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'iWEDNESDAY THE PITTSTON GAZETTE JUNE 20, 1923 PAGETHRE3 sap 1 TTT CLERKS DF RETAIL LOCAL 4V, 74 Behind This Bant TOITOUE VALtJABLES in Some secure place about your home is too "risky. Give ther fba retortion thev should hav4 riAw. A i'l Deposit Vault rents for only Interest Paid on Saving Accounts.1 Greatest Month of 4ftieC to oni wfU natoraUr want th very finest te mnp we can famish. High in Quality tut law In Price. We Also Carry a Fine Private Borit Safe a small amount per year.

3 are ample capital and surplus to render ft firm in any emergency. Its service is prompt and sure. It has every department and equipment necessary tt tfhe transaction of banking along modern lines. Your business is solicited with a that it will be huadlsd with accuracy, promptness and cour tesy. A HAINStJRbAD STt.fITTSrdH.ftA I Peoples Union Savings Bank Serving This Community 52 Years, EDWARD HARW00D Wlie Music Man" New Lodatidn 6 N.

MAIN ST. Slimmer Clearance Sale 3YEARS TO PAY Wedding Time Means Gift And ftere at Our Store You Can Choose From the Largest Stock and Finest Gift Things. COME lqually attractive reductions on eVery piano or player or Re Mm4e mounted Gracd EDWARD IS HARW00D JEWELERS and DIAMOND MERCHANTS New Location 6 N. MAIN ST. NEXT TO PEOPLES BANK Can You Unless You See With Your Own Eyes that, such little children can take a Phonograph with them to a picnic? Colliery Pays Pennsylvania Coal Monday, June 26.

Ewen, 7 Storehouse. Tuesday, June 26. No, 9, num. Thursday, June 2Sj No. 6.

Saturday, June 30. No. 14. No. Bar Ilillsido Coal and Iron Co.

Thursday, June 28 Consolidated. Friday, June 29. Butler. A 6T1ATED MEETIiNG OF WTO ming Chapter, Ondetr of the Eastern Star, will be held next Saturday even ing. There will be no meetings during July and August.

SYBIL VOSE CABBY, aged 87 years, of Tumkhannock, died Sunday alfternoon. She is survived by one son, who is a resident' of Brit ish Columbia. MB0. CHARLOTTE SPERL, A trained nurse, died Monday at the Moses Taylor Hospital, Scranton. She is survived toy 'her lather, C.

E. Sperl, of Pasadena, Cal. TURON SCHWARTZ, OF THIS city, have been awarded the contract for the erection of a fine modern residence lor Dr. Walter Fitzsimmons, on Alain street. Old Forge.

The house wfll be of Dutch colonial THE PITTSTON FIREMEN WERE called out once more yesterday af ternoon at 4:30 o'clock to extinguish an incipient' tire that broke out In the rotten planking the floor of the Ferry Bridge. THERE iWILL BE A of the Ladies' Aid Society, of the First Plresbyterian Clhu rch, Broad street, dhis evening after the service in the lecture room. All members are urged to be present. THE ANNUAL OUTING OF WYO ming Chapiter, Order of the Eastern Starr will be Held at rFnnlbroolk Park' on Wednesday, June 27th, and all the members are urged to attend. Special Traction Co.

cars will leave Went Pittston at 9:30 m. THE MEETING OF THE COUN ty salary board scheduled lor today to consider increases in the pay of clerks and tother county employes was positioned for a week to permit the committee to perfect its report. PimSTCiN CRA'FTHMEIN' AN tiheir friends Will enjoy an outdoor dance this evening at Valley View Park. This is 'the itirst the club's outdioor social events and it is ex pected to be a. very successful one.

The music will be Iby Donlin's Penn syWanians. MRS. CATHERINE KREIDLER aged 51 years, wife of Daniel Kreidler, of 308 Lehigh street, Wilkesbarre, who died yesterday in Mercy Hospital fol lowing an operation, was the mother of Mrs. William Williams, Of this city. The funeral will be held' Friday morning.

THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE Republican Women of Luzerne County is being held this afternoon at the Woman's Club, on North River street, Wilkesbarre. The history of the year's work will he reviewed by Mrs, William S. Tompkins and Mrs. Joseph Koutledge. BCRANTON WITH A PROHIBI tion enforcement act is more "wide open" than New York without one.

was the statement made toy iMrs. Edward, Fraser, social worker of the Scranton Couincil of Church Women at meeting held (yesterday afternoon in Elm Park church. THE FUNERAL OF JOHN EN dres, who passed away yesterday af ternoon, will be held Friday afternoon with brief services at the home, on Reynolds street, at 2 o'clock. Services will be continued at' 2:30 olclock in St. Peter's LuDheran Church and interment will toe in St.

Peter's Lutheran Cemetery. THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE John Welles Hollenback will be held tomorrow afternoon, leaving the family home, on South Franklin street, Wilkesbarre, at two o'clock, Services will be conducted in the First Presbyterian Church at 2:30 o'clock by Rev. Dr. Farr. Burial will' be In Hollenback Cemetery.

JESSE M'NEVIN, A FORMER resid ent of lUhis city, is recovering slowly ifrom a serious illness that has laid ihlm up for many weeks. Mr. IMdNevin 'is outside foreman at the Prespect colliery, of the Lehigh Coal and resides in the foreman's house along the county road at Plains. RADUATES OF. CORNELL UNI versity in the Wyoming Valley will get together this evening at the Westmoreland ClUb, Wilkesbarre.

Xor She )purpose olf organizing a branch Alum ni Association. Attorney Frank J. Flannery, of this city, 'mill toe master of ceremonies at the dinner meeting this evening. THE WYOMING COUNTY GRANTi jury met this week. There were only itwo criminal cases to lie considered, one against Fred.

Boldone, charged with violating tihe liquor laws, and one against Dewey Fuller, of Noxen, charged with stealing an automobile. iTrue ibills returned In tooth cas es. DR. FRANK D. THOMAS.

OF Forty Fort, coroner of iLuzerne county for 'ti'ne past three years, announces that he will be a candidate for re nomination at iprlmary election to be held this year. He is a grad uate of Hahnemann College, PhiladeK phia, and served in France with the Fifth American Division. REV. DR. SAWTELLE, PASTOR of the First Presbyterian Church of Scranton.

will speak this evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Broad Street Pres byterian Churcih, at one of the series o'f services Commemorating the 17ith anniversary of Rev. R. A. Rinker's Pittston pastorate. Mrs.

Gertrude Bi'lby Werts will be the soloist at this service. UNOFFICIAL STATEMENTS made in regard to the recent election tor district officers of the United Mine Workers indicate that the defeat of President William Brennan for re election was largely due to the fact that his own ifriends in Lackawanna county failed' to turn out in large numbers the election. On tlhe other 'hand Cappelini's followers in the Pittston district lost a day's work in "order to cast their 'ballots. THB will be Church, FOLLiOWING MEETINGS heM at fit. fBLf Lutheran f.

Jgheatoirni VJJiwws p. Well, it's a fact. THE MINNELLI TONE At a mcetine held nutrnlnif hn te Mercantile Bureau of the Cham ber Of Commerce 'of Pittstbn to con sider a communication received from tno Ketail Clerks' Association of Pittston City as to closing the stores tno following resolution was adopted: line action taken a few weeks aco closing the stores during June, July and August at 5 p. m. was re consid ered and a rule adapted whereby the stores wiU close at 12 o'clock noon, commencing Wednesday, June 27, and continuing Wednesdays for the months of July and Auoust Stores will close daily at 5:30 te.

in eluding days Immediately preceding oontrays. excepting Saturdays, when Khe stores will close at :30 m. All stores are to remain open three week days until 9i30 p. m. 'before Christ mas." Practically all the business houses' ot the city were represented at the meeting' and Mr.

iMcAndrew. presi dent of the Retail Clerks' Association addressed the merefhants. A communication' from a commit tee of rthe Retail Clerks Association was read Dy secretary conlon ana a comparison of the requests made in the communication with the Cham er's resolution shows that the clerks won practically all of their requests, The letter follows: Secretary of the Chamber of Com merce, Dear Sir: We, the Undersigned members of the Retail Clerks' Association of submit the following pro posals for your consideration regard mg tine closing at the stores in our ftlty: AU stores to close at 12 noon. on Wednesdays during ttoe months of June, July and August and to close at 5:30 on all other evenings except Saturdays, at 9 o'clock; also to close at 5:30 o'clock on evenings preced ing holidays except the Ghristmas season, during this time the stores to remain open until 9 o'clock from Dec. 22 to Dec.

25th. iraconss TO STABUSH "if Washington, June 20. Appropria tions for the establishment of "border patBol" of approximately 12, 000 to police the Canadian and Maine borders and make the. United States "air tight" against the "bootlegging of aliens" into the country, may soon be asked of Congress. This was Indicated by Secretary of Labor Davis today following a con ference with Assistant Secretary White.

The latter was called before Davis, to xeport oh a Conference held recently In Montreal between officials of the Labor Department and United States Immigration Inspectors station ed along the Canadian border. This conference was held to devise measures to stop the illegal entrance of aliens into the United States into Canada. sr Kalamazoo, June 20. 'Arthur B. Williams, Republican, was elected U.

S. Congressman from tine third Midhigan district in the spe cial election yesterday. Complete count from the five counties gave Williams 9,066 votes against 8,606 for Claude S. Carney, Democrat. Williams' victory was claimed to be an approval of the Harding admin istration as he ran for the place solely onthe record of the administration.

xne vote, one of the lightest in many years, showed a decided gain in Democratic strength since the 1922 electionis, despite Williams' victory. Last fall the (ate M. C. Smith, Rq jpublican, carried the district witih a vote of 23,869 against George Smith, Democrat 15,226. Carney's failure Shis year to carry his own town, Kalamazoo is believed to ihave cost him the election.

He carriedl Kalamazoo county but the city vote was strong enough against him to turn the tide. DEFEATS MELUNIE The Craftsman's Club baseball team defeated the Melanie Chapel Club, of the Sunday School League in an in tereeting game pto yed on the Phila delphia avenue grounds last evening, score 6 to 1. An unusually large crowd of fans turned oufcto witness the game. The feature of the game was the splendid pitching of Boalse, Craftsman's twirler, who struck out 11 Score by innings: r. h.

e. Craftsmen 302 010 6 10 1 Melanie 00 001 0 5 3 Batteries: Boase, and Schmaltz; Cooper and Griffith, Williams. THREE LUZERNE CASES Among the Luzerne County cases before the Pardon Board at Harris burg today are those of John D. Hayes, who on August 25, 1921, was sentenced to pay a fine of $500 and the costs and serve three to five years for forgery; John Taylor, sentenced October, 1914, to from eleven years and two months to twelve years for manslaughter; Clarence Koch, alias Earb Norman, convicted of highway robbery invJune, 1919, and sentenced to serve from seven to ten years in the penitentiary. Read Gatte and Paged.

mENTEINGS benfallr nioantod In white and yenpw gora. wui piease you to look over Iva Unc. M. EPSTEIN JEWELER and. OPTICIAN Nortb jMaU Pittston, IVEDDING RINGS Of Distinction When you purchase that Ring you, want the very best, something that you can be justly proyd of.

We have a complete assart ment in all shuis and Weights. 22 kt, 18 let. And 14 kt in ite and Green Gold. Levis 6 Kuschel JEWELERS IS N. Main St Pittston 3S9 Today and Tomorrow WILLIAII FARNUM WANDA HAWLEY "J5rass Commandments" 'f Friday and Saturday EtCHARI ABTELMESS EJSCTJRSION Sunday, June 24.

YORK Stopping at Elizabeth Tickets good only on special train leaving rtttutoa 11:4 p. M. Standard Time, Satur (lav June 2.1. '3 .60 Keturning, leave New Tort, Standard Time, West 23rd 5:15 P. Mtoerty 5:80 I.

Elizabeth I. 6nnday, June 24 NEW JERSEY CENTRAL SllSLY While Mre. James McNulty. of Car bondale, and her granddaughter. Rose McNulty, aged seven, of Phillipsburg, N.

were standing on a sidewalk in Carbondale last evening, they were struck by an automobile that got be yond control of the driver. Mrs. Mc Nulty is in the Carbondale' Hospital suffering from a fracture at the base of the skull and her condition is serious. Her granddaughter is in a high ly nervous state as a result of the accident but escaped injury. YOU'LL BE with the results you get with Chiropractic Thatwhy our patients are our best boosters.

They are in a position know better than someone" Waiiaa neither tried nor stud led cause they have investigated experienced its merits. CnB i.1 icc is a science in itself, different from all otfjer Jhods. That it getsei if proven by the Udrihfo it the most rapicvVgVbwf health method ui the world today. Although not a i Vtrfc all," over 90 of all baSe been successfully handled. Chiropractors, among which are many so called incurable diseases.

Ask Oar Patients DnHR. Milkman 3 Year. Palmer tor Orflco ao.Newrose Building Par. go, ton and E10MAW PLEASED IT'S A NEW INVENTION which has rcvolotfonized the entire industry. You no longer need leave your phonograph at home, but just like a book, you can take it with you anywhere.

It can be bought in portable style, complete, for $40.00, at IN. Pittston, Pa. PERSONAL MENTION Mis. William J. Moffatt, of 227 North Main street, is critically ill at ner nome.

Chauncey C. Decker, is seriously ll ai. the (home of his son, Oscar JJeckQr, iro. 4, near Rocky Glen. Theodore of TUnkihannock, is a ipatient in a Wilkesbarre hospital, sulfite ring fi om Iblood poisoning.

William Mo nahan Jias ireturned to nis home, on Railroad street, after a week's vacation spenlt a't Lake Win to la. Mrs. Walter Evans, of Philai dclphia, is visiting at the horn of her mother in law, Mrs. H. W.

Evans, at fiainsvuie. Mr. and Mire. William R. Hughe of New York City, are visiting at the nome or.

the latter's father, James MacDonald, on William street Miss Beatrice McDonald, formerly on tiort Giwnth, rtaw residing in uilryea, lefit yesterdlay for an ex tended visit in Pittsburgh. Mrs. M. H. Reap, Main street, Port Griffith, is attending the conven tion.

of the Spanish American War Vet enans' Auxiliary! State convention, Which Va being held in Altoona this week, toeing the from the 'Pittston Auxiliary. rani rugnese, of this city, was a member of the class of 192,3 grad' uated yesterday from the course in medicine and surgery of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, Dr. Pugliese win serve as Interne at the Packer Hospital in Sayro during tne coming year. M.r. and Mrs.

John G. Pugliese and Mr. and Mrs. Dom inick Pugliese attended the com exercises in Philadelphia iMr. and Mrs.

John MacLachlan, es teemed residents of Pittston and West Pittston for the past forty years, who formerly resided on Tompkins street Oregon Heights, and who now reside at 521 Montgomery avenue. West Pittston, will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary tomorrow, and will ibe glad to welcome all their friends alt their home tomorrow afternoon and evening. Miss Mae Louise MacDonald. daughter of the Rev. and Mrs.

David L. Mat Donald, formerly of this city, now of Waverly, N. was married at her iparents' home on 'Monday of mis week to Ralph W. Wildoner, ot 196 Madison street. Wilkesbarre.

The bride's father united the couple in marriage in (the presence of a small company of relatives and intimate mends. The is a graduate of Wyoming Seminary and attended Mt Holyoke College. Her father1 was un til recently pastor of Dorranceton M. hi. Church.

The 'bridegroom is em ployed in the trust department of the Miners Bank, of Wilkesbarre. After a motor trip IMr. and Mrs. Wildoner will occupy a cottage at Lake Nuan gola for tlhe summer. A merry company, composed of em ployes of Cohen store.

North Main street, and their wives had a very pleasant outing last evenine when they went to the Poconos. The trip was made in automobiles and the destination Was Williams Inn, in the Poconos, 'wliere they were served a dhicken dinner. The outing was rjhe first of a scries that the employes will hold eucry month. The evening was enlivened with stunts and 'games and some very helpful suggestions were given in talks by several of the emiploycs. Those present were: Mr.

and Mrs. C. F. Tischler, Mr. and Mrs.

Victor Trosky, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Bianco. and Mrs. George Fath, John Kizis, Mr.

and Mrs. M. D. Cohen, Mr. and Mrs.

S. H. Cohen, Mich ael Melvin, Joseph Singer, Grace Dil ler and Miss Goldberg, of New York City. For Saler iFopd Counts and 5 foot box good condition Apply 30 West Railroad Bt, 0J8t Minnelli Phonograph Co. I This beautiful Player Piano 25 Rolls, Bench, Cover $495.00 Regular 3 years to pay in Stock Ever Believe i nttston, ra.

2 CARPET CO. PITTSTON.PAJ (Happy (Homes I' II LL i 162 SOUTH MAIN STREET Bell Phone 869 R. It r. 47 North Main Street week day religious school; 7:30 p. important of the Boy Scouts; 8 p.

choir rehearsal. The Bible School Association will hold a meeting on Friday at 7:30 m. A MEETING OF THE COMMIT tjeesaf the Retail Clerks' Association will toe theld in St. Aloysius' hall Friday at 8 o'clock. Miss 'Bessie Reese, of Washington, D.

C. formerly of this city, and a graduate of the Plittston Hospital Training Schol Nurses, is visiting (fiends in the' Pittstons today. CARD OF THANKS Mrs. Hattie Richardson and family wish to thank the neighbors and friends who so kindly assisted them during their recent Ibereavement, the death of Oscar and his wife, Ida. Also those who sent flowers.

It Shavers Attention! We Know What a Shaving Edge Is, 12 Gillette Blades Sharpened for 20c Trial Order for This Week Only CAMPBELL'S Upstairs, Over Freed's SLIGHT FIHi: TODAY The. fire department of the city was summoned to North Main street today, a slight fire having been discovered in the Bonser vulcanizing shop, in the Flatiron Building, on North Main street. The damage was slight. NEW YORK STOCK MARKET I Reported daily by J. H.

Brooks members of New York Stock Exchange, Brooks cor Spruce Am. Can 93 88 88 Am. Car Fdy 166165166 Am. Loco ...138 132 132 Am. Smelting Am.

Sugar Am. T. T. Anac. Copper T.

S. F. Bait. Ohio 69 57 57 69 67 67 121119120 42 39 39 103101101 50K 47 47 Beth. Steel 61 B.

R. T. 1 48 48 1I 1 Can. Pacific 152 Cent. Leather 24! 22 I 23 Ches.

63 62 62 M. St. 20 19 20 Col. Fuel Iron 30 28 j' 28 Del. Hud.

112 109 109 D. L. 115110110 Erie 1211 11 Gt. pfd. 71 70 70 Gen.

Motors 14 14 14 Kan. City So. 19 18 18 Lehigh Valley 61 60 60 Mo. Pacific 13 13 13 National Lead 115 114 1114 New Haven 16 16 16 N. Y.

Central 1021100100 N. O. W. 10 16 16 Norf. West 105 105' 105 North.

Pacific 71 70 70 I 1 T3 Pr. Steel Car 58 58 58 Heading Co 74 71 71 Rep. Iron 48 4545 Rubber 46 44 44 South. Pacific 88 87 87 South. Railway 35 33 33 Studebaker 107102103 Union Pacific 133131131 U.

S. Steel 93 90 I 90 Utah Copper 64 60 60 Wabash 9 8 8 Westinghouse 55 54 54 Woolworth 226 (225 226 Jones Tea 56 56 156 South. pfd. 66 I 66 66 Read the Gazette and Keep Posted. Ladies Let Cuticura Keep Your Skin Fresh and Yound tvImm.

Vera S3 GRADUATION and WEDDING GIFTS As yon select your gift, whether it be a Graduation or a Wedding occasion, take the time to examine our beautiful line which is now on display. Come in and let us render suggestions which you have never thought of, and you will agree with us that we have the most complete stock of gifty gifts in the city. WICKS the Jeweler 6 North Main Next to People's Bank The Breakfast Suite Advertised by us Yesterday Should have been priced at $149e50 Instead of $49.50, as Announced. IT Mour Credit is Qood" JTOTNC FURNITURE Wb S. MAIN ST.

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