The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-09
news OF this VICINITY
TUNKHANN0CK. !.


day night, after brief visit at home.
Cooley Kintner who injured his hip
by falling upon the railroad track some
| time ago. was removed to the Robert
Packer hospital at Sayre Saturday.
At the sale Of Illinois horses at the
Keeler house barn Saturday, fine look
ing animals We're knocked down ut from
$50 to $50. and none ran above $75. They
were not wornout plugs, discarded by
some street railway company. but
young. fresh looking animals that will
do as good service upon the farm or
road as any that can be found. When
horses can be transported from the
west and sold here for such prices. the
profit to the breeder must be largely
imaginary.
Tne White Ribbons will give a ten
cent social at the pleasant home of
Mrs. G, C. Miller Wednesday evening.
A fine musical and literary programme
will be rendered, and II tempting spread
will be laid out for all who come.
Lewis w. Lott. an elderly Forkston
man. was buried Friday, He leaves six
children, among them being Mrs. q. W,
Ferris, of this place.
The old rookery on Warren street,
known as Castle Garden" has been
purchased by Mrs c, @. Koon. who will
have 1t demolished and a comfortable
residence erected in It's stead. 1t has
sheltered a motley array of moving
planets in the years gone by, and its
| removal from one of the busiest thor
oughfares in the town will be hailed
| with joy
At the sheriff's sale of real estate on
Saturday the John Il. Hail. property in
Falls township. was struck off to w, A.
Townsend, who held judgments against
1t for $3.50 The land in Washington
| township. belonging to d. S. Roberts.
vas knocked down to the executors of
The Q. II. Looms estate. who issued the
execution for $50.
Mrs. Mary j. Scull has returned from
Moscow. ......
Alvin II. Smith and Mrs. Louisa
Crawford. widow Of the late George W.
Crawford We're married Saturday by
Rev. George Hine.
Nicholas Fox, proprietor of the Peo-
pies store. is quite i'll.
Mrs. NJ. r. jackson has gone to
ment erected in the national cemetery
over the grave of her husband. who
was an. officer in the United States
army.
A. G.. Feldman has abandoned his
jewelry and watch repair shop in the
Bardwell building and gone to work at
the spool factory,
Mrs. Warren Kasson has gone into
decline with consumption, and her
physician gives no hope of recovery.
Stewart NJ. Williams. of Vose. and
Mary D.. Travis, of Meshoppen, are
among. the newly welded people.
The quarterly parade of the blind
took place before the court of quarter
sessions again yesterday. If Columbus
had been a constable he never would
| have discovered anything.
Up town residents are getting daily
| consignments of polygaiters and other
saurians through their water pipes, an
other sure harbinger of returning
spring.
| Al the appearance of D. n. Mckee, of
| Scranton, before Esquire Kutz yester-
! day on charge Of violating the state
| law in regard to practicing the healing
art without having registered as ply
sician, the defendant waived a hear
\ ing and gave bail for appearance at
| court. Mckee was accompanied by H.
| T. Howell, Curtis Crane, A. L. Jones
| and f. NJ. Jones, all of Scranton, who
| announced themselves as Christian
Scientists, and who came along as sup
/ in u to
| AIr. Howell announced that they be-
| lieved the law unconstitutional, and
were determined to fight it out to the
| last court of resort in order to test the
matter I'VE purpose to see," said he,
whether man shall not be allowed to
die without the aid of DOCTOR" He
further asserted that before the fuss is
over every man In Tunkhannock will
be a Christian Scientist.
At the annual missionary roundup in
the Methodist Episcopal Sunday school
about $l91 were found in the barrels, a
gain of nearly $40 over last year. The
Easter programme was very nicely rem
dered and the occasion was one of un-
usual enjoyment.
A letter from Mrs. G. J. Reed, at Ft.
Meade. Fla, states that she will start
for home some time this week. She
will probably stop along the route, ar
riving next week.
The Bradford, Pa, capitalists who
drilled for oil near Forkston last sea-
son, have abandoned their well and
are giving up their leases. This looks
as If they consider the prospect of find
Ing oil in this county a discouraging
one.
The case of Fred Wall. charged with
the murder OF G. w. Waterman, was
brought before the court yesterday af-
ternoon and the defendant, on being
arraigned, plead mot guilty" Then
began the long and tedious job of i'm
paneling the jury. One after another
the jurymen were set aside until Sis