The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-02
Our Neighborhood in Brief.

The early closing movement is being
agitated at Hazleton with more or less
success.
Ralph Beaumont, the great labor
agitator is making a tour of Luzerne
and Schuylkill counties.
The extension of the immediate de-
livery system of the postal service goes
into effect to-day friday.
Apples can be had at three and a
half cents per bushel in the orchard,
from Lehigh county farmers.
"A Luzerne county lawyer has been
sentenced to the county Jail for six
months and to pay a fine of $500 for i'm
personating revenue officer.
The cigarmakers of Rhue Brothers,
Allentown, who were locked out week
ago, returned to work Monday, the firm
having acceeded to their demands.
The thirty-ffth annual fair of the
Lehigh county Agricultural Society
opened at Allentown Tuesday and con-
tnued during the week with the usual
success.
The marriage of. Patrick McCauley
and Bridget O'Donnell. of Schuyllill
county, Tuesday, was prevented on ac-
count of the mysterious disappearance
of the prospective groom.
Rev. J. T.. Freeman, of Franklin,
will deliver free temperance lecture in
the old ADVOCATE building, Bankway,
tomorrow Saturday evening, All are
cordially invited to attend.
1t may interest Lehighton ball
players TO learn that the Stars, of Lans-
ford, were defeated by the Hazleton
club in game abounding with errors,
last Thursday-score, 10 to ,.
The eleventh anniversary of the OIL
ganizaton in this State of the knights
of the Golden Eagle will be appropri-
ately observed by the different lodges
throughout the State to-day friday.
If you desire to vote at the coming
election YOU must pay your taxes to-day
Saturday, as the law positively spcci-
fies that man to vote must pay his
taxes thirty days prior to the day OF
election.
For the week ending Sept Is, there
were l46, ,497 tons of coal shipped over
the Lehigh Valley railroad, making
total to date of 4, 1910, ,1S2 tons, and show
ing an increase of 344, ,3S4 tons compared
with same date last year.
-Pleuro-pneumonia prevails 10 an
alarming extent amongst cattle in the
surrounding counties. The necessary
precautions should be observed by our
farmers in order to prevent the break
ing out of the disease in this county.
Two wild Texan steers, the proper
ty of butcher Diehl, created considerable
excitement at this end of town last
Tuesday afternoon. No one was in
jured, but pedestrians found it necessary
to quicken their gait somewhat in order
to avoid an unpleasant meeting with the
animals.
The find of uranium in the Switch
back mountains near Mauch Chunk, by
DR.. b. S. Erwin, of that borough, con-
sists of a vein eight or ten inches thick.
The out-strippings were traced for fully
half a mile. Uranium is worth $3.50
per pound, and DR.. Erwin thinks there
are millions of dollars worth in this
county.
The names of 1898 widows of the
soldiers of the war of 1912 are on the
pension roll in the United States. As
there were but few more than thirteen
thousand men engaged in that little
scrimmage, the healtfulness and longev-
ity of the widows is circumstance that
ought to be inquired into by the medi-
cal profession.
-"Break Bleak, Break" Tennyson.
Music by Pease. There is much distinc-
tion, individuality and charm of inven-
tion in tins new song, the thoughts flow
as though no effort had been employed
in finding or noting them down. The
style of the song is broad and solemn as
the title indicates. Price 80 cents. Ign
Fischer, Publisher, Toledo, O.
"A well-to-do bachelor named Mil
Ter, of Monroe county, recently paid a
neighbor So to find him a wife. One
was found and they were duly married.
but few days ago man named Sar
gent claimed the bride as his wife.
Miller satisfied his claim by preserving
him with COW valued at $40, and now
In the Miller mansion the Sweetness
of a HONEYMOON reigns supreme
On Saturday, Sept. %, Luzerne
county was one hundred years old. Its
centennial birthday was celebrated by
the Wyoming Historical Society in a
very appropriate manner. Judge IVood-
ward read the act of Assembly which
made Luzerne county, and the min
utes OF the first session of court, held in
the house of -Zebulon Butler, at Wilkes
barre, May p, 1851, We're also read.
The exercises throughout were exceed
ingly interesting.
m emergencies in domestic life
nothing is safer TO administer than a
good purgatiye medicine. DIR. Bulls
Baltimore Pills are pure, safe, and reli-
able.
Days Horse Powder Is the best altera.
tive and condition powder in the market.
The most successful stOck-raisers prefer
II TO all others. 25 cts.
See those lovely cherubs, a dozen
babies scranbling over bottle of DR.
Bulls Baby Syrup Babies know
"Whsts whar'-that they 60. 25 5oents