Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-06-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Paragraphs From FreeIand and
Nearby Towns.
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PEOPLE YOU KNOW AND THINGS
YOU WISH TO HEAR-sHORT NOTES
FOR HURRIED READERS.

Yesterday was the 115th anniversary
OF the adoption of the stars and stripes
as the American flag.
A private picnic will be held at the
Honey Hole by several of our towns.
people in the near future.
Green goods circulars still continue tc
come to Freeland, but none seem to have
any effect upon the receivers.
Street Commissioner Boyle is pushing
the sewers in order to have the streets
in good condition for the large parade
on July 4.
Survival of the fittest. Downs Elixir
has outlived every other cough remedy
simply because it is the best. Sold by
DIR. Schilcher.
The quarterly report of the Citizens
Bank of Fieeland is published to-day
and shows the institution to be in a
sound condition.
Every bottle of Arnica & Oil Liniment
sold is warranted by the proprietors to
give satisfaction ormoney will be refund
ed. Sold by DR.. Schilcher.
Two freight cars filled with Hazeton
and Ballentine beer were delayed sew
eral hours on Monday near Hazleton,
and Freeland came near experiencing a
beer famine.
Commencing with the next issue the
TRIBUNE will appear twice every week.
Further information regarding the pro-
posed change is given on the editorial
page to-day.
j.. Neuhurger will give to everybody
buying $50 worth of goods within the
next sixty days fine crayon portrait,
which he will have enlarged from any
photograph you wish.
Copies of Protection or Free Trade"
the greatest book upon that important
subject, can be obtained free at the TRI-
BUNE office, or by writing to Hon. Tom
L. johnson, Washington, d. c.
Democratic candidates for county and
district offices should not be backward
in making their announcements. With
a card in the TRIBUNE the people of the
lower end will soon know of their
ambitions.
Patrick Higgins, of Main Street, had
the top of his second finger on the left
hand taken off on Monday at No. slope,
Upper Lehigh. He was lifting a prop
which fell back and caught his hand
between the rail.
Local Assembly No. 1856, X. of L., will
hold its second annual picnic at the Fire
mems Park on Wednesday evening.
DePierro's Orchestra will furnish the
music, and the Knights promise good
time to those who attend.
The team of S. Rudewick, agent for
Ballentine beer, ran away from Steve
Drasher's saloon on Monday morning.
The wagon was overturned and badly
damaged near the Polish Church and
one of the horses severely cut.
More people, adults and children, are
troubled with costiveness than with any
other ailment. DIR. Henry Baxter's
Mandrake Bitters will cure costiveness
and prevent the diseases which result
from it. Sold by DIR. Schilcher.
A dispatch to the Philadelphia Press
from Wilkes-Barre says that the finest
bands in the parade there yesterday
were the Ninth Regiment, Bauer's of
Scranton, Carbondale, st. Patrick's of
Freeland and Forty Fort Bands.
Rev. C. A. Spaulding, of Freeland, is
the guest of Rev. T. +. Richards, of the
Emmanuel Baptist Church, Edwardsvile.
Rev. Spaulding on Thursday night ad-
dressed large meeting of the Young
Peoples Christian Union recently organ
lied here.- W.-B. Record.
Superintendent Harrison examined
a class of thirty-seven applicants for
school certificates here yesterday. He
was assisted by Charles Kennedy, of
Jeddo, as the class was too large for one
to handle. The examination was very
fair and pleasing to the applicants.
On Saturday evening the Fearnots
Athletic Association will hold its second
annual picnic at Drifton Park. De-
Pierros Orchestra has been engaged,
and, as this is the first picnic to be held
in Drifton this year, it will be well
patronized by the people of that place
and Freeland.
At st. AIMS Cemetery it is said some
parties are in the habit of taking flowers
from the graves. 1t is certain they are
not aware of the great offence they are
committing, or they would stop it i'm
mediately. Yet it is unpleasant to have
the resting place of some fond relative
desecrated in this manner.