The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-01-12
pITHY POINTS.
Happenings Throughout the Country
ohfoninied tor Hasty PeruSai.

Happenings Throughout the Country
Ohforinied for Hasty PeruSai.
officers of watkin Waters Post, G A. R., Of
town, will be installed tomorrow evening.
Supt Ash is recovering from the grip, but
il will be several weeks before he is able to
leave the house.
Ashland has no borough ordinance that
compels people to clean snow and ice from
their sidewalks.
The Z. & r. employees at Girardville and
Ashland will be paid tomorrow those in
this district probably on Saturday.
Don't advertise that you will do certain
thing in your store and then fail.
Ice eleven inches thick is being harvested
at Pottsvile
Supt. Lathrop says the suspension of York
Farm colliery, at Pottsvile will be perman-
ent
( The exceptions filed to the liquor license of
John Trout, in the First ward of Pottsville,
have been withdrawn.
George Reese. of St. Clair, miner at
Eagle Hill colliery, fell down a chute and
had rib broken.
Miss Sarah Bolch died of the infrmities of
old age and grip at her home at Drehersville
on Monday afternoon at the age of 73 years,
10 months and % days.
Coal will be weighed at the Lehigh Valley
collieries hereafter instead of at Packerton.
j. H JacOby has been made superintendent
of telegiaphy of the Lehigh Valley railroad.
Peter f. Seidel, of Pinegrove, has been
called to Washington to demonstrate his in
| vention. which is intended to steady guns
while being fired at sea.
/ The long distance telephone will be ex-
tended to Pinegrove.
| Pottsvlle's night schools close this week,
because of small attendance
Sleighing is good and plentiful.
| 1t cost but $ll2, 900 to run Bucks county
last year.
The present Board of County Commissioners
| is the most efficient the county ever had.
The Town Council of ShamOkin, has out
standing temporary loans TO the amount of
! 500 900, on which it is paying six per cent
Henry G. Blumerstalk, accused of being
the chief of gang of horse thieves operating
| in Maryland was arrested yesterday in a
cabin six miles from Lancaster.
| The Superior Court, in session at Scranton.
yesterday heard argument on the right Of
the Salvation Army to beat drums on city
streets, the case ut issue coming from Wilkes
barre.
Five hundred men and boys are made idle,
for an indefinite period by suspension Of
work at the Mol breaker and strippngs of
Calvin Pardee s. Co., at Lattimer.
Bellefonte's Undine Fire Company will
soon move into new $4,000 building.
new Episcopal Chapel at Lansford was
yesterday consecrated by Bishop Talbot.
Clinton County Commissioners yesterday
agreed to pay $4,000 for the freeing of the
last turnpike road in the county.
The Firemen's Relief Association OF
Chambersburg has had no pensioners during
the past year, and its treasury is filling up
In another column of tO-day's issue, ,Jewelel
E. B. Brumm, announces the presentation OF
sheet of music to anyone presenting a
coupon cut from the HERALD at his store.
A sentence of two and one-half years.
imprisonment was imposed on Lewis Face, a
'hugger" who has been terrifying the
women of Hanover
Among sick soldiers who arrived at Fort
Monroe Va, yesterday from Puerto Rico
was Private Frank E. Bickle, Sixteenth
Pennsylvania.
An air of importance is worn by some bor-
ough officials and sung by others
Mrs. A. f. Lesenring, of Allentown,
deputy factory inspector, is in town in con.
nection with her official duties.
Sergt. Wren Brown, who has been at homo
in Girardville on sick furlough, returned to
his company in Georgia to-day.
j There is no signs of settlement of the
difficulties between the Schuylkin Traction
Co., and the borough of Ashland, in sight, at
least one Of the Couneilmen said so to-day
The Schuylkill Traction Company cars are
being maue attractive by new coat of paint
The first ear repainted made its appearance
in town tais morning.
The Tommy Shearer repertoire company is
rehearsing Richard Mansfelds latest success
"Cyrano de Bergerac." 1t will be produced
at Carbondale for the first time next week.
The Broad Mountain Ice Company OF
Mahanoy City received the contract to fill
the ice houses of Lentz & Co., at Park Place
Joseph Miller, Mahanoy City boy, had
his left arm broken last night in a collision
while coasting.