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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-05-26
PURE MINERAL sprlxe WAFER IcE.

Now that the season iol using ice has ar
rived. desire 10 call the attention of the
citizens @. Ma ,inshutg - the 9RdtSplttd-
6{e fact that am now delivering ice abso-
lutely free from ali impurities The stream
from which il is gathered. is fed by iron
and slate springs When you put ice in
your drinking water, yea want TO know
haiti has no malarial germs to poison
your system. X. s. HEl.BERGER.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-05-26

FOR Xtegler Brothers fine shoes 60
to John Lyons. IT,
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-05-26
NnrIcE W. pENTERs

NOTICE TN PENTERS
we hare y uacw hNuds Sygiua Gxtupa
Tor 35tts
We have Oh Biiuds 9Th Scenery Tor Use
We have Straw Aaliug al ia
we l&ge NRg Cape, ~ Boots.
We have laeraia Carpets az 3ects
We have Window Shading OF lOcis va
We have Table Oil Cloth at 20 cts yd
We have hool Oh Cloth at 25cts. I'd,
Renters. tais means 10 per cent. or your
rent, see that SOP don't pay ;wo rents H..
gal notice from the Bargain House OK r.
uERRlKG.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-05-26

FOR new styles. colors and low prices
OF hats, that cannot 0e eAcelled, go to
l.. NJ. HOkE.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-05-26

HATS. NEW SpRlNG STYLES. HATS
All the leading styles, every variety
of shape, color, price, &c, at FRANK
DOLL Il Co.'S. New Hat Il Shoe Store
Queen st,
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LiTTLEToN M. HoKE

SUCCESSOR 10 Gettinger + Hoke. Blondel
Bullding.)
Has now the best stock of Shoes, Hats
and Caps now ready for inspection ever Of
fered to the public. The stock is entirely
new and will be sold at low prices.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-05-26
Zee! Ice!! Tce!!!

have put up several pounds Office, sew
eral incbcg thick. and | hope my friends
and customers Of former years will not
make arrangements for Ice for 1888 until
they nave seen me and learned my prices.
am afraid TO advertise more extensively,
for have noticed for several years that
those who advertise The most extensively,
have sold MI their Ice by the middle Of The
season. Respectfully,
feb. 25.9m G. 5. SHOWERS
CALIFUR&i
SPECIAL PAETIE~ SEuE-M0NTHLY.
FREE SLEEPING CARS
CHEAP RATES.
Southern Route Aadr4s y. HAWLEY,
General Eattn AstJ b ;f...~
r.; r SMITH 4O2. gntsirut st., phl.,-
delpha, or any BaIsiinofr sod clSet
Agent NIB st
People crowd Tue star Grocery, bus Tag
usaf II Jus cyfup at 25e per gal, Best
Honey DIP, zoe, everywhere else al soc,
New Crop n o Molasses only very
where else, 15c
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-05-26

HEADQUARTERS For SHOES AND
HATS.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-05-26
]. II. BRKST0R
REAL ESTATE. AGENT
FE NE T&F RY'. STORE.
MARTIN : RURG, w

EETlLL attend 70 the Real Estate business
wv L. all lie branches. Will hnY and sell
lands 90 commission. Persons having Land
OF iown Property 70 sell will coaallr their
interests by slacing them 10 orr hand sat
once for advertisement.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-12-29
To pelinquents Only.

We have o number of subscribers on our
lists, to many Of whom we have sent bills,
for two, three or more years. we now again
call their attention TO the matter by mark
ing blue * opposite the direction tab,
and earnestly request that they make an
immediate response. The date on the tab
will show them just how much they owe,
thus
Jos. PayquIck MARI 50
shows that he owes from March I, 1885,
would be $500 up to March 7, 1889. Other
dates can be computed in the same man.
ner. Let US hear from you al once by Pos
tai Note OF Money Order payable at the
Iehighton Post-offihe.
Il. V. MORTIMER, JR., Publisher.
December 1, 1888.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-12-29

Items Of Interest Cleaned frcm the ruay
Working World

The Iehigh Valley shops at raalelou
are busy with orders for cars. Two new
locomotive are aiso being built.
The twcntv.ffh anniversary Of the
Workingmen's Protective Union Of New
York was celebrated some nights ago.
San Francisco is using Wyoming coal.
The strike in Australia enabled the dealers
TO raise prices, but the ''trust" has been
broken and coal sells for $12 per toh.
San Francisco labor organizations have
indorsed bill gotten up by Labor Commits
sioner Tobiu. II proposes to forbid the EN-.
ploymeut OF children under Is years of age.
The Eastou Industrial Association
has been formed in that city with capital
stock Of 100000. Its objects Is to boom
enterprises and secure additional industrial
establishments for the town.
Cleveland city workmen work nine
hours per day, An ordinance requiring con-
tractors on city work to employ none but
American citizens has been introduced in
Councils
"Piusburgs twenty blast-furnfces are all in
blast, making pig-iron at the rate Of about
100000 tons year, which is an average
for each furnace of $4,000 tons per year, Of
over 96l tons per week"
The Lehigh Valley will begin running
cars fitted with steam heat oil the New
XorI, Ctoto ~o,taa. -, To,,or, LEI Tho 10 "a,
compels roads in York State to ncat cars
by steam on and after that date. About so
cars have been already fitted mp for that
purpose.
philadelphia and New York factories
formely supplied San Francisco with SOAP.
Now there are twelve soap factories in San
Francisco, and besides supplying the home
market, they send $4,000 boxes year to
Asiatic Russia, Japan aud the Hawaiian and
Society Islands.
| AN electrical locomotive Is building at
the locomotive works in Rome, n. Y. 1t
will be constructed as an experiment, and II
it can be shown that such engines can be
successfully operated, the invention will
rank as one Of the most important Of the
10Th century. The engine is to be operated
solely hy electricity and is designed to run
on all roads where steam is now used
David H. Frey, of this towu, is the in
ventor of a new plan TO Join iron rails on
the Railroad. A patent was applied for on
Nov. 18th, 1888, and all who have yet ex.
amined the model pronounce it perfect
joint. IT oyercomes three great difficulties
under which railroaders have been laborinp
in the past. First it avoids the damage
caused TO tracks by expansion in summer
and contraction in winter; Second, there il
no more wear at the joint than in any Other
part OF the rail, and Third, il makes 6
smooth joint and has taken out the click o.
the car wheel when passing from one rail tc
the other. We believe that Mr.. Frey hat
hit upon something that will he Of inoacul
able value to Railroad Companies, and sin.
cerely hope he may share in some Of ths
benefits. -Weatherly Herald.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-12-29

General Order No. 29, Department of
Pennsylvania, G. A. r., announces that
the new national and department counter
sign for next year will be sent on Decem-
cember 3lst, next. Posts delinquent for
reports or per capita tax, will not receive
the countersign till they pay up.
The certificate Of membership of the G.
A. R., which was ordered by the National
Encampment, is now ready for issue on
the design adopted by the Council of Ad-
ministrstion OF the Twenty-seoond Nation
al Encampment, and has been copyrighted
for the Grand Army Of the Republic. 1t
can be obtained. as other supplies, from
the Quartermaster General.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-12-29
Mauch Chunk.
The Body Of wm. Either net yet Found
Tho Oldest seldior IN Pa. A1oteh Of
ciher itefae.

District Attorney Rapshcr was confined
TO the house seyeia al days this week.
The show windows of number Of our
business houses we're artistlcally decorated.
William Spencer, principal Of the Sec
ond Ward schools, has resigned. Sometime
during January he will leave for Kansas
City.
There was fierce pugillstlc encounter
between a number of toughs at East Mauch
Chunk on Christmas day. Heads we're
broken, faces banged, etc.
Under the auspices Of the school of
Imsculate Conception very interesting
entertainment was held on Thursday even
lng. A programme OF music, &C.. WAS re-
cited with much credit to the participa-
tors.
Upon Information received from a
supposed reliable source we, were last week
dinto making an error. Frank Semme 10
no candidate for Commissioners clerk.
The contest for that position Is now betN cen
Lentz and Gallagher.
Happy Sam" Cortright's Christmas
Festival for the poor children of the County
Seat, proved, as usual, veritable treat for
the little ones. 5000 presents we're on
hand and distributed on the occasion. The
program consisted of a comic farce, music,
ETC., and was muchly enjoyed.
up to date the body of William Either.
who met such an untimely fate by the
flooding of the Nesquehoning mine, has
not been recovered. Several pieces Of
clothing and an old hat identified as part Of
his wearing apparel were found. Two
! forces of workmen are employed night and
day drawing the water from the breast with
the hope that the body may be found and
restored to the afflicted family.
-On the corner of Broadway and Sus.
quehanna street the other day. stood an old
gray-haired man seven years further on the
journey of life than the three-score years
and ten allotted, according to scientists, to
Us poor mortals, The man was John Nc.
Geady, of East Mauch Chunk, the oldest
soldier in this section of Pennsylvania. He
was all through the late rebellion, partici.
pating In many of the principle battles; he
was with Sherman on his famous march ID
| the sea.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-12-29
snydsr's Church 70 bs Dedicated

Next Sabbath, December 3lst, the Sny-
der's Church of the Evangelical Association
at Lehigh Gap, win be re.opened and dedi'
Gated for divine services, under the super
vision of Rev. J. S. Newhart, the pastor
The church has been completely renovated,
and improved by the building Of pulpit
recess In the rear and vestibule running
up into belfrey in front; the walls have
Deen frescoed, the altar aud pulpit made
new aud furnished with new furniture; both
inside and outside II presents an improved
appearance, and now this congregation can
truthfully say "how amiable are thy tsber-
nacles, oh Lord" Services will commence
on Saturday evening and continue on Sab
bath. Bishop Thomas Bowman will pre-
side and other ministers are expected TO be
present. Ministers and people are cordially
Invited from near and afar.
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Catholic ThanlrR,ving.

A decree to the whole world. issued re-
Gently by a sacred Congregation of Holy
Rites, 6xes the last day OF the year, Mon.
day, December Slst, as the Thanksgiving
Day of the Papal Jubilee. That day will
be consecrated In a special manner to the
Sacred Heart of Jesus, and will be cele-
brated with ceremonies in all the churches
Of the Catholic world The blessed sacra-
ment will be exposed, the thanksgiving
prayer will be sung and the benedicton
will be given. The Pope. who ordered this
ceremony at the request of many bishops,
was pleased to grant plensry indulgence
applicable also to the poor souls In pufga'
tory, to every one who receives on that day
the holy eucharist and assists at the thanks
giving ceremony.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-12-29

Personal Gossip about People who visit and 20
a Visiting.

Henry Wagner circulated at Bethlehem
on Tuesday
james STAN m, og Rochester. N. ",
is sojourning ia town.
Samuel King, Of Perth Amboy,
paralyzed turkey at home.
&C. Z. Bartholomew, Of Lancaster, was
home during the holidays.
Robert waIp and family, spent Christ
mas with friends down country.
--Dr F. /. smith ana family, spent
several days this week AT Hszeton.
William Veneer, student of Ursinus
College, is spending the holidays at home.
Charles ID. Clauss Is home fiom a
Lutheran Theological Seminary at Phila-
delphia
Harry Sweeny and wife, of Drlfton,
we're guests of the ''old folks at home"
over Christmas.
&C. w. Kline and wife, of HaEleton,
we're the guests of f. II. Snyder, on Bank
street, Tuesday.
--ReY. f. X. Berndt, of Lehigh county,
while in town this week made our sauc-
cum an agreeable cali.
Miss Lille, daughter of Burgess,
Reichard, is home from the State Normal
School at West Chester.
Miss Jennie Hughes, an estimable
young lady of South street, is spending the
holidays at Philadelphia.
Ed Raudenbush and wife, Of Perth
Amboy, were home with j. w. Rauden-
bush and family on Christmas.
Misses Carrie Campbell ard Stella
Shirtzinger, of Slaiington, are visiting Irene
Fenstermacher, on Lehigh street.
Misses Emma Seller and Mamie Gabel,
of the Hagerstown, Md, Female Seminary,
are spending the holidays at home.
Genial Harry Hunslcker, of Reading,
spent several days with relatives and
friends in town. Harry looks WE'LL
Frank Kershner, of New Tripoli, and
AL Clauss, of Drlftou spent Christmas with
the folks at home and while here gave US
very pleasant call. Both renewed theil
subscriptions. Right.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-12-29

Charles Hurst, aged 10 years, of Allen
town, has been arrested for robbing Samuel
De Long, of Scbnecksvlle. Young Hurst
was visiting DeLopg and during the night
robbed him of $50.
John Jones, an unmarried man of 20,
while standing beside the Philadelphia and
Reading tracks at ST. Clair, stepped IN front
Of a shifting engine aud was thrown some
distance, landing on his head. His skull
wes fractured and he died of bis injuries.
Hon. James T. Maffet, member of the
present Congress from the Twenty eighth
district, has been admitted TO the asy lum
| at North Warren as private patient. The
difficulty seems TO be excessive nervousness.
which was brought on blythe arduous labors
of the recent campaign.
Frank Toback, an inmate of the
Lehigh county prison, where he awaits
trial for deserLion, has become violently in
sane. Family trouble Is supposed to be the
cause.
-Nanticoke, Buzerne county, is threat
eDed with smallpox epidemic
The body of Mrs William Phillips
was found In creek near her home at
| Minersyille, on Wednesday. One theory
of her death is that she accldently fell into
the stream, while dipping water and was
drowned, but there suspicious pointing TO
different explanation, The Coroner will
make an investigation.
| According to the Annual report Of
State Superintendent of Instruction Fuller
there are school Accommodations In the
children of school age. OF the Ss7, ,4s7
children of school age only 1903, ,50l attended
school last year.
Joseph Bothers, about 20 years Of age,
was arrested at Altoona on charge of
counterfeitinS. This makes four OF gang
who have been operating in that section al
ready in the tolls.
"A party of drunken men were passing
the house Of John Beaver, near BRIDGEPORT,
Pa. Tuesday night. His wife is sick, aud
his hired man, William johnson (colored) F.,
went to the door and ordered the disorder
ly men off. They persisted In keeping up
their racket, when johnson fired pistol
oyer their heads to scare them. The bullet
struck James R. Murphy, passer by, pass
ing through his heart and killing him in
stantly, Murphy is % years old and re-
Gently married johnson fed, and has
not yet been arrested. The sEootiog Of
Murphy was entirely accidental.
james Hoad, of Erie who was stabbed
on Christmas night, will die. The citizen'
burnt down the house In which the affail
took place.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-12-29
Advertising Pays

Many merchants think that their names
are so well known that they do not need to
do any advertising. They, however, forget
that every year brings into trade new
generation of dealers and closes out GER
tain per oentage Of the Older ones. They
also forget how easily 1t is TO pass out of
recollection unless the cobwebs in memory
chain are constantly brushed by keeping
ones name before his friends, the public.
The fact of letting The public know that
you are still in trade brings many grist
to your mill that other wise would probably
stop somewhere else. Men in trade are
never too well known to leave their bust.
ness out OF the columns of the newspaper.
The business man who says he 'neyer ad-
vertises" must take down his sign, stop
sending out circulars and dispatching sales
men to sell his wares, for all this is adyer-
tising.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-12-29
General Items.

DIR. W. w, Mulllken has been practis-
ing medicine at Escanabe, Mich. for many
years. 1t is said that during nearly all
that time he has been abusing young girls,
Many of his victims are not over ten years
old Several times the fact Of his infamy
was made known to the parents Of his VIC
Tins, but they, after threatening the man,
let the matter drop to prevent scandal.
Bessie Van Wyck, the young daughter
of James T. Van Wyck, of Cold Spring,
N. T., was alone in the house on Christ
mas morning preparing the Christmas din
ner, when the fire became low, and Bessie
70 rekindle it poured kerosene on the en-
bers. The house and all of its contents,
including $500 in money, were destroyed,
leaving Hr. Van Wyck homeless and PEN
niless. There was no insurance.
Robert Hull, a fireman on the Norfolk
and Western Railroad, and brother Of
Allen Hull, general passenger agent of the
same road, committed suicide on Tuesday
night by taking laudanum At the Noryille,
Arlington Hotel
The remains uf the late John A. Logan
were Wednesday morning removed from
their temporary resting place at Washing
ton, where they have been for the past two
years. guarded by United States soldiers,
and were placed In the mortuary chapel,
which has been built by Mrs. Logan, at the
Soldiers Home.
In a murderous row In the Hungarian
colony in the Second Ward Reading, We'd
nesday night George Uheesik was seyerly
stabbed in the head. He. was found by
the officers next morning in serious con-
dition and unable to give an account of
how he had been hurt. A man named An
drew Shoody has been arrested
"A Greenvil!e woman who asked for a
divorce the other day .old the cou.t that a
little, measly, one armed cuss had licked
her husband. my marriage contract calls
for lord and protector" she said, "but
when man is so easy to get away with he
can't be much of lord and protect her, "
The court allowed that she had all the logic
on her side,
Mrs. Annie Boss, aged 20 years, Of
Allegheny, while rummaging over som,
old papers in a trunk few DAYS ago, CANT
across three deeds which call for over 60'
acres of land in the heart of Philadelphia
The deeds are dated June s, 1917, and wer
} made by Joseph L. Dlckerson, Of Glouste
county. N. j. He decided to William F.
} Daniel and Peter Boss of Allegheny, 20
acres aud town lot in Philadelphia. Tn
: case has been placed in the hands of law
J yers. There are only half dozen heirs L
5 the claims, and they expect that they wi
> recover part of the ground. The mau i
3 whose keeping the deeds were was DAME
: Boss, one of the first officials Of the Pitts
y burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroa
= Company. He died about four years ago.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-12-29
A Eaw Postal Gard.

The Postoffice Department will introduce
a new postal card on the first of January
next. The new cards differ from the old
ones in that they furnish privacy in the
correspondence contained upon them. 1t
is very much like a double card of the
present pattern. The back fold is split
diagonally and opens square out. The
four corners are folded and Joined together
In the centre, when the card has been
written upon, With a. piece of gummed
paper. The card weighs less than half an
ounce, and will contain no mora writing
than do those now in use.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-12-29
We Would Like to BE /,

A Board of Trade organized.
Sneak thieves pulled in.
Tramps bounced.
Delinquent subscribers pay up.
Everybody have happy New Year
Pack peddlers stopped hawking,
And merchants advertise.
Bank street payements repaired.
A boom in busiress.
Less rain and mud.
Everybody attend church.
The streets properly macadamized next
summer.
Persons Who steal flower plants from the
grave yard arrested and punished.
Persons who deface and tear down bills
and posters fined according to law.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-12-29

"A writer 10 a recent book about travel.
iug 10 the East, telling of the slow pace and
multitude OF suimals required in caravan
travelling, the calculation that the Israelit IS,
when they went from Egspt under Moses,
must baYe had a caravan at least two hun
dred league long and must have employed
six million eamels, What parade for the
youthful Egyptian As be saw Il pass.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-12-29
To- CT. Meerins

On Saturday evening of this week the
Independent Order of Good Templars will
hold meeting in Reber's Hall, TO which
the friends of the lodge will be invited to
come at eight o'clock. A good program
will be rendered. There will pc five minute
addresses on Temperance by Rev. Charles
Burns. Abraham Horn and John Bohn
music by Miss Sadie Hofford; temperance
budget by c. s. Weiss, interspersed with
other exercises of social and intellectual
nature.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-12-29
A wrinkle on WRINKLES.

1t Is customary to say that wrinkles come
from worrying, but the truth is that most
of them come from laughing. To know
how to laugh is just as important as to
know when to DO II. II you laugh with
the sides Of your face the skin will work
oose In time and wrinkles will form in
exact accordance with what kind Of laugh
you have. The man who always wears a
smirk will haVs q series Of semlclrculAF
wrinkles covering his cheeks,
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-12-29
To Delinquent Taxpayers.

You are hereby notified that all taxes un-
paid after January s 1889, will be liable to
an addition of per cent on the amount due.
VIZ. ScHADEL, Tax Collector.
Office: FIVE doors South OF NJ. Z. church.
Dec. 20, 1S8S-2w.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-12-29
Public salo EeElnter

-on the premises East Penn twsp., on
January lat, Reuben RehrIs viii dispose of
valuable real estate.
On January /, 1880, on the premises,
In CherryYllle, Pa, Austin Boyer, for the
heirs, win sell valuable real estate,
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-12-29

Remaining uncalled for in the Lehigh-
ton, Pa, Post Office. for the week ending
Dec. %, 1888.
BeltZ, Alvin Daur. John
Losee, Geo. b.
Persons calling for any of the above
etters will please say advertised"
JAMES p. SMITH. T.. NJ.
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Notice.

All persons are hereby cautioned against
throwing ashes or rubbish In the streets or
alleys under penalty OF 5.O0 fine for each
and every offence.
BY order Of Council
MAuLoS REIoHARD, Burgess
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r. .. aRETNEY
respectfully announces n the Merchants OF Le-
hghlon and others that he is now prepared n
% al kinds ~
HAULING or FREIGHT, EXPRESS
MATER AND BAGGAGE

on reasonable terms. Orders left at swesly 5
Corner store or st my residen nee on PINE st
9ear the Cemetery, VII receive peasnpt atten-
uon- Patronage solicited.