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November 6, 1857
Lewisburg Chronicle
Lewisburg, Union County, Pennsylvania
What is this article about?
In Lewisburg, twenty citizens buy a former Presbyterian church to convert into a hall for the Lewisburg Literary Association and hope to add a library, emphasizing moral management to benefit the community.
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"Independent Hall."
A company of twenty citizens of Lewisburg, having purchased the meeting house and session rooms recently occupied by the Presbyterian church, are fitting up the former for a neat and spacious Hall, and the latter it is hoped some day to furnish as a Library and Reading Room. They have applied for incorporation, under the title of "Lewisburg Literary Association."
This enterprise is intended to supply a long needed want, and if, in letting the Hall, vulgar and demoralizing agencies are excluded, the corporators will prove public benefactors.
Opinions, it is true, differ, and it may at times be difficult to determine in advance what is proper for general representation; but, keeping on the safe side, the managers may give their Hall a reputation which shall be honorable and remunerative, or, by admitting everything that will "pay," they may make it a curse to the town, and shunned by the virtuous and thoughtful. With the best wishes of the community in planning for the good of the public, we hope to mark their substantial progress year after year in the right direction.
A company of twenty citizens of Lewisburg, having purchased the meeting house and session rooms recently occupied by the Presbyterian church, are fitting up the former for a neat and spacious Hall, and the latter it is hoped some day to furnish as a Library and Reading Room. They have applied for incorporation, under the title of "Lewisburg Literary Association."
This enterprise is intended to supply a long needed want, and if, in letting the Hall, vulgar and demoralizing agencies are excluded, the corporators will prove public benefactors.
Opinions, it is true, differ, and it may at times be difficult to determine in advance what is proper for general representation; but, keeping on the safe side, the managers may give their Hall a reputation which shall be honorable and remunerative, or, by admitting everything that will "pay," they may make it a curse to the town, and shunned by the virtuous and thoughtful. With the best wishes of the community in planning for the good of the public, we hope to mark their substantial progress year after year in the right direction.
What sub-type of article is it?
Historical Event
What themes does it cover?
Moral Virtue
Social Manners
What keywords are associated?
Lewisburg
Literary Association
Community Hall
Library
Public Benefit
Where did it happen?
Lewisburg
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Lewisburg
Story Details
A company of twenty citizens of Lewisburg purchases a former Presbyterian church building to create a public hall and potential library and reading room under the Lewisburg Literary Association, with advice to exclude vulgar elements for community benefit.