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A Meeting of the citizens of Lewisburg and vicinity was held at the courthouse last evening to adopt measures for suitably celebrating the opening of the new railroad to this place, which event is to take place on Monday, June 21st. On that day a number of Prominent officers of the Penna. Railroad Company will visit this place, and from here proceed over the proposed route of the Lewisburg, Centre and Spruce Creek Railroad on a tour of observation. It is the design of the people to extend to them a hearty welcome, tender them the hospitalities of the place, etc. For the furtherance of this object, a committee of reception and a committee of arrangements were appointed, the former consisting of Hon. G.F. Miller, Hon. John Walls, Hon. Eli Slifer, Peter Beaver, Mark Halfpenny, Rev. Dr. J.R. Loomis, Hon. Martin Dreisbach, Dr. F.C. Harrison, Paul Geddes, William Van Gezer, Esq., William Cameron, Joseph M. Nesbit; the latter of W.C. Duncan, H.D. Towne, Philip Billmeyer, John B. Linn, John C. Smith, J .C. Bucher, John H. Beale, Henry C. Schwartz, J.B. McLaughlin, John P. Cornelius, Dr. H. Cerhart, C.C. Shorkley, Dr. William H. Marr, Thomas A. Roberts, A.M. Lawshe, William Jones, Edwin C. Wolfe, Dr. Samuel Blair, Dr. T.H. Wilson, C.F. Hess, C.D. Cox, C.B. McGinley, Solomon Ritter, John Miller, William M. Quigley. These committees will make suitable arrangements for carrying out the details, and due notice will be given of the program which will be published before the 21st. It was on motion agreed that a cordial invitation be extended to every man and woman in the county who takes an interest in the branch and the proposed extension to be present on that day to receive the officers of the R.R Company. Turn out and convince them by your presence that you are in earnest in the matter. Let us have a regular jubilee.The entrance of a railroad train is the introduction of a new and most important era to Union County. It will wake us up from our Rip Van Winkle slumber and place us right on the thoroughfare to prosperity. We may also state that, should the proposed R.R. be built, it will be a link to the great through line from New York to San Francisco as any one who glances at a map of the country can see. This fact should spur us on to increased effort and not permit our neighbors to head us off by running a parallel line within a few miles of us. It was the desire of the meeting, last night, to have the proceedings published in all the papers in the county. We are told that after the 21st passenger trains will run regularly to and from this place. We shall give the schedule at as early a day as possible. CHRONICLE, July 22, 1869 THE RAILROAD OPENED— Be it known that on this Friday, July 23rd in the year of grace, 1869 at 7 o’clock a.m., Locomotive No. 1008 with passenger car No. 1047, visited the borough of Lewisburg bringing with them Hon. George F. Miller, the President of the L.&S.C.R.R Comp. and five other passengers. The uncertainty as to the time of the arrival of the first train rendered anything like a demonstration impossible. On its return to the junction the car was loaded with delighted passengers and upon its second arrival in the borough, it was met with a large concourse of people, not only from town, but from the adjacent country. The church bells were rung— the new sweet toned Baptist mingling, its first notes with the others were blown. The train will hereafter make a close connection with all passenger trains on the P. & E.R.R. Fare each way, 25 cents, to be collected at the train for the present. Freight trains will commence running early next week. Orders have been issued to push on the work of the depot as fast as possible, and bricklaying will be commenced in a few days. © Copyright 2010 by Mifflinburg Telegraph Weekly Newspaper Top of Page |
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