The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-11-15
BRADFORD COUNTY.

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Towanda. Nov. 1S.-The Towanda
police have been ordered to make a
raid on all of the gambling dcns of
the town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Volnev NJ Wilson have
Just celebrated their fifteenth wedding
anniversary. over one hundred guests
attended the celebration at their homa
in Alba.
Fourteen of the employees from the
closed Lehigh Valley shops at Easton
have become residents of Sayre. and
on Monday began working i'm the new
paint shop. About twenty-five of the
seventy men thrown out of their jobs
by the closing of the Easton shops will
also move to Sayre soon.
l.. G.. Marshall of Wndham, has
been arrested and held under 5000 bail
| for appearance before December quar-
| ter sessions. He was arrested on the
complaint of j.. c. Shilling, Of Idaho
for embezzlement, brought on by deal
| ing in horses at Athens.
The lIno band will hold a fair at
| Wyalusing this month. Bandmaster
Dewitt has the programme in charge
II. L. Smith of Camptown. has COM
| monccd the manufacture of the Yankee
! lantern holder
Elson Bennett of ToWanda has been
granted patent on a brick mould. He
mas a large plant at this place.
Chicken thieves in Tuscaruro town
| snip SURROGATE the fowls with hrim-
stone matches in order t. prevent their
escape. BY this method. two buildings
were destroyed by fire few nights
ago at O. II. Donavans farm.
Mrs Samuel Howard of Wyalusing
Is in PittsburG attendirg the meeting
OF the WOmen's Federation of clubs
X. f. Furman, of Sugar Run, killed
Il siN-months old pig last week that
weighed PA pounds.
The next meeting of the Bradford
county Sunday school association viii
be held at LeRaysvillc.
II. B. Gaylord. of Wyalusing. repre-
sented the merchants of that town ut
the county seat last Thursday.
The TreNler 81 Turrell Lumber conf
pany of Ricketts,. including their ON.
| ployes have donated the SUM of 1925 10
the Sayre hospital
Earl Allen, an employr at the I.e-
, hlgh valley freight depor, while wheel.
ing 1feight into car last Friday the
bridge broke through, and had his
hand smashed by having it caught ba,.
/ '''N val S'lN ltuCh nan lie.
Mrs. Caroline Seymour died at her
home in Wysox last Friday, aged drry
years.
! The four-ycar-old daughter of James
Martin, residing near Sayre. while
| playing on the Lehigh Valley railroad
was struck by train and instantly
killed.
The Argus building has been pur.
chased by James Foster who will
MAKE some greatly needed improve
mentS. The building has been used
as a newspaper office since 1858. 1t was
erected by the late Judge Parsons.
A wedding of much interest among
society people took place at the Meth
odlst Episcopal church in Troy last
| thursday evening. The contracting
parties We're Charles B. Romer. of FL
mira and Miss Clara Lindcrman of
| troy, who were made husband and
wife by Rev. NJ. Mosher.
The Keystone Social club is a new
organization just instituted with tho
| Following officers: President, Peter
kropp; secretary. Louis Grant: treas
urer S. q. Nickel. \ series Of hops
are being arranged to be givcnsin Fcs-
ter's hall h-weekly.
| Harkness is new TOStOffice cstab-
lished in Springfield township with
Mrs. Laura Cory as postmstress
Towanda, Nov. 14.-Mrs. G. Fl. Turn
er is guest of friends at Scranton.
| The first shipment of the large steel
gondola cars for the Lehigh Valley ar
! rived at Sayre last Saturday. The
cars have capacity of 100000 pounds.
The committee of the Lackawanna
| Presbytery which was appointed to in
spect the work AT the Susquehanna
| Collegiate institute will attend to them
today and tomorrow. The committee
consists of Rev. w. f, Stiles, of Wyo-
ming; Rev. $. c, Hodge, of Tunkhan-
mock; Rev. NJ. l.. Cook, of Merryall,
aud ;. NJ. Park, of West Pittston, and
ii. *. Tracy, Of Scranton.
Thirteen old locomotives which have
been standing on the switches in Sayre
for some time are now being broken
up for scrap iron.
\ new camp of the Patriotic Sons Of
America will be instituted at Gilletts
| next Tuesday evening.
Judge and Mrs. +. NJ. Durham. of
Laporte, were entertained by Towan-
dians over Saturday and Sunday.
Postmaster Turner of Towanda. has
| completed the special weighing of all
| mail matter at the post office in COM
pliance with the order of the postmas-
ter general. The work began on Oct.
and continued for thirty days. The
total amount OF all classes of mail mat
er originating in the Towanda office
was l4,Si3 pounds, divided as follows:
First class letters. 934 pounds second
class, paid, 1896 pounds; second class,
free, newspapers in county, 1886
pounds; government free in penalty
envelopes. 1888 pounds foreign letters,
three pounds, eight ounces The larg-
est receipts were on Oct. 10, l,4lS
pounds; the smallest on first class mat
ter on Oct 3, 22 pounds, ounces; the
largest on Nov 6, a. pounds. The
| average per daV was AqA nounds