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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1897
Page
3
Franklin typewriter offered for sale at the Mail office. Henry C. Preston named Supt. of Rouse Hospital, replacing Akins who moves to a Chandler's Valley farm. Fire company alert details announced by Capt WheeLOCK with three taps repeated to summon members.
The First Lutheran Church hosted two performances of the sacred cantata Bethuel's Daughter under Pastor Markley with principal roles by Mrs. R. C. Pickett Minnie Heibel Dr. McAlpin and others. Sixty singers including Miss Flindt and Schellhammer contributed as organist Mrs. Albercht and pianist Irene Taylor aided a musically and financially successful event. The Episcopal Choir also staged a successful concert under Prof G A Way featuring Ida Howard Minnie Hegerty Jennie Bell and others with notable vocal and instrumental pieces. Elks Lodge held a well attended charity ball at Library Hall with Reig Barth orchestra. net receipts about 400 and Aid Society members provided refreshments.
The church building committee expects completion and an April dedication. Carpets go in Sunday school and classrooms while pews are assembled in the auditorium. Vendors supply dining-room dishes, table linens, silverware, and furniture. The congregation voted February 17 to mortgage the property. The Arion concert at Library Hall on March 2 features about forty performers under Prof Schmidt with Miss Turnwall. Proceeds fund legitimate expenses and support local music talent.
The Great Camp in Braddock Pennsylvania elected officers including Commander T H Lawry and Recorder W E Blaney. Salaries for the top two officials were raised to 125 dollars monthly. The next session is planned for Franklin in May 1899 with new mileage and per diem rates and a reorganization to twelve districts beginning May 1.
Feinman Bros proclaims not to be undersold in China or glassware and invites customers to call for prices and inspect their large stock. The notice emphasizes a wide, attractive selection.
A Charles Flindt bar ber shop in Exchange block advertises haircuts for ten cents on weekdays except weekends. The notice touts low prices on lamps and china as part of a sales push.
S. KELLER's Sons advertise stock of fur and plush robes horse blankets etc at reduced prices. Call for bargains. Keller the Tailor can fit all men with best fitting stylish parevants. Upstairs near Liberty street.
The three cornered mayoralty contest in Corry produced Nathaniel Stone the Republican winner with 579 votes, Plumb the Citizens Free Silver candidate got 412, and Allis the Democratic nominee 205. Local officials and residents react to the result.
A lengthy roll of names and positions across many towns listing Burgess, Council, Collectors, School Directors, Auditors, and Judges of Election. It names Beak Lake, Clare don ton, Col umbus, Conewango, Deerfield, Eldred, Elk, Farmington, Freehold, Glade, Kinzua, Limestone, Mead, Pleasant, Pine Grove, Pittsfield, South West, Sugar Grove, Spring Creek, Sheffield, Triumph, White Cloud and others with designated roles and officials. The document also advertises consumer goods at the end.
Judge Noyes delivers a lengthy decision in Col John J Carter vs The Producers Oil Co finding Carter the bona fide stock owner not the Standard Oil Trust but denying voting rights for shares bought from National Transit Co The cross bill is dismissed and decree drawn at plaintiff cost with ten days to file exceptions to findings.
Transfers posted include Andrew Wilson to Edgar D. Wilson Freehold for 300 dollars and D A Dewey to Nellis E Dewey in Columbus for 500. Others cover Spring Creek Farmington Sugar Grove Clarendon Glade Conenango Eldred and Looming property values from 50 to 2500 dollars.
A roster announces jurors for the third week of March with names and occupations across Warren, Sugar Grove, Tidioute, Conewango, Farmington, Youngsville, and nearby towns. Individuals include Ackley merchant Pine Grove. Anderson farmer Brokenstraw. Ayers laborer Pittsfield. and many others with varied trades.
A 100 dollar reward offer for catarrh cures by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Endorsements from F J Cheney and firms West & Truax Walding Kinnan Marvin who sell in Toledo Ohio. Cure is taken internally and claims to act on blood and mucous surfaces. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills touted as best.
Pittsburg and the Monongahela and Ohio valleys experience the greatest flood since 1884 with about thirty feet of water at Pittsburg yesterday and sixty feet at Cincinnati. The deluge damages railroads iron works and homes as a cold wave check began Tuesday.
Col John Irvin of the Bucktail regiment died at his Curwensville home last Tuesday February 23 at age 59. He served with honor in the Civil War era and his loss is noted by local residents and veterans.
A Citizen quip declares wives in Youngsville are not lazy comparing to others. It asks if any lazy husbands remain in Youngsville, framing a humorous local stereotype.
A farmer bought Chamberlains Cough Remedy for his sick child and praised its quick effect. The boy said the medicine always cures him, and townspeople gathered at Morris & Mullen, Warren, and Canfield in Corydon to buy it at 25 and 50 cents a bottle.
Complete line of Pure Drugs Medicines Chemicals at Dixson's Grade Drug and Variety Store. Prices reasonable. Quality the best. Get your oysters and fish from Riverside Fish and Oyster Co. in the Baltzinger block. George Smith manager.
Fresh County notes report Rev Burns holding M E church meetings with conversions while Rev Henshaw remains ill. G A R Post and W R C marked Lincoln and Washington births with readings, songs, and recollections of soldier life. Local moves include Deming recalling prison days and Mrs. Burke visiting Clarendon.
Deaths announced for Margaret Reynolds in Warren and Mrs Hans McKitrick in Lander Pennsylvania. Wm F Hornstrom dies in Warren at 21. Lily Dale widow Sarah M. Lott, 84, formerly of Lottsville. Anna R Armor, former Warren oil producer’s wife, dies in Toledo. Dunkirk master mechanic W G Taber of D A V P Ry dies aged 58.
The Pittsburg Dispatch 1897 pledges extensive western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia coverage with Cuban, Madrid, and Havana correspondents plus strengthened London cables and leased wire service. It touts Wall Street reports, large legitimate circulation, and a marble Sunday edition described as a refined home paper with fiction and literary work. An advertising block promotes Kilmer’s Swamp Root kidney remedy with sample offers and mail-in pamphlet.
Distressing kidney and bladder diseases relieved in six hours by the New Great South American Kidney Cure. The remedy relieves pain in the bladder kidneys back and urinary passages in males and females and stops water retention. Sold by Noyes Drug Store Warren Pa.
Penfield Carpet Cleaning operated in the rear of Mansion House with E. W. Sealy as manager. The firm offers carpet taking up cleaning and relaying with a satisfaction guarantee. Orders accepted at several local outlets including A. A. Davis & Co. 308 Second Street, Warren Steam Laundry, Riwa & Stevens Rogers block, and J. S. Bayer 440 Water Street for prompt service.
The Erie Railroad places on sale excursion tickets to California Florida Georgia and other southern states at greatly reduced rates. California tickets allow one route there and return by a different route. Pullman Tourist sleeping cars run through to California accepting second class tickets. For trip planning contact the nearest Erie ticket agent or F H Garfield Division Passenger Agent.
For the Washington travel account of inauguration on March 4 the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. runs through sleepers to Washington on train 4 Erie mail east leaving Erie at 3 25 p m March 1 2 and 3. This will be greatly appreciated by Washington visitors.
Local seamstress Mrs Casemere offers repair and patchwork at 305 Second Street next to the Mails office. She advertises low prices with first class work and invites customers to call for service.
A collage of humorous lines and brief exchanges from Town Topics Detroit Free Press Detroit Journal Indianapolis Journal Tit-Bits Cincinnati Enquirer Baltimore News and Boston Transcript, with jests on manners language and social misfires.
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