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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1885
Page
3
The issue blends literary verse with local notices on oil prices, strawberries, July events, and train changes. It reports social visits, marriages, church notes, fishing trips, and health updates for Warren residents, plus a critique of the daily Legislative Record and local business chatter.
Numerous improvements transform the town with painters and decorators busy. Cogswell Hanson and Ames renovate homes on Water and Third streets. Stone fences Liberty and Fifth, while Davis adds an iron fence by Dr. Davies on Liberty. Sidewalks laid townwide. Mrs. Rogers adds a stone walk on Market Street. New planks front Presbyterian Parsonage and Bell place on High Street. Hickory Street hosts new houses for Martin and Peter Nelson. Henderson begins framing the Episcopal Rectory on High Street. Earnest Smith lays foundation walls for a nearby frame house.
The Warren county convention met at Irvington on the 22d and ordered a Warren nominating convention for Monday July 27 at 2 P M. A mass meeting will be held that evening with an eminent speaker from abroad. Arrangements committee: G W Brown chairman and A Hertzell Dr Davies L A Rogers of Warren, W H Clark of Irvington elected county chair, G W Brown secretary.
Mr. Garfield abandoned the Springs and J. A. Dunham of Pleasantville takes over with L. K. Dunham. The hotel offers first rate accommodations, hot and cold baths, and stage connections from Irvington to the Spring three miles away.
Miss A N Hanley of 1525 Chestnut Street Philadelphia succeeds Miss J A Gray and will assume full charge after July 1 1885. She plans to be in Philadelphia all summer and invites customers to visit her office to select samples goods or information, promising prompt and satisfactory service.
The Warren Shakespeare Club held its first annual picnic on June 25 1885 at Hill Cottage, Hon C W Stone’s grounds overlooking the Allegheny Valley. About 100 members and guests enjoyed music by Reig’s Orchestra, a welcome address by A D Wood, dramatic scenes from Hamlet and As You Like It, a formal picnic on the green, and a bonfire as day gave way to evening. The club kept its proceedings private, promising more public morsels in the future.
The Jamestown Journal extols Jerome Babcock of Busti as a long respected resident with public trust service and strong integrity likely to be a creditable representative, while noting no endorsement of any candidate.
Sales figures show Called Back at 320000 copies and Dark Days at 190000 copies. A Family Affair began serialization on June 23 with additional chapters available by request. Democrats of Erie County denounce civil service reform as fraud and delusion, claiming they adhere to Jacksonian principles.
A. A. Davis & Co. announces a line of window shades custom made. The shades are for sale at the office in the Mar building priced at 40 cents per hundred.
General Passenger Agent announces a special return fare offer for July 3 and 4 1885 with full fare local or half fare child tickets. Return on same ticket before July 6 with cancellation shown. Round trips to Cincinnati or south of Dayton priced at full fare July 3 and 4 and valid through July 6. Also mentions over thirty baby carriages by A A Davis & Co.
Mrs L D Wetmore and Mrs Orr of Warren led a Sugar Grove W C C T U meeting at the M E church on June 6 reorganizing the group. Officers were elected to represent local churches and a full, non sectarian assembly urged all temperance supporters to attend the next gathering. The prior July 4 slot moved to July 1 at 2 pm in the Seminary Chapel with Col Woodford expected to speak on temperance.
The Chautauquan outlines a summer plan with the Teachers Retreat opening in July led by Prof. J. W. Dickinson of Massachusetts. The $5 ticket includes theatre access, fourteen pedagogy lessons, practical applications, conference tours, method expositions in chemistry penmanship elocution phonography stenography language classes two lectures by Ed E. Smith, and calisthenics drills with options for extended study.
The piece describes extensive torpedo factories near Warren and Kinzua with 200 acres of land and 15000 dollars in cost. It notes daily glycerine production of nine to ten thousand pounds, uses zinc trays to catch leaks, and boats carrying five to ten thousand pounds. It warns of potential destruction from accidents and urban nervousness about the trade.
Wanted message urges readers to save money by buying boots and shoes at a local store. The note highlights affordable prices and implies wide selection for cost conscious customers.
A. A. Davis & Co. offer a full wallpaper stack from cheapest to finest including remnants. The ad warns a misstep can cripple for life and claims Henry Johnsons Amnica and Oil Liniment, used immediately, helps prevent permanent injury. For sale by Johnson & Siegfried.
An old advertisement offers Wendlebee window shades made to order and Downs Elixir claimed to cure a hacking cough with immediate relief. The sales line promises warranty or money refund and lists Johnson and Siegfrried as the selling agents.
In a June 29 1885 letter from Warren Pennsylvania the writer accuses the Library Board of Control and former member Dico of mismanagement and blames public inaction. He argues the board is not responsible for library upkeep, urges public support, and recalls loaned funds suspected of misuse.
In a June 26 1885 letter from Viator Warren two questions are posed to the Committee on Sidewalks. The first asks if rotten material from a wrecked Methodist Church can be used to form a new sidewalk. The second compares borough law administration as lax toward defiant individuals versus strict toward the tractable and law abiding.
Our Remnant Sale ends but bargains continue with direct sourcing from manufacturers. Highlights include 25 pieces Wamsutta Bleached Muslins at 103 cents, 50 pieces Dress Goods novelties at 5 cents, 1 case Dunnell Prints 8–12 yard pieces at 5 cents, 20 dozen linen Huck Towels 25 cents each, satin ribbons 5 cents per yard, and Lisle Thread Gloves at 5 or 10 cents a pair from Be Bros.
The new marriage bill repeals the old minor marriage rule and limits ministerial liability to cases without a proper license. It condemns the prior barbarity and states that a minister using reasonable diligence bears no fault if deceived. Forged licenses would be detectable, and a minister who accepts a false certificate without attestation would be liable for damages.
Dimensions show pedestal and foundation reaches yield a statue 21 feet taller than Trinity Church spire and 23 feet taller than the Brooklyn Bridge towers. The figures detail foundation height 300 feet? and torch height 151 feet above mean low, establishing overall height on completion.
Governor Pattison signs the bill authorizing a 400000 dollar appropriation to reimburse counties townships and state hospitals for indigent insane care from July 13 1883 to June 1 1885. Counties and hospitals failing to report to the auditor general within 20 days after passage face forfeiture of their claims.
R. H. Johnson offers cash for bags free from papers or rubbish and for brass, copper, lead, zinc, rubber shoes, and similar items delivered to room No. 8 at Johnson's Exchange.
An ad describes a large lot of Basse and Phae tons manufactured by H. J. Dreyer, touting best material and workmanship and noting it will be sold cheap. The notice is from H. A. Jamirson & Co. and mentions John Sill with a $60,000 insurance losses figure from 1884.
Ridgway voted against water works by 142 to 57. Government to forward mails over Chautauqua Lake starting July 1. George Fagundas to serve three years in Allegheny Penitentiary for drinking and dissipated life. Glorious Fourth celebrations planned in Clarendon Youngsville Meadville Olean Salamanca Franklin Jamestown. Gen Slocum invited to Jamestown Fourth of July. Gen Logan cannot attend. Five hundred Grangers gather in Jamestown for county Grange session with leaders Armstrong and Piolett promoting agriculturist organization. Judge Tourgee rests after writing A Fool's Errand in Danish translation. Hon Beman Brockway visits Mayville Jamestown and surrounding towns. renowned editor of Watertown Daily Times and Weekly Reformer.
Renovo residents propose stretching a wire across the narrow valley for a Fourth of July display and suspending the stars and stripes from it. The plan comes as a bold feature amid town celebrations and local geography described with a 900 to 1,100 foot mountainside.
Pittsburg Plate Glass Company in Creighton station Pennsylvania has begun making mirrors in addition to plate glass. The six months ending December 31 1883 saw imports of 1 013 511 square feet worth 1 271 378 dollars and for the same period in 1884 3 023 196 feet valued at 1 056 164 dollars.
June reports depict a bustling Republican caucus in the Arcanum building with lively talk and outsized votes, Prohibitionists planning a Warren County convention for July 27, and a flood of local notes: farm accidents, society gatherings, theater opening, and community events from Irvington to Youngsville.
Advertisement noting Baxter Mandrake Bitters claimed to cure digestion issues heartburn costiveness and malarial diseases. Priced at twenty five cents per bottle and sold by Jomanson and Srec Fried.
Notices list multiple marriage announcements from June 1885 across towns in Pennsylvania and nearby states. Couples include Vail to Allan in Spring Creek, Anderson to Christenson in Kane, Wheeler to Siggins in West Hickory, Seabury to Davis in Le Boeuf, Housler to Labree in Kinzua, Nelson to Erickson in Sheffield, Bedin to Johnson in Sheffield.
In Conewango on June 25 1885, Truman Dalrymple 69 years 3 months 23 days old passed away per local notice.
Prices corrected weekly for various flour and grain products including white wheat conewango snow flake low grade graham corn meal and per sack and per bushel rates. Above prices subject to grain markets.
Corrected weekly prices paid by Warren dealers cover foods and goods including apples butter beans pork lard onions potatoes tea coffee sugar and eggs. Also listed are lime cement timothy and clover seeds salt kerosene and other commodities with per unit rates.
The named pupils Wilder Bates Clyde Akins Ella Sullivan Adda Sullivan Bertha Akins Emma Akins Letha Johnson Elsie Johnson and Mattie Finlan are not absent for the month ending June 19 1885 Attendance is 96 percent for boys and 96 percent for girls by M Exxa Batt, Teacher.
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