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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1900
Page
12
Northeastern Pennsylvania brief items from Honesdale include new state legislators L Fuerth and J Brannan leaving for Harrisburg, rail coal deliveries rising, and community notices. Names cited: Fuerth Brannan Silverstone Parker Weston Spencer Ta Tower Meyer Smith Dunning Schuerhelz Robbine Whaty Rockwell Bently Foster Gates Gelatt Crosier Pope Cargill.
Forest City highlights include Mrs James White recovering from typhoid fever. A midnight mass at St Agnes on New Year’s Eve and services at Christ and Methodist churches. The Methodist ladies serve lunch, a masquerade ball at the opera house, and a Forest City Dancing assembly. Lectures and sermons by pastors from nearby towns, a congregational service for a pastor, and Christmas era musical repurposed by the choir. Local residents and visitors share holiday greetings and travel. Funeral of Mrs Kate Dunning held at St Agnes with interment in Susquehanna. social visits noted among local families and workers.
Mr and Mrs M L Lewis hosted Christmas guests including Albert Fritz and family Harry Mills and Mrs Partridge of Whites Valley Thomas Leonard and daughter Dorothy of Scranton Winifred Gelatt of Keuka College visiting F M Gelatt on Jackson Street Jessie Olver of Honesdale returned from Fox Olver wedding at Comp Christmas Day Dorothy Leonard of Boranton visiting Mrs C M Lewis Rev A D David visited his father in Olyphant Stella Terrell visiting uncle in Windsor N Y and planning return Horatio Cole of Scranton and sister Lucia Atherton of Albany N Y visited Rev L Cole this week The Yates County Chronicle is cited for comparison.
Special to the Scranton Tribune from Waymart reports students and families spending the holidays with relatives in town. Readers note visits from Port Jervis, Windsor, Carbondale, Elizabethport and New York City, along with local illness recoveries and a postponed church Christmas program.
Christmas Eve services delighted residents as Miss Ethel Sterling visited family, and local youths enjoyed skating at Ely Lake over the holiday. Residents note visitors from Montrose and Scranton, social events at Factoryville, and health concerns as Miss Aliee Quick is cared for. The community awaits Scranton Dairy checks for November milk and notices personal property sales and land transfers upcoming in early January.
Prepared in convenient capsules Krause's Cold Cure offers a speedy cure for obstinate colds. Priced at 35e and sold by Matthews Bros.
Hopbottom reports a settlement between Scranton Dairy and patrons fixing a price of 2 cents per quart for milk received through January 1 and a $50 damage payment for withdrawal from the contract. Mr B Bertholf visited family. Mr Willard Guavitt and family moved to a nearby farm.
The text notes farmers will dispose of their product as they see fit after January lat, while the region discusses withdrawal from business. Mentions of visitors include Rev. and Mrs. Willard Ballou from Athena spending Christmas with Mrs Fallows’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jamena Merrill.
Revy R D Minch visits Hawley while locals enjoy holiday gatherings. Visitors include Lloyd Tosencrunes from Philadelphia and Miss Attelle Travia of Port Jervis. Christmas programs at Baptist, German Lutheran and Presbyterian churches entertain crowds. cantata plus small admission raise about 17 dollars for Sunday school.
Mrs Angeline Lawrence of Lenox and Mrs H Oakley of Binghamton visit relatives in Kingsley. Mr and Mrs Wilmarth and Montrose student Mstabrook return home for holidays. S J Adams and W N Whitney and others report fishing at Acre pond with forty two pickerel. Miss Carol MacConnell and Miss Adelaide Jeffers spend holidays with families. C C Dassen and wife visit Montrose friends. Prof James Adams of Huntingdon NZ visits J L Adams. Mrs George Fargo of Bradford county visits P L Beardley. Floretta Jackson and Dena Wilcox visit sister Femcher in Montrose.
Special to the Scranton Tribune from Hallstead reports residents visiting relatives in New York City and local incidents. Harry Shelly was arrested for jumping trains on the Lackawanna line and sentenced to twenty days in Montrose jail. G W Capwell injured his leg trimming the Christmas tree at Presbyterian church. D A Teed and wife closed their studio for winter in Binghamton while Miss Ella Du Boies visits New Paltz. Hon James T Du Bois left for Washington and will sail for Switzerland via New York. G P Littl of Montrose visited on business. Maitland Hays is home for the holidays. Bernard Allen and Peter J MacCarthy seek licenses to operate an eating house. Charles Ketchum, now in California, was injured after being thrown from a box car.
Christmas exercises were held by Grace Lutheran and Methodist Episcopal Sunday schools. Local residents and visitors shared holiday gatherings with families such as Mrs. M T Rhodes entertaining G H Rhodes and others from Muhlenburg College Ariel Cross Forks Scranton New York city and Newark were mentioned among festive visits and family activities.
Towanda prepares for Hale's opera house New Year’s Eve show featuring Vogel Deming minstrels and the O’Brien family and other top acts. Also reports track foremen meet in Towanda with 1901 officers named, a Lockwood shooting, death of Mrs. Guffis, and a major coal estate lease near Dushore with $200000 capital, two 110-foot shafts, a 1000 ton daily breaker, and plans for a new mining town and railroad extension.
The lake skating delighted many residents as Mr and Mrs Cobb of Dunmore visit a few days with Mr and Mrs Jonathan Brown. Mrs Pace and daughter Dang of Avkam Pa visit patronage and Christmas events were held at the church. Ellis Keyes of this place and Mia Cathryn Jones of Maplewood wed at the bride’s home. The couple will housekeeping at a Wimmers residence. Charles Doud and his mother from New York visited Lake Ariel. Merchants report a strong holiday season and Dr Ely’s successor, Die. White, earns praise. A B Keyes and wife spent Christmas with Ellis Keyes and family at Maplewood.
An advertisement asserts deafness stems from inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube. It claims nine of ten cases arise from catarrh and promises one hundred dollars for an incurable deafness cured by its remedy. It urges sending for circulars and promotes Hall's pills as the best.
The listing notes a medicine labeled Cold in the Head Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. It references an OTC drug format and specifies usage for relief of colds, sinus congestion, and headaches. No dosage or manufacturer details are provided in the readable text.
A dense overview listing official election votes across city township county and state, party platforms, national convention delegates by state, Crawford county rules, June primaries, and names of city and county officials. Includes baseball records, National League yields, 1900 census results for Pennsylvania, and notable war context and statistics.
The opening shows heavy selling to take profits then a rally as supporting orders and new strength emerges in stocks. Traders form pools to absorb offerings causing rapid 2 to 3 point gains before a late market reaction. Total sales reach 1,460,000 shares with bond activity quieter though some issues listed alongside local company entries.
Corrected by H. G. Mele at 27 Lackawanna Ave the listing shows Butter Creamery and Cheews Full cream products with prices for beans onions and flour including a patent flour price of 4.00. It notes KEgen Select western ale and nearby state ale and marks beans per bushel and onions per bushel in a short wholesale market catalog style.
Wheat firm with December contract at 7da73%e cts. corn steady No 2 mixed at 7 adie. oats firm No 2 white clipped at 30 adie. Butter steady fancy western creamery 2 04e. cheese dull full creams 1 %alte. Cotton unchanged. Live poultry firm with mixed fowls and turkeys. receipts listed for flour wheat corn oats and shipments incl wheat 2 000 bushels corn 52 000 cate 1 000.
Wheat futures closed firm after early weakness as futures rallied on covering with No 2 red and No 1 northern Duluth options. Corn spot held steady with No 2 at 451/2, while options opened steady and finished higher on moderate receipts. Egg and dairy markets showed mixed but firm tones with cheese and creamery items steady to firm.
Cattle receipts reported at 3 500 head with varied prices across classes. Best Texas fed steers sold around 4 80 per hundredweight while western and Texas stockers showed weaker values. sheep and lambs also traded lower.
Chicago markets show May wheat up 4 cents from yesterday with gains led by Diallo and provincial closings. May corn unchanged while oats and flax see varied prices. Cash quotes include No 2 spring wheat and No 2 yellow corn with mixed futures and livestock prices reported.
Market data from East Liberty lists cattle categories with steady demand in December. Prices range for hogs and sheep tied to weight and grade, noting primes, common, and feeder categories with several dollar figures and averages.
Credit balances stand at 16, certificate ton 122 bid for cash oil. Shipments total 85, a47 average 96,067. Huns total 113,465 and average 50,059.
A dense listing of Scranton area professionals and services including CPAs, architects, cab firms, hotels, lawyers, doctors, a private hospital, dressmaking, tanning, cleaning, orchestra services, printers supplies, and a regional newspaper distribution note. Names cover Eisenberger Lyman Reynolds Laubach Thayer and many more. locations include Scranton Lackawanna avenue Wyoming avenue Mulberry Street and 125 127 Franklin Avenue.
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