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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1882
Page
3
The Marren Mail records thermometer readings at Variety Hall Warren Pa for May 1882 with Hazeltine & Co. providing 6 P.M. and 10 P.M. readings across several dates. Readings show highs around the mid 60s and lows in the 40s.
A compact Warren column lists seasonal signs flowering fruit crops and garden duties. It reports on rail and street improvements, new shops and a street sprinkler project, upcoming public sales of vacant land, a school exhibition and graduation events, and social notes including visits and travels of local residents and clergy.
D M Gross and Bro announce a large addition to their dry goods stock featuring new carpets and a finest assortment of lace curtains. Buyers are urged to visit for stylish carpets or lace curtains at prices lower than elsewhere in the county.
The Cherry Grove well, drilled last March on lot 646, opened last week and began flowing, delivering 800 to 1000 barrels on day one and maintaining strong output. The gush fueled market excitement, drew thousands to oil centers, and unsettled prices as traders flocked to Bradford and Oil City exchanges.
A Philadelphia girl who refused to display donors names after her Genatines wedding received 732 plated silver spoons and 1380 salt cellars.
The May 30 Decoration Day program lists a long schedule of officers and detail assignments for parades and cemetery ceremonies in Warren Pennsylvania. Comrades will decorate graves in Cobham Park Glade Cemetery North Warren Yankee Bush and Oakland Cemeteries with a 21 gun salute at 1 30 PM and a procession starting 2 PM.
Warren and Farnsworth Valley Railroad pushes toward lot 646 in Cherry Grove with 100 additional workers as contractor Towell expects ten miles completed in sixty days. Laying ties will start at Clarendon. Buffalo Branch of B P W R R to open by June 29. Ridgway telegraph office near B P W builder site and railroads NY Lake Erie Western and Pittsburg Rochester settle bed locations. no further conflicts anticipated as work proceeds briskly.
The Warren County Fuel and Heating Co supplies Clarendon borough with gas from the C A D Corwen wells in Mead township. 120 stoves, two machine shops, three pump stations, two pumping wells and thirty drilling wells receive gas, with parts of the field still wasting. a second well equal in capacity has been finished near the first. The firm plans to lay pipes to Warren this summer and provide ample heating gas.
Ten thousand dollars in suitings and pantaloons offered by George Ball & Co to attract customers. Call and see for yourself to verify the bold claim.
A free excursion by railroad officials and newspaper men opened the spring season, with passenger trains starting regular runs from Oil City, Warren and Bradford via the P. E. and W. line. The 40 mile round trip included a scenic route to Bradford and back, drawing rates of 4 hours for the full journey.
The era dubs the Six-forty-six Mystery as oil activity surges in the Warren Oil District. Roberts Torpedo Co reports rising business with 6,700 pounds of gly cerine used in 47 wells last month. A 400 acre lease near lot 646 in Cherry Grove to Murphy & Co. fetched 45 000 with one eighth royalty, while Garfield in Cherry Grove attracts housing prospects and a new post office and telephone line.
No pardons session this month. Granite posts mark the New York Pennsylvania state line. Pittsburg area gun factories total 25 with 5 500 000 capital employing 6 442, 1881 product value 6 832 683. Meadville wins case vs county over spring election expenses. Berks county Woman found guilty of common scold, 24 hours and 1 fine plus 10 days jail for common mischief-maker.
Edinboro State Normal School reports 250 students. Crawford county to host five new cheese factories next season. Erie free of smallpox, pest house closed. Pennsylvania State Shooting Tournament set for Meadville on June 13. Erie spring races begin June 27, four days, purses near 4000 dollars. Jamestown hosts Chautauqua Co Teacher's Institute this week. Reunion proposed for fifth Pa. Volunteers, collect addresses. Chautauqua Dairymen's Board of Trade changes sale day to Thursday. McKean County Fair to offer premium for public marriage on grand stand next fall. Knapp house burned near Cobham Park, contents lost, insured 600 dollars. Meadville reports 2200 registered physicians in forty-six counties, 1554 in Philadelphia. Donaldson to be tried again for dancing. General Assembly session in Springfield, Ill. DeForest Weld estate case distributing about 25000. Meantime, Watsons mill accident: Robert Brown, Sugar Grove, with leg injury, may lose leg. prognosis uncertain.
General Orders No. 6 from the Pennsylvania Headquarters Grand Army of the Republic urged May 50th as Memorial Day. Officers were to visit forty thousand graves across the state and decorate them with flowers, while reflecting on the sacrifices that sustained the nation.
Our town has seen a surge of activity with entertainment from the Tennesseans and Leavitt & Leach Swiss Bell Ringers drawing large crowds. Businesses expand daily with two dry goods stores, grocery shops, a meat market, billiard halls, hotels, and a lager beer saloon. Horton Crary & Co. add clerks while L. M. West & Sons plan to move to Corry for wholesale trade. Mrs. Walter Horton returns from Buffalo with daughter Myra convalescing.
Butter sells for 23 cents this week. O C Messenger visited Buffalo for goods with his daughter Mertie and Miss Olie Dalrymple. Earle Hill of Bear Lake teaches instrumental lessons. Union City youths visited Miss Nellie Wright last Sunday. Ex Sheriff Brace spent a few days in town. O P Tuttle sold two heavy wagons. Homer Littlefield of near Painesville visited. Mrs Sybil Cowles of Busti visited relatives and nears 82. Louis Gokey, former local shoemaker, now a traveling agent for Gokey & Son of Jamestown. Late high water damaged bridges on Church Street. Will Tuttle and Archie Sliter attend Hillside school. Allen and Frank Chase from Pittsfield in town May 20, 1882. Faith.
Frank Marks opens a new boot and shoe store in the J. R. Kuhn building while Mrs. R. E. McManus starts a branch millinery shop. Several residents travel or return from trips, and a list of local names appears with a note about undelivered mail at the Dead Letter Office.
Jake Keller on Second street offers a large stock of fabrics and a team of skilled workmen. He can cut and fit suits to style and size with low prices and invites customers to visit.
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