County Letters Notice to Correspondents
Notice requests timely copy and signer name for all correspondence. Names published only if requested. Do not write on both sides of the paper.
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1909
Page
8
Notice requests timely copy and signer name for all correspondence. Names published only if requested. Do not write on both sides of the paper.
April notes show Mr and Mrs John Cop pie returning to reside in Tidioute after a Buffalo stay. Dr J G Humphrey rents E D Culver's house with new furniture. Local families including Grandin Peterson Jury lodge visits and travels to New York, Washington, Buffalo, Warren, Pittsburg, and Piqua Ohio for relatives and business.
April events include a mothers meeting on April 30 at Mrs. Tamona’s with papers on Woman in the Home Church and Street followed by discussion. Cemetery Society meets April 30 via Mrs. Crosby. Creamery records for Mar 15 to 28 show 17715 lbs milk and 1907 lbs cream, 139445 lbs butter sold at 29.59 cents per lb, and general averages.
On Tuesday evening eleven young people gathered at Mr. and Mrs. B. Dodge to celebrate Harry Dodge's 15th birthday with a surprise gift of money. Other notes include Mrs. O Proper visiting from Grand Valley, Grange attendance at East Branch, Fred Cochran visiting relatives, Elga Oviatt visiting her parents, a birth on April 11, 1909 to Ralph and Mrs Nichols, and John Trisket with Chas Brown shingling a barn for John Brightaman.
Local society note records Mr William Gray and Mrs Grace Gray hosting a Cobb's Corners event on April 19 with attendance and community greetings.
The passage lists visitors including Mrs. May Pochey at Kellettville, Merrill Dexter visiting his son John, Gertrude Heminway from Corry with her grandmother Mrs. Oscar Heminway, and Lucy Pratt from Kinzua visiting her sister Mrs. John Dexter. It notes a wind storm toppling a wind mill and a shade tree owned by James Phillis, and mentions Maude Wright employed at Corry with farmers rushing to plant oats.
April 17 social rounds report Mrs Geo Graham and daughter Georgia back home after Easter in Jamestown with Mrs Clara Werle family. George Graham visited Russell Friday. Eugene Karr and wife moved to Chas Bloom farm here. Miss Georgia Barber visited Warren couple. Russell visitors include Mrs Palmer, Harry Linstrum, and John Sampson with son Lloyd.
APRIL 20 A. M. Wooden visited friends at Columbus last Thursday. Mr and Mrs W M Woodburn of Corry spent the day with their daughter Mrs Margaret Barlow last Sunday. Earl Baker runs his saw mill. The sugar social was a success with all reporting a good time. Merritt Baker went to Titusville Sunday returning Monday evening.
The second annual Educational Butter Contest at Pennsylvania State College concluded with the February scoring. O D Mott of Edinburg achieved the highest average and won the silver cup. ten others shared a pro rata fund. Participants from Cooley L H to Wivel E C posted strong averages despite warm-month cream challenges.
Butter makers were asked to complete forms detailing their production method and water content analysis. The contest aims to boost interest in butter making, improve Pennsylvania butter quality, and study water content and overrun. A second creamery and farm contest will follow under the same plan, with the first test set for April 29. Interested participants should contact H. E. Van Norman at State College for rules and entry blanks, providing both post and express offices.
A thoughtful look at how the modern stage differs from past eras. The piece weighs memory against current performance, noting taste shifts and new merits while acknowledging older legends. It argues today’s theatre is different, finishing with a claim that modern works show greater finish and completeness.
Observing each generation as it passes, the trend remains upward in all directions, and the stage reflects this progressive movement, as noted by the Inquirer.
In a letter printed in April Scribner, Gen Sherman recounts a brutal Shiloh engagement. He describes a buckshot wound to the hand and a bruised shoulder, the loss of his horses, the death of his orderly Holliday, and the grim scene of mangled casualties as he notes his division suffered heavy losses.
A disabled man with no legs seeks work at the Employment Bureau for the Handicapped in New York. The bureau exists to provide chances to earn an honest living despite disability, with many cities establishing similar bureaus as demand grows.
A magazine piece argues for placing disabled people in suitable jobs rather than keeping them dependent. It cites a legless man finding work in a shoe string business with an assistive device, then potential factory roles where hands are used more effectively. The bureau helps place him and notes his happiness earning an honest penny.
Public documents available at the newspaper office include Cost Capitalization and Estimated Value of American Railways by Slason Thompson. Also offered are Report Huntingdon Reformatory Shelter Tent Experiments with Tobacco from Penn State College, and a Charleston Post note about Senator Smith of South Carolina visiting the President and losing his hat.
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