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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1887
Page
1
North Warren column reviews the Baptist Call and The Arrow, notes on local commerce and sugar parties, woolen mill hopes, and business cards. Mentions coffee of local residents, church activities, and a push to install machinery, with scattered town updates from Warren and nearby areas.
Findlay Ohio plans lower gas charges as a city controlled system with its own wells and mains announces rates cut from twenty five cents per month to fifteen cents after April for each stove or grate. Domestic usage costs drop to about 1.05 to 1.80 dollars yearly, driving a push for cheaper power and a busy town.
Governor Beaver designates April 22 as Arbor Day and urges citizens to plant trees and shrubbery. Schools, rural highways, towns, and farms should adorn grounds and streets to temper climate, beautify areas, and build future timber supply. By order of a concurrent 1887 resolution. Mandle Factory For Sale. A rare chance to purchase a handle factory on fee land with machinery. Enquire C. A. & D. Corwen, North Clarendon, Pa.
Opening April shows crowded mills and oversold rail and lumber sectors. Trade upticks are seen in cotton wool and iron while rail traffic grows ahead of new freight rates. Real estate booms in the west and south and speculation looms with capital flooding manufacturing.
In Drie Erm Pa on April 7 a fire roared through the Evening Herald press room injuring a staffer who was rescued by the book and ladder company. Otto Phiscer, a worker, was fatally struck by a passing vehicle amid the chaos. The loss is estimated over $2,000. Dusueaut Ia reports a city election with the K of L ticket sweeping all positions.
North Clarendon notes in depth on local advantage for industry including ground, natural gas, four fuels, and a thriving oil sector with Goal Bros, J. R. Timmins & Co, and Levi Smith. It laments Warren monopoly, praises home oil refining, and details land transfers to Ellison Bros while warning of rising rents and urging investor confidence. It reports on civic events, shop disputes, church concerts, and local trades and residents' moves.
Congressman William T. Scott of Erie met with ex Senator Frank Kernan at the Fifth Avenue hotel to gauge New York sentiment toward President Cleveland. Rumors say Scott seeks delegates for 1888, may advise dropping Randell’s wing in Pennsylvania, and could join Cleveland’s cabinet if re-elected.
Indian Agent G Osborn reports that J M Smith, a farmer at the Otoe agency, was shot and killed in self defense after threatening clerks and attacking workers. Osborn states he acted to save three lives, including his own, during a discharge confrontation at the Poncu Pawnes and Otee agency.
For sale. Attention milliners. Buy a thriving millinery business on small capital. Call on Mrs. E. L. Palm at once. Rent and fuel cheap. I propose to continue the business unless I sell. North Clarendon, Pa. a6-11.
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