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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1896
Page
7
News notes describe a Welsh Baptist church fair and festival with booths, a doll prize, and a large crowd. Also covered are Twilight Local era's ninth annual ballet at Mears' hall, Salvation Army victory celebration, benefit concerts, and various local notices including advertisements for florists, photographers, and secondhand furniture dealers.
Tom Blair of Beath Main avenue lost an overcoat to Hungarian pool players who left Sam Davis pool parlors on North Main avenue after several games. A mysterious bundle was hidden under a coat during the escape. no clues to the thieves. The town notes also mention a postponed raffle drawing, festival quilt, typhoid fever cases, and local society updates.
Ex mayor W. L. Connell hosted a dinner for all forty Scranton police officers at the Scranton House last evening. Mayor Bailey sent A. J. Medford as representative. The event marked the first time every officer attended a city gathering.
Two fires broke out yesterday in North End buildings. A blaze in John Hawks’ Bee Idetee store stairway trapped Mrs. Hawks and a child before firefighters stopped the flames with limited damage. loss under £200. Earlier, a frame two story tea store run by Michael Madden suffered partial destruction from a defective flue, insured to cover $100 loss.
Conductor Davis stops a crowded South Side line car after a row involving four passengers. Mrs Kosloskie and her husband John from Greenwood are named in incidents with the conductor and motorman Davis and Fleming. One man is ejected at Cedar avenue, another man tries to intervene and is also removed. The woman fights back, attacking the conductor and motorman with force. Also noted are local events: the South Side Base Ball club ball at Central Park with Miss Katie Reardon as musician and committee members Owen Melvin, John Hastings, William Vaughan, Don Fallon, Michael Laffey. Oriental Base Ball club event at Germania hall. Christina Miller funeral on Birch street with service at home and North Washington cemetery. various local social and organizational notes including Camp 490 P O S A meeting, Michael Mullaney ill, and St Joseph's Total Abstinence and Benevolent society planning a new hall after a fire.
At the Thirteenth regiment officers meeting in Scranton, Col Coursen criticized published ratings of Pennsylvania National Guard units led by the First regiment Philadelphia and Company D Thirteenth. He planned to write General Stewart seeking corrections. Ratings listed several companies with disputes over efficiency scores, arguing Thirteenth should lead the state if errors were fixed. The meeting also discussed joint rifle range location with a Scranton club and decided to keep the Dickson range, shifting long-range targets to the east bank hill.
Community notices report a monthly Epworth League program at the Methodist church tonight with Miss Cushman of Honesdale hosting Miss Susie Dodge on Williams Street. A fire at 445 PM damaged Schuller’s butcher shop on Pine and Blakely, quickly controlled with little damage.
Samuel McMahen is slightly indisposed at his Oak street home. Providence United choir meets this evening in Archbalds hall Wayne avenue. Miss Hattie Evans of Wilkes-Barre visits friends on Wayne avenue for a few days. Jacob Ryan of Carbondale visited North End friends yesterday and Sunday. The Lantes Aid society of the Primitive Methodist church holds an apron festival this evening on East Market street. Keystone Literary and Dramatic club presented a four act drama Forced to the War last night. The funeral of Elisa J Jones will be from her Oak street home at 4 pm with interment at Washburn street cemetery. The Eeonomy Athletic club plans a masquerade Friday April 10 at Company Harmory.
Representatives from Bethlehem Trenton Allentown Waverly N J Binghamton and Scranton meet at the Wyoming house to form a permanent trotting circuit. Scranton chosen for the general meeting and plans include a dam on the Lackawanna River creating an island plerground, a circular bicycle track, trap shooting, and a ten day open air show to be staged by a New York producer.
The Frothingham event hosts a charity ball with full preparations and a beautiful theater setup. Box holders include Johnson Jermyn Connell Amerman Watres Robinson and Nevile as decorators finalize the floor, with reports expected to M F Sando on Wyoming avenue. Foundling Home expected to gain a substantial sum.
Mr and Mrs Laine of Seattle will return home Wednesday after visiting friends here. Lawrence Cosgrove of West Avoca visited Minooka yesterday. The O Connell Connell No 184 Young Men's Institute held a tramp smoker at Willow street rooms with a program of vocal solos recitations and essays. Night refreshments and paring by hoboes followed entertainment. The event was a success and praised the committee. R J Cusick has accepted a clerk position at Hotel Jermyn Scranton.
The state department informs that missionary Rey Knapp has not been expelled from Bitlia as of now and may have reached a town between Bitlia and Constantinople. the U.S. envoy in Constantinople reports he is still in the area.
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