The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1890-08-16
the COUNTY SEAT.
A Local CasIset Of Live Happenings re
sonal and Otherwise.

A Local Cashet Of Live Happenings Per-
sonai aud otherwise.
Children in the second ward are wrest-
ling with the measles.
Thomas Lewis, Of franklin, was paid
81 by the county this week for a fox scalp.
Marriage license number 1895 was
issued By Clerk of Courts Esser this week.
Squire Samuel zeigenfus, of Millport,
was a prominent visitor in town on We'd
nesday.
Sheriff Levau ard Commissioners
Clerk Arner were at Kunkeltown Thurs
day on official business.
Sheriff Levan will sell Jacob Eckerps
horses, wagons and harness at East Mauch
Chunk on the 10th inst.
The silk and ribbon weaYers of Allen
town will run an excursion to the Glen and
oyer the Switchback on the 23rd.
Billy Adams Allentown excursion on
Saturday will flood Mauch Chunk with
pretty girls and ode boys from home"
e. X, Shoemaker and John B. Breslin
have been appointed assessors of the east
and west wards of Lansford respectively.
--Supt. Samuel Dickinson. of the Lehigh
Manufacturing Company, at Lehighton,
was prominent visitor in town Wednesday
"A. G. Peters has been appointed asses
sor of the first ward TO fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Lewis Nesley.
e. d. Decker, who several years ago
was local editor of the Times-Gazette, Is
publishing a weekly paper at High Bridge,
N. j.
The Campbell-Hgkey shooting affair
will come up at the OCTOBER court, and is
the only case of any interest thus far cal
endared.
"A code of fire alarm signals haYe been
adopted by the borough They work very
satisfactorily and are commendable i'm
provement.
Sheriff Leyan still has love for his
old home, Franklin, and lately bought a
valuable building lot on Union Hill from
Robert j. Hongen.
The Commandery of Mt, Pisgah Coun-
Gil, Jr. o. U. A. NJ, will participate in
american Day" at Shenandoah on Wed
nesday, September 8.
Happy SAM Cortright has been
granted divorce from his wife on account
of ncompatbility of temper and desertion.
They have not been living together for sew
eral years.
Squire James j. Boyle, of st. Alloy
sus T. A. B. has returned from Pittsburg
where he was in the capacity of delegate
representing the order here in the State
convention.
Edgar Fritzinger, of Allentown, who
was at Glen Onoko last Saturday with the
silk weavers excursion, fell from one of the
numerous swings upon projecting stump
and was severely injured.
Wallace Kreamer, of Millport, was paid
twenty five cents for mink scalp by the
County Commissioners on Wednesday. OF
late the number of scalps have fallen off
greatly which means, perhaps, that the
pesky little critters are being exterminated,
--'Is the independence of character pos
sible where there is no civilization ?' was
the lively question tackled last Sunday eve
ming by the Catholic Lyceum-an organi-
zation of representative Young men of this
place. The meeting was well attended and
interesting.
The unterriied Democracy from the
four corners of old Carbon will get together
here on next Monday and fix things for the
delegate election and appoint ne y county
committee. In the appointment of a new
committee some care should be exercised in
getting the men who will work for their
party and look after its interests.
Thomas NJ. Phillips, well and favor
ably known here, who for many years has
had the position of Division Superinten-
dent of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal
Company, having absolute charge of twenty
seven collieries in the Luzerne and Carbon
region, last Saturday, sent his resignation
to that Company of that position to take
effect September /.
1t is no uncommon thing to run up
against half dozen Or more office seekers
on our streets, but it is seldom that such a
ioVial, good natured lot of Democratic can.
ddates as the following get together: j.
T. Mulhearn, Lansford; DR.. Kreamer,
Millport; J ohm Conway, town; Paul Kresge
Towamensing; F. P. Semmel, Lehighton
w. M. Rapsher and E. H. Rauch, town
and Dominick O'Donnell, Summit Hill
They were all at the county offices Satur
day swapping jokes and political opinions