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A note requests a weekly news letter delivery to Toe Leperr in each town of Warren county and asks readers to write the editor with particulars.
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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1891
Page
5
A note requests a weekly news letter delivery to Toe Leperr in each town of Warren county and asks readers to write the editor with particulars.
In Quaker Hill and neighboring towns a flurry of short notes reports visitors visits and health updates. Mrs Shuler and Mrs Brasington host relatives while Fred Wentz returns from Lima after a year of drilling. Miss Maggie Loucks hosts Mrs Means and several residents recover from illness and rheumatism. An October 8 wedding joins Ira Headley and Eva Penn in Jamestown New York. Scarlet fever closes area schools for two weeks and a street-wcar accident injures a clergyman’s horse and disrupts travel. The asylum plan prompts sidewalk improvements.
Oct 23 report cites a successful Friday entertainment in Clarendon with a full church and local talent shining. The program opened with a choir selection and included a notable instrumental piano duet by little Masses Lowie Hamilton and Edith Cochran, who performed with poise.
A community notices Ella Kratzer of Sheffield praised as elocutionist. her death on October 21 after typhoid fever. Services held at Presbyterian church with Rev Rankin. interment at St Petersburg. Reports of local visits, gatherings, and various town items across Warren and nearby communities.
A list of jurors for a November term includes Arnold Andrew farmer Elk Albro Waiter farmer Columbus tp Amman M blacksmith Mead and many others. Real estate transfers record ten deeds from Bennett to Carey to Donohue to Carey and others with prices ranging from 30 to 2,500 dollars. Several marriages and obituaries follow, naming local residents and dates. Also ads for Blaine Wafers and medical remedies conclude the item.
The Best Assorted Stock of DRY GOODS in Warren offers 500 yards Dress Goods at 10c, 800 yards 86-inch Dress Goods at 10c, 1,900 yards 34-inch Wool Flannels at 25c, and 400 yards 54-inch Wool Flannels at 38c, with values cited. Fine novelties, Henriettas, Serges, and special silk prices accompany the sale.
Ladies reefer jackets in plain Chevron Beaver and Worsted priced from five to fifteen dollars with fur trimmings six dollars and up Plush jackets nine to twelve dollars and fur caps muffs and trimming offered in many varieties Plush coats twenty dollars and some at thirty Cooney Capes five dollars furs including Beaver Alaska Seal Astrachan featured with promotional urging to view them.
An advertisement proclaims the best 25 cent article in the country and 50 cent garments. It claims sole agency for Smith & Angell Hosiery with warranted fast stockings. All wool hose priced at 24 cents and 45 cents, cheaper than elsewhere.
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