The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-06-13

A. Lively Wr1ter Tells the Story Of The
Happenings Of Week IN and About
Old Carbon.
-Weatherly has a lawn tennis
court.
Weatherly is to have 1900 road
scraper
The young folks Of Lansford are
"stuck" on horse back riding.
Summit Hill wants, and should
have, good fire department.
An East Penn man is said to be the
father of twenty-one children.
The people of Frenchtown want a
new school house. Give it to 'em.
The Y. M. c. A, Of Jeanesville, will
excursion to Glen Onoko on July 1S.
-Lansford has an order of Fraternal
Guardians insurance affair by the
by.
1T costs e5 TO kill a young rabbit
at least, that is the fine, and don't for
get it.
AT Summit Hill they are building
what is spoken of as the Switchback
sewer.
An electric railroad is talked of
between GAINESVILLE, Troscow and
Beaver Meadow.
There is said to be strike at the
collieries of the Evans Mining Com
pany, in Beaver Meadow.
james Riley, of Nesquehoning, and
Miss Norah Mooney, of Weatherly,
we're married Thursday.
Edwin Harkin's store at Coalport
was robbed recently, and the other day
the thieves we're caught.
-Nesquehoning morals are improv-
ing A branch Of the Christian En-
deavor has been organized there.
George W. Hemminger will very
likely be re-appointed principal of the
East Mauch Chunk public schools.
Paul Shimpo, Hungarian living at
Audenried, has gone "crazy as a loon"
He is confined in the Laurytown poor
house.
-Lansford's high school commence
ment will be held on the Goth when a
very interesting program will be
recited.
Larry Tarleton, a fat and lively
Weatherly Democrat, ill for some weeks
past is on the mend. His friends are
glad Of it.
Our farmer friends who read the
ADVOCATE should bear in mind that a
bushel of potatoes are to weigh 60
pounds instead of 60 as heretofore.
"A smooth tongued "sucker"
"worl1ed" some people at Nssquehoning
the other day. By leaving the town
quick he got out alive. Next time
"look little out"
AT Weatherly they arrest and fine
people who use indecent lang dage on
the streets. The Mayor of that town
shows some good horse sense in this,
other towns should follow suit.
The Bowmen's Sunday school will
picnic in the beautiful grove at that
place on Saturday. The committee of
arrangements are perfecting plans for
the pleasure of all who may attend.
The glorious Fourth of July will
be celebrated at Trachsville by a
balloon ascension. fireworks and dance.
The committee in charge of arrange
ments promise a good time to all who
atttnd.
"A Packerton woman sent ten cents
to a western firm who adyertised 1850
useful articles will be mailed to any
duuI6SS lI00 1Of Jon G5nLSs lOuo IN
sticking herself all over with the pins
she got. See the "pointS"
Cheap work doesn't pay. The New
York Portrait Company who were
taking cabinet pictures at rs cents and
81 dozen, has been closed out. They
were doing business at Lansford when
the hammer fell. They'll know better
next time.
The Camp Meeting of the Allen
town District, of the Evangelical AS
sociation; under the leadership of
Presiding Elder Leopold, will be held
in the park at Bowmanstown, from the
18th to the o5th of August.
An exchange voices an old truism
might as well attempt to quench the
phosphorescent emanations from the
tail end of lightning bug with a
squirt-gun as to try to run newspaper
to please everybody" Now, that's a
fact.
-Jeanesville, the mining village in
Carbon, made famous by the February
mine fatally had a wedding the other
day of which an exchange says:
"Jeanesville had a wedding Of two
mutes the other day. The language of
love is universal, and it was eloquent
enough in their cases to bring about
an understanding without any verbal
declarations. Where speech and hear
ing was denied, the little God made
eyes and hands speak the pleasant and
charming words of his vocabulary. II
was a mute wedding. They will be
silent partners for life.n