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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1888
Page
3
The Warren Mail presents a devotional Thanksgiving poem by Julia H. Thayer praising a sacred pause amid worldly care. It envisions prayerful reflection, rest from labor, and a bright, heavenly perspective guiding gratitude and memory on Thanksgiving Day.
Oil closes at 85 cents. Christmas four weeks away. Courts hold, roof rises on Citizens bank block, jury commissioners chosen for next year. Turkey raffles popular, winter snow and slush noted. Schedules include library shows, Nurse Mrs E K Moore, new plushes at Hunter Jarvis, Bart's shoes dealer Northrop, book and stationery shops, and local ads. Patrol marksmen figures for Company I Warren. Copyright Cook Book from Presbyterian Church. Community notices, ads, and moral observations fill the page.
Strictly personal notices from Erie Times detail travels and engagements. Mrs L R Freeman visited New York last week while Mr and Mrs M B Danham traveled to California. Mrs E A Parsons of Forestville N Y visited daughter Mrs Best in Warren. Will King of Buffalo attended Becker Shaffer wedding. Geo H Leonhart left for Cleveland to run a restaurant. his family stays. E R Wheelock of Sugar Grove may move to Garrison Kentucky for lumbering. Fred Morck in New York buying holiday goods for Morck Bros jewelry and silverware. Col L F Watson, Warren congressman elect, gave Col F H Ellsworth a 100 check for Hamot Hospital fund.
An Erie letter group extols The Boston Stars as premier entertainment with superb pianist, soprano, cornetist, and reader Miss Brown. Endorsers include professors and clergymen from Pittsburgh and Erie praising the act as one of the season’s best and predicting strong Warren attendance.
Last Saturday G W Hagerty. a teamster for the Warren Torpedo Company, started for Pleasantville with about 1000 pounds of glycerine to shoot wells. On Monday near noon, while unloading at the magazine, an explosion shattered the area. The driver, horses, and wagon were blown apart, windows and houses damaged, and Mrs Gutshaw injured. Only fragments of the horse and wagon were found. Hagerty, an experienced handler, leaves a wife and several children.
A Union Thanksgiving Day service will unite the Presbyterian, Methodist Episcopal, Baptist, and Evangelical Association churches at eleven o'clock with Rev. W Shannon preaching. A Relief Association collection will be taken, and attendees are asked to come prepared to contribute liberally.
Mrs Mary A Livermore presents My Story of the War a vivid account of army camp life and womens hospital work illustrated and selling well The review notes its value to the literature of the great Rebellion Just published Gen Phil Sheridans Memoirs recounts a romantic career in the soldiers own words and promises broad readership
Last Monday afternoon at Irvington J. S. Van Etta a P. and E. railroad freight conductor was crushed between two cars by bumpers while at work. He died about 5 o clock after being brought to Warren for treatment. The remains were taken to Erie.
Invitation to dine with Williams at Adelphia Kitchen 311 Second St on Thanksgiving Day from 5 to 7 PM. Williams thanks patrons for their support and invites all to call and partake in an old Maryland harvest boiled dinner with corn dumplings and pumpkin pie on Thursday November 29 from 5 to 7 PM.
On exhibition are $1,000 worth of furs including bear, monkey, opossum, seal, in muffs, boas and trimmings by the yard. If none suits, orders will be placed. Floor oil cloths and stove rugs in area line at It BY 14420. The Merck drug store is the place to purchase perfumeries and medicines. Morris & Mullen.
A Cassadaga man named Richardson, identified as a gang leader, was arrested and brought to Auburn for trial. On November 25 he pleaded guilty and received four years in Erie County penitentiary plus a $50 fine. He refused to name other gang members, saying he’d rather be hanged than betray friends. Also noted is Miss M Crick offering satin ribbon trimming at 21n.
A Warren county teachers institute drew about 240 educators, with Supt. Arird organizing the event across the county. Sessions were held in the courthouse and Library Hall, and Friday features included Adv. lectures by Rev. R. S. Holmes on William the Norman and Belva Lockwood speaking on Washington society for a $75 admission, amid mixed opinions. Belva’s appearance drew criticism over perceived opulence and motives.
The Wednesday to Friday sessions featured Mary Allen teaching physiology and children s rights, Miss Van Rensselaer on physics, and talks on spelling drawing and elocution. Committees on permanent certificates and resolutions praised the institute s large attendance, thanked Warren county educators and sponsors, noted Georgia White s death, and adopted unanimous thanks to Superintendent Aird and local press and railroads for support.
Neighborhood notes report the 23rd annual Department of Pennsylvania G A R encampment to convene in Erie on February 12 and 13, 1889. Also noted are local deaths Nicholas Herrington at 73, John Williamson age 32, and a series of regional notices and events including a Thanksgiving ball in Russell and a new federal building in Erie.
The article notes the house built by Hon. David Brown in 1807, later home to his family until 1825, then used for singing and Sunday Schools with Harriet N. Hazeltine among teachers. It claims it as Warren county’s first framed house with timber from whip saws, and details Brown family migration from Belfast in 1804.
Governor James A. Beaver is expected to serve as marshal at Harrison’s inauguration next spring. Pennsylvania soldiers will help lead the parade, as they typically do, ensuring a grand ceremonial display. The Lehigh Valley Railroad has twelve locomotives equipped with telegraphic gear for in-motion messaging along the line. The National Guard of Pennsylvania has accepted an invitation to attend George Washington’s 100th anniversary inauguration in New York on April 30. The Memorial Committee, formed at the Erie State Convention of County Commissioners, recently met in Williamsport and prepared a tax law package to present in the winter session. Beaver County plans a taxation reform to tax property at full value and reduce the millage from nine to three. The Pennsylvania High License law’s success in Philadelphia, dropping saloons from 6000 to 1300, is underscored by a 62 percent fall in County Prison commitments from June 1 to November 1 compared with last year. Pittsburg lawyer John McLaren proposed rerouting the Allegheny River to connect Pittsburg and Allegheny City, a plan to create a broad land tract for new cross-city streets. not to be enacted this year.
Ajut. Gen. Hastings arranged with the Pennsylvania Railroad for transporting the entire National Guard of Pennsylvania to Washington for President Harrison's inauguration. About 7,500 men expected to participate.
Mrs Witt J McConnet from Geneva Ohio dated November 26 1858 corrects a published item claiming Mr McConnell was arrested for beating his wife. She states he was sent to the asylum and is under treatment nervously prostrated from overwork. Rest will restore him.
The Dakota Blizard praised Gen Harrison Allen, chairman of the territorial central committee, for a sweeping GOP win. Four weeks before the election the outlook looked bleak as Democrats toured the territory with many speakers, yet Allen’s four week campaign educated voters and routed the opposition.
G B WILLIAMS Adelphia Kitchen Warren Pa announces a daily harvest home sale offering beef, lamb, pork, poultry, vegetables, canned goods and seafood at 25 cents per plate with beefsteak and veal dishes, and tea coffee milk at five cents. Items ordered from a long catalogue promise Delmonico style fare during a two hour daily service.
This year readers are urged to include the Pittsburg Times among their lists. The paper offers United Press world news and local reports with fearless editorials and full market coverage. Subscriptions are 3.00 yearly or 30 cents monthly. Address Pittsburg Pa.
A New Castle minister billed $2 for a funeral sermon over a man killed in New Castle, drawing sharp citizen reactions in Meadville Journal. The piece argues ministers deserve pay for funerals, noting travel and expenses in cold rain, citing laborer wages and insurance ads entwined in the narrative.
Announcement from B F Morris noting J B Mullen joins as partner, creating Morris and Mullen drug firm. Mullen praised for broad expertise and public trust in the oil region. Also mentions Northrop's shoe store ads and a political subscription offer from A A Davis & Co.
Gentlemen are invited to visit Merck drug store to find the best imported and Key West cigars along with top brands known to the trade.
A list of yarn and wool products including Columbia Germantown Midnight Germantown Starlight Knitting Worsted German Knitting Worsted Saxony Shetland Wool Flora Fairy Zephyr Sonora Yarn Ice or Mohair Wool Reliance Yarn Pompadour Wool Cashmere Yarns Spanish Yarn Eiderdown Wool Zephyrs 2 4 and 8 fold. Also note a cash payment for rags free of rubbish, old rubber shoes and metals, offered at Johnson's Exchange room by opt H Johnson.
Peter Greenlund and Nelson Greenlund operate as undertakers and embalmers in Warren Pennsylvania. Peter at 214 Hickory Street and Nelson at 331 Exchange Block beside Exchange Hotel are listed as local funeral professionals.
A list of property transfers reported for the week ending November 24 1888 including buyers and sellers in Pittsfield Conewango Tidioute Titusville Glade Mead Eldred Triumph Pine Grove Farmington Mead and other locales with amounts ranging from 10 to 5000 dollars and including several transfers by administrators heirs and sheriffs to individuals and couples such as Mandeville Pittsfield Rogers Whipple Clapp Tur ner Muse Millins Mahoney Smith Dunn Siggins Rhodes and others.
Nov 26 notes: Dupree & Sodergreens enclose new mill. N W Dupree moves into Darling house. Rev Foulk holds protracted meetings at U B church with poor success. Elder Murray to fill M E pulpit. D A Samuelson loses a big horse valued $400. Thanksgiving eve masquerade at Ellis House. R W Houpin moves into vacated house. Spring Creek reports: Dr and Mrs Gilson to New York. garcelon ill. Mrs Bates ill. rheumatism confines Mudge. roads poor. porker cries heard. buckwheat cakes and sop favored. turkeys roost high. Rev S Rowland preached. school marms attend Warren Institute. Clarence Tyler seeks health in Georgia. Stemly keeps mill flour and feed. G D Cummings in poor health.
The Warren W C T U hosted Dr Mary Allen under County Superintendent T W Arird to teach physiology and hygiene. Her talks urged virtuous living and warned of dangers to children, inspiring teachers and mothers to apply the lessons as they prepare to educate the next generation.
The article debates authorship of Shakespearean works while stressing health tips. It touts Hostetters Stomach Bitters as a reformer for depleted systems and nervous unrest, claims malaria immunity, and promotes a Dr Mayer rupture cure with office address and circulars. It ends with an odd garbled line about footwear.
C A Anderson pastor conducts services every Sabbath at 11 A M and 7 30 P M with Sabbath School at 10 A M Weekly prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 30 P M and class meeting Friday at 7 30 P M.
Readers praise the Turf Field and Farm as a leading authority on dogs with a bright kennel department and wide circulation. Letters from Mitchell Harrison and a Chicago correspondent commend its independence and growing popularity. Warren clothing store A Weiss advertises spring suits and boys’ clothes. Offerlee Glade Green House promotes flowers, plants, and floral work with low prices.
Dr Henry Baxter's Mandrake Bitters offered as a cure for costiveness and torpid liver with price listed at 25 cents per bottle. Sold by Morris & Mullen.
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