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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1898
Page
7
Advertises economy for boys clothing with best quality from top factories. Lists items and sale prices for vests suits knee pants and capes with emphasis on low cost and style. Mentions regular prices and significant discounts to attract customers.
Local sellers advertise deep discounts on Calf and Patent Leather shoes for men and women. Prices show $3.00, $2.50, and 99 cents for various styles, with mentions of factory purchases and broad size runs.
A special lot of new cloth bound volumes arrives ahead of others, with over two hundred titles to choose from. The sale promises prices not matchable in Scranton at 30 cents, prioritizing room for the counter and new stock.
Carbondale correspondence of The Tribune entrusted to Mer J M Forbes. Complainants regarding regular delivery and news items should address Roberts & Raeyncids, local news agents.
District Deputy Commander Jonith W. Evans of Green Ridge castle No 196 in the Mys tle Chain paid a fraternal visit to Pioneer castle No 205 of this city last evening. He praised the local lodge for its fine standing and urged continued good work to make the castle among the state’s leaders.
Mr and Mrs Charles Cause hosted a large group of friends at their Park Street residence to celebrate their son George's anniversary. The Symphony Orchestra performed pleasant music as dancing entertained guests before midnight and refreshments followed, with all praising the hosts hospitality.
The Kennedy players led by Miss Nellie and John J. Kennedy will begin a no work engagement at the Grand Opera house Monday night. The Universal favorites are expected to draw large crowds in Carbon Dale with prior success repeated. Matinees will be given daily starting Tuesday.
Mrs BE Y Davis, guest at the J M Alexander home for two weeks, departed for Bayonne New Jersey yesterday accompanied by Mrs Willaray Chase of this city. Davis once served as postmaster here and for many years was engineer at the head of 28, earning the title Davis head. She leaves many friends regretting her departure.
The Indians meet Bt Thomas College of Scranton Saturday at Alumni Park in Carbondale. The game is a key Northeastern Pennsylvania claim stake with a large crowd expected. Nearby the South Side Athletic Club and the local high school played 0 to 0 at Alumni Park yesterday.
Work began yesterday laying the concrete base for the River Street pavement. Large crowds of spectators gather daily to observe the operations.
Miss Laura Chilton visits Miss Jennie Chambers of Providence. Thomas Campbell Thomas Herbert and Peter Rivenberg visit Carbon Galantis at Camp Meade reventiy. Miss Mary Parker of Wyoming Street guests with South Canaan friends. A new social club was formed last.
District Attorney Jonh F. Jones left his Lake cottage yesterday. Stimely Relten of the Miners and Mechanics Saving bank is enjoying his vacation. Rev and Mrs A B Sawyer and the latter's sitter spent yesterday in Honesdale. Miss Lucy Hadcock and sister Mrs Moore spent yesterday in Scranton. Mrs Orville Skeels and Mrs Harry Williams of Dunmore avenue spent yesterday with Uniondale friends. Mrs Minnie Green and daughter Jessie visited George Shelly on Salem avenue and returned to Oneonta yesterday. Mrs Well and daughter of Park street are expected home from Mimira today. Jozeph Burns of Clinton Wayne county is the guest of city relatives. Miss Hattile Quinkan returned from an extended visit with her parents in Waymart. Dr Flee Jenkins has returned from New York City.
Local notes report a Bellevue interior viewing by youths, a Chautauqua style visit to a mine, and a post office list of uncalled letters. Visitors include Rev D S Jones of Wales and Mrs Hague of Plymouth. Injuries rise from a mine fall at the Na shaft. A Taylor Tribune branch operates in the Cobleigh building.
Local community gears up for a grand social and entertainment event at St Josephs hall Minooka.
The Lackawanna Coal Company's Blakely colliery changes ownership with F E Platt and EE B Sturges of Scranton taking charge. In Blakely Father Mathew opera house hosts a Catholic Young Men's Total Abstinence and Benevolent Society event honoring Father Mathew, featuring a long program of songs, recitations, and speeches, followed by a social. Also noted are furloughs for Privates Twaddle and Murphy, injuries to drivers at the colliery, and various local social visits and rallies including a Presbyterian Endeavor rally led by Rev W F Gibbons. A Kentucky winter stay for Leonard Kelly and visits from Miss Lingie Madden are listed.
In Broad Street a pair of well regarded young women, Sybil Vane and Gwen O’Hara, witness a civic couple, Honor Beaumont and Captain Francis Faulkiner. Faulkiner admits mercenary motives but reforms after Honor offers a deed releasing her from marriage in exchange for an annuity and keeping The Grove. The narrator recalls a transformative pledge and lasting gratitude.
A morning blaze gutted the McKenna Bros. property in Honesdale injuring several buildings. McKenna engine house and cooper shop burned, along with the brothers’ dwelling, a paint shop, marble works, and two other structures. Fifteen men out of work. losses estimated around 0,000. Firemen battled the blaze for over two hours as Canford’s works and others suffered damage. Captain Hunt and local residents noted. Also a small fire at the Opera house outbuilding was quickly extinguished.
Mrs Blakington of Moosic visited friends in Minooka yesterday. Elmer Davis attended a farewell party at Mrs Fahey’s home for her son Frank’s camp Meade departure. Private James Hart returned to Camp Meade after furlough. Greenwood colliery No 1 halted work at 8:30 due to machinery trouble and will resume today. Dewey Glee Club had a fourth rehearsal at Thomas Evans’ home. Society of Christian Endeavor met at Greenwood Presbyterian Church.
Scranton was selected as the convention city for the state firemen's gathering. The Wilson delegation to Lebanon was instructed to vote for Scranton. Community notes list visitors and local happenings from Waymart, Montrose, Carbondale, Olyphant, and Archbald area towns. The miners’ certificate examining board for the Secord district meets October 10 at the borough building.
W F Ketchum visited Scranton yesterday and drew praise from Wilson Fire Company members who expressed high satisfaction with the encounter.
The bank invites business and personal account holders to enjoy liberal accommodations based on balances and responsibility. It advertises 38 cent interest on interest deposits and notes its vault protection by Holmes' Electric Protective System.
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