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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1899
Page
7
The high school is overcrowded with eighteen promoted pupils lacking accommodations. A motion obligates the board to provide space or a teacher for them, but the method is undecided. Expansion plans include possibly purchasing adjacent property with a 70 foot frontage and a 20 by 60 foot house for potential use.
Fire broke out at the Delaware and Hudson engineer Edward Atkinson dwelling on Delmont Street last night. No alarm, flames damaged the building before Mitchell Hose Company could respond. Columbia team could not reach the scene through deep snow. Electric alarm system urged for Connell’s.
A team attached to the delivery of Tucker and Maxey ran away last evening at five on Salem Avenue. They turned under the highworks and continued, but later on Sunday Street they collided with a cutter and were stopped. No one was injured.
Local society notes show the Elite dancers planning a Valentine social to treat the boys, with Mrs. W Eh. Watels visiting in Wilkes Barre, Mrs. Arthur Howell entertaining Miss Millicent Brown, and various residents mentioned including James Rutherford in Scranton. Weather close to hindering schools as well.
A report from Pittston notes visitors John Jenkins and Dr J F Sickler, with others ill or homebound. George Tice visits from Maridate NY while a runaway team endangers residents. a minor injury occurs. Professor Frank presents a moving picture program at Firemen’s Hall with war scenes praised and demand for another showing.
Fragmentary advert shows dubious remedy claims for pneumonial illness and fevered symptoms. Mentions Dr Alexander and a patent decoction as a supposed cure. Language is rudimentary and promotional, warning readers to beware ineffective medicines.
Regular session bills were ordered paid including Frank Kane 22 M Barrett 4 Jamex Manley 8 Spring Brook Water Co 3100 and Alfred Green 70. The Electric Light Co January bill 210.56 was referred to the bill committee. Traffic on the Moosic Pittston trac tings suspended due to storm. Various social notices follow including a 25th anniversary dinner for Mr and Mrs Thompson and community visitors and funerals.
During the week beginning April 14 J. McAndrew will serve as the week’s official, with W. H. Ashley proposing an addition to the silk mill as soon as stockholders release the adjoining land. The annex will be used as no weaving mill.
Tonight the Entertainment and Social of the new parish will be held at Weber's rink under Ladies Aid leadership with 900 tickets sold. A district meeting of the American Protestant Traditions association and various lodge events follow, plus an upcoming marriage of Miss Kate Stopps to Mr Arnold Moore set for February 1 in town.
Superintendent Gebhardt installs electric light at Powder Mill With school for the Pennington Literary Society. Ladies from the borough take a sleigh ride to Dunmore, are entertained at Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Woodward, return by 7 pm. Other visitors include residents from Archbald and Beranton, with accidents, resignations, and local notices peppering the day’s events.
An advertisement asserts the Pyramid Pile Cure provides immediate pain relief and radical healing by contracting capillary vessels, removing tumors, and healing mucous surfaces. It claims wide US and Canada usage, offers 50 cent and 1 dollar packages, includes Myromid as a pain stopper, and offers a free book from Pyramid Co in Marshall Michigan.
Joseph Tennis, mine foreman at the Delaware and Hudson colliery, is confined to his home since Sunday with an attack of grip. The list of names includes Davis Witerley Edwards Evans John Lloyd Murthy Price and Mr. David Gary.
At a Hose company meeting a committee was appointed to study a new fire alarm after the townwide bell fails to reach all areas in windy weather. A whistle at the tin shop or electric plant is favored. Several officials and workers travel between Scranton and Tunkhannock for county matters as heavy snow forces sleighing parties to cancel.
The Hunthey Jackson company presented The Tornado to a packed pub house despite heavy rain that halted trails, paused college activities, and delayed outdoor work. Tonight the program continues with Wire for Wife as patrons attend a 25th wedding anniversary reception for Mr and Mrs J H Kenat. Well Donnelly's funeral is set for tomorrow on South Main Street.
George W. Waitt of South Gardinar Missouri reports the relief he found from Chamberlain's Cough Remedy after suffering wough cad chills and grip. He used a 50 cent bottle and states the chills cold and grip left him. He praises the honest medicine and notes Matthews Bros as wholesale and retail agents and druggist purchasers.
A Descriptive ascent to Popocatepetl from the Sulphur House at Tlamacas to the crater rim. The party rides through valleys, crosses steep pine timber, and climbs 4000 feet to witness the crater’s obsidian walls, yellow fumaroles, and a snow bound rim with panoramic views of Mexico City and Chalco Xochimilco Texcoco.
A San Francisco Wave article describes a young Philadyipiian who accepts voluntary aid from a millionaire to begin his own business. The millionaire tests habits by asking about drinking and smoking, offering continued support if he stays away a year, and the youth vows to settle his life and gain capital to start.
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