The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-23
BRADFORD COUNTY.

An association of Baptist churches
representing thirty charges in the wy
oming district will convene at Tunk-
hammock next week. 1t includes the
denominations along the river from
Wyalusing to Nanticoke.
George L. Eastabrook, a prominent
busints IS man, died at his home in
Athens on Monday, aged 6S years. His
wife and three sons survive him.
The ehigh Valley company has been
compelled to rent three D., S. &, $. en-
Sincs on account of the heavy freight
AMI oal traffic.
George Nacfarlane has entered I'm
ion college at Schenectady, N. Y.
ih1em Bostwick, aged c) years. died
at the family residence in Wysox on
Wednesday of consumption. He was
a native of Susquehanna county and
served for a brief period in Company I,
One Hundred and Forty-first rcsi
ment. Pennsylvania volunteers. A wife
and two daughters survive him. Fun
eral on Friday.
Sheriff Fell went to Philadelphia on
Tuesday delivering inmates to the PEN
itentiary and Hotise of Refuge.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. j. Ridgeway and
daughter of Brooklyn, n. Y, are vis-
iting the family Of Commissioner G. NJ.
Decker.
Miss Mayme Beeckel, of Chicago, is
guest of Mrs. A. Hyman. Towanda.
B. Wall, of Terry township, has ac-
ccpted a position in the office of Depu-
ty United States Marshal G.. G. Holton.
job Griffin, the Athens financier, was
meeting Towanda friends on Monday.
The agrculturists Of Tuscarora
township will hold their annual fair
on Spring Hill, Thursday, oct 5.
Rev. David Davis will be installed
as r6stor of the WysoX Presbyterian
ohdr h, Oct. Il. He has been serving
in that capacity several weeks.
The harvest festival at the Saliva
ton army. continuing three days,
proved a grand success. The articles
soil at auction netted the order nice
sum.
pllaski f. Hyatt. ex-United States
consul at Santiago de Cuba, has been
Visiting relatives in Western Bradfor1.
fIrs. Thomas Curran. who has baan
an invalid for some time, died at her
home i'll TOwanda Thursday afterno N,
aged e years.
An Indian relic was found by Joha
tAr"an, of Wells. while working in 4
fcld. 1t is an arrow head, supposed
to be about 200 years old.
The store of ]. w. Irvine, at Liberty
Corners, was entered by burglars last
Sunday night. Little plunder was So
culCG.
Mrs. John \. Gould and sister Of
Scranton. are visiting relatives in Ter
ry township.
The following officers were chosen
at the annual reunion of Company D,
Seventeenth Pennsylvania cavalry,
which met at Athens last Thursday:
President David NJ. Branard; vice.
president, Nelson Murphy; secretary.
w. II. French; treasurer, n. p. Chat
fee. New Albany was chosen for the
next place of meeting in 1900.
f. b. Lyke. a Towanda dealer, sold
and sacked forty bushels of peanuts
in one day at the Troy fair last week.
Father Green. of Overton, was pass
ing kinds words with his many friends
at Towanda on Wednesday.
Captain j. \. Wilt is entertaining MS
brother Francis Wilt, of Allentown.
F, L. Kimer, Of Athens. was hand
shaking with his Towanda friends IN
Thursday.
Mrs. John Deiffenbach. of Dushore.
aged 70 years, was preparing break.
fast on Monday when her apron
caught fire and she received fatal
Turns. Mr. Dieffenbach was sriiously
burned about his arms and hanls while
attempting to rescue his wife
At a special committee meeting of
the Prohibitionists. the county was di-
vided into five districts and each COM
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aid him in the election work in his re-
spective district. A movement is in
effect to establish a Prohibition panar
In this county