The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-08-18
sUsQUEHANNA COUNTY.
Special to the Scranton Tribune.

Special to the Scranton Tribune.
Susquehanna Aug. lin Lester
shire on Wednesday afternoon the
Susquehanna team was defeated by the
professional Lestershire team, s to 5.
1t was the hardest game the Lester
shires had played this season.
The Erie shop employees will run their
excursion to Elmira on Saturday and
the town will almost be depopulated.
The Susquehanna county Prohibition
convention will be held at Unlondale
on Wednesday, Sept. 5, when a full"
ticket will be put in the field.
The Griggs family reunion was held
and largely attended in Riverside
Park, Lanesboro, on Thursday.
Miss Sarah Anderson left for Wash
ington, ID. c., on Thursday to attend
a business college.
The Lewis family reunion will be
held at New Milford on Saturday, Sep
tember l.
The funeral of Miss Frances Sheldon,
of Deposit, a well known music teach
er, who had Susquehanna relatives,
occurred on Wednesday.
The Benson family reunion will be
held at the residence of II. NJ. Benson,
in Jackson, on Thursday, Aug. 2S.
Mr.. Town, veterinary surgeon, of
Montrose, on Thursday, vaccinated the
herd belonging to Hugh Perry, of
Thompson, for anthrax, with serum
procured from the state authorities at
Philadelphia Mr.. Perry has thus far
lost five cattle.
The Bennett-Coon family reunion
will be held in Carpenter Grove, Union
dale, Aug. rs.
Professor and Mrs. L. l.. Twilley
have returned home from their vaca-
tion, spent in Baltimore.
1t has been decided to repair the old
Transcript building, on Euclid avenue,
for a fire house for the Keystone Hook
and Ladder company No. /. The work
will be paid for by the borough and by
public subscription. The new chemical
engine built in Baltimore will arrive
as soon as the building is in readiness.
There is a good attendance at the
Free Methodist camp meeting at Arar-
at Summit
Invitations have been issued for the
wedding of Miss Vera Edith Vail and
Raymond Samuel Brush, at the home
of the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
S. +. Boyder, in Oakland, on Wednes-
day evening, Sept. -.
Mrs. Harriet Agnew, one of our old
est residents, died on Thursday morn
ing at her home, Cross and Jackson
| streets in her seVenty-seventh year.
| The funeral will occur from the Bap-
| tist church on Saturday afternoon,
Rev. b. II. Abott, of Carbondale
| EpiscopaD, officiating. The remains
will be inferred in the Grand street
cemetery.
Forest City will see the new play,
| "Uncle Toms Cabin" for the first time
on Tuesday evening next. It will be
a red letter night in the calendar of
| the erratic mountain town.
The Ferris-Lee reunion will be held
at the home of Albert Cottrell, on We'd
nesday, Sept. >.
The Northeastern Pennsylvania Tel
! ephone company has its lines in oper-
| alton between Susquehanna and
/ Thompson, a distance of thirteen miles
Engineer John Kosinsky caught in
! the river fifteen bass weighing twenty
eight pounds.
! The United Sunday schools of Forest
City will picnic in Riverside Park
Lanesboro, on Saturday.
A social hop was held in Hogan
! Opera house on Thursday evening
Doran's orchestra furnished music for
! the occasion.
Mrs. Mamie Cameron Ohle and
daughter, of Baltimore, are visiting
! Susquehanna friends.
| The Stone Slocum family reunion
will be held at the home of Emerson
Slocum, in Thompson, Sept s.
Joseph Mulrooney, of Scranton, is
the guest Of his mother on Laurel
! street, this borough.
The following Susquehanna and vi.
cinity party will leave on Saturday tC
occup the Reed cottage, at Heart lake
for ten days Mrs. James skinner
Miss Louise Curtis, Miss Eva Whitney
Miss Grace Burrhus, Miss Leila out,
water, Susquehanna; Miss Harriet
| Parks, Lestershire; Mrs WALL Walton
n. Y; Messrs w. A. skinner, Charles
| Curtis, jr, Harry Burrhus, Susque
hanna; Harry Mumford, Honesdale
The Whitney family reunion viii be
held at the home of ]. S. Whitney, In
Lenox, Aug. 20.
The Harding family reunion viii be
held in Robinson's grove, Lenoxville
Aug. 21.
The Perry family raunion will ha baIf