The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-09-03
The Carbon Sdrufate.
SATURDAY. SEPT. 3, 1881.
Local and Personal.

L1ONCoA CDAA0 VA OOAACS4s
N9-FoR SALE, 10 shares Of stock of the
Carbon County Industrial Society-cdsh paid
IN $3.50. Will take for it $llO. Apply al
this office. ~
Ml0,~ Post Office Building, Lehighton, Pa.
Now is your chance, aud make bold IT,
say that il is the best you ever had, to buy
Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, &c. am fully
equipped for the spring trade, and can offer
you greater variety, better article, and a
lower price than any house IN this section.
Ladies, IL you want nice fitting shoes for
yourselves or your little girls, | can please
you in every respect. mean busines, and
am prepared to back my assertions.
Respectfully, LEWIS WEiss.
&a- you wanta nice smooth easy shave
your hair cut or shhmpuping, 60 to Franz
Roedercr's Saloon, under the Exchange Ho-
tel. He will fix you right, and don'tyou
forget it.
%sg> Now receiving and opening a very
large and fashionable assortment of rnerch.
ant tailoring goods, O. mprising a full line
of the very latest styles of cloths, cassimeres
and sultings, Of the best foreign and domes
tic manufacture, suitable for spring and sum.
mer wear, which ] am prepared to make
FULLY as low as at any other establishment
in the country. Call and be convinced OF
the truth oi my statements.
Respectfully,
II. II. PKrERs, Agent,
P. o. Building, Lehighton, Penn'a.
afs-A good fresh COW for sale; apply to
W. E. Kemerer, Big Creek.
s:e-Clocks, Watches, Jewelry and silver
ware lnr sale, and repairing done ut Hoga-
mans Store, Weisspnrt. 25-yl.
&a-Smoke "rhe Round Head Cigars:
the best S cent cigar in town. Try them.
For sale by j. W. Raudenbush, at the "Car.
bon House." 81 If.
Ms>The best and cheapest books may
be had at Luckenbach's, 81 Broadway.
Msuch Chunk. Among the works he of
fsrs for sale are the following: Acme biog.
raphy: ~ standard hooks by Macauley.
Carlyle and others, bound in one volume,
90 cents. Lives OF Chaucer, Spencer, Mil
ton, Cowper and Southey, l volume, so
cents. Lives OF De Foe, johnson, Gold.
smith, Scott and Thackeray, | volume, so
cents. YouDg's Bible Concordance So.
The works of FL vious Josephus, So.
Ns- We notice that number Of our peo.
pie go to DR.. j. A. Mayer, at Mauch Chunk,
to get beautiful sets of teeth the Dr., as an
operator, is unexcelled by any other in this
region, which fact is appreciated by the pub
lie. jySO lSw.
Fine silverware of all kinds at E. II.
II lhl'sJ Mauch Chunk.
An old woman living on the outskirts
of Scranton has $40 900 insurance on her
life.
The stiffenihg in prices which has been
noted for several weeks does not appear 10
have caused any decrease in the demand for
pig iron. Commission men generally report
more buyers than sellers, especially for for
ward deliveries. A gond many Of the turn
aces are sold fron 30 to go days ahead. Prices
run as follows: Foundry. No. |, $24 50@
rs; foundry, No. 2X, $22@22.5O; gray
forge, S2l.
The Stemton car works are being run
three nights every week on account of
heavy orders to be filed
1t is reported that. the L. V. R. R. Co.,
is preparing to lay third track between
Mauch Chunk and Easton.
Horse thieves are operating in the ad-
joining counties, and it might be we'll for
those owning horse flesh to take extra pre-
cautions.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
is putting some elegant new cars, finished
in the Eastlske style, ON the road. They
are being turned out at the shop in South
Eas,on, at the rate of one week.
Gold, silver, steel, rubber and celluloid
eyeglasses and spectacles, with fino Brazil
ian lenses-lost sight can never be ragained.
At L. H. Hollis, Maueh Chunk.
Mrs. Levi Bartholomew, this borough,
mother of Mrs. Charles Yenser and Mrs. ]. |
NJ. Fritznger, died on Tuesday morning
last, aged 81 years.
There are quite a number of people sick |
in this section just now. Caused no doubt
by the exceedingly dry weather. All our
doctors are kept busy.
Water is sold for rs cents a barrel al
Fracksyile, sehuylkill county. The pro-
longed drought has dried up wells and
streams.
-Ryman & shafer's sawmili at Dallas,
Luzerne county, together with I5O, 600 feetof
lumber, was destroyed by FIRE Tuesday even
ing The loss is estimated at $40, 900 no in
surrnce.
The Delaware Lackawanna and West
ern Railroad Company has purchased a
number Of properties along the river front
in Wilkesbarre that are undealaid with coal.
The price was $500 per acre.
There were As companies in attendance
at the Wilkesbarre camp last week.
Many farmers have been compelled to
discontinue plOwing on account of the dry
weather.
james Parton saws: "There is no work
In the world which expends vitality so fast
as writing for the public. It is a work
which is never done. Il accompanies a
man upon his walks, goes with him to the
theatre, gets into bed with him and possess
es him in his dreams. If he stoops TO kiss
the baby, before he has reached the right
angle point occurs to himi and be hangs
in mid'air with vacant face aud mind dis.
traught," as he suddenly recollecls that
David Ebbert keeps the most popular livery
IN this section Of the county, aud that il is
located on North street. Terms very rea-
sonable.