The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-16

w. c. Buck, of Elmira, Is in town to-
day, attending the wedding of his
son. Wilmot E. Buck.
The Erie will expend 81, ,000, 900 in the
Jersey City yard this season raising the
tracks, etc.
MINOR MENTIONETTES
In Beebe Park. on Saturday after
noon. the Deposit nine, composed large
ly of professionals, defeated the home
nine is to 1.
Timothy Cra ndall a denizen OF the
suburbs, who has been enduring tenn
porary exile In the county jain charged
with highway robbery, has obtained
ball. and is again on his old trampng
ground. The victim of the robbery is,
however, still confined in the county
jail as witness. Such is "the law as
il Is writ"
A number of Susquehanna people,
tired of the whirr and whlrl incident to
life in gay Susquehanna, are preparing
to spend a few weeks at Oquaga lake,
near Deposit
A grand picnic and reunion of the
grass widows and widowers of Susque-
hanna county will be held in Montrose
at an early date. 1t is probable that
the gathering will be held at the time
of the Montrose fair. The scheme Is
already attracting wide attention
throughout this section.
OTHER COUNTY CURRENCY.
The health of Tate Buck, Great
Bends famous autioneer, is precarious,
Charles Culver of New Milford, has
n
o. o. f.
Except in the district schools the tan
ming industry in Susquehanna county
is at low ebb.
The potato crop being late, the po-
tato bugs are eating the next greenish
things--the fellows who sign notes and
documents for strangers.
The third annual reunion of the Hoag
the compositor will kindly be careful
and add the "a"-reunion will be held
at Little Lake. Silver Lake township,
on Thursday, June "a.
Our erring brethren, the county Popu-
lists, have made their nominations--it's
a custom they have-but of course they
haven't the remotest idea of electing
anybody.
A REMARKABLE CAT.
Lanesboro has cat which is really
remarkable. His fur is sable, blacker
than the blacklist midnight, and he Is
the only vegetarian cat hereabou
When any of the family are peeling po-
tatoes he howls at a great rate until he
is fed some raw potatoes. He usually
eats from one to three. He also eats
apples, but his favorite dish is musk
melons. If a muskmelon Is brought
into the home secretly he will know 1t
as quickly as most cats would if it were
raw beef. He will jump up, new and
run around after a piece of it, and act
as wildly over it as most cats do over
mice.
IN A LINE OR SO.
Messrs. A. H. Falkenburg, M H.
Eisman, c. A. Miller c. F. Wright and
II. c. Miller, of this place, will apply to
the governor for a charter for an in
tended corporation, to be called the
"Susquehanna Chemical company"
About all of the Susquehanna county
prospectors have suspended operations
for a time. They are evidently like al
most everybody else, waiting to see
what the United States senate will do
The tempest in a teapot concerning
the Susquehanna postmastership has
about s!mmered down. The postmas-
tership really interests but a very few
people-including the man who Is in
and the fellows who want to get in
and can't.
Up to date nobody in Susquehanna
has applied for a foreign consulship.
However, If President Mckinley Is
short of timber Susquehanna will
gladly contribute few of her patriots
to the cause.-especially if he will agree
to give them a far-distant station
There is nothing mean about Susque-
hanna.
Children's day was on Sunday very
generally observed in the Evangelical
churches of Susquehanna.
Rev. w Y. r. Ashmead, OF Westtield.
Pa, will for time act es rector OF
Christ Episcopal church.
Pending the erection of new church
edifice, the Presbyterian congregation
will worship in the Universalist church,
which is not used by that deuomina-
ton. Whitney.