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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1895
Page
7
James Maley of Continental Hill died at an advanced age. Funeral services were at St. Patrick's church with burial in Hyde Park Catholic cemetery. Other notices mention local shoppers and community happenings in Scranton area, Welsh society talks, and council business.
West Side circles host a private masquerade at Mears hall with Miss Curran supplying music as Luce Bros. present a gala social. The final rites for Mrs. Mary Daniels include Welsh language sermons and a Delaware and Hudson rail transfer to Clifford. District Attorney Jones to preside at Columbian quartette program in hall.
The Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary society plans an annual praise meeting at Mrs. A D Blackington's Elm Street home Thursday afternoon at 2 o clock. Charles Smith, longtime Iuta borough resident, dies at his daughter in law's South Blakely Street home after a week with pneumonia. Jessie Wert of Blakely Street recovers from tonillit is. she had a week long illness. Harry Young and Thomas Gaynor hunted in Wayne county Saturday. William Bruning leaves the Dunmore Globe. Samuel Snyder of Dudley Street takes a job with the Erie and Wyoming Valley Railroad. J G Bone and Oscar Ludwig install hot soda fountains in their stores. Rev Howor of Green Ridge preached two eloquent sermons yesterday at the Presbyterian church. Methodist church repairs near completion. worship to resume in the old building in about a month. Miss Mida Englert of Nutler Street returns from country visits.
Mr and Mrs Powell of Summit Avenue visited friends in Throop yesterday. Reese Watkins Puritan church chorister is at home on Edna Avenue. Mrs Evans and Thomas of Jermyn visited here and returned home Saturday. William Richards of Williams Street has recovered after a week of illness. A surprise party honored Miss Frang Washburn on Court Street for her sixteenth birthday. The funeral of Charlce Haldeman was held Saturday from his home at Oak Street and Church Avenue. Luther Thomas and George Foster of West Side placed funds inside end. John Orgill announces candidacy for constable in the First Ward. Miss Bertha Cole of Gardner Avenue has recovered from a serious illness. The death of Howell Evans occurred Saturday at 11 o'clock at his Willams Street home. funeral Tuesday at 2 from his home with service at the Welsh Congregational church. William Williams to perilously at his home on Wayne Avenue.
A switch engine of the New York New Haven and Hartford on the Harlem river branch left the track south of Port Morris station shortly after 2 AM. It ran onto an embankment and overturned. Thomas Fitzgerald, brakeman, and Fromas McNally, brakeman, were among the crew. Three other trainmen were aboard but not injured.
An ordinance revoking the Seventeenth Sewer district seeks to bar assessments on farmland not benefiting the sewer while South Side residents push for rapid action. The court limited levies to land abutting the sewer, threatening delays in the project.
The Immaculate Conception feast was observed at St. Peter's Cathedral with a 10:50 solemn high mass led by Rev. D J MacGoldrick. An evening reception of the Blessed Virgin sodality followed with about ninety postulants, benediction by Rt. Rev. Bishop O'Hara, and sermons by Rev. Father McNally praising Mary as mother of God.
Friends and family assembled at 5S. Bartran’s Mill City home on a Saturday to celebrate his birthday. Afternoon brought general mirth with many guests including the Bartran family, Kintners, Congers, Floreys, Capwells, Adams, and others from Mill City, Russell Hill, Tunkhannock, and Beranton. Music provided in the evening by Decker siblings and friends, making for a very enjoyable affair.
Jamestown North Dakota December reports the coroner's jury found Gilbert Eveleth died from gross neglect and starvation caused by his brother Harry Eveleth. Means were furnished by the Eveleth estate for Gilbert who was mentally unfit, yet he was removed from a comfortable home to an old shack and left alone with little to eat.
A ceremony at Holy Rosary Church Providence honored promoters of the Sacred Heart League and postulants of the Blessed Virgin sodality. Choirs performed Gerald’s music and hymns while diplomas and crosses were conferred on promoters. Rev. D J MacGoldrick delivered the sermon urging Virtues of Mary.
The New Orleans council committee adopted an ordinance prohibiting wakes over enslaved bodies of Black people except with council permission. Police were tasked to shut down unlicensed wakes amid reports of charging admission and even purchasing bodies for display. The move aims to curb health concerns and regulate a booming wake business.
Miss Haile O Malley of Mahanoy City led the solo for O Salutar is as the hymn Laudamus te Deum was sung by the choir in conclusion of the service.
In a special session the council approved President Davis’s resolution to adopt a borough seal by a four to three vote. Curran’s fire plug request for Academy street in Grassy Island was approved. Burke proposed Hill street land for an electric light plant but the issue was tabled. Debate on the board of health report ended with it laid on the table.
Terrible is daily the cause of death on side not from inability to get food but from the impossibility caused by disease to assimilate it. Everyone notes the continual wasting away of a beloved friend as starvation becomes the ultimate end. Call the disease what name you will.
An advertisement proclaims Bovinine as a food product rather than a medicine. It claims a concentrated form of beef nutrients preserves all nutritive qualities through a cold process. The text asserts it builds blood and flesh, strengthens organs, and helps prevent disease, urging readers to consult their doctor for confirmation.
James N. Hurd, 73, carpenter, was killed in his Fort residence this morning. His son Fred Hurd, 23, a railroad telegraph operator, was arrested. The victim’s head showed a blunt force injury and crushing marks consistent with a fatal blow.
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