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0 TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 191C. WILKE3-BAREE SEUI-WEEKLY RECORD TUESDAY, JANUARY 4. 191G. SILYER WEDDING SOUNDING THE ATMOSPHERE 1: AUDITORS SURCHARGE STOP MILL' CHEEK'S DR. MENGEL' APPOINTS What the Government is Doing in Ex Mr.

and Mrs. James Gillman Observe Twtnty-nvth Anniversary of Their Marriage SCHOOL DIRECTORS SURGICALASSOCIATESi plonng the Air .1 tDalty Record, Jan. 1.1 FLOW INTO MIIJE The depths ot the sea and the secrets "ley noia have been explored hr ear Organizes Staff of New Lehigh Valley Dally Kecord. Dec. 81.1 The silver wedding annlvorcary ob-servance of Mr.

and Mrs. J.anies Gill-man of 202 Parrish street, at their home last night, was in every respect nosaible a dUDllcate of 'the original tain of the government's dentists for Lehigh Valley Coal Company Work generations, but It Is only in paratively recant vtan Mit Hold Members of Pittston Township Board to Strict Accountability for Unbusiness Like Methods ceremony which it commemorated. The wedding ceremony was reconducted, Medical Department, Founded By F. M. Chase men Steer Stream Away From Mammoth Cave not by the same pastor dui Dy meir win governments scientific workers have turned their attention upward and nav begun to sound, with, kites and balloons, instead of the lead, the almost limitless ocean of the atmosphere.

In order eystcmatlcallv to advann thA present Re v. B. I Romberger. Many of the same friends who attended the wedding of twenty-live years ago were there to congratulate the couple upon irood health and happiness, ex espiorauons or the nir. which Is tho great Pandora's box of the weather, the Weather Bureau is Just now completing the installation of elaborr.t kit Daily Record.

Jan. 1 School directors of the Pittston MESS TENT ERECTED Dally Record. Jan. 1. Dr.

8. P. Mengel, chief of the new medi 700.00 225.00 1.192.14 Land returns Melan bill Melan bill Melan repairs and balloon handling equipment for FOR ARMY OF LABORERS tending felicitations also for a continuance of both. The original ceremony was performed by Rev. J.

C. Krause. then pastor of the church. Last cal department of the Lehigh Valley Township School District received an unwelcome New Tear's greeting In the report of the auditors. Attorney upper air investigations at Its 'station near umana, iveo.

J3.SC6.57 M. J. Torlinakl of Nanticoke and Wii Total John Fabian; 4.ne government's unoer air wnrk night a gold ring was used which was the gift of the twenty-five year bridegroom to his twenty-five year bride. Was becrun at the old Mount Wanthar Electric Lights Installed So Night Coal Company, has organised his staff of seventeen physicians and surgeon who will orry on the work with him, and following a meeting In this city yesterday, he submitted the appointments to F. M.

Chase, vice.oreaidcnt Ham C. Allan of this city, which was tiled with the prothonotary yesterday Exonerations $1,424.: Sayre colliery at Mount Carmel Dr. 'llensyl, Mshanoy tClty; Park Place colliery at Parle Place; Buclr Mountain Colliery at Buck Mountain: Primrose colliery and Sprlngdale washery at Mahanoy City. Dr. George Merkel, of Miners vllle; Blackwood colliery at Blackwood, who will also have charge of tho Lytle colliery of the Susquehanna Ceal Company.

Dr. H. M. Neal of Upper Lehigh, Buok' Mountain colliery at Eckley; Drifton colliery at Drifton; Eckley washery and Drifton shops. Dr.

D. A. Huebner, Fern Glen: Derrin oDaervatory in Virginia nearly ten years ago. Because, however, of the Coal contract 30.65 afternoon, and wblob aurcAarges tue During the evening the choir of seven directors In sums ranging from Work Can Be Carried On Big Hole is to Be Filled Up uesire to secure datA on the eastward-moving storms in early stares, th Vir Abatements Land returns Melan bill 68.02 700.00 232.00 11. 881.7 to 14,074.43.

Grove street Evangelical Church sang appropriate selections. Verbal congratulations were showered upon the and general manager of the company. Who orlaluated the Dlan. The doctor The tax collector K. J.

Keating did ginia station has been abandonld and not escape his share of the responsi honored couple and they were the re and the collieries which will come'under me woric has been transferred to the vicinity of Omaha, where the disturb- $2,444.93 cipients of many beautiful gifts of ait Total John J. Keefe: bility for he Is surcharged fz.iss.zs, credits given him by the directors on ances first become well developed after tneir care are as follows: Dr. W. E. Hughes, Ashley; Warrior.

Run and Franklin collieries. Daily Record. Jan. l.J The Lehigh Valley Coal Co. has sue that seemed to have no limit to that seemed to have not limit to 1U exonerations on real estate, abate Exonerations $1,424.

26 Dr. R. S. WoehVla. Parsons: Prosnect supply or variety of good things.

no aisruptinr innuence of tho Rockies are left behind. The balloon work In the est was got menu and land returns, and which Coal contract 1.00 ceeded In stopping Mill Creek The union of Mr. and Mrs. Gillman 58.0 credits are disallowed by the auditors. and Mineral Spring collieries.

Dr. E. W. Bixby. Wllkes-Barre: Dor- nowlng into its Hillman vein through the opening which was made there 700.00 The audit Is a thorough one as to unaer way much In advance of the kite-flying; activities since tho.

equipment of the signal sen-ice at Fort rance collltry. has been blessed with three sons, Harry, Robert and William. Harry Is married to Rowena Davis Gillman, and ger colliery at Derringer; Tonihloken colliery at Tomhloken; Gowen colliery at Oowen. Dr. J.

H. ton go, Shepton; Oneida colliery at Shepton. i Dr. J. P.

Roberts, Shenanioh; PacW collieries Nos. 2, 3, 4 and 6 at Lost Croak, the finances and affairs of the dis 232.00 Abatements Land returns Melan bill Melan bill Melan bill Melan repairs when an immense cave occured under 4 triot, and while the auditors make allowances in some instances, they 225.00 192.00 ur. James Brooks. Plains; Henry colliery and Mldvale shops. Dr.

W. H. Bern. Avnra- Tr.lrIclVu.ro- the creek bed about two weeks ago. umaha for producing hydrogen gas for inflations has been placed by the they reside at 57 McCarragher street Robert and William live at home.

hold the board to a strict accounta 1.192.14 TCar Department at the service of the NO. 1 at AVOCB. HaJdalVu.ro- Nn 9 at The wedding guests last night weo i bility for the unbusinesslike methods rvreather Bureau. It has been neces Total Only a thin stream Is escaping from the dam which diverts the water from tho cave hole to the big wooden flume which has been constructed to carry It sary to install a complete kite-handling Mr, atd Mrs. J.

M. Gillman, JoJ-n R. Gillman, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pnir, Ashley; Mrs.

William Graham. Scran- Patrick McGarry: vYiiuam at old Forge, No. lw tunnel at Duryea, and Austin colliery at Rendham. Dr. C.

W. PreVOHt. Wast inn- Ran. $4,074.42 $1,424.26 S1.00 piant However, and this has been done on a forty-acre farm secured for the purpose about twenty, mfies weet Of colliery at Pittston Htovens and xon; Mr. ar.u Mrs.

Robert Kauffman, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Fray, Mr.

and Mra pnst the opening, and that Is hourly being decrease by the plugging of the S3. 02 Exeter collieries at Exeter. Dr. J. L.

Hoffman. Forty Fort: Wast. ueorge Harter, Mr. and Mrs. Gorge 700.00 trap with hay, clav and other mate Smith.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Strittmat- Exonerations Coal contract Abatements Land returns Melan bill Melan bill Melan bill Total rials. The sluiceway Is successfully more land colliery at West Wyoming. Dr.

D. O. Rohttlhold. Fnrf Vnrt ter. Mr.

and Mrs. Harry Gillman, Mr. 232.00 225.00 192.00 serving its purpose of can-vine- the ana Mrs. Christian Treat, Rev. and Brownsville and Glrardvtlle A meeting of, the staff was held here with Dr.

Mengelt yesterday, afternoon. The' surgeons were instructed in the company's requirements, as to tho points to be looked after, responses to calls from the colliery foremen and other factors that must' be met The workmen's compensation act as It affects medical attention was thoroughly discussed and it provisions explained. Further meetings of the staff will be held from time to time, and In a short while the department will be organized, as Mr. Chase has planned to be, one of the biggest social welfare agencies maintained by a business corporation In the interest of Its employees. creek until a new channel can be dug employed, una auunors Buy ai iue outset; ICb Books of Account "As" no books of account were kept by the school board, we were com I polled, to make and state an account of the' finances of the school district, and then audit the same.

Most of our time was taken In making and stating the aforesaid account," The auditors find, however, that all the moneys received by W. I Foster, treasurer of the school district are fully accounted for and that he con ducted the office of treasurer in an able and efficient manner. The total enrollment of the school district was 121Slwlth an average; Mrs. h. I Romberger, Mrs.

W. H. Dobson, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Red- and until the cave opening can be ftUed.

$2,882.23 Maltby colliery at Swoyerville. Dr. W. S. Carter, West Hasleton; Haxleton No.

1 shaft and Hazleton shaft at Hazleton and Beaver Meadow colUery at Heaver Brook. click, Mr. and Mrs. A. M.

Lehr, Mra omaha. The tract is high, level and free from timber. In the very centre of It has been erected a revolving reelhouse not unlike the revolving room of an astronomical observatory. This structure can be turned, therefore, with the wind, and the reel so placed in best position to play out and wind In the miles of fine piano wire, which the government kite fliers substitute for the small boy's cord. Electricity has been called to the assistance of the Weather Bureau's experts, and will operate the reel since, bv electrically driven mechanism, any Thomas Mulherln: Although the water lias been stop John Wert.

Miss Diana Hawk. -Mr. and Mrs. John Poase. Mrs.

Norman, ped from flowing Into the mine, which was the most Important immediate Dr. J. A. Farrar. Sorins? Mountain 40.65 232.00 225.00 192.00 colliery at Jeanesville: SDrlna- Brook Coal contract Melan bill Melan bill Melan bill Melan repairs air.

ana airs. j. ijuuiey, Mrs. A. Davis, Frank Biair, Aehley; Carl Graban, Scrantou; M.

II. Hawk. William Jlllev. colliery and Sorlna- Brook washerv at step, an Immense amount of work remains before the affected area can be Audenrlcd. 1.192.14 Dr.

William T. Williams, Mount Car- 1 Ralph Rowe, Harold Smith, Ralph Engler, 11. Snyder. William GUI- Total $1,881.79 made safe, and it will be several months before operations can be resumed in Hillman vein. The entire cave hole, Mr.

Chase, the general manager, said yesterday, will have to be desired speed can easily and quickly be attained. To furnish the needed power dally attendance of 1043, and an aver- Patrick Cltsham: man, Robert Gillman, Miss Grace Blair. Ashley: Miss Nellie Bracelield. Mataraoras. Misses RELIGION IN 1915 for this purpose and for the machinery age cost per pupil per, month of $2.74.

There are nine school buildings, all Coal contract 47.10 Melan bill 232.00 liliad before it will be safe to work under the cavo, otherwise the sides been notable increase- in the production of religious musical New York Times. $3,000,000 INCREASE of the well equipped carpenter shop In which the scores of kites will be manufactured, tho eovernment is installing Melan bill 225.00 Gillman. Vera Davis, Edna Cmlth, Carrie-JUleyt Margaret Smith, Lau Treat. Beatrice Thomas. Lillian Tnr.

War Tragedy Credited With Turning frame, none supplied with fire ex tingulshers or apparatus for fire pro! might fall In and a catastrophe be precipitated that would Involve the Joss Melan bill 192.00 Melan repairs 1,192.14 tectlon, and that the ventilation in the Cork Lane and old school at Du- ner, Ethol Caoterllne, Ethel Wilcox, Florence Engler, Florence Romberger. Men's Minds to Contemplate Serious Things of hundicds of lives. an electric generating plant driven uy gasoline motor, and it is only the setting no of this machinery that Is lack Toi pirride shelter for tho men who pont Is very poor. are on the job, and who are ing to bring the new plant to com requited to be out in all kinds or A HEALTHFUL CITY Clearing House If 15 iftrport Shows December Deciease Hut Advance For Twelve Months Total $1,888.24 E. J.

Keating, tax collector: Exonerations $1,424.26 Abatements 68.02 Land returns 700.00 Dally Record. Dec. 31. weather. Mr.

Chaso yeaterday had a Religion, despite the war, has made Mi; mess tent erected on the grounds. This has been made warm by the in pletion. When kite-flying operations are got under way they will not bo confined. a is the small boy's sport, to the blustery months of spring, but wlU extend through the seasons year In and year out. Box kites will be used and Report of Contagious Disease: extraordinary progress In this country For troduction of oil stoves, the bottoms Total $2,182.28 and throughout the world 111 the year Year Shows Big Decreases Over 1914 1915.

Although the chhrcueo entered upon the year much discouraged on Dally Record, Jan. l. final report of the WUkes- Clearir.g House yesterday a decrease In the amauat Surcharges Entered The' "auditors surcharge the school directors for excessive coal bills for having approved the payment of the fuel contract to Thomas A. Lynott, the highest bidder, and most of them for exonerating real estate, abatements and land returns, and for approving bills of E. Francis Milan for work and repairs without asking for competitive bids.

The directors are surcharged as follows: John T. McAndrew: The Barre of t.ie tent walls being chinked with so2 to keep out the cold air. Tables iind benches have been installed, where the men can cat their luncheons, and the company is providing warm they will to sent aloft In "teams" of from six to nine, a new kite beinr shows attached whenever the weight of th tho past month as compared to De Daily Record, Jan. l.J According to a report submitted to wire beams to drag. cember of 1914, but tho totals for tho In the first kite are placed the Instru As to the exonerations and abatements allowed the tax collector the auditors hold that al estate does not come within the classes of property which the law permits to be exonerated from taxes, the abatements surcharged is an amount for which no abatement certificates vere produced avd the exoneration of land returns had not been entered of record the city council by Health Ofticer Gnbriel yesterday there were 63 less rrtents, the carrying of which aloft Is year show an Increase ot nearly throe million cases of contagious diseases In soup, conee and sanawicnes to men who aro required to do extra work.

Electric lights have been installed in this club tent and all over tl.o grounds, so that work can be carried on night and day. The men employed on the trenches and in building the sluiceways have been doing yeo Following Is the detailed state Exonerations the object of tne whole elaborate pia.i, and all of the operations are carried on within It. These Instruments weigh between two and three pounds and by $1,424.26 61.00 ment of the clearings for the year as compared to tho same mjnlh ot the preceding year: Wllkes-Barre in 1915 than in 1914. In 1914 there were 2,460 cases and sixty-six deaths, while In the last year the cases numbered 1,803 and deaths sixty-three. clockwork record on a revolving cyi account of the disturbance of material things, they have been making steady gains.

Some alalvsia of the situation hold that the minds of men are turned by tho tragedies of the trenches and the battlefronts to consider life from a more serious point of view. The year 1916 will open- with the hopes bf religious leaders fixed on still greater fruttlon for their work. Statistics now. at hand from the principal religious bodies In the United States show an increase of 780,000 in a total of nine large denominations which were credited with having 13,800,000 communicants out of the grand total of 88,726,000 re with the proper county authorities. 1915 191 inder variations In air pressure, tern Coal contract Abatements Land returns Melan bill Melan bill Melan bill Melan repairs man service for the company, some of them working twenty-four-hour nerature.

humidity and wind velocity, 58.02 700.00 232.00 225.00 192.00 1.192.14 7.225.B1 1 7,350,084 January The auditors further say that thev found fifty-eight names on the list of Following is a list of the various Such records, secured In the past, have February stretches in weather that was ex 6,114,467 exonerations of real estate credited cases reported in 1913 and the num ber of deaths: haustlnz and knee deep in ice cold to the tax collector when credit had been available to the weatner uureau in various ways, and with the improved facilities in a more important area even water. The company, on the other been taken for the same on land re March April May June "i hand, has been doing everything in its 6,482,720 6,669,860 6.665.481 7,030,856 7,100,928 77632,815 7,280,609 6,486,847 turns, thereby giving the tax collector 6,671,885 6.354,630 7,381,673 .85,34 newer to make the men comfortable. Total Joseph A. Keating: Exonerations more valuable results are loonea tor. While kites furnish an easy and in nxnnnslve means for the making of ob .1.

double credit, that the list c.r exoner atlons was made in a slipshod man July- The work has moved forward with $4,074.42 $1,424.26 85.15 68.02 Dths. 5 3 89 7 0 4 August surprising rapidity. In three days the Coal oon tract ner and had not been made a port ol men dun a trench that measured al the minutes of the board. Lvuiguia 6. 614,792 7,540,287 6,821,402 servations in the first few miles above the earth's surface, they cannot reach the really high altitudes.

In exploring the highest point to which tmn has most 2,000 feet ln length, varying from September October November December. 8,403,076 7,896,993 Cases Whooping cough 537 Measles 248 Tuberculosis 273 Diphtheria 207 Mumps 14S Scarlet fever 85 Typhoid fever, in 28 Typhoid fever, out of city 33 Erysipelas IS Scarlatina 7 Mcmnraneouy croup 6 Piphtheretlc croup 5 Oerebro-srinal mcninaitis 2 vear 25.000 peoplewere packed lit IN MEMORY OF JACOB RIIS ever been on mountain peaK or in aircraft the scientists of the Weather Bu the siunre to take part, aid bj 1. reau have made use of what has the reason there were not mora was that there was not an Inch of roam left Totals $87,017.10 $84,076,42 Increase, 1915, ported last year, When the complete figures axe complied In February it Is believed that the same substantial rate of Increase will be shown. Tho Indications are that smaller orflanlza-tions are making relative progress. The Presbyterian Church this year has gained a larger number of new members than In any year in Its history.

The gains of other churches for 1915 are: Catholics. 242.000;Baptlsts, 145.000; Methodists. 104.000; Lutherans, 60.000; Disciples, 60,000 and Episcopalians, 26,000. These figures four to fifteen feet in depth. This entire channel was walled and bottomed with two-inch planking, forming a sluiceway that will carry the entire creek In its normal flow.

A dam has been built In a day and one-half that will hold back the entire stream as soon as it sets, which it is expected to be to-day. It was necessary to build wing-walls back of the dam to keep for anvone else to stand In. appearance of an overgrown toy oai-loon of the sort dear to the hearts of children. The devises, called sounding Mrs. Franklin's "Lord God of 1915 BUILDING OPERATIONS Time." Is as follows: Tetanus 2 Lord God of time, look down and Thousands of Peopje Sing in the New Year thAnthenis and America (Exclusive Service of The Siuvcy Tress Bureau.) Two years ago 10,000 people Stood In the snow on Madison Square in Impetigo contagious 1 balloons, are maae or mj pui rubber, for the balloon gradually ex-with hydrogen gas are round and about a yard and a half In diameter.

When 1803 63 Mr. Gabriel recommended that steps City Suffered a Loss of $66,438 as Compared Same Period in 1914 bless Thy people as with eagerness The new year we await; Bid noise and shout and discord ceases would Indicate that of the more than released with recoramg instrument attached the balloons shoot rapidly up-nrat-A and ranch surcrlslns? altitudes. be taken to provide a permanent 100.000,000 inhabitants of the United States about 40,000,000 have church nurse the bureau of health. He The record, something more than 20 the heart of New Tork City, and sang That, for the moment, reveict.t said that the employmertt of such a membership. in the new year under leader nurse would easily reduce the num It Is asserted that one factor in Daily Record, Jan.

1. Wilkes-Barre suffered a loss of snip or Jacob A. Una. Last year ber of contagious diseases. He would miles above sea level, was maae in the summer of 1913 In southern California, The limit of the upward Journey ia virtually set by the Quality of the this growth on the Protestant side Is they sang in memory of Mr.

Ilils, have the nurse visit the homes where and this year they did it again, but due to the development of various activities among the laity, such as the Laymen's Missionary Movement and with a new clement. there are contagious diseases and render any assistance necessary to prevent a spreading of the disease. rubber, for the baloon gradually ex the creek from washing down the culm bank which it skirts. The entire dam will be covered with a splash apron to keep the creek from washing it out in flood time. A big steam shovel is rapidly digging out a new channel, which will take care of whatever floods the wooden flume cannot carry, and which will eventually carry the entire stream after the cave hole has been filled.

A track is being constructed from the chasm to a waste pile of mine rock In the Prospect yard. This will be used to plug the opening into the mine. The plugging will be done not only at the surface, but will start down in the workings, the All being supported by heavy cross timbers, wire and other In addition to the choristers, the pands as It rises, until at Its highest various efficiency organizations in promoters of civic song fears and The health officer called attention point It is several yaras in omuibwi. drift and the exDansion go which the members themselves help other sober folk who, for all tr.eir to the good work done at the baby welfare stations during the summer the clergy In surveys and canvassing. on until the elastic limit of the rubber enthusiasm are likely to get chil Contributions for missions to the months.

is reached, when tne Danoon ounw. Then a. small paraohute unfolds and blains, this year the promoters of the singing brought in the youngsters The inspectors of the bureau Inves- various denominations have been un usually large. The Protestant Epis lowers the Instrument with Its interest peace Our souls may dominate. Our island city fair doth He Her towers rise white against the sky: us her guardians trve.

That wo may uproot ill ihat mttra And Murs her vision of Uie -tard And hides her heaven blue. The year approaching is our own Within its bounds, lie foes unknown; Lord, who didst conquer sin. Give us r.ew courage for tha grf. To crush the wrong, uphoij tho right. And In the end to wia.

(Verses Copyright by Jean Dwlght Franklin.) WORK OF DISTRICT ATTORNEY tigated 1,471 complaints during the who are the chief nolse-makcrs in copal Church has raised $20,000,000 ing and valuable record genuy to tne i ii ti ua-uway ciianvari. a. niton for Its work and has exceeded Its year and made 3S6 fumigations. The scavenger disposed of 1,141 dogs, cats, chickens and rats. The dog catchers caught 425 dogs, of which number missionary apportionment.

The materials. The entire cave will be block away. Around the platform were boys from the neighborhood of the Jacob A. Rlis social settlement earth. A tag requests tne unun send the instrument to the Weather Bureau officials, and in virtually every case the device promptly reaches tho Methodists passed the amount which they hoped to raise by $105,000.

The 393 were killed. wearing badges "Jacob Rus liors. tilled. The extent of this task can be estimated when It is known that the two caves aggregate almost 600 feet in length, with a width varying from 100 Roman Catholics have been success men who sent it aioit. wasuiugiuu $66,438 In building operations in 1915 as compared with the operations of 1914.

In the last year buildings erected were valued at $1,073,700 while In the previous year the valuation was $1,143,238. Permits issued last year numbered 1,885. The permits included the following, kinds of buildings: Wooden, lnclud-onsed veneered, 197; additions, alterati and repairs to wopden- structures, 278; miscellaneous operations to wooden buildings, 290; brick and hollow tile. 167: repairs to brick and hollow tile structures. 164: stone, 4.

Cash received by the building departments for permits and from other sources amounted to $11,043.81. Ten master and thirty-one Journeymen plumbers were examined for city licenses. Eight master and twenty-nine electricians and forty-two moving picture operators were also examined. The plumbing department granted 616 permits and made 747 water tests and 885 smoke tests. Struck By Jitney Daily Record.

Jan. 1.1 Star. Troops of Boy Scouts were in evidence and roped-off spaces were BIRTHS FOR 1915 ful in obtaining abundant funds and they have recently started to raise to 200 feet, and with a depth of sev enty-five feet in places. $500,000 for a headquarters of the Common Pleas Notes provided for college groups. COLLEGE SONGS FIRST Kights of Columbus in this city.

One Hundred Four More Registered Benevolences to the war sufferers, Martin Hoxempa, trustee, vs. Frank Gaber. Ruie is granted to show riiiNA wnv luderment should not be At. 11 o'clock the singing began Than in Preceding Year The company has not yet been able to start pumping out the water which has been thrown into the Hillman vein. The pumps which were available vlth college songs.

Including the to Christian' associations, the Salvation Army and other agencies, have been very large. The Jews have re Presents 5,616 Transcripts to Grand song of every college that had men opened and defendant let Into a de-fensa. Returnable January 10, all have been flooded. Others, however, Daily Record, Jan. 1.1 present.

At 11:30 there wero hymns, cently started a movement to raise Juries During His Four-Year Term funds for those of their race In war are being installed and the work of ridding the mine of its unwelcome guest will be started within a day or proceedings to be stayed meantime. Hotchktss Co. vs. C. E.

Roat. Or der of tVptember 28-, 1915, Is con ending with "Lord God of Time." i written by Jean Dwtght Frnnklin and dedicated to Mr. Itiis, with taps at stricken lands. 'Births in Wllkes-Barre In 1513 numbered or 104 mor t'-an in 1914. The monthly total for tho )ar, including the number of ma'es and females, are as follows: Tha Catholics have shown a Dally Record, Jsn.

1.) two. 13 and then "America" as the big firmed, and the rule to show cause why the non resident plaintiffs should District Attorney John H. Bigelow, growth in influetice. and under the new Pope have Increased their power Mr. Chase nald yesterday that he hopes to have the Henty and other red eye of the Metropolitan tower Who retires from office on Monday after clock winked in the new year.

In various European countries, In not give security for costs is maae anlnta. collieries, which have been mude idle, Mrs. Franklin who was In charge, a four year term, has prepared a sum cluding Kngland. in operation again by Monday or v.iiiaheth Iobst vs. William W.

mary of the criminal business that Most of the religious faiths are Struck by a Jitney on South Main Tuesday. organised a committee of men In many diverse walks of life who were Shaffer. Amended schedule of dlstribu passed through his office during his street. Ashley, while crossing ther tlon allowed to be filed and confirmed friends of- Mr. Riis with Theodore term.

The figures show a creditable free from controversy. The Episcopalians ere debating still the question as to whether or not their board of Insane Man Escapes street in iront or nis nome, nuotrii v. Campbell, aged 45. was knocked to the! i Roosevelt as chairman. When Mr.

Rils started the plan la record in the disposition of criminal charges, as was a total of 5.616 indictments submitted to grand juries, and missions should have voted to setad Deputy Sheriff Thomas Hahn la pavement and allowed to remain there I searching South Bethlehem ar.d vi delegates to the Panama Congress on nisi. A. C. Foss vs. John J.

McGeehln. As above. Robert B. Alexander vs. Wilkes-Bnrre Anthracite Coal Co.

Court certifies that the value of the interests In 1913 there was no community celebration of any kind in New York until round by peuestrians iwcmy minutes later. The police of Ashley cinity for Kobert Williams, who es of which nearly half, or 2,534 were re t. -ned as true bills. religious work. The Presbyterians are still struggling with' the perennial caped from his custody while being City except the great throngs of tin horn-blowing, confetti-throwing peo Z.

Z. i a a January K2 84 161 0 M6 February 109 93 201 202 March 104 127 2S( 1 231 April 103 76 181 0 May 85 80 16r 0 1M June 98 112 208 2 210 July 93 .89 183 0 182 August 88 92 180 0 SO October 90 93 183 ft 83 93 77 170 0 170 113 91 204 0 204 The summary for the four years as problem of the orthodoxy of the controversy in the case is greater prepared by his secretary Frank Black, pie on Broadway. Sometimes the Union Theological Seminary. removed to the NorrUtown Insane asylum. Williams Is a former resident of Norristown but was com are investigating tne acciaeni ana looking for the driver of the Jitney.

Campbell received a fracture of the left leg and severe lacerations of the head and face. He was taken to his home. than S1.X00. shows the following: The literary output of the religious fun got pretty rough before midnight In his announcement Mr. min ttald: James Cool and others vs.

George Indictments presented to grand jury. mitted to the asylum from this coun organizations has been unusually li.rge. The printing of Bibles was Orosx. Service approved and Judg tv. While a nasseneer on a train The-1rgofrtirthy latory he 4 Williams leaped' from win flow true bills returned, pleas of convictions br Juryr S50; total convictions and pleas, acquittals, 528; percentage of convictions Tnnt19 directed to bo ntered sv favor of the plaintiffs and against the de world.

American publishers, in part South Bethlehem and disappeared- A Successful Trapper Arthur Rrmsri. from the vicinity of. because of the war, have even been Sheriff Kniflten yesterday removed selling conies of the scripture in The American and British the Ioty boys, confessed highwaymen, from the county jai: to tho In Foreign Bible Societies in 1915 have totals. 1915, 1147 1113 2255 6 2260 Totals, 1914. 1098 1058 2153 2166 Totals, 1918, 1048 .,976 2017 7 2024 by pleas and trial, 71 per cent Of the a -quitted, to wit, 528, mere than 200 were due to absence of prosecutors.

Number of nolle prosses, 6,640. Of the total number of true bills found all have been disposed of except the following: Fugitive indictments. 60: nuis distributed tho largest number ot Wapwallopan. who fclows trapping in that section, certainly has Jl Previous high records en to a otand-atll with his loct season's catoh. From the fields and woods near his home be trapped twenty-two possums, nine copies of Holy Writ In their Totals, 1912, 1034 912 1941 1446 stitutions to which they were sentenced.

Alfred Doty will spend three years In the penitentiary and Tsui will serve a term in the Huntingdon reformatory. Totals, 1911, 97S 1007 1971 183 The output of books on general Totals, 1910,. 956 904 1847 18 1S60 fendant. L. Strouse Co.

vs. Andrew Hard-Ish. Report of referee filed finding that Judgment should be entered In favor of the plaintiff for S87.ll with Interest from December 1. 1913, with cost of suit. Exceptions filed.

T. F. Tennman vsJohn M. Jones. Report of referee filed finding in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendant In the sum of 1,575, with Interest from November 8, 1915.

and therewith exceptions. Same day supplemented report of referee filed. W. Stewart Sons vs. John Shukonttls.

Rule granted to show ellprious subjects written bv both ance Indictments, 16; misdemeanors awaiting adjustments, felonies. 47. raccoons, eight wooe.es, ooe nm. two foxes, twenty sXunks ad 162 muskrats. clergymen and the devout laity, has reen unusually large.

There has also Klimtnatlng the fugitive Indictments Accept Cbnrck Vows Six sisters made their final pro which would not possibly have been tried, the district attorney's office has disposed of 97 per cent, of all the business arising during its administration and a considerable amount of business received from the last. fessions and eleven young womin resumed the habit of the order of the Immaculate Heart at Pcranton on Thursday, when Impressive services were conducted in the mother hoine cause why judgment should not be Cases of desertion and non-support of the order by Bishop Hoban. Miss "New York's manner of welcoming the New Year has come to be a Kind of rough-houslng that found its expression last year in the slogan we heard In the streets: To hell-' with the old year, hooray for the new one. We believe that our people are tired of this, and wilt be glad to join in a better and saner one more worthy of their city. "To this end a New Year's eve committee has come together to arrange for music and singing of the old songs in two or three of the public squares along Broadway in the midnight hour.

The people will be expected to Join in the singing." ONE BIG CELEBRATION The people did come together with a. right good will, but after the first year it was found much better to have one big celebration in Madison Square than to hold the various mail ones- in different "neighbor From the church of the Rev. Charles II. Parkhurst. which faces Madison Square, five-hundred mem-tern the choral societies marched nut and led In the singing.

The I JoiTned heartily In the fa-i tunes: "The Battle Hymn of Republic." "On, God. Our Help Ape Past." "Guide Me. Thou My God to Thee." "The V. S. A.

Forever." aad "The Star Spangled M'or Mr. Rlis died it was felt that! i a would fail through but last aggregated, 858; decrees of support were entered in 70S; the number of cases entered for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense. Returnable to argument court. National Register Co. vs.

Ed. Anna Iiedlngton, of Pittston, was among the novices to enter the orr and' in religion she be Vrown dismissed or adjusted were, 153; per centage of convictions, 83 per cent. wsrdsville Vnlon Co-operative Asso- as Sister M. Lucian. Rev.

iV. A. in addition to the above summary As above. convictions and cases of threats wcrefHW and Rev. D.

W. McCarthy, Frank E. Baldwin vs. Bernard heard aggregating, 21. New Rules in Handliag Cattle Dally Record, Jan.

1.1 The first of the year brings another change in the railroad rules for handling of as a part of the Cummins act. It Is similar to tho declaration of value of baarag checked by a passenger. No railroad will be responsible for cattle shinned without valuation having been placed on the animals and a scale of maximum valuations is allowed, above which the owner rnust declare any ray for on a percentage basis. This Is to insure the company's lip blllty. Quarrel Eds ia Shootinf; John Copalo, aged 81.

Is In Hr.sle-tbn Ststa Hospital suffering from four bullet wounds that were Inflicted yesterday by John Forte, aged 3, during a- quarrel over wages near their homes in Hailctom Forte also flred fifth shot at Copalo. but it missed the mark. Forte surrendered to tho police. None of the wounds nre considered fatal, unlesa complications set- in. i.

Breakstone and others. Prothonotary of this city, were among tho priesij in the sanctuary during the directed to file a plea of general Is Celebrates With "iaBt" Desiring to give rent to his feelings sue. WSkes-Barre Hazleton Promotions Leonard orris, in chnrge of the You Can't Cure HeacUchet With Drugs over the coming of the1 new year, John Golick of Carey's Patch, Ashley, placed i i i i Mice Start Fire A rDaily Record. Jsn. 1.1 Mice gnawing' at matches resulted' ticket office at HasJeton otthe Wllkes- rather heavy charge of "giant" on Barre tc Hailetn Kallwvy, has been the railing of his fence on Sively street at 11:59 last night and lit the promoted to assistant to Charts B.

in a fire that caused narly $500 I When vour eight is defective drags v.ill relieve your suffering, but will not curei Correctly fixed glasses Is too remedy. Eyes examined free-no drugs used. Glasses supplied when needed as low as $1., Broken lenses duplicated bring or mail pieces. We do noi une drops. 7 H.

BLASE, 2W. Market St, Wilkes-Barrer Pa. Houck. i-ice president a id peneral man fuse. A large section of the Golick fence is missing this morning as are of damage In home of Fre Carey ot 12? South; Sherman street at noor.

yesterday. No. 4-Company responded. The buildli ownei by, Fred Miller of Xoitlt Pennsylvania ager of the road. Raymond Zeebv baggage agent at-Hosleton, lias been pr-moter-to the tlck-et, office.

These appointments will become effv live on the windows in the Golick house and the homes of three neighbors: Golick Is being held in tho Ashley police sta jrVO JQQrn sallow mp w.mw b-fwk January V- tion for a hearing (his morning. i.

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