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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1895
Page
8
Local items report the Wy oming county annal district convention at Gill City on Aug 2 with delegates, a Grange picnic at Lake Carey on Aug 15, and a Meadville convention Oct 1 2 for county commissioners to attend as guests of Groton Bridge Co. The notes mention various residents, farm incidents, transport changes, and social gatherings in Montrose Noxen and Wilkes-Barre.
The Rev H C Crane and Mrs Charles Wills join a Christian Endeavor convention at Borton. The Misses Baldwin of Jersey City stay with Stephen Bron-Bon. Mr and Mrs Bert Dimmick of Vand visit relatives. Maggie Evans of Wilkes-Barre visits her uncle Rev D D Jen tina. A small band of gypsies, about a dozen, arrived in town and caused a stir.
Today at McLaughlin's West Side Park will occur the phase of the motor men and conductors of the Lackawanna Valley Rapid Transit company. The Daily Anthracite suspended publication yesterday morning. The diagram for the musical comedy Peg Woflington to be given in the Grand Opera house Friday evening will be open this morning at 9 o'clock. J. J. Naughton, a former Carbondale resident, was the guest of John Harvey, of Canaan street, yesterday. Homer Grion of Honesdale was a visitor in this city yesterday. The funeral of William Rivenberg killed by the cars on Monday afternoon will occur today. A brief service will be conducted at the home on Laurel street at 8 o'clock by Rev. T. E. Jepson, after which the remains will be taken to Clifford for interment. E. F. Hendrick Lodge, No. 04, Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, will run an excursion to Lanesboro on Saturday, July 27. The train will leave Carbondale at 9:20 a. m. Fare for round trip 85 cents. Carbondale baseball team left yesterday for a ten days' trip abroad. Their schedule includes July 16, 17 at Allentown, July 18 at Atlantic City, July 19 at Cape May, July 20 and 21 at Reading, July 23 and 24 at Lancaster, July 25 and 28 at Allentown. The Wanching Hose company will picnic at Warching Grove today. Delegations from the Mitchell and Columbia fire companies will attend.
A group of young men Ott Liebenow James Palmer Oakley Kellam and T M Burtnett plan a two week camping trip at Fairview Lake starting Thursday. Frederick Hand son of Dr Hand of Scranton is visiting during vacation. William Schardt and daughter Mamie visited Fairview Lake Monday. George W Lake and Sidney Brink fished at Tedyscung Lake returning with twenty four basa and pickerel largest four pounds. William Curran of Port Jervis N Y visited this week. Harry Sanford of New York City on vacation at Lackawaxen visited Monday evening. Miss Sarah Lynn spent Monday at Lake Ariel. Miss Christine Murphy visited Maple City this week. William Montgomery Ford of Scranton was in town Monday. Thomas Howell and Charles Schardt went to Fairview Lake Monday.
Miss Jennie Humphrey of Montrose spent Sunday in town. Ward Ives of the Ready Pay store visited Binghamton on Tuesday. A fire leveled the barn and workshop of the late Henry Warner on Saturday night and is thought incendiary. Mrs. Sullivan daughter of Mr and Mrs John Millane died suddenly in New York on Saturday night. The Millanes will bring the remains home for a Wednesday funeral. Tra Corbett of Corbettsville died Sunday. funeral today. Matthew Blake died Friday. funeral held Sunday at St Lawrence church.
Experiments show microbes are necessary for body digestion and for nitrogen uptake in plants. The Russian professor fed animals sterilized food and germless air, causing drooping health and death, proving food would not assimilate without microbes. Also advertises Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup and trade printing services for posters and tickets.
William E. Curtis records the jinrikisha’s origin from American sailor Jonathan Gobel, a Methodist missionary, who improvised a wheeled packing-case chair for rheumatism. The piece details Gobel’s early Kanagawa ministry, the rikisha’s global spread, its cost and operation in Japan, the endurance of rikisha coolies, and amusing anecdotes of colonial encounters and local discipline.
Two women at a chic Chicago restaurant debate who should pay their luncheon bills while trading gossip. The scene includes boasting about gowns and insults toward a third woman, with flirtation and subtle power plays framed by a public social setting.
Sadie and Laura quarrel over paying a bill as Busie Fisher enters and Myrtle helps. A messenger says Sadie’s mother warned her to fetch her pocketbook from home on state street before they hurry to lunch. The trio ends with a bustling exit after the reminder.
A Chicago Tribune page notes a debate among editors about nautical slang and propriety in a heated exchange. The exchange grows tense with puns and strong words before finally stopping the quarrel.
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