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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1896
Page
5
Central Labor union hosts ball at Music Hall tonight. Clergy preach at Lafayette College Elliston and Simpson church. Mission secretary to speak at Methodist church. Marriage notices, church meetings, and fundraising totals for St Joseph’s Founding Home are reported amid civic notes.
Last Wednesday the sheriff levied the publishing firm’s effects and a sale on executions was planned for today. An amicable arrangement was reached yesterday keeping the company in business with Paul J. Zeathavick as manager, mediated by Dr. E. E. Fienberg whose stock ties were once held. Creditors praise the intervention and outcomes.
John Boyle O'Reilly council of the Young Men's Institute held a meeting last evening at which nearly fifty members of the St. Aloysius society were initiated as council members. After the ceremonies there was a smoker with a program including piano and vocal solos by M. F P. McCann P. J. Snyder P. F. Howley and John Davis plus an address by M. H. Griffin.
A sprawling list of civil actions from Lackawanna County courts includes rules to open judgments and set aside sales, new trials, decrees in divorce, and other post judgment proceedings. Names include McCarthy, Scanlan, Barber, Shoemaker, Kilam, Raub, Keib, Chromes, Underhill, Cramer, Hawe, Lehman, and many others among numerous docket entries for Feb 17 to 19. Proceedings cover reargument, changes of venue, certiorari, and attachment dissolutions across local firms and the Scranton area.
The estimates committee of councils will begin labor tonight with City Controller Widmayer stating a budget of about 272 dollars to spend and departments need 405000 to run next year. It may rise by 50000 for culverts bridges and similar improvements. Members include Chas Wagner C F Chittenden R H Williams Victor Lauer Thomas Coyne John Lof tus Robert Robinson James Moir Luther Keller Simon Thomas.
Michael Early of Dunmore was released from the Eastern penitentiary yesterday. He had been convicted on June 25, 1894, for robbing Joseph Calabose at Dunmore and sentenced to one year and eight months in prison. The notice also mentions Lohmann's on Spruce street offering wines and cigars and beers from E Robinson Milwaukee and Felgenspan.
Judges Archbald Gunster affirm that Ward Twentieth caucus nominations are valid for some offices while Edwards dissents contending the second set of nominations were invalid. The ruling centers on whether a Democratic caucus or a mixed citizen gathering controlled the process and how votes were counted at Corcoran's hall in Philadelphia city ward.
Funeral held at 2 pm at the home of her brother W. W. Scranton in Scranton for Mrs. John Folger Adam known in the city as Alice Scranton. Remains arrived by special Lackawanna train and were interred privately in Dunmore cemetery. Rev Dr James McLeod officiated with a quartet singing hymns.
Local notice urges attendance at BE R Burh Coe exhibition this week. It lists items for sale at Crane's 324 Lackawanna avenue including Nutria Mutts and Chinchilla Muffs with steep discounts. Also promotes Baniater's shoe sale and notes an ad on page four.
A New Orleans interview with Mrs. E Burke Collins highlights the life of her story A Gilded God and notes how Paine's celery compound aided her battle with nervous prostration. She credits the remedy with restoring strength, easing headaches, and improving overall health for a sedentary brain worker. The piece extols Paine's celery compound as a tonic for nervous tissue and blood, common among professionals with demanding schedules.
Died Compton in Scranton January 5 at age 49 years 25 days funeral Wednesday at Elm Park church. Whelan infant son of Mr and Mrs Michael Whelan died yesterday at 2 Irving Avenue funeral Wednesday at 2:50 Hyde Park Catholic cemetery. Oliver James aged 7 funeral 10:90 Thursday morning at St Luke's. Hoyt Morel in Mil Park church Scranton January 9 188 by Rev Pearce. Beibecker Watkins store Lackawanna avenue carpets draperies shades sale. Mothers see flannel gowns at Baby Bazaar 612 Spruce. Dr Dunnell's Croup Powder sold by dealers 25 cents a box.
The Journal of Manassas notes the death of Oliver Chamberlin born July 2 1807 in Green Susquehanna county Pa. He died Jan 4 184? in Greenwood Virginia in his eighty ninth year. Funeral at his home led by Rev Simmons with interment Jan 2 near Manassas Lauderdale at Mrs Hennett’s lot. Chamberlin family famed for many children and Wright Chamberlin once a solicitor for American Independence.
Advertisement announcing a clearance of fur garments including China Seal Capes Astrakhan and Mink options. Listing prices show deep discounts from former amounts with specific cape lengths and yard sweeps. Items include Electric Seal Capes and Persian Lamb Capes with substantial reductions aimed at liquidating stock.
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