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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1883
Page
3
Local items detail April moving preparations and snow melt, while noting shops and services. Warren Union Fire Department elects officers. Dr. Sadler to visit Warren Hotel. various residents and visitors appear in society notes.
Drs Sadler and Slocum mail readers a copy of an illustrated treatise on the eye ear nose and throat with compliments. Consultation times announced at Warren Hotel on Friday and Saturday April 6 and 7 and at Tidioute on the 4th and dth.
Maj Gen Hartranft directs summer encampment of the National Guard with brigades camping 11 to 15 August in various locations. Gen Beavers 2d brigade may settle at Saltsburg, while locals favor Eric and reject Saltsburg as too quiet. Also notes a Warren mystery and a milk wagon venture by David Yuhl of Conewango starting April 9.
The shop showcases Latins and French Ginghams, White Dress Goods India Lawns Mulls Cords and Trish Point Embroidery. A large variety of Summer Silks, a 50 cent bargain and the finest Black Silk at $1, offered by O. H. Hunter & Son.
Monday evening April 2 the Burgess and Town Council held a regular meeting at the engine house. New officials took over including Burgess G P Orr and Council members S M Cogswell H Davis and J C Seichrist. Committees were named and officers elected. A fire department chief and assistants were confirmed. The council adjourned to April 16 to fix the tax levy.
Corry troupe presented the 1868 drama True Blue or Brother against Brother directed by Company I N G P and led by F H Button. Wm Milligan P T Keefe and J L Ungerer starred with others from Warren, drawing crowded houses and about 150 dollars expected for proceeds.
At a meeting of Warren Lodge No 481, K of P, the following resolutions were adopted. Waerens J H Graham Prelate and Keeper of Records and Seal Harry R Keen resignations due to changing residences. The lodge regrets their departure and commends them to the order wherever they go. Resolutions to be forwarded and published in town papers. A. RERRICK, C. Henry Avustera, C. E. Girrex.
Advertisement copy promoting Harpers Bazar patterns with envelopes and descriptions, plus mentions of Harper's Bazar weekly and monthly, Johnson & Siegfried agents, and a note about Dr Sadler and Slocum’s illustrated work on eye ear and throat diseases. Also parlor suits from P Greenland near the Episcopal Church.
Erie will build a new street railway. Erie county reports hay at 4.50 to 5 per ton and city bank notes at full value. Olean books two circuses. Jamestown gains Dr Tanner as resident. Dunkirk suffers from arson, theft, and burglaries. Bradford hosts Theodore Thomas orchestra May 3. Warren features Thomas concerts nightly. Dr Fenner of Fredonia marries Florence Bondeson of Jamestown and travels to California. Jamestown to run Herdic coaches. Chautauqua hotel completes at about 150000 with bright season prospects. A BNY&P timetable changes April 1 add two night trains between Buffalo and Pittsburg.
Ten wildcats are drilling across Elk Forest and Warren counties as Tidewater Pipe Co. insures oil flow to avoid general average losses. New York oil exports total about 70 million gallons this year, up from 60 million last year. The Derrick oil report notes March real estate gains with sales across Bradford Allegany Warren and Forest fields totaling over 1.1 million dollars, including Forman sale to Union Oil Co. and Murphy property sale to Anchor Oil Co.
A Mercer county judge rules that hotels and restaurants may not act as liquor stores selling drinks to be carried away, and that wholesale dealers must sell only by the approved quantities. Future licenses will be refused or revoked for violations including off premises sales to non guests.
Widow of the late Peter Evans died at her residence in upper Tidioute on Wednesday afternoon from senile pneumonia. Born in Chautauqua County New York, she would have turned 73 in October. She married at eighteen and lived in Crawford County before moving to Tidioute in 1879. Funeral held this afternoon at two o'clock at her home with large attendance.
Post office in Warren Pa. lists unclaimed letters addressed to individuals including Anderson Andra McConnell Wm Baumount L Moll Pat Burg Gustaf Mais Peter e Black John Morse Ed Frost Leroy Pedercen Hans Hutf H B Park Janes Haverty John Reporter Pub Huepeden Warie Robinson Romain Kightlinger Mrs Ramson Samuel Larsen N P Russell O F Larson Karolina Shirley Jerome Larsen Niels Peter Trace H D Mengel O F McKery Mrs Johann Wright Minnie McCarthy Charles Williams Sarah J In calling for letters please give date of advertising.
County correspondence notes steady business despite challenges. Mills stockpile logs as lumber demand rises, with John McNair & Co. prominent in production. The Singer Manufacturing Co. opens an office in Horton Crary block under J A Annundson supervision. Staff shifts include teachers Miss Cushman and Miss Whipple, and Crary travels east. March 31, 1883.
W Dalrymple and wife depart for Dakota while William Haggerty eyed April 2 start. School opens April 2 and sick residents improve. Davis mill logs are cut. N R Thompson sells home and moves to Jamestown NY. Village drama over a married man circulates as sugar and produce prices hold.
Maul the shoe-maker continues his craft in town. Postmaster Belnap grabbed a boy by the nap of the neck and shook him for napping in the office. Darius Jackson left for Titusville to attend commercial college. Mrs Thatcher and Mrs Haliday return from a week’s vacation. Susie Jackson came from Painesville to visit family. Frank Whaley, once of Grand Valley, now in New York, stopped by Friday night. Donation for Rev. Clover raised 47.50 with some attendance. faith needs meat and potatoes to make muscle and brains.
Notices record the post office closing 2 to 5 pm Wednesday due to the Postmaster General's death. Obituaries note Elsie Evans and Joseph Bachdel's funerals, local arrivals, lectures, and daily life items from the 1883 period including schools opening, housing, and a wedding.
Allegheny county jail holds fourteen men charged with murder. The State Teachers' Association plans its annual convention in Williamsport starting July 10. A Mercer county court ruling supports Greenville school board over vocal music teacher funding. A. O. U. W. case in Pittsburg upholds local lodge against grand body on relief calls. Supreme Court upholds three hundred dollar law and boarding house act conflicts, warns landlords to collect running accounts.
N Wendlebee touts largest stock of fine wall paper in Warren with five hangers for prompt hanging and painting. Readers urged to compare prices and visit Liberty street store. Also promotes Dr Sadler and Slocum eye ear nose throat book, Yes Tooth Powder by Johnson and Siegfried, Crandall House sale before May first, and Preenlund furniture near the Episcopal Church with offerings of rockers chairs and marble tables.
It is a clear preparation that restores gray hair to natural color and promotes new growth without harming health. The product claims to remove dandruff and restore hair to a glossy brown in days, with a warranty on each bottle. Smith Kline Co and Hall & Ruckel are wholesale agents. Also advertised are over thirty styles of Baby Carriages in stock.
In Conewango on March 23 1883 E G Wood of Warren wed Mrs Jennie Crull at the bride’s home with Rev P S Allen officiating. In Garland on March 27 1883 Leon Falkinburg of Grand Valley married Kate A Scott of Garland. In Warren on March 28 1888 Thomas W Dempsey of Clarendon wed Nellie Cribbens of Warren. In Sheffield on March 24 1883 Adelbert Allen married Minnie Slagle at home with Rev Cushman officiating.
In Pine Grove PA two obituaries report Wm Hale died March 25 1883 at age 82 and Sally Adelia Cable died March 13 1883 at age 60 widow of Thomas Cable The piece includes a long sentimental poem about mothering and faith and reflects on gatherings and the afterlife for departed loved ones.
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