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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1897
Page
5
A lively scene unfolds as a crowd gathers at the Mears building upper window while a dog and a woman cause a chaotic tangle in a street-side chain. A bystander jokes about gawkers as spectators and residents react with amusement and tears. Nearby transit and camp meeting events are noted.
Personal notes report Rev D J MacGoldrick of Ashley in Scranton yesterday, many locals and guests returning from Atlantic City and Chautauqua, weddings and gatherings at Universalist church, Lake Ariel camping group Camp Germany, and repairs by William Kernan of Gamewell Fire Alarm.
The city and school district may face a tax collection backlog as June 1 start was delayed. If extensions push taxes to January 1 the treasury could be empty for over two months. Deputy Treasurer Ruane says no borrowing. sinking fund unusable. payments may suspend until revenue arrives.
A carload of watermelons and cantaloupes arrived at the Scranton Cash Store yesterday. Watermelons run up to 40 pounds while cantaloupes weigh 10 to 15 pounds. The fruit is praised for size and flavor and described as the finest of the season.
St. Peter's cathedral choir began rehearsals for the Missa Pro Pace to be sung at the pontifical high mass opening the National Catholic Total Abstinence Union convention next Wednesday morning. Prof K J Bauer directs in Schulz absence with Bauer's orchestra assisting. Scranton high school entrance exams set for Tuesday August 31 at 9 am in the high school building for entry to standard and advanced classes. Exam subjects include United States history arithmetic geography grammar and spelling. George W Phillips principal.
Bauer's band will perform an open air concert this evening in front of Kilk's rooms on Franklin Avenue to advertise the Elk's excursion. The event aims to draw attention and boost participation.
Mrs J Carlyon of 506 Willow Street Eranten Pennsylvania died August 1 at her home. Funeral arrangements to be announced later.
Wenzel denies signing notices for gambling-house letters and quarrels with Sweeney over motives in Beranton moral reform efforts. The two met in the courthouse hallway as council fight looms and Sweeney defends his honesty and sincerity in pushing the crusade amid public questioning.
The Scranton Lodge of Elks organizes a Lake Arles excursion with Percy Freutchy and the Harrington brothers performing. Events include runs, tug of war between Scranton and Wilkes-Barre lodges, a 30-piece Bauer band concert, and a Lake stage program from 3 to 4:90 pm. Train departures listed as 6, 9 45, 10 45 am, 1 99, 2 28, and 5 20 pm from Erie and Wyoming depots.
Rev Dr Hard D D assistant corresponding secretary of the Board of Church Extension lists August engagements for preacher Manley Hard to speak for causes. Events include Wyoming Camp Ground Lake Side Ohio Carmel Grove Binghamton and Salem Camp Grounds Honesdale West Jersey Shore Camp meeting Danville Dimock Grove Huntington Camp meetings dates vary in August.
About a hundred residents who hoped to see the Pacific coast periodical Highways and Good Roads in print for months remain disappointed as the magazine is suspended. A Good Roads league formed here with A B Dunning as president and Dolph B Atherton as bicycle club secretary treasurer, proposing to fund the venture through the magazine.
A Vasser hired at 50 cents monthly sought subscribers at 1 dollar a year for Highways and Good Roads. About one hundred subscribers were reported but the publication was paused after publisher Charles Freeman Johnson fell ill. Subscribers may reclaim their money by applying to Secretary Atherton.
The Costa couple from Cleveland traveled through Atlantic City Harrisburg Wilkes Barre and Scranton aided by various city boards. Scranton authorities plan action to curb pauper shipments and may ship them back to Wilkes-Barre. The case highlights repeated transfers and tension with neighboring districts over relief duties.
Two about 6 to 7 years old, David Smith and Rossen James, found a loaded revolver at a neighbor's home in Olyphant. After pointing it at each other, Smith examined it and it discharged, narrowly missing his face and scorching it with powder. The bullet struck a stove area near flatirons and a dinner pail. Calvin Coons won a Wyoming avenue cigar store bicycle in a drawing with ticket No 10208 bought for a cent from a Tribune messenger boy the prior night.
Dr A L Hurner of Bloomsburg Sanatorium Philadelphia asserts the sanatorium acts as a strong adjunct to recuperative powers of the nervous system, declaring nothing equals it. The remark highlights the facility’s claimed therapeutic value.
An advertisement promotes Crystal laundry work with a cheerful slogan by Twining, an optician at 126 Penn Avenue in Harris' Drug Store. It also lists Miss Carolyne V. Dorsey, elocution teacher, at 107 Wyoming Avenue. Includes a Bromo Quinine Cold Cure ad: 25 cents with money-back guarantee.
Paymasters report the foreigner tax is enforced with little murmuring as Delaware and Hudson and Delaware, Lackawanna and Western implement three cents per day deductions. All employees not proven citizens must show papers, while citizens are exempt. Revenue timing awaits October figures and state commissioner reports.
John Driscoll in charge of the steam hammer at Scranton Axle Works was struck in the chest by a hot steel fragment while operating the big hammer. The piece penetrated clothing and flesh, but the particle remains unfound after probing. He resumed work, though doctors fear possible injury to internal organs if the fragment shifts.
A note invites readers to enjoy themselves with the Plumbers of Scranton and Wilkes-Barre at Mountain Park on Saturday August 14. Trains depart from C. R. KR station in New Jersey at 25 cents and 11:30 a.m. The notice ends with a health tip about Beecham's Pills for dizziness or drowsiness.
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