Redding Receives Manhattan College Baseball Offer
Thomas Redding of Pittston, one of the county’s top amateur third basemen and a Minor-Hilliard team member, has received an offer to join Manhattan College in New York City and will likely accept.
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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1902
Page
7
Thomas Redding of Pittston, one of the county’s top amateur third basemen and a Minor-Hilliard team member, has received an offer to join Manhattan College in New York City and will likely accept.
Special to the Scranton Tribune reports Honesdale and Scranton alumni teams to play in Honesdale next Saturday. Nieuser's orchestra to perform at St. John's church picnic in Belvine Park on Saturday August 9. Lutheran church Young People's lawn social planned near Mr Schwemly's ball ground Thursday evening. Wayne Citizens Water and Supply Co annual meeting held. trustees elected with Hon. T. J. Ham in charge of Hawley Times. Mr and Mrs A B Wood depart for Detroit to visit ill daughter Mrs C E Knapp. Ethel Knapp visiting Port Jervis and Newbury NY. Joshua Brown and family to stay at Elk Lake cottage for a month. Fire alarm woke residents at about 4 am. a small one story shop owned by Mr Kanford behind his marble yard on Main Street burned interior. origin unknown. loss partly insured.
The Wanita Camping club gave a straw ride to their friends Tuesday evening to La Lake Winola on August 6. The event attracted members from the Lake Winola area and featured a festive outing with neighbors enjoying the ride and socializing together.
Tunkhannock reports a 3 PM Saturday baseball game between the Tritons and Luzerne Reda at Kittridge park. Local events include visits by Attorney Charles GB Littl and Judge Edward M. Durham attends funeral services for James E. Frear.
Aug 6 Brooklyn column notes DeWitt Tewks bury of Scranton visiting with mother Mrs Ralph Sterling. Mrs W A Squier of Binghamton visits aunt Mrs G W Falmer. Ladies Aid groups meet at Methodist Episcopal and Universalist churches. Harvest Home picnic at Dimock features Peak Sisters entertainment at Universalist church. J W Newton improves his house. About twenty Fresh Air children from New York Tribune expected for two weeks. Mrs Uptegreve hosts daughter and grandchildren from Scranton.
A trolley party honored Miss Mabel Schriever of Philadelphia hosted by Mrs. J. A. Wall in Blakely. Guests returned to the Had wards home on Scott Street for a late supper after midnight luncheon. Various local residents are listed as uncalled for mail and visiting relatives in town.
Miss Sadie Broderick and William H. Murphy wed at St Thomas church in Archbald yesterday after a nuptial mass. Rev P F Broderick presided with Rev A T Broderick and Rev T J Comerford assisting. The bride wore white liberty satin with orange blossoms. best man was P J McAndrew. attendants included Miss Katie Cosgrove. Guests and relatives gathered for a wedding breakfast. the couple departed for Boston and New York at 10 55 a m.
Rev G H Prentice spends week in New York state. Miss Mary De Pews visits relatives in Mount Pocono. Mr and Mrs Horace Jones and son Lawrence visit Gouldsboro over Sunday. Snowden, son of Mr and Mrs Aaron Kelly, injured after a porch fall but improving.
A local Swanson area notice cites 1 000 claims endorsed by Scranton citizens praising Dean's Kidney Pills as a cure for kidney and back issues. Mrs William Riley of 1014 Capouse Ave testifies after using three boxes bought at Matthews Bros drugstore. The ad promotes 60 cent bottles from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY as sole US agents.
Furnished rooms for rent with heat gas and bath offered at 639 Adams Avenue. Gentlemen preferred.
Under the care of Dr Kneidler of Elmirwuerst Miss Lillian Frey and Miss Anna Barnes of South Sterling are guests of Mrs Joseph Yeager. Mrs Bush and children Max and Harold and Miss Busia Brown visited friends in Gouldsboro over Sunday. Miss May Eschenbach of Scranton visits at Mrs N Eschenbach. Mrs Clearwater and daughter of Scranton visit Mrs H H De Pew. Misses Rena and Vera La Touche of Scranton visit cousin Miss Elizabeth Lyman. Mrs Arch Decker and daughter Delilah spent Sabbath with friends in Springbrook. Mrs Fred iolb visiting relatives at Swiftwater.
Mrs James Le Van and family spent Wednesday in Wyoming. Fred Benjamin of Peckville visited Moosic Tuesday evening. Moosic Hose Company No 1 meets this evening. The Methodist church plans a farewell reception for Rev J N Dalley and wife Friday at the church. Rev and Mrs Batley depart Wednesday for Denver. Col Mrs George Tregallas is visiting Wilkes Barre a few days. Local youths from Moosic and Avoca enjoyed a straw ride to Wilkes-Barre last night.
Clerks notice in the Middle District of Pennsylvania calls creditors to appear September 7 to contest Kinback and Welchel discharge. Administrators announce estate claims for Annie Connele and John Jermyn, with executors and attorneys named. Wyoming Shovel Works stockholders meet for director elections at Connell Building Scranton, with secretary Robertson listed.
A jumble of business notices and railway timetable items appears. It lists reward details for a bracelet and socket, addresses in Hazleton and Scranton, and multiple firms offering services from patent advice to real estate and cleaning. The Erie and New York rail timetable fragment shows departure and arrival times from Scranton to Hawley and New York with weekend variations.
National League results from New York Philadelphia Boston Brooklyn and Cleveland show varied scores with rain affecting several games. Pitchers Cheshro O Connor Tay lor Bresnahan Waddell Schreckengost Bemis and umpires Emal le O Loughlin are listed for the contests.
Lackawanna County invites sealed proposals until Aug 8 at 12 m for the Prothonotary's office floor in the Court House. Bids to be mailed or delivered. county reserves right to reject all bids. KB. A JONES County Controller Attest John Morris Deputy Controller Dunmore Borough Notice to Contractors.
Cut out daily pictures, mark the hidden object, and save until Saturday. Send or deliver to The Tribune Puzzle Department in an envelope with name, age, and address. Six correct weekly entries will have their names published in The Tribune Monday morning.
Nicholson August 6. Mrs. O D Roberts and Miss Inda Dunbar of Hepburn bottom called in town Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kniffen return home on Wilkes-Barre after visiting his sister Mrs. C H MacConnell. W W Le Roy calls in New Milford. Mr. and Mrs. Waller Williams visit Williams’ aunt and uncle summering in Cooperstown. Miss May Hinckle visits friends in Hallstead.
Avo ca Misses Eadle Gillespie and Mary Mortimer of Pittston visited Miss Ella O Malley last evening. Mirae Morahan of Inkerman returns home after a week with friends here. John Conde, US Army veteran in the Philippines, reenlists and departs for Columbus to join a regiment. Miss Jennie Bell hosts a large gathering with games and refreshments. William Dixon and Patrick McHale head to New York City. J J Morahan called on Scranton yesterday. Areula Barrick of Wilkes-Barre visits Miss Tessie McLaughlin.
A bent spinster in a New England town insists she is “Miss Riggs, from choice” after a summer visitor confuses her title. The brief exchange highlights Riggs’s insistence on her chosen status and identity.
Schedule notes June 1902 for Central Railroad of New Jersey and Pennsylvania Railroad trains from Scranton. Details routes to New York Philadelphia Boston Bethlehem Allentown Mauch Chunk Wilkes-Barre Hazleton Harrisburg Baltimore Washington and Pittsburgh with through vestibule trains Pullman buffet parlor cars and multiple daily departures. Officials listed W G Bessler Mgr and M Burt Gen Pass Agt.
Train times from Scranton list departures to Carbondale Wilkes-Barre Albany Honesdale and Northbound points. The schedule notes morning and afternoon runs with multiple stops and prices or times in a historical regional timetable. Authority names P A Pryor D P A Scranton Pa appear in the listing.
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