Water Works Improve and Local Happenings in Warren
Notices report improved water supply and sidewalk construction in Warren. Sage editorials urge Dr. Sexton lectures at the Presbyterian church with free admission. The Knight Templars banquet in Warren follows Erie installation. A young man, Harley A. Sherman, dies of heart disease while traveling. his parents travel from Warren to Erie. The Warren Farmer’s Club picnic succeeds at the fairground with Judge Scofield in attendance. County Superintendent Arird issues Teacher Institute proceedings and certifies 185 teachers. Deputy Will Allan and Si Walker praise Dakota. advice to young men to work and move west.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roberts
J. R. Kuhn
A. A. Davis & Co
Erie
Warren
Harley A. Sherman
J. W. Sherman
Farmer's Club
Warren County Agricultural Association
Fair Ground
Scofield
Lott
Samuel Vredenburg
Farnsworth
Oakland Cemetery
A. A. Horton
Arird
Teachers’ Institute
Hunter and Son Promote Low-Cost Blankets and Fur Circular
O. H. Hunter & Son tout discount dry goods in Warren offering blankets at reduced prices and a fur circular valued at 15.90 for 25. The ad highlights $1.00 blankets, $4.00 blankets, and $5.00 Newmarket wraps, inviting customers to visit the store for bargains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren
Newmarket
O. H. Hunter & Son
Local Farrier Advertises Low-Rate Services in Warren
C Arnold offers new shoes at 30 cents corking 20 cents setting 15 cents and other work cheaply in Warren Pa dated Sept 28 1885. Also notice of an eight room house on Fifth street near Hon Brace’s with good cellar and inquiry directed to Dr A Fisher Warren Pa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Arnold
Knupp & Bro. Warren
Fifth Street
Brace’s
A. Fisher
Warren, Pa
Hickory Street
Warren
T. W. McNert
Bell Brothers Launch Blanket and Carpet Blowout Sale
Bell Brothers announces a large sale starting Sept 19 offering woolen blankets at 50 cents on the dollar with hundreds of pairs and a goal to clear stock in one week. The store promotes blankets quilts carpets Wiltons brussels ingrain rugs linoleum drapery lace curtains and ex superior carpets at bargain prices with strong demand noted for the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bell Brothers
Wiltons
Brussels
Bri Bros
Death by own action shocks Warren community
Augustus Merrill a teller at Warren Savings Bank was found dead in his Miss Merrill lodging. A coroner's jury ruled he killed himself with a pistol in a despondent fit. The note to his sisters spoke of dying honestly and repaid debt, and townsfolk mourn his loss while defending the bank’s good name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augustus Merrill
Warren Savings Bank
Misses Merrill
Miss Merrill
Dr. Baker
Cornelius
O.C. Allen
O. F. Hoffman
A. A. Davis
J. R. Kuhn
E. Walker
A.J. Davis
Wmn. Baker
Marie Merrill
Ida Carlson
W. C. Watson
Merrill
Knights of Honor
Judge Merrill
Knights Parade and Installation Highlights at Warren Commandery
A gala day in Warren featured a parade through principal streets with orchestras bands and a pageant of visiting Commanderies from Dunkirk Meadville Titusville Erie Bradford and more. The event culminated in a grand installation at Library Hall followed by a banquet at the Rink praised as one of the best Western Pennsylvania has seen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren
Revere House
Carver House
Exchange Hotel
Warren Lodge
Struthers Hose
Warren Warren
K. T
Northwestern
Meadville
Dunkirk
N.Y
Boynton
Ashtabula
Ohio
Mt. Olivet
Erie
Coleman
Titusville
Rose Croix
Talbot
Oil City
Saegertown
Sagertown
Clarence
Corry
L. Emery Jr
Bradford
Trinity
Warren Commandery
Joseph Alexander, Jr
Scranton
William W. Allen
Philadelphia
Charles E. Meyer
Rev
W. H. Platt
Carbondale
Ezra H. Ripple
John L. Young
Joseph H. Simonds
Library Hall
Rink
Teal
Rochester
Pennsylvania
Oil City Derrick reports slowing field production despite drilling
The Oil City Derrick notes that oil output is declining even as new wells rise. Most new work targets old fields, with producing properties in the Clarendon and Tiona fields fully drilled selling for 750 to 800 dollars per barrel and undrilled lands exchanging at about 1000 dollars per barrel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oil City
Clarendon
Tiona
Warren county W C T U Convention opens in Pittsfield
The Semi Annual Convention of the Warren county W C T U met Sept 22 23 in the Pittsfield Presbyterian church with twenty local Unions represented. Officers elected include L D Wetmore president and J L Grandin corresponding secretary. Resolutions endorsed Temperance Centennial Prohibition and praised Rev P S Allen E J Marsh and Wm H Clark. Prof C C Case announced a Warren musical convention starting Oct 5 1885 with two daily sessions and free texts, tuition 1.50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren County
Presbyterian Church of
Pittsfield
Wetmore
W. W. Hague
E. J. Marsh
Corry
E. I. Davies
May Parshall
Tidioute
J. L. Grandin
E. J. Davies
P. S. Allen
Warren
Wm. H. Clark
L. D. Wetmore
Jane Orr
Jas. Culbertson
Jas. Culbertson. the Committee On Resolutions
P. 8
Allen
C. C. Case
Cleveland
The
Presbyterian Church
Chautauqua Assembly
A. Conarro
H. M. Gross
Wm. Manville
W D. Hinckley
Local notes from County and Vicinity
The column lists post office disputes in Tidioute, fairs at Corry Conneautville Erie Fredonia Titusville and Randolph last week, and plans for Butler County Court House cost about 118000. It records a Jamestown N Y man George Aldrich’s suicide, wagon accident injuring Mr Harmon, and a new Northwestern Pennsylvania road praised as a boss road. Both Jamestown and Mayville Railroad survey news are reported along with a Franklin News marriage card for Wilhelm Fellows Columbus Pa. A lunatic escape from North Warren asylum reaches Jamestown, with police protection. Barnums tent collapse injures twenty five at Titusville and Meadvillds Barnum show also damaged. School directors hire teachers for Sugar Grove Union School and Chandlers Valley project with salaries noted.
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Erie
Fredonia
Titusville
Randolph
Butler County
George Aldrich
Jamestown
N. Y
H. Harmon
Sugar Grove
E E. Clapp
Penna
Jamestown and
Mayville Railroad
Lake Shore
Whallon Alley
Mayville Sentinel
The
Franklin News
N. C. Wilhelm
E. L. Kellogg & Co
Educational Books
New York
Mary Fellows
Nelson O. Wilhelm
Columbus
Wilhelm
Warren County
North Warren Insane Asylum
Barnum
Frank C. Smith
van Amburgh
Meadville
Harrisburg Special Forwarded Revenue Bill Tax Listing
A Harrisburg special reports that the new revenue bill requires county Commissioners to receive taxpayer disclosures of interests. Taxpayers must list mortgages, debts, promissory notes, bonds, judgments, public loans, bank notes, interests in real estate titles, and stock in banks or trust companies, with certain exceptions for labor notes and bank loan obligations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Commonwealth
United States
Parker's Hair Balsam Praised by Ohio Druggist
J H Decker of Findley Ohio calls Parker's Hair Balsam the most elegant dressing, noting it stops hair loss, restores color, and promotes growth, praised by women in ecstasies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parker
J. H. Decker
Findley
Ohio
Old Irish Woman Hauls Sugar From Wreck Scene
Erie Dispatch reports Union City humor after a freight train crash. Seven hogsheads of sugar destroyed. thirsty locals gathered sugar in pots and bags. An Irish woman tied sugar in two barrels of undergarments and carried away more than three neighbors combined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie Dispatch
Union City
Union
Marriages List from Warren Area Sept 1885
A column of marriage notices dated September 1885 records unions including Frank Richardson with Alberta Stacey of Warren. Martin Lanning to Minnie Barger of West Hickory. William Reardon to Rachel McGinnis of Stoneboro. Lorenzo Faul to Mary Rempfer of Sheffield. Linus Hopkins to Marie Jackson of Tionesta. Edward Guthrie to Ella Porter of Titusville. J C Crawford to Minnie B Kightlinger of Tidioute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin
Rachel N. McGinnis
Stoneboro
Faul—Rempfer
Sheffield
Geo. Younger
A. A. Horton
Lorenzo Faul
Mary Rempfer
Hopkins—Jackson
Tionesta
James Hinkling
Linus Hopkins
Marie Jackson
Guthrie—Porter
Titusville
Obituary notices from Mead Farnsworth Farmington and Busti
A set of death notices dated September 1885 records Samuel Grossenburg Sr aged 76 in Mead Vredenburg Samuel Vredenburg aged 56 in Farnsworth Susan Melvena Nourse aged 49 years 1 month and 11 days of Farmington Amanda Mead aged 84 years 6 months of Busti Nehemiah Mead’s widow expresses thanks for help during the time of trouble.
Best entries listed for Class 2 G Grain and Class 5 Fruits
The record lists winners in grain and fruit divisions. Awards include best ten ears corn and best displays of apples pears grapes and other produce with names such as B F Mead H Hunter Lott Wetmore Thos McCoy J A Abbott N P Curtis Jno A Kinsman and J Davidson among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. F. Mead
H Hunter
L. Kafferlin
Perry C. Annis
Lott & Wetmore
J. A
W. A. Frank
Thos. McCoy
J. A. Abbott
D. I. Ball
W. Brasington
Jno
A. Kinsman
Will Ennis
Geo. Mead
Tompkins
T. Mercy
Lewis Henhart
N. P. Curtis
Jno A Kinsman
N P Curtis
Jno Davidson
Dress Flannels and Tricots 50 cts, worth 75 cts
Dress flannels and tricots offered at 50 cents. the price value would be 75 cents per item. This item appears in a shopping listing or sale notice.
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Knight Templars
Robert Walkerman
Ludlow
Rupert
Conneautville
Northror
H. J. Dreyer
H. A. Jaminson & Co
Wees
Rieg
Rousseau
Caleb C. Thompson
Millard
Clarence E. Corbett
John M. Clapp
Orris W. Beatty
William A. Talbott
Solo
Josie E. Marston
Balfe
Willard
W. J H. Platt
Chapple
W. D. Hinckly
L. G. Noyes
D. V. Stranahan
A. C. McAlpine
J. Haggarty
Fred Bell
Jessie Davis
D. B. Bernard
Ww. Cc. T. U. Meeting
Irvine
Johnson & Siegfried
E. A. Rice
Flora Comstock
Lizzie McIntyre
Sugar Grove Union School
Stella Noyes
Chandlers Valley
Mary E. Dennigan
Stillwater
Blanche M. Howles
Dalrymple
Martha Wright
Stilson Hill
Lucy B. Abbott
Patchen
Clelia Covey
Hazeltine Hollow
Lizzie A. Thorpe
Swede Hollow
Lettie A. Howles
Brown Hill
Myron V. Wilcox
Fairview
Georgia Blakeslee
Round Hill
Bertha A. Cowles
Gray
Ella Root
Union School
Chandler’s Valley
New Revenue Law
Darvied
Warren County Fair Association
Agricultural Hall
B. F. Slater
W. A. Hughes
Vermont
A. R. Dalrym
H. D. Mead
Jas. Park
A. R. Dalrymple
St. Hela
D. Loucks
David Loucks
O. H. Field
Jno. Davidson
Globe
Hattie Brasington
C. H. Wiltsie
P. Seichrist
W. G. Berry
W. G. Eggry
M. Fehlman
Akins
Hartley
D. M. Davis
R. L. Hartley
R.S. Hartley
Burge
Warren Mills
Warren Mills Co
R. S. Hartley
Ira Burget
O. H. Fiehl
John Jones
Ira Burgett
James Curry
Willow Dale Creamery
Spring Creek
W A Frank
Rhode Island
Lewis Hondart
Adam Shutt
Geo Mead
D M Davis
Chas Lott
J Martin
Jacob Sweeting
Darts
Nellie Taylor
J Ruger
J A Abbott
Rebecca FB. Dickson
Rebecca E. Dickson
Perry C Annis
Perry C
Annis
A N Ayers
F M Knapp
S P Berry
J Mosier
Floral & Industrial
D Rowley
J P Jefferson
Geo Lee
Cogswell & Mason
A N Crandall
Susie Henry
E A Abbott
R E Dickinson
S 4 Smalley
W Cowan
M Scofield
Jessie Stannard
E Cowan
Miss M Scofield
R E Dickson
S E Smalley
Rebecca E Dickson
Marion Page
E Abbott
Clara L Lauffer
J A Bennett
Emin Davis
Island 24
J Leonhart
J Abbott
Geo Ie
J Jenner
A Babcock
G Mead
Marion Niver
C H Wiltsie
Eva Pickett
E Thomas
J Reiger
R E Bickson
Jas_Clark
Maud Owens
Mot Schuler
A Ramford
Hartwick
E W Parshall
Geo B Ensworth
Lizzie Spangler
C C Warnken
Salome Offerlee
China
E Davis
Moss
Fred Honhart
M Davis
P Berry
C J Kitchen
G F Mead
Jahn Jones
S Dalrymple
B Platte
Jacob Offerlee
Jacob Morck
T Strathers
M Beecher
O H Hunter
Myron Waters
W P O’bryan
Mary Lesser
Mamie Schuler
Jas O Meserly
Maud Ruhlman
Shasae Bag
Lambrequin
Maggie Young
Henriette Eddy
Hal Cobham
Hale Universal
J A Scott
Greenland
Jameison & Co
Shellhammer & Lesser
Beecher & Copland
Beecher & Copeland
Gruber
S Keller
Guertin
D Wetmore & Co
Elsworth
Reaper
Empire
J B Pence
Pence
Ransom
Barrow
Gruber & Lauffer
C & E Barth
Blanchard
D M Williams
H A Jamieson & Co
Champion
W R Lindsey
Thos
Leona Tonee
H Schwing
J Sager
I B Strong
F Witz
Farmers’ Club
Warren Agricultural Association
Oliver
Syracuse
Behr Bros
Brown Bros
McEwen
Estey Organ
Palace Organ
Sterling Organ
Indiana
Illinois
Nebraska
Iowa
Wisconsin
Minnesota
C. H. Hunter & Son
Calico
Selden Belden
E. W. Mudge
G. D. Cummings
Randolph, N. Y
Willa Cummings
Sammon
Benny
Clarke
Gilson
Clint Baker
W. H. Babcock
Sammons
Congregational Church
Moses
Stoneham
Samuel Grossenberg
Mead Township
Grossenberg
A. J. Armagast
Buffalo
Willard White
Boston
Wrightsville
Church Street
C. Messenger
Jack’’ Frost
Augusta Segerdald
Free Evangelical Church
Wickland
Star
Siegle
Wood
McGinnis
Mary Wood
Edinboro
John Meeley
Clarion County
S. Young
Carolston
Castoria
S.S. Connely
Pittsfield, Pa
Morck Brothers
Morck Bro’s
Hackney & Hull
J. H. Hull
J.H. Hull
W.A. Hacknes
Court of Common Pleas
Warre County
Thomas JL. Gilson
Brown & Stone
Charles A. Peterson
M. Martin and
8. E. Davis
Liberty Street
L. Noel
Knapp & Cable
J. H. Mitchell & Co
OLD Reliable Companies
Anna
Hartford
Phoenix
Home
Howard
Niagara
Liverpool
London & Globe
England
Queen
Royal
Imperial
London Assurance
Commercial
Sun Fire
Lancashire
American
Philedelpes
Reliance
Mutual Benefit Life
New Jersey
National Life
Mutual Life
O of
Traveler's Life & Accident
Harford
Beaty Block
Citizens National Bank
Francis Henry
F. Henry
M. Waters
P. Johnson
H. A. Jamieson
V. Davis
W. Dd. Brown
A. Hertzel
Geo
N. Parmlee
Maxes
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