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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1875
Page
3
An advertisement highlights Royal Baking Powder offered at 50 cents per pound in cans and 4 cents per pound in bulk. It promotes the powder as guaranteed full weight and also markets Royal Celery Salt in 25 cent and 50 cent bottles.
The fragment lists canned peaches strawberries corn sugar corn tomatoes green peas mushrooms and various syrups and teas with prices per unit or per pound. Mentioned brands include Hyson tea and Gun Powder tea with multiple quality levels.
Grapes cheap at eight cents, athletic club growth, millinery openings, and union school exercises fill Warren items. A Pittsfield tragedy ends with Jared Barton dying by strychnine. coroner rules self-administered poison. The piece warns temperance should stay out of politics and not aid the opposing Local Option stance.
Johnson White and Co. engage in stave industry. Miss Maria Jackson leads a select school in Fogle's Hall with notable success. Conewango directors near completion of a two room schoolhouse across the road from the old one. H. O. Robinson builder. Hospital for the Insane work continues with a 140 foot stack, soon over 150 feet. Laundry building stone walls rise to second story. iron joists laid. Jack Frost halts brick making until next year. About 150 workmen remain employed.
The Warren organ concert faced a high admission price and was not a success, though it netted about 75 dollars for the organ fund. Managers remain willing to sponsor further events despite such results.
Hon. H. P. Johnson of Warren will deliver the welcome address at the Teacher's County Institute on December 14. Gen. Harrison Allen just returned from Colorado and will speak at Lander Wednesday evening. Rev. John Peate and other presiding elders are listed for Meadville Cleveland New Castle and Mayville districts. The Catskill Record item notes H. W. Lane and wife visiting, Percy Goldin of the dry goods firm involved in a wedding ceremony at Thomas Ferrier, Esquire's residence.
The inquest into Doric Temple Jr death concludes he was injured by a horse kick in Porter Pemberton s barn Sugar Grove on the night of October 6 1875 while partially intoxicated. A jury of six examined over thirty witnesses and returned a verdict of accidental death.
R K Russe says he sought to present the truth about the Commissioners Office in a March communication to the Ledger but was denied a hearing. He denounces personal attacks by the editor and publishes the letter in full to uphold his stated purpose.
The Warren County Commissioners challenge B F Morrison to appoint a three or five member committee, all Democrats with Morrison as a member, to thoroughly examine county receipts and expenditures under oath. They claim surplus funds were placed safely, and deny malfeasance, urging immediate investigation and noting past pay adjustments and travel costs.
In Titusville, at the Warren and Venango depot grounds, Reuben P. Benton was struck on the right temple by a mallet during a game with J. D. Strickland. Benton never regained consciousness and died at 11 o clock the same night after the blow caused a brain effusion.
Mrs M E Mann of Chautauqua County offers a single panty of curtain calico claimed to be a hundred years old In Warren the same calico is noted as older than current styles with ladies not wearing it.
J N Schnur and Son display silk alpaca and gingham umbrellas plus Misses School Umbrellas at low prices. Prepare for rain with a first class shirt or suit made to measure by C. McDaniels. John Ronne acts as cutter.
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