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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1895
Page
2
The Leader invites all to view a remarkable holiday display at 124 126 Wyoming Ave Scranton. The window shows a complete range of articles from trivial to elaborate with an electrical display created by the Scranton Illuminating Heat and Power Company. Store hours extend evenings until Christmas.
At the December meeting of the Wilkes-Barre city council, petitions for police appointments were referred to committees, fines remission requests, and nuisances cited by Van Ronkel referred to sanitary and police. Projects include street grade changes on Fell street, a new frame ice house, and transfers in fire department ranks. Ordinances on taxpayer employment for city work passed its second and third readings.
The report for November records 197 arrests: 175 males 22 females. 86 married 88 single 22 minors. Offences include drunkenness 47, assault 15, disorderly conduct 27, larceny 2, trespass 4, threats 2, vagrancy 18, and other counts with 74 nuisances removed and $149.19 recovered from prisoners. Three fires were discovered and home drunks 28 were committed to jail.
Sanitary committee notes 72 deaths in November from causes including diphtheria 11 pneumonia 6 typhoid fever 4 scarlet fever 1 consumption 3 heart disease 4 and various others such as accidents burns and old age. stillborn cases number three and poison and shock appear among the list.
Open meeting of the P O of A camp draws state officers. Tannery adds new hands and plans finishing department upgrades for spring. Frank Everett of Scranton visits. G A R to host turkey supper. Sisters of Bethany meet at Miss Pratt's. Magic lantern show at Methodist church canceled. John Hand buys Gillespie Bros grocery. Hand, a local merchant, starts new venture. Ice boat at Spring House Heart Lake garners attention as ice improves. Baptist novelty store reports lively trade. Skaters crowd creamery pond. Christmas tree planning at Sunday schools. Two young men fined for a domestic dispute. doctor Hawkes ill. Rev Linaberry assisting at Lake Bide. Businessmen pledged to pay tannery taxes for five years. proprietor now urging signers to ante up.
Mrs Stanley Runion of Jonestown visits sister in law Mrs James Space while Mrs James Hufford entertains her sister from Mount Zion. Teachers return to duties after a New York visit as skaters fill Shoemakers pond. Names include Miss Culver Miss Ruby Miller Miss Lida McGill and many locals from Mount Zion Wilkes-Barre Exeter Pond and Wyoming. A four year old Thomas Packnel dies and funeral held with interment at Wyoming cemetery.
A large crowd attended the marriage of William W Watkins formerly of this place now of Peckville and Mina Gertrude Morris. The report notes local social activity and a blend of ads and notices from the era.
A fragment notes a reader seeking to rent a farm property near a bay. Details are unclear but imply a local housing or agricultural rental inquiry and possible contact among readers.
A jumble of ads lists rooms for rent on Wyoming avenue and houses on Jac Gibson Jones, with notes on furnaces and heaters. Numerous “Situation Wanted” notices appear for clerks, drivers, nurses, and housekeepers, plus professional listings for doctors and attorneys in the Tribune office directory.
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