Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-07-02
BRIEF ITEMS.

-Huckleberry pie is on deck.
This is wonderful picnic year.
-Watermelons are for sale in town.
Celebrate the Fourth in Freeland.
Base ball took tremendous boom
this week.
Large quantities of ice cream will
disappear on Saturday.
"A girl to do general housework is
wanted by John Rugan, Centre Street.
The instruments for the Slavonic
Young Mems Band have been ordered.
Rev. G. A. Spaulding and wife are
on a visit to relatives in New York
State.
Daniel Mcclellan, of Freeland, sail
ed on Saturday for six weeks visit to
Ireland.
Rev. Thos. ]. J. Wright preached
his farewell sermon here on Sunday and
went to Philadelphia this morning.
AT the Upper Lehigh Baptist Church
on Sunday baptismal services were held
and two persons received into the church.
Patrick Dever, son of Hugh Dever,
had one of his feet badly injured last
week by large sheet of iron falling on
it at the Drifton Shops.
Charles Haganey, who was to have
gone to Philadelphia this week as an ap-
prentice on the Schoolship Saratoga, will
not leave until October l.
The congregation of the Welsh Bap-
tist Church have secured Donop's Hall
and will hold services there every Sun
day at 10 A. NJ. and p. M.
The Sunday School children con-
nected with the different churches at
Drifton will tender the usual Fourth of
July serenade to the Coke families.
Austin Harvey, of Nelson City, re-
moved his family to town this morning,
and will open at the corner of Ridge
and South Streets about the Fourth.
The salary of Postmaster Fowler
has been increased to $1,000 per year.
This is an evidence that the business
done in town is steadily growing larger.
-Freeland Council, No. 34S, Jr. O. U.
A. M, will take part in the Hazleton
demonstration on Saturday. They will
be accompanied by the P. O. S. of A.
Band.
The school board of Foster township
will meet at the Woodside school build
ing on Monday evening. The appoint
ment of teachers will be made at this
meeting.
james McCready, of Lansford, was
elected secretary of the Poor District at
a meeting of the directors ON Monday
The vacancy was caused by the death of
s. H. Hollinger.
Superintendent Fisher, of the Water
10 ha ha
new well. The water already found is
so strong as to interfere considerably
with the boring.
AT the Firemen's Park on Saturday
the Tigers Athletic Association will hold
its second annual picnic. Depierro's
Orchestra and refreshments of every
kind will be there.
Rev. r. II. Appleby, of the Jeddo
Methodist Church, has resigned from
that denomination, and was on Monday
received into the Baptist Church by
Rev. G. A. Spaulding.
The annual Fourth of July picnic
at the grounds near st. AIMS Church
will take place as usual this year. The
proceeds will be applied to repairing the
basement of the church.
John Daneker, of White Haven,
was in town on Saturday and made
contract to supply and lay one hundred
feet of flag pavement for John Toomy
and others on Centre Street.
The Freeland Citizens Hose Com
pany, at their meeting last evening, de-
cided to hold their annual excursion to
Glen Onoko on Saturday, August 10.
Depierro's Orchestra has been secured.
Michael Patterson, who burglarized
the store of ]. G. Berner in November,
1889, was sentenced to pay 500 fine, the
costs, and try three years in the Eastern
Penitentiary He also got three addi-
tional months for breaking Jail.
The ball of the St. Patrick's Cornet
Band at the Opera House tomorrow
evening has all the indications of being
grand success. This is the last ball of
the season and all who wish to enjoy
pleasant evening should attend.
e. Fritzinger and Andrew Oliver
will shoot match at Highland on Satur-
day. Each party will shoot at nine birds
and the contest is to start at A. M.
IT, stakes are $35 side, with the privi
Ike of raising them to 500 a side.
-The addition to the McGroarty build
ing on Centre Street, Five Points, will
be occupied by the new firm of Malloy
< McGettrick, composed of f. P. Malloy
and Matthew McGettrick. They will
open about July II with complete line
Of groceries and prov isons.
First communion was administered
to 105 boys and SO girls at st. AIMS
Church on Sunday morning by Rev. M.
J. Fallihee. The priest addressed the
parents of the new communicates and
the children themselves, instructing
them upon their duties to each other and
the work before them.
The Sentinel advocates an addition
al Sunday train for Hazleton, one that
would leave here about p. M. If the
Lehigh Valley Company could be in
duced to comply with such a request it
would be great convenience to people
at both ends of the line, especially the
base ball cranks of Hazleton and the
South Side