The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-06
TUNkHANNOCK.

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Kerr are rejoic-
ing over the advent of 3h-pound girl
G.. d. Dewitt is erecting a new barn
on his premises.
A number of prominent Lehigh Val
ley and MontroSe railroad officials ar
rived here in a special car Friday night,
and early Saturday morning made a
junketing trip up the Montrose road.
Among them were Charles S. Lee, gen
eral passenger agent of the Leihigh Val
ley; A. W. Nonnemacher, assistant pas
senger agent; Superintendents Mitchell,
Esser and Alonzo p. Blakslee; and Asa
=. Blakslee, general passenger agent
of the Montrose.
Henry Dymond who was injured in
the handcar collision a couple of weeks
ago, is out again.
Wool is down to IL cents, and farmers
declare sheep raising Improbable any
longer.
The Byron Kelley tenement house on
court house square, and the G.. NJ. Heck
man house on Bridge street are each
undergoing repairs
AS a rule the man who kicks hardest
about the enormous taxes and growls
most about the unnecessary expenses of
the county Is the one who. if he has any
thing to do for the county. will put in
the biggest fee for services. This
needn't shut out just criticism upon the
administration of public affairs, how
ever.
Rev. II. w. Buck, the new presiding
elder for the United Evangelical people,
preached at the Gravel Hill independent
school house last evening, administer
ing the sacrament thereafter.
Temple commandery, No. GO. knights
Templar, have accepted the invitation
of the Wyoming Valley commandery at
Pittston to attend Ascension Day SER
vices at that place May 90.
The new Montrose engine works
satisfactorily, and is being run up and
down the road to see what alterations,
if any, will have to be made to the road
bed before putting on the new train.
Rev. G. c. Lyman, of Pittston, was
shaking hands with friends here Satur-
day.
Bicyclers are kicking, with a good
show of reasoning, against the borough
ordinance that prohibits the use of side
walks to wheelmen, but allows refuse of
every sort to be dumped into the street
to the imminent danger of punctlring
tires. The sidewalks are not a proper
place for wheels, but riders are not so
much to blame for taking refuge upon
them when the street Is lined with
broken glass, old tin cans, bits of wire
and other trash. The borough authori-
ties ought to put a stop to the throwing
of such things into the street.
Miss Mary Walker, of Canton, Brad
ford county, Is visiting her uncle, II. G.
Walter
Wyoming County Pomona grange held
q session at the Grand Army of the Re
public hall in this place on Saturday
afternoon. The meeting was presided
over by Worthy Master Norman Sterl-
ing, of Meshoppen. The principal bust
ness was the comforting of the fifth
degree upon eight or nine candidates,
but some other matters of more or less
Importance were disposed of. At the
close the subordinate grange held a
short session.
The borough council has let the build
ing of the stone culvert over Swale
Brook to M. V. Wandall for $500. A
guard wall extending from the Tunk-
hammock creek bridge to the culvert and
rising three feet above the roadway
will also be erected.
The ball game between the Tritons
and Keystone academy Saturday after
noon passed off pleasantly, the result
being victory for the Academy boys