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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1894
Page
3
The Old Store at 322 Lackawanna Avenue advertises a sale of damaged stock including books stationery fancy items wall papers and moldings. Goods have water and smoke damage and must be sold quickly to clear the building for repairs.
Personal greetings as Mr and Mrs J Roche entertain Lieutenant J W McAndrews of the regular army. Friends of James G Stevens of Green Fordwe regret his serious illness. Mr and Mrs 0 Weston welcomed home from an extended European tour. Dr M J Williams of South Mathayve Te returned after a Western trip. James F Metlawley of Jefferson Ave and Miss Anna Roche of Gibson St will wed at St Peter's Cathedral on Nov 4 at 5 pm with a reception at Miss Roche's brother J C Roche's Gilnon Street home.
Letter from P J McGuire praising Mr Farr for labor friendly votes and efforts in the state legislature. He urges re election to defend mechanics rights and protect workers in Pennsylvania amid industrial issues and unfair employer practices. Signed from Guernsey Brow.
Professor Sprague spoke on Milton's Paradise Lost at a West Side University course held in Calvinette Methodist church drawing a large audience. A St Pauls Tourlet club event followed at St Pauls armory with music, dancing, and a cadet drill. services, funerals, and remembrances fill the rest of the day in Dunmore and Wilkes-Barre area communities.
Local residents named in a Dunmore pageant of visits and daily routines. Ongoing social calls include Miss Lottie Ripley of North Park and Miss Augusta Pinckney at Peckville. Mrs. A. Brown returns from Lake Winola. Dr. Brown of Avoca plans to locate here. Community events feature Epworth League devotionals and Loyal Legion rally at the Exchange hotel.
Vague notice says Trilne tonight will bulletin an election with results shown on a large screen via stereopticon. Arrangements completed for prompt telegraphic review by special wire. Read The Tribune tomorrow for the full election news.
Miss Margaret Lewis visits Plymouth relatives while Miss Hertha Emory and Miss Anna Stevens spend Sunday in Wilkus-Paine. A Welsh Congregational chapel program draws crowds. George J. Carter and Alfred Wooley to perform tonight at the Methodist Episcopal church. Alderman Horan handles cases including Joseph Mzeery charged with tearing fences and theft, adjourned to Friday. Mrs. Clark Barber held for assault on her husband. bail set at 300 dollars. American Mendelssohn concert at North Main Avenue Baptist Church proves popular with a fifty-voice choir. Primitive Methodist bazaar opens with decorations and a drill by young girls led by Alderman D. M. Williams’s son.
A chaotic OCR fragment mentions defeated candidates. It references Davidow Vron and banking establishments, with hints of a plan to alter Republican ballot marks. A suspect is described as a guilty man escaping custody. Also notes a mill capacity claim for Pillesbury's Hour Mills at 17 000 barrels daily.
An ad notes you can obtain an engury coin and tee by calling Davidow Bros banking establishment.
Have you seen our pretty display of pattern hats and millinery novelties Every hat displayed in our show room is in itself a beauty Orders intrusted to us early in the week will receive our most exact attention.
H Langfeld succeeds Hallacher's Millinery at 324 Lackawanna Ave. The notice lists the address and the business succession details in a concise fashion.
The South Side notes a new public school building on Stafford avenue near the Erie line, with one room to open next Monday. Diphtheria claims a child of Mr and Mrs Pred Hurch on Cedar avenue, and John Joclockakt, aged four, dies with burial at Minooka Polish cemetery. Social events include St Pauls Lutheran fair raising nearly 400 and St Johns parish activities. John Dougherty of Irving avenue dies Sunday. Bernard Milley recovered from a fall.
The Tribune reports it will display election results on a large screen via an atereopticon tonight and promises continued, full coverage tomorrow. It urges vigilance against fraud and asserts Republicans will win with a free ballot and fair count while warning against illicit actions.
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