The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-10-18
STREET WHISPERINGS.
Odds and Ends Cleaned BY Reporters on
the Streets,

Our town is about to lose another Of its |
oldest and most prominent families in
the departure of S. A. Beddall and family. /
Mr.. Beddall has been making frequent |
trips out of town recently, but has
studiously guarded the object Of the trips |
as a secret. am informed by excellent |
authority, however, that Mr.. Beddall has !
formed a partnership with George Bur- |
chill, of Frackvlle, in the purchase of |
coal mine at Tuscarora and that our
townsman will become resident Of
Tamaqua, Thus it is that one by one the !
representative people are leaving us, and |
am lead to believe with others who have
expressed the fear that within a few
short years the people who will rank az
the representative citizens of the town
will be those who a short time ago were
gazed upon with curiosity as they alighted
from the arriving trains.
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An electrician who stood beside me at
one of the passthe.time-away places on
Main street the other evening said after
gazing intently at the network of electric
wires above the pavement, zone of the
greatest responsibilities the electrical
companies have is to watch the insulation
of the wires. Should the covering burn
off and the wire come in contact with
limb Of tree you could have as danger.
Gus blaze within the shortest space of
time as can he imagined" And believe
him.
BY slow approaches cold weather is
drawing near. Fires are already comfort
able some days. No doubt we shall have
many more pleasant autumn days but
the time for sultry days and hot nights
has gone by. Stoves and overcoats will
be our best friends for some months to
oome
1t seems strange, indeed, how some men
will sit around and blow themselves
hoarse about having one of the finest and
most intelligent dogs in the country, but
let some suggest that the ordinance il
regard to dogs be enforced and see how
quick most of these men will declare thai
they never owned dog and wouldn'
have one of the pesky brutes about tn,
house. / will bet my last summer straw
hat that If the borough authorities woult
enforce the ordinance the pedigree o
nine-tenths of the much praised dog
would drop with lightning rapidity.
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Speaking of dogs reminds me of figh
witnessed on Jardin street the othe
evening between two butchers of town
One charged the other with using hors
meat to fill his Castings" and "the other
resented the charge with well directe
shot from the right shoulder. Friend
iuterfered and prevented what Nigh
have been a bloody fracas, as both me
are noted as sluggers
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: For some time a rumor has been goin
the rounds that the shops at Delano wer
working overtime. / made inquiry as t
the truth of the report and it is emphat
cally denied. 1t is claimed that ma
must stand A No. l to secure any overtim
at the shops. Last week they worked fiv
: eight-hour shifts
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am told that boys are in the habit G
constructing losfing shanties in min
. breaches and keeping fires in them daily
This is a very bad practice and if boy
are caught at it they will meet with sever
. punishment. Ii is not long since the fir
/ department was called out to extinguisl
a fire in breach that threatened seriou
/ damage.
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Two scrub teams engaged in game O
foot ball on North Main street, betwee
Lloyd and Centre, last night, and afforde
much amusement for the large crowd @
spectators that congregated. We ma
now look for advertisements of this char
, acter Great foot ball match Throy
'ems vs. Chuck ems, at the Main stree
grounds Game called at p. m. n
police interference"
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] Imet a Pottsville installment agent yes
terday who chuckled as he told me of
sale he had just made to a Hungarian
family in the First ward. He went int
the house to sell a fancy table cloth. Non
of the occupants could understand Eng
lish, but the agent managed to get tn
woman of the house to understand tha