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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1896
Page
3
A short note urges careful choice of stationery at Norton’s, 322 Lackawanna Avenue, to influence how recipients view the sender. It emphasizes using high quality business, personal, or social stationery and hints at affordable prices.
A flurry of short notices records residents visiting and returning, including H H Birrougta at Washington, O'Mudley on Third Street, Miss Doypon vacationing at Atlanticus, and Miss Alice Burch returning from Wilkes-Barre. Several others, from Misses Hesse and Gilligan to Mrs. J Alexander, are noted traveling to Ashbury Park, New York, Brooklyn, and Crystal Lake, with updates on health and society duties.
Deputy Sheriff Tom Lewis tracked Tris ten Glasco for three weeks, locating him after a bed search in his delinquent room. Glasco, a Bellevue Polander, is wanted in court to settle a bill, and Lewis placed him in custody at the county jail.
The Scranton Board of Health held a lengthy session led by Health Officer Allen and President Heatley. They condemned headache powders after a fatal case, discussed water quality from Spring Brook in Bellevue, and approved a new plumbing code to regulate licensed plumbers and enforce certificates. The board also planned a conference with council sanitary committees and noted July deaths and local complaints about a nuisance house on Jones Street.
Complaint to Scranton police alleges two young girls with singing voices were moved among saloons on Lackawanna avenue while two men collected pennies and pickles for liquor. The quartet was found at the Hub on Spruce street and brought to the central station. One man, Alfred H Bastedo, with daughters Minnie and Efe, and Frank Davenport are involved. Bastedo, an out of work former hotelier, tells of losses from a fire that destroyed his business and his wife’s death. The children defend him and produced coins to show earnings. Chief Robling ordered an end to begging. Bastedo promised to comply.
The warrant was issued by Alderman Millar at noon yesterday. At Welock the defendants were given a hearing and required to post bail of 80 dollars each for their appearance in court.
The Broadway Comedians bring Town Topics to Frothingham Monday night August 10. The strong company features William Keller William H Mack John Queen James Tenbrooke PHI Ott Joseph Harrington William Nelson Frank Caverly A M Miller Beatrice Norman Nellie Sennet Lylian Heckler Luella Miller Elise Nugent Laura Wainsford Freda Peel and Mamie Welty with fresh songs dances and burlesques.
Frank Compton a 50 year old dye works laborer was found dead in Cell No 1 of Harrisburg Central police station after being removed from City Hall Lawn where he slept off intoxication. Coroner Longstreet to hold inquest.
Scranton firemen urge union support to bring the State Firemen's convention to the city for 1897. A circular letter from James G. Bulley, mayor, and Isadore Goolman calls on company heads to elect two delegates per company to attend meetings in Scranton on August 12 and presses immediate action to beat Wilkes-Barre for the convention.
Rev. Father Iwanowski swears out charges of malicious libel against editor Joseph A Lipinski and Daniel Langowski, proprietor of the Tygondik on South Side. They were arrested on a warrant charging criminal and malicious fire and sued for libel in the amount of 310,000 each. The libel stemmed from a Tysondik issue published last Saturday.
Secretary Atherton paid nearly $3.00 to Theodore Strong, president of Pittston First National Bank, as the third installment from the Twin Shaft fund to Pittston authorities. Total fund was 154000, with $449 remaining unpaid after yesterday’s receipts from Hunt Connell and several companies.
The Scranton Training School for Kindergarteners will open in the city on September 14, 1896. For further particulars, address.
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