The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-04-30
NORTHEASTERN
PENNSYLVANIA

shut down for an indefinite period.
The Susquehanna county court Will
hold an adjourned session on Saturday.
The Honesdale Maennerchor Will
open their new rooms at the National
hotel on Tuesday next.
Towanda Will have a new library
costing $4,000, thanks to II. Welles,
who has donated a building.
Beginning tomorrow all of the Penn
sylvania collieries, except Central ana
Old Forge, will resume work.
Mrs. ]. B. Kessler, of Damascus, is a
carpet factory in herself. She easily
weayes hundred yards in a week.
The Christian Endeavor societies of
WAYNE comfy will hold their annual
convention in Hawley on May IA
and Is.
Rev. w. II. Swift commences the
fourteenth year of his pastorate of the
Honesdale Presbyterian church, on
Sunday.
Joseph Whites hotel at Simpson
was visited by burglars who secured
several dollars in cash and some sill
verware.
p. ]. Malott, of Scranton, has rented
the old Smith bakery building in To-
wanda for a time and will establish a
hat shop.
A party of capitalists from Freeland,
Hazleton and Nanticoke and consider
ing the advisability of erecting large
brewery at Bloomsbury.
Bondsmen have surrendered and sent
to Jail at Pottsville, Max Reese, of
Shenandoah, held by the federal au-
thorities for misuse of the mails.
The board Of trade and the common
council of Susquehanna will endeavor
to arrange to sewer Main and adjoining
streets, a much-needed improvement.
The Pennsylvania Fish commission
ers will send q large number of brown
trout, hardy variety, with which to
stock several streams in Susquehanna
county.
Justice II. w. Williams, of the Su-
preme court, has been selected by the
East Streudsburg Normal school trus-
tees to make the commencement ad-
dress this year.
The Prohibition state chairman has
secured Rev. Quincy Lee Morrow to
visit the eastern counties of the state.
He will be in Wayne and Pike coun-
ties May II and %.
Papers have been filed for the ap-
pointment of ]. II. McAniff as police
man for the Wyoming Camp Meeting
association. The appointment was
confirmed by the court.
Street Commissioner Krantz is now
giving Honesdale's three parks a thor
ough cleaning and overhauling. The
fountain in Central park will be start
ed up this week, and the settees placed
in position.
The commission appointed to inquire
into the mental condition of John f.
Drnkhouse, formerly of Stroudsburg,
has found the man to be insane, and
has recommended his removal to the
asylum at Norristown.
Invitations have been issued for the
marriage of William II. Macmillan, of
West Pittston, and Miss Antoinette D.,
daughter of Mrs. Margaret e. Ball, of
Honesdale, to take place at Grace
church on Wednesday, May II, at high
noon.
For throwing stones at and breaking
windows in a Pennsylvania passenger
train, from which they had been elected
for creating a disturbance. Eli and ia
cob McFee, of NescoDeck, have been
arrested and placed in the Columbia
county Jail.
II. o. Silkman, owner of Lake Henry
park, at Maplewood, is having every
thing put in first-class condition fol
the summer The roads are being inn
proved, and the floating logs and
stumps on the lake. are being drawn
on the land and burned.
Some $500 was recently subscribed
by private individuals in Dyberry an6
Tonesdale to put the Dyberry road
from the township line, near the lower
end of the fair ground. in first-class
condition. The work of improving Il
has already been commenced.
During the terrific thunder storm or
Sunday evening last, Mrs. John Weav'
er, of the Hotel Wayne, Honesdale. wa.
so startled by an unusually sever,
shock as to lose her footing on a stair
way and fall to the bottom. She wa:
severely injured about the face.
There is some possibility of agar
starting up the defunct glass factory
at Traceyville. The sale of the plan
has been postponed until today. 1t il
proposed to lease the factory to som,
Poughkeepsie parties at a nominal ren
If they will buy the material upon tn,
grounds at a fair valuation.
e. For several weeks Charles II. Gresl
has been making an effort to secur
several cannons for Conyngham post
81, Grand Army of the Republic, o
Wilkes Barre, and a few days ago h
received a letter from Washington
from Congressman Morgan B. VIII