100 Years Ago in Warren: Fire water and oiled roads
Taken from the pages of the Warren and Barrington Gazette this week in May 1913: A cell for a wigwam Word was received by Chief Walsh Monday afternoon that Martin Kenny had again donned his war paint and was at the railroad station awaiting all comers. The employees at the depot had remonstrated with him, [...]
Read More →100 Years Ago in Warren: Stole the man’s clothes
Taken from the pages of the Warren and Barrington Gazette this week in February 1913: Cottage fire Startled by a noise in an upper room, Fred Smith who lives in the cottage on Union Street, owned by J. H. Brown, rushed up to learn the cause. He found that a lamp had exploded and that [...]
Read More →100 Years Ago: Horse hits hack in head
Taken from the pages of the Warren and Barrington Gazette this week in February 1913: Police logs At the regular meeting of the town council the report of Robert Wash, Chief of Police was received and ordered placed on file. An abstract of the report shows the following items: Reveling, 1; assault, 1; vagrancy, 1; [...]
Read More →100 Years Ago: Green singers, clean town
Taken from the pages of the Warren and Barrington Gazette this week in 1913: Distinguished? Or extinguished? Four town boys under the caption of the Working Boys quartet made their initial appearance at the Bijou theatre last week in a musical role. In spite of the fact that they belong in Warren the young men, [...]
Read More →100 Years Ago in Warren: Child labor on the hot seat
Taken from the pages of the Warren and Barrington Gazette this week in January 1913: Quite a gale Not for a long time has the town felt the force of the wind as on Friday night and Saturday last. It seemed as though with every succeeding blast that everything must be torn up by the [...]
Read More →100 Years Ago in Warren: Professional spanker, boat sinks
Police blotter At the regular meeting of the town council the monthly report of the police department was received, read and ordered filed. The chief of police for the past month reports as follows, the number of items as registered on the blotter: assaults, 2; vagrancy, 2; insane, 1; breaking and entering, 1; disturbances suppressed, [...]
Read More →100 Years Ago in Warren: Thief foiled in the act
Taken from the pages of the Warren and Barrington Gazette this week in January 1913: Fancy new truck George M. Wilbur, the undertaker, has just purchased a new Pierce Arrow, 45-horse power, ambulance. It certainly is a beatuy and will prove of material assistance to Mr. Wilbur in his work. Thief foiled While guests were [...]
Read More →100 Years Ago in Warren: Coal in Warren’s stockings
Taken from the pages of the Warren and Barrington Gazette this week in December 1912: Festive houses The night before Christmas pedestrians on the streets were forced to stop and witness the illumination of the houses on Washington, Lyndon, State and parts of South Main Street. It was a beautiful scene, every window of each [...]
Read More →100 Years Ago in Warren: Wet hunter and a foul plot
Taken from the pages of the Warren and Barrington Gazette this week in December 1912: Hunter nearly drowns It came near to being a fatal shooting trip, when in some unaccountable manner Charles E. Blake was plunged into the icy river by the over turning of his canoe. There have been quite a few duck [...]
Read More →100 Years Ago in Warren: Smelly swill
Taken from the pages of the Warren and Barrington Gazette this week in November 1912: Stinky swill Swill and milk have nothing in common. Our forefather farmers used to raise corn and milk fed pork; now it is swill fed. At present no one has a license to collect swill, and there are no town [...]
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