The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-01
WHITNEY'S WEEKLY
BUDGET OF NEWS
FARMER WENTWORTH OF
SHERMAN FINDS A TUsK.
Burglars Operate in the Jefferson
Branch Towns-Peckfiville Peo-
pie Picnic-Universalist will
Fish--Glance at Our Old Friends.
Meet-A Bull Dog That Catches
Eliza James Bath.

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Special to the Scranton Tribune.
b bSSusquehanna, Aug. 30.--A few days
since, Farmer Wentworth, residing
near Sherman, while on his way to
his oat field noticed something pro-
truding from the ground. Upon exam
ination it proved to be a huge bone,
and, curious because of its abnormal
@ eze, he carefully removed the sur
rounding earth. 1t was a mammoth
=, tusk. nine feet, four inches long and
twenty-five inches in circumference.
OEpmously enough, two front bones OF
~ n nfastedon were found near the same
spot eight years ago. The tusk is prob
ably from the same skeleton. 1t lis
supposed that mastedons were found
in this section during the glacial per-
iod. The soil was at that time sup
posed to be soggy and treacherous,
+, and the supposition is that in many
cases the mastedons floundered and
fldfed in the valleys and on the hills.
Both bones We're found in clay soil,
where the bones of mastedons are al
ways found.
IN. A NUTSHELL.
hS 1NNu Ahtll VI lHt tOuHlN Ublu n
. well attended picnic in Riverside park,
Lanesboro, on Saturday.
' 'ASBurglars are operating in the Jeffer-
son branch towns. Uniondale and
Starucca were visited on Thursday
evening last. From the residence of
Mr.. Crossley in Starucca they took
two gold watches and $40 in cash.
About 1000 Peckville people picnicked
IN Riverside park on Thursday. Ow-
ing TO high water in the river, the
steamer could not run.
Miss Ann Kennedy, the Oakland side
young lady who attempted suicide Au-
gust % by shooting herself three times
1NHh a revolver. is gradually recover
Ing. She formerly resided in Scran-
ton.
Dora Rebekah Lodge, l. o. o. F..
Will run a moonlight excursion to
Riverside park this evening.
The Erie on Sunday ran two excur-
sion trains from Delaware and Jeffer-
son division points to Binghamton.
NARROW ESCAPE-FOR A SOCIETY
Whitney is hugging himself and
chuckling because, living in Susque-
hanna, our Good Citizens league can't
touch him.-Hallstead Herald.
IN OLD sUSQUEHANNA COUNTY.
The Susquehanna association of Uni
versalists will meet in Gibson on We'd
nesday and Thursday.
The Scranton annual reunion Of the
Lewis family will be held at Riverside
park, Lanesboro. September 3.
The Susquehanna County Pomona
Grange will hold it's next quarterly
meeting at Fairdale. Sept. Z, s.
Burglars seldom tackle Ararat.
Everything UP there is too high for
them to reach.
The Horse and Colt Breeders asso-
citation of Northeastern Pennsylvania
will hold its twelfth annual reunion in
the Hartford fair grounds today.
The patrons Of husbandry of the
county will hold its annual picnic to-
day at Heart Lake.
The annual reunion of the Whitney
family will be held on Wednesday, at
the home of j. L. Whitney, in Lenox
township.
There was a great crowd at the Dim
ock camp meeting on Sunday.
THE BULLDOG CAUGHT THE FISH
few mornings since Jack Dodge
and his dog, of Starucca, were hunt
ing on the banks of the Starucca creek
when suddenly the dog stood at atten-
tion and then made a mad dash into
the water and grabbed a large fish in
his teeth. The fish apd the dog fought
for fully five minutes, the fish getting
away from his captor twice. Dodge
encouraged the dog by shouting al him
to hold on and finally the dog crawled
out of the water with the fish in his
mouth a proud conquerer. The finny
deniZen was carp which had worked
its way out of carp pond. 1t weighed
eleven pounds.
WHOLLY UNPREMEDITATED
20 summer day, thou art too brief
Thy frogs of song, thy rose and leaf,
Too soon lead in to autumns goal,
Ere we have saved the cash for
coal"
And the poor reconcentradoes, what
has become of them?
Marriage is a preventative of crime,
says the New York Sun. And so is
death.
An exchange wisely remarks with
some people the smaller the founda
tion for it the greater the hustle"
This will do for philosophy. 1t might
be mistaken for fashion note.
county newspaper wants to know
II hell is a place. What difference does
1t make if it isn't? The jumping tooth
ache is not place, but who wants it
for 100000 years?
The problem of life-how to make
one fellow do the work of two.
There is no limit to the age at which
man may make a fool of himself in
matters of love.
The real hero of the war is the man
who filled any place in which he was
assigned, high or low, important or un-
important. and filled it faithfully
that is the real hero of the war.
SOME OF OUR FRIENDS.
Hon. Galusha A. Grow is at his home
in Glenwood.
Messrs. John Francis Mcdonald
and Colonel Miquele d. Moran, distin-
guished citizens of Carbondale, were
much in evidence in Susquehanna on
Friday. Both were searching for Gus
toms-the latter for hard ones.