Marriage Licenses Decline in Warren County 1913
Warren county issued 291 marriage licenses in 1913, down 42 from 1912, signaling a continued decline in nuptial activity in the year just ended.
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1914
Page
5
Warren county issued 291 marriage licenses in 1913, down 42 from 1912, signaling a continued decline in nuptial activity in the year just ended.
Reynolds Drug Co expects to resume operations in their former Second avenue location after a fire damages, with repairs well advanced toward completion and a target return date of January 25.
The funeral of Jack A. Brown the veteran riverman, pilot and resort owner at Thompsons Eddy for fishermen on the Salamanca branch of the P R R was held in Titusville, Warren county, Saturday afternoon. Grant Wilcox of Corydon committed death by his own action Tuesday morning, hanging with stove pipe wire near Port Allegany. Wilcox, about 40, unmarried, was an oil well driller. R C Hansen proprietor of Warren Rubber Company has leased the Hertzel Building basement and will move his plant there once C E Hamm vacates to build a shop on the Island and move to new quarters.
Warren Savings Bank announces the regular semi annual dividend at a stockholders meeting held Monday. The bank, in its 44th year of prosperity, marks the occasion as the birth day of its first dividend.
About two thousand persons attended the Masons New Year reception and open house in their new Liberty street temple. The committee included Horace A. Crary as president G. E. Colvin as treasurer and Edward Hall W. F. Bennett Thomas K. Creal Carl A. Wheelock Earl V. MacDonald Truman A. Stone Wm. A. Messenger I. H. Mott and G. M. Hevenor. New hosiery mill on Central avenue installing new machinery. owner Jacob Thissen expects factory running by month end. Chamber of Commerce board meeting with Secretary Muse followed.
Ralph W. Cousins, defeated in the Warren tax collector race, has been appointed mercantile appraiser by the County Commissioners. He fills the vacancy created in the county’s appraisal office and assumes duties immediately.
New Year’s Day marks a change in management for a local store. Whiticker and Donahue of Titusville recently purchased the Bert McLaughlin business, which had operated for many years after previously being located on Second Avenue.
County auditors Mack Olney C. C. Cooper and W. J. Farnsworth started at the courthouse Monday to prepare a report of receipts and expenditures of county officials for the last year and expect several weeks of work ahead.
C H Smith and Jerome Smith of the C H Smith Company hosted a full course dinner in the store tea room Friday evening as appreciation for faithful service. Sixty eight employees attended and reported a most enjoyable time.
Word comes from Warren that James H. King aged 27, a driller in Upper Burmah, died Tuesday in Rangoon hospital after an appendicitis operation. He is survived by his mother Mrs. J. R. King of Warren and sister Mrs. Herbert Luckey of Houston, Texas. The body will be brought to Warren for burial.
The bodies of Clarence Burchard and his brother Forrest Burchard were shipped to Garland for burial after dying of burns from a gas explosion at the Burchard home on Christmas. Clarence, 37, and Forrest, 57, died Wednesday at Oil City Hospital. funeral services were held Saturday in Garland as the Niagara Express transported the party.
Warren County Directors Association holds its eleventh convention at the Court House in Warren Pennsylvania on January 20 and 21 1914. Dr J George Becht secretary of the State Board of Education and R M McNeal financial secretary of the Department of Public Instruction will attend. Directors are promised an engaging program and are urged to attend both days. Each director may be paid two dollars per day plus three cents per mile for round trip mileage, to be reimbursed by the district treasury.
John Casses and Ruth Traub were married Wednesday morning at St. Joseph's church with Rev. Father Sieverding officiating. Attendants were Katherine Deitch and Leon Deitch. The couple planned a trip to Buffalo and other cities before settling on Fourth Avenue.
Miss Emily Elizabeth Gibson and Mr James Augustus Schnell were married last Wednesday evening at 6 30 p m at the home of the bride's parents Mr and Mrs D W Gibson Waterstreet. Only immediate family attended. The bride taught in Warren and Seattle schools. Mr Schnell travels for Park-Davis Drug Co and will reside in Tyrone Pa.
Frank Lynn shot at his daughter Agnes and Patrolman Hexamer then hid inside his house with ten police and a crowd for hours. Patrolman Herdlicka faced Lynn across a table and persuaded him to surrender after Lynn turned his gun. Lynn had domestic troubles and his wife alerted police.
The third death from the smallpox outbreak on the battleship Ohio after Mediterranean port calls was reported from Charleston quarantine station. Rae H. Ackerman of Hague New York, a coal passer, died.
The Warren County farmers plan a series of Institutes in 1914 at Russell January 14 15 Sugar Grove January 16 17 and Lottsville January 19 20 with state instructors joining local farmers to discuss agriculture. The meetings are free and open to all. Chairman GEO A WOODSIDE Sugar Grove PA.
The list records marriage licenses issued with numbers 7996 through 8002 on dates from January 2 to January 6. It names grooms Gordon H. La Barre William B. Run nion Chris M. Kaar Alfred Clark Yates Peter Gelarcak Rudolph A. Lofgreen Ezra W. Spicer and brides Cynthia J. Hunt Lizzie J. Staats Clara L. Hansen Blanche M. Kidder Katerine Gomola Gertrude M. Swanson Carrie Belle Prindle and their respective towns Springfield Warren North Warren Wilcox Shefield Jamestown Barnes and related locales.
Notice that Mary Louise Greenlund and George H. Jackson, executrix and executor of Nelson Greenland, deceased, filed final accounts in Warren County Orphans Court. Court confirmed nisi on December 1 1913 and absolute after thirty days. They will petition February 9 1914 for discharge from office and liability.
Six year old David Shapiro hid in the New York subway for six days and nights afraid to go home. He stole a gold watch, sold it for five dollars to buy subway tickets and sandwiches, then cried when spotted near his mother's home before being placed with the Children's Society.
Physicians in Concord Iowa face a mystery illness called acidosia or acid intoxication. Eleven deaths in December, more than 100 children ill and about 100 under treatment. Chemists test foods but find no definite culprit yet.
Ezra Cornell’s plan to found a university expands with a free horse shoeing course starting January 12. The state college of veterinary medicine faculty from the Farmer’s department will teach. The last legislature provided equipment funds and trustees approved the program.
Mrs. Charles Mason who arrived from England seven months ago in Wilmington Delaware gave birth to triplet girls named Jessie Margaret and Eleanor honoring President Wilson's three daughters. Mrs. Mason is 50 and her husband 65.
In Pass Christian Mississippi on January 8 the scene unfolded as President Wilson rode in a motor car while candy loving schoolchildren lined the roadside. Cary T Grayson and Secret Service man L C Wheeler oversaw a distribution of sweets in Long Beach and nearby towns, totaling 87 pounds with plans for more.
Sweyersville councilman Alex Burz caused panic in Wilkes-Barre when he entered the grand jury room with dynamite protruding from each pocket. Burz, a dynamiting witness, had his explosives since unused, triggering twenty jurors to flee in terror as they chased him from the room.
George A. Olney, said to be the oldest traveling salesman in the United States, formally quit the road after 53 years of service. A banquet by Kansas City traveling men honored him before he left for his Brooklyn home. He is 79 years old.
Leavenworth Kansas, Jan 8 The Missouri river sits at its lowest level in two decades. Large sandbars stretch for miles from Kansas City north, rendering the river nearly unnavigable. Officials blame last summer’s drought for the drop.
Wheat futures May 98% ec July 94 16 cents. Oats No 2 white 45 14 46. Pork Mess 23.00 to 23.75. Butter Creamery extras 36 4 37 cents. Eggs State and Pennsylvania hennery white 43 to 45 cents. Potatoes 180 lbs state 2.25 to 2.50.
Buffalo market report lists grain and commodity prices on January 7. Wheat No 1 Northern at 93 4c, Corn No 3 Yellow 67c and No 4 Yellow 63 63c, Oats No 2 White 43c, Flour blends at 5.00 to 5.75 per barrel, Butter Creamery prints 37 38c, Cheese Good choice 16 16 1 2c, Potatoes White Round No 1 per bushel 71 80c.
East Buffalo Livestock Market lists cattle prices for prime steers shipping steers and choice cows plus heifers export bulls and veals with ranges. Sheep and lambs show spring lambs and yearling prices while hogs report light Yorkers and heavies with bid ranges.
Timothy No 1 priced at 16 50 per unit amidst listed timothy No 2 at 14 00 14 50 timothy No 3 at 12 00 13 00 straw wheat and oat quoted at 9 00 9 59 cents per unit Market listings show multiple hay varieties with unit prices across Timothy and straw types.
Thursday Mr Bryan calls the Dominican vote the freest and fairest. A London girl dies while tangoing at her first ball per a telegraph dispatch. James Bryce is skipped in the New Year honors in London. Banking houses file 767 applications to enter a new currency system. Collector Malone reports a tariff driven rise in imports. Dr Carl plays a New York church program for Miss Saxon's Augusta Ga wedding. Mrs Wingate of Amityville Ill is found poisoned. DA probes.
News briefs note a deadly outbreak in Concord New Hampshire with 11 dead and about 100 ill. Other items mention a near upfront settlement of a Michigan copper strike and possible U S push to lure American capital into China.
Ferdinand Plinney Farr refuses to explain kidnapping his son in France after arrest in Norway. Sylvia Pankhurst, jailed in London under the cat and mouse act. Large groups flee to Texas from Ojinaga as border unrest spreads. President denies policy change at Lind conference amid regional tensions. A hospital mix up in Ellis Island leads to mother misidentifying her own children. Four Egyptian convicts killed and 50 wounded after a Tourah prison mutiny in Cairo.
Two daily Trenton newspapers that sold for one cent a copy have boosted the price to two cents. In Plainfield, N J porch climbers steal jewelry valued at about 15000 dollars from EB R Ackerman's home but miss a rare stamp collection. A convent resident Miss Catherine Clark in New York City is restrained from leaping from a fifth story window by police and firemen. After flowers are laid on his wife’s grave in Lutheran Cemetery Glendale Queens New York, Charles Marquardt kills himself with a shot.
In a rare decision, the Pennsylvania supreme court upholds an attachment for debt against Ambassador Leishman. The ruling came amid a series of cases including a London matinee tango, a parochial school injury drama in Shadyside New Jersey, and multiple personal damages actions totaling tens of thousands of dollars. Florence Schenck seeks fifty thousand against C H Wilson after a Norfolk death.
The grand prize and Vanderbilt cup automobile races were awarded to Los Angeles. A December report shows New Jersey death rate fell. Walter S. Gibson of Passaic, a fireman, inherited 75000 but prefers his job. Al L Jennings says in New York he will announce a gubernatorial bid upon returning to Oklahoma. Radium cancer treatment suspended briefly for New Jersey Representative Robert Guon Bremmer at a Baltimore sanitorium.
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