Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-20
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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


What the Folks of This and Other
Towns Are Doing.
Mrs. John Hughes, an elderly lady of
Halle Brook, was buried at noon today
in Eckley cemetery.
No morning session was held in the
borough schools on Tuesday, owing to
the funeral of Mrs. George Mclaughlin.
The trial of George Bartlett for the
murder of James Moffatt, at Pittston,
last September, was began in court on
Monday.
The bill ceding to the United States
the ground for public building at
Wilkesbarre has been passed by the
legislature.
A Charity Hop will be held at Cross
Creek hall, Drifton, tomorrow evening.
The admission will be 25 cents for each
lady and gentleman attending.
At meeting of the base ball candi-
dates of Villanova college on Monday,
Bernard McFadden, 1902, of Freeland,
was elected captain for the ensuing
year.
Two Eckley young men were arrested
oy Chiet Filler last evening on the
charge OF riding bicycles without lights.
They were fined $3.50 each by Burgess
Gallagher.
DIR. w. j. Garrison will hereafter be at
his Freeland Office on Thursdays, 9 a.
m. to p. m., instead of Wednesdays.
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& Co., j. S. Wentz & Co., Upper Lehigh
Coal Company and the Pond Creek and
Wyoming Coal Company will pay their
employees on Saturday.
Advertising pays, particularly at this
time of the year The business man
who keeps the public posted on what he
has to sell is the man who reaps the
harvest in the long run.
John s. Killing, of Erie, was chosen
chairman of the Democratic party of
Pennsylvania at Harrisburg yesterday.
The state convention will be held at
Wilkesbarre on June IA.
Remember the annual hop of the Good
Wills Athletic Association will take
place at Yannes' opera house on Satur-
day evening. Admission, 25 cents.
Music by st. AIMS band.
The seventy-ninth and last ballot for
United States senator was cast yester-
day by the state legislature. The vote
was; Quay, 90; jerks, s5; B. f. Jones,
50; necessary to elect, l24.
A. Oswald has just received carload
OF Lehigh county potatoes. They ara
excellent stock. If in need of any give |
him a call.
A Walker-bred fox hound was shipped
on Monday from Winchester, n. Y, to |
Hugh Malloy, and the animal is expect
ed arrive here today. Another dog of |
the same breed has been ordered and |
the two will be set to work this summer
clearing the surrounding country of |
foxes.
Temperance societies in all the towns |
OF lower Luzerne and upper Carbon
counties will be represented here on
Sunday afternoon in the quarterly meet |
ing of the district. The meeting will be |
held at tho Grand opera house, and will
be followed by an entertainment in the
evening.
The Whitehall Portland Cement Com !
pany is the title of a new corporation, |
capitalized at $5O0,OOO. A. b. Leisen-
ring, of Upper Lehigh; T. NJ RICHTER,
of Mt Carmel, and DR.. j. S. Wentz, of |
Philadelphia, are at the head of the or
ganizaton. The works are at Cemen-
ton, near Allentown.
The final report of C. f. McHuph,
Esq, as receiver of St. Mary Co-opera-
tive Association of Freeland has been
presented to court and approved by
Judge Woodward. The distribution of
the proceeds to the creditors will soon be
made. The members of the association
lose all they paid into it.
Borough Treasurer S. DePierro re-
ceived check on Tuesday for Sc, $40, |
which is Freeland's share of the license |
money. The treasurer began paying
yesterday afternoon. If the case against |
John Hudak is decided favorably, his |
license will be granted and $12O more |
will be given this borough.
Judge Halsey has made ruling refus-
ing charter to the School of Osteopathy |
organized in Wilkesbarre and over |
which there has been u spirited fight. |
He decided that the court could not |
grant charter to this association, as |
its object and purpose were to defy the
express will of the legislature.