Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-07-14
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
PARAGRAPHS GATHERED FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE REGION.


PARTS OF THE REGION.
Little Ones of Interest About People
You Know and Things You Wish to
Hear About-What the Folks of This
and Other Towns Are Doing.
Labor Day, September 5, is the: next
legal holiday.
Alley ball is again becoming a very
popular amusement here.
Bernhard Dim has placed an addition
to his property at Biryanton.
The Ashley school board has decided
to introduce free school books into the
schools.
The semi-monthly meeting of the
borough council will be held ON Monday
evening.
One of the men working upon the jed
do tunnel was killed this morning at
Ebervale.
Several residences and business places
are having their appearance improved
by the painters.
Frank Weiss, of Centre street, who is
temporarily insane, was taken 10 Dan
vile on Tuesday.
The Allentown fair this year will be
held ON September $3.50, and Blooms
burg fair on October 1915.
The bricklayers are doing rapid work
on the three-story building of A. Oswald,
at Centre and Front streets.
The Democrats will meet at Hazleton
on Saturday to select date and place
for the legislative convention.
For the next ten days Neuburger will
sell Raven Gloss and Gilt Edge 25-cent
shoe polish at Is cents bottle.
The P. & R. system of paying with
checks is causing much inconvenience
and dissatisfaction among the employees.
A large number of single ladies, be-
tween 20 and 30 years of age, can obtain
situations as attendants at the Danyille
asylum.
Great preparations are being made for
the twenty-third annual camp meeting
at Mountain Grove, commencing on
August 3.
Proposals are wanted for the building
of the Hungarian Catholic church at
Ridge and Luzerne streets. See adver-
tisement for particulars.
Baxter's Mandrake Bitters cure indi-
gestion, heart burn, costiveness and all
malaral diseases. Twenty-Five cents
per bottle. Sold by DR.. Schilcher.
The employees of the Drifton and
Eckley collieries will be paid to-day,
and those of the Highland, Jeddo and
Upper Lehigh collieries on Saturday.
If you are in trouble with "hacking
y cough" Downs Elixir will give you re-
lief at once. Warranted as recommended
or money refunded. Sold by DIR. Schil-
cher.
An addition is to be made to the Laurv-
town hospital. Everything connected
with the almshouse is in very good con-
dition, and the directors are untiring in
their efforts to make it a model institu-
ton.
The next excursion to leave Freeland
will be to Luzerne Grove on the 23d inst,
under the auspices of Owano Council, No.
AZ, Degree of Pocohontas. The fare is
only 81 for the round trip; children, 60
cents.
On Monday evening there will be a
meeting of the G. Y. M. Literary Insti-
tute. Every member is requested to
attend, as the subject will be given out,
which is to be debated with the Green
Ridge Society.
A misstep will often make cripple for
life. A bottle of Henry & Johnson's Ar
MICA and Oil Liniment at hand, will not
prevent the misstep, but used immedi-
ately it will save being cripple. Sold
by DIR. Schilcher.
"A dog owned by Neal Gallagher. of
Sandy Run, died on Tuesday from the
effects of rattlesnake's bite. The
woods this summer are filled with rep.
tiles, and several are killed every day
by huckleberry pickers.
Invitations have been issued by Mr..
and Mrs. John Schwartz, of Hazleton.
for the marriage of their daughter,
Katharine, to Jacob II. M. Fox, on
Wednesday, July 27, in Christ German
Lutheran Church, Hazleton.
The Hazleton Sentinel has ordered a
new perfecting press, which will be the
first in this section. A handsome and
commodious building is to be erected fol-
the purpose by the new proprietors, and
it deserves all they can give it,
A movement has been started by the
Italian societies of Scranton to erect q
statue of Christopher Columbus, on the
400th anniversary of the discovery oi
America. They will be assisted in the
work by the Scranton board of trade.
Yesterday large number of people
from town held private picnic at the
Honeyhole. Teams were used to trans
port the party. A pleasant time was hat
and at 8 O'clock in the evening the
party returned well pleased with thei
trip.
The supervisors of Kidder and Penn
Forest Townships, Carbon County, hav,
been arrested for alleged neglect of duty
for not repairing a bridge across Mut
Run, which is the dividing line be