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Newspaper
Ashtabula Telegraph
Location
Ashtabula, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1879
Page
3
All young men in Astratiste invited to a Tuesday evening gathering in the Tammern office editorial rooms to organize a Young Men's Republican Club. Various local items follow including appointments, concerts, weather notes, and community notices.
Mr Page hosted a grand reception for Ashland pupils with a formal ball in the hall, featuring a German dance and a noted orchestrated performance by Prof. C. B. Leek's ensemble. The town also reorganized Scoville's Cornet Band with Will E. Reeves as president and Chas B. Leek as director, planning summer park performances and seeking local support for teachers and music.
The Ashtebula Board of Health met in special session with the mayor and clerk to address nuisances from Ziele’s tannery near Park and Vine, a sewer discharging into a brook on Reed property, and phosphate storage by J. M. Paulkner & Son. Committees were set, expenses approved, and the health officer submitted annual figures for 1879 amid calls for cleaner streets and stricter enforcement.
The May 21 23 regular council session includes Haskell Manning Hitchcock, Mayor presiding. Minutes approve prior sessions. maps sought for property line north of Field's Brook crest, with special map urged. Appointments to Board of Health confirmed. petitions prompt fire company expansion study. Harbor and sidewalk measures pass. ordinances authorize licensing theaters and bond sales for harbor improvement. Adjourned 11:20 PM.
Col Albert Barnett of Cleveland delivered Voice of the Silence as Ashtabula exercises closed with song. The narrative laments losses, urges national reconciliation and industry, and urges roses on graves while noting local legal dispositions and a mix of ads for peaches and groceries.
Eds Tet Ida wife of J A Pickinger and the Keane non Suncrotta rn with years. Her long illness showed resignation to the Father’s will and steadfast faith. The afflicted family have community sympathy. Arrangements are being made for departure exercises on the 80th inst. Clergy will provide addresses from the park with musical accompaniments. The Jubilee Singers drew a crowd last Friday in support of Bligh School. Weather featured a wild east wind that tingled fingers. W T Bell earned the nickname Bass for selling cheap goods. Complaints of dry weather and added duties for jw points. Damage to grass and crops noted. Rev H Smith Kelloggsville occupied the Presbyterian Church here in an exercise with Mr Bickson. 0 20 1879
The Plymouth report notes extensive marshland and productive soil at the Topper farm area. Judge Parson's adjoining property offers timberland and rich frontage near the railroad, with new houses rising along Ubeet and West Road. Levi Blakeslee’s farm is praised as exceptionally favorable, while a blaze from Topper and Mann’s mill causes straw stack damage. In Colebrook, a nearby incident injures a worker, with the sexton’s neglect cited as a factor in delayed care at the center.
From Erie a blaze at the Union Depot wrecked four loaded freight cars and their cargo of furniture hoops and merchandise. The fire started on the freight-house platform margin from a passing engine and caused by sparks. A Maineville Advertiser note reports R K Paige buying a fine Kentucky trotter. Boulinot Seeley facilitated further Kentucky horse purchase. Painesville items note a medical prep bottle given, sparking discussion of its contents, and a homeopathic dose. A Valeonville incident reports a house intruded by burglars, with dress items stolen and a navy revolver and watch taken. A stray vote of pastors unites the Congregational Church with Rev Geo I Merrill named as pastor.
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