Volume XCIV - No. 218Established 1889, in the fiction. Published every day but Sunday on Merrow Street, Millvale. Sample masthead copy for the template.

The Millvale Gazette

All the news of the valley, set in ink
Today's WeatherRiver fog until nine, then a hard bright sun. High 61. Tonight clear and cold, low 38.
Millvale, Thursday Evening, October 22 Evening Edition
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Bridge Vote

Bridge Bonds Pass by Nine Votes After Recount

By Cora Ainsley, City Hall Correspondent  |  Sample story for the template

Millvale will build its bridge. After a recount that ran past midnight at the county courthouse, the Question 4 bond measure carried by nine votes, ending a forty-year argument over how the valley's two halves should cross the Merrow River.

The measure authorizes six hundred thousand dollars, in the fiction, for a steel through-truss span at Foundry Landing, with a footwalk on the upstream side. Work could begin as early as spring, said the borough engineer, if the frost leaves the ground on schedule.

Opponents on the north bank had argued the ferry was service enough. Supporters counted the shift whistles at the mill and said a town that cannot cross its own river cannot call itself one town.

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THE MERROW AT FOUNDRY LANDING
The proposed span, as sketched for the borough by our staff artist. Illustration, not engineering.Gazette Staff Engraving
Mill Whistle

Third Shift Restored at the Woolen Mill

Two hundred looms to run past midnight for the first time since the flood.

Merrow Woolen will call back eighty weavers Monday, the superintendent said, on orders from two city clothiers. The whistle will sound at eleven each night, a sound older residents describe as the town telling time.

More in The Valley, A2 ↓
Notice

Harvest Supper Sells Out Its Pies

The Methodist hall served four hundred suppers Saturday and ran out of mince pie by half past six, a record the ladies' auxiliary intends to break next year.

Rail

Night Freight Adds a Stop at the Yards

The 2:10 will now take on milk cars at Millvale Junction.

Dairymen along the north line gain a direct run to the city creamery, cutting a full day from the trip. The agent asks that farmers have cans at the platform by half past one.

Rail notes, A2 ↓

From the Front Page

A4 - Continuations

Bridge Bonds, continued from A1

The recount began at four in the afternoon with two tables, six clerks, and a pot of coffee that witnesses describe as the strongest evidence offered all day. By nine the tally had narrowed to fourteen votes; by midnight, nine.

Council meets Tuesday to appoint a bridge committee. The ferry, meanwhile, keeps its schedule, and its captain keeps his opinions to himself.

Third Shift, continued

The mill's return to three shifts restores a rhythm the valley kept for sixty years. Boarding houses on Perry Street are already airing rooms.

Night Freight, continued

The added stop is a trial through winter. If the milk cars average fewer than six a night, the stop comes off the timetable in spring.

The Valley

A2 - Briefs from nine towns

Arden

The Grange fair set a gate record of nine hundred, counting twice the boy who climbed the fence twice.

Barlow's Corners

A cider press believed lost in the flood was found three miles downstream, in working order, by a boy fishing for pike.

Calder Falls

The gristmill wheel turned for visitors Sunday, the first time in eleven years, and ground a ceremonial bushel of corn.

Dutch Hollow

Voters approved a bell for the schoolhouse, to be rung at eight and at noon and not, as one trustee pleaded, whenever the mood strikes.

East Merrow

The quilting circle's raffle quilt, nine hundred squares, goes on display at the lending library through the month.

Ferry Landing

The evening boat will hold for the late train on Fridays, the captain announced, provided somebody waves a lantern from the platform.

River & Sky

A5 - The week's weather
H 1024 THE MERROW RIVER ARDEN 58CALDER 55FERRY LANDING 61DUTCH HOLLOW 57 WIND NNE SAMPLE MAP FOR THE TEMPLATE - DRAWN, NOT FORECAST
DaySkyHighLow
FridayBright, high clouds6340
SaturdayFair, windy at noon6543
SundayRain by evening6046
MondayClearing, cooler5536
TuesdayFrost, then sun5433

Sample forecast for the template. River stage at Foundry Landing: 4 feet 2 inches, in the fiction, and falling.

Scorebox

A6 - Valley League
Wednesday's results - sample scores for the template
Club123456789RHE
Millvale0201003017111
Calder Falls100020000362

Winning pitcher: S. Okafor, in the fiction, who also doubled twice and was doused with a bucket of lemonade.

Classified Notices

A7 - Two cents a word, sample rates
For SaleBay gelding, sound, kind to children, knows the ferry. Inquire Merrow Livery, box 14.
LostOne mitten, gray, between the depot and the bridge road. Reward: one pie.
WantedWeavers for third shift. Apply at the mill office before the whistle.
RoomsTwo airy rooms over the printing office. Ink smell included at no charge.
MusicFiddle lessons by a patient man. Bring your own fiddle and patience.
NoticeThe bell at Dutch Hollow schoolhouse is not to be rung for personal reasons.
FoundCider press, slightly traveled. Describe the dent to claim.
SwapFour laying hens for a good rain barrel, or two poor ones.

Every name, story, score, price and forecast in this edition is sample content written for the template. The Millvale Gazette is a fictional newspaper.