Please: What town were these stores in, would like to see a copy of the Ledger to see if my GGrandfather,Samuel C. Webb,worked at what Mine. Lyell >From: "Jim Dolan" <jimdolan@stny.rr.com> >Reply-To: palackaw@rootsweb.com >To: <palackaw@rootsweb.com> >Subject: Re: [PALACKAW] Company Stores >Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 06:45:39 -0400 > >Thanks for the input. > >I did a search of Murphy's 'History of Lackawanna County and found three >references to a company store. > >1. LI&C Company had a store on upper Lackawanna Ave., near the DL&W >Railroad Station. The 1877 riot seemed centered around it. > >2. A.B. Stephens had a company store at he corner of West Lackawanna and >Seventh Ave. > >3. The Pancoast Colliery Company had a company store in Throop. > >Jim Dolan > > >-----Original Message----- >From: palackaw-bounces@rootsweb.com >[mailto:palackaw-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of sgowen4089@aol.com >Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 9:30 AM >To: palackaw@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [PALACKAW] Company Stores > > > >Look at some of the information on Eckley. The company store is still >there - part of the exhibit in the village. I don't remember which of the >mining companies owned the store, but there may be something on the Eckley >site. When I was there several years ago, it didn't seem to have a name on >it (not like Smith's Store or anything like that); I suspect the companies >just ran them there. They had a ledger that showed what each miner had >taken; somehow it got deducted from the pay they received. > > > >s > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jim Dolan <jimdolan@stny.rr.com> >To: Lackawanna Mail List <PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 6:02 am >Subject: [PALACKAW] Company Stores > > > > > > have seen references to 'Company Stores' in various publications about >oal mining in Lackawanna County. I have also tried to identify a specific >tore as being a 'company store', with no luck. Can anyone on the list point >owards a store and identify it as a 'company store'? >Or better yet stores attached to different companies. >Jim Dolan > >------------------------------ >o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >PALACKAW-request@rootsweb.com >ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body >of >he message > > >________________________________________________________________________ >AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free >from AOL at AOL.com. > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >PALACKAW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >PALACKAW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Like puzzles? Play free games & earn great prizes. Play Clink now. http://club.live.com/clink.aspx?icid=clink_hotmailtextlink2