Suburban Fair Opens Under Rain at St David Hall
The Columbia Hose company fairs opened last night in St David's hall despite heavy rain. Booths run by local women offered candy, fancy goods, and refreshments while contests and wheel games drew small crowds. The event promises a strong turnout tonight with appearances by Century Hose, Taylor Hose, and local entertainers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Columbia Hose Company
St. David's Hall
Mabel Baldry
Candy
Albert Lewis
Sarah Doyle
Emma Giles
Samuel Harris
Henry Meyers
Celia Bassett
Cassie Peters
Henry Kingsley
Stephen Price
Mary Williams
May Yoos
Martha Hitchings
Annie Jones
Mary Morgan
Lizzle Price
Martha Nichols
Annie Williams
R.T. Eldred
Anna Thomas
al Lewis
W. T. Sproats
Century Hose Company
Chief Hickey
Taylor Hose Company
Century Company
Ringgold Barn
Friday Night Camp 178 Anniversary in Mears Hall
Camp 178 of the Sons of America marks its 24th anniversary in Mears Hall with entertainment by ventriloquist Charles Douglass of Wilkes-Barre. Douglass will perform a necromancer act and claim to stop a bullet from each calibre gun. State President A J Colborn will deliver an address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L'Atriode Order Sons of America
Mears* Hall
Charles Douglass
Wilkes-Larre
Douglass
A. J. Colborn
Erecting Three-Story Hotel Planned by Mc Laughlin
Ground broken at Lackawanna avenue and Ninth Street for a three story building to house BP J. Mc Laughlin who will operate a hotel. Architect John Feeney prepared plans with Edwin G. Hughes as contractor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill
Lackawanna Avenue
Ninth Street
BP. J. McLaughlin
John Feeney
Edwin G. Hughes
Plymouth church class on moral philosophy meets at Rev Bell home
Edwin Thomas of South Hyde Park avenue leads the Young Men’s Christian Culture class at Plymouth Congregational church. The group gathered last evening at Rev Thomas Bell’s home on South Lincoln avenue for instruction in moral philosophy. attendance was large.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin Thomas
South Hyde Park Avenue
Plymouth Congregational Church
Thomas Bell
South Lincoln Avenue
Robert Morris Glee Club Announces Sunday Meeting
News notes report the Robert Morris Glee Club meeting last evening and a 8 40 o clock Sunday night rehearsal. Advent services were held at St Davids Episcopal church with Tector M H Min leading. Edwards Ferber returns to reside here permanently. Miss Etta M Seeley marries George W Reid at St Davids with Rev M H Mill officiating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Morris Glee Club
St. Davide's Episcopal Church
Tector M. H. Min
Edwards Ferber
West
Etta M. Seeley
George W. Reid
St. David's Episcopal Church
M. HH. Mill
Ball and social events scattered through West Market area
A temperance society ball will be held at St Marys Hall on West Market Street with a full orchestra and ornate decorations. Police detained thirteen suspected youths at a Perry Avenue shanty. charges to be pursued tonight. North End and Company H basketball clash tomorrow at Company H armory. A phonograph concert at North Malin Avenue Baptist Church promises Edison novelty with a wide program. Local residents report several illnesses and attend funerals. Cayuga and Brisbin shaft workers to be paid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Father Whitty
Young Men's Temperance Society
St. Mary's Hall
West Market Street
James Sweeney
Oak Street
Perry Avenue
Central City
North End
Company H
Company H Armory
North
Malin Avenue Baptist Church
Edison
Cllmore
Baldwin
Cadet Band
Boston
Iasler
National Orchestra
Golden
Russell Whunting
Peter Flynn
Nellie Monies
Sanderson Avenue
Olyphant
David Reese
Wayne Avenue
Thomas Loftus
Leggett's Street
Pittston
Delaware, Lackiwanna and Western Company
Cayuga and
Brisbin
Harry Stevens
North Main Avenue
Kate Llewellyn
New Street Car Route Nearing Completion in Pittston Area
Work on the Rogring Brook bridge route connecting Pittston avenue with Spruce street is nearly finished and service will start today or tomorrow. Outbound cars will use Mattes street and Cedar avenue bridge while inbound use the new line, expected to end delays on the South Side.
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Rogring Brook Bridge
Pittston Avenue
Spruce Street
Mattes Street
Cedar Avenue Bridge
South Side
St. Joseph's Total
Charles Grat
George Fassuld
Emil Bonn
Rudolph Shafer
Edward Frable
Ambrose Hertz
Charles Graf
Casper Hartman
Jacob Huafper
George Fassold
Joseph Helpman
Henry Heintz
Andrew Conwas
Charles Wirtz
George Hartman
Edward Knellner
John Brady
Genet Street
Gertrude Bertel
Fig Street
Century Hose Company
Columbia Hose Company
St David's Hall
North Malin Avenue
Edward Masters
Adolph Watres
Stroudsburg
St. Mary's Glee and Dramatic Association
Crown King and Crescent to Play Off Tie at Park
The Crown King and Crescent football teams will settle a tie next Saturday afternoon at the baseball park. Miss Rose Sharksly from Binghamton is visiting friends in Green Ridge. Green is chosen to represent the Epworth league in the City League cabinet. The scarlet fever epidemic in Green Ridge is waning with no deaths reported. Mrs. Fred Erhardt and son of Elysbore visit relatives on Capouse Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Thomason of Monsey Avenue have a boy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crown King
Crescent
Rose Sharksly
Binghamton
Green Ridge
L. C
Green
Epworth League
Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church
City League Union
Fred Erhardt and Son
Elysboro
Capouse Avenue
Horn
Thomason
Monsey Avenue
Prominent Engineer John Mooney Dies at Home
John Mooney, noted Erie and Wyoming Valley Railroad engineer, died at his Chestnut Street home after a brief illness. He leaves a wife and five children including Daniel Mooney and Jennie, Margaret and Annie Mooney, with John Scanion of Frankfort, New York among others. Also, George Courtright narrowly escaped drowning while skating at Bird's Eye pond last Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Mooney
Erie and
Wyoming Valley Railroad
Chestnut Street
Mr. Mooney
Daniel Mooney
John Scanion
Frankfort
N. Y
Jennie
Margaret
Annie Mooney
George Courtright
Bird's Eye Pond
Minooka to Host Second Annual Entertainment Event
The Minooka baseball club plans its second annual entertainment at Father Matthew hall on Wednesday evening. An infant child of P J Mulkern died yesterday. Timothy O Halloran returned home from a tour through Western Pennsylvania. The school board meets this afternoon. Township teachers receive their monthly stipend. The remains of a five year old boy of Michael Joyce were interred at Minooka Catholic Cemetery yesterday. The temperance society will honor the ladies who aided their last excursion with a dance tonight.
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Minooka
Father Matthew Hall
P. J. Mulkern
Timothy O'Halloran
Pennsylvania
Michael Joyce
Minooka Catholic
Temerance Society
Vaudeville at Frothingham Stars Entertain City
Star Specialty Company presented a lively show at Frothingham with Apollo on a high wire as the sensational act. Four year old Wade Cochran displayed remarkable memory of dates and facts while Tom Mack delivered a 15 minute monologue. Other acts included St Alva Fanchette Horace W F Henners Sheridan Forest Edwards and Evans with kinematography finale.
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Fanchette
Horace W. F. Henners
Sheridan
Forest
Edwards
Evans
Woman in Alderman court attempts murder with knife
Mary Lebers, awaiting trial for fidelity and desertion in Alderman Millar's court, drew an 18 inch meat knife from her dress and tried to stab her husband Andrew Lebers of Barbertown. Constable Jack Tierney restrained her arm and seized the weapon as she was committed in default of $900 bail.
Mrs Lillian Jones Files Answer to Libel in Divorce Case
Mrs Lillian May Jones, through Obrey and Kelly, filed an answer to the libel in the divorce proceedings started recently. The action centers on allegations in the libel suit and outlines Jones's response as she seeks resolution through legal channels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian May Jones
O'brey & Kelly
Danger in soda medical warning and cure claim
An article warns against using common soda as medicine for heartburn and sour stomach noting risks of mechanical irritation and potential death. It endorses Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets by Dr. Harlandson and Dr. Wuerth as safe cures, stating they aid digestion without laxative effects and are sold by druggists, with free mailed booklet from Stuart Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harlandson
Stuart
Wuerth
Stuart Co
Marshall, Mich
Woman alleges arrangement with husband to obtain divorce in 1845
She claims that on December 1 1845 she and her husband agreed to live apart for two years so she could secure a divorce for depravity and then marry Lyman Holcomb. He was to surrender marital rights and not object to her living with Holcomb during the waiting period. She denies using the latter part of the plan though her husband allegedly urged her to join Holcomb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William L. Jones
Lyman GB. Holsomb
Holcomb
Good Roads Talk Planned by General Roy Stone
General Roy Stone of Washington will address the Scranton board of trade on Good Roads at the December 21 meeting. He has years of work in the federal good roads department and will discuss advancing Lackawanna county road improvements under the Flynn bill allowing $60 per year per county for road work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Stone
Board of Trade
Washington, D. C
Scranton Board of Trade
Stone
Good Roads” Department
Mr. Stone
Lackawanna County
Flynn
Clark's Green Church Events and Community News
A donation for Rev. O H Parsons of the Methodist church will be held in the church parlors Thursday evening. Miss Emma Coon returns to Wyoming seminary. Christmas entertainment preparations are advancing at the church. Epworth league officers to be elected Sunday evening. Rev F H Parsons to preach an Odd Fellows sermon at 7 PM Sunday. Camp 418, Patriotic Order Sons of America, will move to Schilling's hall at Clark's Summit soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O' H. Parsons
Methodist Episcopal Church
Emma Coon
Wyoming Seminary
Methodist Church
Epworth League
F. H. Parsons
Odd Fellows
Camp 418
Patriotic Order Sons of America
Schilling
Clark's Summit
Display Card Listings For Rent And Sale
The office keeps two lists of display cards in stock for sale at ten cents each. Cards advertise rents and properties for sale including dooms for rent house for sale furnished rooms and house to let.
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News of the Suburbs
West Side Events
Daniel E. Davis
Jackson Street
New York City
George R. Gehrer
Mears’ Hall
Kate Flynn
John W. Squiers
Tenth Street
T. J. Reynolds
Hampton Street
New York State
Adonis Society Club
Corecoran’s Hall
Christopher F. Robertson
North Rebecca Avenue
Palmer & McDonalds
West Side
Harriet J. Davis
South Main Avenue
J. C. King
West Lackawanna Avenue
Morgan's
North Avenue
Lizzie Davia
Margaret Avenue
Insane Jones
Hill Street
Jane Hastings
Dickson Avenue
Delaware, Lackawanna
Ulster
Providence
Samters
South Side News
Dunmore
Frothingham
Star Specialty Company
Clark's
D. E. Delany
Martin & Delany
Washington
Pennesylvania Railroad
Lect McKinley
Pennsylvania Rkailroad Company
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Harrisburg
Williamsport
Buffalo
Rochester
Altoona
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
National Capital
Tribune
Castoria
Os Err Wiry
the Frothingham
Wade Cochran
Davis’ Theater
Chas. A. Loder
Manag Juha Errif Keting Mekanse
Chauncey Olcott
Augustus Pitow
Mavourneen
H. Jessop
Townsend
Byata
Mr. Olcott
Pacific Coast
St. John’s
New Foundland
England
Ireland
Proteus
Neversiip Toa
Bittenbender & ‘Co
General Agents
Scranton, PA
MT. Pleasant
WM. T. Smith
Rela, M.eee
D.C. II
Frank Daniels Comic Opera Co
the Wizard OF the Nile
Kame
Eryerd
Keeley Care
the .Dickson Manufacturing Co
John H. Fhelps
Ccr
Wooming Avenue
Bruce Street
Scranton
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