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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1882
Page
5
Local notes report oil prices weakening with a Thursday open at 642 and 12 25pm dip to 632, plus weather and harvest progress. Warren residents update on rail traffic, town growth, real estate sales, insurance, safes, and new businesses including a bakery expanding to an ice cream saloon Runyan and Trashel.
M Mead remains an invalid from kidney trouble. Mrs D D Glenn of Tidioute visits her Warren parents. Brother White of the Tidioute Veres called last Tuesday. Mr D G Moree to take possession of his late Second Street purchase next week. A C Baum of the northern oil field in town locking up territory. Chas Lacy, traveler for Rothschild Bros., home on leave. A Booth, JP and real estate agent at North Clarendon, called at the office. Mrs C W King took formal possession of the Carver House last Monday. the hotel is crowded. J B Brown in feeble health, nearing a long mystery beyond. Col I F Watson returns from Washington to visit a sick brother in Titusville, then back to D.C. G Crosby, Kittanning lawyer and editor, in town Thursday to visit Lepest office. D B Bernard leaves Warren Hotel after two years. Warren party Beatty and wife, Dr Bartholomew and wife, and Mrs George Sill sail for Europe from Warren. Beatty delayed a day to settle matters. They started from New York on Saturday.
The editorial argues for building a narrow gauge railroad from Titusville to 646 and on to Erie to boost local optimism and help Warren. It notes Garfield’s naming, rapid land value rises around 646, and the oil price downturn harming producers in Bradford Richburg and Titusville while praising rail links as a possible relief for crowded Warren.
The narrow gauge Warren and Farnsworth Valley Railroad is under rapid construction from Clarendon to Garfield in Cherry Grove. Manager P H Towel has 300 men at work and aims to have the line running by August, possibly sooner. The ten and a half mile route centers the latest development and is likely to extend as demand grows, funded and controlled entirely by Warren interests.
Readable notes recount a scandal chapter on Youngsville and Chautauqua border, a Trinity Memorial Church lecture by Rev Henry Gets on May 28, and a defense of Col Watson amidst shifts in local politics. Burglars nearly opened Rick Donovan’s Junction House safe, Miss Amelia Young runs a select school, and oil region maps by J Opperman promise value to oil men. Also listed are local obituaries, land and railroad updates, and a sheriff sale notice targeting Olney Akeley with a Warren County property description.
A report says a large well on lot 619, near lot 646, will match the latter’s production. Attempts to hide output by plugging failed as gas was too strong. Excitement remains high in the region with offers of 700 an acre rejected. This appears to be a single extraordinary case amid rising land values.
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