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Newspaper
Ashtabula Telegraph
Location
Ashtabula, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1878
Page
3
Fragmented village chronicle records timber firms, church events, ice haulage, funerals, illness from diphtheria, property sales, a church surprise party, public meetings, and upcoming entertainments. It mentions the Harbor union strike, a biweekly press digest, and local civic notes including tax and bank activity.
The notice requests readers to submit missing early settlement and township history data for Ashtabula County to aid a forthcoming county history. It urges careful selection of material of real importance and warns against publishing trivial personal incidents. Also reports the Ashtabula DownType Convention of February 1, 1878 discussing temperance organization and resolutions, plus a collision between a snow plow train and freight near the round house, with fatalities and injuries among Erie workers.
The Temperance Convention elected Prof. Tuckerman as chair and 28 to 25 favored forming a county auxiliary to state and national unions. Debate split over using political action and sectarian influence, with Hubbard opposing sectarian control and urging law and Christian principles as core to reform.
The article reviews Mrs EU Stanton's talk supporting new ways to reach boys not touched by Bible or church. She cites billiard tables and church linked dancing halls as tools to reform roving youths and urges taxing church property, female voting for property owners, and cautioning against a sensationalist critic.
A fawning advertisement outlines February closing out sale offerings at Collins Bros in Ashtabula including carpets, dry goods, and various merchandise. It emphasizes low prices to move winter stock, special patterns, and invites customers from other towns to visit. It notes limited carpet stock and the promise of cash-only bargains with emphasis on “less than cost” pricing.
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