Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-06-27
LOCAL NOTES
WRITTEN UP
Short Items Of Interest to
All Readers.
Happenings of the Past
Two Days in and Around
FreeIand Recorded With
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At the annual meeting of the board of
trustees of East Stroudsburg state
normal school, yesterday afternoon,
Professor E. l.. Kemp was elected prin-
cipal in place of Professor George p.
Bible, who has been at the head of the
school since it opened.
A game has been arranged between
Iazleton Pioneers and Freeland Good
Wills and will be played on Sunday
afternoon at the Tigers park The
Hazleton team will be accompanied by
| a large number of admirers.
Theodore Klegg and William Walcott,
Freeland; Frank Lester, Sandy Run,
and William Monk, Eckey, all of whom
served the past three years as soldiers
in the Philippines, arrived home this
week.
A bus load of Freeland ladies were at
Laurytown yesterday. Among the
party were Mrs. Fowler, Mrs. Butz.
Mrs. Christian, Mrs. Moore, Mrs Phil
| lips and Mrs. Gibbons.
Edward j. Gaffney and Patrick j.
Gallagher, who are studying for the
priesthood at st. Mary's seminary,
Baltimore, are spending their vacation
at their homes here.
Hugh A. Shovlin, NJ p. Campbell,
Geo. Mclaughlin and John j. McNelis
have returned from the Democratic
state convention at Erie.
Lee NJ Goodman, of the University OF
Pennsylvania, is visiting his classmate,
Thomas Evans, Jr., of Birkbeck street.
The huckeberry season is now on in
full blast and the berries are selling at
6 cents per quart.
An infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Metro, OF Eckley, was buried at St.
AIMS cemetery yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Timney and
family, Of North Centre street, spent
yesterday at Laurytown.
Chidren's Day will be observed with
appropriate exercises at st. Johns Re-
formed church on Sunday.
Patrick Collins and Z. j. Brogan, of
Drifton, are spending week in Con-
| necticut.
Peter G. Gallagher and sister, Miss
Sarah, are visiting in Scranton.
Miss Clare Mcdonald is home from
st. Cecila's academy, Scranton.
A. Oswald has the agency for the cee-
| brated Elysan's extracts and perfumery.
| The finest goods made. Try them.
Dolle and Nellie o'Dea, two sisters of
| Wilkesbarre, have registered as law
| students.
ExTreasurer Paul Urban, of Marcy
township, was convicted in court at
Wilkesbarre yesterday of failing to turn
over $l,2l150 to his successor in office.
Mistaking creosote for tonic,
Michael Streletz, of Mt. Carmel, gave his
six-year-old son u tablespoon of the poi
son. The boy died three hours later in
awful agony.
The body OF the man who was killed
at Fairview on Tuesday is still unidenti-
fled at the rooms of a Wilkesbarre under
taker The remains will be held a day
or so longer and if not identified will be
sent to Philadelphia for use in a med
ical school.
Ice cream at Merkt's.
Daniel Mulligan, of McAdoo, was ar
rested yesterday by Philadelphia de-
tective on the charge of deserving from
the United States army at Fort Presin,
Maine, last February. Mulligan will
be taken to New York and court
martaled
Mrs. Catherine O'Malley, aged 60
years, wife of the late ex-Sherff O'Mal-
ley, OF Luzerne county, died at her home
in Philadelphia of blood poisoning. Her
husband died eighteen months ago. He
was a well known contractor and held
the Office of sheriff for one term.
Peter Mundy, of McAdoo, who met
with an accident in Bridgeport, Mont
gomery county, where he was employed
since the strike, and had both legs
amputated above the knees in a hospital,
died Wednesday night The remains
we're taken to the home OF his brother,
Patrick, in McAdoo, last evening, and
will be buried tomorrow morning.
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