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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1885
Page
3
A brief quirky note from The Warren Mail dated January 6 1855 mentions a roller ride and a misstep ending with the rider landing on his head while observations about speed and a vast number are playfully noted, reflecting the era's humor.
Harrisburg trip for Hon. C. W. Stone. Assessor Dalrymple canvassing property owners. L. T. Bishop and family visiting Forestville New York. James Steadman very ill with age hindering recovery. Lawyer Freeman ill for days but hopes to return soon. Pardee of Corry acts as teller at Citizens National Bank. School started Monday amid rain and mud. January brings cold New Year with few callers. Week of prayer to be observed at local churches. Albion W Tourgee lecture date set for Jan 23 in Library Hall. Paragraph office moving to Diamond block basement. Local events include burning issues and charity notices. New orchestra at Library Hall. bread samples from Geo. P. Orr & Co. promoted. City fathers met. two hose jumpers ordered for fire department. North Star Lodge officers installed Dec 27. Communion service in Evangelical church next Sunday. Revival meetings to continue indefinitely. Ice skating event with prize races reported at New Year. Presbyterian church officers reelected. Local notables travel and social notes documented. J. D. Arird appointed Mercantile Appraiser. Henry family incident noted. Leap year party held at Tidioute with many attendees. John Houghnot, Farmington citizen, dies aged 65. Temperance lecture in Tiona. Warren county W. T. U. organized. Flour sale at Geo. P. Orr & Co. Clothing stock push by Geo. Ball. Local job rooms publish new posters. Library Hall to host chimes of Normandy. Laban Lodge K of H installs officers. Ice man Ed Clemons supplies seasonally. The Lights o London at Library Hall draws small crowds. Chimes of Normandy set for Jan 16. Eben N. Ford Post G A R installs officers.
O H Hunter and Son announce a two week sale offering deep discounts on all dry goods with every item included. Prices listed include Good Flour 70 cents per unit and 1.00 per sack, encouraging customers to visit for the broad clearance. C W Sersall invites orders for fruit nuts and oysters with an inside track on prices.
The Literary Club of Warren gathered last Tuesday evening for its inaugural banquet at M Waters Esquire residence. Attendees included Myron Waters, H A Jamieson, L R Freeman, C C Thompson, A B Miller, W W Howard, L F Watson, J M Clapp, Libbie King, Grace Davis, Annine Arnnett, and W D Hinckley. Freeman led literary exercises. Miller delivered his usual sober performance. Also notes announce sale of Keystone Cigar Works interest by J N Dreren and price offers at Geo P Orr & Co in a brief trades list.
The Library hosts an annual auction next Monday evening the 12th for periodicals and publications. Featured titles include Lippincott's Demorest's St Nicholas Outing Harper's and more. Buy a ticket to join the sale and support Warren's Library while catalogues update with new members.
The annual meeting of the Union Agricultural Society of Warren county will be held in Sugar Grove on January 13, 1885 at 1 p m for officer elections and other business. D B Jangen Secretary Sugar Grove December 23 1884.
After a tough season about 150 touring companies failed, costing over 1000 livelihoods. Many actors returned to New York as circuits in dime museums offered short term cash gigs. Prices dropped to a hard times level as tours folded before the election.
Letters addressed to numerous individuals in Warren Pa remain unclaimed and will be sent to the Dead Letter Office if not called for within thirty days. The notice lists names including Miss Alice Moon Miss Mary Muloy Asa Nielson Estella Black and others. Advertisers remind readers to call by date of advertising and sign off by P M Allen. Also included are local ads for good flour and Dr Fenner cough remedies.
Court is in session under Judge W. D. Brown with Associates P. W. Brown and R. P. King. New county officers take office. Theodore L. Putnam M. Crocker and Joseph Clinton named commissioners with Frank A. Cogswell clerk. Auditors N. P. Curtis W. O. Martin and Frank E. Fay begin county audits, expected to take about two weeks. Captain W. J. Alexander named Register and Recorder praised for competence. Old commissioners praised. all are new this term under the present system.
The report notes oil found while boring for gas at Washington. A pipeline is laid from Thorn Creek oil field to Pittsburg to carry oil to independent refineries. Two thousand miners are laid off as coal mines near Shenandoah close. The Liberty Bell will travel to the New Orleans Exposition from Philadelphia in about two weeks. Allentown imposes 50 dollar skating rink tax and five dollar game tax on baseball clubs.
Reports from Jamestown and surrounding areas note plans for electric lighting and a second roller rink in Titusville. The Union Agricultural Society meets January 13 at Sugar Grove. Mrs. A T Prendergast offers $50 for firefighting efficiency. Local industry, rail, and press news cover mill layoffs at Dunkirk, the Franklin Citizen Press expansion, Venango Spectator anniversary, and new papers in Titusville.
Geo Hare opens shop over the post office in Youngsville while the town bakeries and oysters at all hours stay busy. A Swedish church social, school cantata, and multiple visits from relatives mark a Christmas and New Year in the area. A typhoid patient dies, a land sale yields a $30,000 profit, and community events include dances, weddings, and a noted election wager celebration in Jamestown.
The weekly plan outlines prayer themes from January 5 to 10 1885. Topics include God’s long-suffering and peace, national sins and infidelity, church unity and evangelism, parental duty and youth salvation, rulers and war prevention, and the Holy Spirit’s outpouring with missions and scripture circulation.
Col Black regular army inspector lauds the National Guard after Gettysburg encampment. He notes uniformity equipment rifles and horse mounts matching regular army. Mentions 600 marksmen and some companies fully qualified. Sees 8,000 strong with potential to expand to 50,000 and as a model for other states.
Nelson Greenland announces a new water powered elevator in his five story Exchange block furniture store. He emphasizes bottom prices and complete stock with a freeride shopping experience, claiming the town's only store with such amenities.
Representatives of five generations gathered at Spring Creek to mark a New Year gathering for Calvin Nichols. Guests included S W B Sanford aged 87 and Nichols’s father aged 91 who walked two miles to the event. Both are Warren County pioneers who helped settle the county fifty years ago. Jan 2 1885.
Congressman's on site inspection of the Erie headland confirms the lake is washing away the peninsula and endangering the harbor. Brainerd warns steady lake forces could irreparably ruin the harbor unless swift action is taken to shore up the area.
Advertises a clearance sale at Geo Ball's offering clothing and furnishing goods. Mentions a medical cure called Hun Cough Cure priced at 25 cents and cites Johnson & Siegfried as presumably associated buyers or sellers.
Winter sickness rises in Spring Creek with fevers reported. Homer Tucker of Dakota visits his father Geo Tucker while local tannery wages drop ten percent sparking discontent. Several residents travel or host gatherings. pensioner Langworthy plans a Kansas City visit, and Democrats discuss post office leadership amid Prohibitionist rumors. Canned goods priced low by Geo P. Ork & Co.
A patched list of marriage announcements from Dec 1884 to Jan 1885, including Cramer Baldensperger in M E Parsonage Warren, Wenzel Becker to Philipine Becker, Fusz Schmeltz in Glade, Campbell Campbell in Warren, Chamberlain Shaw in Warren, Trushell Davis in Warren, Wood Sly in Warren, Anderson Olson in Warren, Campbell Warner in Ludlow Pa, Dickinson Phillips in Cable Hollow, Ettinger Bowser in Garfield, Palmer Denison in Titusville, Carr Marsh in Busti.
Fragmentary item lists various grain products and prices, including white wheat rye corn bran and flour with minor price adjustments and notes about market conditions. The readable text references corn, bran, flour and generic grain terms without a coherent report or clear date or place.
Corrected weekly by Geo. P. Orr & Co. reports prices paid in Warren for commodities including apples per pound, butter per pound, beans per bushel, cheese per pound, dried apples per bushel, eggs per dozen, hams per hundredweight, lard per barrel, onions per bushel, potatoes new per bushel, pork shoulders per barrel, sugar and coffee forms, tea Hyson per pound, molasses N O per gallon, syrup per gallon, rice per hundredweight, lime per barrel, cement per barrel, Timothy seed per bushel, Clover seed per bushel, salt per sack, kerosene oil per gallon.
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