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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1906
Page
1
Doctor and Mrs. R. B. Stewart return from a trip. G. D. Bates visits The Mall. Children’s Day observed at First Baptist and Presbyterian churches. Local graduates hold Sub-High School exercises at Library Theatre. Mrs. Belle Seymour dies in Rochester. Local youths pursue engineering and musical activities. Warren praised for beauty and developing streets and homes.
James W. Kitchen was elected Vice Regent of Ramona Council, Royal Arcanum, at its meeting June 7. The Royal Arcanumites in Warren, North Warren and North Clarendon are pushing to strengthen their councils. W. D. Stewart of C. H. Smith Co. won $20 for a hosiery window display from Louis Hermsdorf Co. New York, among only ten prizes awarded in a 300-strong field.
A long list of real estate transfers recorded in Warren County shows numerous transactions with varied amounts. Recipients include G W Grandin, John B Moore, Clark Henderson, G W Schneider, A L Schneider, W O Wilson, Gust Miller, Billie Culver, Beck Tanning Co, James Brennan, Frank Hegg, Dora Widdifield, Julia Mallet, Margaret L Gibson, John W Coe, Emma Smutz, Flora Cady, Willis Burlingame, Columbus Erie R R Co, and others across Warren and surrounding towns with prices from $1 to $10,000.
In May McClure's John McAuley Palmer offers Col Lumpkin sketches that reveal the rottenness of U S civic government in a plain spoken way. The piece aims to spur readers to action and keep them alert to political hypocrisy.
A fly salesman visits a young businessman with a polished oak cabinet and pitches a top talking machine. The businessman replies he already owns the best kind on earth, having married it, prompting the salesman to move on. The saying ends with a note that the early gardener catches the cream of the greengoods trade.
The Fifty Anniversary celebration will be held June 17 18 19 at Musical Fund Hall Philadelphia under the National League of Republican Clubs. The 1856 convention nominated Gen John C Fremont for president and Wm S Dayton for vice president. Lincoln received 110 votes in the vice presidential balloting. The platform urged constitutional enforcement union preservation human rights and denounced polygamy and slavery. J Hampton Moore leads planning with a large Republican turnout expected.
Ringling Brothers displayed a three ring grand show in Warren with street parade and two performances. The touring company featured a large troupe, ballet, and a trained elephant herd. attendants conducted themselves with notable courtesy and avoided disorder.
The Warren High School commencement was held Friday in Library theater with 21 graduates. Awards included the D. I. Ball medal to Elton W. Davis for manual training, the J. O. Parmlee medal to Lillian C. Shutt for mathematics, and the Mary I. Ball Warren Academy of Science Medal to Morris M. Leonard. First prize $25 to Norman Davis, $15 to Maude G. Schuler, $10 to Nina G Clapp for English excellence, awarded by Mrs. Charles G. Noyes, D. I. Ball and C. B. Ayers.
The widow of A. M. Nelson offers about 40 acres of land two miles west of Chandlers Valley on the Y S G Ry. 30 acres cleared 10 acres timber with a good house barn outbuildings and a rich soil. A stream runs through the property and easy streetcar access. For details contact C F Newgreen Youngsville Pa.
Illinois senator David Davis argues newspapers provide 500 to 5000 free lines annually for the local public good. He says editors do more for their towns than any other figure and deserve support as a vital community investment.
Wedding notices list multiple couples in Jamestown Warren and nearby towns with ceremony dates in June 1906. Entries include Willis A Briggs and Sarah Mae Babcock. Clyde F Yearick and Grace Sheldon. William J ONeill and Lavina Sutton. William H Gray and Stella Wright. Warren R Bundy and Ellen Beecher. Carl Peel and Mabel Baldensperger. Edward E Hertzel and Alice Haupin. Home locations and employing details noted where given.
At Warren on June 13 1906 a son was born to Mr and Mrs E T Drum of Conewango Avenue. Also in Warren a daughter arrived for Mr and Mrs Geo H Miller of Second Street. Mr and Mrs F L Broughton welcomed a daughter and Mr and Mrs Clem Stokes welcomed a daughter.
Mrs Edward D Wetmore native of Erie Pa returns to Warren for summer after illness. Survived by husband and two daughters Beatrice and Alice. Mollie Lund 19 dies of consumption. father John Syund and sister Minnie Lund survive. burial in Jamestown. C A Anderson 44 dies of heart trouble. survived by wife and four children.
The June McClure's piece by Samuel Hopkins Adams recounts how New Orleans fought yellow fever last summer two months before frost. It traces outbreaks in Philadelphia and New Haven, notes the northern reach of the disease, and explains the mosquito theory with human interest stories.
About 30 schools joined nearly 4,000 public school volunteers for a field operation exercise at Aldershot England as part of a public service readiness drill.
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