The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-03-17

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is selling at from sl4 per ton up.
Dwelling houses are exceedingly scarce
here.
Pike county has twenty-five post
Offices
-Lehighton has now over six hundred
voters.
Our public schools will close sometime
In May.
Many of our farmers predict big
wheat crop.
Weather prophets predict more snow
before May.
-Astronomcally, spring begins on next
Wednesday.
This borough has thirty-nine stores and
more coming
--Lehighton was incorporated as bor-
ough in 1906
"A X. G. T.. commandry has been or
ganized here.
If you change your place of residence
please notify us.
-Sixty-nine prisoners are in the Luzerne
county bastile.
-Tramps are an unknown quantity in
some localities.
st, Patrck's day ln the mornlu', to-
day Saturday.
Good Friday, March 9Oth, will be
legal holiday.
Electric lights illuminate quite a numb
er of our stores.
Don't fail to keep your payements In
good condition.
What has become of Carbon counly's
base ball league?
There is balance of $1,000 In the Pike
county treasury.
DIR. f. l. Smith will move here with
his family shortly.
-Lehigh University, South Bethlehem,
has 401 students.
The mercantile appraiser has about
finished his work.
Thus far this winter there have been
twenty-five SHOWS,
The day and night will be of equal
length on the 21st.
-Stroudsburg people complain of high
rents. Same here.
The depot at Slatington has been en-
larged and besutifed.
"A dead babe was found Saturday on a
Bethlehem ash heap.
There is Mahoning in Montour coun-
ty. Ditto in Carbon.
The Y. NJ. C. A. library is progressing
finely. Help it along.
There is some talk of creating two
wards in this borough.
We have eleven hours and ffty-three
minutes OF daylight now.
! A Senior Council o. of U. A. NJ, is
about to be organized at Tripola,
-Segfrled's Bridge is promised build
Ing boom for the coming summer
Three story buildings must haye fire
escapes according to law.
"A reliable watchmaker;-D. S. Book,
opposite the Public Square. -
Wanted at this office-An intelligent
boy to learn the art of printing,
Francis Weiss, decd, of Bethlehem,
had over $780, 900 insurance on his life.
-Stroudsburg is happy on account OF
having weather signal service.
-Broadheadsville has P. o. S. of A.
Camp. Instituted last Saturday.
Werner e Leibenguth, contractors
and builders, have dissolved partnership
The first settlement in Carbon county
was made in I746, near this borough.
Full line of Ingram and Brussels car
pets at V. Schwartz, on Bank street. If
The new silk mill at Weatherly will be
ready Tor operation by the middle of April.
Paints, oils varnsh, glass and general
painters supplies, at Luckenbach's, Maucl
Chunk.
The new Zlon's Reformed church a.
Allentown will be dedicated on the 9Th oi
April.
"A large number of new dwellings will
be erected at Allentown during the coming
summer.
The new store building on the corner
of Lehigh and Elm streets is nearing com
pletion.
For artistic paper hanging and decorat
ing call on E. F. Luckenbach, OIL Broadway
Mauch Chunk.
Hon. A. j. Durling Is quite fayorabl!
mentioned in connection with the Associ
ate Judgeship.
There are several good beds of brlcl
clay in this section, which will be utiize
advantageously at an early day.
The new Catholic church at Soutl
Bethlehem will be dedicated on the lst
inst, by Vicar General Walsh.
AT Packerton, on March 10th, by Rev
: b. F. Powell, Thomas NJ. Raudenbusl
and Miss Daisy Hampton, were married.
= Wall papers were never so low as he
are now, and are almost certain TO 90 up i
i the early spring. See Luckenbach, Mauc
n Chunk.
e For $40 you can buy the hest all-wet
h suit in this Valley and don't you forget i
at Sondheim's One Price Star Clothin
= Hall, Mauch Chunk.
l. 1t Is said that David Ebbert will 500
h raEe to the ground the old stone buildin
on Bank street, formerly occupied by job
1t d. Miller as a saloon,
T. "A number of farmers throughout Il
re county who housed and cared for the qua