The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-20
news OF This VICINITY
TUNkHANNOCK.


preach at the Methodist Episcopal
church Friday evening. At the close
of the service the quarterly conference
will be held. The usual quarterly meet
ing services will he held Sunday morn
ing. with love feast at $50 o'clock,
preaching at 1890, followed by COM
munion.
Rev. II. N. Vandeusen was down
from Mehoopany Monday night.
Lou Hall, the well-known Towanda
attorney. was here looking after mat
ters relating to the Moneypenny estate
yesterday.
Cobble is being hauled with which to
pave crossings on Gravel Hill as soon
as spring fairly opens.
The missing carrier pigeon was
found yesterday at the Purdon resi-
dence on Putnam street where 1t had
alighted in u bewidered state.
The late George w. Starks carried
81, 900 policy in the Washington Life
Insurance company.
The Keystone Academy club nave
challenged the Tunkhannock boys to
play base ball and a game Will come
off as soon as the weather Will permit.
Passengers on Lehigh Valley train
No report witnessing u runaway ac-
cident yesterday afternoon as the train
was coming through the "narrows,
a mile or two below town. Two men
in a buggy were passing along the mar
row roadway, when the horse became
frightened at the cars and dashed up
the bank, overturning the wagon and
throwing the men out. The last seen
of them the horse was flying down the
road, stringing the vehicle into smither-
Gems, but whether the men were injured
it was impossible to say.
The gristmill at LaGrange, owned by
the LaGrange Milling company, has
been leased to Charles Colvin.
Rev. A. Rearick presiding elder of
the York district of the Evangelical
conference, says that the Tunkhannock
church Is not for sale, nor Will 1t be
offered for sale unless the members
here desire such action to be taken.
He also says he is arranging to send
a good man as pastor here within
short time.
The arbitration board in the New
man-Townsend case made an award in
favor of the defendant. The dispute
was over the dividing line through
lot of nearly worthless swamp land,
according to the testimony.
The Methodist Episcopal Ladies' Aid
society will meet at the parsonage Fri
day night after the preaching services.
J.. H. Cornell &. b. Patterson, Mar
tin Clifford, ]. w. Wrigley, and a num-
Der of other Lemon township farmers,
were down yesterday looking after per-
sonal matters at the court house.
Aunt Maria" relict of the late Mil
ton Sheldon, Of Lynn, died Sunday
night at the home of her son, G. II.
Sheldon. She was stricken with par
alysis about four weeks ago, which
caused her death. She was in her
ninety-second year. and had been
member of the Methodist Episcopal
church for about siXty-tive years. The
funeral will be held at the LymanVille
church at noon today, Rev. J. II. Wes-
ton conducting it,
Baggagemaster Kelley is off duty on
account of sickness.
Thomas StrOh started back to Col
orado yesterday, after about months
visit here.
+. C. Pratt, of East Lemon, is train
ing Captain f.. S. Handricks colts.
T. D. Collins has made application
for hotel license at Jenningsville, a
point at which no license has ever been
granted
Miss Mary Tanney has returned from
Wilkes-Barre.
Mrs. Esther Hce. of Plymouth, Is
guest of Mrs. Alvin Day.
Miss Affa Stevens, Of Kansas, is WIS.,
iting Mrs. w. II. Mentzer.
A mail route between Lucasville and
Mehoopany is to be let and number
of people are angling for the job.
Peter Ace has bought the Benedict
lot adjoining his blacksmith shop and
will erect a house thereon.
j. A. Dewitt, son of the county com
missioner, is reported no better.
Charles l.. Love, of Tunkhannock
township, and Miss Marilla Herman, of
Eaton, were granted marriage license
yesterday.
Miss Edith Eggleston was called to
Lynn yesterday on account of the Ill
hess of a child in the family of W. Il.
Spencer.