City Notes Annual Meeting Harvest Home Festival
City notes list events including the annual meeting of the Flare Criterion Misshou Wh at the water works on Oct 25. Harvest Home Festival conducted by Green Reformed church this evening. Bachelor’s dance at John Boyle O’Melly hall Wednesday evening. H B Miller’s Bible class meets tonight at 7 PM on Arms Avenue. Thomas Murphy held on $200 bond for defrauding boarding house keeper Andrew Mahon. Several riders fined for riding on Lackawanna trains. Meeting of Green Ridge Free Kindergarten subscribers Saturday at 7 PM at 1710 Monsey Avenue. Judgment given by Alderman Howe in a residents case.
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Thomas Murphy
Millar
Andrew Mahon
Franklin Avenue
Green Ridge Free Kindergarten Association
BH. B. Reynolds
Monsey Avenue
Election Contest and Funeral News From Local Boroughs
Lang Staff Kelly election contest witnesses from Throop, Dunmore, Dickson City and Beranton areas were examined. The Battenberg funeral for Freda Battenberg, age unknown, was held at home then Forest Cemetery. Donations to the Home for the Friendless included food, fruit, crockery, bankers notes and various goods from local residents.
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Lang
Divorce Hearings Logged In Chambers Before Judge Edwards
Testimony in three divorce cases was heard yesterday in chambers before Judge Edwards. Read against wife Be telin Read over alleged improper relations with boarder Robert Naismith on Electric avenue Dunmore, with Read seeking a divorce. The second case involves Mrs. Jennie Duly seeking separation from Patrick Duly for cruel treatment. The third case, Mrs. Anna M Dickinson vs Alexander M Dickinson, cites a prior bigamy conviction and a 1895 marriage licensed.
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Edwards
M. J. McAndrew
William Read
Betelin Read
Robert Naismith
Electric Avenue
Dunmore
Read
Naismith
New York
Mra. Read
John Benigg
Pitteton
Nathan Vidayver
Duffy
Daffy
Anna M. Dickinson
Green Ridge
Alexander M. Dickinson
Kipmmy
Gunster
John Scragg
Dickinson
W. Roenar
Eric Ronn
Alice J. Roberts
Peckville
Doty
Henry Berber
Scranton Victorious in Dunmore Rifle Meet
Yesterday afternoon at the Dunmore rifle range the Wilkes-Barre rifle team faced the electric city rifle team of Scranton. Scranton won by 105 points marking their fourth straight victory over Wilkes-Barre. Delhanty, age 76, challenged any opponent of his age in Luzerne and Lackawanna counties to a 20 yard contest.
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Dunmore
Wilkes-Barre
Riteelo
Electric City Rifle
Wilkes Barre
Nointa
Delhanty
Luzerne
Lackawanna
Funeral Announcements for Lamb and White in Scranton
In West Scranton on October 14 1549 Mrs Thomas Lamb of seventeenth trent dies with funeral to follow. In Scranton Mrs Charlotte Beatty White wife of William Nelson White dies with funeral services at her home at 10 o clock Saturday morning and interment at Dalton.
Peculiar Coincidence in City Council Deliberations
The article reports on a clash between the Lower Branch approving a new telephone ordinance while the Selectmen pass a resolution to block its concurrence. It notes council dynamics, bids for hose, and assorted street and sewer projects, with references to Mayor Moir and several officials.
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Selectmen
Moir
Common Council Holds Short Session With Several Passages
The Common Council met briefly last evening with no major actions. A $65 transfer to pay Spraka Bros. for Cumberland Hose Company quarters was referred. An electric light at Wyoming avenue and Birch, clerk salary of $900, and sewer contract extensions were approved. Multiple third readings passed for debt plans, paving, and street improvements.
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Lackawanna
Keller
Griffiths
Grier
City Hall
Spraka Bros
Cumberland Hose Company
Phillips
Wyoming Avenue
Birch Street
Reese
Clerk of
Common Connect
Select Council
Providence Sewer
Tabernacle Congregational Church
Eye Pak Avenue
Lackawanna Telephone
Calpin
Barber Asphalt Company
Fire Department
John Coar
Penn Avenue
Pittston Avenue
Pine Street
Orchard Street
Stone Avenue
West Mountain Road
Tenth Avenue
Scranton
Washburn Streets
Married at Marion Dickson and Mrs Covent Robinson Wed
D Alexander Walker Dickson of Scranton married Eugenie Covent Robinson at the bride’s mother home in Marion. The ceremony was led by Rev James Stuart Dickson assisted by Rev Welling E Thomas. The couple will reside on Quincy avenue and are welcomed by friends.
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Eugenie Covent Robinson
Covent
Marion
James Stuart Dickson
Philadelphia
Welling E. Thomas
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
Minneapolis
Scranton
Mr. Dickson
Dickson
Robinson
General Assembly
The Gas Engine Lecture By Prof J E Hunter
Professor J E Hunter of Pennsylvania State College delivered an engaging lecture on the gas engine before the Scranton Engineers club. The talk in the A Bright library auditorium was illustrated with stereopticon views and drew many friends of the members, introduced by club president William Marple.
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J. E. Hunter
Pennsylvania State College
Scranton Engineers’ Club
A&bright
William Marple
Comets to Meet Achilles on January 22 at New Ground
The Comets football team accept a challenge from Achilles for a game to be played at their new ground at 250 o'clock sharp. J. J. Hoelmis, manager, states the matchup will be satisfactory and notes a meeting with Achilles' manager on Saturday at the time bank.
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Comets
Achilles
J. J. Hoelmis
Miss Etta Green to Run Pawn Shop at Lackawanna Ave
Miss Etta Green will continue the pawn broker business at 197 Lackawanna Avenue, a venture her father the late Joseph Green started or contacted for guidance.
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Etta Green
Lackawanna Avenue
Joseph Green
Opening at F. L. Cranes Thursday and Friday
Local listing announces openings at F. L. Cranes on Thursday and Friday. Job or sale details are not specified in the fragment.
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F. L. Cranes
Jury Unable to Reach Verdict in Multiple 1890 Trials
In No. 2 court Judge Archibald discharged jurors in the Murtaugh case after a 30 minute deliberation. Separate trials followed for Cavanaugh and Ellman with Chinaman interpreter Son Hoo Doo aiding testimony. Numerous other cases resulted in mistrial, not guilty verdicts, or adjournments as court progressed.
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Soo Hoo Doo
Grecorge Horar
Rosar
Cavanaugh
Conry
Thomas
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