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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1902
Page
5
Public sale of real estate by executor of the estate of a deceased in Frobster County. Description covers parcels in Herietta and surrounding townships, with multiple lot and boundary details. Property appraisals listed, terms include mortgage security and two year payment options. Administrator BAY GROOT and ATTORNEYS ETCALF are associated.
Heirs of Isaac Church are summoned in Lorain ward to answer a petition filed in the Court of Common Pleas seeking quiet title to premises in Erie Township Ohio. The petition cites a prior marriage, mortgage from 1841 and a deed chain through Abelbury ac Church and Stennin Perry to Ismo Church. Respondents must appear by the specified date to contest or defend the claims regarding the property and encumbrances.
Walte and Wieisthater named as administrators of the Lane of North Lidgevie estate. The heirs list includes Mevender A. The document is dated 1901 with H. 17 Stetson noted.
An unsolitied letter from Dr. A. J. Baumhart of Lorain argues Elyria should adopt a watershed based water supply with filtration, favoring the Eaton plan over lake water. He estimates costs for a four month reserve and filtration, asserting filtered water is safer and cheaper long term.
Mathew Nuh sues Lewis P Miller and others in Common Pleas claiming three promissory notes of 186 each remain unpaid. The deceased wife’s heirs claim interest in the mortgaged property securing the notes and the plaintiff seeks to foreclose the mortgage and set up their interests.
Stetson as administrator of Marys A Warte estate filed no petition in the court of common pleas against Benjani Frenchy John French the unknown heirs of Isaac Church and the heirs of Charles Leneghen to quiet titles to about 03 acres in Ridgeville township DL. B Fauver is plaintiff's attorney.
Father Schaifeld pastor of St Marys Catholic church received several gifts after Sunday afternoon service. Thomas Sawant Jr presented a leather couch leather chairs a library table and a library rug on behalf of friends in town and church members. The pastor thanked the givers in a pleasant address in the church basement presentation scene.
F. E. Caywood has rented a store room owned by Mrs. James Flower on West Broad Street and will be ready for business about February 15. Lost a beagle hound, six months old, black and white with brown head and ears named Pauth, belonging to Miss Critz at 418 Washington Avenue. A suitable reward.
Advertisement asserts deafness from inflamed Eustachian Tube mucous lining can only be cured by constitutional remedies. Claims nine of ten deafness cases stem from catarrh and offers $100 for any catarrh deafness not cured. Promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills with Toledo origin.
Mrs W Watkins of Pleasant City Ohio describes her three weeks old sons rapid collapse into pneumonia and a terrible cough. After weeks of doctor treatment the child improved and healed after using Dr Kings New Discoveries for Consumption a remedy praised as the only sure cure for coughs colds and all lung disease. The ad notes guarantee satisfaction 500 1.00 trial bottles free and seeks a competent girl for a male household job with wages. Also mentions Mrs Austins Wheat Food Flavor and breakfast product.
Following are the official positions to be filled at the coming spring election. Candidates must register with BD Chapman between February 10 and 20. The primary is on March 8. One councilman per ward, 2 years. one assessor per ward, 1 year. two board of education members, 8 years. one justice of the peace, 8 years. one waterworks trustee, 83 years. one township trustee, 8 years. one township clerk, 2 years. one township assessor, 1 year. two cemetery trustees, 3 years and 1 year.
Mya E Metcalf born December 9 1888 in North Mansfield North Carolina? to Rev William Ely pastor of Congregational church. A respected teacher in Connecticut Philadelphia and Williston Seminary Easthampton MA she married Eliab W Metcalf of Bangor ME in 1858. They lived in Bangor until 1865 then moved to Elyria where she remained a resident.
Kiendervatter Lort married Barbara Kiendervatter and Arthur G. Huber by a justice in the probate court office Tuesday afternoon. Both couples reside in Oberlin. The elaborate ceremony drew several relatives, and the event was followed by social gatherings as Mrs. Schaeffer and Mrs. Washburn hosted a Friday afternoon tea for ladies.
Mary Bartlett Baker was born June 25 1820 in Harding ton England and married Edward Baker in 1848. Their seven children included five living, with one in Michigan and one in England. husband and two children preceded her. A devout Episcopalian, she remained cheerful and steadfast in faith through illness, dying February 9 1902.
Oberlin physician Dr. L B Sperry will address men at the Y M C A at 2 PM on the relation of husband and wife. No boys admitted. At 2 PM he also lectures to boys on Boyhood and Manhood. Friday evening about 26 Elyria youths joined a sleigh ride and a basketball game against Lorain, with Lorain winning 21 to 0.
Real estate transfers include Anna B Bates and Earl A Bates to C T Buckley for village lot 28 Kipton at 14 mere and $100. Georga J Baker and Eliza Baker to Ora C Horn for township lot 05 Oberlin at S050. Paul Delle to Mike and Francis Glowacki for lot 6 block 84 Select Chamberlain trustees allotment Lorain at $565. Miss Garrie Sherwood hosted about thirty guests Friday evening at a musicale at her home. Dora Brwn of Cleveland was the main s t and Arthur Hughes of New York the soloist.
Elijah Hayden Post No. 49 G A R and Elyria Circle No. 27 G A R held a joint installation of officers. Comrade N L Catron served as installing officer. Mrs Hyland and Mrs Cahoon spoke on the state department and the Xenia orphans home. Commander Dr Burrell thanked the post and circle. the event featured remarks by James Warnock and a gift to Joseph Smith, aged 83, with the gathering serving refreshments from Col Houghton's post.
John Willert aged nearly 74 died of pneumonia at his daughter’s West Seventh Street home Saturday night at eleven. Born April 6 1928 in Knipperdam Mecklenberg Schwer, he came to America in 1868 and settled in Elyria where he served twenty years as cemetery sexton. He leaves a daughter Mrs Augustus Schmidt son Fred Willert twelve grandchildren one great grandchild and brothers Ernst Willert and Louis Oldaz among others. Funeral at Lutheran church Wednesday at 1 p.m.
The post office department plans a new free rural delivery route extending from Lorain west to Oak Point and south to the ridge. About six miles long, it will serve roughly 250 families within the boundary.
The Tuckman Bros present Down and Up a lively acrobatic farce comedy at the Elyria opera house Feb 1. It promises vigorous humor and novel stage effects with genuine fun making on stage.
The Hickman Bros headline the vaudeville style farce Down and Up at the Opera House tomorrow night. The duo, long noted for laughter, star in a komedy with catchy music and vivid color, written for them by Albert S Porter and reportedly a standout in its genre.
George Horner aged 17 son of Mr and Mrs R J Horner of West River street died Saturday after a five week illness of typhoid pneumonia He worked in Calvin Ensigns livery stable His father is employed by Elyria Hardware company as a fanner Funeral is set for Tuesday at 1 30 pm at the Lutheran church.
The pastor of St. Mary's Church thanks the Harmony quartette Sweet's orchestra and the choir for their concert at the church last Friday. The citizens of Elyma, via a committee led by Thomas Seward Jr, presented a set of parlor furniture for the new pastoral residence. After April 1 the pastor hopes to see all at the new residence to share company.
Cleveland retailers report a meat price uptick with prime corn fed beef rising about 6 to 8 cents and possibly a full cent more. Buyers note a shift to high quality stock as lighter cattle are sold, signaling firmer retail prices ahead.
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