Warren Snow and Storm Echoes in Dunkirk and Warren
The Warren area reports a snowy Thursday with a lingering chill from a recent storm while Dunkirk notes a 9 000 population and 2900 school children. A suspected Alegany oil field could raise oil supply and local residents seek overdue payments. A German evangelical church in Warren is rededicated with a $4100 rebuild, stained glass windows, and new seating. Reverend Bach plans to depart next spring after steady work building a new parsonage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunkirk
Warren
Alegany
Michigan
Kentucky
S. C. Green
Little Valley
Cattaraugus Republican
Salamanca
Green
Jamestown
New York
E. Esher
Chicago
Personal Mentions Sketched in Warren News
A roundup notes Rev James Rea preaching in Jamestown last Sunday. Mrs Wiborg of Cincinnati visits her father A Conarro in Warren. James Nixon and Beck plan new homes on Hickory Street. Robert Gregg of Bradford votes Democratic. Mrs L H Greenland returns from Titusville after three weeks. Mabb and Crosby advertise gas fitting services. Fred P James and wife of Mercer Pa visit family in Warren. D B Bernard leaves Warren House manager role. D M Davis becomes manager and may start new business. Mrs Gillmore in New York selecting millinery. Warren shoppers await her return. Knapp Cable Co succeeds J H Mitchell Co in insurance, representing both firms. Capt Robert Taggart, Democratic auditor general candidate, back in Warren with campaign stops. Aunt Polly Mead, 90, dies at son Stephen’s home, buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery. Ex Sheriff J B Brown dies in town. longtime merchant from Sugar Grove, sheriff in 1858 and 1867. funeral Wednesday at residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. H. Greenland
Titusville
Mabb & Crosby
Fred. P. James
Mercer
Warren
D. B. Bernard
Warren House
D. M. Davis
Bernard
Knapp, Cable & Co
J. H. Mitchel & Co
Knapp & Cable
J. H. Mitchell &Co
Robert Taggart
Tidioute
Erie
Bradford
Polly” Mead
Brokenstraw Valley
Stephen
Odd Fellows Cemetery
J. B. Brown
Sugar Grove
Robert Allen
W. D. Brown
W. A. Rankin
Perry
Allen
North Warren Items Highlight Local Quirks and Incidents
A compendium from North Warren notes three vacant houses, gas fuel worries for winter, ongoing chapel singing led by Mrs. Lott, Adventist Sabbath gatherings with minor frictions, and colorful local commentary from "Stub Pen" about town parasites. Other items include a ewe nursing two non twins, a new feed store opened by John Nobbs, an oyster supper at Arcanum Hall, a large hill excavation for an asylum farm stable, Mose Rodgers shot while hunting, and cautionary remarks on Sunday laws and pastimes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jewel Hall
North Warren
WN. Kidder
John Nobbs
Pinegrove Township
Arcanum Hall
Asylum Farm
High minded young men at church late at night
Union City Times notes young men linger in church after hours to spy on the audience for their girlfriends or wander near doors to find a beau. The item mocks the behavior as high minded and contrasts with Warren where girls prevent such acts under a new Harrisburg duck hunting law. A radish weighs seven and a half pounds from Henry Chapel, and Mrs. Thos Bell learns her father Hussey was killed in Sterling with few details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren County
Erie Dispatch
Union City Times
Warren
Oil Field Notes From Glade and Surrounding Farms
Reports from Glade detail multiple rigs in various stages on farms such as Troy Irwin Beatty and Reakin with Brown Bros nearly doubling output. Wind destroyed Brown Bros No 1 derrick and a public Halloween celebration is noted along with a correction that Buch was not a secessionist, and a political jab toward Buel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jas. Roy
Troy Farm
Glade
Brown Bros
Irwin Farm
Beatty
Beatty Farm
Bill McCabe
A. McWilliams
Reakin Farm
John Truby & Co
Curtis Plece
Follet. Run
Clark Farm
Rhodes &Co
Uhl Farm
Warren
Magee & Ing
Reed
D. Reed
Magee & King
Jim King
Boon Magee
Painting in Ol and Water Colors Exhibition
Announcement of an oil and water color painting exhibition at Mr TH Meacham's rooms beside the School house. It promises lifelike portraits and natural colors, inviting Warren residents to try the new art form. Complete oil and water color instructions offered for $3 with a satisfaction guarantee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TH. Meacham
Warren
School of Art
Philadelphia
Wanted First Class Dining Room Girls at Exchange Hotel
A missive seeking first class dining room girls for the Exchange Hotel in Warren Pennsylvania along with miscellaneous testimonials about Peruna and opium reduction and a separate note advertising an apprentice girl position at Miss A. S. Lacy's dressmaking rooms in the Fisher block over Morck's drug store.
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Exchange Hotel
Warren, Pa
Lacy
Fisher Block
Morck
Dawn of a Misty Rural Morning
A lyrical scene portrays dawn over hills and fields with crops and livestock waking to a sunlit landscape. The verse follows the daily labors and hopeful yields, then transitions to obituary and marriage notices from Harmony New York and Warren Pennsylvania in October 1883.
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Fred Yaw
Sugar Run
Revere House
Flo
Horrigan
Yan
Officer Utter
Yaw
James Rea
Baptist Church
Jas. Nixon
Mr. Beck
Hickory St
Robert Gregg, Esq
Mose Rodgers
Mose
Doc Cowden
North Warrer
Ores
Perk
Harrisburg
Henry Chapel
Republican Party
Weles
Daniels
Hershfield
Buch
Buel
OsweEco, Potrer Co
Harraas
Peruna
Manalin
Exren Marsaro
Ocroben
Zenitl
Chen Les Hughes
Ben. Begler
P. Doerr
D. F. Bhick
Mary A. Guizler
Traub—Dietch
Glade Pa
the Green
Quick—Stevens
Garland
B.J. Davies
Charles
Quick
M. Jennie Stevens
Harley
Pine Grove
Sumnl. Rowland
John M. Harley
North Kerdun
Rose E. Davis
Frewsburg
Mien
Stoneham
Warreni Co
Augusta King Lew
Winiute
C. Morife
C. ‘Morrow
Domes McCollnm Otfers
Russelsburg
Warren Cea
T. Allon
James McColey
Cone Newargo
Foundry
New Iron Bridge
Spy Suhbemerborn
Mana. Ly
Lanternen
Loum
Lalso
Farmers’ Supplies
Sneh
WM. White
Ang
Gommon
Sumer
Conlamine
Therese Carpenter
Therese Carpenter’sa Rays
Voller Wnel
A. Gaurtia
Florence G1 Company
Net SP
Florence Oil Company
Blue Suit
Georgy Reynolds
B.A. Allan
Sheriff's Ofice
Les
Pstrays
Conewango Township
Milms
Conewango
SOL. Cohn & CO
Clothiers & Tailors
Simon, Mack & Co
Wholesale Clothiers
Broadway, N. Y
the Keystone Clothing CO
Brooklyn Combination Clothing Co
Brooklyn
N. Y
Keystone Clothiers
Sign of Keystone Clothing Co
Carver House
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