FREELAND TRIBUNE. VOL. XIV. NO. 120. Wear The famous Doug las Shoes. Best in the market for the money. Clothing anil Shoe House, REFOWICH BUILDING, FREELAND. Huve You Left Your M.-esure lor Your Spring Suit. t.ca^pbell7 dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes. Also PURE WINES $ LIQUORS FOR FAMILY AND MEDICINAL PURPORBB. Centre and Main streets. Freeland. Groceries, Provisions, Green Truck, Dry Goods and Notions are among the finest sold in Freeland. Send a sam ple order and try them. E, J. Curry, Sooth Centre Street. LAUBACH'S VIENNA BAKERY, B. C. LAUiiACH, Prop. Choice Bread of All Kinds, (Jakes, and Pas try, Dully. Funoy and Novelty Cukes Buked to Order. tHfICTIIIIIT 9 iCI (Mil supplied to balls, parties or picnics, with all necessary adjuncts, at shortest notice and fairest prices. Delivery and supply wag one to all parte oj town and surroundings every day. Geo. H. Hartman, Meats and Green Ti tick. Freeh Lard a Specialty, Centre Street, near Central Hotel. -A.. deu'or in Dry Goods, Notions, Groceries and Provisions. FRESH ROLL AND Creamery Butter Always in Stock. Minnesota's Best Patent Flour A Specialty, EVERY ARTICLE GUARANTEED. IV. W. Cor. Centre and Front Ste., Freeland. Shoes for Spring Wear We have them in all sizes, all styles, all qualities, all prices, for Men, Women, Youths and Children. Our spring assortment is one of the racist complete we have ever placed on sale. As we sell nothing but shoes, we give you the benefit of our vast experi ence and assure you full value for every cent paid f?>r our goods. Let us fit you with this season's foot wear. STAR SHOE STORE, HUGH MALLOY, PKOP., Centre ami Walnut Streets I SCHOOL TERM CURTAILED District Financially Unable to Have Eight Months. Reduced State Appropria tion and Extra Necessary Expenditures Compel the Board to Close. The April session of the borough school board was attended on Wednes day evening by Directors Brogun, Buck ley, Isaac, Kelly, Kline, McCole, Mc- Oeehan, Purcell and Shelhamer. Mr Brogan was chosen as chairman. The following bills were approved: Electric Light Company, $3.27; Coxe Bros. & Co., coal, $57.75; Haaimet & Co., sup plies, $8.98; llalpin Mfg. Company, re pairs, 90c; E. B. Shelhamer, hauling, $3.50; M. M. O'Boyle, additional radi ators in Daniel Coxe building. $105.50; J. J. Mcßrearty, Esq , one year's salary as solicitor, S4O; Freeland Water Com pany, sll 83. The finance committee reported hav ing failed to prepare a statement show ing the financial condition of tho dis trict, as requested at a recent meeting. Solicitor Mcßrearty, however, gavo a brief opinion on the subject, in which he maintained that the revenue for school purposes is not sufficient, at tho present valuation of the borough, to conduct the schools more than seven months, with tho number of teachers employed and salaries paid. FINANCIAL STATEMENT. Director Buckley was given permis sion to read a financial statement, pre pared for tho Information of the board, in which the following figures appeared: Authorized expenditure during the present term to April 1: School pur poses, $6,894.93; building purposes, 3,735 53; total, $10,030.46. Orders out standing, term of 1900-01, $790.00; ac counts outstandlug, same term, $25.82; total, $821.82. Total expense to date, $11,452.28. Treasurer's receipts to April 1 were: State appropriation, $4,116.33; Collector Malloy, $5,694.76; ex-Collector Kline. $250.00; tuition fees and poll rent, $9,255 total, $10,070 34. Estimated receipts be fore June 1, (from Collector Malloy, $500.00, and ex-Colleetof Kliue. $50.00), $550.00. Total actual arid estimated receipts for term, $10,620.34, leaving a deficit of $831.94. Bills estimated to become due on or before June 1, Including teachers' salar ies for seventh month, are: For school purposes, $1,474; for buildings, $255; total, $1,729, making an estimated total deficit of $2,560.94. CAUSE OF DEFICIENCY. The speaker stated the deficiency was due to tho fact that tho present board was met at the beginning of the term by extraordinary conditions. The pay ment of $514.26 on the South Washing ton street plot, $213.34 extra bond inter est and $821.82 of unpaid orders and accounts from the previous term, all of which the board was compelled to ex pend, accounted for $1,549 42. In ad dition the present board received $940.77 less appropriation from the state than was received the year previous, which was an unexpected curtailment, and this, with the payments above mention ed, amounted to $2,496 19, which, under ordinary conditions, would have left the district 10-<s than $65 in debt at the close of the school year. A refereuee to SSOO borrowed by the board last May, on account of this school year's appropriation, was replied to by Mr. Kline as misleading, the latter claiming the money was received on ac count of tho board's portion of the mil lion dollars vetoed by Governor Stone. Communications and letters from the state treasurer to the previous year's board, also the letter accompanying the warrant for tho SSOO loan, were produc ed and read. Tlieso documents gave positive warning that any advances then made would be deducted from the follow ing yoar's appropriation and would lessen the amount that would be due the district when the next appropriation became payable. TIIK TERM REDUCED. The following resolution was then in troduced by Director Buckley: "Whereas, Inasmuch as the state ap propriation received by Freeland school district is $940.77 less than was received during the previous term; and "Whereas, Inasmuch as the board ; FREELAND, PA., FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1902. has been obliged to pay during tho current year the sum of 3821.82 of school expense outstanding and unpaid at the beginning of the present school term; therefore bo it "Resolved, That the board hereby rescinds Its action of August 20, 1901, in placing the school term of 1901-1902 at eight months, and be it further "Resolved, That the board hereby designates the said term to bo of seven months' duration." A motion to adopt the resolution as read received the votes of Directors Bro gan. Buckley, Kelly, McCole, McGeehan and Purcell. Directors Isaac, Kline and Shelhamer signified their consent to the closing of the schools at the end of the seventh month but did not favor the preamble. A motion by Mr. Isaac to close the schools at the end of the seventh month was declared out of order, the chair ruling that the previous motion was carried and covered the question. 11. A. Soder spoke briefly on the clos ing of the schools and hoped the board would bo able to find away to continue the term at least eight months. A communication from the county superintendent, notifying the directors to attend the meeting on May 0 for the election of a county superintendent, was read, also a request from Misses Rogan and Lindsay for permission to use rooms for a summer school. The board granted the requests, also gave permission to any other teachers who wish to use rooms for similar purposes. Tho principal's report for the sixth month showed a total enrollment of 1,000 pupils and an average attendance of 873. The principal's recommendation that the senior class of tho High school, con sisting of Misses Maggie Boyle, Mattio Lindsay and Alberta Soder and George Denneny, John Sipple and Orion Van auken, be graduated, was adopted, and tho board decided to serve as a com mittee of the whole in preparing for the exercises. The treasurer reported a balance of 3336.33 in the treasury, and tho princi pal presented a lengthy report, contain- Ing suggestions to the board on the course of study, discipline, rules, etc. Refused to Appoint Guards. Managing Superintendent Uarnard, of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Company, considered the situa tion at the I'cttlbonc colliery, whore the miners aro locked out, so serious that he appealed to Sheriff Jacobs for depu ties to guard the property. The liremen there were discharged some time ago for falling to obey an or der and the mlns-workers were locked out as they were on the point of striking. The union orderud tho engineers to strike, but they refused, and bitterness was caused. The officials alleged that an attack upon the non-union workers and the engineers would occur, and the aid of the sheriff was asked, ilo refus ed to send deputies until he could view the situation. There was no attack, however, and all Is quiet. The company Is collecting guards for the mine and a score will be on duty to night. An effort Is being made today to settle the strike. It Is understood the officials aro ready to meet the miners. Ministers Appointed. The conference of the Central Pennsyl vania Methodist Episcopal Church, held at Bollefonte, has assigned the following ministers to churches in :hls vicinity: Freoland—Emory T. Swartz. Jeddo—Joseph K. Knisoley. Heaver Meadow—Conway W. Dickson. Conyngham—ltlchard lirooks. Ilazleton—Diamond, Edward E. A. Deavor; St. Paul's, John B. Polegrove. Jeanesvlllo and Audenrlod—John C. lllckel. Milnesvllle—Pierce N. Fredin. Weatherly—Robert M. Snyder. White Haven—S. Milton Frost. The presiding elder of the district is Rev. W. W. Evans, of Sunbury. Chapel Dedication. Rt. Rev. Rishop Hoban, of Scranton, will dedicate tho new chapel at the Sisters of Mercy convent tomorrow. The bishop will arrive here at 9.30 a. m. and the dedication ceremonies will begin at 10 o'clock. They will be concluded In time to permit the bishop to return home on tho 11.51 train. The chapel Is one of tho most hand some in the county. The cost of erect ing and furnishing the edillce amounted to over 83,000. Charles Wolfe, the gcntlomanly clerk in Oswald's store, Freeland, received a sad message last evening notifying hiin that bis Intended wife. Miss Alice! Switzgable, of Hazleton, is lying dan gerously ill with pleurisy. It is feared that the nuptials, which were to take place on the 10th Inst., will have to be postponed.— Hazleton Item. ROUND THE REGION. All of the bituminous minors of the Rochester and Pittsburg Coal Com pany are Idle. The resolutions declar ing for a strike wore obeyed by all of the men, and, as a consequence, 10,000 men are Idle. The final clause of the strike resolution reads: "No settlement of the question In dispute shall be recognized unless sanctioned by the properly au thorized committee and the officers of tho organization." This means that the men will Insist on recognition of the Miners' Union, Catharine Wesh, Joseph Davenport and John Galaguer, of Wade, Schuylkill couuty, have entered, a suit for 3100,000 damages against tho Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. It is alleged that the company has for years been mining coal on tho lands of tho plaintiffs. The county has appointed Joseph W. Garner, of Ashland, as com missioner in the case, with full power to go into tho mines of the company, with a view to ascertaining if coal has been illegally mined. Deputy State Superintendent (if In struction Houck, in addressing the Scranton Teachers' Annual Institute, condemned those school districts which rely solely on the stato appropriation to defray school expenses. This will lead, he said, if it is continued, to the state taking control of the schools. He ad- j vocatod higher pay for teachers, a sen timent that found great favor with the Scranton teachers, as they have just petitioned for an Increase of 25 per cent In salary. The Lehigh Valley Railroad has re moved six of tho largest locomotives from the Wyoming region to the Hazle ton division. These engines are capa ble of doing twice the amount of work performed by the ordinary type of lo comotive. They will disponse with the services of at least several crews. The upper end coal companies arc: rushing work on fences, which are being erected about their properties. Tho fence at the Stanton colliery in Wilkosbarre is eight feet high and will be three miles long when completed. Most of the collieries in that valley are now inclosed by similar fences. Stato Senator Drury, of Pittiton, who wobbled from the Quay to the anti-Quay faction of the Republican party, Is back to the machine camp again. In a re cent interview he signifies his Intention to support Elkin, Quay's candidate for governor. The strike of Wilkosbarre painters and paperhangers, which was declared on Monday, will probably end this week. The master painters notified the strikers that as tho difference was only of wages they are willing to arbitrate. The council of Lehighton has Instruct ed its solicitors to request the Mauch Chunk, Lehighton and Slatington Street Railway Company to either start their road in operation or vacate the streets now occupied by its tracks. The milk dealers of Plymouth have organized to mutual protection. They have decided to reduce the price from eight cents a quart to six cents and not to sell less than a pint. A Noble Sacrifice. Freeland Corr. Hazleton Standard. It is seldom our duty to chronicle a more noble and heart-inspiring sacrifice than that which was offered by Frank McHugh, the school director of Foster township, to his brother, who Is confined in the Jefferson hospital, Philadelphia, suffering from severe bruises received last April. Mr. McHugh recently recovered from a serloui attack of pneumonia and his condition was at 0110 time anything hut favorabla. His recent sickness reduced him in woight and rendered him an easy prey to prevailing diseases. Strength, however, returned slowly and surely, and when ho hoped to be soon strong and vigorous again he received word from the hospital that in order to give Ills brother rollof and save him from life long agony it would bo necessary to allow the doctors to graft his skin. John, a younger brother of Mr. Mc- Hugh, was desirous of undergoing this operation, but was prevonted by Frank, who, even In his weakoned condition, deemed it his duty as the older of the boys, to mako the sacrifice. He accord ingly wont to the hospital, and per mitted the doctors to cut eighty-four square Inches of flesh from his body, a noble sacrifice for oue brother to make for another. The friends of Mr. McHugh In town will be glad to know that he has suf ficiently tocoverod from tho operation to permit him to walk about and It Is probable that he will return to town this week. Ills brother, James, at the hospital, Is In bettor condition and it Is eagerly hoped will be spared future agony from bis Injuries. 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. While returning from school at St. Ann's on Wednesday evening, Miss Ellie Meehao, of Washington street, was ac cidentally thrown from a buckboard arid sustained severe injuries. She was ren dered unconscious for some time by tho fall and Is still suffering from the effects of tho accident. Ilev. O. G. Langford, pastor of the English Baptist church, was operated upon this week at Wilkosbarre City hospital for throat trouble. Tho opera tion was successful and the patient Is recovering from its effects. At Krell's hall tomorrow evening the Crescont Athletic Association will hold their annual hop. The young men are fitting up their rooms in an elaborate manner and will soon havo very cosy quarters. Charles Solt, of Highland, and Miss Ada lleimbach, of Freeland, were mar ried yesterday at the bride's home in Lehighton. Upon their return from their wedding trip they will reside here. James J. Sweeney, for many years a resident of Drifton and Freeland, has removed from Scranton to Hazleton, where ho will manage the new plant of the Clock Tobacco Comaany. A. Oswald has the agency for the cele brated Elysian's extracts and perf utuery. The finest goods made. Try them. Operations at Pond Creek, which were suspended some months ago, will be resumed next week. The company which is developing that field is satisfied that much coal can bo found there. Mrs. Thomas Cutnerford, of Ilazle Brook, has applied for lotters of ad ministration on the estate of her hus band, who died last week. His personal effects are valued at 34,000. "The Queen of Chinatown," a play which has already made a hit here, will be produced next Wednesday evening at tho Grand opera house at popular prices. J. C. Koons, of Birkbeck street, was injured on Wednesday by a fall of coal in No. 2 mine, Highland. His head and shoulders were badly bruised and gashed. Itev. M. F. Failihee, who has been the guest of his brother, Rev. M. J. Failihee, for several months, returned to his home in Arlington, 111., this morning. The price of meat is preparing for another ascension. The next advance, it is predicted, will be at loast 15 per cent over present quotations. Ice cream at Merkt's. In another column a fine piece of property and several acres of land, locat ed in Weatherly borough, are offered for sale. John Kelly has resigned as driver of the United States Express Company's delivery wagon. Prof. John E. Williams, of town, will address a teachers' institute at F&lrviow tomorrow. Peter Tirnony, Jr., has accepted a position with tho Freeland Brewing Company. DRIFTON. John Brogan, who recently returned from the West, has given his numerous friends a pleasant surprise by announc ing that ho is to bo married. The bride elect is Miss Maggie Mcllugh, of Phila delphia, and the ceremony will take place in that city next Monday. Mr. Brogan will likely make bis home in the future in Philadelphia. John Bonner, the popular ball player, will leave on Monday for Newark, N. J., where he will play with that team the coming season. John J. Glllesplo met with a distress ing accident yesterday. While chopping wood the axe slipped and cut off one of his fingers. An Infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kennedy, former residents of town, died yesterday at tbeir home in Ebervale. Miss Katie Edmunds left for her home In Wilkesbarre yesterday. John Bonner, of No. 3, Is visiting In Philadelphia tftis week. Hugh Kennedy is suffering from a large cut in his head, which he received in the mines yesterday. Harvey E. Hoffman is making his monthly visit to the schools this week. TR I- WEEKLY Great Bankrupt Stock Sale OF FINE Clothing, Hats, Caps, Shoes, Furnish ings, Etc., Is Still Going On AT THE OLD HIE LIABLE (FOUMEU) Phila, Oae-Price Clothing House, Birkbeck Brick, Freeland, Pa. OKIOM S'i'fiOH, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW anil NOTARY PUBLIC. Office: Rooms laud 2, Birkbeck Brick, Freeland JOHN M. CARR, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. All legal business promptly attended. I'ostofflce Building, ... Freeland. MCLAUGHLIN, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW. Legal Business of Any Description. Brennan'a Building:, So. Centre St. Freeland. R. J. O'DONNELL, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Campbell Building, - Freeland White Haven Office, Kane Buildiug, Opposite' Postoffice; Tuesdays, Saturdays. JOHN J. McBREARTY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Legal Business of every description, Fire Insurance, and Conveyancing given prompt attention. MoMeuamin Building,South Centre Street. maley DENTIST. OVEK BIRKBECK'S STORE, Second Floor, - - Birkbeck Brick S. E. lIAYES, FIRE INSURANCE AGENT. Washington Street. None but reliable companies represented. Also agent lor the celebrated high-grade Pianos ot Ila/elton Bros., New York city. S. 8. HESS, DENTIST. 37 South Centre Street. Bell Telephone. Second Floor Front, - Relowich Building. A. BUCKLEY, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. All btmneM given prompt attentions Tribune Building, Main Street JEWELRY STORE. Clocks, Watches and Spectacles. DePIERRO - BROS. CAFE. Curner of Centro and Front HI rests. Gibson, Dougherty, Kaufer Club, Kosonbluth's Velvet, of which wu h ,ve EXCLUSIVE SALE IN TOWN. Mumm's Extra Dry Champagne, Henneaay Brandy, Blackberry, Gins, Wines, Clarets, Cordial,i, Kto. Ham and Sc.hweiteer Cheese Sandwiches, Sardines, Ktc. MEALS - AT - ALL - HOURS. MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS. TjpORSALE.—A six-room new house with two I _prches, stable, etc . buildings costing over sl,&jo, and 4 acres of land which can be cut in to 35 or 40 kits worth £l5O each; situated in bor ough of Weatherly. Pa. Terms,|2socash; bal ance SIOOO on time; privilege of monthly pay ments. Address Dr. P 11. Lutham, Weatherly. TjX)R BEKVICV -Threo bulls—one large, Geo. M^li^yl'Feni'atreet, H FrDnfand. AP^ '° PLEASURE. April s.—Hop of the Crescent Athletic Association at Kiell's hall. Admission, 25 cents. April 26.—Lecture by lion, .lolin G. Woolley at the Grand opera house; sub ject, "My Own Country." Admission, 25 cents. 'YOUR. FAITH ours if you try - Shiloh's Consumption g , <-v and ours is so strong we 1,111 t* guarantee a cure or refund money, and we send you free trial bottle if you write for it. SIIILOII'S costs 25 cents and will cure Con sumption, Pneumonia, Bronchitis and all IgUiig Troubles. Will cure a cough or cold in a dav, and thus prevent serious results. It has been doing these thing 9 for 60 years. 8. C. Wells & Co., Le Roy, N. V.
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