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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1897
Page
2
The itemized notes report a Plymouth resident's fall injury, shifts in rail freight and bus service, church and school projects in Luzerne and Bradford counties, a dedication in Ashley, and a series of thefts, assaults, and court actions across the region plus forthcoming chautauqua events with notable speakers and officials.
Mr and Mrs A C Stevens visited his parents in Caryveri on Sunday. Edward Kozelle and family spent the day with her sister in Pittston. Seventh Day Adventists plan to fill the sail on Sunday. Various locals enjoyed river flats activities this week and visits with relatives in Orange Wilkes-Barre Beranton Calverton Ayoeu.
Sale notice markets oil cloth at 18c 20c 28c 40c and 33c per square yard with values from 20s to 400. Also matting sale offers 200 yards of assorted matting at 5c to 25c, priced at half their value.
The message notes various visits over the weekend including a Jackson resident with her brother J W Baker, Miss Wolfe a West Side teacher visiting Augelin, Miss Marearet Lloyd moving to Kyte Bros confectionery, Willan Halford visiting his aunt, Mrs Chester Harria of Har ria Hil, and Mr and Mrs W T Woodruff visiting Mr and Mrs Harrison Guay in Corverton.
Visitors including Mise Gertrude Hall and Joseph Stanton from Chinehilla join Keysttone academy. News notes cover room moves, cold lodgings, local families visiting Scranton and Dushore, and a year end school program at the Methodist Episcopal church. Fireless progress on Foster Co store remodeling and a Keystone athletic concert lauded despite small attendance. Rev Wilson of Rahway preached at the Baptist church.
Mise Carrie Harding of Scranton visits friends. Mrs. C. R. Newton and Harriet of Montrose call on Friday. Dr. E. S. Wheeler, recently ill, leaves for Point Conlon Virginia with Dr. Heller of Factoryville. Mrs. Elmer G. Bacon returns from Lanesboro and Jermyn. Dr. and Mrs. E. J. Webb on wedding trip return and head to Jersey City. Attorney W. A. Wilcox visits family in Scranton. Bradley Carpenter of New Milford in town. An update on the Delaware Lackawanna and Western bridge accident appears in another column.
Forest City residents Mr and Mrs John Sampson of Carbondale were guests at T L Hortons home on Sunday. The Crystal Lake hotel opens to the public next Saturday for the season. Mrs Theron Horton leaves for Prompton Wayne county to visit her son Ernest Horton for several weeks. Mendelssohn Glee Club rehearses the cantata Weather the Beautiful Queen for Decoration Day. Mrs Oliver Coyle visited Scranton relatives late last week. W A Titeworth of Montrose was in town yesterday pursuing political fences as a candidate.
Minaetta Moyle of Scranton visits her grandmother Elizabeth Higgins in Montrose. Tonight at the Methodist church the Epworth Laguedette asks the question Resolved That man is a Creature of Circumstances with free admission.
Local notes report the Tunkhannock bobbin factory pausing operations due to lack of fibre for bobbin heads. Memorial Day services are set for May 2 at the Presbyterian church led by Rev. Hodge. Other items mention residents visiting relatives, painting contracts, and a trip to Factoryville to watch a game between Keystone and Wyoming Seminary.
In Plymouth Mrs Mary Titus and daughter Mrs Cora Shaw report eerie rappings from a cellar in the Titus home on Vine street. Neighbors investigated and believed a ghost haunted the house linked to Dennis Titus death in a mine. The tapping was later traced to Mrs Shaw via floor tapping, though fear lingered among locals.
Chicago May reports show May and July futures for wheat and corn with prices and alternates. Pork and lard futures listed with bids, plus cash quotes for flour oats rye and seeds and notes on receipts and shipments across grains and private stocks.
The New York market opened with cautious gains amid dull dealings and firmer American prices in London. Improved Northwest prep reports and stronger earnings spurred buying of railroad stocks, with total daily volume around 143,081 shares.
Market reports show firm demand for winter patents and high grades with prices around 7905.90 dollars. wheat and corn futures mix, spot oats firm, butter dull, cheese steady. Regional identity includes New York, Minnesota patents, and local grading terms, with unsettled or steady quotes and deliveries in May and July contracts.
Philadelphia May 1 Wheat prices firm for May and higher for several contracts with steady corn and mixed No 2 white. Flour firm but quiet with customer demand. rye flour dull. Refined sugar quiet but firm. Live poultry steady with fair demand. take poultry quiet but steady with good broilers.
The record lists shipments including flour 3000 barrels and 1000 sacks, wheat 5000 bushels, corn 20 bushels, and various outs totaling 12 100 bushels. It notes ships to Heart and references 8 bushels and 15 40 bushels.
New York markets report mixed livestock values with beaver and sheep categories showing firmer bids while calf and lamb segments rise gradually. Prices listed include beaver active $4255.10, F900.85, calf active $305.25, clipped lambs $4,705.64, and lamb prices around $7.27 to $7.0 per head, with some declines in other entries.
Cattle and commodity prices listed for fat cows and heifers at 3 204.25 dollars, bulls and porters around 2 0003 and 3 M4a4, choice calves 05.% Hogs and sheep prices vary by grade. Receipts show cattle 17 000 head, hogs 40 000 head, sheep 19 000.
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