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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1889
Page
3
The Warren Mail notes Jerome L. Cogswell named as a candidate for Collector of Warren borough at the February 19 election. This brief notice announces the candidacy and election date.
A Warren newspaper itemized local notices and events from February including Postmaster questions, real estate moves, church activities, a fatal accident to six year old Johnny McCarthy, a major fire at the Pennsylvania Gas Co office, and plans for rebuilding.
The State Judge issued licenses in Venango county with forty four granted and seven refused. Clarion county saw twenty nine licenses granted and one refused. Elk county licenses expired January twenty three. Court opened January twenty eight with sixty six applications, most granted. Crawford county filed seventy nine license applications, twenty five more than last year.
The Board of Control reduced annual library tickets from two dollars to one dollar to widen access and boost use. The move aims to make library service affordable for nearly all the reading public and encourage public support for the institution.
Office furniture and a safe offered for sale including two desks two bookcases chairs sofa and similar items. For particulars inquire at 418 Third street Warren Pennsylvania.
First class piano tuning offered by Lorenz Mart at C. P. Northrop's shoe store. Call or visit to place your order quickly.
A brief promotional notice urges every Republican to subscribe to the Mail and Philadelphia Weekly Press for the price of $1.75. The appeal frames the offer as essential reading for party members.
Readable notices show Dr. McAlpine hosting parents from Cleveland. Jarvis of Hunter Jarvis engages in New York goods. Mrs Jamieson and Miss Smith go to Washington for inauguration. Hall family returns to Newark with Florence. Guthrie joins a Los Angeles law firm amid warm climate remarks. Grace Davis Lizzie Greaves visit New York. Scofields travel to Erie Philadelphia Washington. Centerville Normal School opening, Thoburn visit to Oil City with crowd. Turner family reunion noted at Russell. son Larkin Turner dies in Armourdale Kansas.
A collage of brief remark items notes public figures and editorials. Edits comment on Cabinet portraits in Buffalo and stage removals in New York, while Rev. Edward Everett Hale advocates pensions for veteran schoolmaids, and Pennsylvania Democrats face criticism for a prohibition vote. Senator Sloan of Indiana is highlighted as honorable for voting aye.
Town council session in Warren on February 4 1889 discusses fire department actions at a late Stewart fire and North Warren refinery incident, payment of expenses, water works report extension, nuisance notices, new electric street light, police activity and several bills approved for January. Chief Otter reports 88 arrests 71 vagrancy 16 drunkenness one jewelry peddling.
The report for January records 289 wells, 75 dry for 26 percent non productive, and total output of 2 800 barrels. Compared to December, 16 fewer rigs and 1 210 fewer barrels. New rigs 217 and drilling wells 347, total 564. Activity centers in Clarendon Tiona Elk county deep sand, with heavy real estate deals and price gains for productive properties.
Statistician Dodge presents Pennsylvania crop totals for last year with corn 45,514,000 bushels from 1,397,350 acres valued at 22,707,000 dollars. Wheat 18,802,000 bushels from 1,392,725 acres valued at 20,128,140 dollars. Oats 35,251,080 bushels from 1,330,234 acres valued at 11,085,540 dollars. Winter wheat area planted 101 with condition 99. rye area planted 100 with condition 99.
The Place to Buy Clothing and Gents Furnishings offers a large stock of serviceable and fashionable clothing at Warren's Carver House area. Spring suits and boys' clothes are on hand with savings emphasized, under manager A Weiss after recent overhaul.
G B Williams of Adelphia Kitchen Warren Pa invites patrons to a Sunday dinner at 5 PM priced 50 cents per plate. He thanks friends for six days of dinner patronage and promises a good family dinner that will please.
Nice Fresh Fish advertises S Burt at 400 Hickory Street with fresh and salt water stock. An insurance promo from Joan Situ & Son, Exchange Block, Warren Pa, promotes fire life and accident coverage to ease calamitous anxieties.
Crescent heel plates add rapid, neat upgrades to overshoes doubling wear and reducing slips. Available only in Warren County at C. P. Norrrurop’s shoe store.
Advertisement promotes a serialized story Water Brown Filip at Preston Flat with continued installments. It urges subscriptions and offers a rupture cure by Dr J B Mayer at 831 Arch Street Philadelphia with free advice and a circular.
Justice Green delivers the 1889 ruling on whether cider is vinous or spirituous for licensing under the 1887 act. The court holds the question is one for the jury if evidence supports cider’s vinous or spirituous character. unfermented juice is not clearly so, but fermentation may render it vinous and mixing with spirits can make it spirituous. Judgment reversed and new venire awarded.
Merck Drug Store reports a taverns sized trade surge from free trial bottles of Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption. The remedy claims to cure coughing colds asthma bronchitis croup and all throat and lung diseases with a free trial bottle and a large size at $1. Every bottle is warranted.
Mrs. Elijah Allen of Freehold Pa dies at 71. State Dairymen meet in Meadville. Ice shipped from Chautauqua Lake. Normal School Edinboro buys tools for teachers. Jamestown business group to curb peddlers. Roswell Lewis dies at 96. Civil War veteran. Freehold Grange hosts oyster supper for library funds. Bear Lake man injured by falling limb. recovering. Olean schools start savings bank dept for all grades. Buffalo blaze causes major damage over two million. Drilling project abandoned after stockholders meeting. Court adjourned due to irregular jury drawing. cases postponed.
Mrs. Tabitha Crampton, an elderly resident, died suddenly Sunday morning at her daughter Mrs. Henry Bailey's home after breakfast. She leaves several children in the area and a son in Michigan. The piece notes local lumber activity, sleighing, a social at Mrs. Lydia Marsh's, and a past welcome for T. W. Arird, superintendent of schools. Republicans vote to convene a county caucus on Feb 14 at Akeley's Hall to nominate township candidates.
Erie residents greet A T S and bride on main street as they pass through town. A Republican view on the Prohibition Amendment is offered. Mrs Myron Sanford mourns her son Lawrence age 18 who died in Riverside California and was buried at home. Warren County prepares for the Grand Army Encampment with hospitality tested for crowds. Erie制造 appears flourishing with Jarecki Brothers Works payroll at $7000 weekly and major firms like Erie City Iron Works Stearns Mfg Co showing strong orders. An Erie building boom is noted as progress accelerates.
The Philadelphia Record profiles Senator George Wallace Delamater of Crawford County as a rising Quay ally in Pennsylvania politics. Born 1849, he built a banking and railroad empire, led Meadville as mayor, and rose to state Senate. He is Quay’s trusted operative, shaped Republican strategy, and is viewed as the likely gubernatorial candidate though he denies seeking the post.
Robert Barrett and brother James from the West were riding when a frightened young team struck a fence corner, injuring James in the stomach. Dr. Seabury attended. Reports from Sugar Grove note several upcoming events at the M E Church and local lectures, with various community activities and a notable accident involving George Broughton.
A sequence of property deeds shows multiple transfers with owners and parcels in Bear Lake Mead Mead Sugar Grove Tidioute and other towns. Transfers include Humphrey to Bear Lake Bartlett to Southwest Rosenzweig to Hue Kirberger to Ridelsperger Chase to Jones and more with values from 69 to 32 000 dollars.
A period advertisement touts Hos tetter’s Stomach Bitters as a remedy for chills and fever and a wide range of ailments. It claims to warm the body, cure dumb ague and bilious disease, and relieve dyspepsia constipation headaches loss of appetite and sleep trouble rheumatism and debility with persistent use.
Rev Thomas held twelve gospel temperance meetings at the M E Church, funds covered by 103 member Good Templar Lodge. Garland troupe performed Handy Andy for the cornet band fundraiser. Prof Hilliar’s sleight of hand show drew crowds. Odd Fellows from Eden and Tidioute visited. initiations and a brass band program followed by a banquet at Sam Garfield's Hotel. Upcoming I O G T event features the Peak sisters. a fire at J W Agrelius mills narrowly avoided disaster. Ida L Maplestone visiting with Dora E Jackson.
The discussion favors electric illumination as sanitary, noting gas jets spoil indoor air and cause headaches and fatigue. Dr. Gould reports published cases show eye damage only from close, unprotected viewing, comparing it to risks from sunlight. Electricity touted as the future for homes and public spaces.
Warner Miller denounces the Excise bill as a great mistake urging the party to maintain pledged licensing levels from last winter to keep temperance support. He counters charges that he seeks high license to sway voters and notes Harrison’s consistent stance.
General McCook, former Hawaiian minister, argues that Hawaii and Samoa are crucial coaling stations between San Francisco and Asia and Australia. He warns that only the United States or England should hold strategic rights in the western Pacific to prevent a barrier to allied forces in war.
A local notice invites cash for rags free of rubbish papers and old rubber shoes and metals during the season. Items can be left at Johnson's room noted as Johnson.
Local shop Mari Orrics offers all kinds of job printing at low prices with neat, quality results. Community members can get posters, handbills, and small print jobs done efficiently and affordably.
The mid winter Century highlights Gerome the French artist and trainer, with his permission for en graving unseen works for Mrs. Hering. It also showcases Simone Memmi engravings by Cole and Stillman, Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote’s The Orchard of Wind Break, and serials Life of Lincoln and Exiles at Irkutsk by Kennan. N. H. Downs’ Elixir for coughs and colds is noted as longstanding.
Regular meeting of the Warren Union will be held Thursday at 3 p m in the Presbyterian lecture room. A good attendance is desired. E C Beach, Pres The piece also discusses the Woman s Christian Temperance Union and the Woman s Christian Association highlighting housing for working women and the impact of Prohibition voting in 1854 with Western counties shown in figures.
In a February 1 1887 letter from Victor New York F E Cons requests four gross Kemp's Balsam 50 cent size and samples. He claims Kemp's Balsam is the best selling cough cure beating fifteen other remedies ten to one. The note notes availability by all druggists at 50 cents and one dollar and offers a free sample bottle.
In Warren Pennsylvania on Wednesday January 30 1889 at the bride’s mother Mrs J S Brecht residence Rev Dr A W Ryan joined Mr A T Scofield and Miss Kate S Brecht both of Warren as a couple in a church wedding ceremony.
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