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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1875
Page
3
The notice advertises fresh tea lots including Good Young Hyson and Japan varieties with grades from 50 to 100 and terms like Extra Fine and Choicest. Describes tight cans and quality, inviting buyers to sample the selections.
A fragment lists town officers and county officials with titles such as President Judge and County Judge Isaac H Halter, then promotes The Leager offices printing services offering bill heads statements and business cards with claim of high quality and prompt service.
Local notes describe poor sleighing, church revivals in Warren, new stores opening, and sales. Reports on ice thickness, a dying market for oil, and road connections to Dayton. Social events include a dancing school and a temperance union meeting at the Baptist Church.
Chicago despatch notes extreme winter not seen since 1864 with northwest reports of fatalities and severe suffering as the temperature drops to eighteen degrees below zero on the night of the 10th. Greenland Bros relocate furniture and undertaking business to a new store beside the Episcopal Church inviting old and new customers with first class goods at low prices.
An 8 o’clock Tuesday fire razed H A Jamieson Esq s unfinished brick residence on Market Street. Delays in water supply and steam delivery hindered firemen though residents and Hose Company fought the blaze. The building, nearly completed at $16 000 cost, housed $3 500 of insurance and caused community shock while no blame is yet assigned. Nearby structures and a church service were affected. cold weather and other notes follow.
A reader reports a new shade attachment for plows that supports an umbrella and can adjust to shade the plowman. The device has been patented and prompts musings on shading teams. In New York, 470 churches and chapels boast a house of worship per 2000 people, and 3440 drain shops serve the population, with many open only on select days.
A Warren assembly pledges faith in temperance, urging decisive Prohibitory legislation to curb alcohol’s harm. The piece cites religious duty, child welfare, and societal crime as motives, calling for strong law and public support to drain “the fountains of iniquity” and uphold moral reform.
The Sugar Grove gathering on Friday and Saturday January 8th and 9th focused on educating teachers. Supt Sutherland opened with devotions, then discussions on a one term school system, geography, arithmetic, and primary geography. Speakers included S D Owen N R Thompson and D W Snowden with papers by A W Dennison and D Hazeltine.
War ren County teachers gather at Sugar Grove to praise the M E Church for use of facilities and Rev D H Sannes for lectures. They commend the Glee Club and Cornet Band, thank Sugar Grove residents for hospitality, and appoint secretaries to publish resolutions. A separate note covers a boxing mishap, county finances, grasshoppers, a lecture by Col Lindsey, and political vitriol about Republicans and war policies.
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