The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-01
NORTHEASTERN
PENNSYLVANIA

clear. then hope for prosperous au-
tumn that year."-Old Proverb.
When blooming in the garden beds,
The flowers exhale their sweet per-
fumes:
The man his thinnest flannels sheds,
The dog his summer pants assumes.
The man who drinks the most hasn't
always the reddest nose.
The game of life is played with a
limit.
IN A PARAGRAPH.
Rev. Father Manley, curate Of St.
Johns Catholic church, is enjoying his
annual vacation.
Rev. Father John j. McCabe, for
years priest charge of st. Bonaven-
ture's church, at Auburn, this county,
has been transferred to Georgetown
near Wilkes-Barrc.
The twenty-second annual reunion of
Company y. Seventeenth Pennsylvania
cavalry, will be held at the home of
Stanley stone, in Franklin township,
Sept. 10.
Edward p. Maroney, of East Church
street, who has for several months suf-
fered from alteration of the mind, was
on Saturday taken to the state hospital
at Danville, for treatment. 1t is to be
hoped that his recivery will be both
speedy and complete.
1t is expected that the Scranton ANA
teurs will soon play in Susquehanna,
with the home team.
SOME RANDOM THOUGHLETs.
Word for picnics-More cake, more
ache.
A good many Susquehanna and Car
bondale girls understand the art Of
fencing-hanging over the garden gate.
The trouble with lots of cats is that
they don't get enough dreamless sleep
these August nights.
Even barrel hoop will turn when
trod upon.
A Susquehanna county pastor in re-
ferring to the various kinds Of lies, is
accustomed to speak Of the man that
catches a fish so long and tells
his neighbors that 1t is SO long---
The average creditor is man of
wait.
A hustle, three shoes. rubber coat,
And some old tin cans lay on the hill;
The pile was found by William goat,
Who smiled and said: III ill this BILL
C1LINIL
Erie's surplus for the year ending
June 30, over all charges, is $4,3S4, ,677;
increase, S1,561, SOL Out of this was paid
the dividend on the first preferred
stock, leaving $2947,9O5. 1t only requires
$640O00 to pay the full per cent. in
terest on the second preferred stock,
and according to the statement, So
100000 is earned on $112,37S,900 of COM
mon stock, or 2 per cent.
Poles for the Susquehanna- -Hallstead
electric line are now being set eastward
from Hallstead.
In Oneonta, on Thursday last, by
Rev. T. F. Hall. presiding elder. Rev.
w. M. Bouton, pastor of the Oakland
Methodist Episcopal church. and Miss
Bernice II. Carrier, Of Oakland, were
united in marriage.
Benjamin d. Potter died in Oakland
township on Friday evening, aged 70
years. The funeral took place from the
house on Monday morning, with inter-
ment at South Gibson.
About one hundred fanily reunions
will be held in Susquehanna county
during the present season.
DR.. S. c. Swallow and Lee Grumbine
Prohibition candidates for governor
and lieutenant governor, will speak at
Hallstead at p. m. on Tuesday, Sep
tember 3. A male quartette will fur
nish music.
A series of Farmers Institutes will
be held in Susquehanna county during
the coming fall, under the auspices of
the state board of agriculture.
Mrs. e. Norine Law, preacher lee
turer. elocutionist and vocalist, will be
one of the attractions at the Womens
Christian Temperance union county
at Susquehanna, September
2-3.
NEWS GRIST.
Charles Ploutz, of Susquehanna, has
been sent to the county Jail for twenty
days, for disorderly conduct.
d. c. Trip, an old resident of North
Jackson, died on Tuesday. The funeral
Will take place from the North Jack
son Methodist church on Thursday, at
1890 o'clock, Rev. r. N. Pascoe, OF
Thomson. officiating.
Mrs. Mary Roney, formerly and for
many years a resident of Susquehanna,
died at Hallstead on Saturday, aged SS
years. The remains were inferred in
the Grand street cemetery, in Susaue-
hanna, on Wednesday. Whitney,