The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-11-05
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A Column of Local Happenings
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the Many Readers Of the
Herald"

R. D. Hagenbuch, having received the
contract, is now painting the letter boxes
bright vermillion red.
The executors of the Egan estate are
putting down substantial flag pavement
all around the property, which is most
commendabe
In several parts of town the streets are
covered several inches deep with fallen
leaves, which should be swept up and |
carted away.
Shenandoah has new Organization
The Owls
Is it not possible to devise some style of
railroad frog that will not be ms dangerous
to human life as the one now in use Some
of the most horrible deaths on record have
occurred within a few days resulting from
the feet of the victims being inextr cably
fastened in those dangerous frogs. Time
and again such terrible casualties have oc
cured and are likely to occur again.
Surely some device of equal efficiency for
railroad service but less dangerous to
human life is possible.
The woods have been full of hunters this
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shots, but the game isn't plenty enough to
go around.
| 1t is comfortable to learn from almost
any source that the trade in cigarettes is
falling off. A tobacco dealer in New
Haven says the Yale boys do not smoke as
many of them as formerly. Glad TO hear
it, but would like also to be informed where
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most every turn in the street, smoking
cigarettes, get hold of them. There is
statute law of Pennsylvania that forbids
their sale TO boys under sixteen, and yet
there are more of the obnoxious article to
be seen in boys mouths to-day than we re-
member to have ever seen before. How is
this2 Is the law a nullity, or are there
secret agencies by which the merest chits
of children manage to get them2
Cunning accidents are now beginning to
count Too much carelessness on the part
of those handling firearms is the cause of
many injuries or deaths.
There is entirely too much gadding
among neighbors. If some housekeepers
would remain at home and get up a good
they would keep themselves out of trodble
and make their homes happier.
The amount OF sour krout made in this
borough and put away for winter consump-
ton must be immense, judging from the
cabbage brought to market and sold.
The Lehigh Valley railroad depot is
being repainted and otherwise improved
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tion. Go and see tho wonderful products OF
the great alligator state.
Send your boy to night school if he is
obliged to work in the day time for a living.
The invention of an odorless whiskey
will doubtless have q marked effect on the
demand for GLOVES.
The cold weather has naturally put
stop to lounging about the theatre building
on amusement nights. Pity it could not
be stopped altogether.
Mr.. Edison announces that people will
be able to light and heat their houses at
cost of GO cents per annum by and by.
This will be perfectly jolly for the people,
but Mr. Edison need not expect much
courtesy from the coal barons and the gas
manufacturers after such deliverance.
There is little wild game offered for sale
in our local markets, and what there is
good prices are asked.
The boys are already building on lively
political campaign for next year 1t will
be opened early
1t is almost too soon to trot out candi.
dates for borough offices, but we have
heard of number of names mentioned.
The proper place for announcements is in
the town papers.
Some able editor has carefully computed
the cost of rearing boy from infancy to
manhood. He finds the average expenses
to be S4 l50 When TO this financial ar
rangement is added the care and worri-
ment and anxiety that he has cost loving
parents and eager teachers, the restless
nights and sleepless days that he has in
hicted on his nurses and protectors, the
dismay and terror that his boyish pranks
have occasioned, and the unhappiness that
the whole neighborhood has experienced
because of his infantile shrieks, it begins to
appear that training up a child is very
expensive business. And when we look
about and realize what i1sipid specimens of
humanity are many of the young men who
were lately boys it seems as if the invest
ment was a mighty poor one.
1t is rumored that A j. Luburg has pur-
chased a residence in Philadelphia and will
shortly remove there, and his business
here will be- or has, been purchased by his
brother.