Warren Daily Notes December 28 1888 Local Gossip
A long list of social visits and travels across Warren and nearby towns. Guests include A Sobel Oil City D Shear and various families visiting from Erie Akron Lima Jamestown Corry Warren Titusville Glade and Shenango. Reports mention Christmas and New Year plans, local business ads, and civic notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arline Arnett
Akron
Ed. Morrison
Titusville
Henry Cogswell
Corry
Warren
Arthur Barrett
Lima
Glade
Carl Dunham
Jamestown
SE. Orr
Liberty Street
R. K. Russell
Jettie
California
John Danforth
Buffalo
Dr. McAlpine
T. P. Lesser
Oil City
Anna
Mary Conrath
Geo. F
W.V. N. Yates
Jennie Conrath
H. A. Dald
John Stein
Shenango
Irene Copeland
Toledo
Ed. Pierce
1889 Columbia Bicycle calendar and stand
The Pope Mfg Co Boston offers a convenient calendar and stand for desks. It features a pad of 365 leaves each 532% inches with memoranda space, sewn ends allow removal of whole leaves, and a portable stand keeps the date leaf clearly before the eye. The upper stand is pressed pulp, gilded with Columba lettering and is described as indestructible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Pope Mfg Co
Boston
Mass
Watsons Ball seeks large New Year fancy gathering
The thirteenth annual Watson hose company ball will be held at the Warren hotel on New Year's Eve December 31. Wy man's orchestra provides music and supper will be served at La Pierre restaurant instead of the hotel. Watsons are known for select entertainments and expect a big, fine party. Northrop's shoe store advertises summer and walking shoes, slippers, and all shoe grades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forest County
Tionesta
Christy
Butler
T. Bell
High Street
Jamestown
Plush
W. HH. Pickett & Co
Gage Tool Company
Vineland
N. J
Venango County
Hal Cobham
Relief Association
J. Mr. Davies
Liberty Street
Olean
Dakota
Little Lake
Watertown
Franklin Newe
George M. Tevons
Titusville
Amon
W. P. Bignell
Warren
Earnest Smith
Charles Babbitt
Tidioute
Will C. Allen
West Hickory
Lydia P. Hinckle
Glade
Shannon
Allan
Warren County
Hinckle
Prothonotary’s
Williams
Adelphia Kitchen
Picket & Co
Pickett & Co
Utter
Washabaugh
Cornelius
Watson Hose Company
Warren Hotel
Wyman
la Pierre
Watsons
Northrop
Jobn Sill & Son
Exchange Block
Waterstrat
J. B. Fouch
East Street
L. G. Noyes
N.K. Wendelboe’s
Wyman & Davis
N. EK. Wendelbos
Jacob Keller
Keller
Off
Agee
Standard Livestock Insurance Company
United States
Hackenberzer
Penn Sugarry
Reading
Sumyer E. Orr
Christmas Services Bring Joy Across Warren Churches
In Warren the Christmas season exceeded prior celebrations with abundant gifts and elaborate trees. Churches from Episcopal to Lutheran hosted festive services with visits from Santa Claus, while Sunday schools organized efforts. Many homes shared trees, reunions, and charitable gifts to the needy, reflecting a communitywide tribute to peace on earth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren
Santa Claus
Relief Association
Four Die or Wounded in Valley Crimes and Accidents
Reports from Grand Valley recount a Fatal assault over alleged infidelity with Grinnell and Thompson. Grinnell wounded, Thompson withdraws suit after posting costs. Also noted are a near fatal brain bleed and paralysis case for M. S. Van Every, Elmer Muncie’s death after a P and E railroad accident, and local ads for slippers and footwear from Boyd Bros. & Young and C. P. Northrop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. M. Hall
Grand Valley
Emerson Hill
G. W. Hopkins
Charles Grinnell
Thompson
Hopkins
Grinnell
Squire Maultby
Justice Moultsby
Explosive crisis rocks Bradford area with devastating blasts
A massive explosion of glycerine magazines near Buchannan Hollow sent shock waves through Bradford. Homes shattered, glass and crockery crashed, and occupants injured as fires spread between magazines. Names tied to the explosives include George Casterline Curley Baker and French Gormley, with 1800 to 2500 pounds of explosive in the stock. A residence was destroyed and Mrs. Ward may die from injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buchannan Hollow
Bradford
Main
George Casterline
W. L. Ward
Pices
Freight Wreck at Hickory Shuts Main Track
A regular freight train from Olean collided with an extra freight at Hickory near a sharp curve. The two engines and several cars were wrecked, rolled into the river, and the line blocked. Engineers and firemen survived. one crew, Tobin and his fireman, were bruised and scalded but escaped serious injury. Passenger trains used a side track to pass the wreck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olean
Mel Griff
Bowman
Hickory
Tobin
A Ladies Assembly at Library Hall In Warren
Mrs Lenora M Barry will address Warren citizens at Library Hall on Wednesday January 16 and organize a ladies assembly on January 17 at Knights of Honor ball. The event aims to aid working women with mutual protection and education, inviting all women though focused on female attendees, with men urged to attend for matters affecting them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
HM Warren
Lenora M. Barry
K. of L
Warren
Library Hall
Lib
S Ladies’ Assembly
K. of
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Wecleage
Laren, PA
A. Sobel
D. Shear
B. Nesmith
Cambridgeboro
N. Thomas
Joel Danforth
BR. B. Stone
Hospital For the Insane
North Warren
Polly Hazeltine
David Hazeltine
Matthew's Bun
Stillson Hill
Frank E. Fay
Farmington
Mercantile
Court of Appeal
Evangelical Church
J. B. Mayer
Arch St
Phila
Woolford
Charles E. Beecher
Wendellove's
W. G. Trunkey
R. L. Cochran
Franklin News
Ledger
George Bull
Winkelmann
J. H. Winkelmann & Co
Prop’s
Baltimore
Ball
Townsend
James G. Townsend
Lakewood School of the New Theology
Brookfield
Elmer Muncie
Muncie
Erie
Stewart’s Switch
Saegertown
Boyd Bros. & Young
Clarendon
C. P. Northrop
Sions
Coun
A. D
A. W. Greason
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
O. Ka
The
Harrisburg Patriot
Harrisburg Daily Patriot
Associated Press
Harrisburg Weekly Patriot
Patriot Publishing Co
Market Street
Harrisburg
Theel
North Fourth Street
Philadelhophia
Geo. Bauzt
Water St
Hunter & Jarvis
Aluuehss
E. F. Burrerfi
Syracuse, N.Y
Fanny Irvine
Tetished
Allan—Hinkle
W. F. Shannon
Will C. Allan
Lydia P. Hinkle
Baldensperger Groves
Lutheran
P. Doerr
Albert Baldensperger
Stoneham
Susie Iona Groves
Engstrom—Parker
Lutheran Parsonage
Frederick Engstrom
Ludlow
Mary Elizebeth Parker
Limestone
Love—Case
Irvineton
T. W. Douglass
Charles A. Love
Ida M. Case
Harris—Messenger
Freehold
Bride
William Cadman
Henry Harris
Misa M. Ellen Messenger
McKenzie
Kribill
Pleasant
Kev P. Doerr
Simon McKenzie
Rosa Kribill
Oled. Rylander
James M. Rulander
P. Greenlund
Hickory Street
Lyt
Nelson Greenlund
Undertaker
Patterson’s
Germantown
Saxony
Ladies’ Assembly
Assembly
M. Barry
GEO. P. Rowell & CO
Spruce Street
New York
Ast
Law Tinton
Williss
Fron
Warren Keifer
Lower Ffonse
Congress
Cainlosue
Williss College
Springfield
Hotel
M. Hogan
Exchange
Oil Exchange
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