The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-08
WITCH DOCTOR
HAS TROUBLE
NOMINATIONS FAIL TO PRO-
DUcE DESIRED RESULTS.
His Patients Refuse to Be Affected
Deaths and Funerals-The Man
with Literary Life--An Unappre-
ciated Serenade--Fright Restores
the Speech of Albert Van Warren.
Mixed Matters.
Special to the Scranton Tribune.


Susquehanna, Jan. 7.-Of late several
| witch Doctors have appeared in
| lLackawanna and Susquehanna coun-
ties, reaping a harvest from the ignor-
ant and superstitious. A few days ago
the members of family near Forest
City were all taken sick, and the first
thing the head of the family did was
to consult witch DOCTOR" who told
him the sick people were bewitched
He was told to drive a nail in the sill
of his barn door with single blow of
the hammer, three mornings in sue
, cession. He did this, but the sick peo-
pie got worse and it was necessary to
secure the services of physician. The
man insists, however, that the woman
who bewitched his family was killed by
the nails he drove into the sill, and as
an old woman in the neighborhood hap
pened to give up the ghost, his super
stitious neighbors argue with him that
he killed the witch.
In the same neighborhood young
girl, who was in love with a youth,
went to one of these witch doctors for
a lovepowder to give the young man
that would compel him to reciprocate
her affection She got the powder, but
in giving it secretly to the young fell
low she incautiously made known her
desire that he should marry her, where
upon he seized his hat and fled out into
the wide. wide world. and he hasn't
been heard from since.
THE NEWS GRIST
The funeral of the late Miss Mary V.
Hatton, a former popular public school
teacher, took place from St. Johns
Catholic church on Sunday afternoon
and was largely attended. Interment
was in Laurel Hill cemetery.
The funeral of the late f. j. Fenton,
who died suddenly in Brooklyn. N. y,
took place from st. Johns Catholic
church. in this place, on Monday after
noon. with interment in Laurel Hill
cemetery.
The sad death of Oliver A. Gilbert, of
Montrose, brings deep regret to many
personal and business friends in Sus-
Guehanna.
Quite number of Susquehanna
day, attending meeting of the Sus-
Quehanna county Republican commit
tee.
SUSQUEHANNA A MODEL TOWN.
When the millennium gets ready to
dawn, it will first descend upon Sus-
Cuehanna.
Three-fourths of our people attend
church every Sunday.
The borough lookup is tenantless
nine-tenths Of the time.
A brawl in the streets is a rarity.
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once a month.
You cannot get liquor on Sunday
without cash or credit
Citizens are arrested and fined who
do not keep their sidewalks free of ice
and snow.
If we keep on at the same sanity
pace we shall be ready to ascend be-
fore our neighbors.
PARAGRAPHETTE
The board OF health will not insist
upon people being vaccinated until it
becomes absolutely necessary.
District Deputy NJ. j. Duffy of Hall
stead, on Monday evening installed the
officers elect of St. Johns branch, No.
II, c. NJ. b. A.
Harry Fl. Hunt succeeds Theodore
at this point
The public schools of Susquehanna
and Oakland reopened on Monday,
after the holiday vacation.
The condition of the veteran Erie en-
gineer, Duncan Mcdonald of this place,
who sustained serious injury to his
arm in the Hornellsville yard, several
weeks since is improved and it is eX-
pected that he will regain the use OF
his arm.
The Laurel Hill Academy Alumni as
late Miss Mary V. Hatton on Sunday
afternoon.
HE HAS A LITERARY WIFE.
A Susquehanna woman has written
an alleged poem of sixty cantos. which
she persists on reading to her hus-
band every night after supper. He
has taken to drinking red wine, and
the chances are that he will soon be-
come a wanderer upon the face of the
earth.
AN UNAPPRECIATED SERENADE.
Near Cascade Valley the other night
a party of young men visited the
home CT a newly-wedded couple to
give them a Calathumpian serenade.
Immediately following the opening
overture, an attic window opened a
shotgun protruded and the persons OF
the serenaders We're filed with rock
salt. The unappreciated serenaders