Brevities From Home Matters Readings and Ads
A sweep of local notices includes election two weeks away, roof work on the new Court House, winter fashion and hat talk, Oysters advertised by A Ruhlman, and fall openings at Miss Daggett’s. Community items cover oil prospects near Warren, Good Templar convention, and a barber stealing goods and fleeing town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. Nesmith
Miss Daggett’s
John Thompson
Roscoe Hall
J. F. Wells & Co
Warren Amateur Hunting Association Second Hunt Results
The Warren Amateur Hunting Association held its second hunt last Wednesday with a larger haul. Capt. Hunter’s side counted 740 points to Capt. Orr’s 646, amid challenges over unshot game. supper at Carver House followed, and a meeting at J H Mitchell Co is planned tonight. The list names G P Orr and H P Hunter as team leaders with numerous members on both sides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren Amateur Hunting Association
Hunter
Orr
Carver House
C. Chamberlain
Warren
Association
J. H. Mitchell & Co
First Official Meeting of M. E. Church October 19
The M. E. Church held its first conference year meeting at E. T. Hazeltine's office with Rev. R. M. Warren presiding. Resolutions set monthly meeting dates at Hazeltine's office, elect Hazeltine as treasurer, collectorships for several men, W. V. Hazeltine as secretary, and ushers Dunham and Taylor. Minutes approved. Sunday School time left to pastor and teachers. Dr. W. V. Hazeltine, secretary. Also notice Daggett's Millinery Store advertises cloths and cassimeres at Hunter's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren
M. E. Church
Union School
Jim Speer
W. J. Dunham
M. EE
E. T. Hazeltine
R. M. Warren
J.B. Fouch
Frank Jones
W. J. Thomas
Glade
H. Babcock
North Warren
W. Dalrymple
Yankee Bush
Adam Shutt
Jackson’s
W. V. Hazeltine
M. B. Dunham
J. J. Taylor
Sec’y
Glade School lists September scholars with perfect attendance
The Glade school reports September attendance records for students including Katie Hanson Lillie Hanson Alice House Altha Phillips Minnie Wright Charlie Trushel Sam Lytle Ed Dantz Eddie Hertzel Theodore Lasser Eddie Wright Willie Myers Willie Holt Jimmie Holt Lis Snarpr and notes a teacher. The passage also advertises new stock at Hunter's and Geo Ball Co's dress goods for children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glade School
Katie Hanson
Lillie Hanson
Alice House
Altha Phillips
Minnie Wright
Charlie Trushel
Sam Lytle
Ed. Dantz
Eddie Hertzel
Theodore Lasser
Eddie Wright
Willie Myers
Willie Holt
Jimmie Holt
Lis Snarpr
Burglary at Youngsville Inspires Local Rumor Mill
Letter from Youngsville describes a burglary at the Post Office and Jno A Day’s Shoe Shop with losses totaling three to four hundred dollars. Suspicion falls on a local man Charlie Jeffords who fled. Homer and Cochran released for lack of evidence. Community notes praise Bro Riley’s upcoming lecture and comment on political climate and a new pump and shingle factory improving town prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Youngsville
Jno
Irvington
Charlie J. Jeffords
Walter Homer
Jeffords
Jack Cochran
Squire Davis
Bro. Riley
Squire Mead
Charley Chase
Henry Brace
Chase
Aurelius & Kinnear
Battle anniversary letter from Erie cautions on Scott
A reader from Erie marks Cedar Creek’s twelfth anniversary and denounces William L. Scott for supporting a peace at any price and the 1864 Chicago platform. The letter urges Erie voters to back Col. Watson for Congress and criticizes Scott’s loyalty to the South. Other local items note diphtheria, a life saving station, and forthcoming political events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie
Cedar Creek
Jubal
Coushatta
Hamburgh
Sixth Army Corps
Horatio G. Wright
Canon
Phil. Sheridan
Wm. L. Scott
Congress
Scott
Chicago
South
Col. Watson
Erie Marching Club
Argus
Warren to Welcome First Class Troupes This Winter
Caughey Sell of Erie announces Warren will host several top acts this fall and winter. The John Thompson Troupe opens on October 31 at the Park Opera House with eighteen performers, followed by the Boston Philharmonic and Rose Etynge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sugar Grove
Salt River
Whallon
Erie
Lincoln
Scofield
Congress
Gen. H. L. Brown
Marshall
W.W. Reed
A. King
James Sill
C. B. Curtis
Hall
Henry Wetter
Clarion County
Pershing
Warren
Caughey « Sell
John Thompson
Boston Philharmonic
Rose Etynge
Messers
Caughey & Sell
Park Opera House
Cavanry & Setr
Morning Glory Churn Exceeds Butter Output Claims
Advertises the Morning Glory Churn from McNett and Son’s furniture rooms promising higher butter yield from the same cream than any competing churns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McNett & Son
Geo Ball and Co expands to jobbing trade in clothing and goods
Geo Ball and Co adds to its retail department a jobbing trade selling clothing furnishing goods hats caps gloves hosiery neckwear and more to dealers as cheap as any New York wholesale house. They offer reasonable terms to responsible parties with a fine stock of chromes photographic views frames mouldings and fittings for pictures at low prices. Will Smith offers mouldings for mot toes and pictures cheap. J F Wells & Co carries drugs medicines fancy and toilet articles books and stationery trusses paints oils and Von Moschzisker remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. Ball & Co
New York
Witt Suirn’s
J. F. Wells & Co
Dr. von Moschzisker
Marriages in Warren and surrounding areas in October 1876
Several couples wed in October 1876 across towns including Youngsville Warren Spring Creek Sugar Grove Columbus and Oil City. Notable unions include J P Houser Jr and Mattie E August Rick Donovan and Annie Fitzgerald Myron A Babcock and Addie A Cobb Charles L Crouch and Hattie J Inwood J Hays Gillispie and J Elma White W D Bucklin and Clara E Shearer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren
Babcock
Cobb
Spring Creek
Parsonage
J. I. Bond
Myron A. Babcock
Addie A. Cobb
Crouch
Wood
Sugar Grove
FE. K. Creed
Charles L. Crouch
Hattie J. Inwood
Warren County General Election Notice 1876
Warren County High Sheriff issues the 1876 general election notice listing polling places across boroughs and townships including Warren Youngsville Columbus Tidioute Conewango Elk Mead Pleasant Sheffield Pine Grove Freehold Columbus Brokenstraw Spring Creek Deerfield Kinzua Limestone South West Eldred Glade Sugar Grove Corydon Pittsfield Cherry Grove Farming ton and voting procedures under Pennsylvania law for judicial statewide and county offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Warren Academy
Engine House
Conewango
Prothonotary’s
Warren Borough
Elk
Lounsberry
Mead
Alson Rogers
Pleasant
Warren
Sheffield
A. H. Barns
Pine Grove
Lane’s Hotel
Freehold
School House
Lottsville
Township of Columbus
Geo. Cady
Columbus Borough
Brokenstraw
Youngsville
John Siggins
Spring Creek
Yeager’s
Sugar Grove
Corydon
Pittsfield
J. L. Acocks
Cherry Grove
J. Farnsworth
Farmington
West Corners
Senate
House of Representatives
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
General Assembly
Norice
Justices of the Peace
United States
New Crop Teas Across Prices Highlight 50c Teas
The advertisement lists New Crop Young Hyson at 50c 75c 1 and 1.25 per pound. Gun Powder and Japan teas show 50c 75c and 1 per pound. Oolong priced at 75c and 31 per pound. The seller emphasizes 50c teas as equal to 75c quality elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Hyson
Japan
Canned Goods Offerings Listed with Variety of Staples
Market notes highlight a broad selection of canned goods including peaches strawberries raspberries cherries plums pineapple pears currants corn tomatoes peas beans succotash pumpkin pig's feet lobster tripe salmon mushrooms Cove oysters condensed milk corned beef beef tongue sardines and more.
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
Warren Mail
Home Matters
A. Ruhlman
Jack Frost
O. H. Slunter & Son
B. Nesmith & Son
S. O. Campbell
Kinzua
T. B. Aldrich
Harmon
Henry Wells
Roy
Watson
Branch Farm
Struthers
Struther
MaGee
Offerlee
Gen. Allen
Messrs. Campbell
Crossman
Lasser
Geo. Hazeltine
Amann
Mr. Amann
James McGee
Good Templar
Mr. Wood
D. M. Gross & Bro
Kitchen
C. Smith
State Hospital For the Insane
G. P. Orr
A. E. Goodrich
F. H. Morck
W. A. Mitchell
G. F. McNett
Dr. J. Sager
A. W. Morck
Lew Phillips
A. P. Gillmore
I. A. Briggs
W. A. Shoff
H. R. Bartlett
A. Keeler
F. K. Russell
S. E. Walker
I. P. Hunter
H. P. Hunter
Emory Cooke
Ae Berkstresser
W. Miller
J. H. Spencer
F. A. Hall
G. W. Harmon
Ss. T. Allen
Marion Norris
John Gray
Monroe Hall
Wm. Ryan
L. C. Bishop
W. A. Greaves
M. EB
Church of
Hunter’s
Hunter's
Geo. Ball & Co’s
Corry
Acomb
Westfall
Didioute
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Abe” Henderson
Girard
Stillwater Lodge No
Charles W. Mackey
Franklin
Columbus
Jamestown
Ridgway Democrat
Western Union Company
Titusville
Bradford
Hazeltine & Davis
J. L. Grandin
Tidioute
Rooke & Cartney
Shaw Bros
Gilson
Neill
Alpheus Neyhart
Pacific Slope
Fagundas Farm
Irvine Tract
Nell
Will Smith
Keystone Block
A. W. Merck & Co
Will Smith’s
Dr. Rice
Rice
Ally
Ext Duny
Dixixa Hatt
Hickory Street
Messrs. Reeves
Wilbur
Wm. Schnur, Esq
Col. L. D. Rogers
Ton
C. W. Mackey
Garland
Gillispie—White
L. L. Spencer
J. Hays Gillispie
J. Elma White
Bucklin—Shearer
Oil City
GOD Save the Commonwealth
I. S. H. Davis
Prothonotary
Navy
Court of Common Pleas
Warren County
Ss. H. Davis
Coree ES
Java
MAES
Warren Pa
Neptune
Dr. Price
Olive
Acme
Shamrock
Miners
Dobbins
Saratoga
Kent
Dan’ O’ Rourke
Champion of
England
N. B
G. L. Friday
Red Front
Water St. Warren, Pa
Warren Retail Markets
May, Iren
Peenee Seenenee
Rio
Aent Java
New Boot and Shoe Store
P. Gruber, JR
Allen Block
Defendorf & Parsons
Variety
Warren, Pa
Old Exchange
Wendelboe
Joh Yin An
A. D
F. H. Blodget
Mary L. Blodget
Scott & Osborne
J. H. Jack
BE. A. Allen
Reuben Dalrymple
John van Arsdale
C. T. Widdifield
L. Hydeman & Co
B. Platte
Bradner & Hartman
Kinnear
Brown & Struthers Iron Works
McDaniels
A. J. Wynn
James Dennison
Philopena Leonhart
F. A. Cogswell
Henry Fuellhart
S. H. Davis
M. Glasby Et al
Caroline Schirck
Asa Smith
M. B. Olmstead
Parmlee & Henry
Sam
D. H. Sanford
Eldred
John I. Sanford
R. Thompson
Ey Arty Cy. of
Umeries
Variety Hall
Carver House Drug Store
Aving
John Grindley
D. F. Anderson
Ludlow House
D.S. McNerr
D. W. McNerr
D. H. Wilder
Corry, Pa
A. Wise’s
Keystone
A. Wise
William Messner
Haffers
Penn’a
Liverpool
Ball & Levy
Merchant Tailors
Michigan Street
W. C. Rowland. Warren
Meehan
Watson & Davis
Warren Cowmaty
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