The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-05-16
Our Neighborhood in Brief.

Passenger trafhc on the Lehigl
Valley Is dull.
The State Council of Pennsylvania
o. U. A. NJ, met in annual session al
Altoona last week.
The Lehigh skating rink, at Beth.
lehem, was closed up last week, owing
to lack of patronage
-Slatington is to have an electric
light company, application having been
made for a charter of incorporation.
SB-Editor ADVOCATE please inform
your many readers that Jadwin's Tai
Syrup cured my cold after all other
remedies failed. 1t is the largest bottle
for the price l ever bought Old Sub.
scriber. Sold at Thomas drug store.
Archbishop Ryan Tuesday confirm.
ed more than 1000 persons at Shen.
andoah.
The Easton National Bank was re.
Gently made depository of state money,
the amount at present being $4,000.
-Ex-Sheriff James Rhoades, of Lu.
zerne county, was stricken with para.
iysis OF both legs on last Friday.
SB-Go to Frs. Roderer, under the
Exchange Hotel, for smooth shave
and fashionable hair cut.
-Messrs. Mehrkam & Son purchased
a stip of ground from Daniel Wieand,
Monday, 2 x so feet, for $500.
The 9th Pennsylvania Veteran Vol.
unteer Cavalry hold their 10Th annual
reunion at Carlisle on June 18th.
Stock of the First National Bank Of
Bethlehem was one day last week bid
up to S1O2 per share, and the sale then
adjourned.
NE-Nearly $4,000 bottles of Jadwin's
Tar Syrup sold last year on positive
guarantee of cure, and only 13 bottles
returned as unsatisfactory. The largest
bottle for the money. Sold at Thomas
drug store.
Preparations are being made to
double track the Tamaqua branch of the
l.. & S. railroad between Tamaqua and
the Lsnsford tunnel.
Mrs. Hiram Pfautz, of Litiz, leaped
into millpond with her five cheldren
she and two of the children being
drowned, few days ago.
Two gentlemen from Philadelphia
were In South Bethlehem last week
making arrangements to establish silk
ribbon factory there.
AT-You have heard of the man who
chased a mosquito through a five mile
swamp to get his fat. This was the
man who would not buy Jadwin's TAI
Syrup. He died with hacking cough
Sold at Thomas drug store.
The iron trade is not increasing il
activity according to expectation. The
low prices reached have not developed
the demand predicted.
ANY one having lost a brown horse
and side-bar buggy albright make,
can find the same by calling ON detectiv,
Jacob johnson, at Easton.
Harry Dentinger, of town, caught {
''sucker" weighing pounds 4 ounces
and l05 small fish from 2 to inches in
length one day last week.
We notice that John S. Laury, tn,
Weissport baker, is sporting handsom,
new wagon, which fact we take as al
evidence of business success.
s8-For wall paper, window blinds
stationery, bibles, book or in fact al
most anything, go to L. f. Luckenbach
6l Broadway, Mauch Chunk, at low
prices.
Calypso Island, at Bethlehem. is a
present being put in fine trim for the
coming pc mic season. Among othel
things 70 chestnut trees were planted
last week.
Theodore Smith, of Pleasant Valley
near Wilkesbarre, was found dead il
bed Monday night, having swallowe,
three quarts of whiskey within fey
hours before.
james Johnston, brother of ex- Gov
ernOr Johnston, and once known as
clear and fOrcible writer for the press
has just died at Kingston, Westmorelan,
county, aged "a years.
sB-A Ga page cook book containin
300 valuable recipes Is given away {,
purchasers of one dollars worth of Jad
wins Tar Syrup. Sold at Thomas dru
store.
The annual meeting of the gran,
lodge of Pennsylvania, /. o. o. f., viii
be held at Harrisburg, May 10, and tn
prospects are that the meeting will b
largely attended.
The journeymen shoemakers O
Easton have raised a sufiiciency o
money 70 start a shoe factory on tn
machinery and stock last week.
The government has contracted 70
new postal card paper of a delicate pink
In lieu of the cream color of the card
now issued. The new cards will be ou
In July. The size will be the same a
now in use.
The seventeen year locusts now Ii
the ground are getting ready for thei
long-delayed visit, they now being nea
the surface and almost ready for hoppin,
out for throwing off their overcoats an,
commence their vocal cadences.
EEL have a complete line of Ligh
Single and Heavy Double Harness
Collors, Whips, Blankets, &C., on hand
all OF which am selling at a very rea
sonable price. MILTON FLORY,
WEIssPoRr, PA
The Trinity Reformed church, a
Coplay, has been provided with an organ
and Whit-Sunday, May oath, has beel
fixed upon for the conservation of il
A number of visiting clergyInen vii
assist In the services.
K%An all-wool import
ed Corkscrew Suit for onl,
$22, at the popular tailoring
establishment of H H Peters
"A dude meets a dudine on the stree
cars. She-'Why did you not come up /
ow house las nightp We looked faw you.
He-''yaas-eould not get up thai
Had mother Engagement. Me mothah'
dead, Thought ought 10 60 up 10 o'
hOuthF But In order TO soothe III
feelings OF his darling for the disappoin
nent he invited her 70 the delightful Il
Cream Parlor of Lewis Weir, on Ban