Many Life Events Noted in City Ledger
Several local notices detail births and deaths, marriages and engagements, injuries and accidents, legal actions, and community happenings. Entries mention Ollie Ryan planning relocation, a $1 fine for selling liquor on Sunday, typhoid death at 202 Fairfield avenue, a slander suit for $2,000, a telegram about a wife’s illness, a Kokomo attorney missing with $12,000 in notes, a $6,000 brewery addition, and various social visits, travels, and damages across Fort Wayne area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph R. Hughes
West Wayne Street
Ollie Ryan
West Ss
Ryan
William Stokes
Justice France
New Haven
Maria Rump
Fairfield Avenue
Anna van Alstine
Frederick Klenke
Hugh Stewart
Washington, D. C
Truman Cooper
Kokomo
Citizens’ National Bank
Births Noted for Local Families in Joe City
A list records newborns for several local households. Louis Jacobson of Walnut Street announces a son. Louis Books berger of Archer Avenue reports a son. Frank Rooks of St. Joe Boulevard welcomes a daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Cherubs
Louis Jacobson
Walnut Street
Louis Booksberger
Archer Avenue
Frank Rooks
St. Joe Boulevard
Morvilius Cigarmaker Stricken With Paralysia at Home
Frank W. Morvilius, a noted cigarmaker, was stricken with paralysia at his home at Barr and East Wayne streets Sunday. The illness affects one side and his life is thought to be in danger. Dr. G L Greenanault attends. Morvilius is married with a small family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank W. Morvilius
Barr and
East Wayne Streets
G. L. Greenanault
Mr. Morvilius
Venerable Undertaker Falls From Scaffold injures Peltier kin
Louis Peltier, aged venerable father of J C Peltier the undertaker, fell from a scaffold at 49 East Lewis Street Friday while inspecting new additions to his residence. The scaffold collapsed dropping him about fifteen feet. Mrs Frost, wife of Pennsylvania company watchman, and two others were injured. Dr J W Younge attends and predicts recovery unless unforeseen complications arise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frost
Pennsylvania Company
Louis Peltier
J. C. Peltier
East Lewis Street
Peltier
J. W. Younge
Antwerp Oil Strike Sparks Townwide Excitement
In Antwerp Ohio near the Allen county line a stock company drilling for natural gas struck oil in the second well after the first yielded gas. The occurrence at noon Thursday has the community irrationally hopeful for future discoveries. Dr Nix of Antwerp visited the office this afternoon noting the company's sanguine outlook for exploration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antwerp
Allen County
Nix
Bus Party Outing To Dolan Farm Honors Aurelia Sinram
A lively bus party of Mamie Hutess, Mary Falvy, and Kate Kennedy visited the John Dolan farm seven miles south of the city on Bluffton road. They gathered at Nellie Bolger’s home, rode a scenic hour and a half to the farm, and returned by 9 30 PM chaperoned by Lizzie Dolan and others. The outing honored Miss Aurelia Sinram of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and included many local ladies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mamie Huttess
Mary Falvy
Kate Kennedy
John Dolan
Bluffton Road
Nellie Bolger
Griffith Street
Lizzie Dolan
Anna Maguire
Ida Bolger
Minnie Clay
Nellie Curtis
Anna Doyle
Mamie
Lizzie Gaffney
Rose Grimme
Katie Gerard
Sophia Pape
Kittie Gaffney
Nellis
Josie Fox
Nellie Carroll
Mamie Hen
Death of John Holt and Mrs Engel Holman
A well known Englishman, John Holt, and Mrs Engel Holman are reported to have died. Details of their deaths and observances are not provided in the fragment. The notices indicate the passing of two prominent individuals and suggest forthcoming funeral arrangements.
Indiana church seeks site for new college campus
The North Indiana conference of the Methodist Episcopal church invites overtures from conference towns for a state funded college site. It requires at least twenty five acres of land and a minimum gift of fifty thousand dollars beyond the land. Bids must be in by October 1 1890. Rev H N Herrick is secretary and active in securing the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Indiana
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
H. N. Herrick
Tur Sentiven
Fort Wayne
New College
Anderson, Ind
Quiet County Wedding Unites Schlatter and Mowrer Kin
Mary V. Mowrer, daughter of County Treasurer and Mrs. Isaac Mowrer, wed David D. Schlatter, a Pfeiffer Schlatter clerk, at a private home ceremony in Goshen Indiana. Reverend Albertson officiated. A brief reception followed before the couple departed for Mackinaw and a lake tour for about ten days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaac Mowrer
Main
Jackson Streets
Mary V
David D. Schlatter
Pfeiffer & Schlatter
C. €. Albertson
Goshen
Indiana
Dog Attack Near Home Ends With Dog Shot
A dog attack occurred as a woman walked near her home with the dog being wounded. Dr E J McOscar treated the injuries with cauterization and reported they were not serious. The attacking dog has been shot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viciona Canine
E. J. McOscar
Friday court suit over five thousand in damages
In superior court Julius Doriot suing the Pennsylvania company for five thousand dollars damages claims a serious injury from a Fort Wayne road train. Doriot is a moulder not employed by the defendant. In circuit court John Friend sues William Hildebrand for one thousand dollars damages alleging threats to his wife and harming her health after being a tenant at 146 Rockhill’s addition and timely rent payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citizens’ Bank of Peru
John Meyer
Christian S’. Boeh
J. M. Robinson
W. Fisk
Miller’s Furniture Establishment
Elkhart
Ind
Frank Fisk
P. F. Fiieburger
Blanche Ford
A. J. Ford
Wallace Street
Julius Doriot
L. M
Harry Ninde
Pennsylvania Company
Doriot
Fort Wayne Road
Pressler
Amelia Pressler
John Pressler
Swayne and Doughman
W. and
E. Leonard
Marriage Notices From Local Residents
Last Thursday at 96 West DeWald street Carrie Laible-Dietrick Richards married Frank F. Allen in a ceremony by Rev. C. F. Kriete. The couple will settle in a new cottage on DeWald street after a grand reception. Also on 21 Euclid avenue Della A. Richards wed William Dietrick, a Fort Wayne road conductor, with Rev. M. C. Cooper officiating. Sheller and Riley united at Henry Riley's Gay street home with Pastor Hartman officiating. illness limited guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Laible
West DeWald Street
Carrie
Frank F. Allen
C. F. Kriete
Salem Reformed Church
DeWald Street
Euclid Avenue
Della A. Richards
William Dietrick
Fort Wayne
M. C. Cooper
St. Paul M. HE
Charles Sheller
Mary J. Riley
Pastor Hartman
Henry Riley
Gay Street
Mr. Riley
Fashionable Nuptials Rabbi to Wed Warsaw Bride
Rabbi Tobias Schoenfarber of Baltimore announces engagement to Miss Carrie Phillipson of Warsaw Indiana. He formerly led the Hebrew temple in that city and has won broad regard. The August wedding will be held at the bride's home in Warsaw, with five hundred invitations issued, over two hundred destined for his friends here.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Edmunds
Maxinkuckee
Rockford
Will Ranke
Zollinger
First Regiment Light Artillery
Indiana Legion
William Wonderland
Mary Geradin
John Ackerman
Annie Shultz
C. L. Smith
City Hospital
George Goodsell
Wells Street
Bluffton
Henry O. Berghoff
Fort Wayne
Berghoff
Allen County
Dan McKendry
Helen Didier
McKendry
Rudy Reinewald
Redhorst
Washington Township
Ford F. Boltz
Huntington
H. C. Berghoff
Frank Meegan
Kansas City
Thomas Meegan
Fannie Conover
East Wayne Street
Father Brammer
Crown Point
Ind
Ross McCulloch
Helena
Mont
Yellowstone Park
Willis Bush
W. H. Watt
Louis Centlivre
J. W. Pearse
Coldwater
Mich
Gottloib Nieman, Jr
Meyer & Niemann
Rome City
Pierceton
Grace Hoover
Elmer Humphreys
Barnum & Bailey
Cleveland
Kiralfy Brothers
Rome
Tippo Saib
Frank Melville
Tobias Schoenfarber
Warsaw
Carrie Phillipson
Hebrew Temple
Baltimore
Salimonie Company Plans Forty Gas Wells at Field
The Salimonie Natural Gas and Mining company will add fifteen wells bringing total to forty. President Paul says the field has abundant gas and only a few wells are operated at a time. With thousands of leased acres, the firm will scatter wells about a mile apart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salimonie Company
Salimonie Natural Gas and Mining Company
Paul
Attention to a Law Requiring Voter Registration
Indiana voters must register in person at the county clerk’s office by August 4 1890 before the November 4 general election. Penalty for unregistered voting is one to five years in state prison. Committeemen urged to ensure all eligible residents including new county movers register.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
M. Dawson
Democratic Central Committee
Death of Prof James F Whiteleather After Brief Illness
Prof James F Whiteleather died Friday at 4 o clock from malarial fever after ten days of illness. Born July 4 1853 in Columbiana County Ohio he moved to Indiana where he taught penmanship and helped establish schools. He served as a teacher at Fort Wayne Business College McDermut White leather school city high school and Fort Wayne College. He was a Baptist and member of A O U W and Connecticut Mutual. He leaves a wife and two children and a large circle of friends mourn his loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond Telegram
James Humphrey
Aldine
Pittsburg
Fort Wayne
Chicago
Boys of
Pat Travers
Michael Woulfe
Larwill
Ind
Travis
S. C. Lamard
M. F. Williamson
Joliet, Sr
Covington
Ohio
Sallie
A. H. Dougall
H. L. Williamson
J. B. Munger
Monroeville
Sam Roadhouse
Mat Vandevander
Bulyvat
van Wert
Caldwood
Greenville
State Board of Equalization
Cincinnati
Richmond
Indiana
Louisville
Jacksonville
Grand Rapids
New York
St. Louis
Wabash
Allen County
James F. Whiteleather
Columbiana County
Whitley
Allen
Fort Wayne Business College
McDermut-White Leather
City High School
Fort Wayne College
New Taylor University
Baptist Church
Connecticut Mutual
Marion farmer suffers fractured leg in fall
Friday Marshall Rounder of Marion township sustained a fractured leg after a bad fall. The limb is broken below the knee and, along with other injuries, will keep him bedbound for some time. Rounder is the son in law of the late Henry Muldoon of Lake township and is well known.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friday Marshall Rounder
Marion Township
Mr. Rounder
Henry Muldoon
Lake Township
Taylor University hires Hillman for principal professorship
For some time, Taylor University’s board of trustees corresponded with Prof. 5S. D. Hillman of Newtown, N. J., regarding his appointment as principal professor. The board has received his acceptance letter, and he will arrive to begin duties with the forthcoming term, bringing a seasoned education background to the university.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor University
D. Hillman
Newtown, N. J. University
Hillman
Hesooh
Facial
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A. S. Lauferty
Calhoun Street
Fort Jayne Sentinel
George E. Randall
Hon
Mra. F. P. Randall
London
Paris
Kansas City Star
Emanuel’s
St. Paul’s
Zion’s
Centlivre’s Park
Amelia Schmidt
Louis Schmidt
J. M. Franks
Kendallville
Frank Champion
Seymour
Southern
Gulliver Jackson
J. McConnell
Tancey
Thomas O'Shaughnessy
Sheldon
Bessie Cox
Peru
E. A. Gould
Wabash Road
Ocland Fernet
Mary E. Fernet
Louise Gladieus
Hortence Connant
Francis Fernet
Annie
Charles
John Fernet
Augustine Fernet
Geo. Soliday
Didier
Phil Richards
Soliday
Wayne and
Schick Streets
N. Conover
G. R. Hench
Henry Geye
Huntington Herald
Herald Force
John G. Blake
Ort Wayne
Blake
James H. Leonard
Waldo Hill
Columbus, Ohio
Simon Barnett
Ida Fetters
L. C. Scheffer
Ewing Street
Col
C. A. Bookwalter
Springfield
Indianapolis
Lesh Cohen
al. Carpenter
Fort Wayte
John Sorg
Hesse Cassel
Hesse Cassel Catholic Church
Hezekiah
Louis Heilbroner
Zollinger Battery
South Bend
Elizabeth Neckbar
W. D. Schiefer
Joseph Dwenger
Sarah Hagan
Sandusky, O
Arcola
Clara Piepenbrink
Somerville
John V. Hadley
Danville
Brown
Bartholomew
Monroe
Nashville
Richard A. Falk
Bloomington
Charlie
A. O. McClellan
Washington
Dr. Siver
New Zion’s Lutheran Church
Lindemann
Emmett Powers
Sears
Thompson
Riley Evans
Indiana Road
East
Williams Street
Frank Frost
New Haven Avenue
Phillip Winters
W. J. Beman
John
Bis
Anna Hellerman
M. Zuuner
Force Street
St. Peter’s Catholic Church
Remy & Baltes
Reunion
Spy Run Avenue
Bartholomew County
Teachers’ Institute
Harger
Friedham
Adams County
Wm. Meyer
Jos. Storm
Fred Meyer
Karl Meyer
Louis Schal
H. Gick
Messrs
Herman Hartseck
W. D. Scheiffer
Frank Paul
Fred ©. Boltz
Joe Derheimer
St. Mary’s River
Main Street
Spring Fountain Park
Trades and Labor Council
Philip Rapp
0. L. Drummond
H. Rombke
F. Rohrer
O. Miller
H. Hilgeman
F. E. Lanterman
Henry Kuch
H. C. Lehert
Morvilius
James Frost
Maumee Road
Undertaker
Harry C. Hunt
Charles P. Ryall
Anna M. Martin
Daisy McKay
John Holt
Thomas Graney
Agatha Baugher
Sarah Hagen
William Gerberding
Engel Holman
Fred Worte
L. A. Scheffer
Indianapolis Journal
Yort Waysz
St. Paun
Minn
North Dakota
Great Northern Road
John Wesley Meyers
Fighlandtown
Coun
Mr. Holt
Manchester
England
Benjamin
Dakota
Walter
Roncevert
W. Va
Alfred
Wisconsin
Hanover
Germany
Methodists
Mary V. Mowrer
Williams
Jefferson Township
Mrs. Baughman
Westfirth Street
Clenm Studebaker's
Aladianapolis Sentinel
Daniel McDonald
Clem Studebaker
Pan-American Commission
St. Joseph County
Studebaker's
Oliver's
Julius Doeriot
John Friend
Frank Allen
Carrie Laible
Dietrick Richards
Sheller-Riley
Zollars
Democratic County Central Committee
Allen Zollars
Judge Zollars
Catiurn
Mom
Hola Kelly
Rockwell City
Iowa
Potter Drug and Chemical Corporation
Boston
Peter Neff
Madison Township
Fred Gable
Neff
Dinger
Haid
W. W. Rocka
Frofk
J. F. Whiteleather
Marshall Rounder
Millie Speece
Harrison Street
Dr. Lemmon
ANEW
PHA
Pixley
E. Berry Street
Cs CO
Clothiers
Wayne, Indiana
George Dewald & CO
Allen Circuit Court
Thomas Langley
John K. R. Burris
Colerick & Oppenheim, Pixley & Longbrook
N. R
Nrthwest
William S. Oppenheim
William Scote
Nancy Dailey
Nancy Dalley
Zanesville
Alem County
Per Gottal
William Scott
Yam, Pete & Max
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