The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-10-04
FOREST CITY.

John Free, Of Pittsburg is the guest
Of friends here. Mr.. Free was for
merly a resident of Forest City, being
head electrician for the Hillside COM
pany.
On Tuesday next the SusQuehanna
County Medical society will meet in
semi-annual session at Hopbottom. DR..
f. l.. Grander. of this borough, will
have a paper on scarlatina. The Gre
nation question will be discussed from
sanitary standpoint.
Local hunters have been out in full
force this week in search of the luck
less pheasant.
Saturday is the last day in which to
pay taxes, If you wish to vote. provid-
ing you have not paid state or county
tax within two years.
Eta Moyle, Of Scranton, has been
visiting her grandmother. Mrs. Eliza
beth Higgins, this week.
The Hillside company's collieries are
working full time at present. and the
Delaware and Hudson colliery at Vand-
ling, is being worked nine hours a day.
The Excelsior Social club will hold
its first social Oct. II. in Davis Opera
House.
The BARRIERS of Forest City and
Vandling have organized union
Hereafter no work will be done on Sum
day and all shops will be closed on
Monday evening at o'clock.
]. c. Staley and w. j. Pentecost have
broken ground preparatory to erect
Ing dwelling houses on Delaware street
Forest City chapter of the Epworth
league will send the following dele
gates to the Wilkes-Barre convention
on Tuesday next: Rev. G. r. Stone,
l.. II. May, F. ]. OsgoOd and Miss Jen-
ME Stark. The following delegates
have been chosen to attend the Homes
dale district Epworth league, which
meets at Honeisdale Oct. Is: Jessie
Stone, Eunice Dunn, Fred Russell and
A. NJ. Westgate.
Rev. G. B. Stone, Mrs. Yelvington and
Mrs. F. f. Reed attended the Womens s
Christian Temperance union at Sus-
quehanna Wednesday.
Division No. l, Ancient Order Of Hi
bernians, will hold a ball in the opera
house on Nov. 81.
The Arlington Social and Athletic
club will hold a ball in Davis Opera
House on Oct. 90.
T. V. Powderly will lecture on Labor
and Christianity" at Vandling on the
evening Of Oct "a
Matte Walters. of Vandling is visit
ing her parents. at Bernice. Pa.
The main building Of the Forest City
Car and Manufacturing company is
45xS0 feet in dimension and Is now
raised and being enclosed The dis
tance between the floor and the CELL
Ing will be fourteen feet. The building
has double floor. the first being laid
diagonally and the upper one straight.
The floor is supported by stone piers,
eight feet apart. The structure
throughout Is very substantially built.
1t Will be completed about the middle
of October and the work Of manufac-
turing will be commenced upon its
completion. "A blacksmith shop 2Ox3O
feet In size will be built as soon as the
main building Is finished. About twen-
ty men will he employed to start with
and more will be hired as the business
Increases. The prospects for the COM
pany doing a paying and successful
business and creating an important
Industry here are very bright and II
cannot fail to be gratifying to every clti-
zen of the borough to know that the ef-
forts put forth by the men who COM
pose the company bid fair to result
In profit to themselves and In the
building up of the town.