FREE SAN I ) TRIBUNE. VOL. 111. ~ No. 49. BRIEF ITEMS. —Coxe Bros. & Co. have taken an ap peal from the Foster Township audit. —Walter Leisenring was appointed postmaster of Sandy Run on Tuesday. _ — Saturday afternoon from June 15 to September 1(1 will be a legal half holiday. —The Soapies have engaged the Fire men's Park for another picnic about the inidd'.e of August. —Butler Valley people will observe Memorial Day with a grand picnic at the grove near Geo. Hess* Tunnel Hotel. —The pupils of the borough schools ended the school term with a pleasant picnic at the G. A. R. Park on Friday. —The P. 0. S. of A. are contemplating the erection of a large business block on their ground at Centre and Front Streets. —Rev. Pi. D. Miller attended the meet ing of the Wyoming Classis of the Re formed Church at Wilkes-Barre last .week. —Jerry Wood ring, of Sandy Run, was married on Thursday to Miss Lizzie Caskey, of Easton, by Rev. J. W. Bi sell off. —The sidewalk boom shows no signs of abating, and several property owners are making contracts to keep the good work going. —Mrs. M. L. Lnbrecht, formerly of Freeland, now of Wilkes-Barre, will in October remove to Madera, Fresno County, California, where her son Louis is now employed.— Standard. —The tent of the Heavenly Recruits, on the K. of L. lots at Centre and Wal nut Streets, was removed on Mondav. Services will be continued in the church on Centre Street as heretofore. —J. C. Berner has just received 10, Of 0 pairs of black hose, 0 pair for 25c., 5 pair for 25c., 4 pair for 25c. and 3 pair for 25c. Challenge the country to beat my 4 pair child's hose for 25c. BERNER. —After the parade on Saturday attend the Emmet's second annual picnic at the Firemen's Park, where pleasure will flow freely during the afternoon and evening. It will be the finest of the season. —President Gideon W. Marsh, wrecker of the Philadelphia Keystone Bank, is reported to have been seen at the Upper Lehigh Hotel this week. One of his bondsmen and a United States Marshall left Philadelphia on Tuesday to follow this clue. —At 7 o'clock Saturday morning Geo. Brobst, of Freeland, and Miss Daisy Seiple, of Drifton, were marred at the resilience of the bride by Rev. J. W. Bedford. Shortly after the ceremony they left for Slatington to visit Mr. Brobst's parents. —The Daughters of Mary will hold a grand reception at 7 o'clock on Sunday evening at St. Ann's Church, when the formal institution of the society will take place. The ceremonies will be of the most impressive order and will be fol lowed by an address by Rev. P. F. McNally. —Failing to secure more than one con vert in five months the Salvation Army became discouraged and left the town, bag and baggage, on Tuesday morning. They thanked the people here for the kindness and cordiality shown them, but said that "Freeland hearts are as hard as the gates of h ." —Griffith R. Pritchard, who attended the convention of Red Men at Harris burg last week, reports that the order is in a flourishing condition. The amend ment to reduce the age of admission to eighteen years was defeated, and Read ing was selected as the next meeting place. There are 28,(140 Red Men in this State. —The Pioneer Corps ball at the Opera house to-morrow evening promises to be up to the standard of all former events held under the auspices of this popular organization. Hall-goers cannot afford to miss this evening of pleasure. The Corps has left nothing undone that can add to the comfort of its guests, and with Depierro's Orchestra a right good time is guaranteed. Hignx of Sport and Hummer. Hall of St. Ann's Pioneer Corps, Opera house, May 29. Picnic of Robert Km met Social Club, Firemen's Park, May 30. Picnic at Geo. lless' Tunnel hotel, Butler Valley, May 30. Picnic of Division No. 20, A. O. 11., Ecklev, June 13. Hall of St. Patrick's Cornet Band, Opera house, July 3. Save Your Dlmei. We will guarantee you that bv paying into the New York National Building Loan Association 20 cents per day for 7 years SIOOO, or 10 cents per day for 7 years SSOO. Will he at the office of T. A. Buckley, J. P.. Birkbeck Brick, Free lan I, from 2 to 8 P. M., Saturday, June 13. for the purpose of establishing a local "branch. We mean business and it will pay you to call or send for circulars. B. McKntee, agent. Died at Freeland. John Stahl, a well-known Polish resi dent of Freeland, while out driving with a friend last Thursday, complained of feeling ill and returned immediately to his home on Centre Street. He con tinued to fail rapidly and the doctors who were summoned found a blood vessel in his neck was ruptured. About 3 o'clock the next morning he ex pired from apoplexy. The deceased left a wife and six children and was fifty-two years of age. II is funeral took place Sunday afternoon, under charge of Undertaker McNulty, and was attended by St. Kasimer's Society. Interment at St. Ann's Cemetery. On Saturday morning Annie, the wife of Denis O'Donnell, residing on Birk beck Street, died after a short illness. Toe deceased was thirty-eight years of age and was the mother of eleven chil dren, ten of whom survive her. A large number of friends and relatives from this and surrounding counties attended tite funeral Tuesday morning. Requiem high mass was celebrated at St. Ann's Church by Rev. Wm. O'Donnell, of Providence, l'a., brother-in-law of the deceased, and an eloquent eulogy was deliverer! by Rev. F. P. McNally. MEMORIAL DAY. Programme For Its Observance in Free land an l Vicinity. Saturday, May 30, the day consecrated ! to the memory of those who fought for their country, will he observed in a be j fitting manner under the auspices of ! Post 147, G. A. It. The committee into whose charge the celebration was given has completed the programme. The graves at St. Ann's, Upper Lehigh and Eckley Cemeteries will be decorated | in the morning and the cemetery at ! Drums on Sunday. i The order of parade will he as follows : Chief Marshal—A. \V. Washburn. Chief Burgess and Town Council. Police Force. Carriages with Speakers and Clergymen. | FIRST DIVISION. Freeland Citizens' Hose Co. P. o. s. of A. Band. Camp 147, P. O. S. of A. Camp 259, P. 0. S. of A. Freeland Council, No. 348, Jr. O. U. A. M. SECOND DIVISION. St. Patrick's Cornet Band. Garibaldi Beneficial Society. Young Men's T. A. B. Society. Pioneer Drum Corps. St. Ann's Pioneer Corps. THIRD DIVISION. Eckley Cornet Band. Loyal Castle, No. G5, K. M. C. Pulaski Guards. Kosciusko Guards. Visiting Societies. FOURTH DIVISION. G. A. R. Drum Corps. James G. Brookinire Camp, No. 248, of Veterans. Major C. B. Coxe Post, No. 147, G. A. R. ROUTE OF PARADE. The parade will move at 2 o'clock over the following route : Down Washington ! Street to Carbon, up Carbon to Centre, ! up Centre to Walnut, down Walnut to j Birkheck, down Birkbeck to South 11 eh- j erton, countermarch at Harmony Hall hack to Freeland Cemetery. After the j decorating ceremonies the societies will j assemble at Birkheck's grove, where the ! orator of the day, John I). Hayes, Esq., will deliver an address. Sunday Shaving Don't Go. A conference of the barbers was held Monday evening and it was decided to close on Sundays. Every shop in Free land was represented and there is no doubt but that the resolution passed will he faithfully adhered toby every barber. It was also decided to charge twenty-five cents for hair-cutting on Saturdays be tween 12 o'clock noon and 12 P. M. The bearded men of Freeland must have their whiskers attended to before mid night on Saturday, as the Knights of the Razor refuse to open before Monday morning. FREELAND, May 2(1, 1891. At the last meeting of the Law and Order Society of the Borough of Free land and Township of Foster the follow ing resolution was passed : Resolved , That the Law and Order Society send a vote of thanks to the bar bers for their manly act of closing their shops on Sunday, and that a copy of this resolution be sent to the barbers and published in the papers. By order of Society. REV. TIIOS. J.J. WRIGHT. l uvratigat 1 ng Sewerage. Councilmen Goeppert and Dooris, members of the street committee, ac companied by the secretary, went to Ilazleton on Monday to make inquiries as to the system of sewering that borough. They were taken in hand by Secretary McCartney and escorted through the principal streets where sewers are laid and shown its workings in detail. He also furnished them with a great deal of information that may he valuable in the event of the people deciding to increase the debt of the borough, such as price of pipe, excavating, etc. The committee j will make their report to Council next Monday evening. Drlfton*ii Fire Engine. A small frame building at Drifton was saturated with kerosene and set on fire Saturday morning to test the new fire apparatus. The chemical engine had the blazing structure under control in a few minutes. Law anl Order on the Warpatli. Freeland is threatened by the so-called Law and Order Society with the enforce ment of the "blue laws" of 1794. In fact, this threat has assumed definite form, as the following notice, copies of which were given to the business people on Monday, will testify : OFFICE OF THE Organized May 12, 'Ol. LAW & ORDER SOCIETY. FREELAND, PA., May 25, 1801. DEAR Slß:—The Law and Order Society of the Borough of Freeland and Township of Fos ter desires to call your attention to a statute of this Commonwealth, enacted April 22, 1794. een repealed and stands yet for the protection of the Sabbath. This will be sufficient NOTICE to all parties concerned, that on and after May the3oth, 1801, steps will be taken to enforce said law, above given, against parties buying or selling goods, or any kind of wares on any Sunday. We therefore respectfully ask the closing of places of business on that day so as to save further trouble. Yours Respectfully, SECRETARY OF LAW & ORDER SOCIETY, Of the Borough of Freeland and Township of Foster. Done by order of said Society. The above is a true reprint of the notice and contains neither names nor location of the "office," or any clue to disclose the members' identity. Just what line of action will he adopted is not known, and everyone is waiting anxiously to see whether the cigar stores, news-stands, candy shops and ice cream parlors will he closed, as the law directs. Several of the proprietors of these small stores, especially in the Points, claim they will continue selling cigars and candy as heretofore, and if the "blue law" advocates are in earnest Freeland will witness some lively times next week, when the persecutions begin. The battle between public opinion of the nine teenth century and puritanical customs will lie watched with interest. I On with the dance ! FREELAND, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1891. DOWN AT THE OLEY. Strange Stories and Funny Fish CuiiKht By an Eekley Man. ECKLEY, May 25, 1891. EDITOR TRIBUNE : —I venture to send a few items that may interest some jof your readers who participate in I the social life and progress of the j race. My letter is the result of a few j i random notes gleaned while on a recent i i Ashing expedition to the far-famed ; Oley and Nescopeck, but my experience ! is so much at variance with the stories i told by the fishermen of the period that j I concluded to give it publicity in the J hopes that other "tenderfeet" would profit thereby. While in your city laHt week I had the pleasure of meeting your j respected townsmen, Hugh Malloy and W. F. Boyle, who told some very plausi- ! hie and captivating stories in relation to their fishing exploits on the above named waters. Being somewhat Irish and the morrow Friday I must confess my teeth watered, j and 1 determined to replenish my fish larder from nature's storehouse until such times at least as the American Tin j Plate Association can supply the native i article in sufficient quantities to pack brook-trout for the home market and drop prices within reach of the lower strata, as promised by Harrison and McKinley. We purchased a rod at $2.00, a reel and line at $1.25, fly and bait-hooks, galore and other preliminary essentials | at $3.00, and left Eckley in the wee sma' ' hours of the night determined to break ! the record made by Boyle and Malloy. j We safely passed through Highland and South Ileberton and arrived at the quiet village of Upper Lehigh just in time to catch the dogs awake, which ap-! parently with one accord conveyed us through town and out to the silent city i of Upper Lehigh's dead in the suburbs. ■ We arrived at the Nescopeck at the early dawn at a place which appeared to the writer to be a fair reproduction on a i small scale of Goldsmith's "Deserted j Village." This place is an abandoned lumbering town, formerly owned by A. Pardee • r (IST.—On Saturday. May SI, a crunin-whlto 1 j cow light-weight and Alderney stock. , Liberal reward for any information leading to its recovery. J* C. HERNHR, /^RDINANCE.—An ordinance to increase the v / a..rough i11.1,-1,1,-.in. >s. for flic pill I constructing sewers in the Borough of Free- I land. i He it ordained and enacted by the Burgess and 1 own Council of the Borough of Freeland, in council met. and it is ordained and enacted by authority of the same, that the indebtedness oi said borough of Freeland shall be increased | to an amount not exceeding seven percent, of the assessed valuation, the amount of which in j crease is to lie determined by the estimated ! eost ol sewering said Borough: that a stato j inent as required by law be published for at I least thirty (30) days, and that said increased in debtedness shall be paid by general taxation. I Passed finally in Council April n. lwi. A. A. BACII MAN. T. A. BUCKLEY, President. Clerk. Approved April 6,1891. JOHN M. POWELL, Burgess. To Whom It May Concern: Take notice that in pursuance of the above recited ordinance un election will be held at the Council ltoom in Freeland, Pa., on Tues day, the lttth day of June, A. 1)., 1891, between the hours of 7 a. ni. and 7 p. in., for the purpose ol obtaining the assent of the electors of Free land Borough to the proposed increase of in debtedness. STATEMENT. The am't of the last assessed valua tion is $95,225 00 The am't of existing debt is " 700 00 Iheam t of the proposed increase is.. 5,995 00 The percentage of the proposed increase is seven per centum. The purpose for which the indebtedness is to be increased is the making of sewers in and through the Borough of Freeland, and from it to an outlet necessary for the general health and public welfare of said borough. Attest: T. A. BUCKLEY, A. A. BACHMAN, Clerk. President of Council. rItOPOSALS —Proposals will be received by the Freeland Borough School Board for laying and paving a glitter along the property of tiie School Board on Washington and Chest nut Streets. Proposals will state eost per run ning yard, and all material must be furnished by the party doing the work. Communications must reach the secretary not later than tiie 29th inst. For further information apply to JOHN SMITH, Secretary. JOHN SCHNEE, CARPET WEAVER, SOUTH HEBERTON. All kinds of carpet, double and single, manufactured at I short notice and at lowest rates D. LORENZ, BEEF. PORK, VEAL, LAMB, i MUTTON, PUDDING, SAUSAGE, &c. (STRICTLY CASH BUSINESS.) No. 135 Centre Street, Freeland. (Near Lehigh Valley Depot.) HENRY STUNZ, Boot and Shoemaker Cor. llidgc and Chestnut Sts., Freeland. Having purchased a large stock of BOOTS & SHOES I am prepared to sell them at prices that defy competition. Repairing a Specialty Call and examine my stock. Cor. Ridge and Chestnut Sts. | Bicycles TIHIE] Sporting ANI) Tricycles. | MQM GOODS: Sporting Hoods AND BICYCLE HOUSE (WORTHY OF THE NAME) In the Lehigh Region. CENTRE STEEET, FKEELAN.I), I'EX.YA. ■ We are the only Hardw're Manui'r am. I of Sporting Goods. All OK [ sold at New York and Stoves. s'22ean p d £.l®°'" Tinware. 61.00 PER YEAR. JOHN D. HAYES, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW and NOTARY PUBLIC. Legal business of ull kinds promptly attended. Hoora 3, ~