Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-04-01


currences That;Can BE Read Quickly.
What the Folks of This and Other
Towns are Doing.
Moving day.
Palm Sunday next.
Council meeting tonight.
Easter bonnets are being ordered.
School board meets on Wednesday
evening.
The Kitty Rhoades Company will play
this week at Hazleton.
The cattle market has been cornered
and beef goes 25 per cent higher.
Hazleton hotel men are having one
another arrested for Sunday selling.
The Citizens Hose Company has dis
posed of its pool table to John Yannes
for $40.
John James, of Eckley, who was in
jured recently on the d. S. & S., is
rapidly improving. He is now at his
home in Eckley.
Albert Milford, aged 10 years, was
severly hurt by being struck by a trolley
car on the Diamond addition, Hazleton,
on Saturday night.
j. E. Hess, of Packerton, Lehigh
Valley brakeman, had both feet cut off
at Packerton yard on Friday night by
falling under the cars.
Monsignor Satolli, the Papal delegate,
will lay the corner stone of German
parochial school at Pottsville on April
26. This will be his first visit to the
coal region.
Patents were granted last week to j.
Fern, of Scranton, and C. S. Sheppard,
of Pttston. The former invented
slate picker and the latter a rock-drill-
ing machine.
Con Duffy, aged IS years, of Hazleton,
was stabbed in that city in a quarrel
with a Hungarian on Saturday night.
He has three deep wounds and is not ex-
pected to live.
James McGnty, who at one time own
ed all the land about old Buck Noun
tain and resided there until few years
ago, died at Wilkes Barre on Friday.
aged 67 years.
William Faux was rendered supper
by the members of the Young American
Social Club at DeFoy's hotel on Thurs
day evening. Mr.. Faux intends to re-
move to Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mike Potochney has sold his bottling
establishment on Ridge staeet to Harry
Lazorcek, of Upper Lehigh, and will
enter the saloon business in McGroarty's |
South Centre street.
In few months electric car tracks
will be completed from Forest City,
above Carbondale, to Nanticoke, direct |
connection of fifty-two miles. Cars will
run over the entire line this summer.
Freeland Council, No. 34s, Jr. O. U. |
A. M, will attend services at the Eng |
lish Baptist church on Sunday, April :,
at 2.3O p. M, when the pastor will |
preach sermon on "The Four Anchors
of State"
Wages to be paid miners of the Schuyl- |
kill region for the last half of March |
and first half of April will be 0 per cent
below the 81. so basis. This is the same |
rate as last month and per cent better
than in January.
Five Polish residents, of Shenandoah. |
have been held in $500 bail each for |
their appearance at court to answer the |
charge of tearing down and appropriat-
ing the fence which surrounds the base |
ball grounds at that place.
The Juvenile Dramatic Company had |
a large audience at their play, "Police- |
mans Luck" on Saturday evening, and |
the young actors surprised their friends |
with the excellent style and ability with |
which the piece was produced.
Lewis H. Lentz has contracted with
the trustees of st. Mary's Greek Catho-
lie church to build large dwelling
near the residence of the priest on Fern
street. When completed it will be oc-
cupied by the janitor of the church.
At the close of the Eckley fair on
evening the following articles
were disposed of: Martin Broderick. of |
Sandy Run, won the sideboard; Miss |
Maggie McFadden, of Eckley, a plush |
rocker, and William Moore silver set. |
'Peck's Bad Boy" as played here on
Thursday evening, deserved a larger au-
dience. The company is first. class
one, and the many specialties rendered
made the performance equal to any
thing in that line that appeared here
this season.
On April l the Stroudsburg Daily