The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-04-23
MAHANOY CITY.
MAHANor CRY. Anril %.

MAHAEoI CITY, April %.
Mrs Lizzie Faust, Of Lakeside, was a
Sunday visitor to Mahanoy City.
Miss Jennie Hardly spent Sunday after
noon with Shenandoah friends
Messrs. w. Il. Jones, Arthur and Joseph
Hopes, William Prince and Harry Day
We're entertained in Shenandoah yester-
day.
Phillip Coyle was among the spectators
at the st, Nicholas fire yesterday morn
ing.
Mrs Charles Krebs is visiting her
daughter, Mrs r. A. Bacon, in phila-
delphia.
The Philador Clubs April Assembly
will take place in Armory hall TO. morrow
evening. Invitations were sent to the
bellies and beauX of the county, and an
affair Of elegance is anticipated.
Miss Carrie Buck, of Orwigsburg, is
the guest of Miss Cora Dilcher.
William Davis, Shenandoah tele-
grapher, was visitor to town on Saturday
evening.
Messrs. Matthew Whalen and James
Devlin, of Cumbola, visited Mahanoy
City friends yesterday.
Mrs. Mary Lyons died at her late resi-
denCe on East Centre street on Saturday
night. She was n widow and is survived
| by several adult children.
Nelson Brandon, of Brandonville, is
making "A canvass for his candidacy for
| Poor Director.
Miss Maggie Lester has accepted
! position as pastry cook at the Hotel
Kaier.
William Reppert, Of Pottsville, was in
| town on Sunday.
Messrs. r. H. Cress and Beaver, of
| Centralia, drove through town yesterday.
John l.. Williams, OF Mt Carmel, was in
town on Saturday. Mr.. Williams is
about % years of age and although he has
spent sixty of his years about the mines,
IS erect, hale, hearty and as vigorous as
many men twenty years his junior.
NJ A. Saeger, the Lehigh Valley station
| baggage master, was on Saturday the re
| ciplent of a handsome gold pin, the gift OF
| his brother and a souvenir of his birthday.
Two men and woman. all Polish, were
! thrown from a carriage at Main and
! Centre streets last evening by the break
| ing of bolt. The fore wheels parted
company with the rest of the vehicle,
| dumping the two men to the ground and
| pitching the woman on top of them. No
one seemed worse for the adventure except
| the man underneath, who beloved loudly
over his broken hat.
Wayne Kratzer, a diamond salesman
| from Allentown, was registered at the
| Hotel kaier yesterday. Mr.. Kratzer
carries some of his samples upon his per
son. One of his fingers was decorated
| with a big ring OF three diamonds valued
at $500 and from his broad white bosom
| CLEANED beautiful diamond the size of
| sparrow's egg and valued at 1880. AL
| though weighing 30 pounds Mr. kratzer
| rides a bicycle weighing 26 pounds. He
| thought of wheeling over the mountain
| to Shenandoah yesterday afternoon until
informed OF our good crop of highway
robbers who are always pleased to enter
| tain diamond brokers and other people OF
such ailluence.
| Telegraphers all over the county, in all
| over the Reading and Valley lines, are
| brushing up their Morse in view of enter
| ing the speed contest to be held in Shen-
andoah on May 4th, in connection with
grand ball. Telegraphers are at all times
| ambitious to 'send" their messages little
faster than the fellow at the other end can
receive them, and these speed contests
generally decide who of the cracks are the
! fastest. To test their ability, each con-
! testant is given some reading matter to
| transmit, generally the Presidents mes
sage At a given signal he rattles off at
the top of his speed for five minutes, when
the words sent are counted and the opera
tors having the greatest number to their
credit are awarded the prizes, the quality
of the sending of course being considered
by the judges in making the award. The
greatest speed yet made was by one Pol
| lock, New Haven train dispatcher, who
at contest in New York about two years
ago transmitted 20 words in one minute
a rate that few operators can COPY.
Pollock beat his O. guu-u.s Of the vs. -stern
Union by about five words per minute.
In the local contests the best speed has
been forty-siX words per sixty seconds.
The Shenandoah boys expect to beat this.
Those who never read the advertise
ments in their newspapers miss more
than they presume Jonathan Kenson,
of Bolan, Worth Co., Iowa, who had been
troubled with rheumatism in his back,
arms, and shoulders read an item in his
paper about how prominent German
citizen of Ft. Madison had been cured.
! He procured the same medicine, and to
use his own words: "It cured me right
up" He also says: "a neighbor and his
wife were both sick in bed with rheuma-
tism. Their boy was over to my house
and said they were 50 bad he had to do the
cooking. ! told him of Chamberlain g
Pain Balm and how it had cured me, he
got a bottle and it cured them up in a
week. so cent bottles for sale by Gruhler
Bros.