The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-30
CITY NOTES.


Tho board of health will meet in regular
session tomorrow evening.
Tie funeral Of Mrs. Fannie Williams
will takc place this afternoon at O'Clock
from the Howard Place African MethO-
Iist Episcopal church
William Gaughan, of Matthews Bros .
drug store, was thrown from bicEcl"
ANA injured while descending Washington
avenue hill yesterday noon.
Miss Celia Carl, invites tho public to a
reception to be held at her art studio, No.
2l2 North Main avenue Hyde Park,
Thursday, Dec, >, day and evening.
Tho bids recently submitted to the
board OF control for supplying the school
buildings with coal will be considered at
a meeting of the supply committee Thurs
day NIGHT.
No. school building was opened yes
trrday. 1t is on hickory street in the
Eighth ward NO. 10. another new build
ing, situated in the Twentieth ward, will
be opened soon.
Joseph HOlleran, the young man in
iurcd in foot bali game, Saturday, NOV.
-. has so far recovered that he was re-
moved Saturday to his home in Dunmore
from the Scranton Private hospital.
Rev. l. J. Lansing will recitc from mom-
ory "Thc Courtship of Miles Standsh, in
lile lecture room u lIlt '1l'tl INlNS'
church this evening at 7.ij o'clock. Tick
cts for sale at SandcIsons drug store.
During the season of Advent from now
until Christmas, there VIII Dc daily ser
vices in St Lukc's church at 10 a. m. ana
i.2O D. m. except on Wednesdays, wnen
the evening service will be at 40 insteaI
of at 40 j. m.
Thirty-two deaths were last week re-
purtCd to the board of health; two were
from diphtheria and two from mcmhran-
cous Group. OF the sixteen news cases of
contagious diseases, thirteen were diph-
liberia and ;Wo scarlet fever.
The taxes committee of the board OF
trade met yesterday afternoon to discuss
the proposed agitation for a more equit-
able tax assessment. \ quorum was not
present. y call has been issued for a
meeting at II o'clock tomorrow morning.
Marriage licenses were yesterday grant
ed to Edwin l.. Pinncll and Clara Bidwell
of Dunmorc; George T.. jackson and Ma
bel T. Miller, of Hampton, Va; Henry -
Hitchcock and LcnOra Staples. Of Scran-
ton; Fcrdinando Mercanta and AlfOnsina
Lombardo, of DunmOrc.
The next in the courss of lectures at the
Penn Avenue Baptist church will be
given next Monday evening, Dec. i. Rev
Joseph *. Dixon will be the lecturer. and
the subject Will bc The Passing of tho
ing the man did not known him. His con.
dition was very critical.
Captain b. r. Morris has become sole
proprietor of the Sunday World and sun.
days issue of that sprightly paper con-
taincd the announcement Captain Nor.
ris has had a wide and varied newspaper
experience and under his direction the
World should continue to forge ahead.
Evangclists c. /. Newell and wife closat
their meetings al Gravity Sunday even
ing, Nov. II. Forty-twO persons were al
the altar for pardon. Mr.. ana Mrs New.
ell left MoIday for South Canaan, where
they are at present engaged with Rev
II. \. Smith, pastor OF the Methodist
Episcopal church,
A new team of horses purchased "ol
Crystal Engine company and a new
horse of the Century Hose company vii
he examined tomorrow at 3 p. m. by thu
joint fire department committee of coun
ellis. All three animals have been II
training for nearly two weeks and arr
ready for regular duty.
The man who fractured his skull b,
falling down the steps at the Coync hons,
on Lackawanna avenue Saturday niGh
is stil unidentified. He lays in an un
conscious condition at the LaCkaWannj
hospital. Yesterday n party from Ol,
Forge visited the hospital, hut upon Sc
ing the man did not know him. is condi
ton was very critical,