The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-05-22
PITHY POINTS.
happenings Throughout the Country
ChronIcled for Hasty PerusaI.

happenings Throughout the Country
Chronicled for Hasty PerusaI.
State College has 34OO students enrolled in
its correspondence courses.
The bicycle path from Gordon to Ashland
will be completed this week.
The Schuylkill Chassis of tho Reformed
church will meet in Orwigsburg on June 8.
The Ashland Elks have decided to hold
their annual outing on July 9TH at Taylors-
vile
Philip Yarowsky, the West Centre street
grocer has hung an attractive sign under his
awning.
We would have ever so much more fun in
this world if it took as long to spend dollar
as it does to earn it.
Pottsville's Borough Council contemplates
readjusting municipal salaries, and certain
offices may be merged.
Wr. Hart, who has resided in the Philip
pine Islands for 15 years. is spending a few
days with st. Clair friends.
The jury in the Centrala culm bank dis
aster rendered a verdict censuring the Le-
high Valley Coal Company.
Adam Mort to-day moved his family to
Schuylkill Haven, where Mr.. Mort has Sc
cured employment in the car shops.
Letters of administration were granted to
Edward T. Kenney on the estate of Frederick
Schwartz, late of Frackville, deceased.
Pensions have been granted to Schuyl1ill
Countians as follows Solomon Maurer. Cor
don, So aud Hiram Fooht, fremont, $12.
Miss Margaret Williams, of Tamaqua, and
Daniel Price, of Slatington, are engaged to be
married on the first of June at the bride
home.
The County Commissioners have secured a
reduction in the interest rate, from to 4
per cent, on the $4,000 judgment note in
the Safe Deposit Bank.
Among the list of recent promotions in the
U. s. navy appears the name of John R.
Edwards, formerly of Pottsville, and brother
of S. B. Edwards, Esq
The encampment of the National Guard
will be omitted this year, but next year,
under the operations of the new law, there
will be division encampment.
Railroad men at Harris burg held memorial
services last night for their fellow-employes
81 in all-who we're killed or died in and
near that city during the past year.
Lady Bellman, the speedy trotter formerly
owned by DR.. Fetherolf of Mahanoy City,
now the property of ]. F. Wallace, the noted
horseman, of Wilmington, Dell is about to
go under the hammer.
When fire broke out in the town of
Conyngham, Luzerne county, the volunteer
firemen could not remepber where their
hose cart had been stored, and they were
obliged to go to work with buckets.
Deputy Marshal Sol Foster served an in
junction on John II. Dahm, the Pottsville
machine agent, to restrain him from using
the name of the Singer Sewing Machine
Company in connection with his business
The members of ex-Mayor Weiders police
force, at Reading, recently removed to make
room for Mayor Leaders, men, have adopted
resolutions censuring the Democratic Select
| Councilmen who allowed them to be dis
| placed.
| Moses Hirshler, of the firm of Hirshler &
Greenwald, the Pottsville clothiers, with his
family, was among the passengers on the
North German Lloyd steamer Barbarossa,
which was discovered ON fire shortly after
leaving her dock in Hoboken on Thursday.