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Newspaper
Ashtabula Telegraph
Location
Ashtabula, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1878
Page
3
The itemized column covers a mix of city updates from church notices and political calls to entertainments at the Opera House and Spern House. It mentions a theatrical troupe's performance, audience reception, weather affecting crops, and local concerns about harbor improvements and a penitentiary parole petition.
The excerpt covers weather relief, the Cleveland Sunday Voice and Post launch, a quiet Fourth of July at Ashtabula Harbor, lake fish smells and calls for fish commission inquiry, an upcoming Ashtabula County Institute, county office candidacy chatter, a railroad yard accident, harbor improvements debate, council actions, and marine news with ship movements and community notices.
Large crowd gathered on Lake street to witness a pigeon shoot in the afternoon. Participants included Towne Stanton Kulmane Sandecwm and Burnett. Sandereu scored best with 23 of 22 pigeons and one point ahead of the others. A concert at Mur phy Hall Harbor is announced for Friday evening featuring Thomas Hopkins and family. Only one editor from Ashtabula county attended the State Editorial Convention in Cleveland, J A Howells of the Sentinel.
Copious rains saturate the soil risking sprouting in the wheat if prolonged. Thunder shower last Tuesday damaged two structures, the Alcock dwelling chimney and Webster barn, but neither was destroyed. Church societies discussed aiding the Children's Aid Society and Industrial Home of Cleveland. Pettibone of Ashtabula to address a temperance meeting at the M E Church Wednesday evening.
The G A R improvised a festival on the park and academy hall for the 4th with songs, a sword of Bunker Hill, and a model address by Rev Bickford. Tables with flowers and refreshments were spread, croquet matched players enjoyed the day, and a mission report from Home Missionary Society was shared.
From the Warren Chronicle: Geo O Logan and Wm Wallace of Gustavus lease about 400 acres in Colebrook for oil. Names such as N M Adame Pittsburg and H W Knowiton Rock Creek appear in a tangled note about confidence games and a law club forming in Artabula with officers Wm M Eames Jr President and others.
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