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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1875
Page
3
An era wide ad lists various groceries with prices including canned corn and pumpkin, condensed milk, honey, and tea varieties like Young Hyson and Oolong. Mentions general deals on lip items, can sizes, and emphasizes quality of the teas.
Warren Pa. local items list town and county officers including President Judge L D Wetmore and Sheriff S J Davie, plus notes on school directors, public notices, and various local happenings from April events, rail fare cuts, theater and lecture reports, oil exploration updates, and community anecdotes in a period Warren newspaper.
In Burrap on March 26 1875 the writer blasts local politics and economics. He rails at hard times, praises summer, laments slowness in oil and coal development, and urges Buffalo to reroute the Buffalo Jamestown railroad to Warren. He cites Warren’s beauty, banker resentments, bank failures, and hopes that rail and oil ventures will drive prosperity for the region.
An editorial urges disclosure of oil prospects discovered by Beatty, arguing public interest demands knowledge for all residents. It contrasts his resource abundance with neighborly sacrifice and laments bleak winter skies while invoking spring’s hoped return.
Sour Wat Pa March 2 1875 Messrs Borrors In your paper of the 18th I notice a Citizen from Youngsville critiques the grand jury presentment on Rouse Hospital. The committee found barns filthy hay manure and ill kept. water and privy facilities faulted. beds for the insane dirty and vermin infested. Babcock accused of prejudice denied and the report stands as a true account of the institution’s management by its commissioners. Co BE Knuieutz One of the Committee.
The Beatty oil well near Warren draws bulls and bears as reports vary on its yield from a possible 200 barrels. Officials note oil flows daily, with minimal pumping and secrecy surrounding measurements. A. W. H. Verback plans a derrick to test quantities while others consider sinking further. Thamas Bell and A B McKain return as master trades on the jail project. A A Dav iad Co announces first spring stock of wallpaper.
E D York & Co announce their new Warren manufactory now the largest in the United States for wholesale perfumery. French chemist Mons Henry Ungerer leads the lab with exclusive preparations such as White Rose and Rose de l Espagne. Bottling, labeling and fancy box making expand next week, with more laborers planned as orders flow from major cities.
An entertaining evening at Union School Hall features a spelling school next Friday with twenty-five cent admission, spell down by E. Cowan and B. F. Morris, comic declamations, and a championship swords contest. Prof. Miller will teach, C. W. Stone presides, proceeds go to the Public Library, and Library Room April 5th events are postponed to the third Monday in April.
A public meeting at the residence of H English in Le Lenne discussed the feasibility of rerouting the Buffalo and Jamestown Railroad along the Alleghany river into Pennsylvania to access rich coal and timber along Willow Sugar and Cornplanter creeks and Kane. R H English and RB Butterworth prepared a report urging a geological survey and construction through Steamburg Kinzua Kane to Reynoldsville, arguing a shorter grade and proximity to resources with no competing lines.
Youngsville sees a new bank as the big safe arrives and local officers may change after last fall’s elections. Prof Nicholas Thompson seeks Co Superintendent, cornets entertain with financial success, and local trades shift as Morley sells boot and shoe business to Alexander. Sugar days return, Mr. Dor Green plans timber purchases, and McCall’s Powder is promoted for washing and cleaning. River water rises with eight feet of channel depth and ice gorges may release soon.
A fragment from the Las ton Globe notes New Haven girls ending engagements with theological students and seeking men described as heathen. The piece mocks theology’s inwardness and cites Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake and a Sorosis remark. The Courier-Journal’s marine editor ponders why men spend fortunes to appear foolish when a gentleman costs nothing.
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