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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1897
Page
9
Baseball today at Springfield fields features a game against Scranton with a 3 45 start and admission set at 25 cents. Public notices remind readers that controversial letters must be signed with real names for publication.
City notes cover piano lessons through July, an exhibition at the courthouse square, and a Scranton Chemical and Hose company meeting with no notable business. Christmas Dowie is released on bond. Joseph Smith is arrested for an assault and jailed. Marriage licenses are issued to several couples. The will of Thomas D. Roberts is probated, with properties left to two sons-in-law. Warrantless actions target two women, amid county tax bond approvals for Carbondale. A Providence Sunday School excursion to Lake Ariel is planned with an Erie train, orchestra, and bike accommodations.
Several lodges of the Sons of li, George, of Scranton Pittston and Wilkes-Barre organize teams for a tug of war at Farview next Tuesday. Prizes include 10 for first and 5 for second. A two mile bicycle race offers a diamond stud to the winner. Time ball and cricket add to the program with the pennant winner earning the ball.
The four story Wyoming house on Adams avenue near court house, built and owned by Conrad Schroeder, will open as a hotel in August under 8 M Nash, long known as proprietor of the old Wyoming house. It offers 50 to 100 guests, new furniture, carpets, daily weekly or monthly rates, and large dining room for banquets with temperate management. Carriages await at railway stations.
One round trip fare to Philadelphia via the Lehigh Valley railroad for the National Suengerbund meeting from June 7 to June 8. Tickets on sale at Lehigh Valley offices, good for return June 30. Pullman sleeping and parlor cars available on through express trains.
Keystone academy at Factoryville held its annual commencement with nineteen pupils receiving diplomas. The event included Class Day exercises of the Class of 0% and the Middle Class exercises, followed by graduation morning ceremonies amid cloudy start but brightening conditions.
Large crowd attends exercises with music by Twuer’s orchestra. Salutatory by Miss Maud Wardle. valedictorian Charles Harold Wilson speaks on Pillars of State. Numerous orations and essays delivered by graduates. prizes awarded to Sickles, Stephens, Waldie, Tiffany, and Watkine. Alumni dinner follows. Dixon delivers Life's Strategy. Evening public exercises feature orations and poems, concluding with alumni reunion.
The mall chapel program featured a male quartet performing Merrily Goes Our Bark and a series of orations. Students named include C B Cook A F Dersheimer Mies Sara Watkine I N Manchester and J F Bond with topics on citizenship labor and the constitution. The class song The Best of Friends Must Part closed the event.
The Wilkes-Barre Humane Society asks for Amelia Dougherty to transfer to Hillside Home. Three children are to be admitted to Elwyn Home. A man seeks transport, claims searching for his son. Deserts and neglect cases prompt county action to place children under care.
The Delaware Lackawanna and Western announces minor timetable adjustments to begin next Monday. The Elmira line arrival shifts to 10 15 a m from 9 50 a m, with departure to New York at 10 20. The 56 Bloomsburg train leaves at 10 20, and Northumberland service gains fifteen minutes. The annual guide Summering on the Lackawann e is available from Division Passenger Agent M L Smith at the station.
Williamsport reports a whist ling club and a fine Lancaster Young Women s Christian Association commencement. Wilkes-Barre plans for the state convention. Beranton highlights a pretty Harrisburg annual report with 3000 more attendees, eleven conversions, and praise for Mra. E. S. Chambers and Mise Emma Moore. Pittsburg’s Carnegie Hall commencement drew large crowds amid a city fire, showing strong YWCA work across classes, cooking, dressmaking, training, and study.
At the United Evangelical parsonage in Scranton on June 17 1697 Rev D Moore officiated the marriage of George Haldan and Mamo Powter of 911 Gapoune avenue.
In Scranton on June 17 1907 John Bird Jr aged 19 of 19 Lafayette Street funeral from residence Saturday morning at 9 o clock high masses at St Patrick church Hyde Park Catholic cemetery Interment. Nolan June 18 19 William Joseph son of Mr and Mrs Michael Nolan Jr funeral Sunday at 2 30 from 6 Kemmet Street burial in Myde Park Catholic Cemetery
The Von Storch case dominates proceedings with 112 pages of plaintiff deposition read this week. Adjournment to Wednesday precedes more witness testimony and closing arguments, while other cases, including Jones versus Mackey and Thayne versus Scranton Traction, proceed with verdicts and motions for new trials. The county treasurer reports no funds to pay jurors. The best of all pills are Beecham's.
Last Thursday a Knights of the Maccabees degree team from this city visited Pittston to exemplify the order’s ritual before the West Pittston tent. Candidates were initiated and praised the work. the city team included Anthony commander and Hine first officer alongside others from Hyde Park and Scranton tents with E L Tallman and EE Watson directing. The report notes rapid growth of the order in Luzerne and Lackawanna counties.
Next Tuesday evening the Thiele School of Music will present a concert on SL Washington avenue featuring advanced pupils. The program includes selections by Gounod, Beethoven, Haydn, Chopin and more with a mix of small ensemble pieces and violin and piano sonatas. The article also lauds Scranton School of Music and Languages and its director Pennington, noting European training and high teaching standards.
Beemer and Son were fined $100 by Alderman Howe yesterday on oleomargarine handling charges. The judgment allows an appeal in the regular way. Beemer plans to appeal in a few days. Day, the butcher, will also appeal. William Leitner, the other butcher, has not yet been arrested.
An advertisement touts a toilet set as a stylish bedroom article with decorative shapes. It claims homely sets are inferior and offers a large stock at various prices with broad color and shape options for wedding gifts and gifts in general.
A busy sale room offers celery dishes berry dishes vases and other glassware as gifts for customers whose purchases total fifty cents or more. The crowded gift room glows with electric lights and shows tables labeled One Two Three Four Five Dollars as a bride’s home setting. A Paul E. Wirt fountain and a solid 16k gold pen priced at $1.25 draw attention amid the bargain spree.
Caution urged as cheaper substitutes flood the market claiming to be Horsford's Acid Phosphate or phosphate in soda. Authorities warn these rivals may be dangerous and do not deliver the same effect as the genuine product, advising buyers to insist on the real Horsford's.
An old ad touts Bromo Quinine Tablets as a one day cure for colds. It promises a refund from druggists if the remedy fails to cure. The copy reflects early 20th century patent medicine marketing.
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