Centennial Tea Party Exposition Lights Warren Hall
Readers toured six themed booths recounting 1776 and 1876 eras at Roscoe Hall. Officials described relics from old books to canvassed costumes while a grand tableau and Republican Court entertained a crowd of locals and visitors. Proceeds funded communal celebrations and ongoing town projects.
Card of Thanks and Local Notices
A Centennial Enter tainment ladies group thanks townspeople and Warren County residents for relics, with gratitude for Geo Ball & Co parlor use. Unclaimed letters list names. public notices include Lutheran service March 5 and local shop ads for clothing hats and moldings.
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Warren
Geo. Ball & Co
Orper
George Ball & Co’s
Centennial Tea Party ends in Warren in 1876
The article praises the women who organized the centennial tea party and ball, notes the attire of dresses from great grandmothers, grandmothers, or mothers, and laments the passing of time and fading memory of the event. It imagines future readers a half century hence.
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Warren
Library moves to larger rooms in Scofield block
Warren Library and Free Reading Room relocates to two new rooms in Judge Scofield's block behind Dinsmoor Reeves and Dr. Pierce. One room holds books the other serves as reading and assembly space with hall access. Gas lighting and lower rent than before. Lectures continue with upcoming events by Mrs. Brown and Mr. Stone, inviting public support.
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R. P. King
Libbie Rogers
F. H. Rockwell
E. Cowan
M. Beecher
W. D. Brown
A. Gerould
R. Stranahan
John Mengle
Germany
Wim
Messner
N. H. Kidder
Gleaner
Monthly
B. F. Morris
J. W. Weaver
Thos Struthers
Jane Allen
G. A. Irvine
J. D. Summerton
F. Henry
Nisi Prius
Cowan
London
J. F. Wells
L. Wetmore
Connecticut
Evangelist Magazine
J. J. Taylor
Mary McHarg
Albany
Willer
W. W. Wilbur
John Krinbill
Wales
Miss Harrison
Fannie Horton
Sugar Grove
T. Frank
D. M. Davis
S. T. Allen
G. C. Newkirk
Montgomery Co
N. Y
Geo. Clinton
A. G. Newkirk
Archibald Tanner
James Madison
Jas. Munroe
Sec
J. Q. Adams
Henry Clay
Benj. Franklin
Humphrey Marshall
Scofield
Albany Gazette
Columbian Sentinel
Boston
L. B. Hoffman
Vermont Gazette
Gerould
U.S
C. Ford
Warren Court House
Wim. Hodges
W. W. Hodges
J. Andrews
Stephen Littlefield
Assembly
Kate Mullen
Joseph Q. Adams
Warren
W. Lewis
Tryphena Kidder
England
E. L. Hall
Jamestown
Corydon
Getz
H. L. Towle
Titusville
Connecticut Magazine
First States
L. Hazeltine
Laban Hazeltine
Warren Co
Wm. Kline
Henry Cobham
Liverpool
Scotland
James Clark
Gillmore
Harthen
J. K. Palmer
John Grindley
America
Reuben Consarvo
New Jersey
Highlander
Elgin
Wm. Parmilee
Clara Cowan
Joan McIntosh
Dalliday
Wu. Irvine
Warren County
Burgess
Canton
W. G. Williams
Rome
Bayard Taylor
E. M. Pierce
Geo. A. Cobham
Dr. Saver
D. McNett
Holland
Pike’s Peak
Wm. Hackney
Watson & Davis
John F. Davis
Richard Hill
J. F. Davis
Temple
Hubert McDowell
Dr. Sager
I. Daggett
A. F. Taylor
Fredonia
Hannah Bowerman
Pere Marquette River
T. Gordon
Mr. Jamieson
Sugar Bowl
Guignon
Mr. Newberry
Irvineton
I. G. Lacy
A. P. Gilmore
Syria
Persia
J. H. Spencer
W. Rogers
Lincoln
M. Waters
Republican Court
G. W. Scofield
S. Burgess
A. P. Gillmore
Sarah Hackney
Mary Palmer
Hattie Valentine
Belle Henry
Gene Copeland
Rose Gemmill
Kate Chapman
Nellie Stranahan
China
S. H. Doty
A. J. Hazeltine
Hannah Eveson
Miss Ronne
S. W. Waters
Vosburg
Ed. Wetmore
Charlie Wetmore
Harry Crandall
C.D. Crandall
John Chinaman
Andrew Ludlow
Will Hall
Augustus Wetmore
Harry Miller
Cyrus Wells
Messrs. Wells
Noyes
Goodrich
Marden
Dinsmoor and Reeves
Dr. Pierce
Judge Scofield
Brown
Mr. Brown
Mr. Stone
School House
Erie
Gara
Charles M. Reed
Post Office Department
Noble
Reed House
Caughey, McCreary & Co
Readings by Rev Lampe for Lutheran Sunday School
Reverend F C H Lampe will present selected readings for the Lutheran Sunday School benefit at Union School Hall on Tuesday evening March 7 starting at eight. Tickets cost 35 cents and are sold by J F Wells & Co and A W Morck & Co. The program includes Macbeth scenes, German dialect pieces, modernized Shakespeare, Burn’s songs, and selections from Burns and Schiller.
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Evangelical Lutheran Cuuren
Mr. Lampe
F.C. H. Lampe
Lutheran Sunday School
Union School
J. F. Wells & Co’s
A. W. Morck & Co’s
Lampe
The
Library Association
W. D. Brown
C.W. Stone
E. Cowan
Eps
Mall
Local liquor traffic sparks citizen appeal in Pittsfield
Feb 21 1876 Pittsfield letter calls for action on liquor sales citing ruined homes and recurrences of alcohol abuse linked to hotels. It argues for reform and notes political tensions over party dissolution and calls for Republican Prohibitionist unity to elect officials.
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PittsField
Ledger
Rag and metal buyer offers cash for scraps and trades
Notice of a York area dealer who will pay top cash prices for rags and metals and accept trades with prize packages and broom hangers. He asks customers to leave word at Johnson White Co. feed store or his room and promises honest dealing and market-based payments.
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Johnson, White & Co
Robert H. Johnson
Ridgway Club Fines Members for Working
A note from Crawford county describes Ridgway’s lazy man's club that fines members if they are found working. It mentions a new Conewango post office named Jackson Run with elder Mr. Sterrett as Postmaster and notes other local items such as a Centennial entertainment planned in Sugar Grove and a successful Tea Party in Tidioute.
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Ridgway
Conewango
Jackson Run
Sterrett
Mr. Sterrett
Arthur R. Waite
Jamestown Journal
Salt Lake City
Rocky Mountain
Crawford County
Sugar Grove
Washington
Congregational Church
Tidioute News
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Warren Mail
Home Matters
St. Patrick’s
Mead Township
Borchert & Co
Warren Savings Bank
P. Gruber, Jr
Allen Block
Mrs. Struthers
Denver
Gen. Allen
Fred Hooker
Colorado
C. McDaniels
G. Reiff
New York
McDaniels
Miller
J. F. Wells & Co
A. W. Merck & Co
New York Graphic
Prof. Gardner
T. Struthers
L. F
Youngsville
Russellburg
Shefield
Derynkes
N. B
Cave OF the Ocean
I. S. Alden
J. C. Wells
Lillie Schnur
Lucy James
Maggie McPherson
Rebecca Keeler
Mary Beatty
Anna Wood
Earth
Martha Washington
Josephine Hall
Carrie Hill
Roman Schnur
Clara
George
Martha
Wilbur
M. Mead
Hattie McPherson
Cora Hull
Millie McMullan
Bessie Crawford
Harry Wells
W. H. Copeland
J. R. Clark
Annie Sill
Kate Palmer
Carrie Stranahan
Stella
the Republican Court
Eliza Vosburg
Liberty
Alexis Keeler
Ida Russell
Sam
L. D. Crandall
Gen. Lafayette
P.M
Ludlow
Uncle Sam
Wm. Lee
W. A
Nellie Custis
D. V. Stranahan
Gen
Lafayette
Mrs. Hamilton
G. R. Wetmore
Fred Wetmore
Willie Rogers
Rockwell
8. Burgess
L. T. Parmlee
I.G. Lacy
Z. Gemmill
Warren Musical Association
Coleman
Gen. Washington
Lady Washington
R. Dennison
H. V. McDowell
Ella Sill
Anna Sill
Hattie James
E. B. Eldred
J. Z. Rider
J. Griffith
W. Davis
Ep. Brown
C. D. Crandall
la Miltaire
Albert James
Roscoe Hall
Amanda B. Clark
Elvira E. Cozzens
Albert Joy
T. M. Kean
Haines Sutcliffe
E. T. Washburne
Rost, Dennison
P. M
Hunter
Will Smith’s
Macbeth
Krick
Harbaugh
Shakespeare
PBMC
Eise
Hunter’s
Nell
Will Smith
St. Petersburg
Torpedo Company
Barnum
Pittsburg
Mr. Waters
Broadway Block
Wilt Smith’s
John Ronne
Cutter
Sprague
Geo. Ball & Co’s
the Union School
Venango County
George Washington
Libbie
Mary King
Pleasant
Sherman—Marsh
Frewsburg
J.J. Stocker
J.J. Sherman
Kinzua
M. J. Marsh
Jaquins—Siggins
J. F. Stocker
M. F. Jaquins
Emma
H. K. Siggins
FAVE
Pitts Pittsfield
Carl Sodergreen
August Peterman
Gus Anderson
Gus Bartow
J. Miles
Betsey Dechen
J. Bartow
Deerfield
Sqacres
W.W. Hague
Tidiouie
Sea Nore
Eliza Cady
Borough of
Columbus
H.S. Ayer
Norman Snyder
L. Aalsnyder
Adm
S. G. Waid
R. Warren
Lfebut
R. Martin Schaeffer
Court of Quarter Sessions
Porter Pemberton
William B. Acre
Henry Stevens
H. J. Miller
J. H. Williams
William Ryan
Proth’ys
Orphan’s Court
Su Eee
Peter Smith
John T. MaGene
F. J. Johnson
John A. Baker
Norman R. Thompson
Orville Swift
Rufus P. King
John H. Hull
Philip Mead
Arletta Brown
Heman L. Brown
Mad. Alger
John Haliday
J. Alexander
Register, Register’s
Johnson’s Exchange
North Warren
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