Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-27
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
PARAGRAPHS GATHERED FROM ALI
PARTS OF THE REGION.

and Other Towns Are Doing.
Hot-house cucumbers are. sold in
Wilkes-Barre at % cents apiece.
Hon. VIM. r. Jeffrey came up from
Harrisburg to spend Sunday at home.
If you want fresh candies go to Fack-
ler,s confectionery for them. "We
make our own"
"Orange Blossom, " the common-sense
fema le remedy, is sold and recon-
mended by all druggists.
The st. Patrick's cornet band serenad-
ed A. Oswald on Saturday evening and
were very kindly welcomed.
B. F. Davis sells the renowned Wash
burne brand of flour. 1t excels everv
thing in the market. Try it.
The tailors of town have organized a
ball team and will play any nine of
similar workmen in the region.
The fair at st. Johns Slavonian church
Is open every evening. On " ednesday
the p. o. S. of A. band will attend.
Carbon's commissioners haye accepted
| plans for new courthouse and the old
structure will be torn down this spring.
M. Halpin has number of wagons,
carriages, sleds, ETC., for sale. If YOU
require anything in that line give him
call.
The annual report of Freeland's f.
nances is given on the fourth page today,
and will prove interesting to our borough
readers.
After today the passenger employees of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
will not be allowed to use tobacco in
any form.
Mrs. James K. Boyle, of Centre street,
is lying seriously i'll, and her friends
this morning have poor hopes of her
recovering.
1t is expected that much suffering will
exist in Allentown this summer, as the
food supply of the city, peanuts, is ad-
vancing in price.
Another Democratic voter arrived in
the North Woodsde district of the
Points yesterday, and Patrick Dougherty
IS the happy father.
Garfield Commandery, No. s, knights
of Malta, will celebrate the sixth ami
versary of its organization at the opera
house tomorrow evening.
The Readings receivers have ordered
the station at Lehigh Tannery to be
closed after April l, as the business done
is not sufficient to pay an agent.
Subscribers who intend to change their
place of residence should not fail to send
their new address to this office to insure
a safe delivery of their papers.
John ]. Slattery has accepted posi-
tion as driver and agent for Dusheck's s
Bottling Works, formerly held by Chas.
Dornbach. Jack took charge this morn
ing
The largest and handsomest assort-
ment of ladies' and misses spring wraps,
capes and jackets ever seen in Freeland
has just been received at Jos. Neubur-
gers.
The postoffice fight in Scranton be-
tween John j. O'Boyle and D. j. Camp
bell has become so hot that it is likely
Frank NJ. Vandling will be appointed as
a compromise.
Coke Bros. & Co.'s coliery at Beaver
Meadow, which has been idle since last
November, resumed operations this
morning. Tomhicken will start again
next Monday.
Hugh Jennings, the noted base ball
player, has been attending the Scranton
Business College since 4he close of last
season. He will probably play with
Baltimore this year.
Owen Meyer, of White Haven, will
take charge of the Cottage hotel on We'd
nesday, and the present proprietor,
Matt Seiger, will remove to the Halle
ton house, Hazleton.
The Lackawanna county judges have
refused licenses to every applicant who
does not bear good reputation and to
those who applied for houses which
have not had good regulations in the
past.
The annual parade in honor of the in
stitution of Odd Fellowship, under the
auspices of the Odd Fellows Association
of Luzerne and and adjoining counties,
will take place in Mauch Chunk on We'd
nesday, April 26.
''No one so fit for the sea as a sailor"
No one so fit for making up floral designs
as florist. The florist can be seen at
Union Hall, Hazleton, with full line of
Easter plants. Cut flowers every day
from Hazleton Greenhouses.
Ball-goers throughout the lower end of
the county are preparing for the annual
Easter Monday ball of the st. Patricks
cornet band. AS it will be the first
amusement after lent the attendance is
certain to be unusually large.
The latest candidate in the field for
internal revenue collector of this district
is James w. Maloy, of the Lansford
Record Congressman Hines, however,
is confident he will procure the appoint
ment of 7. NJ. Commit, of Plains.
Now is the time to advertise your
spring opening. If you have meyer ad-
vertised try it. 1t would certainly do no
harm and may do you world of good.
If business is dull, the key to the situa-
tion is advertising. The TRIBUNE
reaches the people who do the buying.