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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1899
Page
7
In Carbondale the council postponed an ordinance authorizing $12,000 in bonds for a fire alarm system and streetwork on Garfield Salem Seventh and Eighth avenues. Time constraints push completion to May and potentially July for installation, with a four tenths of a mill tax proposed to cover principal and interest.
Mrs Rachel Hunsucker died at her daughter Mrs J B Niles on North Main street at two o clock yesterday after a brief illness of grip. Born in Collegeville Pa sixty nine years ago she had been visiting her daughter who is recovering from pneumonia. Surviving are Mrs Niles another daughter Mrs J J Lutos a son A R Hunsucker in Philadelphia and granddaughter Miss Geatrice Hunsucker. Funeral arrangements not yet made.
A city column notes demand for continuous telephone service. Local manager P. Cillern said continuous service should begin within ten days, with Sundays and holidays previously observed as break periods ending.
Misses Clara Watt and Helen Hatha way return from Wilkes-Barre visit. Fr A Morgan is on the sick list. Fr J Riley returns from New York. Trinity choir rehearses Easter music. Second Presbyterian supper at Mrs Jones home yields profit. Mrs Geary enters Carbondale hospital for appendicitis. W G B Charo convalescent. Mrs J B Van Bergen back from Scranton. Mrs T C Robinson hosts daughter Mrs Charlee Baker from Jermyn. Mrs A S Baker and Miss Josephine Burr in Wilkes-Barre. Ladies Aid net over 200 dollars at dollar social. JW Kilpatrick in Scranton as mayoral candidate. Louis Relikop observes Forest City business. Friends of Mrs Mielling join news of son killed at Greenville, body to Elmira. Mother and daughters go there. Dr D L Bailey injures knee in fall on Parketree. G W Reynolds ill with grip, hopes to be out today. Frank Collins, injured by streetcar, walks out after two months hospital stay. Mrs George Taylor and daughter visiting from Balem. Peter Storch returns from Wilkes-Barre hospital after Delaware and Hudson wreck. Mrs Decker of Park street, 94, recovers from broken wrist.
A local correspondent warns Jermyn and Mayfield authorities about frozen hydrants amid severe weather. Citizens urge prompt examination and thawing to prevent fire risk, noting other towns’ experiences. Rev J G Evans will preach next Sunday at Congregational church. Miss Hannah Collins suffers from grip. birth announced for Mr and Mrs Michael Mo.
Dermott Davis and a Davis son born to Mr and Mrs William Davis and a Yates daughter born to Mr and Mrs John Yates. Graves visited Peckville yesterday. Mrs Frank Barber and others visited Carbondale and Archibald. Simpean and Watkins employees to be paid Saturday. Prof. R N Russell returned home after two weeks in Oneonta New York. Mike Loulee Atwood visited Amma Pedrick and returned home. Mrs William Thomas returned home after week with Enoch James. Ethel Visick visited Carbondale yesterday. Mrs Hadley and Mrs Pugh visited Mayneild Carbondale yesterday. Mrs Richard Bunt in serious condition. J B Jaudwin visited Carbondale yesterday. Edgerton breaker resumed operations after a week idle. Robert Frear Wille Merrick and Thomas Walkey in Pioneer City yesterday. Rumor of Samuel Langman and Henry Stone death at Klondike unfounded. Letters from Alaska received. old men believed to be all right. A special school board meeting to be held this evening. Julia Gill visiting Scranton friends. Alfred Helmes of Yatesville was a visitor. Delaware and Hudson colliery to work nine hours today. Literary society of the high school to hold first public entertainment tonight.
The Taylorville Knights of Pythias No 442 held a Wednesday evening program at Reese's hall with refreshments and a $10 gold prize won by Master Harry Watkins ticket 247. Also noted are local social visits, public-safety updates, and a temperance society meeting with a planned concert at Weber's Hall by the Taylor Presbyterian church choir.
The funeral for Mrs Mary Hennigan, who died Tuesday, was held at 9 am with a requiem Mass by Rev P J Murphy at St Patrick's church. The remains were interred at Apehbald after a Delaware and Hudson train ride. John Burke was visiting Wilkes-Barre. A Greenfield institute event was postponed due to a local gathering. fire hydrants were noted citywide.
Borough residents tested Wednesday evening. all clear except one hose house area where a hose was found frozen. Superintendent Taylor from Scranton visited the central school, and Rev James Hughes will lecture on The Land of Gold and Diamonds at Blakely Baptist church next Monday with free admission. Misses Anna and Margaret Bolan of Carbondale stay with Miss May Ferguson of Lackawanna Street, and Carbondale youths visited the Malou House for dancing and supper before returning home.
Borough meeting adjourned for lack of quorum. Presbyterian church hosts a chicken supper Friday evening. Various town happenings include visits by Co L Reynolds and Walter Kurt, a lecture on the Salvation Army, a school board meeting, and the Farmers Institute program set for Feb 27 and 28 with detailed exercises and speakers.
The advertisement claims La Grippe can lead to pneumonia but with reasonable care and Chamberlain's Cough Remedy danger is avoided. It asserts thousands have used it with no pneumonia cases, promises faster grippe cure than other treatments, and notes it is pleasant and safe to take. Sold by all druggists, Mathews Bros. wholesale and retail agents.
Thomas EB Smith visits Toronto relatives while Rev John Cavanaughle holds revivals in Highlands drawing many converts. Funeral rites for Mrs Waldron Stone were held from her home with interment in Franklin cemetery. Mrs Stone survived by husband and five children Elmer Herbert Ernest Emma Vincent. Jennie Smith travels to Florida for winter. Prof F C Hangen plans songs and recitations for Miss Francis E Willard memorial day. The W C U will attend in a body. David Thomas relocates to Scranton with family. Miss Jennie Challis visits from Scranton. EB G Trimby buys Alfred Twining farm on Dalton road. Dr Shimberg in Scranton as visitor. Regular services planned at Baptist and Methodist churches next Sunday. The colored people of this borough.
A grand Washington birthday celebration will be held at the rink on the 22nd featuring top talents and cake walkers from New York City Scranton Wilkes Barre and Waverly. Music will be provided by Stone's Orchestra of Waverly and Hoff's Orchestra of Scranton.
The Evie railroad plans a February 21 excursion to New York with return the next day for a dollar. Wayne county voters will decide on a county poor house next Tuesday. Wayne County has eighty four applications for Neense to sell intoxicants. Valentine trade via Honesdale post office is light this year. The uptown Delaware and Hudson station is torn down for switch room. Photographer J F Bodie attends the state convention in Wilkes Barre. Some Honesdale factories idle due to coal shortage. Delaware and Hudson coal deliveries reach forty seven cars in a day. The Erie train from New York is seventeen hours late in Honesdale. Mrs E L F Rova of Philadelphia stays with her father Edwin F Terry. Dr and Mrs C M Foster left for Florida after a grip illness. Rev Wahel of the Baypilat church preaches on Ancient Types of Modern Men. next Sunday subject Pilate the Politician. Presbyterian trustees reelected at annual meeting: SW Powell FE F Terry W W Weston. A man named Charles Young of Scranton rented a Main Street store, set up an oyster wholesale outfit, collected stock and then left with no payment.
The Bast Ride resident Bernard Giles was buried yesterday afternoon with interment at Oly rhant. Reports note Main street obstruction from Traction company workers and snow sweepers causing wagon delays Wednesday night. Local issues include river ice at a heavy thickness and a blacksmith, John McCluskey, injured by a mule while shoeing. Chief KE L. Craig visited Winton on business. Mrs James Kearney of the Hast Ride died yesterday afternoon.
A Detroit lawyer famed for sharp legal wit once argued before the state supreme court. He quipped with a bow that a law was changed by a supreme authority and faced a stern judge who ridiculed his fallacious cage argument. He retorted that he had reliable support, prompting the court’s sharp rejoinder.
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