The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-23
SUSQUEHANNA.

Special TO the Scranton Tribune.
Susquehanna, May 22.-St. Andrews
commandery, No. 76. knights Templar,
of Susquehanna will participate in the
grand parade at Wilkes-Barre on Wed.
nesday.
Susquehanna county will this year
receive Si4,SO5.69 from the state for
school purposes, as against $40, 555.99
last year.
The piecework system is being ex-
tensivelv introduced in the Erie shops
in Susquchanna.
Isaac Bond, master mechanic of the
Erie shops in Hornellsville. n. Y,
spent Sunday with his family in this
place.
The Erie is putting in some large
signal towers. Some of them have
seventeen levers. From the tower can
be controlled two sidings, crOssovcr
and a derailing switch. Six block sig
| nails and five switch block signals are
| also operated from the towers. Flee
trio locks and lever locks in the tower
make all safe.
The weather permitting, the Susque-
| hanna band will give a concert from
| the Main street pagoda on Wednesday
| evening.
| Hon. Galusha A. Grow will be one of
| the speakers at the centennial celebra-
| tion of old Franklin academy, Hartford,
June II.
The Burglar company will appear
in Hogan opera house on Friday even
| ing, June l.
G. s. Kimball, of Carbonate, will de-
liver the Memorial day address in Cliff
| ford, this county.
The commencement exercises of the
Forest City schools will he held on Fri
day evening, June 1. The pupils will
this year participate in the Memorial
day exercises.
j. Theodore Lewis, an Erie freight
conductor of Binghamton, at Waverly,
n. Y, on Monday morning, was struck
by switch engine and instantly
killed. His age was ffty-nne years,
and he was a widoWer. The remains
will be inferred in Great Bend on We'd
nesday.
Mayor Jerome Dewitt, of Bingham
ton, spent Sunday with his parents in
New Milford.
Rev. r. n. Ives was this evening in
stalled pastor of the New Milford Pres.
byterian church, with the usual cere-
monies.
The remains of Miss Ada Hutson.
formerly of Montrose but recently Of
New Brunswick, y. j., were on Satur-
day inferred in Montrose,
The committee on permanent teach
ers' certificates, b. f.. James, Anna c.
Doran and L. A. Benson, will hold an
examination al New Milford, June 16,
beginning at 9 a. m.
4 1,
the newspapers that his cows have
not been to the creek since last Novem-
ber." The journeyings of the milkman
to the creeks and springs is what
troubles housewives most.
1t is thought that, under the new
banking law, Hallstead-Great Bend
may have a National bank. Banks in
Binghamton ard Susquehanna are now
utilized BY the people of the twin bor-
oughs.
Rev Father McManus, of New Jer-
scy, celebrated late mass in st. Law
renee Catholic church, IN Great Bend,
on Sunday.
Mrs. William Kinney, of Mayhed, is
the guest Of Susquehanna friends.
The Susquehanna county Christian
Endcavor convention will be held in
UnionGale in June.
Rev. David l. Sutherland is in New
Milford, assisting in the installation OF
Rev. r. n. Ives as pastor Of the Pres
byterian church.
There were frosts in this vicinity last
night, but not sufficient to damage
fruit.
The Erie shopmen viii PROBABLY ,,
paid on Saturday for services IN the
month of April.
The following Susquehanna county
pupils are attending the State Norman
school at West Chester: Miss Lillian
Thatcher and Susan Warner, of Mont
rose; Miss Martha d. Peck of Brandt;
Louis G. McCauley, of Susquehanna.
Major S. q. Williams, inspector of
Soldiers Orphans schools of Pennsyl,
Vania, will deliver the Memorial day
address at Brooklyn, this county.
Congressman Grow ard Wright have
sent a quantity of seeds to Susuue.
hanna county, to be distributed amoua
the farmers and others.