The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-10-11
PITHY POINTS.
happenings Throughout the Country
Chrnnioled for Hasty Perusal.


X. f. Treou, manager of Ashlands foot |
ball team, challenges any team in the county |
The 10th inst will be Lafayette Day in
the public schools of the state.
1t gratifes merchant to know that his |
advertisements are read and helps the paper
to get more business.
Miss Irene Silliman, one of Mt. Carmels
public school teachers, will be married on the
Goth inst to c. E. Barbour, of Boston, Mass
The School Board of Norwegian township
were held in bail for court, charged with
issuing II fraudulent order.
Capt. Dyson has received orders that all
| furlough members of Companies f and NJ.
Fourth Regiment, must drill two houls per
day.
Twenty -four sick soldiers were received at
the Lancaster hospitals from Camp Meade.
Painter Michael Smith fell go feet from a
scafroding at Shamokin, sustaining fatal
injuries.
The Minersville Free Press is still firing
into Congressman Brumm for turning down
Widow Smith for the postoflice
Letters of administration were granted to
John Zieger on the estate of Mary Gresham,
late of Wayne township, deceased.
Miss Anna Boal, daughter of Rev. DR. Jas.
W Boal, of Port Carbon, left for Concord
North Carolina, where she has accepted
position as teacher in Scotia Seminary.
Jonas L. Laubenstein yesterday assumed
the duties of postmaster at Minersville, The
personnel of the office will be as follows
Chief clerk, Miss Emily b. Higley; first
clerk, Irene Smith, Miss Kathryn Kealy
and Miss Ethel Kaufman of the old force
The Hazleton Standard insists that the
paint and car shops at Delano will be removed
= S.,,v L. :. a. 4.
are completed, and that the frog department
now crowded with orders will be removed
Garfield Hopes, son of S. s. Hopes
formerly of Mahanoy City was married to
Miss Carrie Bartholomew, at Reading, on
Saturday.
Another cavc-in occurred on the Lohgh
Valley road at Barrys Junction Saturday
evening.
A writer in the Shamokin Herald says
beer drinking has become so great III that
vicinity that ii equals the consumption of
water for drinking purposes.
The Borough Council cf NIahanoy City will
purchase 500 feet OF hose tonight.
The A. o. H., of Gilberton will hold their
annual ball and banquet on the 27th inst
The abutments for the new breaker at the
Wadesyillo shaft are being erected 1t will
be one of the largest breakers in the region,
and will take months to complete it.
Six prosecutions are brought against
Tamaqua merchants, charging violation of
the dairy and food laws of the state by
selling oleomargarine in butter.
Thirteen year-old John Newton, of Upper
Strasburg, Franklin county, tramped on a
thorn, which penetrated his foot, causing
. lockjaw and death.
> A large number of additional hands have
L., -. l. IL mt.
Mills, at Raubsville, Northampton county, to
meet Il rush of orders.
Judge Albright yesterday approved the
, recommendation Of tho Grand Jury for the
. erection of soldiers monument at Allen
town, and $50, 900 shaft will he put up.
Private Joseph Rigenary, of the Twenty
first United States Infantry Il Shamokin
f man, who enlisted last July died from
. typhoid yesterday at Plattsburg, n Y.
!. Father Matthew's day was celebrated in
f Wilkesbarre by monster parade, in which
. 5000 men and boys belonging to Catholic
# temperance societies in the Scranton district
# participated
Dr. Swallow will address the voters OF
ShamOkin on Saturday afternoon
, Clarence F. Huth of Shamokn, is stump
. ing the state for the Republicans.
The Northumberland county civil court /,
in session.
The annual convention of the Evangelical
" Sunday schools will be held at Northumber.
h land on the Goth inst.
G The Peace Jubilee committee has secured q
@ march played in 17sS, in honor of the first
}. ten states signing the Constitution. 1t will
g be played in the jubilee parades.
a Ten years ago yesterday occurred the Mud
IS Run disaster in which sixty-fVe people were
killed.
b. +. Williams, son of Congressman Nor.
l. gan b. Williams, yesterday succeeded W. Il.
Smythe as superintendent of the Williams
Coal Co., at Pottsville.
A hospital for sick and injured mules may
:. be strange institution, but it apparently Is
IL possibility at Hazleton. 1t is being con
?. sdered by Coke Bros. & Co.
y A Shamokin resident has raspberry bushe.
r, growing on his premises from which berrie,
n were picked on Saturday.
:, Prof S. Il. Ford, of Baltimore, Md who
appeared here, will give an entertainment Al
Shamokin on the 21st inst.
There are five Saturdays, Sundays and
t Mondays in this month, an unusual occurr
ence.
Potatoes are selling in ShamOkin at fifty
cents per bushel.
y Ray Littleton, of Hazleton, has been ad
p mitted to the Luzerne county Bar.
:. The employees of the Hazleton and Maha
1. noy Division of the Lehigh Valley railroad
y will be paid their September earnings to
,, morrow.
Farmers are selling hay at Hazleton for s.
per ton. The price heretofore has been Sls
= and S13.
n What is known as the Catholic Club is be.
ing organized at Hazleton. 1t will be non.
sectarian, and will be conducted on the lines
of the Y. NJ. g. A.
, The average pay of female stenographers
; in Scranton is $40 per month.
Since the mines have begun to be operated
on full time there is a surprising scarcity o.
labor in Hazleton, say the papers of thai
place
The Girard Estate Trustees will arrive al
d HazletOn tomorrow, aud reach here OF
n Thursday.
The hearing of the case OF the Centralia
- School Directors, in which, the court is asked
? to grant an custer, will be heard at Blooms
I burg this afternoon at 400 o'clock
Remember If You Have Cough or Cold,
Pan-Tina always cures, 25c. At Gmhlel
, Bros, drug store.
Marriage Licenses.