Lexington
John Lanehart, of
Mansfield, recently visited William Lanehart, his brother.
Miss Shafer, of
Belleville, has been the guest of Miss Carrie Shafer.
William Thuma, of
Johnsville, visited relatives here last week.
Following are the
officers of the Live Stock Company: W. W. Cockley, president;
William R. McKee, vice president; Barney Beverstock, secretary and
treasurer; directors Henry Eckart, C. B. Doudna, Frank Painter, S.
Appleman and W. R. McKee.
George Spoolman’s
family moved last week to Toledo, where he has a position as
telegraph operator.
H S. Moore was
Saturday awarded the contract for building the cheese and butter
factory.
Mrs. Meese and Mrs.
Baxter, of Mansfield, were the guests of the Rev. Mr. Street’s
family Friday.
John Gaily, of
Mansfield, was the guest of Charlie Brown, his cousin, last week.
Miss Maxwell has
returned to her home at Kirby.
Mrs. William Wilson
and Mrs. Frank Lantz visited relatives in Bellville from Friday till
Sunday.
The literary coterie
met at Miss Mamie Moore’s Friday night.
George Lewis, son of
Vincent Lewis, of this vicinity, is now a fireman on the Union
Pacific railroad, with headquarters at Omaha.
A letter was
received Saturday from Davenport, Neb., announcing that James A.
Boggs, Sr., was lying at the point of death.
Mike Cahill will
erect a house on the site of his old building near the railroad.
Robe Miller, son of
George Miller, is prospering in the concrete and asphalt business at
Trinidad, Col.
W Daugherty has
secured a position with the Platt Carriage Works.
Mrs. D. Stough has
sold to William Kyner four acres of land east of Lexington for
$350. William Kyner’s new residence will be erected on the site of
the old brick house on the Mansfield road.
Attorney J. C.
Laser, of Mansfield, was a Colonel Brown’s March 19.
Arthur Lindsey, of
Mansfield, visited his parents last week.
Frank Bailey, C. B.
Doudna, H. Boggs, Charles Mitchell and other Knights of Pythias
were to Bellville one night last week.
Sterling R. Green,
of Mansfield, was recreating in Lexington last Friday.
Mrs. Tobias Fike
visited relatives in Bellville several days recently.
William R. McKee, of
Mansfield, visited Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Moore, his wife’s parents,
Saturday.
Mrs. Thomas Brown
has improved recently.
The remains of
Charles Cracraft, who was buried at Fair View in the year 1872, will
be placed beside his wife Jane Cracraft lately, deceased in the
Lexington cemetery
Dr. Sager has rented
for a year the property of Robert Colwell, deceased, of which J. D.
Colwell is administrator.
Mr. Davis, of
Worthington township, has recently been the guest of T. Fike’s
family.
Miss Minnie Kellar
went to Toledo last week to reside there permanently.
Colonel R. C. Brown
has been quite prostrated since Friday.
Levi Ritter designs
building a new residence east of Lexington.
John Hiser will
occupy Mrs. Martin Hiskey’s residence.
Samuel Swartz, who
moved to Mt. Vernon a year ago, will return here April 1and resume
business on Main street.
Since the price of
the WEEKLY NEWS has been reduced from $1.50 to $1 a year new
subscribers have been going in rapidly. The best newspaper in the
county and only $1 a year are great inducements.
Mifflin
J H. Matthews and
John Staman have moved to Lucas to take charge of the Commercial
house at that place.
Jacob Portner and F.
B. Balliett, two retired farmers, moved to this place occupying the
dwellings vacated by Matthews and Staman.
J H. Snyder, of
Mansfield, moved on the Portner farm east of town.
George Grunewald
closed his school at Buckeye Hall on last Friday evening with an
entertainment
Mr. Koch, of Putman
county, the new contractor of the Hayesville, Mifflin and Mansfield
mail route, passed through this place last week inspecting the
route.
Miss Dottie Sunday,
of Waverly, Kan., is here on a prolonged visit to her friends.
Ed Laver, the
groceryman of Mansfield, was here on business last week.
J R. Lemon, of
Lucas, was here last week calling on his friends.
Walter Keightly has
returned from his western tour. He went as far as Portland, Ore.
J B. Zahner is home
from Wittenberg college. He is spending vacation with his parents
Mrs. Eliza Hershy is
seriously ill with pulmonary trouble.
The following
officers were elected at the U. B. Sabbath school on last Sabbath:
Superintendent, B. J. Aby; assistant superintendent, W. W. Crider;
secretary, Miss Myrtle Hart; treasurer, A. McCready; chorister, B.
B. Matthews; organist, Miss Emma Engle; assistant organist, Miss Eva
Hout; executive committee, Rev. David Kosht, and superintendent, B.
J. Aby, ex-officio, W. A. Bachelder, W. W. Crider and Benjamin
Hostetter.
Koogletown
Hud Williams reports
that Lute Koogle has established a way station at Chunktown, between
Mansfield and Mifflin, for the storage of heavy freight during the
mud blockade.
Wes Koogle called on
your correspondent late last evening to inform him that he had made
an assignment of his interests in the bone, hide and neatsfoot oil
mill to Hen Brown and “Uncle George,” for the benefit of the
multitude of his creditors. Hard times and the high price of
“plugs” he says are the causes of the assignment.
What kills, will
also cure, is Hen. Koogle’s motto, hence he locks his wagon both up
and down the hill; his brother, Lute, says he has the laugh on him
now. “He laughs best who laughs last.”
Since the price of
the WEEKLY NEWS has been reduced from $1.50 to $1 a year new
subscribers have been going in rapidly. The best newspaper in the
county and only $1 a year are great inducements.
Lucas
The many friends of
G. L. Stevens and wife are sorry to know that they have moved to
Mansfield. We were anxious to have them locate here - but success
to them wherever they are.
D B. Jones moved his
family to T. A. Parry’s house and George Fishack moved to the Jones
property last week.
James Ross and
family visited at Bloomville on Saturday.
T A. Parry made a
business trip to Loudonville Monday.
We met Dr. John
Maglott, of Mansfield, on our streets Saturday.
John Miller and
wife, of New Washington, visited friends here this week.
The Lucas Stone Co.,
shipped its first car of stone for the season on Wednesday. We
understand they expect to put in a lot of machinery and will ship
more stone this season than any three years before.
Quite a serious
accident happened to a son of Landlord R. H. Myers. While at play
with some other boys he fell, breaking his left arm. By the way -
this is the fourth time he has had the same arm broken.
There is quite a
great deal of talk of John Fox purchasing a fine bred dog.
The local gun club
did some shooting at their grounds last Friday, but don’t as Loomis
who had the highest score.
If you meet a
stranger on our streets wearing a smile and reaching for your hand
to shake while you are still half a block away, you can rest assured
that he is a Democratic candidate.
The Ladies’ Aid
Society of the Lutheran church, will serve ham and eggs at the
church Saturday evening, March 28. Come and hear how the ladies
earned the dollar.
We notice the
families of Mr. S. Matthews and C. Staman, of Mifflin, moving into
the Commercial House and by the way they are fixing and cleaning
things up they expect to keep hotel as it should be kept.
If we are to judge
by the talk we hear on the corners about building and improving, our
town will certainly have a look of decided improvement before autumn
leaves begin to fall.
Since the price of
the WEEKLY NEWS has been reduced from $1.50 to $1 a year new
subscribers have been going in rapidly. The best newspaper in the
county and only $1 a year are great inducements.
Pavonia
Died - March 19,
Joseph Hout, aged 67 years. He was an old resident of Madison
township, having resided many years where he died, 11 miles
southwest of Windsor He left a wife and six children to grieve for
a kind husband and father.
William Ashton, an
old and well remembered resident of Weller township, was buried at
Lima on the 16th inst. He, with a large family of
brothers and one sister, were raised on the now Martin farm.
The Rev. Charles
Ashton, of Iowa, after attending his brothers obsequies at Lima,
came here to pay a visit to his brothers-in-law, Messrs. Allen and
Joseph Haverfield
Mrs. W. G. Hughes
attended the funeral of her uncle, Mr. Ashton, at Lima.
W B. Hale has
returned from Spokane Falls to stay a while with his widowed mother
Mrs. Cora Horn and
Miss Jessie Hale spent a few days at Dr. Boles’ at Lucas, last week.
Scott Hickox, of
Mansfield, paid a visit to friends here last week.
Chauncey Stewart, of
Williams county, is spending some time with his aged father, Calvin
Stewart, and with his brothers and sisters.
Miss Florence
Robinson has returned from Berea college to spend her Easter
vacation.
Mr. W. A. Fleming,
son and daughter will spend the Easter vacation with friends at this
place.
Quarterly meeting
services will be held at the Milton church next Saturday and
Sabbath. Elder Hughes will conduct the services.
The Easter services
are postpones at Milton.
Since the price of
the WEEKLY NEWS has been reduced from $1.50 to $1 a year new
subscribers have been going in rapidly. The best newspaper in the
county and only $1 a year are great inducements.
Hastings
Dr. John Maglott,
since finishing his medical studies, has been rusticating in this
neighborhood.
Albert Etz moved
last Thursday onto a farm formerly owned by his brother, C. W. Etz,
of Mansfield.
Tobias Mitchell
moved last Friday to his new home on the Ward farm.
Mrs. Finney, of near
Mansfield, has been visiting the past week with her sister, Mrs
Daniel Stewart.
Frank Donnan began
work last Monday for J. H. Fulton, of Washington township.
Mr. and Mrs. Will
Hoover lost their youngest child the fore part of last week with
membranous croup.
Marion Schrack sold
all his personal property Tuesday, with the intention of moving to
Mansfield soon.
J W. Charles moved
this week onto his father’s farm and Will Baer started housekeeping
in the house vacated by Mr. Charles.
Since the price of
the WEEKLY NEWS has been reduced from $1.50 to $1 a year new
subscribers have been going in rapidly. The best newspaper in the
county and only $1 a year are great inducements.
Plymouth
A proposition from
parties residing at Canton is now before our citizens. For the sum
of $2,000 they agree to come to Plymouth and engage in the
manufacture of patent heaters in connection with their foundry.
Fate, Gunsaullus & Co. and E. M. Freese & Co., of this place,
promised them their foundry work, the latter now having their
casting done in Cleveland. The money they asked for is to be loaned
to them free for one year and at the rate of 6 per cent. the
remaining four years, according to the terms of their proposition.
A committee of 32 men has been formed with the purpose of purchasing
the old Presbyterian church, now owned by M. W. Williams and fixing
the place according to their demands and then lease the property to
them at a small rental. The property can be bought for $600 and
those in charge of the scheme feel confident that they will have no
trouble in making satisfactory terms with the proprietors of the new
concern. A committee of two from here will go to Canton or else
one of the firm will be asked to come here this week, when it is
hoped the matter will be finally settled.
With the above
industry and the new machine works to be erected as soon as the
weather permits, we have reason to smile and that’s what we are
doing every day
Mack Rogers is
putting a nice addition to the west side of his house which adds to
the look of his property and convenience of his home.
D B. King is
erecting an addition to his building to be occupied by Weatherby,
the photographer, as a business room, about the middle of April.
R E. McKee, agent of
the B. & O. railroad at this place, will put up a nice house this
spring on Bell street nearly opposite the old foundry.
Mrs. Fred Portner
has been very sick for some time past and is still in a precarious
condition. Her daughter, Mrs. Doty, of Salt Lake City, has been
called home on account of her serious condition.
Jesse F. Waite,
lately of the firm of Sherman & Waite, has bought an interest in a
grocery in Cleveland.
Thomas White, who
has been seriously ill for the past few months, is somewhat better
at this writing.
Miss Lizzie Streit,
of Fremont, returned home Saturday after a three weeks’ visit with
her cousin, Mrs. Charles McClinchey.
Jackson Township
There are two
justice of the peace to be elected in Jackson this spring.
The cold weather of
last week was a severe blow on the wheat crop in heaving up the
roots.
The hack failed to
make its trip to Peter Kuhn’s last Thursday, on account of the rain,
and the ladies on North Main missed a very enjoyable time at Mr. and
Mrs. Peter Kuhn’s.
Ben Laser moved to
the Henry farm last week.
Miss Addie Sanders,
of West Virginia, who is making her home with Mr. and Mrs. John
Lingy, of Mansfield, was visiting her aunt, Mrs. Mary J. Roberts, of
Shelby, a few days last week.
We asked a member of
the Farmers’ Alliance the other day if they were going to have a
ticket out this spring. He said no, the old party was good enough
and would do for them and those interested. We now believe in our
minds that the Farmers’ Alliance is only a scheme to break down one
or the other of the political parties.
George Miller will
commence his work at C. L. Hays’ Monday of this week.
Quite a number more
of renters will change farms this week and the bad roads are against
them.
The school pupils
will soon have to take up their books for the summer term of school
John Shill, of
Mansfield, was visiting friends in Shelby, and, no doubt will make a
flying trip to West Virginia in the near future.
Sugar making is
still on the boom.
Washington
G. W. McFarland is
having a couple of weeks’ vacation from teaching at Hickory Hall.
Grandmother Hamilton
has been quite sick for some time.
Born, March 21, to
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob McPhern, a 101/2 pound
girl.
The village school
closes March 26.
Mrs. Lydia Lutz, of
Iowa, and Mrs. McGregor are visiting relatives here.
W E. Sirpless has a
severe time a felon on one of his fingers.
The Republicans of
Washington township are requested to meet at the office of Sewell &
Sewell, Mansfield, 1 o’clock, March 25, for the purpose of
nominating a township ticket.
White Hall gave an
exhibition last Saturday night. An admission fee of five cents was
charged.
D D. Stoffer and
wife, of Independence, visited relatives here this week.
Miss Finney will
teach in District No. 1 this summer.
Born - To Mr. and
Mrs. W. E. Sirpless, Sunday, March 22, a son. The Democratic
majority is bound to be reduced in this township.
G M. Bowers moved to
Mansfield, March 24.
Since the price of
the WEEKLY NEWS has been reduced from $1.50 to $1 a year new
subscribers have been going in rapidly. The best newspaper in the
county and only $1 a year are great inducements.
Pleasant Valley
[Morrow County]
J. Orewiler is
attending M. V. Hoover’s camp. Owing to ill health, Mr. Hoover is
not able to attend it himself.
Mrs. M. V. Hoover
has been confined to her home for several days with a severe attack
of rheumatism.
Last Tuesday evening
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bowles entertained about 60 guests at their
home. After eating maple taffy a while the rest of the evening was
spent in dancing and other amusements. The guests spent a very
pleasant evening with their friends
Wednesday evening of
last week about 50 persons went to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Barr to tender them a surprise to celebrate the seventh anniversary
of their marriage The occasion was a success as Mr. and Mrs. Barr
were both completely surprised An excellent time was had by all.
An excellent supper was served by the good ladies of the
neighborhood. Mrs. Barr received a number of presents.
Miss Carrie Joslin,
of Lexington, spent a few days with her friend, Mrs. F. Bowles.
Mrs. David Stough is
visiting her daughter at Newark, O.
The death of Bill,
the oldest horse in this vicinity, occurred Sunday night. He was
the property of N. Mitchell and was 29 years old. He hunted fox
ever since he was 3 years old and took his last hunt only a few
weeks ago, while last spring, by the side of another horse, he
plowed two acres of sod ground in a day for two days in succession.
Until a few years ago he could jump any ordinary fence without
touching a rail and seemed to enjoy the fun while chasing a fox.
Since the price of
the WEEKLY NEWS has been reduced from $1.50 to $1 a year new
subscribers have been going in rapidly. The best newspaper in the
country and only $1 a year are great inducements.
Bellville
The funeral of Mrs.
Isabel Simpson, formerly of Columbus, O., occurred March 8,
interment being made in the Bellville cemetery. Mrs. Simpson was
raised in this vicinity She and her husband, George Simpson, became
deranged several years ago and both have been confined in the
Central asylum. They were the parents of eight children, all of
whom are prosperous and have exhibited a dutiful and affectionate
disposition to their afflicted parents.
J M. Lefevre, our
old time clerk who is proprietor of a drug store in Garrett, Ind,
attended the funeral of his sister, Mrs. Simpson. R. Lantz and
William Armstrong, old engineers on the B. & O., were also here for
the same purpose. Their wives are sisters of Mrs. Simpson.
The temperance
meetings are kept going; speakers from a distance draw reasonably
large crowds. They have the good wishes of every citizen.
Your Correspondent
got a combing for the last communication from here in the NEWS.
Bloominggrove [Morrow
County]
Dow Dickerson and
Ella Woods recently returned from Ada last week where they have been
attending school.
Lou Dickerson is
visiting friends in Crestline this week.
Mrs. Mallie Harding
will open a millinery store in this place of the first of April
Since the price of
the WEEKLY NEWS has been reduced from $1.50 to $1 a year new
subscribers have been going in rapidly. The best newspaper in the
county and only $1 a year are great inducements.
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