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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1901
Page
5
The reading covers corn culture and wheat cultivation with notes on clover sod as soil cover, planting timing, and methods. A speaker emphasizes using good land, shallow weed control, and careful handling of grain from harvest to storage. Obituaries and personal notices follow, including Ella Burrer’s marriage and a typhoid-related death in Huntington.
Local residents report illnesses and family updates on Lodi Street and East Broad Street while clubs plan meetings. Major Woodworth’s veterans group convenes, and weathered officials pool funds for water works and public records facilities in town.
Local notices report South Amherst postmaster likely to win mail contract and note school board purchases of extinguisher units for Union and West Side schools. Rev J E B Schlandt, an elder in the Evangelical Synod, dies at his home. Board of Education grants Spring Street schoolhouse use to M E society until new buildings are ready. Regional rail expansion plans may include lines through Berlin Heights to Norwalk and Oak Point to South Amherst. Local business concerns discuss mail handling and market closings from January 15 to March 15 each night except Saturday.
John Weirsh a laborer from Irving east of town drowned in a county ditch along Sug Ridge road on his way home from Elyna after an evening gar bage gathering. Welish and Watson had been drinking and fell from a wagon into five foot deep water with one foot of water in the ditch. Watson survived. An inquest by Acting Coroner F E Tawhence returned an accidental drowning verdict. Welsh was 51, unmarried, living with the Ott family and working as a laborer locally.
William Congdon seeks divorce alleging his wife Mary abused him with a stove poker and a pan of hot water while denying faithfulness since their 1395 marriage in Cleveland. The Knights of the Maccabees insurance dispute pits John and Sarah Babcock against William Babcock over a 182000 policy. County cases Morehouse v Burgot Murdoch v Burgot proceed in common pleas. Sheffield township eyed road to Lake Shore. Probate filings and a John Marshall banquet set for Feb 4 with $5 tickets.
The Lorain County Banking Company stockholders met to elect directors including Sue Foster and S B Day among others. The board then chose officers with Parks Foster as president and B A Taylor as cashier. The furniture and fixture account was charged off and a percentage dividend declared with a surplus increase. Two Avon residents Ferdinand Prenning and Bina Brughngame appear in the earnings note.
A revised schedule goes into effect Wednesday on the Lorain street railway with service every twenty minutes until 7 80 a m then hourly and half hourly until 4 p m. From 4 p m to 6 p m trains run on a 16 minute cycle and after 6 p m resume half hour service. Extra cars will operate to serve steel plant workers, aiming to prevent overcrowding.
The Board of Equalization adjourns to meet in Golumus January 2186 and then proceed to the southern state to transact important business, planning county by county to reach Elyma by March 2. Reablin Bros advertise flour at 1 per sack with stock notes for sale.
Probate court orders sale of the east part of lot 29 in Shet-Neld Township Lorain County Ohio for about 420 140. The property near Lake Breeze includes 50 acres with two dwellings a lakefront cottage and barns. Sale is by public auction on a Wednesday in 1901 at 11 am with cash balance options and mortgage security.
B D Kindig, West Side Jeweler at 532 West River St, invites owners to bring in watches for examination. He warns of dry pivots, grinding pivots, and potential wear while promising assessment at no charge if no service is needed and only essential costs if repairs are required.
Mr Ensign is in Grand Rapids buying just The Furniture. The ad promises the very latest patterns and finishes to please you.
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