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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1897
Page
3
Not very often do we offer greater bargains than just now. We have a line of Ladies' Fine Dongola hand turned Shoes disposing to make room for our heavy Fall Goods. An excellent chance to get a bargain for a few days at.
The listing notes goods priced at $2.39 with good styling and toe design. Available in both all leather and cloth top variants.
City notes report a harvest home supper for Elm Park women, a Green Ridge Conclave session, and a Junior Republican club meeting postponed to Tuesday. City Hall and engine houses began Fireren's Day preparations. Arraignments included Raphael and Rose Lamont on assault charges. Horace Simrell’s will filed. Michael Call, Nordellt, and Marte Pasqde faced threats charges. The city treasurer received 82.20 as state tax share. funds allocated for sick and disabled. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western to pay certain miners and workers. Grand Central hotel annex opened with tours. notable attendees listed. A marriage license hearing and upcoming Voy tee of Ameren meeting, with speakers including Colonel Hiatt and Lt. One Liney, announced.
Dr Namar was released from the county jail yesterday on 100 bail furnished by Wade M. Finn. Special officer Ike Steinberg hastened to secure the bondsman, but after Finn was secured Steinberg’s officials were ignored.
Lackawanna county boards of health call a semi annual convention to meet in City Hall board rooms on Tuesday October 12 with sessions starting at 1 PM and 2 PM. Officers include R. FP. I. Van Sickle of Olyphant and David W. Brown of Dalton as secretary.
The three week common pleas term begins Monday November 8 with about 35 cases set each week. Many actions in trespass against the Scranton Traction Company appear including multiple Johnson, McHugh, and McDonough suits, with Wednesay and Thursday listings for several juried trespass and interpleader matters.
Alderman W S Millar of the Eighth ward attacked the last grand jury’s work in a lengthy opinion. He cited cases of alleged miscarriages, including ignored indictments after battered victims testified, a cane assault involving Detective Clifford and a theft tied to Canavan. He warned criminals would misread mercy as harmlessness.
A body identified only as May Davis died at Lackawanna hospital on Monday night awaiting claim at Cusick's livery. Two women viewed the body at the morgue last evening and said a burial collection was being raised. One woman gave the name Mrs Penn of 04 Franklin Avenue, but the number proved uncertain. A Tribune reporter found Mrs Zelba Stephens, a dressmaker at 101 Franklin Avenue, who denied knowledge of the Davis girl.
A sensational melodrama titled Always on Time opens tomorrow for three days at Davies theatre in Beranton. The show portrays frontier life with a cosmopolitan cast including W. Fr. Walters and Laura Dacre Bt. James. Delaware and Hudson railroad offers 60 cent excursion tickets Beranton to Wilkes-Barre for four days to benefit the Firemen's Mutual Benefit association.
Courts in Scranton report a juror's interruption during the Delevan versus Carbondale Street Car case provoked laughter as Judge Archbald weighed the matter. The trial, linked with an 82 420 verdict, drew a large audience and featured other proceedings about damages in the Blue Ridge Coal damages suit.
The catalog touts hats and bonnets with limited prevailing styles from leading fashion centers. It promotes fur felt trimmed walking hats at 98e, untrimmed hats at 59e, ties at 68e and 1.25 dollars, claiming typical prices higher. The seller notes buying for three large stores and invites critical comparison.
The junior pupils of Professor Haydn Fivans at Penn Avenue Baptist Church presented an entertaining recital featuring Masters Alfred Kushwa Ivor Price Lauretta Fagan Jennie Eyton Mable Jayne Eva Hall and Messrs Johnge and Thomas with vocal selections. Passengers for New York City are advised of Lehigh Valley Railroad sleep car service with a Wilkes-Barre departure at 9:00 p.m. and a 2:00 a.m. departure for New York arriving at 8:23 a.m. Reservations are available at City Ticket Office 209 Lackawanna Avenue.
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