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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1885
Page
3
A busy public bulletin lists theater, music, and fair preparations, plus new businesses and repairs. Local court trials begin in Erie with several cases named. Community updates include visitors, deployments, school plans, and cultural events through July.
On and after Friday July 24 owners of dogs found at large not muzzled per the May 4 1885 borough ordinance will be sued for the penalty and the ordinance enforced. The community thanks law abiding citizens who complied. C C Thompson Burgess.
A Prohibition mass meeting will be held at the Court House on Monday evening July 27 at 7 30. Splendid singing by local talent. Orator Prof A A Hopkins Rochester NY, noted speaker on the American platform. Subject The logic of license. Admission free. All invited. No collection. Special train will depart the depot on the D A V R R after the meeting to Grand Valley and intermediate points.
The Niagara Falls Park opened with grand ceremonies, reclaiming the American riverfront from above the Suspension Bridge to Prospect Park and Bath Island. A large crowd gathered as rail lines overflowed with visitors. tragedy struck with the drowning of Buffalo resident Mrs Annie McIntyre after a fall from Goat Island Pier.
Last night Library Hall hosted a Promenade Concert regarded as a grand success with strong citizen attendance especially among ladies. The program featured Pr. E. Launtz as director, E. B. Frew, F. S. Cole, Jimmy Hazeltine, Julius Morrison, M. Sailor, E. E. Linn, M. W. Jamieson, C. H. Noyes, S. Davis, George Davis, Thad Reig, F. H. Steber, and Miss Mary L. Turner on piano. A. A. Davis & Co. advertise wall paper while Northrop’s promotes Boots and Shoes with money-saving offers.
The law approved June 23 establishes county premiums for killing wild cats foxes minks weasels hawks and owls with payments of two dollars for each wild cat one dollar for each fox fifty cents for each mink weasel hawk and owl excluding Arcadian screech or barn owl. Killers must present the carcass or pelt before a magistrate to obtain a certificate and payment, with ears or head destroyed in the presence of a county elector. Violations bring fines up to five hundred dollars and up to one year in jail. Repeals prior inconsistent laws.
Mrs. L D Wetmore is appointed to draft a paper on alcohol use as a medicine for Warren County Medical Society. Read July 14 at State Hospital, urging cautious medical use and warning against alcohol as a beverage, with appeals to physicians to limit prescriptions and oppose beer for mothers. ARIA C Wetmore. WakreN, July 13, 1885.
John Sill paid sixty thousand dollars in insurance losses in eighteen eighty four. What are you going to do about it. Our styles of baby carriages number over thirty. A. A. Davis and Company.
Attendance at Chautauqua soars beyond any prior season with bustling docks and rising crowds. Excursion parties, especially Sunday schools, are anticipated. price shifts come in August. New roller rink draws comment as professors, lectures, and concerts fill the week’s programme with prominent speakers from New York, Chicago, and Syracuse.
The Jamestown Fuel and Light Company reports bond filed and pipe work in streets, aiming to supply Jamestown with gas by November 1. They lease half the gas from Curtis wells at Ludlow and J H Palmer's gas well, with a 30 mile supply line and about 6000 dollars per mile for piping.
The Adjutant General will inspect the Second Brigade in camp at Conneaut Lake on Monday and Tuesday July 27 and 28. The grand review by the Governor will occur Tuesday July 28 at 6 p.m. Gen John F Hartranft and Adjutant General Drum will attend. Every man fit for duty will be in ranks for a parade said to be the finest display in Northwestern Pennsylvania. Dress parades each evening will also be notable. Warren’s Co I will depart for camp next Friday noon.
The old Academy building on Harrison Street, once owned by J. T. Wilson, has been leased to the Swedish Furniture Company which will manufacture furniture there after a fire destroyed stock on E Second Street. Jamestown Democrat notes the institution’s past value and its educators. The Erie Observer reports gas companies forming a $500 000 monopoly with Dr. R V Pierce leading and proposes gas at $1 per thousand. Ads note newspapers for sale at 40 cents a hundred.
Warren county sends representatives to the State Teachers' Association. a Select School opens August 10 in Russell with H M Putnam teaching for ten weeks at $2.50. Allegheny Spring hotel rooms and cottages full. Sugar Grove houses by C M Shortt and J C Hamilton. County roads praised. oil wells persist with low costs and occasional torpedo cleanouts. Niagara theft prompts caution as E A U officer D A Dewey loses $500 in July.
Neighborhood notes report work has begun on Ridgway's new jail. Other items mention Panama Rocks visitors, Friday half-days for dry goods stores, and local court actions. A court house at Butler costing 125000 is planned. Jamestown celebrates 75th anniversary. notable deaths and incidents are noted in nearby towns.
State notes announce Williamsport will receive electric light. The State Dental Association plans to meet at Cresson Springs on July 28. The last toll-house on the Philadelphia to Pittsburg route is torn down. A 70,000 pound iron beam for the Bartholdi monument will be shipped from Pittsburgh. A tobacco abstinence resolution passes for teachers. The new revenue act taxes assessors and exempts manufacturers from state tax while lowering interest rate taxes. Assessors must inspect Prothonotary and Recorder records and tax judgments and mortgages against holders.
Jamestown N Y trustees meet July 13 1885 to consider three gas company permit requests for laying pipes. A $10000 penalty bond to assure ten miles of gas mains by November 1 1885 is required with a $25000 bond per company. If met heating gas may reach residents before cold weather. The Jamestown Fuel and Light Company is among the firms facing approval.
The Free Methodists plan their annual camp meeting on the Irvine Grove grounds across the river, starting August 5, 1885, for one week. Bridge tolls are to be reduced for attendees, no selling on grounds, and admission is free. All are invited to tent and follow camp rules for soul salvation.
B F Morris has possession of the Warren Ledger and job printing office. All accounts from Nov 1, 1884 to July 14, 1885 will be settled by F H Howard as attorney in Warren borough. Creditors warned to pay no one else under any circumstances. Warren Pa July 21.
Bell Bros announces a large sale with 75 dozen ladies and childrens hose and gloves bought at a low price. They promise early buyers the choicest selections, reveal sample prices well below value, and urge customers to act fast before stock ends. The notice also lists school attendance, naming Centre School pupils with no absences in July 2, 1885, and credits Auzapa Hauptn as teacher.
A $40 000 crematory with capacity for 1000 sepulture plots is under construction in Philadelphia. Stewart's DrugsStore advertises Dr. Harding's Catarrh cure, suggesting a local health remedy in the same period.
July notes from Tidioute and Warren record visitors from Oberlin Philadelphia Buffalo Jamestown and Baltimore plus local events including two new lawn tennis clubs and a noninjury wagon accident. A burglary at Mrs Jno McKinney’s safe ended with nothing stolen as suspect Welch fled. Officers seek the Dunkirk man and accomplices.
July 20 transfer list shows numerous deeds recorded. Names include D S Dewey, Ellen Cady Ayer, A D Branch, Warren Savings Bank, N J McIntyre, Benj P Day, C R Lessler, Conrad Lessler, D S Thompson, John Christy, Frederick Phillips, Thos Clemons, Elizabeth Clemons, W J Bachop, D G Blackman, James Tate, G W Kinnear, A C Blodget, Sarah Forbes, James H Cole, F R Miller, W H Mix, Geo T Churchill, John Melon, J G Mead, Angeline Bowman, Walter Campbell, J B Jennings, Solomon Stoneberg, Christian Miller, Paul Kratzer, Jas B McElwaine, J A Cadwallader, Andrew Shidemantle, Anchor Oil Co, E P Tanner, with lands located in Columbus, Eldred, Glade, Tidioute, Sheffield, Kinzua, Youngsville, Sugar Grove, Triumph, Brokenstraw, Mead, Cherry Grove, Conewango and other townships. values range from 100.00 to 1,250.00.
In memory of Lizzie Haliday who died June 8 1885 at twenty one after four months with consumption. She left a sorrowing mother sister and four brothers in Youngsville Pennsylvania where the community mourns her untimely departure and the funeral flowers reflect high esteem. Her faith comforted friends. June 15 1885.
In Clarendon on July 13 B E Mitchell wed Gertie Crowell. In Parker City on July 15 C S McCandress married Sallie Henry. In Meadville July 14 T M Derickson wed Elsie Colgrove. In Titusville July 12 John W Daubenspeck wed Hannah Smith. In Titusville July 18 Charles Pero wed Lucella Woodard.
Fragmentary financial note lists numbers and letters with no clear instrument, date, or entity. It shows sequences like 6 934 ag 004 64 947 Sf 94 and 9456 og. No identifiable people, organizations, or events present.
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