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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1901
Page
5
Community fragments note returns from long absence Frank Walker to a Cen home and a party at the Albert sy residence. Isold news mentions illnesses and hospital stays, farm visits, the Spelling School event, a funeral, and a post office relocation plan near April.
Local notices report residents visiting, moving, and returning to cities like Cleveland and Chicago. Events include lodge work and church suppers, a horse sale, engagements, and a stolen monkey wrench from Topliff & Ely Co as a missing item.
In Sherburne mill at ten this morning Harry Gillette of Pittsfield township died after cloth catching in a rapidly turning shaft hurled him into the machinery. The 40 year old foreman of the feed grinding department was crushed and mangled before the shaft could be stopped. A surgeon arrived but he died without regaining consciousness. He was the eldest son of Geo Gillette of Pittsfield.
In two weeks the Elyria Canning company will move into the Elyria Shear Works on Wear street near the C L W railroad. The price paid was 2400 dollars. Machinery is being ordered and boilers and engine are in place. Mr. McDonald plans to resume canning soon and operate on a larger scale with better shipping access and fire protection. The firm is praised for promptly meeting the calamity and overcoming difficulties.
The C E & W Electric Railway Co selects a route from Oberlin toward Norwalk with surveys near North Amherst, Birmingham, Berlin Heights, and Rattlesnake Creek. Construction planning by Fred Gox begins next week with extensive fills and stone work ahead. Local farmers seek higher land prices, prompting calls for Board of Commerce scrutiny and public support to secure the line.
Judge Nye opened the session in the grand jury room with Judge Hinman presiding over the McClure versus county commissioners case seeking 909 dollars 50 cents for tax work on the children’s home. Attorneys for the plaintiff were Q A Gilmore and A H Johnson. the county, through Prosecuting Attorney Stroup, seeks 102 dollars 57 cents after shortages and labor variances. Several county witnesses were absent and the case was continued.
The Andwar hotel changes hands with Arthur and Frank Reublin taking ownership Tuesday morning. Arthur Renklin brings hotel experience. Charlie Farrell remains briefly. Reublin Brothers shift business to Reublin Brothers firm with John A. Reublin continuing old supply. Byron W. Ries to present a song recital at Elyria High School venues for parents. Confirmation class to be held at St Pauls Evangelical church next Sunday for five youths. A general housemaid position is available at 326 West Fourth Street. Dorry H Smith & Co and Flurry Smith’s store extend evening hours from March 23 1901 with Elyria Bazaar advertising wall paper.
Mrs Haring received two birthday gifts on March 23 a box of fifteen rose varieties and flowers from Mrs 5 C Dickinson of Santa Clara California and a lace trim handkerchief and crocheted bag from Miss Anna Booth of Cottage City Massachusetts John McLane the umbrella mender was arrested Monday by Officer Whitney for intoxication and fined six dollars plus costs by Mayor Reefy and jailed until payment.
William Life a Curtis' grocery clerk wed Miss Mary Roloff of Lorain on Sunday. The couple then took up residence Monday in a Hyland avenue home, as a local wedding announcement notes.
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