The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-10

ment to send home her soldier boys
And why not?
Having voted for electric lights, Great
Bend will soon pass from the material
darkness into the glorious light. The
moral darkness will remain unchanged.
Thomson will on Saturday witness
presentation of Uncle Toms Cabin"
for the first time?
A Susquehanna county young man,
who was about to die, recently, willed
his bethrothed TO his best friend,
young man of the neighborhood. The
young lady was satisfied with the ar
rangement and there's happiness on
the cross roads.
A Susquehanna county widow of 1S
recently welded young man of "a. His
parents think seriously of having her
arrested for kidnapping.
In Great Bend, some wags put fish
worm into a glass of gin in a saloon. A
young man, who was about to drink
the gin, saw the worm, imagined that
he had the jams jams, gave a war
whoop and fed from the place. He
forthwith signed the pledge, and today
he drinks nothing-except hard cider.
RAILROAD PICKUP.
Erie Operator James White has tenn
porarily assumed the management Of
the Canawacta Home.
When the jefferson Park and Fiddle
Lake railway is built, next summer,
the name of Fiddle Lake will be
changed to Violin Beach. The prospec-
tive town will be dubbed Violinhurst
1t is probable that next year the
conductors picnic will be held at JEFF
ferson park instead of at Poyntelle.
If we only had a monument to mark
the spot where the first locomotive was
run 1t would be an object of great in
terest to rangers.-Honesdale 1nde-
pendent. Too true, my son, too true!
And yet if you only had a track upon
which trains could run UP from the
ramshackle station away out in Texas
township to somewhere in the business
part of the borough, strangers would
be a mighty sight more interested.
Business on the Erie in August
showed a healthy increase over the
previous month, and the prospects are
good for a fine run of freight this fall.
SOME SIDE LIGHTS.
The burning question of the hour
will soon be the price of coal.
The shortest day in the year is pay
daY.
The Philadelphia Press recently had
a very unkind cut of our popular
townsman, c. Fred Wright, the Repub-
lican candidate for congress. Mr..
Wright has not yet decided to bring
an action for damages.
Edward bunker is touring this Sec
tion on a wheel, making a fine collec-
ton of bags. He should tackle some
of the second-class boarding houses
and third-class hotels.
Hallstead is enjoying a real hot
newspaper war over the right of wheel
men to use the sidewalks. The ques-
prayer meetings also, and the hustling
little borough is shaken from center to
circumference. And the end is not yet.
Mrs. David Barker, of Franklin town.
ship, while cutting some shavings with
a draw-knife, three weeks ago, cut
cash in her knee cap. Blood poisoning
ensued, and she died few days since.
The second annual meeting of the
Susquehanna County Teachers asso-
citation will be held in Hartford, Sept.
1917.
In Brooklyn, this county, n few days
since, Foster Tripp, aged II years, while
black-berrying. was attacked by a
blacksnake. The reptile threw the boy
to the ground, but the little fellow
eventually escaped, and he will live to
wrestle with a snake some other day,
Whitney.