Lewistown Gazette

It will be seen by an advertisement in this paper that a meeting is proposed to be held in the Town Hall on Thursday evening, for the purpose of aiding the building of a Railroad from Selinsgrove to this place.

We consider the completion of this project of very great importance to the prosperity of our town, as well as to the whole county. Every family that uses coal will be directly interested in it. By means of it we will have direct communication with the great anthracite coal field, thus cheapening the price of that article so indispensable to every household, and preventing the rise in it which so often happens in winter from short supply on account of navigation being closed.

It will stimulate and increase manufactures, the source to which we must look for any permanent prosperity to our town. It will make this a feasible point to work up the ores that abound in great quantities in our vicinity, and to do anything where coal is used as a motive power.

Let the farmer come to the meeting; he desires cheap lime-burners coal to fertilize his fields, so that he can raise the grain to supply the market which will be produced by the very manufacturers which this road will stimulate.

Finally let all turn out to the meeting and hear for themselves what the prospect is of the road being built, and do all they can by themselves and by persuading their neighbors to assist in this commendable enterprise.