The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1890-10-11
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Offering Casket Of Crisp Uondensations
Original aud stolen from the Newsy Crea.
tion
100 pupils attend the public schools Of
/ Lansford.
-Weatherly has eleven secret organlza-
tions, In a dourishing condition.
The number Of pupils attending the
public schools of Weatherly is $40.
Frank KOons and Ben Peters. Of
| Welssport, are reported quite seriously IN.
The next Congressional Conference
will be held several years hence at Mauch
| Chunk.
-Delamater, the Republican candidate
for Governor, is expected at Mauch Chunk
on the 18Th.
Again there is some talk Of blowing in
the No. ! furnace of the carbon Iron Com
pany at ParryYlle.
The Lehigh Gap Slate Company is a
rev concern to work the Heimbach slate
vein near Slatington.
Friday, the oath INST, has been des-
ignated as Arbor Day by the Superintendent
Of Public Institutions.
The electric light is settled fact.
Fred Horlacher will put up building for
chat purpose at WeisspOrt.
-3,34O cars passed over the the weigh
scales In Packerton yards on Wednesday.
Total tonnage 2l, ,15t10.
"A curb stone eighteen foot long-the
biggest one in town, is somewhat of a curl
osity in front of the Iehner residence.
The following letters are uncalled for
IN the Weissport post office Mrs. Kate
Walp, Attended, Marker and Geo. Sacherer
An excellent likeness Of j. G.. Henzler,
a well known Mauch Chunk tonsoria
artist, is in last weeks New York Police
Gazette.
john Leonard, aged three score and
ten years, living near lock No. 8, died
Saturday and was buried on Tuesday
morning.
An exchange says 'Speak no evil of
the absent; that Is cowardly. Likewise
speak no evil of the present; you might get
-Weatherly has GIL homes; 6lS families:
60 surviving soldiers; II surviving soldier
widows; 50 deaths during the year. and a
total population of 2970.
Mrs. Matthias Ruff, of Franklin, whose
husband died few weeks ago at the age
OF ninety-one years, is serious in. She is
three score and ten yerrs.
Sheriff Fulmer, of Northampton. has
levied upon the general store of Matthias
II. Young, at Walnutport to satisfy an ex-
ecution amounting to s BAG.
About 60 barrels of beer were sold a.
the stands on the fair grounds last week.
That means something like 25,0OO drinks,
and oh, how many swelled heads?
Constable Ed. Raworth, of town, has
levied on the personal property of Nathan
Drumbore, of MahOning, and will sell the
same at public Yendue on the 14th inst.
Carbon county has two students in
attendance at the West Chester State
Normal School. They are Misr Irene
Fenstermachar, of Lehighton, and Stephen
j. Hughes, of Beaver Meadow.
-Sixty-hYe aliens were made full fledged
American citizens at the Naturalization
Court held in Mauch Chunk recently, on
subscribing to the oath of allegiance to the
Constitution of the United States.
The Ladies Aid Society connected |
with st. Luke's Hospital at Bethlehem will |
give an old time basket picnic and excur- |
sion to Glen Onoko next Saturday for the |
beneht of the training school for nurses al
the hospital.
The sporting men of Weatherly who
back the well-known sprinter Engleman of |
that town, are very anxious to match him |
against Lehman, of Wilkesbarre, for 1876 |
yards dash the purse to range anywhere |
from 5000 to $500.
1t is said on the thoroughfare, though |
we Know not how truthfully, that George |
- Alouf VI 4hduCu OnuOk, mas accepted |
the Republican nomination for Assembly |
II comes little late, though there is still |
time to make lively canvas of the county. |
"A PackertOn man is the owner of three |
chickens aged fourteen years each. They
have changed hands frequently, no one
seeming TO care about claiming perpetual
ownership, at least so Erve Schoch saws.
1t would be good idea TO feed em 10
that little band"
Angelo Gregorio and Mike Dudasb.
bottlers of Hazeton, were arrested by C.
" Policeman Simpson for selling beer at
retail in Carbon county. The warrent was
sworn out by the notorious Frank Hoffman
They were taken before Squire Haas, of
Audenried, and upon paying the fine and
costs were released.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
are laying double track from Hazleton
junction to Audenried, distance of about
tour miles, on account of the increased
amount of trade which the company has
secured within the past year. About three
miles OF the new road is completed, ard
the entire road will be ready for use in a
few weeks
We notice with pleasure, a philosophi.
cal disquistion, by w. NJ Rapsher, ESQ,
the Democratic candidate for State Sena-
tor from this district, in the September
number OF the Current Comment q Legal
Miscellany of Philadelphia. The article
is entitled, understanding Each Other
and gives evidence of the fact that Mr..
Rapsher is at home in almost any field of
literature.