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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1914
Page
5
Prices in Pennsylvania drop from 2.00 to 1.90 while New Castle and Mercer slip from 1.50 to 1.40. Earning and Caball ease from 1.15 to 1.05 and 1.10 to 1.05 respectively, Ragland holds at 0.65. The sixteenth decline this month follows April 20, 22, 27, and 30 reductions. Pennsylvania crude now priced lower than in over a year.
Ernest Frahm was released from jail after nearly six months as his defense sought relief for health. Clifford Spangler was held on $500 bail after confessing to burglaries at Dunn's clothing store and Crawford's meat market in Tidioute, where a paid-for suit and a revolver plus cartridges were taken. two witnesses, Martin and Watson, must appear in court. Nearby, Easton prepares for a May 18 circus clash as Ringling and 101 Ranch tents rise within a narrow street, prompting local concern yet drawing crowds.
Mrs. J. P. Langdon was moved from 3 Henry Street to Emergency Hospital suffering with peritonitis. William Sandy and Miss Mae Carlson of Warren wed in Dunkirk New York and plan a short wedding trip before making their home in Cleveland Ohio.
Richard Topper of Prospect street fractured his elbow when he was thrown during a friendly wrestling match last Thursday. He was injured in the incident and taken for medical care.
At Franklin a substitute mail carrier William C. Dille, 22, was arrested on trifling letters charges after a decoy letter led to his capture. He confessed and will be taken to Erie for trial.
United States Commissioner C M Shawkey fixed bail for C A Sliker charged with robbing the Thompson post office. Sliker has been in the county jail and was held for trial at the U S court in Erie on the third Monday in July. Unable to raise bail he was remanded to the county jail.
William Rex Wheeler, son of former Congressman Nelson P. Wheeler, was ordained a Presbyterian minister in Endeavor. He graduated last Thursday from Auburn Theological Seminary with a Bachelor of Divinity and holds a Cambridge University London fellowship. Next Saturday he weds Constance I. Hays of Cleveland, Ohio.
Sanatorium board elected new officers and directors led by Robert Jarecki of Erie as president and A L Sleeman of Warren as superintendent. The group voted to rebuild the Homewood Sanatorium after a January fire, with Dr George B Kahl and others named to medical and administrative posts. Francis E Chevalier died in Bakersfield California at age sixty, after leaving Warren fifteen years ago for Oil City and California. He served 21 years with Producers & Refiners Oil Co and was well regarded in the oil region. his widow and son Bennette survive.
W O Wilson has purchased the furniture business formerly owned by Gibson and Sherman located on Pennsylvania Avenue East. The deal closed Friday morning. Burrell McQueen, ten, of Walnut Street, fractured an arm by a fall Tuesday evening while playing on the sidewalk. Schenk's Carpenters at State Hospital strike demanding an hour day. Judge Hinckley to try the Strains for murder on March 5 with DA Carringer and counsel Brown outlining defense by Breene & Breene. Painter Raymond Hodges, 25, fell from a roof at E D Evert's Market Street residence due to a broken ladder. bruises and a strained back only.
Superintendent Christiansen of the Spring Creek tannery, operated by Howard tannery of Corry, was arrested on a Fish Warden complaint for polluting streams and killing fish. Bail set at 500 for a Warren hearing on June 5.
Over 125 men attended a Friday dinner in the parlors of the First M E church. The event was hosted by the Men's Bible Class of the M E Sunday school, noted as the largest class in city churches. A F Kottcamp of the Y M C A led the program with clear Bible lesson explanations. Principal speaker was Rev H Gi Ogden of Jamestown MW.
The Central Pennsylvania Lumber Company at Sheffield closed the short side of the mill, leaving forty men unemployed. A lamp overturned in a West End residence at midnight started a couch fire, burning the couch and a hole in the floor. Bear Lake quarantines end after six weeks as smallpox case clears, Warren county records its last. H A Mellroy arrested for forgery, accused of passing a $29.75 forged check at New Shaw House Sheffield.
An organized adult Bible class institute will be conducted at Grace M E Church Warren Pennsylvania on Tuesday May 19 at 745 p m by B S Forsythe State Superintendent of O A B Class work of the Pennsylvania State Sabbath School association An address on The Program of Service will be given followed by a conference for adult class workers Representatives from Warren county organized classes are expected to attend to compare methods and results.
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