Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-08-15
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
PARAGRAPHS GATHERED FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE REGION.

fRtA0hRfF1O Oh rlChEO ThOM ALL
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.
Mrs. Patrick Lawlor, of Nesquehoning,
is visiting friends in this section.
Coke Bros & Co.'s collieries are the
only ones working in this region to-day.
The scientific editor of the Ashley
Observer says that cockroaches have 5000
teeth.
Hazleton is to have private detective
agency, with Officer Frank Slattery as
chief.
The P. O. S. of A. band attended a
picnic at Fairchilds' Grove on Saturday
evening.
The family of William Higgins, of
Main street, removed to Plymouth on
Saturday,
A common cold should not he neglect
ed. Downs Elixir will cure it. Sold
by DIR. Schilcher.
A borough government for Beaver
Meadow is being agitated again. The
old town deserves it.
The very best qualify of flour, feed,
hay, chop, oats, etc., is sold at the very
lowest prices by b. F. Davis.
Michael Kehoe, who is now resident
of Philadelphia is spending weeks
vac ,tion with his parents here.
Painless extraction of teeth can be had
at DR.. G.. B. Payson's office, room 4,
second floor, Birkbeck's building.
This being holiday at nearly all the
collieries base ball and picnics are in full
blast throughout the coal regions
Arnica & Oil Liniment is very healing
and soothing, and does wonders when
applied to old sores. Sold by DR.. Schil-
cher.
Nearly all the school boards of the
state are using the increased state appro-
priation to purchase text books for the
pupils
The warning Democrats of Carbon
county will meet at Mauch Chunk to-
day and make another effort to settle
their dispute.
Every voter should read Henry
Georges book, Protection or Free
Trade" Copies can be had free at the
TRIBUNE office.
have been visited by burglars this sum-
mer. 1t is possible they may drift
around this way
Hugh Shovlin has resigned the posi-
tion he recently accepted on the d. S.
& S. at Oneida Junction, and is succeed
ed by Roderick Powell, of Lansford.
Willie Bray and Asa Shive. two ten
year-old boys, were drowned in the
Weatherly reservoir on Saturday. The
bodies were recovered a few hours later.
At Yorktown the operators are filling
up the worked-out portions of the mines
by running culm to the old breasts
through bore hole. This will prevent
cave-ins.
White Haven's hosiery mill is ham
pered by a lack of female help. About
that kind located here could easily OBJ
tain 400 employees.
Rain interfered with the open air con-
cert of the p. O. S. of A. band on Friday
evening, and the programme was COM
pleteu At Jne opera mouse, Wnere large
crowd enjoyed the music.
Congressman George w. Shonk, in an
interview with a Neaosdedler reporter,
said he would positively refuse to be a
candidate again and would not accept
the nomination if it was rendered to him.
The Slavonians are sending out invi-
tations to all the societies around here to
attend the parade and flag-raising at the
new church on September II The cor
ner-stone will be laid the day following.
Workmen commenced this morning
excavating for an extension to st. Luke's
Lutheran church, corner of Washington
and Main streets. The basement and
building will be extended sixteen feet to
the rear
]. G. Berner is going to give his Gus
toners and the public at large free ex-
hibition at his store on August IS, 10
and 20, and present to every lady who
calls at his store, whether she buys any
thing or not.
During Hungarian fight at Eckley
on Saturday night one of them was
struck with stone and severely cut
about the head. Itwa reported yester-
day that he had died, but this was found
W NC uHITue.
DIR. G. B. Payson, the new dentist, can
be found every day in the week at his
office in Birkbeck's building Special
attention is given to all the branches of
the profession. He guarantees the work
done by him.
The finest parade ever seen in Halle.
ton will take place there on September
% in honor of the State Volunteer Fire
mems Association convention. The
Citizens Hose Company of Freeland
with fifty uniformed men and band
will be there.
Look out for the man who adyertises
that on the payment of fifty cents he
will tell you how to make one-cent
postage stamps do the work of two-cent
stamps. If you send him your fifty
cents you will receive the following an
swer by mail: "Use two of them"