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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1914
Page
5
The second annual reunion of Friendship and Clenneding schools will be at the Clendenning schoolhouse on September 5, 1914. All former teachers pupils and families are expected to attend.
Raymond VanTassell of Sheffield attempted suicide by inhaling natural gas last Friday night. Friends discovered him in time to save his life. No motive was given for the act.
Robert Russell son of Mr and Mrs J H Russell suffered a badly bruised right leg when he fell from the roof of a house boat owned by A G Lyons of Warren in the Conewango creek at Russell. He was bathing with companions when the mishap occurred on Sunday.
A fifteen year old bride-elect and her fiancé two years older sought a marriage license at Register Bussett's office on Saturday. The couple are Peter Sorenson and Ruth Clicquennot, residents of Glade.
Warren’s new seventy five thousand dollar Y M C A structure is near completion with a public opening expected within a month. The Brunswick Balke Collander Company representatives are installing bowling alleys and other equipment as progress continues.
The body of 40 year old Joseph Kamerer was found on the steps of the Second Ward school in Meadville Friday morning. He had taken a fatal dose of carbolic acid and had been dead for hours. A Wilkesbarre sister was notified.
Police waited in vain for several men believed riding blind baggage on a Kane train last Wednesday night. They boarded after the train stopped at Sheffield and paid fares in a day coach, disappointing the large crowd at the depot.
The third annual Curry-Frazier families reunion gathered about forty people at Spring Creek last Friday August 28. A fine dinner followed by a business session elected G. A. Curry president Mrs G L Howard secretary and Mrs C B Morrison treasurer. The group judged the reunion highly successful.
Gus Swanson, meter reader for Citizens Gas Co. of Sheffield, narrowly escaped death when a gas flare ignited while he read a large supply meter in a small building near the ball grounds. He forgot his electric light and struck a match to see the meter, causing an explosion that hurled him through the door and burned his face and arms.
Dr. J. O. Jackson a Corry physician is in hospital with a broken rib scalp wound and possible internal injuries after being struck by Erie Railroad train No 41 Thursday morning. He stood near tracks talking with friends when the locomotive struck him. bystanders pulled him clear preventing worse harm.
The Spring Creek annual town picnic was held in Morton's Grove on Thursday with large attendance. Over two hundred people joined the event for noon dinner, races, games, dancing, and an evening lunch and recreation.
At Sheffeld on Monday the Clarion county sheriff and two deputies escorting an insane patient to North Warren hospital faced danger when four cars stalled on a grade crossing. A switch-engine backed onto the track and the driver gassed the engine hard, choking the car. A passenger leapt free and, aided by another, shoved the car back just as it was nearly struck, bending a fender in the impact.
W J Smith sold the Titusville Traction property to Frederick W Garvin for bondholders. Purchasers assume 200000 in debt with liens. Bondholders aim to reorganize cutting debt to 250000 and refund bonds at five percent. Overhaul line, improve equipment, and connect Tryonville to Cambridge Springs to expand business.
Chas Nelson of Frewsburg reports his cow was struck by a trolley on the Warren and Jamestown line Sunday and was fatally injured. He asks the company to pay the animal’s value.
News on a new wireless station for Warren High School promises a modern science program with 200 mile sending power, likely covering the eastern United States, plus a roof-mounted aerial. Also noted is the opening of Warren Roller Rink after improvements and the start of the Clarion State Normal school's twenty-eighth year, with Amos P. Reese inviting inquiries.
Seep Purchasing agency of Oil City to buy 20 000 barrels daily starting Monday up from 4 000 in August. The move pleases operators who expect Standard Oil to approach a normal oil intake. John Kilety aged 50 was found dead in Pleasant township near Warren Brewery on Sunday. Post mortem cites pneumonia and acute alcoholism. He formerly worked in pipeline construction and lived in Olean New York. funeral set for Monday at his sister Mrs Mary Malloys home.
W. H. Horner of Irvine died Tuesday at Allegheny Springs after eleven weeks of illness from apoplexy. The funeral was held Thursday morning at the Catholic church in Irvineton with a requiem high mass. Interment will be at Smethport.
William Cameron received word from his sister that her husband B. Mowris, a former Warren resident, died at 7 a m in Wellsville Ohio after months of illness. Mowris were laid to rest at Oakland cemetery chapel after a 4 p m funeral held in Warren.
Tuesday morning at 4 o'clock the freight house of the P. R. R. at Corry was found in flames. Firemen fought the blaze but most of the warehouse and its contents were badly damaged. Origin of the fire remains undetermined. Fire hose lines across railroad tracks delayed several trains nearly two hours.
The Scranton-Cady reunion gathered about 100 relatives at Russell home of Mr. and Mrs. William Hill on Saturday August 29. Attendees came from Tussa Oklahoma Greenwood Warren North Warren Sheffield Sugar Grove Pa and Jamestown N Y. A noon chicken dinner preceded the business meeting which elected H. A. Robinson president Mrs. Carl Sanden secretary and Lavern Hinsdale treasurer. The next reunion is planned for the Sanden home in Sheffield.
Deputy Sheriff Dan Hanley of Kalamazoo Michigan retrieved Frank Harriett alias Clinger from Tidioute after Harriett violated parole by forging a check and failing to report as ordered. Harriett pleaded guilty in circuit court and received a suspended sentence with monthly reports and a food allowance. He was later located in Tidioute and agreed to accompany the officer back to Oil City for transport to Kalamazoo.
The eighth Boswell reunion met August 26 at Milo Smith's home one mile south of Sugar Grove. Milo Smith was elected president with Fred Boswell vice president Myrtie Boswell secretary and Belle Smith treasurer. A noon lawn dinner followed by a short program and races rounded out the gathering.
Kalope Petrithu a Grecian girl arrived in Warren to wed Nicholas Johnson her girlhood love. Johnson had left Warren after losing his job and later was found in Strattonville Clarion County where he worked in mines. They arranged a telephone meeting and the planned wedding was to take place there.
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