Clermont Mines Attract Capitalists Hopeful Outlook For Gold
A bevy of business men inspect the Clermont Mines near Afton and report an encouraging outlook. Capital and machinery will be added to develop the outfit as investors from Cincinnati evaluate the Woods farm discoveries and push toward full development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clermont
Woods Farm
Afton
Cincinovati
N. C. Robinson
George Copeland
U.S. Service
Fred Eggus
Robinson
Printer Orville Felter Recovers From Laudanum Overdose
Orville Felter a News printer at Williamsburg suffered rheumatism and accidentally took an overdose of laudanum last week. He nearly died but rallied, and has returned to work, though friends were greatly alarmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orville Felter
Williamsburg
Old Fashioned Spelling School To Benefit M. E. Church
Boston residents plan a December 28 spelling school with sides chosen and a word down contest. Enunciator to use common words only. A prize awaits the winner and admission is 10 cents with refreshments. proceeds go to the M. E. church hosting the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
M. E. Church
The Best Company For Edward Buvinger’s Heirs
Edward Buvinger, late sheriff, chose The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York for protection. He carried $2,000 policy, paying $66.88 yearly for thirteen years. the administrator received $2,852.72 plus all paid by Buvinger. The Mutual Life reports assets over $277,000,000 and surplus over $44,000,000. A live local agent is sought in the county with a conveyance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Buvinger
Mutual Life Insurance Company
New York
Buvinger
Nichols & Nichols
Mutual Life
F. Rirrer
Carew
Cincinnati
Ohio
Tobacco market strengthens with strong bids and rising prices
Old tobacco sales improved this week as large manufacturers bid aggressively and big offerings sold at higher prices. Most grades rose, with very few exceptions, and city stocks are light. New tobacco held its own, while totals for old stock indicate a tightening market into year end and early next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati- Miami House
Christmas Day Blessings And Reflections Across Faith And Family
The passage extols the Christmas season as a time of joy, memory, and renewal for all ages. It highlights church bells, gift giving, and the birth of Christ as central to Christian and fraternal values, urging readers toward a joyful Christmas and bright New Year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lts
Compromising Letters Sow Discord in Peaceful Homes
A historical clipping describes suspicious letters allegedly from a woman named Cherry or Daisy, urging men to pursue agency for cabinet work or a patent product. The note warns such communications could spark domestic trouble if found by wives, and recounts a bachelor recipient who ignored the scheme while another married man destroyed the letter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cherrie
Daisy
Cannons for Wilmington Tie to Foraker Firepower Peeped on Court House Corner
The Clinton Republican notes two cannons secured for Wilmington by Senator Foraker now mounted on carriages near the court house corner with cannon balls on display. The piece jokes about guard penalties for defacement and mentions curiosity about the balls. It also references a New Richmond engineer boosting power for an eclipse view and a Christmas display at Kline’s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
Senator Foraker
Wilmingtoniana
Clinton Republican
Foraker
Court House
Browning
New Richmond
SIGHTS AND SOUNDS IN TOLEDO AND SURROUNDING FARMS REPORT
Lowell Roudebush reports on a Toledo visit with county treasurer Lew Slack and Ohio State Horticultural Society members. He describes cadet drills, the female seminary, the observatory, and smallpox fears, then tours carnation greenhouses and a 32 acre fruit farm. The narrator notes Toledo’s prosperity, the Miami River harbor, and the forthcoming 1902 state events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napoleon
Clermont Courier
Toledo
Lew Slack
Institute
O. v7. U
Bashford
Ohio State Horticultural Society
Newark
Yvobn Counter
Centennial City
Miami
Court House
Cincinnati
Waterville
Maumee
Fallen Timbers
Mad Anthony
Greenville
Jacob Alrey
Cornelius Washburn
Clermont County
Turkey Rock
Fort Meighs
E. E. Hooker
Ohio
Globe
W. W. Farnsworth
W. W. Farmaworth
W. G
Ohio Horticultural Society
Cushman
Farnsworth
Lowell Roudebush
Euterpe Band to give Christmas concert at Wiggonsville
The Euterpe band of Wiggonsville will present a Christmas night concert featuring piano duet, serenade, overtures, instrumental trios and readings. Bertha Teal, Hutson, Fisher and Aultman lead performances with intermission and selections like Yankee Hash and American Beauty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Euterpe
Wiggonsville
A, EK
H. B. Hutson
Bertha Jean Teal
Stumbera
Hutson, Fisher and
Anlman
Holy City
Rufua Hutson
Fisher
Aultman
God's Acre
Miss Teal
Fisher, Aultman and Hutson
Life of David Harum Told in Homer Essays
William Hoge summarizes the David Harum tale in Edward Noyes Westcott’s Homer as a vivid rural type. Readers note the character’s rise from nothing to fortune and back to modest means, while locals recall the ordinary yet sharp banker horse dealer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Harum
William Hoge
American Home Magazine
Edward Noyes Wescot
Homer
New York
New England
Kentucky
South
Mr. Westcott
David Hanum
David Hannum
Wescott
Dave Hannum
Congress
Dave
Dave” Hannum
Railroad and steamboat notes with local changes
Rail news reports R W Salt leaving the Georgetown station and Edgar Lundy replaced by Elbert Blair. The C P W annual shows 111.60 miles of road including 17.40 miles of siding, with earnings rising to 293 713 67 for 1898 99. Beacons discontinued in several towns due to electric lights. Higginsport gains a coal elevator. old Oneida steamer engines sold for use in Higginsport sawmill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. W. Salt
Georgetown
Edgar Lundy
Ludy
Elbert Blair
Idlewild
Sciotoville
Cincinnati
Batavia
Batavia Junction
Oneida
Higginsport
Ashland
Portsmouth
Maysville
Ripley
Moscow
New Richmond
Chaney & Co
Manchester
Proctor
Lebanon
Court Orders Jury Augmentation and Receivership Rulings
From the courts a report on heavy judgments and receiver actions. A petit jury panel was expanded by four names drawn for venire returnable December 13. Several judgments are listed including for Eureka Fire and Marine Insurance, J. F. Bender Bros., and others with amounts ranging from $77.80 to $1,127.83. The Mary J. Blanchard case confirms a receiver’s report with $400 payable by the receiver, payroll and contract rules to follow, and attorney fees of $317.10 authorized. other claims await further orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Wilsr Posses
Washington
Charles O. Ketcham
Rodd Edward B Malott
Ceces
Batavia
Las Eyeres
Francis M. Pursell
Eureka Fire and Marine Insurance Company
J. F. Bender Bros. Company
Isaac and
Mary Carliss
Guo
W. Highlands
A. J. Allen
Kate Vail
George W. Vail
A. Steinkamp & Company
Austin Goldsberry
Luella Brophy
Emma Belle Curley
Mary J. Blanchard
Batavia Challenge Brick Company
B. F. Hezen
Haber Manufacturing Company
Sanforth. Gelono
W.H. Hatove
August Kayser
Plain
Rebecca Kirgan Va
J. W. Jones
McCormick Machine Co
R. CG. G.bbs
Lesve
Genealogy Request Seeks Mary Jane Hill Lineage in Clermont
Postmaster Baum forwards a heartfelt letter from Charles Eliot Pike of Saint Paul Minnesota seeking parents and ancestry for Mary Jane Hill born Clermont county Ohio in 1824 and her sibling James Hill. He requests any local information or references from Clermont county residents to uncover births marriages and deaths and offers to cover reasonable costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baum
Clermont Tady
Charles Eliot Pike
Western Avenue
Saint Paul
Minnesota
Pike
Mary Jane Hill
Clermont County
Ohio
Batavia
George Bryant Bowman
James Hill
Mary Hawkins
Fishback
Owens
Holt
Tally
Bond
Mary Jane
Ladies' Day at Clermont County Teachers' Institute
The December meeting at Batavia city hall drew a large crowd of bright teachers for a ladies day program. Miss Cecile Hulick presided, with papers by Misses Belle McDonald and Winifred Edwards, a 59-voice Batavia chorus, and an address on Life's Finer Side by Mrs. Richards. The session adjourned to Goshen for February.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clermont County Teachers’ Institute
City Hall
Batavia
Cecile Hulick
America
H. W. Bailey
M. E. Church
Belle McDonald
Loveland Schools
Winifred Edwards
New Richmond
Grandmas
Marguerite Ashburn
Batavia High School
Anna Ranson
Madisonville School
Amy Nichols
Mary Tatman
Miss Anderson
Linwood
Missea Elma Townsley
Cora Griffith
Chas. Belt
Goshen
Spulman Rigen to Present City Hall Entertainment
Spulman Rigen appears at city hall this Friday evening delivering a humorous lecture followed by a varied programme of songs recitations and whistling solos. Press notices praise the entertainer and ticket prices range from 15 cents to $1.00 with season tickets for four lectures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spulman Rigen
City Hall
Riggs
Megibven Kimbrough
Eclipse on Schedule Time Grips Moon in Night Sky
The article notes the total lunar eclipse on Saturday night with eleven twelfths of the moon covered and mentions widespread public interest. It contrasts local apathy toward celestial events with astronomers’ explanations and implies Nebraska’s agricultural prowess elsewhere in the piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Attiues Terrestral
Call for April election to expand village territory
The article urges residents to back a move to expand the village territory across the river, hopes to incorporate homes shops and property, and seeks to make the issue central in the April election, trusting citizens to drive progress.
Census Circular Urges Farmers to Keep Written Farm Records
The Census Bureau issues a circular urging farmers to maintain written records of farm cooperations for the current year so that when census enumerators arrive next June the data can be supplied accurately and promptly. The law requires detailed farm data including acres, ownership, land and building values, machinery, crop totals for 1899, and on hand quantities and values as of June 1, 1809.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Census Bureau
Pioneer resident J N Pattison dies at New Market Iowa
Friends across the county mourn the death of J N Pattison at his New Market home on the 1h instant. Born 1829, he lived in Owensville and became the last male Pattison of the old stock. A long time I O O F member and M E church faithful, he served in the Civil War, contracted the illness that led to his death, and was buried with Masons' rites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. N. Pattison
Tedro
New Market
Iowa
Tle
Owensville
Pattisons
Oweneville
Boston Lodge 189
M.fe
Tie
Jephthah Cantata Delights Batavia Residents at City Hall
Batavians enjoyed two evenings of the Jephthah and His Daughter cantata staged by local youth directed by P F Jamison. The production featured Mrs Charles Bet as the daughter, a forty-voice chorus, and a strong cast including Wm K Potts and G P Ferguson. Allen Glaney designed scenery rivaling metropolitan stages, with praised costumes and orchestral support. Batavia’s talent and staging earned widespread acclaim as the town awaits Esther under Jamison’s direction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jephthah
P. F. Jamison
Gileadjies
Charles Bet
Ww. K. Potts
G. P. Ferguson
Wiliam R. Walker
Charles Belt
Mires Mary Tewl
T.L. Hamilton
Allen Glaney
Ester
Renatiion
Mise Leeds
Bantam
Orchester
Grace Brown McDonald
Batavia
Jamieson
Esther
Glancy
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Clermont Mines
OLD Fashioned Spelling School
Merry Christmas
Beastre
Kiine
Dr. Thomas
Cisions
Lenge Brick Company, Etc
Clermonter
Headquarters
Kline
Mare 1
Teachers’ Institute
Ance
First Entertainment
New Telephone Company of
Sb Instruments
Land OF
Chicago
Nebraska
South Omaha
TORY
Nelson Pattison
Bargalos
Rapp Bros
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