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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1901
Page
1
Local items cover shop sales, school vacation, visitors, and church fundraisers. Officials report court sessions with multiple verdicts, injunction actions, and inspections of jails and hospitals. Other notes mention railway work, bus schedules, and community events around Warren.
Sept Gunning will open Warren county Teachers Institute in the courthouse next Monday at 2 pm. Sessions run daily at the courthouse with extra high school sessions Tuesday through Thursday afternoons and lectures at the First Methodist Church. Public invited. evening programs aimed for large attendance.
The Emergency hospital releases its regular monthly report detailing patients in hospital, admissions, discharges, and deaths for November and December. It records days of hospital care and summarizes patient movement within the facility.
Wendrop Pa resident C A Buchanan donated a tree trunk with a fused limb to the high school museum. The Briggs Ellis Refining Co gave 125 mounted birds. Charles Schimmelfeng presented tempered copper medal exhibits from Chicago and Paris. Master Wm Bairstow supplied a large wasp nest. Prof F L Homer loaned a collection of birds skins showing colors and feathers.
Masonic Occidental Chapter No. 235 R A M elected High Priest S K McKalip King H B Thompson Scribe W F Bennett Treasurer A Hertzel Secretary R W Teese Representative F A Steber Trustees N K Wendlebee Wm Keegan Jacob Keller. Principal officers were installed by Deputy High Priest C E Cooper of Oil City with Oil City lodge members.
If the Russell subscriber sends his name the mail will be transferred to Frewsburg.
CaLL on C F Schwing the leading jeweler for fine holiday presents. Big stock, best goods, lowest prices. Owens Buffalo Bread daily at Kopf Henry. Five kinds fresh and good. Santa Claus candies at Greek American Store. Nuts and fruits. Gloves, jewelry, ladies furnishings for sale at cost at Kertcher's. Latest millinery on display at Miss Sill's Water street.
A list of transfers shows multiple deeds across Spring Creek Warren Columbus Freehold and other towns. Buyers include George A. Smith W C Harrison A W Luce and others with property values from 50 to 2800 dollars. Names include Catherine Larson Martha J. Crandall Amanda C. Clark Hoyt Robins Rosa Gross Jennie Jamerson and Winfred Gibson among numerous others.
A local telephone system to serve houses at 6 dollars a year and businesses at 8 dollars a year is proposed in New Wilmington. Each phone features a dial with a number for every town phone. dialing No 15 activates that line, rings the target, and disconnects others on the same circuit ensuring private two party conversation.
The Institute course and a concert will be held at the First M E church next week. Tickets are $1.25 for four nights. Prof. William G Ward speaks on Michael Angelo next Monday. George R Wendling headlines Tuesday with Unseen Realities. Old Homestead Quartet appears. Dr A E Winship discusses Rascals and Saints Thursday.
A larger and more complete stock than ever before with pure linen handkerchiefs priced at 7c for 121g cartons, 19c for 15c and 15c for 25c items. Fancy borders and new designs offered at surprising prices at the corner of Hickory and Third streets.
Jacob Keller offers elegant cloths for fall and winter with a large stock for ladies skirts. Also advertised are frames for watercolors, dolls, ornaments, engraved cards, invitations, and various goods at N. K. Wendeboe 217 Liberty Street and other local shops.
In Warren on December 5 1901 Frank E Falconer wed Anna L Gleason Rev Sieverding. In Jamestown Frank Blair wed Mary E Wetherbee. In Sheffield Joe Morasco wed Mary Foster. In Jamestown Clarence Briggs wed Anna Chase. Holliday goods display at N Greenland Son Exchange Block features parlor furniture and home items.
County Commissioners will hear appeals at various towns on January 6 through January 17 in 1902. The list covers Youngsville, Tidioute, Columbus, Clarendon, Bear Lake, Sugar Grove, Grand Valley, Brokenstraw, Conewango, Corydon, Cherry Grove, Deerfield, Elk, Eldred, Freehold, Farmington, Glade, Kinzua, Limestone, Mead, Pine Grove, Pleasant, Pittsfield, Spring Creek, Sheffield, South West, Triumph, Watson, and multiple Warren wards.
Warren borough school district offers the West Water Street school grounds and building for sale to the highest bidder over a $9,000 minimum. Terms include $2,000 cash at award, then $1,000 yearly installments plus interest at 5 percent, secured by mortgage and judgment bond. A 2 percent commission is paid to the successful purchaser’s agent, bids sealed and due January 4, 1902 to J N Craft.
The Mail office offers printing on short notice using high quality stock at prices lower than competitors. It claims to save money for customers and asks if you are among the fortunate ones to place orders.
Robert Johnson offers cash for a wide range of old materials including rubber boots, wringer rollers, hoses, bicycle tires, brass, lead, zinc, copper boiler bottoms. Collectors should bring items to Watson Avenue near Boss Wagon Shop or Seeley’s boarding house on Poplar Street.
The notice advertises wedding invitations calling cards ball programs and wedding stationery at the mail office. It promotes warrant deed forms including a new wife’s acknowledgment with a notary line and mentions C Flindt’s pile cure as a remedy. It touts best job printing at the market.
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