The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-05-11
THE COUNTY SEAT.
News Items and Personal Aiinsions Of In
terest to our Host of Renders.

News Items and Personal Aiiusions Of In
terest to our Host of Renders.
.To'el wahnetah, at Glen Onoko, viii
be- 'rlnally opened on the 10th.
-lhe Dlmmick Memorial Library build
ing will be ready for occupancy by October.
Squire Werner, of Lansford. did busl-
ness with Prothonotary Esser on We'd
r ssday.
The assessed valuation of Nesquehon-
ing, including everything, is the snug sum
of $SSS, 1925.
Carbon county has only three prisoners
In her dungeon. This is bright comment
on our morality
Mrs. Jerre Dimmick, of the 2nd ward,
leaves for the West on Tuesday, where she
will visit relatives.
The Cdzette-Tim building shines
forth in accord with reiuvensted nsture
by donning a new coat of paint
Mrs Garrahan, of Nesquehoning, was
taken to the Danyille asylum from the
Middle Coal Field Poor District, on
Monday.
District Lodge. No. 9, Independent
Order of Good Templars, met in Oak Hall
on Tuesday. Prominent temperance work
ers In the Lehigh Valley were present.
up to date 93l couples have been
ioined together in Carbon county under the
marriage license law. We wouldn't mind
going a lead nickle that lively Weissporl
got the biggest share of them considering
her size.
An effort Is making to haye Carbon
county made paid district under the Fish
Commissioners. Aaron Miller has been fish
warden for year or more without salary
and 1t is likely that If the effort amounts To
anything he will be continued.
The Carbon County Commissioners on
| Wednesday awarded to tue PittsbuTg
Bridge Company, the contract for an iron
bridge over Quakake Creek, at Hudsondale.
| The bridge is TO be one span, "a feet long,
| 10 feet roadway, all iron with the eXcep-
ton OF the plank. Contract price, 1926.
| 1t will be placed on the old abutments and
is to be finished in thirty days.
| The Poor Directors of the Middle Coal
| Field Poor District have awarded the con-
tract for rebuilding the barn, which was
desIro, ed by fire at Laurytown three weeks
ago, to Herman Gaebe g. Co., of Lansford.
| The bids resolved were as follows: Her.
man Grebe a. Co Lansford, $4,573; A. X.
Burger, Freeland, $5;997; j. q. Sendal,
| Wea.herly, S4 1896; d. Fl. Leyan, White
Haven. $4,550; 5. Schweppenheiser, Free.
land, 4,500.
1t will no doubt interest ADVOCATE
readers In the lower end to know that the
iron bridge across the Lehigh river al
Lehighton ,riU be erected, but whether OF
not ON new location has not been decided
There is still difference of $1,000 between
the Commissioners and the Valley railroad
company in the matter of a location whicl
will baye to be adjusted before the bridge
Is built. If the Valley Company is wise Il
| will paw the snlp asked, for no party viii
more benefited by The change than thu
corporation.
The Catasauqua Dispatch, In its issu'
of last week says: "Mr. Daniel Heberling
of the firm of j. w. Heberling & Bro.
merchants, Mauoh Chunk, has about com
pleted the purchase of the store of A. X
Beers & Co., Eagle Hotel block, this place
and designs removing 10 Catasauqua anC
engage in business. He has rented th,
dwelling on Bridge Street. formerly oc
cupied by the family of Mr.. j. A. Williams
Mr.. Heberling is business man OF wei
khown capacities, and is heartily welcomed
TO oCr town as a merchant and ctizen."
Joseph S. Fisher, ESQ.,, will deliver thu
Decoration Day Grafton at East Maucl
Chunk. Mr.. Fisher is an orator of NJ
small ability, having voice modulated b.
experience, rich in fullness and force ant
trained to expression. The people can
help but be pleased with him; always will
thorough knowledge of the question be
fore BIN he crates without egotism or the
loud bombast of most speakers. Your re
porter heard him at State Democrati
Convention several years ago when hi
speech was the most ELOQUENT and attentive
" listened 70 of any Of the many speaker
present,