Lehigh Valley Plan Expands Coxton Yards Into Six Miles Of Tracks
The Lehigh Valley Railroad outlines a major yard expansion from Caxton to Ransom, six miles long with ten tracks and capacity for 55 500 cars. The project relocates main tracks to the east, adds interlocking towers at Ransom and Lackawanna junction, and aims to speed through freight while handling growing traffic. Groundbreaking at St. John the Evangelist’s church precedes this industrial milestone.
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Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Coxton Yards
Coxton Yard
Lehigh
Caxton
Lackawwanna
Bloomsburg Junction
Ransom
Susquehanna
Lackawanna and
Pittston
Officials refuse to express opinion on solution in D L W Board notes
The D L W board list shows trials and make up details with names like Townsend, Beeor, Burkhart, Hennigan, Mann, Gahveun, Kingsley, Widener, Swartz, Duffy, Brock, Fitzpatrick. Trainmaster Swmiiton signs the note approving supervision and timing for engines and passenger service updates. James Hicks and James Burnett, Dickson Manufacturing machinists, are sent to Plymouth Mass to assemble a monster engine and winding drum for a rope firm, for about three months, after recent Worcester and Scranton work. Their selection highlights their standing with employers.
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Wildcats Booth
T. Townsend
DD. Beeor
J. Burkhart
Hennigan
Mann
John Gahveun
Om. Kingsley
MA. Widener
J. Swartz
M—K. Duffy
J. Brock
Mo T. Fitzpatrick
J. Gerr Tao
Aartholomew
M—P. Singer
m.LoBar
W. D. Warfoot
James Hicks
Capoose Avenue
James Burnett
West Scranton
Dickson Manufacturing Company
Plymouth
Mass
Dickson
Hicks and
Burnett
Hicks
New Welford
Dickson Company
Local Choir Plans Patrick's Night Concert at Father Mathew Hall
The St. Thomas' church choir will meet on the first Monday night of each month. Next Sunday night a sacred concert will be held in Father Mathew hall honoring Ireland's patron St Patrick. The program includes vocal and instrumental music. Thomas Monle visited his former Moosic home yesterday. George Bishop of Main street visited Carbondale friends Sunday.
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St. Thomas’ Church
Father Mathew
Ireland
St. Patrick
Thomas Monle
Moosic
George Bishop
Main Street
Carbondale
Local events in Factoryville and surrounding area
Factoryville drawing card weekend scene with Odd Fellows degrees Jolly Ten club smokers and banquet noted Miss Sweet hosts guest Eloise Jennings from Binghamton Local skating mishap near Lake Sheridan ends with rescue and a two pound catfish reported The Republican convention at Tunkhannock names D G Black Henry Harding and F J Jordan as delegates and conferees.
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Boranton Tribune
Factoryville
W. H. Capwell
Dallas Post
Red Jacket Lodge
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Jolly Ten Club
Masonic Hall
Lake Sheridan
Indeent Order of Odd Fellows
R. P. Lindley
Elmdale
Kittie Gardner
Scranton
Adams Avenue
Tunkhannock
D. G. Black
Nicholson
Henry Harding
F. J. Jordan
Chicago Record Poem Note Praises Work and Wreaths
A brief Chicago Record verse extols labor and devotion. It declares that those who love their work deserve praise and a larger wreath, while those who do not should bear the shame of neglect.
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Chicago Record
St John the Evangelist church to rise at Fig Street corner
Work on the new church of St John the Evangelist will commence next Saturday with ground breaking by contractor M J Ruddy. The brick English Gothic edifice, 138 by 68.5 feet, 60 feet high, will have a 100 foot tower and brick with stone trim. Estimated total cost 375000 or more. contract price 6v 000 not including interior fittings.
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St. John the Evangelist
M. J. Ruddy
Fig Street
Pittston Avenue
Percival Morris
Morris
England
Conductor and Engineer Orders Posted at Superintendent’s Office
Bulletin lists requirements for Faust Freight Trains crews to file SS report form 8 T 10 at the first open telegraph office for any bad order or manifest car. Discipline will follow for noncompliance. Instructions urge cooperation when trains are delayed by engine failure and advise reporting inability to handle tonnage and seeking permission to reduce train load to regain schedule time.
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Faust
A. C. Sullebury
Contractors transform hall into tenement on Penn Avenue
CC Boland converts Howley's hall into a tenement on Penn Avenue. Carlucci Stone Co erects a building near the nut and bolt works to cut and dress stone. Blair homestead renovation nears completion for a Young Men's Christian Association building. G W Twining of Mauch Chunk visits the local office as Central Railroad of New Jersey maintainer. George Miller of the Delaware Lackawanna and Western car shops oversees transport of heavy machinery to Syracuse NC for erection in local shops.
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CC. T. Boland
Howley’s Hall
Penn Avenue
Carlucci Stone Company
Nut and Bolt
Blair Homestead
Young Men's Christian Association
G. W. Twining
Mauch Chunk
Central Railroad of New Jersey
George Miller
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Car Shops
Syracuse
N. C
Borough Council Adopts 15 Mill Tax, Approves Bonds
An adjourned council session with most members present sets the tax rate at 15 mills split 5 for night service 5 for road 2 for special and 1 for water. Edward O Haro is sworn as bond mayor and Bernard O Haro as treasurer with bondsmen listed. A committee reviews the exoneration list of Tax Collector McDonnell and other routine motions are noted.
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Finnerty
Scanlon
Kearney
Siddon
McAndrew
McHale
Jones
Hunt
Kearney McHale
Edward O'Haro
Bernard O'Haro
John Carden
Patrick Boland
James H. White
Peter Boland
John J. Kelly
M. D
Giddon
Taz
McDonnell
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Coxton
Lehigh Valley Company
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Baltimore American
Promis Ea Fiseectors Hood’s Pills
Lackawanna
Balisbury
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Scranton’s Shopping Center
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Connolly & Wallace
Washington Avenue
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