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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1898
Page
7
Correspondence for The Tribune's Carbondale page goes to Mr C R Munn on Salem Avenue and Church Street. Address complaints about delivery to Roberta & Reynolds news agents.
Telegram from KB M Peck announces the death of Albert R. Peck of Aldenville aged nearly 73 from heart disease after months of illness. Born in Clinton, his life centered there with stints as foreman for L A Patterson at Herrick and at Bullwater for the Delaware and Hudson Canal saw mill. He served in public office, was a deacon of the Baptist church, survived by wife and four children J E Stillwater W M M E Riverside California and Mrs W C Norton Alden dale. Funeral by Rev C Wilson Smith set for tomorrow at 1 o clock.
The Mozart band performs an outdoor program from Motel American balcony this evening. Selections include Uncle Sam, From Dawn Till Twilight, Somebody Has My Heart, The Nation's Pride, The Blue and Gray, My Old Kentucky Home, Caesar's Triumph, and other marches and waltzes.
One hundred eighty three persons attended the Sunday school picnic at Jefferson Park yesterday. Unpromising morning weather kept many from going, but the event drew favorable impressions and a possible future branch to Fiddle Jake.
Sixteen fresh air children sent from New York by the Tribune return home today. Miss Jones of the fresh air department supervises the departure and will escort the group back to the metropolis. They traveled via the Erie and will return over the Delaware Lackawanna and Western. All but one spent time on farms in Clifford township.
Local residents list summer visits and departures with Crystal Lake trips to Fern Hall Port Jervis and nearby towns. Foremanship change at a silk mill. fishing rewards. midnight thefts on Belmont street. a moving of a gents’ store. and a roof collapse near the old rink with no injuries.
William Mains was hurt Wednesday when he fell from the delivery wagon of J. D. Stocker & Son. He sustained deep facial gashes requiring several stitches and remains weak from blood loss, with doctors hopeful he will recover. Mrs. J. M. Graves is confined by a rheumatic attack, a common complaint among May residents.
Jermyn Archbald and Peck ville residents rely on the Water company pipes but taps yield a muddy foul fluid. The Peekville board of health is pressed to act as boroughs face polluted water with health concerns mounting. Mrs. Hemilbright plans to leave for Ocean Grove with her son Henry as a change of air is hoped to aid well being. First Baptist Sunday school teachers and scholars enjoyed a Chapman Lake picnic yesterday.
Community calendar items include MI books tribe anniversary plans for September in Taylor rooms. Local candidates and visitors are noted, with funeral arrangements for Mrs. George Evans and various social visits. The board of trade meets this evening as Taylor colliery operates repairs.
The Hawaiian Islands commerce is analyzed, showing the United States dominating imports and exports since the 1876 reciprocity treaty. U.S. exports rose from under a million to nearly six million yearly, while U.S. imports topped two million. sugar leads exports, with coffee, rice, bananas, and pineapples rising in importance. Population near 109000.
The main event was a cake walk with Mrs. Bosley winning a handsome vase for presenting the most ridiculous appearance.
Mrs A E Loveland and children visit her parents Mr and Mrs J F Wandell in Daleville. The Rebekas plan a ten cent cup at the Odd Fellows hall. Helene Hollister visits friends at Nanticoke. Ruth Gardner travels in Massachusetts. John Van Brunt and daughter from New York visit his brother C P Van Brunt. Adeline Pryor stays with Mrs W F Clements. Mrs George Goortree calls on friends in Sterling. J W Sayer kills a large rattlesnake in his pasture. Edward and Mrs Miller of Daleville visit CW Peck. Rev T B Martin of Tobyhanna preaches Sunday evening. Mrs J W Clouse in Scranton. Orrin Traviata with sister Mrs V J Smith at Nicholson.
Miss Annie Reed of Scranton visits friends in town. Miss May Kern of Pitteton visits the Methodist Episcopal parsonage on Dundaff Street. Mrs. Mary Davis and daughter Miss Sarah Davis of New York City left to visit Mr. W. J. Davis of Servanton. Mrs. Dr. Dwyer returns from Lanesboro. Mrs. Dr. McGuire visits Uniondale. Mrs. Oliver Coyle, recovering from illness, stays with friends at Uniondale.
The data cite Hawaiian residents by race totaling 91,000 Hawaiians and diverse immigrant groups, with government receipts around $2 million annually. Tariff and internal taxes split receipts roughly one third each, while expenditures stay just under income. Trade with Hawaii spans over 50 years, with imports recorded from 1826 and exports from 1887, growing to $4,408 in 1833 and $48,720 by 1885, reaching $2,000,000 in 1877 after a treaty, and approaching $6,000,000 in the current fiscal year amid record imports likely exceeding $1,500,000.
The article describes early California observations of oil and asphaltum at coastal sites. It notes asphaltum on shorelines after east winds, oil-bearing strata offshore near Puente Summerland and Santa Barbara, and scaffolded drilling extending from shore into the sea. It reports sea drill operations using fuel oil pumped from the water and mentions fresh springs offshore and a comparable spring on the Florida coast.
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