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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1909
Page
8
Notice to correspondents requires sign names on all communications and limits copy to one side per sheet. All copy must reach our desk by the weekly deadline and names will not be published unless requested.
The Columbus Grange postpones its regular meeting to Thursday December 30 for officer elections. Cemetery Auxiliary reports over 215 dollars from a recent bazaar and expects more. Local teachers attend County Institute in Warren. several members plan Sunday visits with relatives. K O T M elects officers and plans an oyster supper January 6. L O T M meets January 7. Cemetery Auxiliary meets January 4 with Mrs A W Frances. Mrs Ellis Baker spends Christmas at Randolph with relatives. Mrs David York travels to Corry hospital for treatment. Marl Rowe and Gerald Monroe of Cornell University spend Christmas vacation here. News from Rochester says Mrs Sarah Howard is very ill and nearing death.
December 20 notes that the school will close Friday for a two weeks break. Several residents are mentioned visiting relatives and attending events, including Mrs Daye of Grand Valley visiting her son R D Daye, G Hardy visiting B T Dodge, and Miss Iva Armitage attending an institute in Warren this week. Obituary for Mrs Sarah Noosebickle from East Branch, with funeral at Union church and burial in Trim cemetery. Clayton Oviatt and Espey Nichols are noted as local visitors and returnees respectively.
The New Idea Women’s Magazine cites New Zealand as pioneering travel ease for women with equal suffrage and rights. Government rest-houses, trails, and hotels provide affordable lodging and meals, with women directing family needs and health-focused travel policies.
The passage notes that many benefit from women's participation in government and mentions economical transport options for those unable to pay in full. It emphasizes overall gains from such cooperation and indicates provisions for affordable transport.
In New York and major cities vertical transport shapes urban life. Elevators enable skyscrapers and high-rise offices, warehouses, lofts, apartments, and even ocean liners to function efficiently. Wade notes daily six million elevator passengers in New York and highlights 44 story travels, 586 feet, and a new type built for any height, reflecting the era’s steel skeleton construction and the shift since 1870 from freight to passenger lifts.
The article argues saints were real flesh and blood people whose works built the Church and civilization. It emphasizes sainthood as rooted in individual lives, not celestial aura, and traces early Christians guarding revelation and shaping modern civilization through personal virtue.
Excerpt notes how communities formed churches as individual believers united in Christian zeal. The passage highlights the gradual joining of separate elements into a single corporate church body, reflecting a common religious formation concept.
Thomas Valentine Cooper 74 a Pennsylvania legislature member from Delaware County and former Philadelphia port collector was burned to death at his Burned home yesterday. He likely suffered a stroke or fell asleep while smoking a cigar and his bathrobe ignited before relatives discovered the fire. Fire officials found his charred body on a blazing couch after alarms were raised by family members.
Pennsylvania inventors receive patents this week including R. T. Axe Juniata window lock and lift W S Elliott Pittsburg boiler tube cleaner L A Emerly Altoona metallic tie D S Gilbert Reading quick action triple valve R Herman Crafton frame structure F H Howard Brookside casting machine L Houston Coatesville transfer table for rolling mills C B Lawton Penn township manufacture of glass articles J G Maxwell Washington KF H McCoy Harrisville apparatus for testing gas D C Mc Intire Bradford conduit for electric wires
A Baltimore American quip smiles at Mr. William Henry Lushleigh entering a stairway scene with shoes in hand and hat on an ear while singing. Mrs. Lushleigh greets him with indignation. He replies in a muddled, rhyming defense as the dancing bureau seems to mock him.
The paper announces a collection of public documents on farming gardening and fruit culture. Sen Penrose has provided reports from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture and Pennsylvania State College including Orchard Demonstrations Plant Pest Treatment Concentrated Lime-Sulphur and a study of Pennsylvania Butter.
Increases of stock and debt were filed by several firms reported from the State Capitol. Conewango Refining Company Warren increased stock from 50 000 to 200 000 and Sackett Coke Company Uniontown from 115 000 to 175 000. Donegal Gas Company Donegal 10 000 to 25 000. Hall Taylor Company Philadelphia 5 000 to 25 000. Vandergrift Distilling Company Philadelphia 30 000 to 50 000. Beaver Land Company Beaver debt 20 000. T Wolstenholme Sons Company Philadelphia stock 1 000 000 to 1 215 000. Allegheny Furniture and Department Store Company Pittsburgh stock 5 000 to 150 000.
A satirical collage mocks Bryan’s plan to hitch the Democratic donkey to the water wagon and questions honest voting. It notes Loeb’s cautious trust in the people, the Rameses mummy reaching New York, and dismisses a rockefeller kidnapping plot as a false alarm.
The poem extols a simple Christmas in a cottage with a homemade tree and a mother’s frugal love. Local notes report a 310 pound bear killed near Dew Drop, a 45 dollar sale in Bradford, a men’s league organized at First English Lutheran, and various community updates on Grange events, accidents, and a shooting incident.
Clayton L. Polley of Washington DC wed Mae R. Glidden of Panama New York at the Clarendon Methodist parsonage on December 15 1909 in a ceremony conducted by Rev A M Lockwood.
Zaccheus Greeley died at Spring Creek Pennsylvania on December 21 1909 at age 75. He is survived by his wife and three children W L Greeley Mrs W D Jones and Mrs John Ayers of Spring Creek.
J KE Wenk of Tionesta, census superintendent for the 18th district including Warren county, announces readiness to receive applications to become enumerators. Applicants must provide residence or location and specify township portion or precinct, or town election district or ward.
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