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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1894
Page
3
H L Halstead announces candidacy for the Lackawanna County recorder of deeds office before the next Republican convention. The declaration names the candidate and party affiliation in formal notification to the party.
W F Halistead left for Binghamton on a tour of inspection. E G Worden visits his mother in Factoryville. Mrs Phelps travels to the Danville sanitarium. Roche returns from Lake Winola for a select meeting. Nebleton party at Fenimore Asbury Park. Flarey Stewart and Lacy families at Lake Sheridan. Boland teaches at the Ronny mute institution in West Wheeling Virginia visiting relatives. Mrs Holt and children from Green Ridge visit Connecticut for the summer. Farewell concert by Professors Haydn Evans and Singers at Jackson Street Baptist Church on Aug 20. Green Ridge Baptist church ladies host an ice cream social this evening. Captain Cromwell and family pass through en route to Montrose. Harris of West Pittston and Byrns and Lloyds of Scranton plan a Wales trip to seek an estate interest valued at half a million.
Scranton plans a comprehensive illustrated directory of leading wholesale, banking, manufacturing and professional interests. The edition will be bound as a book with portraits and views of public buildings, business blocks, streets, and citizens. Copies sent outside the city aim to attract new buyers and serve as city advertisement. Representatives will explain the edition and residents may save notices for view requests. Stavenny B Cochran, druggist, Lancaster, Pa. Burdock Blood Bitters advertised for dyspepsia and related ailments.
Bucklow offers Arnisa Salva, described as the best salve for bruises sores ulcers and skin eruptions with a money back guarantee. Price five cents per box. For sale by Matthews Bros.
EB district calls for bids to construct School House No 27 with architect L Walter. project valued at 40000 dollars. The sale advertises low prices on nearby Columbia Avenue for a short time.
City Engineer Phillipe moves to secure land for Tripp's Park featuring driveways a circular route a miniature lake and banking to deepen it. The project may include Rouni Woods and aims to serve Providence residents with accessible recreation before land speculators act.
A group of West Side women spent a pleasant day at Laurel Hill park from about 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The party included Mesdames Altenmus Thoras Path Munson W Griffithe Ho Vetlows Houser Stephens Mokr Staples Lanning Crimmons Stone Louia Stevens Bush Yoke Stella Yoke Jennie Lena Staples Ave Ace Exbel Rinker and their families. The outing provided recreation for both young and old.
A collection of short items notes visitors and residents including Lou Jones in Carbondale Miss Jennie Cannon visiting Miss Erta Moyle and Lula James with Nettie Eling returning from Catasauqua Elias Jones suffers a broken arm from a wagon accident. The Druid Glee society rehearses for the September eisteddfod. Obituary for Mrs Catherine Williams aged 85. The Mendelssohn Choral society to meet at First Welsh Baptist church. Funeral of George Webber reported with interment at Paradise.
A well to do woman from Sayre, Bradford County, visits Sayre then loses memory of her intended town in the region. Detective Reynolds questions her as she cannot name the destination though clues point to Clifford or nearby towns. The episode ends with no harm beyond embarrassment and an extra boarding bill.
At the annual stockholders meeting held yesterday at the company's Wyoming avenue office, officers for the coming year were elected: W. W. Scranton as president and director, with Walter Scranton, James R. Langdon, William Connell, Henry Belluier, E B Sturges, P Kingsbury also chosen as directors.
A barn on Hitchcock Court owned by J. F. Megargel and located behind his Olive Street home at 018 Olive Street was hourly consumed by fire last night. I. F P. Megargel is named in the fragment as property owner.
A stable near several homes suffered about 1500 in damage to the barn and its hay and straw when a fire broke out. Mr Mogargel and family were at Lake Ariel with the four horses and vehicles, keeping damage confined to the building. The blaze is attributed to spontaneous combustion.
A graphic retelling places Thomas Furr in New York recounting Booths assassination of President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in 1865. The narrative follows Booth entering the box, firing, leaping to stage, and Fair's rescue of Lincoln with Major Rathbourn attempting to restrain Booth. Further passages discuss rumors of Medala the Old Forge killer and a suspicious Italian man linked to his description.
Henry Charlo Lea in the Argual Forum notes Tolster exaggerates liquor's role in crime. He argues alcohol accounts for 10 percent of crime and that drunkenness tempts women and dulls morals. He cites criminologists who say alcohol fuels crime and born criminal traits. He observes convicts show 41 percent had drunken-parents.
The Outlook warns that individuals who pit employer against employee are enemies to the public and likens such acts to fanning religious and industrial strife. Donations for the Florence Mission are listed from local supporters including W. H. Pearee, Mary Hastie, James Hastie, and others with medical attendance noted.
Public notice announces availability of building materials for sale and directs inquiries to Conrad Schrevier's office in the Commonwealth Building.
In a dialogue Charley and George discuss a young woman mocked for a physical flaw. Charley recalls his own skin remedy, claiming P. P. P. can clear blood eruptions, noting the governor’s rheumatism improved. Drug stores allegedly selling the cure are hinted.
A Providence month report lists fifty one arrests in July including 269 men and two women for drinking and disorderly conduct. The piece notes many offenses originate at unlicensed saloons and “holes in the wall” while clergy push Sabbath observance and crackdown strategies.
On Tuesday Mrs. Mary Stakoviteh, wife of a Hungarian resident at Uighworka, died after intense pain. She refused a physician or midwife, and her husband did not summon aid in time. The woman, 16, had married about a year ago to one of the boarders, Mary Stankeviteh.
Rev J Dunn of Green Ridge vacations in Wilmington. Mr and Mrs Thomas Williams plan a week at Harvey's. B J Williams of Wayne Avenue visits daughter Mrs Silas Robison. Mrs Ylotas Jordan stays with parents on West Market Street. Providence workers receive pay amid confinement signs. Ernest L Lindsay, Rochester Business College grad, visits old chum Harvey Francia. A Providence party travels to Atlantic City for two weeks. Two injuries to William J Thomas examined. eye prognosis guarded. Miner injured in Pittston under similar circumstances.
Reverend Samuel Kleinfeld, rabbi of the Polish Jewish synagogue on Washington Avenue, fledly faced an execution issued by Max Judkovics over an unpaid clothing bill. The writ interrupted his departure aboard a Delaware Lackawanna and Western train, but after discussions with the clerk Judkovics settled and paid costs, allowing the rabbi to proceed to New York with his newlywed wife.
Max Phillips sent Ferdinand Schroeder to oversee his Roaring Brook farm in April. A ferocious bull on the firm jumped the fence and roamed, prompting a lawsuit as Phillips reviews the steward’s work and the incident at the property.
Dr Koth of Cedar Avenue entertains his father Rev Z Kolb of Hell Loran Street Methodist Church Newark. The funeral of Michael Byron Jr infant occurred yesterday at Hyde Park Catholic Cemetery. Miss Nellie Hopkins and Anastas ia McNulty visit Prospect Avenue relatives. Augiat Schneider and family stay with friends. A one year old boy, son of Charles Cooper, was injured in a barn accident at Max Phillips’ farm yesterday.
An old advertisement touts Music Boxes Exclusively at 1000 Chestnut Street Philadelphia offering finely tuned music boxes with prices of 25 and 10 dollars. Also promotes Prufanory Flour Mills claiming a capacity of 17 600 barrels per day and phrases about refurbished music boxes with new tunes.
A novelty summer item features a Nobby long-cut double-breast blue and black serge coat. The description implies a stylish proper choice for tennis players seeking distinctive attire.
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