of Wyoming Baptists dedicated, Rev. L. D. THOMAS pastor.
19.   Judge GARMAN warns the Grand Jury that if it fails to return true bills in liquor cases where the evidence is 
        sufficient he will send the jurors home in disgrace; other Grand Juries have refused to return indictments.
20.   State Police report the almost positive identification of a man who was murdered in Tilton, Ohio, and another who
        was seriously wounded, in a death pact, as two of the bandits who held up Laurel Line car in July, 1923, and took
        a West End Coal Co. payroll of $70,000.
21.   Election Board of the Seventh Ward of Plains arrested and held under bail by action of the court for alleged fraud
        in the recent primaries in connection with the State Senator contest.
21.   Warrior Run lodge of Odd Fellows celebrates its fiftieth anniversary.
22.   (Almanac skipped day 22)
23.   Carrying out his threat made on the 19th, Judge GARMAN discharges the Grand Jury from further attendance at 
        court; his action causes a good deal of surprise; some attorneys holding that the Judge was beyond his authority
        under the law.
23.   Eighteen nurses graduated from the City Hospital.
24.   (Almanac skipped day 24)
25.   Lehigh Valley miners decide to go back to work pending the adjustment of grievances in the regular manner.
25.   Mr. and Mrs. FRANK LOHMAN of LEE PARK observe their fifty-fifth wedding anniversary.
26.   Death of M. J. WALSH of WILKES-BARRE, for many years a well known business man.
26.   State Conclave of Knights Templar meets in Wilkes-Barre.
27.   Six Thousand Knights Templar in parade in Wilkes-Barre.
28.   Mr. and Mrs. A. C. MCHENRY of WILKES-BARRE observe their fifty-fourth wedding anniversary.
28.   Twelve nurses graduate from Nanticoke State Hospital.
28.   For the first time in its fifty-two years the local Dieu le Vent Commandery has been honored with a Grand
        Commandery office in the election of B. FRANK MYERS of WILKES-BARRE and Grand Junior Warden.
28.   Seven nurses graduate from the Homeopathic Hospital.
29.   By action of the court, Judge GARMAN dissenting and Judge FULLER not participating, the salary board is 
        overruled in abolishing the office of engineer for the Assessors; they are permitted to have a "coal clerk" at a 
        salary of $3,600 a year.
29.   Ringling and Barnum and Bailey circus in Wilkes-Barre.
29.   Poppy Day by the Wilkes-Barre Post of the American Legion nets about $2,000 for the relief of members in 
        distress.
29.   Voters of Plains Township approve a proposed $250,000 bond issue for school building improvements.
30.   Formal opening of the new home of the People's Saving and Trust Co. of Nanticoke.
30.   Cold Memorial Day weather; temperature between fifty and sixty in Wilkes-Barre.
30.   Many local miners go to Scranton to the dedication of the monument to the memory of JOHN MIYCHELL, who 
        won the victory for the miners in 1902.
30.   Usual Memorial Day exercises; opening of Summer resorts not well attended owing to the cool weather.
30.   First case in the local court of a woman on trial charged with causing an automobile accident while under the
        influence of liquor; the jury unable to agree and discharged.
30.   Sixteen nurses graduated from Mercy Hospital.

JUNE 1924		

1.     Dedication of St. Stephen's Parish house and of St. Stephen's Club house, the former to the memory of 
        Rev. Dr. HENRY L. JONES, a former rector for many years, and the later in memory of Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM
        LORD CONYNGHAM; one of the features an address by Bishop PAUL JONES, son of Rev. Dr. JONES.
1.     Farmers much discouraged by the excess of rain and the prolonged cool weather.
1.     People of Duryea indignant over the increase in school taxes to forty mills, and Pittston citizens likewise ruffled 
        over the act of the school board in boosting the tax levy to thirty-four and a half mills, an increase of fourteen 
        mills.
1.     Formal opening of the recently erected Italian Presbyterian Church in Pittston.
2.     Death of Dr. WALTER DAVIS a well known WILKES-BARRE physician.
3.     (Almanac skipped day 3)
4.     Kirby Day, one of the biggest events in Wilkes-Barre's history, a day set apart for the dedication of Kirby Park and
        in honor of the man who made it possible for the development of the park by a gift of $320,000; estimated that 
        40,000 people were present in the park at the dedication exercises and to see an elaborate program of games; an
        aviator brought here to give an exhibition; in the evening a banquet in Irem Temple at which Mr. KIRBY was the
        guest of honor, attended by 800 people, among them the most prominent in the Wyoming Valley, including also 
        distinguished men of national prominence who are Mr. KIRBY's associates in business; numerous gifts and 
        testimonials presented to Mr. KIRBY by local civic organizations; the principal address delivered by 
        Prof. STEEVER of Lafayette College, who occupies the chair of civil rights, which Mr. KIRBY founded; display 
        of fireworks after the banquet.
4.     Sixteen graduates of Wharton Extension School in Wilkes-Barre.
5.     (Almanac skipped day 5)
6.     Seven nurses graduated from the Homeopathic Hospital 
6.     Fourteen men killed by an explosion of gas in No. 1 shaft of Loomis colliery of Glen Alden Coal Co. in Hanover
        Township, near Nanticoke.
6.     Six young women graduated from the Wilkes-Barre Institute, the commencement address by Dr. CARL 
        VANDOREN, teacher and writer.
7.     Court approves the contract with Whittaker & Diehl Co. of Harrisburg for the erection of the proposed Fort 
        Jenkins bridge at Pittston.
7.     Miss MARION TRETHAWAY of WILKES-BARRE, of the Adelphian Society, and CLAUDE GRAYSON of
        LANCASTER, of the Independent Society, win the annual prize speaking contests at Wyoming Seminary.
8.     Unveiling of art glass window in the First Presbyterian Church given in memory of JOHN WELLES 
        HOLLENBACK by members of his family.
9.     State Convention of the Grand Army of the Republic meets in Wilkes-Barre.
10.   Ninety-five students graduated from Wyoming Seminary.
10.   Ground broken for Sprague Hall as an addition to Wyoming Seminary buildings.
11.   Five hundred veterans of the Civil War, none of them under 70 years of age, parade in Wilkes-Barre during the 
        State Convention; the demonstration viewed by thousands of people deeply affected by the spectacle.
12.   Seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of St. James' Episcopal Church in Pittston.
13.   (Almanac skipped day 13)
14.   GEORGE GOECKEL of WILKES-BARRE, JOHN ANDOVCHAK of LARKSVILLE, KASIMER WYDRA of
        WHITE HAVEN ordained to the priesthood by Bishop HOBAN in Scranton, FRANCIS LEO CONNOR of
        KINGSTON ordained in Newark, N. J., PETER C. CURRAN of WILKES-BARRE and FRANCIS J. WIVELL of
        WILKES-BARRE in Baltimore, and VALENTINE MOSCILAK of WILKES-BARRE in Albany.
14.   State values Luzerne County's crops in 1923 at $2,941,276, including fruit.
15.   Death of Dr. R. P. TAYLOR of WILKES-BARRE, one of the best known physicians in upper Luzerne.
16.   International president LEWIS of the United Mine Workers intends conducting an investigation into the numerous 
        outlaw strikes in the upper anthracite region which force individual collieries and groups of collieries into 
        idleness.
16.   Formal opening of the completed portion of the 109th Field Artillery armory, with a dinner for the entire regiment
        and guests, a review and dance; the regiment's standards decorated with the official battle streamers, bearing the 
        citations of the regiment's engagement in France.
17.   Plains Township voters defeat a proposed bond issue of $278,000 for various improvements.
17.   Sacred Heart Catholic Church at Duryea dedicated by Bishop HOBAN.
17.   $10,000 worth of slot machines which had been taken by County detectives destroyed in the rear of the court 
        house.
17.   State convention of bricklayers, masons and plasterers in Wilkes-Barre.
17.   St. Mary's High School graduates eighty pupils, academic and commercial.
18.   (Almanac skipped day 18)
19.   Thirty-two young women graduate from St. Anne's Academy, Wilkes-Barre.
19.   More than 300 aliens naturalized by Judge JONES in the county court.
20.   Severe heat spell, the first of the season, after a constant cool and wet Spring.
20.   Wilkes-Barre High School graduates 376 students, 211 girls and 165 boys, academic and commercial classes.
20.   Boy Scout Troop 163 of the First Presbyterian Church, Kingston, wins the Rotary Club silver loving cup this year.
21.   About 3,000 employees of the Temple Coal Co., with members of their families, attend a field day and outing 
        given by the company at Valley View Park. 
22.   Reunion of former members of the Ninth Regiment of Infantry, National Guard, together with early members of 
        the present One Hundred and Ninth Field Artillery, held at the new armory, in connection with a recruiting 
        campaign.
23.   Special airplane postage stamps put on sale in the Wilkes-Barre post office for the service which goes in effect
        July 1 between New York and San Francisco on a schedule of 34 hours and 45 minutes for the westward journey
        and 32 hours and 5 minutes for the eastward journey; the cost of the stamps eight cents an ounce for the first stage 
        as far as Chicago, sixteen cents an ounce as far as Cheyenne and twenty-four cents an ounce to the Pacific coast.
23.   Convention of the Lithuanian Alliance of America in Wilkes-Barre.
23.   Trinity Lutheran Church of Hazleton holds fiftieth anniversary services for both church and pastor, Rev. JOHN
        WAGNER, whose pastorate at Trinity was his first and only one.
23.   FREDERICK LAMOTTE SANTEE of WAPWALLOPEN graduates from Harvard at 17 years of age, said to be 
        the youngest person ever to be graduated from that institution.
24.   (Almanac skipped day 24)
25.   Death of DEEMER BEIDELMAN of WILKES-BARRE, well known newspaper man and church worker.
25.   Members of Huffnung lodge of Odd Fellows gives a party in honor of GUSTAV KINTZEL of WILKES-BARRE,
        for fifty years a member of this lodge.
26.   (Almanac skipped day 26)
27.   Eleven nurses graduated from Nesbitt West Side Hospital.
28.   Mr. and Mrs. SAMUEL C. UPDYKE of COURTDALE celebrate their golden wedding anniversary.
28.   Cornerstone laying for Stella Presbyterian Church at Forty Fort.
28.   Mr. and Mrs. GEORGE WARNER of WEST PITTSTON celebrate their sixtieth wedding anniversary.
29.   (Almanac skipped day 29)
30.   Eight graduates from the White Haven Hospital for tubercular victims.
30.   Building in Wilkes-Barre for the first six months of the year greater by twenty-five per cent. than for the same 
        months last year.
30.   Mountain Grange with headquarters at Carverton takes action against the parking of automobiles along country 
        roads, in orchards and woods, at night for immoral purposes and threatens to take legal measures.

JULY 1924

1.     Local Red Cross calls for volunteers to help soldiers entitled to the bonus to make out their applications.
1.     New Parish for the Heights and Georgetown section, mainly for persons of Slovak ancestry, created by Bishop
        HOBAN, the church is to be built on Hillside Street, and the first pastor Rev. JOHN ONDOVCHAK, just 
        ordained.
1.     About eighty young men from Luzerne County leave for Camp Meade to undergo thirty days of training in the 
        citizens' military regime provided by the federal government.
2.     (Almanac skipped day 2)
3.     Dr. LEON C. PRINCE, of the faculty of Dickenson College, the speaker at the Wyoming Monument exercises.
4.     Pleasant Fourth of July weather, with the exception of a shower in the early morning; mild temperature.
4.     About 10,000 Lithuanians from Luzerne and Lackawanna counties gather at Valley View Park for the eleventh
        annual Lithuanian Day celebration.
4.     Sans Souci Park crowded at the annual Slovak Day celebration.
4.     Nine Fourth of July fireworks accidents in Wilkes-Barre and vicinity, two of them serious, reported to the
        hospitals and by physicians; no fires in Wilkes-Barre.
5.     (Almanac skipped day 5)
6.     Rev. PAUL SILAS HEATH preaches his first sermon as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, WILKES-
        BARRE.
7.     Retirement of A. W. MOSS, secretary of the Wilkes-Barre School Board, who has been in the employ of the 
        school district since 1892 as teacher and secretary.
7.     Court en banc decides that Judge GARMAN's charge to the Grand Jury, in which he threatened to send the 
        Grand Jury home in case it did not find true bills in liquor cases on satisfactory evidence, did not unduly
        prejudice the jurors; therefore, the court refuses to quash indictments brought against six defendents.
7.     Death in PITTSTON of BENJAMIN G. COOPER aged 90 years, whose grandfather, GEORGE COOPER,
        was slain in the massacre at Wyoming and whose name is on the monument.
8.     Luzerne County stood third among the counties of the State in 1922 in the amount of income taxes for the
        federal government and the number of taxables who reported, 17,719 persons; Wilkes-Barre had 6,432 taxables.
9.     (Almanac skipped day 9)
10.   (Almanac skipped day 10)
11.   (Almanac skipped day 11)
12.   109th Regiment, Field Artillery, departs for the training camp at Tobyhanna in the Poconos.
13.   (Almanac skipped day 13)
14.   The Bell Telephone Co., having absorbed the Consolidated Company in Wilkes-Barre, plans to abolish the latter's
        exchange and operate from the Bell plant.
15.   Mr. and Mrs. JACOB J. RAU of WILKES-BARRE celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary.
15.   Wilkes-Barre council awards contract for the South Street bridge to McLean Construction Co. of Baltimore for
        $725,000; council also decides to float a bond issue for $200,000 as part of the bridge bonding plan; values of
        properties to be taken for the bridge approach on Washington Street to be determined by condemnation 
        proceedings.
16.   (Almanac skipped day 16)
17.   Local Historical Society receives a gift of $5,000 from Mrs. CHARLES D. FOSTER as a memorial to her 
        daughter LILLIAN, who died many years ago, the first gift of the kind.
17.   County's road and bridge projects for this year and the near future have a total value of $4,000,000, including
        the Pittston and North Street bridges, raising the level of Pierce Street, the East End Boulevard and various minor
        road and bridge work.
18.   Hazleton regions sends out about a carload of huckleberries a day.
19.   (Almanac skipped day 19)
20.   (Almanac skipped day 20)
21.   (Almanac skipped day 21)
22.   Local Elks hold a celebration in honor of JOHN B. KNAPP, elected Grand Esteemed Leading Knight of the order
        at the convention in Boston.
23.   (Almanac skipped day 23)
24.   Wilkes-Barre had her first visit by a dirigible airship, the Navy's Shenandoah, the largest airship afloat, on her way
        to Scranton to greet the people in an old home week celebration; as the ship sailed over Wilkes-Barre gongs were
        sounded and whistles were blown.
24.   Caterpillars again become a nuisance in Wilkes-Barre, denuding many of the shade trees of their leaves.
25.   County Controller SCHMIDT contests the right of the County Treasurer to retain fees and commissions on
        mercantile, dog and fishing licenses, and other emoluments of the office above the salary, alleging that a Supreme
        Court decision provides that such fees shall go to the county.
26.   First instance in the county where women were arrested and committed to jail for the non-payment of personal 
        taxes.  Two women from Freeland brought to the county prison but the Warden refused to take them because each
        woman had a child with her.  Judge FULLER sends the women home and states that he will review the cases later.
26.   National Industrial Conference Board of New York City reports that the average hourly earnings of wage-earners
        in anthracite mines is 190 per cent. greater than the average in June, 1914, and wages in this industry have risen to
        a higher point than those in any other basic industry.
26.   Coal companies operating in Luzerne County own 138,246 acres of land with a valuation of $193,749, 469, while
        the valuation of their lots, houses, breakers and other property is estimated at $207,831,896, the Lehigh Valley
        Coal Co. being the largest property owner.
27.   Cornerstone laying of St. Luke's Reformed Church, at the corner of North Main Street and Hollenback Avenue.
28.   Much indignation stirred up in Duryea by the School Board's action in discharging fifteen school teachers and
        giving the positions to new appointees, political reasons alleged.
29.   Appointment of Lieut. Col. STEPHEN ELLIOTT of WILKES-BARRE as a member of the State Armory Board 
        announced.
29.   Dr. J. T. RUGH of PHILADELPHIA, noted orthopedic surgeon, performs the first of a series of operations on
        crippled children under the auspices of the Rotary Club, which has been engaged in the work for several years.
29.   As far as the assessment authority could find out, the value of personal property in Luzerne County subject to the 
        State tax for 1924 is $46,060,549, an increase of $2,500,000 over 1923.
30.   Many hundreds of children take part in a unique lantern parade under the auspices of the Playground and 
        Recreation Association.
30.   First real hot spell, thermometer 92 in Wilkes-Barre.
30.   permit of the Pilsener Brewing Co. of Hazleton revoked by federal authorities on the ground that the beer of 
        larger than legal alcoholic content was sent out.
31.   Death of Col. W. C. PRICE of WILKES-BARRE, for many years a prominent lawyer, civic worker and at one 
        time Colonel of the Ninth Regiment Infantry of the National Guard.
31.   Death of ex-Judge PETER A. O'BOYLE of PITTSTON, former judge of the county courts, prominent as a 
        politician, lawyer and orator.

AUGUST 1924

1.     Death of General CHARLES BOWMAN DOUGHERTY of WILKES-BARRE, at one time Colonel of the old
        Ninth Regiment Infantry, later Major General in command of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, also assistant
        general manager of the Susquehanna Collieries Company.
2.     (Almanac skipped day 2)
3.     (Almanac skipped day 3)
4.     Preliminary work started on the new South Street bridge.
5.     Mayor HART introduces two unusual ordinances in City Council, one penalizing the playing of jazz music on the
        streets and in public places, his purpose being to get back to high-toned music, and the other prohibiting masked
        people from parading if the motive is the commission of a crime or creating public annoyance, the ordinance 
        aimed at the Ku Klux Klan.  The people are in doubt whether the Mayor is in earnest or is merely striving to 
        secure some publicity for Wilkes-Barre.
5.     Pittston school tax millage reduced from 34 ½  mills to 30, by order of the court.
6.     Representatives of civic organizations, railroads, coal companies and stores from a safety council under the 
        auspices of the Chamber of Commerce, to promote safety for life and limb.
6.     Daily bus service from Wilkes-Barre to the Poconos begun.
7.     Primary expense accounts of E. N. CARPENTER and JOHN J. CASEY, candidates for Congress, show that the 
        former spent $1,925 and the latter $6.28 to secure the nomination.
7.     Temperature continues around ninety degrees.
8.     (Almanac skipped day 8)
9.     Bureau of Census estimates Wilkes-Barre's population in 1924 at 76,951, a gain of 3,118 since the 1920 census,
        showing that the ratio of increase during the ten years from 1910 to 1920 is being continued.
10.   (Almanac skipped day 10)
11.   JOHN B. GALLAGHER, traveling auditor for the United Mine Workers, warns the members against the work of
        red flag agitators who are attempting to disrupt the organization.
11.   Owing to the prevalence of smallpox in Pennsylvania, Dr. CHARLES H. MINER, head of the State Department 
        of Health, urges general vaccination of all persons who were not vaccinated in a number of years.
11.   Grand Circle of Pennsylvania, Brotherhood of America, meets in Wilkes-Barre.
12.   (Almanac skipped day 12)
13.   (Almanac skipped day 13)
14.   OPIE READ, author and lecturer, appears on the Chautauqua program in Wilkes-Barre in reading from the book
        of his life.
14.   New traffic system begun in Wilkes-Barre, electric signals operated from Public Square installed at the street 
        intersections in the central part of the city, doing away with the traffic officers; no parking on Public Square and
        restricted parking on other central streets.
14.   About 5,000 children take part in a historic pageant depicting scenes in the early days in the Wyoming Valley, and
        in other exercises, as the climax of the playground season of forty-two playgrounds of Greater Wilkes-Barre and
        adjacent towns, the exercises at Kirby Park.
15.   (Almanac skipped day 15)
16.   National convention of the Polish Women's American Alliance meets in Wilkes-Barre.
16.   Death of PHILIP R. RAIFE of WILKES-BARRE, well known building contractor.
17.   T. M. CONNIFF, for half a century teacher and supervising principal in the PLAINS schools, goes on the retired
        list and ALEXANDER MCCAA takes his place.
18.   (Almanac skipped day 18)
19.   Unusually cool weather for this time of year, temperatures in the mountain regions of the county around forty 
        degrees.
19.   Council decides to place markers in the Wilkes-Barre parks in memory of the donors.
19.   Judges state that they will not approve the plans for the proposed North Street bridge, because of the excessive
        cost, because other traffic needs are more important and because of doubt whether the site is the most desirable
        location. 
19.   Dedication of SS. of Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Plains Township near Wright's corners, of which Father 
        A. J. DUDKIEWICZ is the rector, the parish property valued at $250,000; the event also commemorates the
        twenty-fifth anniversary of the parish.
20.   County Commissioners ROSSER and MCLAUGHLIN state that the Judges are mistaken in their estimate of the 
        cost of the North Street bridge, that the cost of the structure with grading and widening North Street would not 
        cost more than $1,294,000 for the former and $400,000 for the latter; the Commissioners intend to appeal to the
20.   Judges to reconsider or proceed by means of mandamus.
21.   (Almanac skipped day 21)
22.   CHARLES A. GLOMAN appointed to be purchasing agent and assistant general manager of the Susquehanna
        Collieries Co., taking the place of Gen. DOUGHERTY, deceased.
22.   Haddock Mining Co. announces the acquisition of coal properties at Salem, near Pottsville, expected to yield 
        300,000 tons of coal a year in a few years.
22.   Wilkes-Barre had 1.8 deaths by motor per 10,000 of population in 1923, 14 killed, a lower record than in many
        other cities.
22.   Luzerne County's twenty-two State banks and eleven Trust companies had more than 190,000 depositors and
        $80,000,000 deposits in 1923, a considerable gain over the previous year.
23.   Death of PETER ASHELMAN of PLAINS, aged 94 years, born in what is now the East End section of Wilkes-
        Barre. 
24.   (Almanac skipped day 24)
25.   Judge FULLER upholds the law making women liable to the same punishment as for men for non-payment of
        taxes, but tax collectors instead of constables must attend to the commitments; the Judge advises that tax collectors
        and the municipal authorities be extremely cautious about committing women for paltry sums, the mothers of 
        children or any females, using this measure only as a last resort, in cases of exceptional aggravation, and the 
        Judge advises that the costs be cut down to something commensurate in amount with the taxes.
26.   Miss THERESA MATZER, daughter of ANTHONY MATZER, chosen as "Miss Wilkes-Barre" in a vote
        conducted by merchants of Wilkes-Barre, she to represent the city in the national beauty tournament to be held in 
        Atlantic City, "Miss America" to be chosen from the girls representing the various cities.
26.   SHERMAN CONRAD, executive director of the Community Welfare Federation of Wilkes-Barre, tenders his
        resignation to take a similar position in New Orleans.
27.   (Almanac skipped day 27)
28.   (Almanac skipped day 28)
29.   (Almanac skipped day 29)
30.   (Almanac skipped day 30)
31.   Wyoming Valley Playgrounds reports say about 600,000 children attended the grounds and various events during 
        the season.
31.   Hottest day of the year, thermometer around 94 in Wilkes-Barre.

SEPTEMBER 1924

1.     Hot weather for Labor Day, the parks crowded.
2.     Wilkes-Barre School Board names the high school building on Northampton Street in honor of the late JAMES M.
        COUGHLIN, for twenty-eight years superintendent of the city schools, and the newly renovated Central School 
        building the S. J. STRAUSS School in honor of Judge STRAUSS, who was a member of the first school board
        board under the present system.
2.     Death of General ASHER MINER of WILKES-BARRE, well known business man, military man and civic
        worker, a member of one of the oldest Wyoming Valley families, in command of the 109th Field Artillery in the
        World War, noted for his gallant service, lost a leg in battle.
2.     Because of suspicion that Grand Juries that ignored liquor cases were improperly selected, the Judges order that
        the next Grand Jury be drawn in open court.
2.     First issue of Wilkes-Barre's latest weekly newspaper, Labor News.
2.     Nearly 400 aliens admitted to citizenship by Judge MCLEAN.
3.     Wilkes-Barre council postpones Mayor Hart's ordinance prohibiting jazz music in public places and his ordinance
        prohibiting parading by masked persons.
3.     "Miss Wilkes-Barre," Miss THERESA MATZER, received in Atlantic City by a delegation of local and Atlantic
        City people and takes part in the boardwalk parade, having a float typifying the colonials at the Wyoming
        Monument, and in the evening dress inspection.
3.     JOHN J. CASEY, Democratic candidate for Congress, receives the LaFollette party endorsement.
4.     Cage drops forty feet in the shaft of the Lance colliery at Plymouth and ten men injured.
4.     Great honor shown General ASHER MINER at his funeral, military and civilian organizations turn out and large 
        numbers of people.
4.     Rev. CARL A. METZ becomes pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church at EDWARDSVILLE.
5.     Death of CHARLES F. MCHUGH, for twenty-six years City Solicitor of WILKES-BARRE.
5.     Cool spell sends the thermometer down to fifty degrees.
6.     Comparison shows that of the county's total assessed wealth, $378,000,000 the coal companies are assessed
        $205,000,000.
7.     (Almanac skipped day 7)
8.     Sixteen persons injured in Wilkes-Barre and vicinity in weekend automobile accidents, some of them seriously.
8.     Community Welfare Federation's budget for 1925 amounts to $389,621 for thirty-one charitable, relief and welfare
        agencies, four new ones since last year being the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Crippled Children's Committee and
        St. Stanislaus Orphanage.
8.     Merger of the Temple Coal & Iron Co., having collieries at Wyoming and in Lackawanna county, and the East
        Bear Ridge Coal Co., having collieries in the Pottsville region.
8.     Records compiled by the State Police show that only one out of seventeen persons placed on trial in the Luzerne 
        County courts for violation of the liquor laws is sent to jail; raids in the county in nineteen months by the State
        Police numbered a total of 384 prisoners, 88 convicted, 174 discharged and 142 awaiting trial.
8.     Landmark lodge of Masons of Wilkes-Barre observes its fifty-fifth anniversary.
9.     (Almanac skipped day 9)
10.   Unusually cool weather, thermometer 46 degrees in Wilkes-Barre in the morning.
11.   (Almanac skipped day 11)
12.   First national Defense Day observed in the Wyoming Valley; in Wilkes-Barre a parade of military and other
        organizations, services in the churches at noon, firing of cannon at noon, and after the parade in the evening
        exercises in Kirby Park.
12.   Government report shows that in 1923 one-twelfth the combined income of the citizens of Wilkes-Barre was
        taken by tax gatherers.
13.   (Almanac skipped day 13)
14.   Rabbi HERMAN D. ADAMS installed as pastor of the South Welles Street synagog.
14.   Polish Catholic Church at Lake Silkworth dedicated.
15.   Mr. and Mrs. CALVIN HESS of WYOMING celebrate their golden wedding anniversary.
15.   Dedication by Bishop HOBAN of Misercordia College and High School at Dallas, to be conducted by the Sisters
        of Mercy, the building also to be used as a mother house for the order, the structure and grounds represent an
        outlay so far of near $450,000.
16.   Rev. PAUL S. HEATH installed as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church.
16.   A $200,000 Wilkes-Barre bond issue, 4 ½ per cent., tax free, sells for a premium of over $8,000.
17.   (Almanac skipped day 17)
18.   (Almanac skipped day 18)
19.   First woman to be tried in Luzerne County for driving an automobile while intoxicated, convicted by a jury.
20.   District Attorney JAMES, assisted by State Police and detectives, conducted a surprise raid on gambling places
        in Wilkes-Barre, including some of the most noted; a lot of paraphernalia confiscated and proprietors held for 
        court.
21.   (Almanac skipped day 21)
22.   (Almanac skipped day 22)
23.   Homeopathic Medical Society of Pennsylvania meets in Wilkes-Barre. 
24.   Paul Whiteman Orchestra appears in Irem Temple.
25.   Opening of Misericordia College and High School at Dallas with thirty-seven pupils.
25.   Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM MORGAN of WANAMIE celebrate their sixty-second wedding anniversary.
26.   Judges hear argument on an appeal against their decision withholding approval of plans for the North Street 
        bridge.
27.   (Almanac skipped day 27)
28.   Fiftieth anniversary of St. Francis Catholic Church in Nanticoke.
29.   First arrests in Wilkes-Barre for driving against the new street signal system.
29.   Many Wilkes-Barreans attend the dedication of the new Catholic chapel in connection with the Boy's Industrial
        School at White's Ferry.
30.   Heaviest rain storm on record in Luzerne County, a fall of 7.11 inches in 36 hours, the river up to nearly twenty-
        two feet, flooding the lowlands; other streams go over their banks and cause much damage, a good part of South
        Wilkes-Barre under water from Solomon's Creek, railroads handicapped by landslides and mines flooded, four
        fatalities in the vicinity of Wilkes-Barre.

OCTOBER 1924

1.     Judge FULLER replies to the local Ministerial Union, which had addressed the court on the subject of liquor law
        violations and refusal by Grand Juries to find true bills in such cases.  The Judge expresses the opinion that Grand
        Juries are useless and mischievous and should be abolished, but this could not be done without amending the 
        Constitution.  He also expresses the opinion that improvement in the selection of persons to serve on juries could 
        be had if the office of Jury Commissioner were abolished and the Judges given entire responsibility for filling the 
        jury wheel.  The Judge attributes inefficiency in enforcement all around to the unpopularity of prohibition.  In his
        estimation, the only solution is to find men to serve as jurors who will think and act right in regard to law enforce-
        ment.
1.     Dauphin County court denies petition to have JOHN J. CASEY's name go on the Labor party ticket for the 
        congressional nomination, because many of the signatures on the petition are fraudulent.
2.     Death of ISAIAH M. LEACH, 94 years of age, a resident of WILKES-BARRE and vicinity for 87 years, a 
        descendant of Puritan stock and a veteran of the Civil War.
3.     Dinner given at the Sterling to about six hundred persons who have volunteered as workers for the Community 
        Welfare Federation drive.
4.     Unique parade in Wilkes-Barre, of persons connected with associations included in the Welfare Federation
        campaign, nearly 3,000 persons in line, together with a number of floats.
5.     Cornerstone laying of B'nai Israel synagog in Plymouth.
6.     A total of 200,000 ballots to be printed for the November election in the county.
7.     (Almanac skipped day 7)
8.     German Young Men's Beneficial Society of Wilkes-Barre celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with a dinner.
8.     Death of Dr. B. M. CRARY of WILKES-BARRE, well known dentist.
9.     (Almanac skipped day 9)
10.   Four nurses graduate from Riverside Hospital.
10.   TONY TORTI and TONY BURCHANTI charged with being members of the gang of bandits that held up a 
        Laurel Line car last year, killing one passenger, wounding another and stealing a payroll amounting to $70,000
        from West End Coal Co. men, convicted of murder in the first degree in the Lackawanna County court.
11.   Another Grand Jury refuses to return a single true bill in liquor cases; 124 cases referred to the October Grand 
        Jury; Judge FULLER gives a scathing rebuke to the jurors for their amazing action in ignoring evidence sufficient 
        to warrant trial of cases in court.
12.   Grievance committee orders a strike at all of the Glen Alden Coal Co. collieries in Luzerne and Lackawanna
        counties, employing about 25,000 men, over a trivial grievance; general officers of the United Mine Workers
        condemn the order as in violation of the agreement and instruct the men to disobey it.
13.   Mr. and Mrs. JOHN HARVEY of KINGSTON celebrate their golden wedding anniversary.
13.   Mr. and Mrs. DANIEL H. EVANS of ASHLEY observe their fifty-seventh wedding anniversary.
14.   (Almanac skipped day 14)
15.   Local camps of the P. O. S. of A. give a reception in honor of the newly elected State President of the 
        organization, LORRIE R. HOLCOMB of WILKES-BARRE.
15.   Grievances committee calls off the strike at Glen Alden Coal Co. miners after a statement by the Mine Workers
        officials that the strike was unauthorized and a threat that those responsible for it would be disciplined.
16.   Trinity Swedish Lutheran Church of Wilkes-Barre celebrating its fiftieth anniversary.
17.   Ten mules burned to death in a fire in No. 5 L. & W. B. mule barn
17.   Pennsylvania Automotive Association convention in Wilkes-Barre.
18.   Community Welfare Federation campaign goes over the top, the amount realized $394,450, about $5,000 more
        than the budget called for; upwards of 40,000 contributors; the first time in three years that the campaign has come
        up to the amount set in the time limit.
18.   Mr. and Mrs. L. F. BACHMAN of WILKES-BARRE celebrate their golden wedding anniversary.
19.   Christian Church at Huntsville observes its eightieth anniversary.
19.   Westminster Presbyterian Church, Wilkes-Barre, occupied for the first time and dedicatory services begun.
19.   Mr. and Mrs. MARTIN WITIZGMAN of WILKES-BARRE observe their fifty-second wedding anniversary.
20.   (Almanac skipped day 20)
21.   Wilkes-Barre council passes the ordinance introduced by Mayor HART prohibiting parading by masked men 
        intent upon lawlessness, the commission of crime or otherwise annoying inhabitants--the ordinance supposed to be
        aimed at the Ku Klux Klan.
21.   Wilkes-Barre council planning for an $800,000 or $1,000,000 bond issue to pay for the South Street bridge and 
        park lands.
21.   Susquehanna Dental Association convention in Wilkes-Barre.
21.   Fourteenth Ward men stage a big banquet at Hotel Redington in honor of Mayor DANIEL HART, a resident of 
        the ward.
22 - 26 (Almanac skipped these days)
27.   Mild Thanksgiving weather.  Turkeys from thirty-nine to fifty cents a pound.
28.   After hearing a case in which a wife complained of beating by her drunken husband Judge JONES orders and 
        investigation of Edwardsville saloons and threatens to close all places by the padlock method where evidence is 
        forthcoming.
29.   Death of EDWARD B. DAVIDOW of WILKES-BARRE, prominent realtor.
30.   Light fall of snow and much colder.

((The next 3 days following "day 30," I am typing them in the order they are found in the Almanac.))

28.   Rotary Club of Wilkes-Barre gives a Hallowe'en party to 146 crippled children, many of whom are to be benefited 
        by surgical operations and otherwise in the movement inaugurated by the Rotary.
28.   Mr. and Mrs. STANLEY WHITEBREAD of ALDEN observe their fifty-seventh wedding anniversary.
28.   Glen Alden Coal Co. gives notice that it intends destroying Concrete City, a village of twenty double houses in 
        Hanover Township, erected for its employees, because of the purpose of the authorities to build a sewer system,
        which the company estimates would cost about $200,000.  The company says it would be cheaper to destroy the
        houses and thus avoid the need of a sewer system.
28.   Wilkes-Barre lodge of Eagles initiates 328 candidates.
29.   Edwardsville choral union wins the chief prize at the annual eisteddfod of Moriah Church in Nanticoke.
29.   Dr. and Mrs. ISAAC H. MOORE of WILKES-BARRE celebrate their fifty-seventh wedding anniversary.
31.   Hallowe'en celebration on the streets go off with a few acts of rowdyism.   

NOVEMBER 1924

1.     Death of JAMES COOL, one of the most prominent real estate men in the Wyoming Valley.
1.     FREY's lumber yard and shop in WEST PITTSTON destroyed by fire.
2.     Bear Creek settlement threatened by a forest fire but flames diverted by a favorable wind.
3.     County Solicitor JOHN DANDO instructed to begin proceedings to test the constitutionality of the act under 
        which the people of Luzerne County and the people of other counties voted for county hospitals for victims of
        tuberculosis.
4.     Luzerne County goes strongly for COOLIDGE and DAWES and defeats Congressman JOHN J. CASEY, who had
        the Democratic nomination and La Follette Labor party endorsement; EDMUND N. CARPENTER the new
        congressman.  The Democratic and La Follette presidential vote about even in the county.
4.     Death of GEORGE FOWLER, one of the founders of the Boston Store in WILKES-BARRE.
4.     Hazleton votes in favor of a bond issue for $600,000 for municipal improvements; West Wyoming voters defeat a 
        bond issue for $80,000; Exeter voters defeat a proposed issue for $150,000; Swoyerville voters defeat a bond issue 
        for $140,000, and Slocum Township favors one for $12,000.
5.     The Judges again disapprove the North Street bridge plans, declaring they involve too great expense, would do 
        great injury to private property and would not solve traffic problems in the right way; the Judges suggest that one
        or two bridges be constructed in other locations and that afterward the North Street bridge be rebuilt.
5.     EDWIN B. MORGAN elected Solicitor for WILKES-BARRE to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
        CHARLES MCHUGH.
6.     Federal agents arrest many aliens in Luzerne County who entered the country by illegal means, they to be 
        deported.
6.     Ban against hunting extended from November 6 until a sufficient quantity of rain falls to reduce the danger of
        forest fires.
7.     CARL W. JOHNSON of WEST PITTSTON killed by the accidental discharge of a gun while duck hunting at
        Lake Carey.
7.     Attorney FRANK L. PINOLA elected president of the Liberty Bank of PITTSTON.
8.     (Almanac skipped day 8)
9.     Salem Evangelical Church of Wilkes-Barre celebrating its fiftieth anniversary.
9.     Death of W. L. FARRELL, a prominent real estate man of WILKES-BARRE.
10.   (Almanac skipped day 10)
11.   Armistice Day observed in Wilkes-Barre with a parade and dedication of a flag and flagstaff in Public Square to 
        the memory of General ASHER MINER, presented by Diamond City Post, American Legion; presentation speech
        by Col. W. S. MCLEAN, commander of the 109th Field Artillery; Exercises held in other towns in the valley.
11.   Taylor choir wins first prize in the mixed choral competition in the eisteddfod in the First Welsh Presbyterian
        Church, Wilkes-Barre.
12.   Three children of Luzerne Borough smothered to death by falling ledge of culm from a culm bank.
13.   Case of smallpox appears in Wilkes-Barre.
13.   One young man sentenced to one year and another to six months in prison for reckless operation of automobiles,
        striking children.
13.   Governor PINCHOT lifts the ban against hunting in the entire State, owing to rain and mists diminishing the 
        danger from fire.
14.   Death of GEORGE H. ROSS of LUZERNE BOROUGH, well known druggist and prominent in county politics
        for forty years.
15.   Mr. and Mrs. M. E. STONE of WILKES-BARRE, for many years city missionaries and agents of the Luzerne 
        County Bible Society, observe their fiftieth wedding anniversary.
15.   Five cottages in the Shawanese section of Harvey's Lake destroyed by fire; loss about $30,000.
16.   Class of 280 persons confirmed in St. Mary's Catholic Church, Wilkes-Barre.
17.   Investigation shows that many miners are working with certificates of qualification irregularly or fraudulently 
        obtained.
17.   Another effort to tie up all the mines of the Hudson Coal Co. in Luzerne and Lackawanna counties averted by
        action of district Mine Workers officials in declaring it an outlaw strike.
17.   Wilkes-Barre authorities all citizens who have not been vaccinated within two years to have themselves 
        vaccinated because of the appearance of a smallpox case and the fact that he came in contact with numerous 
        people after the rash had appeared; city council authorizes the opening of places in the city where persons may be
        vaccinated free of charge.
18.   Wilkes-Barre Business College graduates a class of eighty-one.
19.   135 Aliens naturalized in the Luzerne County court.
19.   Six buildings destroyed by fire in Plymouth, damage about $150,000, and six lives lost.
20.   A second smallpox case appears in Wilkes-Barre; many people have themselves vaccinated by following the 
        advice of the city authorities, hundreds appearing at the free clinics
21.   Committee of churchmen decides not to invite BILLY SUNDAY to conduct another evangelistic campaign in 
        Wilkes-Barre on his open date in March but to postpone it until later on.
21.   Coroner Dr. THOMAS states that sixty-seven deaths have been caused by "moonshine" liquor in Luzerne County 
        since January 1, not including about thirty cases of death by alcoholic poisoning not reported to the authorities.
22.   Twenty-one persons injured in a collision between street cars at Edwardsville.
22.   Welsh Presbyterian Church at Warrior Run observes its fiftieth anniversary.
22.   Fifteen people of Wilkes-Barre and vicinity fined from $100 to $300 each in federal court for liquor law 
        violations, and one sentenced to sixty days in jail.
23.   Mr. and Mrs. JAMES KEATING, Sr., of EDWARDSVILLE celebrate their fifty-seventh wedding anniversary.
23.   County Commissioners agree to purchase coal under and near the piers for the new Pittston bridge to guard against
        caving.
23.   Prominent property owners and business men petition the County Commissioners for the erection of a bridge
        crossing the river from South or Ross streets, before proceeding with the North Street project.
24.   Death of LAZARUS WALKER of WYOMING, veteran of the Civil War, whose great-grandfather on his
        mother's side, ELIJAH HARRIS, was one of the survivors of the Wyoming Massacre.
24.   Concordia Fall concert has Miss BEATRICE KENDALL EATON of NEW YORK, soprano, as soloist.
24.   Order for a general strike at ten Pennsylvanian and Hillside Coal & Iron Co. collieries in the Pittston region issued
        by the grievance committee because of long-standing grievances; the committee says orders from general United
        Mine Workers officials to call off the strike and substitute the regular process of adjusting grievances will be 
        ignored.
25.   Plans filed for a new private patient building in connection with the City Hospital, to cost about $218,800.
25.   Shekinah Royal Arch Chapter holds a special meeting in honor of JAMES A. FLEMING and JAMES BRADY,
        for fifty years members of that body.
25.   Death of EDWARD SHORTZ, Sr., 83 years, one of the best known members of the Luzerne County Bar.
26.   Dedication of the new home for orphan girls in connection with the St. Stanislaus orphanage near Nanticoke, the 
        exercises attended by three bishops, two monsignors, scores of priest and thousands of people.
27.   Nearly 1,900 school teachers in the county, not including those from the independent Institute districts, assemble 
        in Wilkes-Barre for the fifty-sixth annual Institute.
27.   The sixty-two Mullison grocery stores in the Wyoming Valley taken over by the American Stores Co.
27.   Mr. and Mrs. AUGUSTUS RULAND of WILKES-BARRE celebrate their golden wedding anniversary.
27.   HARRY M. CAREY of DELUTH chosen as executive secretary of the Community Welfare Federation, in place
        of SHERMAN CONRAD, resigned.