The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-08-15
MAHANOY PLANE.
Items Of Interest From Our Reg
ular Oorrespondent.

ular Correspondent.
Mschinist William Bensinger, of the p.
II R. shops, goes around on three legs since
he allowed a cylinder mead to fall on his
Toes.
The wife of Richard Metz, of'town, met
with a very painful accident on Monday
evening. While walking in the garden
she slipped and fell upon a stone, dislocat-
ing her shoulder. From last accounts she
is rapidly recovering.
Rumors has it that our public schools
will reopen on Monday, Aug. 18th, for a
ten months term. If this is true. it will 90
hard for the children to be cooped up in a
close, ill-smelling, poorly ventilated school
room in the very midst of the dog days,
and for no other reason than that the teach
ers desire to put an extra months pay into
their pockets. The plea that a longer school
term will be an advantage to the pupils i.
to put 1t mildly, rather thin, as the instruc-
lions given in the schools of Gilbertou
borough is, in quantity and quality, far be-
low that given IN the schools of our sister
borough of Frackville. Whist do we paw
taxes for, anyway
We hear much about Sunday beer picnics
in Frackville these days, and we are given
to understand that, as the saloons of that
town are closed tight on Sunday, the
picnickers bring their beer into town with
them. Well, that sort of thing is bad
enough from a prohibition point of view.
but from the same point of view, Track
ville's beer picnics dwindle into mere
children's parties alongside the orgies
which take place in Mahanoy Plane sa-
looms on Sunday nights. Brethren, let us
pray for the wicked.
G. M. Israel, train dispatcher of this
division of the P. & r. r. r., is off on a
well-earned vacation which be is spending
amid the hills and valleys of Lebanon
county During his absence the duties of
his position are being ably performed by
William Keffer, of Frackville, assistant
travelling agent of the Williamsport
division.
Last Saturday ever'lg, when whiskey
flowed as freely and ANONYMOUSLY as the
waters of the mighty Mahanoy creek,
Davy' Kane, commonly known 3, the
"One legged warbler of the Mahanoy mud
flats, " from his propensity for vocal music,
got a load on him. as they say in the
v%ernacular, and being unable to restrain
his joy burst forth with his favorite song.
II am the son of an Irishman." The
doleful quaver of his rum-soaked voice At
3aeted the attention Of Windy Bill"
alias Bill Herrick, who had also been i'm
bibing sufficient bug-juice to seriously cloud
his better judgment, and who supposing
from the sound that the o. L. Warbler was
suffering intense agony, tenderly picked
him up and laid him down and proceeded
to rub a hole in the ground with him. The
warbler, not approaching the kindly inten-
tions of W. B., showed fight, and things
we're getting interesting when a crowd ar
rived on the scene, One OF the crowd offered
to meet Windy Bill' with bare tests there
and then but the latter suddenly remom-
bered that he had 10 go home and nurse the
baby. The last seen of him was a cloud of
aust down Railroad avenue,
List of letters remaining uncalled for in
the post office at Mahanoy Plane, Aug. IA,
1891; Myers McCreary. Robt. Farley,
VI. M. Lundy, Charles Wetstone, Daniel
Swank, VIM. Nicholas. Maizeville-Mrs.
France, Mr.. Manned.