The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-27
WHITNEY'S WEEKLY
BUDGET Of NEWS
MOSQUITOES SAVE THE LIFE OF
BILL CRANDALL.
A Base Ball Item Contradicted--Fun
Ahead for the Boys of the Erie.
Bits of susquehanna County News.
= Bad News for the Carbondale Man.
Special to the Scranton Tribune.

Special to the Scranton Tribune
Susquehanna, June 26.-"well," said
the baggageman of the Lackawanna
and Montrose passenger train at AL
ord, on Saturday, "did you ever hear
low the mosquitoes saved a mans life
At Summersvile last summer?
while getting out bluestone up on
the hill. Bill Crandall was bitten in
the leg by rattlesnake. A New Mil
ford doctor was at once sent for. and
the leg was bandaged tightly above the
wound. II was expected that Crandall
would die before the doctor could ar
rive.
Just as soon as the leg was barred 20
put on the bandage it was attacked by
a swarm of mosquitoes, and when the
doctor arrived he found Crandall as
lively as cricket, but the ground was
covered with dead and dying mos
quitos. They had sucked the poison
from the wound and saved Crandalrs
life. The mosquitoes presented their
bills and died. The doctor presented
his bill and got the difference. This
was hard on the MOSQUITOES, but 1t Is
presumed Crandalrs life was worth
the fireman."
THE NEWS RECORD.
The Erie shop employees will prob
bly, eXCurt to Elmira in August.
The Erie shop employees will receive
heir ducats today for services in May.
Burglars are looting grocery stores
in Hallstead.
Rev. Hunter Reed, of Lanesboro, who
recently returned home from South
Africa, where he had been doing mis-
sionary work. brought with him boa
constructor, which measures eight feet
in length. 1t is on exhibition In River
side park.
Members Of Starrucca lodge, No. 423,
OF Susquehanna, and Montrose lodge,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
paid New Milford lodge a fraternal
visitation last evening.
The Elmira Telegram's statement
that Tommy OGara, Susquehanna's
crack pitcher, would pitch for the ORR
oles, of the Binghamton City league.
has no foundation in fact
IN A LIGHTER VEIN.
The attempt to make the Bible sui.
all our notions is like twisting sign
post to suit a cross-eyed man.-Forest
City News. 1t might be a good idea
for the editor of the News to unload a
few of his motions"
A Binghamton young lady recently
ran into the office of a staid old law
yer and hugged and kissed him, and
said that she accepted his offer of mar
riage, although he had never made
one. She was crazy. The fact that
she ran into lawyers office instead
of an editors proves that.
A Susquehanna county church So
ciety, having decided to build a new
place of worship, the pastor went
about begging very zealously, ac-
ceptinS, not only the widows mite,
but the childs' mite. in the SunGay
school, one Sabbath. while instructin,;
the children, the pastor compared him
self to a shepherd, and then inquired
what the shepherd did with his sheep.
One bright little fellow promptly re-
piled: He shears them!"
When you see four or five children
who need combing, washing and patch
Ing, holding a convention On the from.
doorstep, you have come to a house
where the mother paints pottery.
IN SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY.
A chap a few days since robbed a
Forest City merchant of $1,000 and has
fled 10 Australia, He will be appre-
hended when the steamer lands.
The machinery for the new canning
factory at Montrose has arrived and
is being placed in position.
There will be bounteous crops this
year in Susquehanna county.
The Montrose Women's Christian
Temperance union distributes bou-
quets to inmates and prisoners In the
county jail. 1t is an excellent work
Several Susquehanna county misfit
couples are seeking separation in the
courts.
HopEottom will have a cooperative
creamery and cheese factory.
The cottages at Heart Lake are fill
ing dp with people from the cities.
The cottagers do not enjoy the Sun
day excursions to the lake
They are catching turtles fifty year
old near New Milford.
WHOLLY UNPREMEDITATED
After Montrose jury has stood
out for forty-eight hours, the Judge
got a verdict in two minutes by send
ing them word that a circus had come
TO town.
Many young lady who aspires to
fame via pencil, brush and canvas,
would be rising artist" at once II
she would turn her attention to maxi
ing bread.
Good deeds pan out better than
good intentions.
a Carbondale man has had a bad
tooth replaced from one transplanted
from the mouth of a young girl, and
now at party, when the rest of his
mouth is watering for saloon salad and
quail on toast, that tooth just aches
for ice cream and ices.
Perhaps 1t is not generally known
that man would not grumble about
putting down carpets if the wife
would run over and see her mother
and leave her husband and the pretty
servants girl at home to do the work
When a couple is married, salute