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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1897
Page
2
Reports from churches and clubs across New York and nearby areas note Sunday school attendances, missionary work, and church activities. Varied events include joint services, charity drives for Christmas, and plans for prayer weeks, with speakers from Swansea and other cities and notes on community outreach efforts.
Religious notes report preparations for St. Peter's Lutheran Pittston consecration Sunday service at St Peter's Evangelical Hughestown three days of services start next Sunday. Calvary Reformed to celebrate Christmas anniversary Sunday at 7 p m. Synod speakers include Rev Poster Gift. praise for young minister. St Mark's Mission Band meets afternoon. Sunday school Christmas festival Friday evening. Railway Youth Dept meeting 4 5 p m. road men and families invited. Mrs Frank Watts to lead Young Women meeting. Lane Service at 2 45 p m. YMCA on 222 Wyoming Ave invites Beranton men and visitors Sunday at 4 30 p m. Mr Frank Pearsall to speak on A Good Bargain with music. Volunteers of Ancrich hold 19 meetings inviting the unsaved. meetings nightly and Sunday 3 45 p m for Christians. Captain Hoppes to discuss famine in Scranton at 8 p m. Jackson Street Baptist Christmas entertainment features The Christmas Ships are Sailing In with 300+ children and Lewis Davis leading choir.
The venue will be richly dressed for the event with a full rigged ship as a centerpiece. A group of haya will man the vessel while an at the door collection will be taken for a cause.
A long list of church services across Somedale area churches with times for morning worship, Sunday schools, and evening sermons. Notable entries include Green Ridge Baptist Rev W J Ford at 10:00 and 6:70, First Welsh Baptist with Rev Vernwy Morgan in Welsh morning and English evening, First Presbyterian Rev C H Rotingen at 10:30 and 7:00, and various Episcopal, Lutheran, and Methodist congregations.
A Brockton advertisement proclaims Dr Agnew’s Ointment relieves all skin eruptions with one application. Testimonial from Jas Gaston of Wilkes-Barre credits nine years of tetter on his hands to the ointment. Sold by Matthews Bros. in Tb for 1 cent.
Train schedule notices show departure and return times from New York Liberty Street and Whitehall terminals, with connections to Scranton Pittston Bethlehem Easton Philadelphia Mauch Chunk Allentown Reading Harrisburg and Baltimore. Through tickets available via station agents. H P Baldwin and J I Olhatsen listed as officials.
Timetable details list multiple daily departures from Scranton to New York Philadelphia Washington Ithaca Binghamton Buffalo and other points. Express and accommodation cars depart at various hours with connections at key hubs including Northumberland and Williamsport.
Erie and Wyoming Valley timetable from September 19 1897 shows trains leaving Scranton for New York and intermediate points on the Lehigh railroad via Hawley at 7 40 a m and 25 p m. Returns to Scranton from above points at 10 20 a m 3 15 and 9 48 p m.
On Monday July 5 trains depart from BSi union for Albany Saratoga Montreal and other New England points with listed times. Services to Honesdale Wilkes Barre and Scranton are shown with multiple departures. Complete rate information to US and Canadian points is available at the depot ticket office. Burdick and Cross provide the contact details in Scranton, Pa.
Lehigh Valley Railroad system lists train departures from Scranton and Wilkes-Barre lines to Philadelphia New York and intermediate points. It includes Black Diamond Express services, Pullman parlor cars, and notes on morning and evening departures, stations such as White Haven Hagleton Pottstown and Reading, with office contacts in Philadelphia and Scranton.
In effect December 12 1997 trains run from Scranton to Carbondale and back with connections to north and south lines. The Codoula Scranton service leaves at 20 00 and Carbondale Scranton service at 04 00. Officials J C Anderson and G P Porter provide details.
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