Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-11-01
LOCAL NOTES
WRITTEN UP
Short Items Of Interest to
All Readers.
Happenings of the Past
Two Days in and Around
Freeland Recorded With
out Waste of Words.

Two more cases of smallpox are re-
ported from Plymouth township. Mrs
John Holier and John Scully are the
afflicted persons. These make the
seventy-second in the county since a
suit of clothes shipped from New York
city to Larksville carried the germs
with it and started the disease.
Orders have been given by the Tenn
Pile Coal and Iron Company at their
Forty Fort and Harry f. coIlieries that
all Maltby strikers at present
working there are to take their mine
tools ont as there will be no work for
for any strikers of the Lehigh Valley
Company at these colieries.
Monday will be observed by the
| United Mine Workers in the Seventh
district as card day. Last card day
there were but few men who had not
the necessary card, and the same con
ditions are expected to exist at the com
Ing card day examination.
| James Hurley, OF Swansea, Wales, is
| visiting his cousins, p. Il. and Miss b.
v McTighe. He is employed as a sailor
on the steamship Maconomo, and while
following his occupation has visited all
the principal coast cities of the world.
Charles Book, aged So years, died last
night at his home in Hazleton. He was
the father Of Mrs. John Houseknecht,
of town. The funeral will take place
on Monday. Interment at St. Johns
cemetery, Butler valley.
The first of the Mining and Mechan-
! cal Institutes course of entertainments
will be given at the Grand opera house
on the 10th inst, when the May Parker
Little Pickannies and Concert Company
will appear.
Watches and jewelry epaired-Keiper
The contract to build the first auto
mobile stable in this region has been
awarded to L. II. Lentz, of town, who
will erect one at Hazleton for John B.
Price.
In the list of students attending West
Chester normal school this term are the
following: Louisa Davis, Drifton; Mary
Lesser, Upper Lehigh, and Carrie E.
Mock, Jeddo.
Two kegs Of beer and a quantity of
blackberry wine and whisky were stolen
from the cellar of saloon at the corner
of Walnut and Pine streets Wednesday
night.
"TenneSsee's Pardner" drew, large
audience to the Grand opera house on
Wednesday evening. The different
characters of the play were well taken
care of by the company.
Grief over the death of her sister,
Emma, five weeks ago, caused the death
of Miss Anna L. Zerbey. She was one
Pottsville's oldest school teachers, hav-
ing been teaching since 1873.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. S. Macfarlane, who
were married on Wednesday evening,
will make their home at Scranton upon
their return from their honeymoon trip.
Soda waterfall flavors-at Keiper's.
Dr. E. L. Myers, assistant to DR.. II.
M, Neale, has resigned his position to
accept one in the Jefferson Medical COL
lege, Philadelphia.
Rev. Howard NJ. Wright, formerly in
charge of the Mountain Top Presbyter-
ian church, died after long Hines, aged
3s years.
The semi-annual change in the Le-
high Valley Railroad timetable will go
into effect on Sunday. No change is
expected on this division.
Mr.. and Mrs. John j. McMenamin
returned on Wednesday evening from
their wedding tour to New York and
Boston.
William and Miss Hannah McClaf-
ferty, of Allentown, are the guests OF
Mrs. John Gallagher, Burton street.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Brennan and
family, of Chestnut street, are visiting
friends at Bethlehem.
Halloween was celebrated by the
children of town in the usual manner
last evening.
An addition is being built to the
property of John Sutton in the Second
ward.
Mrs. S. e. Hayes and sister, Miss
Mary Riley, are visiting Wyoming val
ley relatives.
Mrs. Fred Frailey is undergoing treat
meht at Jeffersnn hnsnital philadelnhia