The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-13
WHITNEY'S WEEKLY
BUDGET OF NEWS
BOLD FOX AT THE RESIDENCE
OF MRS. sURDAM.
Montrose Will Celebrate the Fiftieth
Anniversary Of Hon. G. A. Crows
Election to Congress-Farmer Hay
ward Kills an Eagle Near New
1dilford-Railroad Racket-Gen-
eral Topics Of Interest in Susque-
hanna County.
Enecial to the Scranton Tribune.

Special to the Scranton Tribune
Susuuehanna, Oct. 9.-Mrs Surdam.
Of Brookdale, was feeding the chickens
the other morning, when a sudden
squawk of anguish behind her caused
her to turn in time to see a fox maxi
ing off with big hen that it had
Just seized. Mrs: Surdam is an active
woman. and she had that fox by the
tail before it could get through the
fence. She clung to the fox and he
clung to the hen. ana there was great
screaming and cackling in the barn
yard until the two house dogs came
and that was the last Of Bre'r Fox.
SOME SIDE LIGHTS.
A vicinity man. just sent to the
lunatic asylum, has been in the habit
Of smoking forty cigarettes day. In
sanity is preferable to cigarettes.
Never take suliy girl to ride in
a buggy.
Half the pleasure of going away
on summer vacation is being well
coined back to ones friends.
A Binghamton man made bet that
he could jump a freight train rum
ming twenty miles an hour. He lost
the bet, but he had an elegant fu-
neral.
There is always something new in
a paper, If its only the date line.
They had been blasting rocks in quarry,
Twas during the hour OF noon;
When one smoked on a big keg OF powder
And now there's two men in the moon.
THE NEWS CRIsT.
John Reynolds, a veteran Of the
civil war, died at his home in Oakland
township on Saturday evening. in his
Sind year. The funeral will occur
from the Avenue Methodist church.
Oakland, this afternoon, the pastor.
Rev. w. NJ. Bouton, officiating. Moody
post No. 55, Grand Army Of the Re-
public, will attend in body.
The Susquehanna Telegraph and
Telephone company will hold a meet
ing today to consider the matter Of
purchasing the telephone line of II.
s. Williams, esq.,, Of Windsor.
Rev. Kenneth Craig, of sayre. on
Sunday declared the pulpit of the
Presbyterian church vacant.
The congregation Of the Presbyterian
church last evening gave Rev. and
Mrs. David 7. Sutherland farewell
reception, which was largely attended.
They will leave on Wednesday for De-
troit. Michigan, their new field Of
labor.
JUST TO FILL IN.
The shortest day in the month is
payday.
The burning question of the hour
IS the price Of coal.
No service has been discovered, or
is likely to come into vogue soon, to
make advertising more effective than
the respectable newspaper.
The woman who loses her temper
finds her tongue.
An old bachelor at a baby show
ranks with an old maid among the
spectators at a divorce suit.
Even barrel hoop will turn when
trod upon.
A local cynic remarks that every
thing nice in this world grows on the
other side Of a barbed wire fence.
IN sUsQUEHANNA COUNTY.
To-Day In Montrose, the friends and
admirers of Hon. Galusha A. Grow,
will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary
OF his first election to congress. He
was elected Oct. s, 1850, he being then
only q years of age. He was the
youngest member of the house. TodaN
he is the oldest member.
The next meeting of the Suscuehan-
ma County Medical society will be held
at Hallstead on the first Tuesday Of
February next.
The post-office of +. r. Jewett.
fusion candidate for member of as
sembly, will continue to be Brooklyn,
Pa. This is an off year for fusionists
In Susquehanna county.
The Susquehanna County Teachers