The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-06-06

From the Hopper OF Every Day Evonts
The ChronioIings of Live noportor.
Taxes won't be higher


The ChroniolinGa of e. Live ioportor.
--Taxes won't be higher
Vote for the gas and water tax.
i. d. Curtis, Jewoler, Weissport.
For the best makes Of Bicycles 60
10 y. &. Zern, Lohighton.
Full line of Ingram and Brussel
carpets at Henry Schwartz's.
The gas and water tax legalizo sex
made by Council
Miss Lilly Mussel1nan, of Weiss
port, has accepted position in dagor-
mans store.
New designs ia wall paper, borders
and decorations at Lucllenbach's
Mauch Chunk
The subscriptions for a fountain in
the Park is swelling. is your name
down on the listP
Tho annual statement Of the Lc-
highton school district is printed in
to-days issue. Road i'll
We'll, what next2 Now, the Saliva
tion Army has rented the Opera House.
They are expected hero almost any
day.
Ben. Culton, who is q liberal ad-
vertiser In this paper, sold forty gallons
OF cream by tho plate, to visitors to his
parlors on Decoration Day.
For good clock and watch repair
ing go to Wilson Frantz, the new
jeweler on Bankway. All work done
neatly, cheaply and promptly. At
The people who want the newest
and incest things in wall paper, borders,
decorations, &C., continue to buy at
Luckenbach's. Mauch Chunk.
Misses Luella RehriR and Annie
Brokate, will open q select school for
children in the public school building.
Already they have sixty scholars.
Curtis, the jeWeler, Weissport.
Handsome new things In new wall
paper, borders and decorations, are to
be had at tho very lowest prices at
Owen Rehrig's on Second street.
Before having your life insured it
will pay you to examine the 10 year
plan of the Life & Reserve Association
of Buffalo N. Y. NJ 0. Bryan, dis
trict agent.
"A couple of tramps we're carrying
on quite a business in Barge's woods
during part Of last week, in the manu-
facture of hat racks, which they sold at
a nominal figure.
The new board of school directors
was organized Monday evening by the
election of the following officers: Pre-
sident, VIM. Mccormick; secretary, NJ.
o. Bryan; treasurer, r. L. Koons.
In connection with their parade on
the glorious Fourth, the P. 0. s. of A.
of town, should try and have q display
of fireworks. We feel that our people
would respond literally to the cause.
There was a disgraceful fracas al
the north end of First street SATURDAY
evening in which a number of drunker
fellows participated. Have we no Law
in this town, that such things are per
mitted?
The numerous friends of Miss
Laura Trexler, of town, at present il
Philadelphia, will be much pleased to
learn that she has almost entirely
recovered from very serious attack o.
diphtheria.
H. B. Kennel, the gentlemanly
teller in our First National Bank, has
purchased the Montz lot on the corner
of Third and Alnm streets and, so it is
said, will build a residence with ali
modern conveniences.
Julius Bogdanski and wife, form
erly of this city, celebrated in a very
happy manner the twenty-ffth anniver.
sary of their marriage at their new
home in Frankford, Philadelphia, Wed.
nesday. Many old friends here offe1
warm congratulations.
-Barge's woods, over the Central
railroad, is great resort for the bum
fraternity. They assemble there in
great numbers and live in riotous
recklessness. Our authorities should
endeavor to break up the resort-evil
is bound to come out of it.
The popular Germania Sangerbund
with thirty or more members, were the
guests of w. c. Weysser, on West
Broadway in Mauch Chunk last Satur
day evening. They had a very pleas
ant time of it and speak in high terms
of the generous treatment received.
Quite a number of improvements
have been made to Gnaden HutteI
cemetery this spring, Besides the
addition of two acres of ground {
handsome new iron gateway has beer
erected and the grounds put in nea'
repair. The directors of the cemetery
association are certainly to be compli
mented for the splendid manner il
which things are conducted.
j. D. Curtis, Jeweler, Weissport.
1T looks very much now as if ther,
would soon be fountain in the Park
The water Company at its meeting OF
Monday evening resolved that the,
would furnish the water free, subjec
TO certain restrictions. This makes
good starter, and now, couple Of enter
prising citizens have the matter Il
hand, and it is pretty safe to wager
| tin five cent piece against barre
hoop that we will have the fountain.
Some people who own propert
have habit of raising the price Of res
estate every time buyer comes to loo
at it. This is something that shoul
not be resorted to, if one wants to sci
Fix a reasonable price on property an
stick to it. Many e sale has bee
missed, and many a valuable citizen c
new enterprise has been kept ava
from a town because Of the unreasol
able figures at which property has bee
held.
Decoration Day was patrioticall
observed here last Saturday-man
business places and residences wei
ultdll uGCOIdJbQ Will LnB uaLAOL
colors, and the G.. A. r., and sever
secret organizations paraded Il
streets and visited the cemeteries he
and at Weissport where the sad, y
r beautiful custom Of strewing the graV
2 of the heroic dead, was observed.
the Lehighton cemetery Rev. G.. y
Q DUNCAN delivered a very interestil
g address.
S Charles Moore, Of Second sire,
is out again after a months serious i
+ ness with jaundice. Mr.. M. is an o
G soldier who saw eight years OF cont
n ual service, having enlisted when Bu
hanan was President. He fought {
;. Mormons in Utah, and with the famo
/ old Battery b., followed the fates Of t
g civil war. At Gettysburg his ho1
was shot from under him and his |,
10 leg was injured, from the effects
10 which he to-day suffers much. /
d friends are much pleased to see h
IS about again.