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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1874
Page
3
Retail and wholesale prices from G. L. Friday wholesale grocer on Water Street Red Front. Listings cover flour, meal, pork, sugar cured meats, lard, fish, herring, salmon, salt, cheese, seeds, dried fruits, oils, soap, coffee, and dried fruits with varied per unit prices.
An advertiser touts the Royal Baking Powder as the best in use, guaranteed full weight. Pricing listed includes 10 cents per pound for two pounds or more, and mentions Royal Celery Salt sold in 25 cent and 50 cent bottles.
The notice lists various teas including Good Young Hyson and Finest Young Hyson with per pound prices, Good Japan and Choice Japan, and multiple grades of Oolong and Gun Powder. It markets uncolored teas in one pound tight cans and invites customers to try the selections with stated prices such as 75 and other values.
The note lists items like Granulated sugar and powdered goods with prices: 124c sixtra, 25e yellow, and 10 cents for powdered items. No clear dates or entities identified.
A long column of ads and notes from Warren County towns highlights shopping for clothing and furnishings, barbershops, hats, children's suits, and note papers. Local items include a Bucktail military company in Ridgway, a Christmas tale, school news, and upcoming church meetings.
In keeping with a common practice, no issue will be printed next week while the office continues job work and routine business. The Governor's Message is expected in an extra. It remains a good opportunity to settle accounts and start the new year.
Poem urging bells to ring out the old year with its sorrows and ring in the new year with hope and joy. It imagines a halo in the eastern sky signaling the new year as Hope, Joy, and Peace usher the seasons ahead.
Christmas boosts shoppers and profits in Warren with crowded streets and busy clerks while the town’s churches stage elaborate services. The Presbyterian, Methodist, Evangelical, Lutheran, and Episcopal communities host festive programs with trees, gifts, and hyphenated pageants highlighting faith, memory, and the season’s hope. Santa Claus distributes gifts as portraits of joy mix with solemn reverence.
The Ledger reports arrangements to start a tub and pail factory in Tusand Park in spring. Twenty five $1,000 shares planned. Brick buildings to be erected. Timber locally abundant and cheap. Competent men project immediate profits despite dull times. Names of projectors and stockholders to be announced.
The Buffalo Express reports the line now reaches Dayton from Gowanda with two passenger coaches leaving Buffalo at 10 50 amid a party led by J M Richmond James Adams and Peter C Doyle. Dayton in Cattaraugus County will join the Jamestown line and connect with the Erie within a week extending service to Cherry Creek ten miles away. About seven hundred laborers push grading with trains planned to run to Cherry Creek within sixty days, enabling same day returns from eastern Cattaraugus County.
Obituaries for Abel Morrison of Corydon aged 79 and John Ditmars about 70 describe their lives and deaths. A funny local item recounts a watch found on a train near Thompson's, linked to W J G who likely hid the watch. Also notices for a Local Institute meeting at Sugar Grove on Jan 8–9 1875 with lecture by Rev D H Snowden and free teacher entertainment.
The Warren Library Association held its annual meeting on the 21st electing Andrew Hertzel as President Rev Henry S Getz as Vice President Mrs R P King as Secretary 8 Davis as Treasurer and an Executive Committee including W A Rankin H A Jamieson C W Stone and others. The report outlines growth from a small room to a funded expansion with new books gas lighting and a free reading room aided by subscriptions and community support.
A 29 page pamphlet details the Northwest Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. Commissioners Dr. William Carson Curwen and Gen. James A. Beaver locate a 334 acre Warren site, cost 33000, with materials locally sourced and rail access via Dunkirk Railroad. Architect John McArthur Jr. and Supt. Sunderland oversee plans aligning with national standards. Construction advances. October expenditures reach 67882.26 of 100000 appropriation as they seek 250000 more to roof by fall 1875.
The Evangelical Alliance of the United States announces the Week of Prayer in Warren churches from January 4 to January 10 1875. Each day covers topics such as Thanksgiving Confession National Objects of Prayer Foreign Objects Missionary Objects and a final general meeting with ministers from several denominations. Closing exercises will conclude the week.
A Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry was formed in Youngsville on the 10th inst by D C Kennedy with twenty four members and promising growth. Officers include Master W H Jackson Overseer G P Mead Lecturer J D Mead Steward W H Coleman Ass t Steward A B S Ransom Chaplain W H Bowles Treasurer Wm A Mead Secretary W F Siggins Gate Keeper Jas S Davis Ceres Mrs Eliza Mead Pomona Mrs J D Mead Flora Mrs A Ransom Ass t Steward Mrs M E Mead.
Amos Cobb died at two this morning from an accidental gunshot wound suffered last Wednesday. He leaves a wife two children an infirm father and many relatives and friends. The community laments the tragedy and warns others about firearm safety.
The search for Mrs Catharine Agnes ends with J A Hants, Franklin House proprietor, arrested on suspicion of murder near the Franklin House in Erie. The Coroner's Jury reviews the case, verdict pending. A note thanks Rev E Brown for a 125.67 donation to Farmington. Christmas delay explains late issue. Franklin Eastern Minstrels from Union City mentioned.
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