Social activity notes two prominent weddings in Scranton
Weekly society roundup highlights two major Scranton weddings Miss Kate Jay and Miss Leona Seeley with details of gowns, attendants and reception. It also mentions upcoming dances, theater offerings, and local social events including a charity concert for St Luke's Free Kinder garten and a Bicycle Club social season opener.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kate Jay
Douglas Jay
Rollo G. Jermyn
Uride
Slater
Vine Street
Leona Seeley
Richard Osland
St. Luke's Church
Jay-Jermyn
Jane and The Limited Mail at local theaters this week
The Froth-Ingham stages the bright comedy Jane under Guatave Frohman with a shrewd English maid plot. Elmer E. Vance presents The Limited Mail at the Academy of Music with railroad drama and suspense. Astounding scenic Power of the Press opens next week with elaborate tableaux of Manhattan and Wall Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane
Froth- Ingham
Guatave Frohman
Frohman
Ben
June
Academy of Music
Elmer E. Vance
Agastus Pitou
New York
Manhattan Athletice Club
Madison Avenue
Imperial Hotel
Upper Broadway
Wall Street
East River
Elmer By Vance
American concert tour prolongs in Pontypridd Wales
The Haydn Evans concert company from America will give a concert at Pontypridd New Town hall on Monday evening October 1 Maabon Day. The soprano Miss Sadie Kaiser and violinist Miss Julia C Allen receive high praise as audiences across South Wales praise the programme. G R Jones Caradog chairs the event as the tour continues to two more weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vandergrift
Jamestown
Gooprano
Elm Park Church
University of Pennsylvania
Katharine Parker
Philadelphia
Miss Bolve
School of Oratory
Carrie Russell
Windsor
N. Y
Muggle Winter
Jermyn
A. W. Cooper
Hampton Street
McCausland
Sidney Jenckes
Jay Jermyn
Montrase
Whiting Allen
Adovertisin Eent
Iorepaugh
John Owens
Brown
Carrie Brown
Stroudsburg
Mis
G. W. Bushnell
Wyoming Avenue
Walter Beck
Towanda
Minnie Reese
Bessie Dean
Wilkes-Barre
Jack
Owego
Merrifield's
Jennie Kear
Price & Roe's
Sidney Broadbent
Victoria
Washington
Ella Hess
Missouri
Mize Marlon Hitchcock
George A. Jessup
Clay Avenue
Euphrasia Keeler
Binghamton
Green Ridge Friends
CM. Price
Price & Roe
New York City
Hull
Indiana
Jennie Smith
Madison Avenue
Joseph van Nort
Adama Avenue
J. N. Bulkley
The
Traction Company
Pittsburg
Schubmeh
Kennedy
Olyphant
City
Edmund Hall
Olive Street
Julia Pettigrew
Gibson Street
Harry P. Simpson
Buffalo
Ezra Connell
Yale
Tallestorean
W. Kellum
Noe Sullcher Torrey
Cazenovia
Re Officer Ridgeway
Pont
Sadie BE
Kaiser
South Wales
Julia Ce
Allen
G. R. Jones
Caradog
Miss Kaiser
Parry's National Music Plea Spurs Welsh Ties in New York Season
The Fifty third season of the Philharmonic Society of New York announces six evening concerts with six afternoon rehearsals under Anton Seldl. Soloists include Eugene Ysaye, Er. A. MacDowell, Mme. Lillian Blauvelt, and Caesar Thomson. Dr. Parry's visit inspires Welsh music advocacy and praises national music and education. The new orchestra, led by Hemberger, aims to be a major regional artistic force with Scranton and Wilkes-Barre players.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philharmonic Society of New York
Anton Seldl
Eugene Ysaye
America
Er. A. MacDowell
Mme
Lillian Blauvelt
Caesar Thomson
Philharmonic Society
H. W. Ernst
Joseph Parry
National Music For Wales
Wagner
Italy
Germany
France
Russia
Taly
Wales
Wagher
Parry
National Music
Atlantic
Hemberger
New York
Boston
Hi Olhon
Scranton
Wilkes-Barre
Famous Joker Tommy Kilrow of Great Bend Captures Delegates
Tommy Kilrow, a Republican with a famed humorous wit, is a public character in Bradford Susquehanna Wayne Wyoming counties. He attends conventions and persuades farmers with original tactics, recounting a Susquehanna county scene where he extolled James T. Dubois as the sharpest man in Pennsylvania and spun a dizzying science tale to convert a skeptical farmer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradford
Susquehanna
Wayne
Wyoming
Tommy Kirrow
Great Bend
Mr. Kilrow
Tommy
Tommy Kilrow
James T. Dubois
Jim Dubois
Pennsylvania
Chicago
Farmer
Dubois
Robber Steals $6000 from Brewster County Treasurer
Edward Garnet treasurer of Brewster County was robbed at Alpine by a pistol wielding bandit who forced him to surrender $6000 from his private office. The thief escaped and remains at large.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Brewster County
United Press
el Paso
Tex
Edward Garnet
Alpine
Pacha Garnet
Garnet
Rosebery honored in Dornock as Lord praised for golf
London reports Earl of Rosebery receives another burgh freedom at Dornock with a speech on sport. Lord Rosebery and the Duke of Sutherland travel to Tain to receive further honors. Joseph Chamberlain tours Leeds, rebukes Ireland and home rule foes, defends the constitution, and mocks his detractors. Railways suffer 1899’s worst year on record due to coal strikes. A notable bequest to a cat-loving old maid funds pensions for cats of Ann Mathews. New stage pieces debut starring Irving and Beerbohm Tree with royal attention to Tree’s Edinburgh visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Earl of Rosebery
Dornock
Balfour
Lord Rosebery
Duke of Sutherland
Tain
Duke
Joseph Chamberlain
M. P
Leeds
Ireland
House of Lords
Commons
Joey Chamberlain
Senate of the
United States
Legislative Assembly
Chamberlain
Lord Randolph Churchill
Oxfordshire
Marborough
Rolla
Jennefee
Ursula
Ann Elizabetht Mathews
Henry Irving
Waterloo
Dr. Conan Doyle
Irving
Annie Hughes
Arthur Roberts
Arthur
Holyhead
Dublin
Mr. Tree
Abbey's Theater
New York
Father's Death Mixup Delays Weston Funeral Tale
In Weston two families, the Wards and the Gregorys, share close ties. A telegram about Judge Ward’s death causes confusion as John Gregory’s father is the real deceased, leading George Ward to attend his neighbor’s funeral instead of his own father’s. The mix up unravels on arrival in Weston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gregorys
Weston
Ward
Gregory
Eonwreaa
George
Judge Ward
New York
Old Gregory
John
George Ward
John Gregory
Pennsylvania Railroad
West
Rawler
Lake O
Pather
Mrs Ward
Mr. Ward
Liam
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Gauotys
Mary Geraldine Schroeder
Percival John Morris
St. Peter's Cathedral
Conrad Schiroeder
Gren Ridge
Cecilia Schiroeder
Frederick Tropp
Gertrude Morris
Philippine Tropp
Mame O'Malley
Emma Koch
Lillian Hull Morris
Augusta Tropp
Beatrice
Trystine Morris
Charlotta Schroeder
Flower Kirls
William Watkins
Peckville
William Avery
Charles Willams
Eugene Davils
George Rogers
Samuel Derman
Edward Thayer
Clark
George M. Carpenter
Sadie Milham
A.J. Sturdevant
Benjamin Miller
Boyle
Nice
Gertrude M. Butts
Europe
Carpenter
Standard Dairy Company
Lmt
FE. G. Carpenter
Waverly
William Milham
M. J. Milham
James Milham
Brooklyn
Win Hee
Bethlehem
May
Anna Bond
Meshoppen
Katharine Tripp
Pursel
Porty Fort
Emma Mutts
Anna Stewart
Seranon
Frothingham
St. Luke's
Sidney
Metropolitan
Hans
Scranton Bicycle Club
Washington Avenue
Oec
E. A. Gilmore i
Lake Winola
Jesse Torry
Margaret Torry
Bessie Rice
Messrs
Hubert Wightman
H. B. Cox
Edward Hall
William Pierce
Margaret McKay
William McKay
E. P. Fuller
Delaware and
Hud
Adams Avenue
Charles Eb, Robinson
D. D
Second Presbyterian Church
B. B. Leonard
Platt Place
Jennie Haslam
Savannah
Haslam
Kate Decker
C. M. Decker
Jefferson Avenue
William Wright
First Presbyterian Church
Ethel Snyder
Horace Pease
W. H. Pearce
Ira A. Ives
Pease
Waydn Evans
Vylon the Sacred Moule Society
Conservatory Hall
Lindsay
Scranton Oratorio Society
George Haven Rockwell
Utica
N.Y
Rockwell
Agnes Scott
Montrose
BE E
Southworth
Scott
Susquehanna County
Battery B
Orme Darvall
Wasa
Frothingham White
Nellie B. Chandler
Ella Mouser
Zita McDonough
Florence Beckett
Christine Alendorf
Gertrude Packard
Mable Wilnot
Minnie Glover
Alice White
Miss Gertrude Holyoke French
El 1 1
Aliie Morgan
Evangelist Schiveria
Morgan
Epworth League
Rim Park Methodist Episcopal Church
Dudley Buck
Mr. Carter
Fred Whittemore
Susie Black
Nicholson
Miss Black
Kate Wilcox
R. Parke
John Twate Nlie
Blauvelt
Charles I. Whitmore
Green Ridge Presbyterian Church
Atlantic City
Dr. Dvorak
England
Cardiff
Mascagni
Berlin
Anton Bruckner
Golng Down Hill
Leipair
Rubenstein
Abbey
Popper
Paderewski
Tommy Kirow
Doey Chamberlain
Senate
Irving Dues
Gladstone
Willis
Gustave Frohman
ST. Luke's Kindergarten
H. J. Anderson
W. T. Smith
Charles McMullen
E. S. Moffat
H. W. Kingsbury
N. G. Robertson
W. M. Dickson
G. M. Halstead
L. S. Oakford
Susan Jermyn
Davis’ Theater
Enemies For Life
Vivian de Mento
Aylesworth’s
Wyoming Ave
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