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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1901
Page
11
West Scranton teams win both matches as Tin Cans defeat the Lobsters and Green Ridge Wheelmen top the Black Diamonds. The Elec tric City Wheelmen opened new alleys with ceremonies, music, auctions, and a banquet, raising funds for streetcar workers.
The Ladies' Aid of the Wiret Welsh Baptist church on South Malin Avenue hosted a successful two night fair with crowded attendance. Booths showcased handsome useful furniture and fancy goods, a top rated Welsh cook prepared a superb supper, and local young women sold candy and served ice cream and the meal.
A large crowd gathered last evening in Washington hall for Prot. Silas Rosser’s pupils recital. Performers included Til Han Langan Bertha Armstrong Til lian Beaver Gladys Jones Idith Morris Catherine Maine Jose Langan Maud Jones May Roberts Tara Wilvis Harold Evans May Jones Alina Jones Daniel Lewis. Assistants were Mrs. Tandolph Jones Miss Dbessle Slate Miss Nellie Markwick Thomas Abrams and David Jenkins. Each number earned applause and all acquitted themselves creditably. Prof. Rosser is to be congratulated on his pupils’ advancement.
The Ladles' Aid society sale at Washington hall cleared goods with a good sum raised. The Anthracite Social club danced at Mears' hall drawing many youths. Oneita Social club plans a masquerade at Washington hall on New Year’s Eve. First Welsh Congregational church will conduct its annual roll call on New Year’s event with a social session and refreshments. Several neighbors and locals are noted for illnesses, visits, and social events including new undertakings by Jordin and Wicherty in North Main avenue. A son was born to Attorney and Mrs. George L. Peck on North Lincoln avenue. Members of St. Patrick’s Ladies’ I. C. N. 602 met at St. Leo’s hall. Florence Tewis won a gold piece from Eastor Mays baseball team. Music store planned by DT Thomas on North Main. Requiem for Mrs. Catharine Pury at St. Lucie’s. Welsh Methodist church youths plan a New Year social. Colonial clubs elect officers with T. O. Jones as president and Castie Powell among those united in marriage on Wednesday.
Some foolish people rely on a cough to vanish by itself but Kemp's Balam is advertised as a guaranteed remedy. The text claims immediate relief from colds and throat troubles and urges readers to buy from druggists.
A mix of society notes and local events with marriages church services accidents and meetings. Highlights include a bride’s home wedding reception, an attorney returning from New York, a boy’s fall at the Buick yard pond, a Christmas Eve social at Mears hall, morning services at St David’s, funeral arrangements for Floyd Willitan, arrival of Robert Pradiey at Electric City Wheelmen bowlings, a West Side Republican Club meeting postponed, a hospital directorate donation, lineman Edward Rees injury, and a marriage of George W Cramer to Nellie Moser at the bride’s home.
William Skinnard of Lenoxville and Maude Lewis of Wallsville were married Wednesday morning at the Methodist parish by Rev. George A. Cure. The couple will reside at Marsh-Crook, Dao, and are praised as a progressive young pair.
The Memorial church pastor W. PF Davies plans post holiday lectures titled Missionary Heroes of the Nineteenth Century. The first talk will be Monday evening. services Sunday include English morning and Welsh evening sermons. Sunday school at 2 pm. Several community notices follow, including funerals, meetings, and club events.
This evening the basketball section offers two games for one admission. The Crackerjacks face Bloomsburg State Normal School in the first game at the Auditorium.
The Colonial Council No. 27 and Daughters of America held a crowded ginmundi entertainment at Odd Fellows hall last night. A listed programme featured recitations by Miss Nettle Jones Miss Ruby Yost and Miss Lucretia Snyder, vocal and piano solos, duets, and a guest pianist from New York City, with an orchestra providing dance music afterward.
Miles Clatike longtime city resident dies after illness. He aided in charitable drives at the family home, helped organize the Poets Total Abstinence Society with Vaughn involvement, and worked with the Volunteer Firemen's association and local clubs. Survived by his mother and several siblings. Philip Schnelder obituary notice also notes a Bouta Side resident's passing.
Notice of a death aged 10 from cancer and funeral details for the family, followed by Anna Graham’s death and funeral plans. Then includes resumption of the Sunset Limited service for 1901-02 with schedule notes, connecting trains, and travel amenities described by Chas L. Hopking, district passenger agent, Southern Throughway. Also mentions Quaker City Express timings and northern connections.
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