The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-09-30
IN A FEW LINES.
short squibs in and Around Carbon
County Dlshed Up for Our Readers.


County Dlshed Up for Our Readers.
Report says that Squire Haas, of Au
denried will become proprietor Of tn,
Jeanesville hotel.
Beaver Meadow is threatened deph
liberia epidemic
Beaver Meadow wants the electric
railway.
A dangerous counterfeit silver cert
ficate is in circulation in the east. 1t /.
Of letter B, act of 1886, with portrait
of Grant somewhat to the right. The
note is fairly executed, but the por.
trait is dark and schatchy looking.
The Jacob Petrey farm in Lehigh
Township near Weatherly was sold
Thursday by sheriff Webb, to Jerry
Fisher, of weatherly, for the sum OF
$500. Mr. Petrey was one time a
steward of the Laurytown almhouse.
Horns Sunday School, of New
Mahoning, will hold picnic in Halde-
mans beautiful grove on this Satur-
day. John Koons, Esq, of Lehighton,
will be present on the occasion and de-
liver the address in his usual piquant
way.
The Evans Mining Company, of
Beaver Meadow, started up both lifts
of their slope on Monday. In order to
prepare the extra quantity of coal thus
mined for market new screen which
they have lately placed in their break
er will be started up also. This new
addition to the compapy's works will
give employment to about twenty five
additional men and boys.
Quite number of men we're suspend
ed in the machine shop and foundry at
Jeanesville Friday and Saturday even
ings. Just why these suspensions we're
made no one seems to know, as there
is plenty of work on hand.
1t is the report that George w. Hem.
mineer, the successful principal of the
Weatherly public schools will wed Miss
Matte Williams, of East Mauch Chunk,
early next month.
John James, of Audenried, was stab.
bed one night last week while engaged
in fracas with Hungarians, will not
die.
Lehigh township has elected these
teachers for the coming school term:
Rockport - II. II. Sloat, of Manches-
ter, York county; Lowrytown-H. A
GerLer, of Reynoldsville, Schuykill'
county, and at Penn Haven, Miss
Boyle, of Tresckow, Carbon county.
Horace DeYoung Lentz aud Miss
Jennie Alsover, both of Mauch Chunk,
were married Tuesday afternoon. The
cermony took place in the Presbyterian
church. The ushers we're: George
Woomer, of Lebanon; George S. Savior
and George Pettinos, of Bethlehem;
John II. Ross, Robert A. Heberling,
George Dreisbach, Robert Alsoyer and
julius Heberling, of Mauch Chunk.
Frank Cannon, of Jeanesville, was
in shanty where powder was stored
on Monday, He was smoking. There
was an explosion and Frank Cannon is
alive but will be horribly disagured for
life,
A new town near GAINESVILLE in this
county is to be known as Park View
A very pretty name, but "Blood and
Thunder would be more appropriate.
The authorities of Carbon county
are making every effort to capture
Charles Conaghan, who is charged with
numbering John Breslin, of Buck
Mountain, on the 18th inst. A reward
of 5000 has been offered for his capture
County Detective Isaacs is also work
ing hard on the case, endeavorlng to
locate Conahan, but as yet has not been
successful i'll doing so. When last
seen Conaghan was walking along the
Central tracks at White Haven.
Hugh Harrity, of Jeanesville, aged
Sc, has been admitted to the Laurytown |
almshouse.
Ed. Curry, a prominent Audenried |
Democrat, was married on Wednesday
to Miss Maggie Conahan, of the same
place. Mr. Curry is the Democratic
candidate for auditor.
The country folks are at present
busy boiling applebutter. The apple |
crop is good one, and in order to
make profitable use of the fruit, it is |
gathered and to various cider mills to
be converted into cider. and the
product with the addition Of asnitz"
turned into the succulent 'latwere." 4"
The large cider presses in the various
sections of the country are at present
making hundreds of barrels of cider
each day, and nightly in the rural
sections cleaning lights in farm
houses shed their rays on "snitEing"
and applebutter boilings, and the
aroma of the simmering mess in the
big kettles fills the air with fragrance
as penetrating as that of the pine
forests.