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