The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-07
neigbDoritg Counties.

day. Friday and aSturday, July I, .
and 8.
Assessors A. L. Morgan and Frank
J. Hood are making the annual regis
try Of voters and taking the names Of
all children in the borough of school
age.
There is some talk of local bicycllsts
forming an organization.
Richard Pollard is lying very i'll at
his home on Main street
This evening Hillside Hose company,
headed by the Forest City band, will
parade Main street with its new wagon.
The wagon weighs 1000 pounds, is nine
feet and four inches in length. three
feet and eight inches wide and six and
one-half feet high. 1t has steel axles
with ball bearings and will hold one
thousands feet of hose.
There will be a meeting of Enterprise
Hose company at the fire rooms on
Center street, Saturday evening, when
W. j. Davies, of Scranton, will be
present to fit on the new uniforms
which he is making for the company.
1t is important that every member
should be present.
Mrs w. J. Maxey and Mrs, Thomas
Brown, sr., We're visitors in Carbondale
yesterday.
The Carbondale and Forest City
Traction company does not seem as
anxious to extend its line to Forest
City as 1t was several months ago.
Their the councilmen virtually shut
the company out by imposing restric-
tions that everybody knew the corpor-
alton would not agree to. The present
council, 1t is understood, favors the ex-
tension of the line along Main street
and would grant a franchise with rea-
sonable restrictions, but the company
is not at present asking anything. j.
w. Aitken made the remark after the
last occasion on which he endeavored
to get in here that Forest City would
he eager for the extension of the line
before the company would again move
in the matter And there's nothing
like keeping ones word.
Next Thursday the graded school
closes for the summer vacation. We'd
nesday evening an entertainment will
be given in Davis Opera house, the
proceeds of which will be used to en-
large the school library. The admis-
sion will be 10 cents and reserved seats
90 cents. The programme prepared for
that occasion is as follows:
Frogs"
Chorus "Just Como Out From the
Boys"
Solo, "The Little Uoliog."
Solo, "Tne Little Tadpole."
Solo, king Of the Frogs"
Chorus, "ChuclI Into the aWter.'
II-Girls' operetta, "The Busy Bees"
Chorus, I'VE Come With a Merry
Hum"
Solo, "Qucen of the Hive"
Chorus, 1--WE Are Subjects AL"
Solo, I'm Lively Little Bee"
Chorus, THE Lively Bees"
Chorus, "Good-bye, We're OFF on
Fly"
III--Primary recreation, song and Mother
Goose medle.,
IV-Young ladies' operetta, "The Flow
ers"
Chorus, eve Are the Flowers"
Double quartette, classification CT
FLOW ers."
Chorrs, 1.-The Bright Flowers"
Double quartette, THE Buttercup."
Duet, "Violet and Sunfiower."
Double quartette. The Daisy"
Chorus, Beautiful Sunshine"
V-Primary Good Nigh song.
VI-Dialogue, "A Concensus of the Com
pctent"
NlI-Young peoples operetta, "The
Birds"
Chorus. "Over the Hills"
Double quartette, classification of
Birds"
Chorus, Merry as Merry Can Be-
Solo and chorus, The Woodpecker."
Solo and chorus, "The Cuckoo"
Solo and chorus, 1.-The Crow"
Duet and solo, MY Mate and t.
Chorus. over the Hills and Far
Away"
VIII-"The Gypsies' Festival"
Tableau, "The Camp"
'The Queens Address"
Chorus, Morning Greeting"
Chorus, Hail Our Joyous Festal
Day"
Solo and chorus, Little Gypsy Jane"
Solo, 1.-The Yankee Pedlar's Approach"
Chorus, "The Gypsies' Salutation."
Chorus, "rhe Pedlar's Reception
Solo and chorus The Yankees Song"
Chorus, Sound the Tambourine."
lX-Itecitation, "The Pilots Story"
X-Drama, THE Sweet Family"
Thursday evening the commence
ment exercises proper will take place.
The members of the graduating class
are Pearl Gard, Margaret Evans, Abbie
Thomas and Daniel Allen. The pro-
gramme to be observed is:
Chorus, "The National Hymn"
Salutatory ....,............Ma Margaret Evans
Recitation, "Bay Billy. Richard Hughes
Paper, "Once a Year"
Abbie R, Thomas, Editor
Piano solo Clarence Knapp
Recitation, THE Actors Story
EVangeline McCloskey
Glass Prophecy y.............Danie. G. Allen
Recitation, "Briar Rose Martha Grifflths
Naledlctory ,...........,.....Pearl b. Guard
Presentation of diplomas by President
of the School Board w. II. Leek.
Parting song,
George II. Dunn, of Jermyn, was
among the out of town visitors to this
place yesterday.
a small child of a Siavish family, liv-
ing on Delaware street, died of diph-
liberia Tuesday. The funeral was held
yesterday afternoon. Another older
child is i'll with the same disease.
The Forest City school board has de-
cided to purchase fifty of Worcester's
Academic dictionaries, one biographi-
cal dictionary, a Webster's Interna-
ticnal dictionary and a set of CHAM
bers' encyclopedia for use in the school
room.
The Forest City News enters an en-
phatic protest against the number of
ours that irfest the borough and by
inference suggests that it would not