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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1898
Page
3
The Wilkes-Barre K Record can be found in Seranton at the news stands of M. Menhart located on Wyoming Avenue and Lackawanna Avenue.
Community items include a July 4 church picnic at Green Ridge with Frank Vogler. Saint Dita Echoor South Ridge holds a June 4 commencement. Nay Aug Fire company bike event on June 5 at Harmony Garden. Rice funeral at Taylor Avenue residence with Petersburg Cemetery interment. local obituaries and court notices. a divorce filing involving Taylor and Lewis. a Sixth Ward witness list. a sharp accident on Franklin Avenue injuring a child. Traders National Bank opens US bond subscription for public reach with denominations. subscriptions due by July 11 to reach Washington Treasury.
Children’s day activities were held yesterday in North Scranton West Scranton and South Scranton churches with floral decorations and choirs. The First Presbyterian and Primitive Methodist churches featured program with instrumental quartette and prayers. Numerous congregations including Welsh Baptist and Welsh Congregational hosted large audiences and offered music recitals, recitations, and school presentations led by church leaders and Sunday schools.
The second quarterly conference of Welsh Congregational churches from Lackawanna and Wyong valleys convened at Taylor in the First Welsh Congregational Church. Officiants included Richard George of Wilkes-Barre as president, with William Jones as secretary and Daniel J. Evans as treasurer. Delegates and ministers from Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, Olyphant, Plains, and surrounding towns attended continuations of sermons and papers on church and society work.
A jury returned verdicts favoring defendants in several actions including two livery cases and a suit by Mary Ann Smith who was declared lunatic. Trials covered alimony and divorce actions, and a partition dispute noted potential prejudice to parties. Judge Gunster adjourned for absent jurors.
A large party from the Chautauqua Literary Circle of the YWCA visited Rocks Glen near Fretersyville on Sunday for a pleasant day. Members came from Wyoming and Pacerivlle with numerous names listed among attendees and chaperones.
The undertaker George Timlin of Taylor received a message from undertaker Walsh of Providence instructing him to attend to the body of Patrick Green killed on the Delaware Lackawanna and Western railroad near the Lackawanna station Thursday morning. The coffin was sent to Providence Saturday afternoon, to his wife and family in that city.
Francesa Forteski, an elderly Taluun woman employed in the Imperial hotel kitchen on Penn avenue, fractured her ankle after stepping on a banana peel while walking on the South Washington sidewalk in front of car shops. She was taken to Lackawanna hospital at 10 o'clock. doctors report the fracture as not serious.
Saturday’s lively show drew clergy and families as E J Goodwins Guees Work and Crawford’s Cadella led a brisk parade of horses and tractors along the Speedway. Spectators watched heats, noted captures, and praised the era’s nonballoon sports amid a bustling, noise-filled afternoon.
Duty appointments at the grounds on the Fourth will be read at the Foner committee meeting to be held Wednesday night.
Knights of Columbus from Scranton Carbondale and Wilkes Barre attended the installation of a new council in Trent Tend. Exercises were held under the auspices of Binghamton and Susquehanna councils. The initiatory degree will be led by Scranton Thursday with subsequent degrees a week later. District Deputy W F Shean oversees preliminary work for an installation at Honesdale on the Fourth of July with Pittston and Hazleton to follow.
Delegates chosen in the Twentieth senatorial district Republican primaries held Saturday. The event was quiet with one active polling spot. The convention is set for Tuesday at two o clock at the Centred Republican building on Washington avenue. Will nominate a candidate for state senator.
A drunken man found with a revolver butt protruding from his pocket was loaded into a patrol wagon and taken to the central police station near KE Robinson's Sons brewery on Serjeant Ridge. He claimed to be James McGillre, 27, a clear maker from Detroit, and was jailed on a 20 Maye bond in Wen of aw Nine.
Multiple death notices from Scranton announce Ise McNally Bridget O Malley and Mary McGovern with details of residences church services and interment at Cathedral cemetery. Each entry lists age and funeral times at St Patrick and St Johns Cathedral and notes processions from local residences to Catholic cemeteries.
An old advertisement touts free mantis treatments and home remedies for catarrh bronchitis throat and hearing issues. It claims cures for skin liver stomach brain nerves blood and urinary problems plus surgery and examinations by Dr 7 detailing office hours daily and Sundays.
Plumbing Inspector M. T. O Malley directs architects to include duplicate plan copies for sanitary work on new buildings. He requires a certificate after completion, certifying satisfactory work, and the owner must obtain this certificate from the architect or contractor before final acceptance.
The Triad athletic committee met at the Ballot Jatin Boyle venue with Chateman Balend presiding. John Murphy reported many entries received and more preparations needed as seven towns send eight men each. M M Sweeney, the world champion high jumper, has signed to provide exhibitions.
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