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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1877
Page
3
Local page blends light humor, rail talk, and community notices. Reports include snow and streetcar conditions, upcoming events, church activities, and oil district updates. A corny dialogue about household spending sits beside railway incidents and public notices from Warren and Youngsville.
A letter from J McKarn defends Philadelphians in North Warren against a lawyer’s disparaging remarks during an assault and battery trial before Justice Jewell. He praises Philadelphia residents as law abiding and respectful, while condemning Mr Miles for unfounded generalizations about them and noting Mr Reeves’s timely rebuke.
The Conneautville Courier recounts a playful sleigh ride gone comically awry with ten couples and two horses, plus a cautionary note about spreading accurate reports from Beaver Radical. It also praises an old fashioned winter and thanks Mrs. Henry Mott for support from Warren friends.
To farmers and dairymen. Visit McNett & Son's furniture rooms to inspect the Morning Glory Churn promising higher butter yield from the same cream. Also advertising "Little Nell and her Grandfather" at Will Smith's Gallery and cheap mouldings for motor toes and pictures.
Wm E Richardson of Newton Richardson pork packers committed suicide in his office by shooting himself. He left a wife and two Buffalo children and had written pleas to forgive poverty. A preacher’s wife Mrs Abigail Gage of Union City Union Church killed herself with corrosive sublimate after years of inner conflict. She leaves husband Rev J W Gage and five children.
Jamestown Journal reports Coroner Bly led inquest into H. B. Barnard death after a collision with John Swart near Busti on January 10 1877 about six o clock PM. Verdict holds Barnard smothered by a fallen horse from the collided sleigh and hay rack.
Jan 15 1877 Chandler's Valley reports a January 10 donation for Rev Bedow netting 81 dollars. The protracted meeting ends as he begins another at Mathew's Run. School progress praised with Emma Axtell teaching room 1 and Sarah Hill room 2. Elder youths dance and sleigh rides noted.
The Irvine Sunday school held a Christmas gift day with 115 scholars receiving boxes from Mrs. Newbold who, though in Philadelphia, supported the Sabbath school in Irvington. The 1876 attendance reached 3,684, up from 2,964 the year before, with six members having died since.
A blazing natural gas well near Bradford creates a climate prodigy with 100 degree heat at center and four feet of snow at the edge within a 200 foot circle. The Burning Well, drilled by Sellew and Popple of Dunkirk for oil, blew out at 400 feet and now emits three two inch pipes with flames ten to twelve feet long, visible from seven miles and bright enough to cast a shadow on clear nights.
The day after, in Youngsville, a donation will be given to Rev. W. L. Riley at the Fairmount House on Wednesday evening. Community notes report local changes and events across Venango County including school counts and post office name debates.
The Russian government plans to switch its steam warships to petroleum fuel, abolishing coal bunkers and using oil from Pennsylvania. Seven ships have been converted and all vessels will follow, promising faster fueling and potential price effects for petroleum producers. The note from the Philadelphia Dispatch highlights broader implications for industry and geopolitics.
The fourth Local Institute convened in Enterprise January 12 and 13 with Wm C. Gorman as chairman. Rev C T Jack led devotions and Ida T Gorman was elected secretary. Sessions covered punctuality parent visitation whispering and oral teaching for early grades. Mr Q A Robinson spoke of travels and home teaching was praised by Supt Thompson. Subtraction explained clearly and primary pupils taught orally per consensus. Ipa T Gorman secretary.
Marriages announced for January 1877 include David Hale and Hannah M. Cable in Warren at James Cable's residence, James Jeffords and Ada Boyd at the Revere House, and Charles Ricker and Theresa Smith in Busti. All couples listed as residents of Pine Grove Tiona and Sugar Grove Freehold respectively.
Death notices record Ann Morrison of Deerfield aged 72 years and 4 months on January 5 1877 Sophronia Angeline Jones of Tidioute aged 22 on January 18 1877 and Rosetta McMaster wife of Reverend John McMaster aged about 59 in Erie on January 15 1877
Corrected by Warren Mills listing types of flour and grain products with units and packaging details including white and amber wheat flour in barrels sacks and bags plus corn meal chop feed bran middlings oats and a note on hundred and cote amounts.
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