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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1912
Page
3
Sharon would receive street lighting from the municipal electric plant at 48 dollars per light under a five year contract, a 24 dollar yearly reduction from current rates. Greeks of Jamestown raise 400 for war widows and orphans funds overseen by Queen Olga.
Miss Alice Gates Boutell and her father Henry Boutelle the American minister to Switzerland start a trend by carrying alpen stocks. Following are Miss Katherine Elkins Mrs. Nicholas Longworth and Mrs. Meyer wife of the secretary of the navy.
A note on Swedish pulp mills needing 72 800 tons of sulphur each year, almost all imported from Sicily, followed by a separate item: Frederick Ayer of Boston aged ninety two took a long horseback ride with his daughter Katherine Ayer and companions from Hot Springs Virginia to Fassifern farm and back twelve miles distant.
Within a year the population of Buenos Aires has risen by nearly 50 thousand, highlighting rapid urban growth. Advertise in the Mail and Get Results.
The French Academy elected General Hubert Lyautey governor of Morocco and Emile Boutroux to join its ranks. Lyautey, born 1854, led campaigns in Madagascar and Morocco, earning the Legion of Honor. Boutroux, born 1845, is a philosopher and longtime professor with extensive writings on history.
The post office dodges whether Mrs Grover Cleveland will keep her mailing franking if she marries Prof Thomas J Preston of Wells College It hinges on Congress actions and a prepayment act. Lawyers say only repeal of the statute would end her courtesy after marriage.
Willis D. Clark a Virginia Democrat has sent brass candlesticks once used by Thomas Jefferson to Governor Wilson. Clark asks they be returned to their old home in the White House. The candlesticks were used by Jefferson on election night in 1801 and later generations have kept them.
Kansas City prospector Dr J G Hollingsworth seeks $2 million in Grand Union Mining stock after referee rules that stock from a 2 million grubstake be split with Edward Tufts. Hollingsworth allegedly supplied 2 thousand dollars to locate mines in Mexico and help capitalize a company at 10 million.
A short reflective note notes that many people who do not deserve praise still have supportive neighbors, highlighting a surprising kindness in everyday life.
The U S state department reports that by January 1 three fourths of the states will have ratified the constitutional amendment empowering Congress to levy an income tax without apportionment. Officials list thirty two approvals and note Ohio and Louisiana recently ratified unofficially.
Mrs Stephen Nageotte of Frenchtown Crawford county Pa has borne fifteen children in twelve years with thirteen living One birth in Sept 1911 produced triplets two girls and a boy and thirteen months later three more boys arrived all in good health The family’s French heritage and husband Nageotte a farmer are noted along with prior sets including twins and single births Two of the most recent triplets were crying loudly as the new trio joined them.
Mrs Eliza Ann Riggs of South Casco turns eighty seven by picking ten bushels of apples and milking eight cows. Mrs Maria Hopkins resigns as longtime organist after sixty three years in Nordrdewock. She may be the oldest active organist in the United States. Mrs Benjamin Powers of Farmington Falls is hailed as Franklin counties top woman farmer after harvesting 232 bushels of potatoes on a half acre, doing all planting to harvesting herself.
President Taft endorses legislation for militia pay stating it will boost efficiency of the organized militia as a national asset. He notes that differences between the War Department and National Guard representatives have largely been resolved.
Indian Trophies for a Museum recounts Alanson B. Skinner’s Wisconsin expedition for the American Museum of Natural History. He collected ceremonial items from the Pottawatomie and Menominee, including a medicine dance bundle, witch’s bag, a thunder staff, a cedar flute, and carvings tied to the tribes’ rites and healing practices.
The destroyer Jenkins has ousted the Jouett as the fastest in the fleet. During a two hour test Jenkins averaged 33.14 knots, beating Jouett's 33.62. The first group of coal burner destroyers Reid Slusser Lampson Preston and Smith plans to head to the Pacific coast fleet next spring, as oil burner ships join the Atlantic flotilla.
A census note states that of every hundred Italian emigrants eighty are male, underscoring gender skew in emigration patterns and prompting questions about economic and social factors driving the imbalance.
At Warren County Court House the Addison Moore estate lands will be sold to the highest bidder. The sale includes three main parcels totaling about 419 acres in Pittsfield with separately described sections and contingencies. Emma Moore as administrator sets terms: one-third cash at confirmation, balance in two yearly installments with interest, secured by mortgage and judgment bond.
Register's notice lists accounts filed for estates in Warren County with a December 2 hearing before the Orphans' Court at 2 PM. Executrix FE Shear for David Shear. Otis F Hoffman for Nancy L Hoffman. W R Dawson for Jennie A Cook. Justin E Cochener for Mary J Cochener. J G McDonald for James H Coburn. KF A Wood, Register. Warren Pa November 2 1912.
Warren County Common Pleas No 20 September term 1912 Effie B Bush Libellant vs Chauncey R Bush Respondent. Respondent to appear in person before Warren court on first Monday in December 1912 to answer libel and show cause why divorce should not be granted. Sheriff Henry Park notes service at Warren Pa October 22 1912.
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