Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-09-07
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.

currences That Can BE Read Quickly.
What the Folks of This and Other
Towns are Doing.
$1.50 year is all the TRIBUNE COSTS
South Heberton's business men are
talking of getting a telegraph Office
there.
Grand Army Day, October 6, will be
observed by the veterans of this vicinity
at Lehighton.
George Fisher has painters at work
upon his business place and residence
on Walnut street.
George Mclaughlin has resigned as
manager of the Grand opera house.
His successor will be elected this week
ball will be held in Yannes' opera
house on the evening of the 25th inst.
under the auspices of Division 10, A.
o. III.
The Slavonian band and Slavonian
societies of Freeland attended church
dedication at Hazleton on Saturday
morning.
A lecture will be delivered upon the
leading topics of the day at Jeddo school
house on Saturday evening, September
26, by Patrick Francis Campbell.
A bicycle race for $25 side will be
run on the 10Th inst. by Ben Solt and
August Gross, of Sandy Run. The
course will be up the mountain road to
Eckley.
The Scranton Truth says Governor
Hastings should call an extra session of
the legislature to appropriate funds to
recover the bodies of the fifty weight lost
Pittston miners.
Foster school directors have appointed
Miss Edith Morrisey, of White Haven,
to teach the school at Lehigh Tannery,
succeeding Miss Mary Powell of Halle
ton, who resigned.
The Young Mems Corp will take part
in the parade of the Catholic temperance
societies at Scranton on October TO-
The st. Patrick's cornet band has been
engaged by the members
For bed bugs reaches and moths, buy
''Tebuoy," the best insect destroyer in
the world. Sold at A. Oswald's.
Since taking charge of Ebervale the
town has been greatly improved by G.
B. Markle & Co. At present the dwell
ling houses are being repainted. A. A.
Bachman, of town, is doing the work.
Rev. Bernard Walker, brother of
the priest who visited this place last
summer on a collecting tour, died at his
home in County Donegal Ireland last
month. lie was known to many people
who now reside in this vicinity
The Mining and Mechanical Institute
will reopen this evening Prof John r.
Wagner has been retained as principal,
and the corps of teachers consists of w.
j. Douglass, f. S. Knntz, w. E. Martin,
Jos. j. Shaw and Harry w. Mcclellan.
The ninth anniversary of the organi-
cation of Camp 144, p. o. S. of A, of
Eckley, will be celebrated by the mem
bers at their meeting hall on Friday
evening. Several prominent speakers
will be present.
A strike in one of the slopes at Nc
Adoo took place on Friday because the
operators refused to pay the miners for
taking down clod that lay between the
coal seams. Until this month the
miners were allowed so cents per yard
for taking down and removing this
refuse.
There is nothing cheap about the
Wear Well footwear except the price.
1t can't be lower. Try their shoes.
John O'Hara, of Wilkesbarre, presi-
dent of the Scranton Diocesan G. L. A.
Union, accompanied by the board of
government of the union, will visit the
Young Mems c. I. A. Corps, of Freeland,
tomorrow evening. President Gala
CHER and Secretary Hines, OF the third
district, will also accompany the party.