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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1916
Page
5
The employees at the Seneca refinery received a pleasant surprise Monday as pay checks showed a voluntary wage increase of 10 percent. The move boosts earnings for staff across the plant and follows prior cost of living adjustments.
President Wilson appoints Ephraim A. Swanson postmaster for Youngsville replacing J H Fuellhart whose commission expires December 12. Senate confirmation expected. W V Hazeltine returns from Cuba tour and plans to speak to Get-together Club. John S Price former Warren resident dies in Tucson after long illness. Norman H Cook takes position in Youngstown piano and victrola business. Pageant at Library Theater by YWCA draws full house with stars from Warren Conservatory. Earl Whitton dies at Conneanga Refining after gas tank car accident. coroner rules gas fumes caused death. no inquest.
In Erie County license court, 203 licenses were granted and 23 refused. Corry will have 14 retail licenses, Union City three, and North East four. Most other licenses were issued in Erie city.
C W Johnson of the Allegheny division of the Pennsylvania railroad was crushed between two freight cars in the East Side P R R yards on Saturday morning and died two hours later at Emergency hospital. He was 28, married, and resided on South street. He is survived by his wife his parents Mr and Mrs Axel Johnson two brothers and four sisters. Ernest Nimmo a 35 year old Corry resident who had been an invalid wandered from his home Monday night and was found beside the tracks at Lovells by a P R R track walker with fatal injuries likely from the train. He had wandered miles during the night and his leg was severed and his skull fractured. Congressman S H Miller wrote to postmasters in the district offering garden seeds to distribute to patrons of post offices. He has sent seeds to all postmasters who answered and to individuals who wrote for them. Some 23 000 packages were mailed from Washington on Saturday.
The Business Girl's Federation of the YWCA held its first annual banquet in the association dining room. Organized a year ago by Mrs Rae Muirhead and Miss Owers, guest of honor at the dinner. Schultz Orchestra provided music as Rev W H Jones and J H West spoke. About 180 young women attended.
Thirty seven liquor license applications were filed with Clerk of Courts Charles A Clark. Three are for wholesale licenses and the rest for retail. The license court is set for March 20. Applicants hail from Warren Sheffield Youngsville Tidioute Clarendon Russell and other towns including Columbus Irvington Pleasant township Kinkua Corydon Pittsfield Grand Valley and Sugar Grove, with a brewery among the proposals.
A head on collision occurred on the Sheffield and Tionesta railroad last Thursday afternoon about a mile south of Sheffield. The freight and passenger trains collided. no injuries reported and damage deemed light. Pilots on both engines were broken and castings damaged.
Harry Moorehead of Fertig Venango County was arrested by Post Office Inspector Robert Lewis on charges of using the mails to defraud. The 27 year old oil well pumper advertised as a dealer in coon dogs and took orders, sourcing dogs locally to fill them. He says a girlfriend handled correspondence and he earned about $150 from the scheme.
Sunday storm wrecked the season's worst blizzard forcing most Warren residents to stay home. High winds and deep drifts cluttered sidewalks and roads hampering travel and church attendance despite Field Day for the Anti-Saloon League. Traction lines ran irregularly with horse plows used downtown and motor plows on outskirts, leaving one serious blockage on the W and J line near Lee.
The Pittsburgh Stave League hosts the second annual banquet at the Colonial Hotel honoring John Henry Wagener on his forty second birthday. Notables including Claude Ritchey Deacon Phil Lippe and Barney Dreyfuss attend as Senator Joe Thompson extols Wagener for nineteen major league seasons and his on and off field conduct. Wagner notes he aims to continue performing well and jokes about salary with Dreyfuss as a signatory.
A Leslie's magazine recollection describes Japanese etiquette as highly formal and ancestor centered. Two strangers meet with a ceremonial bow that halts traffic, asking after ancestors and even the stomach before moving on to discuss kin.
A Philadelphia North American piece extols the robin’s strength and patience as it stalks, grips, and reels in a worm. The bird’s early rising lets it beat the worms to surface, showcasing the robin’s skillful tug of war and occasional tumbles when unsteady.
Federal reports show 84 passengers died on 1207 railroads in the last fiscal year, averaging less than one death per fifteen railroads and aligning with a “safety first” push. About 1,000,000,000 passengers rode trains between July and June, yielding a fatality chance of one in 11.9 million. Cop Forty-four Years, No Arrests. Joseph Gibbs of Leicester, Pa., aged eighty-three, has served forty-four years as a police officer and never arrested a man.
Clergymen described advertising as a powerful ally of gospel preaching at a Chicago church advertising and publicity conference under the Advertising Association of Chicago. A national conference was proposed. A speaker urged that when a church’s usefulness seems exhausted a new advertising outlet can renew Christian service with modern methods. Separately a farm for rent on river flats in Pleasant Township, suitable for 20 or more cows, with good buildings and water, available around April 1, 1916, to W M Vallentine, Irvine, Warren Co Pa.
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