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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1897
Page
8
A Harvest Home supper will be served at Erin Park church from 6 20 to 8 o clock attracting a larger crowd than usual. Guests will enjoy a social program as part of the evening’s events.
Professor J B Hawker plans a student military company at No 27 school to foster fitness discipline and patriotism. A New Orleans Picayune yellow fever notice is reprinted to show quarantine control and disinfected copies abroad. Police anecdotes recount wooden leg mischief and humorous drunken encounters with breathless club blows and pulsing suspect pulses.
James 1 Franey of Shenandoah visits in this column. Mrs. George Felton and family return from Syracuse New York. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Dolph of Madison Avenue visit in Binghamton. Librarian and Mrs. H. J. Carr spend autumn vacation in western cities. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Holden entertain Mrs. Frank Inglis and children of Syracuse. Miss Margaret Leaton returns from a visit to Miss Margaret Geary. A. C. Pratt of New York City visits D. W. Reynolds of Reynolds Bros. stationers. A D Holland and Beecher Ogden will represent St Luke's chapter at the international conference of the Brotherhoods of St Andrew in Buffalo October 13 to 17.
On Saturday the firm celebrates four years with a grand display of new suits jackets capes silks and dress goods. Ladies can select from a complete assortment for first choice at Mears and Hagen.
Four weeks after opening the Scranton Conservatory of Music Way, 115 pupils have registered, many studying multiple subjects. The faculty plans a social first reception next Thursday evening for students and friends with several hundred invitations. The event promises prominence in local society.
DIED. BISBING In Scranton Pa Oct 6 svt Crawford youngest son of Howard Mis bing Funeral Friday from the home Halletead court Interment in Dunmore cemetery CONWAY In Scranton Oct 1897 Katie Conway daughter of John Conway 32 Third street Funeral Thursday at 2 pm Interment at Hyde Park Catholic cemetery DAVID In Scranton Oct 6 Brian Davis aged years at his residence 1148 Hynon street Funeral tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock Interment Washburn street cemetery FPLANNDPRY In Scranton Oct 6 LT Peter Flannery one year old son of Anthony and Flannery 48 Fourth abroet
The Neversink Fire Company of Neading, one of the oldest in the state, visited Wilkes-Barre with 32 members and the Hazleton Athletic Band. They arrived after a seven day trip from Reading via Philadelphia New York Peekskill and Poughkeepsie and were welcomed by Nay Aug hosts Chief Hickey and Alderman Clemson. They toured city firehouses and roofs, attended a luncheon and banquet, and planned to march in Wilkes-Barre before possibly continuing to Allentown.
The fourth annual Daughters of Pocahontas state convention will meet at Music Hall on October 19. About eighty branches may send 2 to 400 delegates. Red Men leaders expected include Great Chief of Records Thomas K. Donnelly and Great Sachem Dr. Walter F E Bowers, both of Philadelphia. Great Pocahontas Kate Dentler of Steelton will attend. St Charles Hotel selected as headquarters.
Chief of Police Robling focused on nightly groups loitering on the Spruce street bridge promenade. The department will issue an order today aimed at stopping the nuisance and restoring order along the popular thoroughfare.
Regular meeting reviews mortality figures for September showing 127 deaths, 144 births, 42 marriages, and 6 contagious disease cases. Health officer pressure to enforce crematory and fumigation laws, addition of sanitary staff, and a large month long confiscation of produce and fruit by Food Inspector Cullen highlighted.
A dispute over occupancy at the Faurot House on Washington Ave. led to a breach of peace and forcible entry charge after Mrs. Overfield and her daughter resisted the Raisleys who claimed the lease. Alderman Howe issued a warrant. police kept the Raisleys from reentry as Overfield ran the establishment.
Training notes at Scranton Conservatory of Music mention Miss Hester A Worthington and Miss Ela MacNutt with Paris and Dresden study ties. The Father Mathew societies plan a Hazleton parade trip Oct 11 at 7 40 with $1 25 fare. return at 6 p m. North of Scranton societies depart Carbondale at 7 am. A ladies trolley trip to Carbondale includes Miss Effie Barnes and ten others visiting Mrs Price on Church Street.
The hearing of Street Commissioner A. B. Dunning versus Dominick Healey on a sidewalk obstruction charge was postponed for an indeterminate period by Alderman Wright. The article also notes a Lackawanna RR special train offer for Scranton to Bloomsburg during the county fair and a church supper at Elm Park Church on Thursday evening.
At yesterday's stockholders meeting of the Lackawanna Store association the following were elected directors for one year W W Scranton Moses T Pyne James B Mott Stephen B Palmer and James P Higginson.
Yesterday was observed by the He brew residents of the city as a day of atonement. Services were held all day in the synagogues and business and worldly affairs were for the time being entirely put aside.
Dr. J. B. Alexander of Charlotte North Carolina writes that it is not only pleasant to the taste but ranks among the best of nerve tonics for debilitated men.
Twining, optician, 125 Penn avenue, in Harris' drug store. Hours 8 a m to 6 p m. Miss Carolyne V. Dorsey, teacher of elocution oratory and delsarte, 107 Wyoming avenue.
An old ad touts Bromo Quinine Tableta claiming cure of a cold in one day. It notes a money back guarantee if unsuccessful. Also promotes Lehigh Valley sleeping car to New York departing Wilkes Barre after 9 PM arriving 8 28 PM and lists ticket location at 200 Lackawanna Avenue.
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