Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-06-21

ness and Pleasure that Interest.
August Hese, injured in the trolley
wreck at Luzerne borough has died.
Boyertowns Board of Health will
demand from Council better sewerage.
Hoffman Brothers who are drilling
an artesian well near Weatherly, nave
discovered traces of anthracite coal
Jacob Beck, Of Lancaster, has sued
F. E. Engle for $2500 damages for al
legged slander.
Striking roadmakers at Pottsville,
accepted $3.50 for a 10-hour day in-
stead of $1.75 for nine hours.
Striking Scranton hodcarriers tied
up building operations, and pickets
smashed a contractors telltale cam
era
Lucas D. Hall has been appointed
Justice at Great Bend, Susquehanna
county, vice William Williams, re-
signed.
Fred w. Curtis and wife and daugh'
ter Antoinette, of Reading, have re-
turned from a four months tour
through Europe.
Dram Lyte, principal of the Millers-
Vile Normal School, with which he
has been connected for 40 years, will
resign on account Of ill-health
Professor Charles F. Richardson,
lately Of the faculty of Dartmouth Col
lege, will be the speaker at the annual
commemorative services at Wyoming
monument, near Wilkes Barre, on July
3.
A son, the fourteenth child, has been
born to Mr.. and Mrs. David Eek, OF
Collomsville, Lycoming county. Twelve
are living. Mr.. and Mrs. Eek have the
largest family in Nippenose Valley.
Sterling, the worlds first large coke
plant, at Scotland, has closed its doors
as a coking field after a long life of Al
years, 8 months and 21 days of use
fulness.
A visitor to West Chester a few
DAYS ago was w. Torbet Ingram, re-
tired farmer of East Bradford town
ship, who at 95 years of age walks and
talks as sprightly as a youth of so.
Men employed at the strippings in
and around Lost Greek were given
10 per cent. increase and a threaten
ed strike was prevented.
Cramped for room for its $500 public
school children, Pottsville has given
contract for an addition to the new
Patterson Memorial School to cost ST.
600.
G. B. Markle & Company. the larg-
est individual coal operators in the an
thracite fields, approved plans for 100
new houses for miners between Eber-
vale and Oakdale.
Edward Weaver is in the Allentown
Jail for a theft Of $25 from the clothes
of Lloyd Moser, fellow-employe in
pretzel bakery. His excuse was that
he wanted to see his grandmother in
Wilkes-Barre.
Work on the erection of the immen-
Sc electric light, heat and power plant
at Houto by the Lehigh Coal and Nayi-
cation Company an dthe construction
of the large reservoir is we'll under
way.
Every drunkard now discovered in
Coatesvile streets is hauled TO head
quarters for his sentence OF $40 fine
or 80 days in Jail. One day yielded IA
of them
For alleged neglect to repair roads,
Stephen Allen, Abraham Ackerman
and Luther Thomas, supervisors Of
Washington township, Northampton
county, were arrested on bench war
rants and held in $500 bail each for
trial at Court
Johnstown Lodge, of Elks. has voted
to open vacant lot adjoining the
clubs home on Locust street and dedi-
cate it to the city as public play
ground. The Elks will equip it at an
expense of $500 and then turn it over
to the Park Commission for supervi-
sion.
Suffering from melancholia, Mrs.
Laura V. Hollinger, 65 years old, a