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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1900
Page
1
Several hundred children of Drifton workers received Christmas gifts from Mrs. Eckley B. Coxe as a festive tree lights up the town. A boiler explosion at No 4 slope Upper Lehigh caused no injuries, damage repaired. contests, sales and church events fill a busy holiday period with Merrit's toy varieties and Keiper's decorations cited.
A store announces a clearance featuring a very pretty line of these goods with prices reduced on all coats to close out the lot.
Officials of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company believe the Summit Hill mine fire, started about 42 years ago, is now under control and may be extinguished in about two years. Other items note Pittston cave‑ins, unions reorganizing by colliery, a $1,500 fund toward a $10,000 free hospital for consumptives, and local rail pay and public health notices. Grover's One Minute Cough Cure is advertised.
At the Baptist Church the Bethel Baptist program for Christmas services features the choir with The Dawn of Peace Star of Fulfillment The Wondrous Advent and The Light of Heaven plus solo by John Price and recitations by Blodwen Roberts and the children. The evening includes primary songs O Little Child A Song of Holly distribution of gifts and the benediction.
The program to be presented tomorrow evening features a minstrel first part with over forty local participants. The alio includes acts by Annie and Millie Bonoma, Bernard Sharpe, Alice Rey, Teresa Meehan, Richard Welsh, May Jacobs, Marie Timney, and R. De Pierre, with St. Ann's band playing selections and an address of welcome by R. J. O'Donnell Esq.
The New York Wyoming and Western Railroad plan is formally abandoned after a Friday Scranton directors meeting. The 65 percent demand prompted the move, with 7000 tons of rails set for sale along the proposed route. Arbutus Lodge 611 F and A M elected officers W M W Martin senior warden C Collins junior warden G Wilmot treasurer H E Sweeney secretary J TH Trevaskis and named Rev J W Bischoff representative to grand lodge A Oswald S Salmon H B Price trustees.
A fair and bazaar will open tomorrow in the basement of the Eckley Catholic church. The organizing committee has invested time and money to present an attractive display. Proceeds benefit the church, and numerous exhibition items will be sold during the event.
On December 25 a fair for St Marys Catholic church at Eckley opens with entertainment by the Good Wills Athletic Association at Grand Opera House with admission 10 20 30 cents. A shooting match by South Heberton Sporting Club is set at Birkbeck street club rooms. December 31 the Tigers Athletic Club hosts the Twentieth Century Ball at Vannes Opera House with admission 50 cents.
A string of area residents and visitors return to hometowns for the holidays. P X O Donnell of Pennsylvania University travels with colleagues from Lehigh University. Others include Joseph Wagner Frank Roberts R S Cunningham visiting from Lehigh, and families from Scranton Jeddo Rockport Philadelphia Bucknell and Hazleton.
Scranton street cars halted as motormen and conductors strike at 5 AM, paralyzing lines from Pittston to Forest City in Lackawanna valley. Wilkes-Barre traction groups plan reply by December 27. Warrior Run mines idle as strike spreads over driver pay dispute. Dorrance and Prospect collieries also on strike for semi monthly pay. Notices urge tax payments in Freeland and promote stomach relief product. Christmas trees sold at Morkt’s. Grover’s City drug store ads conclude item.
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