The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-07-25
INAFEw WORDS.

old Carbon.
"A wild cat has been seen at Rock
port.
"A new Methodist church building
is to go up at Weatherly.
-Jeanesville had an excursion Of
nine cars to Glen Onolto, Saturday
Summit Hill should have fire
apparatus and good fire company.
The Ms Hollow Sunday School will
piquenicque Saturday lift don't rain.
Beaver Meadow young men have
organized a drum corps. We wouldn't
like to live in Beaver Meadow.
"A young girl of farmer Otto, in
Towamensing, swallowed pin one day
recently. She has not yet suffered any
inconvenience.
-Weatherly wants a fire company
and national bank, and also, wants
the town to own the water works That
town has some snap.
Towamensing boasts of having a
man aged "A years who works every
day for the Valley Company in the
blacksmith shop at Packerton.
The Laurytown poor house is get
ing a new steam pump from the Stroh
Foundry, Mauch Chunk. We thought
that institution had enough suck-tion.
AT Weatherly the other day, a
woman was arrested and fined by the
Burgess for using "swear" words.
Weatherly's evidently an intensely
moral town.
John Harman, of Audenried, who
lost an eye some years ago by an ex-
plosion Of dynamite, the other day had
the sightless optic removed by a Halle
ton doctor.
John Bachas a Hungarian, hung
himself with his suspenders from a
door in the Schuylkill county aims
house, Monday. Bacha was from
Audenried.
The oldest furnace in the Lehigh
Valley is the one formerly operated by
the late John Ballet, in Lizard Creek,
East Penn. The iron was manufactur-
ed with charcoal.
Banks township school directors
have generously raised the salaries Of
all primary school teachers in the dis
trict, from s35 to $40 per month. The
teachers smile visibly.
Mrs. Catharine KEEPER widow of
the late Peter KEEPER of Dottersvllle,
Monroe county, died Sunday morning
at the ripe old age of 75 years. Inter
ment was made Wednesday.
Robert Henry, Jr, brakeman on
the Lehigh Valley railroad was killed
Wednesday night at Slatington. He
was horribly mangled. Henry lived in
Franklin township with his parents.
Over in East Penn the italian heas
are so numerous that it prevents the
holding of picnics in the woods where
the Italians camped last summer while
working on the Lizard Greek railroad.
The new school building at Packer
ton will be opened some time during
the month of August. For the oc-
casion very interesting program of
exercises is now in course of prepara-
ton
Commencing August list, j. G.
Hayden & Co., of Jeanesyille, will
inaugurate the semi-monthly pay sys-
tenn. They had better if they don't
want to get Governor Pattison after
'em with short stick.
johnny Meighan, young boy en-
ployed as a driver at the Coalport
schutes, fell on the track Friday, while
taking an empty car to the yard; the
wheels passed over the boy, mangling
him in horrible manner. He died.
Felix Boyce, of Beaver Meadow,
has purchased the old Valentine Wet
eel farm in Quakake Valley from
Stephen Gerhard for a consideration
Of $1,000. The farm adjoins what is
known as the Spring Mountain Hotel
farm, owned by Patrick Cara.
The deadlock in the appointment
of teachers in Banks township for the
Beaver Meadow and Audenried schools
is still on. The directors met in the
Jeanesville school house on Monday
evening and attempted to unlock it.
Several ballots were taken, but no de-
cision was arrived at.
This is the version of a West Penn
snake story. A farmer named Bebler
was unloading wagon load of hay the
other day, when monster black snake
crawled from the wagon and entered
his boot leg, winding itself around like
a garter. The snake was killed. st.
Peter will do some close questioning
about that snake racket on the day Of
Judgment, or we loose our guess.
Henry Johnson, who was employed
as engineer on a 'lockie" at Coke Bros.
& Co.'S Beaver Meadow colliery is at
the Hazleton hospital suffering from a
strange accident. While running his
engine from one oolliery to the other
a keg of powder in a car on the train
exploded in some mysterious manner
and set Johnson's clothes on fire. John
son was unable to help himself be-
fore he was badly burned about the
body.
The G. w. Hooven Mercantile Com
pany is spreading out. It now has
stores at Hazelton, Mauch Chunk,
Pottsville and Ashland with main
office at New York. New stores will
be started in other sections and a
Western office opened in San Francisco
so as to facilitate the shipment of
fruits, spices, etc. The growth of the
Hooven Company has been remarkable
G. w. Hooven, the head of the concern