Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-10-07
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
PARAGRAPHS GATHERED FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE REGION.

currences That Can BE Read Quickly.
What the Folks of This and Other
Towns are Doing.
Election day is four weeks from to
morrow.
Pheasant hunting is being INDUCED in
by the hunters.
Thanksgiving Day, November 2S, will
be the next legal holiday.
George Brown has entered the law
school of Dickinson college at Carlisle.
The regular monthly meeting of the
borough council will be held this even
ing.
Mrs. Daniel Kennedy is lying seriously
i'll at her residence in the Campbell
block.
Nathan Beisel, of this place, has been
granted Il pension for services in the
late war.
Sandy Sattery has received the ap-
pointment of baggage agent at the Lee
high Valley station.
Rumors of steady work in the mines
for the next few months are current
around the colieries.
Coke Bros. & Co. propose to fence in
the large plot of ground back of the old
Woodsde breaker site.
james Tim0ny, of the Tigers Athletic
Club, is playing on the East Stroudsburg
normal school foot ball team.
The very latest in New York and
Philadelphia dress goods can be seen at
A. Oswald's. Can and inspect them.
The annual institute of Luzerne
county school teachers will be held at
Wilkesbarre during the week commence
ing October 81.
Howard Gardner and James Drake
were fined $500 at Stroudsburg and SEN
fenced to three months in the county Jail
on the charge of selling liquor without Ii
cense.
w. IL. Vorsteg, formerly of town. has
severed his connection with the Pruden-
tial Insurance Company, and accepted
the Tamaqua agency of the Kcllmer
Piano Company
Good drinking water is so scarce in
Wilkesbarre that cnterprising grocers
have begun selling it by the bottle
Distilled water from Buffalo, n. Y, is
the favoritc brand.
Alfred Walters, president of the d. S.
& S. II. Il. Company, has returned to
Drifton. There is considerable specula-
tion as TO who will be chosen superin-
tendent Of the road
The Elmira Budget, Sunday paper
which circulated in these parts some
time ago, has suspended publications
The proprietor it is said, sunk about
500, 900 in the venture.
Patrick j. McAvoy, a fourtcen-year-
old boy of Jcanesyille, was run over by
locomotive at stripping in that town
Wednesday and died "A few hours later.
He was IL cousin of Edward Murphy, of
town.
The school teachers OF the borough
met on Friday evening and organized
for the term by the election of John D.
Heron as president and Miss Tille
Lindsay as secretary. They will hold
monthly meetings.
A meeting of the Board of Trade will
be held ON Wednesday evening, when
the reports Of several committees will be
made. 1t is understood that the presi-
dency has been accepted by Eckey b.
Coke, Jr., of Drifton.
William ID. Kline and Miss Anna
Green, of South Heberton, were married
Mi
the bride by Rev. II. A. |. Benner. Mr.
Kline and wife have the congratulations
of their many friends
Try the Wear Well Shoe House. Their
goods cost no more and give better salts
faction than any other store in Freeland
County Detective Eckert was here on
Saturday and served several subpnnas
on witnesses in the case of Charles
Churchro, who is charged with assault
ing Mrs. John Chedleck, of Ecklcy.
The trial takes place in court today.
If everybody knew what they wanted
and knew where they could get il there
would be no need of advertising. But
the fact is that the aorty of people
do not know what they really want or
where it can be bought until they see it
advertised.
The anniversary banquet given at the
Upper Lehigh hotel on Thursday even
ing by Mt. Horeb Lodge of Odd Fellows
was largely attended. Many members
of the order from neighboring towns and
cities were present, and the evening
was pleasantly spent.
Foster township teachers met on Sat
urday and will hold monthly institutes
hereafter. The following officers were
chosen: President, Superintendent J. B.
Gabrio; vice president, Myron thinner
man; secretary, Miss Rachel james;
treasurer, George Brill
FoX's restaurant in Hazleton was dis
covered on fire late Thursday evening