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Subject: [PA-LAC] The Providence Register, Sat., March 28, 1914
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 21:32:47 EDT
Anna Bell West, of Pittston, was a visitor in this section recently.
Edward Gordon, the popular railroader, is very ill with pneumonia at the home
of D. J. Fooley, North Main avenue.
Rev. R. L. Pfeil, of Carbondale, has accepted the call to the pastorate of
the St. Pauls Lutheran church, Wood street.
Miss Marie Murphy and Martin Flynn, of Spaulding, Nebraska, have returned
home after spending the past two months with friends and relatives here.
Mrs. Alvin Bisbing, of Giles street, suffered a stroke on last Tuesday and
has been in a very precarious condition since....
The Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Providence Presbyterian church
will meet...at the home of Mrs. J. B. Casterline, 1717 Church avenue.
Joseph Bisbing, a well known young man of this section, who has been very ill
for some time, is lying dangerously low at the home of Mrs. T. J. Hoag and
prospects for his recovery are not very bright.
J. R. Atherton, president of the North Scranton Bank, gave a dinner to the
Board of Directors of that splendid institution at the Scranton Club....
Mrs. Charles Ruch, of Northumberland and Mrs. Millard Gruver, of Kingston,
were guests of Rev. and Mrs. Max Wiant, at the Baptist parsonage yesterday
and attended the Billy Sunday meeting at the tabernacle in the afternoon.
Mrs. George Paterson, formerly of this section, now living at Angolia,
California, was injured by being thrown from her carriage while out riding
recently but in a letter to friends she states that her injuries are not
serious.
Karl McDonnell, formerly with the Tjitle Guaranty and Surety company, now
with the Globe Indemnity Co., of New York, has been in Scranton during the
past week and visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. McDonnell, North Main
avenue.
Mrs. Lenora Leonard, widow of John Leonard, and one of the oldest and best
known residents of Scranton, died at ther home on Keyser avenue on last
Wednesday, aged sixty years. She is survived by several adult children....
Louis H. Wint, aged seventy-three years, a brother of the late Brigadier
General Theodore Wint, died last Wednesday night....[He] was born in
Allentown, Pa., in 1841, and came to Providence, where he had spent nearly
all his life....Mr. Wint enlisted at the opening of the Civil war as a member
of Schooley's famous battery and was later transferred to Company M, 112th
Pennsylvania infantry....In July, 1865, he was discharged with the rank of
orderly sergeant. Several years later he married Miss Addie M. Rogers, who
died in Providence in April, 1881. Eight years later he married Miss Allie
F. Williams, of Gibson, Pa. She survives him with one brother, Irwin J.
Wint. of this city; three sisters, Mrs. Charles Papst, of Wilkes-Barre; Mrs.
Samuel Edgar and Mrs. Charles Hawley, both of this city....Interment in
Forest Hill cemetery.
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