The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-13
SUSQUEHANNA IN BRIEF.

The marriage of Martin j. McMahon,
formerly of Susquehanna, and Miss
Elizabeth Dolan, two young people,
Will occur this afternoon in st. Johns
Catholic church. 1t will be one of the
events of the season.
After a protracted illness. Mrs. Eliza
Newham died at her home on the Oak
land side on Saturday evening. She is
survived by four daughters and three
sons. The funeral occurred and was
largely attended on Monday afternoon.
the rector, Rev. b. II. Abbott, Of Car
bondale, officiating.
The annual reunion and banquet of
the Laurel Hill Academy Alumni AS
sociation will be held this evening:
the reunion in the nights of Pythias
parlors and the banquet at the Star
rucca Home.
The Board of Education has retained
the efficient corps of graded school
teachers for another year.
An Uncle Tom troupe will show
in a tent on the Oakland side on
Thursday. Some people will rejoice that
the broad river is between them and
the peregrinating and perennial aff1ic-
tion.
MERELY MENTIONED.
Whitney once in a great while tells
the truth-unawares, perhaps-Forest
City News. l would dearly like to re-
turn the compliment-if l could do so
truthfully.
Schley is the real hero of Santiago
Philadelphia Record. He did his full
duty-as usual-and when promotions
are passed around he will not be
Schleyted.
Somebody has remarked that Spain
has the biggest submarine navy in the
world.
Lester Hagen hooked eighty fish at
Beech Pond on Friday.--Forest City
News. Its a wonder that he wasn't
arrested for larceny.
This is the time of the moon when
young people bite each other at the
garden gate.
Dads dinner pail; God bless it, 1t is
the sign manual of honest labor the
world over. It's an honor to carry it.
IN ALL SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY.
The next regular meeting of the Sus-
quehanna County Medical society will
be held at Heart Lake, August 2.
Thomas Meehan, a farmer, of Silver
Lake. dropped dead on Thursday
The annual parade of the Montrose
Fire Department will occur Septem-
Der Z.
The annual encampment of the Sus-
quehanna county Veteran Association
will occur in Montrose, August 23, "a, 25
The Wright -Chamberlin family re-
| union will be held on the Hartford fair
grounds, August Is.
Family reunions are beginning to be
held throughout the county.
b. o. Camp, esq, of Montrose, has
| been appointed an aide de camp on the
staff of General Goblin, commander-in-
chief of the Grand Army of the Re-
public,
In New Milford, on the Fourth, a
giant firecracker was exploded under
| bell. The bell exploded, and several
large windows in different business
buildings were demolished. Miracu-
| lously, the spectators escaped death or
| injury
| SHE HAD A GRIEVANCE.
A woman with a grievance is more
| lonely than an honest politician in
Great Bend. 1t was a Hallstead wo-
man who recently said my husband
is absolutely without a fault except
| that he does not realize that sometimes
| / pine for a little relaxation. In ten
| years he has not taken me to a funeral
and in all that time ] have not had one
good square cry at my neighbors ex-
| pense!"
COOPED BY UNCLE SAM.
| Martin Kirwin, one of two tramps
who was one day of last week arrested
| in town for being drunk and disorder
! ly, is in greater trouble, He had been
| Offering for sale unstamped cigars.
| United States Deputy Marshal S. A.