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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1877
Page
3
Warren society reports on river activity and legal notices, with a focus on fishing laws, school district publishing, and notable local events. The piece highlights the James R. Waite troupe, Dr. McDermott’s eye and ear practice, a Swede drowning, a large Warren wedding, and court house progress.
A supper will be given at Berry House North Warren on Tuesday evening June 12 1877 for the benefit of the North Warren Sunday School building Tickets 25 cents Ice cream extra Supper from 7 to 10 oclock Society School Miss Jennie Thomas opens a select school in Union School room No1 on Monday June 18 for two months vacation attendance Festival A sociable and Ice Cream and Strawberry Festival at Good Templars Hall Thursday evening All are invited Notice All accounts in Geo Ball Co six months old must be settled within fifteen days or they will be sent to collection.
A Warren meeting last Saturday elected M Miles president S Waters vice president and W Wilbur secretary for the July celebration. The Finance Committee reports funds secured. R B Stewart chosen marshal with assistants. Committees arranged for decorations reception amusements and races including sunrise salute parade readings races and fireworks with prizes for runners walkers and pole climbers.
New rule issued after the Supreme Lodge session governs officer qualifications in Lodges of Knights of Honor across this and neighboring counties. Article IV outlines eligibility criteria and required standards for office holders to ensure orderly governance.
The document details changes to Section 2 and 4 of the Subordinate Constitution, redefining officer qualifications, election timing, and vacancies. It adds a provision for the retiring Dictator to occupy the Past Dictator chair, with adjustments for new lodges. It also revises dues language and requires Financial Reporters to post bonds of at least one hundred dollars.
The large and beautiful boat now makes regular trips on Chautauqua Lake. O. E. Jones of Jamestown promotes the venture with enterprise and pledges first class service under Captain T. E. Grandin. Clerk E. P. Jones ensures a pleasant visit for all boarding at the captain’s office.
Under Rev Mr Lampe guidance Union School pupils excel in elocution during the last two terms. Prize winners include Eva Lacy Allie Martin in Room 6. Hattie Brown Kate Messner Nellie Russell in Room 6. Jessie Dunham George Davis Josephine Smith Ed Vosburg in Rooms 7 8. Baby Wagons arrived at Variety Hall. R H Johnson buys rags for cash. bring your rags to get full value. Also note performances of Little Ned and her Grandfather at Will Smith Gallery.
Oil City Derrick reports last week brought no new strikes in the Warren Oil District. John Bell & Co. at Eggleson farm drilled 100 feet deeper and flowed 150 barrels in 24 hours. Parshall well on Mowers farm yields gas with little oil. Kirberger farm due this week. Other wells deepening across Warren, Venango, and neighboring towns amid continued drilling and production figures for April to June.
Wilcox sees a dry hole at 1800 feet as Clarion County pumps 11000 barrels daily. Bradford to Warren tickets now available via A and G W Crossing. Mrs Jonas Hey, once scalped, improves. Standard Oil buys Buffalo and McKean pipeline. Edinboro Normal School trains teachers. opens Aug 21. Francis Murphy ill in Jamestown Oil City last week. Rev W L Riley to lecture at Eclectic Institute Jersey Shore Pa June 15. Corry to host a Court of Foresters with over fifty charter signatures. Tidioute Union School ends with oration, essay and reading contests and an opera-house exhibition. John A Hall Jr and Felicia G Parker wed and tour St Lawrence, Saratoga, Watkins Glen. Jonathan Watson plots four test wells on Red House Run. drilling one on Reynolds tract. Tidioute Presbyterian women host a baby show in Girard Hall with 25 cent entry and annual strawberry ice-cream festival.
A Middletown Press correspondent urges mothers to avoid risky cures for summer ailments and suggests substitutes like milder remedies. The piece also covers express carrier rates, loss recoveries, and a list of unclaimed letters in Warren Pa postal notices dated June 9 1877.
Col C M Lynch Collector reports May tax totals across stamps and duties. Figures include spirits, cigar, tobacco, beer, and special taxes with a large overall sum. The document also contains local notices about buying rags and medicinal remedies from area merchants in Smethport, PA, dated December 4 1876.
Two health notes warn readers about summer drinks and present a home remedy for diphtheria. The first urges avoiding iced sodas and seltzers, recommending water with lemon and moderate meals to strengthen the body during heat. The second describes alcohol mouth and throat applications to remove membranes, claiming rapid relief and potential use for croup, attributed to a former US consul.
Mr. Sanford recalls Eldred township schooling beginnings from 1844 45, detailing log schools built by settlers trekking from Mullengar and Pleasant Valley. Six schools exist now with state aid and local taxes sustaining education amid frontier settlement.
Fragmentary market list shows corrected figures for flour types including white and amber wheat in barrels and sacks, plus corn meal and chop feed. Several entries appear garbled with stray letters, limiting precise values.
A long note touts August Flower as a cure for dyspepsia and liver complaints. It claims rapid relief for sour stomach and other ailments and says druggists nationwide stock the remedy. Hazeltine & Davis and A. W. Merck & Co. offer bottles for 75 cents with 10 cent samples.
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