The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-12
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The venerable D. Webster Coke, d. D.,
| of the Scranton Archdeaconry preached
at st. Peters Episcopal church last
evening
Mrs. Samuel Sperry and son, Willie,
or Sayre, We're in town yesterday, en-
route for visit among Dimrock rela-
tives.
November term of court opened yes
terday, and the usual crowd attendant
upon such occasions thronged the
hotels and street corners.
With potatoes at Is cents per bushel
and buckwheat flour et $1.25 per hun
dred weight. the farmer feels as if he
were entitled TO commiseration
Special services will be held at the
Episcopal church at 1890 a. m. Thanks-
giving day, conducted by the rector,
Rev. William COney.
Dealers In bogus butter up the river
are walking in thorny paths since Dairy
and Food COMMISSIONS: Wills has got
ten after them. Two hotel men at To-
wanda paid a fine of 800 each for having
disposed OF some of the stuff and an
other offender gave bail for appearance
at court. BY the time he is through
with 1t he will probably conclude It
would have been cheaper to have plain
ly marked as an imitation and paid the
tax upon 1t.
SquC DIS of hunters from Wilkes Barre
and other points down below daily in
wade the woods and brush patches IN
around Lake Carey in search of pheas-
ants and rabbits. A two-bushel sack is
usually sufficient to hold the game, but
they have dead loads Of fun.
Mrs. c. M. Lee is visiting friends at
Chester. Pa.
a local business man has discovered
that silver dollars dated 1889 have, al
most without exception. bright, new
counterfeits, or whether the issue of
that.date is just getting out into circu-
lation, seems to be an unsettled prob
lem.
The steam saw mill at Jenningsville
has been abandoned and the boiler and
engine hauled to Mehoopany to furnish
power for the gristmill Of John B. Jen-
nings. This. coupled with the rumor
that the Jenningsville tannery will shut
down permanently in the spring. is
likely to eclipse the prospects of a
bridge across the Susquehanna at Me
hoOpany
Dr.. and Mrs. Bardwell spent Sunday
at Meshoppen.
Saturday next will be pay day on this
section Of the Lehigh Valley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Streeter WIS.,
tied their son. ). Dana Streeter, at
Cornell university, Ithaca, over Sum
day.
Robert Maybee, one of the men
thrown out Of employment by the tam
merry shutdown, has gone to Old Forge
to work in the lumber woods.
The glass factory has increased its
force by an additional cutter.
Tunkhannock lodge, No. 254, knights
of Pythias, will send their team to
Pittston tonight to do some amplifled
work In the third degree. This team is
In excellent practice and is getting a
reputation outside their own lodge for
the clever way in which they handle
their parts They will go to Montrose
Nov. 20 on a similar mission.
"Pincher," the venerable little canine
in the family of Hon. F. H. Piatt. wns
assisted over the great divide a day or
two since by the liberal use of chloro-
form. He had passed the days of use
fuiness and gotten into the sere and
yellow leaf
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Marcy, of AL
toona. are visiting the formers mother.
Mrs. Mary Marcy
The recent rains have raised the rver
somewhat, and farmers can no longer
go out and harvest fish with a horse
rake. 4er