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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1895
Page
7
Luce Bros advertise Best Flour per barrel and various groceries with prices. social and church events announced including supper at 6 and social at 8 at a church. revival preaching by Rev J N Race. Local residents travel, entertainments, and small business notices appear with multiple named streets and firms.
Social notes reveal a North Garfield avenue gathering in honor of Miss Mabel Hetzel of Dalton visiting locally. Attendees participated in dancing and amusements with midnight refreshments, followed by further society items and obituaries from Washburn Street area.
Rev August Lange severed ties with Hickory Street Presbyterian and leads about 165 adults into a new Free Evangelical church of Peace. He recently joined the Evangelical Synod of New Jersey after a formal instatement. A Pro spect avenue lot was bought to build a church next spring while services continue at St. Pauls. The South Side YWCA rooms have been renovated and are in use with a full schedule of daily classes and activities for women and children. The German Evangelical Church of Peace youth group plans an evening program at St. Pauls with a long list of speakers, songs, and performances including recitations and a supper afterward. Repairs to streetcar tracks along the South Side line are nearing completion to ease winter travel.
The funeral of William Nichols of North Main avenue occurred yesterday at Forest Hill cemetery. The Electric Chatauqua circle met at Mrs. W. C. Hreck’s East Parker street residence. Mrs. G. W. Toloyd received $2.0% insurance for her husband’s death. The Methodist Ladies Aid plans an autumn supper this evening at the church parish hall, 23 cents per meal from 1 PM onward. Mrs. J. Lewis’s funeral was yesterday afternoon. Mize Florence Silkman and her mother traveled to New York City yesterday. Byron Winton works on a new stone walk on North Main avenue boosting curb appeal.
James Holden moves his family to Virginia and various residents on Grove Ash Cherry and South Blakely streets are mentioned with renovations, visits, and hospitality. The Banner House gets a new paint coat. A funeral for John Riley at Potter Street is set for this afternoon. A reception for Rev A L Urban at St Marks rectory drew a large crowd. A Poverty party at Dudley Street Baptist raised funds. Football and civic notices conclude with road conditions reported as miserable.
A Saturday lease transfers extensive coal lands in Plymouth township from Lackawanna county residents Elizabeth Reynolds James Dickson Laura Dickson Jennie Reynolds Harry Reynolds Mabel Reynolds and Clara Reynolds to John C Haddock of the Haddock Coal company. Haddock may mine coal until all is removed with a yearly rent of 125 dollars and a surface area of seventy three acres plus sixteen acres of surface land, breaker and mining improvements included.
A report of a New York club conversation on heart disease and sudden death. A bank president, a doctor, a railroad official and a minister discuss warning signs and preventive care, endorsing Warner's Safe Cure as a life extending remedy.
Superintendent RK Williams of the Ontario and Western reports a new coal tract in Fell township yielding an 8 foot vein. Williams recently leased land from Richmond and Lindsay of Scranton and expects to mine up to 500000 tons as tracks from the main line are extended.
Fire at Gersbacher's hotel and outbuildings at Clifton seven miles from Gouldeboro totally destroyed the property. Damage estimated at $20,000 with a large winter stock of hay straw grain and 210 bushels of potatoes lost. Cause unknown but suspected incendiary as the proprietor died nearly a year ago and the site was a local fishing and hunting resort.
A historical ad style jingle references Castoria for children and infancy. The text mentions Daby Abe and Mim with repeated claims of giving Castoria during illness and growth, implying a product used for minors. The wording mirrors advertising phrases about parental care and pediatric relief.
The article notes the fashion centers in the Black Dress Goods section now provide superior value with new goods on a rising market, claiming advantages over competing houses in the trade.
Advertises a limited run of fabric specials including 45-inch serges and Henrietta at various sale prices. Highlights 75c value novelties, 45-inch serge and Henrietta at 69c and 75c, plus 75c peony and Mohair Luster novelty at $1.05 and 98c respectively.
Specialties in this department merit inspection by all interested in high class millinery. Prices are not quoted as values speak for themselves in every instance.
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