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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1913
Page
5
Refiners and producers plan to attend the annual Independent Petroleum Marketers association meeting in Cleveland on September 15 16 and 17. Delegates from across the United States will participate in discussions expected to benefit independent producers and refiners.
Mrs Phoebe Ann Delo aged 177 died at her home in Clarion on September 1 1918 She was the wife of Rev B F Delo a Methodist preacher of the Erie conference and served with him in the itinerancy for more than 36 years as the pastor’s wife She was the daughter of Daniel and Phoebe Ann Fleming of Forest County and leaves her husband and one son William C Delo
After October 1 a yearly twenty five cent membership fee will be charged to each enrolled boy scout in the United States. The plan divides local councils into districts and maintains general offices with employed officials to promote scout work.
Al Andrews of Kane was shot Wednesday near the Kane Elk county line by P R R Detective H E Carragell of Pittsburgh. Andrews died 20 minutes later as Mohan, his companion, said the man was not fleeing when the officer fired after joking with train riders. Carragell is held in Elk County jail without bail.
The semi annual meeting of the Northwestern Association of Councils of the Royal Arcanum convened Friday in Titusville with delegates from Erie Union City Meadville Franklin Warren Rouseville Clarendon Parkersburg Pittsburg and other towns. Notables included Grand Regent Arthur B Eaton of Philadelphia Dr J C Russell of Warren F L Frey of Rouseville Fred McCullum of Oil City and C E Hunter of Union City treasurer. The next session will be in New Castle.
Postmaster Thomas A. Frazier of Butler and allies seek an injunction from Judge James M. Galbreath to stop Clinton Presbyterian church trustees from allowing an oil well on church property or in the graveyard on lease grounds. The Fisher Oil company is a party. a recent good well near the church led to a new graveyard location and church members oppose drilling in sacred grounds. A temporary injunction was granted amid local uproar.
James Chambers, longtime Clarendon resident, died suddenly Friday evening after a two day illness. He was well known in the county and leaves a brother Smith Chambers of Kane and a sister Miss Agnes Chambers of Clarendon.
A new law allows bounties for killing certain animals. Pay rates are four dollars for each wildcat two dollars for grey fox and for weasels fifty cents for hawks and great horned owls. No back bounties. payments cover killings since July 25 last.
C W Beckley hosted a farewell gathering at Water Street for Norman Spencer who departs Thursday to oversee the electric plant in Olean. The event drew many city electrical workers and featured supper and a lively, pleasant evening.
G A Bloomquist and friends fished the Conewango in a motorboat when a three pound bass leaped into the boat. Bloomquist believes the boat crowded the fish into shallow water and it leaped aboard while trying to dive deeper.
Six ward school teachers held a 6 pm dinner at the Warren Outing Club to honor Misses Emily Gibson, Helen and Alice Maher who will join Tulsa schools next year. Guests included Miss Frances Finnan of New York and Miss Mayme Hurley of Washington, D. C.
At an adjourned board meeting Norman H. Spencer’s resignation as director was accepted with unanimous regret and high compliments on his service. Thomas K. Creal of the Eighth Ward was elected to succeed him. Mrs Unger of Clarendon was elected as substitute teacher truant officer and home visitor.
Fred Barth died Friday at Emergency hospital after months of illness. Born in New York City on May 25 1866 he moved to Warren about 25 years ago. A musician who led an orchestra with T P Reig he belonged to other Warren musical groups. Survived by his wife two brothers John Angola N Y Leonard Jamestown and four sisters Mrs Harry Schultz Mrs Fred Trusler Jamestown Mrs Ray Carpenter Frewsburg and Mrs M Burch Winnipeg Canada. Body lay in state at 405 Hazel street Sunday 3 to 5 pm. Funeral held Monday in Jamestown private.
Fred A. Hazeltine former Warren man and editor of The South Bend Journal at South Bend Washington is indicted for contempt of court. The charge alleges his paper published comment on a case tried by a jury aimed at swaying public opinion for the defendants. Hazeltine denounces the proceedings as a ring of landholders and politicians pursue him while Warren friends watch his westward career with interest.
The Oil City hospital receives a $10000 bequest from the late George Lewis oilman. Executors paid the amount to S Y Ramage president of the board of directors on Monday.
Captain Robert H. Meld longtime Chautauqua Lake steamboat man died at 6 20 am last Wednesday in Jamestown N Y hospital after an illness of uremia. He was well known to thousands of Chautauqua lake visitors and served as captain of the S car boat Coffield.
Mrs. John Galbraith Smith hosted a luncheon at the Woman's Club on Fourth Avenue in honor of Madame Julie Rive-King the noted pianist and composer who leaves the city to resume her concert career after a summer stay. The guest performed several selections including her own works and the event was described as delightful.
The 39th annual convention of the W. C. T. U. of Warren County will meet at Barnes on September 10 and 11. National Lecturer Mrs. Cora F. Seberry will address the opening night on The Power of a Purpose. The closing night speaker, Rev. H. Stewart, pastor of the First Baptist Church, will discuss The Most Costly Monument in the World.
Complaint from city area farm and garden owners about thefts of corn and other crops. Farmers plan to hire watchmen and make arrests as trespassers, including youths who drive onto country land for the loot.
J Garfield Lytle, bookkeeper for Independent Refining Company, stole 10200 over two years and faced blackmail by a woman. He received a sentence of one to two years in the Western penitentiary at Franklin. A portion funded an apartment for a Buffalo woman. Lytle, once viewed as a model husband and church member, was married with one child. his pastor spoke on his behalf.
Postmaster General Burleson signed an order allowing precanceled stamps to be sold to the public starting September 16. These stamps bear the selling office name and will be valid for second, third, and fourth class mail including newspapers magazines books and parcel post. Use will speed delivery and save about $259000 annually in labor for cancellations.
Edith V Ronne youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs John K Ronne of Fifth Avenue wed Fred K Stone of Jamestown son of Dr and Mrs Fred C Stone in a quiet home ceremony at Rome. Rev W H Jones Trinity Memorial officiated and a luncheon followed. The couple plan a eastward wedding trip and will reside in Jamestown after Sept 15 at 211 East Eighth Street. Attending from Jamestown were the groom’s parents and Silas Blanchard.
George Decker, who suffered serious injuries about ten weeks ago in a run away accident on the East Side, has been discharged from Emergency hospital and moved to his home on Carver Street, reported to be fairly well and on the road to recovery.
Cornellius Wright, 68, of Centerville Crawford County, was found dead in bed last week at the State Hospital for the Insane in North Warren. Coroner DeForest returned a verdict of heart failure. Wright had a distinguished war record.
Miss Ada Coe departed New York aboard the Fabre line last Thursday en route to Barcelona. She plans a southern itinerary via Naples and Marseilles, then rail to Barcelona to begin duties as instructor in literature and science at College International starting around October.
The September court of quarter sessions opened in Erie with three alleged murderers to face trial. Joseph Cutre is accused of stabbing and killing Stanley Benzel, Mrs. Phoebe Ann Wright, and Miss Pearl Kelley. Frank R. Lynch was killed by one of two Corry women, and Mike Tinto is charged with killing his cousin Samola Tinto with an axe.
Thirty seven employees of the Pennsylvania railroad system retired August 1 under pension rules, bringing total pensioners to 1972. The shortest service was twenty years and six months, the longest fifty five years and four months. Since 1900 the pension department has paid $9,009,760, with lines east of Pittsburgh contributing $6,801,378.
State commissioners fear the state will not cover added voter enrollment costs under the new enrollment act. At a Williamsport meeting they sought Commonwealth funding for assessors enrollment, but no law compels state payment. Estimated statewide costs exceed $100,000.
The Scranton Cady annual reunion gathered 74 relatives and friends at Mr and Mrs Clifford Scranton home in Warren on August 30. Attendees came from Greenville Corry Younsville Lander Russell North Warren Warren Tiana and Sheffield. A business meeting elected George Scranton president Mrs Carl Sanders secretary treasurer Mrs William Scranton and Mrs Frank Gregory historians. Next reunion set for Lander Pa with Mr and Mrs William Hill on the last Saturday in August 1914.
Coudersport officials led by burgess John M. Clark filed an appeal with Potter county Court of Common Pleas challenging the State Board of Health decree requiring a $115,000 sewerage plant. Borough votes to bond $50,000 for a municipal water plant, leaving no funds for the health board project. Warren on Allegany river is cited as the first PA town on the river for public water supply, while towns upstream and across the river in New York dispose sewerage.
A blooming apple tree stands in Homer Luboid's yard on Glade avenue marking an unusual sight for the season. Neighbors notice the vivid blossoms and the early sign of spring around the residence.
Two divorces were granted at a session of Argument Court on Tuesday. Ethel B. McConnell was granted separation from William C. McConnell on desertion grounds and Julia F. Seager was divorced from George H. Seager on the same grounds.
Session of Argument Court heard divorce cases with Judge W D Hinckley and associates Siggins and Swanson. Emma Blodgett separated from Frank H Blodgett, Clara Dalrymple from Oliver Dalrymple, and Zenobia Begarding from Henry Begarding. Afternoon session brief as judges attended William B Weed’s funeral at 4 PM.
After a lingering illness Thurston Fox died last Wednesday morning at 2 o clock at his home on Fox Hill where he was born and lived. He was 55. Survived by a wife and one adopted son, six brothers Lewis Hubert Levi Rollin Adison and Herman of Crown Point Ind. and three sisters Mrs Fannie Blood Steamburg N Y Mrs Eva Young Russell Pa and Mrs ilAe F Holt Warren.
The Woodmen of the World unveiled a monument in Oakland cemetery on Sunday afternoon in memory of the departed brother John Reeger. The local lodge members marched from their quarters to the cemetery for a ritual service followed by an address from Rev. Walter C. Beck of the First Lutheran Church.
Five hundred strike sympathizers including women and girls attacked the Clark Bros plant in Olean on Friday night. They shattered every office window and put out over a thousand factory lights. Some rioters fired revolvers. detectives inside returned fire but no injuries were reported. The chaos followed the arrival of strike breakers from Buffalo replacing forty molders demanding a nine hour day.
Horace G James a noted oil authority predicts upheaval in the refining industry after Standard Oil unveils a new gasoline making process. Plants at Whiting Indiana Wood River Illinois and Neodesha Kansas install the method with a $1 500 000 cost. Motor spirits expected in Kansas markets in about six weeks priced about four cents a gallon lower than current gasoline. A patent contest on the process is anticipated.
Nathaniel Loree, father of Mrs. Godfrey Gruber, turned 96 at his son Thad Loree’s home on Yankee Bush. Born in Steuben county, he spent youth there, moved west, lived in Chicago in the 1830s, regrets not joining the forty-niners rush, later returned to the state and has remained. He is sound mentally with good hearing, though slightly troubled by eyesight, and expects to reach a hundred.
Local residents are warned about a swindler claiming to represent the Hartman Furniture and Carpet Co of Chicago. Described as about 35 with gray tinged hair, a heavy drinker and smooth talker, he has victimized people in Hornell Bradford Jamestown and other areas.
Warren County Odd Fellows sent delegates to Meadville for the annual Children’s Home meeting. From Warren Mrs. Clara Swick represented the Rebekah lodge. R N Brown G E Berry F X Millers O H Baird and Daniel Larmer attended. Sheffield lodge was represented by W T Stenger J C Bentley and Fred Borden. Clarendon lodge sent Dr F C Willard and G E Gaywood.
The 28th annual Dennison family reunion was held Thursday September 4 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Barlow in Sugar Grove. About 65 relatives and friends shared a chicken pie dinner and a business meeting elected officers for the coming year.
George C. Eiley of Bartlesville Oklahoma, a former Warren County resident, narrowly escaped the New Haven Hartford wreck. He had reserved a sleeper berth that was demolished but canceled his trip after learning of the catastrophe. He read the accident report and his intended berth lay in the most damaged section.
Pennsylvania forms a new Bureau of Agricultural Statistics to collect data on farmers, farms, cattle, land use, crops and values directly from counties. It aims to build a comprehensive agricultural data system mirroring the state industrial statistics bureau and will obtain farmer holdings from county assessors.
William B Weed died Saturday noon. His funeral was held at his Fourth avenue home at 4 pm, with many relatives and friends attending. The Elks Lodge conducted cemetery services at Oakland cemetery where his body was laid beside his wife. Reverend W H Jones offered comforting remarks. Bearers included J M Mills Todd Keelor A B Kehr N K Wendelboe J R Bairstow and S E Walker. Relatives from Cleveland Pittsburg and Erie attended.
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