The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-07-31

late Joshua Hunt of Catasauqua, is esti
at 5000, 900.
The Dryden horse shoe works, at
Catasauqua, are working night and day
to fill orders.
"A German Evangelical camp-m eet-
ing will be held at Bowers Station, som e
time in August.
The members of the Lutheran Sun
day school, of town, picniced at Glen
Onoko last Tuesday.
The Reformed Sunday school, of
this place, will picnic in Linderman's
grove on August 14th.
The Lords supper will be observed
in the Lutheran church tomorrow
| Sunday morning and evening.
Thirty different societies and organ
izations have been given dates to picnic
at Glen Onoko this season.
-TheKeystone furnace of theThomas
Iron Company, at Chain Dam, has been
blown out for necessary repairs.
The Lehigh and Schuylkill Coal
Exchanges agreed Tuesday to make no
change in prices during August.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad COM
pany has issued orders to suspend work
at all its collicIies until Aug. l.
The Valley National Temperance
campmeetiug is being held at Island
Grove, Freemansburg, this week.
The Dickinson works, at Scranton,
have received an order for fifteen new
locomotives for a railroad in Texas.
The Evangelical camp meeting will
convene in Webster Weiss grove, near
Weissport, Wednesday evening, August
4,h
On Monday of last week an iron
structural column was cast at the Union
foundry, at Catasauqua, weighing 4 800
pounds.
We are pleased to note that our
friend Anthony Raudenbush, who had
his foot ampuiated last week, is rapidly
convalescng.
About one hundred Lehightonians
took in the excursion around the Switch
last Sunday. All report having had a
delightful time.
The East Penn. Lutheran Synod,
representing 1900 members, will hold
its annual convention at Reading, com
mencing september 14th and continuing
week
Anthony RaudenbuSh, of this place,
who lost his right foot last week by an
accident on the railroad, will get 81. eco
from the Equitable Life and Accident
Insurance Company.
--Theo. Kemerer left at this Office last
Saturday timothy stalk, five feet three
and half inches in height and, also,
stalk of clover five feet one inch, the
product Of his farm in Mahoning town
ship.
Soldiers! Attention! Don't fail to
be present at the next regular meeting
of John d. Bertolette Post. 4s4. G.. A.
r., in Rebers Hall, Thursday, August
18th, as business of Importance is to be
transacted.
About five hundred hands will be
employed by the Iowa barb wire COM
pany, who will erect works at Allen
town. This is the second new industry
secured by the enterprising citizens of
that city.
"A baby comes us on angels wings,
but it hangs the wings up in a dark
closet when its feet have once touched
the earth, as it prefers riding in one
of David Ebbert's easy carriages. Livery
on South street; terms low.
For the week ending July "a, there
were ll9, l06 tons of coal shipped over
the Lehigh Valley railroad, making a
total to date of :, 3,95O,675 tons, and show
ing an increase OF 423, 44I tons compared
with the same time last year.
On last Monday evening Misses
Mollle and Florence Himmalwright,
Lulu Zehneb Sallie Raudenbush and
Messrs Strohm, Stocker and Mortimer,
enjoyed a very delightful "straw ride"
through the picturesque Mahoning
valley.
Those of our citizens who desire to
see mastery piece of Workmanship
should drop in Daniel Wieand's carriage
works, on corner of Bank and Iron
streets. Chas. Leimberger has shown
his mechanica! skill in the construction
of one of the finest hcarses ever built in
the Lchigh valley
Herbert Davis, of Packerton, who
was arrested last Wednesday, by con
stable Schoch, of this place, charged
with assault and battery on the person
of Anthony Teichert, of the same place.
has made settlement by paving the
costs of prosecution which amounted to
something over six dollars.
Patrick Bird, a rough of Guth's
Station, near Allentown, was Jailed at
the latter place, Monday. lie, with
three others,on Saturday night attended
a-dance in South White Hall, where
they assaulted an inoffensiye old man.
\ young man named Holf who went to
his assistance was so horribly beaten
that his life is despaired of.
The thirteenth annual Interstate
picnic exhibition, under the patrons Of
Husbandry of Pennsylvania, MARYLAND.
Virginia, West Virginia, New Jersey
and Delaware, will open at Williams
Grove, Cumberland county, Pa, on
Monday, August 80, 1886, and continue
until Saturday, September 4th. Ex-
eursion tickets At reduced rates from all
parts of the State.