The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-04
news OF This VICINITY
TUNKHANNOCK.


The silk spool works will shut down
| for short period next week.
While some of the employees We're en-
| deavoNng to thaw out frozen water
pipes in the basement of Paul Billings
& Sons hardawre store yesterday
morning, fire was accidentally COM
| municated with some coils of rope,
oakum and other materials near by,
| and lively little confiagration was
started. An alarm brought the fire de-
partment out promptly, but their SER
vices We're not needed, as the fire was
soon extinguished. Beyond destroying
| few pounds of rope and filling the es-
tablishment with smoke, no damage en-
sued.
Another oil boom Is reported at
Sharpetown, near Jenningsville, in the
| western portion Of the county. All the
land in that section not already COW
| cred by lease is being secured, and
| further operations in the boring line
| may be expected another season. 1t is
said that Scranton men are at the bot
tom of this project.
The 3-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
S. l.. Garrison, of Sayre, was buried
Tuesday. The family are former resi-
| dents of this section.
A meeting of the stockholders Of the
Wyoming County Agricultural society
| will be held at the office of r. ]. Bard
| well, secretary, on Saturday, Jan. IA, at
l p. m.
Hon. f. II. Piatt, A. H. Frear, James
w. Piatt, c. NJ. Barlow, A. II. Frear
| and others attended Masonic. meeting
at Towanda last evening.
A sleighride party comprising Misses
| Genevieve Mills, Name Shook, Sara
Hoadley, Alice Streeter. and Messrs.
| Robert Little, S. d. Streeter, u. w.
Wheland and d. Connor drove over to
Factoryville Tuesday night and took
supper at the Sisk House.
N. Fl. Mack will go to Waynesboro,
| Pa, next week, where he hopes to find
a good business opening.
Some of the railroad officials intimate
| that McKunes station will be either re-
| moved back from it's present location
| 50 that the track can be Strengthened,
| or else transferred up to Whites ferry.
Telegraph Instruments We're recently
put in there.
H. w. Wheland, of Chattanooga,
| Tenn, andD. Common, of Burlington, Ia,
are guests of Stevents d. Streeter.
| They are all students of Cornell uni
versity, Ithaca, and will return to that
| institution today
Spencer D. Reed plays the slide from
bone in the Methodist Episcopal church
choir.
Frank Donley, for several years q
| typo on the New Age, will go to Mon
| trose next week where he has pur-
chased an interest in Safford's bakery.
Mr.. Donley is an industrious young
| man, honest and upright in character,
and he carries the best wishes of a
large number of friends with him.
Skinners Eddy people are on the
verge of panic, expecting every day
| that an epidemic of smallpox will break
out in their midst. An Irishman en-
ployed by the Lehigh Valley as tract;
walker, became sick and sat around
| the hotel for some time, and when he
| finally consulted doctor the physician
| informed him that he had either vario-
loid or smallpoX-probably the latter
| Doors are barricaded now and social
calls are suspended indefinitely.
The new large Touring and saw mills
of the Meshoppen Milling company at
| Meshoppen We're destroyed by fire at a
| late hour Wednesday night. The plant
| was one of the largest and best any
| where in this section, and was erected
only few years since at cost of
$4,000. 1t is said that there was only
| 81 900 insurance upon it, as it was owned
| by stock company and some of the
members objected to the high rates de-
manded by the insurance companies
The fire caught in the upper portion OF
the building, and the greater part OF
the grain and stuff on the lower floor
was removed, but the loss, aside from
the building, will be heavy, which falls
upon Gregory & Overfield, who Were
opera ting the mill this year. The origin
of the fire is unknown.