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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1900
Page
7
News notes include Miss Melissa E Dickey of Oil City dying in Paris while visiting the Exposition. Also reported are Frank W Higgins named for State Senator by Republicans, a Chautauqua County fair Sept 11–14, rural delivery to Titusville starting September, and a major G A R encampment escort in Chicago.
Irvington correspondence lists J W Hughes and wife at Point Chautauqua for a week long visit. Mrs Patrick O Brien tours Erie to see her ailing brother Edward and friends. Lt T S Stanton US Navy visits and stays with Mrs M E I Biddle. Two large rattlesnakes killed near the village. A cheeky gun loan scam leaves a neighbor short on gun and money. Traffic at the summer resort is heavier than last year with Landlord Horner busy. Uncle Peter Tomlinson and son from St Petersburg Florida stay in cottage Florida. Rev Ash preaches at M E church using 2 Samuel 18 5 33 about King David and Absalom. Saturday saw trains of officials and soldiers returning home. local yard work remains orderly. Mrs Lewis E Conroy and child visit from North Warren. Miss Allie Walters visits Erie.
Married at Jamestown on July 25 are Ernest Haupin and May Rowley. Mrs. Henry Brayton nurses her cousin in Warren. J. R. Calkins and Ruth visit Port Wing after three months with relatives. J. C. Hamilton drilled 30 feet on W. A. Jamieson’s lot. Sugar Grove lacks a burgess as Briggs resigns. Stuart family reunion set for August 22 near Sugar Grove. F. M. camp meeting ends. William Atkins sells oil property to Capt. Taggart. Rural delivery plans delayed. four routes to be laid out soon.
The Erie Railroad offers a Corry Pennsylvania to Chicago excursion from August 15 to 29, valid on all regular trains. Return by September 30 on any train. Round trip rate is 9.35 dollars. For details contact any Erie ticket agent or F H Garfield Jamestown NY.
A patent medicine advertises Dr E Detchon’s Anti Diuretic claiming it helps children who soil bedding by stopping bedwetting. Sold for $1 by Hertzel and Saner druggists in Warren, Pennsylvania.
A colonial era notice invites shoppers to Shaw's Cash Grocery on Liberty Street promising lowest spot cash prices for groceries and fruits. Farmers are urged to bring produce to secure top prices.
Magee and Eichenberg offer jewelry sales and watch and clock repair at the Y M C A Building. Eye glasses fitted by improved methods with free examinations available.
The body of Leon Mudge was brought from Marietta Colorado for burial here after a funeral held last Sunday at West Spring Creek. He leaves a wife and two children along with parents, a brother and sister. The Congregational and M E Sunday schools plan a picnic on the K os T M grounds next Friday the 17th, and the KCO TM will hold a picnic Friday the 24th with speakers from the Supreme Tent and Great Camp. Mrs William C Allen and daughter Harriet of Marquette Michigan are visiting Byron Eldred.
Farmers finish oat harvest and bark-peeling season ends as local peelers return home. Oil well on Q Oscar Wilson farm is dry. Mrs. Albert Peterson and Florence of Glade Run visit Mrs. C. M. Jones. August Johnson loses a cow. Werner Johnson of Buffalo visits relatives. Esther and Rosa Jones return from Warren for vacation. Threshing noise resumes.
A letter from Reuben Kline of Mifflinburg praises the Gravity Gate as durable convenient and superior to other gates. The notice advertises an investment opportunity at 311 Liberty Street Warren Pa and notes wide adoption across territory with claims of a paying business.
I will pay cash for old rubber boots and shoes wringer rollers circular packing garden hose fire hose and brewer hose free from cloth iron or dirt. I also buy bursted tires red rubber old brass lead zinc copper boiler bottoms free of iron or wire. Visit my room in John son’s Exchange second floor Second and Liberty streets to sell.
Distressing kidney and bladder disease relieved in six hours by a claimed remedy sold by Hertzel and Saner in Warren. The ad highlights prompt relief for both sexes and relief from water retention. Legal blanks at the mail office.
The W N Y P Ry offers a last vacation excursion to the Thousand Islands and St. Lawrence River on Saturday Aug 18. Tickets returnable in ten days for 6 dollars from Warren, train at 10 10 am with through sleeping cars available. Reserve space via W N Y P agents or contact S B Newton Buffalo NY Excursion Agent.
The Pennsylvania Railroad offers a final low rate fifteen day excursion from Erie Kane and main stations to Atlantic City Cape May Ocean City Sea Isle City Avalon Anglesea Wildwood and Holly Beach on Thursday August 16. Tickets are valid for return on regular trains within fifteen days. Atlantic City tickets may use the Delaware River Bridge route or Market Street Wharf Philadelphia with a stopover allowed in Philadelphia. For rates and schedules consult hand bills or E S Harrar Williamsport Division Ticket Agent.
Pennsylvania Railroad offers excursion tickets from its lines to Chicago for the Grand Army of the Republic encampment August 27 to 31. Round trip single fare. sale dates August 25 26 and 27. return by August 31 or extended to September 30 with deposit and fifty cent extension fee.
J. M. Siegfried of 221 Liberty Street urges readers that Foley’s Honey and Tar, taken early, cures the cold and heals and strengthens the lungs, claiming it can cure incipient consumption.
Neat and elegant wedding invitations and calling cards offered at low prices. Mart office showcases refined programs and ball invitations for formal events.
John Stinger takes charge of the Struthers Hotel Barn to care for farmers horses and other travelers horses and wagons will be accommodated though no livery is provided.
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