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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1898
Page
3
Poem-like imprint praising gratitude for liberty and peace after conflict. It celebrates returning soldiers, families gathering, and hearthside joy, thanking God for reunions and the blessings of a blessed year. The voice honors loved ones, veterans, and maternal affection in a retrospective holiday reverie.
The D A V P Ry altered its afternoon northbound train to depart Warren at 3 16 and the southbound at 6 42 since last Sunday. The schedule change lets riders pick up Pittsburg papers two hours earlier. The Warren Relief Association is delivering Thanksgiving dinners with baskets and donations collected from public school pupils and organized by longtime officers.
Union services at Warren Baptist Church at 10 AM with Rev. Edwin Swengel delivering the sermon. Episcopal services at 10:45 AM led by Rev. A. R. Taylor. First Lutheran Church hosts an Emmanuel Oratorio in the evening with free admission and a collection. Mystic Midgets perform at Library Hall December 16 and 17 with 150 trained children under Mrs. D. L. Gerould in a calcium light show staged by Fred H. Decker & Co.
Regular meeting notes from November 21 show the Street committee urging gates at the P and E Railroad crossing at Fourth street and Council approved drafting an ordinance. Bridge material for the race bridge is nearly ready and the Sewer committee recommends paying 99.70 of a 606.40 bill for exile labor. Elections in hose houses and county compensation are referred to the building committee and Borough Attorney for talks with County Commissioners.
The Warren County Teachers Institute opens Monday December 19 featuring Dr. W. W. Black from Illinois University and Dr. W. H. Mace from Syracuse University. Louisville editor Henry Watterson lectures on Abraham Lincoln Tuesday evening with Col. L. F. Copeland delivering Seeing the Elephant. The event draws over 300 teachers for a week of lectures and mutual study.
Civil Court activity and local happenings fill the Warren era items. Judge Lindsey and Warren attorneys attended court at Tionesta. XL Restaurant sold to Homer W. Nesmith. Postmaster William B. Hale appointed at Ackley. electric railroad between Titusville and Hydetown now in operation. fire at Wilcox destroys seven buildings with $30,000 loss. Bradford Era reports local roll of events amid Christmas prep and civic items.
The Warren Water Co versus Warren Borough injunctive case came before Judge Lindsey with a decision reserved. Lawyers for Warren applied that the 1873 act bars the borough from building its own plant after contracting with a private firm, while borough counsel argued the act authorizes it to erect and operate its own water works, with bonds up to fifty thousand dollars.
Land deals recorded in Warren Glade Kinzua and Columbus areas include Baro to John Greeselbrecht for 136.80 dollars Frank Geisselbrecht estate to Mary R Schaeffer et al 1800 dollars John Hepburn to Annie Wick Hepburn 1 Ida Shrewsbury to Uri B McGraw 350 John A Nelson to Eliza I Henry Windsor to same 1 Byron N Carrier to Ora V Colby Columbus and Wm Hamblin and wife to Hollis Hamblin 10 H A Jamieson and wife to J F John 400 Wm McIntosh and wife to J F John 1 J F Johnson and wife to First Nat Bank Kinzua 1 Nathan Branch estate to Frederick G Shreves 550 dollars.
The fourth quarterly meeting of Warren County Pomona Grange No. 10 will be held at Columbus Grange hall in Columbus Pa on December 12 1898 Thursday and Friday. The program includes calls to order minutes reports master secretary treasurer and county deputies discussions about markets fertility soil farm power and other ag topics plus a women's hour and memorial services. A fifth degree Pomona meeting and officer elections are scheduled with Fire Relief report and password reminders for 1899.
A local teacher institute was held in Scandia Pennsylvania on Saturday November 19 1898. Miss J I Delo led the session with several local and visiting educators in attendance including P L Brown Frank Hagberg Uhas Erickson Andrew Young Andrew Clendening and teachers J S DeLo Luella Clendening Majorie Bergstrom Janet Wilson Laura Learn Alice Maher Maggie Smith Etta Clendening plus guests H M Putnam Gertrude Mead and others. The program featured songs recitations reports papers on arithmetic geography education patriotism and drawing and concluded with remarks from Supt Putnam and school directors. Ended with a vote of thanks to Scandia for hospitality.
The temperance question split Potter County as Republican Assembly candidate W. W. Crittenden campaigned for repealing the prohibitory liquor law. He argued a well regulated license system is better than prohibition where "pig's ears" and "holes in the wall" exist. Crittenden won by 74 votes and his success in overturning the prohibition remains uncertain.
K. W. Sealy, manager, advertises carpet cleaning and laying services plus curtain cleaning and feather renovation with a satisfaction guarantee. Work located at the rear of Mansion House. leave orders at the Mansion.
Auction notice indicates all china and decorated ware will be sold without regard to price. The brief blurb notes strong bar gains at Fehlman BRC locations.
A local advertisement notes the Malt Office offers legal blanks at low prices and invites customers to compare rates. The notice emphasizes affordability and quick access for legal form needs.
Russell records show rising feed and apple shipments. William Chalmers raced to catch the 11 oclock train to Warren to obtain a marriage license and, at 3 oclock, Rev Depew married him to Miss Eastland. Emma Magill shot herself with a revolver, a flesh wound to her palm, while visiting grandmother Morrison. she survived.
In Warren on November 17 1898 George Schanz and Cora Hedges were married at home on Madison Street by Rev J P Burns. On November 19 1898 J W Cable of Tiona Pa and Elizabeth Corrigan of Kennedy were married by Rev Father McCabe in Warren. Michael Kennedy and Margaret E Cryan also wed at the same time and place by the same officiant.
Death notices for Florence Hall Stuart in Warren New York, Jacob Baldensperger in Glade Township, Hon. Samuel M. Brainerd in Erie, and Johanna Collins in Warren list ages, dates, and funeral details. Read as local notices with brief bios, family grief, and service information for each deceased.
The Clearfield convention recommends dissolving the act of March 30 1897 on forest fire extinguishment until constitutionality is settled. It calls for voter birth and death registries every July, a single school registration to aid funding, age limits for compulsory education, and a County Assessor with aides in each district. It also proposes uniform property valuation and funding to draft these measures into acts of assembly.
On November 1 the Pennsylvania Railroad offered excursion tickets to winter resorts in New Jersey Virginia North and South Carolina Georgia Florida and Cuba. Tickets sell at the usual low rate with liberty return limits. Request the illustrated book detailing routes and rates from ticket agents.
The December Harper's Magazine issue showcases many short stories by renowned authors illustrated by prominent artists. Featured works include Old Captain by Myles Hemenway with Howard Pyle eleven drawings, plus An Es meralda of Rocky Canyon Bret Harte and The White Heron Fiona Macleod among others.
Senator elect H. H. Cumings returns home from a state tour. A Tidioute reception for soldiers on furlough includes a supper at Hotel Ryan, speeches at City Hall, and patriotic addresses by local leaders and veterans. Sugar Grove, Youngsville, and Sanford briefs cover lectures, illnesses, travel, farm work, and community events with multiple local figures and venues named.
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