Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-01-05
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What the Folks of This and Other
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AoWuh AEo DOIuk.
The title OF the Wilkesbarre News
dealer was changed on Monday TO the
NeWs.
The fair OF the Young Mems Corps
will be open this evening and Satur-
day evening.
Attorney George s. Ferris has been
chosen solicitor OF the county by the
commissioners.
Freeland borough council met on
Monday evening and adjourned until
the same evening of next week.
A bill to reduce the legal rate OF in
terest in this state from 6 to per cent
will soon be introduced in tho legisla-
ture.
Most Of the students who came home
for the holidays have returned to the
several schools and colleges which they
attend
The members OF the Citizens Hose
Company are preparing for their fair
and ball at Yannes' opera house the
latter part Of this month.
Harry Lager, OF Coke addition, re-
ceived n painful injury in Drifton black
smith shop by large piece OF iron fall
ing on his foot on Tuesday.
Eurco Marchette, of Freeland, and
Miss Barbara Piazzi, of Eekley, will be
married on Saturday OF next week by
the Italian priest of Hazleton.
An application for a review has been
asked by tho objectors to tho proposed
division OF the South ward. This will
delay the division until March.
Michael Yucke, OF Jeddo, was taken
to the miners hospital on Tuesday to
undergo an operation for an internal
atlliction with which he is troubled.
Mrs. George Fernau died on Monday
at the home OF John Smith. Front street.
The remains are being taken to White
Haven at noon today for intermsnt.
Tho county commissioners yesterday
decided that Boss Lloyd, the controller,
could not engage a private attorney for
the year 1899 at the county's expense.
George Habig, Hazleton young man
who is in the Philippines as a private in
the regular army, has been driven in
sane by the intense heat prevailing
there.
The Citizens and st. AIMS bands and
Junior Mechanics drum corps serenaded
several of the people Of town on Monday
and were substan ntially remembered by
their friends.
Frank Eberett, proprietor Of the Free
land House, has extended invitations to
the newspaper men Of this vicinity to
attend banquet at his hotel on Satur-
day evening.
Joseph Thomas, aged 81 years, OF
Audenried, was instantly killed on Mon
day by the deraiing OF tho locomotive
which he was running on the Jersey
Central Railroad near Honey Brook.
Among the volunteer regiments which
have been ordered mustered out by
Secretary Of War Alger is the Third
New Jersey, in which Anthony A. Ferry,
Of Jeddo, is serving as private in
Company NJ.
A number of changes will take place
In the saloon business in Freeland with
| in the next few months. New men will
try their luck behind some Of the bars
and at least q dozen landlords will not
apply for licenses for their houses.
The twenty-fifth anniversary of Dep
uty Prothonotary ]. I. L. Sahms In
stallation in his present Office was on
Monday celebrated by making him the
recipient OF beautiful gold watch. .
gift from the bench and bar OF the
county.
The 1899 almanac OF the Wilkesbarre
Record is book which every man OF
affairs in Luzerne county should
possess. 1t is replste with statistical
information OF the entire county, and as
medium for local reference cannot be
exceled.
in Luzerne court yesterday against
School Directors William Nelson, j. d.
Morgan, Thomas Hinkls, John Welsh,
Edward Dinsmore and John Gallagher,
OF Halle township, for alleged mis-
demeanor in Office.
AT an election for church officers in
st. Luke's Evan gelical Lutheran church
the following were elected as members
of tho church council: Elder, George
Bechtloff; deacons, Daniel o. Krommes,
Frank Kugler, A. j. Beltz, Henry Rie-
bold and James Heckler.
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Charles Leonard Fletcher and com
pany were billed to appear here last
evening in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr.. Hydo,"
but failed to arrive. Schuylkill OK
changes scored this company's ability
quite severely last week, and the
theatre-goers of town did not miss much
by the appearance Of the troupe.