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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1894
Page
8
The advertisement touts DRESS Coops offering an extensive array of beautiful effects and styles surpassing former displays. It highlights that many of the loveliest fashions cannot be found elsewhere.
Silk and wool blends sold at 75s per unit, touted as the lowest possible under any duty-free admission this country could offer, claiming the price cannot be undercut.
Silks and beads meet revived demand for dress trimmings as fashion shifts toward ornate adornments in the latest designs.
Chenille table covers praised for rich colors and dainty tints with artistic designs. Sold on favorable terms. measurements noted as one and a half yards square with heavy ball fringe.
A broad stock of towels offered at bargains from 10 cents to 2.25 dollars. Includes full and complete lines in Hucks and Fancy Weaves.
Miss Maggie Finnerty returns from visiting relatives in Pottaville and Atlantic City. Tee James Ferguson of Church street is ill and not expected to survive the night. The Lackawanna Transit builds a culvert along Dutch Hill track near completion. Mrs John Ferguson and Jennie of Olyphant called on friends here yesterday. School Directors Sally and O Rourke were in Scranton yesterday. A New York Savings and Loan branch was organized here last evening. Archhbald Hose Company No 1 will join the Carbon Dale Fire Company parade on Thursday. Lizzie McHale of Pitteton visits Mr and Mrs Thomas Walsh on Laurel Street.
Delaware Valley Electric railway began operations two and a half miles above East Stroudsburg with about 200 men. East Stroudsburg grants right of way through town. A large Young Men's Christian association meeting in Stroudsburg forecasts a building project. Court opens with cases including Jessa Peterson's larceny trial. East Stroudsburg school building dedicated. YMCA formed from YMC. Mrs. Hattie Turner to visit Scranton. Kerrs return from honeymoon. D. W. E. R R authorized to run through Stroudsburg. Assault warrant against George Pugh. Dr. W. E. Keller back from Europe plans Hazleton hospital. George Mahle fined for egg fraud. Miss Mary Gunsaules attends Woman’s College of Baltimore. Wind Gap boiler explosion injures several. YMCA meeting at chapel. tennis courts improved. new study room for ladies. Miss Edmund ill but improving. Minnisink society officers elected. Mansfield graduate Mr Garr in Mansfield class 1899. Normal baseball beats Stroudsburg 12–8. Southard and others noted. Evangelist Scoville ends revival meetings. Christmas Day musical festival planned. prizes total about 800. chief prize 150. E. C. Ames & Co. brick building with stone front. corner-stone laid by H. C. Ames. Rev. Mr. Marshall blesses the event. Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil touted for croup and colds. Contributed by William Kay.
Old Forge reports visits by Rev and Mrs F A King of Taylor and relatives in Scranton Dr Reeves advertises medical services at 412 Spruce Street Scranton Ladies Aid to meet at Mrs Ed Barnes home this afternoon W J Brodhead and family visit from Elk Lake Duryea resident Richard Mainwarring moves to West Pittston Miss Jennie Drake leaves for a Philadelphia female seminary Riv Calvert’s daughter born N J Hawley lectures on Florida at Brick Church former pastor Hawley eight years in Florida Tuesday two horses owned by Dennis Brady and William Brown killed on the bridge while running loose an Erie and Wyoming Valley engine derailed but crew uninjured
The cantata Flower Queen will be presented at Weber's rink Friday night. The Brice Library ladies ask Taylor residents to donate unused clothing tonight and every Wednesday for distribution to the needy. Susie Morrin and Beces Davis are in New York. Taylor plans a Christmas celebration with several prizes offered. Mr and Mrs Joshua A Leach of Sedalia Mo, visiting Washington Street residents, left for Sayre N Y. Leach founded the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and is its first grand master. his wife serves as vice president of the Radial Order.
Neighborhood notes record events around Wilkes Barre. Families host gatherings at the homes of Lumeraux and Jopson while residents visit relatives in Afton Philadelphia Scranton and Port Jervis. A marriage unites Robert Hudson and Martha Allen. The Mozart band plans an evening concert.
Miss Anns Griffiths returns after visiting her uncle this summer. Miss Anna McCleary spent Sunday with her parents at Archbald. Miss Ella Mullboland visited her parents at Scott Sanday. Miss Minnie Bargett of Emporium visits J. T. Zackarias on Main Street. The suit of Thomas Rich against Delaware and Hudson Coal Co resumes this week over injuries at the depot. Mrs J T Zackarias and her sister in law visited friends in Scranton. The marriage of P F Hughes of Cirboodale to Miss Anon Bergen of Mayfield was solemnized at Sacred Heart Church at nine this morning.
Mrs Isaac Hens aged 62 died Monday afternoon at 2 oclock of heart disease and dropsy. She leaves a large family of eight children. Funeral Thursday afternoon at 2 at her late home. Interment in Wyoming cemetery. G M Wilmer to move his family to Pittston. An advertisement claims cures of deafness with Dr Thomas Electric Oil and earache relief.
Baseball scores show Pittaburg and Brooklyn with 15 10 hits and 1 error each in a doubleheader. Cincinnati routs Boston 12 to 6 in game one with Parrott Merritt Nichols Ganzol. second Cincinnati game ends 8 to 3 as Wittrock Murphy et al. secure win. Cleveland defeats Baltimore 11 to 1. Louisville beats New York 14 to 5. St Louis defeats Philadelphia 7 to 4. Umpires listed as McQuaid Lynch and others.
Mrs Joseph Archer of Scranton visits friends in town while Jermyns mines halt and a October restart is hoped. James Mackerel of Olyphant will oppose Joseph Stewart of Dunmore in a lightweight alley ball title bout with 125 pound challenger and seven point spread. Cuthbert Hall and John Parke duel October 15 at Laybourns in Providence and October 20 at Logan's in Priceburg for a 25 dollar stake.
A remedy advertised as the best cure for all headaches yields a permanent cure and is claimed to relieve habitual sick headaches. It tones the bowels for constipation and is recommended for a fair trial. Largo bottles priced at fifty cents at Matthews Bros' drug store.
The Ladies Aid society meets Wednesday afternoon at the Methodist Episcopal church and will convene with the church official board in the evening. Mise Ella Levan visits Elizabeth New Jersey as A G Brown resumes Moosie Powder company duties after William Cox filled in. The Women's Christian Temperance Union meets tomorrow afternoon. Thomas Howells elected choir chorister and Miss Blanchie Tregallis organist as the church choir plans rehearsal. William Hailateoe visits from Providence and Rev Hawley from Florida are in town.
Harrisburg beat Pottaville 10 to 3 in a game marked by 6 errors for Harrisburg and 3 for Pottaville. Battery by Baldwin and Diggies and pitchers Sprogel Hua ton Werte noted in the terse box score style.
Eugene Driscoll and Ellen Mangan were married yesterday afternoon in St Joseph's church by Rev D B H Grown. Anna Sipples attended the bride and Timothy Hollern was best man. The couple rode to Pittaton then returned to the bride's home on Davia Street for supper and dancing at Callery's hall. Both are popular young residents.
A baseball game is slated this afternoon on Brown's grounds between the Hustlers of Providence and the Brown Juniors. Also noted are social updates on local residents including Frank Lynch resuming Yale studies, Jennie Ferguson and Mary Carbie traveling to New York, and a band serenading P. O'Malley at his home after the Hughes-Bergad event in Carbondale.
De R W McKongle of Taylor visited yesterday with old-time friend Alt Davis of Davie’s drug store. Miss Mac Robbins of Soaquehanna is the guest of Mrs Neil Blackman.
A historical rhyme links Castoria to care for children and illness. The verses trace a mother’s use of Castoria through infancy, childhood, and motherhood, mentioning Mim and other names in a folk-pattern lyric. The text preserves a traditional reference to an infant remedy.
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