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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1919
Page
3
The account of Seth M Vistrand administrator of the Peter Ericson estate has been filed and confirmed. The Court of Warren County will hear the discharge petition on September 1, 1919 at 10:00 AM. All interested parties may attend.
A heated exchange shows Bill accusing someone of insulting him as he describes enemies killed and captured at the front. The other party denies speaking and says they only listened in silence and put on a gas mask.
The Chamber of Commerce and Prof. R. O. Suter plan to organize a Warren community band. The group will give concerts at intervals and supply the city with the best obtainable band music.
The State Hospital at North Warren is allocated a fresh $150,000 for constructing an acute insane hospital after the prior appropriation lapsed before erection could start.
Crowds attended Tuesday and Wednesday races at the Warren County driving park as fast horses competed. Enthusiasm ran high with many entries and exciting meets throughout the event.
Sugar famine in Warren ends as two cars unload sugar for wholesale houses. Retailers were notified by telephone and stores received first deliveries from wholesale houses on Friday morning.
Theodore Atkins of Chandlers Valley was seriously injured last Thursday when he fell from a hay load at his home. He suffered multiple broken ribs and a lung injury, and remains in critical condition in Warren.
Joseph Johnson, proprietor of the Banner grocery, is reported seriously ill at his Franklin street home. Mary Johnson has been ill for months and lately stayed at a cottage on the Conewango creek where he fell ill and was moved home. He was unconscious most of Thursday and recovery seems doubtful.
A New York registered automobile struck six year old child of Mr and Mrs Bert Leiter in Venturetown on Tuesday as she walked home from a grocery store. The girl received medical care, was bruised but no bones were broken, and doctors doubt serious injury will result. Passengers in the car were not identified though the number of occupants was noted.
Mrs Helena Leonhart Kehr wife of August B Kehr died after a two month illness at her Fourth Ave home She was a longtime city resident active in Episcopal church and Red Cross affairs She leaves a daughter Miss Magda L Kehr of Warren and a son L A Kehr of Jeremie Interment was in Oakland She was about in the city news item also notes Warren water woes with Public Service Committee inquiries and calls for complaints about taste and odor as officials review company concessions
Gov Sproul approves a $240000 appropriation for Warren and $23000 for Warren General hospital. The funds earmark major support for local medical facilities and infrastructure. Local officials hailed the decision as a boost to public health services.
About 30 World War I veterans led by Major C. E. Bordwell have applied for a charter to organize an American Legion post in Warren.
Members of the Warren commandery Knights Templar will attend the 34th triennial conclaves in Philadelphia from September 6 to 12. They expect departure from Warren around September 7.
A large crowd gathered near Fifth Avenue as four squibbs were dropped into a Ward well to ignite nitro glycerine. The charge failed to detonate and the shot was postponed to a later date after the apparatus was removed.
Harold Messerly, an early Warren enlistee who saw overseas service, and Samuel Chestnut, about 14 months in the One Hundred and Tenth Regiment with the Twenty-eighth Division in France, are among the latest boys arriving home from camps.
Motormen and conductors at Warren Street Railway petitioned officials for higher pay. A strike was threatened but avoided when the company raised wages to 32 34 and 36 cents per hour based on service length and promised an additional 1 cent per hour for each year of service.
Farmington Town Picnic Association elected C R Hodges Akeley Pa as president C H Cramer Warren Pa as vice president S C Hitchcock as secretary and R A Marsh as treasurer The event will be at Preston's Grove a half mile north of Lander on Saturday August 23 with sports amusements and on-site lunches.
Jamestown raised streetcar fares from five to seven cents on Monday after a planned increase delayed by ticket shortages. A prior agreement allowed ten ticket strips for 50 cents, keeping the per ride at five cents unless conductors run out of tickets. The company refuses to sign the city pact enforcing a five-cent fare when tickets are unavailable.
An officer notes a man limping after a fall described as the result of being kicked by a mule. The trooper explains he forgot to salute, triggering the animal's reaction and the injury.
A mother orders Billy to fetch a baby's nightgown and warns that being unkind to his sister might cause her to “fly back to heaven.” Billy resists, quipping about wires and proceeding with resistance and backtalk.
A Cleveland woman wed the man named as heiress in her late husband’s will. The prior spouse dictated the fortune would pass only if the widow remarried, and the new marriage fulfills that condition.
Norman Hapgood cites a sensational legal defense in a murder assault trial. Pietro Libertini, described as from Italia la Bella, is described by his lawyer as the son of celebrated Italian artists and scholars. The lawyer asks the court to apply the lowest form of pictorial art and white wash the defendant.
A Maine facility manufactures pine woodpecker nests 15 inches long with squared backs and weather roofs. Nests are drilled and corkscrewed for a three entrance design aiding the woodpecker in foraging insects. Orchards buy them to aid pest control by woodpeckers.
A aviation lieutenant completed a dramatic in-flight transfer between two aircraft as shown in Popular Mechanics Magazine. He descended to the undercarriage, grabbed the landing gear bar, swung between ships, then dropped onto the second plane midair, landing near the right wing midsection after precise speed and distance judgment.
Watches are in higher demand than ever, but American manufacturers struggle to keep up. Leading plants fell behind last year due to factory backlogs and wartime orders, hampering supply.
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