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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1901
Page
7
Montrose July news highlights a New York speaker Henry W. Jesrup addressing a large Presbyterian congregation. Local sports recount East Lemon's tight win over Montrose by one run, plus a Lake Country club Saturday Club Day. Community notices include visitors from Wilkes Barre and Binghamton, road improvements, air brake lectures, and harvest weather concerns.
Hallstead Jules W. Mille a brakeman on the Lackawanna has been transferred to Scranton after boarding with George Shoemaker in Hallstead General Yardmaster Nowell of Revacton visited town with his brother the local yardmaster Nowell A large number of men are being employed in car repairs in the area
Ad promotes Dr. R V Pierce’s Favorite Prescription for women’s weakness and female ailments. It asserts benefits like regularity and relief from headaches backaches and pains while offering free consultation by letter. A testimonial from Belleville West Virginia praises the medicines and urges use of the Pleasant Pellets for nausea and headaches.
Special to the Scranton Tribune Towanda reports the Five-County Volunteer Firemen will hold the sixth annual convention and jubilee at Troy on Wednesday. No further details given in readable text.
Various items include John Chidester repainting a house on Dubois street, Mrs. John Gannon re shingling nearby, Lackawanna road paying June wages, Great Bend rail workers building a private line, Mrs. Frank A. Marsh visiting relatives, Edward Sackett selling his Mountain Valley farm to son in law Orvil Broush, and track measurement by chain from Hoboken to Buffalo. Other notes cover a banquet August 7 8, parade and races at Tray fair grounds, prize money and band contest, contests like hose and hub races, two Athens fishermen in jail over explosive fishing, a peculiar draft from Charles Woodward four legged rooater, veterans planning a color sergeant for a new monument, a traveling ceremony committee, late O Esser leaving $15000 estate, Davis and Culver wedding at Towanda, Emancipation day preparations by Waverly Negro community, Charles M. Smith awarded Ninth Regiment culinary contract for Mt Gretna encampment, a Tertrytown resident growing lemons from seed, Young People’s Christian Union delegates at Rochester, Rev P J Boland’s reassignment, and Father Boland’s new Lackawanna county posting.
In Susquehanna on July 11 several Erie carpenters laid off during the strike have been rehired. Brick work expands across all shop departments. An aged resident Mrs. Clendenning of Oakland side is critically ill. The Methodist Sunday school plans its Barnes grove picnic. Lanesboro residents Mrs. J A Smith and gon George visit Buffalo relatives and return home. Henry Strader secures a two week vacation for six hundred New York children, eight will find permanent homes. John Fitzgerald, discharged from the Forty-seventh U S Infantry, visits relatives. he served in the Spanish-American War and spent two years in the Philippine Islands. Edward F Pride of Bridgeport Conn and family visit relatives after Pan American travel. Agnes Severs of Binghamton visits Oakland side relatives. Erie Engineer John J Keyes is ill at home. Mrs Joseph Elston of Elmira is the Bluest of Busquehanna kin. Erie trains carry Pan American passengers. Alva Bryant dies at Pine street after protracted illness aged about 80. He leaves three sons and two daughters. Funeral planned from the family home Tuesday, with interment in North Jackson cemetery. Mrs John Driscoll of Prospect street funeral attended with St Johns Church service and IL C B A presence. remains interred in Laurel Hill cemetery.
The Erie will run an excursion to Binghamton on Sunday July 21 with a fare from Honesdale at $1.95. Grace Church social guild to host an ice cream social on the church lawn Thursday evening August 18. Hon and Mrs G B Purdy expect to journey to Atlantic City starting this week. August 2 set for Sunday Schools of Honesdale to picnic at Lake Lodore. An effort is underway to span the
Forest City prepares to move the Gospel tent to Shickshinny midweek as Sunday union services resume at the Methodist church with Rev W Holin a to preach next Sabbath. Local visitors include Herbert Reynolds and Dr Stanley Evans while Hillside disbursed benefits to workers. Idle mines and a large United Mine Workers picnic loom as town life resumes amid complaints about doorstep misbehavior.
July 15 New York traders faced a day of expected liquidation and sharp early declines. Stocks rebounded into the close as steel and corn worries influenced trading. United States Steel shares fell early but recovered, with London selling pressure noted and overall volume around 970,800 shares.
A local market listing by H. G. Dale at 27 Lackawanna Ave shows dairy and produce prices. Fresh cream sold by the gallon, cheeses and beans priced per bushel, with Beant and Pointers among items and several figures noting weights and costs.
July quotes show flour quieter and steady. wheat spot weak with mixed futures. Corn spot weaker with light receipts. option markets opened strong then faded amid crow news. dairy shows steady creamery products and varied cheese prices across regions.
Philadelphia July 1 Wheat prices firm and weak overall with options unsettled. oats dull as No 4 mixed offers light demand and lower per bushel. No 2 white wheat prices mixed. flour and butter markets steady. fresh meat and other staples show minimal changes amid general dullness in western markets.
Classified notices show rental space on the Tribune building fourth floor for light manufacturing with utilities, plus various wanted ads for rooms and lodging across Scranton areas. Also listed are a Cottrell & Bone press for sale, found items, refined sugar prices, and multiple employment and service inquiries from coachmen clerks laundresses and domestic workers.
Chicago markets show grain prices slipping as forecasts point to favorable weather. Wheat futures fall for September delivery while cash quotes drift. corn soybeans and oats also lower with mixed futures and protein products lower in price.
Chicago July 14 cattle receipts 24 000 with 475 Texas steers a focus. Steers steady to 2 cents lower. good to prime 30 0. cows steady to 50. stockers dull. calves mild. Texas hogs firm steady 1.00 to 2.00. slaughter data show 38 000, 20 000 tomorrow. sheep weak with lambs 5.00 to 6.00. yearlings 4.75 to 5.00. western sheep and native lambs mixed.
On July 1 at New York cattle sale Reeves Steers and Maldo led a firm market with higher prices for bulls and a mixed showing for cows. Opened strong for calves, veals sold at 6.07 to 6.25 per unit while bulls brought 4.28 to 6.73. Sheep showed declines, lambs weak, culls near 0.35 to 0.60.
July 15 cattle and sheep trading notes show steady to lower prices across categories. Prices listed include veal calves at 4.78, wethers around 2.00, and various weights for heavy and light stock with mixed demand estimates.
OL City reports July credit balance figures with entries including 191,830 shipments and 34,054 average. Certificates and offers are noted, while new totals include 5,004 avgage and 2617 average shipments.
In Baltimore the first game ends 4 to 9 with Washington defeated. pitchers Lee Clarke McGinnity Bresnahan and Umpire Manawa. The second game shows Baltimore losing 7 to 2, batters Carrick Clark Foreman Robinson and Umpire Mamassay. In Philadelphia RH F Beste notes Philadelphia 6 to 4 with Hattersen Winters Cuppy and Syhreckongoat, Plank Smith behind the plate Umpires Connolly and Sheridan.
An advertisement promises a new book available at no cost that illustrates conditions of manhood and how to attain it. The copy mentions a male artist and a medieval theme, with cryptic location hints and postal or distribution notes.
At Cincinnati and Chicago and St Louis and other sites the report lists batteries and umpires for multiple matchups. Donovan and McGuire, Phillips and Bergen, and Umpire Nash are noted for Cincinnati. Dineen and Kittridge, Taylor and Kling with Umpire O Day in Chicago. Matthewson and Warner with Sudhoff Ryan and Umpire Dwyer in St Louis. no game played in Pittsburg due to rain.
A farmer near Shade Gap reports hundreds of his fowls vanished and a nearby barn infested by nearly a dozen skunks. He spurred action, hiring hay teams and fumigating the building after the pest extermination.
The pastor of Christ Church in Suffolk Virginia offers free Sunday clothes to congregants who wear shabby attire. Recipients must commit to regular church attendance while the clothes last.
A humorous exchange from the Philadelphia Press features a gentleman of sporting tendencies recounting a dead heat with a single entry and the mortifying cremation punchline. The quip plays on irony and timing in a light newsroom anecdote.
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