The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-17
WHITNEY'S WEEKLY
BUDGET OF NEWS
Great Gathering of Crows at Hickory
Grove.
CAT THAT RINGS THE DOOR BELL
Other Intelligent Animals--James
McCloud's Horse Has Eight Legs.
She Selected IA Husband with
Locust Bush--Numerous Poets Mt
Montrose.. Mormon Converts
the Scranton Tribune.

Susuuehanna Feb. 16.-There was d
great gathering of crows near the Erie
station at Hickory Grove a few morn
ings ago Flock after flock poured into
a. piece of woods near that station.
Their flight was 50 continuous that
they obscured the sun. They came
from the north. The noise made bv
their cawing was deafening. Men and l
boys shot them by the score as they
swooped down into the woods, which |
became for time veritable old-time |
crow -roost The firing of guns only
frightened such of the crows as were
near the gunners. and they only rose
to alight in another tree. The noise
they made was kept up until darkness
settled over them. Once in awhile in
the night the branch of some tree,
which was overloaded with birds, |
would break with crash beneath their
weight. Then there would be great
cry and clamor and rush OF wings
among the crows thus suddenly de-
prived Of roosting place, until they
reganed a foothod elsewhere. Their
noise could be heard a mile away.
Early the next morning the great mass
began to stir and they flew away in
fiocks until the woods were again free
of them. They were more than an
hour in getting away. Dead crows
and broken branches Uttered the grove
from one end to the other.
TOWN TOPICS.
The jefferson branch society of Chris
tian Endeavor will hold a convention
in the Susquehanna Presbyterian
church on Wednesday next. Rev. Dr.
Edward Taylor, of Binghamton, is
| among the speakers announced.
The Susquehanna shirt factory may
not materialize, after all, there being
a hitch in the final ARRANGEMENTS.
Division No. /, Ancient Order of
Hibernians, will have grand field day
| June 80. About fifteen neighboring
| divisions will be invited. The pro-
gramme will include grand parade,
| picnic in Beebe Park. a musical and
| literary entertainment in Hogan opera
house, and midnight fireworks. The
| national and state officers will be pres
| ent.
| The Presbyterians will hold a congre-
| gational meeting on Thursday evening,
to take into consideration the subject
of erecting a new church editice.
Susquehanna was quite largely rep
| resented at the recent Bradley Martin
ball in New York city. Few regrets
We're sent. Returning, a number of
| Great Bend guests We're unavoida bly,
sidetracked en- route, as they came in
| box cars.
INTELLIGENT ANIMALS.
Miss Kate Hotchkiss, of Winslow,
has the most precocious cat in the state
| nf 40
time e-honored "cat-hole'' in the kitchen
door, when desiring to enter the house,
it will walk leisurely up to the front
door, and, standing upon its hind legs,
pull the bell knob until its mistress
opens the door. 1t evidently loves the
sound Of the bell, for when the door is
opened it will continue to pull the knob
until driven away.
Dr. S. l. Engle, of Susquehanna, has
music-loving kitten At the first
sound of the piano it will spring upon
the instrument and remain there until
its mistress ceases playing. Quite
often it will run backward and forward
over the keys, evidently to hear the
beautiful discord. Before this fad of
the kitten was discovered, the sound
of the piano in the small hours of the
| IlSll leu lIlt ldllllly " DtiiSNt 'iAt
supernatural hands were manipulating
the keys. The doctor is endeavoring
to teach the kitten the scale.
IN THE COUNTY.
? A district Sunday school institute
will be held in Montrose on Thursday
next.
, Mormon missionaries" have made
: seventeen converts in Forest City
And there are more to follow"
r EX-County Commissioner Jerry Ste
phens has removed to Nicholson.
The Brandt chair factory has beer
placed on nine hours time an increase
of an hour. The advance agent o
prosperity is climbing the Jefferson
branch mountains.
+ The Frendsville Literary and Ora
matte company will present the Irisl
comedy, "Old People" February %.
There are not enough Democrats il
: Great Bend township to hold a caucus
Hallstead is overrun with crayoI
portrait agents.
Next spring about twenty new cot
tages will be erected at Crystal Lake.
FOR MAIDENS WITH TWO LOVERS
Years ago there was a young lad
!, in Susquehanna county who had tw
), sweathearts, and, not being able to de
: eide between the two, she set out tw
q wild locust bushes in the ward, namin
a one for each of her lovers, belevin
= in the old adage: III he loves me tina
;, bush will grow; and according to he
u faith, so it happened unto her" On
:, of the bushes very soon withered, bu
g the other flourished and in the cours
II of time she married the gentlema
il for whom the bush was named The
raised a large family, who are we
r known throughout several counties
and the loCast bush also grew an
multiplied Time has laid bare tn
spot where the old dwelling stood, an
nothing remains to mark the spot {
J, this once happy home but the locus
a bushes, of which there is a complet
= hedge about one hundred yards
- length.
'e ODDS AND ENDS.
Montrose has eleven poets.
IL wicked person at our elbow suggest
Is that the best thing about them
l their mellinuous silence, and the fac
rs that they are seldom heard of, excel
% in statistics.
rs Great Bend is striving hard to kee
a up with the procession. But it still he
= a toll-gate-a relic of barbarism
A Binshamton poet is out with son
- winter verses and wants TO kno
~ will love grow cold?" 1t WILL tn
;" weather, If it fingers by the front gat
Anent the Mormon imbroglio at Fol
est City, perhaps those Dundaffit
missionaries" might try their fist
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