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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1887
Page
3
The Warren newspaper page reports brisk overcoat sales with prices around eight dollars, local business shifts including new leases and stores, social updates on residents and visitors, club meetings, and community notices. It covers weather quirks, a butterfly of personal items, and notes on local entertainment and infrastructure.
Tomorrow night the Barlow Bros and Frost minstrel company performs at Library Hall after a favorable Oil City showing praised by the Derrick for fine voices and enjoyable singing. Also on stage Monbars a dramatic French play acted by Mantell’s company last Friday. Ness Family offered a musical concert in New Brighton with hearty applause and skilled musicians worthy of patronage. Struthers Hose Co. hoped for a good benefit.
A local notice seeks Chestnut poles thirty to sixty feet tall, straight and sound. Apply to W. F. Endress, manager James town Electric Light and Power Co., Jamestown New York.
Great Overcoat Sale invites shoppers to Keystone Clothing Co offering men overcoats priced at 2, 4 and 6 dollars with perceived value doubling the money. The notice emphasizes limited stock and seasonal discounts at the Keystone location.
Allegheny Flour and Feed Mills opposite P E freight house at Warren now in full operation to supply wholesale and retail grinding. Kotrrat and Henderson urge a trial for all orders and custom grinding services.
Up river Bucktail veterans traveled to Williamsport for their first reunion beginning the 20th with over 150 attendees. Gen. W. R. Hartshorne was elected President, Col. A. E. Niles and Col. J. A. Irwin vice presidents, W. H. Ranch secretary treasurer. A parade, camp fire, and lunch at the Court House followed a welcome by the city. An address honored Col. Hugh McNeill of Warren’s Rafts Guards, killed at Antietam, delivered by Col. E. A. Irwin. Gen. S. W. Crawford and ex-Gov. Curtin were to join Friday.
Diphtheria has appeared in Warren with several cases plus the death of W A Mitchell’s little boy. Dr FE M Hunt, secretary of the board of health, cites damp cellars heated in fall as a key factor. He notes decayed vegetable matter in summer cellars stirs up with dampness, spreading the disease. Franklin reports few cases, while New Castle shows 100 cases and 35 deaths.
The Plainfield Press notes a farewell reception for Rev R S Holmes who departs after years in Plainfield to become Pastor of Warren Presbyterian Church. About 75 attendees heard Rev Hurlburt praise him and present twelve bound volumes and a lamp from his Bible class. Holmes thanked the givers and said Hurlburt’s speech could not be preserved, as he would ask for no better obituary.
A new law requires the County Commissioners to yearly examine the monuments marking state lines. They recently completed a traverse from Corydon to Bear Lake on the Pennsylvania New York boundary. Most monuments are in good condition. damaged markers should be located and the culprits prosecuted if possible. Messrs. Crocker and Putnam joined the inspection near Bear Lake last Tuesday.
Davis and company advertise Acorn Chocolate Drops as the finest in the market. Goopricn and Fehlman are listed with the product.
A broad Erie county digest notes ongoing rebuilding in the Clarendon burned district and local curiosities. It cites Olio City’s first oil well shut down since 1860, a proposed $200000 Kent House rebuild, a made locomotive model, and a fatal Wrightsville building move accident. It also reports court actions, elopement, and railway survey activity along state lines and Sugar Grove rail work with depot location speculation.
General Lucius Fairchild highlights the Grand Army of the Republics charitable work. He notes outlays this year exceed 253000 dollars, with unreported sums pushing the charitable total toward at least half a million. From 1871 to 1886 disbursements reach 1,173,688.60, suggesting twice that amount when unreported. The Order distributes directly to needy families and wounded or disabled soldiers without agents.
Walter Pettis of Charlotte Center thought he swallowed his teeth and traveled to Buffalo Hospital for removal from his stomach. After days of agony a telegram arrived: Teeth found. They were dropped near his home between his house and barn, showing mind cure theories and imagination at work. In other notes Gooprich and FEHLMAN tout a five cent cigar and L.A. Siggins offers horses and livery services at his old stand with special transient attention.
The temperance editor explains that printing errors in the county convention resolutions were accidental and only the preamble was condensed. She notes no single resolution was omitted by intent. Last Thursday, Mrs Ball, Warren Union delegate to Lewisburg, reported on the State Convention to a large audience of ladies.
The Y’s at the State Convention report strong turnout in the Baptist and Methodist churches with 900 young people present. The 1886-87 Young Women’s Temperance Work in Pennsylvania notes 2480s organized in 51 counties, 450 public meetings, 486000 pages distributed, $747 dues, $13504.46 raised, and a $160.16 balance.
The place to buy clothing and gents furnishing goods is at the finest clothing store in Warren county just below the Carver House presided over by A Weiss for many years. The store has been overhauled with a large stock of serviceable fashionable clothing. Overcoats winter underwear and warm clothes for boys are available at savings. 31 A Weiss Manager.
Advertises cash for rags free from rubbish papers and junk, also old rubber shoes and metals, offered for the remainder of the season. Notes the seller is Rosr H Johnson and can be found at Johnson's Exchange room.
Jones tells Smith he plans to build a house and has about $3,000. Smith replies that amount could construct a $2,200 economy house, noting the point for readers who have built before. Nashville American.
C H Meacham and Company are noted as representatives of some of the oldest insurers in the United States and England. The firms' involvement signifies long-standing actuarial and underwriting traditions across transatlantic markets.
The item lists member counts for Y M C A chapters in Glasgow London Chicago and New York and reports Salt Lake City welcoming a One Wife Y M C A. It recalls Brooklyn spending on lectures gymnasium and evangelistic work and praises a Tuesday evening entertainment with credit to Hal Cobham and the ladies committee.
A collage of short items notes an Ayrshire calf in Tioga County and tobacco sales in Lancaster County. It mentions a Mercer County man buried years ago drawn for jury duty and Tyrone's homebound ordinance for boys, with a quip about including girls. Additional items cover a Philadelphia coroner verdict on heart strain from tight lacing, a Pittsburgh natural gas explosion injuring eight with two fatalities, the Stratford fountain dedication in England, and Philadelphia Meade statue unveiling with 25,000 attendees and a large parade.
The article notes two departments occupy the full second floor and the cloak room has a metropolitan air. It highlights 200 ladies jackets priced at 3 to 10 dollars and short wraps in broadcloth beaver boucle astrakan and plush from 5 to 50 dollars, described as splendid bargains.
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