The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-08-11
Mr.. CONRAD'S
CARP POND
GLENWooD FURNISHES THE
PRIZE FISH STORY.
Candidates for Office Are Keeping the
Susquehanna Turnpikes Hot-A
Snake Discovered in the Church
organ-Ed. Cheeseman's Strange
Adventure - Possible Petroleum
Find

!pecial to the Scranton Tribune
Susquehanna, Aug. 10.-1n common
with many Of his neighbors, Farmer
Conrad of Glenwood, three years age
indulged in the popular fad of estab'
fishing carp pond upon his farm. and
he waited with feverish anxiety for the
glad hour when he could take hoe
and go out whenever he was little
moist and dig up ten-pound carp.
Farmer Conrads most sanguine hopes
were more than fully realized. and the
family just revelled in carp. They had
carp for breakfast, dinner and supper
and cold carp for luncheon. The fish
We're so numerous that the family cat
used to drag big ones from the pond up
through the meadow to the house.
But the family eventually became
surfeited, and carp gave way to bone
less liver upon the bill of fare. 1t
dawned upon Farmer Conrad that he
had bought gold brick. He was get
ting more quantity than quality.
He stopped feeding the fish and
gradually drained the pond. The dis
carded fish took refuge in a swamp be-
low the pond, and made nightly incur
sions upon the vicinity fields for food,
after denuding the swamp of vegetable
matter.
On Saturday night thousands of the
carp left the swamp, ascended a bluff
and fell upon an acre patch of early
rose potatoes, stripping every vine and
leaving the lot as barren as the Sahara
desert The famished fish gorged them
selves and were unable to return to the
swamp. They fell into a deep and pro-
found sleep.
On Sunday morning, while Farmer
Conrad and his hired man were search
ing for lost cow, they discovered the
wrecked field and the snoring carp.
Farmer Conrad sat upon a rail fence,
cried tears and said things. Then the
men grasped clubs and fell upon the
carp, Staying them all. Not fish in
all the field escaped the terrible massa-
ere. Then the tired men resumed cow
hunting Farmer Conrad had lost an
acre of potatoes and gained four tons
of excellent fertilizer. There is no great
loss without some little gain.
IN SMALL SPACE.
The Great Bend club will tackle the
Stars, in Susquehanna, on Saturday
afternoon.
After going down 1900 feet, without
striking anything vulnerable Except
experience), the prospectors at Frank
lin Forks have quit operations.
Candidates for county offices are
keeping the turnpikes redhot. The
office doesn't stand half a chance to
"seek the man.
The Republican senatorial muddle
will surely be settled by the state COM
mittee. There is no other way in sight,
Miss Reckhow, of Great Bend, has
been elected assistant principal of the
Oakland graded school.
The Erie sl1opmen will run their eX-
cursion to Shohola Glen. on Saturday,
August 90.
The Suscuehanna Stars have won
seventeen games this season and lost
three-including the Carbondale Sunday
exhibition" game. Jumping Noses
what q day that was!
SNAKE IN THE ORGAN.
At Conklin Forks on Sunday evening
there was an unusual scene in the little
cross roads church. AS the organist
was playing a prelude she CHANGED to
look into the little mirror above her,
and she was Mortified to see a large
snake uncoil itself and crawl forth from
the music rack.
The organist promtly tainted and she
was carried to the parsonage, where she
soon revived. Several of the braver
members of the congregation attacked
the snake and soon killed it.
1t was blacksnake, and measured
six feet in length. 1t evidently crawl
ed into the building when the church
was being renovated during the minis
ter's vacation.
JUST BETWEEN US.
Quite a large number of our towns
people are resting from their vacations.
There Is a good deal Of unrest in va
cation and most cursions are eXer-
tions.
The international oil combine prom
ises to be one of the smoothest of the
lot.
1t can be said of the boiler-makers
that we hear less of them when they
are striking than at any other time.
: The average carpenter is not a pugil-
list, but he knows all about boxing.
HEARD AND SEEN.
Southern railroads are reaching out
to secure Erie engineers.
The Prohibitionists of Susquehanna
county held conference at New Mil
ford on Wednesday. Water'll the har-
vest he?
The Free Methodist camp meeting at
Thompson will begin August 20 and
continue until Sept. /. The gates will
not be ajar on Sunday.
The Susquehanna union will hold it's
annual convention at Susquehanna,
September 2-3.
Family reunions are ripe in Susque-
hanna county.
Even Hallstead has a school board
deadlock.
The work of setting poles for the Sus-
quehanna-G Great -Hallstead cleo
trio line is half completed. Three hun