The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-13
sUsoUEHANNA COUNTY.

special to the Scranton Tribune
Susquehanna March 12.-The Board
Of Trade will hold an important meet
ing on Tuesday evening.
Congressman c. Fred Wright re.
turned to Washington today.
The funeral of an infant son Of Mr.
and Mrs. Michael Wilburt, Of Lanes
boro. occurred on Sunday afternoon,
Rev. D. G. Barnes. pastor Of the Lanes
boro Methodist church. officiating. In
terment was made in the Lanesboro
cemetery.
Mrs. Gardner Lewis and Mrs. Fred
Ersfet, Of Thomson. are in Susque-
hanna. gradually recovering from sur
gical operations.
Selden Munger. who has an excel
lent position in the clearing office uf
the New York Central road in Albany,
spent Sunday with Montrose relatives.
Miss Rachael Cohen has returned
from Cleveland, Ohio.
Superintendent Derr, of the Susque-
hanna division Of the Erie. expresses
the opinion that the proposed canal
bank railroad would be a detriment
rather than help to Port Jervis. The
loss of the Pennsylvania company'a
discharge Of several hundred Erie EN-.
ployes and the new road would bring
no one in their places. A new time
day. On the Jefferson division the
Sunday afternoon train will leave Sus-
quehanna at 3.45 instead of Az on
week days.
Rev. Ethan Curtis of Syracuse. on
Sunday ably occupied the pulpit Of the
First Congregational church in Oak
land. He preached to railroad men
in the evening. Subject. Misplaced
| Switches"
Miss Sophia Callsins left Friday for
Washington, d. c.. to take a position
in a millinery establishment.
Miss Esther Skeglund. of Oakland.
has taken a position in Sawyer's mil.
linery store in Binghamton.
| Mrs. Frey. the singing evangelist, OF
Paterson, NJ j., on Sunday occupied
the pulpit Of the Susquehanna Baptist
church.
| In the Erie shops an order for a
number Of class I freight locomotives
is being filled. A number Of locomo-
tives are being equipped with new
boilers.
The sacrament of the Lord's-.supper
was administered in the First Congre-
gational church In Oakland.
Engineer and Mrs. Charles Bliss. of
Carbondale. have returned home from
a visit with Susquehanna relatives.
The Forest Home. the Summit hotel
near Columbia grove, six miles north
of Susquehanna. which was destroyed
by fire last summer. will probably be
rebuilt by some one.
Miss Ethel Gartside. Of Hornellsville
! n. Y, on Sunday rendered several
solos in Christ Episcopal church.
Largely attended services were last
evening held in St. Johns Catholic
church.
Miss Fannie Taylor, a student in the
State Normal school In Mansfield. Is
visiting her parents In Lanesboro.
Editor Charles n. Stone. Of the De.
posit Courier, who recently sustained
a stroke Of apopleXy. is gradually i'm
proving.
The Fries new time table, which tool
effect on Sunday. makes few impor'
tant changes in the running OF trains
on the main line.
Erie Master Mechanic Isaac Nc,
Cracken. of Bradford. Pa. spent Sun
day with Susquehanna friends.
The Epworth league Of the Meth
odist church is this week holding q
series of largely attended meetings.
The Anthracite Telephone company
gives legal notice of its intention u
apply for a charter to construct ant
maintain telephone lines through
Lackawanna and Susquehanna coun
ties.
n. 7. Mitchell. proprietor of the Nit
chell house in Hallstead, will resume
the management of the house. He ha'
been seriously i'll for a year or more.
The thermometers registered severa
degrees below zero I'm this vicinity las
night.
The report that Dayton HandricI
would take position In Great Bend 4
} unfounded.
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