WILKES-BARRE

a city of Pennsylvania, in Luzerne Co., of which it is the county seat. It is on the Lehigh Valley, the Pennsylvania, the Delaware and Hudson, and other railroads, and on the Susquehanna River. It is the center the ange important anthracite and mining region in the world It addition other important | industries including the manufacture of wire, locomotives, steel products, silk ucts, lace, hosiery, etc. It has cellent street and park system, park area of over 300 acres. In the are over 200 churches of all denominations. There are 25 public schools, addition to parochial schools, schools and private schools. The facturing products of the city are at over $75,000,000 a year. - Barre was founded in 1769 and was corp orated in 1806. It became a in 1871. Coal has been mined in neighborhood since the time of Revolution. Pop. (1920) 67,105.