Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-11-07
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Synopsis of Local and Miscellaneous Oc-
currences That Can BE Read Quickly.
What the Folks of This and Other
Towns Are Doing.
Edward Doggett and family have re-
moved from Highland to Freeland.
A. Oswald sells three bars of grand
mas butter milk soap for the small sum
of sc.
Miss Annie Goeppert, who has been
residing in Brooklyn lately, is visiting
her parents on Walnut street.
Dancing school at Yannes' opera house
Saturday evening by st Patrick's band
Admission, gents % cents.
Mrs. William Birkbeck and son Ray
mond a'e visiting relatives at Heller
town, Northampton county.
Judge Halsey's commission has been
placed on record, and on Thursday he
took his seat on the bench without
formal ceremony.
The set of twenty-three instruments
recently received on trial by st. Patrick s
band will be retained, the Instruments
having proven satisfactory.
Attorney Carr has succeeded in obtain
| ing considerable amount of pension
arrearage for Mrs. Ann Burns, of town,
a widow of a civil war veteran.
Revival services at the Primitive
Methodist church, Fern street, every
evening this week Tuesday and Satur-
day excepted, by Rev. Penglase
An interesting game of foot ball was
played at Drifton yesterday by team
from town and the Drifton team. The
| former won by score of II to ).
John Bellezza has an elegant line Of
ladies shoes of the very latest styles.
suitable for fall or winter. Hi prices
will be found the lowest in town.
c. b. Snyder has resigned as business
manager of the Hazleton Sentinel He
is succeeded by George Maue, who was
publisher of the paper some years ago.
The Prohibition meeting here on
Thursday was fairly well attended, but
little interest was taking in the ad-
dresses, owing to the absence of Rev.
Swallow
Schuylkill miners wages have been
fixed at per cent below the So 80 basis
for the last half of October and the first
half of November. This is the lowest
paid in months.
Leon w. Wasburn's Minstrels will
appear at the Grand Opera house to-
! night. The show gave very good salts
faction last year, and it is said to be
still better this season.
DR.. Perry Benscotcr, who accompan-
led the Ninth Pennsylvania regiment to
the South, died on Friday in the Lexing-
ton QKy.) hospital, of typhoid fever.
lie was 81 years of age, and is survived
by widow.
Charles b. Hanford, the talented
young American tragedian. appears at
the Grand opera house, Hazieton. on
Tuesday evening, in grand spectacular
production of Shakespeare's master
piece, Julius Caesar"
The viewers who are looking up the
necessity of building new road from
Freeland to Upper Lehgh went over
the route again on Friday. No valid
objections have been presented against
this proposed improvement.
In order to extinguish the fire raging
in No. mine, near Tamaqua. the Le-
high Coal and Navigation Company has
commenced flooding the workings. Six
weeks Will be required to eXtinguish the
flames, during which time 400 men and
boys will be out of employment there.
If you read an advertisement to tho
effect that a certain firm in some dis
tant city will sell you an elegant tinted
engraving of the battleship Maine for
one dollar, said engraving approved by
the United States government, don't
bite. They will send you two-cent
revenue stamp.
Emma E. Dengler, Of Scranton. is in
the region soliciting subscriptions for
the GUIDE, monthly magazine for boys
and girls. A perusal of recent issues
shows this to be safe book to place
in the hands of the youth of our Vicin-
| ity and we commend it to the favorable
consideration of our readers.
Largely attended meetings of the
United Mine Workers are being held in
the region. Organizer Thomas Davis,
OF Indiana, is doing great work in behalf
OF the order. Tonight he speaks at
Eckley, tomorrow night at Yannes'
opera house, Friday evening at Jeddo
and Saturday evening at Ebervale.
Hugh Dugan, formerly of Summit
Hill, who was member OF the Fourth
Penn'a cavalry during the rebellion,
and who resided at Frceland after the
war, died OF paralysis on Monday in the
county home at Mechancsburg, Cumber-
land county. The old soldiers of Cham
bersbnrg gave him Il veterans funeral.
-LaR$t0w Record.
Joseph Markavge, the Mill Creek
Saloonkeeper in whose bar-room An
thony RECALLS was murdered some time
ago, has been deprived of his license by
Judge Woodward. During the trial OF
Joseph BatchofSky for the murder of
RECALLS, Markavage acknowledged that
he sold liquor on Sunday and for this
reason his license was taken away.