The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-07-17
SPIRITS TAKE TIE Town
Fair hayei Much Excited Over Many
Celestial Guests.
CITIZENS INTERVIEW srooKs
seanees Are Hcld Nightly and Many
Mediums Are Being Developed.
The Crase Popular with All
Save Small Boys.

Aoo Nso3o topuioT Whtn Au
Save Small Boys.
nlxtsburg. July 1.-THE pretty little
village OF Fair Haven. four miles from
the city line. on the Pittsburg and Cas-
tie Shannon railroad. Is in eke middle
Of q spirttuallstic convulsion. The
whole population Is excited over the
mystic science. and seances anu ma
teraalizations are almost the only topics
Of conversation. The village contains
but about 500 Inhabitants. but among
them ere mediums. potential or devel-
oped. by the dozen; believers by the
score. and investigators" enough to
use up nearly the whole available popu-
lation. Some Of the oldest and most
prominent denizens OF the village are
among the converts The small boys
are afraid to cross roads after dark.
The few families ito which the craze
has not extended say their neighbors
have gone insane. but this class is daily
diminishing In numbrs.
1t Is only within the last few days that
the movement has assumed such whole
sale proportions. There were a few
independent investigators for several
years. Now. however. seances are held
at some place almost every night in
The week. Some weeks ago a self-ap-
pointed committee. headed by Charles
Young. undertook to expose the doings
Young - now said to be a devout be-
hever He - q big man. and Of great
strength At one Of the seances he un-
dereook 10 grapple with 'Dr. Moore"
one OF the spirits. a medium-s;zed
ghose. Young Is said TO have received
JON which entirely destroyed his un-
belief.
4 Spirit with peyche Knot.
William Rodgerson. an old man. who
keeps the principal store in the village,
exhibits what he deems convincing
proofs Of spirit manifestation. He has a
collection Of photographs. each Of him
oelf, accompanied by q lot Of shadowy
faces which he pronounced bona fide
spirits. One group contained his wife,
who died II years ago. as she ap-
peared at Is years Of age. his 7-year-old
daughter, who died nearly 20 years ago,
and his wife's uncle. Another was Of
his daughter as she looks now. having
grown up to q very pretty maiden in
the spirit world. The photographs
were taken within two weeks Of each
other. Tho most interesting exhibit.
however. was Of four spirit faces Mr..
RodgerSon said he had never met in
ais lce. but whom he knows as MEN,
9esS Of his family in the days when
skins ANA leaves were worn in lieu of
cSothmg. Nothing of the primitive
vestments are in evidence, and only
tne heads ore shown. Mr.. Rodgerson
said Ne has talked to them at mora
tnan oue seance, and that such evidence
OF truth could not be gainsaid. One
mead. that Of young woman, had the
nair arranged In Psyche knot and
very fetching waves, just Alike the sum-
ner girl of the season o61Ss5-in fact, a
strikins example Of tn occurrences of
~ RodSersp9> >saip1 the photos were
,Enen James Foster, travelling
medium. at a cost to him
~ q each, but the spirits charged
nothing for sittirgs.
-. Danced with the Baby.
xnotB : leader ts Archibald Kennedy,
1T whoss home many Of the meetings
are held. The Tuesday night meetings
ere open, but the circle is closed one
on Thursdays that time being devoted
to "developing the mediums" Mr.. Rod
gUrson said there are some good ones
coming ON. None Of them can yet pro-
duce ma(terieaizatiors,' however. and
yfedertc& Baker, of 81 Page street,
AzlegAep&, does this for a moderate
9pe46 Mr. Rodgerson's daughter
d that che has seen seventeen sep
q Ake ghosts ON one occasion when Mr..
Barker ofiiciahed. This was held at
Kennedy's house, and one OF the spirits
rowed Il from the mother and danced
about the room with 1t. This was the
kanA when Charles Young wrestled
Win . spirit and was beaten. Uphold
Gross = another medium.
Ma Lucy Baumiller Is another me-
dium who - expected to develop into a
0r1t-rafe1. Mra Baumtller says that
''thsre are lots more as good as her."
afr1, BAumiller said her 4-months-old
baby had been ohristened by spirit.
'Dr Sanford" formerly Of Allegheny.
now . dandze0 Of space. The spirit,
she saad, crowned her baby with white
1lisG, and named 1t Lilly May. Mrs.
BanmilDer has the flowers pressed in a
Bible.
Guy Davis says he saw the late Father
1Eoihnsef, OF Troy Hell. at a seance
some faane ago, ct which Mrs. Gillard
was the medium Davis was sufferer
from ri1eumatisnx and. after Mrs. Gill
lard rubbed his Iegs well, the pain dis
appeared. Davis thinks Father Mol
lhser cured aam. but does not state It
a. an assured TACT. Mrs. Gillard and
her husband are both good mediums.
OF Mrs. 0salard J. "A. G3axner said:
''ghe takes your handkerchief or
watch or any object in her hand, and
eets It, magnetism enrapt with hers.
Then si,e gets the magnetism in her
brain and can get the spirits around
you. Now, was born IN Germany,
and this Mrs. Gfflard described to me
scopes In Germany, my fathers house
inside and out, and my parents, who
died i've years back, and whom had
not seen for fifteen. She was never in
Germany. She described them we'll"
! There - a,iafethodist church in the VIII
1age, but It is said to be suffering from
. hack Of patronage since the craze
began. ~
HIS LIFE FOR A DIME.
n ~ Took Tss Dosss Of Msdisius sud
Died.