Warren July Fourth notes and local items
Local brief and humorous notes from Warren Pennsylvania dated July 3 1877 cover weather, picnics, fly traps, stage entertainments, bank closings, and seasonal commerce. Items mention Sill insurance move, post office hours, Parmlee Henry brickwork, Fourth of July preparations, wagon rides, a street preacher, telegraph office move, the Democratic wigwam demolition, churchgoer remarks on sermons, a music hall reception, rose blight remedies, and Knights of Honor officers for Warren Laban Lodge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Warren
John Sill
Burgess
Warren
South West
Sheffield
Cherry Grove
Tidioute
Pennsylvania
Parmlee & Henry
Hickory Street
Morck
Dan Carroll
Irvington
Mart
Strickland
A. J. Carney
Carver House
Chamberlain
Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Company
School House
Music Hall
Cook
Laban Lodge
Knights of Honor
H. L. Lord
J. E. Berkstresser
Lew Phillips
A. Merrill
W.S. Leffard
George Ensworth
A. Rearick
H. R. Bartlett
Guardian
J. J. Arnold
G. Gruber
Fourth of July festivites and excursions at Warren
Large Fourth crowd expected in Warren with Youngs ville Kane Frewsburg and Cornplanter Bands. P and E Railroad runs an Erie to Warren excursion arriving 9 am and leaving 10 pm. Morning cannons sunrise parade 10 am grand exercises 1 pm Park speeches prayers reading and oration. Fireworks at river raft, Harugari Society halls and others host evening events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren
Youngsville
Kane
Frewsburg
P. & E. Railroad
Erie
Stewart
Miles
Musical Association
Rankin
Lampe
Mr. Getz
John Sill
Harugari Society
Three New Strikes Reported Near Falconer Area
Struthers and Hoffman report a well on an island above Falconer dam pumping about ten barrels daily since last Thursday. Weible and Co at Glade near Falconer dam expect a forty barrel pumper from their well there. Osmer No. 6 Hazeltine lot adjoining State Hospital farm shows several flows Monday. expected to become a good pumper. Harmon well in North Warren drills for third sand, about 1100 feet deep. Oil closed Monday at $1.773 in lower markets and $1.42 on board cars in Warren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Struthers & Hoffman
Falconer Dam
Weible & Co
Glade
Osmer
Harmon
North Warren
Warren
Whiskey tragedy at Mozart Hall framed as local tragedy
A 16 year old, Wilson Weaver, fought with an Italian in Titusville’s Mozart Hall after a dispute at about 11 pm last Saturday. Bartender Peter Cassidy ordered them out. Weaver attacked Cassidy and was shot in the temple by Cassidy who fled to jail. Cassidy, possibly drunk, was arrested. The piece blames whiskey and questions temperance. The notice also reports on State Hospital construction, Warren Engine House bid, a near-miss rail collision near Coluston, a July Fourth Trinity Memorial Church festival, a police report summary for June 1877, a fireworks sale at Variety Hall, farm labor pay, and a strawberry variety weighing nineteen ounces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washburne
Warren
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Wilson Weaver
Mozart Hall
Titusville
Peter Cassidy
Weaver
Cassidy
Ladies of Trinity Memorial Church
Variety Hall
D. B. Bernard
Sec’y
Harrisburg
Mercer County
Clearfield County
Legislative Fish Committee
Erie
Tarport
Blair County
Frank Wilson
North Pennsylvania Railroad
Fairmount Park
Philadelphia
Christian R. Ross
P. T. Barnum
Charlie
Daniel Pratt
Beaver Falls
Rome
P. P. Bliss
Messrs. Moody
Sankey
Whittle
Root
McGrenahan
Farwell
Lockport
Ham Guy
Fred Halstead
Halstead
Guy
Veritas and the wine question debated in church critique
A critic argues against Veritas on biblical wine use, condemning unfermented juice mislabeling and asserting Christ did not drink intoxicating wine. The piece cites Adam Clarke and Timothys stance, urging ministers to avoid appearances of evil and embrace full abstinence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Veritas
Christ
Adam Clarke
Methodist Episcopal Church
Cana
New Cyclopedia
St. Paul
Timothy
Death of George C. Hinkle Noted by Good Templars
Resolutions from the Order of Good Templars mourn the death of George C. Hinkle. The lodge notes his zeal and self sacrifice in the temperance cause, pledges to drape regalia, forward copies to his parents and Warren papers, and expresses hope of a glorious reunion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Order of Good Templars
Lodge
Minute Book
Warren
J. J. Taylor
J. Trushel
C. W. Sersall
Jamestown Notes and Oil News from 1877
Jamestown items cover oil prospects with wells near Titusville, Big Indian and Big Medicine wells dwindling, and rising oil prices. Reports on local school hiring in Tidioute, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern wage cuts, and upcoming reunions for Civil War veterans. Also mentions Chautauqua ministers gathering and a Sunday School Assembly speakers lineup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamestown
Girard
Erie County
Edinboro
Meadville
Tidioute
Messrs
C. L. Arnold
C. F. Amidon
J. S. Hill
A. M. Porter
Lydia Evans
Titusville
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad Company
New York
Pennsylvania
Lake Chautauqua
N. Y
Butterfield
Vincent
Francis Murphy
Henry Warren
D. D
Philadelphia
John B. Gough
Bishop Simpson
Joseph Cook
Boston
Titusville Exchange Bank
D. O. Wickham
Butler
Bradford
Local improvements and a spur of weddings in Sugar Grove
Letter from Sugar Grove pa June 28 1877 reports J B Langdon Amos Johnson Theo Jones John Jones A Alger and Dr C J Phillips building barns residences and fences. A Congregational Church strawberry ice cream festival netted 21. Chandler's Valley plans more growth. Peter Fidelius and Miss Rebecca Vansickles wed briefly then separated. Vint JR.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sugar Grove
J.B. Langdon
Amos Johnson
Theo. Jones
John Jones
Jamestown Road
A. Alger
Warren Road
C.J. Phillips
Main Street
Clark’s Opera House
The
Congregational Church
Chandler’s
Darling
Clifford Gregory
Carter
Youngsville
Busti
N. Y
D. A. Mainard
Peter Fidelius
Rebecca Vansickles
Vint JR
Senator Cameron visits Meadville for Allegheny College events
Hon. J. Donald Cameron arrives late Wednesday, attends Allegheny College Commencement and Cadet parade, observes Diamond review, and hosts a reception at the Commercial Hotel. His visit aims to review the college military department with no political aims, drawing applause and favorable notices in Meadville and Warren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Donald Cameron
U.S
Pennsylvania
Meadville
8. B. Dick
Allegheny College
Commercial Hotel
Cameron
Harrisburg
Warren
U.S. Senate
Also Mentioned on This Page
Warren Mail
Home Matters
Oil News
State Hospital
State Hospital For
Encline House
G. W. Fishter
Elmira
Fishter
Colluston
Siggins
AnciatMep
Francis Breaford
Mary Banks
James Canon
Daiey
Violet Earle
Eugene Farney
Emma Genning
J. E. Gill
Lottie Grant
L. F. Griffith
Mary Hudson
Mary A. Monce
Aliie Simpson
Edward Stephens
Henry N. Strong
O. C. Atten
P. M
F. Henry
State
J. K. Sharpless
Catawissa
Columbia County
R. H. Johnson
Norice
Geo. Ball & Co
WI Smith’s
Remington
Symptons
Senator Cameron
Hazeeltine & Co
Nell
Will Smith
Will Smith’s
Selig Ceeapetfr
D. & McNett
T. W. McNett
Old Exchange
Warren, Pa
Wendelboe & Johnston
Citizens Savings Bank
M. Waters
Robert Dennison
S. P. Johnson
F. Henry H. A. Jamieson
R. Dennison
J. R. Clark
S. V. Davis
A. Hertzel
G. N. Parmlee
WM. Kitchen
C. Smith
S. Keller
McNamara—Wilhelmus
St. Joseph’s Church
Father de la Roque
Patrick McNamara
Dunkirk
Mary M. Wilhelmus
Greeley—Gray
D. W. C. James
Louis K. Greeley
Spring Creek
Clara E. Gray
Cobb—Broughton
A. A. Horton
W. A. Cobb
Jennie Broughton
Bailey—Badger
L. F. Merritt
Charles Bailey
Petrolia
Abbie Badger
Long—Nye
Garland
Keer
C. C. Merritt
E. Long
Hattie Nye
Warren Co
O. H. Hunter & Son
Brussels
Pas
Warren County
Greenland Brothers
Valley
Gay
High Street
Front Street
Episcopal Church
Leander Flagland
Cherry Grove Township
Ivatn
Treasurer's
Treasury
E. M. Farnsworth
John Sorenson
B. Nobles
Auditors
G. H. Williams
A. Race
J. P
Williams
Sheffield Township
T. E. Barnes
G. A. S. Hall
W. W. Marsh
South West Township
Am’t
Myron Dunham
R. Anderson
McLallison
R. P. Hunter
A. W. Morck & Co
A.W. Morck & CO
Corner Water
Hickory Streets
A. Wise’s
Keystone
A. Wise
Popular Cash Clothing House
Hertzel & Nesmith’s
Suspension Bridge
Cash Clothing House
West
Michael Ball
Wells & Noyes
J. F. Wells &Co
N&medicines
Ww. M. Ss. Mixed Paints
J. F. Wells
L. G. Noyes
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