The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-05-30
a COLUMN JumRLEe.

interest that ARE Worth the Reading,
Beaver Meadow hes a driving club.
lewiston wants to have post Office
facili lies.
M rs. Reese Lewis, OF Beaver Moa-
dow. h. vs. gone blind.
-Tbi. sves entered the clothing storo
of Josep b Edelstein, at Lansford, Fri
day nigh p.
The y 'oung Mems Catholic Abstin-
ence Socie ty of Jeanesville will eXcur-
sion to Gle U Onoko on July IS.
Accord ng to the Weatherly Herald
that town h6 IS 40 bachelors. Percy say
mix about they number of old maids.
Beaver N Teadow has tavern-the
Cornish Hous,s built i'm 1883. It is un-
doubtly the ole lest tavern in the county
Percy Fa, lst, of the Weatherly
Herald, is recei 1ing some grooming as
a legislative ca ndidate. Percy is all
right.
In one Of .ihe townships in the
upper end of Carbon, recently, some
one killed o four foot snake of danger-
GUS species.
Miss Annie Sewell. who left Packer
ton, a year or moro ago to accept a lu-
crative position in Texas, is about re-
turning home.
Joseph Andreas, one OF the best
known residents of Beaver Meadow,
died at his home on Saturday evening,
after an illness Of several weeks.
The Summit Kill graduating class
/ is j. %. McCready, Agnes Cannet, Ada
Mosser, Jennie Lynn, Lizzie Fink,
Jane Kline and Annotta M. Sinyard-
| seven in all.
Together with Malloy, the Record
and the three ward muddle Lansford is
certainly having very hard time of it,
| but it is only another exposition that
| "trOuble never comes singly."
Here it is again: Weatherly wants
a public library, a fire company and a
hot lunch counter The best Of it is
Weatherly will set these things il she
wants EN-
Tho wife Of William Wagner at
tempted to commit suicide by hanging
Tuesday evening at her home in Wealth
erly. She was discovered just in time
| to prevent the deed.
The six-inch trout law has been on
the statutes for years. A six-inch
trout does not weigh two ounces, and
the penalty is $40 for catching or hay
ing one in possession.
The new 81 silver certificates, to be
issued because of the successful coun-
terfeit now in circulation, have been
designed so as to leave more of the
white paper exposed, by which its
quality can be more readily distin-
guisbed.
}, -Dallis Bowman, Wilson Blose and
. Harry Meendson have been made a
committee by the Lutheran and Re-
formed Sunday school, of Hazards, to
perfect arrangements for a picnic on
June 20. The committee are hustlers
and the picnic will be a success.
The wise farmer viii keep watchful
eyes on their cattle hereafter. The
| Supreme Court Of Pennsylvania has
ruled that no man shall be compelled
to fence against his neighbor's stock
and that owners of cattle will have to
pay for all damage they may do, fence
or no fence.
June 9TH will bring around the Doth
anniversary of the destructive food in
, the Lehigh in 1862 an occurrence
never to be forgotten. Hundreds OF
lives were lost and millions of property
destroyed. At some points traces OF
its devastating effects are yet to be
seen.
The sportsmen at Audenried are
! complaining against a number Of young
! men from that vicinity who visit the
woods nightly with a pack of hounds
and destroy young rabbits. A resident
r of that place threatens to bring suit
against the guilty parties if the practice
+ is not abated.
Z, Mr.. Frank P. Semmel, late of LIE
I highton, now the proprietor of the
i Gilbert House, at Weatherly, Carbon
county, recently purchased two gooC
S horses from Geo. J. Snyder, horst
n dealer in this city, for the livery stable
Q connected with his hostelry.-
d town Democrat.
j The suggestion made by this papet
some weeks ago for an electric railwal
q connecting Summit Hill and LansforC
@ is being agitated by Tamaqua partie
n who think of running road to tn
II above places from their city. 1t is onl,
IL reasonable to suppose that such a roa,
would result to considerable benefi
1t financially and otherwise to the pre-
g. iectors and also to the towns.
Vt The Lansford Record thinks, an
9r perhaps, quite rightly, that the Lehig
t. Coal d Navigation Co., handicaps tn
ir progress of Summit Hill The L. {
& n. Co., like all selfish corporation
II. will find out some day that it isn't q
n big as it thinks it is. Then SUNNI
to Hill will get its dues and Weissport il
ne new canal bridge. In the meantin
let us all have a little patience.
Senator Rapsher, of Carbon, hi
IL quiet but telling way of rattling IL
~ whole Republican side of the Senat
= | Almost daily he introduces a resol1
~, ton concerning ballot reform and Il
~ committee in whose hands its fate lie
no The discussion which follows general
brings to light some of the dan
RS secrets Of the scheme the majorit
ne party is pursuing to smother Il
~ Baker bill-Freeland Tribune.
~ The appropriation committee ha
"a negatived the Ginder monument bill
Harrisburg, asking for $1,000 and Sun
NIT Hill, sad to say, won't very like
Bh have its monument to perpetuate t
ey memory of Philip Ginder, who d
ne covered coal in Pennsylvania, near t
ne above town, a century ago, There q
oW appropriations made by the State
lAI less laudable purposes than the abo
OF and it is to be regretted that the KC
tul stone State forgets itself so far as
negative so worthy an object.
ay' j. c. Hayden has presented all {
", the men who assisted around the No.
ne slope, Jeanesville, in which the m
OF were drowned in February, with a M
.nd sum of money. Mrs Hayden has p
To- sented superintendent McFarlane vi
7e6 a handsome medal made in the sha
nd' of a heart. The medal is of gold W
a miners lamp worked in silver on c
VS. side. and on the other Mr.. McFarlan
eep name with the date Feb. %, 1861, a
The the initials g. r. II.
per As intimated by this paper l
oW- week, and as pretty thoroughly ST
the of HARRISON Rloee of ISre I inc Nyes
live the result of accident INIT Of mnrf