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Record of Local Events

Principal Happenings in Luzerne County for the Year Beginning December 1, 1931, and Ending November 30, 1932

DECEMBER 1931
Dec. 1st -- Judge B. R. Jones grants preliminary injunction against State board of game commissioners to restrain it from allowing antlerless  deer to be killed in Luzerne county December 1st to 15th. 
Three men killed in county on first day of hunting season.
Council abolishes post of city electrical inspector.
Dec. 2nd -- Mr. And Mrs. Robert Challis, Heights, celebrate 60th wedding anniversary.
Many deer fall before guns of local hunters; 1,500 pound of illegally killed deer given to needy families.
Dec. 3rd -- Death of D.A. Campbell, prominent Pittston resident.
Dec. 4th -- Veterans of Twenty-eigth Division organize post and name it after Gen. Asher Miner.
Work resumed at Florence colliery, Standard Anthracite Co., when Dupont borough and company officials agree on payment of taxes.
Dec. 5th -- Rev. D. J. Kame of St. John’s church named rector of St. Gabriel’s, Hazleton, and is succeeded at St. John’s by Rev. Francis P. McHugh of Glen Lyon . Rev. Leo V. Gilroy, Hazleton, named pastor of St. Denis, glen Lyon.
Dec. 6th -- Congregation of First Baptist church lays cornerstone of new edifice on South River street.
Chamber of Commerce announces two industries locating in valley.
Dec. 7th -- Clarence Darrow, lawyer, addresses large audience here.
Protestant clergymen organize Wyoming Valley Ministerial association and elect Rev. H. F. Randolph president.
New factions gain control of many local school districts at annual reorganizations.
Eugene T. Giering elected president of Wilkes-Barre board.
Dec. 8th -- Death of Rev. Thomas H. Reseigh, pastor of Parsons P.M. church.
State highway department accepts maintenance of six and one-half miles of city streets, relieving city of thousands of dollars expense annually.
Many Luzerne Countians subpoenaed as witnesses in McGowan brewery case being investigated by Federal grand jury at Harrisburg.
Dec. 9th -- Twenty-four county residents among forty-nine indicted by Federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy to violate prohibition laws: sixteen also indicted o charges of extortion.
Death of Martin I. Freeman, real estate man.
Dec. 10th -- Third new industry announced by Chamber of Commerce in month.
Dec. 11th -- Judge Henry A. Fuller, veteran county jurist, dies.
Dec. 12th -- Attorney Charles B. Waller elected president of Westmoreland club.
Dec. 14th -- Board of viewers fixes value of Valmont Development Co. land taken for new Market street bridge at $186,-892.
Hundreds attend funeral of Judge Fuller.
Hunting licenses issued total 25,394, almost 3,000 more than in previous year. Fishing licenses totallel 23,780.
Directors of four State-aided hospitals of county launch drive for county aid to reduce $1,300,000 total indebtedness.
Dec. 15th -- Federal grand jury at Harrisburg ignores investigation of alleged income tax evasion by McGowen Brewery in its final report.
State Senate votes $81,700 additional aid to four State hospitals here.
Water company submits 400-page brief to court in which it alleges nearly every provision of Harvey Act unconstitutional.
Dec. 16th -- Members of Westmoreland club dine Judge W. S. McLean, Jr.
Plea of former county commissioners for pardon goes before pardon board.
Dec. 17th -- To Rev. D.J. Kane, city, guest of honor at farewell reception, is presented an automobile.
Several hundred people attend mass meeting sponsored by Property Owners Association of Luzerne County: Attorney E.S. Edmunds, noted tax expert, speaks.
Dec. 18th -- Death of Dr. A.J. Baker, Duryea physician.
Dec. 19th -- F.M. Kirby guest of honor at dinner of Pennsylvania Club of New York.
Lives of six persons endangered when dynamite blast wrecks Pittston home.
Dec. 21st -- Dr. Ellis M. Santee, author and former New York State health expert, dies at home in Muhlenburg.
George W. Houck, district principal of Wilkes-Barre city schools, dined by associates upon receiving M.A. degree from Columbia university.
Death of J.E. Coons, former prominent merchant. 
Capt. W.A. Clark of State Police, Wyoming, mentioned for post of director of public safety of Philadelphia.
Dec. 22nd -- Nanticoke City Council abolishes fourteen positions and makes drastic salary budget cuts.
Dec. 24th -- David D. Monie, superintendent of Scranton-Spring Brook Water Service Co., dies at home in Kingston.
Charity organizations distribute food and clothing to hundreds of families for Christmas.
Unusually warm weather with threats of rain marks approach of Christmas.
Post office here cleans out record rush of mail with nothing holding over the holiday.
Death of Miss Alice T. Morahan, veteran teacher and Record correspondent at Avoca for thirty-five years.
Dec. 25th -- Death of Mrs. J.E. Reese Killgore, clubwoman.
Dec. 26th -- Four fewer capital crimes in Luzerne County in 1931 than 1930.
Building permits in city drop 18.5 % from 1930.
Dec. 28th -- Rebuilt Irem Temple rededicated with many Shriners in attendence.
Fifteen local taxpayers received rerunds of $500 or more on income tax in 1931, according to government report.
S.B. Martin, West Pittston, appointed to State Board of Undertakers.
Congressman Edgar Howard of Nebraska, visiting here, says Franklin D. Roosevelt will be Democratic choice for President.
Glyn A. Morris ordained into ministry at First Welsh Presbyterian church.
Dec. 29th -- Lehigh Valley announces consolidation of six divisions into three, Wilkes-Barre remaining as headquarters of Wyoming division.
Julius C> H. Sauber resigns as executive secretary of United Charities. 
Death of Elias C. Yaple, Kingston, pioneer automobile dealer.
Gladys Hopkins, 12, Kingston girl scout, saves three other children from drowning when ice breaks on pond hole.
Dec. 30th -- E.S. Millard, West Side business man, dies.
Dec. 31st -- Dr. E.M. Santee, Muhlenburg, in will leaves $15,000 estate to be invested until it reaches $1,000,000 when it is to be used for educational purposes.
More than 15,000 tax liens filed in prothonotary’s office on last day.
Grand jury makes its report on election investigation, citing for censure thirty-nine boards and presenting for indictment twenty-five members of eight boards: also lays down rules to improve elections conduct.

JANUARY
Jan. 1st -- New county officers select assistants; many changes made.
Reports show 1931 was driest of thirty years locally.
Jan. 4th -- $100,000 fire badly damages several stores on South Main street.
Council holds reorganization meetings; control changes in many municipalities.
Democrats take over government in Nanticoke.
Former county officials are surcharged $500,000.
Annual county teachers’ institute opens in Irem Temple.
Symphony orchestra, Concordia society and Orpheus Glee club join in big concert.
Jan. 5th -- Thomas Flannery appointed fire chief of Wilkes-Barre to succeed Frank Hochreiter, retired; Dr. Leonard D. Marinaro, named member of police civil service examining board and Rev. E. Parke Brown appointed police chaplain.
Unusual situation in Nuangola borough when ten councilmen try to function though the law allows only seven.
Delegates from working collieries of Glen Alden Coal Co. grievance committee express willingness to share time with employees of idle collieries.
Jan. 7th -- Miss Nellie Brown, Laflin is elected president of County School Directors’ association.
Jan. 8th -- Liens totaling $598,746 filed in Prothonotary’s office against tax collectors of county for balance dues on 1931 county tax duplicate.
Residents of Shavertown section, Kingston township, start movement to form a borough.
Jan. 9th -- Twenty-eight homes damaged to extent of $20,000 by mine cave in Pittston.
Superior Court Judge Joseph Stadtfeld visits here and is greeted by local political leaders.
Grand Jury hands down almost 100 indictments in final report.
Jan. 11th -- Judge E. Foster Heller re-elected president of law and library association.
Milton Lottman, senior at Meyers high school, notified he will be admitted to Harvard without examination, due to high scholastic standing.
Jan. 12th -- Death of Dr. Herbert R. Smith, Drums dentist.
Rev. Henry W. Coray installed as pastor of West Pittston Presbyterian church. 
Attorney Patrick J. Manley, former assistant county superintendent of schools, dies.
North End State bank merged with Wilkes-Barre Deposit & Savings Bank.
Attorney General allows petition of Central Poor District to institute mandamus proceedings against Secretary of Welfare, State Auditor and State Treasurer to make payments to poor district as provided in Talbot Act.
Jan. 13th -- Police fines in city $10,000 less than in 1930.
William H. Evans, former resident of Lehigh Valley Transit & Lehigh Valley Transportation Co., Allentown.
Mercury soars to 72 degrees, highest for date since official records were kept.
Jan. 14th -- Warm spell continues.
Democratic victory dinner attended by twelve persons when 200 were expected.
Plains School board votes to pay teachers for institute for four years, a total of $14,000.
Jan. 15th -- J. H. Hillegas, Pottsville, named manager of Pomery’s store here, succeeding George H. Arbogast, sent to Pottsville.
Three youths arrested believed to have broken into sixteen cottages at Harvey’s lake.
Jan. 16th -- Court overrules exceptions to decree which distributes $141,000 fund to eleven West Side school district.
Jan. 17th -- Spring-like weather disappears when mercury drops to 35 degrees.
Rains increase water supply.
Eagles admit class of 350 in honor of Conrad H. Mann, national managing organizer.
Jan. 18th -- Rev. George C. Westburg installed as pastor of Memorial Presbyterian church.
Congressman Turpin presented distinguished service certificate by Kingston Legion post.
Four city Masonic lodges have joint dinner and Senator James J. Davis speaks.
John W. Philip, fourth assistant postmaster general, visits here and approves plans to erect new city post office on old foundation; he also visits Nanticoke and Plymouth.
Jan. 19th -- Death of Joseph Mullen, president of Division 37, A.O.H.
Large audience hears opera Faust at Irving theatre.
Jan. 20th -- Joseph P. McDonald, division freight agent for Lehigh Valley railroad, given enlarged territory.
b. F. Williams reelected potentate of Irem Temple.
Possibility of request for reopening of five-year contract by miners at convention seen.
Jan. 21st -- Pennsylvania Federation of Magicians opens convention here; Edgar Bauer, city, elected president.
Rev. Dr. D.A. Poling, director of Allied Campaigners, closes session with plea to 2,000 persons to have faith in Eighteenth Amendment.
Jan. 22nd -- Eighty delegates from District 1, U.M.A. of A., prepare to attend convention at Indianapolis.
Jan. 23rd -- New building of First National Bank of Dallas formally opened.
Jan. 24th -- Ohev Zedek congregation dedicates new synagogue.
Dr. Leo C. Mundy and John Malinowski announce candidacies for delegates to Democratic national convention.
Jan. 25th -- Announcement made of consolidation of Union Savings Bank & Trust Co. with Wyoming National Bank.
Mayor James G. Harvey, of Hazleton, dies. 
Jan. 26th -- Attorney J. Harold Flannery, Pittston, appointed assistant district attorney.
Controller Morgan, preparing annual report, holds tax collection costs to high and urges 50% reduction.
Jan. 27th -- Issac C. Edwards, postmaster at Carverton thirty years, dies.
Jan. 28th -- One man killes and two injured in headon collision of locomotives on Pennsylvania railroad at Buttonwood.
Delegates from all parts of State arrive for opening of Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers’ convention.
Pittston Community Chest workers raise $136,142.
Jan. 29th -- Death of Hugh Jones, Sr., Edwardsville undertaker.
Superior Court Justice Joseph Stadtfeld talks at publishers’ convention.
R. Alvin Beisel named mayor of Hazleton to succeed Mayor Harvey.
 
FEBRUARY
Feb. 1st -- Weather reports show January was mildest in sixteen years.
Death of John Gagion, Civil War veteran and railroader.
Welfare federation drive opens.
Feb. 2nd -- Miners in biennial convention at Indianapolis oppose wage cuts.
Edward Harkins named captian of city police.
Ouster proceedings instituted against four Warrior Run school directors for alleged illegal letting og school work.
Groundhog couldn’t see his shadow here because of falling snow.
Feb. 3rd -- Scranton choir wins first annual Polish singing contest at Irem Temple.
Kis-Lyn directors adopt plans for new receiving cottage to be built from earnings of institution.
Feb 4th -- Hugh J. Shea, city employee, pensioned after forty years’ service.
100 attend religious education conference of Episcopal churches of Bethlehem Diocese at Calvary church.
Feb. 5th -- One hundred and forty-one aliens admitted to citizenship before Judge W.A. Valentine.
Judge .R. Jones, in pronouncing sentence on three defendents in arson plot, scores police for methods used to arrest men.
Feb. 7th -- Mayor Hart advocates appointment of commission to supervise expenditures for care of Kirby park.
Merchants and Miners bank of Luzerne consolidated with Luzerne National bank.
Feb. 6th -- Typographical Union, 187, celebrates fiftieth anniversary of founding at dinner dance.
Feb. 8th -- attorney Edmund E. Jones, chief counsel for taxpayers’ association in county audit case, dies at Packer hospital, Sayre.
Word received from Honolulu that Peter M. DeLuca is being held in connection with murder of Alex Campbell and Peter Reilly.
2,500 attend annual police ball here.
Feb. 9th -- Marathon dance starts at Sans Souci park despite protests; constable thrown out when he tries to stop it.
New fire chief, Thomas S. Flannery, and James A. McGuire, assistant chief,  guests of honor at dinner.
Ethel Barrymore, actress appears here in School for Scandal.
Welfare Drive nets $500,816.36.
Feb. 10th -- Wyoming Valley gets touch of snow, rain, thunder and lightning.
679 communicable diseases in city in January according to Health Centre report.
Feb. 11th -- Prison board changes deputy warden, dentist and two keepers.
Mine leaders and operators deny reports of impending wage cuts for workers.
Feb. 12th -- Capt. William A. Clark and Chief County Detective Richard Powell leave for Honolulu to get Peter M. DeLuca.
Feb. 14th -- Seven bandits hold up Castle inn, Harvey’s lake, and escape in automobile stolen from showroom in Wilkes-Barre.
Robber ransacks office on nine floors of Second national Bank building.
Feb. 13th Raymond Schutt, figure in Jannetti murder, is sentenced to serve 24 ½ to 49 years in penitentiary on charges of robbery, felonious wounding and jail breaking.
Attorney A.A. Maguire announces candidacy for Democratic nomination for Congress.
Feb. 15th -- County commissioners adopt budget for 1932 and cut one-tenth mill off levy.
Feb. 16th -- Gun battle in cellar of East Market street building by State and city police against bandits results in one bandit being wounded and four others lodged in jail.
John Rittenmeyer promoted to sergeant on city police force. Col. R.M. Vail named chairman of American Legion unemployment drive here.
County Commissioner John A. MacGuire and George E. Gwilliam announced as candidates for delegates to Republican national convention.
Feb. 17th -- One thousand Boy Scouts participate in annual review at West Side Armory.
Feb. 18th -- Death of Dr. John L. Batterton, retired Forty Fort physician.
Y.M.C.A. property on North Main street proposed as site for new post office, which would give Y.M.C.A. opportunity to erect its new home.
Feb. 19th -- Dr. Anthony A. Sincavage, Sugar Notch dentist, dies.
Second Welsh Presbyterian congregation rededicates remodeled church.
Glee clubs of Meyers high school present operetta, The Fire Prince, to large audience.
Feb. 20th -- Capt. Frank Hawks, aviator, flies here to speak at Westmoreland club.
$12,000 damage by fire which destroys office and garage of Fox Hill Coal Co., Plains.
Feb. 21st -- Masons of twelfth district of Pennsylvania hold Washington Bicentennial service at Central M.E. church with sermon by Rev. Dr. H.F. Randolph, pastor.
Memory of first President is observed at many churches.
Feb. 22nd -- Celebration of 200th anniversary of the birth of George Washington continues here with many dinners and entertainments.
Dieu le Veut commandery, Knights Templar, plants tree at Irem Country Club. 
Feb. 24th -- Ice cutting gets under way locally for first time this season, with crop eight to twelve inches thick.
Trinity Lutheran church dedicates its new organ with recital.
Representatives of New Yirk coal dealers arrive to inspect mines and collieries.
Feb. 25th -- Death of Fred W. Ellis, for ten years chairman of Luzerne County Jr. O.U.A.M. executive committee.
Larksville mine workers appeal to commissioners for jobs on county roads.
City and county officials agree to lease airport land at Forty Fort.
John H. Dando and Peter Kanjorski succeed R.B. Smith and D.O. Coughlin as assistant district attorneys.
Dr. Austin O’Malley, scientist and author, native of Pittston, dies at Philadelphia.
Feb. 26th -- Committee in Washington to discuss new post office told that to get larger appropriation two or three years would elapse and that with present arrangement work could be started at once on present site.
Capt. Joel Walp, old river boat captain, dies at Kingston.
Death of James C. Mayock, Miners Mills business man.
Feb. 28th -- Thirtieth anniversary of beginning of disastrous 1902 flood finds Susquehanna river exceptionally low.
Feb. 29th -- Leading coal companies announce reduction in retail price of coal.
State banks have resources of $106,800,000 in county.

MARCH
Mar. 1st -- City council adopts amendments to lease airport.
Bankers dine Charles Laycock of 50th anniversary of entering banking field.
300 attend Nanticoke St. David’s day dinner at which United States Senator James J. Davis speaks.
Gen. Edward Martin, State treasurer, feted by legionnaires here.
Mar. 2nd -- Details of State police from Wyoming barracks patrol roads in Poconos in effort to capture kidnapers of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., son of famous aviator.
St. David’s society has annual dinner here.
Mar. 3rd -- Cherry trees on river common formally dedicated by city officials.
Death of Margaret L. Morgan, principal of Hill street school.
Mar. 4th -- John and Andrew Law, twins of West Pittston and Forty Fort, celebrate 75th birthday anniversary.
Government authorities ban all forms of fuel except anthracite in new post office in Wilkes-Barre and Nanticoke and change specifications for federal building at Allentown to eliminate coal.
Mar. 5th -- Mrs. Esther Wadhams Shoemaker Norris dies.
Nine young men jailed by court here in effort to break up coal bootlegging.
Mar. 6th -- Worst blizzard of winter plays havoc with travel and communication in Wyoming Valley.
Mar. 7th -- John R. Morrissey, William A. Corcoran, Carl J. burke and Thomas F. Burke, Jr., admitted to Luzerne county bar.
Valley digs itself out of blizzard; communications affected in some parts. 
Last day for filing petitions at Harrisburg finds several score Luzerne countians in fight for various offices.
Mar. 8th -- Edward J. Rutledge, Pittston business man, dies.
Michale Umbewust, holder of world’s record for hitching fire horses, retires from local fire department.
Mar. 9th -- Death of A.B. Constine, retires city merchant.
City will get $28,337 for street repairs from State highway department.
W.H. Fregans, assistant to president of Lehigh Valley Coal Co., dies at office.
Mrs. Mary Mooney, mother of Tom Mooney, famous California labor leader, pleads here for aid to get him released from prison.
Mar. 11th -- Edward C. George of Parsons named assistant to president of Lehigh Valley Coal Co.
Forty-Fort collieries in District 1, U.M.W. of A., vote to go on strike, minus sanction of union officials.
Mar. 12th -- Capt. William A. Clark and Chief County Detective Richard Powell return from Honolulu with Peter M. DeLuca.
District mine union officials term proposed strike unwarranted and take steps to block it. 
Anthracite mines of Northern Pennsylvania produced 59,000,000 tons of coal in 1931, according to secretary of  mines; 138,000 men employed.
Mar. 14th -- Eight major collieries in Luzerne and Lackawanna counties affected as outlaw strike opens; insurgents picket collieries.
Mar. 15th -- George Nicholson, vice president and assistant general manager of Vulcan Iron Works, dies.
City council votes to acquire jointly with county the control of Wyoming Valley airport.
Mar. 16th -- Death of William G. Harding, retired businessman.
John R. Martin, city business man dies.
More than forty persons overcome by leaking illuminating gas in Nanticoke.
Dynamiting in region laid to strike sympathizers.
Mar. 18th -- Sheriff Kniffen proclaims state of disorder existing in the county, resulting in acts of violence in outlaw strike.
State police break up demonstration of several thousand miners and strike sympathizers at Pittston.
Mar. 20th -- Seven local mine unions vote to continue working; three vote to join strikers.
Mar. 21st -- Alexander band delights large audience in annual concert.
Mar. 22nd -- Local Red Cross and Community Welfare federation requisition 3,220,862 pounds of flour from National Red Cross for relief work here.
Larger working forces reported at all mines.
Mar. 23rd -- William S. Goff elected chairman of board of Hanover Bank & Trust Co.,; Henry Weigand named president.
Attorney Albert W. Johnson, Jr., appointed assistant district attorney.
Julian P. Boyd, editor of Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, elected director of New York State Historical Association.
Mar. 24th -- Judge Valentine grants rule to have E.J. Phillips Thomas Finnegan, Patrick Sweeney and Adam Yankoski, Hanover township commissioners, show why they should not be removed from office.
Welfare federation urges consolidation of five agencies under on head for economy.
Mar. 25th -- Many collieries work locally with reduced forces. 
Alleged strike sympathizers of Pittston arrested on charges of assault and battery and highway robbery.
Mar. 26th -- Armed men abduct two employes of Percy A. Brown & Co. and steal $5,073.
Congress adopts amendment to revenue bill placing tax of ten % per 100 pounds on all imported anthracite.
Mar. 27th -- Churches thronged locally for Easter celebrations.
Mar. 28th -- County experiences heaviest snowfall of 1931-32 season; thousands of men put to work cleaning snow off roads.
Delegation of striking miners goes to Harrisburg and tells Gov. Pinchot of alleged violence suffered at hands of police. 
Mar. 29th -- $100,000 damage caused by fire which destroys several Hazleton business places.
Only four collieries reported idle as thousands of striking miners return to work.
Mar. 30th -- Many changes in local pastorates reported impending as Wyoming Conference goes into session at Binghamton.
Price of coal is cut second time in two months here.
Mar. 31st -- Strike call is rescinded by joint strike committee at meeting. 

APRIL
Apr. 1st -- Samuel Hicks of Kingston, Mrs. E.A. Martin of Tunkhannock and Rev. Dr. L.K. Willman among the delegates elected by Wyoming Conference to M.E. general conference.
Alfred Kumitis, bandit gang leader, is convicted by two juries on two charges.
River reaches 20.4 feet.
Apr. 2nd -- River begins receding after reaching 22 feet.
Dr. L.C. Murdoch, M.E. clergyman and former local pastor, retires.
Apr. 3rd -- Gen. Smedley D. Butler speaks on law enforcement to large audience at Irem Temple.
Death of John L. Symons, insurance man.
Apr. 4th -- New pastor in Valley churches announced by the Wyoming Conference are: Rev. H.R. Brong, Courtdale; Rev. V.S. Mumbulo, Forty Fort; Rev. Norman W. Clemens, Kingston; Rev. Arthur L. Davies, Plymouth; Rev. George Truscott, West Nanticoke; Rev. David L. MacDonald, Derr memorial, city; and Rev. M.S. Dodd, Firwood, city.
Death of Mrs. Mary Lyman Richardson Hand, widow of Attorney I.P. Hand.
Apr. 6th -- max Friedlander, Hazleton, county assessor ten years, dies.
Wyoming Valley Alumni chorus gives its first concert.
Apr. 7th -- Death of Dr. Alexander Armstrong, White Haven specialist and former superintendent of sanitarium there.
Adolph Hansen elected conductor of Concordia Singing society for fortieth year.
$190,423 loss by fire in city in 1931, according to Chief Flannery.
Apr. 8th -- L.T. Seward, 92, justice of the peace at Shickshinny twenty-seven years, dies.
2,000 attend opening session of third annual 109th Field Artillery horse show.
Death of Mrs. Jesse Briggs, Sunday school teacher seventy-five years.
Thomas Maloney, one of leaders of outlaw strike, resigns as president of Local 466, Stanton colliery.
Apr. 9th -- Death of Rev. Harry Daniels, pastor of Shickshinny M.E. church. 
Directors of Tanners Bank of Noxen and Wyoming National Bank of Tunkhannock meet in Wilkes-Barre and vote to consolidate their banks.
Death of Attorney Franklin C. Mosier, Pittston, Civil War veteran.
Apr. 11th -- Eleven carloads of flour arrive here for distribution among needy families of valley.
Larksville relief associations negotiate for use of Richards island for gardens for unemployed.
Apr. 12th -- Luzerne county will receive $289,000 for unemployment relief under Talbot Act allocations. 
Apr. 13th -- Four thousand hear Gov. Pinchot and Gen. Smedley Butler speak on latter’s candidacy for U.S. Senator.
Eugene T. Giering elected president of Kis-Lyn board of managers.
Dr. William G. Dietz, dean of Hazleton physicians, dies.
Chamber of Commerce delegates of Northeastern Pennsylvania discuss stabilization of anthracite industry and economic problems.
Apr. 14th Nine thousand fishing licenses issued on eve of fishing season opening. 
Petition filed with city clerk asking referendum on airport.
Apr. 17th -- Franklin R. McKeever, Duluth, Minn., appointed executive director of United Charities.
Apr. 18th -- Three barbers fined here for violation of Sunday Blue Law of 1794.
E.A. Philbrick appointed chairman of Wyoming Valley economic reconstruction movement; F. M. Kirby named honorary chairman.
Apr. 19th -- Henry Weigand, Justin Bergman, H.D. Adamy, John C. Haddock, Charles Weissman, William S. McLean, Albert J. Llewellyn, William E. Mannear and Franck G. Darte elected Chamber of Commerce directors.
Wilkes-Barre council finally passes ordinances for leasing of airport.
Apr. 20th -- Rev. J.G. Kane, Nanticoke, and D. R. Tredinnick, city, elected delegates to Presbyterian General Assembly at Denver by Lackawanna Presbytery.
Dickson City police arrest Baltimore man believed to have committed many robberies here.
Apr. 21st -- Mrs. Mary M. Stone resigns as secretary of Luzerne County Bible society, ending sixty years religious work.
West Side Womens’ Choral club scores hit in first concert.
Apr. 22nd -- Rev. J.H. Magee, pastor Hudson P.M. church, resigns to accept a call to St. Clair.
Court fills 100 vacancies on election boards.
Apr. 23rd -- State police raid ten places in Hazleton.
Fire wardens arrest three men locally for starting forest fires.
Lowell Thomas adventurer and lecturer, speaks here.
Apr. 25th -- Tabler placed in Osterhout Library in memory of Hannah Packard James and Myrn Poland, first two librarians.
Apr. 26th -- Arthur H. James, Plymouth, leads for State Superior vourt judge; Congressman C. Murray Turpin and Dr. Casey lead Republican and Democratic parties for Congressional nominations.
Plymouth  relief association secures Richards Island in Susquehanna river for garden plots for unemployed men. Dean Wilbur H. Fleck of Wyoming Seminary named Kis-Lyn director.
Apr. 27th -- Returns show election of George Gwilliam and John MacGuffie as Republican delegates and Dr. Leo C. Mundy and John Malinowski as Democratic delegates to party conventions.
Laning Harvey gets both nominations for reelection to State Senate.
Rev. A.B. Russell, city, elected president fo Pennsylvania Conference of P.M. churches.
Apr. 29th -- $10,000 damage to Reese’s Bazaar and two other stores from fire.
Board completes official count of election in twelve hours.
 
MAY
May 1st -- Greek Catholic parishes here celebrate Easter with solemn services.
Clark D. Smith of Dallas cited for Carnegie bronze medal for heroism for saving two playmates from drowning.
May 2nd -- State department of forests and waters ship 144,500trees to Luzerne county planters.
First list of 428 high school seniors for graduation approved by city school board.
700 attend dinner at fifty-first Rotary District conference in city.
May 3rd -- City council receives list of charges filed against Councilman John Nobel by Mrs. Daniel Dailey.
$550,000 in insurance on city buildings is awarded.
Executive board of District 1, United Mine Workers, reported to have decided to penalize 100 men for participation in recent outlaw strike.
Coughlin high school orchestra presents annual concert.
May 4th -- Man, suspected of setting fire to Plymouth store, dies in hospital of burns received in fire.
225 delegates attend annual meeting of Luzerne County Federation of Women’s clubs. Mrs. J.B. Tobias reelected president.
May 5th -- Thomas Maloney, insurgent strike leader, is expelled from miners union for fifteen years by District 1 board; 19 other men also punished.
May 6th -- Charles D. Linskill, 92, Civil War veteran and Wyoming Valley’s oldest newspaperman, passes away at Wyoming.
May 8th -- War Mothers of Wilkes-Barre and Parsons visit tomb of Unknown Soldier at Washington.
Rev. Elvin Zuck occupies pulpit of Parsons P.M. church as new pastor.
May 9th -- Hundreds attend funeral of Charles D. Linskill, author of Here and There letters.
Many prominent mining men of country attend convention of Mine Inspectors Institute of North America here.
Supreme Court upholds mine union in its action of refusing to place Thomas Maloney’s name on union ballots.
Trial of Valmont Development Co. against Luzerne County opens before Judge Valentine and jury.
May 10th -- Sunday school workers of county open fiftieth annual convention at First M.E. church.
court right avenue school orchestra, Miss Helen Spare, director, receives Kiwanis club cup in annual contest.
20,000 persons attend eucharistic congress at Sugar Notch; Bishop T.C. O’Reilly and many priests officiate before beautiful open-air altar.
County commissioners prepare to distribute $119,625, first installment of Talbot appropriation, to more than score of municipalities.
May 11th -- Eight hundred teachers, officials and former pupils attend dinner in honor of Jacob P. Breidinger, retiring principal of Coughlin high school.
Vincenzo Damiano, one of four men indicted for Campbell-Reilly murder, is severely wounded by gunman in New York.
Hymn composed by J. Andrew Boyd is sung at Sunday school convention as part of fiftieth anniversary program.
May 12th -- Bishop T.C. O’Reilly confirms 106 boys at Kis-Lyn Industrial school.
May 13th -- Thomas L. Varker of Shavertown is made general manager of Wilkes-Barre Can Co.
May 14th -- Jury awards Valmont Development Co. $222,180 damages in bridge land case; Luzerne county officials will seek new trial.
Two employees of American Stores Co. abducted and robbed of $2,000.
May 16th -- Master Plumbers association opens state convention here.
Maurice C. Gaertner, former president of poor board and Wilkes-Barre Deposit & Savings Bank, dies at home in Madison, N.J.
Death of Rev. Slinton B. Henry, retired M.E. minister.
James F. Talesio, wanted by New York police for shooting of Vincenzo Damiano, slain there by gunman.
May 17th -- Fred J. Schumaker and Andrew Davis, chiefs of police in Parsons and Miners Mills before consolidation, named sergeants on city police force.
$15,000 damage by Pittston fire police find was incendiary.
Mrs. Daniel Dailey threatens council with mandamus action unless it acts on charges brought against Councilman Nobel.
May 19th -- Court refuses plea of Sugar Notch election board members for new trial.
May 20th -- Referendum move on airport fight fails when only 13 ½ % of necessary names are placed on petition.
May 21st -- Seven Luzerne county young men ordained into priesthood at Scranton, one at Hartford and two at Albany.
State department of banking takes over Peoples Savings and Trust Co., Duryea.
May 22nd -- Edwin Grasse, blind musician plays to large audience as opening feature of educational week for blind.
Local Eagles initiate 580 candidates, largest class in United States for year.
Serve-Your-City club conducts annual memorial exercises on Public Square.
Rev. John G. Davis, prominent Philadelphia clergyman, a native of Plymouth, dies.
May 23rd -- Board of Second ward, first district, Kingston, goes on trial; four changes in vote in district shown.
May 24th -- Court convicts William Hart, judge of election at Kingston, and acquits three other members of board.
Severe hardships seen for four state-aided hospitals of county as result of opinion of State attorney-general that State appropriations must be curtailed.
May 25th -- Rev. E.S. Jenkins, pastor of Second Welsh Congregational church, dies on fishing trip.
Proximity of Memorial day recalls that only ten of original 1147 members of Conyngham post survive.
City school board effects half-mill reduction in tax levy.
General hospital staff gives dinner for Dr. Charles Long o fiftieth anniversary as practicing physician.
May 26th -- Concordia delights large audience at spring concert.
300 attend meeting at court house to discuss county plan to coordinate work of poor districts and welfare agencies.
May 27th -- Mr. And Mrs. James Anderson of Trucksville celebrate 59th wedding anniversary. 
American Legion bicentennial parade spoiled by thunder storm.; thousands of onlookers drenched.
May 28th -- Second petition to oust four majority commissioners of Hanover township filed.
$18,000 damage by fire to two homes, store and a garage at Yatesville.
May 29th -- Twenty thousand see Washington bicentennial parade at Nanticoke; Joseph Moscicki, son of Polish president, speaks.
May 30th -- Dr. Albert J. Houlihan, Avoca dentist, dies.
Death of Mrs. Phoebe Jones, 83.
Five Civil War veterans take part in city Memorial day exercises; parades and exercises mark day in nearby communities.
May 31st -- Court paroles convicted member of Kingston election board.
Three members of Sugar Notch elected board also paroled after being sentenced to pay fines of $250 each and serve six months in jail.
Peter M. DeLuca goes on trial for murder of Alex Campbell, mine leader.

JUNE
June 1st -- Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey circus plays here to larger audiences than any other city except New York and Brooklyn.
Olin W. Evans elected city Republican chairman.
Richard Trethaway, businessman and school director, dies.
June 3rd -- Temple Israel celebrates 10th anniversary of organization.
Death of Jonathan R. Jones, Heights resident.
Almon W. Rood, Nanticoke’s last Civil War veteran, dies.
June 4th -- Judge E. Foster Heller speaks at Kirby day exercises; thousands attend. 
State rests in DeLuca case after calling fifty-one witnesses.
June 6th -- Glen Alden Coal Co. takes out permit to build $63,000 boiler house at South Wilkes-Barre colliery.
June 7th -- Col. Dorrance Reynolds reelected president of Chamber of Commerce.
Three friemen and two patrolmen appointed by council.
Attorney Charles P. Stroh dies in Freeland office.
Eleven West side school districts receive shares of Kingston township proprietors’ fund.
County judges called to witness stand in DeLuca trial.
Wyoming seminary graduates 103 at 87th commencement.
June 8th -- Rev. Dr. L.D. Ulrich named trustee of Muhlenburg college.
June 9th -- Peter M. DeLuca is convicted of murder and sentence is fixed at life imprisonment by jury, out 90 minutes.
Death of James M. Boland, insurance man.
125 delegates register for opening of United Commercial Travelers convention.
Central Poor Board officers face serious problem as requests for aid show 35 % increase over 1931.
June 10th -- John J. Strickler, former mine inspector, dies at Hazleton.
300 Luzerne county legionnaires leave for Washington as part of bonus army.
June 11th -- Death of Attorney John J. Boyle of Larksville.
June 14th -- Arthur E. Baines, district superintendent of F.W. Woolworth Co., dies.
Capt. Erroll Boyd, noted aviator, stops at local airport and announces plans to fly around world.
June 15th -- Arrest of five men by Kingston, city and county authorities clears many robberies.
June 16th -- John MacGuffie and George E. Gwilliam, local delegates to Republican national convention at Chicago, vote for renomination of Hoover and Curtis.
June 18th -- Ranks of Conyngham post, G.A.R., drop to eight as death takes Zachary T. Moyer and Miller H. Cooke.
Rabbi Samuel Wolk elected president of Wyoming Valley Welfare council.
474 receive diplomas at commencement exercises of three Wilkes-Barre high schools.
June 19th -- State police clear several attempted extortion cases, including one at Nanticoke, with arrest of J.C. Thoman, who attempted to get money from J.H. Magee, wealthy Bloomsburg carpet manufacturer.
James F. Gilden, member of Miners Examining Board, dies.
June 20th -- Work started on new home for Mr. & Mrs. John N. Conyngham at Lehman, to cost more than $100,000.
J.C. Thoman, extortionist, sentenced to eighteen years in jail at Bloomsburg.
New federal tax on imported anthracite expected to stop flood of foreign coal.
June 21st -- Dr. Leo C. Mundy, city is elected chairman of Democratic county committee.
1,000 Nobles attend ceremonial at Irem temple.
June 22nd -- Death of John Miller, West Pittston Civil War veteran and president for Seven-county Veterans’ association.
Fire does $20,000 damage to home of A.L. Parks, Dallas.
June 23rd -- Executive board of District 1, United Mine Workers, announces thirty-four men suspended from union.
Alexander Sloane, Pittston, P.J. Wynne, Jenkins township, and John D. Davis, Avoca, appointed members of Pittston-Jenkins-Taylor poor board by Luzerne county court; they take seats with Garfield Lewis of Old Forge and Titus Evans for Taylor, appointed by Lackawanna court.
Plains State Bank taken over by State.
June 24th -- Three central city sites offered to government for temporary post office.
June 25th -- James Marley, undertaker and former county coroner, dies.
June 26th -- Negotiations under way for reopening of Forty Fort and Harry E. collieries of former Temple Coal Co.
Mercury hits 92.
June 27th -- Garfield Lewis elected president of Pittston-Jenkins-Taylor poor board.
William J. Kear elected to city school board to fill vacancy.
June 28th -- Fire destroys Harris-Denly Coal Co. breaker at Exeter with loss of $50,000.
June 29th -- Five hundred mothers and 1,600 children affected by cut in mothers’ assistance fund appropriation.
Roman Catholic Lithuanian Alliance of America opens convention in city.
Louis Kiscunas, city, saves two boys from drowning in Mundy’s Glen. 
June 30th -- Congressman Sol. Bloom of New York, associate director of Washington bicentennial celebration, tells of plans. 

JULY
July 2nd -- Dr. H.H. Shenk, State Archivist, speaks at exercises at Wyoming monument.
City defers opening of swimming pools when unable to meet State health requirements.
$750,000 interest is credited to depositors of local bank.
July 3rd -- Twenty thousand attend Italian day celebration at Fernbrook park.
July 4th -- Fifty persons injured in fireworks accidents in Wyoming Valley.
Thousand visit parks and resorts in spite of rain.
St. John’s R.C. parish, Hazleton, dedicates $95,000 parochial school.
July 6th -- Plymouth raises fund to send Ben Johnson, high school track star, to Olympic games tryouts at California.
July 7th -- George Bowen is elected principal of West Wyoming schools.
Death of David W. Jordan, foreman of old Dickson machine shops.
July 8th -- Council authorizes changing of names of thirty-seven streets to avoid duplications.
Miss Mary Sheehan and Sumner B. Dennis, veteran employees of city post office, retired.
July 10th -- Dr. H.L. Whitney, Plymouth physician and civic leader, dies.
State police raid rooster fight in Pittston township and arrest 24.
Mary E. Oplinger, Nanticoke; Alice Donley and Helen E. Koerner, Wilkes-Barre school teachers, retired.
July 11th -- Margaret Hoffman, Kingston, establishes world record for breast stroke in international swimming event at New York.
Fire destroys abandoned Conlon breaker, Hudson, with $50,000 loss.
July 13th -- Death of Rev. Anthony Pavco, Hazleton.
Congressman Turpin taken to Naval hospital, Washington, when he collapses in corridor of capitol.
Mercury goes from 76 to 90 degrees in eight hours.
July 14th -- Bostock Wild Animal Circus and Cody Wild West Show plays here to big crowd.
July 17th -- Hailstones do much damage in Avoca during storm; hundreds of windows broken.
July 18th -- Fire destroys three houses in Wyoming with $20,000 loss.
Hanover township taxpayers bring suit against school board to compel it to cut tax rate.
July 19th -- Homer Mallow announces plans for $250,000 amusement centre in Edwardsville near Kirby park.
Polish Union of America opens annual meeting here and discusses plans for new home in city.
July 20th -- Rev. Beecher M. Rutledge, rector of St. Clement’s Episcopal church, resigns to become rector of Owego, N.Y., church.
1,200 children give pageant at Kirby park on 25th anniversary of opening of first city playground.
July 21st -- County Republican convention goes on record favoring repeal of 18th Amendment; William M. Multer, Forty Fort, elected county chairman.
July 22nd -- Mrs. Mary Louise Poland, owner of Hotel Poland, dies.
July 24th -- Flagpole dedicated in Hanover Green cemetery by Pershing post, Veterans of Foreign War.
July 26th -- Police of nearby communities and State police join in chase for bandits who held up LaPorte bank and in making getaway exchanged shots with Nanticoke and Shickshinny police.
400 attend Communist meeting at which James W. Ford, Negro candidate for vice-president speaks.
July 27th -- Indications of spurt in anthracite trade seen here as coal companies post work notices for almost every colliery in region.
Howard Strong, secretary of Chamber of Commerece, tells of benefits of city manager plan at Urban Institute, State College.
July 28th -- Infestation of gypsy moth discovered near Pittston; is only one known outside of New England.
Alderman John Jordan of Pittston, dies.
Tuition fees for non-resident students meet payroll of Shickshinny grade teachers for year.
200 lawyers attend outing at Fox Hill Country club.
July 29th -- Death of Alex V. Kizis, Pittston undertaker.
 
AUGUST
Aug. 1st -- Col. J. Ford Dorrance, native and former prominent resident of Wyoming Valley, dies at Bel Air, Md.
Plains township commissioners finally accept bond of Tax Collector Miner Roberts.
Aug. 2nd -- Rev. D.J. Kane, Hazleton, formerly of Wilkes-Barre, made a monsignor.
Nine bidders submit proposals for garbage removal in city at low prices; abandonment of collection urged.
Col. Dorrance Reynolds declares city manager plan logical way to conduct a city.
Aug. 3rd -- Three miners killed in rock fall at No. 2 shaft of No. 4 colliery, Kingston Coal Co.
City Controller Yencha, advocate of garbage collection abandonment, declares there is little or no garbage in city.
Aug. 4th -- Marjorie Austin, G.A.R. high school student, elected playground mayor.
Council votes to abandon collection of garbage.
Aug. 5th -- Two bandits take $846 payroll from manager of bakery here.
Lorenzo Whitney, city, elected president of Seven County Veterans association.
Aug. 6th -- Dr. J.J. Koeyan and family narrowly escape death when disgruntled employee fires twenty shots at them.
Aug. 8th -- Big pays announced here for miners; Glen Alden’s total $1,000,000.
Aug. 9th -- J.P. Flanagan, Thomas Quigley and George Hess, local men, lease plot in Bradford county containing 10,000,000 tons of bituminous and semi-anthracite coal.
Kingston borough council has upheaval and many employees are replaced.
Aug. 10th -- Eighteen made homeless when early morning fire destroys two Ashley homes.
Arthur E. Uber, State College, named principal of Dallas borough schools.
Louis Bisiadoeski, Glen Lyon, who murdered his wife on Memorial day, 1931, sentenced to life imprisonment.
Judge C.M. Culver of Bradford county speaks at first regional conference of W.C.T.U., here. 
Aug. 11th -- City opens two new tennis courts in East End.
Three Ashley residents held in connection with fire on August 10.
Aug. 12th -- Judge W.A. Valentine hands down decision ordering Hanover school board to make $138,000 reduction in budget, with slash in taxes from 13.1 to 10.3 mills. He also lists salary reductions to be made.
Report that operators will request reopening of working agreement between miners and operators to negotiate reduction in wages.
Aug. 15th -- St. Vincent’s church, Plymouth, marks 50th anniversary of cornerstone laying with special services.
Aug. 16th -- Arthur A. Bloomburg appointed manager of Property owners Association of Luzerne county.
Coxton Welfare association outing at Harvey’s Lake attended by 8,000.
Aug. 17th -- Police and fire department rout 100 or more vagrants from Coal street dump and burn their shacks.
Death of W.J. Kelly, city merchant and former councilman.
Aug. 18th -- Polish Medical and Dental Society of America opens national convention in Wilkes-Barre. 
Aug. 19th -- Strike of Chauncey colliery, Lee Coal Co., at Plymouth, in effect since may, ended and 300 return to work.
Three farmers in Dallas, Kingston and Jackson townships are first persons to borrow money from Federal Reconstruction Finance Corp.
Christmas Liguorr, 49, Wilkes-Barre, violent patient at Retreat, dies of injuries received when he attacked hospital guards.
Aug. 21st -- Two men arrested at Painesville, Ohio, believed to be ones who held up LaPorte bank. Local State police go to Ohio to bring them back.
109th Field Artillery goes to Tobyhanna for annual encampment; camp named in honor of late Private Edwin Hyde Raub.
Aug. 22nd -- Parley to consider cut in miners’ wages called for in New York on September 6.
Wilton Lackaye, noted actor and husband of Wilkes-Barre woman, dies in New York.
147 tennis players start annual tournament in Kirby park; Wilkes-Barre Record trophies to be awarded.
Aug. 24th -- Forty Fort and Harry E. collieries to reopen on September 1st.
Edgar A. Conroy, businessman and head of Plymouth relief committee, dies.
Maj. Gen. William G. Price, retiring head of national guard, dined by 109th officers.
Aug. 26th -- Pennsylvania-Liberty bank depositors to get second 15% dividend.
Contractor refuses to turn over keys to new Hanover township school until he is paid.
Aug. 28th -- Rev. D.J. Kane, Hazleton, elevated to monsignori by Bishop T.C. O’Reilley.
George C. Walsh, division director of Paramount-Publix Theatres, dined by associates.
Aug. 29th -- County commissioners decide that until December 1st no penalties on taxes, amounting to a minimum of 61/2 % will be collected; other levying bodies asked to do likewise.
Wilkes-Barre Railway Corp. tells city officials it cannot pay its share on city roadwork this year.
Aug. 30th -- Two men blown to bits when Dupont Powder Co. plant at Moosic explodes.
John B. Morrissey, 27, prominent lawyer, dies.
Death of John G. Hooper, 85, old resident.
Pittston school board threatens drastic action if Pittston township board does not pay back tuition.
Aug. 31st -- Thousands view eclipse of sun; 94% totally in vicinity.
Gov. Pinchot appoints board to handle relief funds in county, Charles B. Waller, chairman, Mrs. Charles Long, Michael Hartneady, Rev. H.R. Taxdal and Dr. J.J. Kocyan.
Valley gets real hot weather, mercury ranging from 94 to 100 degrees. 
Frank Goeltz wins Wyoming Valley tennis title and Duncan Thomas takes boys’ singles championships at Kirby park; receive Record trophies.

SEPTEMBER
Sept. 1st -- County commissioners bring suit against former Commissioners D.M. Rosser and L.J. Harrison, ex-controller H.T. butts and the surety company for payment of $30,000 on their bonds.
Dorothy Boone wins Woman’s tennis singles of Wyoming valley; receives Record trophy.
Sept. 2nd -- Death of Mrs. Anne Koons Parrish.
Hanover school board cuts salaries of janitors nearly 50%.
Jacob Cohen, prominent Jewish resident, dies.
Sept. 4th -- Many Mocanaqua mine workers reported hurt in fights at outing.
Other winners of tennis tournament: Frank Weeks and Everett LaBarre, men’s doubles; Raymond Krise and Fred Gallagher, boys’ doubles; Thomas Tinsley and Kathryn Jones, mixed doubles.
Hanover school directors continue efforts to reduce expenses and cut $10,000 from teachers’ salaries. 
Sister Mary Bernard, superintendent of Mercy hospital, dies.
Sept. 5th -- Thousands attend outings at nearby parks as season comes to close.
Dr. Raymond Lynde Wadhams, Wilkes-Barre physician, dies of heart attack. 
Raymond Schwenk of Catasauqua and John K. Bennett of Chattanooga, Tenn., sentenced to Penitentiary by Judge A. B. Smith at Laporte on charge of robbing a bank.
Sept. 6th -- Six miners’ representatives and six operators go into session in New York to discuss proposed reduction in miners’ wages.
31 collieries here show big increase in workings for second half of August.
Nanticoke school board gives $100 yearly increase to 41 teachers.
Sept. 8th -- Fred M. Kirby buys home of late Judge John V. Kosek on Academy street and his summer place at Harvey’s lake and presents them to Wilkes-Barre post, American Legion .
Hebrew Loan Society opens drive for $25,000 to help needy Jews.
Death of Mrs. William S. Sharkey, Kingston, Republican worker.
Sept. 9th -- Republicans in county far outnumber Democrats on first registration day.
200 delegates attend meeting of Pennsylvania chapter Greeters of America, at the Sterling.
Rev. John Hall Griffith honored at reception given by parish on thirty-fifth anniversary as vicar of St. Peter’s Episcopal church, Plymouth.
Sept. 11th -- John A. Riley receives place on State Democratic executive committee when mayor Hart declares nomination.
3,010 persons take Lehigh Valley excursion from city to Niagara Falls.
Sept. 12th -- Dorrance colliery miners riot and injure State policeman when he arrests man.
Hanover commissioners reject list of 5,000 exonerations presented by tax collector.
Mrs. Mary Sordoni, mother of Senator A. J. Sordoni and court interpreter for many years, dies.
Sept. 13th -- City council approves transfer of farmers’ market from South Pennsylvania avenue to Scott street.
Fire crews fight twelve forest fires locally.
Mr. And Mrs. Iowerth Jones of the Heights celebrate golden wedding.
Sept. 14th -- Death of Alex. E. Skuzinski, first controller of Nanticoke. 
Announcement made No. 9 colliery of Pittston Co. will reopen, giving work to 1,800 men, after being closed since June.
Sept. 15th -- Two persons killed, sixteen injured when Martz bus, bound from New York to Wilkes-Barre, hits truck in New Jersey.
Ten residents of county attend Welfare conference at White House in Washington.
Sept. 16th -- Rev. J.P. Pitcher named supply rector at St. Clement’s church.
Two Allentown real estate men found guilty here of false pretense in inducing Freeland widow to sell her property and buy other property.
Pauline Heermance of Yonkers named general secretary of Local Y.W.C.A.
Sept. 18th -- Thieves loot fifteen automobiles belonging to firemen of No.2 Co. when they are out on call.
Sept. 19th -- Rev. L.R. Guier, pastor of Free Methodist church, city, transferred to Ferndale, N.Y.; succeeded here by Rev. A.K. Lindsley.
Wilkes-Barre township school board invokes part payment plan for taxes; first board to do so in county.
George M. Yencha, city controller, urged two-day furlough without pay each month for all school district employees.
Joseph E. Hudock pleads guilty to murder on charge of having killed Stanley E. Yarish and set fire to his body.
Sept. 20th -- Death of Thomas J. McLaughlin president of First national Bank of Avoca.
Sept. 21st -- Joseph E. Hudock is sentenced to death by electrocution.
Mr. And Mrs. Emil Malinowski celebrate golden wedding anniversary.
Thirty-two days’ drought here is longest in history of Water Co.’s records for 16 years.
Thousands attend first formal fall style openings of central city stores.
Sept. 22nd -- Hebrew Free Loan society drive exceeds quota; ends with big dinner.
August W. Grebe submits to council plan for dredging the river channel east of Richards Island and establishing a boulevard there.
Sept. 23rd -- Drastic efforts to be made by local courts to collect $25,000 fines and costs uncollected each year.
Slight rain does little for the drought but helps alleviate forest fire situation.
$4,000 damage caused by explosion and fire at Miller Oil Co. service station on Scott street.
Sept. 25th -- Four Luzerne county men arrested in riot of striking miners at Springfield, Ill., in which one man was killed.
90 county students enrolled in freshman class at State college.
Buffalo, N.Y. police arrest man believed wanted here for 1923 killing.
Death of Robert L. Dailey, real estate man.
Sept. 26th -- Rev. William P. Lynch, assistant at Sacred Heart church, Plains, named pastor at Stowell.
Arrangements made by farmers to establish market on Valmont plot in Kingston.
William Johnson, sought in death of Charles Ford, surrenders to police after nine-day search.
Deficit looms in welfare federation funds due to large needs for help.
Sept. 27th -- Mr. And Mrs. W.T. Colborn, Ashley residents, celebrate golden wedding anniversary.
Lackawanna Presbytery opens fall session at Plymouth. 
Counsel and officials of water company have informal conference woth Public Service Commission and tell latter they are willing to open negotiations again.
Dr. C. Murray Trupin and Dr. Casey, candidates for Congress pledge themselves for repeal of prohibition at non-partisan meeting held here.
Sept. 28th -- Attorney Neil Chrisman named chairman of Welfare Federation drive.
Forty Fort and Kingston township school boards adopt deferred payment plan for taxes.
Plans and specifications for new post office received here.
Sept. 29th November 14th selected as date for start of Welfare drive.
Sept. 30th -- Rainfall for September least in sixteen years.
Fred C. Kirkendall opens his miniature railroad at Dallas with appropriate ceremonies.
City Controller George M. Yencha presents annual city audit to council together with plan for two-day a month furlough without pay for all city employees.

OCTOBER
Oct. 2nd -- Attorney George R. Wright, president of First national bank, Dallas, dies.
Rev. James D. Bryen celebrates 25th year as pastor of Kingston Baptist church.
Kingston Coal Co. starts to reclaim old shaft of Gaylord colliery, Plymouth.
Oct. 3rd -- John Lloyd Evans, Kingston, chorus leader and tipstaff, dies.
Announcement made of 10% payment to Dime bank depositors. 
Five witnesses testify they voted illegally in 8th ward, second district of Wilkes-Barre, and are committed to jail in default of bail on charges of violating the election laws.
City school  board abates all penalties and property liens on delinquent taxes paid before December 1st.
Oct. 4th -- Efforts of operators to negotiate reduction in wages ends in failure after long conference with mine union officials. Each side will select one man to continue further discussions.
Oct. 5th -- taking of testimony to prove 57 charges in ouster proceedings against majority members of Hanover township board of commissioners begins before Judge W.S. McLean.
John Steve, Hanover policeman, found not guilty in the shooting of Vincent Mateline.
1,500 attend mass meeting at Irem Temple at which prohibition is discussed from all angles.
Oct. 6th -- Merchants from hard coal regions meet here to discuss plans for fight on retail sales tax. 
Two days’ heavy rain ends drought and causes six-foot rise in river.
Luzerne county gets $177,056 as share of Reconstruction Finance Corporation’s appropriation to State.
Death of George F. Wesley, Sweet Valley, undertaker.
Oct. 7th -- G.R. Wright wills bulk of $100,000 estate to local Association for Blind.
Republican campaign in county begins with mass meeting of 1,000 State and county employees and Republican workers.
Word received that $80,000 will be available for Hazleton federal building this year.
Oct. 8th -- Bucket brigade of 125 men successfully battles fire which burns two Nuangola cottages.
Oct. 9th -- Thirty thousand attend Holy name rally in Kirby park at which Bishop T.C. O’Reilly pronounces benediction.
Local synagogs thronged for Atonement Eve services.
Rev. M.H. Corgan of Nanticoke, retired priest, dies in Mercy hospital.
Oct. 10th -- John M. Dudrick, Jr., and J.S. Russin admitted to local bar.
Councilman Joseph G. Schuler drafts plan to cut city tax rate from 15.4 to 14 mills.
John Roselli of Buffalo is returned here to be questioned for fatal stabbing of Anthony Durko on December 26, 1932.
Roy A. Briggs, Nescopeck farmer, gets potato yield of 400 bushels an acre for eleventh year.
Oct. 11th -- J. Edward Canto, Max Rosen and Joseph Serling, admitted to practice law before Luzerne  county courts.
Death of Thomas H. Hopkins, former Pittston city clerk.
Oct. 12th -- Registration figures show drop of 12,500 voters in county for presidential election.
Chamber of Commerce appoints committee to work out plan of action in supporting merchants in fight on retail sales tax.
Oct. 13th -- Judge B.R. Jones in decision for court in banc, affirms award of $521,755,79 to Kingston Coal Co. in suit against Glen Alden Coal Co.
Pettebone breaker of glen Alden Coal Co. at Kingston, razed.
Wilkes-Barre city school teachers adopt resolution expressing opposition to proposed wage cuts.
Oct. 14th -- Attorney John E. Jenkins dies at Kingston.
Edward Conroy and Alfred J. Kline, Allentown realty men, sentenced to serve three years in county jail here on charge of false pretense.
Rev. Carlton N. Jones, Bendertown, appointed pastor of Moriah Congregation church, Nanticoke.
Oct. 16th -- Dial Rock Coal Co. begins work of building $100,000 breaker at Wyoming to employ 500 men.
109th Field Artillery regiment celebrates 157th anniversary.
The Record starts publishing history of 109th regiment by Col. W.H. Zierdt.
Death of Mrs. Thomas A. Gavin, wife of Record advertising manager.
Rev. Hansen Bergen resigns as pastor of Stella Presbyterian church, Forty Fort, to accept call to Eau Claire, Wis.
D.E. Thomas, former heights merchant, dies.
Oct. 17th -- Welfare federation campaign goal set at $540,000.
Hope that Butler colliery of Pittston Co. will start to work soon seen after conferences of operators and employees.
300 additional pupils enroll in city night schools.
Chamber of Commerce report shows 41 mines operated 448 days in first half of October.
Oct. 18th -- Mr. And Mrs. Frank S. Clark, Parsons, celebrate golden wedding anniversary.
Mr. And Mrs. John Kehoe, Pittston, present to St. John’s parish, Pittston, valuable property for expansion of parochial school.
Death of Alfred L. Rowe, retired, of Nanticoke.
Oct. 19th -- Frank Ward O’Malley, famous newspaperman and author, native of Pittston, dies at Tours, France.
Akron, Ohio, contractor, low bidder on construction of new post office.
Hanover school board fixes tax levy at 10.3 mills.
Butler breaker employees and Pittston Co. officials reach agreement on wage rates; 1,200 men hope to return to work.
Death of John Hughes, retired business man.
George H. Warner, West Pittston Civil War Veteran, dies.
Oct. 20th -- Mrs. William Arthur, Jr., Plymouth, elected president at annual meeting of Woman’s  Missionary society of Wilkes-Barre and Binghamton districts of M.E. church, here.
Members of Mineral and Forest Land Taxation Commission of Pennsylvania guests at dinner here.
Fire destroys Independent Baking Co. plant at Duryea with loss of $45,000.
Oct. 21st -- Stanton breaker of Glen Alden Coal Co., being prepared for resumption of work, totally destroyed by fire with loss of nearly $1,000,000; 2,000 men affected.
City offers to provide $25,000 for material for city work if county relief board will supply food orders for men employed.
Mr. And Mrs. W.H. Sadler, city, celebrate50th wedding anniversary.
Joseph Tumulty, former secretary to president Wilson, addresses Democrats here. 
Oct. 23rd -- Luzerne County Christian Endeavorers have annual convention at Plymouth.
Luther League of Swedish Lutheran churches of Philadelphia district hold annual meeting of Trinity Lutheran church, city, Rev. W.R. Bergh, pastor, reelected president. 
Glen Alden Coal Co. seeks plan for putting 2,000 Stanton colliery employees to work.
John D. Jones, mining engineer, dies at Kingston.
Oct. 24th -- Death of Rev. David L. MacDonald, 61, pastor of Derr Memorial M.E. church, city.
Oct. 25th -- Rev. Adrian B. foote, Whitney Point, N.Y., named pastor of Plymouth M.E. church.
Thomas J. Williams, 72, Kingston, State mine inspector for 23 years, dies.
Oct. 26th -- Monsignor P.J. Boland, Pittston and Attorney E.C. Marianelli, Wilkes-Barre, added to Luzerne County Emergency Relief Board.
Oct. 27th -- Jacob Bausch, Cleveland, formerly of Wilkes-Barre, named supervisor of local Blind association.
Oct. 28th -- Exeter council buries factional differences and finally decides on seventeen-mill levy on eve of grand jury investigation of its failure to fix millage.
Oct. 29th -- Polish residents celebrate Pulaski day with program at West Side armory.
Daughters of 1812 unveil marker to Thomas Lamoreaux, veteran of War of 1812, in Jackson township.
Oct. 30th -- Death of Attorney Oscar C. Foster, West Pittston, deputy county prothonotary. 
Conference Pennsylvania sections, National Council of Jewish Women, opens convention here.
Oct. 31st -- D.M. Rosser, L.J. Harrison, and P.J. Conway, former county commissioners, paroled.
Mrs. A.L. Liveright, State director of welfare, addresses Jewish women’s meeting.
Big Hallowe’en parades held in Pittston and Wilkes-Barre.
Dr. D.W. White, native of Luzerne, dies at Tulsa, Okla.
Joseph Moses, 22, Luzerne, dies of broken neck suffered in game, second football fatality of season.
 
NOVEMBER
Nov. 1st -- Martin J. Gallagher, White Haven, celebrates 105th birthday anniversary; members of Methuselah club visit him.
22,000 hunting licenses issued in county to date.
John Kehoe of Pittston and Sr. William H. Berge of Scranton lease No. 10 Tunnel of Lehigh Valley Coal Co. at Duryea.
High wind uproots many trees and breaks many windows; rain and wind spoil first day of hunting season.
Death of John Schmidt, mason contractor.
Nov. 2nd -- Kingston township high school dedicated.
Gene Tunney, retired heavyweight boxing champion, addresses 5,000 persons at Democratic rally.
2,000 persons attend colorful Shrine program at Irem Temple.
Nov. 3rd -- William P. Weiss, city, in charge of local Federal employment office, dismissed by Gov. Pinchot for sending political literature in government envelopes containing work relief requisitions.
Rev. C.H. Newing, city, addresses County W.C.T.U. at midyear convention in Kingston.
Plans for big holiday lighting system made by Chamber of Commerce.
Nov. 4th -- Frank Morrison, secretary of American Federation of Labor, and George Rublee, former member of Federal Trade Commission, selected to arbitrate in question of reduction in miners’ wages.
Z.S. Robbins, lumber dealer, killed when hit by train.
Nov. 6th -- Rev. Joseph E. Sullivan of Corpus Christi, Texas, native of Luzerne, gets pilot’s license to use his own plane in his work.
St. John’s Lutheran church, city, celebrates 60th anniversary of founding.
Postal men of Northeastern Pennsylvania hold convention here over week-end.
Nov. 7th -- County prepares for Presidential election; 165,709 voters registered.
Nov. 8th -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, successful Democratic candidate for President, carries county; C. Murray Turpin, returned to Congress and Arthur H. James elected to State Superior court.
Election costs the county $25,000.
Two men entombed in cave in abandoned mine at Avoca; one rescued after four hours.
John Mattern, Sr., prominent florist, dies.
Nov. 9th -- Louis Doran, Avoca, dies in hospital soon after being taken out of mine where he had been entombed 29 hours.
Nov. 10th -- Wyoming Valley banks prepare to mail out $987,500 to Christmas club depositors.
Pennsylvania Hotel association opens state convention at the Sterling.
Lupe Guerero, who escaped from county jail on November 3rd is captured in New York.
Nov. 11th -- Armistics day celebrated in valley with parades, programs and dinners.
Shawnee Choral society of Plymouth wins main event at annual Eisteddfod at Y.M.C.A. 
Rev. Francis L. Conner, 32, native of Kingston, dies at Newark.
Nov. 12th -- E.E. Heimbach of Allentown is elected president of Pennsylvania Hotel association.
Nov. 13th -- M.E. church at Hunlock Creek is dedicated.
Many M.E. bishops, attending world meeting at Scranton occupy local pulpits.
Nov. 14th -- Old Globe store site on Public Square selected for temporary post office.
Joseph Roselli, Buffalo, goes on trial for murder of Anthony Durka in 1923.
First Reformed church, city, opens its 100th anniversary celebration.
Community Welfare federations open drives in city, Pittston and Hazleton.
Nov. 15th -- Court instructs jury to free Joseph Roselli when latter’s connection with Durka murder is not fully established.
Councilman J.G. Schuler urges that city drop post of sealer of weights and measures as an economy measure.
Nov. 16th -- Closed banks of city and vicinity are consolidated as an economy measure.
Nov. 17th -- Anthony Petrosky, Ashley, arrested at Allentown and admits, police said, being one of two men who figured in murder of Peter Cutler; other crimes, among them, brutal clubbong of daughter of Emil Malinowski, believed solved by the arrest.
New $20,000 high school at Nescopeck is dedicated
Rulison Evans, manager of Wilkes-Barre division of Scranton-Spring Brook Water Service Co., named to board of directors of company.
Nov. 18th -- John C. MacCartney, city, named county mining engineer.
Nov. 21st -- Welfare federation drive goes over top here, workers getting $549,438; Pittston drive also exceeds quota.
Police centre hunt here for Frank Stabinski, other men in Cutler murder.
Nov. 22nd -- Man holds up Dr. H. Irvin Evans at Ashley; Dr. Evans identifies him as Stabinski.
J. Andrew Boyd, associate editor of the Record, guest of honor at dinner given by the owner of the newspaper marking his 60th year as an employee; total years of service Mr. Boyd and seven other guests is 324.
Orpheus Glee club delights large audience with minstrel show.
City firemen repair old and broken toys for distribution to needy children.
Nov. 23rd -- Attorney Leo C. Schwartzkopf, former assistant district attorney, dies at Pittston.
Frank Stabinski, sought as slayer of Peter Cutler, is arrested on street in the central part of the city.
Death of John R. Taylor, Hazleton dentist.
Nov. 24th -- Thanksgiving day observed with largely attended church services; thousands attend football games.
Nov. 27th -- Stabinski and Petrosky face another murder charge when Miss Mary Malinowski, daughter of County Assessor Emil Malinowski, dies of injuries suffered when assaulted by them.
Death of George Casper, businessman.
Y.M.C.A. reported preparing to start work on its new building in the spring.
Derr Memorial M.E. church opens its 40th anniversary celebration.
Nov. 28th -- Hearing of charges in ouster action against four majority commissioners of Hanover township resumed before Judge W.S. McLean.
Members of city school board and the property owners association go over school budget in three-hour session.
Nov. 29th -- Owners of teams in New York, Pennsylvania Baseball league meet here and oppose plan to reduce salary limit of teams to $2,000 a month.
George Kocher, 85, White Haven undertaker, guest at dinner given by colleagues.
Charles Wagner, Philip Cyphers, Joseph Richards and Edward Richards named by court to Warrior Run school board.
Nov. 30th -- Stephen R. Barron, of Stockton on trial for murder of Stanley Yurish, collapses on stand and is taken to Mercy hospital.

Typed by Pat Dundore,  July 2003