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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1898
Page
7
The Carbondale correspondence of The Tribune is placed with Mr. Co. RR. Munn for news items. All complaints about regular delivery should be sent to Roberts & Reynolda, news agents, at Bulem Avenue and Church Street.
Thomas Lunny of the Eighth United States Infantry writes home about life in the Santiago trenches. He describes fighting under Spanish fire and long exposure, notes contracting yellow fever after the city fell, and reports feeling well now that he is acclimated.
Italian Joe a crippled bootblack rented a chair near Frank Brown's restaurant on North Main. Shine Thomas, a longtime city bootblack, taunted him and Joe assaulted him. Thomas obtained a warrant for assault and battery and threats to kill. Constable Gilby arrested Joe last night and the alderman jailed him in default of bail.
A local report notes that membership of the order in this county has risen beyond sixteen hundred, reflecting growing community involvement and organizational reach this period.
Erroneous funeral hours for Malcolm Reach-Fon are corrected noting private interment at Brookside Cemetery. The Hoyt home on Washington Street hosts a public viewing with Reverend Charles Hee and Burton involved. Fellow items report sick-care stipends, council delays, and local residents traveling or visiting family in Scranton Philadelphia and New York.
Forest City reports paydays for Delaware and Hudson Coal at Wandling and Hillside Coal and Iron workers to receive wages. Enterprise Hose Company No. 1 to hold a burial night in Muennerches hall with refreshments across Center Street. Forest City band to join firemen in Binghamton parade Friday. Local residents Brown of Deposit visiting borough relatives. Fall term school starts Monday August 2. Health board names officers for coming year with J F Gallagher as president and L H May as secretary and treasurer. W S Pates named health officer. Epworth League officers listed. L Nynes as presenter. K F Taylor travels to Hot Springs Arkansas.
The Taylor Hose Company No 1 will host a grand picnic at Weber's Park with a 6 pm parade led by the Taylor Silver Band and a public open air concert and dancing. The Old Forge school board elected teachers for multiple schools and the Welsh Congregational church fall committee will meet at 7:30 pm.
Anna Ayers of Macedonia died in Philadelphia. Sheriff sale of Ward house personal property planned. A silk mill to open at Sayre employing 300. Towanda circl es Sells and Walsh Bros. Smallpox cases reported in Waverly. Thomas Ryan visiting. Lehigh Valley to ballast line from Buffalo to Jersey City using Redington quarry. 200 workers planned. Spiking incident west of Waverly under investigation. suspect jailed awaiting grand jury. Swindler posing as Father Ryan examined. Father Enright to sue for damages after forged check incident. Deaths include Dr. C B Strink Utahville and Harris Beecher LeRayville. Lehigh Valley to build stone plant at North Towanda. Keeley leaves St Peter and St Pauls Church.
Local notes report Dr. Burge the Avoca delegate to the Y M I convention in Altoona and H M Steever attending the Knights of Pythias gathering at Lebanon. Vacation plans include Asbury Park and Ocean Grove.
Residents ask where fire alarm boxes are located after the new system. The list names boxes at McDermots Malin and L streets Dr Davis drug store Powder Mills Sid street and other sites. A Sunday excursion at the MBE includes a baseball game between married men led by Wil lam Hille and single men led by William E. Davis. The fire alarm was tested last evening and found in perfect order. Miss Lida Sly of Dunmore visits Mrs John Solomon on Malin street.
Providence residents Mr and Mrs Jeremiah Atherton spent Sunday at G K Drake's home while visiting Misa Sue Kerr of Camden New Jersey at her sister Mrs W G Frink. Daisy and Laura Harrison socialized with friends in Tay lor. A Klondike social is planned on Brick church lawn Wednesday evening everyone invited. Grand Outer Guard C W Brodhead and wife from Montrose visited parents en route to Lebanon for Knights of Pythias grand lodge meeting.
A vintage sales note markets a wide array of tiny price items costing 9 cents each or similar. Offered goods include window shades, imitation hair combs, shoe polishes, cream cheese, sugar cured ham, canned tomatoes, Alaska salmon, novels, sewing machine oil, shifting prints, bleached pillow cases, French organdies, and kid finished cambric.
We are glad to fill mail orders for these goods if received on the day of sale. Otherwise we cannot do so for the six cent price.
A fragment describes values for household goods such as fine White Wave Envelopes large bleached sheeting and toilet paper. It notes prices in cents for kitchenware including a 12-quart galvanized pail and a 3-quart porcelain kettle with speculative value comparisons and mentions cups and saucers worth double their price.
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