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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1878
Page
3
The Warren Mail announces a price cut to ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS per year in advance starting June 1 1878 for local subscriptions. Mail sent outside the county costs 1.75 in advance. Arrears readers may switch to the new rate by paying up. Non prepaid subscribers remain at TWO DOLLARS.
A collage of town items from Warren Pennsylvania includes garden chatter and fashion notes, theater and circus licensing, church services, and local business updates. Reports span weather, fruit markets, street work, salubrious events, graduating students, and local ads.
Rev H S Getz adds a front porch and updates his home while Thomas H DeSilver departs for Europe June 4 and Louis Dryer Jr sails for Waterland this week. J J Taylor on Water street showcases a three fold sign while David L Gerould is named bank book keeper. Hazeltine buys James homestead and renovates. A reception honors Mr and Mrs Hunter and the newly married couple in New Castle Delaware.
The town plans Decoration Day ceremonies with a Veterans meeting set for Friday at 7 30 PM in Major James office. A list of graves decorated on May 30 1877 is published and corrections or missing names should be sent to Captain Robt Dennison Marshal promptly to ensure no graves are omitted.
Last Thursday the Great London Show arrived at the Market and Sixth streets corner. Children lined up despite costs to attend while parents watched, as a balloon ascent and dare devil landing in Mr Valentine’s garden caused minor garden damage. The big tent featured stage illions, songs, tableaux, and trained dogs replacing the usual clown and ring-master, plus a two albino girls, a dwarf, an educated pig and other curiosities in the museum. Elite attendees filled both afternoon and evening shows.
The Buffalo and Southern Railroad has not yet run south to Pittsburg as planned. operations delayed until June 1. B and S has connected with Lake Shore Depot in Buffalo and will add tracks at Falconer to link with D A V and P Railroad. Improvements on the ht ter road include new ties and rails, bridge repairs, and potential iron replacements.
A local call invites about fifty young men to gather in front of Methodist and Baptist churches to stare at women leaving services. The text promises no brains or breeding needed and even prefers those who chew, smoke, and swear. Participants will be "properly estimated" at church doors next Sabbath.
A local home talent entertainment at Gradin Opera House Tidioute features the drama Don Cresar de Bazan and the farce His Last Legs. Proceeds benefit Hunter Hose Co. Admission prices are 25 35 and 50 cents.
The editorial rejects third party schemes while noting oil region Republicans back Stone. It argues for cross party cooperation to aid oil interests and criticizes the paper's column calling for a new political third party.
Tuer Singer Manufactory opens a Warren Pennsylvania branch opposite the Hazeltine and Davis drug store where customers can obtain machines on monthly payments. Satisfaction guaranteed. Agents wanted. E. C. Cook, Manager. May 1, 1878. tf
The Warren prints case unfolds from a bogus firm Dunbar Love & Co. Dunbar ran the operation while Burt Love and the Jamestown youth clerked at First National Bank turning to defalcations of about 2000 dollars. Love posted stamps as collateral and absconded leaving the bank out 1200. Prof Love repaid the bank, but the tale leaves a stain on a once promising youth.
A small volume by C. H. Noyes of Warren contains forty poetical pieces with some reworked from the Mart. While some bluesy imagery appears, most poems display notable artistic skill and poetic feeling. The reviewer notes potential for future literary excellence if the author continues in poetry.
The Street Committee of the borough adds two crossings at the Variety Hall corner to improve foot passage. One is a sturdy plank crossing enabling dry and comfortable travel, while the other is a refurbished stone crossing on Liberty Street long blamed for wet weather nuisances.
A company completes three weeks of road survey and plots a line from Sugar Run to Tuna summit. Engineers seek a revised route and estimate the contract may be awarded by June 10 with several contractors consulting the Chief Engineer. All aboard for Bradford.
The Pittsfield School reports for the month ending May 16 1878 two classes. No 1 lists pupils Katie Dunn May Barton Stella Shutt Fonti Ford Effie Waterhouse Lee Barton Jane Newcomb Harry Alexander Maggie Currie. No 2 lists Winnie Maguire Harry Bedford Elgin Waterhouse John Horner Minnie Campbell Forie Bodine James Durlin Adolf Rasmussen John Calkins Willie Dalrymple. No 1 no absences no tardies. No 2 no absences except sickness in one or two cases.
The Briggs and Martin saw mill at Russellburg burned Thursday night May 16 with about 20 000 feet of lumber. The fire is suspected to be incendiary. The water powered mill had not operated for days. Loss estimated over 8000 dollars, insured for 5000 dollars with J H Mitchell and Co.
Miss Daggett visits the city to view the latest summer millinery and fancy goods. She will attend numerous openings and return next Thursday to display fashionable hats and bonnets from the new firm S. T. Daggett & Co.
A list of names includes Olsson Amon Lawrence Brown Gil bert Fredenberg Edna A Goodard John Gardner Wm Gilbreath Thomas King John Lenz Betsy Mead Caddy Maxon Jas Maher J A Moyer Lizzie MacDonald Joseph Nickett Mrs O H P Williams All not called for within four weeks will be sent to the Dead Letter Office Postmaster O C Allen
An advertisement notes a large supply of mouldings for frames and picture needs at Will Smith's, highlighting cheap prices.
Notice promotes Buck Beer from Philip Leonhart's Brewery on sale next Saturday and Monday and signals following Summer Lager availability. The item presents a brief, local edition public notice of beer sales and availability.
In Erie County a faction seeks to direct delegates by district votes. The move challenges the recent county contract aims to ensure fair representation for Warren, Venango, and others. Critics warn of undermining the new arrangement and potential candidate consequences.
In Cherry Grove two weeks ago a man calling himself Dick Foot was hired to dig laurel roots by John Farnsworth. Foot and Farnsworth’s son with two others worked in the woods. Foot disappeared with clothes money and two pair of boots and a revolver. He fled toward the school and then West, was captured near Tidioute, and is held at Sheriff Brace’s hotel.
The Derrick argues sympathy toward fund defaulters harms society and fuels crime. It urges readers to reserve compassion for those in need and not for those who misappropriate others' funds. The piece notes public sympathy elevates criminals and promotes crime, urging cautious judgment.
School closes on the 29th. Decoration day will be observed with propriety. Frosts harmed future potato and fruit crops. A mania for fewer dogs appears. Our band remains in trim. A town show drew a good crowd. A runaway disrupted streets on show day. Adna Welden’s horse kicked free after a bridge scare. Prof. Parker gave a Pittsfield concert on the 15th and sang at the M E Church on the 16th. J J Siggins, ex resident, becomes hospital superintendent in London earning $10 000 yearly.
Corrected by Johnson W N the list cites flour sacks White Wheat Amber Flour corn meal oats potatoes beans onions butter eggs ham bacon lard and sugar among other items with unit measures and packaging noted in a historic catalog entry. The fragmentary text preserves a snapshot of daily trade goods and pricing terms from a miscellaneous grocery ledger.
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