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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1899
Page
3
Home Matters notes a Backus water motor 3 h p for sale in good running order with lead feed pipe and valve. Price 50 dollars. Also lists Sept 15 16 marriage licenses and Crowded Smith Business College reports. Jamestown team to play Warren at Recreation Park Saturday at 3 with Coach Curtis.
Mrs W M Lindsey and Mrs Edward Lindsey host a card party this Thursday at 2 PM at Mrs Lindsey's East street home. A reception and luncheon follow with Judge Lindsey's home also hosting tomorrow afternoon. Mrs F K Russell serves a luncheon at 1 PM today with a whist party tomorrow. all events are feminine affairs with no men invited.
Registration tallies for Franklin Oil City Titusville and Warren borough yield rough population counts. Oil City about 16 000 Franklin about 10 000 Titusville about 11 805 Warren borough 11 940 including nearby villages North Warren Richland and Glade Run.
Coroner Peirce in Ti dioute held an inquest Monday exonerating Benjamin George who accidentally shot and killed G. W. Hollenbeck near Grand Valley Sunday afternoon. George mistook Hollenbeck for a woodchuck at about 120 feet as both hunted in the same area. a pellet struck Hollenbeck in the brain and killed him instantly. Burial occurred near Grand Valley last Tuesday.
The Warren public hospital has been located with foundation work to start this fall. A block of eight lots on the riverfront near Floral Hall will host the brick building with stone trim. The building committee includes Judge Wetmore and J P Jefferson with Mrs Newbold and Mrs Biddle donating four lots.
The Woman's Aid of the Presbyterian Church hosts a six day fair at Warren Armory September 25 to 30. Nations booths, art and crafts, dolls, china, furniture, and bric a brac for sale with prizes by ballot. Daily paper, music, refreshments, and ten cent admission invite visitors to shop and enjoy.
Local notices report residents visiting Philadelphia and Chicago, engagements and marriages planned in Warren, new businesses opening, college arrivals, and community events. Highlights include Warren students abroad and new stores by Magee and Eichenberg, plus a Buffalo street fair benefiting the Odd Fellows temple.
The Warren County treasurer transfers list shows deeds filed to Robt Slater Watson and others. Transactions include Deerfield and Warren properties with prices ranging from 1300 to 5500 dollars, involving multiple estates and at least a dozen grantees.
Miss Florence Siggins leaves for Lock Haven to become a student at the state normal school. Other items note Captain and Mrs Cum mings returning from Philadelphia, Olive Anice Tipton and George Strauss inviting guests to a September 27 wedding, and local social notices. The County Convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in North Clarendon held anniversary events with addresses and songs.
An early morning blaze on Main Street destroyed F. D. Lincolns store and his second story dwelling. The fire spread to the building owned by Mrs. E. Tipton, damaging Kinnear Bros. dry goods on the first floor and Gray boarding house on the second floor. Lincolns loss is 6000 and partially insured. Siggins building largely damaged. Kinnear Bros. stock damaged. insurance coverage described.
The advertisement touts Thompson's Barasma as a permanent cure for Bright's disease sciatic rheumatism kidney and liver diseases and female weakness. It emphasizes the remedy is purely vegetable and pleasant to take and asserts many wonderful cures.
Pittsfield and Sugar Grove townships utilize a year old law allowing school-board consolidation. They plan moving scholars to nearby schools to cut costs and boost efficiency with potential consolidations at Pittsfield Garland and Dugall.
Scientists state blood cannot be purified while kidneys are weak or diseased. The kidneys filter all blood every three minutes, requiring strong kidneys for proper cleansing. Thompson's parasma is presented as the greatest kidney cure, while Thompson's Barosma reduces inflammation and dissolves gravel, carrying off poisons from the blood and organs.
The railroad will run an annual fall excursion to Oil City on Titusville Sunday Oct 1. A special train departs Warren at 9 56 am. Fare to Titusville and return is 1 dollar. Returning, a special train leaves Oil City at 7 40 pm. Tickets are valid for return on regular trains Monday Oct 2.
Notice seeks customers to buy about 300 woolen cloths at cost to clear room for fall goods. Call and see Jacob Keller, the Tailor.
Dispatch reports varied county items including road work for prisoners in Venango, a new Lycoming county courthouse proposal, oil field re drills, a manslaughter conviction in Erie, wage raises at Kushequa, typhoid outbreak in Balltown, oil dust complaints on a Pennsylvania railroad, Tionesta gas sale to Standard Oil, and county improvements in Smethport and Laporte jail activity. Also covered are rail traffic, apple export demand, and Spanish language study proposals in McKeesport.
A patent remedy promotes a stomach cure through a tonic from South America. It claims permanent relief for stomach weakness and indigestion, promising universal applicability and never disappointing. Sold by Hertzel & Saner in Warren, Pennsylvania.
An advertisement states carpet cleaning and curtain cleaning services offered at the rear of Mansion House. Orders may be left with E. Weer, the manager.
Gen Roy Stone and wife returned to Washington from Irvington while Andrew Nelson and daughter depart for California to make it their home. Various local updates include HaHaslett of Erie visiting, hotel lessees closing Allegheny Springs for 1899, a Presbyterian supper, parrots at Salismany’s, job moves in local mills, and upcoming M E conference in Jamestown.
Spring Creek notes frost damage to corn in valley areas while hills avoid the frost. Greeley is ill. Mrs. Helen Eldred visits then returns to Tiona. Schools show good attendance and community members visit from Warren and Mich. A Salvation Army visit occurs, the K T M dance goes smoothly, and Mrs. Wead seeks rheumatism relief in Hydetown.
By local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is cast by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of catarrh caused by catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free, F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.
Erie Railroad offers round trip tickets from Jamestown New York to New York City on September 25 27 and 28 priced at 12 dollars. Tickets available from Erie ticket agents for the Dewey reception excursion.
W C Rowland & Sons advertise the largest wallpaper stock in Warren with latest styles on display at Exchange Block Wy. A separate notice promotes a 50 by 150 foot Warren borough building lot near the street car line priced from 100 dollars on contract with five dollars a month, no interest, by D W Beaty.
Mr and Mrs J M Mills of Warren were summoned to Sheffield Junction by the illness of James Hernon father of Mrs Mills. Hernon died Monday forenoon at 74. The remains were taken Wednesday to Linerville PA, former home of the deceased.
Bicycle owners may find the largest stock of sundries at Ed E Hertzel's shop in Warren. The old building offers tees, promptly and cheaply, with cups cones and shafts guaranteed.
The listing shows fabrics and textiles with varying prices including plaids at 12c 15c 50c 75c 1 and 1.50. Novelties silk mixed at 24c value 30c. Venetians Crepons Homespuns and Camel's Hair quilts and outing flannel ends with a range of prices.
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