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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1897
Page
3
Local a Franklin typewriter offered for sale at low price. Warren horsemen plan Me dville Bradford races June 22 to 25. Officers elected for the Town Improvement Association. Court adjournment outcomes include verdicts for Gardner Hackney and Emmons. Accidents report Metzgar loses a foot, Fraunfelder injured in mill accident.
Local items report visitors and travel plans, business openings, and community updates. Notes include Miss Kate Brown visiting Buffalo, Bishop Whitehead and wife to sail for England in April, maple products pricing, and Edward Baxter Perry performing at Library Hall. Also covered are hospital updates, school changes, railroad and timber raft activity, property moves, legal decisions, and regional notes from Warren and nearby towns.
The March 31 dedication of the new Dedication Presbyterian Church will feature a sermon by Rev. R. S. Holmes and a large choir with orchestra. Borough actions include widening Market Street, sewer plans for the East side, a 25,000 bond for Fifth and Sixth wards, and pressuring Warren Street Railway to sell small fare tickets. Local ads promote clothing, drugs, tailoring, and glassware.
The drowning of 17 year old Ross Harris of Kinzua occurred Wednesday. His father W H Harris and others searched the Allegheny River from Thursday toward Warren but found no body. High water may have carried the body far. information to the Harris family is welcome.
Transfer list shows multiple properties exchanged between individuals and firms across towns like Pleasant Conewango Tidioute Warren Mead and Freehold. Notable entries include John M. Davidson to E Highhouse Sons for 300 dollars and Mary J Thurber to Asa L Mosher for 2000 dollars.
A catalog of fiction juvenile, biography history travel arts religion sociology works at Warren Public Library. Notable authors include Alcott Doyle Barrie Kipling and Sienkiewicz with titles across centuries and topics. The list covers numerous classic novels stories poems and reference works from many publishers.
March primaries yield solid showing for Fuellhart Knapp Peirce and Crossman with Dunn a delegate winner. County returns tally McKinley votes and district delegates, with Myers re-elected chair and Neiley as secretary. Obituary notices include John Hunter and Elizabeth Foulkrod among deaths affecting Warren county communities.
Pomona Grange at Sugar Grove met last Thursday and Friday under Mike Crocker with Weld absent. Welcome by B F W Thorpe and reply by G D Heath highlighted a county wide rise in grange activity and optimism. Debate on road taxes favored cash only by farmers but suggested road work as improvement. Hamilton bill praised as strongest to date. Sister C B Mix chaired the women’s hour and the program was well rendered.
Dugall reports a busy week as residents tap sugar bushes and cook sugar. Meezer started his mill with Frisby assisting. Thomas rents J. C. Davis place, moving April 1. Glenn Brooks and Gertie Howles wed March 4 and stay with H. Brooks. Kingsley and Brundage toured the river. Sherman clan from York moved into MclIntyre home. Will Kingsley visits home. Erickson made a brief business trip to Duhring. U B church will hold preaching next Sunday at 11 A M.
Marcy 16 A Goodwill expects to stay on the Baxter farm another year. The schools of Watson township are closing thanks to the Directors taking one month off in order to get more charts in the schools. Supt. Putnam said it would have been of more benefit to the scholars to have had the other month of school. Miss D Irena Lubold is visiting at Garfield. Miss Daisy Lubold who has been working at Whig Hill for the past five months visited her parents last week.
At Goshen New York on March 4 1897 Reverend G E Wellman united Glenn H Brooks of Dugall Pennsylvania and Gerda E Howles of Lottsville in marriage.
The final Pennsylvania Railroad guided tour to the Golden Gate departs from New York and Philadelphia March 27 with stops in Chicago Omaha Denver and Salt Lake City. Special Pullman car service and return routes within nine months are offered at round trip and one way rates for various cities including New York Philadelphia Washington Harrisburg Wilkes Barre Altoona Pittsburgh. Tickets via ticket agents in New York or Geo W Boyd Philadelphia are available.
Mrs Casemere offers low price repairs and artisanal mending next to the Mail office at 305 Second St Penfield Carpet Cleaning Works operates in the Mansion House rear with E W Sealy as manager offering take up clean and lay carpets with satisfaction guarantee Orders left at Mansion House A A Davis Co 308 Second St Warren Steam Laundry 6 10 Penna Ave Rina Stevens Rogers Block J S Bayer 440 Water St ensure prompt attention
The advertisement claims catarrh is curable by Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally. It asserts the remedy works on blood and mucous surfaces to destroy disease and strengthen the constitution. Proponents offer one hundred dollars for any failure to cure and urge sending for testimonials.
The grippe can lead to pneumonia but careful care and Chamberlain's Cough Remedy avoid danger. The remedy is claimed to be a certain preventive and faster cure than others. Sold in 25 and 50 cent sizes by Morris & Mullen Warren and P B Canfield Corydon. We lead in low prices for lamps china and glassware.
An advertisement claims South American Nervine cures every case of weak stomach and weak nerves instantly and reliably. It promises immediate relief and enduring improvement, with the product sold at Oyes Drug Store in Warren, Pennsylvania.
The Warren store announces a grand opening sale featuring an assortment of early spring wool novelties. Highlights include 36 inch all wool fabrics at 25 cents per yard, regularly valued at 35 cents.
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