The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-03-14
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Original aud clipped. Little Matters Of
Interest that are worth the Reading,
-Honesdale wants a Board Of Trade.
Scarlet fever has hold at Heller
town.
The Bristol hosiery mill runs day
and night.
--Erie's police call system will cost
s5,975 to erect.
Bucks county school property is
valued at s298,OOO.
-Bradford's valuation FOR school
purposes is 81, ,S0S,422.
-Dauphin Car Works have been
closed by the Sheriff
-Packerton wants a new school
building, and they will get it.
AT Mountainville, Lehigh county,
they are cutting six-inch ice.
"A North East vineyard owner has
1900 gallons of wine on hand.
-Lehigh Valley Red Mon win hold a
celebration at Allentown May 10.
Delaware county has 81 school dis
tricts, 236 schools and l2,054 pupils in
them.
-Johnstown City A SCISSORS value
taxable property there At S0,35O,833 for
1891. Last year ii was only S2,479,OOO.
What has become of the Philip
Ginter monument fund. Summit Hill
people should not leave so important
an historical matter die.
-Jeanesville people do not want the
four men, rescued from the flooded
mines, to go to Philadelphia or New
York as museum freaks.
The Taxpayers Association is
something quite new for this country.
The membership will most likely com
prise the "self sacrificing individuals
who are willing to serve the dear peo-
pie and the country for (Y) nothing"
The Central Railroad station at
Lansford has been robbed on three or
four occasions of late. On Saturday
the thieves again robbed the depot.
The next day they we're caught and
landed in jail.
There were 164 indigents in the
Middle Coal Field Poor House at
Rockport during last year. The dis
trict also maintained sixty-one insane
persons at the Danville Asylum and
furnished outside relief to 419. 1t is
an expensive establishment.
"A rock weighing about six tons
was discovered on the Lehigh Valley
Railroad short distance east of the
Rockport tunnel Monday evening.
Fortunately the discovery was made
before any trains came along that way.
No. u passenger train, going west, was
held for half an hour while the obstruc-
tion was being removed.
The borough of Lansford now boasts
of two separate bodies of town council,
each of which claims that it is the only
legitimate body. The court has been
called upon to decide the question.
They are known as the anti-warders
and three warders. The former retains
retains the books and funds of the old
council Both bodies have also elect
ed borough officers.
"A Bethlehem dispatch of the 10th
inst, says a few days ago officials of the
| Bethlehem Iron Company learned that
several bosses we're accused publicly of
the reprehensible practice of selling
jobs. They summoned John f. Gross,
foreman of night gang, and two Hun
garians swore that they had paid him
S5 for job some time ago and futher
that they had ever since been giving
him a bonus of 81 on each pay day.
The accused boss was dismissed to-day.
"A wreck occurred at the crossing
of the Central Railroad and the Lehigh
Valley Saturday morning at Penn
Haven Junction, blocking the tracks
and scattering coal and freight cars in
manner TO prevent transportation
over the main line. The wreck was
caused by engine No. SO of the Lehigh
Valley, drawing coal train, running
into Central freight. Forty coal cars
were derailed and almost that number
of freight. Engine No. 80 was thrown
into the Central depot, demolishing
that building, and strange to say the
the engineers and crews escaped with
out receiving any injury.
The Evangelical churches through
out the State last Sunday presented in
many cases the scene of two ministers
trying to occupy the same pulpit. AT
Slatington. Rev. Newhard, the Bow
man appointee, was siezed by the Chief
of Police and ordered to sit down, OF
get out At Reading, in the Sixth
Street Church, the Bowman followers
left the church with their minister and
held services in the Hebrew Synagogue.
At Catasauqua Rev. A. A. Leopold was
refused by the trustees the privilege OF
entering the pulpit and left the charge
followed by his supporters. At the
East Liberty Church, Allentown, the
congregation found that the keyhole
had been plugged and they could not
get into the building. Entrance was
finally effected through window. Az
Bethlehem and EastOn the congrega
tions we're so pronounced for either
Bowman or the anti-Bowman confer,
ence that no dispute occurred.
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