The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-11-14
PITHY POINTS.



A chapel to cost $1,000 is being built at
townsville.
A big woolen mill is to be established at
Brookyile ,
Twenty real estate properties were sold by
the Sheriff on Saturday.
The Borough Council meets in regular
session on Thursday evening.
The Fifteenth Pennsylvania Regiment
arrived at Athens. Ca yesterday.
Seventeen damage cases are pending
against the borough of Mt. Carmel.
The fremont brewery was sold last week
to Frank Schaub, of Newark, n. j.
Luther day was celebrated yesterday at
ST. Paul's Lutheran church, Gordon.
Patrick Gallagher and Miss Nora eastman.
of st. Clair, will be married on Wednesday. |
The Ashland foot ball team defeated
Pottsville ON Saturday to the tune of Is to .. |
Captain Frank Edwards received the larg- |
est vote ever cast for candidate in Bristol.
OverexertiOn in chasing a COW caused the
death of 79.year-od John Stall, of Lancaster.
good brisk coal trade this winter would
be very acceptable to the people of this re-
gion.
Rev. Arnold has resigned the pastorate of
the Mission Evangelical church at SChuylkill
Haven.
Thomas Dove, Sr., to-day changed his
family residence from III to 225 South Jardin
street.
The main shaft at the Mahanoy jig house
broke on Saturday, causing suspension for
the day
sweepstakes shooting match will take
place in the Mahanoy City park on Thanks
giving Day.
Our neighboring town, Mahanoy City,
| wants fire alprms nlacpd i'm the hose hOuSes
of the town.
The Keystone Cycle Works at Reading
were totally destroyed by fire ON Saturday,
loss S75, 900.
In the various churches of town yesterday
collections were taken up in aid of the Potts
willie hospital.
Half dozen coal cars were smashed INTO
kindling wood in a crash on the l.. V. r. R.
at Vulcan colliery.
The finest job work in the county is turned
out by the HERALD, and thai is why our
presses are kept busy.
John f. Faga, the Mauch Chunk sewing
machine dealer has an entirely enclosed
wagon with stove in it.
Two trains have been taken off the local
branch of the Lehigh Valley, with the new
time table now in effect.
John r. Potts, former resident of Potts
Nl.le anu lueInDBr OF Une Ianllly bHaI IOuuuSu
that town, died at Altoona.
J. Wesley Wright superintenden mt for many
years OF the Bristol Methodist Episcopal
Sunday school, has resigned
If newspaper man knew how many
knocks he receives behind his back he would
probably seek another calling.
A big train, loaded with lu mber from
Georgia, has arrived in Bristol. to be used on
the construction of mill buildings
: Reading Railway employees chopped dowr
telephone poles erected without permission
on the company's property at Lebanon.
M. J. Haughney, of Mahanoy City, ha
- purchased another trotter, Nellie D.
q claimed to be the fastest in the county.
> Anthracite coal has been discovered on th'
. farm of j. f. Montgomery, four miles nOrti
of Williamsport, and shaft will be sunk.
: The Anthracite foot ball team, of Mahano!
City, were defeated yesterday by the Firs
C ward team of town, by the score of 10 to 5.
Letters of administration were granted t.
u Francis Meyer on the estate of Charles c
% Weast, late Of East Brunswick township, de
Il ceased.
An explosion in the borough electric ligh
% works at Schuylkill Haven destroyed tn
. dynamos, and the town for "a time will be i
W darkness at night.
The natural gas recently apped at Gane
y Tioga county, maintains a teady flow, an
" the parties controlling the well count o
making fortunes.
i The wreck of the two Lehigh Vale
passenger trains on the w ilkesbarre mOui
~ ~ tain damaged and destroyed property to Il
II extent of $500
~ Governor Hastings issue his Thanksgi
ing proclamation, calling ipon the people
,, the state to observe Thursday, November 2
70 as day Of rejoicing.
- After undergoing eXte n,sve repairs, Il
io Evangelical church at GAINESVILLE W
B. yesterday re-opened and re-dedicated wi
appropriate ceremonies.
ie Adam Waldner, of Ashland, has receiv
- the contract to furnish the mill work al
inside furnishings for sixt y-fve houses tn
- will be built at Philadelphia.
~ A man representing himself as John Kiln
30 of Brush Valley, succeeded in getting sew
gallons of whiskey from Girardville deale
the latter being out about $50.
er A special agent was in SEamokin on Satu
day, after violaters of the oleomargari
law. Hotel keepers were war ned not to ser
it in the future.
o. committee of PottsviLle's prolnine
st. society people. head by Walter Lewis a
TO- r. G. Luther. Jr., will open a series of dan,
ell in that town on the 23rd inst.
III Quartermaster Edward b. Mccormick,
~ the Tenth Regiment, now at Manila
ses served notice of his candidacy for Preside
ate Judge in the WestmoreIand county district
ng George Brewer, of Girardville, ex
c. operator on the p. & r. railroad, has recey
a permanent position with that cOmpaI
On Wednesday he went to Tamaqua to ia
charge of the billing department of tt
lge station.