The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-02-16
MAUCHCHUNK NEWS.
Timely Paragraphs Picked up ana chrun'-
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Constable Williams was At Weatherly
Thursday attending to official business.
jonathan Kistler, Of Lehlghton, shook
hands with Mauch Chunkers on Monday.
The nominating convention Of the Re-
publican party will be held Friday evening
County Detective j X. Dimmick was
circulating round the county on Saturday.
The Commissioners paid out during
1888, $104 10 bounty for fox and wildcat
scalps.
The large building in course of erection
in Upper Mauch Chunk will be used as a
sash factory.
Daniel Cherdon, Joseph Hawk, John
Garrity, John Lissko and Mary McElroy
are the only prison ers confined in the
county jail.
w r, Blackman Division Order of
Railroad Telegraphers was organized in
Concert Hall on Sunday afternoon with
about fifty charter members.
John Welsh, brakeman on the Cen
tral Railroad, residing here, was killed at
Bergen Point while coupling cars on Thurs
day afternoon Of last week.
Mrs. Harry Packer, relict of the late
Judge Packer, left for New York on We'd
nesday, from where she will sail Monday
for Liverpool. She will he absent two years.
During the year 1888 Carbon county
paid $1oS.31 for boarding prisoners in the
Eastern penitentiary; for the same year
S6l2.00 was paid to the Dauville Insane
Asylum for treating our insane.
1T is given out among hotel men here
that Jonathan Kistler, of Lehighton, will
have charge of the Wahnetah Hotel at Glen
Onoko during the coming season. Mr..
Kistler is an experienced hotel man and
would no doubt run the resort with profit.
The voters of Mauch Chunk do not
elect mayor, but like Weissport, throw
the selection of so important an official into
the hands of the town council. The county
seat is progressive, but until the method OF
electing our high lord mayor is changed,
there will be a sprag in the wheel of GO
aheadativeness.
st. Patricks day will be appropriately
observed by the holding of a big parade
under the auspices Of the st. Alysious
Temperance Society on Saturday afternoon,
March 16. In the evening the Catholic
Lyceum will hold a public meeting at which
leading members of the Carbon County Bar
and prominent speakers from abroad will
be present.
In 1873 Carbon county voted 23l4 fol
license against 963 for local option. The
vote Of the county has doubled seyera
times since 1878, but it is very likely that
the vote will stand proportionately similar
The several Catholic total abstinence soce
ties may have some effect on the result, bul
the fact that their newspaper organ opposes
the measure, makes the position they vii
take uncertain.
George Miller, of Weatherly, the Dem
ocratic candidate for Poor Director, circu
lated in tewn this week. OF him the Ha
zleton Plain Speaker recently remarked
lie is liberal in mind, liberal in character
and liberal in all his business dealings, jus
the right kind of a man to place into tn,
position of providing for the wants of tn,
unfortunate poor of our region and at tn
! same time safely and economically manag
the business affairs connected with the in
stitution in Laury town.
The County Commissioners have callet
In all the old assessment books and will
compel all the assessors to make the new
trennial assessments on personal inspec
tion of property. For number of year
past the assessed valuation of propertie
has been copied from one book to another
regardless of increased or deprecated value
>, and the assessors would put in charges 20
i work which. in reality, they never did
Under the new order of things this will b
. done away with, and when assessors receiv
pay for twenty, thirty or forty days work
= they will be more legitimately entitled to 1t