Local Newspaper Notes and Local Events Briefly Reported
The column lists multiple items including a public affairs note about The Tribune and regional readers, a funeral in Wilkes Barre area, remarks on C Bart Button as a leading Democrat candidate for sheriff, a baseball game at Athletic Park against Providence at 3 45, a theft case involving Samuel Davis, a marriage between G Williams and Miss Jonnie Gunter, and Press Club plans for a Delaware Water Gap excursion with ticket details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Black
R. T. Black
Scranton
C. Bart Button
Providence
Athletic Park
Samuel Davis
Liem
Hirsh
G. W. Willams
Business College
Friday Half Holiday Merchan ts Close Early After Debate
At a Wednesday meeting of the clerk committee the plan for a Friday half holiday failed as merchants saw no lasting benefit. Boston store alone adopted it while a compromise to close at 6 30 on Mondays year round excluding Sundays and holidays gained support. Several merchants later closed at 6 30 independently. Officers elected included President Henry Hampton and Secretary D W Morris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Sutunlaye
Isaac Long
Algmed & Or
Lanefeld Bros
A. M. Doran & Co
Klopler Brea
Joseph 8
George McCleary
D. W. Morris
Ben Thomas
Samuel B. Conner
Examining the Foremen Examinations at Union Street Hall
Applicants for mine foreman conducted two day examinations at the Union Street Hall. Five candidates presented papers noted as strong with questions on air flow friction, pressure relations, breast distances, map scale, safety lamp use, legal duties of a foreman, mine water gauges, and responses to gas and squeeze risks in mines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Eet Echo
Williams
Sremnan
Tramps Arrested in Connection with City Robberies
Three vagrants were arrested near the city after a woods search yielded twenty boxes of cigars and large amounts of smoking material. Police, led by Se Seaman and Officer Porsey Nastnish, held the men for a morning hearing as detectives connect them to recent robberies of local business houses. Morris Horn of Hasel Street reported cigars taken from his shop amid a large stash recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reces
Neeres
Seamon
Porsey Nastnish
Ciy
In the Courts. eee on t ee creer as
Eee on t ee creer as. The fragmentary item shows a courtroom note with partial phrases and unclear names or dates, offering little readable detail to identify the case or parties involved.
Squire Ends Dispute After Testimony In Defraud Case
Bigley Day a contractor from Rick etts faced alderman yesterday over an alleged wage defraud by employee C M White. White claimed Day owed $41 and planned to cheat him, but Day settled by paying White in full plus the coats from the cave, preferring to avoid jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Squire Thomas
Bigley Day
Ricketts
C. M. White
White
Day
South Wilkes-Barre
New York
Intrigues of the Davis Davis and Jones Matrimonial Row
John Davis sought relief after a quarrel with his wife at Fast Ridge Street. The couple’s domestic dispute uncovered that Mrs. Davis, also Mrs. Jones, had a long time marriage to Daniel Jones and had left him six years ago for Davis. Jones returned and the two men confronted the matter, with the siderman hearing the full tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Davis
Fast Ridge Street
Squire Powell
John
Mr. Jones
Jones
Davis
Patrons of Industry Install New Officers
Last evening the Patrons of Industry installed their newly elected officers led by President M. P. Naughton and Vice-president 3. White. Charles Pierce became recording secretary with Samuel C. Webb as financial secretary and Miss Jennie Price as treasurer. Chaplain Jacob Rhinehart served with Miss Mame McIntyre Minerva Miss Bella Lynch Demeter and B. Dana as sentry C FE Ash. After installation refreshments were served at the expense of the new officers and nearly all members attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrons of Industry
M. P. Naughton
White
Charles Pierce
Samuel C. Webb
Jennie Price
Jacob Rhinehart
Minerva
Mame McIntyre
Demeter
Bella Lynch
B. Dana
Sentinel
C. FE. Ash
Presbyterian Pastor Marries Easton Woman at Home
Rev John R Craven of Grant Street Presbyterian and Miss Mable Hulsizer daughter of Peter Hulsizer of Easton were united in matrimony by Rev L W Sckard D D at the bride’s home Tuesday afternoon. The bride’s attendants were Edith Yohe Ethel Hulsizer and William Davis. A wedding dinner and reception followed. The couple left for a wedding trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John R. Craven
Grant Street Presbyterian Church
Mable Hulsizer
Peter
Hulsizer
Easton
L. W. Sckard
Edith Yohe
Ethel B. Hulsizer
William Davis
Runner John Burns Injured at Forty Fort Colliery
John Burns, a runner employed at the Harry E. colliery in Forty Fort, was struck by a trip of cars while at work yesterday and sustained severe leg injuries. He was removed to his home and is reported doing as well as can be expected. The possibility of amputation remains undetermined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Burns
Harry E
Forty Fort
Cora
Community picnic notes and local events
A crowded Congregational Birth Sunday School picnic occurred at Hanover park yesterday. The Welsh Baptist church and Sunday school plan their annual picnic at Mountain Park today with final return at 7 30 p.m. Nearby updates include trades, art donation to the YMCA, a Friday half holiday social at Firwood, a theft at a West Side circus, glee club serenades, and two houses burned on Pringle Hill with all foreign occupants escaping.
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Hanover Park
Welsh Baptist Church
Mountain Park
Park
Bond
Rogalind
Lake Transit Company
Lake Carey
Harvey's Lake
Northampton Street
South Main
Canal Street
St. A
Wilkes-Barre
Atlantic City
Gwent
Sterling
Landis
Mr. Landis
Stephen Lukich
Broderick’s
Circus
West Side
Pringle Hill
Larksville
Abe Lerotte
Springfield
W. F. Imlay
Ashley
Notable deaths and happenings in Avoca area society
Mrs James Merrick died at her daughter's home after a general debility. She leaves two sons and a daughter. Funeral services will be at St Marys. Guests included Rev Curran and Mrs Curran of Carbondale. Also noted is the sudden kerosene poisoning death of a nineteen month old child in Avoca. Interment at Marcy cemetery. Sizable social visits list locals in Scranton Albany Milwaukee and Olyphant. A minor fire near James Jackson's saloon was quickly contained with slight damage.
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James Merrick
Maria Mayock
Wear Avoca
Mia
Charles Merrick
Beaver Meadow
St. Mary's
Mra
Dr. Gibbons
Syracuse
John Holmes
St. Bonaventure College
Allegheny
N. Y
J. J. Curran
Carbondale
John Curran
Richard Richem
Avoca
Marcy Cemetery
Misa Kittle Hopkins
Scranton
Misa Little Dixon
Solomon Deeble
Thomas
Albany
J. H. Elms
Newton
Bucks County
James Jackson
S. Passek
No. 1
Chief Williams
West Slide
River Street
Hughestown
Joseph Wintle
Isabella
Pittston
Martin
D. Powers
South Main Street
John Kearney
Upper Mill Street
Fitzpatrick
Hastie
Rhoade
Tobin
Clark
Chamberlain
Thomas English
Donough
Wilkes- Barre
Frank P. Hopper
Wilkes-Barre
Andrew Olitasholk
Mount Lookout
Lackawanna council installs officers then local ball game
Lackawanna Valley No 1 Junior Order United American Mechanics installs William Netger as junior past councillor Louis Reed as councillor Evan Watkins as vice councillor and other officers. The Electr ic a of this place plays Moosic Anthracites at Moosic grounds at 3 pm. Police arrest Fred Lowry for cruelty to animals and he is fined 26 dollars. Several locals are noted visiting or traveling to nearby towns and beaches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lackawanna Valley Council
United American Mechanica
James E. Davies
William J. Netger
Louis Reed
Evan G. Watkins
Frank Hilderbrand
Fred Stone
Elmer T. Daniels
John van Berger
Frank Decker
Benjamin Winterburn
George Perry
John Evans
Inside Sentinel
Evan Davis
Outside Sentinel
State Council
G. E. Davis
H Electrica
John
James Timlin
New York City
Anna Drake
Lackawanna
Lena
Grace King
Fred Lowry
Thomas Powell
Burgess Griffiths
Lowry
Costa
Lake WinolaGuests and visitors from nearby towns
Local social column lists guests and residents at Lake Winola and nearby cottages. Names include Mr and Mrs George Huffman Sam and Sallie Davis Mrs T D Lewis and others visiting or staying at Hiawatha and Point Breese cottages. Several registers from the Wi nola house and attendees from Wilkes Barre Scranton Philadelphia and Kingston are noted along with a few returning graduates and clergy guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Huffman
Sam
Sallie Davis
Hyde Park
T. D. Lewis
Hiawatha Cottage
Aaron McDonnell
Bertram Sherman
Point Breese Cottage
Ed. Hiam
New York
McDonnell
Winola House
H. R. Scurman
B. M. Stark
Lake Carey
Louis Rockwell
Scranton
Wyoming Seminary
Collins
Boranton Street Dilat Church
Tydvill
Whitemore
Binghamton
J. Alton Davis
Eugene Morse
Oualinda
Pittston News Mixed with Local School Plans
The Pittston office of the Scranton Tribune opens with notices on complaints deliveries and subscriptions. The board of control discusses enlarging No. 1 school, bond amounts, tax levy, and teacher appointments as part of efforts to ease overcrowding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittston
Scranton Tribune
H. W. Cruser
Ee Oe
Williams Street
Aluminum the Wonderful Metal of the Age
A Victorian piece extols aluminum as a light, abundant metal lighter than silver yet strong and durable. It resists tarnish and corrosion, conducts heat and electricity, and can be drawn into thin sheets. Once costly to extract, electricity now makes mass production possible, with everyday items like thimbles and kettles already marketed at low prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woehler
Teeth and Tongue Pain Triggered by Tooth Plate Dynamo
A curious case reports an electrical current generated by a plate of false teeth. A patient sought medical help for tongue pain and the doctor was told a dental plate could generate an electric current.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saga Industries
Cavere
Destiny of books and fate of published works questioned
A Cleveland World writer questions what becomes of new books from major houses in New York and Boston. He notes the high costs of printing and asks how titles pay for themselves, what happens to failures, and how tastes shift with examples like Trilby and The Quick of the Dead. He also cites Foolish judgments by literature teachers and Milton era contrasts to Shakespeare and Cowley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
New
Boston
Robert Elsmere
Trilby
Wakefield
Ivanhoe
Esmond
Copperfield
Milton
Spencer
Shakespeare
Cowley
Dryden
Way Waller
Pope
Thomas Blount
Blount
Courtroom Jests and Lawyer Zingers Across Papers
A collage of quips from various papers sketches courtroom humor and legal barbs. It includes lines about jail sentences and quips on lawyers and judges with a handful of witty exchanges and a playful Exhibit A note.
To Let and For Sale Notices and Public Legal Advertisements
A collage of old Scranton classified items listing rooms to let names and addresses for rental properties a large furnished hall for judge room private sales of household goods and real estate notices of public sales and probate actions including a warning of a Monday July 1 1805 auction by the Serpence Trust Co an estate probate notice for Catherine Winton and a legal notice for Garrick M Harding with attorney details
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Scranton
Serpence Trust Company
Olyphant Water Company
Consumers’ Water Company
Montrom
John P. Kelly
Analynee
The
Olyphant Trust Co
Classified notices and professional cards page preview
Local classifieds list wanted jobs and services including temporary post at Tribune Business Office for seven years. Also notices for stenographer and washerwoman positions, a butcher peddler, and a young man seeking work. Professional cards cover physicians surgeons lawyers and architects with office addresses in Scranton Pennsylvania.
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Trbune
Pete
Wilkes ‘Barre
Wyoming Vale
Tribune
Notheit
Pennsylvania
Philadore
York
Enoch Arden
Taylor
Lake Winola
Bay
Jedge
Detroit Frog Press
Wright & Co
Mumidom
Detroit
London
South America
Indianapolis Journal
Yeu
Puck
Ford
Cincinnati Tribune
Theodore Hallam
Shoe
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Connolly & Wallace
Washington Avenue
Court House
Arpenters
J. J & Wilson
Breaker Street
William H. Platt
Elm Street
Camden
Mono
Edward C. Fish & CO
Borden Block
Chicago
Wouar
Plymou
Tripp
Adams Avenr
Mango Chemical Company
John Street
Commonwealth
Gust L
Suly
Clark, Florist
Assembly Hall
D. B
Franklin Pyennes
Carbon & Davies
Kawanas Avenue
Addram
Thomas F. Evans
Luzerne
Hyde Parkerom
Rooma
John Jermyn
Wyoming Avenue
Jefferson Avenue
Prominos
van Auker
Beamer's
Franklin Avenue
Adams Avenue
Pine
Gibson Streets
Adame Avenue
Ezra H. Ripple
William T. Smith
Henry A. Knapp
Cee Ee
Mra Wittich
Lake Ariel
Addreas
John Wittich
Ariel
Beate OF Catharine Winton
Boranton
Winton
Garrick M. Harding
Arenes Means
Canron
Moe
Went Locuat Street
Betwre Pike
Corbett Evenues
Fineonth
City of Scranton
John_ A. Duckworth
Aiilc
Coal Exchange
Orthinbeck
the Scranton Bedding CO
Janus
Tribune Business Office
Taylorville
Dickson Olyphant
Peekville
Archbald
Jermyn
City
Frank Leslie
Oey
Express
O Moody
Adams Ave
Biase
Tor Trimuxa
Hinde
Waite
Wickly
P.u
Masan
Stuation
South
Hyde Park Avenue
Addreas BK DB. B
Care Tribune
Addreas G. BR
J.B. Duryea
T Ruggist
J. W
N. Sumner Ave
al Butcher
Church Ave
M. G
Addres
Physicians and Surgeons
G. Edgar Dean
Spruce Street
Court House Square
Kay
Penn Ave
A. J. Connell
Cor
Francke
Vine St
William A. Taft
Co. C
Laubach
RI Stratton
Jos. Kuettel
Lackawanna Avenue
Leeds
Nisreery Ment
Avenue
Green House
Lephoon
R. Clark & CO
Hool
Boyd
Et Ranton
Dern
Reis
Warren & Knapp
Republican Ie
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Commonwealth Building
Oyeens
Horace F. Hand
W. H. Jessup, JR
James W. Oakford
Common
Samuel W. Edgar
Spruce St
L. A. Watres
Lackawanaave
Urie Townsend
Lime Bank
Eee
Comegys
D. B. Replogle
B. F. Killam
Wyoming Ave
J. H. Hamilton
Edward H. Davis
E. L. Walter
OFFIC
Lewis Hancock, JR
Spruce #1
Cor. Wash. Ave
Brown & Morris
Price Building
Seranton
Republic Savings and Loan Association
N. Callender
Dime Bank
Bauer
R. J. Haver
Hulbert
Megarger Brothers
Washington Ave
Frank P. Brown & CO
West Lackawanna
Thomas Aubrey
Williame
postoMca
Rex
ELK Cafe
P. Ziegler
Bcranton House
Wanger
Victor Koch
Westminster H Hotel
Sixteenth St
Irvin Pines
Ew York
E. N. Anable
Ita
Central Park
Sth
Plaga Square
Fifth Avenue
69Th At
Terminal Station
6Th Ave
Chandler
F. A. Hy Ham
Windsor Hotel
New Y Com
Alan Hawk
Wetherbee
We Lavestay
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