The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-01-09


to Bowmanstown The little burg is
too lively place to go by the former
name
tIf the court knows itself guard
gates should be placed at the lower
White street crossing of the Central
railroad in Weissport.
/ While farmers all over the county
are talking about big pumpkins, big
turnips and big squashes, Lansford
trots out the biggest "beat" in the state.
Name withheld for the benefit of the
coal town.
tThe only industry located in East
Mauch Chunk is a silk mill.
tWeatherly boasts of the biggest
silk mill in the world and of Il mayor
who gives the town of 3OOOpeople with
out wards some snap.
told maids in Lehighton and Weiss
port out-number old batchlors two
to one.
tLehighton has the only tannery
in Carbon county.
The fellow who dreamed the other
night that Lehighton had a new Valley
depot is now suffering with mental
alteration. He should not have mixed
his soda water.
+ An old fellow in Franklin predicts
a city out of jamestown, Lehighton,
Weissport and the former place. 1t
may come some day, stranger things
have happened-but not lately.
1t is just two years this month
since meeting of citizens appointed
committee to perfect the organization
of Board of Trade. Neither the COM
mittee or B. of T. have been heard of
since.
IA Mauch Chunk girl who knows
what she is writing about, says a kiss
is ian insipid and tastless morsel,
which becomes delicious and delectable
in proportion as it is favored with
love-" Lehighton damsels second the
motion
+Lehighton has three Building and
Loan Association, Mauch Chunk has
two, East Mauch Chunk has one, Lans-
ford has one, Summit Hill has one,
Nesquehoning has one and Weatherly
has two. Eleven in all. Not so bad
for 10000 county.
! Beaver Meadow hadthe first Presby-
terian church in the county.
According to the roll book Packer
ton has X. of L. Assembly.
tThomas Thomas, of this city. has a
sabre that a man named Rex, of Lehigh
county, carried through 1872 war.
1.-THE murderers of Harrison Blose at
Bowmanstown almost year ago ara
still unknown, and no efforts are made
to find out anything about the crime.
tThis is the year to elect constables
and assessors in Carbon county.
+Ihe only pork packing establish
ment in this county is located here
and gives employment to2O to 80 hands.
Joseph Obert is the enterprising pro-
prietor.
Frank Fenstermacher, of town, has
built enough fence in the past few
years to reach from Mauch Chunk to
Allentown, distance of 2S miles.
+Lehighton had the first place of
worship in the county, 1745.
The Reformed church at Parryville
has not been built yet. The members
should hustle and let the building
60 up.
7 Ashtield wants manufacturing
industries. So does Lehighton and
Weissport.
ECarbon county has no company of
state soldiers. Some one of our towns
should take advantage Of this and
organize.
! Mauch Chunk has some of the
richest men in the county and Lehigh-
ton has some Of the poorest-they are
so poor some 'em that they borrow or
steal the ADVOCATE.
1.-THE only artesian well in this
county is located here and is the pro-
perty of the Lshighton Water Com
pany. If it could be dug up the com
pany would gladly sell it for less than
. cost.
The fastest horse in Carbon county
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