The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-19
BOYS NEGLECTED
BY THEIR PARENTS
Director Murphy So Reported 10 the
Poor Board Yesterday.
SOME ACTION IS TO BE TAKEN
Ifthe Parents DO Not Give the Boys
Proper Attention Mr.. Murphy is
Directed to Have Them Placed in
Some suitable Institution.-B Barns,
etc., at the Hillside Home to BE
Observation-Disclosures Directed TO Set
tie Duplicates.

Director Murphy, of Dunmore, at
yesterdays meeting of the poor board
called attention to the neglected con-
dition of the two sons of Mr. and Mrs.
klotzer, who reside near the Gypsy
Grove breaker, in Dunmore borough.
Thursday night the boys, who are 6
and years of age respectively, called
on Director Murphy at his home. They
were cold and ragged and hungry, and
gave every evidence of being greatly
neglected.
Mr.. Murphy fed and washed them
and secured warm, comfortable cloth
ing for them. The stories of the boys
was to the effect that their father and
mother do not live happily together
There is a boarder in the house and
Klotzer insists that he receives alto
gether too much attention from Mrs
klotzer. To this attention he attrl-
butes the neglect of the Klotzer house,
hold affairs and the two boys.
After listening to Director Murphys
statement the board directed him to
see that Mr.. and Mrs. Klotzer take
proper care of their offspring or else
have them place in some of the insti-
tutions for children hereabouts.
Director Fuller, of the home COM
mittee, reported that the contract for
removing the barns, etc, which now
stand in front of the insane hospital
and almshouse, at the poor farm, had
been awarded to I. r. Barber. Mr.
Barber gives a bond in the sum of So
600 to indemnify the poor district for
any damage that may be done by rea-
son of the removal of the buildings
The barns, etc, are being removed
about 800 feet farther away from the
main buildings for the purpose of inn
proving their sanitary surroundings
and extending the lawn in front of the
buildings
TO CHANGE THE ROADS.
When the buildings are removed the
present road which runs between the
buildings and the barns will be aban-
doned and a new road opened 250 feet
east of the present one. The grounds
Will then be graded down to the new
road and converted into a lawn.
Ex-Judge w. ]. Lewis was released
from the bond of Aria Williams. who
was collector of poor taxes during the
years 1894 and 1895. The secretary was
instructed to notify Mr.. Williams and
w. M. Finn to settle their duplicates,
Mr.. Williams for 1894 and 1895 and Mr..
Finn for 1896 and 1897 Practically all
the money due on the duplica..ss for
these years have been paid over to the
treasurer of the district and it only
remains for the collectors and officers
of the district to get together and ar
range about the generations and other
details necessary before the accounts
can be finally closed.
A letter was received from the over
seers of the poor of Lewisburg, asking
the board to take an insane patient the
Lewisburg authorities have been un-
able to get into the Danville insane
asylum, owing to it's overcrowded con-
dition. The secretary was instructed
to notify the Lewisburg authorities
that the patient could not be received
at this time, but that after April it
might be possible to receive the patient
in the insane hospital here. The Homes
dale poor authorities also wanted to
send patient here. They will be noti-
fled that it cannot be done.
On motion of Director Shotten, the
board agreed to issue a new order to
G. w. Davis, Of Providence, who lost
one for IS.
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