The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-17

cornet for sale cheap" He'll never get
a homekeeper so long as he practices
on the cornet.
IN OLD sUsQUEHANNA COUNTY.
The Montrose Democrat figures the
cost to the county, on account of the
failure of the jury commissioners to
draw the Jurors legally, at from $500
to $1,500
Montrose will have a "peace celebra-
ton" August 81, the second day of the
soldiers encampment.
The Susquehanna county Prohibition
convention will be held in Montrose, on
Wednesday, August "a
The Crescent club, of Carbondale,
will hold big picnic at Jefferson Park,
near Burnwood, on Thursday next. A
great crowd Is expected.
The annual parade of the Montrose
Fire department has been postponed to
August 81.
The eighteenth annual reunion of
Company b, Seventeenth Pennsylvania
Cavalry. will be held at the residence
OF James e. Curtis, in North Jackson,
Sept. Z.
The Patrons of Husbandry Of Sus-
quehanna county will hold their annual
picnic at Heart Lake, Aug. %.
WHOLLY UNPREMEDITATEDi
Amid the wrecks made by the early
peach and the succulent cucumber. the
cheerful countenance of the undertaken
shines forth like an evening star.
1t costs money to advertise, but it
costs more money not to advertise.
Among the most conspicuous cases of
confidence in human nature are the
people who swallow mixed drinks.
Some men try to get the earth, but
the earth gets them.
When the office goes out to seek the
man it has to pick its way out through
crowds.
Man wants but little here below OF
wealth's bright golden calf, but when
he gets the horns and hoofs he wants
the other half"
SOME MORE FAMILY REUNIONS.
The annual reunion of the seven
Smith brothers. of Franklin, this coun-
ty, will occur in Ross Park, Bingham
ton, Aug. 26.
The Payne and Rynearson reunions
will be held together this year on the
farm Of John Walters, in Lenox, Aug
ust 81.
The ninth annual reunion of the de-
scendants of Joseph Potter will be held
at the residence of Bert Barnes, near
Gelatt, today.
The annual reunion OF the descen-
dants of Joseph and Elizabeth Baker
will be held on Thursday. August 25,
at the residence of j. D. Baker, South
Montrose.
The Boles family reunion will be
held at the Mineral Springs in Rush
August 81.
The annual reunion of the FELTON,
family will be held at r. F. Tanners
in Hartford, August II.
The Wheaton family reunion will he
| held at the residence of Mrs. Merrick
T. Whitney, in Thomson. August 25.
A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING.
The Montrose fair will be held Oc-
tober 4th and 5th. The Hartford fail
| will be held September 2S.
Hon. +. B. Hardenbergh will go back
to the state senate with a rising ma
| jority. Able, popular and wide-awake
he is the right man in the right place
Hardenbergh stock is above par.
When the Starrucca- -Thomson-Jack
son telephone line is completed, an eff
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| Jackson to Susquehanna.
| The Erie conductors will soon holC
their annual clam bake in Shohol;
Glen.
Business is perceptibly increasing OF
the Erie.
LIVING OVER THE OLD DAYS.
Something like forty family reunions
will be held in Susquehanna count,
during the present month. At fam
lily reunion you can get acquainted witt
your rich relatives, sample some ex
crutiating samples of cookery, and la,
the foundation of an able bodied cas-
of dyspepsia. Yet it is interesting t
sit at one of these gatherings and hea
the old people as they relate facts o
the long ago, in some instances born o
imagination solely. The old settlers ar
fast passing away, and few of them ar
seen at these annual gatherings.
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