Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-03-02
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
PARAGRAPHS GATHERED FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE REGION.

Synopsis of Local and Miscellaneous Oc-
currences That Can BE Read Quickly.
What the Folks of This and Other
Towns are Doing.
Coke Bros collieres will work five
days this week, eight hours per day.
The silk mill at South Wilkesbarrc is
to be enlarged and go more hands will
be employed.
The evening edition of the New York
World is sold on the streets here at D.
IN. every day.
Hugh Malloy has two large red foxes
hanging outside his door, which he shot
at Mt. Yeager on Thursday.
Patrick NJ. Sweeney is erecting a
bottling establishment in the rear of his
premises on Washington street.
marriage license was issued at
Wilkesbarre on Friday to Hiram Stan
ton and Miss Harriet Harson, both of
Upper Lehigh.
Roll butter bought at Oswald's is
always fresh and sweet
Rev. j. j. Kuntz, of st. Luke's Luth-
eran church, delivered his popular lee
ture on THAT Boy at Weathery last
Friday evening.
The rapidty with which the snow dis
appeared on Friday and Saturday caused
many business men much difficulty on
the roads to outside towns.
A Philadelphia friend has presented a
dozen live quail to j. b. Laubach, and
they make an interesting addition to his
well displayed show windows.
John X. R.Leisenring, cashier of the First
National bank at Hazleton, has rendered
his resignation, to take effect in March.
John Price will be his successor.
Foster township auditors will meet at
a. Rudewick's, South Heberton, next
Monday, and examine the accounts of
the township officers for the past year.
The Jeddo Progressive Club, one of
the most enterprising associations of
young men in this region, gave a literary
entertainment at the club-rooms last
evening.
Miss Lizzie b. Sharp, the evangelist,
who is conducting the revival at the
Primitive Methodist church, held
meeting at Upper Lehigh yesterday
afternoon.
Eggs sold at Oswald's are guaranteed
to be fresh Try dozen or two.
The one hundred and sixteenth ami
yersary of the birth of Robert Emmett, |
the Irish patriot, will be celebrated on
Wednesday evening at the Cottage hall
by the Wolfe Tone Social Club
The store of st. Mary's Cooperative
Association on Fern street has been
ordered to be sold at public sale ON March |
Il. c. f. McHugh, who was appointed
receiver by the court, has ordered the |
sale
Rev. j. I. Griffith will lecture this |
evening at Parsons, this county, before |
the Wyoming Baptist conference. His |
subject will be ''The Origin and Develop
ment of Civil and Religious Liberty in
America"
The committee of the Schuylkll Coal |
Exchange fixed the rate of wages to be |
paid miners in the Schuykil region for
the last half of February and the first |
half of March at per cent below the
So 80 basis.
AT the English Baptist church on
Thursday evening Rev. c. A. Spaulding,
of Hazleton, baptized seven people. At
ter the baptsmal ceremonies sermon
was preached by Rev. Griffith, the pas
tor of the church.
Ladies should not miss the bargains in
shoes which McDonald's closing out sale
offers. Some choice bargains left.
a heavy freight train on the Lehigh
Valley crashed into the rear of another
freight train on the main line on Satur-
day, wrecking the engine and half
dozen freight cars, Engineer Maxwell
and Fireman Martingale were badly
bruised and cut by jumping.
Rev. c. A. Spaulding, of Hazleton,
who was at one time pastor of the Eng
,ish Baptist church here, received call
from Bangor, this state, in which he was
offered higher salary, but he decided
to remain whore he thought he could do
more good.