The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1890-11-22


The public schools in this STATE cost ss,os7,-
80 last year.
-Pennaylvanla produces half the coal mined
IN the United States
--Rey. J. d. Paxton, Of Schenectady. N. Y,
declines a call to tho First Presbyterian church
Of EastOn.
--Fonnsylyania has $1,000 school teachers, or
one 70 about every 30 OF her population We
ought 70 be intelligent
The crows IS wen as backbirds have been
locking Of late. "A sign Of an early winter"
says weatherwise citizen.
The doctors took q large tumor from the
body Of Miss MOlson, at Lock Haven on Satur-
day night which. according TO the Democrat,
weighed la5 pounds
The Act Of 1851 constitutes 1t nuisance II
two or more persons stand on the sidewalk Of o
public street. Keep moving and you avoid com
mitting q nuisance.
Under the new hien law the owner Of a
building need not pay a contractor a dollar
until the latter brings him afldavits that he has
paid for AL the material and labor
Nv. II, Lee, OF kaston, has completed the
| frst street car ever built there. II is for the
Kaston, south kastOn and West End Railway
Company and is said to be dandy.
Spring Grove, York county, is a musical
town. With population Of 900 to 700, there are
IN the town I'VE pianos, thirty-three organs, two
/ brass bands and an orchestra, besides number
less small musical instruments.
day IN front OF q South Bethlehem grocery. We
know that nothing e as it used 70 be, but would
not have thought the Germans fayorite krOut
would do for dynamite" bombs
George Gr0ssman, q Beaver Fails farmer,
found : torpid snake and did the viper-warmlng
| act The snahe bit him and George has to booze
great swaga Of bad whisky, He Is nursing his
head now and expressing momentary desires to
Betty Benton was born twenty-five years
ago, near Bradford, and this Is her career. She
was twice widow. before she was ls years old
married her sixth husband. OF the five gone
before four are dead and one is divorced.
1t ls safe to assume that not one person il
hfty Is acquainted with the legal fact that any
one who mails a letter ordering lottery ticket
or sends postal card relating In any way to 3
lottery, Is liable to imprisonment for eighteeT
months, or to be fined not exceeding 500, OIL
both.
William Kurtly, IS years Of age, has beer
1 sick with typhoid fever at JOhnstown for seyera
weeks. About two weeks ago gangrene set II
on his right foot and extended part way up tn
leg His physicians decided the leg should b
amputated and Saturday the operation was per
formed by taking the leg OF just below the knee
IAN interesting case that is to be tried sool
, ". ls that Of Mrs. Alice Morgan vs.. the count
Of Northumberland, the lady having sued tn
county for $4,000 for injuries received at MI
OF Mil street, whereby ane was hurt so badl.
that she has been an invalid ever since, the &C
cident having occurred year ago.
--ThanksaiyinR prOclamations have been is
1 sued by the President and all the Governors
The proclamations have been printed IN almos
every paper and have been read by millions o
people. But they read thOughtessy. Few pee
/ Die think ofhow many things they have to b
thankful for. And some act as though they hal
} nothing to be thankful for; such cucumber tn
earth, and tt were well II they got on,
nor, onffr f,a,, IN
superintendent Gable, Of the Philadelphia an
Reading Road, has issued an order TO the effec
that all main line crews are to be paid by tn
hour for all overtime In their trips. The tim
/. fer sOuth-bOund trips has been fixed at hftee
hours and for north-bOund thirteen hours. Sur
{ erintencept Bonzano has also reinstated the oil
four-wheel cars as carriers. but they win ru
only as far as PerkiomeM Junction.
"A new sWindling scheme Is being perpetra
ted upon the unsuspectlng farmer and others b
tisins a Chicago paint house As an induce
' ment TO get their goods before the people, the
will furnish free OF charge, ten gallons of pain
Use the same on his house or barn upon its al
rival. The contract IS then signed afterWRrd
turns up in the form Of an order for 100 gallon
Of paint at 82.25 per gallon.
Last fall It was noticed that the trail of tn
. | ground mole plainly marked the letter Nv" o
!, the surface Of the earth. That letter indicate
Q warm winter" and the size Of The past sun
u upheavals Of the wandering and busy moles d
}, tipctly trace the letter "C,' and wise men al
=. taught by this that the approaching winter WI
u be cold one. The ground mole Is evidentl
n desrous Of crowding the goose bone an
weather prophet DeVoe out OF buslness.-El
\ change.
Secretary Edge, Of the State Board Of Agr
culture, has made a careful estimate Of properi
and taxation In the State. The claim that th
| farmers are taxed higher than other properl
:, does not hgure well In the showing. The tots
, value Of taxable property in borolghs, $40 ga
al; total tax rates In bOroughs S160 0526S1; IA
rate In bOrough8, 1915. Total value Of taxabl
property outside boroughs, ~; tax raj
A outside 0oroughs, 9.46; tax in boronghs, 81
y mills more than In the country. A $4,000 hous
y pays about SS7l0 more than does $4,000 farm