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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1905
Page
8
Notice to correspondents that Alleppy should be in hand by Tuesday each week. Each writer must sign their name to communications but names will not be published unless requested. Do not write on both sides of the paper.
The Frewsburg Study Club held a regular meeting led by Mrs. Mary Gould with talks on Current Events and readings from the Merchant of Venice. Nearby, Leroy Preston died at 41, and a resident, Mr. Jameson, was injured on a trolley pole after a spur broke. The column also notes visits, travels, and parish events in Frewsburg and Jamestown communities.
Lizzie Limburg and two Jamestown ladies led Salvation Army meetings with several starting a better life. A church business session discussed securing another minister after Rev. Morton resigned. Y M C A members from Jamestown held Sunday services and an oyster supper funded shed building. The item also lists local moving, building, and sewing activity with residents returning to Frewsburg and Frewsburg workers on nearby farms.
Five days and Will Denman has carried the mail. Mrs. Tracy and her young son from Frewsburg visited friends in the neighborhood last Friday. Carlos Blanchard of Jamestown stayed with his sister Mrs. Wilson on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Schaner of Dunkirk visited W. F. Atkins.
Nov 24 Dr C H Jacobs a respected Youngsville physician dies at Warren Emergency Hospital after a life of community service. Funeral services conducted by Free Methodist and M E church pastors. Wife and two children mourn, with many friends offering sympathy. Additional notices: Mrs J H Jackson and Mrs J H Wickham buried, W H Hay named county physician for Rouse Hospital, Youngsville Savings Bank expands, post office moves into bank building, Thacher relocates jewelry store, White memorial school brickwork progresses.
Nov 27 Russell items report Coral Dowell returning home from Salamanca as a fireman on an engine. Visits by Mrs Mary Griffin of Jamestown and others in Russell. Noted are old contacts, a man selling needles, and a basket factory accident years ago. D A W gravel and electric railway trains shut for season. local telegraph line repairs continue. Fred Enos finds granite-like rock on his farm east end. polishable if worked.
Local items spell out society news from Warren and Pine Grove township. Updates on residents health convalescence plowing and farming, a temperance union event, a Thanksgiving dance at Hotel Adams, visitors from Rochester Warren and Akeley Hollow, a debate on pen versus sword, and area infrastructure work including trolley guard rails.
Erie visitor Mrs. John T. Brew spent time with relatives after a Washington trip. Judge Siggins of Tidioute visited friends. Epworth League and Christian Endeavor held a joint church meeting. Dr. Jacobs illness saddened the community. Clarence Spalding’s fatal accident near Fentonville, NY, mourned. he leaves a mother and two brothers. D A V & P R R staff changes near Dunkirk. P R R installed cast iron pipes to culvert to divert Broken straw Creek overflow.
Basement selection includes china and glassware of all kinds, Toyland items for children, dolls in all sizes, framed and unframed pictures, toilet articles, perfumes, table linen, drawn work, wool blankets, down comforts, fancy underwear, waisting, pin cushions, baskets, and numerous other articles.
Sugar Run news items list residents and visitors including Glen Muntz from Rochester and others from Warren Butler Kinzua and Tidioute. The piece praises the MAIL for providing a full correct election tabulation and mentions staff and several social visits and recent movements among residents.
Nov 27. Mr T Parson Mr A Parson and Mr McGair of Jamestown visited Mr and Mrs Arthur Smith Sunday. Mrs G Swarburg of Warren visited her mother Mrs A Swanson Sunday. Mr and Mrs H Wesling were in Warren Thursday. Oliver Fredericks and Charles Nelson of Clarendon were in town Sunday. Mrs Kidder and son Lyd of West Virginia are visiting her parents Mr and Mrs A Smith. Mr and Mrs Will Carlson of Warren visited Otto Johnson Sunday. Mrs Babcock Jennie Wollaston Nettie Ittle Mrs Bostwick and Mahala Bostwick attended Nellie Baker music recital in Warren Thursday evening.
North Clarendon notes show Mr. Olson of Garfield visited town last Saturday. Miss Rosa Gunnell from Warren was a visitor last week. Mrs. T. Jones is on the sick list. Mr. Fox of Bager Mills visited Monday. Miss Laddie Dickens was taken to Emergency hospital with typhoid fever on Saturday. Frank Johnson of Sheffield visited Sunday evening. Charlie Berry of Old Clarendon, away weeks, returned a few days ago.
Mr and Mrs Joseph Aylsworth relocate to Baker Hill to reside with daughter Mrs Ebien Blanchard. Archie Capwell and family occupy the Curtis house. The article notes the remains of Miss Ambrosia Hall.
The Hollis Dutton property with substantial timber has been sold to a Corry businessman who plans to build a mill and saw the timber this coming winter. The text notes burials occurred Saturday on the same property.
W L Greeley sold his saw mill to K D Alsdorf at Spring Creek. John Ayers and Homer Whitley moved the mill for Mr Greeley, aided by Lina Andros, Orie Nichols, and two teams of L L Clough. W B Stoddard now works for the P and E R R.
Angeline P Putnam Thompson died at Thompson Hill on November 13 1905 from congestion of the lungs at age 82 years 11 months and 22 days after an 18 hour illness. Born in Erie County New York she moved with parents to Warren County at age seven and remained a longtime resident. She married Samuel Thompson March 14 1841 who died in 1889. Four of their five children survive Sidney Lyons Nancy Burns and T L Putnam and W W Thompson E A M Thompson and O P San Jacinto Cal. Fifteen grandchildren and seventeen great grandchildren survive. She was the oldest of Daniel and Betsey Barrett Putnam’s eleven children. She was a devoted mother and will be missed by all who knew her.
Principal John F. Bigler announces Edinboro Normal School will finish the new gymnasium for the winter term starting January 2 1905.
Atlantic City New Jersey November 23 The National Grange elected officers by a morning vote with National Master nominee former Governor N J Bachelder of New Hampshire as the consensus choice Other officers included National Lecturer George W F Gauntt Overseer T C Atkeson Steward J A Newcomb Assistant Steward F F Merchant Chaplain W K Thompson Treasurer Mrs McDowell Secretary C M Freeman Gatekeeper S R Powers Ceres Mrs Ladd Flora Mrs Horton all from various states including New Jersey New York Ohio Michigan Wisconsin Massachusetts Rhode Island and West Virginia.
The National Grange, in session at Atlantic City, endorses President Roosevelt for equal opportunity against concentrated wealth. The convention also backs national life insurance control and state fire insurance oversight and endorses Master Granger W. C. Hill's plan for an international agriculture institute.
An Irishman boards a street car and pays the fare with a dilapidated coin. The conductor rejects it as tin, and the Irishman replies that he thought it was fake, then produces a nickel instead. The humorous exchange is noted in December Lippincott's.
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