The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-04-25
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Oririnei aud clipped. Little Matters Of
Interest that are Worth Che Reading,
Two Audenried Welchmen are in
Jail at Hazleton for being too pugnaci-
Gus.
Weatherly, it is said, is to have a
now cigar factory that viii give en-
ployment to 80 hands.
Get watches and clocks repaired at
the Weissport Jeweler, and what is the
result? Correct timel
Thomas Arner, Of Franklin, has
the contract to build Packertons new
two roomed school house.
Summit Hill, Weatherly, ,Weissport,
Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk
pay their chief burgesses no salary.
Rev. G. w. DUNCAN, of the M. e.
church, Lehighton, will discourse at
Packerton on Sunday afternoon at
$3.50 o'clock.
The first anniversary of the M. E.
church at Nesquehoning was very ap-
propriately observed last Sunday by
special services.
The Lehigh Valley station at
Lehigh Gap was broken into one night
recently and gold watch belonging to
the agent was stolen.
Another Hazleton Polander who
smoked too many cigarettes, has been
confined in the Laurytown poor house.
He's perfectly crazy.
AT two o'clock Sunday afternoon
Presiding Elder Leopold, of the Evan
gelical Association, will hold commun-
ion services in the New Mahoning
church.
Wallace Drumheller, of Lansford,
succeeds his father, deceased,as Master
Mechanic of the Lehigh Coal and
Navigation Company shops at the
above place.
The Parryyille dam is completed
and the water has been let in to it. It
was built by Henry Treichler, of
Seigfrid's, for the Carbon Iron and
Pipe Company.
Up to last Saturday Engleman, the
sprinter, who soaked" his friends by
selling out his half mile foot race with
George Chisnell, at Lehighton, has not
turnedup in Weatherly.
"A steam shovel weighing 7S tons is
used on the strippings at Jeanesville.
The crane to which it is attached weighs
Z tons. 1t is the heaviest shovel in use
in the Lehigh coal region.
"A new slope to be known as No. 6,
is being sunk between Trescow and
Coleraine by Carter g. Co. New
engines, boilers and other necessary
machinery will be placed in position in
a few days.
Contributions for the families who
lost their all by the great fire in
Nesquehoning a few weeks ago have
been pouring in to the committee for
some days and now amounts to over
$1,000 in cash and clothing.
John Tomaskuslzy, survivor of
the No. 10 flood at Jeanesville some
weeks ago, will soon sail for Hungary.
John wants $4,000 cash to go on ex-
hibition in museum. They say the
other three men have signed contracts
to exhibit themselves.
"A great deal can be done by pro-
perty holders in advancing the health
fulness of the town by early attention
to removal of ashes and thorough
cleansing about the premises. A local
pride should determine every resident
to place the streets and alleys in his
neighborhood in creditable condition.
Mrs. Daniel Nothstein, of Normal
Square, died at the home of her son-in-
law, @. H. Seidle, in the above place at
1870 o'clock on the Goth instant, in the
Z 71st. year of her age. Interment took
place on Friday. Deceased was
kindly old lady with many friends who
followed her to her last resting place
at Ben Salem.
-Irvln Larrish, OF Packerton, died
Thursday evening at five o'clock after
few days illness with la grippe, aged
% years and months. Interment took
place Monday afternoon from the Re-
formed church, Weissport. The body
was accompanied by Lehigh Council,
101, Jr. o. U. A. M. The family of the
deceased will receive 1915 from the
Order.
An unknown man aged about
twenty years, clean shaved and about
feet in height was found on the
Lehigh Valley tracks at Lehigh Gap
early Saturday morning. The remains
we're discovered by freight crew and
removed to Bowman's station. His
left leg was crushed at the hip and the
foot was severed. There was nothing
on the body to lead to its Identification.
He was buried at Mauch Chunk.
1T isn't bad suggestion that the
Weatherly Herald gives, so here it is:
We suppose most of the young people
in this vicinity entertain hopes of be-
ing able to visit the Worlds Fair in
1892. The question of chief Importance
is how to raise the wherewithal to de-
fray the expenses of the trip A little
forethought will enable quite a mum
Der of our young people to crafty their
desire. Organize clubs, get up enter
tainments, let the proceeds be deposi
ted in some bank, and when the time
shall have arrived the money will be
on hand. Just try the experiment,