Railroad Timetables High Valley Railroad November 19 1899
Passenger trains depart Freeland for Weatherly Mauch Chunk Allentown Bethlehem Easton Philadelphia New York 3120 m later to Sandy Run White Haven Wilkes Barre Scranton 9 30 am Hazleton Mahanoy City Shenandoah Mt Carmel Shamokin Ilion 130 ES for Weatherly etc. 442 pm for Hazleton Mahanoy City Shenandoah Pottsville Weatherly Mauch Chunk Allentown Bethlehem Philadelphia New York 634 pm for Sandy Run White Haven Scranton and points east arrives Freeland 7 40 am from Weatherly Pottsville Ashland Shenandoah Mahanoy City Hazleton 9 17 am from Philadelphia Bethlehem Allentown Mauch Chunk Weatherly Hazleton Mahanoy City Shenandoah Mt Carmel Shamokin 12 52 pm from New York Philadelphia Bethlehem Allentown Mauch Chunk Weatherly 4 42 pm from Scranton Wilkes Barre and 634 pm from New York Philadelphia etc. Inquiries to Ticket Agent Roslin H Willbur etc. Schedule in effect April 18 1897. Also other lines and connections listed.
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E High Valley Railroad
Freeland
Weatherly
Mauch Chun
Allentown
Bethlehem
Easton
Philadelphia
New York
Sandy Run
White Haven
Wilkes-Barre
Pittston
Scranton
Hazleton
Mauch Chunk
Allentowny
Mahanoy City
Shenandoah
Mt. Carmel
Shamoki
Shamokin
Pottsville
Adelphia
Maudr Chunk
Delphia
Kite Haven
Ruslin H.willbur
Cortlandt Street
New York City
Ohas
Lee
Obituary and Local Visits Highlight Small Town News
Mrs Catherine Fallon aged eighty years died at Hazleton yesterday. She had lived in lower Luzerne for sixty years. Miss Mary E O Donnell returned home after an extended visit to Bayonne New Jersey. John Brennan of Jersey City is visiting in town. Hugh Shovilu is visiting old friends at Luausford.
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Catherine Fallon
Hazleton
Lower Luzerne
Mary E. O'Donnell
Bayonne
N. J
John Brennan
Jersey City
Hugh Shovilu
Luausford
Cottage Hall
Mary
Pees Logan
St. Ann's Cemetery
St. Patrick’s Orphanage
Scranton
O'Hara
M. J. Fallihee
Hoban
Father O'Hara
John Chikoskle
John Chikoski
Highland
Undertaker McNulty
August Zadra
Frank Sandy
Washington Street
Fiieland
Eckley
Thomas Smith
Alvinton
Miners’ Hospital
David H. Shields
United States Army
A. Oswald
George Coler
Walnut Street
Lauretown Asylum
Squire Campbell
East Foster
Freeland Cemetery
Canada
Moosic
M. F. Corcoran
Duryea
George Seriis
Jeddo
Miles
Corbin
Root
Citizens’ Hose Company
Yannus
Opera House
Old Si Stebbins delight at Lyceum in Albany 1900
The rural play Old Si Stebbins in the style of Old Homestead drew a full Lyceum audience. Richard Mason traps Si Stebbins into a wager, leading to SI’s daughter’s marriage to Mason. The cast and Elmore Silvers enchanted, with eight encores for the dancing duo. Grand Thursday evening.
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Stebbine
Old
Boston
Mason
Elmore Silvers
Albany
Argus
Local Briefs Mix News on Marriages and Public Affairs
Announcement of marriages in the region lists Charles Dunn and Mamie Welgner, Daniel Mulraney, Walter Richards, Fed Schrader, and Erasmus Snyder as jurors. Local politics see committee posts debated, delegates elected, and postmaster recommendations. Civil notices range from baptisms to hospital updates and court matters amid community events and theater reports.
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Charles Dunn
Allentown
Mamie Welgner
Jeddo
Daniel Mulraney
Freeland
Walter Richards
Fed Schrader
Erasmus Snyder
Foster
Byron G. Hahn
Luzerne County
Republican Committee
Wilkesbarre
Penrose
Pleasure Calendar January 22 to February 24 at Yannes Opera House
Annual fair of the Citizens Hose Company January 22 at Yannes Opera House. February 19 ball for St Kasimer Polish church at Yannes Opera House, admission 25 cents. February 24 hop of Crescent Athletic Association at Yannes Opera House, admission 25 cents.
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Citizens’ Hose Company
Yannes’ Opera House
St.Kasimer’s
Yannes' Opera House
Crescent Athletic Association
Tissot Paintings at Cross Creek hall Drifton
Display of large scale Tissot life of Christ in Cross Creek hall, Drifton, via Philadelphia bureau with Parisian electrical aids. 500 paintings, ten years in Palestine, free showing Saturday evening for locals. Also notices a fatal shooting in Shenandoah area and various local items including hunting case fines, will contest outcome, Cross Axle stock plans, a funeral, Good Wills officers, and county official salaries.
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Tissot
Drifton
Tissot Club
Philadelphia
Welham Clarke
London
Cross Creek Hall
Palestine
Earth
Strikes Rage in Wyoming Valley Mines Narrowly Met by Operators
A wave of labor unrest hits Wyoming Valley as miners strike for higher wages. Hollenback mine driver boys demand 1.25 a day, 300 idle. Baltimore mine workers seek 13 cents more per day. Nanticoke breaker boys protest discrimination against new hires. Red Ash Company miners form union amid powder-price grievances. Board of Trade urges restraint to avoid crippling strikes while United Mine Workers press for talks. Also reports include Callaway’s body recovered, coroner verdict on a fatal locomotive incident, other mining injuries, and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen aid distributions.
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Wyoming Valley
Hollenback
Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre
Nanticoke
Susquehanna Coal Company
No. 7
No. 5
Delaware and Hudson
Red Ash Company
Willkesbarre
Lehigh Valley
Board of Trade
Garrett Smith
United Mine Workers
Lackawanna
Upper Luzerne
Scranton
William ‘Callaway
Kaskawilliam
Bowman
Daniel Dougherty
McAdoo
Joddo
James MacAlarney
Ebervale
Milnesville
Peter Valentine
Jeddo
Valentine
Andrew Popolscol
Honey Brook
W. W. Stevens
Coxe Addition
Will's Eye Hospital
Philadelphia
Alonzo Woodring
Drifton
Miners’ Hospital
Brotherhood of Railroad
Wilson Mowrey
Upper
Lehigh
Impostor Evangelist Exposed in Weatherly
Weatherly Herald reports Rev Sovieski and wife posing as evangelists misusing Christian sympathy. Claims to be ex priest and ex am, with forged credentials, deceiving townsfolk for alms. Accused by multiple churches, with past arrests and revoked ordination noted. Also mentions local strikes and damages at Jeanesville iron works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weatherly Herald
Sovieski
Rome
Ogdensburg
N. Y
F. W. Reeder
Free Baptist Church
Depauville
Smeck
Custards
Crawford County
J. W. Hunter
Verona
Wisconsin
The
Baptist Church
Pittsburg
E. C. Vale
East Carmel
Ohio
Baptist Church of
O. T. True
Fairwater
Wis
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Devawany
Susquentanna
Schuylkill
Writton
Hazle Brook
Stockton
Beaver Meadow Road
Hoan
Hazleton Junction
Harwood
Cranberry
Tombicken
Deringer
Oneida Junction
Harwood Road
Humboldt Road
Oneida
Sheppton
Sud
Taina
Tomhicken
Andiay
Unday
Tomhick
Koan
Roan
Éuami
Hasseton Junction
Jeanesville
Audenrieda
Traction Company
P. Kt. K
Sunbury
Harrisburg
Libor Winter
Front Street
John Jenkins
David McDonald
Ferguson
Jenkins
McDonald
Ashland Hospital
William Hadsell
Hunlock Township
Alderman Davison
J. P. Brader
Rush Brader
J. I. O'Neill
Luzerne County Sportsmen's Club
Thomas M. Bon‘ham
Hunlock
Mother
Enury
Frank Vw. Sfoyt
Judge Carte
H. Florence Miller
Hoyt
Cross Axle Company
J. K. Roberts, Jr
W. F. Goff
G. N. Reichard
George Llewellyn
R. R. Cross
Hannah Campbell
Mark Campbell
Bayonne City
Ridge Street
St. Ann’s Church
F. J. Mack
St. Ann’s Cemetery
Breslin
Good Wills
Good Wills Athletic Association
John M. Carr
John Gillespie
M. Ferry
P. J. Gallagher
Neal O'Donnell
J. J. Ferry
J. J. Malloy
P. J. McGowan
D. J. McBrierty
James O'Neil
M. Johnson
John McCole
Schuylkill County
Court House
Wyoming
Callaway
Sense
Birkbeck
Jeanesville Iron Works
Grand Opera House
Freeland Opera House Co
Wallace, Gilmore & CO
Si Stebbins
Dait Darleighe
Elmore Sisters
P. F. McNulty
South Centre Street
George Fisher
East Walnut Street
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Orson Stroh
Eet
M. Carr
Attorney-at-Law
Postofice
Cre McLaughlin
Brennan
Centre 81
R J, O'Donnell
Campbell Building
Appro
A. Buckley
Justice of the Peace
AU Business
Tribune Building
D. N. Maley
Main Street
Birkbeck’s
Hayes
Ee Ene Torino
D. S
Hess
Refowich
Aes
Candy D. Boyle
Fa Owen Yornah Rochester
Ehannas Jour
Youngling
Renee Eb Gonire Teoset
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