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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1902
Page
12
A nostalgic ad promotes None Such mince meat as the perfect Christmas ingredient. It boasts quick, reliable flavor for pies and puddings, billing the brand as clean wholesome and delicious. Packaged for ten cents, with the claim it yields two pies or a fruit batch. Distributed by Merrell-Soule Co. Syracuse, N.
J Tt. Leahy elected president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in the county. Rt Rev Ethelbert Talbot confirmed a class at Christ's church Towanda and visited Sayre and Athens. County commissioners awarded bids for a new Sayre bridge with Wyneoop Brawley Lane getting 331 999 for the superstructure and 37 950 for the substructure. A barn and sheds on C B Strickland's Wysox farm burned with livestock losses and heavy damage insured. Towanda Salvation Army unit preparing Christmas dinner baskets for the needy.
Special Presbyterian services are planned for next Sunday. The former Wayne County Herculis building on the third floor has been rented by Maple City band. Asa Bryant has recovered enough to walk with crutches. Miss Edith F. Torrey hosts guests including Helen Sauvage, Helen Soper, and Madeline Bromley. Park Lake channel work was completed with dynamite before rain, preventing bridge damage. Local schools schedule Christmas programs this week. Students enjoy vacation visits from Mary Murford and others. The Frank and John Wills company performs A Trip to Atlantic City at the opera house December 26 and 27. New liquor licenses sought by M. Hendler and L. J. Willows. Local residents travel to Washington for sightseeing. Beginning January the school board enforces compulsory education law.
Forest City residents Mr and Mrs J J Kellehey travel to Indian Orchard on Friday and Saturday following the death of Michael Gillespie aged about (details truncated) in the family.
Dr Agnews Catarrhal Powder advertised as a catarrh cure claims to relieve colds and catarrh with rapid effects. The promotion also sells Dr Agnews Liver Pills, offering 40 doses for 10 cents, through William G Clark and H O Bardereso.
Reports from Waverly indicate 8 G Zeigler, once a stenographer in Lehigh Valley offices at Sayre, vanished from his New York boarding place. In Towanda Miss Mollie Pratt wins 7,750 in damages for a Brooklyn carriage crash. Pension winner William Cheeeney earns 14 monthly with arrears of 4,000. Mrs. W B McLean arrives for holidays. An order for extra work time in Sayre adds pay load. Cornell W Black of Canton dies struck by a freight on the Northern Central. A Bowmans Creek correspondent recalls early wilderness days and Joseph Blossom’s arrival from New York state, and Patience Klassom’s cancer cure story.
In New Milford on December 22 Dr Merril of Hallstead visited on professional business. Dr A E Snyder spent Friday in Scranton. Rev Charles Smith returned to resume duties at the Methodist church. Mrs V A Trumbull is ill at home. V Axtell of Juniata College led Presbyterian services Sunday. Mrs William Van Cott and Mrs David Shay visited Binghamton Monday. Miss Gussie Smith visiting friends in Montrose. P S C EF officers elected for six months: S W Trumbull president, L W Brundage vice president, Bessie Bradley secretary, Ian McConeall corresponding secretary, Eutherly Moggs treasurer, Ian Aldrich organist, Maud Trumbull assistant organist, Ellery Aldrich collector.
Mrs C H Mace Connell of Harford spent Sunday with her son C H MacConnell in Nicholson. Mrs George Snyder visited her parents in Factoryville on Thursday. Miss Ruth Driggs is vacationing with relatives in Scranton. Miss Edna Miller, previously ill, is mentioned in the intake of local travelers.
A brief health notice urges staying indoors during a severe cold and recommends Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to break up the illness quickly and prevent pneumonia. Sold by all druggists.
In Factoryville on December 22 the Baptist church hosts a Christmas Eve tree and entertainment with all welcome. Sidewalk cleaning penalties rise as ordinance 19 is enforced. homeowners must clear snow and ice within 12 hours or face fines or municipal cleaning with costs charged to property.
The St Patrick church bazaar opens Christmas night in Pather Mathew hall with daily musical and literary programs. The Excelsior hose company ball on New Year’s Eve is planned. Funeral notices and school holiday events, including Blakely activities, are listed with local families mentioned.
Severe flood damage affected the Methodist church Sunday night. Charles Law of Scranton was a caller in town yesterday. Charles and John Robertson return home from college for the holidays. Mrs Aubrey Williams left for Denver after months with her parents. Miss Marjorie Robertson spends Christmas vacation with her parents. Owing to the damage, Christmas practices and exercises were canceled.
$18 for rent for a ten room house with modern amenities on one avenue. Apply to R. P. Hampton at 496 Bpruce Street. Also ads for small furnished house, Linden street vacancies, rooms and board, and individual room rentals with board at 42 Washington Avenue and 635 Adams Ave. Also lost notices for dogs and a memorandum book. Presbyterian Sunday school Christmas exercises announced.
John 8. Clarkson sustained a painful wound in the hip from a kick of a horse on Saturday. Attorney A. A. Chase and Master James Barrett of Scranton were enjoying sleighing here Saturday afternoon. Skating is good on the lakes nearby. Rev. Van Cleft of Dalton conducts revival meetings at the local Methodist Episcopal church.
The Chester De Vonde Stock Company staged Ten Ton Door at the Academy of Music to start a week of engagements. They followed with The Bond of Honor a southern drama with strong comedy and a standout performance by Bruce Van Dord. Tonight The Monster and This afternoon The Bleeding Sapphire headline a busy schedule. Ed M Rush’s Bon Ton Burlesquers then perform at Star Theater for three days with Frank Byron Louise Langdon and others delivering rapid acts and a finale A Dafty Shop.
The Lyceum presents Our New Minister in a Christmas matinee and evening show. Review notes the play’s own merit and lively stage prototypes that resemble real life figures. Diagram opens at 9 am for both performances.
Andrew Mack, praised as a sweet singer, will appear at the Lyceum Friday night in a new play by Theodore Burt fayre titled The Bold Soldier Hoy. Set at Fort Wadsworth Staten Island, Mack plays a young Irish American army cotenant whose story centers on love and country. Seats go on sale Wednesday.
Classified notices include a grocery trade in this vicinity seeking a job change on January 1 1903. Other ads offer a general labor position nurse bookkeeper and clerk notices plus a stockholders meeting for Dunmore Electric Light Heat and Power company and a bankruptcy discharge hearing for C P Stack with a personal separation notice from Jessie Shiffer.
A fragmented 19th or early 20th century directory style entry lists professionals and businesses in Scranton, including CPAs, architects, engineers, patent attorneys, hotel operators, cleaning services, mfrs, and printers. Names mentioned include Edward C. Spaulding, Frederick L. Brown, Stevenson & Knight, Keplogle & Co., The Ele Cape, Briggs, Kuettel, Megargee Bros., and others with addresses such as Traders' Bank Building, 120 Washington Avenue, 401 Connell Building, 611 Lackaw ave, and 40 Washington avenue. The item reads like a business directory excerpt with multiple trades and contact points.
The notice lists Lehigh Valley lines effective November 1 detailing train departures from Scranton to New York Philadelphia and other destinations via D&H R R and L V R R. It notes Pullman parlor cars on all Wilkes-Barre to New York Philadelphia Buffalo routes and provides agent contacts at Cortland Street South Bethlehem and Wilkes-Barre for tickets and reservations.
Reading System schedules show trains from Scranton to New York Philadelphia and southern joints with times 7.20 1 4 p.m. Sundays. Quaker City Express leaves Scranton 7.30 p.m. for Baltimore Washington and other points with through cars. Avoca Pittston Wilkes-Barre services at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Sunday and 7.15 a.m. 2.10 p.m. For Long Branch Ocean Grove 7.40 a.m. and other routes via Allentown 7.00 a.m. 1 p.m. and 7.15 a.m. or 2.10 p.m. Tamaqua Pottsville 7.30 a.m. 1 p.m. 4 p.m. Sunday. Rates and tickets at station. W G Ressler General Manager. Co M Burt Gen Poss Agt.
Schedule details list weekday through vestibule trains from Wilkes Barre to Philadelphia via Pottsville with Pullman buffet car service. Stops include Sunbury Harrisburg Philadelphia Baltimore Washington and Pittsburgh with multiple departures 47 am 42 pm 158 pm 324 pm and 405 pm. G eneral managers I B Hutchinson and J B Wood officials.
Delaware and Hudson timetable details list trains to Carbondale Wilkes Barre Albany and other points with times including 6 41 1012 a m and 2 01 12 49 n m. Officials Burdick O A Albany and Pryor D A Beranton Pa publish the day’s schedule and connections.
Train timetable dated September 15 announces service points including Honesdale and White Mills with departures at 7.00 am and 1.35 pm and arrivals at Scranton around 3.15 pm, detailing station stops and transit times for the Erie Railroad Wyomin g Division.
The notice lists New York, Ontario and Western trains with arrival and departure times for Scranton Carbondale Cadosia and nearby stations. It shows weekly and Sunday connections to New York City and other points, with times like 7.25 am and 8.25 pm and references to sections of the timetable in effect in 1903.
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