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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1894
Page
8
GORMAN'S NIGHT DRESSES offer muslin night dresses with yoke tucking and embroidery at 75 cents, and Night Dresses with cluster tucking and embroidery at 85 cents. Drawers feature tucks and embroidery as described.
Miss Lizzie Treible attends church after illness as Elmhurst reports a busy week. Ladies' Aid plans a meeting at Mrs. W. C. Swarts. a parsonage committee seeks a lot for a new church with funds secured. A regional union supper is organized for delegates at the Presbyterian church. A premature blast injures three men during stump blasting near the upper reservoir, one badly. New coal pockets at Erie and Wyoming depot sell coal. local residents Bu rmeister and Swarts acquire a carriage and horse. Seven youths express desire to join the Baptist church. A livery business arises at Mr. Wilcox’s new stable. Academic notes cover college governance debates, textbooks, and editorials on teacher training. The Lafayette College reference notes a historic teaching-building, with other classroom topics and religious meetings in the college chapel. The Elmhurst football team posts a 5-6 record, 190 total points, no home-team concessions by visitors, and injury to Walter Lee. Ernest Breisch visits Scranton friends.
Thanksgiving at Clark's Green featured family gatherings including Mia Saxe Edna and Archie Datesman and neighbors visiting Mrs. Datesman. W W Good occupies a new home, wife recovering from overwork. Misses Frace Ackerly visited, Benedict returned from hunting, school program in No. 2 room at No. 1. Notes on church activities and local movements conclude with funeral for Henry Steele’s son after an accidental hunting well.
Dr and Mrs W I Mott attended The Authors' Club banquet in New York and plans for the Peckville Methodist church progress. The Blakely Social club secured a hall at Mr Clark's hotel in Mott Haven as Peckville builds active public life. Local growth includes a remodled Harrison House, a new fireboat, and a thriving Hose company meeting at the old schoolhouse this evening.
Lafayette College students held a Thanksgiving event in South College with songs and songs. President Warfield and Dr. FLA March traveled to Baltimore to attend the Middle States and Maryland Association meetings. Warfield presented a paper titled The Future of Our Colleges. Dr. March chaired a committee and reported on the proceedings.
Tunkhannock items note visits and arrivals including Lou Barth and John Tharth guests, Tremayne thankful for first daughter, Wakefield moving to Turnpike street, Bullock moving to W B Bullock’s, Hill visiting Titusville, Lehigh Valley rails update for Woebure tunnel, Pat Costello new road foreman of onvnes handling Penn and NY routes, Miss Quixtle Mayer visiting Scranton, Sweet injures finger, Methodist service raised funds, Sheridan back at Hawke Cros stone mill, Hodge visiting son and preaching, Hine begins revival meetings at Brookside, Ciarey to move butcher shop to Montrose, court to close matters Thursday, election contest planned December 14.
Wilson Geary returns to Bucknell University after visiting his parents on South Church street. A cottage prayer meeting led by William A. Smith is planned at Mrs Har dick’s home on Carte avenue. Professor Carter will give an organ recital at the Methodist church with a full program including works by Buck and Wagner. Miss Minnie Tallman is seriously ill with diphtheria. Samuel Bunnell, missing since September 16, has reappeared and sent for his belongings to Ellenville, New Jersey. Mr and Mrs Frank Betker mourn the death of their son Frank from diphtheria. Ontario and Western railroad officials visit Carbondale. Horace Ferrell returns from Oneonta to work at Hendrick Manufacturing Company in Carbondale.
Firefighters extinguished a South Main Street blaze in a large tenement home housing Italians after residents said they set a small fire to smoke cockroaches. The woodwork caught, causing the fire with little difficulty.
A robber, seen as a tramp in John Duffy's barroom, seized the money drawer and fled toward the river. Officer Thivis pursued, police captured him with Officer Murry, and he was remanded to Lackawanna jail by Justice Cummings. Other local notes include visits from residents Lewsley, Murry, and Miss Hull, and a school directors meeting with business transacted.
Advertising copy touts Gilmore's Aromatic Wine as a tonic for weakness and nervous exhaustion. It claims to restore flesh, plumpness, and roses to cheeks, with motherly exhortations to use for daughters and general female ailments. Matthews Bros. sells it in Scranton.
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