The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-09
sUsQUEHANNA COUNTY.
Special to the Scranton Tribune.

special to the scranton Tribune.
Susquehanna, March S.-A good.sized
delegation from Susquehanna and vicin
ity is in Montrose today, attending the
Republican county convention.
Three arc lights are being placed in
st. Johns Catholic church.
The following correction appears in
the Montrose letter in the Binghamton
Leader: "In the Montrose items We'd
| nesday it was stated the Rev. A. T.
Broderick spent a few days with his
mother-in-law at Archibald. 1t should
have read his mother"
Many divisions of the Order Of Rail-
way Conductors are passing resolutions
endorsing the candidacy of our state
senator. Hon. +. B. Hardenbergh, of
Wayne county. for auditor general, on
the Republican ticket. Being an old
railway conductor. the senator has a
strong following among railroad men.
Misses Lillian and May Phillips, of
Great Bend. will open a millinery es-
tablshment in Duluth, Minnesota.
The series of Sunday school institutes
being held in various parts of Susque-
hanna county this week are largely at
tended Much interest is manifested.
able secretary of the Pennsylvania
| Sunday School association. Is assisted
by the county president, Charles F..
Whitney of North Jackson; Miss Eva
Sophia. Of Susquehanna, a superintend-
ent Of Juvenile work, and by local Sun
day school workers.
A directory of Susquehanna is being
compiled by an Albany gentleman.
The Epworth league Of the First
Methodist church will hold a week OF
evening services, beginning on Sunday
| evening next.
Hereafter, Erie freight engines will
be used for freight service only. and
passenger engines will be used for
| passenger service solely
The funeral of Mrs. Michael Murray
| of Hallstead. took place from st. Law
renee church, in Great Bend, on Tues
day morning.
w. j. Chappelle. the well-known
| Great Bend Snowman, is in advance @.
the BLUE Jeans" company, now in
Cincinnati. About May he will organ.
ize comedy company. with Miss Liz
zie Pixley as the star. in "The Cir
from Mexico
| Rev. A. F. Harding. Of Great Bend
probably the oldest Odd Fellow in Sus.
quehanna, county, is visiting relatives
| in Binghamton.
Congressman c. Fred Wright, Post.
master George w. Schaeff and Editor
Pride, of the Journal, are among the
| Susquehanna delegation at the Repub.
lican county convention in Montrose
| today.
| No new cases of scarlet fever have
this week been reported to the board
of health. The disease is Of very mild
| type, and there have been no deaths
this winter from 1t.
| The Jackson Dramatic society will
appear in a drama, March 1915. The
| Thomson orchestra will furnish music
for the occasion.
Misses Josephine Millard and Edith
Trumbridge, of Great Bend, who have
been in Chicago, attending the Moody
school, will return home on Friday.
Silas L. Sands. of Great Bend, has
been appointed chief of police of thai
village.
Frank Bishop, recently foreman ol
the Brush factory in Great Bend, has
been arrested on charge Of desertins
his family. He has a wife and thret
children. When arrested he was about
to take train to New York. 1t 1.
claimed that he has become infatuated
with Great Bend young woman.
The Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men has paid out S750,000 to crippled
men, or widows of men who have los
their lives.
In letter to the Susquehanna Tran
script, c. p. Farrell, of New York, for
merly secretary to the late Colone
Robert G. Ingersoll, denies the current
newspaper report, that on a train from
Chicago, January ~. 1885, the colone
united in prayer with a little child II
the aisle of a car. Mr.. Farrell say,
1.-The story is a fabrication from begin
ming to end"
1t is rumored that a new time -tabl,
will take effect on the Erie on Sunda,
next
Thomas N. Reilly, recently proprietor
of the Starrucca house barber shop /,
Susquehanna, has purchased the Allel
house barber shop. in Honesdale.
The Erie now employs about 1,20
men at this place, in shops and rail
road yards.