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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1897
Page
7
Readable items describe school janitors closing up for a citywide lockout, church services and dinners, a new public school building opening, a woolly listing of local events, and scattered notices of funerals, fund drives, and charity donations amid a bustling town scene.
Rev. James B. Whelan marks 25 years as priest of St Patrick's Church West Scranton with a silver jubilee observance. A check for 6475.50 was presented by B J Neville on behalf of the congregation and several musical and speech events followed at the church and parish facilities.
The funeral of Mrs Selden of Scranton will be held tomorrow morning at 10 46 from the family residence at Oxford No 1. Friends in Scranton may travel on the Delaware Lackawanna and Western line at 8 00 am to reach Oxford for the service.
The Penn Avenue Baptist Church choir of about seventy five voices will repeat Handel's The Messiah Saturday evening hoping for a crowded turnout after a recent successful performance.
The Holmes burglar alarm system, prepared in the sergeant's office at police headquarters, will be connected today with city banks that have subscribed to the protection. The apparatus has been installed to bolster security and deter theft.
William Mark of New York will make connections while James M. Thomson and Robert Bushnell of Dunmore are employed in the banks to watch the register in the City Hall and respond to alarms.
A search warrant led Officer Stephen Dyer and associates to Mrs H M Williams on Seventh Street recovering a batch of alleged stolen goods. Items include a butter dish, two gold china dishes, three plates and six other pieces from Millar Peck Clemons Ferber OMalley Chinahall and Goldsmiths Bazaar. Williams faced shoplifting charges reported yesterday. The goods will be stored until court.
Amerman Memorial Chapel at the Penn Avenue Baptist Church on Prescott Avenue was dedicated last evening. Rev. Dr Joseph K. Dinon led services. the mission building cost $20,000. Mrs Lemuel Amerman discharged the final obligation and presented a portrait of Mr Amerman for display. Attendance featured addresses by Dr Ta Miles, JW Browning, JA Watres, Judge H M Edwards, and Dr Dixon. music included two orchestras and piano organ.
Mrs. Michael Mendlewich of 440 Emmet Street Bellevue sustained a fourteen foot fall from a porch while stringing a clothesline. She suffered a fractured frontal bone and severe head injury. Doctors reported her condition critical and not expected to survive.
The International Association of Machinists local unit marked six years at Odd Fellows hall on Wyoming Avenue with an evening of entertainment and banquet. Thomas Kelley chaired. performers included James Gross, Stanley Swarts, David Davis, Arthur Laneton, Geraldine Phillips, Susan Goss, James Todds, Rebecca Feinberg. Edward Thomas and C Lien Johngen gave addresses. A luncheon followed in the banquet hall. Committee: Frederick Richards, William Kemp, Thomas Kelley, Harry Felnher, Jwenh Ilehardla.
A nineteen year old girl from Carbondale left home after a quarrel with her mother and took a trunk with her. The mother followed and sought help from Mrs Duggan, agent for the Board of Associated Charities. The trunk was found addressed to a city remate house. The girl was found and taken to Alderman Millar's office. She was later sent to the Guards Shepherd hours.
A piece of steel lodged in Adam Knight of Marvin street was located and removed yesterday by Dr. 8 P Longstreet using X rays. Knight was at anvil work at the Manville breaker when the steel flew from under the hammer and struck his hand. At the post office tomorrow the stamp and general delivery windows open 7 am to 10 am.
Scranton reports on an invention by C J Hubbell for a portable electric lamp using a carbon zinc battery with an eight ounce to twelve ounce case, promising seven hours of light at a total cost of two cents. The Hubbell Electric Lamp Company operates in 141 Capouse Avenue with officers and directors led by C J Hubbell. John A Morgan of BR F Allen & Co. inspected the plant as exclusive bicycle trade agent ready to market to miners or bicycle dealers.
After January 1 1808 Andrew Ross will be trainmaster at Sayre replacing resigned Wil lim A Stevenson. Ries has served Leitch Valley railroad rising from Messenger to a dispatcher and new trainmaster position. no successor named for Ross track chief role.
James Keegan of Fourth street and Miss Margaret Dunn of Fifth street married by Rev. W. P. O'Donnell at Holy Creek church on Wednesday afternoon. Attendants were Miss Kate Lee and Patrick Heegan. Hood's Sareparilla advertised for cures of screfula catarrh dyspepsia rheumatism and impure blood with Hood's Pills promoted as effective companions.
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