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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1896
Page
5
A new carpet, wall paper, drapery and curtain store in Scranton announces completion around September 20. The project claims to be the state’s largest such shop and will showcase the largest stock of goods in each department ever offered in the city.
William Linn Allen and Co stock brokers have moved to the Mears building rooms 716 and 706. The fourth anniversary of Thomas Fitzgerald’s conversion was celebrated at the Rescue Mission last night. St. Thomas College will open today. Four Xaverian brothers due in city arrived yesterday. Street work along parade route completed by Kinsley’s men who then received a holiday. Alderman Wright hosts a reunion planning meeting for One Hundred Thirty-second Pennsylvania Volunteer. The American Protective Tariff League issued Document No. 59 The Tariff with parallel speeches by Hryap and McKinley. readers urged to consult. Contact W F Wakeman, secretary, West Twenty-third Street, New York.
Police court crowded as rioters from Sunday’s clash at a Polish Catholic church faced swift, heavy fines. Mayor Batley led the session with strict action. Several women and men were fined for their roles, while three leaders sought by warrants remain at large.
The annual state convention of the Master Horseshoers association of Pennsylvania opens in this city today at 1 p m. About one hundred delegates attend with Philadelphia sending a large representation in a special car via the Delaware and Hudson road to C U A M hall on Lackawanna avenue.
Buck Whitmore and Co report a surge of new students across both sessions. The spacious rooms will reach full capacity soon as ten years of steady effort by the proprietors earns praise for the city’s leading school.
Last night at Boland's Bryan and Sewall club a meeting ended with dispute over an executive committee and a "city hall" label. dissent grew as critics denounced the committee as packed with Republicans and warned against objectionable speakers at future sessions.
The report outlines a chaotic convention with no clear plan for top ticket, city hall influence suspected, and only School Controller T. J. Jennings set as chair. Nathan Vidaver signals readiness for a congressional fight but denies pursuing nomination. Edward Merrifield may be approached, while county commissioner races remain unresolved.
A testimonial narrates Agnes B. Quay wife of United States Senator Matthew S Quay praising Paine's Celery Compound for easing insomnia nervous debility and headaches. The note highlights the remedy as a gentle stimulant and tonic aiding nerve tissues and blood, with claims of tissue repair and overall strengthening.
A Scranton and Carbondale slate of candidates for auditor and other posts emerges with many names listed including Burke Clarke Demuth Gilmartin Butler and Costello O Ryle Ward Aten Flynn among others. The Second district Democrats convention will select between Henry T. Koehler and Frank Moeller for representative with others having withdrawn.
Waldron, famed for selling a horse a minute, arrives Tuesday with two carloads of Canadian stock noted for strength and endurance. One car holds draft and work horses, the other readers to trotters. Sale starts 1 o'clock, rain or shine, at Cusick's stables. Also: John A Woolley promotes reform at the Academy Thursday night. Schilling Music School offers piano organ harmony and voice. Best Key West Cigars priced at box rates from Coursen.
The Scranton City Pastors union elected officers at a morning meeting in the Y M C A parlor. New president Rev J P Moffatt, vice president Rev Thomas Heil, secretary treasurer Rev A J Chaffee, and committee members Rev W T Ford Rev W F Cibben and Rev J B R Sweet. A resolution urged pastors to devote Oct 4 and preceding prayer meetings to the state Christian Endeavor convention.
The notice proclaims the climax of a major clearance sale with all millinery stock set to depart on schedule time.
Prices listed show choicest light and very lean bacon at ten cents per pound.
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