The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-22
THE COUNTY ROUNDABOUT.

THE COUNTY ROUNDABOUT.
The teachers of the Susquehanna
county schools held its first associa-
tion meeting in Hallstead on Saturday.
The sessions were very interesting.
There were frosts last week in sew
eral portions of the county.
A wildcat, weighing eighteen pounds,
was killed on Thursday near Deep
Hollow
The sixth convention of the Wesley
Epworth League union will be held in
New Milford on Wednesday and Thurs
day, Sept. 1928.
The annual parade of the Montrose
fire department has been postponed in
definitely.
Professor Carl Hesslen, of Carbon
dale, who has been summering in
Brandt, left on Saturday for Austria,
his native land.
The funeral of Mrs. G.. w. Squires,
an esteemed resident of New Milford
township, occurred on Sunday after
noon.
The Lackawanna Presbytery is in
session in Halstead today
The funeral of Mrs. Anna z. Stien-
back will occur today in South Glib
son. Deceased passed away on Satur-
day, in her sixty-ninth year.
his OWN TERRITORY"
Brother Psalmuel Moore, of the
Great Bend Plaindealer, in mention
ing the recent revival meetings in
Hallstead, says: Years ago it was
conceded that the devil possessed a
n6-C hn1 In,
and Hallstead, but judging from the
development and growth of religious
sentiment, especially in Hallstead,
within the past few years, his Satanic
majesty has been fairly beaten in his
| own territory" 1t is refreshing to
have Brother More acknowledge that
Great Bend is the DEVILS territory.
Quite large number of people mis-
trusted it some time since.
SUSQUEHANNA SUNDRIES.
In Biebe Park, on Saturday after
| noon, the Susuehanna club was de-
feated by the Great Bend club, ii to 8.
The following Susquehanna county
postmasters have been appointed with
in the past few days: j. D. Thornton,
Auburn Centre; f. G. Trowbridge,
| Great Bend; j. r. Alexander, Kings
| ley.
A meeting will be called in few
days for the purpose of organizing a
| "Village Improvement Society,""
The funeral Of John Kahn, of Stew
ers' Point, occurred on Sunday.
The excursion from Binghamton to
| Susquehanna, on Sunday, was quite
well attended.
The next session of the Susquehanna
| County Teachers association will be
| held in Susquehanna.
The Erie shops are once more on full
time. It's good medicine to take.
The remains of the late Henry Mil
| Ter, who recently died suddenly on
| train 81, between Deposit and Susque-
hanna, will probably be exhumed and
| forwarded to Cincinnati.
HEN ITS OWN INCUBATOR.
Farmer Winters, of New Milford.
noted recently that one of his hens had
| ceased laying eggs, but was growing
| remarkably large. After attaining an
astonishing size, the hen died, and Mr..
| Winters was curious enough to hold a
post mortem examination. He cut the
| fowl open, and was somewhat aston
| ished to find four well-developeG little
chickens, which began strutting around
the barn-yard. He supposes that some
trouble had stopped the egress of the
| eggs, and that the natural heat of the
body incubated the chicken germs.
RAILROAD RACKET.
| 1t is rumored that the Armour and
Swift companies have closed a con-
tract with the Erie for the carrying
of their meat for the east and for ex.
port.
Twenty-four locomotives are to be
| constructed in the Erie shops.
Ttere is a rumor that the Erie has
reduced its annual rental price to the
| Delaware and Hudson road for the
use of the Jefferson branch. This may
head off the building of the Delaware
and Hudsons branch road from Lanes
| boro to Carbondale
The current number of the Railroad
| Employees Journal contains an excel
| lent portrait of John d. Partell, of
| Carbondale, the capable and popular
Erie train dispatcher. 1t is twice as
natural as life.
There was recently a glut of pea
| coal In New York, and 1t is rumored
that a high Erie official in that city
wired jefferson Division Superintend-