The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-22
BRADFORD COUNTY.
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Special TO the Scranton Tribune.
Towanda, Jan. 2t.--Drilling for oil
! in well No . has been commenced by
the Monarch OIL and Gas company,
near Troy.
Edward Jones, a Sayre tailor, is pre-
pairing to remove to South America.
The Hall automatic signal system is
being placed on the tracks of the main
l.ehigh Valley tracks in the yards at
Sayre.
The Lost I'm Egypt" company. which
have been meeting considerable bad
luck of late, and after two days
stay at Towanda and longer time at
Waverly have finally como to n settle-
ment and are again able 10 find a.
straight road.
Beginning on Thursday, a new form
Of local passenger ticket will be used
by the Lehigh Valley railroad. They
Will not be good for a stop-over and
are to be limited to two days OH a.
single trip and TO thirty days for a re-
turn trip. Ticket agents have been
supplied with the tickets and all the
old ones called in. Previous to the
new rule. all tickets We're good until
used. Rates of fares continue the same.
several years ago an overhead foot
bridge was built by the Lehigh Valley
across their tracks at Sayre, and about
one year ago the property owners, with
whom 1t interfered. brought action for
damage against the borough. The case
came to trial in court and decisions
rendered for certain amounts, but the
piairtins, being unsatisfied. brought
new actions. After another investiga-
tion, still lighter judgments were
awarded.
James Bostwick claims to have made
remarkable discovery ON his farm in
Litchfleld, this county, on which he
mas swamp of about twenty acres.
Recently while digging in the swamp
a. peculiar kind of soil was noticed, but
nothing was thought of il at the time.
The matter was dropped, until Mr.,
Bostwick began to investigate by dig
ging, and under the surface about
eighteen inches black dirt was found
and when dug into with a shovel IL cut
like butter and could be taken in slices,
and IL laid out in the cold weather
would not freeze. 1t is claimed it will
mix with oil and make fine paint. BY
analysis ii has been found TO contain
graphite.
John Nj. Post, for thirty-three years
baggagemaSter for the Erie railroad.
died at his home in Waverly, after a.
six weeks illness of heart trouble and
rheumatism, aged nearly eighty wears.
on Thursday He was native of New
Jersey and came to Chemung county
IN 1913, when in 1850 he began work.
ing for the Erie company. When the
road was opened to Hornellsyille no
was made conductor: he run on the
first Erie train sent out from New
York to Dunkirk, which carried ex-
President Fillmore, Daniel Webster and
others. He received the appointment
of bagga gemaster in 1852 at Watkins,
TO work on the steamer running he
tween Geneva and that place. In 1857
he was sent on a train, after which he
was stationed at Waverly.
case OF being lost in the barrens
comes from Sullivan county. George
Salisbury, of Skunk, started to visit n
daughter at Hills grove, and by some
reason he strayed from the road and
lost his way in the large barrens which
had been cleared of lumber. 1t was
Very cold and growing dark, and it
became impossible for him to find the
right way to go. He finally discov-
cred an old lumber camp, where he
took refuge. He was unable to build
a fire and suffered intensely with the
cold all night, but he managed to keep
from freezing to death by walking
about. He luckily was rescued by a
searching party the following day, but
both hands and feet were frozen.