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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1897
Page
10
Readers are notified to send advertisements orders for work and items for publication to Shannon & Co newsdealers North Main Street Carbondale Lackawanna County. The office opens from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. for submissions and prompt handling.
Baptist church offered a long children’s day program with music, recitations, and dialogues, raising funds for the American Baptist Publication Society. Methodist church featured a large Sunday school program and The Young People’s Republic with songs, recitations, and readings, supporting the Sunday school children’s fund. Guests include local families, students from Lackawanna School, and St. Hore academy graduates.
The first Crittenton meeting drew a cool crowd at the Presbyterian church. Rev Charles Lee and T I Jepson led devotional parts, Mr Wallace sang well, and Christians were urged to seek blessing. The Florence mission at Scranton received the collection. A Saturday service and a Sunday union meeting followed, with a children’s service planned tomorrow afternoon.
The school board held a Friday special meeting with all directors present except Colville. Architect T S Lacey of Scranton showed a four room addition plan for the Farview street school. Plans were adopted and work will proceed quickly to be ready for the September 1 opening.
Mrs Holbert of Lackawaxen visits sister Mrs Aron Fowler on Canaan Street. Mine Wexie Depp of Lenoxville enjoys hospitality here. Miss Elia Purdy hosts Henry Powell of Plains. Miss Thorpe leaves Norwich New York. Monday night literary club held a reception at the Misses Alexander on North Main Street with twenty four guests. Out of town visitors include W B Roe Scranton Miss Nettie Williams Roger Will am e of Forest City, Henry Hemmelright Jermyn, William Cornish Chicago. Miss Annie Grady takes a job at Munns Music Store South Main Street. Miss Lissie Harte Dundaff Street named secretary of her class at Millersville State Normal School. Mrs Walter Pennarton visiting daughter Mrs L De Wolfe. Dr Place entertaining his mother and father of Sidney New York. Mrs Fuller and daughter May Reiler Nicholsson visiting friends. Homer Greene of Honesdale visited yesterday. Mrs J Vandermark Washington Street entertaining sister Mrs Rand enbush of Scranton. Margaret Ormand Brooklyn N Y visiting relatives, returns Saturday. Cora Jacobs Baltimore is a cousin of Mrs C A Howe at Hotel Anthracite Bat eenn street. Minnie Kellow of Honesdale at home.
The Paterson New Jersey company expressed interest in locating a silk factory here needing a three story brick building 50 by 200 feet and employing about 400 workers with roughly 56000 dollars in annual wages. Bond subscriptions have fully funded the 20000 dollar issue at 6 percent. The board set a new meeting night for better borough attendance.
Carbondale Leader reports on the Wall case noting Mr Samuel Wall injured years ago in a Jermyn powder mill accident and receiving monthly aid from his children. Despite offers of home care he refused to move, later living with a Green Ridge step daughter. children shocked by the suit and deny wrongdoing. The miners union annual report is also mentioned as financially healthy with treasury funds from empty bottle sales.
Powder kegs act as dues and the society pays a dollar daily for a disabled miner and seventy six for a death. They hold $990 in treasury. Mr. Mitchell of Binghamton will speak at the Methodist church next Sunday evening on the dangers of a showman from a Christian viewpoint. Mitchell is a former actor and will likely deliver an engaging talk.
The article details Hawaii's area of 6 740 square miles across eight inhabited islands, with Oahu as the capital Honolulu and a 1895 population around 28 061 in Honolulu. It lists ethnic groups, ports, volcanic peaks Mauna Kea and Kilauea, climate, agriculture including sugar, rice, and taro, and trade figures. It also covers native characteristics and history from Cook's discovery to the 1900 Republic led by Sanford B. Dole.
Washington reports that the McKinley tariff bill may reach the statute books before July’s end, marking an unusually rapid passage for a major tariff measure. The piece reviews tariff history from Washington onward, noting administrations and congresses often stretched enactment years after inauguration, while highlighting the current unlikely coalition dynamics and party control. It also mentions a patent medicine ad promising relief for rheumatism and neuralgia.
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