Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-05-22
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
PARAGRAPHS GATHERED FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE REGION.

currences That Can lie Read Quickly.
What the Folks of This and Other
Towns Are Doing.
The employees OF the silk mill will re-
eeiye their semi-monthly wages today.
Meat dealers claim that the beef com
panies are raising the price OF their
commodity.
A concert will be given at the Grand
opera house on Friday evening under
the auspices otthe Park NJ. E. church.
Sinton Sturdevant, one of Wilkes
barre's most prominent merchants,
died on Friday of typhoid fever, aged
55 years.
Superintendent Wentz, OF the Central
Railroad, has issned an order prohibiting
tho Lehigh Valley trains stopping at
Pond Creek.
Nearly all Of Wilkesbarre contractors
have complied with the demand of the
iourneymen carpenters for 25 cents an
hour and nine-hour day.
For and 10 cent glassware 60 to A.
Oswalds.
The Freeland Press completed its
fourth year on Saturday. Hereafter il
will be issued on Friday afternoon in
stead of Saturday morning.
At GEO o'clock this morning Rev. j.
b. Kerschner and Mr.. and Mrs. A.
Oswald left for Tiffin, Ohio, to attend
the general synod of the Reformed
Church.
S. C. Burkhardt, son of August
Bnrkhardt, of town, was married last
month in Concord, Ohio, to Miss Nettie
NJ. Dodge, of that place. They are now
residents of Cleveland.
w. E. Bellas has removed to the
dwelling owned by Mrs. Benz. Gibbon
on Washington street, below Carbon,
succeeding j. c. Sheldon, who now
resides on Brkbeck street.
st. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church,
$4,000 edifice, was dedicated yester-
day at Hazleton by Bishop C. L. Fowler,
of Buffalo. Rev. w. w. Hartman, of
town, assisted in the services.
The district conventions to name dele
gates to the Republican state conven-
tion will be held on June 5. The Fourth
district convention will be held at the
Cottage hall, Freeland, at 3. p. m.
Evan Paul returned on Thursday
evening from Porto Rico, where he
served in the army. He will be ban
quetted by his brother members of the
Junior Mechanics tomorrow evening.
The commissioners appointed to re-
view the division of the Sonth ward mot
on Friday. On account of the absence
of one of their number, T. F. McNair,
they adjourned until tomorrow morning.
A Oswald sells Boyer's Daisy russet
shoe polish-the best made for gentle
mems shoes.
Preparations for the annual ball of
the Fearnots Athletic Association at
Cross Creek hall on May 30 are well
under way. This will be the only
amusement in this vicinity next week.
Lewis H. Lentz left today for White
hall, Lehigh county, where he will
erect dwelling for James Rumsey, of.
Sandy Run. Mr.. Rumsey will reside at
Whitehall after the building is complet-
ed.
Charles Mensinger, of Beaver Valley,
a few miles below Gowen, who stole
numerous bicycles, was convicted in
Bloomsbury and sentenced to one years
Imprisonment in the Eastern peniten-
tiary.
The Delaware and Hudson Company
has just reissued an order prohibiting
It's employees from entering saloon dur
ing working hours. The order is very
Imperative and any violator Of it is
sure OF dismissal.
The book OF selections from the writ
ings of Thomas p. Ryder is completed
and on sale at Wilkesbarre. Only 1000
copies have been printed. The price is
81 each and the proceeds of the book
will be used to educate Mr.. Ryder's
young daughter. The volume contains
many gems.
John Ginder, who was employed as
breaker foreman under Markle & Co. at
Highland, twenty years ago, died last
week. He was employed for some years
past as telegraph operator at Penobscot,
but resided at Rockport. The deceased
was great grandson of Isaac Ginder,
the discoverer of coal at Summit Hill.
Paul Leck and John Mechock, Hun
garians, employed as section hands on
the Lehigh Valley Railroad, were run
down and killed by passenger train in
the deep cut between Silver Brook and
McAdoo on Thursday. They had just
stepped off one track to let down train
pass, when they were struck by the
passenger coming east.
Bishop Hoban has arranged retreat
for the clergy of Scranton diocese to be
held in June at Glen Summit hotel.
The senior priests will make the retreat
from June ~ to II, and the junior
priests from June 10 10 "a. The provin-
~ a. L. I.