The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-07-18
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Stroller ana Chum."
Miss Ida Schabo is sojourning will
friends at Weatherly.
Miss Rebecca Wintling is spending
a few days at Trescow with her parents
Miss Hattie MarlSley is home from a
delightful soiourn with Lehigh county
friends.
Rev. j. 1. Reitz, of the Evangelical
church, accompanied by his family, are
visiting at Mt Carmel.
"A. A. zeigenfuss, the genial sales
man with o. j. seager, is just able to
move about after weeks illness.
The Choral Society pic-nics in
Franklin Park, Saturday. For days
pleasure in the woods, you should go.
Mayor Daniel Graver and Nine
host Christman were at JohnnyWeiler's
Allentown picnic the other day. They
were not initiated.
Every tax payer wants to keep up
the water agitation until council are
convinced that public sentiment calls
for the much needed improvement.
The members of the Reformed
Sunday school of this town will picnic
with the Lutheran and Reformed Sun
day schools, of Lehighton, at Calypso
Island, Bethlehem, on August 8.
Two clubs of ball players struggled
for honors Sunday with the result that,
the aggregation know as the Stars, won
by score of 20 5. Sunday ball play
ing is pernicious,and should be stopped.
-Noticel All lpersons are cautioned
not to dump rubbish or refuse of any
kind whatsoever in the ditch between
the canal and railroad under penalty of
law. By order of the Burgess, Daniel
Graver.
The water question is deadl Why
is it? The progressive people of the
town should get together and demand
from council that they furnish the town.
with supply of water that will afford
protection in time of fire. Delays are
dangerous.
Charles Roth, one of the best known
Evangelicals hereabouts,wi come from
Hamburg and preach in School Hall
Sunday morning, in the German Ian
guage. Mr.. Roth has many friends
here and he will no doubt be greeted
with full house.
j. D. Curtis, of Brooklyn, n. Y,
who had contemplated opening
jewelry store here has changed his
mind, and will now accept a lucrative
position with a Bangor, Pa, firm. Mr..
Curtis is an agreeable young man and
we wish him success in his new field.
The State Board of Health have
been supplied with a number of af1-
davits in regard to the condition of the
stagnated pool lying between the Cen
tral railroad and the canal bank, and it
won't be so very long before they get
after some people with short stick,
that is if they are not like the Carbon
county Court-afraid Of corporations.
"A couple of fellows who were work
ing on the Smith farm, back of this
town, vouch for the following story.
One of the party had filed an old coffee
pot with water from spring nearby
and placed it at the foot of shock of
rye while they pursued their labors.
One of the two returning soon after for
drink found a five foot black snake
with its head halfway down the spout
of the can. The snake escaped, but the
size of the reptile is vouched for
DEAD.-GEoRGE RAPP.
1t was surprise to many people,
Tuesday, when the death of George
Rapp was announced. A week before
he had been working on his farm in
Franklin, and it is thought, that the
hard work together with the heat re-
suited in the illness that was not neces-
sarilY deemed serious until Monday
night when he began to fail rapidly,
after passing very good day, and on
Tuesday morning at half-past eleven,
died. Interment will take place this
(Friday) afternoon, Rev. Wuchter, of
the Lutheran church, officiating.
George Rapp was born in Wutten-
berg, Germany, on the 23rd day of Jan
uary, in the year 1880. Sometime dur
ing 1854 he emigrated to this country
and for a time located in Allentown
and later, perhaps during the year 1856
moved to this town. On the 8th of
November, 1856, he was married to Miss
Hannah Pehle, of Lehigh Gap, this
county, by Rev. f. A. Bauer, now OF
Lehighton. Their union resulted in
five children, four Of which number
with their mother survive, Charles
Rapp, of Chicago, and three daughters
Misses Louise, Emma and Ella. Mr.
Rapp was butcher by occupation
: which business he carried on for many
= years in connection with that of {
drover. Coming to Weissport wher
the town was bat scattered village
j. and Lehighton was mostly scrub oak
he soon became known as Butcher
. Rapp all over the county. The writer
q always knew him as a whole-souled
+ good-hearted man, with hosts of friends
To the sadly bereaved widow and fam
: lily the "Stroller" tenders sincere con
! ISOLATION in this dark hour of afflictiol
and earnestly commends them to tn
All Wise Ruler who does all things bu
for the best.
RAILROAD RUMBLINGs.
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