Hiteman's Estate Agency Advertises City Listings
Springtime real estate note from Hiteman's Estate Agency touts all kinds of property for sale in the city. Includes lots farms stores and various sizes with prices to suit buyers.
20 Mar 1902
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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1902
Page
1
Springtime real estate note from Hiteman's Estate Agency touts all kinds of property for sale in the city. Includes lots farms stores and various sizes with prices to suit buyers.
Hitor Reporter describes a flood disrupted rail travel from Jesup to Charleston and Macon. The writer tours Lookout Mountain in Tennessee with a steep incline railway, notes battlefield history, and recalls a chance meeting with a familiar Times office staffer who recounts his father’s illness and his ministry.
The Fifth Street Literary Club met Friday afternoon with Mrs. Phelgy presiding. Members shared favorite military officers, heard papers on noble deeds by Mrs Hustland, Cookery in public schools, and Ridicule of retarded women. Light refreshments followed. Probate updates include Eli Brnea Carlisle will, administrator appointments for Casandus Alger and Lewis Wheeler estates, and bond details. Guardians seek to sell land to reinvest funds.
Elyria citizens urged Craft to leave for Massillon on May 1 as he accepted a call to St Timothy’s Episcopal. He is highly regarded in Elyria, where he built strong parish ties, and moves to a wealthier church in a larger city with broader public improvements.
William Johncox appointed guardian of Edna Brown seventeen year old resident of Huntington Bend for $100 by A W Denham and H D Taylor R A Cogswell executor of J Austin estate. Cogswell filed inventory and appraisal. William Nicholl and others allege James Nicholl and two brothers as executors misappropriated estate funds.
George L. Davidson of Wellington sues Actual Life Insurance Co of Hartford in Judge Webber’s court for about 200 in an accident policy. Davidson was injured but did not pay the premium when due, and the company refuses payment. Bion and Daniels represent the plaintiff with J T Haskell for the defendant as locals follow the case.
John E Mason died at age Th years after patenting the Mason jar which transformed home canning. He earned millions in royalties, funded temperance causes, and helped the needy while remaining comparatively poor. Survived by six married daughters, he supported public speaking for Lincoln and planned a New Brunswick plant to produce new jars. Cause of death apoplexy.
Lawmakers debate canal funding and retention with speakers arguing for internal improvements and state waterway value. Public questions on canals prompt sessions. Republican caucus routes through redistricting bills with Chapman and Guerin advocating district changes affecting Lorain and nearby counties.
Three notable damage suits have been settled involving Lorain Steel Company the Big Four railroad and the C L and W railroad. Meister of Lorain Steel received 2500 after a judgment for 5000 on a fall from a platform that amputated his leg. Kubacki of Gratton was injured when a track digging cut collapsed. terms undisclosed. Jennie Hacking of Wellington settled with the Big Four for 3000 after a gate incident at a street crossing. Local theater review notes The Gladiator at Verbeck praised with strong performance and scenery. The McKinley obituary clipping bound volume by the Press Clipping Bureau honors the late president with 12000 editorial tributes. James D Smith and Edith M Wilson wed at Gates Avenue home with Rev Enuchy officiating.
In common pleas court the case of Walter A. Wood R. and M. Company against Bennett went to the jury after Monday through Wednesday. The jury awarded Bennett 108.57, the amount paid on the notes with interest and a small damages addition.
Probate Court Julian Peet appointed guardian for Donna and Glenn Peet ages 18 and 14. bond $100 by Benjamin H. Herbert and Charles Peet Jr. J W Sampsell named guardian for Katherine and Charles Semple ages 17 and 18. bond $800 by F O and W H Semple. Hankell as Nichols state administrator retains sale order. Henry Randall of Wallington adjudged insane and admitted to Toledo State Hospital Wednesday.
An Oberlin innovator describes a device using a barrel lined with stiff paper and a board to lure rats. Cheese scraps attract the rats and a rock jutting from water traps the first, causing a scramble for the dry rock surface. The paper resets and a second rat follows, leading to a staged struggle for the rock.
John L. Wood died at his home in Elyria at 4 30 Thursday afternoon after a few days illness from hemorrhage of the bowels and stomach. He leaves a wife and two children. The funeral will be held at St Andrew's Episcopal church Sunday at three o clock. Wood was a well known Elyrian and formerly a cigar maker in Elyria. At the time of illness he worked in Lorain. A rumor his case ends in scarlet fever is unfounded. The boy is ill but does not have scarlet fever.
Robert E. Jordan of Columbia, adjudged insane by Judge Hinman, nearly escaped by seizing a window and fleeing the jail. Sheriff Warden pursued him through the facility, jaw clamped in a chase, before recapture. Jordan was later sent to Toledo Hospital.
Oberlin painter EB D Lowrey charged with rape is re-arrested by Sheriff Suilsbery after bondsman G W Shurtleff secured his surety. He is to be returned to Elyria for trial starting Monday with a $1000 bond covered by a mortgage. Judge Webber to set new bond. failure means jail.
Ex president James H. Fairchild of Oberlin donated half his Oberlin property to the college. The east half of his Jot at Elm and South Professor Streets along a valuable land tract was deeded, filed with Recorder Fucker on Monday. The long-suffering elder statesman, now nearly blind, traced his signature by tremor, a moving reminder of his fading sight. The two-day-old son of Mr and Mrs OC Marlett died yesterday with burial planned for two this afternoon.
Officer Hanks, captain of the local police, chased and killed a muskrat spotted on Broadstreet near Elyria Bazar after a brief pursuit. He described the animal as a stray muskrat from the river, remarking he would not have killed it if he had known.
The Toledo Times reports the Home Phone Company of Toledo held its first annual officers and directors election on Tuesday. President E L Barber, vicepresident M V Barber, treasurer James S Brailey, secretary manager Robert E Hamlin. Directors include Arthur B Taylor T H Trasy James Secor J J Robison M I Wilcox D C Shaw F P Chapman Jr. The firm plans start up soon with 6 000 subscribers vs Bell 8 000.
Fire gutted the Randall Mattress factory and warehouse at the west end of the Superior street viaduct in Cleveland Friday morning. The Van Cleylass company building adjoining burned. large quantities of bengjite stored there remained un exploded. Two firemen were overcome, one worker leaped from a third story window breaking a leg, and streetcar service was halted as flames smoldered into noon.
Property owners on Spruce street circulate a petition for a sewer to relieve flooding. The issue, once dropped, resurfaces with council approval asked as the decisive step. Spruce Street has become more developed yet remains marshy with soil that allows surface water to seep, complicating cellars.
Mrs J Clayton Straus entertained the Luncheon club this Friday. The Kozy Club met with Mr and Mrs J T Brooks Tuesday evening. Dr Baldwin read a paper on Ohio’s Public Institutions and Asylum. Mrs P H Boynton recounted the Underground Railroad tale. The Four O’clock club met with Mrs Gee Friday. Mrs Gee Eile and Mrs 3 8 attended. Rockwood gave a paper on Parts and Mrs G Ti Henson described the Latin Quarter. Mrs Be Bickford led in planning next year’s club work.
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