The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-11-17
sUsQUEHANNA COUNTY.


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Special to The Scranton Tribune.
Susquehanna Nov. 1G.-.In ST. Johns
Catholic church on Wednesday after
noon, by the pastor, Rev. l.. f. Brod-
rick, Jacob Teskey anG Miss Julia
Hennessy, both of SusQuehanna, were
united in marriage. John McGito was
groomsman and Miss Minnie Plootz
was bridesmaid.
Frank Dohart and Miss Harriet
Kelly of Honesdale are visiting Susque-
hanna relatives.
The Cheerful Workers will give an
entertainment in the Methodist church
on Friday evening.
Through the r. II. Hall agency,
Henry Whitehead has had his pension
increased from Sc to SIC per month.
The committee of arrangements for
the Hartford centennial celebration pur.
pose holding it June Ia next, but it
will keep the matter oren for sugges-
tions and changes.
Students of Franklin academy are
indicating strong preference for the
reunion, to take place Oh the old
grounds, the present lccatioc of the
Soldiers Orphan School.
Relatives of the late Miss Sarah
Jones Of Hartford intend publishing a.
volume of her poems for the centen-
nial.
The ladies' society of the Brother
hood of Locomtive Firemcn will hold
a supper this evening at tine residence
of James Hogan, Broad street.
Congressman C. Fred Wright and
family of this place will lake up their
residence in Washington in December.
Mrs. Albert Stephens is i'll with
scarlet fever
The Hallstead-G Bend river
bridge will be free in a few days. Thus
will pass away the last relic of bar
barism, a toll bridge, IN SusQuehannA
county.
The American Hide and Leather
company, a big trust, has leased the
iKster tannery in Great Bend for one
year. with the privilege Of purchasing
at given figure. The tannery gives
employment to about 100 men.
A number Of LaCkaw anna Conduc-
tors and engineers residing in Hall
stead are Temporarily residing in Ell
mira.
The Hallstead board of trade, Just
featuring establishments.
The funeral of Mrs. Mary L. Reck-
how. wife of A. L. Reckhow of Great
Bend, occurred this afternoon. De-
ceased was a daughter of Rev. A. f..
Harding of Great Bend
Beginning next week, series OF re-
ligious revival meetings will be held
in the Great BEND Methodist church.
the pastor, Rev. ]. N. Lee, in charge.
A large number of unmarried couples
in SusQuchanna have, for the past
week, been sitting up all night hoping
to see meteors.
Rev. Charles Henry Nawing. pastor
of the Methodist church. is in Carbon
dale attending the Erworth League
| convention of the Wyoming confer
ence of the Methodist church.
Tho Erie paid its Jefferson branch
employees on Wednesday for services
in October.
Charles f. Smith of Great Bend has
enlisted in the United States navy for
| three years. He will ba placed-on the
training ship Massachusetts.
Prof, Hillwood, the peregrinating
| dancing master, who recently skipped
out of Hallstead, leaving sundry in
consolable pupils and creditors, has
| been seen in Elmira.
! Fred d. Lamb. formerly of Hallstead
! has been appointed assistant secre-
tary of the Albany Railroad YOUNG
Mems Christian association.
David Lofgren of New York visited
| his mother on the Oakland sIdo on
| Wednesday.
A number of Susquehanna ladies
were in Binghamton on Wednesday
attending the annual meeting of the
Home Missionary societies of tho wy.
oming conference of the Methodist
! church.
w. d. c. Outwater of Jackson street
was called to New York today on ac.
count Of the death of a brother.
Erie engineer Erastus Peth died or
Wednesday at Gabriels, y. ", in tht
Adirondacks region, whittier he went
two weeks since, hoping to escape The
ravages of consumption. He is sur,
vived by the widow The remains are
expected TO arrive here today. De,
ceased was a genial man and his deatl
is regretted by a wide circle of rela
tives and friends.