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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1914
Page
4
Editorial argues courts unfairly bear liquor license decisions and advocates local option transferring license responsibility to the people. It condemns liquor interests for funding campaigns, warns of Penrose related probes, and predicts eventual push for statewide prohibition despite partisan resistance.
The article explains local option as voters deciding at a regular election whether liquor sales should continue in their county. It distinguishes local option from prohibition, noting it does not advocate absolute bans and returns power to local government to determine liquor legality.
The Directors of the First National Bank of Youngsville express sympathy to Fred Arthur McDowell’s wife and family and vow to drape their banking room in mourning for 30 days. Signed by Wilson McGrew J. J. Knapp E. W. Cooney E. J. Kelley F. E. Swanson J. A. Lagerdahl Robert Slater W. J. Mead. 10-22-11. Warren notes and war commentary follow with brief town reflection and Christmas shopping tip for housewives.
J D Woodard of Warren Clothing Company staged a first style show for men on Friday and Saturday. Hundreds enjoyed models and displays from Adier Clothes Berliner Strauss neckwear Cluett Peabody collars Phoenix hosiery Munsing underwear Gotham shirts. The store featured decor Victrola music by G M Noyes and friendly staff. The event was a pronounced success with women and men pleased by the offerings.
Fred Matthews of Lottsville, badly hurt by a threshing machine a few weeks ago, was discharged Saturday from Corry Hospital to return home.
Fred Maeder was struck by a street car at Glade on Saturday evening about 10 o clock. He did not see the car and his head was badly cut requiring several stitches.
Harrisburg Oct 20 William Draper Lewis will run for governor despite forgetting Roosevelt Progressive party nomination with thirty votes in the May primary. His name appears on the ballot opposing Vance McCormick after withdrawing from the Washington party ticket.
A Warren Washington Party delegation attended a Jamestown dinner at the Eagle's Temple in honor of Col. Theodore Roosevelt. They met him at an informal reception and heard him attack Barnes and Murphy while urging support for Frederick M. Davenport, Progressive candidate for New York governor.
The report lists Boston players who appeared in multiple games with averages: Gowdy 545 Evers 438 Schmidt 357 Rudolph 333 Moranville 308 Mann 286 Whitted 215 Deal 122 Connolly 111 Moran 71 James 000. team average 255. For the Athletics: Walsh 333 Strunk 286 Baker 250 Collins 215 Murphy 188 Schang 166 McInnes 143 Barry 71 Oldring 66. team average 191. Overall averages: Boston 248 and Athletics 172.
Miss Smith Hornbraker of Harrisburg and Chalmers Gordon of Greencastle Pa were married in Hagerstown at the First Baptist parsonage. Gordon, who had prior divorces, declared he planned to keep marrying until he found a wife that suited him, during license application remarks.
An explosion ripped through a row of tenement houses on Frontenac street in Montreal last night. One person is dead, several are dying in hospital, and others remain buried in the wreckage. Most tenants were German or Austrian. Fire Chief Tremblay thinks revenge over the European war may have caused the blast.
The American Plate Glass company at James City will cease operations on Saturday for an indefinite period. The plant has run without a break for seven years and the shutdown will affect over four hundred workers with daily wages around $1,000.
Marshall E Packard died at his Spring Creek home on Tuesday morning at four o'clock aged 78. He leaves a wife two daughters Lena Jackson and Emma Day of Randolph NY and a son Leonard Packard of Stilcoom Washington. Funeral was held Thursday at 10 30 at his Spring Creek home.
Scranton residents pay four dollars a ton for coal before hauling costs while Paterson New Jersey and Wilkes-Barre shoppers pay three thirty five and three forty two respectively for the same coal. State utilities commission will be asked to review the matter. Sulzer hurt in auto mishap in Oneonta. Former governor Sulzer was injured when his car overturned between Walton and Sidney. His press aide Wilson suffered minor injuries.
The statement argues it is impossible for Martin Brum baugh to erase the memory among voters that he plays the role of Old Dog Tray of Penrose, suggesting lasting public notoriety from the performance.
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