The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-05-01
Items on Current Events Para
graphed by the HuStling Pen
and Pencil Men.
OLDEST ACTIVE CONSTABLE
HE is UP IN THE SEVENTIES, BUT HALE
AND HEARTY AND HAS A
RECORD.
A New Telephone Promising Improved
Service and Cheaper Rates is
Knocking for Admission
to this Borough,

W hAAS DSANA6
James Lord, the High Constable of
Tamaqua, paid social visits in town today
and spent several pleasant minutes in the
HERALD sanctum. Mr.. Lord is the oldest
active constable in the county. He is 76
years of age and is as hale and hearty as
most men thirty years his junior He
has not been i'll an hour during the past
As years. His experience as constable is
very extensive and he has handled over
10000 cases. He was a constable in
Minersville twenty years ago and one day
during that service he handled 109 cases.
He was the officer who four years ago
tracked and arrested the three tramps
who shot and killed G. & 1. Policeman
John Merget at Tamaqua after robbing
two houses at Barnesville.
This morning Superintendent William
H. Lewis, of VIM. Penn, Col. D. P.
Brown, of Lost Creek, and three or four
gray bearded gentlemen, who had stepped
to the depot platform for change of cars,
stood in a group, chatting pleasantly
about coal affairs. A short distance from
them stood a group of young men who
did not recognize some of the gentlemen
and one of them asked, "Who are in that
distinguished looking crowd ?" THAT is
the Pottsville base ball team" remarked
wag, and the idea suggested that the
county seat ball players were gray
bearded men created considerable merri
ment.
Base ball was the prevailing topic at
the Lehigh Valley depot this morning.
Manager Brennan and all his players
were at the place in expectation of the
arrival of the suits for the club from
Boston. Considerable nagging was in
dulged in by some OF the spectators, who
would not believe that the suits had been
ordered and the nagging increased when
the looked for train failed to bring the
suits. Manager Brennan and the players
left the depot very much disappointed
and crestfallen, but an hour later they
enjoyed a spell of enthusiasm through the
arrival of the suits via the p. & r. r. R.
No time was lost by the players in trying
on the suits and they at once commenced
preparations for the first game at the
Trotting park this season.
Something should be done by the Town
Council, or the police officials, towards
stopping the wrecking of cells in the
lookup by reckless prisoners. Hardly a
month passes that the borough is not
Obliged to go to considerable expense in
order to make good damage done by these
people. 1t would seem that If such
prisoners were prosecuted for malicious
mischief the practice would soon be
broken up. Most Of them wreck the
cells through pure cussedness.
The testing of the public water works
pipes in town still hangs fire. The Bor,
ough Council has done all it can in the
matter at present by serving a ten-day
notice on Contractors Quinn & Kerns o
proceed with the test. Contractor NJ. P.
Quinn and Sub contractor McAdam spent
the past two days in town making
arrangements for the test and it will no
doubt take place in the very near future,
but hardly before next week. Most of
the Councilmen incline to the belief that
if the test of the pipes proves satisfactory
only the connections will be required to
put the works in full operation.
There has been considerable talk about
a possibility of Fahey, the sprinter, of
town, and Ryan, of Phillipsburg, being
brought together in another race, but
such an event will not take place. Fahey
| does not reouire a brick house to tumble
upon him before realizing situation.
His defeat by Ryan at South Bethlehem
was of such character that Fahey would
hardly be justified in assuming that he
has a show of defeating that man in a
sprint, at the present time at least.
The Anthracite Telephone and Supply
Company, a project established at Sha
mokin in opposition to the old telephone
lines, is trying to secure rights of way
in this town. 1t promises cheaper and
better service. The company is composed
of citizens of Shamokin and vicinity
Cheaper and better telephone service is
needed very much and it would do nc
harm to give the claims of this company
some consideration. But it would bt
we'll for the borough authorities to give
the matter careful consideration before
taking definite action on it, as the country
is now flooded with new telephone enter
prises, and all are not of the best.
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"My husband had two cancers taken
from his face, and another was coming on
his lip. he took two bottles of Burdock