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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1876
Page
3
Warren local notes recount the Cardiff Giant departure, multiple oil wells including Beatty and Wing & Groesbeck, new rigs and drilling activity across farms, a grand outdoor entertainment recap, a platform ball, riding tournament, and a forthcoming Berger Family concert at Roscoe Hall plus ads for Burrill McEwen furniture and Hazeltine & Davis drug offerings.
County and neighborhood items cover picnic areas at Casadaga Lake and rain woes for crops. Oil stocks in Salamanca NY quoted with prices. Henry E. Wrigley maps iron tanks at 485 sites and 6,389,561 barrels. A grafted mountain ash in Tionesta shows fruit potential. Mail route Warren Steamburg set at 825 yearly. Kent operates rival line. Bemus Point pigeons shoot with 750 dollars in cash premiums. Tidioute Union School opens Aug 28 with named teachers. Keystone BBC of Erie disbands. Brown Stockings new club forms. Rev Thomas Gordon resigns Sugar Grove church post. leaves early next month. John Weiland obituary noted Buffalo hospital Aug 6. PA Transportation Co orders four inch pipe to Philadelphia with three contracts and station work to start this week.
Last Monday August 7 Judge Scofield injured his right ankle after stepping on loose brick or mortar while crossing a temporary plank walkway at the Court House site. Doctors Bartholomew and Hazeltine found two small bones broken and splinted the ankle. The judge was taken home to recover and will not campaign for any candidate at present.
Warren presents a Monday evening dramatic lineup at Roscoe Hall with J W Carner, Miss Clara Wildman and F J Wildman plus L R Warwick and the New York Comedy Company staging Fanction the Cricket. Admission 35 cents, reserved seats 50 cents at J F Wells & Co. Also noted are clippings praising Miss Wildman as a versatile performer from several papers. A clothing tailor ad for C MecDaniels and G Reiff appears among the notices.
Conferees from Warren Venango and Erie met in Erie to fix representation for future conventions. They propose one delegate per 125 Republican votes for President plus one for districts with fractions of 63 or more, with at least one delegate per district. Delegates meet in Corry. a majority is needed to nominate.
County Superintendent N R Thompson announces the annual Teachers Institute likely to be held in Warren at the School Hall starting Monday Oct 2 for five days. Prof F A Allen returns as instructor and local merchants promote their wares in ads.
Miss Carrie Stull age nineteen of Warren Ohio and Miss Clara A Brown aged fifteen of Greenville Pennsylvania drowned after wading at Fair Point Beach. Their bodies were recovered and a coroner's inquest held. Later that night John Fillmore James Spicer and Minnie Spicer aged about twelve disappeared after a row boat trip from Bemus Point to Long Point. Their bodies were found the next morning. The men reportedly drank liquor before returning to Long Point.
Ice water dangers in heat and tea or coffee as thirst quenchers noted. Local merchants advertise chromes and photographic supplies at low prices. Tailor services offer measured shirts and spring suits. Druggists Wells and Co advertise tooth ache cures and remedies. Doorway novelties and silk neckwear featured by Geo Ball Co. and Will Smiths advertise mouldings and picture frames.
Notice announces fresh doughnuts rolls or warm corn bread available each morning at Ext Duny's Distnc Hatt on Hickory Street.
A varied ad lists standard patent medicines with prices including Hoofland's German Bitters Bitter Wine of Iron Radway's Renovating Resolve Jayne's Alterative Tarrant's Seltzer Apement Pitcher's Castoria Perry's Moth and Freckle Lo Buckingham's Dye for the Batchelor's Hair Dye Lyon's Kathairon Barnett's Cocoaine Mrs. Allen's Hair Restorer Laubach's Liniment Low's Liniment Cooper's Magnetic Balm Barrell's Indian Liniment Johnson's Anodyne Liniment Carver House Hall's Hair Renewer Barry's Tricopherous Ayer's Hair Vigor Perry Davis' Pain Killer Jadwin's Liniment and more. Hazeting Orr & Co advertise a fountain product at the Variety Hall.
A WriGhtsville letter denounces false village reports in the Ledger and Sugar Grove Journal. It defends residents O C and T B from riot claims and notes S W dog incidents linked to public disputes. The writer calls for wiser journalism and dismisses sensational dogmatic coverage.
The new Masonic Hall gleamed last evening as a throng filled Blue and Scarlet Rooms. Burrill McEwen & Co. supplied the walnut furniture, chairs and altars crafted in Ionic Corinthian and Doric styles. Scarlets feature Morisque designs with blue and scarlet upholstery, nine floor chairs and many settees. Unclaimed letters list follows in Warren Pa post office notices.
The note advertises made to measure suits at Geo Ball & Co and fine leather traveling bags at the same store. It also promotes new spring styles now available at C Daniels.
A corrected mid-August 1876 price summary lists wholesale prices for assorted commodities. Items include flour in various grades and forms, corn meal, oats, rice, coffee, sugar, butter, eggs, lard, bacon, molasses, syrups, mackerel, peaches, beans, onions, cheese, potatoes, and dried fruit with ranges and unit measures noted, reflecting regional trade patterns of the period.
Prothonotary Waters lists fifteen civil actions to be tried on the first Monday of September 1876 in Warren Pennsylvania. Plaintiffs include George A. Russell F. H. Blodget Scott & Osborne A R Curtis Hydeman Co Jefferson Siggins estate Conway Allison Emry Davis Williams surveyors Hyatt Brown Ellis Same. Defendants include Marion Russell Mary L Blodget J H Jack A Neyhart Co B Platte L Moyer M H Butter Campbell Rathbun Co D C Hodges P Falconer Kemble & McIntyre A A Pierce Sunbury Insurance Co Reuben Dill et al. Clerk notes order and date August 12 1576.
The Red Front Store advertises New Crop Hyson Gun Powder Japan and Oolong teas at 50c 75c and 31 1.25 per pound for Hyson, 50c 75c and 1 for Gun Powder, 50c 75c and 1 for Japan, 75c and 1 for Oolong. It claims EOe Teas are as good as comparable brands at 75c.
A listing of coffee varieties includes Green Rio Golden Rio O G Java Mocha Best Roasted Rio and Best Roasted Java, suggesting a catalog or competition naming across roast styles and origins.
The text asserts Neptune brand ground product weight and purity claims. It emphasizes strict compliance to being strictly pure and in full weight pounds. No additional details or context available.
An advertisement touts Dr Price’s Cream Baking Powder sold in bulk and in 4 and 1 pound cans. It claims full weight and purity, positioning it as the best powder in the market.
A market listing highlights top quality canned foods including peaches strawberries and raspberries. It notes a wide assortment such as corn tomatoes peas beans succotash pumpkin and pineapple with meats like corned beef beef tongue sardines and lobster.
A catalog listing various condiments and sauces including gherkins mixed pickles chow chow horse radish French mustard bottled and by quarter gallon olives capots olive oils pepper sauce tomato catsup mushroom and walnut catsup Worcestershire sauce club sauces and more.
A catalog of dried fruits including peaches apples raspberries cherries prunes currants raisins figs citron lemon peel and related items processed by the Alden method. The listing emphasizes a range of dried fruit products for preservation and sale.
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