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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1897
Page
16
Carbondale society page lists residents and visitors from Scranton Honesdale New Haven and Willimantic with anecdotes of trips to Atlantic City Waymart Crystal Lake and Bethany. Entries mention Mr and Mrs Humphrey Smith Morrison and Remson among others with brief updates on travels illnesses and visits.
The Daughters of Naomi Institute in As sembly established Pride of the Valley No. 11, an adjunct to the Mystic Chain castle 205. Mrs. Morgan of Hyde Park directed the Thursday ceremony with 45 members. Officers installed include Mrs. J. Penry as commander and Mrs. Jane James as representative to grand assembly. Visitors from Fa ther No.16 Scranton and Providence No.25 attended, along with delegates from Opah No.2.
Funeral services for Mrs Patrick F Hughes were held at St R Church with a solemn high mass celebrated by Rev J J Griffin. Rev T F Coffey and Rev Father Whalen assisted. Floral emblems came from Sacred Heart society Jermyn The Gates and other friends. Flower bearers included Thomas Loftus Patrick Mangophy George Harte and Francis McCarthy pall bearers were T V Powderly John T Loftus Dr Saltry P F Conner T G Bridgett and J B Brennan
Chief McAndrew and constables led a raid on two houses on Thursday night arresting James Arnold on the Salem road and Louis Scott at Highland Park. Mr and Mrs Scott and three daughters were detained after effort. They faced Mayor ONeill with a choice of ten dollar fines or thirty days in jail. Arnolds and Scotts were jailed.
The wife of John Murray Cobb swore out a warrant charging him with cruel treatment. She testified to twenty years of abuse. Cobb, en route to Scranton, was detained by Officer Moran and brought before Alderman Baker. He was held on $500 bail with bondsman J. H. Byrne finally secured.
Michael Maher, a miner at the Last Chance mine, was hospitalized after a rock fell in the chamber where he worked. He suffered a bruised head and a nearly severed ear before treatment and return home to Simp.
J Moran of Woodlawn avenue visits friends in Binghamton for several days. Mrs William Reese and Mrs Mijb erger with two children from Hyde Park spend Friday with Mrs T J Sermons on Terrace Street. D R B Simis of Union New York visits his sister Mrs R A Craft. Miss May Pengley returns from the Epworth league convention in Toronto where thirty thousand delegates attended.
At a special school board meeting bids for the East Side school upgrade were opened with Martin Cawley the lowest at 1700. James O Rourke 1800 Henry Renils 2100 and Probet Brothers 2150. Cawley to start work immediately.
George Wells Clark’s Green buys the old John Clark homestead at High land avenue for 2500 dollars and plans to move in soon. Mrs. Roberts of Bloomsburg visited sister Mrs. Edward Lutsey. J. L. Lutsey joined them at friends’ home in Clifford. Lutncy and cousins fished a bounty of 140 fish. An attempted robbery of the post office Wednesday night failed, aided by a dark lane.
Fern the thieves fled after plans for their reception were discovered. Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Sprague visited with Edward Lutsey and family. Mrs. Edith Post and son Earl of Newark are visiting friends here. Mr. Harry J. Austin and Miss Besale of Montclair and Miss Bertha Beatty of Irvington returned home today. The Baptist Young People’s lawn social at Mrs. N. B. Davis’s netted a handsome sum. Rev. Mr. Lowell of Dalton accepted the Baptist church’s unanimous call and will assume duties soon. Mr. Thomas Oram of Dover has been staying with his sister Mrs. F. B. Phillips.
A district convention of the Loyal Knights of America gathered in their room Thursday evening with delegates from surrounding towns in attendance. The report of the electric plant inspector noted low engine revolutions and brick work concerns, and council approved bills and adopted plant rules.
Peckville and nearby towns report visitors and sickness while workers at Blue Ridge and Riverside collieries receive pay today. Notables include Mrs Betts slowly improving, the Joneses visiting family, and George Tiffany taken ill. Funeral plans for James Faggen and Red Men church services are noted with community events and drill.
J. K. Goodman has returned from New York and will lead Sunday services at the Primitive Methodist church with a full program planned for worship and community reception.
The article notes morning 10 30 afternoon 2 30 and evening 6 30 services with singing and recitations. The band of borough tax collector Theodore Wieland was filed Thursday with sureties Jacob Wetland M C Donnelly Albert Cleave and P J O Connor. St Thomas congregation held a picnic Tuesday evening and Miss N Eley hosted a supper for Primitive Methodist church renovations. A man Ford suffered an epileptic seizure, the horse dragged him a mile and he died with a crushed skull.
The Emblem division No 57 of the Sons of Temperance will run an excursion Monday to Lake Aris with amusements including a boat race and a ball game between the Lackawannas and Moosic Populars. Tickets cost 80 and 50 cents for adults and children.
The funeral of the late Mrs P F Hughes was held yesterday morning at the Carbondale Catholic cemetery. Social notes report visits by Mrs Theodore Spettigue and daughter Mary to Wayne County and various local movements, exchanges of pulpits, and a surprise party for Miss Alma Baker with several named neighbors. The Cummingses, visiting Dr M J Shields, returned home to Georgia after a northward trip noted for its novelty including coal mines.
Rev and Mrs E Santee and Andrew Aldem have returned from Toronto where they attended the Epworth league convention. Miss Anna Mainwaring of West Pittston was calling on friends on Wednesday. Mrs J A Wood is visiting her sister Mrs L Holficker of Jermyn. Ida Eden of Dunmore is visiting at the home of J W Thornton. Bertha Santee is visiting at the Methodist Episcopal parsonage. Mrs William Tinklepaugh entertains her sister Mrs Ferguson on Thursday.
Allentown reports Ambrose Schults of Hereford was driving home from Klotz's mill yesterday afternoon when an unspecified incident occurred. Details remain unclear as the record ends mid sentence.
J J Hagerman of Colorado Springs predicts a tariff driven U S beet sugar boom with raw sugar refined domestically. He cites Pecos valley beet fields profitable for farmers, outlining yields and costs and estimating national sugar demand could require millions of acres and large investment.
Wall Street promoters say they are arranging options in the corn belt where glucose is produced. A $40,000,000 trust will issue a public offering to absorb capital, linking with the Starch Trust and affecting the Sugar Trust. The glucose product is mainly used by breweries and confectioners.
The notice lists Lehigh Valley Railroad train times to Philadelphia New York and other cities, with multiple daily departures from Wilkes-Barre and connections to White Haven Hazleton Pottstown and Supe rset areas plus through trains to Geneva Rochester Buffalo Chicago and western points. Pullman parlor and sleeping cars vary by route with expert staff contacts at South Bethlehem Scranton offices.
Trains depart Lee daily starting 16.00 for New York Philadelphia Washington and various intermediate stations with express and accommodation services to Binghamton Elmira Ithaca Wilkes Barre Northumberland Kingston and more. Pullman parlor and sleeping coaches available on express trains. For details consult M. L. Smith District Passenger Agent at the depot.
Fragmentary text from a May 1697 notice shows travel or railway timing between Erie and Wyoming Valley with reference to Hawley and local stations at about 5.00 am. Names and precise routes are garbled.
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