The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-04-29
NORTHEASTERN
PENNSYLVANIA

Sunday base ball is not permitted in
Hazleton.
A civil service examination will be
held at Wilkes Barre June 5.
Stroudsburg will have n carpet rae
tory with so looms and employing 30
hands at first.
Work will commence immediatelS
uron an addition to Wall &c Murphy's
grist mill at Hawley.
The contracts for the building or
borough electric light plant In Forty
Fort has been awarded.
John I,oyelace, of Boyd's Mills, has
q parsnip that measures 2119 inches in
length and IN in circumference.
The house of Charles Wilsey, situat-
ed in Monroe township. Wyoming
county, was burned down Tuesday.
A sixty-yard rock tunnel which is
being driven in No. Cranberry mine
will greatly facilitate the removal OF
coal.
Thomas q. Richards. formerly of
Nanticoke, has been elected superin-
tendent of the public water works in
Pueblo, Col
Vogelsang Smith, a Troy boy, was
presented u silver medal recently for
having attended church 270 times dur
ing the past year
There appears to be good grounds
for the belief that Poughkeepsie par
ties will soon start up the fires in the
Hunesdale Glass works.
Shad fishing in the upper Delaware
opened well, although colo weather
has been against good fishing. Few
large catches are reported.
Annie !. wolfs, of Nanticoke,, has
sued John Smoulter, jr., for $4,000
damages, the charge being that the
defendant spoke defamatory words
An ordinance has been passed by
the Hallstead council forbidding the
riding of bicycles on the sidewalks as
well as wheclbarrows and carts of all
kinds.
1t is understood Il company has been
formed to establish a new paper at
Meshoppen, Wyoming county. c. s.
Holcomb of Dushore, will have charge
of the office.
The colleries of the Lehigh Valley
system will work three days next week
Monday Tuesday and Wednesday.
This is one day more than they worked
during the previous month.
After filling the pulpit of the Me-
shopper Presbyterian church for three
years, Rev. William Everitt has
preached his farewell sermon, prepar-
atory to going to a church in Balti-
more.
The Baptists of Pennsylvania will
hold their state convention in Homes
dale in October. Rev. w. II. Conrad,
ID. D., state secretary will visit that
place on June 4-6 to arrange for the
state meetings.
John McNulty, of Mauch Chunk,
brakeman on the Central Railroad of
New Jersey, had his right hand
crushed so badly while coupling cars
at Hampton Junction, that amputa-
tion of the member became necessary.
Through the liberality of Hor. f. II.
Perins, the Athens Young Mems CHRIS
tian association may be able to resume
work. He offers $500 a year for two
years provided the association pays uD
all arrearages and start free from debt.
Engineers are surveying the balancs
of the electric road route between
Pottsville and Schuylkill Haven. The
companys litigation has been dis
posed of, and it is expected that this
road will be in operation by early fall.
The Lehigh Valley railroad has be-
gun using the new south bound track
at Wyalusing recently laid to straight
en- the curve at that point. The north
bound track will be put in use today
and the depot will be moved in a few
days.
Mrs. Sarah Peters, wife of Philip w.
Peters a well known resident of Mon
roe county, is dead after a lingering
illness. The deceased was a sister of
eX-Representative A. C. Shoemaker
and a leader in the Presbyterian
church.
The annual meeting of the Wilkes
Barre Cleric was held in Calvary House
Tuesday evening. The following off,
GERS We're elected for the year: Presi-
dent, Rev. e. j. Morris; vice resident
Rev. C. A. Walker; secretary, Rev. w
ID. Johnson.
Bradford's retired board of county
commissioners has filed an appeal
from the report of the county auditors
Accompanying the notice of appeal as
filed is a bond of $4,000 conditioned
for the prosecution OF the case in good
faith and with effect.
1t is expected that fifteen divisions
and several bands will be in line ir
the parade upon the occasion of the
Ancient Order Of Hibernians' Field
Day." to be held in Susquehanna June
80. Several prominent members of tho
Oruer VIII De present.
G.. W. Twining, superintendent of the
Lehigh & Susquehanna division Of the
Jersey Central, is circulating a petition
among the employees of that division
asking each to contribute one days
pay to either the Bethlehem, Eastor
or Wilkes Barre hospital.
The assignment of the Stroudsbure
high school class honors are as fol.
lows: ValedfctOrian. Miss Josie Trau.
sue; salutatorian, Miss Lulu Metzgar,
third honor, Miss Carrie Schoonover
The class this year numbers fourteen
students, twelve girls and two young
men.
The Wilkes-Barre opponents to the
Spring Brook Water company have
started campaign to have their city
reorganized as a third class city un
der the new constitution. This, it /.
claimed, would permit the city to issue
bonds sufficient for the construction
of a municipal water works.
The new officers of the Luther league
elected Tuesday in WilkesBarre, ar,
as follows: President, Rev. A. L. Ra
mer, Scranton; Vice-president, John A
Zebner, Wilkes Barre; treasurer Mis-
p. Rohrwasser, Scranton; recordinl
secretaries, Miss Clara Schmaltz, Pitts
ton, and John Gohm, Scranton.
Daniel Haffey of Dyberry, met will
quite serious injury on Monday af
ternoon. He was attempting TO ge
Into his farm wagon, when the horse
started and he was thrown to tn
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