The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-09-18
Our Neighborhood in Brief.


Sale bills printed at this Office at the
shortest notice
Parents should make it point to
visit our public schools occasionally.
-Rumor has it that wholesale fur
niture mandatory will locate here.
An advertisement planted in our
columns at this time will pay big per-
centage.
Nathan Sinner, of Bethlehem, was
killed in a runaway accident one day
this week.
The season for pcnics is beginning
to wane, and the meetings of the literary
society come on apace.
The editors, publishers and printers
of Luzerne county will picnic at Glen
Onoko, on Thursday, Sept. 20.
Simon Jacobs, clothing dealer of
Wilkesbarre, committed suicide on Mon
day owing 10 business troubles.
There are 5000 men employed in
the Pennsylvania Steel Works and the
pay roll for August amounted to Sl21,-
600.
The Carbon County Fair convcnes
on the far grounds in this place next
Tuesday, Sept. 21, and continues for
four days.
About sixty members of John d.
Bertolette Post, 4S4, G. A. r., will at
tend the reunion of veterans at Easton
to-day friday.
Paul Schleicher will sell at public
sale on his premises, in East Penn, on
Saturday, October s, 1886, a lot of valu-
able personal property.
The Kickapoo Indian Medicine
Company, located on the public square,
draw large crowds nightly to witness
their free entertainments.
Several men killed outright, many
seriously injured and six men entombed
alive, is the result of CAVERN in a
Scranton mine last Monday.
A blast in mine near Wilkesbarre
exploded ON Monday night while John
Jones, miner, was looking at it. His
head was completely blown off.
The Jewish New Year, Rosh Hosh-
ana, falls this year on the 29lh of Sep.
tember. Ten days later the day OF
Atonement, Yom Kippur, will be cele.
brated.
Miner Bros, of Weissport, offel
their farm, located on the road between
Weissport and Maria Furnace, at private
sale. See advertisement in another
column.
DIR. Fox, of Bath, who has been do
ing York State for the past severa
weeks has returned home and will re
sumo his practice at Allentown or
Thursday. Sept, 29rd,
A new building to cost $4,000 will
be erected at Bethlehem by the Lehigt
Valley Railroad Company. 1t is in.
tended to move the Mauch Chunk off
ces to the former place.
Our friend John G. Rex, of New
Mahoning, presented us with a basket
Of apples measuring twelve inches in
circumference enc day this week. Talk
about your apple dumplngs.
The knowledge of salvation, or how
can we know our sins are forgiven Thi.
will be the topic of a special sermon il
the NJ. L. church next Sabbath morning
You ought to go and hear it, for it viii
certainly do You good.
For the week ending Sent. 4, ther,
were ll6,s25 tons of coal shipped owe
the Lehigh Valley railroad, making
total to date of 1910, ,OG6 tons, and show
ing an increase of 949, 1896 tons compare,
with same date last year.
The principal portion of the bust
ness section of Freeland, Luzerne coun
ty, was destroyed by fire Tuesday morn
ing. Loss, S2s,OOO. A fireman name
Wisner fell from enc of the burnin
buildings and was instantly killed.
Richard L., son of Charles and An
ME Harding, aged four months and seN
en- days, departed this life on Wednes
day, Slh inst, and was Inferred in III
Lehghton cemetery on Friday. Tn
parents have our sympathy in their be
reavement.
If you are just gone on youn
woman, my son, do not color you
moustache, for We have good authorit
for the statement that true love neve
dyes" but inyite her to take ride II
one Of David Ebbert's easy riding cat
Tiages. Livery on North street.
AT about four o'clock Saturday al
ternoon Perth Amboy coal train goin
South on the Lehigh Valley railroad
was wrecked near BOwmanstown by tn
breaking OF a wheel About fifty Goa
cars were completely demolished; bot
tracks were blocked and trains were de
layed for several hours.
Miss NJ. E. Major was very success
iul in the organization Of her EIOcutio
classes last Friday evening So ia
thirty-tWO members are enrOned--twer
~ adults and twelve Juveniles. Tn
classes will meet in Reber's HaD, Sal
urday morning and evening Of eae
week.
Every citizen who changes his res
dence-removes from one borough {
township to another, between now an
the End day of November, loses his vol
voluntarily DISTINGUISHES himself I'll
Constitution fegRiTes every voter TO :,
aide Al least strty days IN the elee,lo
district where he offers 10 vote,