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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1897
Page
8
A local sermon on road safety urges frequent danger signs for cyclists and motorists, noting reckless behavior among Scranton wheel enthusiasts. August heat drives people to seek cool spots like the board of trade rotunda while a palmistry fad and a maid's odd antics headline social notes.
Grace church is issuing a midsummer greeting with a service invitation at Grace Reformed Episcopal, 428 Wyoming avenue near Mulberry street. Rev George L Ulrich urges attendance Wednesday evening, stressing friendship and welcoming guests despite weather or health.
Local residents and visitors are listed as at Atlantic City or traveling to nearby cities. Louis R Freeman and wife are at Asbury Park while Anna and Margaret Collins spend time at Atlantic City. Other names travel to Atlantic City for vacations or business including H M Spencer and M J Walsh. Several families from the area plan trips to Concord Boston Niagara Falls and Toronto.
Thursday night the select council considered a $10,000 bond for city solicitor elect M A McGinley with T F Leonard P J Conway and J J Fahey as sureties. The common council approved it quickly. A pending move to block the bond was not expected. A mayor Bailey communication on Patrolman Flaherty is anticipated with reinstatement favored by insiders. The sewer ordinance for West Side drainage in the Fifteenth and Fifth wards and part of the Sixth will be reviewed on third reading.
City assessors will within two weeks appoint assistant assessors to conduct the triennial 1868 assessment and the following two years. Applicants flood in as work is planned to start September 1. The process will mirror a court declared legal method and aim to tax fairly with land valued at one third and improvements at one third. Dr C C Sapp promotes New York Dental Parlors at 144 Wyoming Avenue opposite Hotel Jermyn with best work at lowest prices.
Tailor services advertise fall salts and overcoats with latest styles from John Ross at 307 Spruce Street and Steam Heating and Plumbing P F M T Howley at 231 Wyoming Ave. Also mentions 60 XX White Bavelo for one store and two lacking avenues.
Scranton to host the Pennsylvania State Homeopathic Society in September with an expected 250 physicians plus a New York delegation. The Northeastern Pennsylvania association helped secure the venue, aiming to elevate Scranton as a convention city and potentially rotate future gatherings here every three years. Dr H B Ware presides locally with Dr Coe as vice president and Dr Anna Clark as secretary.
Twenty men and women took civil service carrier clerk and carrier examinations in the federal court room at the post office building. Names and addresses of applicants span Moosic, Pittston avenues, Clark's Summit, Jersey areas, and surrounding streets. The test ran 9 a m to 2 p m with a board of examiners led by W D Roche. Results will be announced later after standard percentage scoring. districts included orthography arithmetic penmanship and other tasks.
An emergency stockholders meeting at the Geranton Illuminating Heat and Power company on Wyoming avenue filled the vacancy from Dr. B H Throop’s death. Franklin Howell elected president after serving as treasurer. Walter Briggs named treasurer. Theodore G Wolf appointed director to represent Throop interests in the firm.
James Durkin of Continental hill was admitted to Moses Taylor hospital yesterday with blood poisoning in his right hand. A coal cut a few days ago allowed sulphur water to enter the wound, and the injury has become serious. He works as a miner in the Central mine.
Bauer's Band drew several thousand spectators for an open air concert in front of the Elis rooms on Franklin avenue. The event advertised the Elis excursion to Lake Ark Thursday. The program opened with Hubber's Prodigal March followed by Kellabella’s overture. Thomas Miles performed Tramp Tramp on his cornet.
A concert featured a "Wizard of the Nile" selection and the "Columbian Pot-Pourri" arranged by Thomas Coates of Easton. The medley "Gay Old Time" followed as Byer conducted, closing with Sousa's "Stars and Stripes" march.
James Finley, about 50, was arrested by Patrolman Goerlets and Detective Moir fo y while attempting a pocket pick at 9 PM. He had lingered around the Franklin Lackawanna corner all day and was taken to the police station after the incident.
The Central Pennsylvania Telephone and Supply company won a permit from the street commissioner to tear up city streets for underground wire conduits. Bids are asked with work to start within a week, beginning at the Adams avenue telephone building and extending along Center and Washington avenues to the Delaware and Hudson station. Engineer Wyman of the American Bell Telephone company leads the project with routes through Oakford court Railroad alley and Lackawanna and Wyoming avenues.
Jerome J. Scott returned home yesterday after leaving Thursday to visit a relative at Avoca. He rode with farmer PBhelley to Buttermilk Falls, where an invitation led to a brief outing before an aunt found him and sent him home. Two other missing boys were reportedly found. Chief Robling was notified that Herbert Knight was staying with the Williams family at Greenwood.
The executive committee of Company K Eleventh Pennsylvania Cavalry changes its sev enth annual reunion date from August 26 to September 4 at Glenburn. All veteran cavalrymen north of the mountains are invited. Hotel rooms available at reasonable rates and a good time is promised. The shift avoids conflict with the national encampment at Buffalo, New York.
The board of revision met with property owners from the First through Thirteenth wards and upcoming sessions cover the Eleventh to Twenty first wards. Hearings continue through Friday with complainants from multiple wards. The total appeals run below the average.
The board of engineers adopts new city fire rules governing first second and general alarms and special company calls. Key changes include 15 minute holds after first alarm if not responding and district gong patterns for Dickson mines Lackawanna Tron and Steel lackawanna Oxford mines and other wards. Special tap system details and revised procedures take effect next Monday morning.
In 1987 Barber Asphalt laid two and a half inch asphalt on the Lackawanna Avenue triangle near the station. Yesterday the same firm resurfaced cracks and depressions as ground shifts caused wear. Concrete remains solid despite loss of a quarter inch and gutter stones will be replaced.
The ad touts Scranton’s finest Fresh Meat Department with top quality meat at cash store prices. It urges customers to try their Meat Cement and to buy there.
George Bellock aged 39 a Hyde Park mine worker was injured yesterday when a roof collapsed at the mine He was brought to Moses Taylor hospital where two ribs were fractured and his body bruised He lives on Luzerne Street Belleck?
A notice directs buyers at 325 and 327 Adams Avenue opposite the Armory to purchase fancy groceries at under cost. The entire stock will be cloned out within the next fifteen days at nearly their own price.
In Scranton Pennsylvania on August 3 1597 the infant son of Mr and Mrs H O Burdick died at 124 Adams Avenue. Funeral services are Thursday morning with private interment in Forest Hill Cemetery.
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