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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1909
Page
1
Strayed cattle: five yearling cattle came to our place Sunday. Owner call and pay for care of same and this ad. Tombley Bros Booger’s Mills Pleasant Tp. WANTED Position as housekeeper. Inquire at this office. 8-5-31.
Reports from Dunkirk and surrounding towns recall the Gage family gathering, Orrin Russell’s appendectomy recovery, paving bids for Fourth street, and Old Home Week in Bradford. Other items note a Costa Rica work-contract for Hammond Iron Works staff, a new greenhouse on Siggins farm, and Emma Kolfrat’s return from China.
Joseph Brozenick of Thompson's Eddy died Sunday night from typhoid fever. Funeral services were held Monday morning at St. Joseph's Church with burial in St. Joseph's Cemetery.
RussELL Aug. 5 The fifth annual Firth family reunion gathered 35 relatives at the country home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Firth west of town on the Lander road. After dinner a business meeting elected A. E. Firth as president C. H. Firth as vice president and Carrie Firth as secretary and treasurer. A literary program followed and the next reunion will be at J. B. Dallas’s near Sugar Grove.
The Greenlund family held its annual reunion Friday at Herman Greenland's fruit farm four miles from the city with seventy six members present including many from Jamestown. Mrs. John H. Ipson of Jamestown read a history of the family. Officers elected were President Herman Greenland of Warren, Secretary Mrs. J. H. Ipson of Jamestown, and Treasurer Mrs. James R. Fenner of Jamestown.
The Sixteenth Regiment N G P won the Bradley trophy for the second time and took the Miller trophy this year at Mt Gretna. The team included Sergt Kelley of Butler Capt O J Gunning formerly of Warren E W Sweeting and Harry O Wheelock of Co I Warren. Sergt Sweeting set a 1000 yard range record with ten consecutive bullseyes.
The State will place the name of every Pennsylvania soldier who fought at Gettysburg on a memorial to veterans. Bronze tablets will be set around the base, and the names must be spelled correctly and include all who engaged in the battle.
Fabian F Nelson of Glade Run died August 4 at age 48. He leaves a wife and six children Richard Harry Robert Mrs Har old Sandstrom Anna and Mabel. A 20 year resident he was a member of the Scandinavian Brotherhood of America. Funeral held Saturday at 2 PM in Glade Run with interment at Oakland.
The D A R reports being near a standstill in raising 1100 dollars of a 2500 dollar goal to build a memorial boulder for General Warren. No new contributions have come in, while members discuss further fundraising plans to close the gap.
Health Officer Bierce notes only a handful of contagious disease cases in Warren at present and outlines continued monitoring and precautionary measures.
The 55th convention of the International Typographical Union opens in St Joseph Missouri with 300 delegates and 800 visitors. Highlights include a $4 weekly pension for those 60 and above, a Union Printers' Home in Colorado Springs, and a private technical school in Chicago. The union reports $161,544.45 in expenses this year and a total membership of 47,174.
Mrs Catharine Noblit died at her Barnes Pennsylvania home on August 4 at age 76 after months of illness from paralysis and age related diseases. She was active in the M E church for most of her life and spent the last 27 years at Barnes. Survived by her husband W G Noblit and his long illness, four daughters Anna Chandler Ida M Chaffee Vinnie R Hoover Rose Thompson, and six sons William T John R George W Granville E Jay C Dell E.
Jacob J. Casler of Little Falls N Y died last Monday at about 71. He was father of H K Casler cashier of the Pennsylvania Gas Company Warren. Interment was at Little Falls last Tuesday. Claude Platner seven miles beyond Garfield was bitten by a rattlesnake last Wednesday. His father rushed him to Garfield and then to Clarendon where Dr Hyer attended him. poison was extracted and he is recovering.
State Zoologist surfaces reports raspberry canes girdled by the raspberry cane borer Oberia bimaculata. The fix is to cut and burn injured twigs to force side branching and limit spread. growers urged to unite for suppression.
A letter from Lancaster County reports a Clover Dodder infestation in local grasses. State Zoologist H A Surface explains the parasitic weed feeds on crop hosts, can be controlled by cultivation or frequent mowing to prevent seeding, and notes likely introduction via purchased grass seed. The plant is a nuisance but believed to be removable within three to four crop rotations.
A Philadelphia attorney with a country place sent peaches and apples to Professor Surface, State Zoologist in Harrisburg. The expert notes the fruit shows plum curculio damage, a destructive beetle that bores holes and lays eggs causing wormy fruit.
The writer advises gathering and burning fallen fruit to prevent worm spread and recommends spraying with arsenate of lead or Bordeaux mixture after blossoms drop, with a repeat application in ten days to destroy pests, noting neighbors should cooperate.
State Zoologist H A Surface reports a rhubarb stalk infested by the Stalk Borer Papaipema nitela. He notes the pest bores in many cultivated plants and weeds and provides control steps: destroy or prevent via weed clearance, burn infested stalks, burn potato vines after harvest, destroy tomato vines, and rotate crops to avoid repeated crops on same ground.
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