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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1882
Page
1
Multiple sheriff sales announced for Warren County Pennsylvanian territory. Properties include parcels in Pine Grove and Elk townships with residences and outbuildings, conveyed through deeds dating 1800s. Notices specify sale dates in March, court-house venue, and the properties’ boundaries and improvements.
Public sale authorized by writs of fieri facias and venire exponas will take place in Warren borough on March 6 1882 at 2 oclock PM. Properties include fifty acres in Pre Grove township Warren County with a two story frame house and outbuildings, and nine acres with a one and a half story frame dwelling in Sheffeld township. Purchasers: John Burton and Stephen Andrews, respective suits by J C Titus Chase and First National Bank of Warren. Sheriff THEO CHASE, Warren Pa. February 12 1882.
Letters of administration granted in Warren County on the estate of Joseph Phillips deceased in Sugar Grove Township. Creditors must immediate pay debts and present claims to A. P. Phillips and C. J. Phillips, Administrators, with proper authentication.
In Erie a prominent skeptic becomes a believer after his son’s incidents with a mediumistic boy. Private seances attract merchants and officials, a chartered society forms, and plans emerge for a dedicated hall and lyceum. Moses Hall, the Ingersoll of spiritualism, headlines lectures with a promise of a remarkable local medium.
Trustees accuse Rev Charles Stro of Rochester of mismanaging funds for an orphan home started by Mir Strong who also ran the True Pillar and later a Rochester venture. The home burned in August 1890 and Strong has since raised money while misusing subscription payments, prompting calls to stop contributions until proper settlement with the association.
An old advertisement touts Dr Fragier s magic ointment claiming to cure pimples blackheads eruptions and rashes leaving clear tight skin. It also offers a mail order cure and notes other products and a separate item mentions a Washington grand jury indicting Brady Dorsey and others in star route cases.
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