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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1885
Page
5
Old Rafting Days. Spring Creek reports on local life. Gus Mudy builds a new barn frame while a large bond payment sparks township doubt. Orlie Nichols buys a horse, burrows sells a colt, and two young colts die. May 25, Spring Creek.
In Warren and Evie counties warm weather boosts spring crop work while the Seventh Day Adventists prepare a Lakewood encampment June 3 to 9. A canvas pavilion seats hundreds with fifty to sixty tents around it. The railroad will run excursion trains and stop at Lakewood during the event. The meetings focus on biblical prophecies signs of the times holy living and Jesus Christ. The group emphasizes Sabbath observance and salvation through Christ with the hoped-for large attendance and doctrinal exploration. Sugar Grove May 26.
A newspaper item describes malarial gases seeping through drains making a baby ill with malaria fever. Prompt treatment with Brown's Iron Bitters is claimed to cure. Mrs. McDonald of New Haven, Conn., testifies that Brown's Iron Bitters cured her six years of malaria effects.
Classified fragment announces land for planting on shares six acres and a spring near Warren Pa with contact Mrs C. W. Weaver. Also notes Bartsch & Gruber lumber wagon and carriage business continuing at Water street with Chas Bartsch thanking patrons. Also advertises Shiloh’s remedies sold by Johnson & Siegfried including cough cure plaster and vitalizer with prices.
Bargain advertisement from Bell Brothers promoting cheap hosiery and white goods specials. Shows prices on missy hose, Lisle threads, four pairs for 25 cents, white robes at 3.00, and silk pieces recent purchases, claiming stock and value on par with country markets.
Notice to Warren and vicinity that the hardware store and tin shop have moved across the street to the Diamond Block with large rooms and convenient country access in Glade. Tin and job work are first rate and will receive prompt attention, signed by Wx. Spinner, Warren, Pa., Feb. 3.
An ad asserts nothing is made in vain and praises a fashionable girl of the period. Blood's Sarsaparilla is advertised as male in Lowell Massachusetts where the product sells more bottles than any other sarsaparilla or blood purifier. It claims to purify blood, strengthen the system, and renew vigor with a 100 dose bottle priced at one dollar.
A fragmentary page advert lists BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE and Ely’s Dream Balm with testimonials, then shifts to products like Salvation Oil, Hood’s Sarsaparilla, Shiloh’s Cure, and Shilor’s Cure. It mentions eggs, celery seed, perfume Hackmetack, tree borer remedies, and Leaf mold soil mixes. Strong persons like H. Abbott and J. Case appear with claims.
The Warren County Agricultural Association held its regular monthly meeting in the Court House. President Lott presided as Rev W W Painter addressed farmers on their role in creation and the farming class. A question box discussed topics from thistles and fencing to planting lunar timing and manure placement. The note on apiarists detailed queen clipping and swarm management. Notes on farming practice covered beets, carrots, underdraining, lime, crop rotation, and weather-adapted methods.
American Institute Farmer's Club lauds Alfred Speer Passaic New Jersey for his Oporto Grape Wine as among the best. Sold by A W Merck 412 Carriage and Wagon Shop. Also advertises carriage and wagon services and Jackson's Patent Harrow in Warren County. Grouper Laurier, Warren, May 30.
The ad repeats grand claims that Hop Bitters safely cure nervous disorders sleeplessness kidney liver and digestive diseases and various ailments of women and children. It cites physicians agreeing on other remedies and touts dramatic cures once thought hopeless. It warns against misleading labels and promotes the product as harmless and universally effective.
At the Lutheran parsonage in Warren May 10 by Rev E B Dou r George L Spade and Miss Augusta C G son both of Warren county Pa to ge -At Lander on Saturday May 21 1885 Pon elles Man of Robert and Currie Love aged 1 year 5 months 11 days
Following named persons have filed applications for licenses to be presented to the Court of Quarter Session at June Sessions commencing Monday June 3 1845 at Clarendon Borough T J Mahony hotel license Carl Pudens hotel license James McGee hotel license Hugh Monro eating house license James O Allen vendor s license Columbus Roeve All licenses listed as requests for license approval by local authorities for the June 1845 session.
Town orders sidewalk work under borough ordinance. Property owners listed must improve and grade in front of their lots along Liberty, Hickory, Laurel, Union, Water, and adjacent streets, with specific lot references and directions for completion and repairs.
The buyers and principals of the Warren & Farneworth Valley Railroad property, purchased at the court sale by Commissioner W E B Rice, will convene at Wetmore Slinckley's office in Warren Pennsylvania on May 5 at 7:22 PM to organize under the act of Assembly.
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