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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1916
Page
5
The Farmington town picnic is set for August 10. The picnic association is formed with C. D. Burch as president and Rev. C. H. Quick as vice president.
The Warren Chapter of the Red Cross expanded from 80 members to over 600 after a rapid recruitment drive begun when the group left Warren for Mount Gretna. George Hunter, a former Warren patrolman and W J & L conductor, resigns to join the baggage car assignment.
CG Scott Smith of Kane served as referee for the district and disposed of two applications for compensation under the state act Friday afternoon. Hearings occurred in his office in the Woodard building. Albert H. Thompson who lost two fingers at the Johnson Furniture Company plant after it passed to a receiver was given a hearing with the decision withheld. Compensation was refused in the case of Jacob and Anna Miller versus Titusville Forge Company, who reported a son’s death at the plant that they claimed supported them. Surgeon Wires Sanford Girl’s Fractured Bones. Laura Carver, nine, daughter of C. E. and Mrs. Carver of Sanford, sustained a severe shoulder fracture from a horse fall. Surgeons at Emergency hospital repaired the joint with silver wire after removing bone fragments. recovery of use is uncertain. Hunters licenses for 1917 are being issued. pink license tags, fire precautions, bag limits, and bounty details are printed on the backs. Open season begins Sept 1 for certain birds with subsequent dates. bounties listed for wildcats, foxes, weasels, and mink. Avdavit procedures with game protectors or officials are noted, with a no-charge option if sworn before a game protector.
Posters announce a five day Chautauqua in Tidioute from August 7 to 11 with five lectures by Dr. BD H Mertin Judge Estelle Professor ala Ward and George P Bible and artist Lorenzo Zwickley plus musical numbers from Josef Mach Bohemian band Imperial Russian Quartet Edna White Trumpeters Castle Square Entertainers and Helen M Hancock with piano solos and circus style acts included.
A county report to the Secretary of Internal Affairs shows 3,807,812.50 dollars invested at interest, up from 3,772,163.23 last year. Tidioute leads outside the county seat with 502,633.56 dollars, while Watson township has none. O D Bleakley, Republican nominee for Congress, was arrested in Warren for driving without license tags and paid 10 dollars plus costs after applying for a license but not receiving tags.
Miss Frances Farnsworth daughter of County Auditor W. J. Farnsworth married Jay Blair at 11 30 in the Farnsworth home with Rev J Reed officiating in the presence of fifty guests. Sister Mary attended the bride and Harold McNally served as best man. The couple left for a honeymoon on Chautauqua Lake and will reside in Clarendon where Blair is a street railway agent.
Telegram from Dick Walker, company clerk, states Company I is well with no mail since arrival, no hospital cases, and better rations. It notes they lead Pennsylvania troops in readiness and can endure gaff with Regulars who have been there two years.
A five year old Clarendon boy treated by the Children's Aid Society in Pittsburgh returned home after three operations correcting congenital club feet. His legs remain in casts but he can walk now. He will return to Allegany General Hospital in six weeks for cast removal, funded by Mrs Edward Lindsey through the White Christmas collection of the First M E Sunday School.
C H Jones of Russel awoke to a noise in his chicken park and saw what he took for an owl attacking a chick. He grabbed the intruder with both hands and killed a large skunk after his hand was lacerated in spots.
Hundreds of visitors attend Warren horse races this week on the new track. The Lake Erie circuit attracts many horsemen drawn by entries including Frank Bogash Jr the fastest pacing gelding and his driver Jim Healey. Other turf events promise notable interest.
The Fourth Quarterly Conference of the First M. E. Church in Warren, presided by Rev. J. P. Burns, requests Rev. Norris A. White return for another year. The Erie Conference led in benevolences for 1915, and treasurer U. S. Rogers reports near completion of a $10,000 debt plan. W. F. Bennett named delegate to the Laymen’s Association meeting in Clarion in September.
In Warren the Black Fox Company, started last fall with $18 000 to buy three pairs of black foxes in Prince Edward Island, plans a large scale propagation. Ten pups born. eight pairs now owned may fetch $58 000 if sold. Pens are under construction east of the fair grounds. L. W. Archibald oversees ranch construction and facilities.
John Gulnac, a National Biscuit salesman in Warren district, stepped on a large rattlesnake while trout fishing near Kinzua. The snake struck but its fangs caught in Gulnac’s trousers. he retreated and later returned with a club, but the snake had vanished. Also, canvassers claiming Pennsylvania State College are offering 2 cents a week or $1 a year for bulletins with premiums. the college denies any agents. Earl Hainsworth, Warren Y M C A assistant secretary for six months, resigns to join a military association near the Mexican border. a Oberlin graduate, he leaves New York for El Paso.
Lightning passed through Warren and nearby Thursday leaving two reports of strikes. It knocked out several telephones and frightened people on lines. At Walker Ice Cream Company a bolt hit the roof tearing Staples and leaving a thumb sized burn between boards. Grounding path unclear.
Ben Dailey John Biden and Albert Highhouse of Warren Chautauqua Gas spend over an hour under the river surface repairing a high pressure line leak near Highhouse brick yard. Each man dove 30 to 90 seconds while Highhouse set a 93 second submersion record and the fix saved the company about $100 versus bringing in a diver. Jay Oliver Winger of Grand Valley returns from three years with Burma Oil in Upper Burma India bringing a large curios collection. He owns perhaps Warren county’s most extensive set, including a 26 inch gold Buddha statue with a coin globe and a rice offerings tray.
Warren state hospital authorities offer a fifty dollar reward for information leading to arrest and conviction of those responsible for killing a registered Holstein heifer on hospital grounds at Farm Colony during the night of June 9 and the early morning of June 10. The carcass was removed and the animal valued at over a hundred dollars as calves from the same herd have sold for about that amount. The incident is described as one of the nerviest acts in Warren county and officials vow full pursuit of justice.
After fifteen years Erie will host the Renovo division headquarters of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Division Superintendent J M James announced the move to the Commerce building sixth floor about September first. Eighty workers and fifty families will relocate, with housing aid sought from the Erie real estate board amid dwelling shortages.
Warren sends four residents to the Plattsburg training camp in New York. Rev. H. Jones of Trinity Episcopal, Secon Lawrence Scofield, George W. Campbell, and John Campbell Jr. are listed as present and will train through August 8.
Patrick Coleman a longtime Union City businessman active in oil and lumber in Warren and Titusville died at 6 p m Wednesday after a brief stroke. He was 73 and survived by his wife a daughter and two brothers. Funeral services were held Friday at 3 p m at his home with interment in Evergreen cemetery. The Colemans Celebrated band was named in his honor.
S. M. Prescott, a Warren parcel post carrier, suffered neuralgia for 30 years with worsening pain. After failed diagnostics from Buffalo specialists, he underwent an X ray at Emergency hospital revealing an unerupted incisor near the nose, whose removal relieved his condition.
Twenty five thousand Philadelphia children from Daily Vacation Bible Schools have shifted from raffia basket weaving and hammock knitting to making bandages slings and hospital appliances for Europe. The program, now part of the schools regular curriculum, replaces industrial arts.
A family kitchen directions list steps for cookies and preserves. It includes mixing flour oats shortening and sugar with sour milk and soda to bake thin oblong cookies or date filled layers. Also makes apricot sweet treat and a jam omelet with whipped cream as a dessert.
Make a white sauce for creamed eggs then bake six shelled eggs cut into eighths in alternating layers of sauce eggs olives and buttered crumbs, until top browns. Ham timbales mix flour and butter with milk then fold in eggs and chopped ham seasoned and baked in a timbale mold in hot water. Stuffed eggs serve hot with white sauce.
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