OUR POCKETKNIVES.
EXTRA DUTY HAS BEEN OBTAINED
BY MISREPRESENTATION.
The Pride of Protectionists —Iloth the
Manufacturers and the Employees Are
Foreigners—llow the Trust Has Raised
Prices and Robbed the Americans.
Perhaps there is no industry of much
importance that shows the stimulating
effects of McKinleyism more than the
manufacture of pocket cutlery. And
there is no industry to which the pro
tectionist can and does point with more
pride. The act of 1890 increased the
duty from 50 per cent, to from 70 to over
100 per cent. It is now the claim of
protectionists, and it is being heralded
far and wide, that this industry, which
was dying under a 50 per cent, stimulus,
has been so built up by McKinley that
wages have been advanced 10 per cent,
in three of the twenty-four factories in
this country. Prices of knives also have
been advanced; but this is a secondary
matter with protectionists, the essential
idea being to start new industries here
or to assist old ones by cutting off for
eign competition. If it ever pays our
government to propagate artificially any
industry this is probably such an indus
try, and yet let us analyze a little the
cost to the nation of such an investment
and see who are benefited by it.
The pocket cutlery industry, like many
other industries, was established in this
country during the "free trade" period
from 1840 to 1860. At that time more
than half of the employees were Ameri
cans. Since it became highly protected
and began to rely upon governmental aid
rather than meritorious goods for suc
cess the industry has been unsteady,
and since about 1870 has had the blues,
like a man who is in the habit of taking
stimulants to keep up his spirits will
have when he is unable to obtain the
ever larger doses which his unnatural
appetite craves. Wages have been re
duced often in this industry, and only
four or five years ago reductions of
about 20 per cent, were made in most of
the shops. Partly because of the low
wages, and partly because they were
driven out by the English and German
workmen who were imported to keep
wages down, the skilled American work
men have left this business, until today,
out of the 1,400 or 1,500 workers in the
twenty-four establishments (mostly
small ones) which make pocket cutlery,
about 1,100 are English, 200 are Ger
mans, and 100 or 150 are Americans,
the latter being mostly boys and girls
not doing skilled work and earning only
from 50 cents to $1 per day. The Ameri
cans have bnt little prospect of better
ing their condition, for the foreigners
now have a monopoly of this industry
by means of their unions—Spring Knife
Makers' union, subdivided into Forgers
and Grinders and Finishers' unions.
Their rnles practically prohibit any but
English and German from entering any
except the unskilled departments. The
foreigners are mostly from the Sheffield
district in England and are undesirable
as emigrants; most of them, it is said,
can neither read nor write.
As to the manufacturers, they are also
largely English, who advocate plenty of
protection and who have shown them
selves willing to pay for it. In conjunc
tion with the table cutlery manufactur
ers they kept two men at Washington
much of the time for three or four years
previous to the passage of the McKinley
tariff act. Their share of this expense
was $7,000. They now keep a man at the
custom house to prevent undervaluations
and fraud. Having secured all they ex
pected at Washington they immediately
set to work to get back the money which
they had invested there. Their associa
tion held weekly meetings to arrange
prices, and made their first general ad
vance in October, almost before the Mc
Kinley act had taken effect. They had
paid for their share of this tariff act and
saw no reason for denying their proprie
torship in it. Hence some of them bold
ly announced that because of the Mc-
Kinley bill they had advanced prices
from 10 to 15 per cent. In January, 1891,
a second general advance was made.
This caused such a howl from dealers
and the public that the manufacturers
ceased to Bend out circulars advancing
prices all along the line at once, and in
stead have held monthly meetings and
made advances by private lists to indi
vidual dealers. These liste appear regu
larly, the last being on Aug. 6, 1892.
One month they will inform a dealer
that "they are compelled to make the
following changes in prices." The
"changes" usually amount to from 10 to
18 per cent, advance on about a dozen
styles. The next month a dozen other
styles will receive the same treatment.
Large dealers say that the advance since
September, 1890, amounts to fully 80 per
cent, on the total of all knives sold.
Here are a few samples of the prices of
knives sold by the Ulster Knife com
pany, of Ellenville, N. Y.:
,-Priee per dozen -- Percent.
Aug. 1800. Aug. 1892. advance
Cheap knife, 2 blades..|2 00 *2 75 37k
Cheap knife, 1 blade... 215 800 39U
Pruning knife, 1 blade. 3 75 6 00 38k
Knife, 8 blade* 4 0 6 25 27k
Knife, 4 blades 5 40 7 00 2ok
Knife, 4 blades 7 75 9 75 26
Knife, 8 blades 6 00 10 60 31
On leading styles the advance always
exceeds 20 and in some cases reaches 60
per cent. The advances are likely to
continne until knives begin to be im
ported in large quantities. On many
styles the duty was increased from 50 to
100 per cent., but on some Styles the
tariff limit has already been reached.,
e.g., a small three bladed knife that
used to be imported at a cost of $2.25 per
dozen and sold at 25 cents each on the
street, now costs $2.80 to $2.90 per dozen
here and sells for 85 cents each on the
street, and worn 35 to 50 cents each in
stores. On another style which used to
cost, $i .80 the duty (105 per cent.) is pro
hibitive; but the idades and handles are
imported separately and the knife is sold
here for $2.25 per dozen. Thus imports
have already checked the advance on
some styles.
The Manufacturers' association is prac
tically a trust so far as regulating prices,
demanding hipb protective duties and
[ keeping down wages are concerned.
Many of the larger manufacturers, how
ever, have been in favor of a much
stronger organization, capable of regu
lating production and of sustaining high
prices and profits. A few months ago
four of the largest firms agreed to com
bine under the name of the United
States Cutlery company, with a capital
of $1,600,000. Their prospectus said:
"The business of these companies (man
facturing 65 per cent, of all the pocket
cutlery made here) has steadily increased
year by year, and the net profits of these
companies for a period of over three
years are largely in excess of the sum
necessary to have paid 8 per cent, divi
dends upon SBOO,OOO preferred stock."
It is also claimed that the new company
could pay dividends of 8 per cent, on
SBOO,OOO and 15 per cent, on the other
SBOO,OOO.
According to the testimony given in
1890 before the ways and means com
mittee the combined investment of these
four companies was only $400,000. The
manufacturers then put on long faces
and tried to make the committee believe
that the pocket cutlery industry was
about to expire under a 50 per cent,
duty. It now appears that they were
then making "largely in excess" of 16
per cent, upon their actual capital
($400,000), and that they are now in
shape to make 46 per cent, on this same
amount. They add in their prospectus
that "prices upon cutlery have never
yet reached those which could have been
asked by the increased rate of tariff."
That their claims are not extravagant is
evident trom the announcement in The
House Furnishing Goods Weekly of
Aug. 4, 1892, that "the Southington
Cutlery company, of Southington, Conn.,
has declared a quarterly dividend of 8
per cent." It is clear that the increased
duty was obtained under false pre
tenses, if not by actual fraud. And
these are the class of men who reap the
benefits of McKinleyism.
Notice now how these spoils are di
vided between the manufacturers and
their employees. The Republican press
points with pride to three companies—
the Canastota Knife company, the New
York Knife company and the Thomaston
Knife company, employing altogether
about 400 hands—that have advanced
wages about 10 per cent. It is true that
since 1890 about three-fourths of the
employees in these factories have ob
tained advances that will average be
tween 7 and 10 per cent. These advances
have been secured only because the em
ployees were organized and struck or
threatened to strike for higher wages.
Strikes are now on in three other fac
tories. But suppose that all of these
400 employees have had their wages ad
vanced 10 per cent, and that they earn
an average of SOOO each a year (the ac
tual average is much less). Their total
benefit from the new tariff (admitting
that it made the advance possible) would
thus be less than $24,000. The yearly
product of all the factories is worth from
$1,500,000 t052,000,000. The 80 per cent,
advance in prices then increases the
profits of the manufacturers about $500,-
000. That is, the manufacturers have
retained 95 per cent, of the spoils and
grudgingly yielded up 5 per cent, to the
wage earners.
The American user of pocketknives
has taken $500,000 out of one pocket and
made it a present to these foreigners for
the privilege of carrying an "American
knife" in another pocket, and this in
addition to a similar amount bestowed
upon the same foreigners under the 50
per cent, duty prior to 1890. If this be
the best that McKinley can do for us it
is time we were finding it out. It will
be money in our pockets some day.
WHO PAYS THE TARIFF?
A Convincing Letter from a Washington
Street Car l>river.
There is a street car driver in Wash
ington named Doran, says the Washing
ton correspondent of the St. Louis Re
public. He is a native of Ireland and has
been in this country about six years. He
is a pretty bright fellow, is a close reader
of the newspapers and a careful observer
of everything that is going on. During
the past year Mike has been paying a
good deal of attention to the tariff ques
tion, and has been led away by the theo
ries of the Republicans that protection
was a good thing for the poor man.
An incident occurred within the past
week or ten days that has made Mike
somewhat skeptical. He had been told,
by the Republicans of course, and by
McKinley in particular, that the foreign
ers paid our taxes. McKinley said so in
his Minneapolis speech and Mike be
lieved him at the time. About ten days
ago a cousin of Mike's arrived in this
country. Ho brought a present from
Mike's mother to her son, consisting of
twelve of woolen socks which she ;
herself knitted for him. It is safe to (
say that the value of the socks was
about twenty cents a pair, but when
Mike's cousin arrived at the custom
house he was assessed twenty-five cents
a pair tariff duty on socks. When he
came to Mike he showed him his receipt
from the custom bouse officers for the
three dollars that he had paid for the
dozen socks, and Mike of course had to
refund the money to him. This set
Mike thinking, and on suggestion of a
friend with whom he conferred he ad
dressed the following letter to Governor
McKinley on the subject:
Dkar Sih— 1 read your speeches in the house
of representatives during the Fifty-first con
gress, when the tariff bill was under discussion,
In which you asserted and made me believe
lhat the foreigners paid our taxes. I also read
four speech as presiding ofticer of the Repub
lican national convention at Minneapolis, in
which you asserted again that the foreigner
paid our taxes. My mother sent me a dozen
pairs of sooks from Ireland a few days ago,
each pair being worth twenty cents. My
cousin, who brought them to mo, had to pay
twenty-five oenta a pair tariff duties on the
Bocks at the New York custom house. Will
you please be kind enough to tell me to what
foreign government I shall apply to have that
three dollars refunded to me? If the foreigner
pays the tax, as you say he does, I am entitled
to get my money hack, but I do not know Just,
exactly to what foreign government to apply,
and I hope you will be kind enough to inform
me by return mail. Michael Doran.
This is a verv pretty little object les
son, antl should not be lost sight of by
people who are laboring to understand
the tariff question.
RECORD OF ONE WEEK
NOT A PLEASANT CONTEMPLATION
FOR THE M'KINLEY IDOLATERS. I
Trust* Formed, Mills Closed, Prices Raised
and Wages Reduced In Artificially Stim
ulated Industries —A Very Startling
Condition.
It is the claim of protectionists—as
ridiculous as it is general—that protec
tion tariffs tend to destroy monopolies
and trusts, to increase production, to
lower prices and to raise wages. Tariff
reformers take a different view on all
these points and base their opinions less
upon theory and more upon facts. They
have recently called the attention of the
country to a list of 100 tariff trusts, to a
list of 500 wage reductions in protected
industries since October, 1890, to hun
dreds of articles on which both the duty
; and the price have been increased, to
hundreds of mills factories closed
I by these tariff trusts to restrict produc
{ tion, and to numerous other similar facts,
i Readers of trade papers come across a
| multitude of facts on the taiaff reform
side of this question. Here iJe a few
taken from The Weekly Iron Age of
Aug. 4, 1892—it should be remembered
that the greatest of all protected indus
tries is that of iron and steel mauufac
( ture:
It publishes a list of eight big iron and steel
combines and of several smaller ones of recent
date. These embrace the manufacture of steel
rails, structural steel, crucible and open hearth
steel, steol billets, wire rods, wire, wire nails,
boiler and tank plates, armor plates, cut nails,
slabs, pig Iron, bar iron, etc.
j It discusses "the tactics of the coal com
: bine," which has advanced prices of anthracite
coal several times during the lost few months,
and which will continue to make advances
1 "from time to time in a sort of arithmetical
1 progression with the appareut if not openly
j avowed design of reaching a certain maximum
i —say $5 a ton for stove—'before the snow
| flies.' "
Of course the duty of 75 cents a ton on bitu
! minous coal, which competes with anthracite,
makes it easier for the coal companies to reach
, "a certain definite maximum."
I It says, "The latest combine in the mercantile
l world is a fur pool with 210,000,000 capital, in
i which nearly all the firms in the trade have
I become interested." This is the George W.
Tread well trust, which has a monopoly of the
seal fur industry of Alaska, and also of the
dyeing of furs, and which can adjust prices in
this country up to the limits of a duty.
It announces firmer and upward prices for
wire and cut nails and a reduction of 8 to 10 per
cent. In the scale of wages for wire drawing for
1802 and 1893; also that a large number of wire
and cut nail mills are shut down.
It says, "The Continental Tube works at
Frankstown, near Pittsburg, has closed down
for an indefinite period" because "the firm did
not feel Justified In buying skelp iron in the
open market at the recent advance in prices."
"On account of the depression in the iron
market, the Isabella Furnace company, oper
ating the Isabella furnace at Etna, Pa., lias
banked down one stack and will probably bank
another during the present week."
j "Addyston Pipe works, the largest in the
country, has posted a notice of a shutdown
for an indefinite period."
"The Dunbar Furnace company, at Dunbar,
Pa., operating the two Dunbar furnaces, closed
them down on Saturday, July 80, for an in
definite period," closing down due to the
"present depression existing in the pig iron
trade."
i The Keystone Horseshoe company, of Phila
delphia, has started upon three-fourths ca
pacity after a shutdown of three weeks, dur
ing which time the workmen concluded to
make the required "concessions" necessary to
1 resume work.
I Recent advances amounting to $3 and $4 per
j ton have been made in structural steel.
There Is a "better tone to prices" of barbed
wire and "some of the manufacturers have
withdrawn their quotations."
' "It is estimated that about 15,000 men are
now Idle, causing some eighty buildings in
course of construction to be tied up" in New
York city.
"It is intimated that during the present
month a perceptible increase in prices will be
noticed" for window glass.
The Iron Age attempts editorially to
explain the grave necessity which exists
for "the leveling of wages" in the iron
industry. It says hoth prices and wages
have been on an artificial basis, and that
j "with the disappearance of artificial
| values an artificial standard of wages
; also falls."
j These items—such as occur every
week—give a fair idea of industries
propped up by a tariff—unsteady and
fluctuating prices and production, com
binations of capital to restrict produc
tion, raise prices and reduce wages, la
bor unions to resist the reductions,
| strikes, boycotts and labor riots—all
| paid for in the end by the consumer
who votes to sustain this unnatural and
unhealthy system of providing for our
wants.
KEEP M'KINLEY TALKING.
Ho Satisfies the ltepubllcans ami Helps
the Democrats,
By all means keep McKinley on the '
stump explaining his slick schemo for
taxing the foreigner and sponging our
government revenues out of other and
j poor countries. There are yet left not a
few theoretical reasoners who think the
thing can't be done and some Bupcr
| critical moralizers who think that if it
could be done it would be unjust. They
i should all be put to flight, and McKin
ley is the boy that can shoo them with
his invincible oratory. His speeches
come high this year, but if the Repub-
I licans can't afford to keep him in the
field the Democrats ought to give assist
| ance—they could find no better invest
ment, McKinley draws great crowds
; and always leaves them intensely inter
j ested in protection, so much so that
j there is a great demand for tariff reform
; speakers wherever he has presented the
I details of his process of bleeding the
j foreigner. He made the students at
j Ann Arbor, Mich., so "tired" that they
j cculd only get relief by listening to a
speech from Congressman Bryan, and
! now the farmers and voters around
[ Beatrice and Lincoln, Neb., where Mc-
Kinley spoke recently, are Baid to be in
I the same uneasy condition. McKinley
is probably the only man who can, with
the same speech, satisfy both of the
' leading parties. Let hoth parties then
contribute to the expense of keeping
him in the field. A man of snch ex
traordinary ability is wasting his time
Bitting in the governor's chair of Ohio.
Why Patronize Hothouses?
Those who see evil in free trade be
cause the Confederates favored it
shouldn't patronize hothouses. The
devil himself started aud still continues
that business—St. Louis Courier.
JEDDO NEWS.
The newly organized literary institute
held its first exercises on Thursday
evening. If what is to come can be
judged by the first there is a bright
future ahead for some of its members.
The next exercises will be held on the
13th inst.
Mrs. William McLean, of Summit
Hill, is here visiting her mother, Mrs.
John McHugh, for several days.
Con. McCole made a business trip to
Ilazleton on Wednesday evening.
Frank Ferry, of Audenried, spent a
few hours here last week with friends.
John H. Carrigan, of Mauch Chunk,
was here among friends yesterday.
The M. E. church which has been
undergoing repairs for sometime past
will be reopened by its pastor, Kev. E.
M. Chilcoat, of Freeland, on the 27th
inst. Its appearance outside has been
greatly improved, and inside it is hand
somely furnished, making it a very
desirable place of worship.
Peter McHugh made a trip to Summit
Hill on Saturday to bring home a horse
he purchased at that place.
Henry Gillespie, of McGinty, moved
his family to this place last week.
Frank McNelis left here for Wilkes-
Barre last week, where he intends to
make his future home.
Hallow E'en was celebrated in the
usual style by our young people. The
girls indulged in games that only the
future can reveal and since have been
watching eagerly for their ideals to bob
up. However, he is not bobbing.
It is amusing to hear the hunters tell
of the way they make the fur fly when
hunting rabbits, and still, none of them
were ever known to bring a rabbit home
unless they bought it.
Misses Annie Welsh and Annie Ninoh,
of Ilazleton. spent Sunday here among
friends.
UPPER LEHIGH NOTES.
A large gang of men are busily engag
ed constructing a locie track to old No.
3. This old slope was among the first
that was sunk and on account of numer
ous faults in the vein was abandoned.
It is now proposed to work it in connec
tion with No. 8, if possible, and draw
the coal by locie to No. 2 breaker.
John Sweeney is about again after
suffering for nearly two weeks with a
sore leg.
A son of Geo. McGee is confined to
his bed with sickness.
Ernest Prawheim, of Silver Brook, is
visiting his mother here.
Fred Lesser, of Silver Brook, made a
tour of the hunting grounds here last
week.
Miss Hannah Ferry is visiting friends
in llarwood this week.
Thos. Price, who went to Silver Brook
some time ago, resumed work here again
last week.
All preparations for the election to
morrow have been completed at this
place. Booths, rails and everything ne
cessary are here.
5. S. Hoover made a business trip to
Philadelphia last week.
Miss Gertrude Kemmerer is among
the number on the sick list.
Cal Waldron is doing some very suc
cessful hunting this season. So far he
has killed over fifty pheasants and a
large number of rabbits, and is now only
getting his hand iu trim. BIRD.
DRIFTON ITEMS.
Mrs. Eckley B. Coxe is lying seriously
ill at her Philadelphia residence. Her
condition necessitates the constant pres
ence of the ex-senator, her husband.
The people of Drifton deeply sympathize
with her, and hope for her speedy
recovery.
DEATHS.
MCLAUGHLIN. —At Freeland, November
6, John son of Bernard and Mary
McLaughlin, aged 8 months. Funeral
tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. In
terment at St. Ann's cemtery. Brislin.
SIIOVLIN.—At Drifton, November 6, An
nie, wife of Peter Shovlin, aged 30
years. Funeral to-morrow afternoon
at 2.30 o'clock. Interment at St.
Ann's cemetery. Brislin.
Ready for the Election.
Preparations for the election in this
county have been conducted by the com
missioners in a smooth and satisfactory
manner. The booths and ballot boxes
have all been distributed and the com
missioners were quite happy when the
heavy lugging and long tramping this
part of the work involved was finally
completed.
The guard rails are made of three
quarter inch gas pipe, with caps by
which the uprights can be screwed to
the floors of the polling rooms and the
cross bars to the walls. The chains for
the entrance and exit through the rails
are also here.
The official balllots must, under the
law, be sent in two separate packages,
one of which reached the judges of {lec
tion on Saturday and the other will ar
rive to-day. The two packages art ex
actly alike for each district anc are
sealed.
The seal of one will be broken publicly
on the opening of the polls, bet the
other, if both arrive, will remain intact
until the the ballots in the first one are
exhausted and the additional ballots
are needed.
In nearly all the districts the appa
ratus will be put in readings tiiiß
evening.
No adequate conception of tie vast
amount of work and worry this prepara
tion and distribution involves can be
had, except from actual contact with it,
and since it is all new work anc there is
no precedent for the doing of it,constant
watch must be kept to see tlat no re
quirement of the law is overlocked.
The New Postal Caret
The new postal card, with paid reply
attachment, has just been issied. They
cost two centHeach and are inended for
use in the United States, Cinada and
Mexico, by those who wish replies to in
quiries by postal card, a convenience
long demanded and of practical value to
very many besides the busimss element
of the country.
The combination card is simply two
ordinary postals, separated by a semi
perforated line, which enables the cards
to be readily and neatly tori apart upon
reaching their destination. *
SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT.
Of the Knights of th© Ootden ICagle of
l't'Ti nsylvim n i
The semi-annual report of Grand
Master of Records J. D. Barnes, of the
Knights of the Golden Eagle of Pennsyl
vania, shows that the order is in an
exceedingly flourishing condition.
The increase in membership during
the past six months was 1,507, which is
290 in excess of the increase for the year
1891. The finances of the castles have
also been increased, in the aggregate, to
the extent of $23,507.70.
The figures compiled from the semi
annual reports of the castles are: 26
castleß were instituted in the six months.
Members, December 31, 1891, 38,497;
initiations, 3,982; admitted by card and
certificate, 107; reinstated, 152; with
drawn by card, 279; deceased, 160; ex
pelled, 29; resigned, 8. Membership, June
30, 40,004; net increase, 1,507. Mem
bership is divided as follows: Past
supreme chiefs, 5; past grand chiefs, 18;
past chiefs, 6,686; crusaders, 32,535;
knights, 417; pilgrims, 343; rejections,
213: brothers who received relief, 3,445;
widowed families who received relief,
52; receipts of castles, $159,754.65; ex
pended, including investments, slOl,-
108.60; paid to sick brothers, $59,845.96;
for burial of the dead, $13,739.76; dona
tions, $1,818.18; total amount paid for
relief, $75,503.88; amount on hand and
invested, $503,373.45; net increase of
funds, $23,507.70.
The order is located in forty-nine
counties. The aggregate numberof initia
tions, admissions by card, dismissal certi
ficates and reinstatements was 4,241, an
average of 9 per castle. The average
membership per castle in the state is 88.
The highest number of initiations in
one castle was 106. The average funds
of each castle in the state are $1,114.
Since the institution of the grand cas
tle in 1876, a period of sixteen years,
there have been initiated 04,676, admit
ted by card or certificate, 1,103; reinstat
ed, 795; withdrawn, 1,817; deceased,
1,487; expelled, 261; resigned, 178: reject
ed, 2,340, number of brothers relieved,
23,997; total amount of receipts were, $1 ,-
668,252.65; total amount paid for relief of
brothers, widowed families, burial of the
dead, and donations, $561,135.83; total
amount of disbursements, including in
vestments, $1,507,414.27.
"Underground" To-night.
The Tyrone Herald says: Daniel
Hart's new drama, "Underground,"
was presented for the first time at the
Academy of Music last night and scored
a decided and instantaneous success.
Mr. Hart, who is well acquaintad with
the details and dangers of mining and
the life and trials of miners, has pro
duced a play which has no counterpart,
treating a new Btibjeet in the drama, and
depicting with faithfulness life in the
anthracite regions of Pennsylvania.
The plot is interesting and well
develops with ever-increasing vigor; the
situations are exciting, novel, and well
conceived, and the character delineations
wonderfully true.
The scenery is simply magnificent,
and must be seen, not described. The
explosion in the mine is a powerful sen
sation. The comedy proved rich and
unctuous, and the singing of the Vcndome
quartette admirable. The company car
ry their own calciums, and the moon
light and fire effects were beautiful.
! Secure your seats immediately at
Christy's store, as the diagram is being
J rapidly filled.
Stable Burned at Highland.
Thestableof John Smith, of Highland,
was destroyed by fire at 1.30 o'clock yes
terday morning. The fire, which issup
posed to be the work of incendiaries had
made considerable headway before it
was discovered, and as there is no apar
atus there to fight the flames, the stable,
two bales of hay, seventeen chickens and
a cow went up in smoke.
Miss Annie Lockman, of Ilazleton,
was here visiting yesterday.
Patrick Brislin, of Silver Brook, was
here yesterday on a visit.
ELECTROPOISE
Office REMOVED to
1004 Mt. Vernon St., PHILADELPHIA.
j Persons desiring city or county aycncic*, address
/. D. WARE, General Agent
For the States of Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Maryland and Dolaware.
PIUND.— A watch at Scotch Hill, Drifton.
The owner can have same by calling on
Peter O'Donnell, near Drifton foundry, and
paying tor this advertisement.
WANTED.— A partner with 8800 or SIOOO in
the stove and tinware business. Man
with some experience in the trade preferred.
For further particulars upply or address this
office.
171011I 71011 SALE.—Two lots situated on east side
1 of Washington street, between Luzerne
and Carbon streets, Five Points. Apply to
Patrick McFaddon, Eckley, or T. A. Ruekley,
Freeland.
"TjX)K SALE.—A new two-horse truck wagon,
J? one set of light double harness nnd one
set of heavy harness. For further information
and prices apply to John Shigo, Centre street,
Freeland, where the articles can be seen.
NOTICE.— Night school will be opened at
the Freeland school building on Monday
evening, November 14. {The attendance must
not lie hiss than 15. By order of Freeland
school board. John Smith, secretary.
TjX)K SALE.—A two-story frame shingle-roof
.F dwelling house on Burton's Hill, lutely
occupied by Jcnkin Giles; the lot is 65 feet wide
and 150 feet deep; it is all improved and lias
many tine fruit trees growing thereon. Also a
lot 31x150 feet on the west side of Centre street,
above Chestnut, Titles Guaranteed. Apply to
John I). Hayes, attorney-at-law.
ESTATE of Richard R. Griffith, late of Up
per Lehigh, deceased.
letters of administration upon the above
named estate having been granted to the un
dersigned, all persons indebted to Said estate
are requested to make immediate payment,
and those having claims or demands to present
the same, duly authenticated, without delay to
Chas. Oriou Stroh, administrator.
Freeland, Pa.
G. L. Halsey, Esq., attorney.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.—No. JEW, June ses
sions, Luzerne county. In re annexation
to the borough of Freeland of adjacent terri
tory.
The undersigned, an auditor appointed by
the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of
Luzerne county to ascertain and adjust the in
debtedness of Freeland borough, township of
Foster and the school districts therein, and
make report to the said court according to the
provisions of the Act of General Assembly of
Pennsylvania, approved first day of June, A.
I). 1887. hereby gives notice that lie will attend
to the duties of ids appointment at the office of
John D. Hayes, Esq., attorney at law, No. 28
Centre street, Freeland, Pa., on Thursday, No
vember 10, 1802, at 10 A. M„ at which time and
place all parties Interested may appear if they
see proper. Edward A. Lynch, auditor.
Advertise in
the Tribune.
To-day! To-day!
NEUBURGERS BEGIN THEIR
Fall Opening in Dry Goods
Department, vrlxiclx is mire complete in
variety- and. q.u.a:n.tity tlxan ever.
We Are Offering During This Week:
Very fine 4x4 unbleached muslin at 5 cents per yard; would be
cheap at 8 cents.
Good tea toweling at 4 cents per yard.
Good apron gingham at 5 cents per yawl.
The very best apron gingham, namely Amoskeag and Lancas
ter, at 7 cents per yard.
Good canton ttannel at 5 cents a yard.
The best cheviot shirting at 7 cents a yard.
Out-door cloth, in the newest dress designs, at 10 cents a yard.
It will pay you to inspect our handsome assortment of Bedford
cords, chevrons and Henriettas, which we are selling at 25 cents
per yard; cannot be bought the world over under 40 cents
Extra line black Henrietta, 40 inches wide, Co cents per yard;
actual price should be 85 cents.
A large assortment, comprising all the newest shades, of extra
fine 54-incli all wool habit cloths at 00 cents per yard; sold else
where at 90 cents. A
MANY OTHER BARGAINS
Too numerous to mention, as our stock is more complete than
ever, therefore giving you better opportunities to make
your selections. Prices are astonishingly low.
OUR - BLANKET - STOCK - IS - COMPLETE.
Call and examine it and be convinced. See the line
silver gray 10x4 blankets, which we are selling at 75 cents
a pair; just one-half what they are worth.
Shoes! Shoes! Shoes!
We can give you the biggest bargains you ever carried home,
i We are now selling children's good school shoes, with heel, or
1 spring heel and sole leather tips, sizes 8 toll and 12 to 2, at the as-
I tonishing low price of 75 cents a pair; their actual worth is $1.25.
In Overcoats and Clothing
We carry the largest stock in the region and sell at prices on
which we defy competition. Bring your boys and secure one of
I SI.OO OVERCOATS for them, as they are stunners for the price.
If you want anything in the line of
Ladies' and Cents' Furnishing Coods,
Hats, Caps, Trunks, Valises, Underwear and Notions,
You will find our stock the largest and most complete
and prices far lower than elsewhere.
Jos. Neuburger's Bargain Emporium,
Corner Centre and. IFrcnt Streets,
P. 0. S. of A. Building, Freeland, Pa.
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And Hardware of Every Description.
REPAIRING DONE ON SHORT NOTICE.\
We are prepared to do roofing and spouting in the most
improved manner and at reasonable rates. We have the
choicest line of miners' goods in Freeland. Our mining oil,
selling at 20, 25 and 30 cents per gallon, cannot be surpasssed.-
Samples sent to anyone on application.
Fishing Tackle and
Sporting Goods.
B\RKBECK'S,
CENTRE STREET, FREELAND, PA.
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