The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-01-23
INAEEW WoRps.
A Lively writer Tells the Story Of The
Happenings Of Week In and About
Old Carbon

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A Lively writer Tells the Story Of The
Happenings Of Week In and About
Old Carbon.
weatberly is to have an Opera
House.
Mint candy is said TO be "a sure
cure for the grippe.
George Washington's birthday is
the next legal holiday.
The electric light question is work
ing Lansford people.
Hungarian weddings are on the
increase in Carbon county coal towns.
Mrs John Ideman, of Freeland, is
a new inmate in the Laurytown poor
house.
John Seper, of Audenried, is in the
Miners Hospital at Hazleton, with a
broken leg
The gripp has a strong hold on
Rev. Father Manen, of Audenried, and
he is seriously ill.,
--Hungarians are said to be leaving
Audenried, Beaver Meadow and other
mining towns for Clearheld county.
Herbert Sleath, of Weatherly, en-
ployed in the machine shops at Jeanes-
vile, is nursing a badly squeezed right
shoulder
j. A. Selley, Hazleton baker, was
stricken with apoplexy while deliver
ing bread in Jeanesville on Saturday
afternoon. He may recover.
Thomas Williams, with the Lehigh
Coal & Navigation Engineer Corps, at
Lansford, it is reported, has resigned
and will take a position at Hazleton
during February.
John Stroll, of Lehigh Gap, has
filled the office Of township constable
for period of twenty-five years. He
is known to every man in the county
who has served as a juror.
Adam Scherer, of Fire Line, is
dead at the ripe old age of rs years.
Death resulted from paralysis. Inter
ment was made at the Lower iowa
mensing church, Rev. Huber officiat-
ing.
Charles Andrews, Weatherly
track walker, living alone in a small
shanty, was found dead the other day.
Squire Hunter empannelled jury and
found that death had resulted from
natural causes.
1t is the experience of tax col
lectors in our coal towns that Hun.
garians, Polanders and Italians are no
good when it comes to pay taxes. Nine
out of every ten would sooner leave
the locality than square up"
Home talent at Weatherly will
render the "Social GLASS;" temper
ance drama in that town next month";
The Herald thinks it will be produc-
ton worth seeing-you can see it in
any bar room in the county every day
in the week.
The Weatherly Herald is shouting
over a 16 year old boy resident of
Hickory Run who is six feet high and
weighs 100 pounds. Mahoning town
ship has the champion fat boy. He
weighs $50 and is almost a six footer,
and besides is just as jolly as he is big.
| -Lansford people are actively en-
gagged in the preparations for their
second annual eisteddfod, which will
again be held on Good Friday. A prize
of 500 is offered for the best rendition
of the selection, "Worthy is the Lamb, -
by a cornet band to be composed of vt
less than sixteen pieces,
At court in session at Mauch
Chunk last week the report of viewers
for public road in Kidder township
from Mud Run station to public road
at Mud Run Lumber Wharf was con,
firmed nj ST. The road will be probab.
ly 800 feet in lenth, of which 1893 feet
including forty foot bridge is in Kid.
der and the other in Penn Forest.
-Colombus Roarty, a miner employ.
ed at No. 4 colliery met with an acci
dent while at work Monday. He was
in his braest drillingwhen mass of clod
fell upon him knocking him senseless
His injuries are not of a serious nature
but how he escaped being killed is {
miracle. His legs and arms are badly
bruised and his foot is also broken.
-Tresckow, a small, unpretentiou!
mining town, hanging on to Evansville
is going wild over the good fortun,
that has suddenly come to Fredericl
RAIDER who has suddenly become rich
L rich beyond his widest dreams by tn
: death Of an aunt in Breslan, Germany
l RAIDER has worked in the mines all hi
life and is said to be a frugal, hard
working, honest man and will max
good use of his suddenly acquired fol
tune.
Dick & Mantz have been awarde
the contract for the opening of cana
!, to drain the water from the surfac
u near the Beaver Brook mines. The oil
,, Nos. l, 4 and slopes, which have bee
u abandoned and flooded with water fo
. many years, will be drained Of tn
water at an early date. This is don
in order that the company may sink
D. new slope which would be impossibl
!, to undertake while the old working
u were filled with water.
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