Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-03-28
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
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Synopsis of Local and Miscellaneous Oc-
eurrences That Can BE Read Quickly.
What the Folks of This and Other
Towns are Doing.
The next legal holiday will be April
Good Friday.
Palm Sunday will be observed in
several of the churches of town next
Sunday.
Mrs. A. w. Hoover was appointed
postmistress at Duryea, Luzerne county,
on Friday.
III. M. Bresln has removed from Wash
ington street to his new property on
South Centre street.
Rev. j. ]. Kuntz delivered a lecture
in the Lutheran church, Weatherly, on
Friday evening. "Our Institutions" was
the title of his subject.
in the field, as usual, with their county
ticket. They will hold their convention
at Wilkesbarre on April 25.
Hugh Jennings, the popular ball
player, has decided to remove from
Avoca, this county, to Baltimore, and
make the latter city his, permanent
residence.
Large numbers OF Slavs and Poles
continue leaving this part of the coal
region. Some are going back to their
native countries. but the majority are
going further west
A. Oswald sells three bars of grand
mas butter milk soap for the small sum
Of sc.
The funeral of Willie, the young son
of Patrick Gvens, of McAdoo, who died
on Wednesday night, took place on Fri
day afternoon. Interment was made in
st. AIMS cemetery.
The Odd Fellows of this county are
making extensive preparations for the
annual convention of the state lodge,
which will be held at the county seat
from May 16 to May 20.
The meeting room on the upper floor
of the Grand opera house building has
been refurnished and fitted up in very
good style. The number of, societies
which hold their sessions there will be
increased in the near future.
The bill of the commonwealth wit
nesses in the Lattimer trial was approx
ed by the county commissioners on
Friday. The amount is 81 ,945.53. There
were 100 witnesses and the individual
amounts averaged about S1s, the largest
being $50.
The bottling establishment of Harry
Lazorek, at Washington and Walnut
streets, was closed on Thursday by
Deputy Sheriff Williams to satisfy
claim held by the Central Penna Brew
ing Company. The sale will take place
on Wednesday.
August Kellert has leased the property
of Mrs. Boyle on South Centre street,
and will conduct a saloon business there,
w. j. Boyle retiring. Mrs. Boyle and
family and Mrs. Daniel Bonner and
family have removed to Washington
street, corner of Luzerne.
Ladies, don't fail to see those fancy
25c skirts at A. Oswald's. He sells lots
of them and they are dandies.
1t is said that Conner Jones, the un-
popular superintendent of the Lehigh
and Wilkesbarre Company's mines on
the South Side, whose methods was the
direct cause for the great strike last
year and the calling out OF tho militia
after the wholesale murder at Lattlmer,
has resigned.
Rev. Reuben E. Wilson preached his
farewell sermon yesterday as pastor of
the Park NJ. E. Church. He will re-
move his family this week to Gordon, to
which place he was transferred by the
conference. Rev. William w. Hartman,
of Audenried, who has been appointed
to succeed Rev. Wilson, is expected to
come here this week.
Frank Petroski and Joseph Panara-
ski, OF Nanticoke, have been sent to jail
for twenty days for violating the COM
pulsory school law. They refused to
send their children to school. They
were then arrested and fined by a justice
of the peace. They said they had no
money to pay the fine and were COM
mitted to prison in default.