County Letters Notice to Correspondents
Public instruction for correspondents to submit copy by Tuesday each week with names signed to all communications unless requested not to publish. Do not write on both sides of the paper.
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1908
Page
8
Public instruction for correspondents to submit copy by Tuesday each week with names signed to all communications unless requested not to publish. Do not write on both sides of the paper.
About 30 families gathered on the Conewango River Fourth for a picnic with a bountiful noon dinner. The afternoon included visiting boating and swimming as locals and guests from Burnham and Baltimore appeared. The Italian beet workers are in town aiding the Lyons beet sugar project and upcoming Ladies Aid tea is planned for July 16.
June 14 reports residents visiting relatives and travelers in the Warren area. Notable items include Mrs. Louis E. Conroy and family guests, Wesley Singleton visiting from West Virginia, and Chas W Metzger with daughter Bessie Ellen in town. Trout season ends poorly amid low water and snakes along streams. river obstruction by the P R R Co. causes eight miles of damage. Supt Beale praised for handling the repair work. A rattlesnake near the post office is killed. several injuries from haystack fall and bicycle accident noted. Clair Thompson and J W McKain travel to Spring Creek for trout with poor luck.
July 14. Cyrus Blakeslee has recovered and is able to be out again. Creamery records show 260119 pounds of milk from June 8 to June 21 with 12537 pounds of cream and 15570 pounds of butter sold at 23 1b. per. The milk per butter pound ratio was 24.1 pounds. The value per 100 pounds of milk averaged 83.81 cents and the general test was 3.7 percent. Mrs. W J Minore has returned from the hospital improved. Clyde Messenger has been housebound for several days.
Mrs. Sarah Doud Hall of Los Angeles attended as guest of honor. Leon Dodd and family visited Findley Lake on Sunday. An morning electrical storm brought needed rain benefiting potatoes. Warren parties bought Sylvester Schramling farm near Columbus Lake park and plan a club house and improvements. All crops look fine with good grass and full barns. Cemetery Auxiliary to meet at Mrs. Elmer Bush's park after next week.
Mrs Albert Berg and children visit relatives as Rev Carlstrom arrives from Iowa to lead Lutheran services. Funeral held for Fred Hultberg at U B church with multiple floral tributes and local bearers. Ada Belden returns from Lakewood. Rain arrives aiding farm crops.
July events include visits by Mrs. Mattie Sherrard and Mrs. Maggie Brown plus guests of Mrs. E. K. Stearns. Funeral held for Fred Hultberg at Chandlers Valley. Nellie Smutz, 45, dies in Youngsville. Funeral services for Smutz set at W. M. church. Busy week with family visits, illness recovery, and tent meetings near Falconer.
The article promotes oranges as superior medicinal foods over mineral drugs. It cites high organic salts including potassium calcium and sulphur, notes orange juice acidity and benefits for scrofula scurvy rheumatism gout and anemia, and urges fresh fruit as a preventive and curative diet.
The Des Moines Register and Leader notes lemons contain the most magnesium lime among fruits and exhibit high acidity at 73 percent. It recommends lemon juice for salads and as a substitute for vinegar, praising its medicinal value in uric acid disease care.
Congress determines the 1908 09 disbursements for the national government in a record budget of about 1.1 billion dollars. The Treasury, Congress and officials prepared estimates starting last September as 700 pages of figures. It breaks into three main areas Postal Service Military Service and Other Government Service with totals approximating 225 million 500 million and 225 million respectively.
Readers should beware of mail offers claiming free or gift products. Advertisers ship trashy trinkets to trap respondents into paying for forgotten items, sometimes via threat of fraud. Large New England factories back the scheme and circulate misleading offers through magazines. Danville Advocate notes Gallatin’s extreme thrift in a humorous bridal tale.
The text argues that domestic happiness relies on culinary skill and financial balance, suggesting skill in the kitchen and stable money management drive harmony at home. It references talent and money as core pillars of a peaceful domestic life.
A woman believes the way her child prays reveals a bright mind ahead, suggesting early signs of intelligence and potential.
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