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Minooka News - October 15, 1895

Scranton Tribune - October 15, 1985
The night school conducted by the members of the Young Men's Institute was re-opened last evening for the winter session. The class will assemble at their hall three nights each week. Martin H. McDonough and Joseph Mulderig will serve in the capacity of instructors.

Richard J. Cusick, P.J. Quinn, W.J. Burke, John B. O'Malley and John Kearney represented the St. Joseph Total Abstinence and Benevolent society at the quarterly convention of the second district of the Scranton Diocesan union yesterday.

Henry Shorten and Miss Annie Sullivan, of Miner's Hill, will be married on October 22.

Much interest is manifested in the coming shooting match between Martin Mangan and John Higgins, which takes place Oct. 21.

A valuable team of gray horses owned by Supervisor Gibbons was killed at the National breaker on Saturday by a trip of runaway gondolas.

Minooka News - 1894

Social for Benefit of Minooka Baseball Club

The Scranton Tribune, January 26, 1897, Page 7, Image 7

MINOOKA.

The much heralded entertainment and social for the benefit of the Minooka baseball club will take place tomorrow evening at the Father Mathew hall, and it is expected the patrons of the game will assist the boys to make the affair a success. The following program will rendered: Opening selection, Professor T. R. Davis; vocal solo, Miss Mary J. Loughney; duet, Misses Hart and Curran; vocal solo, Miss Agnes Coyne, comic song, T F. Walsh; recitation, Miss Celia Dunleavy, sentimental songs, Patrick Burke, vocal solo, Miss Jennie Burke; song and dance, Messrs. McDonald and McCann, comic recitation, William Jennings, vocal solo. Miss Katie Donahue; vocal solo, Miss Winifred Melvin; duet, Misses Barrett and Kenny; vocal solo, Miss Lizzie Cooke, vocal solo, David McDonald, vocal solo, Miss May Cooke, comic song, L T. Ketrick, duet, Messrs. Daniel and William Jones; selections, Mr. M. J. Coyne; topical songs, Con. Carbon, of Wilkes-Bane. Admission 23 cents.

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