The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-04-27
SUSQUEHANNA.

Susquehanna, April 26.-Mrs. Janet
WhitbroOk, an aged resident of East
Main street, is seriously i'll with pneu-
monia.
The first rose of summer and the last
snow of spring seem in fair way 10
meet
Fifty years ago trains were run on
the Erie at an average speed of twenty
two miles an hour. ON Monday last
the Erie ran a special train of four
heavy Pullman coaches, a day coach
and a dining car total weight of
800 tons, from Jersey City to Susquc-
hanna, 191 miles. in four hours and
eleven minutes.
The Knights of Columbus held II
pleasant social last evening in Hogan
Opera house.
The Anti-SalOon league meeting will
be held this evening in The Presbyter
ian church.
The springs soft breath has "A pep
permint flavor
j. Il. Davis has been appointed su
perintendent Of maintenance of way
of the Erie, vice II. +. Baldwin, ro-
signed. Mr.. Davis was assistant en-
gineer of the Delaware division of the
Erie from 1891 to 1898. OF late he
has been road engineer on the Chicago
and Erie road. 1t is big promotion.
Miss Anna NJ. Dooley, of Bingham
ton, is i'll with grip at the home Of
her parents in this place.
Rev. w. L. Linnaberry, pastor of the
Avenue Methodist church in Oakland,
is preparing to remove to Mount Yer
non, ~ Y, his new charge.
Market quotations in spring poetry
are very low today Horace Walpole' :
famous remark, Summer has set in
with it's usual severity" hardly fits
present conditions.
Rev. D. l.. MeekCr. the new pastor
of the LanesbOro Methodist church. l.
expected to arrive in few days Rev.
ID. c. Barnes, the retiring pastor, will
remove to his farm near Montrose.
! Owing to the long continued illness of
| his wife. he has been compelled II
retire from the active ministry for a
| time
| The base ball season rapidly APP
| proachcs. and the apprentice boy will
soon be requesting permission to bury
| his grandmother
Editor Samuel p. Moore, of the Great
| Bend Plaindealer and Business Man,
! ager Church. of the Halstead Herald
tIip to North Carolina. Bre'r Moor,
never really needed a vacation until h,
became lord mayor of Great Bend.
Operations at the Herrick Centre
coal mine have been suspended, in or,
der 10 let the drill cool.
Anent the vote upon the admission
of Senator Quay to the senate. nun,
Der of Susquehanna politicians are pay
ing their bets today.
BnGhamton parties have leased. an;
will this summer occupy, a log Cabir
on a mountain overlooking Hallstea,
and Great Bend,
/ There were two fire alarms last even
ing, caused by two small fires, one a
10 o'clock ut the home of Mr.. Fuller
Washington street; the other at !
O'Clock, at the Cascade house. ON BrOa,
street. The fire department respOnde,
to both alarms, but their services Wer
little required Exploding lamps caus
ed the trouble in both instances.
Congressman c. Fred Wright and i
r. w. Searle, esq, last evening, re
turned home from the Republican stat
convention.
Charles Doran, of Susquehanna, no,
a student at Niagara university, But
falo, will ingage in the boot and sho
business in Binghamton, the firm beln
Dillen & Doran.
In Great Bend, on Saturday after
noon, a game of ball will be played be
tween Susquehanna and Great Ben
mines.
In Great Bend on Tuesday nigh
burglars entered the store OF j. I
Lines and carried away two suits {
ticles. Home talent is suspected.
Rev. |, n. Steelman, pastor of III
Forest City Methodist church, has bee
assigned to the church at Gilbertsvill
n. Y, Rev. r. Il. Clark succeeds hin
The Past Sachems' association
Susquehanna county, Improved Ord,
of Red Men. will meet at Frankli
Forks on Saturday afternoon.
Alonzo Perry, an aged and highly
respected resident of Jackson townshi
recently sustained stroke of apOl
leXy, and is in a serious condition.
The funeral of Mrs, Coleman, an age
resident of Jackson township occurrC
on Friday last.
I4enoxville is said 70 have churC
, choir contention 1t Is easier 70 rule
city than 20 manage a church choir.
Lackawanna county fishermen, WI
. hereafter angle for trout on Sunda
] in the vicinity of LenoXville, Susqu,