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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1898
Page
2
Carbondale notes the Tribune correspondence placed with Mr J M Forbes. Readers with complaints about irregular delivery should address Roberts Heynolds news agents for action or updates.
Several well known men signal intent to form a winning Carbondale team next year. Money will be invested to pay players and cover costs. A letter seeks league inclusion with Prace Honesdale Port Jervis Goshen Chester and Narrowsburg. If feasible, action will follow.
The Mozart band will perform an evening program from the balcony of Hotel American. The schedule includes marches and overtures such as Oriental American, Rovers Annual, The Little Daisy, At a Georgi Camp Meeting, My Old Kentucky Home, A Cluster of Peaches, Our Nation's Guard, Ning, and America.
Conductor James Lowry brought a four foot rattlesnake to town Wednesday afternoon. It was killed near Windsor by John Dennison a telegraph lineman who struck it with a shovel while preparing to climb a pole. The snake appeared ugly and dangerous.
Among those from this city who attended the air event at Walleville yesterday were W. W. Watt, Mrs. Lewis Snyder, Miss Ida Snyder, J. P. A. Tingley and wife, Daniel Robinson and wife, H. Pierce and wife, William Griffiths, Frank B. Brown, J. Thompson, Judson Smith, P. Rivenberg, E. H. Williams, J. B. Nicholson, G. F. Ackerman and George J. Bunton.
Burglars entered the home of G. W. Evans last week through an open window but took nothing. They gained entry by a window left open due to heat. housekeepers are urged to lock doors and windows at night.
Miss Julia Lupton, guest of Miss Della Bayley in Canaan Street, returned to New York City yesterday. Belle Warren went home to Scranton after visiting Mrs. Jessie Monnacott on Wayne Street. Herbert Histed, recently touring Wayne County, returned home. Fred Watt visited Susquehanna yesterday. J. Moore Crago called on friends in town. Ernest Downton spent time with friends in Williamsport. Frank Carte, son of Judge Duarte, Wilkes-Barre, brought home from his regiment camp yesterday. Mrs. G. W. Keene returned from a two week sea trip. Miss Nora Morrison of Philadelphia visits relatives here. Richard Gibbs returned from two weeks in White's Valley. Mrs. Lara Williams of Harrisburg visits Mrs. W. T. Morgan on Falein Avenue. Rev. John Byrne of Constableville is in town due to the death of his brother J. H. Tyrne.
A crowd welcomed Captain Patrick McKeon during a station arrival with marching bands and a public reception at Herbert's hall. The report also notes a marriage at the Methodist church, a charity fair, local sports events, weather damage from a storm, and various community visits and appointments in Avoca and nearby towns.
Several weekend lines report deaths and funerals. A devout Christian widow and mother, with two brothers and a sister, will have a Saturday funeral and St Marys cemetery interment. A John Horan died aged months after brain illness. Pittston cemetery interment planned. Hugh Farrell, about 60, killed in Columbia shaft while warning miners. funeral set for tomorrow. wife survives.
Neighborhood events unfold with a surprise party at Mrs. Bartlet's home on Main, with music and refreshments. Local visits include Rev. Huendiges, Gortnich, and Dunmire friends. Homer English repainting his Hickory street home. Teachers plan banner contests. Women’s Christian Temperance Union names officers and selects delegates for Carbondale and state conventions.
Reading public school students must be vaccinated or face debarment after Friday September 9 unless a physician’s certificate excuses illness. The paper also notes funeral services for the T months old Craig child at their West Side home, with interment in Union cemetery, and mentions Mrs Nellie Whiting of Carbondale visiting Mrs G A Bell yesterday.
A three day engagement features MacDoodle s Flat a farce of lively nonsense at the Academy of Missionet with a largely sophistic comedic cast. Performances run this and tomorrow afternoons and evenings. Ricard Girards revival of Natural Gas with a stylish company opens at the Lyceum theater next Monday evening.
The Kennedy Players led by John J. Kennedy and Nellie Kennedy travel with a renowned company of top theater talent. They announce an all new program headlined by The Midnight Expense, an act not yet seen locally. The show opens at the Academy of Music for one week starting Monday, September 12.
National League games include Tineton 1 New York 1 and Haltimore 6 Brooklyn Ps Philadelphia As Washington 1 Tourkville 9 Cleveland 7 fret gate. Cleveland 5 Louisville 1 second game. Eastern League Wilkes Bar re 4 Syracuse 1 Toronto Ottawa 3 Montreal tuffata 4 Providence 1 Springfield 1. Atlantic League Richmond W Wartford 9 first game Richmoneday Nortford 3 second game. Newark 5 Lancaster 13 innings Waterson Allentown.
New York and St Paul opened high on heavy buying but later collapsed after directors announced a 24 percent semi annual dividend. Prices tumbled with many blocks of thousands shares dumped, causing a panicky market as Rock Island Burlington and other rails fell while St Paul showed brief strength on the day. Total sales reached about 5,900 shares.
A jumble of rental requests, job inquiries, and notices from Scranton readers. Includes rental inquiries at 1334 Washington, employment wishes for housekeeper stenographer and various trades, and addresses such as 24 Madison Avenue and 42 Elm Street with multiple personal references.
Classified notice seeking a dependable woman to work as housekeeper for a widower in a good home. Application details: address provided as 5 Monroe avenue for Monroe area. Immediate start and references required for nurse position also listed with same ad.
Two front rooms to let at The Alding on Adams Avenue. Board available.
Wheat firm for September delivery with mixed No 2 and No 3 white, butter steady at western creamery levels, cheese and sugar unchanged, cotton firm to higher with upland middling at 61 1/16, poultry firm with fowls ducks and spring chickens. receipts include wheat 1,000 bushels corn 5,000 oats 19,000.
Markets show dull activity in flour with steady spring patent demand. Wheat futures firm for No 2 red with modest gains, corn and oats hold near steady to mixed, butter steady with creamery and dairy products steady in western markets.
Market notes show various cattle types with prices listed in dollars per hundredweight. Entries include prime and common classifications with figures such as 8.26, 4.10, 4.05, and 2.75 alongside terms like veal calves and lambs.
Fragmentary OCR notes from Ol City Pennsylvania show credit balances and mentions of cash shipments and terms, with unclear items like carte maton and trels. The text reads as a rough ledger or memo, lacking full context or names.
An assorted listing covers The Elk Cafe at 125 and 127 Franklin Avenue, Scranton House near the D L W passenger depot, and Victor Koch proprietor. It includes Midwife Mes Gable at 1518 Washburn Street, CLARK & CO seedmen and nursermen, a School of the Lackawanna, and Thomas M. Cann LL D, Walter Buell A M J Kuettel at 611 Lackawanna Avenue as a wire screen manufacturer.
Central Railroad of New Jersey timetable lists departures from Beranton and New York foot of Liberty for Pittston Wilkes Barre Mountain Park Lakewood Atlantic City and connections to Newark Elizabeth Baltimore and Washington. Returns depart New York foot of Liberty and South Perry with through tickets from Reading Terminal Philadelphia. Baldwins and J H Olausen listed as general officers.
Train times listed for routes from surauton to New York Easton Trenton Philadelphia and the South with several express and accommodation options. Connections at Northumberland Williamsport Harrisburg and Wilkes Barre. For full details consult pocket tables via M L Smith passenger agent at the depot ticket office.
Sunday trains leave Scranton for Albany Montreal and New England points via Lehigh Valley Railroad with times such as 6.20 am 6th street, 7.18 am 8.43 am 0.28 pm and 7.48 pm. Trains from Wilkes-Barre and the South reach Scranton at 6.40 7A. and 11.58 am. Southbound services extend to Carbondale and Wilkes-Barre with multiple daily departures and the timetable notes Sunday services to all points in United States and Canada.
Rail notices describe Lehigh Valley system timetables including connections to Wilkes Barre Bethlehem and New York via Hazleton Towanda Elmira and Buffalo. It lists Pullman parlor cars and express services with intermediate stops and special through routes to New York and western points.
In effect June 24 trains leave Scranton for Hawley and intermediate points on Erie R BR at 6 00 am 6 45 am and 2 23 pm. Category Lake Ariel service from Scranton via Erie Route runs to Lake Ariel leaving Scranton at those times. From Lake Ariel trains depart at 8 45 am and 10 00 pm.
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