The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-12
news OF This VICINITY
TUNKHANNOCK.

making at HnlnneyS y SuOp.
The business of the Lackawanna
laundry agency in town has increased
so that a horse and sleigh is now used
in the collection and delivery of work.
Overland communication with Mich
olson is again established, and the en-
gine and mill machinery of Hawke
Bros. was hauled up there yesterday.
Among the social events of the week
are the Catholic festival at the Opera
House, Wednesday evening, the Hotch-
kin Sisters concert at the court house
the same evening, the Harding Harris
nul tials at high noon Thursday, and
the Presbyterian supper at their church
Friday evening.
The remains of Mrs. II. f. Lobec,
which are buried near Dushore, will be
transferred to this place in due time,
to rest beside those of her daughter, at
Sunnyside.
The rumor that Nelson Lehn has a
brother on the La Gascogne, the
French steamer now so long overdue at
New York, is unfounded. All his
brothers are now in this country.
The boys essay to skate down un-
der the river bridge, where the ice is
protected from the snow.
n vault should be erected at Sunny
side where bodies of people dying in
such severe weather as has been eX-
perienced the past few days could be
placed to await time for burial, when
graves could be dug more comfortably.
Not only is it uncomfortable to work
in such weather, but the work cannot
be done properly under such condi-
tions. The nature of the ground in the
cemetery is such that vault could cas-
lily be constructed at a moderate eX-
pense.
Three hundred and siXty-one ladies
in the county signed the remonstrance
against the repeal of the billiard law.
Courts of appeal for Tunkhannock
borough and township will be held at
the commissioners office, March Z
and s.
petition asking for the passage of
an act to prohibit the sale of intoXi-
cants on Memorial Day is circulating
about town. Anything that will con-
serve to the sacredness and quiet of
the day will be welcomed by all good
citizens.
Mrs. Mary Knapp, who has been a
guest of her son, F. T. Knapp, for
some time, will return to Bald Mount
today.
The Methodist church people will
hold meetings Wednesday and Thurs
day evenings, and Epworth league Fri
day night.
a farewell party for Albert W. Mack
will be held at +. L. Chaffees this
evening. a large number of the young
friends are invited.
A huge tire off a locomotive drive
wheel was hung in the tower at the
hose house yesterday to serve as a fire
alarm gong. 1t was secured from the
Dickson works, Scranton, through the
efforts of William |. Avery.
C. c. Hartley was down from Me-
hoopany yesterday
The real estate of the late Jonathan
Jenkins will be sold at orphans court
sale, March II, by C. o. Dersheimer.
Mrs. Warren Kasson is reported very
i'll.
Thirty-One cases from this district
will go up to supreme court Feb. %.
The district comprises the counties of
Wyoming, Lackawanna, Wayne and
Pike. Only two will be sent up from
this county, viz: Fassett. ct. al, VS..
Davis, ct. al, Jorden, Terry and Piatt,
attorneys; and Farmers bank. of
Springville, n. Y, VS.. Shippey, ct. al,
Little, Moore and Dersheimer attor-
neys.
Little Elmer Mack is laid up with
grip.
Zlba Billings is still in very bad
health.
Mrs Jennie Hayden, of Dallas, Tex
who came here recently to visit her
sister, Mrs. J. D. Carpenter, received a
telegram the latter part of the week,
saying that Frank, one of her pair of
twin children. which she left at the
Hospital of the Merciful Saviour, at
West Philadelphia, was dead. AS the
railroads were blockaded 1t was i'm
possible for her to go down to the city,
and she wired them to bury the child
there She. herself, is an invalid, and
the afiliction is a sad one to her.
The Wilkes Barre Record is distrib-
uting free copies here this week in the
endeaVor to increase its circulation.
Messrs. F. II. Drake and r. j. Bardwell
furnish a batch of readable local news
each day, and as the Record is an ad-
mittedly good paper for general news,
the effort ought to succeed.
Willis S. Miller is home from Pater-
son. n. j., for a few days.
Mrs. G. w. Crawford has removed
from Lopez to this place.
Rev. George Hine is holding evan
gelistic meetings ut LaGrange.