The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-08-01
sUsQUEuANNA COUNTY.



The Lestershire ball team will pla,
In Susduehanna, with the home team
on Wednesday, August s. The return
game will be played at Lestershire
August Is.
James II. Minehan, an employe fol
years in the Erie shops, has taken {
position in the shop at Elizabethport
New Jersey.
In Deposit, on Saturday, the Sus.
quehanna Tumblers, a junior organ.
ization. defeated the home juniors, Il
to Z.
At Cascade Valley, a few days since
70. 5. Cheeneman killed a rattlesnake
measuring four and a half feet long
A Susquehanna party of young peo-
pie Is preparing to camp at Heart
lake.
| Arrangements are being made for
the annual encampment of the Sus-
| quehanna County Veteran association.
The place and time has not yet been
agreed upon.
1t Is reported that the prisoners who
last week escaped from the county Jail
| In Montrose have written a letter TO
| the sheriff, thanking him for his hospi-
tality. and adding: I'VE could not con-
SNlVhllOuSly remain In a town Wner0
they cannot play ball"
There is added evidence that the
Erie's Buffalo car shops are coming
to West Susquehanna. Already foun-
cations are being laid from the rumor.
Sherin Maxeys' recent summer
boarders are skurrying westward to
join the Boxers.
In Susquehanna, a few human hye-
mas tip over tombstones and deface
the public drinking fountain. And still
they send missionaries to China!
A Great Bend writer in the Bing-
namton Republican states that its
regular nine did not come to Susque-
hanna last Saturday. 1t is to be hoped
the Great Bend will form all of its
regular and irregular mines into an
allied aggregation and come up at
once to Susquehanna.
1t is stated that the cutting down
of the number of brakemen on the
Delaware and Hudson railroad will
not affect the men on the Pennsylva-
MIA division.
Susquehanna's Anti-Saloon league
appears to have that tired feeling"
and it is resting during the torrid sea-
son. Fact is, that it has rested ever
since its organization, some months
since.
The independent Republicans of
SusQuehanna county will get together
and "resoloot" in Montrose today.
They will form a cheerful little annex
to the county Democracy.
Susquehanna county veterans will
go in force to the annual reunion of
the even-County Veteran association,
TO be held at Lake Ariel, Wayne
county, August Is. No more pleasant
spot could have been chosen.
Mrs. Case, formerly of Hyde Park
and Wilkes Barre, is very seriously i'll
at Jackson, this county.
Near Red Rock. on Monday, some
boys killed a blacksnake measuring
six feet in length.
There was a heavy fall OF hail be-
tween Susquehanna and Windsor, dur
ing the heavy rainstorm on Monday
afternoon.
Miss Anna Lynch, Of Binghamton. Is
visiting Susquehanna relatives.
There is a rumor that the Five
States Milk Producers association
will, September 2, institute a perma-
nent boycott, unless the dealers in
mand: Three cents per quart for No.
vember, December and January; two |
and three-quarter cents per quart for |
February, March and October: two |
and a half cents for October; two and |
a half cents for September; two and a
quarter cents for April and August; |
two cents for May and July, and one |
and three-quarter cents for June
Fri Telegraph Operator Michael |
Creagh died on Saturday at the home |
lf his father, Patrick CreaGh, in Great |
Bend, aged twenty-six years. The |
funeral was largely attended from St.
Lawrence Catholic church, in that |
on Monday morning, where
Father Fagan celebrated requiem high
mass. The Knights of Columbus at
ended in a body. Interment was
made in the Catholic cemetery.
In Oakland borough, on Sunday,
sophia Lattimer died, aged seventy
iX years. The funeral took place from
he home on Monday afternoon, Rev.
". NJ. BoutOn, pastor of the Oakland
Methodist church, officiating. Inter-
nent was made in McKune cemetery.
number of local statesmen are In
lontrose today, attending the Sus-
uehanna county Democratic conyen-
ion.
The funeral of Orin Oakley, an old
nd well-known resident of North
ackson, took place from the resi-
ence of David Datchner in thar
oWnship, on Sunday morning, Rev. j.
l. Coryell officiating. Myron II.
'rench post, Grand Army of the Re-
ublic, of which deceased was a mem
er, attended in a body The remains
ere inferred in the cemetery at SUM-
lersville, this county.
while working in a stone quarry ,
ear LanesbOro. Frank Ulrich severed {
n artery in one of his arms.
In the Methodist church on Sunday
forming, the pastor, Rev. Charles I
Ienry Newing, preached an able and {
ppropriate thftieth) anniversary SER ]
ION. ,
The First Congregational church "a J
akland Is preparing to erect new ,
nd larger church edihce. I
A number of employees in the chair !
'ctory have recently removed from l
randi to Hallstead. I
number of Susquehanna Young
en are camping at Wrights lake, in
homson.
Mrs. Charles Bliss, Of Carbondale. is r
sitting Susquehanna relatives.
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