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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1904
Page
1
The service board presents its estimate for the coming half year with a requested total of 6,020 dollars. Line items include cemeteries payroll and material costs, street cleaning, sewers, parks, water works maintenance, services, operation, and line items such as rent, stationery, and equipment.
The board deals with small municipal issues including December payroll about $600, instructs water superintendent to hire a man to place meters along the main line, and handles claims from Petley Franklin against Chapin. It authorizes interest payment to John Borg for the Massey avenue bridge, considers Millspaugh’s sewer upgrade claim, and orders new sidewalk work to Washington avenue bridge. Architect Worsmer seeks drawing work but no action taken.
A dog owned by WW Staverding, brought from Cleveland and chained for days, wandered to the Lake Erie Bridge near East Broad Street in Elyria. It leaped off the bridge, its skull shattered, dying instantly after reportedly pining for its former master.
At the Wheeling depot in Wellington on December 23 Thomas McGraw was badly injured by a heavy cane blow to the head after an argument with a stranger, believed to be a traveling man from Cleveland. McGraw suffers a fractured skull and remains bedridden. The traveling man fled the scene after the altercation. both men had been drinking prior to the incident.
Oberlin Miss Alice Oatey will marry Howard Strong of Cleveland on December 29 at the bride’s mother on College Place Oberlin. Strong is son of Rev Dr Jeniah Strong of New York City who will perform the ceremony.
The Washington avenue bridge stone work should finish by Friday night and dirt in the center by Saturday or Monday allowing foot crossing. Delays included slow stone supply and high water from dam releases at Coonville. Contractors Williams Bros. Morse and supervisor G L La Boyteaux are praised for steady progress and quality work.
Public school children staged annual Christmas celebrations Friday afternoon across the city. Teachers and the superintendent coordinated a varied program of recitations vocal and instrumental music with weeks of rehearsals. At the High School a chorus of eighty voices performed several carols as faculty and scholars praised the effort. Schools were decorated with Christmas greenery. Short addresses by school board officials and teachers complemented the program.
In a morning hearing before Justine Lord, John W. Jones alias M Laughlin was held in $1,000 bail to answer to the grand jury on a charge of being an accomplice in a forged $100 check against Loraig County Bank. His wife Daisy Jones was bailed at $1,000 and the couple’s plight drew community sympathy as friends sought her release. An advertisement promotes Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar for coughs with notes on its remedies and sale.
The board of public service accepted clerk Mies Moriarty’s resignation on Thursday night after a heated meeting. Moriarty blamed President Andreas for pressuring her to resign, claiming interference in signing board summons. Andreas denied improper influence and offered to replace the clerk, while Moriarty challenged the dynamics and spoke of dignity and self respect during the exchange.
A rural gentleman at Elliott's store on Cheapside remarks on a wind opening the window with a new electric fan. The fan's circulating air both cools and prevents frost from obscuring goods in shop windows, prompting widespread talk in Obespaide this morning.
Edward C Manter longtime Elyria lawyer and real estate aInsurance figure died Friday at his home after a three week illness from typhoid fever complicated by pneumonia He was born in Grafton township son of Kortrese Manter He studied law with Johnston and McLain practiced fifteen years then shifted to real estate and insurance He married twice first to Misa Gibson and then to Misa Hollenback of Winget two children survive and will live with his sister Mildred Kermode of Cleveland He was a member of First Congregational church a Mason and Royal Arcanum Funeral Sunday at 2 00 o clock
Mrs Ida Hartman told Judge Hayden she kept seeing her husband W C Hartman for the sake of the children. She described letters written after separation in which he expressed love and desire to mend their differences. She said he owed them money and would not support the child. Testimony continued without a settlement Friday.
The traction company considers greatly improving service between Cleveland Elyria and Lorain with new cars and a faster schedule. Reported acts indicate purchase of cars and adoption of a quicker timetable.
New York December 2 Special The jury in the Nan Patterson case disagreed Friday morning Pending the next trial she will be given her freedom
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