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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1894
Page
5
City notes list upcoming performances and gatherings at local venues including The Rivals at the Academy of Music tonight. Weddings church events Memorial Day preparations and multiple recitals and entertainments across Frothingham Frothingham Hall Pine Street and St. John’s Hall.
The thirteenth Pennsylvania National Guard leads the Memorial Day parade at 2.20 pm through central streets. The official program lists division directions, unit commanders, and route, with decorative orders and assembling points at Adams Avenue and Spruce Street. Aids report by 1.30 pm and the mayor reviews from the Municipal building steps.
The Dunmore Presbyterian Church heard Rev. J W Williams preach on keeping the Sabbath holy and opposing Sunday business. The congregation adopted a resolution backing the Lord's day observance and supporting Sunday laws of Pennsylvania.
Rev Dr Cornelius Asbury presiding elder of the Pittsburg district spoke at Howard Plas African Methodist Episcopal church last evening on An Old Bone of Contention. He described a land dispute over a man lacking self knowledge and the labels Afro American.
Dr. Asbury spoke on progress for his race after the war and the outrages in the South. He argued the black man should be free from Maine to Georgia and able to ride transit if he pays fare, otherwise faced with equal treatment. He urged safety under his own fig tree and unmolested living.
The Mackay Kennedy Comic Opera company opens a summer season at the Frothingham theater next Monday evening. A 30 member troupe will present Girofly Giroffs with two or three operas weekly including Boogar Student and La Masgata. Seats priced 50 cent orchestra to 15 cents gallery with matinees Wednesday and Saturday. Sale begins at Powell's Friday morning.
The board adopted the building committee report awarding the No 27 heating contract to Smead Wills & Co for 3 490 40 and approved land purchases by Mrs Hattie F Burns including lots 25 26 27 at Beach and Bincher avenues for 1 000. May payrolls totaling 12 549 49 were approved with teachers earning 10 754 00. Commencement powers were given to principals and W B Graves was recommended for a permanent teaching certificate.
A group of college men met in the college chapel invited by Rev J A O'Reilly to form a young men's society. They discussed the organization’s purpose and plan to organize further next Monday night focusing on the intellectual development of members.
The funeral for Ira Gearhart, a Delaware, Lackawanna and Western engineer fatally injured at Nay Aug tunnel, will be held tomorrow afternoon at his residence 1012 Monsey Avenue Lorviess. The service starts at 2 p.m. with interment at Dunmore Cemetery.
The notice touts refrigerators sold only in this city by Thomas F. Leotard with oak and walnut finishes. It highlights wood built sideboards and ventilated dry-air design. Also mentions Bloyden rent service and A. E. Bunn resuming practice in the Bureau building. Guernsey Brothers reports lower prices.
A three week civil term starts with Judge Gonster presiding over the Ward divorce case showing alleged infidelity and salacious testimony. Mrs Ward denies the charges while Judge Edwards recuses from related matters due to prior arbitration.
The Young Men's Christian Association hall hosts an event featuring Katharine Parker a noted reader with Miss Helen Boies-Hunsicker and the Bundy sisters. Patrons include many prominent locals and the sale of gear for the entertainment is open at the Y M C A hall with tickets available.
Judge Archbald issued a lengthy opinion ruling on the third and fourth ward school director race between John J. Collins and Patrick F. Hughes. The decision centers on sixteen ballots marked with group identifiers. ten for Collins and six for Hughes, determining Collins at 857 votes to Hughes 356 after illegal ballots are deducted. Hughes plans no appeal. costs allocated to Carbondale City School District.
Tir Tam unm offers twenty parts of America portfolio for ten cents each. resolutions signed by the mayor direct plans for sewers on Penn Avenue and Luzerne Street, paving Pine Street block by block, and a Sixth Ward sewer plan. Also mention Decoration Day wheel rental at 610 Washington Ave and a display of dress ribbons by Finlay and Connan.
Music boxes exclusively made by Bont and Gautechié Sons on Chestnut Street Philadelphia advertised as wonderful orchestral organs. Boxes repaired and tuned with new tunes Tor Mace or Roseyvny offered at 35 and 10 units respectively.
Manager Mishler pens The Tribune opinion on the current production of The Rivals by Mrs John Drow and company set for this evening. He notes Mrs Malaprop's performance remains charmingly fresh and humorous though this may be her final appearance in the role.
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