The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-27
PLUMBER.

PARAGRAPHIC PLUMBER.
About fifty young men met in the
Erie shops on Sunday afternoon and
took preliminary steps toward organiz-
ing a military company. Captain
Alexander Ives will be commander.
The Lackawanna Presbytery desires
spain quickly whipped "for the good
of mankind and the glory of God"
Good enough.
Monroe Curtis lodge, No. 1874, Broth
erhood of Railroad Trainmen, will
hold it's eleventh annual Friday even
ing next.
DR.. S. 5. simmons is very seriously
i'll with erysipelas.
Council No. 3S4, Catholic Benevolent
Legion. will give a grand ball on Fri
day evening next.
In Hogan Opera house on Saturday
evening next, before the Pastime Ath-
letic club, Tim Hurley, of Susquehan-
ma, and Tom Robinson. of Port Jervis,
will spar for the championship.
IN sUsQUEHANNA COUNTY.
Gods justice is a bed where we
our anxious hearts may lay,
And, weary with ourselves may sleep
our discomfort away.
For right IS right, since God is God,
And right the day will win
To doubt would be disloyalty,
To fdltcr would be sim!
Efforts are being made to raise a
regiment Of volunteers in Susquehan-
na county Captain w. d. B. Ainey,
OF Montrose, is prominent in the mat
,er.
Katherine. wife of DR.. A .. Stimp-
son, of Thomson, died on Saturday
morning. The funeral was largely at
tended on Monday.
Homer Greene, Honesdale's author
lawyer, will deliver the Memorial Day
address in Montrose. He has a big
subject, but he will do it Justice
Patriotic Montrose has prepared to
give it's military company a big send
off, when it leaves for war.
Flora +. Sweet has been committed
to the Danville asylum for the insane.
l.. w. Moore, of Hartford, recently
had a fine horse killed in a remarkable
way 1t ran awy in the night. and
in doing So, ran against a tree. A
projecting stub or knot entered its
forehead and killed it instantly.
The Susquehanna County Veteran
organization will meet i'm Montrose
May p, for the purpose of electing a
general commanding, naming date and
placing the years cncampment, and to
transact such other business as may
come before it.
y BRADFORD COUNTY WHAT-IS-
IT?
Hep, hep to The right
Ready, boys for the fight
March away
At break o day
And slay 'cm left and right"
our cminently truthful and thor
oughly reliable old friend, the editor OF
the Towanda Republican, accompanies
his application for membership in the
Newspaper Liars club. with the fol.
lowing: "A down the river fisherman
was exhibiting a queer specimen in
Towanda Tuesday. The beast was
caught in the river below Laceyville
and local fishermen were unable Il
name ii. 1t was shaped much like &
lizard about 2S inches long and wa!
provided with four legs the head wa!
fiat. the mouth long and it's skin wa,
loose and about the color of an eel
lnasmuch as the gentlemen from Brad
ford county possesses, in an eminen
degree, all of the essential uualizca
tions for membership, l move that h,
be unanimously admitted
SOME SIDE ISSUES.
"lle who hesitates is lost
Crap gum
DO not stop to count the cost!
Crap gun
The handwriting all can read
cuba S children died for feed
II is time for Spain to bleed;
Grab Il gum
Judging from recent occurrences il
this vale of tears, some church Off
cials, anl leading members, for dou
ble-dealing, chicanery, general cussed
ness and unbridled trickery, can doubl
discount the average Pennsylvania
politician, with hands down. An,
more's the pity o, the times! 20, tn
manners!
A Susquehanna school teacher tn
other day propOunded the followin
question to her class: IAN ice wagon
with two men, weighs 5000 pound,
The man in front weighs 200 pounds
What does the men in the bac