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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1885
Page
3
A Warren column updates readers on theater events, social balls, hotel changes, and a burglary at Geo. P. Orr & Co. Fifth street store. It notes upcoming elections, club meetings, and a busy postal day, plus personal notices of residents traveling, ill, or visiting friends.
O. Hi. Hunter & Son announce a grand opening today February 10 featuring new muslins sheets and ginghams. Visitors are invited to come and see the latest arrivals at the store.
Daily sale offering the largest stock in town with low prices. Promotions claim reductions of five to ten dollars on every suit made to order. Spring styles arrived and satisfaction warrantied on all cloths made up. Call at once George Ball.
Valentines lovers can browse Prang’s celebrated art Valentines in plain fringed and swans down styles. Also featured are McLaughlin Whitney and Hamberger lines inviting customers to visit and choose.
The celebrated scalp doctor returns to Warren urging bald men to cheer her comeback. Her prior visit boosted belief in hair growth and she claims success with Magnetic Garments for consumption, rheumatism, nervous prostration and catarrh. She will be at Carver House room 25 this week.
Oranges ten cents per dozen and lemons fifteen cents at Gero P Orr and Co. Good flour priced at seventy five cents and one dollar per sack at Geo P Orr and Co.
The Postmaster general selects Alden after Allen withdraws, following Allen's January term expiry. Alden known for executive ability earns cross party support. Allen retires after eight years with a strong private regard from colleagues.
A break in the gas main near Rogers mill pond left Wood & Thomas scrambling to meet coal needs as zero weather gripped the town last Friday morning. Gas returned by 4 PM, but the outage highlighted reliance on coal stoves and cautioned residents to keep alternative heating ready.
Call today to price our entire stock of Colored and Black Silks for this week only. Also note cheap fruit including oranges at 10 cents a dozen and lemons at 15 cents per dozen at Geo P Orr & Co. Noyes touts Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets as a remedy for indigestion.
Warren audiences may see Mme Janish the Austrian Countess in Camille next Wednesday at Library Hall. Seats are on sale at Noyes drug store and are selling fast. Reviewers praised her grace and vocal clarity noting her French lines and refined stage presence.
Last week, Judge W. D. Brown presided with Associates Brown and King over several civil actions. Verdicts: Thompson vs Cummings $200 for plaintiff. Sandberg vs Morrison estate $1,535 for plaintiff. McGee vs Sweeting defendant. Deming and Thompson estate vs Gilmore and Bucklin defendants. Gilmore case defendant. Gamble heirs et al vs Porter heirs et al continued. Edwin Thompson vs Hunter jury withdrawn. Kay vs Allen verdict for defendant.
T. E. Murphy son of Francis Murphy will address Warren County residents under the Warren County Temperance League at Library Hall Warren on Thursday evening February 12. Admission is free with doors opening at 7 30 and lecture at 8. Everyone urged to attend.
Judge Tourgee spoke on What shall we do with him before a sizable Warren crowd. Introduced by Bro. Howard, he noted twenty years since last in Warren. The September day was pleasant and the talk covered the past present and future of the negro in the United States. An encore visit is hoped for. Over the garden wall to night by Geo S Knight and wife.
A long roster lists numerous residents by name and occupation across towns including Warren, Spring Creek, Glade, Sugar Grove, Conewango, Tidioute, and surrounding areas. Occupations span carpenter, mason, farmer, merchant, blacksmith, harness maker, carpenter and various labor roles with many individuals tied to Pine Grove, Columbus, and Brokenstraw.
Town Council minutes from February 2 show approval of previous minutes and a sewer on Fifth Street with cost shared by residents. Borough Engineer Hamilton to receive 150 dollars for past sewer and street work, Warren Telephone Company to install lines in city building for 36 dollars yearly. Exoneration bill for Ames approved. night watchman application laid over. Several Bills ordered paid including gas, lumber, printing, sewer grates, and police. Council adjourned.
A borough election is set for February seventeenth. The Republican Vigilance Committee lists Alden Shirley Crawford Ames Cogswell Swanson and Allen as organizers. Reported Republican candidate for Burgess is C C Thompson Esq praised for business sense legal knowledge and citizen standing.
Mr Chas Lott of Wetmore farm North Warren Pa returns from Canada with 17 Southdowns from Thos Wilkinson Glanford Canada. Thirteen head head to L D Wetmore Virginia stock farm in March. Lott keeps six at North Warren. Ram Gen Webb weighs 200 pounds and won five Ontario yearling ram prizes. Emma Coleman imported by Wilkinson weighs 227 pounds and earned 22 Ontario prizes and royal shows in England. Hamilton Times notes Lott bought twelve Southdowns including prize ewe and prize ram from Wilkinson with strong stock praise.
Engineer Hamilton and party survey a route from Warren to Sugar Grove or the state line via Jackson Run and Chandler's Valley. Warren capitalists plan a New York linked line to Mayville in Chautauqua County, promising profits by connecting Warren to prime agricultural areas. Narrow gauge lines are touted as cheap and eventually widespread.
The court holds the 1874 act does not create gas supplying corporations directly or indirectly and reverses a ruling on Fuel Gas Company exclusive franchise. no monopoly in natural gas. A Harrisburg grand jury calls skating rinks a health nuisance. Pittsburg gets 1.5 million dollars for a new post office. Library lamps cost 2.50 to 3 dollars. Northrop's advertises Boots and Paves discounts.
Report of a Pennsylvan ia State Dairy Association meeting in Meadville last week notes J M Ferris resignation as general superintendent of the Nypano with Charles Paine, formerly of the Lake Shore R R, succeeding him. The Humbolt Savings Bank of Erie will close with liabilities about 300000 and assets near 500000. Jamestown to receive electric light service with a Brush dynamo on the way. Ludlow West aged 60 between Columbus and Lottsville died by self inflicted hanging on the night of February 2, considered insane.
The Teachers Local Institute will meet in Sugar Grove on Friday February 27 and Saturday February 28. Sessions run day and evening with classes in the school house and McDonald's Hall. A full program lists music addresses debates and discussions led by local educators and pastors. The Temperance Work feature details county unions and officers across Warren Tidioute Youngsville Irvington North Warren North Clarendon Farnsworth Siding Russell Kinzuaw Tiona Landon Spring Creek and the county organization with executive committee and department superintendents.
Last Saturday brought several mishaps in Pittsfield. Garfield's horse collapsed while tied near Geo Morse's house and J Ahlquist lost a valuable horse after it broke its leg on a bridge. Gray injured hauling logs and Dee Mead shot his hand while hunting. About 40 teams haul logs to McGrew Bros. mill aiming for over 4,000,000 feet. A library association formed with 110 volumes, officers named, and a five member committee. Over 75 papers sold by newsboys each Sunday. Proprietor change in town hotel discussed. Davis returns from Jefferson County. McGuire & Lockwood hauled 1,200,000 feet to the mill in 14 days.
Adj. Gen. Guthrie reports rigid camp inspections and high drill efficiency in 1884. He urges officer term completion, officer education, and a formal school for officers. Calls for stronger armories, rifle practice funding, and a $3500 plan to secure the State Arsenal. Praises brigades Hartranft to Snowden and notes rapid Pennsylvania Railroad mobilization capability. Poor flour pricing ends item.
J N Lacy will canvass Warren County this week for a county directory to be issued in about two months. The book will include every voter's name and post office address and 2500 copies will be printed. Copies will be placed in hotels in nearby towns and large cities for travelers. Lacy accepts advertisements and subscriptions.
Unclaimed letters in Warren Pa. post office with 30 day call window before Dead Letter Office. Names include Albert Bulda Lundgren Augusta Butterick Co Gotlib Beers Alice McCormick T B Conaro Sam Montgomery Laura Campbell Nellie Murphy Maggie Clark H J McDonald A W Dailey Moljie Norton Mary Olson Augusta Green Sam Striduff Jas Hjalman Hanna Taylor Lenora Hogan Effie Howard W M Jansson Fab Walker Wow Lynch Rosa Whelar L D In calling for letters please give date of advertising. Also advertisement for remedies from L G Noyes and Acker's products.
Jamestown advances with water main to Chautauqua Lake after artesian wells fail. Electric light plans move forward with a new company securing right of way. Schools prepare exhibitions and a grammar drama. YMCA reports strong activity and lectures by Richard son and Blakie. Two mile race for $100 on the Novelty Rink pits Don Harrison against Will Hatch. Assemblymen Horton and Williams face Journal criticism over Morton support. Jamestown to adopt free postal delivery if streets and numbers meet requirements by March 1.
In Sugar Grove Pennsylvania on February 4 1885 a reader points out a tax exoneration error in the Auditor’s report claiming exonerations for the township totaled 142.01 but the correct amount is 7.57 dollars due to cents placed in the dollar column. The writer notes Sugar Grove’s duplicate is large and asks for publication to correct the record.
In Warren on February 8 1885 a daughter was born to the wife of J M Siegfried a boy named John. In Warren on February 4 1885 a son was born to the wife of Wm Conners.
For Warren area marriages dated February 1885, lists include George Rayder of Los Angeles to Ida A. Russell of Warren. John Nelson to Mathilda Nelson of Ludlow. Charles Amann to Lizzie Huey of North Warren. Andrew Christenson to Annie Erickson of Sheffield. Charles A. Clark to Clara Randall of Russell. Charles Coe to Jessie Chapman of Warren. Wm L Hunter to Caroline Price of Bear Lake.
In Sugar Grove Pennsylvania January 30 1885 Susan wife of Pardon Davis died. In Lancaster New York December 27 1554 Mrs Zervice Bowen died in her 82nd year.
The writer dismisses hard times and bankruptcy fears, saying business has been great for months. They claim customers respond to bargains and announce thirty days of deeper discounts with odds and ends offered at less than half price to attract shoppers.
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