Mrs Jacob Offerle Dies in Erie at 95
Mrs. Jacob Offerle a former Warren resident who had lived in Erie for years died Thursday at 8 30 pm at her daughter Mrs H A Neymeyer's home in Erie. She was 95 and had good health until two months ago. Survived by three sons J B and Daniel Ifferle of Warren and Charles Offerle of Erie, and a daughter. Funeral held Sunday at 4 pm at Neymeyer's home and 10 am Monday at Oakland cemetery chapel. Interment in Oakland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Offerle
Warren
Erie
H. A. Neymeyer
Offerle
J. B
Daniel Ifferle
Charles Offerle
Aliens Ordered to Surrender Weapons by Police
Chief of Police Haag received a notice from Attorney General T. W. Gregory directing him to warn aliens that possession of firearms implements of war ammunition silencers bombs aircraft wireless devices cipher codes and cipher writings is unlawful. Aliens failing to surrender such articles face arrest if found.
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Haag
T. W. Gregory
Refinery Worker Narrowly Escapes Foot Injury
Jerry Lyons, a Conewango refinery employee, nearly lost his right foot last Wednesday afternoon in an accident at work. He was in the No. 1 bone house elevator taking bone from the lower floor to the torts on the third floor when his foot was caught between the floor and the elevator. The shoe saved the foot before the elevator could be stopped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerry Lyons
Conewango Refining Company
Mr. Lyons
No. 1
Bone House
One Armed Man Hoists Flag at City Hall
Thomas Gettings a one armed oil well pumper from Glade attached a rope to City Hall tower rope and climbed an eighteen foot ladder to loop a flag rope through an iron ring. Police watched as Gettings received an old rusty revolver and cartridges as a souvenir.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Gettings
Glade
Johnson
Gettings
Street Railway Man Resigns to Take Philadelphia Post
A. W. Strohm, long time chief electrical engineer with Warren Street Railway, resigned last Wednesday evening to accept a consulting engineering position with a large electrical trucking company in Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. W. Strohm
Warren Street Railway Company
Philadelphia
Actrical Trucking Company
Former Warren Man In English Hospital
Major Charles Bell formerly employed at the Pennsylvania freight station in Warren and a relative of Harry Bell is in Shorn Cliff England in an English hospital. He has seen distinguished service since the war began and this is the second time he has been nourfled. He expects to return to the front early in June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Bell
Pensylvania
Harry Bell
Shorn Cliff
England
Bell
Fair directors to elect a new secretary
A meeting of the fair association directors is set for April 21 at 1 30 in the Chamber of Commerce office to fill the vacancy from the resignation of H. V. Hazeltine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Fair Association
Chamber of Commerce
H. V. Hazeltine
Farm Agent Reist Demonstrates Pasture Seeding
Farm Agent Reist visited Akeley on Friday to demonstrate pasture seeding on the Hale farm. Demonstration illustrated seeding methods and potential pasture improvements for local farmers.
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Reist
Akeley
Anonymous call warned of Gladerun Bridge blast
Sheriff DeForest received a late evening call claiming the Gladerun bridge over the Allegany river would be blown up. The caller refused to identify themselves. Investigators questioned two intoxicated woodsmen near Brown Run before releasing them. The sheriff vows to uncover the caller's identity and teach a lesson.
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DeForest
Gladerun
Allegany River
Sheriff DeForest
Brown Run
Jacobson Plant Wins Large Saxon Order for Axles
Jacobson Machine Company has secured a two million dollar order for twenty four thousand axles from the Saxon Automobile Company of Detroit. The Warren plant will expand capacity, additional buildings to be started after July 1, and the workforce to be trebled. Production for the 10 000 axle contract begun six months ago, with materials already at Warren. delivery starts August 1 for the first contract, and January 1 1918 for the larger order.
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Warren
Red Cross Committee Organized in Sheffield
A Sheffield War Cross committee was organized on April 12 with forty members. C. F. Carlson was elected chairman, Byron B. Horton secretary and treasurer. Mrs. John Cochran was named chairman of the women workers committee with a membership committee including Mrs. Henderson, Mrs. Colegrove, Mrs. Russell, Miss Wood, Mrs. Burdick, Mrs. Gibson, Mrs. Weight, Miss Christian, Mrs. Horton, and Miss Jaycox to enroll new members in their areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheffield
War Cross
C. F. Carlson
Byron B. Horton
John Cochran
Women Workers
T. J. Henderson
John I. Colegrove
H. B. Russell
Mary Wood
M. Burdick
Emergency Hospital Report for March
The March report records seven more patients treated and fifteen more days of care than the prior month. At month start 42 in hospital, 105 discharged, 96 died, 3 remaining. April 1 has 48. Pay patients admitted 49, pay days care 590, part pay patients 49, part pay days care 524, charity patients admitted 18, charity days care 399, total days care 1513.
Fair Secretary Hazeltine Resigns Post
H. V. Hazeltine, secretary of the Warren County Fair Association since its organization, has resigned his post. He cites his other business interests as preventing him from giving the fair secretaryship the attention it requires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. V. Hazeltine
Warren County Fair Association
Four Boys Held For Court In Store Breakin
Four young boys charged with entering the Atlantic and Pacific store on Sunday night were bound over to court after a hearing before Justice D. G. Blackman. They will be kept for Juvenile Court unless bailed by parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic and Pacific
D. G. Blackman
Medical Students Fast-Tracked for Army Service
Ray Dalrymple of Jefferson Medical Institute Philadelphia writes friends that his class may be kept in school all summer to be rushed through their course and turned out for service in the army.
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Ray Dalrymple
Jefferson Medical Institute
Philadelphia
Chas Schwing Dies After Long Illness at 55
Charles Schwing died Wednesday night at 6 at his home 424 Pennsylvania Avenue West at age 55. Survived by wife, daughter Mrs Alfred Tochtermian of Hull Tex, two brothers Albert and Horton, and one sister. He ran a jewelry business here for 25 years and was a lifelong resident. He was a 32nd Degree Mason and active in Masonic orders and Elk Fraternal circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Schwing
Pennsylvania Avenue West
Alfred Tochtermian
Hull
Tex
Albert
Horton
Schwing
Coudersport
Zem Zem Temple
Erie
Death of Herman R. DeLong at 59 in Warren area
Herman R. DeLong of Russell and former Warren resident died suddenly Tuesday morning at his cottage on Conewango Creek Woodrow aged 59. He left a wife Mrs Mayme DeLong of Russell a daughter Mrs Grace Webb two sons Clifton and Morell all of Warren and his mother Mrs Martha Delong of Oil City. The remains were taken to his sister Mrs Webb in Warren. He belonged to Youngsville Lodge ODOD.
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Herman R. DeLong
Russell
Warren
Conewango Creek
Woodrow
Mayme DeLong
Grace Webb
Clifton and
Morell
Martha Delong
Oil City
Corry Man Killed Near Wrightsville
The body of Francis Farrell of Corry was found on Erie Railroad tracks near Wrightsville. Coroner Chapman authorized arrangements for burial as unknown before identification. He is survived by two brothers, one sister, and his parents.
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Erie
Wrightsville
Francis Farrell
Michael Farell
Corry
Chapman
Hull
Youngsville
County Cadets Form From 200 Boys At Armory
About two hundred boys gathered at the state armory last Friday to organize Warren County Cadets. A twelve member advisory council chaired by Captain A G Lyons will supervise. Dr J T Danforth outlined plans. Four companies will be formed countywide with 40 to 60 members each, ages 15 to 21, nonsectarian and nonmilitary in label, aimed at three years of training to qualify as noncommissioned officers in the army or national guard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Armory
Warren County Cadents
J. T. Danforth
A. F. Kottcamp
W. E. Yeager
LeRoy McGown
D. F. A. Wheelock
U. G. Lyons
David Gardner
A. G. Lyons
Dr. Danforth
Regular Army
National Guard
Warren to Raise $10 000 for Y M C A Work
A banquet drew 240 business men as Warren initiated a campaign to fund Y M C A work in European detention camps. Fletcher S Brockman outlined 18 years in China and 200 camps for the U S Army. Jerry Crary and Burgess Knabb made early gifts, and the drive escalated to a $10,000 pledge from Warren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fletcher S. Brockman
United States
Mr. Brockman
China
Europe
United States Army
Jerry Crary
Burgess Knabb
Warren
Campaign to Save Potato Eyes Launches in Borough
A new drive asks city housewives to save potato seed eyes. Boy Scouts will collect them May 4 to plant five acres at the Industrial Development Company site in North Warren, where the boys are set to cultivate for government use this summer.
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North Warren
Farmers to Buy Carload of Seed Potatoes at Cost
Farmers nationwide gain access to seed potatoes at cost through an arrangement in which the Farm Bureau buys a carload of seed with funds from the Chamber of Commerce. If unused as seed, the potatoes will be sold locally to housewives.
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Farm Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
Patriot Mass Meeting Held in Tidioute
General Willis J. Hulings of Oil City served as the principal speaker at a large patriotic mass meeting in Tidioute on Saturday. He delivered remarks on Patriotism as town businesses closed for the event and a parade of citizens, students, and groups preceded the gathering. Bad weather kept the talk indoors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willis J. Hulings
Oil City
Tidioute
General Hulings
Hugh Gray Charged With Liquor Selling In Ambiguous Case
Hugh Gray faced charges of operating a speakeasy near the Conewango. He was bound over to court under $100 bail which he could not furnish on Monday but later secured bail.
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Hugh Gray
Conewango
Pensyl
County Adds Black Farm to Rouse Estate Holdings
County Commissioners closed a deal with Mrs. D. F. Black for her 100 acre farm south of Youngsville, adding the Black farm to the Rouse estate’s equipment late last week.
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D. F. Black
Youngsville
Big Black
Rouse
Italian Arrested for Carrying Revolver
John Giveranni, an Italian, was arrested by police on Tuesday charged with carrying a concealed weapon. A Colt .44 was seized. Chief Haag warns foreigners will be searched for weapons without exception hereafter.
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John Giveranni
Haag
Voters urge Hulings to run for Congress in Bleakley vacancy
A Warren petition asks General Willis B. Hulings to stand as candidate for Congress in the seat left open by O. D. Bleakley resignation. Hulings is noted as a Progressive leader in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren
Willis B. Hulings
O. D. Bleakley
Hulings
South Penn Official IIIill in Pittsburgh
George Porter superintendent for South Penn Oil Company Mid land division and one of the oldest oil men in the eastern fields is critically ill at his home in Pittsburgh from stomach cancer. He has been unable to take nourishment for a week and death is expected at any time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Porter
South Penn Oil Company
Midland Division
Pittsburgh
Porter
John Langdale Returns From Florida
John Langdale the Warren farmer arrives home from wintering on his Florida farms at St Pierce. He says Southern war enthusiasm is high and will split time between Warren and the South each year, visiting north in the summer and returning south for the winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Langdale
St. Pierce
Fla
Mr. Langdale
Warren
Traction Firm Lacks Franchise Rights City Council Review
Borough Solicitor E. H. Beshlin told the Warrech council the W. and J. cars have no franchise to operate here unless secured by lapse of time. The council asked its attorney to investigate and pursue transfers on city lines, six weeks ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. H. Beshlin
Warrech
Traction Company
Suspicious Character Arrested in Corry
George Haape a 19 year old German was arrested in Corry Friday night near the McEnes Steel Company plant. He had a revolver cartridges and a letter from his mother when searched. He recently left Elmira reformatory after a burglary sentence and is held pending word from Federal authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Haape
Corry
McEnes Steel Company
Halape
Elmira Reformatory
New York
Two Vacancies on Sheffield Township Board of Auditors
Two vacancies on the Sheffield township board of auditors occur after the death of John W. Black and the removal of T. R. Corbin. Petitions have been signed requesting the appointment of H. S. Roberts and J. R. Henderson to fill the positions.
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Sheffield Township
John W. Black
T. R. Corbin
H. S. Roberts
J. R. Henderson
Youngsville Man In Critical Illness At Home
Ke A Davis lies critically ill at his Main Street home in Youngsville. His daughter Mrs S N Pentecost of Cleveland Ohio has been summoned and will be with him during his illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
KE. A. Davis
Main Street
Youngsville
Walker Named Postmaster of Local Office
William A. Walker, long associated with his father in the Times publication, becomes postmaster and takes charge of the office at the start of the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William A. Walker
the Times
Little Talks on Health and Hygiene
Health Commissioner Samuel G. Dixon presents practical tips on personal hygiene and public health measures. The guidance emphasizes cleanliness, disease prevention, and community responsibility in maintaining sanitary conditions.
Individualism and the duty of voters in a republic
The piece argues that citizens must actively participate in government and maintain personal health. It compares civic responsibility to health, urging daily attentiveness to public affairs and to the sanitary and mental well being of individuals, especially during wartime.
Serviceable Footwear for Trade Shows Largest Line Yet
We offer the largest line of men's heavy footwear we have ever shown and, having been bought early, can sell them at about cost today.
Work Shoes in Black or Tan with Double Soles
Advertises work shoes in blacker cut with full double soles available in black or tan. Prices listed: $1.98, $2.48, $2.98, $3.98 and up.
Dress shoes in gun metal with lace and button details
A catalog style note lists dress shoes in gun metal tones featuring lace and button closures with a range of prices noted above.
Rubber Boots Offered At Old Prices For Season
The seller promises continued availability of rubber boots at the same prices as before, $1.98 and $2.08, ensuring customers can buy through the season at familiar rates.
Family Shoe Store offers footwear for every family member
A local family shoe store emphasizes a complete selection of footwear for men women and children. The shop promotes wide ranges of styles sizes and prices to fit all ages and needs.
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Hazeltine
Chas
H. R. Delong
South Penn
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Samuel G. Dixon
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Individualism
Just Wright
Penn’a
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DR Charles Flesh Food CO
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