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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1917
Page
5
Ready To Drill Well No 1 by O W Proper and Co. on the Stoneberg farm Limestone township on the Warren road about six miles from Tidioute. The site marks the start of active drilling efforts in the area.
A daughter was born Friday morning to Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Weakley of Jamestown. Earl Weakley is a son of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. L. Weakley of Warren.
A blue Flying Merkle bicycle with white trim was taken Tuesday from in front of the New Warren Hotel. The owner is Vern Mack of Central Avenue.
Titusville now lists a population of 8 817 in a new city directory, up 445 from two years ago. The directory shows 41 vacant houses, down from 62 previously.
J. A. Goal, a former Warren resident, arrived Friday to spend time with relatives on Poplar street. He has been located in Burmah India for the last six years and has worked for the Burmah Oil Company.
Mrs. John Little hosted a Monday evening thimble party at Fifth avenue where Miss Marvelle Buerkle announced her engagement to Allan M. Baker of Lottsville. Twenty one guests attended and the news was shared with rose leaf place cards.
Dawson Olmstead of Warren has been advised of his appointment as major in the regular army. He will command a camp of rookies in training for the war at Chillicothe Ohio after visiting relatives in Warren and Corry. Olmstead is a Corry High School and West Point 1906 graduate.
Reported spate of robberies last week in Warren followed a Butler fair surge. A street car conductor lost 10 dollars a woman 25 dollars and another resident 100 dollars. Fifteen pocketbooks and bill folds were found in ash behind the Pennsylvania Passenger station, evidencing the thefts by the roaming pickpockets.
R F Garfield died last Wednesday at 6 30 am at the family home 107 Jefferson avenue after a brief neuralgia illness He was sixty years six months old Survived by wife two sons James R and Clare M five grandchildren two sisters Mrs Kate Seeley and Mrs D M Young Funeral held Saturday Rev J W Smith of the First Presbyterian Church officiating Burial in Frewsburg A barn on Yankee Bush owned by George King was struck by lightning last Tuesday evening and destroyed along with fifteen tons of hay and farm equipment
Warren Methodists with 1800 plus members urge bringing the 1918 Western Pennsylvania Conference to their city. The Brookville gathering will host about 300 pastors delegates and 500 visitors plus wives and friends the week of the conference. Local churches believe city aid and joint effort from First M E Grace and Epworth M E could win the bid.
Five men of Warren lodge No 339 I O O F received receipts showing dues paid for the next year. The donation followed a prior lodge action to cover dues for members serving in the military.
Paul Brubaker of Warren spotted a rattlesnake on the highway ahead. Unable to locate a club he used a tire chain to kill the four foot three inch reptile with nine rattles in a decisive strike.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Davis started a 3500 mile trek on August 10 aiming to cross the country in 120 days. They pass Titusville on Friday during the first lap of the journey, allowed only to walk or ride when possible and must avoid fare and politics. This is the husband’s third cross country trip, previously 114 days in 1912 and 10 days faster in 1914.
The South Penn Oil Company’s new gasoline plant at Tiona is near completion and to begin operation by early next month. The small plant is designed to process casing head gasoline from local wells to serve the company’s needs across multiple points in the region. Two pipelines will feed the plant, one coming from the south into Forest County and the other from the north into Warren County.
The Oil City district board 2, covering Armstrong to Warren counties, held its first session on Monday. Joseph McCormack, deputy U S marshal of Evie, elected secretary. The board will review exemption claims and generally approve local board rulings.
Printz stores celebrate 21 years in Warren with noted large stocks and reliable reputation. The firm capitalizes at a million dollars and operates with principals B. H. Printz from Youngstown A. A. Warren, Sam from Youngstown and David A. of Franklin heading the New York office. The new Youngstown four story establishment will open Sept 15.
The First Methodist church of Warren endorses Rev. Norris A White for another term, citing debt payoffs of over $8,000, church improvements, rising membership from 600 to 800, doubled attendance, strong societies, and doubled benevolences as reasons to petition the Bishop.
Sunday morning passengers on one of the Warren and Sheffield cars witnessed three deer grazing in a field between Beantown and Tiona.
C D Ohlmsted of the Clarendon Torpedo Company set off a blast at a foot of Oak street Monday morning. Ed. Branch, hurt in an explosion two weeks earlier, witnessed the event as the well is expected to yield about two barrels. The second item reports T D Allen of the Allen Institute losing an inflated tire from a Saxon parked on Second Avenue while attending a show at the Columbia last Wednesday night.
A rooming house on Hickory Street loses a gold watch after a theft last Wednesday night. Minnie Fagin reports the missing item, noting it was discovered around 10 o clock. Police are investigating the mystery of when the theft occurred.
William H. Brenton and Miss Enola K. Funk of Warren were married Monday afternoon at the First Methodist Church parsonage in Bradford by Rev. S. W. Robinson. Brenton works at J S Bayer Furniture. They will reside at 18 Parker Street after September 1.
Night riders in southern Erie County have been tipping milk cans and spilling contents to reduce milk supply for shipments to Pittsburgh. Eight Columbus-area farms with trains ready for loading were hit on a single night last week.
Samuel Gaimes arrested for furnishing liquors to a Company I member was brought to Pittsburgh for a hearing. The court explained the case, sworn he was ignorant of the law, and the judge imposed the smallest possible fine of three cents with transportation back to Warren.
The 16th Pennsylvania Infantry veterans posed for motion pictures at Brigadier General Willis J. Hulings’s home in Oil City. Retired Hulings, once a regiment colonel, appeared with many former officers including Major J M Reed Major D K James Captain William Couch Captain Henry McGregor Colonel Chess Lamberton Major G M Foster Colonel James E McElhiney Captain Harry B Bradley Captain E E Grimm Major C D Wilcox Captain John F Austin Captain A G Lyons Colonel A D Burns Major James Johnson Captain Joseph Robinson Captain Lester Simons, all from various Pennsylvania towns.
Russell Head of North Warren, a seventh grader, wins top prize of 10 dollars at the county fair spelling contest. Miss Ethel Neeley receives 5 dollars. Davis Mortimer takes second with 4 dollars. Fifteen contestants, grades seven to eight and first two years in high school, competed under Superintendent I H Russell.
Kleo Keller of Plum Street was held over for court after a hearing before Justice Blackman on a charge of threats alleged to be against his wife. Bail was set at $100.
Gilbert Peterson son of Oscar Peterson of Jackson sustained a fracture to the left arm when a motorcycle he and his brother rode hit a rut in the road at Chandlers Valley and were thrown from the machine.
The article notes Saturday as one of the coldest, drizzly, windy days and Sunday as an unusually warm, pleasant autumn day, presenting a sharp contrast between the two conditions.
W J Hearst of 126 Conewang avenue found his wife unconscious upon waking Wednesday. The attending physician later said he hardly thought any poison had been taken, despite initial fears of self harm.
State Hospital farmer R. C. Reeves has enlisted in the artillery and left for Buffalo early this week. Reeves arrived in Warren on April first to fill C. B. Johnston’s vacancy and had a fairly successful summer, earning popularity among the employees.
Mildred Foulke, daughter of Erie clergyman R. L. Foulke, swam three miles in fresh water at Findlay Lake on Wednesday, completing the entire lake length in 1 hour 21 minutes. Accompanied by her father and others in a rowboat for safety, she showed no signs of fatigue.
Sheriff DeForest shut eight gambling venues and the hootch show at the fair grounds last week. Some outfits closed within minutes of opening and others as soon as authorities learned of their operations. Secretary E. M. Lowe backed his vow that no gambling would be permitted.
The Warren Mail Office print shop offers sale bills posters calling cards envelopes letterhead and candidate cards with prompt service and fair workmanship prices.
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