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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1898
Page
10
The Carbonale correspondence of The Tribune is placed in the hands of Mr. R. Munn at Salem avenue and Church street for news items. All complaints about irregular delivery should be made to W. J. Roberts, now an agent.
Kenown Young Won Witting will join Company B after delayed departure. Otor Aunger left for Henestale and will travel to Maple City to join the company for a mission against Boranton, Wyoming Valley. Rutherford Hayes Kinhack joins Company F. Dante Nichol heads to Beranton for a colonel Keck volunteers exam. Mathries Guest Wft heads to Tanville for National Guard, as local military spirit strengthens and a reserves company seems likely.
Bertha DeWitt died yesterday at 6 20 AM at her Fell township home after a Providence Bright's disease and pneumonia illness. She was 24 and formerly Laure Wedeman, daughter of Mr and Mrs C DeWitt of the Ruswell area. The funeral is set for Thursday at 2 PM with Rev G B Flene leading services at the Toure and interment in Wedeman cemetery. She was born in Kingston and lived in Whiteon before moving to Fell township with her husband.
Lucy Threezleeton aged ninety five died suddenly at her daughter’s home 5 Cangan street Carbondale of heart failure. Short funeral services will be at the house Thursday morning and the remains will go by the Gravity train to Honesdale for interment in Blendyberry cemetery. She was born in Jackson Susquehanna county on June 13 1876. The family moved to Howes Vale then to Carbondale where she lived until death.
The Mikado by home talent will be repeated Thursday instead of Wednesday. Admission reduced to 25 and 45 cents. Mrs Maria Moran of Cottage Street and Michael F Larkin of Rehenterday N J will marry at St Rose church this afternoon.
Miss Julian Duffy will be bridesmaid to Dr P A Larkin in a thin city ceremony. Baseball season opens Saturday with the railroad team meeting Boranton Young Men's Kris-Hinnac at Alumni Park. Carbondale appoints Robert Doyle to a Havana blockade meet aboard the flagship New York. A high school benefit dance is planned to aid the new baseball team with pupil ticket sales already brisk. A thief broke into J J McNulty's restaurant on South Main Street taking £4. Mrs WH J Raynor and Aug A Tucker travel to Trenton N J to visit the Philadelphia board of missions. Summit Avenue sewer work begins as contractor OHara of Semninton starts the project.
The Welsh Congregational church eisteddfod in Taylor Monday drew a full house with enthusiastic crowd reaction. Judges included M Morgans and James E Watkins. winners ranged from David T. Morris in the men’s over thirty solo to Samuel Evans for the love letter and other prizes awarded in group and choir competitions.
A person returned home after visiting relatives in a local area, marking a peaceful homecoming without incident. No further details provided.
Forest City hosts visitors L V Arnold and family now in Carbondale. John McDonald visiter in Lackawanna and New York. Nellie Clancey, former Forest City teacher, stays with borough friends. A Susquehanna County infantry volunteers unit forms under Captain Willan. Enrollment blanks out for Forest City company. Maxey invited to 68th college commencement at New York College of Plarency. WilLia Mirns reports Klondike party near the Chilkoot. U G Cooley and Frank Bhaw accompany Burns seeking gold. one day behind the snow rush due to a rental pause.
The Rev. and Mrs. William Surdival were bid farewell by Wyoming conference ministers and the Congregational church of Jermyn Mayfield after two years six months as pastor. A testimonial frame honored him as he accepted a call to Pittsburg South Side Congregational Church. A burglary at Garin hotel occurred earlier, with sixty five dollars taken and a shot fired during pursuit. Mary Grady of Mayfield was installed as emergency clerk at the post office, to be followed by Margaret Mulholland. Superintendent W. Hutchings, of the powder mill, returned from leave.
The report notes a European trip in town visiting friends on Monday. BR T Maxwell is in New York handling interests of the silk mill as machinery arrives and work to start soon. Mrs. Philip Baker is ill at her Main Street home and faces possible pleurisy. James Scott remains home on Main Street with rheumatism.
A Wednesday evening program at Peckville Baptlett church features a varied concert. The lineup includes Schubert quartettes and solos by Miss Bessie Sloat and Mrs. Joseph O'Brien, with recitations and multiple musical numbers such as Kathleen Mavourneen and When the Roses First Appear.
A U S navy officer recalls a near disaster during heavy gun practice. A gun firing circuit was briefly unlocked as a breech not locked, and a gun was nearly discharged. The gunner’s mate disabled the circuit to prevent detonation, while powder in the turret and a bare passage to the magazine remained open. The incident prompted the department to adopt electrical safeguards ensuring breech locking before discharge.
A discussion of kissing as a gesture of good will across eras and cultures. It covers religious uses by Christians and royals, oath rituals in courts, guardians of truth, colonial attitudes, Norse mistletoe myths, and a note on Christmas customs and gods Baldur and Friga.
An article from Lestios Weekly analyzes New York coastal defenses before a potential outbreak, noting U S Navy concentration near Havana and describing exterior fortifications guarding Atlantic approaches to the harbor as the era’s most extensive.
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