The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-05-23
MERE MENTION.



June 3rd will be, what is known to !
Barks county people, rs battalion day" |
Every one eats asparagus, or ought to. !
II is healthy.
Trout fishing this year has been
failure. We seldom hear now of good |
catch--or bad one, either.
We are in favor of silver-have always
been that way OF thinking-so our sub.
scribers need not have any doubts about
us taking pay in this kind of money for
subscriptions &c.
We will have hot weather enough yet,
don't fret, to make up for lost time.
An exchange says that man who is
religious on Sundays only, is always
honest if well watched,
The paper that will soon have the
largest circulation is fly paper.
In Pottsville when the Chief Burgess
wants to enforce the ordinances Council
will not let him.
The cold weather had little or no effect
upon the political crop. Candidates for
office are as plenty as ever.
Unless a circus or two comes to town
soon our juvenile population will go on a
strike.
Max Schmidt is offering extraordinary
bargains this week. Read his new ad-
vertisement,
Grow county (that was to be) has
stopped growing. The frost killed it.
Base ball is not paying big in Pottsville
nor it won't If the managers depend on
Pottsville patronage alone.
If people went as far to meet their bills
as they do to meet trouble, there would
not be so much debt in the world.
Americans pay nearly twice as high a
rate for fire insurance as do Russians /;
nearly three times as much as is paid by
those of England; more than six times as
much as Germans pay, and more than
twelve times as much as is paid in
France.
What has become of the soldiers
monument project
Strawberries and pineapples make the
best preserves.
! A big hay crop is now assured.
Evan j. Davies, the North Jsrdin street
undertaken, has placed a handsome
undertaker's wagon upon the road
Business men who are overworked
should not advertise if they want relief
b 1t cost the borough only $22.61 for the
! use of its own money for few days. The
. fun the members have had was worth a
great deal more, besides the experience
was worth something, too.
Considerable complaint is being made
by the citizens of that part of the town
near the Shenandoah City colliery. The
I stencil arising from the sewer there is
Z unbearable. The Board of Health should
! take some action in this matter and
compel the sewerage companies to extend
their lines beyond the borough limits OF
serious sickness will occur from this
nuisance.
Borough Superintendent Whitaker is
busily engaged in examining the pupils
in the different schools. He will finish
his work on the 10Th of June.
Frank Y. Reilly, architect of Pottsville
was in town yesterday with new plans fol
the Phoenix hose company building on
= Jardin street. The former plans present
ed were accepted but were subsequently
reconsidered and some changes made il
the building which necessitated new
prints being made.
The wagon of the Union Tea Company
overturned on Main street yesterday
afternoon, and but for the presence o.
mind displayed by the driver, Jacot
Kester, serious runaway might hav'
occurred.
Forty eight mules were received at thu
l Shenandoah City colliery yesterday. ThiI
is evident that the colliery is about tt
to resume operations in the near future
d and will be good news for the seven o.
eight hundred men and boys who receiv,
= employment at that place.
; "A petition was filed on Monday asking
court to appoint a committee upol
Albert Riddleberger, to pass upon his in
3 sanity to have him taken to the asylum
at Harrisburg for treatment.