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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1908
Page
1
Banks increasingly serve as custodians of people’s funds as awareness grows of banking service value. The piece notes broader appreciation and improved methods spreading to both large and small accounts.
Warren National Bank pledges best service with careful attention to all patrons. Officers promise accuracy and promptness in handling both large and small deposits using up-to-date safeguards.
Tiona oil sells for 1.78. Gage family reunion in Dunkirk with Mr and Mrs O C Gage and Roy. Rev N N Morten returns from Sweden to Warren. Enoch Leafgren attends Swedish Brotherhood session in Youngstown. Farmington Grange plans Sept 29 30 fair at Lander with liberal premiums. Lane Hotel in Russell sold to J Alfred Johnson for 35000 with possession Sept 1. E K Kane Kushequa mill ceases after 18 years. Warren Water Co prepares new Gladerun filter plant. old island pump station to be abandoned.
A roundup of Warren area notes includes residents visiting relatives in New York and Massachusetts, travel to Boston, Chautauqua, and Camp Perry representations. Local infrastructure advances feature a six foot high concrete lakefront wall at Celeron and paving work on Liberty and Third streets. A Salvation Army building on Pennsylvania avenue West was dedicated with regional band and remarks by officials.
A major blaze at 3 am gutted the United States Chair Company warehouse in Corry. The fire, aided by wind, destroyed the building and contents, with an estimated loss of $20,000. The main factory survived thanks to a fire wall and sprinkler system, and will be rebuilt larger. Cause remains a mystery as operations halted until tomorrow.
The Winchester National Cemetery memorial for the dead will be unveiled and dedicated in September. The Commission seeks all old Pennsylvania soldiers who fought at Winchester or whose units participated to attend. Interested commands should contact Secretary L. W. Moors, Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts, with name, company, regiment, and current address to compile a participant list. Further date details will follow by mail.
Michael Brady Sr. died Friday morning at his son Mich ael Brady Jr s home in Youngsville Pa aged 69. He lived in Jamestown for many years and moved to his son’s home about six weeks ago. He leaves two other sons William of Youngsville and Carson Brady of Jamestown. The funeral was in Youngsville Sunday morning and the remains were taken to Busti for interment.
E G Ransom aged 45 died this morning of heart disease at his home between Youngsville and Pittsfield while doing morning barn work. He had heart trouble and his death was due to it. He was found dead after family members searched for him. He is survived by his parents and a brother Roscoe of North Clarendon.
Wilson Law, a noted oil operator from Cleveland Oklahoma, died in Muskogee after being stricken with sunstroke. He was brought to the city yesterday after traveling from Warren Pennsylvania several years ago and did not regain consciousness.
P. V. Siggins died Sunday morning in Roseville California in Placer county He was a brother of R A Siggins of Youngsville The notice records a family relation and the place and date of death for the local obituary item.
In Philadelphia a sale of political works drew bids on 250 quarter volumes of the Congressional Record in half Russia binding at 2 cents per volume.
The Grangers’ Picnic at Williams Grove Pennsylvania runs August 24 to 29. The Pennsylvania Railroad offers excursion tickets from Pennsylvania stations and from Baltimore Elmira Frederick and intermediate Northern Central Railway stations August 18 to 28. Tickets are good for return until September 1 at reduced rates.
Help wanted at the Farel vineyards a 475 acre operation in Fredonia New York. Information available from E R Lammers at 8 6 21 in Fredonia N Y.
Much ore from the Canadian silver district contains so much arsenic that it is nearly unusable. The statement highlights mineral quality issues affecting ore value and processing viability.
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The two notices report marriages: C. S. Homer of Warren to Myma Robertson of Buffalo on August 11 in Panama N Y with Mrs Robertson sister of Marie Robertson. After October 1 the couple will reside at 117 Third Street. The second marriage records Orlo L Lane of Toledo Ohio and Tillie E Larson of Scan ia Pa wed August 5 1908 in Warren by Rev W H Jones.
John W. Griffith aged 50 died at Warren on August 9 1908 after a short illness from ulcers of the stomach. Born in Marshall Michigan he moved to Warren 1874 and worked in drug stores here Kane and Erie. He married Jennie Amsden in May 1889 and leaves two children E Amsden 14 and Gladys 12 and his widow. Also surviving are his mother in Marshall and a brother Charles Griffith.
At Jamestown New York on August 6 1908 a son was born to Mr and Mrs M A Bliss. Mrs Bliss is sister to Mrs J W Kitchen and Mrs Dwight Cowan of Warren. In Lindley Ohio a son born to Mr and Mrs James Acocks former Miss Della Mead of Pittsfield. In Warren on August 6 1908 a daughter born to Mr and Mrs Charles M Savage of Oak Street. In Gladerun on August 5 1908 a daughter born to Mr and Mrs Joseph Hull.
A list of small real estate transfers and sums exchanged. Daniel McMahon to P F McMahon Elk one dollar. Amanda P Crooks Corydon one hundred. Uriel S Colby to Eleanor I Hunter Eldred three thousand six hundred. M L Dalrymple to Samuel Wolfe Conenango thirty five. Winferd R Burch to Herbert H Hull Grand Valley fifty. G W Shutt et al to H H Hull Grand Valley fifteen. Harvey M Vogan to Emil Danielson Sheffield five hundred. H E Davis to Oscar E Anderson Warren one. Nancy Myers et al to Morgan J Hammers et al Pine Grove one. Peter A Johnson to Fred Lucie Warren one. S S Woad to William Cornell Spring Creek one hundred forty. Bella V Wood to Louis Paulsen Warren one. Albert Frantz et al to Christian J Frantz Warren five hundred.
Mrs Floretta Gallup aged 80 died at her home in Norwich Township McKean County on August 5 after a three month battle with heart disease. Widow of Orlando Gallup she was an early settler and mother of four sons Henry and Frank Gallup Smethport Charles Gallup Norwich and A H Gallup Youngsville Pa.
Investigation into cattle feed quality in Pennsylvania finds ground corn cobs used in some varieties. Prosecutions in Cambria and Clearfield counties led manufacturers to withdraw the offending brand from sale in the state.
The Hoff Business College of Warren, Pennsylvania, advertised as a long established reliable school. I. J. Horr and L. J. HorMEs are listed as proprietors and invitations to write or call were issued for more information.
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