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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1896
Page
10
News notes report gambling dens on the West Side with poker games and a local “Timit” variation. Also praised is improved West Side streetcar service and beltline, while obituaries and social items fill the page with local names and church notices.
The article lists residents visiting, returning, and hosting guests in Dunmore and surrounding towns, noting fishing trips by Dr. Frank Wintera and social gatherings. It mentions a Saturday night Laurel Hill track service to Dunmore, local vacationers in Hamilton and Thompson, and a surprise party for Harry Branning with numerous attendees.
Mrs W Morgans and family of Wilkes-Harre were guests of friends yesterday. Don Mahoney is very ill. Miss Mariinett Parrett of Sanders Street leaves for a few weeks in Syracuse. The J J Josephs T A B society meets Sunday. Mark Sullivan remodels his residence. Greenwood colliery employer will be paid this afternoon. Michael King seeks township clerk post. The office is vacant after M J Egan moves to Jermyn.
The article notes millions seek to inform themselves across party lines and compare doctrines including Gold, Silver, Tariff and Free Trade. It announces a complete handbook of public political information edited by Lawrence F. Prescott, offered with any men's suit purchased.
Weather favorable as St John’s church holds a picnic at the Artesian Well grove. The grove will be lit by electric lights tonight, enabling festivities to continue after sundown. Committees finalized event plans at a meeting last night.
A St Aloysius society celebration is set for Wednesday night at Music hall to honor winning a banner from the National Catholic Total Abstinence union. County President William Dawson presided as the St Aloysius group formed a new division of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. The record notes a funeral for Philip Warner, a five year old, with interment at Washburn Street Cemetery. The ad section mentions REMNANT DAY sale items at Mears & Hagen.
Miss Flo Doney attends camp meeting at Dimimock while Edward Finn spends the day in Kingston. Miss Bertha Stanton visits friends in the Ridge and Miss Josephine Stark returns from Nicholson after two weeks away. Green Ridge youths join Kingston bicycle races. Mr McCord and Mrs Bertha Dony travel from Monsey Avenue. Several families travel, visit relatives, or host guests across Capouse Avenue and nearby towns in a bustling social roundup.
Mrs Mary Foley aged 64 died yesterday morning at her daughter Mrs Thomas Loftus’s Leghet's Street home after a lengthy illness and a paralytic stroke a month ago. She leaves two children Mrs Loftus and Mrs Martin Gertiy. Funeral details to be announced later. Also reported is the funeral of William Foley of Pierce Street held yesterday with services at the home and burial in Durmeore cemetery. Thomas Llewelyn and William Owens of this place are at Atlantic City.
The Union church of Sibley hosts a clam bake and festival this evening with the Taylor cornet band providing music. Mr and Mrs Bert Beemer of Union street visit relatives in Newton New Jersey. The ill child of David Devis of Frietaville shows convulsions. Announcement of the wedding between Henry Neagley and Katie Strine set for Wednesday August 24 with Rev H H Harris officiating at the funeral of the Miles child in Hyde Park.
A social evening featured refreshments after an enjoyable run of amusements. Guests included Misses Elsie Carey Sadie Richards Mattie Jesh Collier Addie Goodwin Susie Davis Hannah Griffiths Mary Harris and Messrs Stanley Miller Charles Collier Joseph Goodwin John Griffiths George Evans David Harris William Thomas and David Griffiths. The Anthracite Clee club plans a rehearsal at Welsh Congregational Church tomorrow.
A birthday party was held Thursday evening for Miss Anna Deeble to celebrate her eighteenth birthday. She received two gold watches and a chain from her parents, and several locals were noted visiting or traveling for various engagements.
The Olyphant school board supply committee awarded the school supplies contract to Reynolds Crothers of Scranton. Pique School Furniture Co. of Plantte received the contract for certain items. The funeral of Clarence Cummings, young son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Cummings, was held Thursday with many out of town visitors. burial in Catholic cemetery. Survivors expected at Presbyterian church services tomorrow. Rev. B. E. Hammond to preach. Browns to play Hallond Young Men’s Christian Association team of Scranton this afternoon. Miss Mary Gerrity of Philadelphia visiting relatives here. W J Evans hotel robbed early yesterday. several arrests pending.
In Clark's Green Severn residents attended a farmers' plenary at Silow Lake on Wednesday. The social highlight was the wedding of Miss Hattle F. Smith to H. J. Parker of Waverly Pa. They will reside in Georgetown Wayne County after the ceremony at the bride's parents home. The fall term is delayed due to unfinished high school, with teachers named including Professor F. H. Groen and Miss Mary Carlin among others.
A cost list offers names and addresses of promoters who have secured large foreign investments in six years and seven months of 1805. It promises introductions to promoters for bonds, shares, mortgages, land sales, patents or mines with letters of introduction and directorships to Edward C. Rogis and peers.
Charles Ashton, famed Welsh bibliographer and former Merioneth shire policeman, receives a 100 pounds award from the Royal Treasury for his scholarly editing and original research on Welsh literature. He continues work on a multi volume Welsh bibliography and has held prize winning essays at multiple Eisteddfodau.
Wall Street today showed feverish but light volume trading with 136214 shares changing hands. Western Union fell to 73 and dragged other equities as speculation waned under false rumors. Railway earnings for the second week of the current month generally declined versus last year.
The market shows flour steady and unchanged, wheat dull but firmer for options, and provisions dull. Butter eggs and lard hold steady with various price notes across states, including No 2 red and Chicago white futures and mixed western commodities quoted with several monthly futures.
Philadelphia prices clock steady demand for provisions with slight shifts in pack meats amid recent wholesale advances. Prices quoted include smoked beef and hams at varied cased and loose forms, with lard, tallow, and bacon products showing mixed but stable levels across city and country markets.
Cattle opened slow at Buffalo with varied grades from Yorkers to Merit and Galde. Prices ranged from 2.00 to 8.75 for heavies, with mixed packers at 3.19 to 9.00 and stage at 2.25 to 2.75. Sheep and lambs opened steady to firm then softened before noon with native lambs 5.00 to 6.75, good to choice 6.00 to 5.75, and exports at 4.00 to 4.25.
Cattle receipts 300 head the market firm with cattle prices ranging from 1 to 1 5 per head for common to extra steers. Hogs receipts 170 head the market firm and higher with heavy packing lots around 4.25 to 4.35 and best mixed around 3.60 to 3.00. Sheep receipts 100 head steady with lambs about 2.60. Oil Market at Oil City shows an option off today at 105 with credit balances at 10.
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