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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1896
Page
8
Brief notice from Carbondale news dealers aoe and Co at North Mal n. Ht about ents orders for job work and items for bileation left at their establishment. Prompt attention requested.
The city prepares a larger Fourth of July celebration with a monster civic parade, evening fireworks, and prizes for original displays. A cycle parade starts at seven with speeches from Hotel American and a review at Hotel Anthracite.
The body of Patrick Brown, a late Danville inmate, shows bruises and a long cut near the right temple. The Danville officials dispute the fall explanation and have arranged medical examination and a photograph to document injuries. A report will be sent to the state board of charities. Brown was nearly 80 and partly paralyzed.
The funeral of Mrs Anson Hall was held yesterday from Park Street residence with Rev W B Grow officiating. A large procession followed to Maplewood Cemetery where pallbearers included E C Porter F J Colwell John O Miles John Muir and John Matthews. Out of town attendees included Mr and Mrs B R Hall Honesdale and others from Elmira NY and Honesdale.
At a Forest City meeting the Hill aide Cemetery association, H A Purple of this city, resigned as superintendent due to growing duties. He remains president of the board of directors.
Mr and Mrs G D Tallman issue invitations for the marriage of their daughter Myrtle Elouise to Charles K Sloats on Wednesday at 11 oclock in the afternoon. A reception follows at 104 Brook Avenue.
A garbled OCR fragment urges readers to engage early in elections and to attend. The text lacks clear names, dates, or places, but indicates encouragement for civic participation.
Visitors travel from Forty Fort Scranton and Archbald while families host relatives at Peckville and Crystal Lake. Miss Katie Devanney and Mr Thomas Duffy plan a June 24 wedding. Norbert Coggins and Maggie Coggins attend Katie Gilgallon’s Wilkes-Barre wedding. Dr Eugene Fetter and Mrs Fetter return from McMillan visit.
The death of Mrs. John Lynott occurred yesterday afternoon. She leaves a husband and grown family. funeral plans will be announced later. Misses Clifford of Carbondale visit at the Callahan residence. Mr. and Mrs. John Male Jr. and Herbert Male stay in Honesdale. Mrs. William Samson and Edna Honevar of Scranton return from a visit with the Wildrick family. Mrs. Thomas Morton will spend summer in Scotland. The Ladies Aid of the Methodist Episcopal church met at G. W. Shales’s home. Moosic Populars picnic planned at Lackawanna Park to support the baseball club. Rev. J. J. Curran’s excursion to Farview drew many attendees. Mr. Chester’s North End birthday celebration included an music program and gifts, a Bible among them. Mr. and Mrs. M. Commermuth announce a daughter. Robert Landon attends his sister’s wedding at Herrick Centre. Miss Muggle Gaughan of Kansas City visits town. William Webber family attend the wedding of their son James at Dunmore.
The Reds defeated a picked club on School ground by 9 to 2 yesterday afternoon. Peter Price leaves for Easton to join Bauer's band for Laf ayette college exercises. Taylor mine repairs due mid July. Don Morrison, West Lackawanna avenue, on a Saturday business trip. Mrs. William Evang of Scranton visited Mrs. James Morris Jr. yesterday. Miss Della Caswell and Thomas Barless to marry this evening. Mr. and Mrs. Heck of Baltimore, former pastor here, visiting Anton Shultise. Cooper and Arnold Ott return from Switzerland. William Powell, Taylor street, ill with rheumatism. Cake contest at Carpenters union: Frances Watkins $11.50. Mary Ann Nicholas $8.26. Loyal Crusaders social last evening well attended.
A birthday party was hosted Monday at Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Reaney home for their daughter's twenty seventh birthday with many guests from Pittston Parsons and Plains. Mrs Bentley and daughters Lottie and May of Scranton are visiting Mrs George Bambridge. Borough warning boards warn wheelmen against sidewalk riding on Sunday and to observe ordinances through the week. Reese Bennett of Spring Brook Water company fell from the wagon and sustained several bruises. Miss Clara Robbins enjoyed a pleasant trip to Wilkes Barre on Wednesday.
William Swales spent Sunday with his sister Miss John Jayne in Nanticoke. Corey Jenkins was called to Pittston for his mother's illness. Mrs John S Jenkins and Mrs Joseph Poole visit Virginia. Ralph Jenkins, two, fractured his right collar bone after a bed fall. Nellie Glanville left to attend a wedding in Nanticoke. The Sturges repair work resumes after a five week idle period. Open air concert by the Olympus Cornet band at Harrison house tomorrow evening.
New Milford residents and visitors share notes on camping at East Lake, measles cases, a busy corn and strawberry season, and a lively church calendar. The New Milford baseball club edged Everett quarry crew, Dana Barrett hit 21 of 25 pigeons at the gun club, and town leaders held a township school board meeting naming officers.
Scranton residents Wilbur A. Rice and J. W. McDonald arrive in Montrose while Dr H K Wilkins and Grace B Crock from Nicholson attend the game. Brooklyn's E G Williams and Squire Wardle register at Exchange hotel. Philadelphia doctors J W C O Neal and Cadwalader Biddle register at Montrose house.
Filas Reynolds extends a flagstone walk along Maple street. Mrs Vic Clark attends granddaughter Lydia Perkins wedding to Nelson Nicholls at Clarks Summit. Miss Kittle Henwood and others attend Keystone Academy commencement this week. A youth leap year party travels to Crystal Lake Tuesday. L D Kemmerer’s Acad emy street home repainted by J M Wells. Prof D W Harmon of Hamilton Theological college attends commencement at Keystone. Eva Moss of Tunkhannock returns home after visiting. Walter Kemmerer from Wesleyan University returns home for summer.
The marriage of Fred L. Foster of Factoryville to Miss Fanny Stephens occurred Wednesday at the bride’s parents home with Rev. G E Van West officiating. The couple departed by train for a extended trip to Albany and New York via train No 1. George W Heminger of Wetherly Pa and other local residents were noted as visitors and townspeople were seen about Factoryville on the day.
Mr and Mrs H L Edsall of Duryea visit Courtland New York as an ice cream and strawberry festival at the new church goes well though several boys steal a freezer of ice cream Tuesday evening. Miss Margaret McDonald visits her aunt in Green Ridge. Mrs Samuel Hrodhead visits her sons in Susquehanna county. Miss Lizzie Monte of Philadelphia vacations with her parents in Mooele. Miss Ina Hitchner of West Pittston.
The report lists the officers elected at the Old Forge Epworth League meeting held Monday evening. Frederick Cox is president with George Fletcher as first vice president Evan Pickrell as second vice president Bertha Shotwell as third vice president Blanche Fletcher as fourth vice president Robert Johnson as secretary and organist Lizzie Jackson as assistant secretary David Pickrell as treasurer Samuel Sibley as assistant organist.
James McCreary, recently ill, is recovering as he arrives with W. J. Pike to spend the summer. Sheriff Leonard of Montrose visits town midweek. Ida Jones returns home from a pleasant visit in the Parlor City. Er. N. Weaver resigns as janitor of the Railroad Y M C A and departs for Nicholstown, his former home.
A Boston Journal item notes a young man orders a famous meerschaum pipe maker to carve his sweetheart or wife’s image in the pipe bowl. The piece costs money, yet the young spender is described as living on an income ranging from 250,000 to 500,000 dollars annually.
The Rev Mr Andrew Briday of Rochester New York will preach on Sunday morning and evening marking the twentieth anniversary of the Moosic Presbyterian church. The wedding of Thomas Patterson to Miss Nina Labar is scheduled this afternoon. Mr and Mrs John M Robertson were callers in Dunmore Monday evening. Mrs F T Grover was a caller in Scranton yesterday and Mrs James A Hand in Scranton Tuesday evening.
The article extols the pipe as a timeless companion rivaling cigars for flavor and comfort. It notes fashionable adoption among elites and claims the pipe’s mellowing age enriches experience, promising widespread appeal beyond class lines.
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