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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1911
Page
2
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Mrs Ida Wing returns home from visit with daughter Mrs Asa Stanton, granddaughter Ida Stanton accompanies her. Ralph Samuelson and family move into town. Mrs John Young dies at home Sunday morning. Sunday school resumes March 12 after scarlet fever closure. Francis Pearson Denzil Murray and Irene Huntington visit Mr and Mrs L Crocker Friday. Revival meetings at Presbyterian church this week. Mrs Cora Stanton recovering after illness. County Commissioner E E Thompson moves family to Thompson Hill farm. Miss Marjorie Kikpatrick guests Mildred Babcock. Miss Mary Greer returns home after visit with sister Mrs Carl Wheelock.
Brown Hill residents report visits from Jamestown and Hillsdale visitors. Families J. P. Johnson and Lyons move to Youngsville while Miss Stevenson returns to Bradford. A fall injures Nick Finlan and W. M. Church holds fourth quarterly meeting led by Rev. T. C. Shaw.
Mrs. Louisa Fellows has returned home after two weeks tending Mrs. Mary Stratton who is slowly convalescing. Mr. D. J. Bennett is described as dangerously ill. Others include visits by Mrs. T. M. Howard to the Geracimos in Warren and updates on local happenings such as a wire nail incident involving Marion Johnson and a rain shower.
Mrs. Frank Scholton visited Sheffield last week. A daughter Helen Ethelyn Bradford born Feb 27 in Port Arthur Texas to Mr and Mrs Chas Bradford. Mrs. B L Monroe and Miss Gert rude Monroe stayed in Ithaca. Farmers patronizing milk condensers at Clymer NY. Sugar camps report active production. L O T M to meet Friday at record keeper home. Columbus Grange holds well attended meetings. E C Barnes was business visitor in Warren Thursday.
QuakER Hug March 11 reports Martin Gilliman returning a pota to digger for winter use. Jacob Schuler Jr visits his brother. Farmers haul logs to Frank Nelson's mill after late snow. Elk Grange Grangers attend Pomona at Warren. Lucian Schuler and Albert Johnson hunt, capture three coons. Miss Jennie Johnson travels to Corydon. A new family moves onto the Orlo Holt place. Crows and robins seen, signaling spring.
A mixed set of brief items lists residents visiting relatives and traveling for business. Mentions include E O Headley shopping in Russell, A H Ladow in Ono, N Y, Rhoda Beary visiting Jamestown, H B Fellows in Olean visiting daughter Mrs Outridge, Lt. Martin at Corn planter, W M Hoyt planning to move, P S McMahon on business in Russell, F A Nelson with a large log stack, John Anderson lumbering this winter, Joseph Bennett’s remains sent from Jamestown to Mack Cemetery, J O Lounsbury at Warren on business, and Edinboro Normal offering spring term classes starting March 28 1911 with principal Hs FE Brora.
A skeleton unearthed at Galley Hill near Northfleet in the Thames bed is dated by Professor Arthur Keith as 170 000 years old. He estimates the age from river level changes and postglacial terrace adjustments, noting the Galley Hill man is essentially modern in type and represents ancient English populations across glacial to neolithic times.
The Carl Schurz Memorial association raises funds to endow a $30,000 income for a University of Wisconsin professorship to honor Carl Schurz. The plan includes German exchange professors Ernest Daengel and Max Friedlander delivering lectures, with funding aimed to grow to $60,000 for annual German lectures.
F S Deemer made a business trip to Edinboro last week. The Good Will society will meet with Mrs J J Feldhausen Wednesday March 22. Miss Alice Blood returned to Warren Monday after an extended visit with friends and relatives in this vicinity. Mrs Rose Drake of Cambridge Springs visited her sister Mrs Wim Pierce a few days last week. Misses Madeline Scott and Alice Garber were home from Spartansburg over Sunday. Mr and Mrs E E Fetterolf were visitors at Neil Jacksons at Grand Valley Saturday.
Berlin scientists led by Professor Otto Hahn report a new radioactive substitute named mesothorium. It is a by product of thorium gas mantle production and, when combined with chromium, shows same properties as radium salt at much lower cost. Germany could produce ten grams yearly, exceeding current global radium supply.
Mr and Mrs Clinton Cobb celebrated their twenty fifth wedding anniversary at their East Branch home on Thursday March 9 with thirty five friends and neighbors. A bountiful dinner, readings, songs, and a short program followed a donation purse for a chair in their memory.
Rabbit furs have doubled in value over recent years while some skills surged as much as five hundred percent, highlighting a shift in market demand and earnings potential.
North Dakota Senator McCumber rails against the reciprocity bill in the senate arguing travel expenses to New York could be paid in farm produce. He cites costs as six bushels oats for hotel, fifteen cabbages for cab, one and a half bushels barley for elevator hay, hay breakfast, two bushels potatoes for tip, one sheep for lunch, carrots and rye for dinner, onions for room and a half car of turnips.
In major towns and cities lotteries operate under municipal supervision. Prizes take seventy percent, five percent funds streets and roads, and the remainder supports the public, hospitals, schools, fire departments and charities after expenses.
A historical note describes the Jordan as the world’s most crooked river, winding 212 miles in a 60 mile apparent distance with a disputed course and many bends.
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