Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-04
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.

What the Folks of This and Other
Towns are Doing.
Mrs. James p. McNelis and children
are visiting at Penobscot, this county.
Postmaster Il. +. Davis assumed
charge of the postoilice on Friday morn
ing
The case of Patrick Carey VS.. Free
land Beef Company will be tried this
week in court.
Rev. j. T. Grif1iths left this morning
for LansdaIe, where he will perform a
marriage ceremony on Wednesday
William Davis. of Lansford, has ac-
cepted position in the feed store of his
brother b. f. Davis.
Neil Gallagher and family, of Jermyn.
Lackawanna county, are visiting the
formers mother at South Heberton.
The Anthracite Telephone Company
has secured orders to place phones in
several business places of town. The
terms are So per month.
Richard IL. Koch, of Pottsyille. has
been appointed by Governor Hastings to
succeed Judge Weidman, deceased, on
the bench in Schuylkil county.
DR.. f. NJ. Brundage, of Conyngham.
has been appointed by the president as
consul to Air La Chappele, Prussia, a
position worth at least SO 900 a year.
A. Oswald, who was injured last week
Eptblnbnp, iG g,
Some time will elapse before he can be
removed from the hospital to his home.
Notwithstanding the sudden fall in
temperature, several hundred people en-
joyed the open air concert given on Sat
urday evening by st. Patrick's cornet
band.
The rate Of wages to be paid in the
Schuylkill coal region. for the last two
weeks in September and first two weeks
in October is per cent above the 81. so
basis.
Miss Clara Boyd, of Philadelphia be-
gan revival services in st. Paul's p. NJ.
church last evening. Services every
evening until further notice, beginning
at 7.30 o'clock.
Everyone desires to keep informed on
Yukon, the Klondyke and Alaskan gold
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Patrick McNeis, of Jeddo, who was
injured in Oakdale last week by a
heavy beam falling on him, has been re-
moved to Hazleton hospital His condi-
tion is very low
The county fair was held at Dallas
last week. In the horse show Rev.
Father Farrell, formerly of town, was
awarded first premium for the best
mated pair of filles.
The foundry Department. of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad shops at Hazeton.
which once employed over 100 men, was
on Friday abandoned entirely. The
machinery has been taken to Weatherlv.
One of the late Daniel Coxes minia-
ture locomotives has been presented to
the Mining and Mechanical Institute,
together with the cars which it used to
sent to Lehigh University.
The Reading ball team crossed bats
yesterday with the Tigers on the local
grounds. The visitors know very little
about the game and gave poor exhibit
ton, the score standing II to . at the
finish in favor of the Tigers
Owing to the many cases to be tried
at this term of court, the suit for ST. 200
damages against Freeland borough,
brought by j. b. Laubach for injuries
received from fall on the ice, will not
come up next week, as was expected.
The offices of the Lehigh Valley Coal
Company will shortly be removed to
Philadelphia from Bethlehem along with
the Lehigh Valley Railroad offices that
are now being transferred to that city.
The coal company employs sixty clerks.