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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1900
Page
5
Publican demonstration invited for Colum 8 on Oct 16. News notes several small fires from overturned lamp and stove incidents. Valuation of Wellington buildings raises tax duplicate by ten percent. D. B. Goodsell restocks shop. Jesus Robishaw recovers from bicycle accident. Obituary for William Gidler aged 48. Funeral held at St Pauls church. Violet.
George Levnhos of Lorain and Miss Melia Jene of North Amherst were married yesterday afternoon at the Lutheran church in North Amherst. The newlyweds will reside with the bride’s parents.
D Moysey visits Sandusky. Fred Miller leaves for an East trip. Mrs Burton Andrews spends Wednesday in Elyria. Miss Heldmyer returns from Cleveland. Harry Taylor of Buffalo visits the Gates. Florence Suppes visits Katharine Faxon. L O I M Guards to be initiated Tuesday. Mrs Wells Porter visits Elyria. Mr and Mrs James Seward return from their wedding trip and reside at The Andwur. The Biggs drive to Sullivan to visit relatives. Stacy Miller sails for Europe for about six weeks. Mrs Foster and Mrs Learn visit Mrs Terry in Gary. A whist club forms among twelve young women to study scientific whist. Mrs Trembly returns home from Tiltin. Mrs Leadingham rents a house in Oberlin for a year. Frank Hoton replaces Dan Granger at W E Ruth feed store. Granger takes J A Jacob post. Baney and Mrs Gatel wnd daughter visit Griswold in Hastings Avenue. Lt Clarence E Chapman leaves East Liverpool with the 14th Regulars for China. Chestnut Grove Bible Circle to meet Oct 19 on Samuel. Rimbach Brothers offer steel engravings as premiums. First Voters Republican club meets at court house. W W Skiles to speak. Mrs Charles S Johnson visits Cleveland for Home Week. Mrs Irving Metcalf and Miss Massey in town. Dr F W Patterson informs of wife Helen Patterson’s death in Catonsville. North Eastern Ohio Teachers’ Association fall meeting Oct 27 in Alliance. Large attendance expected. Assembly hall seats a thousand. railroad and hotel rates announced. Effort to form Elyria branch of the National Association of Stationary Engineers. Albert Alten, 12, dies from head injuries after horse incident. He underwent operations but died at home.
Robert Arias a pioneer resident of Lorain county died at his daughter Mrs Homer Marsh home on Sugar Ridge Monday at age 90. He was a longtime Grafton resident where his wife died about fifteen years ago and was widely known across the county.
Daniel H. Emmons sues Lorain Steel Company for 5000 dollars claiming injuries in May 1899 while employed at the works. He and other workers were clearing dirt with a hand pushed car. he says the car was damped and struck him, causing serious injuries. The Rock Island Plow Co. sues A. P. Jones for 160 dollars on a note dated Sept. 1802. Gaar Scott & Co. sues Thomas H. Jenson for 125 dollars on a note. Vlora I. Churchill files for divorce from Edward P. Churchill on desertion after three years of marriage in Oberlin. Lydia Wall executrix appeals the Deneke attachment case. dismissed in justice court.
The annual meeting of stockholders was held at the office of C A Metcalf. A J Welch reported extensive surface tests showing a valuable ore body as development proceeds. At least 1,500 has been spent this fall. New officers include President H W Wurst and Vice Presidents J F McGarvey and O T Maynard with A J Welch as managing director.
A Friday afternoon gathering at the Church of Christ celebrated Miss Ela Maddock returning from India. The program featured organ music, prayers, remarks by Rev J K Stivers and Mrs M A Lantaberry, a Daisy Storer recitation, addresses by Dr and Mrs Gerould on Indian missions, and Maddock's talk on Indian life. Refreshments followed as decor with flags highlighted the event.
A Lorain Times report recalls a woman injured on the C. and L. electric line who, after suing for damages and receiving ten thousand dollars, appears to have found a mental lift from a faith healer. The healer’s claim is that within ten minutes the crippled woman left her chair and crutches, which became useless.
The American Shipbuilding Co has twenty three vessels under contract for next season all freighters except a large car ferry steamer to be built at Lorain for Pere Marquette Railway Co. Five additional freighters will be built at lake yards for J. C. Gilchrist. four Lorain built, three Welland canal size, each about 866 feet long and 45 feet beam. One keel laid last Saturday and another to be laid this week.
The People's Institute course opened with 650 seats, 225 reserved, plenty of good seats left. Season reservations available at Murbach's jewelry store. The first entertainment feature is a concert by the Ottumwa Male Quartet of Chicago on Saturday evening October 18. Reserved seats at Murbach's start Wednesday at 7 p.m. Removal notice: Mrs. Kent's Shampoo and Toilet Parlor will move to 368 West Second Street after September 27.
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