The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-08-16
JERMYN AND MAYFIELD
Mr.. Barrett Elected Principal of Jer-
myn Schools-Painful Accident to
a Well-Known Man-Personal and
other Notes.

As predicted in our items a few days
ago, Mr.. Barrett, of Lanesboro, was
elected principal of the borough schools
at Tuesdays meeting of the school
board. 1t is somewhat singular that
Mr.. Barrett, who succeeds Mr.. Rogers
here, succeeded him also at LanesborO,
when the latter came here three years
ago. He comes highly recommended
and 1t was in a great measure his
strong testimonials that secured him
the position. There were fully fifteen
applicants and Mr.. Barrett was elected
on the second ballot, when he received
the five votes of Blake, Hunter, Mel
low, Depew and Pritchard.
Will Davis met with most painful in
juries yesterday, which will incapaci-
tate him for several weeks. He was
assisting at Merritts slaughter house,
and in descending from a ladder IN
some manner slipped, and reaching out
his arm to save himself, got his hand
imnaled on a large hook used for
hanging meat. The hook entered be-
low the wrist and extended along the
ball of the thumb for fully four inches
He hung suspended until he was able
to lift himself with the other hand and
liberate his hand from the hook. The
| injured hand is terribly lacerated, and
! in dressing 1t Dr. NJ. ]. Shield found It
| necessary to use ten stitches.
A little three year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Sobey, of Third street,
| died yesterday morning, after about
| twenty-four hours' sickness of mem
! braneous Group. The little fellow was
out of doors playing on Monday even
| ing. and his death after such brief
| illness is a sad blow to his bereaved
| parents. The funeral will take place
on Friday afternoon.
The West Side Browns added to their
| laurels again yesterday by defeating
| the Crescents. the crackerjack team of
| Carbondale. The game was played ir.
| Alumni park. Pritchard. for the VIC
tors, played an unusually fine game.
The result was 13 to . in favor of the
Browns The batteries were: Smith
and LOTUS for the Crescents, and
| Pritchard and Meehan for the Browns.
| The fact that the Delaware and Hud-
! son mines are to be idle on Saturday
means that several additional hundred
people will accompany the Citizens
| band and Foresters excursion to Lake
Lodore. In addition to the foot race
| among local celebrities, which has al
ready been mentioned, there will be a
! quot match, for which there has, we
| understand, already entered forty-fiVe
players, among whom are John Trotter,
sr., George Tucker, Tommy Hockaday
and Elisha Stephens, the local cham
pions, and Gill, the crack Vandllng
player. The committee also have sew
eral other interesting events they are
arranging for, and are working most
energetically for a successful days
amusement to those who go.
The Hillside Coal and Iron company
paid the employees of the Glenwood
| Erie and Keystone breakers yesterday
DR.. a. J. Baker, of Duryea, spent a
short time here with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Philip Baker, on Tuesday
evening.
Miss Imogene Hoyt, of Scranton, has
been spending several days here.
William Moon, of Scott, is seriously
i'll. He was taken with hiccoughs sew
eral days ago and has ever since been
| constantly hiccoughing. AS a conse-
| quence he has become so exhausted
that his life is despaired of.
The Maytield band are to hold thei,
picnic this afternoon and evening al
the school house grove, Mayfeld.
The open-air concert on Councilman
Moons lawn last night attracted a
large number of people and was much
enjoyed.