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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1883
Page
3
Local items report weather and summer plans, church services, and civic notes. Mentions include Fourth of July preparations in Warren, a G A R post muster, school events, and new business openings. Personal notices feature residents and visitors, with brief health updates and travel.
The Exchange Hotel, opened last Saturday by proprietor Geo H. Leonhart, is a three story oak finished building 68 by 80 feet with basement, furnished stylishly and managed personally by Leonhart. Local builders and suppliers include M VY Van Etten, Rowland, Beck, Payne, McNett, Greenland, Orr, Schellhammer, Hunter, and Son. Water and gas supplied by Warren Water Works and Warren Gas Co. The rear rooms overlook the Allegheny river and grove, offering clean air and cool breezes with a French cook and attentive host aiming to attract travelers.
A Warren couple Mr. and Mrs. Hattie E. Davis and Abram J. Hazeltine marked fifteen years of marriage with a large June 4 gathering at their home. Neighbors praised Hazeltine’s rise from clerk to bank cashier. A student song by Miss Hattie Magee celebrated the couple’s enduring union. A pocket-book containing a $10 bill was found between Episcopal church and Offerlee’s greenhouse, offered for return.
A house in Glade near a bridge is applied for at once to Mrs. W. J. Thomas in Glade. Bell Bros. receive daily new goods of the latest styles and best quality, sold rapidly at very close figures.
Damp day did not deter Eben N. Ford Post G A R and I Co N G P members from visiting graves in Warren area cemeteries and decorating them with flags bouquets and wreaths. The Warren Cornet Band led a procession to Oakland and St Josephs Cemeteries with prayers by Rev Allen and Bach and remarks on local soldiers and units linked to the Civil War. The piece honors fallen local servicemen and notes the band’s new uniforms and hopes for future concerts.
The Warren Union School held the Sixth Annual Warren High School commencement on May 31 with an audience admiring class memorabilia and decorations. Prof. Miller led a long program including essays, declamations, music, and diplomas presented by Hon. W. M. Lindsey with Rev. J. M. Thoburn delivering advice to graduates. The class increases graduates to thirty five, with Misses King Greenland Shackle ton and Messrs Greenland Conarro among the graduates. The event was praised for its uniform excellence and notable to finish, with Struthers library hall to be completed to resolve crowding.
Rumors and notices from Chautauqua and surrounding counties track lawyers, church meetings, a Fourth of July ball in Fentonville, a college commencement in Edinboro, a bereavement in Corry, flood salvage on Tionesta creek, new buildings at Conneaut Lake, and gifts to Erie hospitals. Local commerce includes a Reed House sale, a flour and feed store opening, a long bicycle trip, and a famed apple tree in Erie County planted in 1812 marked by Perry’s Lake Erie battle anniversary.
For sale by L. G. Noyes is T. H. Nevin & Co's Mixed Paint with a three year guarantee attached.
The state notes Memorial Day observances, upcoming meetings of the State Board of Agriculture in Erie on August 8, and the Pennsylvania State Teachers' Association session in Williamsport July 10-12. It mentions tax exemptions for building societies on capital stock and mortgages, with real estate still taxed for state purposes, and outlines strict game laws including dates for bass, pickerel, woodcock, deer, and other wildlife protections.
Oil operations in Glade are booming with several wells drilled and leases in strong demand. In Bradford field, McKean County, average output sits at four barrels per well, suggesting the great oil region is near exhaustion after eight years yielding about one hundred million barrels. If new discoveries do not boost production, oil prices are likely to rise.
In Reading German guidance explains Stein rhymes with fine and Sinen with green. Local ads cite Nelson Greenland opposite the post office selling flowers and grasses, Ridelsperger's neckwear and suits, McNeil & Co. chamber and parlor suits, and L. G. Noyes selling alabastine finish. Drownings: Michalson body found near Brokenstraw. Brownell body found near Porcupine Run.
The 1882 Pennsylvania railroad system moved over ten million passengers and more than twenty million tons of freight. The B N Y P operates two daily river division trains from Salamanca to Oil City and a Salamanca bridge is finished. A Frewsburg collision damaged a locomotive and cars injuring engineer Elliott. Dunkirk Allegheny Valley Pittsburg railways ordered 100 cars of steel rails and 22 000 hardwood ties to replace iron between Dunkirk and Irvington with seven and three quarter miles updated. A transfer depot at Junction is planned to simplify operations and eliminate the Falconer station. A Warren depot is urged.
Col. McClure recalls his June 2 dispatch in the Phila Times about delivering a memorial address in Bradford. He laments train confusion and suggests route changes via Warren, Philadelphia, and Bradford to minimize layovers, praising Bell Bros for strong trade and fair prices.
Reader urged to try Harper's Bazar patterns with envelopes and full descriptions. Also lists unclaimed letters at Warren post office dated June 2 1883, with a demand to call or they go to the Dead Letter Office. includes item on Boyington's automatic folding bed displayed by N Greenland's in Warren.
County correspondence records visits and moves among residents. Mrs K Wright and Harry travel to Massachusetts to visit friends while Mr Stuart houses new tenants the Foxes. O C Messenger displays new goods and Chauncey Messenger restocks. P Wright returns from city buying goods and Grandma Stuart ends Sugar Grove visit. E Smallman and wife depart this week. June 2, 1885 Fairn.
The work divides into eight years of Lincoln and Johnson covering the war emancipation and reconstruction and twelve years of Grant and Hayes on Southern governments ballot rights enforcement currency railroads and related topics. Complete in two 1200 page volumes with portraits. subscription sale through the Matin office. Also notices for Lime Juice Soda Water and Yes Tooth Powder products.
Notices record six marriage announcements across Vine Grove Cable Hollow Sugar Groves Jamestown Carroll and Kane. Levi Hale wed Mary A Phillips in Vine Grove, Gholson Vickory wed Anna Brown in Cable Hollow, Frank Rexford wed Etta Dallas in Sugar Groves, J D Beery wed EF A Dyer in Jamestown, James Warner wed Matilda Gray in Carroll, Albert L Lewis wed Mariett Walker in Kane.
The inquest into the death of Louis Michalson aged about 19, a Denmark native employed at the Glade Run tannery, concluded he died accidentally in the Allegheny river after being struck by a raft while drifting for wood near the tannery one day earlier. The body was found a mile east of town.
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