Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-04-29
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
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PARTS OF THE REGION.
Synopsis of Local and Miscellaneous Oc-
cnrrences That Can BE Read Quickly.
What the Folks of This and Other
Towns are Doing.

Commencing on May dcvotions will
be held every Wednesday and Friday
evenings at st. AIMS Catholic church at
7.30 o'clock
Refowich has the best 81. so and 81
boys suits in town.
g. b. Shelhamer received. a team of
fine horses from the West ON Saturday.
They will be used in drawing his ice
wagon this summer.
The Winner is a $1.75 shoe that can't
be beat at the price. Sold only at the
Wear Well, 55 Centre street.
M. Schwabe, of South Heberton, has
given out a contract for large barn,
to be erected on the site of the one
destroyed by fire on the 2lst inst.
The Clair Patee Company will be at
the opera house on Thursday, Friday
and Saturday evenings.
The tea store of John Darak, at Centre
and South streets, has been closed by
Barber & Co., Hazeton. The stock will
be sold by Constable Quigley on Wednes-
day.
Ask to see the Trilby hat, the latest,
at Olsho's.
The time consumed by the traction
cars in running between Hazleton and
Freeland has been reduced five minutes.
There is now no delay at either end of
the road.
Refowich offers great bargains in
clothing.
A. w. Washburn was presented with
an elegant gold-headed cane on Wednes-
day evening by the Jr. O. U. A. M.
drum corps Mr.. Washburn was 40
years of age on that day
The Wear Well Shoe House opened
up on Saturday with full line of mems,
ladies' and children's footwear.
The Lehigh Valley Coal Company has
adopted new system of fighting the
Halle Mines fire. All the fans are shut
off and the air passages closed, and
the fire will be smothered, If that is pos
sible.
The Wear Well Shoe House asks rail-
road men to try the Growler, an elegant
working shoe, which sells very low.
E. e. Berlin at one time train-master
on the d. S. & S., and later a night
operator for the Lehigh Valley at Halle
ton, has accepted a position with the
Jersey Central Railroad and will locate
in Mauch Chunk.
Ladies, the best-fitting and most styl-
ish shoe in the market is the Vision, sold
at $2. Can be had only at the Wear
Well, Eberts' old stand.
The eastern conference of the P. M.
church will meet at Avoca on Thursday.
Rev. S. Cooper, of St. Pauls, Freeand,
will leave for that place tomorrow, and
George Bird, the lay delegate, will go
there on Thursday.
The Clair Patee Company gave such
good satisfaction at Hazleton every
night last week that they were re-en-
gagged for the first three nights of this
week. On Thursday they come to Free
land, where they will play the following
three evenings. Read their ad.
C. A. Smith, general agent for the
Lehigh Valley Company at Hazleton,
has rendered his resignation to accept
the management of the Pardee Brick
and Tile Works, Perth Amboy, N. j.
Mr. Smith will assume the duties of his
new position on May 1.
The engine drawing the train from
Wilkes Barre, which should arrive at
6.5s p. M, was three quarters of an hour
late on Friday. The drawhead broke on
the road down, and the engine attached
to train here had to go to Highland
and take the Wilkes-Barre train to
Hazleton.
The Hazleton Plain Speaker states
positively that $500 vote has been
offered in the Legislature by the anti
new county booders. This partly ex-
plains why there is so much opposition
to the bill from "disinterested" repre-.
sentatives. The final vote may be taken
tomorrow.
The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com
pany is considering plan to strip the
burning mine at Summit Hill, and In
this manner quench fire that has beer
raging for over thirty years. Mining
engineers have estimated that the cos
OF the work would be at least quarter
OF q million dollars.
John Early, OF Beaver Meadow, whose
wife and child were killed by the trolley
accident at JeanesyilIe some time ago
entered suit on Thursday at Wilkes
Barre against the Lehigh Traction Com
pany in the sum of $4,000. John Nc
Gahran, of WilkesB Barre, and John M
Carr, OF Freeland, are his attorneys.
Eight people had narrow escape
from death in the Sinclair house, Pitts
ton, early Friday morning. During thu
night gas pipe burst In the house ant
filled several of the rooms. Amons
those found unconscious we're w. r
VanDerveer and wife, who conducted ;
photographic exhibition here recently