Saturday, August 21, 1897 Contractors Crawford and Dugan arrived with their steam shovel this
week and will immediately commence work on the new stripping of the Saint Clair Coal
Co. This is the first step the company intends making towards largely increasing the
coal output of the Patterson Colliery. A large edition to the Breaker will shortly
be made and new machinery introduced.
Saturday, August 28, 1897
For sale, the parsonage of the German Catholic Church
located on Nicholas Street. Terms reasonable. Apply to Rev. Charles
Sauers. Saint Boniface parochial School will commence for the winter months next
Tuesday.
The members of the German Catholic Church will hold a
basket picnic on the hill east of town.
Saturday, September 4, 1897
While working at the Pine Forest Colliery last Saturday,
William Evans, Fireman, at that place had his leg broken. He was giving Simon
Devlin, driver of the team, a helping hand to load timber on a wagon and while I the art
of sneaking an extra heavy piece, it slipped in rolling it carried another piece with it
towards Evans. Jumping the first the second caught him below the knee, breaking both
bones I the right leg completely off. His companions hurried to his assistance and
conveyed him to his home where he is resting quietly.
Saturday, October 2, 1897
Pine Forest employees received their wages on Wednesday for
services performed during the latter part of August. A trip of cars ran away at the Hooker
Colliery on Wednesday and smashed things up in great shape. The crew escaped by
jumping.
About a dozen breaker boys employed as slate pickers at the
Colliery of the Roberts Coal Co. struck on Tuesday being dissatisfied with their work.
Frank Covelisky, a laborer in the mine of the Saint Clair
Coal Co. was instantly killed at the place on Monday afternoon last by a fall of
slate. It developed at the inquest that Covelisky was engaged in taking coal from
beneath a heavy piece of projecting slate while his miner, also a foreigner, picked at the
Vein just where the slate was attached to the side of the breast. This loosened it
and falling, it caught the laborer underneath crushing his life out, the body was taken to
the dead man’s family, who resided on South Morris Street and was entered in the
German Catholic Cemetery. Deputy Corner Hillan is paneled a jury and after carefully
weighting the evidence submitted rendered a verdict in which the miner was censored for
permitting his laborer to work in a place where he knew was dangerous.
Saturday, October 9, 1897
Mr. Edward Farrell has removed his family from Nicholas Street to
the back property on East Lawton Street.
John Popowich was loading cars at the Hooker Colliery last Tuesday
when his foot caught in some timber and he fell breaking his leg. He was taken to
the Pottsville Hospital.
Almost a score of breaker boys quit work at the Colliery of the
Saint Clair Coal Co. on Monday. The strike was the outgrowth of some disputed
about time the boys claimed they were entitled to.
Saturday, November 6, 1897
On Thursday evening seven residents from the East of town were
arrested by C. & J. policemen, J. L. Zimmerman and brought before Justice Edwards
charged with larceny. The suit was brought at the instigation of G. B. Linderman of
Co. 5. The firm claiming that the defendants had stolen coal from a car at the
Hooker Colliery. They were each held in $20.00 bail pending a continuance of the
hearing.
A supper and entertainment will be held in Columbia Hall on
Thanksgiving night under the auspices of the congregation of the German Catholic
Church. The menu of the supper will include all the substancials and delicacies that
go to make an appetizing meal while the entertainment will be participated in by well
known talent from Pottsville, Pa.
Arthur Evans aged 18 years, met with a very serious
accident last Monday. he is employed as a driver at the shaft of the Saint Clair
Coal Co. and was in the art of uncoupling preparatory to taking a trip of cars to
the bottom of the mine when he slipped and fell underneath. His leg is broke and
bruised, the left arm is badly crushed and his back is painfully cut and bruised.
Dr. Smith is attending him.
Saturday, November 27, 1897
A dirt plane is being erected on the bank South of the
Hooker.
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