Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-12-26
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
PARAGRAPHS GATHERED FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE REGION.

Little Ones of Interest About People
You Know and Things You Wish tc
Hear About-what the Folks of Thi.
and Other Towns Are Doing.
The best creamery butter is kept al
Campbell's store.
The miners hospital at Hazleton has
twenty-four patients.
DIR. Murray left on Saturday for two
weeks trip to New York and Canada.
Mrs. Slattery has been granted pen,
sion OF IS per month and 500 arrearages
w. H. Vanhorn has disposed his meat
market to E. II. Dickinson, of Sandy
Run.
The weather bureau reports that yes
terday was the coolest Christmas since
1872.
A number of very pretty Christmas
trees can be seen in several resi-
dences.
DR.. Thos. NJ. Powell, of the Philadel-
,phia Medical college, is home for the
holidays.
Don't suffer with indigestion. Use
Baxter's Mandrake Bitters. Sold by DR..
Schilcher
Patrick Ferry, of Williamstown, Dau.
phin county, arrived home on Saturday
on short visit.
Washburne's celebrated flour is the
finest in the world. You can buy it at
B. f. Davis store.
Mr.. and Mrs w. H. Vorsteg and
daughter, May, are visiting the formers
parents at Baltimore, Md.
By an explosion of dynamite in Burn
side colliery, near Shamokin, Joseph
Scott was terribly injured.
District Attorney Garman received a
gold-headed cane as Christmas present
from the employees of his office.
Miss Mary Malloy, who has been in
Philadelphia for some time past, is on a
visit to her brother, James j., on Wash
ington street.
P. p. Smith, of Scranton, was ap-
pointed by Governor Pattison on Satur-
day to succeed the late Judge Connolly
on the Lackawanna county bench.
The Democratic poor district commit
tee will meet at the Gilbert House,
Weatherly, at 2 O'Clock today, to make
arrangements for the poor convention.
The tax duplicate for the special road
tax has been placed in the hand Of
Supervisor Patrick McFadden, of the
Points, and he will commence receiving
payments on Wednesd y.
The Easton Free Press says the Penn.
sylvania Company has leased the Lehigh
and Susquehanna Railroad, and that
the announcement will soon be made
public by both companies.
The report published in a Hazleton
paper that Benz. Shelhamer intends re-
moving to White Haven is denied by
that gentleman, who says he has no in
tention of leaving Freeland.
The reason why Arnica & Oil Lini-
ment is so popular with the ladies is
because it not only is very healing and
soothing but its odor is not at all often
sive. Sold by DR.. Schilcher.
The game season is rapidly drawing
to close, and our sportsmen are max
ing the most Of the few remaining days.
After Saturday it will be unlawful to go
cunning for any kind of game.
"Quick sales and small profits" is
Philip Gertiz's business motto. He has
always the largest and best assorted
stock of watches, clocks, rings and jewel
ry Of all kinds. Sulphered jewelry a
speciality,
The fair at Eckley Cotholic church
opened on Saturday evening. The neat
basement is filed with all kinds of goods
and they make pretty display. The
pastor, Father Brehony, extends an
invitation to all to call and spend few
hours at the fair.
Augustus Haas, of Bethlehem, died
on Friday night of convulsions, caused
by eating large pot of sour krout and
drinking seventeen glasses of beer. AT
ter this astonishing meal he and his
brothers crushed the growler" until
Haas took sick. He succumbed in great
agony.
Prof. Barre 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
success places Downs Elixir at the
head of the long list of cough remedies.
Sold by DIR. Schilcher