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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1898
Page
3
The Warren Mail reports a football game set for next Saturday at 3 PM at Recreation Park between Titusville high school and Warren high school with admission 15 cents. Also notes revival services led by Rev. E F Edmonds and his brother from Youngstown.
In Warren on November 16 1898 Benj R Roden of Milwaukee wed Frances Theresa Hill at the bride's mother's home. In Jamestown New York on November 10 1898 Fred E Sill wed Agnes D Smith both of Warren. In Warren November 1898 Lewis Highhouse of Pleasant Town and Susie Dove of Carp entered marriage at the First Lutheran Parsonage. In Warren November 12 1898 W Carpenter of Dubois Pennsylvania wed Elizabeth Wortzkey of Tionesta at the Smith residence.
Deaths reported for John A. Jackson Lemmon Waters Fox Giblin in Youngsville Warren and Sugar Grove areas. Obituaries note professions banking lumber oil business service in communities and family survivors. Funeral arrangements announced for several, with details on locations and ages.
Local notes report stock prices UIL closed at 1.18 and Tiona 1.28, social visits, club openings in Warren, and church events. Reports include Grange meeting in Williamsport, a resignation in Titusville, a wedding trip update, a new Warren club, turkey supper plans, and city notes on fire alarms and a refinery blast. Also covered are local obituaries, grape crop outlook, and regional oil exploration near Pine Creek with multiple wells in operation and gas pressures.
Trade circulars report a 25 percent average price rise across all envelope grades and claim a trust now controls about 90 percent of production. The Mail Office will supply printed envelopes at the old price for the moment, urging orders now.
Warren Pa. veteran group recounts sail from Ponce Puerto Rico aboard the Minnewauka with the 16th Penn regiment and other units. The voyage includes an attempted spar theft story, discipline aboard, quarantine in Sandy Hook, and a welcome at Warren with casualties noted including a death at Ponce hospital.
An ad-like fragment extols Jacob Keller the tailor for fitting clothes and quality cuts. It also touts White Cloud Flour for bread, Felmian Bros pricing, and promotions for wallpaper, belts, dinnerware, and legal blanks from a mail office. The piece reads like a collage of merchant notices.
Readers learn that catarrh is cured in all stages by Hall's Catarrh Cure a constitutional treatment taken internally and aimed at the blood and mucous surfaces. Proponents offer 100 dollars for any failure and urge sending testimonials while selling at 75 cents. Hall's Family Pills are endorsed as well.
On November 1 the Pennsylvania Railroad placed excursion tickets on sale to winter resorts in New Jersey Virginia North and South Carolina Georgia Florida and Cuba. Tickets are at low rates with liberty return limits and an illustrated resort book is available free on request. The Pennsylvanian system offers extensive connections and travel routes for winter trips.
Rough counts show about twenty dogs disposed of in Sugar Grove with others kept in strict quarantine. Revival meetings start at U B church in Russell, led by Rev Depew with assistance from Mr and Mrs McIntyre. Box factory resumes, aims for 10 000 boxes in four to five weeks. Thanksgiving event planned at Allen's hall to aid Union church obligations. Other notes cover hunting, Camp Meade, hospital surgery for E B Grandin, a saw injury at Youngs ville factory, library fundraiser, Prof Osborne visit, and a Pittsfield fire impacting barns.
Transfers recorded include Wm T Darling and wife to Chas P Brace and wife Freehold 600 dollars Samuel Bengtson to Charles Englewood Clarendon 80 dollars W V Young and others to Wm Lessig 50 dollars John W Armstrong and wife to F C Parshall Clarendon 1 dollar C R Elston estate to same plus Annie Gorman etal to C B Gorman Triumph 1 dollar H F Andrews to Frank W Keeney Triumph 493 dollars John Vancise and wife to John A Rosendale Eldred 150 dollars Darius Titus estate to Mary A Beebe Conewango 1200 dollars Celia Damon etal to Alton Mead Columbus 600 dollars
Daniel H Hastings designates Thursday November 24 1898 as Pennsylvania’s annual Thanksgiving. He notes war recently ended, peace restored, and urges worship and prayer to give thanks for national prosperity and the country’s future welfare. Harrisburg November 12 1898.
The Personally Conducted Tourist System offers tours for 98 and 99 with California and Florida itineraries. California departs February 9 from New York Philadelphia Harrisburg and Pittsburg for a 19 day trip via the Golden Gate Special. Florida offers Jacksonville tours departing January 24 February 7 21 and March 7 with two weeks in the Flowery State. Tickets available from principal PRR points. for details contact district passenger agents in Pittsburg Baltimore Washington and Philadelphia.
Wrightsville reports politics as the main topic with Freehold staying true to Republican principles. Notes on illness, voting for the straight Republican ticket at 82, new minister Rev Whippo, growing school, and local events across Spring Creek, Youngsville, Sugar Grove, and surrounding towns.
Sam Jones and Joe Anderson visit home from Fredonia and Mayville. Mr and Mrs P G Spetz move into the mill house on Miles Run. Clyde Woodin goes to St Marys WV for winter, Theodore Hagle to Clarion for work, Mrs Adams visits Northville, Mrs Jones hosts new boarder Mae Hokanson. Hustling correspondent sought for surrounding towns with subscription request.
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