Coffee grinder from 1840 donated to Firelands Museum
Alma Chapin Davenport, a Drake and Fay descendant from Norwalk, donated a coffee grinder circa 1840 to Firelands Museum. The artifact is displayed in the basement primitive kitchen.
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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1976
Page
3
Alma Chapin Davenport, a Drake and Fay descendant from Norwalk, donated a coffee grinder circa 1840 to Firelands Museum. The artifact is displayed in the basement primitive kitchen.
The Advisory Council for the Tiffin Mental Health and Mental Retardation Center seeks applications for a new superintendent III. Judge Thomas E Heydinger chairs the council’s personnel committee, formed to screen candidates after the Sept. 1 resignation of A. Robert Crawford Jr. The salary range is 22 838 to 30 638 dollars per year.
Huron County Commissioners tentatively approved a 22 year renewable sharecropping contract with Herman McCreary to farm 40 acres at the county airport. McCreary will plow plant fertilize at his expense and share two thirds of produce sale proceeds with the Airport Authority receiving one third, saving about 1500 dollars yearly in mowing costs.
Huron County officials move to seek federal funds under the Public Works Law to build sewers and toilet facilities at the fairgrounds and to repave 1.8 miles of Old State Road north of Gallup Avenue. Plans date to 1968 and 1971 with costs and funding shifts noted.
Republican state representative candidate Marie Tansey opens her 72nd district bid with an old fashioned bazaar at Memorial Lake Park in Huron County from noon to six. Phyllis Stewart, Tansey’s campaign chair, says the event offers family entertainment and a chance to discuss issues with Tansey.
The Huron County Sheriff's Department will obtain two new police cruisers after Tester Ford submitted the winning bid of 10 171 dollars for the two vehicles. The board of commissioners then considered trading in two 1975 cruisers for at least 1 900 dollars versus a new auction to follow arrival in about six weeks. Bob Meyer Chevrolet declined to bid citing lack of bid specifics.
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