Excerpts
from the Advance Argus, Greenville, Mercer County, PA, May 5, 1898,
page 3
Few
of Greenville’s Advantages.
Freight
leaving New York City in the evening is in Greenville the second morning.
Car-lot
freight leaving New York City in the evening is in Greenville the next
evening.
Local
freight, billed at in the evening is in Greenville at 2 a.m. next morning.
The
vicinity of Greenville produces wool especially adapted for worsted goods.
36
mails daily.
6
mails to and from New York every day.
Three
railroads (practically four).
Three
routes to Pittsburg.
Four
routes to Lake Erie.
Two
vestibuled expresses New York daily.
Vestibuled
express to Chicago daily.
Vestibuled
express to Cleveland daily
Four
through trains from New York every day, sleeping and dining cars.
Two
through trains to Chicago every day, sleeping and dining cars.
Through
Pullman service to Boston, Cincinnati and Cleveland daily.
20
express trains, exclusive of Shenango and Osgood.
The
only place in America having the Vanderbilt, Erie, Pennsylvania and
Carnegie freight systems.
Pullman
and Wagner service to and from Chautauqua during the season.
Through
train, carrying express matter only to and from New York and Chicago every
day.
Postal
telegraph.
Western
Union telegraph.
Mercer
county telephone system; all night service.
Central
District telephone (Bell system) with all-night service.
American
Telephone & Telegraph Co. Co. tong-distance system with Boston, New
York, Chicago.
Adams
express.
Wells-Fargo
express.
American
express at Amasa and Osgood junctions.
You
can take breakfast in Greenville and supper in Chicago.
You
can take supper in Greenville and breakfast in New York.
Erie
Dispatch, Merchants’ Dispatch and Union fast freight lines.
Block
coal, finest quality, mined with in 1/4 mile of town limits.
Three
other coal fields within 20 miles.
Flag
stone quarries.
Building
stone quarries near by.
Sand
rock for glass-making purposes within miles.
Water
works.
Electric
light - -arc and incandescent.
Gas
for illuminating, fuel and power.
Finest
weldless tubing works extent.
Rolling
mill.
Woolen
mill.
Flouring
mill.
Steam
laundry and dye works.
Machine
shops and foundries.
Wood-working
establishment.
Three
large school buildings.
High-grade
high school.
A
college.
Transfer
house, large agricultural implement company.
Greenville
is a terminus of the proposed ship canal.
First-class
fire department, one engine, three hose carts, three hose companies, hook
and ladder company.
Reformed,
Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Episcopal, Presbyterian, United Presbyterian
and Roman Catholic churches.
One
of the finest streets (paved) in Pennsylvania.
Good
stores.
Business
portion of town is compact.
Surrounded
by splendid farming region.
Cost
of living low.
Steam
heat.
Cheap
fuel.
Over
thirty active secret societies and clubs.
Healthful—no
epidemics of any kind.
Two
national banks.
Several
building and loan associations.
Good
hotels.
Opera
House.
Five
newspapers.
Two
monthly periodicals.
Board
of health.
View
train schedules
[on page 3 of
the Advance Argus, but not transcribed]
Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern
P.
B. & L. E. Railroad
Erie
Railroad
Pennsylvania
Lines, Erie & Pittsburgh Division
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