Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-11-26
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.

Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Birk beck and
family will leave tomorrow morning for
st. Augustine, Florida, where they will
occupy a cottage during the winter
months. The horses and quantity OF
furniture were shipped to st. Angus
tine yesterday.
John Jamison, a young man who is III
at the home of his uncle, David Walker,
jumped from the second-story window OF
the house Monday evening while delir-
ious. He wandered quite a distance
before his friends rescued him.
Union Thanksgiving services will be
held at 80 o'clock tomorrow morning
at the Park M. E. church. Revs.
Swartz, Kuntz, Kerschner and Lang
ford will conduct the services, to which
all are invited.
Mrs. George Skinner, ofTunkhannock,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. B. f. Rute,
who was the guest of her parents here
for some time, has gone to Philadelphia,
where she entered hospital to undergo
an operation.
Herman, a year-old son OF Mr.. and
| Mrs. Herman Grosman, of Highland,
was buried at Freeland cemetery this
afternoon. The child died from con-
vulsions Monday evening.
The choir of St. Anthony's Italian
Catholic church will leave here tomor-
row at SIS a. m. for McAdoo, where
they will sing at nuptial mass to be
| celebrated there.
James McCollum, who was severely
injured last winter by an explosion at
the electric light plant, underwent a
successful operation at the Miners hos
pital this week.
The second page contains something
OF interest to our readers.
A new band is about to be organized
by musically-nclined persons OF Free
land and Upper Lehigh. The promoters
say that 1t will be a strictly union or
ganization.
The case Of Coke Bros. & Co. against
John II. Shovin, of Freeland, growing
out OF of the atter's arrest by coal and
iron officers during the strike, has been
settled out of court.
Commencing with this week the Ia
maqua Register, which has been publish
ed for the past two years as a weekly,
will issue as a semi weekly.
Mrs. Leggett and daughter, Mrs.
Thomas Williamson, of Philadelphia,
are in town today attending the Wash
burn-Johnson wedding.
William Smith, OF the Second ward,
who has been receiving treatment at
White Haven sanitaruim, has returned
to his home greatly improved in health.
James Breslln and family removed to-
day from South Centre street to Wilkes
barre, where Mr.. Breslin has been en-
ployed for some time.
Owing to the coal strike, the custom
airy Thanksgiving turkey will be missed
tomorrow at many dinners In the town
and surrounding villages
The corner stone Of the new Federal
building at Wikesbarre will be laid
with Masonic ceremonies tomorrow
afternoon.
The public schools of town closed
this afternoon and will not reopen until
Monday next
Mrs. Chas. Orion Stroh and Mrs. A.
G. Vanauken are visiting In Philade-
phia.
Mrs. Charles Weidenbach, wife of a
we'll known resident of Hazleton, died
this morning.
Miss Adaline Jones, of Wilkesbarre,
is visiting Freeland friends today.
Joseph B, Cope, of Philadelphia, is
visiting his son, DR.. Cope.
Holiday novelties and candies, Merkt's
AT the annual meeting of the Bar As
sociation of this county these officers
were elected: Alexander Farnham,
president; Joseph D. Coons, secretary
treasurer; II. w. Palmer, H. A. Fuller
John L. Lenahan, executive committee
When Andrew Gravage, miner from
New Philadelphia, entered Silver Creek
shaft on Monday he remarked to his fell
miners that he did not expect to
come out of the mine alive, as he saw
his dead body in dream Sunday night
A fall of top coal occurred few hours
later and Gravage's head was crushed.
Death was instantaneous.