The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-28
news OF this VICINITY
TUNKHANNOCK.

j. II. Withrow started for North Caro-
lima the latter part of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thaniel Wintermute
have returned from Carbondale.
The marriage of Charles Berlinghof
to Boston young lady last October
has just leaked out sufficiently to be
detected at this distance. Charlie Is
competent stenographer in business
Office in Boston, but was born and
brought up here. A rich old uncle who
is likely to make the bride his heir does
not detract any from the interest ms
friends here take in the case.
The Farmers Stock company which
purposes to bore for oil at Carpenter
Hollow is applying for charter in
West Virginia. The charter fees down
there are not so high as here, and they
can be incorporatedm more cheaply.
They can operate in this state by pay.
ing a nominal fee.
The congressional conferrees for the
Fifteenth district will meet in this place
on Wednesday next to nominate man
to fill both the long and short terms in
congress which would have been filled
by NJ. b. Wright had he lived. Each
county in the district has man to pre-
sent, and a stubborn fight is anticipated.
Enough tickets have been pledged TO
warrant making the arrangements for
the University Extension lecture, and
the first address will be made by Homer
B. Sprague at the court house on the
evening of Feb. G. A house to house
canvass will be made and it is hoped
that many more tickets will be sold.
The proceeds il there be any after pay
ing the expenses, will go into a fund for
defraying the expenses of future lee
lures.
The storm of rain and slush here on
Saturday morning was snow back on
the mountains, and the Montrose rail-
way crew struggled with snowdrifts all
day.
A travelling peanut vender set up his
roaster on the sidewalk in front of Far
go's news stand Saturday and did quite
| traffic with passers by.
Mrs. d. c. Gearhart has been quite
| seriously i'll for some time.
A small amount of stock has been
| taken here in the proposed telephone
line to connect this place and Montrose,
| but people are little loath to invest in
an enterprise that advertises Montrose
| only. THE Montrose Telephone COM
pany' is all right as a local organiza-
tion, but when it stretches out to reach
| Tunkhannock, and our capitalists are
| invited to assist, they feel that it is no
more than fair that Tunkhannock be
acknowledged in the title The Mont
rose railway gives no intimation to
the world that the road goes anywhere
only around the City on the Hill.
Mrs. John Bell is in very poor health.
| The county auditors, who adjourned
on account of court, will meet again
| Tuesday to complete their work.
Late matrimonial candidates are
| Willie d. Burgess and Nora E. Ward
of North Branch township; Leonard
Heller and Catharine Everett, of Mon
| roe county, Pa.
| The Democrats of Tunkhannock
| township met Saturday and nominated
| the following ticket: Assessor. G.. w
| Ferris; judge of election, T.. S. London
inspector, C. d. Shupp; school directors
S. a. Shupp, David Michaels: constable
William Ellis; poor master, C. r. Lane
auditor, j. d. lnman; justice of the
peace, W. NJ. Stark; town clerk, Wal
lace Jennings; treasurer, Jacob Wilsey
The yearly accounts of the prothono.
tary and register were audited by j
| Wood Piatt Saturday.
| The Scranton Tribune list IS growing
under the efforts of Frank Vangorder
who is pushing the circulation here
The Tribune stands in the front rank Of
inland city dailies, and is worthy of a
place in every home.