Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-06
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
PARAGRAPHS GATHERED FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE REGION.

What the Folks of This and Other
Towns Are Doing.
son was born last week to Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Doggett, Centre street.
John ]. Gillespie, of town, has ac-
cepted position in McHugh's grocery
store, Hazleton.
Miss Rebecca Coke left on Thursday
for Philadelphia, where she will reside
during the winter.
Tomorrow will be election day. Every
man entitled to vote should go to the
polls and cast ballot.
Bart McClennan, of Chestnut street,
Is slowly recovering from a severe at
tack of miners asthma.
Drifton football club was defeated by
Hazleton on Jeanesvile ground yester-
day by score of 10 too.
Miss Martha Edwards has returned to
her home in Mahanoy City after visit
to Mr.. and Mrs. Peter b. Carr.
Mrs. E. B. Coke, of Drifton, has do
mated $500 for the erection of a green
house at the Laurytown asylum.
Councilman Rudewck brought home
a large deer on Saturday. He shot it on
the mountain above White Haven.
Daniel Kline, president of council,
arrived home from Dickinson college on
Saturday to attend this evenings meet
ing.
Rudolph Oswald of Birvanton, lost
toe on Thursday by the accidental
discharge of his gun while hunting rab-
bits.
Owen Farley and James Goulden, of
Foster, and Daniel Hanley, of Halle,
will do jury duty at the county seat this
week
The removal of School Director j. B.
Laubach from the Fourth to the South
ward has created a vacancy on the
board.
Anthony McGill and Miss Mary Bres-
lin, two well-known young people of
Jeddo, Will be married in the near
future.
The November meeting of the borough
council will be held tonight. Consider
able important business is booked for
this session.
Reports of chicken thieves are
numerous and owners of fowl are tax
ing extra precautions to guard against
the robbers.
On Saturday John Tully was appoint
ed judge OF election in Woodside district
and j. G. Sarricks to the same position
at Sandy Run.
DR.. Bracket, who left Sandy Run
some time ago to open an office in
Conyngham, has decided to return to
the former town.
Charles Conohan was released from
the Eastern penitentiary last week.
He was convicted for killing John Bres-
lin at old Buck Mountain in 1894
A. Oswald sells Arbuckle's, Dills-
worth's, Lion and Levering's coffee at
10 cents pound.
A $4,000 addition to the county jail to
accommodate female prisoners is one of
the grand jury's recommendations in
the report filed in court on Saturday.
Directors Evans and Kellar were the
only members OF the Foster school
board present Saturday evening. The
board will meet next Saturday evening.
The building of Jos. Neuburger on
Centre street, formerly occupied as a
jewelry store, is being fitted up for j. C.
Berner, who will remove there in a few
weeks.
Mrs. Ludwig Nagofsky Jeddo Hun
garian woman, lost two fingers Thurs
Iday evening by the explosion of a
miners dualin cap which she found and
was examining.
Oscar Howells and Miss Mary Bellas,
of Jeddo, were married on Saturday
evening by Rev. w. w. Hartman at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Cumfort on
Birkbeck street.
Organizer Gwynne, of the United
Mine Workers, of Scranton, will visit
Ebervale on Thursday evening and
Highland Saturday evening in the in
terest of the union.
The tenth anniversary of Camp 147
P. o. S. of A, was celebrated with a
smoker and informal speech making
at the meeting room in the p. o. S. of
A. building on Friday evening.
James Welsh, well-known resident of
South Heberton, was caught under a
fall of rock at Halle Brook on Friday.
One leg was severely bruised and he
was cut about the head and body.
AS "O'Brien, the Contractor" Daniel
Sully has role exactly suited to his
hearty, bluff and humorous style. The
play has number of strong dramatic
scenes, including railroad strike and a
premature blast. Several specialties
are introduced during the action of the