The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-25


A Sunday school institute for the Sec
ond district will be held in Uniondale
on Friday June 3.
Susauehanna County Pomona grange
will hold its next quarterly meeting in
Birchardville, June 1-2.
Montrose people complain of impaired
eyesght since electric lights have been
placed in the streets.
Montrose has commenced the work of
equipping itself with a sewerage sys-
ten.
Susuuehanna county public schools
will this year receive $40, ,64690 from the
state. The appropriation last year was
2,6G792.
The Susuuehanna County Veteran
organization will meet in Montrose on
May q, to elect a commander and TO
perfect the arrangements for the an
nual encampment Of '9S.
MEMORIAL DAY.
There will he a very general observ-
ance of this hallowed day throughout
the county. Let us ever cherish the
memory of the Nations dead and keep
green in our hearts the recollection OF
their noble deeds.
Bring volets from the leafy wood,
Aand pansies from the garden gay,
To deck the graves of heroes good,
on this Memorial summer day.
The lilac, pirk and SNOWFALL place
Above each green and grassy mound;
Let choicest flowers sweetly grace
The Union soldiers burial ground.
Let us in revrent mood combine,
With loving hearts their praise to sing;
Let loving hands the wreath entwlne,
And every child a blossom bring.
RAILROAD RACKET.
The Erie has an excellent run Of
freight.
Manager Thomas Walsh, of the Sus-
quehanna telegraph office, is seriously
i'll.
Five large flags float over the Sus-
quehanna shops.
The remains of the boiler of the loco
motive which recently blew up near
Gregcourt, on the New York division of
the Erie, is in the shop here, to be in
sppcted by experts.
A number of Delaware division train
men have gone to the front.
| Reading newspapers is tabOoed in the
| Susouehanna shop.
The Erie employees in the eastern
| Susquehanna yard have set up large
| pole and flag.
| The gravel train is now making reg
ular trips from Baston to Cochecton.
The Eries excursion season will be-
gin on Saturday next.
| George w. Dove, the Erie's very cap
able and popular superintendent of the
| jefferson division, was in town on Fri
day. He occasionally comes to Susque-
| hanna to see life.
COOPED FOR HURLING ROCKS.
Bert Tobey, a Harmony township
young man, few days since amused
himself by throwing remnants of the
rock age at the domiCile of one Miller
a neighbor Miller murmured and me-
| andered before a cadi and secured q
warrant for Tobey's arrest. The docu'
ment was placed in the hands of Con
stable James Washburn, of Susque
hanna, who soon nabbed his man. To
hey was given permission to go into {
| room in his home to change his cloth
ing. In moment he raised a window
and fled into the wilderness. On Mon
day morning, at an early hour Con
stables Washburn and Swethurst anC
deputy OGara surrounded the Tobe!
house. The young man soon appeared
and presently a shotgun. He wa
quickly disarmed and handcuffed Con
stable Washburn could hardly cOncea
his joyful emotions" Tobey was thel
brought before Justice Tiffany, on Mon
day, who held him to bail in the sum o
5000 for his appearance before TIL
grand jury. In default, he will he ia
ken to Montrose Jail. Thus, for hurl
ing stones, he will he inCarCerated in ;
stone house, where he will pace the re
verberating corridors, repeating Wool
seys famous soliloquy, ITO beg or no
to beg, that's the question" etc.
SOME SIDE ISSUES.
Let women be brought up in habit
of industry and economy and learn t
support a husband, and the tramp eyi
will soon cease.
House cleaning days are nearly over
Let's see: what's the next uncomfort
| able season?
What woman wants is what sh
can't have.
None but the most inhuman woul
think of pulling down the blind"
The latest tramp act is to cut woo
for a meal and then run away with tn
axe.
The dude is said to be the only liv
ing representative of what Balaar
rode upOn.
Business success depends upon lib
eral patronage of printing offices.
A Susquehanna tailor says that
promising young man" is not wort
half as much in the market as the pay
ing one.
Somebody has said that you cannC
lessen the size of a woman's waist Will
out stunting her brains" a close OF
server is Suspuehanra says this is VIII
q girl rolls her eyes and looks so IDIOT
while being squeezed. Whitney.
Chicago Produce Market.