The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-18
SUSQUEHANNA.


Special TO the Scranton Tribune.
Susquehanna, June 17.-The Cana
wacta Water Supply company will at
once proceed to erect a covered reser-
Voir in Lanesboro. The present reser-
voir is simply an open dam.
In Beebe Park, on Friday afternoon,
the Susquehanna club defeated the
cambridge IN. W club, 1914.
The Forest City Total Abstinence
and Benevolent society will run an
excursion to Lanesboro, July 21.
The Lanesboro High School Alumni
association will hold banquet in
Firemen's hall, June 20.
The milk war will be renewed.
Vicinity producers will withhold their
milk after June 25. There is fun
ahead.
Several odd Fellows lodges in Sus-
quehanna county on Tuesday last dec
GRATED the graves of their deceased
members.
Brooklyn, this county. has a newly
organized band of twenty members.
l.. G.. McCawley, son of j. r.. Nc
Cawley, of Susquehanna. is one of this
years class at the West Chester State
Normal school, and he graduates with
t
student in that institution. In recog-
milton of his splendid record he has
been awarded a scholarship at Lehgh
university.
Montrose's new cooperative cream
cry will be in operation in September.
Both butter and cheese will be made.
The Montrose "Village Improvement
society" is doing an excellent work.
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day killed a blacksnake measuring six
and one-half feet in length. Mr..
Leavitt estimates that the reptile was
forty years old. Blacksnakes are said
to attain to the age Of fifty years.
Tramps are unusually plentiful. One
of the allied brotherhood recently
asked an Erie avenue woman for
something hot" She responded by
showering him with hot water from Il
basin
There is a rumor that the Delaware
and Hudson road is to shorten its
Pennsylvania division by making Tus-
carora the northern terminus, instead
of Nineveh. This would involve the
changing of the yard at the latter
place, and second-class trains would
only make the run from Carbondale
to Tuscarora.
DR.. ID. G. Ainey, of New Milford, and
his son, w. ID. B. Ainey, of Montrose
are preparing to take a trip to EUROPE
They will visit Scotland, England
Belgium, Switzerland, France, etc,
sailing from New York June 80.
John T Tarbell, a prominent resi-
dent of Montrose, has presented the
borough with a handsome drinking
fountain.
Following are the officers of the
Montrose school board: President, c.
N. StOddard; secretary, d. A. Tits
worth; treasurer, G. A. Gilbert Prof
b. f. James and several of the teach
ers have been reelected. An eight
months school term has been decided
upon.
1t has just been announced that w.
II. Wildenberger and Miss Winnie
Hyatt, Of Forest city, were married
some time since. Both are esteemed
residents and business people. Mrs.
WidenbTger is a former resident OF
Starrucca. She has many personal
friends in Susquehanna county.
The Pittsburg, Binghamton and
Eastern railroad, for which a charter
has just been granted, will strike Sus-
quehanna county at state line.
Mrs. Rev. Charles Newing is i'll at
the parsonage on Washington street.
George, son of Mr.. and Mrs Calvin
Deakin, OF Erie avenue, is seriously ill.,.
The Tower family reunion was held
and largely attended on Saturday at
the residence of Frank Forsyth, in
Hartford.