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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1885
Page
3
Local paper notes include theater hints and concerts, river and raft reports, church and club notices, and shop updates. Highlights flag Pinafore performances, Odd Fellows anniversary, and spring cleaning calls. Also mentions rail and stock market items, a new church parsonage, and a raft season with no major damage.
The Opera Pinafore will be staged at Library Hall next Thursday and Friday evenings April 39 and May 1 by the Exchange H and L Co and friends. Prepared under Mrs Bernard direction with a cast rivaling Buffalo amateurs and equal to Eric and Franklin, new costumes and ship scenes enhance the production. Music by Rieg's Orchestra. Cast includes Miss Flora Bell Buttercup Alice Parmlee Hebe Mr. Frank Loomis as Ralph Dr A C McAlpine as Master Frankie Keene, 50-voice chorus. Seats at Noyes drug store. Prices 50 35 and 25 cents.
A. A. Davis & Co. continues to front the market with a complete range of baby carriages and wall paneer from cheapest to finest including remnants.
Geo L Lawrence becomes Warren Telephone Exchange manager. O H Hunter travels to New York for new goods. W W Davis and wife return from wedding tour and stay at Warren Hotel. Ott Pettit visits Enterprise with his mother. L R Freeman travels to Pittsburgh. father returns to Olympia. Mrs James, with O D Glenn and family, ill in Mercer. Next Thursday Hempstead and Minnie Pusey to marry. Carrie Hill and Kies move to Market and Short streets residence. Rev J E Wilkinson and Mrs Wilkinson visit. he preaches at Warren Trinity Church April 19. Emery Reingruber returns from State Hospital healthy and praises Dr Curwen.
The 321st anniversary of William Shakespeare's birth was observed in Stratford-on-Avon with bells, decorations, and a memorial service noting a Shakespeare window slated for placement over his grave. In Warren, the Shakespeare Club gathered 40 members for an evening of quotations, music, readings, and socializing, praising the club's organization and literary culture.
Fifty years after their May 17 1835 marriage the Warren couple Samuel H. Cogswell and Mary A Arnett celebrate a golden wedding. Eight of twelve children survive as relatives from abroad join a May 15 gathering ahead of Sunday 17th observances.
Miss Maggie Ronne returns to Warren and opens a new dressmaking establishment at W. Scott corner Market and Fifth streets. She invites old friends and new customers to visit between 10 and 2 next Saturday for special drives and discounts. Knowledge of cutting and fitting offered with the famous Combination System demonstration.
We offer a complete line of window shades made to order to fit any window size. Custom fabrics, colors, and operating mechanisms are available for residential and commercial projects.
A Mart missionary visits numerous Conewango farms noting expansion and stock quality. Observations include Cranbrook at J. H. Eddy’s Warren property with high hopes for it becoming a top state farm, Rowland’s Beaconsfield stock, and Rowland’s improvements and barns. Curator cites Beaconsfield short horns, Shropshire sheep, and varied farm enterprises.
Warren authorities led by Burgess Thompson and Policeman Utter crack down on vagrant activity with forced labor. Two suspects were arrested and sentenced for roughing a pile of river stones, then released. Town leaders urged residents to withhold food and starve out loiterers by making them work, arguing hard labor will deter tramp presence.
There is no special oil news this week. Thorn Creek declines gradually with Monday production around 7000 barrels as the market closes at 80. The Copeland well near Kinzua was insufficiently shot and did not flow.
A brief admonition urges a young man to quit smoking two five cent cigars daily and limit drinking to ten cents a day. Calculations show the annual cost reaches 36.50 and ten years total 365, plus 730 if drinks are added, enough to buy a house and lot for a large family. The message emphasizes saving money by quitting.
An exasperated quip urges action over slogans as cholera’s threat looms. The speaker mocks empty mottos and emphasizes cleaning the yard and disinfecting vaults and sewers to prevent disease. The line underscores plain, urgent public health measures.
The note expresses obligation to Assemblyman Brace for a valuable public document. It highlights official recognition and the importance of the material in governance. The document is presented as a formal government record and underscores its public relevance.
Ed Clemons announces he is prepared to fill all orders for pure spring-water ice in large or small quantities. Orders may be placed by telephone or left at his wagon.
Frances S Harrington advertises as a drawing teacher with painting in oils and water colors and offers crayon portraits, handiwork by hours 9 to 12 and 1 30 to 4, terms 50 cents per day. A. A. Davis & Co promote boots shoes baby carriages and floor oil cloth at low prices.
The association held a small attendance meeting in the Court House last Saturday. Q&A covered whether spring plowing is needed after fall plowing, soil readiness for vegetables, salt as weed control, and fertilizer use. Debates also touched on grazing cattle with sheep, need for agricultural legislation, and the next session planned for May 30 with a note on possibly meeting earlier.
The Relief Association met at Mrs. R. P. King’s home with Mrs. J. M. Daviss presiding. Report shows 937 clothing items received and 907 disbursed, 45 families or 201 people aided, plus coal and wood distributed, cash and store orders totaling about 289, leaving a small deficit.
Readers are urged to note a job advertisement for C. L. Van Dusen Nursery Co. of Geneva New York. Nurseries are presented as favorably known. Dr. Harding's Catarrh cure is available at Stewart's DrugStore.
The Board of Control reports the Warren Public Library faces unsustainable finances despite Struthers gift funded rooms. They urge a permanent endowment raised by subscriptions or donor endowed sections to guarantee ongoing access to a growing, well stocked collection for all readers.
The Pittsburg Dispatch reports August Vergue plans a frog farm on 40 acres of swamp land near the Allegheny river in Warren County. He expects to raise about 500000 young frogs aided by a three acre pond and pesticide free gnats, claiming insects will feed the frogs for three months. The pond’s exact location is undisclosed pending the frogs singing reveal.
The advertisement highlights the best novelties in parasols and silk umbrellas at Bex Brothers, promising quality and variety for discerning shoppers in town.
Anthony Mintzer announces a new grocery and provisions store in Warren’s Diamond block below the Warren Hotel. He claims cash purchases enable very low prices, invites customers to test his goods, and promises complete stock including crockery with high prices paid to farmers.
Jacob Keller the Tailor advertises a large stock of cloths both imported and domestic and promises a good fit with skilled workmen and up to date styles. He invites visits to rooms on Second street near Liberty, second story, and warns against noise. Also advertised is Hub Cough Cure for 25c from Johnson & Siegfried.
R H Johnson of Johnson's Exchange offers cash for bags from papers or rubbish and for brass copper lead zinc rubber shoes and related items. Bring to room No 8 for immediate payment.
J. L. Cousins & Co. of Kane Pennsylvania will mail a descriptive pamphlet about their Climax Incubator to any applicant postpaid.
A Jamestown District Sunday-school Institute for Erie Conference will begin in Youngsville on Monday May 4. The committee kept to the original program and will dedicate the soldier's monument on Memorial Day.
A Clarendon Herald correspondent reports rapid growth as Kinzua becomes an oil town. A pump station will be erected. operators lease oil lands from Sugar Run to Wardwell. Charter talks for a river ferry near Fuller farm aid producers. Multiple firms drill wells and rig near farms and sawmill as the town develops.
Veterans of the late war plan a spring visit to Gettysburg, on May 4 and 5, with the First Corps of the Army of the Potomac guiding the pilgrimage. The event will draw prominent national figures, officials, and soldiers from across the country. The Pennsylvania Railroad offers excursion tickets from various points May 2 to 4, good through May 6 at reduced rates.
The message of spring flowers speaks directly to all ages and classes. Flowers lift the spirit, erase earthly inequalities, and offer comfort and hope to both the young and the aged as they brighten rooms with a friendlike presence.
Harrisburg dispatch says the State Fishery Commission held a full meeting last week and agreed to appoint fish wardens where needed and enforce fish laws if funds are provided. It plans to stock rivers with 300000 brook trout fry soon and dispatch 200000 California trout next month, with 200 applications for these fish. It will consult US Fish Commissioners on shad supply and the Tide Water Canal Company repairs with Attorney General actions.
A large meeting of hemlock lumber manufacturers and dealers in Williamsport agreed on delivered prices across freight regions. Rates cover joists and scantling up to 16 feet 11.50 dollars, longer lengths 12 dollars, and various mill culls and bill stuff priced by length and grade. Job printing offered at the Main office.
Ice on Chautauqua lake rots as oil leases begin with six thousand acres in Ellicott Ellery and Gerry by Chautauqua Oil and Gas Co two test wells planned. Erie to host Grand Army Day Sept 10 with regimental reunions. tramps and tourism trends noted. Randolph losses from Saturday fire total about 35000 with 20000 insured. Forest County sheep raise yields fifty two ewes and eighty five lambs this spring. Oil City schools observe Arbor Day with 575 children planting trees and naming them after famous figures. Hos Cough Cure ad ends the column.
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