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Pittston Gazette from Pittston, Pennsylvania • Page 8

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if. PAGE 1 i TUESPAY THE PITTSTON GAZETTE A'. A REMEDY, i. fa dt ii ms William. Unl a 4flraH nf trm lly UII Civtt War, and connected wtt' htn fast few week.nd: although they National Veterans' Home at, Dayton, to refund theN purchase price Ohio, is Vfcrttn in WUkesbarre.

dlssaUsfled purchaser, not one Commending tonight Naritieoke returned. mtrchantsywill, close tftelr jstores er I While this is surprising tn itself, yet Very Wonderful Parasol Bargains 2v: fniitififiocJ Finest made goods in the country CO a to J3.00. up to 13.75. 8 a a reduced to onealf ami less. 'lii' order to accommodate! our many patrons and their friends have decided to continue this record bfeaking sale of high grade papers at wholesale prices The sefec tiu is still large enough to supply the demands of the most fastidious.

Ask your neighbor "if slit' has seen our window display. a 'id: ti McAnulty Pittston, Pa: WilkeS'Barre, Pa. DDQDODQaDDQD a Williams 60 7f. Tlfa in St. Scranton, Pa.

ODD ODD 75 Lot 1. 98c; fornier price up Lot 2. tt49; former price Lot 3, I1.S8. 2.4. And, all h(gler f.

xj. Skirts Suit Cases, Bags best goods, only. Every artfel Bags from Sec to Suit Cases from 8c. to $15 Truhks from $2.00 to 20. Straw matting Case from lOvcf 59 to 73 Read all about the big sale We have every kind of tain or country wear and can Adi.st.ai i I'll' mMamfow priced numbers 00.

an II you ever want anything Iff the Bocirle line, thereto one place you can get suited (BAWIlSWkl'Q electric rams Dining Room Domes, Portable Lamps and Gelling fixtures. ESTIMATES fC3flTD. 38 North Jain Street Liquidate CUT CLASS The whole Stock of TUat rium Enema; Oulckfr. 1 J. Pock lad J.

H. Farrer fiave F. sold hundreds of Jars ot Hokara in uie moHi murveiuus mmg ame re ports of chronic cases of eczema tral nave been cured by this simple skin food. People who have suffered with scales, scabs and even bleeding itching have found relief in Hokara. No matter where the eczema, pimples or other breaking out occurs, whether on the face, hanffs, legs or body, the application of Hokara will 0.u!ck relief, and even the worst or most chronic cases will be cured in a hort time.

Tou can buy a liberal sized jar at a very low price. 25c; and with every package goes a guarantee to refund the money if It Is not satisfactory. Larger s'ze 58c. ITALIAN KILLED BY LUZERNE TROLLEY CAR Michael Angelo, aged 24, a young Italian living on Prospect street, WUkesbarre, met a terrible death on the trolley line last night With several others he had been spending the day at Harvey's Lake and was bound for home. The car was crowded and he was standing on the running board.

As the car was passing from Kingston over the flats towards WUkesbarre, the wind blew his hat off, and he leaned out quickly to grab It Just as he did so, a Luzerne trolley car was passing on the other track. Angeio was struck and knocked to the ground: fortunately he did not fall beneath the wheels. His skull Jiaa oeen irac tared ami his face terribly mangled, and. he died a few minutes after being admitted to WUkesbarre City Hospital. Queen Esther Chocolates for sals by all confectioners.

nU QBUftSi Never tnOA to Restore Cray Hair to IteNataral Color and Beauty. No matter how km it baa been pray orfaded. Promotes lnxuriat growth of healthy hair. Stops it falling oat, and postllvtly remwM D' draft. Keeps hair soft andglcasy.

Refuse all substitutes. times as much in $1.00 as SOc. aire. IsNotaDye, Hand 50c pottles, at (taut freebtok "TlwCararfttt. Hair." BMtoHar Jv.

Hay's HaMtatt Somptam Raw. M. ras chapped Bands, asd all sUn dk. A ftr. ha bunk HThtCsn OftO okm." FORD, TINKER YATES, EVANS, yacns a urown I STH AV7S GTRAtiG! cf ery dsJcrlpUsn and iwi shzps tm ill 50c Sailor (o ioi $6.00 Paitama Solhsn Gacks Broivn 1 CALL US UP It's easy to order a case of Perfection beer.

Step to the 'phone and your" order will 4 have immediate attention. Perfection beer has taken front rank In popularity as a household beverage! among families. It is an admirable table drink ad many none And it Indispensable for Wrposes of entertaining. Host persons prefer the light beer for family use. It IS exceedingly mjld, yet it has a full rich flavor.

Our wagons ga everywhere. New Ho W0 a comfortably as well as fashionably shod. Just try our facil The Pittston Ctit Glass Co. to be sold The public is ItiVjfed to call at the factory, corner Maple street and Dcla ware aTenne, Weat Pittston. Pa.

Sale Every Day at 10 a. m. Tlie goods are marked Irrespective of value with Hie only purpose In virw to close the stock quickly. "vitk am HMigWM or spedaf MHiaHt Mem' bers oT PMtlbTte Sodetle, On Invitation of the Toung Men's League the First M. B.

church, a. large congregation, composed of Civil War veterans aad ntembenref the Sr. U. A. P.

O. 3. of A. and Knights or attended the Sunday evening service and listened to a stirring and) powerful sermon by Dr. C.

H. Newhtg. The Interior ef the edifice was netly aecoratea tne national emblem ovrui aLitnoplkate selections wen sung by the choir and a haw solo was rendered by Fred Fear. Dr. Kewlng's eloquent remarks were attentively listened to.

He saiu in snOBtance: "We are wlutt: we are because ol what our ancestors were. It takes several thousand years tn make a man. Twentieth century freedom Is the re sult of the combined forces of the. centuries that have passed. We navS been born into liberty, and the price ot all liberty is blood.

We free today, not because we made. our selves free, but because our ajieestoss bled and died for, us. If we had. fought for this liberty we would then knpw how to keen It Bat iiave not the discipline which comes by fighting. and that Is our great, danger.

"This inherited liberty places in great danger. We do not prise, it highly enough. Oar iathers, paid 'fpr their liberty with their bloodi And that is our great peril Our aims, eur hearts lack the training and we 'need watch lest we lose pur inheritance. "The time ripe for brtghtenimr up Americanism, to.teacn with renewed vigor the principles of Individual liberty for which the ntihute inert of the Revolution fought "The Lincoln liberty, ah Individual liberty for all men. from tne press, the uulpK, the school house, tb4 plat form and the street, let the true history of our country he known, ihat t.ie young tnn and women of America sind many Older one, too, may know what a price has been paid (or our liberty, civil ana religious, ine peace and union they enjoy, tnrouga the ue votton and patriotism bf onr silent heroes of the past what they paid for, bled' for and died for, we ought to care for.

"We are debtors to the past, And We must be creditors to the future. It Is a shame before God to receive such ah inheritance and then to pa's it on to future generations reduced fn Uuanttty and tarnished tn quality. it ought to mean more to art American years from now than touay. talk about the perns whleh confront us and of the evils In our 'land. The greatest evils ot all and out of which all the rest grow are the lack of reverence uj the American people and the desecration of the bbath day.

From these two sins of the American people flow the evil of di vorce, the social ev il.the greed of the trusts and a large number of other evils" lie showed hew other nations because they had disregarded God's law, had been reduced and had passed away and were no more. The doctor brought very forcibly to the audience and made them feel the force of his thought that unless we correct these two ereat evils and thus nut a stem to the evils growing out of them that this great country would also pass away. He told the young men especially the best way they could carry oat the principles of their different lodges, which were all about the saras and Instill oatriotism In people was to at tend the church themselves and get others to do so, to teach by precept and example, reverence and the keeping of the Sabbath day; that the man or men who got up and run Sunday Mexcurslon was doing more to under mine this, government ana our.uivu and reiigieus liberty than all tha Socialists, Black Hand end anarchists. The. doctor closed with an exhorta tion to the people to stand oy the church, for she Is and has been in all ages the leader in all time liberty.

HLlCHLEDERRY picker WAS BADLY INJURED Duryea Man Will Probably fcrttiii Injuries Recetvea unw migut Near Glen Summit Frank Bauman, of Duryea, was 'seriously, If not fatally. Injured last night on the Leltfgh Valley's mountain cutoff tracks. In attempting to jump from a frelirht train he fell Under the wheels. In company with his brother Wensel and other men, ranK Bauman was one ef a party of Duryea men who started out on a huckleberrylng trlpf Their intention was i "tart picking early this morning. In order to be on hand bright, and early they boarded a Lehigh Valley freight train last night, to ride over tne mountain.

Near Glen Summit they. Intended Setting off the tram, and the other inertl bers of the party did so successfully. Bauman, 'however, slipped hv alighting, and fell. He was dragged uoife a distance. One ot his arms was hr.Uoi.

and snveral ribs. fractured. and It is believed one of che.fraetured ribs punctured a lung. Me was piacea aboard a night passenger, train taken to Dnryear whence ho was taken on a special engine to Scranton. He Is a married man with a large family, ana resides oh Myers street It is thought his condition is critical.

MELlIJAuCTl) IN BOY'S EYE Joluiny Pcxotlne, of Duryea, Is In Critical Condition Bri At fectcA Taken to John Peso tine, an ll yeariold. boy of Duryea, is a patient in tit Mokes Taylor Hospital, at Scranton, and fears are entertained for His recovery. He met with a most painful and distressing accident last evening just about'dusk. With ethers he attended picnic at Jones' Park. The orches tra was playing dance music, 'and a number of ueou.e were on the plat form the dancers.

Toung' Pesotine wag among the number. He stood before a large man who hS an irmbretja under bis arm. Suddenly some friend the man came along and in a friendly manner, gave htm a shove. The man. dodged backward and as he did so the point of his ufp brella jabbed the Pesotme by in the left eye.

From a hurried examination ii seenu the point of the umbrella slipped between the eyeball and socket, and did not gouge out the eye. Jt is believed, however, Jt went deep enough to affect the brain. The bpy was taken home, and local physicians called. All. night he lay in a semi conscious cdndltlon.

and this morning was taken to Moses Taylor Hospital. Cafe Serrtsa ai im Any hour tit da r. tng of ail kmar cooh hirs wso 4iH iunfcrak ttttsl Mnrft 5a ItK ry. eventna except SatuMaV. durinir the summer months, fire o'clock.

The mountain back of General OH ver's home at Oliver's Mills was set oh fre' yesterday and wes not extln Kttlshed ttHttl, after severtt hours' hard work. John Caverly, aged 78 years, died at her home op Jones street, Wilkesbarre. yesterday. Death was due to stoma trouble. Deceased Is survived by fijur daughters and one son.

The funeral of the late Mrs. John Hart, mother of City Treasurer Dan Hart, Of WUkesbarre, took place yesterday 'morning. A solemn high mass was sung in St. Mary' R. C.

Church. WlWam Klsthart, of Hasleton, while passing along the street wliere boys were exploding dualin was struck by an cap and had his leg badly injured, by pieces of the flying cap. George Virbanvance, a patcher at tAtimer. while attempting to jump on a moving train of mine cars missed his footing and fell under the trip. H's leg was so crushed that it had to be amputated.

Andrew Scheech, while walking along the railroad tracks at Hasleton met with an accident that necessitated the amputation of both iris legs. It is also thought that his skull ie fractured. Joseph tfovartH, agedlS fyears, of Scranton, is at the Scranton Private hospital. as the. result of lA)urU.

sus tained by being struck oh the head by an automobile. His skull, is. fraq tured and his recovery is doubtful. The driver ot the machine escaped. Jennie Watkins, of EdWardsvllle, was arrested at WUkesbarre yesterday charged with' larceny: It is charged she stole J15 from Her employer and proceeded to make merry on the Fodrth.

During a light among foreigners in a house at Brookside, North WUkesbarre. last night a crib containing an infant babe was knocked over and the child thrown to the floor with much force. The fighters were arrested. The pile driver to be used on the foundation of the new WUkesbarre high school has arrived, and is now being installed. The plies to be 'driven by the machine are made of concrete with a shell of steel and will be eighteen feet in Mrs.

W. E. StaUsmlth. of Barney street, WUkesbarre, white attending the Scranton Wilkesbarre ball game at WUkesbarre yesterday afternoon, was hit In the face by a foul tip from the bat ot Rightflelder Early. She was seated In the grandstand when the ball hit the tnd and bounding struck her squarely tn the act.

Since Sunday night; four Plymouth children have died with cholera infantum, as follows: Charles aged seven months, son of George Bally: Anna, aged nine months, daughter of Thomas Martin; Anna, aged IS months, daughter of John Karchwis kl: Anna, aged two months, daughter of Wiliam Patulls. The mill of the Star Slate located between Bangor and Pen Argyl, was destroyed by yesterday and the. loss will reach There Were eight fires In Scranton during yesterday, of which seven were due to fireworks. One in the hay loft of Swift place caused a loss of Joseph 40, a resident of Jessup, was killed yesterday while exploding a percussion cap. The shell penetrated h's skull and ruptured his brain; This was Scranton's only fatal accident as a 'result of the celebration.

Claude Bishop, the 8 year old son of Charles Bishop, of Pottsvllle, had both eyes blown out yesterday by the premature explosion of a 4An of powder. A few weeks ago the boy's mother dropped dead. According to reports from Jamison City deer In the North Mountain sec t'on are so plentiful and tame that in several Instances they have come from the woods and mingled with the horses and cattle in the pasture fields. Some of the farmers claim that deer have their crops, but deny that they shot at them or killed any as reported several days ago. E.

D. Hughes, of Berwick, had purchased a ticket to take a trio to the Bermudas and later dreamed that she had gone on the Journey that terminated In her death. She became alarmed at the dream and was thinking of selling her ticket Her friends persuaded her that she was but superstitious. She went along with them and while In New York fell and sprainft her sujne the accident caus ing iter ileum. Rising almost at right ancles while a curve, a coach of a speed ing train on the scento railwav at a fihamokln amusement park, tilted and injured almost all of its sixteen pas sengers, only four seriously, however.

Miss Ida KozlowskW of Mount Carmel, had her arm broken. Marv and Eva Richards, of Franklinville. received lacerations of the head and limbs and Helen Mllleskle, of Mount Carmel, was dut about the arms. SCllOOL CHILDREN RUN SOWN BY R. R.

TRAIN Sad Acuident at Avoen. fmsi Sunilav Afternoon ResiUtliig in the Death of Two Clrildren. A very sad accident was that which occurred at Avoca Sunday afternoon which cost the lives of two children who wer returning home after at tending Sunday school. The accident nuppenea at me oicAlpine street cross In? at South Avars. Th.

Prlmithu i Methodfet Sunday school had Just dismissed, and a number of the children were on their wuy home to Vi'est Avoca. As the children reached the cspcslng a freight train came, along. and they stopped for It ttf pass. As the freight train was passing, a coal tfqln 'moving In the opposite direction came along on the other track. The children tailed to notice this, and the moment the freight train passed they made a dash to cross.

A man named Newton noticed the danger and yelled to them. Most the children fled safely at his warning, but two of them lee lied around to see the cause for alarm, and In an instant the coal train was upon them. The victims were Raymond AtwelL aged eight, son of fGeorge Atwell, and Hilda Wilcox, aged eight, daughter of Charles Wilcox. 'After temporary treatment In the shed used as a station by the D. Ji.

Ayoca, the victims were taken to.a Scranton hospital, where the boy died shortly after admission and the girl passed away during the night Clean Up Tout Old Hat and the price ot a new one. We do the work in gnod Style. Quick service, putstoif Shoe Shine Parlor, Butler, mock, next donr tn, Cndekaa. AU shines 6C, aiktendim and Wash Suits and Trunlis guaranteed and lettered free. M.

SI. SO to S2.25. Per Cent off in of Foulards on Page 7. P'OOTWEAR often makes or mars the pleasure ot vacation days. Unlike some A stores we always maintain ll our stock at its higbfest effi cieiiey until every patron has secured all the tics or shoes they, need for the season.

By this rriethod you are never asked to take a shoe that is either too large or too smalt and you Will al nvntS ivjiti an jivoi sinrl comiorianie nutng. outine shoe for beach, niouu 6utnt vou so that vou wHl jl know Why so many. people i 1 II fi; ajn Su The Professor Says: the patient Is weak; when the nerves' need" food arid thfe entire system toning jipj BARTBLS PORT BER fk the proper, prescription. I know.fro um, personal. Ctfh tact with that no amount ot pains the 'brewery and expense are spared, to Jwinit this nwr up ur.

uiv fiignew point oi per feet ion. PROMPT EUVBRt 4 You Con Orttxand VBcofcdit. niatter, how hot It gets If your home and office, store or shop are eoulpjfedWlth. an electric Oncb you tryha ye'll neve belwithout if WhHe 1 getting In hlbcst flicks. See several styles here and cost of Tan flnd Mtttnc' Edwin Mittecr 1, atf A.

1 i Anything and Everything Electrical. fel Butler Place Plttsto. Pa. Ola. Phphi.

vrnDT ivUsxfttdtitt. fixAciK. i SktkJf wke open door causes a ararc tt ion kot irast a "part of Its Illuminating force, the eeillng. but easts it au downward or can be rail acted as da It does NOT make bvy thad Ft i W1? 4urT IT ISths only light that fea agfelir ssd ht pIota pensata tne fixture. c4h and close corners, under counter! IA( and among the goods.

raleaa i ana comrortaDie ugai. IS the PERFECT light awaaraaay. i Special The Daily GREAT BERMUDA ities this season arid then you look to us for fine footwear. 0, 0. SH0C Cartels Brewing Go prmrcNMcrf Phone No.

5. APPLICATION BLANK am a resident of Pittston or vicinity and wish to enter the SGREAT BERMUDA ISLANDS CONTEST from District No. which is my place of residence. I fully understand the rules and conditions governing same, which I agree to comply with. Signed: Name We.

the undersigned, personally endorse her candidacy. Signed: Name flame None I Ten Young Ladles Will mi Keaa me nusion uany uazeue NOMINATION I respectfully nominate M. Indacements To Dealers 1 Gazette's ISLANDS CONTEST Address know the above applicant, and i Address Address Tour Bermuda A iiljt BLANK. Yours very truly. 16 This Ballot must be voted oh or before JULY 13 or before above, date.

ffl address as an eligible young woman to entet the Gasette's Great Bermuda Islands Educational Tour Con i nm niiiMpt 25.00 in gold wH be awarded to person first poiniuatUig cn U0t receiving the greatest nuniber oC votics during the contest. itoltfrATION MAftB. Date A. M. pf M.

THE GAZETTE'S Great Bwnuda Islands vni i TSHirii is Btr, osb Answer. It is manufactured sunllvht and has all the color elements of the' sun. It does wart store la warm weather. "It does not vltUteWe sir bf tsumfnr the; 0)cygB, 4 bat leaves It fresh and sweet, It doea KOT'gtva oS earbdav dioxide or anyther gssv that I begrims hnd smttdgM woodwork and goods. It does NOT require matches rlth thalr ilifiin Dm YOUNG BOOJ PCS ME I0TE Fors Miss 'bjstrlCNo.

1 It does MOT at rain' the eve 4 sight by fliekerlng or uneven glare. in rii If presented at the Gaettt offlCr 11 ITrim this baiwt Both, 'phoned. 'A'.

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