Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-06-10
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.
The new borough of Beaver Meadow
is electing its first set of officials today.
Daniel Krommes is attending the
Lutheran ministerium at Lancaster this
week.
The Freeland Stars play ball at Halle
ton next Sunday afternoon and the Drift
ton Fearnots play at Lattimer the same
day.
E. A. Oberreuder and II. E. Sweeney
took an appeal yesterday from the
auditors report of Halle township for
1S0G-97.
Next Monday will be celebrated as
Flag Day, it being the anniversary of
the adoption of the stars and stripes as
the American flag.
Superintendent j. b. Gabrio will hold
an examination of applicants for school
teachers certificates in Woodside build
ing on Wednesday, June %.
Children's white slippers at Wear Well.
The borough treasury is dead broke"
again, No more money of any great
amount is looked for until Tax Collector
Bachman begins to turn in his collec-
tionS.
Anna NJ. Hines, of Highland, has filed
an application for a divorce from her
husband, Denis II. Hines. The couple
were married at Conyngham in 1891.
Desertion is charged.
The directors of Wilkesbarre's new
theatre have decided to name it the
Nesbitt, in honor of Adam Nesbitt.
president of the board of directors and
heavy stockhoder.
Eleven prisoners were discharged
from the county Jail this week, their
cases having been ignored by the grand
jury. The prison has still ninety-seyen
inmates, two of whom are females.
George 7. Brown, of Freeland, and j.
p. Costello, of Hazlcton, were among
those who graduated this week from the
law school of Dickinson college. Carlisle.
Both young men are now full-hedged
attorneys.
Robert McClung and Misses Catherine
Cameron and Ada Snow, who were men,
bers of the Macauley-Patton Company,
which played two weeks here recently.
have returned to town and will spend
the summer here
A petition is being circulated in Ha-
zleton praying for pardon for George
Chisnell, the famous sprinter, who was
convicted two years ago of assaulting
his wife. He is now in the Eastern
penitentiary serving sentence.
Children's white slippers at the Wear
Well. Very reasonable
No. coliery, Highland, will shut
down next Thursday ana remain closed
until July 1. During those two weeks
extensive repairs will be made to the
breaker. No Highland coal will be de-
llvered between June II and July /.
James Miller, one of the coored men
who was confined in the county jail for
several months on the charge of compli-
city in the dynamite outrage on the
WiIkesbarre mountain, is dying in the
almshouse at Retreat below Nanticoke.
Abncr Smith, C. II. Bates and p. Il.
LouShran, the three attorneys appointed
to inquire into the propriety of dividing
the North Ward, will meet at the Cot.
tage hotel on Saturday morning and at
tend to the duties of their appoint
ment.
Mrs. Bertha M. Paul, daughter of
j. c. Hayden, at one time operator of
the Jeancsville cOllieries, was granted a
divorce from her husband, C. f. Paul.
in Philadelphia on Tuesday. The inter
csted parties are well-known in this
section.
Mrs. August Roll, who until year
ago was a resident of Upper Lehigh,
died at Silver Brook on Tuesday. A
husband and eight children survive her.
Rev. j. j. Kuntz, of town, will conduct
the funeral services at her late residence
this afternoon.
The Lehigh Valleys new schedule
next Sunday will alter the time of sew
eral trains on the main line, and pos
Stbly some on this branch. The Black
Diamonds time will also be changed to
some extent, and this train will stop
at Glen Summit after Sunday