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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1907
Page
3
A broad mix of Elyria community items covers subscriptions, illnesses, visits, sales, and travel. Notices include Mrs. Gott collecting subscriptions, several families visiting Cleveland, a rash of sickness including scarlet fever and lung fever, a Penfield murder and self infliction incident, and various social events at Hastings W R C and Epworth League. Details name multiple residents, hotels, and nearby towns with dates around early 1907.
Carlisle January notes cover upcoming Ladies' Aid Society meeting at Mrs. H. R. Allen's home to elect officers. Fractured car line worries locals with no injuries in latest wreck. Various local visits, illnesses, and New Year celebrations are mentioned with residents like Mrs. Stockford and Miss May Robson honored.
A feature on sewing patterns and fabric requirements from the May Manton line. It lists jacket and skirt materials for various sizes, yardage by fabric width, and pricing for pattern Nos. 3209 5305 5207. It also describes a fashionable child’s dress with a yoke, cuffs, and velvet trim suitable for dancing school and other occasions.
A terse sales note promises a remedy identical to drugstore boxes at fifty cents per box and urges readers to write today to prove the cure to their own satisfaction. The address given is Pyramid Drug Co at the Pyramid Building.
The Winchel farm was sold to a Lorain buyer. Mrs. Dr. Parks tends her mother who is slowly recovering from injuries after a fall.
Beighton D F Seeley and wife visited friends in Ridgeville. Guy Lowery and wife from Lorain spent last week with their parents Iva Robishaw. Carl Webber and May Fox hosted friends to bid farewell to the old year. Misses May and Belle Robishaw hosted New Year’s Eve gathering. A Sunday school was organized at Town Line schoolhouse with P L Kenney as superintendent. Several residents ill with grippe. Frank Edwards visited his wife in Cleveland hospital and reports improvement. Harriet A Richards born in 1817 died Jan 5 1907 aged about 89. Survivors include three sons and two daughters. She came to Ohio at age 12, lived in Ashland, Wellington, and Brighton, widow since 1878, long-time M E Church member.
Residents report muddy loads and sickness affecting families. Mrs Ayliffe and Jessie stay home while Mrs Calkins is ill. Several farms may change hands this spring with transfers including George Whitner, Par sons, and Roy Searles. Church work continues with drain installation, horse losses, and a planned church dinner. The Philathea club prepares for an upcoming entertainment as Wellington Telephone plans line extension to Kitton.
Grafton residents report New Year calls and visits from Elyria Wellington Oberlin and Cleveland. Mrs Adams of Elyria spent Thursday with sister Mrs Spitzer and Mrs Moore hosted her son from Cleveland. Mr Sullivan died at a Cleveland hospital Saturday night. Mrs Gardner of Elyria visited town. Mr and Mrs Jago of Lothain visited Michigan for ten days then returned to Grafton. Miss Hattie Smith visited Chicago Ohio with Dr Ewing. A saying ends with a business critique about a man advising others on his own conduct.
Ridgeville residents host guests, attend clubs, and mark family events across Elyria Berea and Cleveland. Visitors include Mrs. George Ridgway Mrs. Collins Miss Hazel Terrell and many relatives. birthdays and anniversaries are celebrated with dinners teas and parties.
South Ridge residents are invited to evening church services next Sunday. A birth is announced: a daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. F. Snyder. Several locals visit or return from trips, including Margie Vogler and Helen Jarvis returning from Syria and Hattie Whal returning home to Vermilion. The Murray Ridge society plans a meeting at Mrs E Fowl’s home on January 17.
Kipton School began after the holidays last Monday. Mrs Emma Hazleton and Mrs T Jea ching with Miss Ruby Sigsworth visited the Sigsworth home last week. They returned Saturday evening. Ladies Aid Society met at Mrs R Hardy's with all reporting a good time. Edward Clark of 47 West Vine Oberlin spent Tuesday and Wednesday at home. Mrs F Harr received a new organ as a Christmas gift from her son.
AG Puslie transfers to Sarah FE Berry lot 12 block 3 City View Largin for 375 dollars. Waldo E Foote to James Porter sat lot 46 Brass Company's addition Lorain for 3500. Charles Tz Shafer to Jennie Shafer his wife part of lot 34 tract 4 Camden for 600. Wilbert W Pickard to J M Fullmer 72 acres lot 387 Ridgeville for 8500. IT Haskell to O G Gott west part of lot 46 Wellington 1 acres for 2800. Frank W Bennett to Thomas Sell east part tract 4 Huntington 190 acres for 8500. McCleary to Isaac E Squire jot 191 Brass Company's addition Lorain for 378. James B Hoge to Lorain Hardware Co lot 114 James B Hoge addition Lorain for 3.00. Sheffield Land & Improvement Co and Walter W Glaser lots 142 143 Brass Company's addition Lorain for 1. F. A. Coates to Harold J Coates 37 112 acres in lot 14 tract 15 Henrietta for 2000. Thomas Johnson to Harold Coates 212 acres lot 14 tract 15 Henrietta for 250. Mary Linden to Peter Westrick 117 acres in section 17 Aven township for 1750.
Expert analysis from government authorities endorses Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as digestion aids. The ad claims a 50 cent package digests three thousand grains of food, offering relief for dyspepsia and related symptoms with no cost for a trial.
An old advertisement touts Electrogen as a universal remedy claiming to kill invisible disease germs in air and water. It markets a 50 cent bottle with a free 50 cent trial by sending name and address to The Electrogen Co. in Fremont, Ohio, with Eady Drug Store as a seller.
Advertises several roomy homes for quick sale with prices from 1400 to 3400. Listings include eight and nine room houses with features such as cisterns baths furnaces and water service. Locations include Cleveland Street Daisyfield East West Side and South End with rents offered for six and seven room homes.
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