The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-08-28
Our Neighborhood in Brief.


--Weatherly has a prohibition club
with membership of forty.
-Ex-Sherif Rhoades, of Wilkesbarre,
died Sunday, aged sixty-four years.
Shares of the capital stock of the
Easton National Bank are worth SOB.
Lewis Marsteiner will please accept
our thanks for basket OF luscious fruit.
The Auburn, IN. " Axle Works,
giving employment to 1000 men will To-
cate at IVilkesbarre.
-Trexler Il Kreidler, our popular
wagon builders, turned out several beau
titul rigs" last week
John II. Leibert, prominent citi-
zen of Northampton county, died sud
denly of heart disease Monday.
If you wish to take carriage ride,
secure your team of David Ebbert, at the
popular livery on North street. Terms
low.
We call your attention to the adver.
tisement in another column of James
A. Whitney, Nurseryman, Rochester,
N. Y.
M. P. Groody, Justice of the
Peace, of Mahanoy City, was drowned
in the surf at Atlantic City on Satur-
day. His body was recovered.
Those who desire to vote at the
coming fall election should not fail to
see that they are properly registered.
Sept. I'd is the last day for registration.
The Carbon county fair will convene
at this place, on September 21 and con-
tinue four days. A number of new fea-
lures will be presented which promise
to make it grand success.
"A passenger train colIided with a
caal train on the p. & r. railroad, near
Ashley, Monday evening, which result
ed in the demolition cf several cars.
Loss to the company, $4,000.
Our young friend George Stocker
will please accept our thanks for the
beautiful pyramid Of plums adorned with
fragrant flowers, which he left in our
sanctum last Friday morning.
The corner stone of the Zion's Re.
formed church at Allentown, was laid
with proper ceremony Sunday. The
sacred edifice was first opened in 1862
and has historic "reminiscences.
Clean your cutters of the filth and
stagnated water which accumuates
there if you wish to enjoy perfect health.
Our borough fathers should look to this
matter. 1t is important to the health
of our citizens.
About forty members of John D.
Bertolette Post, No. 4s4, G. A. r., of
this place, will attend the reunion of
veterans at the twenty-fourth annivcr-
sary of the battle of Antietam, at Eas-
ton, on September II.
For the week ending Aug. 81, there
were 122,12O tons of coal shipped over
the Lehigh Valley railroad, making a
total to date of 4, AZ, PA tons, and show
ing an increase of III, 12l tons compared
"ith udlC iloL year.
The output of coal for the month OF
September is limited to 2,7C0,OOO tons.
During the same month last year $780,.
600 tons were mined, or 100000 tons
more than the amount fixed for the
same month this year.
-Anassociation of the Prohibitionist,
of Carbon, Northampton, Bucks, lie
high and Montgomery counties, will
commencing the first week of Septem
Der, publish four page, seven column
paper called the QuW.
-Mauch Chunk people were ''cruell,
taken i'm by street fakir last Satur
day, who sold gold watches, wrapped il
an envelope, which upon investigation
however, proved to be gilded tin watcl
cases with double pastebOard face.
Berwick, Luzerne county, wa
founded in 1856, by Evan Owen, VIII,
came from Philadelphia, but was ma
tive of Berwlck-upon-Tweed, Scotland
1t was formerly called Owensvllle. IT.
centennial celebration was observed oI
the 10Th inst.
The much-talked of bridge to eros
the Lehigh at White Haven, is now in
fair way of being built. A meeting 0
the commissioners of Luzerne and Car
bon counties was held at White Hayel
last Friday when satisfactory arrange
ments were completed.
-Elwen Bauer, Secretary, and Thos
Rooms, President,o of the Carbon Count,
Industrial Society, will receive sealet
proposals until August 80, for the erec
tion of grand stand, on their ground
in this place. 1t must be completed OF
or before September IS.
The Nis-Hollow Union Sunda
School will picnic in Mller's beautiful
grove, a short distance above the schoo
house, on Saturday, September 4th
Music will be furnished by the Ario,
Cornet Band. of this place. Refresh
ments will be furnished at low prices.
Our popular liveryman David Ell
bert, "hitched up his large "bus" las
Sunday morning and drove The followin
parties TO Rockdale, where they spen
the day with Daniel Peters: Reube
Fenstermacher and wife, Wilson Peter
and wife, Lewis Werner and wife, Her
ry DrumbOre and wife, Benz. Peters an
wife, Mrs. Pratt, from Lehighton, an
George Emery and wife, Eugene Everi
and wife and Harry Musselman an
wife, Of Weisspoyt.