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IV10NESSEN CELEBRATINGElUtllItwasSflTVAft athe sthatpresaticcpresveilrlistfrorHe tmenVi' time mitt eo r the nols dent door the log turn 2 tel;tvThe Fifth Anniversary of Its Founding Balance of This Week.Monessen, Sept. 3,—This town will celebrate its fifth anniversary today. Hundreds of neighbors from Moaon-gakeia towns are expected to bo present- and take part .u the festivities.The merchants and business men. of the town have arranged to hold a carnival ait week, and yesterday the principal street, Donaer avenue, was lined with shows and carnival attractions of every description. The business houses arc- a mass of red, white and blue bunting.The hotels are crowded. Hundreds of visitors arrived on trains, boats ami trolleys. Today the merchants will hold a carnival m the afternoon. Friday evening the Elks of Monongahcla valley will give a dross parade, and on Saturday every mill m the town, along w Ith those of Donora, Monon-gahela City, Charleroi. Clarion and Axleton will Close down Cor the day.The general committee expects to have 5,000 mill mien and miners in. ms the parade Saturday morning. Bur-1, Ei,-e gess Shuster and Chief of Police Cooper have secured the assistance of Deflective Anderson of McKeesport and a number of Pittsburg officers to assist ir. keeping good order.The local carnival attractions are receiving much attention, especially the contest between a half dozen young women for queen of the carnival. One cent is what it costs to cast a vote. The candidate who receives the largest r,umber of votes by Saturday night will be declared the carnival queen and receive a $100 diamond ring. The second in the contest will receive n gold watch and the third a manicure set. Miss Sarah Suttie and JIlss Edna Stanton are icttdr.is in the contest. A pair of ponies is also to be given away to some lucky person.The carnival and celebration are given on the anniversary of this place.From a tract of 450 acres of farm and bottom laud a wonderful transformation has occurred in five years. It .then ccnlained but a few small buildings. Today it is a town with a population of 19,000 people, with beautiful brick business buildings, paved streets, electric lights, natural gas, a complete sewer system, an excellent water supply, metropolitan police and fire departments and a number of costly and modern churches and public schools.■Within the borough limits are the plants of the American TiniilaLa Company, employing 1,800 men; the Pittsburg Steel Hoop Works, Pittsburg Steel Foundry. Page Wire Works. Monessen Machine Works and a number of smaller manufacturing concerns that give, employment to over ;s.r!)9 men.The rapid growth of the town of Monesscu has its equal only in the far-off West. It is not a boom town of shanties and small frame -buildings, but one with many ail vantages not found in cities and towns io this section that have in the last few years celebrated their centennials. Shortly after the purchase of the tract of about 430 acres by the Eastsids Band Company in 3SOT from Alexander and Thomas McMahon, P. C. Ponner, assisted by Pittsburg capital, took a fancy to he territory and was attracted by its many natural advantages and at once purchased ground and erected the largest Independent tin plate mills in this country. Others followed soon after and today the town lias some of the best and most substantial manufacturing plants of any town iu the state.Among the business men of this place are many from Pittsburg, McKeesport and other cities of Western Pennsylvania. Excursion rates have been granted on all lines of travel into the town this week, mil before Saturday night the citizens expect hundreds of visitors.Fire at Victoria.
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Connellsville Courier
Connellsville, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Sep 03, 1903
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