Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-28
LOCAL NOTES
WRITTEN UP
Short Items Of Interest to
All Readers.
Happenings of the Past
Two Days in and Around
FreeIand Recorded With
out Waste of Words.

OuI waste OF WOfQS,
The coal famine in Freeland has been
relieved by the action of M. S. KEN
merer & Co., who have placed one of
their Sandy Run strippngs at the dis
posal of the public. The coal must be
taken out and hauled away by the pur-
chasers, who pay for it at the rate OF
So a ton. About thirty tons day are
coming into town from this stripping.
The Lynch sisters, Rosaine and Re.
genia, daughters OF John Lynch, OF
Mahanoy City, who have appeared be-
fore audiences in local entertainments,
have just signed contract with the
Carroll Stock Company for forty weeks,
opening at Wernersville, N. Y, on
August IS. The young ladies will report
for rehearsals on August 10.
DIR. VENTS horses won two awards in
the class for high steppers at the open
ing of the Monmouth County Horse
Show at Long Branch, N. j., last week.
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class 35, for high steppers, was won by
Lord Brilliant, and the third prize was
won by Lord Golden.
Mrs. Frank BERTHE, of Freeand, while
shopping in this city was taken sudden
ly i'll and was removed to the home of
Michael Rossi on Diamond avenue. A
physician pronounced her ailment ap-
pendicts. Her condition was serious
and an operation may be necessary
Hazleton Sentinel.
Thursday evening next will end the
legal season for catching trout. Fish
ermen report that the season has been
fairly good The new laws governing
the catching of trout are highly praised
by all except the few who were caught
violating them by Fish Warden Malloy.
Hazeton Typographical Union, of
which organization all the Freeland
printers are members, at its meeting
yesterday contributed $95 to the miners
relief fund 1t was also decided to levy
an assessment OF 25 cents per week on
every working member.
The borough school board has not yet
appointed teachers for the coming term,
and it is not likely that anything will be
done until the next regular meeting on
August Z. Several of the directors are
working out of town, on account Of the
strike.
Several Jeddo and Ebervale men who
obtained work at Bayonno, N. j., re-
turned home yesterday. Low wages,
three-quarters time, unsatisfactory
boarding houses and voracious mosqui-
toes made life unbearable in Jersey.
BY order of Judge Wheaton the prop
erty Of the Wyoming and Pond Creek
Coal Company, located at Pond Creek,
was sold Saturday to C. R. Bachman,
trading as the c. r. Bachman Company
for the amount of a judgment.
Ice cream-all favors-at Merkts.
The indications OF coal in Salem
township are so pronounced that slope
Is being sunk to a considerable depth on
the Varnor farm for the purpose Of
definitely deciding whether or not an
thracite veins in paying quantities exist.
Street Commissioner Doggett's force
of employees has been suspended indeii-
nitely, as the resources OF the town will
not permit any further expenditures on
the streets at present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Mulhearn and
family, Of South Washington street,
have taken up their residence in Sandy
valley and will remain there until the
strike ends.
At St. Johns Slavonian Catholic
church, this morning, John Molchen
and Miss Mary Zeperko, both of Free
land, were married by Rev. Charles
Pajchisak
Judge Freas presided in orphans
court on Saturday and heard the final
arguments of the attorneys in the con-
test of the will of the late Joseph Birk,
beck.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Fritz OF North
Centre street, attended the funeral OF a
cousin of Mr.. Fritz at Rockport yester.
day.
David Hughes, of Jeddo, who was en-
ployed in Markle & Co. s store, has re-
| signed to accept position at Allentown.
Miss Lizzie Long, of Silver Brook, Is
Centre street.
Ben Reynolds, D. s. & s. engineer,
returned yesterday from his trip to the