Housing?:  John and Anna's wedding dramatizes the overcrowded housing situation in Kudrick's Cranberry residence.  Instead of losing a son, Alex gains a daughter.  Alex informs John he must rent a house while he searches for a house large enough to accommodate his growing family.  Hence, John and Anna strike out on their own.  John accepts a position at the Sugarloaf Mines and rents a house in that area of town where housing is easier to comeby than it is in Cranberry.  Sugarloaf is where Alex used to work and he pulls some strings to get John accepted there. 

Grandchildren:  John Mudry and John Bartko's half-sister, Anna Scšur II, give birth to their third child, Mary Mudry.  By the end of 1914, Alex and Anna Scšur Kudrick have three grandchildren, all from Anna's first child.  The grandchildren to date include Michael Mudry, age 6, Anna Mudry, age 4 and Mary Mudry, age 9 months.

Relatives:  Stephen Kelhart, a cousin to both the Bartko and Kudrick children is born to John and Helen Scšur Kelhart.  The mother is Anna Scšur Kudrick's sister.  Baby Stephen is born on January 19, 1913 in Hellertown and is the 9th Kelhart child. The following year Andrew Kelhart is born on September 16, 1914 also in Hellertown and is the 10th Kelhart child.  Andrew McDeshen, future husband of Helen Kudrick, enlists in the U.S. Army entering the service at Fort Slocum, New York on November 28.   Andrew will stay in the service until he is discharged on March 24, 1919. 

Events of 1914:  West Hazleton schools serving the borough include the West Hazleton High School on Monroe Avenue and the 5th Street school on South 5th Street.

The Motor Transportation Company Inc. is incorporated by George B. Markle Jr. and others.  The company operates a 14-mile-long bus and stage line between Hazleton and Tamaqua with stops at Cranberry, Hollars Hill, Harwood, Humboldt and Oneida.
 
A blizzard hits Cranberry in February suspending all traffic and isolating the only hospital in the area, the Hazleton State Hospital.  The storm causes 15-foot-high snowdrifts forcing schools and factories to close.  It is the worst blizzard since 1888 causing trolley lines to come down and trains to be abandoned leaving passengers stranded overnight.  Alex loses income as most collieries are idle for days.

An epidemic of dysentery reaches its peak in Cranberry during August and September of 1914. Anna Scšur Kudrick hears that the water source may be polluted from sewage so she boils all drinking water for 20 minutes prior to allowing her family to use it.

The New York-New Jersey Baseball League changes its name to the Atlantic League and will change its name again to the Class D North Atlantic League in 1946.  Hazleton will field a team in the North Atlantic League and play their home games at the Cranberry Ball Park.  In other baseball news, Honus Wagner becomes the first player in modern baseball to get 3,000 hits.  Wrigley Field in Chicago is completed.  In college football, the Yale "Bowl," is built on a coliseum model and seats 60,000 people exceeding any football stadium in size.

A newspaper ad for the Saxon automobile states, "$395 is a good low priced car--costs less than a good horse and buggy!

One of the top movies of the day is a serial called, "The Perils of Pauline."   Popular actors as rated by a fan magazine are Mary Pickford and Francis X. Bushman.

In fashion, the tango dress, named for the popular new dance, is a craze.  Pope Pius X condemns the tango as a "new paganism."

The local public is introduced for the first time to fasting by Gandhi, automobile road maps, Doublemint gum, anti-aircraft guns and the phrase "birth control."

The Family Theater located on the Wyoming Street side of the Hazle Drug store building presents vaudeville shows and short silent films on the Kinetograph, a device developed by Thomas Edison in 1889.  In 1914, the Family Theater drops vaudeville completely and switches entirely to movies, which are growing rapidly in popularity.  Within a year, the feature film business takes a giant step forward when the Civil War classic, "Birth of a Nation" is released.

Events of 1913:  To more efficiently process the record amounts of tonnage from the colliery at Cranberry, a railroad bridge is built near Cranberry by the American Bridge Company.

Henry Ford sets up his first automobile assembly line in Detroit for production of his inexpensive Model T.  His workers make an unheard of amount of $5 per day considerably more than the miners in the anthracite coal fields.  Locally, employees of the Lehigh Traction (trolley) Company begin a strike that will last for eight months ending in 1914.

Professional baseball is truly national with no competition as yet from professional football or basketball.  Ebbets Field in Brooklyn opens to the public.  The Brooklyn Dodger ball park cost $750,000 to build and is named after Charles Ebbets, the club's principal owner.  Ty Cobb wins his 7th straight batting title. The West Hazleton Athletic Club fields a team.  In college football, little-known Notre Dame plays powerhouse Army and wins 35-13 as Gus Dorais passes to Knute Rockne and popularizes the forward pass.

Anna Scsur Kudrick spends her money wisely, but must pay 25¢ for a pair of ladies' hosiery and $1.98 for a rocking chair.  New items talked about include the Schaeffer pen, a Federal Income Tax, Chesterfield cigarettes, erector sets, conquest of Mt. McKinley, mammography, the Buffalo nickle, Hellmann's "Blue Ribbon" mayonnaise, and the 55-story high Woolworth Building in New York City.

In entertainment, Mack Sennett's Keystone Company makes dozens of successful one-reel comedies featuring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and the Keystone Cops plus he signs Charles Chaplin to a contract worth $150 a week.  Norma Talmadge is a popular movie star and people can be heard humming the popular song of the day "He Has to Get Under, Get Out and Get Under To Fix Up His Automobile."