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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1878
Page
3
The Warren Mail notes court convening, an end to oyster season, likely good fruit crops, and spring fashions. It promotes lectures on Charlie Ross, a Good Templar convention, a walking event, and a Freischutz concert trip. Also reports on local weather, school board plans, new hinge fixes, circuses, trains to Erie, and a large Veteran of the War meeting with G A R organizing a Decoration Day observance.
Mrs Scofield and Miss Mary Scofield arrived in Washington last Tuesday evening. Judge Brown of Warren was elected to the Lake Shore Railroad Board of Directors at a Cleveland meeting last Wednesday. Hon Chapin Hall visited town Monday and said Mr Jack Dobbins will run the Kent Horse starting in June, with returning registrants invited to come and Kent preparing a drove of cattle for the season.
Prof D L Carroll of Albany Prof John Quinn of Buffalo and Mr John L Pierce of Warren will walk 75 miles in 27 hours starting May 10 at 8 pm in Roscoe Hall and ending May 11 at 11 pm A track will be measured by Van Buren Civil Engineer with Dr P V Murray as attending physician Ladies invited Good order Admission 25 cents season tickets 1 Hazeltine & Davis Cornet Band Saturday William Russellburg postmaster filed notices include unclaimed letters at Warren Pa Post Office May 4 1878.
Philadelphia resident Mr. Christian K. Ross will speak at Roscoe Hall next Tuesday evening May 14 to tell the history of his son Charlie Ross’s abduction and four years of searching. Admission 35 and 50 cents with seats reserved at Hazeltine and Davis.
Warren readers see Market Street notices of a Great London Show via a May 1878 extract from the Petroleum Advertiser noting a city parade, tableaux, and Siegrist dwarfs. Items warn of Charlie Ross story at Roscoe Hall and local ads for jewelry, millinery, cheap hats, plus a Franklin Church sermon extract and police monthly report with arrests and fines totals.
The Jamestown District M E Church ministers met in Warren from April 30 to May 2. Officers were elected, resolutions adopted, including relief plans for Ridgway church debt and a memorial report for Rev N Norton. Sessions covered Sunday school, temperance, pastoral work and class meetings with speeches by Rev Leslie Warren Fording Creed and others.
Last Tuesday evening in New Castle Delaware Mr H P Hunter of Warren married Miss Clara R Merritt at Immanuel Church in a crowded ceremony at 8 15 PM The bridal party included ushers E I Rodgers Clayton Johns and bridesmaids from Philadelphia and New Castle A reception followed at the bride’s mother’s residence with many presents Mr and Mrs H P Hunter plan a visit to New York and Washington before returning next week A further reception is planned at Mr O H Hunter’s home on Thursday May 16 Invitations issued
The Singer Manufactory opens a Warren Pennsylvania branch opposite Hazeltine and Davis drug store. Machines available on monthly payments with satisfaction guaranteed. Agents wanted. E. C. Coox, Manager. May 1, 1878.
The article discusses Dunkirk capitalists proposing a narrow gauge line from Dunkirk to Prospect Station and on to Mayville via the Cross-Cut route. Jamestown capitalists consider a shore line along Lake Chautauqua to Mayville and Westfield to join Lake Shore Road. The Corry Herald doubts Cross-cut abandonment this summer amid rising Chautauqua travel. A new company named New York Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company will operate the co road with May 12 timetable changes for the &. & G. W. night express trains 1 and 2.
The Reverend W A Rankin marked his twelfth anniversary at Warren Presbyterian Church with a detailed review of progress since 1866. The church rose from 108 members to 292, Sabbath School members from about 60 to 250, and a new $25 000 to $30 000 church edifice with a $3 000 organ and parsonage. Receipts last year were 3454 67, expenses 3073 80, leaving 380 87. 598 were raised to cover obligations. The school educates a colored student for ministry abroad. $470 contributed to missionary and benevolent causes. a clothing box valued at 150 was sent to those in need. Rankin urges more pew room and a larger lecture hall, plus home missionary work to draw unaffiliated locals. New Sabbath School superintendent Wm D Brown and assistant J A Eichenberg appointed.
The May 6 regular meeting of the council includes discussion of a nuisance complaint about the D A V P siding on High Street referred to the Street Committee. D B Barnard appointed collector. various bills approved. Building and Street Committees authorized to proceed with town building and street supervision. Meeting adjourned to June first.
County and neighborhood items list events from Ridgway to Jamestown. Highlights include Warren County Pomonia Grange meeting in Lottsville May 16 and 17, Bradford fire losses, railway fare cuts, oil pipe line plans, and local civic notes from Dunkirk to Titusville.
A Providence Journal letter estimates a sixty day European tour ending in Paris can be managed for about 340 dollars with careful planning. It outlines housing eating and travel costs from Liverpool to Paris London and Geneva and notes 400 dollars as a high figure for a full two months.
April showers spur activity as residents repair fences and tidy yards. J Nichols on West Main builds a Gothic residence while Prof McCollin adds to his. New mill planned by Green Clark. Levant Smith, B Darling, Donald Stuart start homes on Gallup Cross streets. Church bell frame damaged. Emry Davis loses a cow. Arba Bullock plans a large Mechanic street barn. G M Crouch noted as builder.
A Warren County woman reports on the W C T U County Convention at Tidioute with delegates from several towns. The event included a M E church program, two male visitors, hospitality at local homes, a gratuitously opened Opera House for a Bailey lecture, a drama by local youth, and a return trip with frugal travel notes.
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