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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1898
Page
3
The Wilkes-Barre Record can be read in Scranton at the news stands of M. B Meinhart located at 119 Wyoming Avenue Mac Lackawanna Avenue.
Local items note paid obituaries and adv inserts at set rates. The Lawrence band hosts an open air concert, while Rev Dr Levi Bird campaigns for Dr Swallow. City clerk awards printing contract for 1898 city manual and court cases involve Ellen Moran and John Moran.
Today at Laurel Hill park the Scranton branch carriers hold a picnic with friends, expected large turnout, and a band concert by Bauer's band. Proceeds fund hosting the 1899 national carriers convention in Scranton.
Work will probably commence today on the sewer system on the flats area in the South Side. Contractors Donahoe and O Boyle will lay sewers along Wyoming avenue and Water Elm Maple Hirch and Beech streets Kellerman court and Scott place.
In Scranton on August 7 1995 Roebling son of George F Thirlwall 490 Thirteenth Street Funeral private. In Scranton on August 6 1598 Mrs Ani Newcomb widow of James Newcomb at her Cure Loop Street home Funeral announcement later.
The document summarizes Internal Revenue guidance by Commissioner N B Scott on who bears transport taxes and how redress is pursued via common law. It covers stamping requirements for telegraphs and tickets, tax bases for banks, life insurance classifications, telegraph money orders, exemptions for joint business messages, and exemptions or taxes on theatrical, banking, and tobacco dealings.
The Providence and Abington Turnpike Company will begin charging tolls for bicycles after August 16, with a token fee of cents. Wheelmen oppose the move citing rough dusty surface and poor road conditions, and plan to remonstrate through the Scranton Bicycle Club. Officials were briefed and the club will consider the matter at its Thursday meeting.
The Soldiers Relief association reports slow response to its appeal for Thirteenth regiment supplies. Drugs have been bought from the general relief fund and shipped to camp, while towels pajamas and nightgowns for the sick came only from Mulley’s. If donations don’t pick up by Thursday the group may spend its funds to purchase items and ship boxes by Saturday. A list of donors will be published later this week. Secretary Atherton confirms a five dollar deduction by Seamans and Mayer from contracted store bills.
George G. Sanborn, superintendent of the Rescue Mission, returns today to resume charge. Mr Higgins, who led in his absence, may collaborate with Thobert Wileen to open a Gospel tent if churches approve.
A notice from the Republican party of the Third Legislative District in Lackawanna County calls a meeting of the standing committee at the arbitration room of the courthouse in Boranton on August 11 at 2 p.m. to fix the district convention time and place and handle related business. The roster lists numerous local district representatives and ward members across towns such as Scranton, Waverly, Old Forge, Greenfield and Booth Abington. Clark's Green, Pa., August 6, 1806.
The August 1808 Scranton Board of Control clashed over heating No. 31 school with eleven members outnumbering nine in a disorderly adjournment. The meeting debated bids from Hunt & Connell at 4221 dollars and raised grammar school principals by ten dollars monthly while approving various staff transfers and janitor appointments.
Yesterday's Lanestaff-Kelly hearing adjourned to 10 in the morning at Carbondale city hall. Commissioners Duggan and Lewis, with Stenographers Taylor and Battenberg and lawyers Donovan to Holgate, will resume with Archbald Second ward voters in Fell township Jermyn and Mayfield boroughs. Names of Archbald Second ward voters listed.
Eight year old Henry Shue was returned to his mother Mrs. Herman Sarr after being placed aboard a Delaware Lackawanna and Western train without a ticket. A German letter to his father in Chicago and a newspaper clipping linked to family trouble spurred the plan. The boy carried 15 cents, a lunch and clothing. He was dropped at Clark's Summit and later sent to Scranton. Mrs. Sarr, twice married, had been involved in threats and a Chicago incident. Police traced the letter to her at 814 Willow Street. The mother was released on bail.
William Hill of Bellevue died at Moses Taylor Hospital at 1 90 this afternoon from gangrene in the right leg. The 62 year old railroad wrecking gang employee of the Delaware Lackawanna and Western was injured ten days earlier when a heavy block struck his foot at the base of the toes. He was transferred from Lackawanna Hospital after a bloodletting operation failed to halt the condition. Hill, born in Finland, leaves a wife.
Donnie McPade and others of Dunmore sue A D and FLOM Spencer coal operators seeking an injunction to stop taking pillars under their properties. Ground subsidence caused damage. Judge Gunster grants a preliminary injunction and sets next Saturday at 9 a m for the hearing with attorneys T J Duggan and J H Burns.
A counter equity suit filed by the city of Serariten against Mrs Johanna Ferdinands seeks to halt construction on Neatis court a public thoroughfare in the Fourteenth ward used by pedestrians for nine years. Judge Gunster granted a temporary injunction preventing further demolition or interference with the work already under way as the case waits for a final hearing.
Scranton area opportunity for funding a patented unbreakable umbrella frame. Secretary of the board of trade has received a letter from the inventor seeking financial aid and more manufacturing details.
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