The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-08-03
FROM THE COUNTY SEAT
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u The Prohibition party will hold the
N convention on the Sth instant in the cou
5 house at this place.
+ Everything is in full play; plenty
4 strangers in town WHO seem to enio
q themselves among the mountains.
/. "A swan boat with seating capacil
: for twelve will be placed on the river
I, ton.
, Elmer Keiser, junior proprietor of tt
] broadway House, is very happy, ne
, guest has arrived in the person Of a youn
: lady. ''1
During last year the Mauch Chun
> shoe Manufacturing Co. made "a, 106 pa
: oil shoes for which the company paid out
, weekly wages the snm of $12, ,47650.
Richard Conerty, of Penobscot.
brakeman on Central freight, had hi
thumb mashed while making a coupling a
the round house on Tuesday. Conerty wa
sent TO ST. Luke's Hospital at Bethlehem
The Electric Light Company are max
ing all possible haste to establish the plant
lI Ine old mill is being changed consid erably
me company are going to put up a YER
handsome building which will NOT onl
benefit but beautify the town.
The First Presbyterian church is se
ing repaired. The improvements will b.
on very extensive scale and requlre Ar
outlay OF very near or quite $4,000. Th,
edlnce is closed now, and Rev. Stevenson
| taxes hls vacation during the month o
August: Himself and family are now al
Nantucket. nv" :"
-Jonn McCann, young man from Mes.
| uuenonlng, met his death at Treichler's on
the Z. X. X. of n, j. 1t is supposed that
while working at the brake he fell from
the car. The back part of his skull was
crushed in. He was a member of the
Brakeman's Brot herhood.
| The several Councils of the Royal Ar
canum along the line of the D. L. & W, r.
II. from Roseville to Dover have in con-
temptation an excursion TO Mauch Chunk
ana Glen Onoko, early in September. under
the direction of f. J. Griffith, the assistant
superintendent Of the road.
The L. G. g. N. Co. have under wav of
erection coal schute which when finished
VIII allow the teams to drive under and
ioad without using the shovel. 1t is un-
fortunate that the company could not find
some oSher place than along Susquehanna
street for the unsightly concern.
e. h. Siewers has cactus which at
tIacted considerable attention MONDAY
evening. A few days ago he noticed a
shoot spring forth which soon developed in
to large bud and at eight O'Clock the bud
opened into magnificent white and pale
yellow flower. Upon examination half
dozen buds we're discovered and it Is possi-
bic that number of other flowers of this
rare plant may come to perfection soon.
Central Railroad engine No. 2sO ex.
ploded her boiler Monday at one o'clock D.
NJ, while standing on siding at brakes
roint' waiting for passenger train to
pass. The boiler blew out from the dome
TO the stack. Conductor Hennesy, who
was on the engine at the time, was severe
ly scalded by the escaping steam. Engineer
Dunlap and Fireman Serfass escaped with
slight injuries. The engine has only been
out OF Ashley shops few days. As yet no
cause has been assigned for the explosion.
AT the late meeting of Pisgah Lodge.
IA, l. .. G. T., of East Mauch Chunk, the
following officers were elected to serve for
three months term:
Chief Templar-W. A. Seigfried.
Vice Templar-Sarah Moore,
Secretary-Nettie Reigel
Asst. Secretary-George Doll.
Treasurer-Frank Rottoman.
Fin. SecretarY-Sallie Swank.
Chaplain-Mrs. F. G. Winterm ute.
Mdrsual-MrS. JOnn Kindred.
Guard-John Kindred.
Sentinel-Al Skeeth.
Lodge Deputy-Rebecca Moore.
ED. Wilson, of town, a. brakeman on
the Central Railroad. met with an accident
last Thursday which resulted in his death. |
HIS train was derailed by misplaced
switch and the force of the jolting threw
him from the cars under the wheels which
passed oyer his limbs. cutting one of them
of above the knee. He was placed on a |
special car bound for Bethlehem, but died |
before reaching that place. His remains
were brought back and taken to his home |
in Upper Mauch Chunk, from where he |
was inferred. His family receive $3.50
from the Jr. o. u, A. NJ, of which order |
he was member. His father and two
brothers are cripples, having one leg each |
Mr. Wilson keeps the restaurant at Upper |
Mauch Chunk, one brother is ticket agent |
for the Switchback railroad and another is |
in the employ of the Valley company at
Bethlehem.
The National Police Gazette, of Aug.
3, contains an excellent portrait of our \
well-known townsman, Theodore L. Mum |
ford, proprietor of the world-famed Switch
back railroad, with the following sketch of |
his life: "Mr. Mumford is a self-made |
man in all that the term implies. He was
born in Cooperstown, Oswego county. N. |
T., on May "a, 1888, and began manhood's
life as locomotive fireman, climbing the |
ladder step by step-until he reached his |
present enViable position in the railroad |
world. Mr.. Mumford was at one time en-
gagged in building the South American
railroads which were the inception of the
feeund brain of Henry Meiggs, the famous
RAILROAD King" and was Meiggs' .fdus
Achdtes and adviser. In 1870 he leased /
the Switchback, the most novel and best |
patronized pleasure road in the world. The
subject OF this sketch is a jolly-faced, good
natured gentleman, a firm, fast, true
friend and lover of all out-of-door anna
teur athletics.
The East Mauch Chunk Tennis Club
have decided to hold moonlight hop at
Glen Onoko, and the tennis folks of the
Eastern Pennsylvania Association, which
includes Ashland, Shenandoah, Mahanoy
City, Tamaqua, Minersyille, Pottsville, e.
Mauch Chunk and Catasauqua, are looking
forward to the hop with great pleasure, as
1t promises TO be the social event of the
season. AT meeting recently, Thursday,
August Sth, was the date decided upon.
Prof, Rhue's orchestra, of Allentown, which
is second to none in the State, will furnish
music for the occasion, while the Marion
band, OF town. has been engaged to render
NnO.NO eoioSeiohs iol "nlcn tnaJ musical Or
ganization has reputation. during the
promenades. Refreshments will be served
on the grounds. The affair is in charge of
the following committee, who will exert
every effort 10 makeit the success that IL
should be; Messrs, II. s. Ruddle, George
Dreisbach, William Tombler and ii. Gwin
Steel and Misses Emily Stedman, Lizzie
McMullen and Minnie Swank.
A "Go" for 500.
An interesting race will come off in the
Fair Grounds here on Saturday afternoon