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Newspaper
Hamilton Democrat Sun
Location
Hamilton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1907
Page
8
The notice advertises a Great Features program for New Year’s Week starting Monday December 30 with a big matinee on Wednesday afternoon at 2 30 PM sharp.
The column reviews acts at a local theater including Thors Handsome Harry Hodgins Adair Henny and Verdaman with notable props and a Zemo Zemo troupe. It also notes a Friday livestock market with cattle prices varying by class and a weaker sheep and lamb market amid small receipts.
The Colleen skating rink showcases Hornberger on roller skates performing a tight wire act daily this week. Also this Saturday Muscatine A A U champions clash with Hamilton in a prominent basketball game at the Coliseum, after only two defeats this season.
Market notes show steady dairy items like New York full cream cheese and various butters, with cheese blocks and limburger priced in the teens of cents. Poultry remains in good supply with brisk inquiry, geese around 4.06 per dozen and eggs in demand, while country trade stays moderately active and receipts balanced.
Residents recall a cold spell forty four years ago when the river froze overnight on January 1. Ice thick enough to bear a dragon and a team of horses allowed crossings from one bank to the other as several inches of ice formed across the stream.
The American Insurance Union met last night and elected officers for the coming year. The large meeting named John H. Harris as president and Sam Lehiering as vice president with several others filling posts including chaplain Mrs Seam Schiering and trustee Meyer Kahn among others. The officers are to be installed the second Friday in February 1908.
A circulated petition asks the legislature to repeal the $800 bonus to agricultural societies holding annual fairs in Ohio. Critics claim the move aims to embarrass Butler county fair management and is not widely signed.
The sixth section of the hydraulic arching with a concrete way began Saturday and will finish by Tuesday. It will raise the hydraulic line up to the undersection of Market and Second streets.
The Butler County Agricultural Society held its annual meeting in the courthouse on Saturday afternoon with most members present. A three-man audit committee certified that the secretary and treasurer books since November 30 balanced, showing fair grounds valued at 457000 and society debts at 14000. Net treasury balance stood at 10290.27, and 1907 fair premiums totaled 6943.50. An executive session followed amid a heated officer election for 1908.
David Scheerigg through attorney Ed H. Jones sues Bewder Bros. Co. for $10,000 claiming injury when a stairway broke during remodeling of the Globe Opera house building. He says he was an employee of the firm and was injured on the job.
Thomas Sachs died last midnight after his heart failed during a poker game in a tavern on Independence road in Cleveland. He collapsed while dealt the fourth ace with $3.75 in the pot, as he rode to the hospital in an ambulance. Sachs had been warned by a physician that his heart was prone to trouble.
Wheeling West Virginia December 28 Tom L Lewis of Bridgeport Ohio was elected president of the United Mine Workers of America to succeed John Mitchell.
Judge Harmon drafted a bill to abolish the county infirmary and Longview hospital in Hamilton County. The infirmary may become unassigned county property and be transferred to Longview with commissioners approval to fund expansion. The move aims to save about 150 000 pounds by eliminating a new site and boarding inmates offsite.
Marion Ohio police rush to the R R Wright residence on South State Street after Lillian Everett seventeen bound on the floor reaches the phone with chin to call for help. A masked man bound gagged her demanded silver service and fled. nothing stolen except the silver later moved to Waddel Children's Home.
A Washington dispatch reports Secretary Taft is weighing seven men who could become his campaign manager within a fortnight. President Roosevelt has suggested two names, four others have been put forward by friends to the vice secretary, and the seventh is Taft's own pick.
Mrs. Julia Lahey a respected longtime resident died after a long illness at her North Clark home. In Massillon Ohio Christmas Day wedding news arrived for Laura Elizabeth Barry Jaeger and F E Hermann Jaeger at St Paul s Evangelical Lutheran Church.
A Miltonville retrospective recalls the old wood fuel era and the shift to coal with the coming iron horse. The piece notes forests, price contrasts, and social change as traction poles from Elk creek spur renewed wood use, and locals fear transportation limits will delay relief.
Indiana news reports Judge William Z. Davis of the Ohio Supreme Court criticizing President Roosevelt in a late interview. He endorses Senator Foraker as a safe sane president who would govern for all classes and avoid wild crusades.
In Raymond Indiana on December 21 Miss Lilly Burch spent Thursday with Mrs Ed Wehr and daughter. Mrs Henry Wehr is seriously ill. Mr and Mrs Elmer Giffin and Mr and Mrs Chas Stinger spent Friday in the city. Mrs Sam Ball and Mrs Frank Bureh attended Xmas exercises at Springfield school Friday. Mrs Geo McClure and daughter spent Friday afternoon at Mr Harve McClure's. Protracted meeting has closed at the church.
Religious meetings are still continued at Walker. Luther Bourne and wife are visiting from Illinois.
Pleasant Grove reports visits and gatherings among the Slough Crander and Moses families with brothers and cousins from West Carrolton Carlisle West Middletown and West Elkton. William Roberts dies after months of illness. funeral at Friends church West Elkton and burial at Gratis.
Special to the Democrat Sun from Hill Creek Ohio on December 26 describes local children busy stripping tobacco during a two week vacation. Mentions visits by Lou Leslie to Christina Smith and Henry Schraub with Adam Schull also noted attending the Hamilton corn show and various local visits cited.
Jas Dungan will spend two weeks in Dunlap with relatives. Robert Shering visited relatives Friday and went hunting. The Potten ger infant is dangerously sick. Mr. and Mrs. Butcher of East Hamilton visited Mrs. Buckley this week. Ira Pottenger couple spent Sunday at Sevenmile. Herbert Sloneker called on Bank Lick friends Friday. Farmers market a big popcorn crop and fetch $1.60 per hundred pounds shelled. Jerry Buckley spent Wednesday in Cioging ti y.
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