The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-05-27
Mr.. MlECARD'S
STRANGE BOX
IT'S CONTENTS ARE DISCOVERED
AFTER TEN YEARS.
Whitney's --latest Tale from Gulf
summit-News Told in Paragraphs
All About susquehanna county-A
Farmers Interest in Clothes Pins
Personal and Other Notes.


Special to the Scranton Tribune. y
Susquehanna, May 25.-In 1882,
German shoemaker named Wlegard
died near Gulf Summit He had 9,
brother at Great Bend, to whom, on his
deathbed, he bequeathed an old box
about the size Of soap box. The
brother,' who became heir to the box,
knew not what to do with the legacy,
but he kept 1t in a trunk until few
years ago, when he married. 1t was
subsequently taken from the trunk and
given to his little girl as plaything.
The little girl scattered the contents to
the four winds.
About year ago the father died
near Scranton, and the living wife util-
ized the box in which to plant geran-
iums. She then planted 1t upon her
husbands grave. When the plants
grew the box was taken back to, the
home. again doing duty as plaything.
One day the bottom fell out Of the box
and it was found that the heirloom
had two bottoms. A roll Of bank bills
fell out of the false bottom. The fact
was reported to the little girls mother.
and on counting the amount, she found.
that 1t was $276. 1t has been learned
| that the man who left the legacy died
before he could explain the reason for
| the gift Of the box.
NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.
The 300 men in the Erie shops in Sus-
quehanna who were laid off, May IA,
on account of the coal miners strike,
returned to work on Thursday, to the
great joy Of the community.
III co,, AI.4 rk
three years the able rector Of Christ
Episcopal church, has resigned, to be-
come assistant rector of the church Of
the Ascension, Lafayette square, Bal
timore. He will close his entire work
here on July 20.
The funeral Of the late Mrs. john
F'ritzley, an aged resident of Lanes
boro, took place on Saturday afternoon,
Rev. D. c. Meeker, pastor of the Lanes
boro Methodist Episcopal church, offs
| ciating.
Erie Hose company, No. 1, on satur-
| day evening closed a weeks successful
fair.
JUST BETwwEN US.
The sable crow is now chirping his
morning mathis.
The women who are trying to bring
about a reform in dress will never real-
ize their hope until they succeed in pre-
venting the trimmings of a SO dress
costing $15.75.
The fact that fresh paint will leave a
board at any hour Of the day or night
to form an alliance with a coat or pam
falcons must ever retard. in very
perceptible degree, the cause Of Chris
tianity.
They now claim that the maid Of Or
leans was sort of arc light.
"stick to your flannels until they
stick to you.''
Hows the house cleaning affliction
progressing.
IN sUSQUEHANNA COUNTY.
Principal Charles F. Thorpe, Of the
Forest City schools, is said to be a cam
didate for the principalship Of the Sus-
quehanna schools, a position which he
ably filled for many years.
The Lackawanna men. who have been
transferred from Hallstead to Scrantons
will keep their families at Hallstead.
Hallstead's board of trade will be re-
organized and rejuvenated.
The S. S. Wright t-Kilrow confession
and retraction is the principal theme OF
conversation throughout the county.
Rev. A. II. Broderick will deliver the
Memorial day address at Montrose; T..
B. Curtis, esq.,, of Jackson, at Jackson;
Rev. C. C.. Maclley, of Oakland, at Sps-
auehanna: r. Fl. Harris. of Welsh Hill.
at Gibson; Prof. w. NJ. Dennison. OF
Lanesboro, at Lanesboro.
There are fifty-five widows at Hall
stead. Brethren, these things ought not
to be!
The salary of Susquehanna's post
master has been raised from s., $500 to
$1,000 per year.
SOMEWHAT pIvERTING.
A man with large family Of daugh.
ters seldom keeps dog.
A sign of the times: Paint"
At least the sad-eyed mine mule ems
Joys a strike.
1t is a little early for ball clubs to
brag about what they will do next year.
They thought they had found girl
in Great Bend who had died of broken
heart, but an autopsy revealed the dis
gushing fact that she owed her taking
off to dyspepsia. However, it is pretty
near the same thing.
"Oyercoats will be shorter the coming
winter than last" says fashion note.
Many young men and husbands who
spend their first summer at the sea-
shore will also be shorter" the coming
winter than last.
A PASSION FOR CLOTHESPINS.
A Harmony farmer has a cat that
has developed the same interest in
clothespins that an ordinary cat takes
in mouse catching, and she parades
with her captives with jdst as much
pride. She has long devoted herself 10
collecting lost clothespins, and not a
few that were not lost. Strange to say,
she never touches the pins belonging to
her owner, but is death to those which
belong to the neighbors, ...... .a.,.
In the past three months she has
brought home over twenty dozen pins,
and inquiry shows that the cat keeps
her eye ON the place where the pins are
kept. One neighbor kept basketful on
tin roof and the cat had to pass over
two or three roofs to get there, but she
succeeded in taking three dozen from
the basket before she was discovered.
IN SHORT SPACES.
There is no record of any natural gas
having been discovered this week at
franklin Forks.
Mr. Moore, a member of Buffalo law
firm, was in Susquehanna on Saturday,
comforting with Erie engineers, con-
cerning suits brought against them by
a Chicago book concern.