The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-03-21
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Original aud clipped. Little Matters OF
Interest that are worth the Reading,
In q o Penn Forest there are snow
drifts three TO Eve feet deep.
Bon Oxley, of Nesquehoning, died
Tuesda aged thirty-seven years.
William Honner and family, of
Beaver Run, have taken up a residence
in Catosauqua.
The machinists and helpers in the
Behigh Valley shops at Weatherly are
working hal time.
The un Der business in the Pine
Swamps 8 vsry good. IN the booms OF
Warner. Der pc and Getz alone there
are over ,5OV, 900 feet Of lumber
j. +. Daugherty, Of Nesqueboning
is the new landlord of the Parlor Res
taurant at Beaver Meadow formerly
conducted by Mrs. Morris Stack.
A Hungarian woman named Louda
living at Audenried, recently built a
fire under the bed of neighbor with
the intention of cremating her. She
was arrested.
Elias George, aged seventy years,
QAtA Nv AAAo AA0AAAN III AAtA1b Il 0AAAA hNNh
ship Tuesday evening after an illness
of a year with paralysis. Deceased was
one of the oldest citizens of the town
ship.
Easter this year will fall on March
10Th, the earliest date it has since 1883.
With the exception of 1894 this will be
the only coming March Easter in the
present century, and in 1894 Easter
comes on March 25th, within three days
Of its earliest possible coming.
All but three families of the miners
who lost their lives in the flooded mine
at Jeanesville some weeks ago have set
tled with the owners of the mine, each
family receiving S24O0 in money and
coal and rent free for a stated time
The four rescued Hungarians got S25
apiece.
Our exchanges are warning their
readers to look out for a gang of men
around the country making
contracts for painting roofs. If they
offer to paint your roof for So or any
price, don't fail to ask them how much
5hey charge for the paint they put on
before you close your contract. 1t is
n the price of the paint where the fraud !
exists.
Eugene Everitt, the new landlord |
Of the Packerton Hotel, on the Mauch |
Chunk road, opened that popular |
nostlery to the public on Monday even
ing by holding a grand dance in which !
many participated. The guests |
danced all night till broad day light |
and went home with the girls in the |
Eugene is going to make
success in his new stand.
On Easter Sunday morning the
Reformed congregation, of Big Greek,
will celebrate the holy communion.
The pastor, Rev. T. A. Huber, will
officiate On Good Friday morning a
class of thirteen catechumens will
receive the solemn rite of confirmation.
services will be conducted
by Rev. A. M. Masonheimer, of Wealth
erly, in the afternoon of the same day
at two o'clock.
1t is worth remembering that no
paper is printed especially for one
person no more than a hotel is built
for one guest. People who
become very much displeased with
they find in a newspaper,
should remember that the very thing
that displeases them is exactly the
thing which pleases somebody who has
Just as much interest in the paper as
they have.
I'm honor OF his birthday anniver-
sary the friends of. Andrew Snyder
at his Packerton home, on
Friday evening last and enjoyed them
selves highly in social pleasure. AT
late hour a supptuous luncheon was
served to which all did fullest justice. |
Among those present we're James
Gerhart, Elmer Faga, Ed Wilson, Will
Holf and Joseph Bennett and Misses
Emma Koons, Annie Raudenbush,
Lizzie and Eva Sendel, Edith, Emma |
and Annie Brodhead.
The prospecting company, of
are keeping up the hunt for
coal in the Broad Mountain and if their
search is crowned with success, what a
disappointment the disclosure will be
20 many. The Broad Mountain has
leeu searched dozens of times by diff
{ lront parties but with no success. The
present company have decided to find
coal if the same is to be found and for
that purpose every improvement is
now being tried. Drills of various dis
criptions are in use daily and will be
until the whole tract is pierced or coal
found
On Saturday 21st, the sun enters
5he first point of Aries, and the days
and nights will then be of equal length
all over the globe. This occurs but
twice in the year, in what is called the
spring or vernal equinox, and again in
The fall or autumnal equinox. These
seni-annual occurrences are usually
accompanied by storms of more or less
severity, but they do not always come
on the exact day fixed by the calendar
for the attainment of the sun to the
squinoctial circle. They are more fire.
luently a short time before or after.
The latest phase in the case of the
rescued miners from the Jeanesville
mine, has developed itself into the
speculative form, whereby a stock
company from that now much talked
IF village, will go on an exhibition
5our with the four men who survived
the terrible ordeal of a more than
nineteen days Imprisonment in the
Hooded mine. The four men will, it is
stated, form a part of the company and
consequently instead of ral1ing in the
shekels for some enterprising city man
ager or other fal0ir, they will themselves
be sharers inwhatever emoluments may
accrue from their experience in the ill
fated nine
RAILROAD GOSSIP.
The Lehigh Valley station at Glen