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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1897
Page
3
Vigilance committees are urged to observe notice as the Republican district convention is set for August in Scranton to choose two delegates for the state convention in Harrisburg. Election of delegates occurs August 18 between 4 and 7 pm at regular polling places. districts listed with allocations.
Voters in the Fourth Legislative District are informed of a convention at Burke's Hall Cartondale on August 7 1817 at 2 PM to select three delegates for the Republican state convention in Harrisburg August 1897. Wards and districts hold primaries August 1847 at polling places 7 AM to 7 PM to elect delegates. E A Jones chairman. Samuel S Jones secretary.
Beranton Liederkrans plans an excursion to Far View on Monday. John Clelland subscribes to St Luke Summer Home fund. Green Ridge Iron Works expands to double turn. A charity boat session ends with routine business. Company D to vote Friday for officers at the Armory. Sanquoit Silk holds annual employee excursion to Lake Ariel. St Peter's Cathedral choir to rehearse at St Thomas hall. Green Ridge Gun Club to shoot live birds on Saturday. Frederick I Brown sues his former partner Percival J Morris for accounting. Grace Lutheran church festival on the church lawn Thursday. Firemen relief association meeting called for Friday at Snelty hall. Delaware and Schagticoke and Jermyn mines payrolls noted. Throop school district treasurer Bond filed for $5,000. Henry Seabram reports fraud case against J H Cooper. Central Labor union names committee for Labor Day. Scranton Liederkranz excursion to Far View announced. John Walking to conduct choruses. extensive rehearsals noted. Several Scranton and Taylor residents granted marriage licenses. Admins and probate actions for Mary Jordan and Margaret Sisson. Olyphant Baseball suit over unpaid materials. Shaffer jailed for fraud after misrepresentation. Tomorrow evening athletic exhibition and ball at Music Hall by Victor Noth to raise funds for athletic instruction training in St Louis. Noth to be assisted by Turn Verein and St Mary’s groups. Scheduled three-round bout John Burns vs M English to close.
Democratic delegates for the state convention were chosen at a Padden hall gathering in Priceburg. M. J. McAndrew was named chairman and Thomas M. Holmes secretary. Delegates include M J McAndrew, Thomas M. Holmes, M F Wadden, and John J. Dunn. The meeting was orderly and supportive of party unity amid broader state debates.
Bootblack Joe Woolf who rooms with his brother on Lackawanna avenue accidentally shot himself in the left hand while taking a revolver from beneath his pillow. The wound was dressed at the Lackawanna hospital with no serious bone or tendon injury.
The advertisement asserts twenty two years of operation offering awnings tents flags and society goods and decorations and invites continued patronage from the public under the firm name J Fuhrman & Dro.
A fragment notes Milkson Russet Shops participating in Newark’s August sale of shoes with pricing listed as 4h cents, indicating a local market event and vendor activity.
The local committee advances plans for next week's Catholic Total Abstinence Union convention in Scranton. Delegates from Philadelphia with 25 members of Company B, St. Michael's Pioneer Society, and Connecticut Rhode Island reps are noted. History of the union traces to 1849 and Father Mathew, with funds and chairs established in Philadelphia at Fairmount Park and Washington University.
The Amalgamated Railwaymen hold their annual joint session in Scranton at G A R hall on September 22 with about 250 delegates. The body unites five unions including the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Order of Railway Telegraphers, led by John Mitchell and Jerry Wellener.
Ex City Solicitor Torrey yesterday sent his final remittance to the city treasurer for August totaling 718.13 and to his four years in office is credited with 122612.22 in collections from grading paying and severing assessments. Dr C C Bajio manager New York Dental Parlors 144 Wyoming avenue opposite Hotel Jermyn. Best work at lowest prices.
Health means a perfect condition of the whole system. Pure blood is essential to perfect health. Hood's Sarsaparparilla makes pure blood and thus gives health and happiness. Hood's Pills are the favorite family cathartic and liver medicine. Price 25e.
Patent medicine claim promises relief from rheumatism and neuralgia in 1 to 3 days. It asserts immediate disease disappearance after a first dose and highlights a rapid systemwide action. Sold by Carl Lorenz at 418 Lackawanna Avenue in Scranton for 76 cents.
Letters sent to eleven gaming house proprietors notifying them to discontinue their illegal business or face the law. The Morals and Immorality Committee vows to pursue prosecutions in criminal courts if they do not comply, with notices mailed last night and responses uncertain.
The Lackawanna-Fastern district of the Patriotic Order Sons of America held a large convention in Dunmore with over 200 delegates from camps 25 176 42 672 Scranton 14 Moosic 226 Dunmore 248 Moscow 44 Mt Cobb 262 Yostville. District President John Shants opened the session and three candidates vied for district president with adjournment to October requested. Next convention set for Moscow in Camp 2485 hall. refreshments followed the business session.
A new option on the Green Ridge glass works has been offered by the handholders to the Philadelphia representative of the English syndicate. The talks concern potential terms and future cooperation with the English investors and local workers.
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