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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1898
Page
7
Carbondale correspondence is placed with Mr J M Forbes for the Tribune. All complaints about irregular delivery or related news tones should be addressed to Roberts Reynolds news agents.
Protestant Sunday school teachers gathered in the Presbyterian lecture room for October lesson planning. The session was well attended and provided valuable instruction. Papers on teaching were read, including The Essentials of the Teaching Process by W. W. Fletcher and A. C. Purple's Kings of Judah. A social followed, aiding interchurch acquaintance.
Thomas Lunnex, son of Mr and Mrs Patrick Lunney of Main street, arrived home from Camp Wickoff yesterday afternoon after a long illness. He served with the regular firm in Cuba and took part in several engagements. He has recovered with no scars and recalls Spanish marksmanship as poor.
The funeral moved from the family home on Brooklyn Street yesterday at 9 40 o clock and proceeded to St Rose church for a high mass of requiem. Members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers attended and many floral offerings hid the coffin. Interment followed at St Rose cemetery.
Robert Moyles of Park Street, a Delaware and Hudson blacksmith shop employee, was objected to a medical examination yesterday and pronounced temporarily insane. He has shown ongoing insanity symptoms, which have sharply progressed. The poor board has taken charge and will likely place Moyles in the Hillside home.
Two young females from a neighboring village appeared before Alderman Jones yesterday morning. They had sat for a time and ordered a bottle of champagne, then refused to pay. The waiter had them arrested. They were fined two dollars and a half each and allowed to depart.
At a meeting last night the Germania singing society voted to relocate from the Fik building on South Main street to the Keystone block rooms they formerly occupied. The rooms are being updated to serve as desirable club rooms and will be ready for occupancy on October 1.
A teamster unloading boxes in front of Joseph Gluck's shop yesterday morning forced a box through a large plate glass window. The pane measured twelve by seven feet and half an inch thick, necessitating a substantial expenditure to replace it.
George Merritt of Seventh Avenue sustained two badly lacerated fingers at the Delaware and Hudson car shops. While finishing a sawn piece on a circular saw his left hand fingers were nearly severed after catching on the blade.
Mesars Joseph and James Murrin return from a three month outing in Anaconda Montana and appear well. R A Jadwin visits his brother Hal at Camp Meade. Randolph F Mason returns from Richmond VA after his mother’s death. G Nelson Teets of Seranton visits Frank Wolcott. Prof Haydn Evans relocates Scranton residence from Scranton yesterday. Mise Mary Quinn visits Scranton friends on Farview street. Miss Margaret Carroll hosts Pittston visitor Mick Belinda Carroll on Pike Street. Private Coleman of Honesdale company KE Thirteenth regiment spends day in the city. Mrs EB Davis of Bayonne NJ visits friends in this city. Sanderson Living of Mitchell Avenue referenced.
Nue has accepted a position with Dickson Manufacturing in Scranton. Edith Lewis has returned from Philadelphia. Harriet Raynor and daughter M G Watts come back from Liberty New York. Mary Ulmer returns from Fernhall. J E Turr and Elisabeth Hathaway depart for New York City. Sarah Burre leaves for Seminary Westchester. Mr and Mrs George Thinock depart for Wayne County. George Echoonover visiting New York. Thomas Larkin visits from Behenectady. Eatella Bretchell's daughter ill at Mitchell Avenue home. George Trenton remains home ill. Miss Wilorn Harrison improving after illness.
Taylor Hose Company No 1 prepares to build a handsome fire department building on High street after purchasing land. A benefit event is planned to support the project as residents are asked to contribute. The Tribune Taylor office operates in the Cobleigh building.
Contractors Flannigen and O Hara began the first tower district project near Lloyds Court by the river. Francis Labadie and his company opened a week at the opera house with Cuban Justice and will present Faust tonight. Ladies’ Ald society to host a Presbyterian reunion on Susquehanna Street at 7. Miss Gertrude Edwards returns from Pittston. John Lange sustains crushed thumbs at No 2 colliery. Dr J J Price treated him. Charles Hathaway and Leo Lynch depart for Yale. Thomas Moody visits from Stanley. Miss Helen Kennedy returns from Green Ridge. Miss Mary Rogan hosts Miss Mamie and Miss Eadle Timlin. Susquehanna Street Baptist church prepares for a festival and appoints a committee.
When you feel run down and sleep impaired the genuine Johann Hoff’s Malt Extract can help. Immediate benefit expected with regular use, appetite return and sound sleep, strengthening the system for life’s battles. Prof Agnew advised large doses with each meal. Refuse substitutes.
A group of community figures including Manager George Hague and secretary J L Davis organized events. Friends of Miss Rutho Donnelly enjoyed an evening at her parents home on Grassy Street with games dancing and refreshments. Miss Anni Sheridan of Pittston and Miss Mabel Callender visiting relatives were noted in town.
A roundup of visits engagements and weddings in Clifton and nearby towns. John J Filey of Clifton visits Nev Smythe while E Sickles enjoys leave on the Valley cut off. Cries of pets and travel, farewells for Miss Margaret Houston, Nellie Curley and Michael Ker win marriage news, and a large funeral at St Marys church for Nellie Calvey.
At the last council meeting the water committee was instructed to obtain hydrant price reductions from Jer myn and Rushbrook Water Co. The committee reports no satisfaction, and no special meeting has been convened to act. It appears the council members who sent the committee on a wild goose chase may still approve paying eighty dollars per year for four hydrants that can safely be dispensed.
The piece reports on hydrant payments at twenty dollars each with warnings of further quarters if women fail to act by Friday night. It notes Mrs. Pierce of Carbondale and Miss Keynon of Alfred Center visiting Jermyn, Frank A. Collins taking a new job in Carbondale, and the Methodist Episcopal church heater being moved into place with help from John Lack and his teams. Hon J F Reynolds of Carbondale also called on friends in Jermyn.
The Honesdale firemen will run a Delaware and Hudson excursion to Scranton next Friday September 10 tickets cost one dollar good for return The Honesdale and Carbondale football clubs play at Honesdale Athletic Park next Saturday The Wayne County fair opens with horse races slated for tomorrow and next day Mrs Edgar Jadwin visits Lexington Kentucky where her husband serves as lieutenant colonel The play Back on the Farm visits the opera house Wednesday and Thursday The Honesdale Electric Railway seeks street franchise and a council meeting is set for Monday October 3 to decide trolley plans Citizens are urged to favor the franchise Seeleyville and Tracyville travel link noted
The piece notes daily shows including a be"l con ageersion and a dog and pony circus to entertain children. Arab riders will perform daring horse feats on the track with large purses. Railways offer very low excursion rates to Binghamton for the fair, inviting a wide public turnout.
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