Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-11-14
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
PARAGRAPHS GATHERED FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE REGION.
Synopsis of Local and Miscellaneous Oc-
eurrences That Can BE Read Quickly.
What the Folks of This and Other
Towns are Doing.

What the folks OF Ihis ana Otner
Towns are Doing.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Orion Stroh will
spent today, Friday and Saturday in
New York city.
Charles Dusheck, A. A. Bachman and
w. II. Hunsicker are hunting deer up in
Bradford county.
A ball and banquet by the Old Mems
Club will take place at the Cottage hotel
on December 13.
The report that John Mccarthy had
resigned as editor Of the Hazleton .Senh-
mel is denied by him.
The best is the cheapest in the end.
Go to.the Wear Well Shoe House. Their
shoes all wear well.
Candidates for offices to be filled at
the spring election are preparing for the
nominating conventions.
The town of McAdoo is have a semi
weekly newspaper. The projectors are
Matthew Goodman and Edward Bren-
nan.
Thomas Wright, Paul Dash and r. G.
Butler have been appointed by court as
viewers of new road in Foster town
ship.
Another game of foot ball will pro-
badly be played at the park on Sunday
afternoon by the Hazleton and Freeland
clubs.
Revs. j. II. Schmidt and j. J. Kuntz
attended the meeting of the Lutheran
Pastoral Association on Monday at White
Haven.
The fire in the Sugarloaf mine tunnel
at Hazleton has been subdued. Men are
still engaged in clearing away the debris
which the flames caused.
The very latest in New York and
Philadelphia dress goods can be seen at
A. Oswald's. Can and inspect them.
The population of Drifton, as indicat-
ed by the census taken recently by the
company, is 2,153. This is a decrease of
139 since November /, 1894.
Congressman Leisenring and family
have taken up their residence in Wash
ington, d. C. The next session of con
gress will open on December 2.
A new time table will go into effect on
the ID. S. & S. on Sunday. There are
several important changes in the times
OF passenger trains along the line.
An extraordinary rush of job work
this week and our inability to obtain
more help prevented us from giving as
much news as we should in this ISSUE
The Lehigh Valley Railroad proposes
to provide living apartments for its
station agents in. their respective
stations where they are isolated from the
towns.
Judge Woodward has ord cred that the
names Of 1000 citizens be placed in the
jury wheel, to be drawn as jurors in
1896. This is the same number as was
placed in for this year.
The next ball at the opera house will
be held by the Jeddo Progressive Club
The date is Thanksgiving Eve, and
the club proposes to maintain the reputa
tion it has made in these affairs.
All the cases of diphtheria in the bor-
ought have been cured Precautions
taken by tho board Of health and the at
tending physicians averted what might
probably have been an epidemic.
Try the Wear Well Shoe House. Their
goods cost no more and give better salts
faction than any other store in Freeland.
Mrs. A. NJ. Endy died at her home in
Hazleton on Sunday, aged 55 years. She
was the daughter of Lewis Davenport,
who built the Hazleton House, and was
the second child born in Hazleton.
The funeral the late Anthony Camp
bell OF Hazleton, who was buried on
Tuesday from the residence of his sister
in-law, Mrs. Thomas Campbell, was at
: tended by large number OF friends and
acquaintances.
John Gillespie, of town, and Patrick
O'Donnell, of Iazleton, two young men
well known here, will open general
grocery store in McMeniman's new
building about December 1. Both have
had considerable experience in the busi-
ness.
Walter Gould, a pupil in the Washing
ton street school, fell against book
case in the primary room on Tuesday
and cut his forehead. The little fellow
was taken to his home on Ridge street,
and had three stitches placed in the
wound.
An advertisement judciously placed
is now the proper thing to catch the holi-
day trade. The fact that the TRIBUNE
is constantly growing in popularity read
lily suggests it as the best advertising
medium to which the local business men
have access.
Pine Street Surveyed.
Rorouph Surveyor p NJ Boyle has