The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-18
THE DEACON'S
HOOP SNAKE
PECULIAR REPTILE THAT Ex-
lists DOWN AT CHESTER.
Story of Little susquehanna Girl.
A Coffin and Tombstone Ready.
News Told in Line or Two-He
Got the Rabbit.


Special to the Scranton Tribune.
susquellanna, January 16.-"Speak.
ing of snakes said q friend a deacor
in the Baptist church, there used tc
be sort of hoop snake, down nea,
Chester, where used TO live, that was
wonder. They were as playful and
tame as kittens. They had one pecul-
iarty which I never knew of in other
snakes. They had a hole in the end
Of their tail through which they would
squirt water.
zone day my house, which stood
near the river, caught fire. No SOON
II had q bunch of these snakes seen
H. than they rolled down to the water.
One stuck his head into the water
and the rest Joined on until a string OF
them reached from the water to the
house. In short time the stream of
water they threw on the flames put
It entirely out. I never saw such a
thing before or since
PARAGRAPHIC PICKUPS.
A number of gentlemen, who are al
ready named i'm connection with sal
aryless and almost honorless borough
Offices, appear to be Sin the hands of
their friends" Often times 'tis a very
safe place in which to put people.
william j. Day. of Great Bend, has
been appointed district deputy grand
MASTER +. g. A. Nj.
The Oakland Water company's arte-
sian we'll situated in close proximity to
its Westfall avenue reservoir is spout
ing water at the rate of twenty barrels
an hour. The we'll is 145 feet deep.
Joseph Clark, some ten years since
Susquehanna newspaper man, is
now state secretary of the Ohio Sunday
School association.
The funeral of Mrs. David Wheeler,
former esteemed resident Of Susque-
hanna, took place at Hornellsville on
Friday.
The funeral Of Edward, the little son
of Mr.. and Mrs. E. d. Bradley. for
merly of Susquehanna. but now Of
Corning, N. Y, took place this after
noon from the residence of Mrs. NJ.
Cahill, West Main street, in this bor-
ough. Interment took place in Laurel
Hill cemetery.
The common council of Montrose has
ordered all the dogs and cats in the
borough quarantined until further no
tice. Why not make the order perman-
ent?
SALAD FOR THE SOLITARY.
Cacklc, cacklc Plymouth Rocks,
We can have the wagon box,
" the smokehouse, n the barn,
Take 'cm-we don't care darn.
Cackc. cackle all the Gay,
Who kin find a better way
Fer + Git ahead again
Than t. cultivate the hen?
Cackle here an cackle there.
Lay your eggs Just anywhere
Every time We lay an egg.
Down the mortgage goes a peg.
Bard of Tniond.le.
Every man is religious when he is
cared to death.
The longer a man is dead the less
positive his friends are that he is with
the angels.
A man always lies more or less,
whether he speaks i'll of a man or in
complimentary terms of him.
Life is short-only four letters in it.
Three-quarters of it is Gle" and half
of it Is an 'if'
4 little Susauehanna girl recently
sent this invitation to her friends to
attend party: My mother wants 10
know if your mother will let you come
to my party, Saturday next, from three
to six"
THE NEWS GRIST.
Mrs Alonzo Boyden died at her home
in Oakland township on Tuesday night,
after a protracted illness, aged so years.
There will be a reunion and roll call
OF the membr $ of the Baptist church
of Susouehanna on Wednesday after
noon and evening, January o.. At 345
p. m. Rev. NJ, j. Watkins. of Hailstead,
will preach. At the evening service,
Rev, Fl. J.. Whalen, ID. D., of Carbon
dale, will preach. The church hopes to
raise 800 at this service.
Nicholas Dubois Chase. former
,esident of Hallstead,is dead at Easton.
He was a member of the Northampton
bar and member OF the common coun-
ell of Easton.
The Erie officials and Brotherhood
grievance committee are still in New
York holding a conference relative to |
up a standard scale of wages.
The conference will probably last more |
than a week It.
THE STRIPED HANDLE KIND,
Last summer u Jackson farmer con- |
cluded to put in Il crop of broom corn. |
He wrote to the secretary of the state |
board of agriculture, asking what kind |
of broom corn seed he ought to SOW to |
reap the best results. II haven't given |
the broom corn question much |
thought" replied the secretary. but l |
would advise you to plant the striped |
handle brand, as that seems to be the
hest seller"
AND TOMBSTONE READY.
jeremiah McClaughney, who died on
saturday at Nestel, had kept a coffin
and tombstone i'm his house for twenty
f1Ve years. Although for years he lived !,
within mile OF the Lackawanna
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