Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-30
BRIEF ITEMS i. OF : NEWS.
LOCAL JOTTlNGS GATHERED FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.

Little Ones of Interest About People
You Know and Things You Wish to
Hear About-what the Folks of This
Vicinity Are Doing.
Hunters report game very scarce this
season.
Night school will begin in the bor-
ough on Monday evening.
The regular monthly meeting of the
borough council will be held on Monday
evening.
John McMenamin, of Sugar Notch,
was killed by Central train on Mon
day while picking coal on the railroad.
Frank Everett, of Hazleton, formerly
bartender at the Central hotel, and Miss
Ada Weiss, of Freeand, will be married
soon.
The Polish cornet band will hold
ball at the opera house this evening.
Music will be furnished by the Polish
orchestra.
The attorneys for ex-Banker Rocka-
fellow, who was convicted few days
ago of embezzlement, have filed reasons
for new trial.
Mt. Horeb Lodge, No. 257, I. O. O. F.,
banquetted at the Cottage hotel on Mon
day evening. A very pleasant time was
Had by those in attendance.
Markle & Co. and Kemmer & Co.'s
collieries are idle today, while Coke
Bros. & Co. and the Upper Lehigh Com
pany have their mines working,
Robert Metz, five-y year-old boy of
Ashley, found revolver in drawer
and while fooling with it shot himself in
the neck. The wound is serious.
Anthony Stahl, who was seriously in
jured in Silver Brook colliery by having
a miners needle run into his stomach,
is reported out of danger at the hospital.
Bernard G. Gallagher, who has been
in Colorado and other western states for
the past four years, arrived here yester-
day on visit to his mother on Walnut
street.
A cantata, entitled "Santa Claus Tele-
phone," will be rendered by the Sunday
school of Trinity NJ. L. church on Satur-
day evening, December 90, at the
church.
Union Thanksgiving services were
held this morning in st. Johns Reform
ed church. Revs. Morton, Benner, Bis
choff, White, Spaulding and Lengel
took part.
Washburn & Turnbach have fitted up
their wheelwright shop with circular
saw and planer, and are prepared to do
all kinds of work required by carpenters
and builders.
Charles Schaeffer, of Ashley, and Miss
Stella Sensenbach were married on
Tuesday afternoon at the residence of
the brides parents on Johnson street by
Rev. Edmund White.
The tea party and oyster supper of
Owena Council, Degree of Pocohontas,
was held last evening at the cottage
hall and will be continued this after
noon and evening. Supper or oysters,
25 cents.
John Welch and Miss Clara Hawke
were married yesterday at the BRIDES
residence on Ridge street by Rev. II. A.
1. Benner. They left shortly after the
ceremony for Philadelphia, where they
will spend their honeymoon.
During a row at Harwood wedding
on Sunday Hungarian named Steve
Nataka struck fellow-countryman, An
drew Pilear with hammer and frac-
tured the skull The injured man was
taken to the miners hospital and his
assailant escaped.
The opera house was filled last even
ing by the friends of the Progressive
Club, and the ball was highly enjoyed
by all. Nearly 100 couples took part in
the grand march, which was led by
Master of Ceremonies Dominic Timony
and Miss Ella Mulligan, of Jeddo.
Edward A. Lynch, of Wilkes-B Barre,
who was appointed auditor to ascertain
and adjust the Indebtedness of the bor-
ough and Foster township, which must
be done before the Points and other dis
tricts can be annexed, will be at Attor-
ney Hayes Office on Friday, December
80, to attend to the duties of his office.