Carbondale City Finances Nine Months Ended December
City controller reports nine months ending December 41 with total city income 4949 419 12 and trust fund receipts 814 196 55. Total expenditures 560 002 and balance unexpended 1604 21. Floating debt 1598 67 and total city debt 49549 22. City resources including tax liens delinquent taxes rents and cash 10685 with excess of liabilities over resources 28850 22. City property valued at 615150 includes city buildings grounds 66000 Memorial park 15000 hose houses 5000 road machine 110 stone crusher 100 and fire department apparatus 500.
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Memorial Park
Merry skating party at Mountain pond outing
A group of young skaters Ned Mille Herbert Histed Raymond Tiffany Robert Gramer John Kelly Nex Copeland Kenneth Raynor Ken dall Morse Raymond Wallis and Leonard Millis enjoyed perfect skating at Mountain pond on Saturday with Mix S B mins. Lunch was served around a heap of blazing fagots and the party had a delightful time.
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Ned Mille
Herbert Histed
Raymond Tiffany
Robert Gramer
John Kelly
Nex Copeland
Kenneth Raynor
Kendall Morse
Raymond Wallis
Leonard Millis
Mountain Pond
Mix
S. B. Mins
School Board Probes Embezzlement Charge Against Professor
The board of education has named a committee to investigate an embezzlement charge against Prof. Hockenhberry raised by Prof. Forbes. The first meeting is set for Tuesday evening. Forbes plans to reserve his testimony for court, though court action seems unlikely.
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Hockenhberry
Forbes
Wounds and visits mark Rexford Bell and local residents
Rexford Bell, son of A. J. Bell, sustained a forehead wound from a fall on ice. Mrs. J. G. Reese and Miss Daisy Miller returned from Nanticoke. Miss Maury Hoffman is able to rise. Miss Lucy Robinson of Wyoming Street convalesces. Superintendent Hibbits of the Erie was away on business for several days. Aitken returns from Hoboken for a short vacation. Mr and Mrs J J Belgeruth returned from Corning and plan a brief stay in New York. The remains of Thomas McGouldrick of Mayfield were interred at St Rose cemetery. Funeral services were at St Reeve church. The Kross Kountry klub to hold a social in Burke's hall Friday evening. Oliver Bailey J H Sullivan and James Nealon inspected city fire hydrants. seven were frozen, thawed, and kept open for the season. Rev J Barber of Greene preached at the Baptist tabernacle yesterday. City engineer's office to be filled April 1.
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Rexford
A. J. Bell
Park Street
J. G. Reese
Daisy Miller
Nanticoke
Maury Hoffman
Lucy Robinson
Wyoming Street
Hibbits
Erie
Mores Aitken
Hoboken
Burke's Hall
McNulty
Oliver Bailey
J. H. Sullivan
James Nealon
Greene, N. Y
Baptist Tabernacle
Best Medicine for Rheumatism Claims Pain Balm Relief
A Herminie Pennsylvania resident reports chronic rheumatism eased by a single application of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. The testimonial praises the product as the best remedy tried after years of discomfort and numerous cures. Available through Matthews Bros wholesale and retail agents.
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Chamberlain
W. Hi. Stapleton
Herminie
All Drug Biste
Matthews Bgros
Olyphant School Board Bills and Upcoming Institute
The Olyphant school board approved payments to Heynolda Bros Ameri can Book Co and others totaling several dollars. A safe bid process was ordered, and school flags were ordered. A teachers’ institute is set for March 10 with two sessions and a lecture by Prof. Bible. Also notes detains about local visits and a funeral service in the borough.
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Heynolda Bros
Sally Bros
Olyphant Electric Plant
William Adair
American Book Company
John Dempsey
Holleran
Bible
Re Stroudsburg Normal School
J. C. McLaughlin
Providence
Marcella Cooney
Dunmore Street
Local News Briefs on Community Figures and Meeting
The council will meet this evening for its last regular session before reorganization. Druggist H. B. Bush is spending the week at Allentown. Mrs. John Walkinshaw of Wilkes Barre is visiting relatives here. D. L. Berry and George Berry, sons of a local resident, were in town yesterday.
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D. L
George Berry
H. B. Bush
Allentown
John Walkinshaw
Wilken- Barre
JERMYN AND MAYFIELD NEWS SUMMARY
Miner George Woodworth suffers a severe arm injury after a coal cutting incident at the Delaware and Hudson colliery. Choir contest entries announced for Primitive Methodist church. Corporal Smith Camp Sons of Veterans hosts Lincoln’s birthday event. Funeral held for Thomas Mc Gouldrick in Mayfield with interment at St Rose cemetery. Sacred Heart church fair resumes for two weeks. Ladies' Aid supper and entertainment planned at Nealon building. The Spettigue family gifted a wedding upright piano to Mary Spettigue. Walter Depew leaves his job to run a mineral water business. Twenty-two adults baptized at the Baptist church.
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George Woodworth
Second Street
Delaware and Hadson
M. J. Shields
Primitive Methodist Church
Brecle
Exel
E. T. O'Kane
David Jones
C. D. Bingham
Coates
Lawrence Speaker
William Williams
Smith Camp
Sons of Veterans
Abraham Lincoln
Order
Thomas McGouldrick
Mayfield
St. Rose Cemetery
Carbondale
Sacred Heart Church
Ladies’ Aid Society
First Baptist Church
Nealon Building
Methodist Episcopal Church
Theodore Spettigue
Cemetery Street
Mary
Walter Depew
Delaware and Hudson
W. H. Merritt
Rushbrook Street
Baptist Church
Mock Trial at Price Library Ends with Guilty Verdict
The Price Library association held a Friday mock trial in its rooms on Friday evening. The case involved the larceny of a squirrel with Frank Gendall as prosecutor and Evan Davis as defendant. The jury found the defendant guilty and the judge sentenced three months with a temperance-related allocation.
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Price Library Association
Ciarie
Frank Gendall
Evan Davis
John Richards
Isaac Davis
John Tt. Thomas
Richard Gendall
John W. Thomas
Oliver M. Williams
Frank Decker
F. W. Winslow
M. J. Mackin
J. J. Sullivan
James &Crivens
William A. Philips
John Powell
Frank Lally
D. J. Harris
Thomas Jones
T. A. Evans
John Evans
Thomas Woodworth
Sons of Temperance
Main Street
William R. Jones
Willie
Honesdale
R. W. Reese
Ivor Thomas
Welsh Congregational Church
David Jones
Hyde Park
Richard Williams
Providence
Nelson Lowry
P. J. Hannan
Ransom
Michael McDonald
Archbald
D.C. Edwards
Wilkes-Barrs
Local Notes from Peckville and Nearby Towns
Mr Elmer W Swingle is seriously ill at his Main Street home. Mr and Mrs Andrew Hale of Yatesville spent yesterday with Mrs Mary Barnes. Adelbert and Warren Shaffer visited friends at Dunmore. Mrs I F Noyt visited friends at Carbondale. Miss Emma Carpenter visited Mr and Mrs Edward Aldrich of Tripps Park Scranton yesterday.
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Elmer W. Swingle
Andrew Hale
Yatesville
Mary Barnes
Adelbert
Warren Shaffer
Dunmore
I. F. Noyt
Carbondale
Emma Carpenter
Edward Aldrich
Tripp's Park
Scranton
Chicago Clerk Says He Will Move Guest to Eighteenth Floor
In a terse exchange a Chicago hotel clerk offers a room on the eighteenth floor and jokes that if anyone sues him he will claim to be out of town. The quirky remark highlights the hotel’s handling of a minor dispute.
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Chicago
Doan's Ointment Heals Itch and Hemorrhoids Claims
A testimonial from William Allen of Sol Dirde Turk avenue extols Down’s Ointment for itching skin and burns, then promotes Doan’s Ointment as a permanent relief for hemorrhoids. The ad cites Matthews Cross drug store and Foster Milburn Co Buffalo as sellers in the United States.
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William Allen
Sol Dirde Turk Avenue
Beranton Traction Co
Down
Doan
Matthews Cros
Price
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
United
Dean's
Kilmt-Hearn company debuts Held by the Enemy in Bethlehem
The Kilmt-Hearn Repertoire Company opened its Bethlehem engagement with the play Held by the Enemy. George Klimpt as Gerson Hayne and Harry Cottin as Colorel Prescott gave strong first performances while Lillian Mae Crawford as Rachel McCreary drew praise. Miss Lewis sang to hold the audience. Hal Kinkr’s Lumere cineograph moving pictures add value to the program.
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Kilmt-Hearn
Academy
Bethlehem
Daily News
Opera House
George Klimpt
Gerson Hayne
Harry Cottin
Prescott
Lillian Mae Crawford
Rachel McCreary
Miss Lewis
Hal Kinkr
London Gaiety Girls to Appears Next Monday at Gaiety
The London Gaiety Girls headline a lively afternoon bill at the Gaiety with burlesque titled A Night in Turkey. May J. Clair Latour Sisters Pusey and Lester Sigieras West Gilmore Mc Gee Colville McBride Mitts May St Clair and The Grimes contribute acts as Wine Women and Song returns soon.
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Petite May
J. Clair
Latour Sisters
Pusey and Lester
Sigieras West
Gilmore and McGee
Charles Colville
Henrietta McBride
Mitts
Patricolo Concert Set For Lyceum Tuesday Night
The Parker Press reports a Patricolo concert in the Presbyterian church last Monday was "the finest of its kind" to visit Parker. Encores after nearly every piece showed broad public appreciation for classical music and readings, praising Patricula as a dedicated pianist.
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Patricole
Lyceum
Brockway
Parker Press
Presbyterian Church
Parker
Patricula
David Higgins Leads Lyceum Show in Piney Ridge
The Lyceum presents David Higgins in Piney Ridge on Wednesday February 14 with Higgins as Jock Kese and Georgia Waldron as Cindy Lane. The cast is praised for natural acting and the company is described as unusually meritorious in a production likened to Shore Acres south.
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Lyceum
David Higgins
Piney Ridge
Jock Kese
Shore Acres
Higgins
Acore
Mr. Higgins
Jack Rove
Georgia Waldron
Cindy Lane
Balloon Spiders and Floating Webs Sketch Santa Catalina
A Chicago Inquirer piece notes California buzzards and Santa Catalina ravens as living balloons. A stroller in a canyon observes cobwebs drifting down a wind sliced channel, some threads long and others with delicate fabric attached, creating a procession of webs in the air.
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California
Santa Catalina Island
Ballooning Spiders Move as Tiny Aeronauts Across Canyon
A stroller observes ballooning spiders in a canyon as they form silk balloons and ride upward currents on threads. Spiders collect silk, spin nets, and fashion platforms and cables to travel across the chasm, becoming a flock of minor aeronauts in the air.
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Feronaut
Andree
Aeronaute
Letters From The People Publish Letters With Home Identified
Short letters of interest published with writer's home noted. Tribune disclaims responsibility for opinions expressed.
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the Tribune
Mayfield politics and finance row described
The writer accuses the ex-treasurer of improper bond redemptions and commission claims, detailing accountant findings that funds were spent without council orders. He cites party maneuvering, ballot fraud claims, and calls for public scrutiny as election approaches in Mayfield.
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Mayfield
Acccountant
Inez
Citizens
Republian
Comemissioner
Democratic Party
Minydeld
Thekert
Mhed
The
Democratic
Polly Lichins
Scranton
Edwards
Thia
John RK
Thomas Boundy
Burning Mountain Firelights the Night Skies Near Town
A long burning coal seam fuels a mountain west of town with red flames and blue gas at night. Local legends tie the fire to early settlers and Ute history as the landscape shows sunken surfaces where the blaze has run.
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Gopom
Continental Divide
Bifforta
Classified Advertisements for Rentals and Services
A Scranton PA classified section lists rental offers for a nine room house on Quincy avenue and a first floor apartment on 700 Washington Avenue, with contacts J. B. Wooltey & Co and Bronk Becker. It also includes a job ad for an office manager at Beranton and a list of local professionals such as Edward W. Thayer attorney and O R Clark & Co, plus various notices of services and businesses like Rav es Orchestra and Neganger Brothers printers.
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Quincy Avenue
J. B. Wooltey & Co
Forest Court
Washington AvEnue
Bronk Becker
Pony Owner Digs Ditch To Redirect Elk Creek Water
A local pony owning extensive coal lands built a ditch from above the mountain to divert water forming Elk Creek. Water entered a shaft sunk in the mountain but the shaft filled and the fire above the water level caused the effort to fail.
Lehigh Valley Trains From Scranton Nov 19 1890
Lehigh Valley Railroad announces new timetable in effect November 19 1890 with trains from Scranton to Philadelphia New York via D and WR and other lines. Services include morning and afternoon runs to White Haven Hazleton Pottsville Bethlehem Easton Reading Harrisburg and main coal regions plus connections to Genova Rochester Buffalo Niagara Falls Chicago and western points. Sleeping and parlor coach service advertised between Wilkes Barre Philadelphia Trenton Suspension Bridge with ticket offices listed in New York and South Bethlehem.
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Carbondale
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Lehigh Valley Railroad
Black Diamond Express
Hennexivanta Railroad
Western Pratt
Lohich Valle
BlackPhimond Express
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s-Tarre
Wilkes-Harre
Ies
Ge and Boy
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Bronte
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Cross
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Wilbur
Cortlandt Street
Charles
Pass Agt
Coorthindt
A. W. Nonnemaciler
Erie and Wyoming Valley Time Table February 1900
Train schedule shows departures from Scranton to Hawley and intermediate points with connections to the Erie Railroad for New York Newburg and intermediate points. It lists No 2 Accommodation No 4 Express and a 1201 p.m. time.
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Hawley
Erie
New York
Newburg
Uonecedale
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