The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-07-18

A III yeiy writer Teris tho Story Of rh,
uapp enines Of u w COX In and Abou
ola O. ubon.
-Pac korton wants to be an indepon
dent vot ing district
The Bowmanstcwn camp-meetinq
win open on August 1s.
Dildi me Snyder is improving his
Parryvir le tenement houses,
The Jeanesville Iron Works has
just bull large Bennett, Miles & Co.,
steam ha INNER.
The Weatherly Herald is an all at
home pr inted newspaper patent
outside ] having been done away with.
-Prea ching services at 2 p. m, next
Sabbath in the Evangelical Church,
New Nj Ihoning, by the Bowmanite
preacher.
The corner stone of the English
Congreg ational church at Lansford,
will be leid with appropriate exercises
on Sunday morning
CA number of new dwelling houses
are being erected in Bowmanstown.
That lively little village will soon be
asking for che clothes of a borough
According to the Record, Lansford
IS going to be "bad." What better
could be expected when a town is
troubled with creature like jimmy
malloy
There will be a lively picnic in
Ms Hollow, Saturday, under the
auspices of the Sunday school in that
place. The management is under T,
P. Lontz.
Not a day passes but some one
leaves Lansford for the West or for
one of the old countries. Numbers Of
houses are empty which but year ago
drew good rents.
William Eclhart is the new owner
of the Little Gap Hotel, formerly
owned by the late r. A. Henry. Eek
hart paid $4,000 for the place, which is
one of the best located hostleries in
Carbon county.
The new Lutheran and Reformed
church at Trachsville is rapidly near
ing completion. When finished it will
be as handsome an edihce of worship
as can be found in any of the country
districts in the county.
The 4th annual campmeeting (of
the Upper end of the Lehigh Valley0
of the Evangelical Association, of the
regular Allentown districts, will be
held in Bowman's Grove, Bowmans-
town, from August 18 to %.
Here is useful hint to housekeep-
ers apropos of the preserving season.
Corks for bottles should be boiled and
placed in the bottles while heated.
Champagne corks are treated in this
way and the air is excluded perfectly,
The pumps in one Of the colleries
at Jeanesville had been idle for week,
when they were to be restarted it was
found that they had been robbed of
their brass, The thieves had a good
bit of 'brass," but they are being look
ed for.
Joseph Schatzel, of Fayette county,
has purchased the Trachsville Hotel
from Welch & Co., of Eastop. Con-
sideration, $500. The hotel is now
run by that old Democratic war horse,
Lewis j. Christman, who will likely
retire on the expiration of his license
Henry Jones, of Lansford, and
John Wood of Tamaqua, started out
Saturday to pass the day by riding
from place to place on coal trains
Before evening Jones was taken to St
Luke's Hospital and Wood to the hos.
pital at Ashland. Each was minus g
leg
George H. Myers & Co., operators
of the Yorktown colliery have beer
sinking shaft for the past four months
from the bottom Of the old No. 1 work
ings. The shaft is now $50 feet deeper
than the old working. 1t is expected
that the Buck Mountain vein will b,
> found in very short time Should
they be successful in reaching tina
vein it will be of great value not onl!
to the operators but also to the mum
= Der of men employed in their working
as they are about worked out at pre-
=, sent