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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1897
Page
3
The Warren Y M C A District Convention planned for this week has been postponed indefinitely. Also notes on a charity ball, snowballing arrests, court outcomes, oil industry updates, county fair meeting, and city council actions from Warren, Pennsylvania.
The Mail praises a new local directory compiled by Charles Latham as the best Warren Borough has issued. It lists residents of Gladerun Irvington Kinzua North Clarendon North Warren Sheffield and Youngsville, noting Warren county population around 10 000 with North Warren and Gladerun included.
Supt. Putnam organizes a four night Teachers Institute program during Christmas week with Dr W W Black opening Dec 20 on Art in Everyday Living. Mozart Symphony Club performs Dec 21, Robarts Harper speaks Dec 23 on Round the World in a Man o War, and John Temple Graves discusses The Twentieth Century Woman Dec 23. Tickets are $1, available at Davis drug store, with FEHLMAN Bros. promoting china and glassware.
A busy Warren page rounds up local notes on shops, jobs, and social life. New Postmasters named at Kinzua and Colegrove. Jacop Keller relocated. sale of folding tables upcoming at N Greenland's. Christmas plans and Santa Claus chatter. birth announced in Milwaukie. and weather lore for December.
The Columbus Farmers Institutes schedule shows a two day program in Grange Hall starting Monday at 130 pm. Events include music, addresses by Mrs H S Ayers and Hon N B Critchfield, dairy talks by Hon Geo T Powell and Enos H Hess, plus sessions on education for farmers and their children, fruit culture, veterinary education, fertilizers, soil and tillage, and a ladies session with home life topics.
A series of sessions at the Noyes drug store hall cover December 15 and 16 with music and question boxes. Key speakers include Geo. T. Powell, N. B. Critchfield, Enos H. Hess, and Supt. W. L. MacGowan. Topics span dairy, fruit culture, fertilizers, dairying essentials, and farm life planning.
Real estate transfers list multiple parcels with buyers and sellers across Warren Columbus Freehold Sugar Grove Pine Grove and Pleasant localities. Transactions include Nesmith to Scofield for 300 Edmunds to Hardinge 1700 Green to Hunter 1 and numerous others ranging from 1 to 1700 dollars. Names include Beside Meads Struthers Johnson McIntosh Simmons Stranigan Minore Dorn and Traub with properties in Warren Pine Grove Freehold and Columbus.
Our prices on window glass paints and oils wall paper etc are right at Dixson's Grade Drug and Variety Store East Side WANTED 500 men to get a suit New cloths just received Glassware Call and examine our large stock Keller the Tailor See late styles in Suitings Now is time to tie your overcoat Counter JOB PRINTING at the Mail Office
Short ad style column urges balanced living and thrift with lines about not overeating or starving, saving, and staying hopeful. It then promotes Jacob Keller the Tailor at Second and Liberty streets, advertising latest winter cloths and clothing styles.
One hundred dollars reward for any catarrh case Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure. F J Cheney Co claims 15 years of honorable dealings and ability to meet obligations. EST & TRUAX and WALDING KINNAN & MARVIN, Toledo wholesalers, endorse the firm. Cure taken internally. affects blood and mucous surfaces. 75 cents per bottle. sold by all druggists. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills advertised as best.
Easy to Use. Warren's Corn Cure is easy to use and will not harm the finest hose. Try it. Sold at all druggists at 15 cents a bottle.
An East Side notice promotes Old Reliable Dixson's Grade Drug and Variety Store offering a full stock of pure fresh drugs and family medicines at bottom prices.
An advertisement touts South American Nervine as a universal cure for weak stomach and broken nerves. It claims immediate relief with no failures and perpetual success, urging purchase from Hertzel & Saner in Warren, Pennsylvania.
The D A V and P R R promotes direct Buffalo connections with the State Express to Rochester Syracuse Utica Albany and New York. Tickets available from D A V agents. Riverside Fish and Oyster Co offers oysters and fish. LU Uppuusmiag au we FEELMAN Bros LEGAL BLanks—Oh and neat at the Mart OFFICE.
Irvington reports Mrs Barnet and family occupying the Delong homestead, Miss Cooney visiting Mrs Clark, Maud Vandyke back to Oil City, Peter Johnson buying the Maines homestead for spring move, Rev McCormick’s meetings and Lord’s Supper, Swanson off to Sheffield for work, Chas Johnson buying dairy cows in Crawford County, two brakemen returning from Erie after skipping town and facing warrants and jail, moral plea for honesty and budgeting, P Coleman Co preparing a new mill, Somers and Walters at county court, Epworth League to elect officers and favoring a trusted leader.
Drc 8 C C Nelson went to Erie hospital for two weeks for heart trouble. Matilda Rebekah lodge installed new officers led by N G Mrs A P Jones and W G Mrs Oscar Wright with a banquet at the opera house. Erik Peterson frames a new house near Main warring's shop. Rudolph Pratt Post elected officers including James Blake as Commander and James Gilson as S V C. Mrs Norman Palmer seeks Buffalo hospital treatment. O R Bashline's house nears completion with masons starting chimneys. Rev B H Hart to lecture at the opera house on The Good Samaritan, free. Sheffield Tent KO T M elected officers for the year. J F Sisley to fit rooms in Smith Co. block for dwelling use.
Dry oil well near Coffee Run at 1200 feet proved unproductive. Society notes report visits to Salamanca Warren Brad ford and Rochester. Local events include Young People's Aid at Lucia Brown home and a history contest. The handle factory opened under E Cornell with wages 85 cents daily. Quarterly M E church meetings set. Various residents and visits listed with names and places across Salamanca Gerry Warren Bradford Rogers Mills.
In Columbus and Corry area notes Mrs F O Howard of Corry called on friends Thursday. George and Shirley Cady recover from scarlet fever. Miss Elnor Damon has been very sick and unable to teach. Mr and Mrs Lou Clark moved to Corry to operate a boarding house. Merritt Hive No 117 elected officers for the new term.
A packed social scene includes a band, dances, and a Christmas tail, with Miss Gertie Dowd buying the Page place and Isadore Parkson purchasing the Dillon property. Postmaster E R Allen resigns in favor of James W Merritt. Court of Appeals schedule for 1898 lists many Warren County venues and dates from January 3 to February 15 followed by an advertisement for W Crowland & Sons wallpaper stock in Warren.
Laxa Tea cleanses the system and aids digestion while curing constipation and sick headaches. Sold and guaranteed by all drug gifts at 10 and 25 cents per package. Penfield Carpet Cleaning Works offers carpet cleaning with satisfaction guarantee, operated by E. W. Sealy at Mansion House rear. Orders and services advertised at multiple local stores and addresses with prompt attention.
A brief fragment lists items such as bicycle hose belt buckles brass rods bath towels bibs bags aprons gloves kid gloves cloth glove hooks garters and related accessories. The notation suggests a catalog or sale notice reflecting a mixed assortment of hardware apparel and household items.
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