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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1895
Page
8
A local merchant announces the annual mid winter clearing sale featuring discounted stock across household items and dry goods. Shoppers are invited to visit the store during the event for reduced prices and special door offers.
The Montrose Railway company held a stockholders meeting at Wall's hotel where James J. Blakslee was named president and Ava P. Blakslee as secretary and treasurer. The president's year end report showed receipts of $20,651.94 and net earnings $1,655.40, with plans for rolling stock and station repairs and service improvements.
Funice James guest of Carbon dale friends. Congregational church guests observed last week with reverence and broad interest. Pay day at the Delaware and Hudson mine. Ladies' Aid Society to hold a dime social at the new church this evening. Walter Bartholomay, age two, ill with scarlet fever. A group of Jer. youths gathers at Avsloleh.
In Archbold a Saturday evening debate in Father Mathew hall discussed the proposition that women are morally but not mentally superior to men. Panelists included Professors Davis Moyles White and McAndrew and Judge McNulty, with Lungan opposing. The event sparked a debated consensus and led to a temporary debating society formation chaired by A P McNulty with R N Davis as secretary.
Mrs George Johnson of Nineveh N Y visits Carbondale relatives. Miss Tessie I Spott to wed George Mannion at St Roger church next Wednesday. Baptist Society will mail discarded clothing to the poor Sunday night. A committee will collect items Thursday to send to the needy. Young Ladies Cooking Club elects Mrs G Nicholson president and Miss Frances Abbott vice president. Maptiat church Ladies All society holds monthly tea this Wednesday 6 to 7 oclock. Rev M J Morgan of Welsh settlement visited. Mr and Mrs B C Biv spend Sunday in Brooklyn. Joseph Herbert on business trip to New York. Junior Order United American Mechanics 36th anniversary parade May 17 with 20 000 visitors expected. Gertrude Bell, 4, died of membrraneous croup. remains to Welsh settlement for interment. Burdock Blood Bitters touted by many as cure for bilious headaches.
William J. Burke represented the Minooka branch at an Ancient Order of Hibernians con vention in Olyphant. A fire at Everett B. Campbell home caused minor damage after a kerosene lamp explosion. Patrick Wallace injured at Greenwood mines when cage truck struck him. left eye damaged. John Holleran announces candidacy for aeses SOF.
The report of the board of health notes totals for births and deaths, with dozens of specific figures on males, females, and contagious diseases. Local officials announce personnel changes at the Northwest colliery and Mayfield store, plus an anti snowball ordinance with a five dollar fine. The school board borrows two thousand dollars for the year. Sacred Heart church attracts visitors, with items donated, and a series of church meetings and a Citizens band fair loom in town. Spworth league officers are listed for 1805, and local concerts and church professions of faith are reported.
Claims to cure rheumatism and neuralgia in 1 to 4 days with mysterious action on the system. Describes immediate relief and removal of the disease after the first dose. Priced at 75 cents. Sold by Matthews Bros. Druggists in Scranton.
Charles Gilbert a respected Great Bend druggist died at his home Monday morning after a lingering consumption. He built a successful local business after buying Kathbrook & Son, his store burned last summer, and he left a wife and several small children. The report also notes church society officers and a corn social fundraiser benefiting the Presbyterian church building fund.
The Demoss family hosts a Methodist Sunday school entertainment at the church and Oriental Star lodge holds its regular Masonic meeting tonight. A second lecture, A King's Vision of the Nations, will be given at the Baptist church. Mrs. John Schooks suffers pneumonia while Russel Hoffecker recovers from quinsy. Miss Effie Curtis visited Alyhurst. The burial of Daniel Rolle, who hanged himself at Jessup last Thursday, occurred at Prospect cemetery last Sunday.
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