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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1878
Page
3
A bustling Warren column lists excursion trains to Chautauqua Lake and Niagara Falls, local politics, races, and business notices. It reports on uprights such as ball games, street repairs, shop closings, and weather impacts on Sabbath travel, with community updates and ads.
Warren society buzzes with guests from Edinboro to Philadelphia. Lectures, vacations, and school news mix with church notes, Chautauqua plans, a dental convention, and the Hungry Eight picnic. Community reminders cover teaching posts, German instruction, and upcoming sociables with fund proceeds.
A local column recounts a last Friday trip to Point Chautauqua organized as a greenback excursion. Voters faced a speech by Mason, with no appearances by Ben Butler or other favored figures, provoking discontent and claims of political manipulation by Democratic managers.
The Fair and Festival at the North Warren Church built on last Tuesday to Thursday evenings drew strong support from local and Washington DC visitors. The North Warren Christian Aid Society adopted resolutions to thank contributors and advertise the event. They announced a net profit of 63.39 dollars, all from generous donations and sales, with thanks to Mrs. M Crawford and Mrs. Taunt and friends from Washington.
Warren reports baseball fever with clubs forming and folding after brief play. The Painters defeated the Butchers 57 to 46, then beat Grocery Clerks 34 to 15 after a big score rush. Matches with Warrens and Stars are due Tuesday, and Jamestown is expected next Thursday.
Monthly police summary shows 33 arrests in the borough for July 1878 including 8 for vagrancy 1 for drunkenness and disorderly conduct 3 for drunkenness 1 for petit larceny 9 for violating borough ordinance 3 for running the toll bridge 3 for abusing horses 2 for assault and battery and 3 for resisting an officer. Vagrants applying for lodgings 31 vagrants ordered out 19 special police arrests for drunkenness and disorderly conduct 9 licenses collected 7 and stolen property recovered 17 returned to rightful owner.
A Titusville Herald reader from G. W. B. cites Tue Warren Mart's complaints about high prices at the Corry eating stand. He says the Dunkirk Lake Shore depot shows lack of satisfaction, while the Corry management is not faulted.
In Warren Pennsylvania the post office lists unclaimed letters dated Saturday August 3 1878 for Nelson Ault Ross L Kerr Mrs Julia Miller Calvin G Sutliff and J A Wilson. All not called for within four weeks will be sent to the Dead Letter Office. O C Allen P M.
Tur Singer Manufactory announces a Warren branch opposite Hazeltine and Davis drug store offering machines on monthly payments with satisfaction guaranteed. Agents wanted. E. C. Coox, Manager. Warren, Pa., May 1, 1878.
George Ball and Company announce a closing out sale offering caps and Gent's furnishing goods at cost and below for cash. The sale aims to clear stock to make room for Fall goods and urges customers to call early to choose items.
A 1878 Erie letter contrasts the harvest peak with a calm late summer, notes a visit to Lancaster County Quakers, praises a Head picnic and Christian philanthropy, and laments Republican internal disputes harming Erie Warren Venango county unity ahead of November elections.
Five million barrels of petroleum await shipment in the oil region while one death from smallpox occurs in Tionesta. Jamestown plans a Main Street fountain amid heavy summer tourism. Cross-cut Railroad has no passenger service, only an ice train and local freight. A Dunkirk walker completes 100 miles in under 24 hours as local industry grows with cigars and a sustained oil push.
Dedication notices announce a new Presbyterian church in Kane built of native stone with stonework by Mr. Halliday of Warren. Funded largely by a benevolent Kane relative of Gen. Kane, the services are set for Saturday afternoon August 10, with return trains to Warren Wilcox and Ridgway. Thomas L. Kane notes invite all to attend.
A new legislative fee bill applies to counties with 10 000 to 150 000 inhabitants. It universal ly cuts sheriff prothonotary clerk of courts register and recorder fees by about thirty to fifty percent for sheriffs, thirty to forty percent for prothonotaries, and about twenty percent for registrars and recorders, leaving current incumbents untouched and possibly reducing office competition.
A Titusville Herald correspondent reports the Hulings well on Marcus Hulings 6000 acre tract twelve miles north of Kane on the Philadelphia and Erie Road seventeen miles south of Bradford. Located in a timbered ravine the 1600 foot well flowed fifteen barrels Sunday with gas spouting high. Ownership is by Seth Hulings and his son. The well lies on the headwaters of the Kinzua and Tuna creek.
The official list includes Grand Jurors from Limestone Sugar Grove Youngsville Pine Grove Columbus Spring Creek Sheffield South West Kinzua Deerfield Glade Pittsfield Freehold with names such as W B McCormick Ernest Abbott Henry Bennett Oliver Casler Leander Morse Hiram Mead and Lucien Messenger Also Traverse Jurors from Glade Pine Grove Pittsfield Freehold Columbus Spring Creek Limestone Tidiante Eldred Sugar Grove Warren Elk Sheffield Deerfield and other named individuals. The note ends with R H Johnson indicating continued purchases of rags for cash in summer.
An advertisement proclaims Dr King s California Golden Compound as a universal remedy for dyspepsia headaches low spirits appetite sour stomach and more. A free trial bottle is offered to prove its efficacy with the regular one dollar bottle priced for sale by Morck Co in Warren Pa.
Mary Jane Ballard wife of William Ballard and sister of J J Taylor of Warren died in Cresco Iowa aged about forty nine years.
Fragmentary OCR item lists various grain products including flour sacks and meal terms. Several words are garbled or repeated, with unclear quantities and units. The readable elements point to White Wheat Flour sacks Amber Flour sacks and related animal feed components.
Warren Pa August 5 1878 members of Rowland Hose Co No 2 issue a challenge to any nine from Warren North Warren or Glade City or all three to a game on Warren Base Ball Association grounds. Time to be set by each side's representatives. F E Jones Foreman
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