The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-03-06
The Very Latest Concerning the Erie
strike-A County Editorial Asso-
citation Proposed-strange Freaks
of Burnwood Cyclone-Psrsonal
Points Concerning susqushanna
County's Best Known Citizens.



he proceeded cautiously, using wooden
wedges to split the stub apart.
When the hollow. dry log fell apart.
there In the cavity lay eight fat coons.
snugly housed for the winter Further
up in the trunk were two more coons,
while in the stump was n fifty-pounder
the biggest and fattest OF the lot, The
lucky farmer thus st. besides his log
wood, over two hundred pounds of coon
meat and eleven coon skins, and ever
since that day he has quit other work
and goes about in the woods looking
for more hollow logs with coons in
them.
VERY LATEST FROM ERIE STRIKE
(By Express). Susquehana March
z. 80 p. M The Erie authorities have
just issued an important bulletin
Keep Off the Grass"
Susquehanna. March 9, y. m.-The
non-unlon boiler makers have unanl-
lnously resolved not to accept any in
Vltations to outside pedro parties dur
ing Lent
Susouehanna, March ., Q p. m.-The
Board Of Trade has just learned with
dismay that prominent member of a
local literary society is writing a poem
on the strike. Ii Is feared that IL will
be worse than the strike itself The
borough attorney can find no law to
prevent 1t. There Is great excitement.
tBy telephone, via Ararat, saltwater
ana Fiddle Lake,. Lanesboro, March 9.
10 D. MAS a result of the Erie strike.
the Susquehanna river has been found
frozen in It's bed. County Coroner Good
win will hold an inquest
Tlng-a-ling-a-ti -ting-a-ling
CAUGHT IN PASSING.
Mrs. Q. T. Smith, furniture dealer
and undertaken will discontinue busi-
ness.
The Hallstead Herald proposes q
county editorial association. 1t would
not be a handsome gang, but it would
be II brainy one.
quite number of Susquehanna me-
chanics have secured positions in
Scranton. Corning, Galeton and else
where.
Labor papers predict big strikes dur
ing the PAN American Exposition.
There is one of the heaviest beds OF
Ice on the Susquehanna river that has
ever been formed. When the break-up
comes there will be exciting times.
The funeral of Mrs. Sarah ]. Barnes.
an aged resident of the Oakland Side
VIII take place on Sunday afternoon
from the home. Rev. c. c. Mackey off,
ciating. Interment will be made in Nc
Kune cemetery.
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.
A Burnwood cyclone few days
since carried a part of fence twenty
feet and set it down again lust as II
stood, every rail from the ground up
in its place. They have some hilarious
zephyrs along the crooked but historic
JEFF"
You never know how much there ia
to worm until you have smashed it.
Two >Bridgewater young people had
license to wed and were nearing a
preachers home, the other night, when
the lady's heart failed her. She
dropped her lovers arm ana took flight
for her home.
Says an old Susquehanna county
clergyman: when ] was in the pull
pit ! had a habit of discussing the
frailties of humanity: so much so, in
deed. the people often asked me who
| was referring to. do not mind con-
Tossing now that I was referring to
myself"
No young woman can write a post
script, but the young man who gets the
letter never seems to mind.
The Hallstead Herald asks: "Why
don't our young men come to the
front?" Probably because the bald
headed men get the seats first.
His countrymen will never lose their
respect for Washington. Witness the
thousands of balls held in his honor
each year. A great many of the are
busts.
1t is the experience OF all conductors
that strange things come to pass on
railroads.
Time for somebody to predict a
lingering spring and a late summer.
IN sUsQUEHANNA COUNTY.
William ]. Pike, of Hallstead, Con-
gresham Crows private secretary, Is
gradually recovering his health. '
Colonel c. G. Pratt, of New Mil
ford, will undoubtedly be the next state
senator from this district.
Miss Julia Cruiser, a talented Mont
rose young lady, is gaining a fine repu-
tation as a reader. She is receiving
very flattering press notices, and she
is booked for many engagements in
several counties of the state. Nothing
succeeds like success"
The Susquehanna County School
directors association will meet in Mont
rose on March 9.
Montrose has a shingle mill. That
Is why the average little boy over
there is sad-eyed-
Great Bend has had a few coasting
| accidents.
IN LIGHTER VIEW.
Conversation between two Erie en-
gineers: Did you ever realize any
thing In playing poker or bucking slot
| machines?"
Yes. sir: lost $500 in them and
realized that l was dodgasted IDIOT"
A cat has nine lives and occasionally
| a kitten.
A Galveston man drank himself to
death with the proceeds of $50 dona-
ton sent him by Susquehanna county
relatives. He did not want to suffer
twice from water.
Some men lay down the law, and
then forget where they laid il.
A Sherman woman recently gave
| birth to her sixteenth child. The father
| Is resigned.
There are more men struck by Jersey
lightning than by the other brand.
IN RAILROAD CIRCLES.
The Erie will purchase large num-
ber of the "Wooten" type of locomo-
tiyes before the Pan-American EXPOSE