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The Sharon Herald November 24, 1899
The following excerpts from the Friday, November 24, 1899 edition of The Sharon Herald (Vol. 36, No. 33), were reprinted in The Herald, Sharon, PA, in the Sunday, November 24, 1999 edition. Thanks to The Herald for allowing us to use this material and to Beverly Liston. The names of the people are highlighted. Any notes in [ ] are my own remarks and were not in the reprint of the paper.
<From page 3> BRIEFLY
TOLD.
Housekeeper wanted. See Cent-a-Word column.
The Bessemer Gas Engine Company, of Grove City, has been chartered, with
a capital of $100,000.
The teachers of Pymatuning township will hold an institute at Transfer on
Saturday, December 2.
Taylor Bros. have been award ed the contract for the erection of two
frame houses for S. Herrmann, on south Water
street.
The flag on the engine house was floated at half-mast Tuesday and
Wednesday on account of the death of Vice President Garrett A. Hobart.
Horses from the stable of C. E. Bates of
Hubbard, were the largest winners at the horse show held in New York last week.
They were awarded 20 ribbons, representing a cash value of $2,350. One pair, Hi
and High Tide, won $900. Contracts for two standard gauge shifting engines, to weigh
about 100,000 pounds each, have been awarded by The Sharon Steel; Co, to the
Baldwin locomotive company, of Philadelphia. They will be of the latest design
and will cost about $12,000.
A meeting of a number of the officials of the Aschman Steel Company was
held in this place last week. As a result of the conference extensive
improvements, the nature of which have not been made public, will be made at the
company’s works here.
A Youngstown dispatch says: A.W Johnson, the well-known
horseman of Hubbard, recently filed a petition in bankruptcy. On Monday he made
application to have the petition dismissed, stating that he had paid every
dollar indebtedness and had money left to do business.
Pennsylvania experts, who are satisfied that the Jefferson wild well is a
winner, have had local representatives leasing land in Howland township along
the Mosquito creek bottoms.. It is intended, if enough territory can be secured,
to put down a couple of test wells to a depth of 2000 feet. —Warren Chronicle.
The Mahoning Foundry and Machine Company, of Youngstown, with which Mr.
D.D. Runser, formerly of this place, is
connected, has been incorporated. The capital stock is $25,000 and the company
is authorized to manufacture and deal in steel, cast and wrought iron in various
forms. Numerous improvements will be made at the plant.
Adjutant General Stewart has issued orders
to the commandants of the various regiments of the National Guard of
Pennsylvania that they send into the State arsenal the regimental flags carried
in the late war. Adjutant Packard, of Greenville,
Friday morning shipped the Fifteenth colors and they will be placed on
exhibition in the flag room at Harrisburg.
W. N. Stewart, of Brookfield, was in town
yesterday looking into street railway matters. Mr. Stewart says the Brookfield
people are anxious that the prospective road from Hubbard to Sharon shall run
through that town and that the company will have not trouble whatever in getting
the right-of-way. Brookfield is
fast becoming filled up with Sharon business men, as it is an ideal residence
town - Hubbard Enterprise.
The citizens, of Mercer have subscribed a sufficient sum of money to
purchase the soldiers orphans’ home property, which will be turned into a
sanitarium and hotel by Dr. Mary McKinstrty. The
main building will be a 60x80 three story structure, with a 25x10 two story
annex. On the first floor will be the office, reception rooms, parlors,
bathrooms and dining room. The other floors will be devoted to sleeping
apartments. The sanitarium will be surrounded by a lawn six acres in extent -
Greenville Record. Last
week the Erie placed on the Mahoning division two new passenger engines that are
clever pieces of machinery, says the Cleveland Leader. They are not the very
latest pattern, not having the possibilities of the terrific speed that some of
the big engines have, but they are good, strong, fast engines that will take any
passenger train they will be required to haul over the Mahoning division on
absolute scheduled time. The Erie has also placed two of the Atlantic type of
engines on the Meadville division. These are the fastest types of engines known.
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