The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-03
SUSQUEHANNA.
srccial to the Scranton Tribune.

Special to the scranton lrihunc.
Susquehanna, May Mrs. Sarah
Ann Avery wife of David NJ. Farrar,
died suddenly at her home in Hartford
on Tuesday morning. The funeral will
take place at 1 o'clock on THU sday
afternoon
Rev. c. c. Mackay will preach the
bacCalaureate sermon to the Oakland
high school class of 1900 III the Oak
land Congregational church on Sunday
evening next. Commencement exc 'cises
will be held in Hogan Opera house, IN
Susquehanna, on Friday evening, May
IL.
w. j. Chappelle who for the past
year has acted as advance agent Cor
the blue Jeans company. has re-
turned to his home in Great Bend.
During the summer he will organize
a Girl from Mexico" company, with
Miss Annie Pixley as the star.
Erie Detective Squires, of Elmira,
was officially engaged in town on Tues
day
William Chandler, an old resident Of
Jackson township, is seriously Ill with
pneumonia
The funeral of Thomas Butterfeld,
| one os the oldest and most respected
| residents of Jackson township, oc-
| cured on Friday.
The COlOred cake walkers, who ap-
peared in Hogan Opera house on Mon
| day evening, barely escaped walking
| out of town. There was a great gap
| of 81 between the expenses and the
| receipts.
The remains of the late George Shell
| ly, of Carbondale, will arrive here on
| Thursday morning for interment in the
| Grand street cemetery. Deceased was
| for years an esteemed resident of Sus-
| Quehanna.
j. c. Hill, a prominent resident OF
| Jackson township, is seriously ill with
| grippe.
Delaware and Hudson Station Agent
Charles l.. Depew is erecting a resi-
dence in the borough.
Professors Pierce and Flood. OF
Binghamton, will hold a dancing school
and hop in Hogan Opera house on
| Thursday evening.
c. c. Perry has been appointed cen
sus enumerator for Thomson borough
and township
Mayor Jerome Dewitt. of Bingham
ton, and wife, We're in town on Tues
|
| Milford, this county.
| William ID. Lusk, esq, of MontroSe
was professionally engaged in town
on Monday.
Rev. c. c. Mackey, of lie Raysvile
Bradford county, will in a few days
assume the pastorate of the Oakland
congregational church
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Atkinson have
| hat l,I
Last years state school appropriation
for Susquehanna county was $49552
This year it will be $44, ,S05.
Parties are still prospecting for LEAD
and other valuable minerals, neal
Lanesboro. Nothing except hard rocR
and experience have thus far been dis
covered.
The two tramps, who recently broke
into an Erie freight car, between Lord
vile and Susquehanna, and stole
quantity of clothing, have been sen
from Owego to the workhouse for 81,
months, for vagrancy. At the explra
tiOn of their term, they will be trieC
on the charge of breaking into ca
and robbery.
William II. Shelley, Of Carbondale
was in town on Tuesday
Susquehanna' new temperance so
ciety starts off with a membership o
Ill. The election of constables VIII,
will not commit rank perjury ever,
time court sits, would do as much 20
temperance and good order as the av
erage temperance society.
To The Tribunes Thomson cores
pondent: "'Tis true, tits true, and pit,
tbs tits true!
The Great Bend knights of Colum
bus, last evening held it's annual ball
The attendance was large, and it was
success in every respect. ExcelIen
music was furnished by Doran's Sus
quehanna orchestra
Scores of our townspeople are in
dulging in the annual move"
The Forest house, the summer hote
six miles up the river, which was dc
stroyed by fire last fall, will probab
not be rebuilt.