The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-26

llllllS NOuulN anu NltHlb'l VI INtt Jdth't
Lodge, No 52i, /. O. .. +.
to this town. opened a frst-class wag-
on manufacturing business. and later
added a full line of furniture. which
business he has also successfully
managed for eight years. III 1883 he
purchased the undertaking business.
and became successor to G. l.. Jack
son. of this place.
1t was in 1880 that Brother Stanton
took his initiatory step i'm secret So
ciety work. He was then initiated into
Red Jacket lodge. No. 52i, Independent
order of odd Fellows, thus making HIM
a member of that lodge for sixteen
years. During that time he has ad-
Vanced stey by step. through his un
firing work, in both the subordinate
and the encamDment lodges, until to-
day he is looked to as "a leader in
lodge work i'm this county. He has
been captain of Red Jacket degree
team for the past four years, and or
ganiZed the first degree team in Wy
oming county (Which. by the way. be-
longed to Red Jacket lOdGeD
In 1894. as IA recompense for his past
faithfulness to the order. he was elect
ed district deputy grand master for
this county for both the subordinate
and the encampment lodges. In 1895
he was unanimously reelected to fill
the office for another term, which Of
fee he now holds. Brother Stanton is
an odd Fellow all over, and his hand
is always open to IL brother i'm dis
trcss. and he is one Of the most poDu
lar men seen on our midway"
Last Tuesday Squire Gardner enter
tanned his many callers with the case
of G. Matthewson VS.. Rhodes Bros.
false pretense. Attorney X. II. Hol-
Gal l.. Il
after the defendants side, and James
Piatt. esq. of Tunkhannock, was the
prosecuting attorney. The case was
submitted (after the examination of
the witnesses). to the court without
argument and the defendants Were
discharged. Rhodes Bros. We're charged
in the Indictment with obtaining goods
from G. Matthewson mill to the
amount of $500 under false pretense.
There has been Il great many rabbits
killed this week in this section. since
the snow came last Monday night.
Miss Ella Car is spending Christmas
at home with her mother.
j. Wood and Frank Piatt were up
from Tunkhannock last Tuesday.
James w. was getting a few law points
from Dick Holgate. and Frank was Civ
ing Fred Osterhout a few 'ex-post-
master pointers
G. Winton Wrigley spent last Thurs
day in Scranton.
" X. Gardner was in the metropolis
Wednesday.
Miss Ethel Car is home for the hol-
days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred L. Foster ate
Christmas turkey with relatives in
Nicholson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thompson, of Vestal. n.
Y, are visiting their son, Elias, of this
place.
Christmas has come and gone with
its usual Quietness in this place. We
think that every one was amply pro-
vided for in our town, and that all
had warm place to sleep and some
thing to eat, if not anything in all the
stockings that We're hung by the hearth.
There were the usual services at the
churches, such as Christmas trees. en-
tertainments, etc. Fred l.. Foster
adopted a novel way Of advertising by
securing the services Of Santa Claus"
to exhibit himself in front of his store
Christmas eve and give TO all children
a bag of nuts and candy, which suited
the little folks TO perfection. We no
ticed some older ones looked very wish
fully toward bag of peanuts, espec-
tally Ben and Nelson. They tried TO
swear in their age on odd Santa" but
Santa" wouldn't swear, so they are
singing the old familiar hymn. Cant
Have ANY of My Peanuts" etc.
Druggist Clarence Suydam is spend
ing Christmas with his mother in Full
ton, N. Y.
Undertaken George w. Stanton was
called to Clenburn yesterday to attend
the funeral of Franklin A. Brooks. In
terment was maoe at Lynn. Susque
hanna county. Today he attends the
funeral of w. A. Latham at Nicholson.
Services will be at 1.30 p. m. at the resi-
dence, and interment will he at Hillside,
Pa.
At the Baptist church Christmas eve
no presents were given, but instead the
children contributed an offering for the
relief of the suffering Armenians. and
the entertainment was, as whole, un-
usually good.
Don't forget the Christmas music at
the Baptist church tomorrow morn
inc.
Professor Harmon is calling on
friends i'm town.