The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-29
CITY NOTES.

City officers and employees will be paid
today.
Gentlemen's Driving Club races Thurs
day, 2p. m. 4"
Diagram for the Primrose & West min
strels opens this morning at Academy of
Music box Office.
The sale of seats for John L. Sullivan
commences this morning at the Frothing-
ham at 9 o'clock.
Quarterly conference will be held in the
Simpson N. e. church this Saturday
evening at o'clock.
Warrants to the total amount of S22, 25i
for mercantile bills and salaries were
signed by the city controller yesterday.
The thirteenth regiment received az
invitation to attend the celebration at
Binghamton on Oct. but will not attend.
SUBscRIBER-Hon. Levi P. Morton owns
the property in which is located the Shore
ham Hotel at Washington, D. G. He is
not the proprietor OF the hotel.
Services will be resumed at the Dymond
hall at Clarks Summit, Sunday evening,
Sept. 80, 1894, at 73O p. m, Rev. A. E..
Douglass, pastor. All welcomed.
The contract for building the high school
was executed with Conrad Schroeder yes
terdav. Excavating will begin on Monday.
The limit for the completion Of the work is
July l, 1896.
DR.. D. B. Hand is driving a beautiful
team OF coal black horses that he purchased
recently at Green, N. Y. They took the
first prize at the fair at Binghamton a
short time ago.
The ninth annual meeting of the Wom-
ans Home Missionary society of the
Lackawanna presbytery will be held in
the Green Ridge Presbyterian church on
Oct. 10 and II, 1894
Last evening Lackawanna Council, No.
1888, Royal Arcanum, paid to the widow
of the late Joseph Bender, of Hyde Park
avenue $1,000 the amount for which he
was insured in that order.
Abraham Knapp. who, during the late
war, served as private in Company D,
One Hundred and Seventy-ninth regiment
OF Pennsylvania Volunteers, was yesterday
granted veterans license to peddle.
All the clerks (of the clothing, gents
furnishing, shoe stores, groceries and dry
good stores, etc. are requested to be at the
meeting OF the clerks at their rooms. 40S
spruce street, tomorrow morning at 10
o'clock.
The railroad department, Young Mems
CHRISTIAN association, will complete its
series Of Bible readings Sunday afternoon
at 3'45 o'clock. This meeting is for men
only. There will be special music. All
railroad men heartily welcomed.
On Wednesday evening Josepb ouintin.
OF Lake Ariel, was united in marriage to
Miss Mary Smith, Of the "Powder Mills. -
The ceremony took place at the home Of
the brides parents, and was performed by
Rev. W. j. Guest. of Peckville. They have
the best wishes of their many friends.
After this evening the Delaware Lacka.
wanna and Western railroad will not
maintain Its New York sleepIn9
car, which for several months has
been sidetracked at the station es.
peciaily for Scranton patrons. Hereafter
passengers will have to use the sleepers at
tached to the regular trains.
There was large sale Of seats at Guern-
sey's yesterday for the Mead lecture and
Silver Lake quartette concert at the Froth-
ingham Monday night. Some good seats
are left at IS cents. Admission to the gall
lery will be Is cents. This talented or
ganization sang to L500 people In the
Academy Of Music last year.
At the regular meeting Of the American
institute In New York city on Oct. 2
Lucien L. Horns, Of this city, will deliver
his lecture on "Anthracite Coal from It's
Geological Deposit to the Furnace" Mr.
Hiorns' lecture will be illustrated by
Photographic fash light views Of mine in