The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-02-09
.WEISSPORT LETTER.
A Breezy Batch Of News Items that will
Interest Advocate Readers All
Arnnnh.


Say, oil, sawg nix. We are onto you.
After an illness Of ten days AL Kresge
is again about.
&C. W. Laury was on business trip to
Allentwon Monday.
john Zeigenfuss, of Franklin, will erect
a frame dwelling house.
john Musselman, of Wikesbarre, spent
SUNDAY with the folks at home.
Joseph Boyer. of East Weissport, is
lying seriously i'll with cancer.
Blacksmith Snyder visited his son Will
liam, at Delano, oyer Sunday.
Mrs. Gussie Fenner. of Philadelphia,
visited friends in town on Tuesday
Owen Bower circulated 'mongst num-
erous friends at Slatington on Sunday.
Burgess Graver and family spent Sun
day with numerous Wilkesbarre friends.
Miss Mamie Mansfield, of Harrisburg,
is the guest of Misses Ella and Mary Snyder.
j. H. Biem, of Mountain Top, was
visiting Daniel Graver and family this week.
Twelve persons were taken into the
Evangelical church on probation last Sun
day.
John Blose, of Lehighton, has leased
the Knecht building and has opened candy
store.
b. F. Vogt was on a mysterious trip to
Slatington on Sunday. Ben, what does it
mean2
Ed. Nothstein is said to be the cham
pion blind and shutter maker in the valley.
Cab nei, Ed.
-Messrs. Hiram Green, Joseph Krum
aud John Zeigenfuss business tripped it to
White Haven on Saturday.
Sylvester Snyder, of Franklin, will be
a candidate for Justice of the Peacel Moth
ing like starting in young.
-While breaking in a vicious colt one
day recently, Oliver Stemler sustained
severe dislocation of the ankle.
The accidental breaking of the "main
line'' in SnYder's planning mill on Friday,
stopped work in that institution for sew
eral days.
School Directors Whitehead and Fisher
visited the schools of Franklin township
last week, and found everything working
satisfactorily.
Thomas Sloyer has purchased a build
ing lot from Reuben Zimmerman, in Frank
lin and will shortly erect thereon frame
dwelling house.
1.-THE agent who exhausted his Yocalu-
larry of language the other day in his
thesis on baking molasses was speaking on
a sweet but nevertheless sticky subiect.'-
E.
Mrs. Susan Zeigenfuss, aged ninety
three years, residing with her son John on
Union Hill, was stricken with paralysis on
Saturday and now lies in very precarious
condition.
Rev. Mabray, of Cherryville, delivered
two interesting and instructive discourses
to large audiences in the Lutheran and Re
formed church ON Sunday morning and
evening last.
The voters of this place will meet at
the Fort Allen House on Saturday evening
before the election for the purpose of put
ting candidates in nomination for the vari-
GUS borough offices.
George Laury and family, of Mauch
Chunk, spent Sunday with Nathan Snyder.
In the afternoon Mr.. Laury addressed the
members of the Evangelical Sunday school
in his usual spicy and entertaining style.
The following letters remain uncalled
for in the Weissport post office: Fred
Reber, Uriah Stofflet, Mrs. Amanda Boyer
and G. L. Holmes Persons calling for any
of the above addressed letters will please
say advertised"
Dennis Dreisbacn, of Union Hill, q
brakeman on the Lehigh Valley railroad,
slipped and fell on the ice one day recently
and sustained severe sprain of the right
leg sinews. Since the accident he has been
under the treatment of DR.. Andrews.
"A young son of Joseph Ruch was res
cued from waterY grave the other day by
Doug. Miller. The boy was coasting on
the canal bank when ne was accidentally
precipitated into the water. Doug's timely
appearance on the scene certainly prevent
ed a funeral.
1t is reported that ex-restauranter c.
II. MacDaniel intends, some time soon, to
move with his family to Weatherly, where
he will open a first-class bakery. Charley
has long been resident here, and has been
honored by our people in the election to
numerous borough offices.
The members of the Evangelical
church, almost in body. rendered Rev. S.
b. Brown and wife generous donation on
Monday evening. Unfortunately the pas
tor was absent, but the guests, loaded with
everything imaginable, piled in on the good
wife and presented their tokens of christian
love with heartiness and sincerity of pur-
pose that made the gifts deubly acceptable
TO the pastor and his wife.