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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1899
Page
8
A crowded column records visits and guestings across Vermilion, Cleveland, Collinwood, and nearby towns. Mentions include Lara Peck visiting Vermilion friends, Miss Olds with Welling ton friends, Etta Verry returning from Collinwood, and Ada Swain hosting Florence Wooster. Also noted are engagements, marriages, illnesses, and travel plans of numerous residents, with social events in Cleveland, Oberlin, and Lorain areas.
A petition to county commissioners seeks to narrow the right of way for the Sandusky and Lorain electric railway from Ve milion to Berlin. Berlin Heights residents support paving for the projected line while landowners mostly consent. Viewers HN Seoff, J.T. Harris and Burnin Stean met Surveyor Judson at Florence Corners on Monday July 24.
The piece argues against using telephones during storms warning of danger to subscribers and operators. It urges postponing urgent calls until after the event and cites the visual impact of lightning from a lightning hit phone as a reason to heed the warning. It also notes how a storm display at a telephone office would reveal the risks.
Loraine Times reports contempt of court proceedings after live bridge company workmen tore down a persisting section of a vindunel and county officials allegedly ordered the removal. Injunction against removal seeks circuit court review, with Baldwin attorneys arguing the act defied court orders. Suits to be filed against county commissioners and the King Bridge Company.
State officials plan to distribute Mongolian pheashets and marble vat fish among counties. Five hundred already distributed. Bentinger will start next week on 400000 young marble vat brick bass and creppies in public streams. Any surplus goes to private lakes and ponds.
A case before special commissioner Scott Stahl at Marblehead concerns church authority. The dispute pits Cekerak and Varga as champions of opposing factions vying to decide if Rome’s pope or Russia’s czar should be recognized as supreme by the church in question. The title reads Cekerak et al vs Varga et al.
Notice that S.N. Walker is appointed and qualified as administrator of the estate of Alfred Griffin, deceased, late of Lernin Lernin county. Dated Classic day of August. AWD 13M.
The Journal of Agriculture reports at Washington that importation of plants from Japan revealed camphor trees diseased with anthracene and scale insects. Experts warned current laws offer no real national protection as diseases travel with nursery stock. Germany, France, Hutu and other colonies enforce strict controls, while the United States lags behind in plant import regulation.
A western New York farmer offers a complete mobile spraying unit including boiler engine steam pump tank and hose mounted on a farm wagon. A year old boy operates it in orchards for $5 a day with a crew to hold nozzles. The outfit can spray about 1500 gallons daily. Initial cost was $250 and the run could pay back in 30 days of outside work.
Clear out old dry wood from gooseberry currant and raspberry bushes. Peaches and plums graft on each other, grape starts yield fruit in three years. Best land grows strawberries. land that yields potatoes also good for care. Grapes from seeds differ from parent vine.
A push to use prison labor for large public works surfaces in Illinois. Judge John Gibbons proposes deploying Joliet inmates, about 1000 daily, to build a highway from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi and to work on sea walls and a vast park stretching from Indiana to Evanston.
The Jersey Bulletin argues coloring butter substitutes like oleomargarine misleads consumers and boosts sales when sold as butter. It condemns producers who imitate butter color, noting dairymen also color butter for uniform appearance, while asserting rights to market honest substitutes without deception.
Hints for the dairy advise balance in feed and careful management. Cows need roots from October to May for best results and salting is often neglected. Do not milk before they eat, reduce feed if heat rises, and split colostrum between cow and calf. Warmth, not strong medicine, helps fever. temperate wives help butter quality.
Cleanliness in the dairy can be increased by a woolen wheel sized to fit the bottom of the milk pail. Attach it to a wood hoop to form a false bottom that rises above the wheel. Make it adjustable so the pail fits snugly. remove the bottom after milking by shoving it off. A cheeky, handy barnyard hack from Farm and Home columnist Bibby.
Washington authorities warn that hundreds of thousands of insect-eating birds are killed yearly for reedbird meat sold to epicures. A Washington dealer once shipped 5,000 robins from North Carolina as reedbirds. The practice harms farmers and the nation’s agriculture, while science groups push protest against this cruel traffic.
A Long TriTand man recounts a tale of a Yankee immigrant who installed a country egg ranch next door. Perkins allegedly used staged barn scenery and electric lights to trick hens into laying eggs, then shipped them to New York. The tale ends with the debunking and migration of the scheme back to Connecticut.
Prof Graham Taylor of Chicago described a startling test of brotherly charity as he sought to rent a house for a college settlement. Two brothers owned the property and questioned his purpose and finances. When told there would be no profit, the proposal was to live among Italians and Poles in a smoky district. The brother exclaimed that such people exist, but this is the first one he ever saw.
Johnson and wife spent two days with relatives near Spencer. Cline and wife camped on the river north of Klyris. Mary Wesley entertained a visiting friend from Pennsylvania. DL Watering laid a new stone walk before his house. Mrs Mackiier visited with her side To Cuondet last Sunday. Clune Vie of Wel NRO writes Was graduated from Oberlin Business College and seeks a good paying position. Mrs Beaery died of emucer at home after her daughter Ros S c h i t o w s. miles to West Salem. Miss Martha Kelner died at the home of her daughter Miss Wilson. Burial Friday at Nicked Phite. Little Marry Stewart fell on the steps in Frank Bates yard while playing, breaking her arm. Walter Blastingelas moved into Mesy Mattha Waites house. Mrs RCDenham unable to walk on her foot injured in spring. Carvin.
Sheffield residents share family visits and cemetery notices as six children were interred at Lorain cemetery. NorthRidge families, trips to Niagara excursion rates, and visits to Cleveland, Toronto, Lakeside, and Lakeside occur alongside social events and upcoming society meetings.
Jimny Vields had a minor accident returning from Wiytia with his mother and sister still uninjured. Rashell Vaughn and wife visit Rockport. Mrs Faery Mice’s infant in poor health. Quarterly Methodist meeting held Saturday. Mrs Hoftiver and Cleveland relatives visiting at her home. Mis. Dickson plans Lakeside visit Thursday. W A Wallington bought and rents Mrs Alice Patebin’s house. The L O T M met with Mrs Geo Fortune. Chas Abby and wife of Tennessee visiting old friends. Mesdames Rawson and Angie Robinson and Mr Tovel and wife spent last Tuesday with J T Robins. Benjamin called to Bemonts Corners by his daughter’s illness. Mary Hempthorn returned from Cleveland after six weeks helping to die for her nephew. Sam Kempe lhorn. Lavina Watson entertaining Tyieod from Cleveland.
Memorial Post G A Ry of Cleveland arranged with the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway to carry the post to the national encampment at Philadelphia. A special train of elegant coaches and sleepers leaves Union depot at 7 pm Sunday September 3 via Buffalo and Lehigh Valley route arriving Philadelphia Monday noon. Sleeping car accommodations by contacting Comrade J L Smith or M E Gaul.
The American Bell Telephone Co. laid a line from Wellington to Litehfield enabling farmers on the center road to install telephones at low cost and converse with cities from Boston to Chicago. The project ties into a growing electric road by private right of way, promising convenience for families in Litchfield. Several locals attended gatherings, travel plans to Lakeside surfaced, and reports noted medical, social, and homestead updates across Penfield and nearby towns.
Local reports detail Elyria Business College shorthand results with Grace Doncaster and W F Richardson, contrasting new and old methods. Also announced is Dr Davidson lecture on brain faculties and Lorain County Banner Institute at Randall’s Grove August 15th, 1899, with program items, meals, and admission details.
A veteran gathering featured eloquent addresses honoring fallen comrades and the wartime dead. Speakers praised the courage of soldiers, the Jubilee Singers performed, and Joseph Nively was elected to lead, with nine deaths noted among thirteen years of attendance. Comrade records listed several members from multiple towns and states.
The C L W railway raised dock wage rates at Lorain to match Cleveland and eastern ports. The new pay scale takes effect from the fifteenth of the current month.
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