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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1909
Page
8
Instructions require all copy be in by Tuesday each week. Correspondents must sign their names to communications, though names will not be published unless requested. Do not write on both sides of the paper.
Nov 9 details residents visiting and traveling. Will Brown of Jamestown hosted friends. Mrs N J Ault and Miss Miller visited from Warren. Biddle family to Washington DC for winter. Parshall family back from Delaware. Sampson visit to Warren. Myers returns from Washington DC. Cooney sick then improving. Henhart buys Conroy home for renovations. Corry guests Sterrett visit. new born son to Rockwell family. McDowell from Youngsville visits father Metzger after illness.
Mrs Ida Vansile and Miss Bertha Passinger visited Warren on Monday. Mr and Mrs L G Adams visited Celeron and Jamestown with nephew Leroy Daugarthy. Arthur Vansile drove through the Hollow. Henry Lauffenburger visited his mother on Fox Hill. Sam McMannas of Michigan visited locally with relatives. Mearl Wright returned from Ohio and Michigan. Georgia Scott traveled to Jamestown to see sister Mrs Elmer Wirley. Frank Vansile and Walter Ackley were in Jamestown. Freeda Mattson called on Bertha Passinger. Frank Lacy of Warren visited A S Passinger.
Alonzo Fitch of Loleta visited his parents for a few days. E Stokes and daughter Myrtle visited Grand Valley Saturday. Mrs W E R Ackley visited relatives in Titusville. Ward Fitch of Liverly stayed with his parents D and Mrs Fitch. Farmers haul apples and potatoes to Spartansburg. EK P Lamb is sick. Whooping cough seen locally. Richard Harrison visited D Fitch. Andy Smith builds a barn wall. Ernest Hayes does mason work. Nellie Harrison and three Red Oak children spent Monday with the Fitchs. James Falkinburg of Montana visits his sister Mrs Cecil Ackley. Minnie Fitch left for Oil City after illness.
Nov 9 reports show Frank Randall and Miss Mildred Sumner visiting Akeley Hollow. Jamestown visitors include Mr. and Mrs. Ruckman and Mr. and Miss Chalmers. Hunters fill the Russell woods and rabbits are plentiful while residents like John Allen and Frank Martin visit and claim social calls continue in Akeley Hollow.
Miss Tena Murphy of Falconer was seen greeting friends on Sunday and Monday following a very successful season.
Nov and Mrs Addie Baker widow of Thomas Baker longtime Freehold Township resident dies at 11 PM Sunday she leaves one son and six grandchildren Funeral for Charles Danielson of Pittsfield Township sets for 10 AM Tuesday after brief illness
Pupil attendance shown for the second month ending Oct 29 1909. Room 1 lists names including Ethel Matteson Florence Mead Edith Brundage Mack Stearns Leslie Wood Harry Morton Clarence Tamona Sarah Clark Harry Lamona Elbert Wood Marion Brundage Alice Bennick Arthur Grady Edgar Crane Harold Pitt Kenneth Pitt Lawrence Grady Mabel Matteson Guy Matteson Rolland Wilson Irene Farnham John Rickerson Clare DeJean Bonnie Ford Mildred Sandburg Harold Wells Carl Christinson Violet Page Esther Brundage Nora Clark Charles Barton George Beemus. Room 2 Seventh Grade list Jessie Ford Ralph Wood Walter Clark Frank Taylor Archie Taylor. Sixth Grade Mildred Pitt Jennie DeJean Margaret Brundage Bernice Barton Marion Porter Karl Shonts Lawrence Pitt Leslie Wells. Fifth Grade Oral Olsdorf Mildred Matteson Edna Rickerson Irvin Little Paul Porter. Pupils not absent for second month ending Oct 29 1909 Tenth Grade Laura Pitt Ethel Wood Ninth Grade Mabel Mead Mabelle Bates Gertrude Pitt Warren Wood.
Katharina Kohler transfers to Allie Kohler in Conewango for 900 dollars and many similar deeds are recorded. Transfers include Melvina J. Lacy to I N Mahaffy in Glade for 300 dollars and ER B Lacy to Victor Granquist in Glade for 1 dollar. Other actions cover parcels in Cherry Grove Pine Grove Sugar Grove and Eldred with prices ranging from 1 to 13100 dollars.
A Montgomery county woman reported damaged houseplants from pests. State Zoologist Surface identified larvae of Sciara flies feeding on soil vegetation and roots. Advice urged tobacco dust on soil surface to deter flies, plus decoctions or sprays for larvae and scale, with seasonal deep treatments for trees.
A Chester county man who spent 115 dollars in four years on spraying two acres of an orchard sought guidance from State Zoologist Surface. He is advised that buying a spraying apparatus and using lime sulfur wash, applied during dormancy with two coats, is cheaper and more effective.
The Harrisburg story about Gelwicks of Franklin county outlines a 1909 apple crop record. After San Jose scale devastated his trees in 1906 he sprayed with lime and sulphur, recovering six acres to yield 600 bushels in 1907 and 4,500 bushels from 30 acres in 1909, with all trees thriving and neighbors persuaded that spraying helps apples. The article notes oil spray by B Rinehart in Mercersburg killing nearly all trees in 22,000 trees, illustrating contrasting outcomes.
A series of transfers shows F. M. Kidder and wife to C. F. Barnhart at Pine Grove for 1 dollar. Roy Dale Alcorn to A. M. Childs at Spring Creek for 700 dollars. Addie Brunson and others to George Cochran at Pittsfield for 400 dollars. C. Annie Bettis to Herman R. De Long at Warren for 34 500 dollars. Wm. H. Shortt Estate to Mary A. Taft at Youngsville for 2 000 dollars. Philip H. Lesser et al. to Emil R. Lesser at Warren for 3450 dollars. Francis M. Hollister to Fanny E. Hollister at Elk for 1 dollar.
In Theodore Roosevelt’s African game tale, he recalls taking aim at a lion standing over Simba the tracker. Roosevelt fires, hitting the beast in the neck and shoulder, then again breaking the back with a final shot, ending the hunt as his companions gather nearby.
Chicago society reels as a clubman slaps his wife in the club room causing public shock and sparking debate over proper conduct in refined circles and private discipline in high society venues.
A scientist says the sun will exhaust its heat in 70 million years and the world will die. A listener asks to confirm the timeframe and the professor replies seven million, prompting the audience to exclaim gratitude for the corrected figure.
An Indiana University professor denounces coffee as more harmful to the human family than whiskey, urging caution about caffeine and its effects on health and society.
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