Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1916 — SPECIAL STATIONERY BARGAIN [ARTICLE]

SPECIAL STATIONERY BARGAIN

The Democrat has a special bargain in fine correspondence stationery, nice bond papers in several shades of color, that it can sell fifty sheet of paper and fifty envelops for 30 cents, your choice of shade. This paper is I n bulk, and we can sell it In larger quantities at

a slight reduction over the above price—250 sheets of paper and 250 envelops for only $1.25. This is an exceptional price and the stock will not last long at the figures we are offering it. Call in and see the paper and you will be sure to buy a supply of it for your future needs. Mrs. Elizabeth Griffith of Morocco, who was said to be 102 years old and the oldest person in Newton county, died last week at the home of her daughter, Mrs. William Black. Mrs. Griffith was born in England and came to this country when a young girl. She was the mother of fifteen children, all but two of whom have preceded her in death. The first railway in New York state, and among the first in America, was the Mohawk & Hudson line, which wag completed eighty-* five years ago. The line connected Albany and Schenectady, a distance of about thirteen miles. The Mohawk & Hudson Railroad company was the first corporation of its kind chartered in the new world, having been incorporated in 1825. Its completion, however, was anticipated by the Baltimore & Ohio, chartered in 1827, which opened a fourteen-mile line in 1830. Both of these roads were constructed with the idea of carrying both passengers and freight. The Granite line, a three-mile road at Quincy, Massachusetts, and the Mauch Chunk & Summit Hill, which had a mileage of nine, both of which were completed in 1827, were the first railroads on the continent, but both were short industrial lines for freight-carrying purposes only. The first really ambitious railroad was the Charleston & Hamburg, extending from Charleston, South Carolina, to Augusta, Georgia, a distance of 137 miles. It was opened in 1833, and was the longest continuous railway in the world.