Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-12-24
SHORT LOCAL ITEMS.
Paragraphs From Freeland and
Other Towns.
NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW
AND THINGS YOU WISH TO HEAR
ABOUT WRITTEN UP CAREFULLY
IN A FEW BRIEF LINES.
Merry Christmas to all.

Merry Christmas to all.
Considerable sickness still prevails.
For nice Christmas cards and toys 90
to A. A. Bachman's.
The express business at Freeland is
unusually heavy this week.
An entertainment will be held at Eek
ley Catholic Church tomorrow evening
Upper Lehigh Lodge of Good Temp
lars held a successful social last even
ing.
Don't suffer with Indigestion, use Bax-
ter's Mandrake Bitters. Sold by DIR.
Schilcher.
Lower end jurymen claim that it costs
more than the pay they receive to spend
a week at the county seat.
If you have pictures to frame examine
A. A. Bachman's stock. Fifty different
styles of moulding to select from.
Gilbert Smith, the accommodating
driver for the Adams Express Company,
is laid up this week with the grip.
Note Meyers, the jewelers. fancy
windows. Everything for Nmas pres
ents to be had at the lowest prices.
Jas. J. Malloy, of Washington Street,
received fine specimen Of the pug dog
species from a Philadelphia friend yes
terday by express.
The last day before Christmasl Yes.
and the last day to procure goods at re-
duced prices at Meyers jewelry store.
Everything must 60.
Work is being pushed night and day
by the managers of the p. o. s. of a.
Hall, in order to have it ready for oc-
cupancy by January /.
All members of Garfield Commandery,
No. s. A. 0. X. of NJ, are requested to
attend the meeting on Monday evening,
December IS, to make arrangement to 90
to Hazleton.
r. +. Meyer the leading jeweler,
proposes to celebrate Nmas by dividing
profits with his customers on this the
last day before that grand old holiday.
Give him call.
The reason why Arnica & Oil Liniment
is so popular with the ladies is because it
not only is very healing and soothing but
its odor is not at all offensive. DIR.
Schilcher sells it.
Owing to the Opera House being en-
gagged for fairs and balls there will be no
more plays here until after the middle
of January See Sullivan tonight in
the "Black Thorn"
The State Horticultural Society has by
a majority of one vote selected golden
rod as the national flower. Many bit
terly denounced it as an obnoxious weed
and favored the rose.
Sylvester Bristol, ex-Associate Judge
of Luzerne County, and for twenty years
proprietor of the Bristol and LuZerne
Hotels, Wilkes Barre, died after a long
/ illness. He was well known throughout
the state.
1t is claimed the Susquehanna Coal
/ Company's new breaker (No y at Nanti-
1 coke, which will begin operation in a
few weeks will be the banner breaker
of the world. 1t is built on an entirely
new system and a capacity of 1900 tons
a day is claimed for it.
Past sachem Thomas Evans, chief of
records of Machemleck Tribe, POI, Free
land, spent four days in this city this
week. He came to attend the teachers
institute. Brother Evans is one of the
principal teachers in Freelapd, where he
has resided for many years.-W. b..
RecOd.
Prof. Barret of st. Lawrence county,
N, Y, speaking of pulmonary diseases,
says Not one death occurs now where
twenty died before Downs Elixir was
known. Over fifty years of constant sue
cess places Downs Elixir at the head of
the long list of cough remedies. For
sale by DR.. Schicher