The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-23
news iIsHE Or This VICINITY
TUNKHANNOCK.

+. S. Harding succeeds the late Elmer
e. Brown as commissioners clerk. MIR.
Harding is an intelligent farmer from
Eaton township. and has filed Mr..
Browns place since the latter has been
unable to work, thus familiarizing him
self with the work. There is no doubt
of his competency.
The judges room at the court house
is undergoing renovation.
The ferries along the river are not
yet running, on account of ice on the
banks.
Interior repairs are going on at the
Keeler house.
Mrs. Warren Kasson, who has been
quite i'll, is improving.
Ernest Schelbach of New York city.
has been visiting at DR.. Lobcck's this
week. He will go to italy in May.
The citizens of Russell Hin turned
out in large numbers Thursday even
ing to the donation party given for the
| benefit of +. +. Drake. of this place,
| who has been conducting religious SER
| vices in the Baptist church there at in
| terVals all winter. The gathering was
| held in Remington hall, whore bOunti-
| ful feast was spread and the merry
| making went on until late hour. Mr..
| Drake came home with $40 in his belt,
| besides being loaded down with pro-
| visions which the huspitable people
| forced upon him. His efforts in re-
| ligiOus work up there are spoken of in
| very commenda tory way, and to all ap-
| pearances they are appreciated by the
| people.
An enterprising LaceyYille man pro-
! poses to launch pleasure boat upon
| the waters of the raging Susquehanna
| this summer that will carry fifteen or
| twenty passengers and ply between
| that place and Mcshoppen.
Rev. Curtis T.. Tenant. student at
| Wyoming seminary, preached at the
! Methodist Episcopal church Thursday
| evening.
Country roads that have not been
| shoveled out since the blizzard are filled
with ice SO hard that it has to he quar-
| ried. like rocks. or cut with saw, like
! wood.
c. W. Capwell was down from Me
shopper yesterday.
Country schools are closing.
q. NJ. Ellsworth. of NOse, is better.
! The Shakespeare club banqueted at
the home of Il. H. Shook last evening,
| the daughter, Miss Name. doing the
| honors as hostess.
The case of George p. Little. assignee
| of p. II. Lines, W. Adolph Semon, was
| heard before a board of arbtrators at
| Jorden x Bardwells office yesterday.
| Semon is a stone dealer at MeshOppen
| and purchased some stone of Lines
who is Montrose man, ordering them
| shipped to Newark. \. j. When the
| bill was presented. Semon refused tn
pay it, alleging that q reduction should
| be made on account of shortage and
excessive freight. At the hearing Sc
mon presented no evidence and an
award for full amount claimed was
made to plaintiff The arbitrators were
| ". y. Reynolds, James W. Piatt and
| W. T.. Carpenter.
| G. NJ. K!shpaugh writes from Harris
burg that his boy, Harry, who was in
jured while playing foot bali, is con-
stantly growing weaker, and the out
| look is discouraEing. 4 specialist from
| Philadelphia is about to begin treating
the case and is confident of effecting a
| cure but evidently the fathers faith is
| not very strong. Much sympathy Is
felt here for them.
Allen Tickner Is out again
Wade Jayne, a student at Blooms
burg Normal school, is home for the
spring vacation.
Robert Shaw. a soldier In the regular
| army, now stationed at Fort Rolly,
Kan. is home on furlough. He has
followed military life for nine years.
John Sheridan will move his family to
| Nicholson April /, where he will con-
tinue in the employof Hawke & Shields
Thomas Manicy is worse.
Mrs. G.. ". Ferris has been called to
the bedside of her brother, Arthur Lott
| who is very sick at his home at North
| Flat.
Mrs. Thomas Smell, Of West Pittston
Is spending few days with her par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Russell, al
! IL