The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-06
NEWS WHITTLINGS
FROM WHITNEY
The Snake Industry Thriving at Deep
Hollow.
HEROINE OF HICKORY
GROVE
Miss Grace Waterman sIaughters n
tiIe.-whisperings of Interest to
the Railroad Boys-.A Prosecutor
Wanted-.PcTson

the Railroad Boys-.A Prosecutor
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Special to the Scranton Tribune.
Susquehanna, Oct. 5.-Over in the
Deep Hollow section of Great Bend
township a number of the denizens
have established a snake farm. There
are twenty mounds of earth on the
snake farm. prepared in such way
that the snakes use them for nests,
and tharc are about a dozen nests in
each mound. The nests are expected
to turn out about a dozen rattlesnakes
each year. and the stock will increase
rapidly. The prospectors have a con-
tract with a Philadelphia patent medi-
cine firm. that is making a rheumatism
cure, for $50 snakes next season at $275
each. Others will be sold to New York
dime museum managers and circuses
will purchase a few. Great care is
taken of the young snakes. The new
ly-hatched snakes, If not properly
cared for by the mother, are taken to
hut nearby. and there fed with bugs
caught for that purpose. Sometimes
the eggs are hatched out under the
stove. a dozen very large snakes, with
their fangs drawn. are kept about the
home of one of the firm as pets. The
snakes are excellent mousers-much
better than cats. The proprietors wan
der about the farm, taking no other
precaution against the reptiles than to
wear thick boots.
THE CREAM OF THE NEWS.
Rev p. j. Cough, the late able and
popular curate of st. Johns Catholic
church. has been transferred to the
cathedral in Scranton. During his
stay among us he has made very many
friends, who regret his removal hence.
He has just returned from flying trip
to Germany.
Pew. ]. w. Malone, late of the Scran-
ton cathedral, succeeds Rev. p. j.
Cough as curate of ST. Johns. Father
Malone celebrated mass in the Starruc-
ca church on Sunday
After a protractsd illness of con-
| sumption, Thomas Best died at his
home on Laurel street on Saturday,
aged % years. The funeral occurred
from st Johns Catholic church on
Monday afternoon, Rev. ]. w. Malone
| officiating.
At the residence of the brides par
|
on Wednesday evening. Bert Wood
ward. of Lanshoro, and Miss Maude
Sherman, of Susouehanna, will be
united in marriage.
| AN "OWED" TO FALL
The melancholy days have como.
| The saddest of my recollection;
| The farmer shocketh his corn
| And husketh his pumpkins.
| And county fairs are now the proper
| thing;
| The cold winds whistleth
| Through the trees and through
| The young mans summer clothing,
| And he wondereth what he didst
| With his summer wages.
| The base ball suit is
| Laid on a high shelf;
| And soonly will the young man
| Get on his skates (steel ones)
And skim Ger the CLASSY surface
| OF the lake.
| The summer resorter fleeth
| Back to his home;
| And the married folks
| Leave their suburban homes
| And seek the team-heated blocks.
| And even the trees
| Begin to leave
| Twas ever thus!
| RAlLROAD WHlSPERlNbS.
After few days short time, the
| Erie shops were on Monday placed on
full time.
During the temporary absence g
| night Ticket Agent Chamberlain, al
about 10 o'clock on Friday night, a
thief forced the door of the Erie ticket
office. grabbed So, exodusted instanter
and is still at large. In his haste the
thief failed to rifle the cash drawer
While assisting in making up trair
in the Susquehanna yard on Sunday
evening. George Springstien, of Tioga
Centre, n. Y, fell between two cars anG
was instantly killed. He was 20 years
old and unmarried.
| During the month of September about
5000 more cars We're handled in tn:
Susquehanna yard than in the cores
ponding month of last year.
The funeral of George Tibbits, one o.
the oldest engineers on the Susque
hanna division of the Erie, occurred il
Honelsville on Friday.
Some of the Erie trainmen are credit
ed with forty and forty-five days il
September.
Two summer passenger trains hav,
been taken off the Erie west of Por
Jervis.
Owing to a rush of business, an extra
locomotive has been placed in the Sus
quehanna yard.
HEROINE OF HICKORY GROVE
Miss Grace Waterman, a comel
young school teacher, is just now tn
heroine of Hickory Grove For som
time past she has Yearned to distn
guish herself by killing a rattlesnakt
A few daYs since her wish was graft
fled in very unexpected manner. Al
ter closing her Oak Hill school for tn
day, she had occasion to pass throug
meadow. and in doing so she saw
= | just ahead of her, a splendid specime
of the rattler. Placing her books upo
= the ground, she struck at the snak
with her parasol. The reptile was read
: for battle and instantly coiled himsel
{ around the parasol. Miss Waterman
> dashed the parosal against a tree an
the snake was killed. Picking up he
books she continued on her way, bu
: in a moment she discovered that sh
? was surrounded by snakes of differer
!. sizes, all of them in positions of al
G tack or defense. The plucky girl arlne
. herself with stout hickory club an
y at once commenced striking the rel
"a tiles right and left. In about five mir