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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1917
Page
5
John J. Follett, 75, of 17 Locust Street, fell from his porch Sunday night and fractured his left arm above the wrist.
Miss Minnie Kirberger of 20 Jefferson Avenue slipped from her porch Sunday night and sprained her ankle in a local accident.
About five hundred people attended the annual Swedish Lutheran Church picnic held last Wednesday at the Outing Club, with community members and families enjoying a day of food games and fellowship.
A lightning bolt struck a 200 barrel oil tank at the Schimmelfeng and Shean base in Morrison Run during a Monday afternoon storm. The tank contained little oil but was damaged and burned, with losses likely amounting to several hundred dollars due to tank replacement costs.
T B Clawson superintendent of the Warren Chautauqua Gas Company fields suffered a slight stroke en route from Buffalo to Springville. He was brought to his Poplar street home and is resting as comfortably as could be expected. He traveled with his wife and daughter.
The Pennsylvania river division between Warren and Oil City was out of service after a cloudburst near Altham and Tidioute and a landslide at Thompson. The Thompson slide was four feet deep and 100 feet long, with 150 feet of hillside involved. Superintendent T. K. Minsker ordered a steam shovel and crews to the site to reopen the line.
Secretary Guy Grandin of the Warren Automobile Club oversees posting 500 black and white arrow signs bearing Warren along routes to Jamestown Lottsville Kinzua Sheffield Youngsville and Tidioute. Additional signs planned between here and Pittsburgh to guide tourists.
A Monday cloudburst over the Stillwater and Brokenstraw watershed sent 2 to 4 feet of water through Sugar Grove’s business district. Merchandise stocks suffered, the Walk er creamery saw $500 to $1,000 in losses, and a bridge faced strain. Lightning lit the sky with dramatic displays. no human injuries reported.
Warren housewives answer calls for the national food army. Canvassers under D. I. Ball begin a six day house to house pledge drive to save food. Eight wards will have canvassers reporting to Mr Ball with volunteers over fifteen years old. Hoover headed national food administration drives pledge cards and large yard signs for signers in Harrisburg and Pennsylvania under state public safety.
Last Wednesday night thieves broke into the home of Mrs A D Wood on Fourth Avenue and stole several articles and a small sum of money.
Camping along the Conewango Creek is rapidly filling with campers. At North Warren, preferred sites above the camps are being occupied by visitors from Warren.
County fairs have announced dates for several towns including Butler August 21 to 24 Clarion September 25 to 28 Titusville September 11 to 14 Corry October 10 to 13 Stoneboro September 25 to 28 Mercer September 18 to 20 and Warren August 21 to 24.
Clarendon Red Cross records show excess effort and strong giving across divisions. A. W. Goal led the division with $1 043 75 raised followed by John Loga at $134 25 H W Ritchie at $16 25 and Paul Mead at $33 50 from Stoneham.
Sheriff George A. W. DeForest and the clerk finished numbering the registration cards for the selective draft. Card by card they checked to ensure each number matches a name. Figures show 5 083 enrolled for military duty in Warren county ages 21 to 31.
Fred Almsgore faced police court Sunday for riding a bicycle on the sidewalk and paid a $3.50 fine. Peter Anderson was fined $12.50 for intoxication. Harry Forsberg and William Smead, detained after a complaint by Conductor Davis on the Sheffield line for a disturbance on the last car, each paid $7.50.
In the equity action by E. S. Collins as executor of T. D. Collins against Frank W. Steck of Oil City, the Franklin Trust Company is appointed receiver of the partnership and Clarence C. Shaffer and E. A. Wilson of Franklin named appraisers.
A recent Legislature act makes it a misdemeanor to drive a horse or team while intoxicated, aligning penalties for horse and automobile drivers. Previously only auto drivers faced this, but horses are now covered equally under the law.
Mrs K C Siggins announced the engagement of her sister Miss Frances Clawson of Corydon to L W Shipman of Philipsburg Pa at a luncheon at the Clawson home on Jackson Avenue last Wednesday. Out of town guests included Misses Ensign Ensign Brown Griffin and Crooks. Edna Siggins of Tidioute. Mrs Mead of Buffalo. Mrs Brown of Tidioute. and Marion Clawson of Kinzua.
Mathias E. Lesser of Warren and Conemaugh avenue died Friday in Ridgway at age 76. The funeral from his sister Mrs. Mary Reeger’s 514 Beech street home was held Tuesday. He leaves three children Wallace Lesser Ridgway Leroy D. Lesser North Carolina and Mrs. Wilbur Pattison Cassadaga N Y. A brother Phillip Lesser Ridgway and the sister survive.
A Baltimore and Ohio northbound passenger train from Pittsburgh to Kane jumped a high trestle near Shippensville, plunging 30 feet. Engineer Phil Diffenderfer and Fireman Gravy were trapped beneath the engine but escaped with minor burns. The carriages stayed with the wreck. Redpath Chautauqua company members were aboard.
Elwood Schnell, 30, a civil engineer at United Natural Gas in Oil City, was arrested by Sheriff DeForest and Chief Haag for the death of Jacob York in Irvine township on July 4. Story describes alleged joy ride with McKinney cousins and Schnell as driver, York struck on a road, and subsequent confessions leading to Schnell’s arrest.
Guardian of Laura A. Sweeting will sell at 609 Water Street Warren PA a two story dwelling on two parcels in Warren County. The sale follows an order of the Court of Common Pleas and includes a parcel described on Water and Sixth Streets and a second parcel on East Water Street. Terms are cash on confirmation and the sale is supervised by Karl A. Krantz guardian.
The Cornplanter Refining Co was sold Saturday along with its plant and pipelines to the Ohio Cities Gas Company of Columbus for about two million dollars. Possession passes Monday. The firm was organized in August 1888 with Myron Waters as first president and grew into a major regional refining operation with capitalization over one million dollars and leaders including A. J. Hazeltine, W. F. Messner, E. E. Allen, H. B. Taylor and others.
Lester Graham florist shop closed on July 3. Sheriff George A. W. De Forest planned a sale of stock for July 11 but postponed it to July 17.
Washington sources say a Balkan offensive is the next allied move after Greece severed relations with the Central Powers. A 100000-strong Greek army could be rapidly reassembled to bolster Saloniki defenses, with British French and Italian troops already surrounding the city and vast supply stores in place.
Mark Requa of the bureau of mines told the senate lands committee that the United States faces a looming oil famine unless new lands are developed and fields abroad come under American control. He warned that a shortage within a year could paralyze Pacific coast commerce and cited past attempts to consolidate oil interests in California with the Mexican Petroleum company blocked by British interference.
The lion’s tongue is rough enough to rasp flesh from bone, with horny papillae nearly a quarter of an inch long. It is noted that the cat’s tongue uses similar prickles mainly as a comb rather than for flesh removal.
My first is to drink from. My second is to allow. My whole is two verses. You have guessed it by now. Answer Cup, jlet-couplet.
A boy Fred in the country trades his toy dog Pip for a real squirrel found by a farmer. Pip helps the new pet by delivering a bone. Fred earns a penny newspaper by selling papers to buy nuts for the squirrel.
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