Local notes highlight residents and happenings in Warren
Community items include Hodges returning from Buffalo and Holt visiting Sugar Run. Repairs on Geo Folkman’s Conewango Ave home, Everts family moving, and Ball’s large ad promotion. Keegan sells Penn Ave property and plans Bluffton trip. Schuler home broken into. Hermsdorf hosiery window display by Stewart draws praise.
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RE. F. Hodges
Buffalo
P. C. Holt
Sugar Run
Geo. F. L. Folkman
Conewango Avenue
Everts
Cobb
East Street
Bert Dalrymple
Gowanda
N. Y
Warren
Marshall Parshall
Col. Windsor
16Th Reg
W. F. McWilliams
Reading
Smith Department Store
Louis Hermsdorf
W. D. Stewart
Life Study Club Banquet Highlights at YMCA
The Life Study Club hosted its second annual banquet at the YMCA last Tuesday evening. A menu preceded a program featuring club discussions by R W Salsbury and Dr V C McAlpin, with songs and “Impressions of a New Member” by Rev J P Lux, Dr D A Smith, and E W Kriebel. Impromptu speeches praised Mr H E Dodge for his work in Warren.
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Life Study Club
R. W. Salsbury
Celio
Angel
V.C. McAlpin
J. P Lux
D. A. Smith
E. W. Kriebel
Cemetery lot owners urged to pay for mowing before Memorial Day
Oakland Cemetery lots slated for seasonal mowing must be paid in advance to the secretary to ensure care. Unpaid lots will not be mowed. By order of the Trustees. 5-3-41 J. W. Wiccans, Sec'y. A joke notes a barber flirts with a bald man by offering a hair-cut.
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Oakland Cemetery
J. W. Wiccans
Sec’y
Domestic Shot by Mistake in Home Invasion
W J Hogan mistook Matilda Gollnick a domestic for a burglar and shot her in his home about 2 30 Saturday morning. Dr Davies sent the wounded woman to the hospital in an ambulance and she was placed in a private room. The bullet was removed after two passes through the intestines.
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W. J. Hogan
Matilda Gollnick
Dr. Davies
W. W. Winger Burned In Gas Engine Blast
W. W. Winger a noted local oil producer suffered serious burns around the hands face and ears after lighting a match near a gas engine at a North Clarendon lease an explosion filled the power house with gas. He extinguished the flames and walked to Clarendon for Dr Hyer then was treated and sent home to confinement on Fourth street.
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W. W. Winger
W.W. Winger
North Clarendon
Winger
Clarendon
Hyer
Fourth Street
Old Grant To Cornplanter Indians On Liberty Street
Window display at Wendlebee store shows an early document granting Cornplanter and his people a reservation along the Allegheny River. Though faded the grant names Governor Thomas Mifflin and records the state’s repayment for services and a permanent home for his descendants now occupied.
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Wendlebee Store
Liberty Street
Cornplanter
Allegheny River
Thomas Mifflin
Property transfers listed in Four-Tract News for May
A May list shows numerous property transfers with buyers and sellers in Warren Sugar Grove Deerfield and surrounding towns. Amounts range from 300 to 20000 dollars with names such as Hazeltine Engstrom Swanson and Smith Co. Ltd. included in the Warren area transfers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha J. Hazeltine
A. W. Allen
Pittsfield
Charles Grub
Philip Grub
Deerfield
K. H. Beshlin
Charlotte JL. Waters
Warren
J. EK. Ingersoll
Z. A. Blackwell
Glade
Morris Nielson
Louis Swanson
Fred W. Keil
Ira F. Samuelson
A. V. Engstrom
S. D. Karr
J. H. Bowden
Bertha R. Elliott
Emma A. Rowley
Alta M. Hall
Sugar Grove
Sarah D. I. Newbold
Edwin P. Clark
Spring Creek
Alice J. Hall
C. H. Smith Co., Ltd
Albert Dunn
Amos Clinger
Triumph
Freeman K. Hertzel
Chas. S. Knabb
W. J. Dunn
George Dunn
Louisa J. Rogers Et al
Tweed Name Origin From Blotted Invoice Mistake
A historical note explains tweed arose from a London invoice where the word twill appeared as tweed due to a blot, anchoring the fabric’s name in a clerical error. The misread term stuck as the cloth’s enduring label.
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London
Reduced Sunday Rates On DAVP R R For Day Returns
The D A V and P R R announces reduced rate tickets every Sunday for travel to points on its line with same day return options. The offer continues until further advised.
Biscuits and a Classified Help Wanted Ad
Mrs Copperfield bakes biscuits while David comments on their heat and freshness. An old style wanted notice from a Chicago firm seeks an assistant manager for county territory with $20 weekly pay and expenses, no experience required. Send details to 132 Lake St Chicago Ill by 3 15 10.
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Chicago Wholesale and Mail Order House
Lake St
Chicago
Ill
Alaska trip promises private party to Klondike region
Warren Pa superintendent W L MacGowan promotes a private Alaska tour starting June 23. Features include six weeks of daylight in Klondike, interior excursion beyond coast trips, abundant nature and native culture, deluxe travel on White Pass & Yukon Route, and unusually low rates with terms available by writing.
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W. L. MacGowan
Warren
Europe
America
Yellowstone Park
Alaska
Klondike
Skagway
Sitka
United States
White Pass
Yukon
Low Rates to California From Warren in Spring
Low round trip fares of 74 dollars and 30 cents to Los Angeles and San Francisco offered April 24 to May 4 by D A V and P R R agents with return validity to July 31. Stop overs allowed both ways. For full rates and routes, contact ticket agents or write A J Smith G P A Cleveland Ohio 2t You can't do much for a man who is easy to do.
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California
Warren
Los Angeles
San Francisco
A. J. Smith
Cleveland
Marriages During April 1906 Across Several States
A list of marriage notices from Jamestown Clarendon and Warren area papers dated April 1906. Entries include Montz Carlson Owen Corbran Rickenberg Olson Johnson Van Guilder Peterson Neilson Meley Mickleson with spouses from Kane Sheffield Warren Buffalo and Youngsville. The groom in one pair departs for Guaymas Mexico for a railroad post.
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Owen — Corbran
Clarendon
M. P. Flood
Edward E. Owen
Teckla Corbran
Sheffield
Rickenberg—Olson
Jamestown
N. Y
Gust Rickenberg
Kane
Anna Olson
Meley
Mickleeson
Youngsville
J. P. Burns
Dennis Mickleson
Warren
Gladys Meley
Erie
Guaymas
Mexico
Obituary notices from Warren April 1906 list four deaths
Carlson died of consumption on April 25 1906 in Warren leaving a wife and two children Charles and Bessie. Covert died of convulsions on April 29 1906 in Warren their young daughter Lorna Mary buried in Marienville PA. Knight died after a long illness on April 26 1906 in Warren leaving two daughters Mrs George Greig of Buffalo and Mrs George Bird of Warren. funeral held Saturday. interment Oakland. Erickson died of heart trouble on April 29 1906 in Warren aged 25. parents and siblings Clarence Bert Guy and Pearl Erickson, all in Warren. funeral held Tuesday after con.
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Covert
Warren
Lorna Mary
C. H. Covert
Marienville
BORN GAy Warren adds two newborn sons
In Warren, Mr and Mrs Hugh Gray welcomed a son. Also in Warren on April 29 1994 Mr and Mrs Louis Weiler welcomed a son.
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Gay
Warren
Hugh Gray
Weiler
Louis Weiler
Sheriff candidacy denial by B G Gregory
A notice from B G Gregory dated April 19 denies persistent rumors that he is a sheriff candidate in any party. He states if nominated and elected he will assume the sheriff's duties and take charge of the office.
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B. G. Gregory
Niagara Cataract History and Folklore Reflections
The Niagara cataract is estimated to be 31 000 years old with the falls once 420 feet high now 160 feet. The piece notes how fairy tales begin with Once upon a time and how a man who has heard such a tale tells it to his wife.
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Niagara
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Home Matters
G. S. Merriam
Tiona Oil
Benj. A. Ball
C. E. Cobb
Conneaut
Ohio
Leonard
Banquet of Life Study Club
H. E. Dodge
Ayer
Iso Manuf
Ecter Co
Lowell
Masf
Tweed
David
Mrs. Copperfield
Dora
Montz—Carlson
Jamestown, N. Y
James Montz
Agnes Carlson
Johnson-Van Guilder
O. A. Smith
Gerry L. Johnson
Edith van Guilder
Grand Valley
Warren Trust Co
Warren, PA
Hunter’s
Bash
Thomson
O. J. Hunter & Son
Little Pri
M. F
Eberhart
Miller
Penn’a Ave
T. O
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