The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-12

ers' association OF susauehanna coun-
ty, I. o. Red Men, will be held in Great
Bend Oct. 20.
Miss Emily Blackman, the county
historian. IL at Glenwood, Florida.
The thirty-ffth annual session of the
Susuuehanna County Teachers insti-
tute will be held in Montrose beginning
Oct. IL.
As yet several townships in the coun-
ty have not produced candidates for
sheriff. The election Is not until next
year. and the quota Will surely be filled
In ample time. Standing candidates
never decline and seldom die.
Wholly unprecedented many man
has ruined his morals trying to find
out how wicked his neighbors were.
Noah had a great admiration for
mountains. He was stuck on Ararat.
Eight times out of ten the man or
woman who attempt to do too much
for church, a party, a society, n town
or an individual, are misrepresented,
misjudged, and in the end, misused.
Our oldest inhabitant" has examin-
ed the feathers on the breast over
the left lung of a July goose and pro-
phesizes that we are to have a mild
winter.
The season has just closed when city
summer boarders ate salt ham, drank
blinky milk, had narrow escapes from
mad bulls and playful goats and imag
inod that they were recuperating their
wasted energies.
A Windsor girl waved her hand at
a stranger and three days afterwards
they were married. Two months after
wards the young wife waved a fiat iron
at her husband. A year later he
came home waving a divorce.
HIS DOG KILLS HAWKS.
Bob, red setter owned by Farmer
Bradford of Brookville. keeps guard
over the barnyard fowls. follows the
Cackling mother hens and their broods
| from one place to another and lies low
for hen hawks. Late in September
| Bob saw an enormous hawk scoop
| down and carry off a squawkinG chick
| en- and since then he has taken upon
himself the task of watching the feath-
cred stock on the premises. Farmer
Bradford wasn't aware of Bob's self
imposed duties until an afternoon in
| September. when he heard the roosters
and the hens cakling and squawking
back of the barn. He saw red streak
sailing over the fence like a flash and
before he could get to where the fright
ened fowls were Bob came bounding
round the corner of the barn with q
lig hen hawk by the neck. The hen
was Tapping its wings furiously. But
Bob soon choked it to death. not APP
| pearng to mind the beating he re
ceived from the birds large wings.
| BUILDING A NOVEL.
Mrs. Klink, an author, is evidently
gathering material for new novel
Some months since she was arrested or
a charge of robbing a store at Meshop-
pen and lodged in the Wyoming coun-
ty Jail at Tunkhannock. While await.
ing trial she escaped from Jail, accom-.
panied by a negro, William Smith
Since escaping the couple have beer
tramping through the country and liv
ing in true Bohemian style. Some
weeks ago a horse and wagon wer,
stolen at Harford.this county. and late
the property was found anlong th'
road by Broome county officer
Smoke arising from neighbOrhood ra
vine disclosed the presence of a camp
ing party which. on investigation
proved to be Mrs. Klink and Smith
the Couple were roasting a chicken
: the fc"thers of which matched per
feet % feathers found in the wa
gul roadside. The couple wer
tax th" Broome county Jail AM
later they were remanded. An exam
ination of the camp equipage of Mrs
Klins shows that she is il
possession of diversified talents
one of which is the gif
, of writing A story in manuscript
and completed, was found, entitle,
"The Ship That Never Returned" and
, Confession to My Husband" the lat
ter containing a rather vague accoun
of the burglary at Meshoppen.
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