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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1898
Page
9
Local notice from M Meinhart at 14 Wyoming Avenue Mac Lackawinns Avenue appears in Wad i Berenton edition with readable fragments indicating a public or legal notice. Further details are unclear due to fragmented OCR text.
Rev J B Sweet to lead service at Rescue Mission tonight. Board of Trade building walls are tinted and decorated. Marriage license granted to Harry Liebert and Ella Gross from Hemlock Hollow and Scranton. Mayor Ealey inspected cellar damage from Pittston Ave flood. Sheriff Pryor expands passes rule to Tuesdays. Board of Revision hearings for Twentieth Ward and Thirteenth Ward property owners scheduled. Linden manager Brooks to unveil new star Miss Alice Kemp Monday. Will of Mary J Vans of Carbondale admitted to probate. Administrations granted to Maria and John I McAttkew for Litt McAndrew estate.
The funeral of Mrs Morris Goldsmith was held yesterday afternoon at 425 Wyoming Avenue. Rev Dr Chapman of the Linden Street synagogue conducted the services. A large attendance and many floral tributes marked her high esteem. Interment followed at the Jewish cemetery in Dunmore. Pallbearers were Simon Rice Joseph Levy Samuel Ramter Ton Oottinger Mose Brown and E Morris. Flower bearers were Alfred Otto Rice and F T and Ralph Levy.
Warren Avenue Baptist in Boston extends a call to Rev Dr Joseph Dixon of Penn Avenue Baptist. A Tribune reporter was told Dixon would return to the city this afternoon and was not in Weston yesterday.
An announced spring civil service examination for post office clerk carrier service in this city will not be held. There will be no additional exam until next fall. Get a Dunlap hat and be in it.
The joint estimates committee met to revise city appropriation ordinances to fit the controller's revenue for the new fiscal year. Amendments totaling 106 516.87 were added, extending the session as members sought a path to balance the budget. The committee will reconvene Monday evening to continue work.
Organizer W. W. Dipkins announces a new church in Nettieton's hall Green Ridge Street. The first service Sunday at 10 30 AM with another at 7 30 PM to follow. Dipkins leads the effort and invites attendance.
At Mercy hospital fair in Wilkes Barre last night Rev. Walner Gorman of Lee's church Ashley defeated Rev. D J Bustin of St Mary's church Wilkes Barre for the gold chalice. Gorman won with 2300 dollars against 900 turned in by Bustin. he is a son of Mr and Mrs Walter Gorman of Penn avenue.
Obituary notices report the death of Rev. James Tt. Bensen aged seven at his residence in Honesdale on February 22, his Baptist pastorate and family details. Also noted are the deaths of Peter Durkin of Inkerman and Mrs John Gilroy of Spring Street with funeral plans and interment details in local churches and cemeteries.
The class schedule at the Railroad Young Men’s Christian Association gym announces sessions starting Monday February 28. Business men meet Monday Wednesday and Friday from 5.15 to 6 pm, young men and fencing on selected days, juniors on Saturdays from 10.30 to 11.20 am, and professional men’s classes on Monday and Friday evenings.
The Pennyslvania Railroad Company issues earnings and expense figures for January. Directly operated lines show gross earnings up and expenses up, with net earnings increasing by amounts stated. West of Pittsburgh and Erie also report higher gross and net earnings and expenses in the period.
Dr. H. M. Tiarlow of Augusta Maine calls Horsford's Acid Phosphate one of the best remedies for conditions needing an acid and a nerve tonic. He asserts it helps the system by supplying acid and restoring nerve strength.
Dr Agnews Ointment is praised as peerless for curing skin conditions with instant relief after one application. It claims to cure itching chafing eczema and other irritations for 45 cents. Local ads list Matthews Tiros and W T Clark as suppliers. Girewer appointed Medical Examiner for the Ladies Catholic Benevolent association and will see applicants at the Old Post Office building from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. corner of Penn Avenue and Spruce Street.
Dr J B Penniman presented a free lecture on Charles Dickens as part of a University of Pennsylvania extension series at the Scranton high school auditorium. He argued Dickens blends grotesque minute detail with insight, comparing Dickens to Thackeray and tracing the novel's rise from Elizabethan drama and religious pageants.
Box of good Stationery includes 2 dozen envelopes. Price twenty five cents everywhere. Here. Box of Latin Finished Fine Writing Paper envelopes to match in neat box. Priced at 15 cents.
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