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Newspaper
Fulton County Tribune
Location
Wauseon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1914
Page
2
East Franklin residents share Sunday gatherings with kin and neighbors, naming many families and places. The letter notes church, visits, and meals among locals, plus a report on illnesses, measles, scarlet fever, and whooping cough affecting the community.
Sunday school continues at Inlet church with officers listed, Sylvia Taylor as secretary and min Sylvia er, organist Mrs inert R, chorister Mr Clarence Richard, librarian Ruth Semen and Zelma Bachman. Families attended funerals, visits to Hager and Berens, and rare no school at Inlet school house last Friday. teacher referenced.
Local items report the funeral of Mrs. Samuel Kiger and related services near Wauseon, Ohio, with community strains of sorrow. Other notes mention Mr. Al Boger moving to Wauseon, Cleon Dixon's trip to Gallipolis for tests, a church convention, student exams, and local family updates including illness and housing changes.
Mary Samantha Elgar born January 30 1834 in Fairfield County Ohio died April 16 1914 at her daughter Mrs Wentz near Tedrow Ohio aged 80 years 1 2 months 16 days. Married Samuel G Eigar January 11 1854 with eleven children three predeceased her. Survived by relatives and many friends. Funeral in Tedrow Methodist Church conducted by Wim Clark Stryker with interment in Tedrow Cemetery. Obituary notes her faith and community standing. Also local notes from Apple Grove about gas wells and area happenings near Wauseon.
Classified notices include sale offers for horse Gece five well bred draft mare near Oak Shade, imported Shire stallion Nate by Thumper and Oliver Prince, a Renee team and farm wagon, a 52-12-c line of sales, and a lost small brown crochet bag with money returned for reward. Also an 80 acre property near Pere Marquette Rail with 40 cleared and a house, priced at 3500 with down payment options. Finders urged to contact Mrs Roll Hoy or L. M. near Oak Shade. Tedrow area telephone contacts included.
A sequence of land transfers and property deeds are listed across Clinton and surrounding townships including Amboy German and Chesterfield. Names include Meier Hartman Leininger Graber Krieger Halsey Bone Rickett Rupp Gibson Rul lison M. Miller Aug stine See Te lco and others with various acreages and prices commonly $1 or small sums and several parcels in Delta Wauseon German township and Franklin townships.
On April 1914 Jacob Mossing Jr filed a petition in Fulton County Court seeking to quiet title on land in Amboy Township while naming numerous defendants with unknown identities or residences and asserting their adverse claims to the south half of the northwest quarter and other quarters in section 26, township 9 south, range 4. The petition asks that all defendants reveal their interests or have them extinguished and that the court grant relief to clear the title. Also noted is a divorce petition filed by Olin King against her husband for wilful absence over three years, with him named as the respondent and the matter proceeding in the Fulton County Court.
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