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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1917
Page
5
Capt. C. E. Bordwell, commander of Company I, has been named major to fill the vacancy caused by Major Kennedy of Grove City’s death.
More than $600 was raised for the Red Cross from a Ball at the State Armory last Thursday night. About seven hundred men and women danced from eight o'clock until midnight raising funds for the organization.
Warren County residents took advantage of a seed potato offer from the Warren Chamber of Commerce. Four carloads of seed potatoes were distributed at cost, with a potential for a large crop if the season stays favorable.
Stanley Dalrymple, hurt in the tragedy at Youngsville West Main street crossing, remains at Emergency Hospital with a fighting chance for full recovery. He is regaining consciousness and cannot yet discuss the accident or how he arrived at the hospital.
Levi Smith, famed oil refiner and philanthropist born 1844, died suddenly of apoplexy on a Elk Hart train while returning from California. Son Jay left for Elkhart. wife had gone ahead to Detroit. Survived by wife, son, and two daughters Eva Jane and Laura. Funeral set for Thursday at Presbyterian church.
New York City celebrated Marshal Joseph Joffre and Rene Viviani with an enormous welcome on May 10. A million citizens filled streets for a triumphant entry as the French leaders viewed Manhattan’s skyline from the forward deck.
John Dentick fell from a broken scaffold into the buckwheat coal pocket at the Cranberry breaker in Hazleton Pennsylvania. His two sons raised the alarm and the chute was opened. Dentick escaped smothering and came out with fuel, partly strangled but unharmed.
Brigadier General William H. Bixby retired from the U S Army will be recalled to active duty as president of the Mississippi River Commission. He succeeds Colonel Curtis McD Townsend who is assigned to command a new engineer regiment to be sent to France.
Warren County Register announces that numerous administrations and guardianships have filed their first, final or distribution accounts with the Register of Warren County. The notices list names such as Ralph W. Nichols, Earl G. Hawkins, F J Law, John Petruney, T L Hampson, Geo H Penfield, W R Buck, R H MacDowell, C E Bordwell, Wilhelmena Grandin, Charles K Haupin, Frank J Lyons, Mary M Schueltz, Jacob Simones, E H Beshlin, Sarah Hastings and others. The accounts, filed in 1917, will be presented to the Orphans’ Court. Henry H. Bassett signs as Register. May 5 1917. May 10-17-24.
Estimates on the French front place German strength at 2,628,000 men in 219 divisions with 1,188,000 on eastern fronts and 528,000 in reserve. About 1,188,000 would be in the fighting line in the west with 912,000 on eastern and Balkan fronts. The entente reports 6 to 8 million German under arms in France and reserves can be called to the line.
Reports describe dead whales found in the North Sea with heads blown off. The text notes the cause as mine exposure and jokes about the Admiralty opening a school to train whales to hunt mines as a new ally against German mines.
A man in a New York theater was manhandled and arrested after an incident tied to a film project about a submarine. He received ten days in the workhouse as punishment.
The war department outlines registration timing and duties after the president signs the conscription bill. Governors lead. sheriffs, clerks, and city officials run precinct registration with volunteer registrars urged to serve unpaid. Absentees and the sick coordinate by mail or sixth day instructions.
Anglo French forces push toward St Quentin across a canal bridge wrecked by retreating Germans. French vanguard crosses under heavy fire while the second unit awaits on the far bank as the wreckage lies submerged in the canal.
Mme Mariana Seva de Menocal, wife of Cuba's president and head of the Cuban Red Cross, calls a Havana convention of Cuban women to plan war work. Over 2,500 women expected. sections mobilize supplies and surgical dressings. In the U. S., Mrs George Thatcher Guernsey, former presidential candidate, becomes head of the Daughters of the American Revolution, with Mrs William Cummins Story retiring as active head to become honorary president-general.
A local store touts cheap, quality shoes with guarantees and early purchase savings. Men’s work and dress shoes range from $1.98 to $10 per pair, women’s pumps from $1.48 to higher, and children’s footwear priced below competitors.
Warren County Pennsylvania sheriff sale under a writ of fieri facias directs sale at the Warren Court House on Monday June 4 1917 at 2 pm. The parcel in Pleasant Township known as the Jacob Myers and Barbara Myers farm contains about 83 acres with orchard house barn and out-buildings bounded by Yeagle Rieg Struthers Lauffenberger and others. Seized as the property of Jerome Gross and Christian Mintz for I K Hollister. Sheriff Geo A W DeForest. May 8 1917.
In Warren County Common Pleas No 7 March Term 1917 Cora A Nichols Libellant versus George Louis Nichols Respondent a subpoena and alias subpoena were returned Non est inventus you are notified to appear before the court on June 4 to answer the libellant petition and justify why a divorce should not be granted Sheriff Geo A W DeForest Warren Pa May 1 1917 E H Beschin
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