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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1899
Page
5
A surprise party at 715 South Main avenue honored W F P Dusenbury with a gold watch chain and charm. Guests enjoyed music, dancing, flashlight photos, and refreshments as friends and local residents gathered.
Reneon Davis retires as Fourth Ward representative with February term end. Benjamin Williams is chosen to fill the unexpired term, drawing comment and surprise. On the Republican side A R Byngen of West Side Bank and Thomas B E Price, a prominent newsdealer, are leading contenders.
An old newspaper advertisement lists Paines Celery Compound Pinkham Compounds Pierce Golden Medical Dis Mellon's Food priced at 75 cents and 38 to 55 cents for packages on Main Avenue.
The article highlights Mr Price as a fresh figure in Meld politics and notes his ten years in business on South Main avenue and success in barber business. It mentions a new home on North Sinner avenue and asserts he is well suited for the school controller post due to his ties with the school board and experience with school supplies.
Hundreds of society youths look forward to a second moonlight gathering at Lake Ariel on Friday. The June event’s success prompted the committee to stage an even bigger affair with Bina band led by Professor Pagers, refreshments under the executive committee, and invited guests allowed to ride the train from Erie to Wyominge.
Drych at Utica N Y devotes four columns to four Welsh We… about Benjamin Hughes ex superintendent of Delaware Lackawanna and Western mines and three of his men named to dietrich foremanships since his retirement. Half tone pictures of Hughes Willams and Swans in critics. Dirich is publishing a Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley edition with a 2500 circulation. Edited by Thomas J Gritthe.
Harold Jamelson aged 18 son of contractor John Jamelson of 104 is noted in the accidents of a day list. Further details are not readable.
Washburn street accident left a man with a deep cut over the eye after a stone fell on him from a West mountain quarry wagon. Dr Paine sewed the wound. Thomas Coyne a Continental miner collapsed at work and is hospitalized in critical condition with doubtful recovery.
A Red White and Blue entertainment and ice cream social will be at Tabernacle Congregational Church on South Main tomorrow evening. The program features Ragore Pheanoegriph Bslowthons ox Hy Evans Reeltathim and a guest quartet with songs including Good Night. The event includes multiple performers and a phono device for the accompanying music.
The Columbia Hoge and Chemical company held a well attended meeting and arranged entertainment for visiting committees during the fremen convention. A special souvenir badge was adopted and minor matters were discussed.
Mrs Hammitt of North Te becca avenue moved to Houser's Millis for good. Mrs Jones and daughter Freda of South Main avenue left for a month’s visit west. Miss Jesse Coleman hosts Miss Marie Donovan of Plymouth. WW Borris visits friends in Allen town. James F B Williams of Des Moines returns home today. Elizabeth and Kate Bonth return from Bellevue. Hugh Fitzpatrick visited Carbondale. Mrs Marcus O Hara and son and Mrs Michael Lavelle visit Routte City, Montana. Mr and Mrs Gallagher host visitors on Jackson street. Tivan Ho Williams to resume studies in Marietta Ohio after three months with parents on Bellevue street. Mr and Mrs Jeane Swallow vacationing in New York. William Gerrity to aid board-workers at Atlante. Christian Piehler and Mrs Gallagher visit relatives in New York. Elizabeth Harris of Atlantic listed among readers.
City residents extend greetings as Miss Margaret Quite visits friends on Nicholson David Kresge hosts a guest from Falls Pa. Corn and Stelia Hallet return from Stroudsburg relatives. Minnie Roberts entertains Pearl Rafty from Moscow. Marwl Mergen vacationing with friends in Oroven Ton. Coal Creek mayor Philip Griffitha visits brother-in-law Thomas J. Phillips in Mullet River.
Allison Thornton of West Drinker Street known as Bump sails tomorrow for the Philippines to rejoin the Seventh United States Volunteers in Scranton. He previously served with the Thirteenth National Guards, where he earned a corporal’s stripe, and he returned after mustering out in Georgia. The Thornton family, highly regarded in Dunmore, hopes he will again earn honor and stripes and return safely.
The Ladies Whose initials are eight and T host a Thursday evening gathering at the Methodist Episcopal church with 6 to 9 o clock music. St Agnes and St Mark’s Epiph. plan a husking bee on Sept 20 in the parlor. Mrs Alex Bryden hosts a Presbyterian home social on Dudley street. A new Erie and Wyoming Valley rail schedule shows Hawley trains with morning and evening departures.
Mrs Nelson Krotzer and daughter Emma of Rhoemiker avenue and South Blakely street have returned home after a visit at Great Bend. Miss Jennie Foley of Mt Cobb returned home from visiting her aunt Mrs James Ellie on Church street. George Fillies of Church street departed for Wyoming seminary for a college preparatory course. Mr and Mrs James Fays of Carbondale spent Sunday with relatives in town. Miss Nellie Mack of Oxford North Carolina returned home after a visit. Miss Olive Swartz of South Blakely street and Shoemaker avenue who has been indisposed for the past few days will be around.
A large south Scranton gathering heard Rev John J McCabe of Auburn Centre deliver a sermon on Hell at St Johns church during a forty hours devotion that began Sunday morning with services led by Rev EB W Melley. Attendees included numerous local clergy and parish leaders as the revival continued with plans for another service tonight and to close tomorrow morning.
The funeral for Charles Mellick was held at his home 1105 Stafford avenue on Saturday afternoon with Rev. W. A. North officiating. Mentions of sacrifice and Mrs Mellick's fate after his death at the National encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in Philadelphia. Griffin post of the Grand Army attended in full.
John H. Burgess of Cedar Avenue in W is jailed on a warrant issued by Alderman Ruddy after Mrs. Ann Crane of Pear Street accused him of possessing a cow she owns. The cow harmed Burgess’s garden crops and neighbors, Burgess impounded it and demands compensation. Crane refused. Burgess waived a hearing and posted bail for court.
Miss Julian A. Donnelly of Bread Street entered the Stroudsburg Normal School yesterday to begin her studies. Miss Agnes Rattle and Miss Katherine Rattle of Beeckh Street returned from a month in New York Port Chester and Hawthorne Beach. Mrs George Hiafgagel and tabby of Pittston Avenue returned from a visit to Oneida and Sylvan Death. Mrs Clara Boyer of Hickory Street is visiting her uncle William Boyer in Philadelphia.
Coal delivery service advertises pea coal at $1.25 with orders directed to CGRB. Contact Sharkey at 1914 Cedar Ave, phone 6683, for central city and Hyde Park deliveries.
Mrs Killian of Penn avenue returns from Pittston visit Miss Minnie Peck attends Wyoming seminary Mr and Mrs William Stiff of Elmhurst spend day in town Mlle Pearl Treverton of Banderaon avenue attends Wyoming seminary Fred Keene of Dean street celebrates twenty fifth birthday guests include many Keenes and Dunns Loval Temperance legion hosts ice cream social at Morel's hall Harriet Dann and Mira Arthur visit New York City Water complaints in Green Ridge Manners Diarrhoea Cure advertised at 20 Green Ridge Street.
Mrs Eliza Campbell aged 8 died at Moses Taylor hospital at 4 yesterday morning after months of illness from alcohol addiction. Survived by children Luan Maud William Walter Wright Lawrence and Robert. Funeral 6 tomorrow morning at St Peter's cathedral with interment in Cubhedial cemetery. Mrs Charlotte M Asalon dies Saturday at 92, long time resident of South Scranton.
James Normile of 4 Prospect Avenue dies yesterday. funeral at 7:00 this morning with services at Alckory Street Presbyterian Church and interment at Pittaton Avenue cemetery. Survived by wife and one child, one brother Matthew, and two sisters. Mrs Mary Brien of Twentieth Street dies at home age 60. funeral at 2:00 this afternoon, interment Cathedral Cemetery. May G Call dies in New York. friends informed.
An inquest into the death of James F. Francis held in the courthouse arborium concluded he took his own life by hanging in Neck’s Addition woods near Mimhuret Boulevard between September 9 and 10, 1849. Witnesses Henry Pilger and Flora Disk described finding the body and feeling frightened. the coroner noted probable temporary mental aberration.
Last evening around 4 50 oclock a collision at Avoca injured John Frye a brakeman and Joseph McCarthy son of J D McCarthy both returning home. Engine 678 eastbound derailed after a switch mishap. They were trapped for over half an hour with two merchandise cars derailed and traffic halted for about two hours. Frye suffered hip injuries and McCarthy sustained severe facial and leg injuries but neither were deemed fatal.
The National Export Exposition opens in Philadelphia featuring music by Sousa and Damrosch, a Midway with a Chinese village and other spectacular shows, and a grand chorus. Excursion tickets will be sold by the Pennsylvania Railroad at a round trip fare of one and a third times the admission price.
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