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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1896
Page
8
In Carbondale readers are asked to note that advertisements orders for job work and items for publication left at Swition & Co newsdealers North Main Street will receive prompt attention. Office hours are 8 a m to 1 p m.
At high noon yesterday in this city Miss Sarah Mecemb and Professor Doty of Wilkes-Barre were married by Rev. E. J. Balsley. The ceremony featured yelms and chrysanthemums, organ music by Mrs. N. L. Moon, and ushers from Scranton and the local area. A reception followed. the couple will housekeep on Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre.
Yesterday at 8 30 a wedding mass united Miss Lizzie A Mullady and John A Boylan. The bride wore changeable silk and novelty soma. Attendant was sister Bridget Mullady. Rev Stev Thomas F Coffey officiated. A reception followed at the bride’s parents home for relatives and out of town guests. The couple left for New York and Philadelphia on the 100 Delaware and Hudson train and will begin housekeeping on their newly furnished Tik e street home upon return.
The Honesdale team from this city hosts the High School squad at Alumni Park at 4 o clock. A large crowd is expected for what is described as one of the season s best games with both sides fielding strong lineups and several named players in key positions.
A man crossing the tracks was struck by the Traction line car near Diamond switch on Tuesday night at about midnight. The victim, initially thought dead, was revived and treated at Dr Farl ey's office for severe bruises to the right hand and leg. he refused to give his name but said he had a wife and family in Vandling.
Mr and Mrs James Courtney visited their daughter Mrs W A Brownell in Dundaff on Tuesday. George Rogers of Scranton spent Tuesday with his sister Mrs D S Robinson. W J Hamilton has returned from Albany where he visited his parents. Joseph Nealon started work at Pioneer laundry. P A spent yesterday in Mount Pleasant. Frieda Harris of Scranton will open a children s dancing class in the W W Watt building Saturday morning from nine to eleven. Miss Olina Herring of Salem Avenue was mentioned.
Tonight's event caps the local Protection and sound money campaign at the Frothingham theater. Speakers include Governor Hastings General Latta General Reeder Colonel Harry Hall and Mayor Warwick. Democrats and Republicans welcomed. citizens urged to attend.
Local news from Factoryville covers travel plans of Harry Lindsey and Vinnie Gardner to New York city, church and temperance union events, a California-returning Joe Wilson’s prospects, and the death of Charles Sherwood with funerary details. Also noted are Rebekah lodge refreshments, a hospitalization accident involving Searle, Masonic degrees conferred, Red Jacket lodge meeting, and a Keystone football victory over St Thomas 18 to 0.
The Junior Christian Endeavor society plans an Friday evening entertainment in the lecture room with a small admission fee to aid suffering Armenians. Land Agent McCormack was officially engaged here on Wednesday. The Bryan and Sewall club will hold a masse meeting in the Opera House Friday evening. Hillside Coal and Tron company sales agents Williams and Peters urge a miner delegation to New York for a parade there. Twenty miners from Mayfield and Forest City collieries are undergoing drilling lessons under W. W. Inglis of Scranton and Fremont Stokes at Mayfield. They will parade in mining clothes with picks used in mines, under Inglis’s supervision. The Forest City Electric Light company will begin building engine and boiler rooms in about two weeks along Hillside tracks near the old rock dump. The funeral of Mrs. Joseph Mayers is set for 2 p.m. Thursday at the Presbyterian church with Rev. P. B. Kennedy officiating. A camellet evening event and other details followed, with plans extending into Tuesday morning.
A hospitalized driver’s forehead wound follows a mule incident while Morris E Bacon suffers a bad fall from a porch roof. Miss Flo Allen returns from Wyoming. Rev T C Edwards to lecture on Through Paris to Rome. Excursion rates lure residents to New York. Blacksmith trades restart in town. idle factory space eyed for manufacturing.
A Tuesday night false alarm at box 43 drew the fire company through streets seeking smoke, then returned to the hose house. James A. John, once of this place and now of Duryea, died after a lingering illness. The Archbald mine reports an eleven hour day. A Methodist church concert features Prof. K. BE Jones and a long program. Annie Wels enfluh, 94, daughter of Mr and Mrs John Wels enfluh, was buried after funerals led by Rev A Weber at Forest Home cemetery. Mrs John Conley of Taylor street visited her brother William M Evans in Hyde Park.
Local tailor touts rising trade as proof of value claiming cheaper prices than any Scranton shop. They state they cut fit and make all garments in house, insisting they are the only providers offering such prices with in town production.
Reports indicate Bradford County will deliver a large Republican majority for William McKinley in the upcoming presidential election. Governor Hastings and other speakers are billed to address Home Hale's Opera House on Friday afternoon, with large county delegations expected and a history of Republican strength suggesting even larger margins this year.
Rev. H. H. Willer of Factoryville delivered a brilliant sermon to the Dalton Woman's Christian Temperance group. They will serve an oyster supper in the YMCA hall Saturday afternoon October 31 at 3 20.
Monday night program at the Congregational church drew a large audience. Mrs Hughes remains ill at home and George Bellis shows improvement after his Monday injury.
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