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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1900
Page
1
The store thanks customers for record sales in Freeland during a Bona Fide Sale now underway. It urges remaining shoppers to take advantage of advertised articles before the thirty day sale ends.
A dealer proclaims Pure Candies and similar items priced no higher than competitors while promising a better class of goods for the same money. The note advertises Mixed Candy at a low price, emphasizing value.
Boyle committed to county jail after trial hearsay shows he fired the fatal shot in the Staski saloon incident. Boscowski discharged after testimony cleared him of involvement. Post mortem found a single bullet entering Brezenski’s head, skull fracture noted. Funeral held at St. Ann’s cemetery.
Grand Opera House melodrama Lost in Egypt drew praise and may return. August Hoffman resigns as Salmon Iron Works foreman. Charles Ginter to lead. News notes include Christmas goods deliveries, town events, holiday sales, and local engagements.
Edward F. Gallagher 28, longtime Freeland resident, died at a Long Island City boarding house after a brief illness. His remains returned to Freeland and will lie in state at his sister’s home before a 9 a.m. funeral mass at St. Ann’s Church with burial in St. Ann’s Cemetery. The Tigers Athletic Club, of which he was a non resident member and organizer, will honor his memory with a requiem mass and club flag draping.
P C Poyser's pupils present their first Friday program featuring duets recitations solos and dialogues with Miss Wanda Rudewiek Miss Eliza beth Lawson Miss Marie Brown Miss Josephine Rudewick and Mr. Holland among performers. A special business meeting is held tonight to act on the entertainment committee report as the Glee Club rehearses for a Christmas Eve serenade to townsmen.
The Crescent Athletic Association has elected officers for the upcoming term. President Con Welsh. Vice President Frank McLaughlin. Financial secretary James McLaughlin. Recording secretary John McLaughlin. Sergeant-at-arms Hugh Cunningham. Guard Charles DeJohn. Treasurer L. Stultz. Trustees M. Jacobs, Harvey Detrich, James Thompson, Bernard McMonigal, Patrick O Donnell.
Citizens listed to serve as jurors on dates preceding their names include January 28 Joseph McClellan BE O Donnell George H Repyre Freeland Ellsworth Holman John Murphy Julius Lesser Poster Ambrose Baves Patrick Smith John Sharkey Hazle and February 4 Peter B Carr Freeland G H Reagan Solomon Santea Butler William Edwards John Stroh George Wagner Thomas Richards David Cook Hazle
The employees of Upper Lehigh Coal Company will receive their November pay tomorrow. DeWitt's Little Early Risers are promoted as dainty pills that cleanse the liver, remove obstructions, and invigorate the system, advertised by Grover's City drug store.
Oliver H. Newcomb came back to Wilkesbarre after twenty three years, having left for the West and Klondike to seek fortune. He found his wife still believing he was dead, disclosed his identity to her, and plans to take wife and son back to the Klondike. The tale ends with a product plug for One Minute Cough Cure from Grover's, urging its use for coughs and lung diseases.
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Faltze marked their nineteenth wedding anniversary with a gathering at their West Main Street home. Friends attended, staying late to wish them continued happiness in this milestone. An advertisement notes Kodol Dyspepsia Cure at Grover’s City Drug Store.
A December 25 schedule lists a St Mary s church fair at Eckley, a Good Wills Athletic Association event at Grand Opera House with 10 20 and 30 cent admissions, a shooting match by South Heberton Sporting Club, a Twentieth Century Ball of Tigers Athletic Club at Yannes Opera House with 50 cent admission, plus a drug ad for DeWitt s Little Early Risers noting no griping.
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