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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1898
Page
7
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A small blaze caused minor damage at a Little Washington avenue building and a man named John Mo bie Thom went missing after an apparent incident. Police look into the March 16 direction and age estimate puts him in his seventies.
The last day for councils to hold a 30 meeting for electing a new Board of Tax Revision and Appeal falls on Monday May 2. A resolution to reel the city dept to call such a meeting was introduced by Mr. Jack son and passed in common council. The board may include non council members. current councilmen comprise the present bond. Ex Councilman W J Thomas Manley and ex Common Councilman Regan are candidates for reelection. Common Councilman Olver and Selectman Fallows also stand. Five candidates must be chosen and each council member may vote for three. The term begins immediately after the election.
Two death notices appear in Scranton and Throop. Mire Dempsey, 27, of 37 Wilbur Street, died Friday afternoon with interment at Hyde Park Catholic Cemetery. Thomas Williamman, 20, of Boulevard Avenue, Throop, funeral from his residence at 2 PM with burial in Throop.
The Lackawanna Presbytery meeting adopted Cuban resolutions telegraphed to President McKinley and pledged support for the war effort. It elected four preaching licenses, named lay and ministerial commissioners, and approved funds to aid debt relief for Petersburg church, while detailing foreign-speaking outreach and relections to full presbytery committees.
New York pieces receive favorable notices in Scranton with praises for Josephine Hall and the cast. Annie Russell earns three curtain calls for Dangerfield, Lilie Akerstrom promotes A Millionaire Fate and A Beautiful Slave, while Half a King at the Lyceum promises superb opera gowns and refined music with Lulu Glaser singing Pierette and other lovers’ tunes.
The New York Ontario and Western rail way announces its annual spring excursion to New York City on Monday May 2 1894. Tickets will be sold at a limited round trip fare valid May 2 through May 6 with reclining chair cars on all May 2 trains.
The Rev Dr J J Lansing was formally installed as pastor of Green Ridge Presbyterian Church after months as acting pastor. The event drew Presbyterian clergy from Lackawanna Presbytery and featured charges by Rev Dr N G Parke and Rev Charlee Lee, with music by the church choir and a reception for attendees.
The entire Pennsylvania National Guard is to be mobilized at Mount Gretna within the next few days. Arrangements for the transfer of troops and equipment are nearly complete and the cost to the state is expected to be minimal.
The Music Trade Review and Musical Courier recount Chickering & Sons founding and seventy five years of piano making in New York. L. B. Powell & Co. have long represented Chickering in Scranton and observed the firm’s rise to prominence. Music, singing, and dancing event at the Armory tonight.
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