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The Springfield herald., 1898-03-11
Blood Humors
Spring is the Cleansing Season
Don't Neglect Your Health
You Need to Take Hoods Sarsa.
pariIIa Flow.

Spring is the season for cleansing and
renewing. Everywhere accumulations
OF waste are being removed and prepara-
tions for the new life OF another season are
being made. This is the time for cleans
ing your blood with Hoods Sarsapa-
rilia. Winter has left the blood impure.
Spring humors, Boils, pimples, erup-
tions, and that tired feeling are the results.
Hoods sarsaparilla expels all impurities
from the blood and makes 1t rich and
nourishing. 1t builds up the nervous
system, creates an appetite, gives sweet,
refreshing sleep and renewed energy and
vigor. 1t cures all spring humors, boils,
pimples and eruptions.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-30
UPPER LEHlGii NOTES.

The announcement has been made OF
the engagement of Miss Ella Campbell
an estimable young lady Of town, to
Councilman Alex Mulhearn, OF Freeland.
The wedding will take place on June 22
Foster township schools will close to-
morrow, and teachers and pupils will
picnic in the afternoon.
George Reed, formerly Of this place
but now of Wilkesbarre, is visiting
friends.
Miss Lizzie Davis who has been visit
ing in Wikesbarre, has returned home
Charles Krommes and wife, of Nanti-
coke, are spending few days here.
Hon. John Lelsenrlng is preparing to
take business trip westward.
James j. Brogan transacted business
at the county seat last week.
William Challenger is spending few
days in Lansford.
Mrs. j. d. Davis, of Sugar Notch, is
visiting here.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-30
Settled With the School Board.

The accounts of Tax Collector Bach
man were taken up by the borough
school board on Friday evening and
after deducting generations, abate-
ments, etc, it was found that the col
lector owed the district S77.41. Mr..
Bachman paid this amount and thereby
closed his first years account with the
board with clear books. 1t was decided
to have the pupils who recently passed
a successful examination present in the
Daniel Coke school building at Z p. m.
on June 4, when they will be presented
with diplomas.
The following bills were ordered paid:
William Il. Boyle, supplies, SO. 35; james
Is, Ferry, ex-secretary, postage and
stationery, $3.40; William williamson !
supplies, $l212; William Williamson,
placing urinals, $74.1O. A bill of Cross
Creek Coal Company, for coal, $24, was
laid over for verlication. Another
meeting will be held on Saturday even
ing.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-30

Adelbert NJ. Dewey, special agent of
the United States department of labor,
Washington, is in Wilkesbarre making
investigation in behalf of the govern
ment in connection with the construc-
tion and operation of gas, electric light
ing and water plants. The government
is making an investigation of these cor
porations in every city of 10000 and
over in the United States. He has been
at Scranton for five weeks and will
spend several weeks in Wilkesbarre and
vicinity. Mr.. Dewey is second cousin
of Admiral Dewey, and is at present
writing the genealogy of the Dewey
family. He is also an exmember of the
general executive board of the knights
of Labor and has a good reputation as a
writer and worker for general reforms.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-30
THE DELAWARE, SUsoUEHANNA AMI
1 SCHuYLKILL RAILROAD.

Time table in effect April IL, 1897.
Trains leave Drifton for Jeddo Eckley, Halle
and Hazleton Junction at 8 30, d 0O u M daily
except Sunday; and 03 a m, 23S p m, Sunday.
Tomhicken and Dernger at 30, 6 90 Il n daily
except Sunday; and 7U3 IN, 23s NJ, Sum
day.
IIarwood koad, Humboldt Road, oneida and
Sheppton at q 90 Il M, daily except Sun
day; and o' I'm, z 'S m, Sunday.
Trains leave Hazleton Junction for HarwOod,
Cranberry, Tomhicken and Deringcr at 81 a
m, daily except Sunday; and 8 50 IN, % nj,
Sunday.
Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Oneida
Junction, Harwood Road, Humboldt Road,
Oneida and Sheppton ut 81, IL 10 IN, Al p m,
daily except Sunday; and 7 81 u IN, 3 II IN,
sunday.
Trains lcage Dernger for Tonhicken, Gram
berry, Harwood, Hazleton Junction aud Roam
at225, 10 p III, daily except Sunday; and 81
m, b W IN, Sunday.
Trans leave sheppton for Oneida Humboldt
Road, Harwood Road, Oneida Junction. Halle
ton Junction and Roam mt IL Il m, II 40, -
p IN, daily except Sunday; and 8 IL III, Q "A
Trains leave Sheppton for Beaver Meadow
Road, Stockton, iiazle Brook, Eckiey, Jeddo
and $ IL a IN, 8 a M Sunday.
Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Beaver
Meadow Ha4 Road, Stockton Hazle Brook, Eckley'
except Sunday; and 10 10 a M, 5 40 m, sunday.
All trains connect at Ilazleton junction with
electric cars for Hazleton, Jeanesville, Auden-
ried and other points OH the Traction Com
pany's line.
Trains leaving Drifton at s 30, 8 90 a IN make
connection at Deringer with Z. IL. X. trains for
Wilkesbarre, Sunbury, Harrisburg and points
west.
For the accommodation of passengers at way
stations between Hazleton Junction and Der
niger, tram will leave the former point At
35o nj, daily, except Sunday, arriving ut
LUTHER c. SMITH. Superintendent.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-30
Death of an Old Soldier.

Joseph zimmerman, of Je6do, died of
general debility on Saturday morning.
He was aged 81 years, 3 months and 30
days. He is survived by wife and
three sons and one daughter, Louis and
Milton. of Jekdo; Martin, of Highland,
and Mrs. Frank Ray, eof Oakdale. He
was veteran of the civil war, having join
ed Company B, 148th regiment, Penn'a
volunteers, in August, 1862, and served
with distinction. One of his last re-
quests was that he be buried with mill
tary honors and Maj. c. B. Coke Post, of
which he was a faithful member, will
take chargaof the funeral. The cortege
will leave his late residence at Q o'clock
tomorrow afternoon and proceed to the
Methodist church, Jeddo, where services
will be conducted by Rev. Snyder The
interment will be made in the soldiers
plot in Freeland cemetery.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-30

dreadful mining casualty occurred
on Friday at the Kaska William coIlerv,
few miles east of Pottsville, in which
six men were drowned by water break
ing in upon them from an old working.
The names of the dead are: Peter Dur
kin, married: William Morgan, married
leaves a widow and two children; Carl
Koskoskie, single; Wendell Kovitskie,
single; Martin Molochin, married. Will
liam Dcrr, single.
The accident occurred at the bottom
of the shaft. A tunnel was being driven
through a vein, part of which had been
worked years ago and abandoned. AT
the bottom of the shaft a slope had been
sunk to the depth of 100 yards, and that
much lower than the floor of the tunnel.
The men were working in tho tunnel
removing the debris from shot which
had been previously fired, which brought
down large quantity of rock, coal and
slate. ...
A large body of water had backed up
in the old working in the wien which the
tunnel was designed to connect. The
last shot fired burst open the seams and
through these the water suddenly pour
ed upon the tunnel men. The Dodson
Coal Company operates the colliery. 1t
may be several days before any of the
bodies will be reached
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-30
LIGHTS MUST GO.
Fourteen of the Twenty-Hine Arcs Will
Not Shine After Tomorrow Night.


Tho recommendation of the light and
water committee OF council to have
fourteen electric arc lights cxtnguished
on and after Juno l was approved on
Friday evening. Tho lights to be eX-
! tinguShed are as follows: Carbon and
Washington, Carbon and Ridge, Centre
| and Luzerne, Luzerne and Adams, South
and Ridge, South and Washington, Main
and Centre, Front and Ridge, Front and
Washington, Walnut and Centre, Wal
nut and Pine, Chestnut and Laurel
Chestnut and Ridge, Chestnut and
Washington. The light on East Front
| street is to be removed west to Pine and
front, and the one on johnson street to
}irkbeck and johnson streets.
Previous to taking this action the
light and water committee returned the
proposition handed in by the Electric
Light Company, at the last meeting of
council, without any recommendation.
Upon vote being taken on the PROPOSE
tion to light the town with forty arc
lights, all night service, on Il three
years contract for SO, 800 per annum. it
was defeated by unanimous vote. A
motion to compromise by offering the
company 50, $50 for forty lights, on a
one-year contract, was defeated by 5 to A.
The candidates for permanent presi-
dent were Frank DePierro, M. Schwabe
and Daniel Kline. Mr.. Schwabe declin-
ed and the names of Messrs. DePierro and
Kline where voted for. The first ballot
resulted: DePierro, 5; Kline, 3; one
member not voting. The second ballot
was: DePierro, Z; Kline, ..
Mr.. Schwabe named Gilbert Smith. of
the Third ward, as successor to the late
w. ii. Butt, and he received the unan-
imous vote of council. The secre-
tary was ordered to notify Mr.. Smith to
be present at the next meeting.
The committee appointed on resolu-
tons of coincidence made their report.
They were ordered to have one dozen
memorial cards printed and have the
resolutions published in Press, Progress
and TRIBUNE.
The street committee reported Ber-
nard Dinn's property on Walnut street
washed out by overfowing water. A
committee consisting of Messrs. Davis,
Rudewick and Meehan was appointed to
ascertain the extent of the damage.
Resolutions dodicating a number of
streets were read twice and laid over.
The secretary was instructed to order
1870 feet of ten-inch sewer pipe for Lu-
zerne street sewer.
The lookup committee reported having
ilag-pole ready to place in position
and asked permission to hire help to
have it trimmed and erected The re-
quest was granted
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-30
Closing Exercises of Institute.

Following is tho program of the closing
exercises of the Mining and Mechanical
Institute at the Grand opera house on
Friday evening:
Selection, st. Patrick's band.
Grafton, Salutatory, j. j. McMenamin,
"Onr Countrys Need
Grafton, M. N. Bergin, "Mineral Coal. -
Grafton, Roger Dever, "Radient Mat
ter"
Grafton, Bernard keenan,, Copper
tunity."
Selection, band.
Grafton, Patrick j. Dever, "Air We
Breathe"
Grafton, 0. I. Richards, "Asking
Questions.
Grafton, c. johnson, zone of Amer-
cas- Greatest Statesmen QIcnry Clay).'
Selection, band.
Founders Day address, Prof. A. E.
Kennedy, Sc. D., of Philadelphia.
Valedictory oration, Bernard Boyle,
Conversion OF Heat into Mechanical
Energy"
Awarding of prizes by ]. r. Wagner
principal.
Closing remarks by chairman, Hon.
Geo. d. McCreary, of Philadelphia.
Selection, band.
The institute closed its season OF
ls97-9S on Friday evening.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-30
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.

No"" aAo A'oipA'
Joseph P. Carey, OF Trenton, N. j., is
the guest of Freeland friends today.
Joseph Neuburger, who has been seri-
ously i'll for some time past, is still in 4
precarious condition.
Miss Laura Koons, who has completed
her term rs teacher in Chester county
school, has returned home.
John +. O'Donnell, OF Eckley, will
leave on Wednesday for Red Wing,
Minnesota, where he will spend month
visiting an aged uncle.
Washburn's circus failed to appear
here on Friday. 1t is said that the
sheriff of a nearby county took it in
hand earlier in the week.
A. Oswald sells three bars of grand
mas butter milk soap for the small sum
of SC.
A dfty-six foot flag pole was raised at
Schreiner's corner, Alvintown, on Satur-
day evening, and big flag will float
from 1t in the near future.
The rate of miners wages in tho
''N'"J 'N''' ip6'p was Hhbu ol
at per cent below the So SO basis, the
lowest figure reached in several months.
Rev. S. Penglase will preach at st.
Pauls p. M. church next Sunday at
1870 a. IN. and 7.30 p. m. Sunday
school at 2 p. N. All are cordially
invited.
A. e. Hess has rendered his rcsigna-
tion as civil engineer of the Lehigh
Traction Company to accept a position
with the coal operators railroad OF
Scranton.
The pole and flag ordered by the
borough council were raised on Satur-
day evening. The pole is thirty-fve
feet high and the flag measures 10x15
feet. No special ceremonies attended
this auspicious event.
AT the Public park this afternoon and
evening the members of the Tigers
Athletic Club will make it pleasant for
all who attend their picnic. DePierro's
orchestra will furnish the music and
there will be no lack of entertainment.
Ladies', don't fail to see those fancy
25c skirts at A. Oswald's. He sells lots
OF them and they are dandics
Rev. j. =. Buxton delivered a patriotic
sermon to the members OF Mai. Coke
Post and the Ladies' Circle of the G. A.
R. at Drifton yesterday morning. The
services were well attended and tho
post members are loud in their praise of
Rev. BuXton's address
The Weatherly HeruM on Saturday
began its nineteenth year. For the
past twelve years it has been guided by
Editor Z. E. Faust, and his successful
steering OF the bark on the troubled sea
of Carbon county journalism makes him
deserving of the support he is SO freely
receiving.
The oldest woman in the coal fields
died last week at Newkirk, a village one
mile from Tamaqua. She was Mrs.
Maloy, Familiarity known as Granny"
Maioy, and it is positively known that
that she was 1T years of age. She was
born in County Donegal, Ireland, and
emigrated to America quite young.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-30

The philanthropic plan took form in
April 1866, when Major Stephenson
organized Post No at Decatur, H.,
with twelve comrades. So well was
the movement received that in Novem-
ber of the same year DR.. Stephenson
as provisional commander-in-chi
presided over a National Encampment
at Indianapolis, and the Grand Army
of the Republic soon became a power
full organization, cementing in friend
ship those who became its members,
caring for those who were helpless and
honoring the memory of those who
had gone before them. Within two
years the membership had grown to
100000, and the best men from the
Army, regardless of rank or station,
were proud to wear the G. A. r. badge
Inere are connecting opinions as to
who was the first to suggest the decor
alton of the graves, but it is generally
believed that the idea came from
former private, who wrote to Colonel
N. p. Chapman, member of General
Logan's staff The writer was a Ger
man, who lived In Cincinnati at that
time He spoke of the custom which
prevailed in his home of strewing
flowers upon the graves of the dead
and thought it would be well to honor
the dead comrades in that way. I'm
fortunately the name of the man who
made the suggestion has not been pre-
served, and the beautiful custom re-
mains credited to the Grand Army of
the Republic and to no individual.
The response to General Logan's or
der was so general throughout the
land that there could be no doubt as
to the sentiment of the people on the
subject. But to make sure that there
should be no departure from the Gus
tom, the National Encampment, which
was held two years later in Washing
ton, adopted the following, which be-
came part of the rules and regulations
of the organization:
The National Encampment hereby
establishes a memorial day to be OBJ
served by the members of the G. A. r.
on the 30th day of May annually, in
commemoration of the deeds of our
fallen comrades. When such a day oc-
ours on Sunday the succeeding day
shall be observed, except when, by le-
gal enactment, the preceding day
is made a legal holiday when such
day shall be observed.
Before the close of the Civil War,
Southern women had inaugufated the
custom of decorating the graves of
their dead soldiers. Each year in
early spring they placed flowers on
the graves, and from this beginning
there grew, by degrees, the custom of
Memorial Day" which was fully es-
tablished by the time the war closed.
The day became known at the North
as Decoration Day. When it is re-
membered that hardly a family, North
or South, was wholly exempt from the
casualties of war, 1t may readily be
understood how strongly the day and
its associations appeal at first to the
popular heart, And, once begun, the
custom has been followed faithfully.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-30

Surveyors are at work in different
parts of Monroe county looking over the
route for another coal carrying road
from the Lackawanna region to New
York city. 1t will be built by Scranton
coal operators mainly, who contend that
the rate for carrying anthracite coal to
tide water by the present coal carrying
roads is SO heavy that the individual
coal operators are heavily handicapped
The building OF such Il road was serious
ly considered by the late Eckley r.
Coke, and of his the d. S. & s. was
to be the nucleus. His death, however,
stopped all calculations in this line, and
the d. s. & S. in the hands of the men
who succeeded him fell an easy prey to
the big coal trust.
The new railroad company will be
known as the New York, Wyoming and
Western Railroad, and has already ap-
piled for charter. The officers are
E.~R. Sturges, president; l.. A. Watres,
vice president, and Thomas Ii. Watkins,
treasurer. Others equally as wel-known
tors. The building of the road will
give tho Lackawanna region an ad-
vantage over regions which must submit
to the exhorbtations of the Morganized
roads.
The shortest line from Scranton to
New York is IA miles, and the new
road, it is expected, will ecreaso that
somewhat. The output of coal control-
ed by the operators represented in this
company is about 5000, 900 tons. They
believe that by owning the road the
freight tolls will be decreased so materi-
ally as to enable anthracite coal to
compete more favorably with bituminous
in and about New York.
At present btuminoiis coal is carried
to New York, a distance of 300 miles,
for 70 cents per ton, while from Scran-
ton to New York the rate for carrying
anthracite coal is 81. 60 per ton.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-30
Resolutions of Coincidence.

Preamble: InaSmuch as the town
council of Freeland borough has, during
the past week, been called upon to
mourn the loss of its esteemed president.
whose death leaves u void in the com
munity as well as in the council, which
cannot be lilled, casts a gloom over the
entire body, which has heretofore been
frightened by his presence, and takes
from us an object OF admiration and res
pect, leaving but a memory of his virtues
and his usefulness. Too well and truly
have we experienced this during the
past week in the demise of our esteemed
president, William ii. Butt, an event,
unexpected and mournful, as he is the
llrSt to go out from our chamber to enter
the phantom bark, whose destination is
the great beyond,
Whereas, 1t has pleased the Almighty
God in His all-wise jurisprudence, to
remove from among us our worthy and
honored president, who was an earnest
and faithful member of this council, and
whereas, The intimate relations held
with him in the faithful performance of
his duties as member of this body
make it ominently betitting that we
should record our appreciation of him.
Therefore, be it
Resolved, That while we bow i'm hum
Bile submission to the Omnipotent Being,
whose handiwork we are, we mourn his
death as one OF the greatest losses our
council could have been called upon to
bear, as there has gone from amongst
us u good and faithful member and u
wise and capable presiding officer, one
who was remarkable for his enterprise
and progreSsiveness, nnceasing in his
devotion to the interests of his towns
people, charitable toward his fellowmen,
a kind and loving husband and father,
an afectionate son and brother and a
man who was true to all that is noble
and pure in this world.
Resolved, That in his death our coun-
Gil has lost an earnest worker. and our
community has suffered bereavement
which deprives it of one of its most res
pected citizens, one that was endeared to
all by his nntiring efforts to promote the
welfare OF humanity, and, although he
has gone to that Supreme Deity who
has called him, he leaves behind him
many pleasant remembrances that shall
not be forgotten.
Resolved, That we tender to the be-
reaved family our heartfelt sympathy in
this hour OF their great sorrow, on the
dispensation with which it has pleased
Providence to atilict them, realizing that
this, their great affection, will be borne
by them while time or memory endures.
Resolved, That copy of these resolu-
tions be spread upon the records of our
council, that they be printed in the
Freeland Press, the Freeland Progress
and the FREELAND TRIBUNE. and copy
forwarded to the bereaved family.
Daniel Kline,
Alex. Mnlhearn, Committee.
Frank DePierro,
EACllpE NhIEMr,An
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-30
ORIGIN OF THE DAY.
THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF DECORA-
TlON DAY OBSERVANCES.

1t Is the Outcome of An Unremem-
bered Germans Suggestion-Gen-
ernI Lognn's General Order for the
First Observance in 1865 An
American Service That Is Unique,
Among the thousands who assemble
in the various parts of the country on
Memorial Day there are doubtless
many who do not know the origin of
the custom, and even in the ranks of
the Grand Army of the Republic there
are enthusiastic members who are un-
informed on that important point The
decoration of soldiers graves was not
the prime object of the Grand Army of
the Republic, but it was one of it's first
results. The favor with which the
practice was received in all parts of
the country gained fer the organization
the Endorsement of many people who
would have been Indifferent to it if
its object had been only social or fra
ternal. Grand Army historians say
that DR.. Benjamin Franklin Stephen
son, who served in the Army as sur
geon of the 18th Illinois Volunteer
Regiment, was the first to conceive the
idea of an organization in which the
friendships formed amid the perils and
privations of duty in the field might
be preserved and Ierpetuated.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-30
Joshua Simpkin's Big Show.

"Joshua Simpkins" will be staged
under big waterproof canvas here
on Boyle's lot on Thursday evening. 1t
is said to be Il wellwritten New England
comedy drama, with an interesting plot,
the story being a happy blending OF sun
shine and shadow. The situations are
said to be strikingly realistic, with an
overflow of fun and amusement. There
are seven comedy parts in addition to
that of Uncle Josh, which character is
really whole show in itself. A sensa-
tional novelty is introduced in the third
act in the shape of Il realistic saw mill
scene, in which u monster circular saw
is used, and which is said to actually
saw through real timber Prices are
25 cents