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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1899
Page
7
Editorial contends sudden deaths rise from undiagnosed kidney disease and advocates Warners Safe Cure as kidney protection. Local announcements note social visits, church event at M.W. church on Jan 25 with a choir, recitations, duets, and supper.
The Scranton city board approves a five day tax on Traction Co gross receipts at two and a half percent and authorizes eight Frost & Bon hydrants. A controversial fire alarm debt proposal is tabled after debate. An October parade privilege for Columbian Muse is granted then sent to the select council. Several local musicians and a conductor are listed for an upcoming performance.
The Honesdale branch opened with uneventful first day operations. One locomotive handles each side of the mountain while Charles Dow operates No 44 between here and Farview. No coal has been hauled on the widened road and passenger trains run by gravitation from Farview to this city and from Waymart to Honesdale.
The Symphony Orchestra issued invitations for their first public rehearsal to be held Tuesday evening January 31 at the residence of George Kimball. The soloists for the event are announced.
W H Dimock of this city has accepted a position with the Elroy Stock company which played here recently. A telegram received yesterday invites him to Lewiston Maine on February 4 to join as property man and take minor roles initially with between acts specialties for Carbondale audiences.
The remains were taken through the city yesterday en route to Dundalf for interment. Mrs Phinney died in Chicago while visiting her daughter Mrs Castle. Her husband is a Forest City merchant. One son Thomas and three daughters survive. Interment was made yesterday afternoon in St Rose cemetery.
Brad ford visitors Mr and Mrs W H Dennis return home after a week with Mr and Mrs R Smith on Park street W E Watt admitted to Lackawanna county bar will open an office in the Watt building on Salem avenue Mrs J S Niles recovering health Tommy Shearer company after big shows leaves for Port Jervis T F Herbert out after two weeks home rest Michael Price discharged from Carbondale hospital George A Seaman of Honesdale hosted by brother in city today Delaware and Hudson mines idle due to gravity changes Dr Shields ill with grip Amaranth social club set Husking Bee February 1 in South Main street Republican city committee swaps Vincent Swingle for Joseph Robinson in Fifth ward
Seventeen of twenty three members attended the Saturday session in the grand jury room to organize for the year. James E. Front was named chairman and F I Mentier secretary in a unanimous harmonious vote. Common pleas court opens this afternoon with five trials on the list and a pending motion for a new trial in Mosengrant’s larceny case. A & Mille Hardware shifts shelves before moving to Bayre next week as caucus for ward officers is set for January 7.
An advertisement touts Pyramid Pile Cure as a fast effective remedy for hemorrhoids. It claims instant relief from congestion and pain, notes many patients avoided surgery, and states the drug is manufactured by the Pyramid Drug Co of Marcell, Mich and sold by druggists for 60 cents a box.
William Benson of Second Street was wounded when a rivet struck his left eye at Delaware and Hudson machine shops in Carbondale. Doctors fear loss of sight as his right eye was nearly blind from a prior injury. The cause remains under study.
Factories Ville Mire Ray Yeardsley and Miss Currie Simrell suffer typhoid fever at home in Binghamton. Bertha Crisman attends funeral in Hainesburg, New Jersey. January 24 is day of prayer for schools with Rev. Robert F Pierce to speak at Keystone Academy. Masons plan annual banquet in Culd Fellows Hall. Surname Wrigley visits relatives from Shickshinny. L K Kemmerer to Moses Taylor Hospital for treatment. son Arthur ill with hip disease. Evening services at Baptist church. Mr and Mrs Ben Goodwin back from Brooklyn. Mrs Goodwin had grip while there.
Joseph Strauts a Polander was seriously stabbed in a street fight on a car ride from Scranton toward Olyphant. He and another Polander named Novaehi rode with three Stal lang men who began quarreling as the car neared Olyphant. one of the Stal lang drew a knife as they alighted.
The notice touts a January trade sale at Jonas Long's Sons' as the supreme bargain event of the year. It promises every department alive with irresistible attractions and savings beyond former selling prices, asserting the store as the greatest value giving center for the people.
Bargain prices list yard wide fabrics and linens including muslin cambric unbleached muslin fine muslin outing flannel white spreads and embroidered flannelette skirts patterns plain crinoline Canton flannel ginghams dress fabrics damask toweling napkins and bed comforts. Many items shown at substantial discounts per yard or per set with notes on worth and sale price.
A condensed catalogue notes ladder prices at 12 cents per foot this week for step ladders. It also lists 59 cent clothes bars strong kinds, carpet beaters cheap at 5 to 6 cents, large toilet paper packs at 5 cents, towel rollers five cents, ready mixed paints fifteen cents per can, and champagne glasses priced at 1.95 per dozen.
A group lunged at Strautz injuring him and fleeing before an officer appeared. Strautz was taken to a nearby hotel for treatment. Warrants were issued yesterday for the attackers, who remain at large.
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