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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1896
Page
8
Advertisements orders for job work and items for parseation left at Kannon and Co newsdealers North Main Street will receive prompt attention. Office open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
The Ladies auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers celebrated Mrs. R. A. Craft turning 37 with a surprise visit and a gift water pitcher and cup. Mrs. Coon spoke, praising her years as president. Guests included Willam Winn and many others from Mayfield Yard.
S G Kerr, head of Kerr Son Co of this city and Scranton, spoke to a large audience at the Methodist church on Wednesday evening. The lecture titled Trip Through Ireland drew on his forty years away from home and featured anecdotes from his early life and visited places, presented under Epworth league auspices and deeply engaging to listeners.
The Andrew Mitchell Hose company met Tuesday evening with strong turnout. They voted to attend the Enterprise Hose fair at Forest City in uniform December 1éth and to have each member photographed for company records. Thanks were given to those who supplied refreshments after the Ely and Fulkerson fire.
The Women’s Relief Corps met Wednesday evening and elected officers: President Mrs Eleanor Gillis, senior vice president Miss Eva Lowden, junior vice president Miss Melissa Newton, treasurer Mrs Ackley, chaplain Miss Jane Dilts, conductor Miss Hattie Knoff, guard Mrs Clara Carleton, delegate Mrs Sarah Smith, alternate Adeline Estabrook.
At the Carbondale Free and Accepted Masons meeting No. 249 on a Wednesday evening, officers for the coming year were chosen. W. M. Henry Carter. S. W. Charles V. Helms. I. W. Rev. E. J. Halsey. treasurer J. A. McMullen. secretary H. L. Wilbur. trustees Frank E. K. Dennis. representatives to grand lodge J. B. Dr. D. L. Bailey. D. W. Humphrey. Vannan Jr.
Mrs. R D Stuart hosted a Wednesday afternoon luncheon for a ladies group at her Canaan Street residence. Attending were Mesdames Reynolds Meaker Manville Shields of Jermyn W M Lathrop and Misses Butler Jennie Effie Davidson of Scranton and Mattie Drake of West Pittston.
Misses Rose and Frances Walker and Mame Burns spent Wednesday visiting friends and taking part in local social activities around town.
Dr. Thompson trips to Scranton. Gallagher wedding trip returned. Typhoid patient Samuel Collins in critical condition. Relatives visiting in Syracuse and New York City. Numerous locals traveling, hosting, or visiting in Scranton Pittston and Carbondale.
Charles McIntyre a Lehigh Valley brakeman living with his parents in Canandaigua New York had his two legs severed from his body when he fell from a train last Sunday evening He died Monday at Sayre hospital Also notes on local weddings visits and social items including a marriage in Wysox and various town developments.
Rod ney Jewett Bardwell boarded the midnight train for Colorado to pursue a law firm interest. Mrs Ross Herrick visited Kingston this morning with her parents. A. Hungerford visited in Springville yesterday. C Byron Koon returned to Middletown New York after two weeks with family for roof painting work. Tunkhannock and Lake Carey will be linked by wire with Dr John Denison’s private line to Dixon. A Perry Billing saw mill branch to the lake connects to Dixon and enters Denison’s office. Clarence B Miller, ex resident, elected to the state legislature while superintendent of Nanticoke schools earned 1500 dollars yearly. A successor has been appointed. The Living Authors Library social meets at the Presbyterian church this evening.
The Tunkhannock Athletic association has begun work in good earnest under their instructor Harry Tinker. Mr. Tinker has had experience in this line of work. Refreshments will be served. Attorney J Wood Platt and Laundry man Webarnts were in Scranton.
In Wilkes-Barre area Rev T Davies and the Welsh Congregational Church Miners Mills plan a Christmas week fair and festival to reduce a 4500 debt on church property. Other local items note court calendar cases, December Lehigh Valley pay days, an execution scheduled at Nanticok, a concert pianiste debut, a missing man, a Park Avenue grocery burglary, and a Melbourne wedding connected to Binghamton.
An institute for Jer myn Archbald Mayfield and Scott school teachers is set for Mayfield public school on Saturday afternoon. The Mayfield school board will convene this evening and new electric lighting poles will be installed soon.
In McMinnville at a recent Bimetallic League gathering in Pendleton East Oregonian coverage, two notable figures met and greeted each other, creating a curious moment noted by the desk.
At an Oregon convention delegates mingle with a striking 40ish man named Mr. Hooth from McMinnville. He is touted as the son of the sheriff who hanged John Brown at Harper’s Ferry. Samuel Brown then asks Booth if his father hanged John Brown. Booth confirms and notes his father was sheriff and did his duty.
The Minneapolis Times questions what further liberties women seek in marriage and divorce arguing women already have more rights than men in practice. It cites local cases, police courts, and social norms to claim current law favors wives and notes men face harsher scrutiny and less legal protection in some situations.
The text argues women must withhold license from their sex to avoid conceding male privilege. It asserts manhood’s dignity rests on female restraint and civilization that prevents husbands from discarding wives. It contrasts pagan practices with modern views and dismisses a female public figure’s any influence at the White House or in society.
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a fifty year remedy for teething pain in children. It claims to soothe gums, stop wind colic and diarrhoea, and urges buyers to insist on the branded product at twenty five cents a bottle.
The Origina tors in Scranton introduce Modern Methods in Merchant Tailoring arriving this week with fifty new suitings and pants pieces for customers seeking refined garments.
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