Finest in its history promises big Ohio State Fair
The Ohio State Fair in Columbus runs August 31 to September 4. Officials report record entries across all departments ahead of the event.
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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1908
Page
1
The Ohio State Fair in Columbus runs August 31 to September 4. Officials report record entries across all departments ahead of the event.
The fifty eighth annual Ohio State Fir and Industrial Exposition prepares for August 31 to September 4 in Columbus with record entries in farm shop and road machinery. A large fifteen acre overflow section is created. aerial carnival features daily airship flights and acts by C Ki Wardy Matt Gay Mille Spellman and six others. Modern Woodman of America Day on September 1 and Women’s Free Day on August 31 are listed along with free gate days for state children at close.
Sheriff Wm Caskey received photographs of Harvey Geiselman Yule Biggs and Sidney Flegg the Akron suspects in the ginseng garden theft near Fredericksburg They confessed July 30 to robbing Al Thompson of near Fredericksburg Geiselman and Geiselman are boys from Wayne county with Shreve and Orrville ties The suspects will be tried in Wayne county for the Thompson robbery Summit county case deemed minor and to be handled by the grand jury.
Mrs. MM Davison of 370 Gif ford Ave San Jose Cal extols Electric Bitters as a top family remedy for headache biliousness and liver bowels torpor. The product is sold under guarantee at White's drug store for 50 cents.
Grand and Petit jurors are drawn for the September Term and ordered to report Monday September 7 1908 at 10 oclock a m. Names include Henry Marshall Charles Van Nest Peter Ickard William Curry A N Roth Henry Gardner Harry Stoner John Horn Julius A Rupp Joan Shondel Mack Carlin J J Van Evra John Clark E J Rwouhier S H Beery Ira Hindman Jacob Rupp Moses Scasterday Chas Manges Robert Lucas C Smedly Cleophas Ama tutz Jacob Musser HW A Sanit Christ Zuercher L C Davidson P D Tracy Louis C Klein W McConnell William Smedly A M Luce Fred Gerstenschlager William Worst Jacob W Welty among others.
Three bids were received by county Commissioners for the Dalton road project. Lee and Griggs of Clyde bid 11990.45, under the estimated cost by about 800, while Carl and Dowell of Creston bid 17955.35. The Clyde firm won the contract with work to start by September 1 and finish before year end. Bond of 7000 accompanying the bid.
The Emig and Schultz families announce their annual reunion at Harvey Eckard's farm southeast of Malton on Thursday August 27. The organizing committee issues this notice as an invitation and asks those connected to the families to attend.
A Richwine Dague Oberlin family reunion was held on the Baird lawn near Stanwood with attendees from Bryan Ohio Wooster Massillon Walton Navarre and local neighbors. President A E Dague led the gathering after an elaborate dinner. Rev Adams delivered remarks on aging gracefully. the event featured Oberlin family songs and an instrumental duet by the Baird sisters. Officers were elected and the meeting adjourned to be called by the president.
Ohio inventors receive patents reported by D. Swift & Co. Washington. List includes W. Amstutz Pandora for bridles attachment devices and Aungst Alliancé for telephone support. Other patentees hail from Columbus, Springfield, Dayton, Akron, Lima, Mansfield and more with devices from tire pumps to valve gear and thermostatic controllers. Copies available at ten cents each.
A vintage letter from F. W. Devoe & Co touts Devoe zinc and lead paint as saving gallons and lasting longer than mixed paints or lead and oil. It emphasizes lower cost per job and a six year durability, with sales via M. F. McDowell in New York.
J A Gibson of Dalton Ohio advertises H C Myers OD of Huckinson and Myers Jewelers Massillon Ohio will visit the shop on the 4th Saturday each month with a full line of glasses and optical goods. Myers, a college graduate, guarantees all glasses to fit and offers free examination.
A.E. Sauder announces the cider press will operate Tuesdays and Wednesdays each week until September 8, then daily except Sundays and Saturdays reserved for feed grinding.
Martin Boyd of Llenrietta Kentucky reports a severe eye problem cured after using Chamberlains Salve he purchased in February. He used about two thirds of a box and his eyes have not troubled him since. The salve is sold by A J White.
Public auction set for September 19 1908 at 1 PM in Dalton Wayne County Ohio for real estate on West Mull Street north side. Property appraised at 2100 dollars with terms cash or one third cash and three payments over two years secured by mortgage. Geo Ressler administrator of the estate of William Ressler deceased.
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