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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1897
Page
7
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Tonight the board of control holds a regular meeting while the First Battalion of the Thirteenth regiment conducts a drill. Street cleaning resumes in the city center after a Saturday night pause and nineteen workers are dismissed for poor performance. The Lackawanna hospital nurses are photographed on the lawn as the Delaware and Hudson Canal company pays employees near Scranton and Clifton colliery. Grace Lutheran plans a lawn festival Tuesday evening at the church corner of Madison avenue and Mulberry street. Paddy Gilbride, who left Hillside Home, is jailed for thirty days after drinking. Bauer's band advances a Mountain Park excursion on June 1 with the Ninth Regiment band joining. St Hilda’s Guild ice cream festival at St Luke’s church is set for this evening on Dickson's lawn. The Hubbell Electric Lamp plant gears to produce lamps for bicycles and mines, with a Newark cellulose lamps factory planned, aiming to start July 1. The McAll auxiliary meets June 14 at 3:30 at Mrs. W. H. Richmond’s house. many are urged to attend. Public transit routes from Lackawanna avenue are noted for cross-town trips. Tomorrow evening Odd Fellows representatives from all city lodges assemble at Lackawanna lodge rooms to prepare for the section installation for W. Gaylord Thomas as grand master. committees are listed for programme, refreshments, and arrangements.
Remember a pavers band excursion to Mountain Park Tuesday June 15 with the Ninth Regiment band. Hanley serves as caterer. Trains depart at 9 am and 1 50 pm. Tickets price adults and children 60. o
Miss Annie O'Connor of New York organized a branch of the Woman's Benevolent Legion in the Cathedral parish yesterday. Over 200 names were enrolled, with officer elections set for tonight in St. Thomas' college basement. The society is fraternal and benevolent with insurance social and charitable features and maintains national scope from New York headquarters.
Morris Caplin said Wolf Seidman assaulted him on Spruce Street on June 9 and took $5 and $1 notes. Caplin, not drunk, testified at arraignment before Alderman Howe, who held Seidman in ball.
The annual Tri County Christian Endeavor Convention will be held Friday at St. John's Reformed Church in Freeland Lugerne county. Services are scheduled for 10 a.m. 145 p.m. and 7 15 p.m.
One fare for a round trip to Philadelphia via Lehigh Valley railroad for the National Baengerbund meeting June 21 to 23. Tickets available at Lehigh Valley offices June 11 to 23, valid for return June 26. Pullman sleeping and parlor cars, day coaches on express trains.
Elaborate services marked Children's Day in numerous city churches with floral decorations and special programs. Second Presbyterian featured tall hemlock trees and a choral anthem. Elm Park and Dunmore churches showcased extensive decorations and Baptism of infants amid memorials and speeches.
Nearly 1000 children in the Scranton diocese received the sacrament of confirmation. Bishop O'Hara confirmed 400 at St Patrick's Olyphant and 200 from Jessup, Bishop Hoban confirmed about 400 at Plessburg and nearby missions, while Cathedral parish youths confirmed earlier received first communion yesterday morning.
Sabbath News Notes covers Rev W P Ray at Gospel Tabernacle and other services. Observances at Welsh Calvinistic Church and Penn Avenue Baptist changes include a larger platform and choir loft for 150 voices, plus pipe organ repairs. An Erie talk at Railroad Y M C A features Charles G Mitchell on life behind the scenes. Charles N Crittenton evangelizes at Jackson Street Baptist and Florence Crit tenton mission is discussed. Joseph K Dixon preaches a sermon on Bible themes with choir performances.
A raid led by County Detective Leyshon targeted nickel in the slot machines used to gamble in city hotels. Two men face charges of operating gaming devices as authorities seized machines and arrested John Ruble and Frank A. Braemer, both held on 500 bail. The devices resemble six foot high glass faced color dials with pay scales from one to twenty to one.
The jury acquitted the defendant amid sympathy and belief that his arrest was sufficient, while Saturday young Hand and Harry Allen of the West Side were sent to the county jail to await trial for stealing copper wire from a large reel outside Hunt & Connell’s warehouse on West Lackawanna Avenue.
In a Saturday hearing before Alderman Millar, Vito Girardo accuses Ferdinando Arigoni of larceny for stealing four horses and carts. Bail set at $200 for Girardo to keep peace and $500 for Arigoni. horses to remain with the person in whose custody they were found per law, as argued by Attorney John J. Murphy, so Arigoni will keep the horses.
At the last term of criminal court 12 year old Robert Hand of the West Side was tried as part of a gang that stole brass fixtures from dynamos in the new Scranton Illuminating Heat and Power plant project. He was caught red handed in the act.
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