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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1895
Page
7
On the West Side of the city several items of daily life are noted including a serious injury to John Jones, a Central colliery miner, from a premature blast. Funeral services for Mrs. Martha Mohr are described with details of the church ceremony and interment. Also reported are notices of residents dying, local meetings, social events, and church Lenten observances reflecting a tight-knit community scene.
The notice states Friday evening service will be held with an address delivered, while no service occurs on Saturday. It also mentions a Welsh Philosophical society talk on Saturday evening by fianc B Morgan titled Is There Any Littentight Jn Coal and a question box. It lists officers elected for the Washburn Street Presbyterian Church Christian Endeavor society: President Charles Battenhurs, Vice President Louis J. Stevens, Recording Secretary Berita Jenkins, Corresponding Secretary Florence Irving, Titular Secretary Martha Fink, Treasurer Thomas A. Patton. Promotions for photography, horse shoing, groceries, second hand furniture, wall paper, plumbing, oysters.
List of residents visiting friends in Kingston Nanticoke New York and Kingston and Nanticoke with several returns home. Notes include funeral for six month old Dominick Evans and Puritan Congregational Sunday school eisteddfod planned for Archbald March 14. Andrew Nichol recovering from illness. posters of lectures on The Columbian Exposition at Park Place Methodist Church next Monday night.
Pittston avenue resident Herman Saar visits Buffalo. A P L Doyle, noted temperance orator, to speak at St Joseph's church Wednesday night. Miss Nessie McTighe of Churry street visits New York for two weeks. Lenten devotions planned at St Marys German church St Johns Greek Catholic and St Josephs Minooka on Wednesdays and Mondays.
A report covers March 18 entertainment, shift schedules, and a 8 hour day for car shop workers. It notes increased railroad activity after Delaware and Hudson mine hours rose and cites a Pennsylvania internal affairs report showing 176 228 railroad officers and employees in the state, down from 200 158 the previous year, with 951 workers per 100 miles versus 1106 in 1803. Dr Gibbons will be in Beranton office Mondays at 41 Wyoming Avenue from morning until 9 PM.
Eloquent Rev. A P Doyle of New York City, general secretary of the Catholic Total Abstinence union, spoke at St John’s church South Side on the temperance cause. He urged stamping out intemperance, quoted alarming death and ruin figures, and urged signing a pledge as attendees filled the church.
Mr and Mrs Frank Manly attend funeral of his father in Hawley. Miss Tenth to lecture on The Art Course at F I Merriman residence tomorrow evening. M J McDonnell attends funeral in Hawley. Richard O Harr of Philadelphia returns home after visiting town. Mine Dora McLane visiting an Olympant. Misses Agnes and Nellie McAndrew of Moscow visit town. Mrs Pulls of Elmhurst visiting daughter Mrs George Robinson. Miss Kate Ward confined at home due to grip. Loyal Legion plans a 26 cent show for a dime Wednesday. Miss Emily Lynn of Stroudsburg Normal School spends days at home. James Bryden of Mill Street dies.
Miss Martha Kenny and James Fagan of Packville visited Minooka friends yesterday. Greenwood mines will be idle today. Coyne Rankin Comedy Company brings a grand musical entertainment to Callary's arcade Tuesday evening. Employer of Greenwood collecttes paid Saturday. Miss Annie O Milles of Pittston visited Miss B Higgins on Main Street yesterday. Shanty Hill sportsmen gathered at Fasshild's hall for a cooking match but people got tipsy and vandalized interior with red paint after bouts. first went to the pride of No. 4, second to Shanty Hill, third drawn. Where is Constable Bt. John?
The New York Heir notes English celebrities like W S Gilbert charge for interviews. Fees cited include twenty guineas from Gilbert, Lord Roberts at 100 dollars, Gladstone’s secretary demanding 500, and Richard Mansfield’s paid pieces. The piece defends payment to prevent exploitation of working journalists.
A nostalgic ad copy traces Castoria's use from infancy to motherhood, noting a child's cries for Castoria and its continued presence as the remedy through adulthood and into parenthood. The text mirrors classic marketing reminding readers of Castoria as a trusted household remedy.
A broken roll and plate at South Works caused the mill to idle for several days. Spare plates exist but installation will take time, leaving the mill inactive during repairs. Also notes upcoming events and a local drug advertisement for a rheumatism remedy.
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