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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1891
Page
5
A request invites editors to supply a weekly newsletter for Tue LepGER promised to every town in Warren County. Seek details on format, distribution, and rates from the editor or publisher.
The Ledger’s Letters reports Oct 13 to Oct 14 notes from Ackley and nearby areas. Ida Dinsmore visits en route home to Jefferson county. Dora Fox and Polly Lesh travel from Clarendon. Gertrude Gage returns from Sugar Grove Seminary. Jerome Barringer repairs his farm. social events and local mischief are mentioned amid temperance pleas. Also coverage of absences, travels, funerals, minor injuries, and community chatter across Oct 8 14 with weddings, births, and small-town incidents.
Local items report weddings and visits in Clarendon and Elk township, with the death of Wilson Walker at 43 and funeral details. Community notes include frost damage to pumpkins, mill activity by Holt & McCabe, hunting party plans, road-shed construction, and various social visits. Additional notices cover illness, school closings for services, and a festival fundraiser for Father Rowland.
In Hartford Conn last Friday evening Vreeland’s minstrels opened the amusement season with a pleasing show. Frak David, son of Old Farmer Hopkins, will headline Oct 26. Mrs Anna Egbert and son Charles of Streeter Iowa visited Mr and Mrs J W Sohley. Local youth gatherings and a Presbyterian church benefit with Mrs Ella Krater and Fred Bell were noted. Small town life and weather notes follow with various residents and layout developments in North Warren.
A ledger spanning Warren and surrounding townships records numerous transfers from W A Pickett to the Pickett Hardware Co and other local recipients with dollar amounts, followed by In Memoriam notices for Edgar Eldred and Benjamin Mead, Perry J Barton, plus death and marriage notices from Warren area. The obituary items include ages and family details, and marriage notice covers Herbert Putnam and Lillie Lounsbury.
The ad touts a large Warren dry goods assortment with 500 yards dress goods at 10c, 800 yards 86 inch dress goods at 10c, 1 900 yards 34 inch wool flannels at 25c, 400 yards 54 inch wool flannels at 38c, plus novelties Henriettas Serges and special silk prices, highlighting value and variety.
A local ad showcases ladies reefer jackets and plush jackets and coats in plain, chevron, beaver and worsted with prices from five to fifteen dollars. Fur trimmings raise value, capes muffs and trimming listed, Cooney capes five dollars and beaver Alaska seal Astrachan furs featured. Look at them.
A storefront advertises the best 25 cent undergarments and 50 cent garments in the countryside. It proclaims Smith & Angell Hosiery as sole agents for warranted fast stockings and all wool hose priced at 25 cents and 45 cents, compared with higher prices elsewhere.
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