26 Dec 1907
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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1907
Page
1
The Sellers Milling Co. operated by ILLIS F. SELLERS offers Best Grade Roller Flour Old Fashioned Graham Flour Corn Meal and Chop ping with custom work. Sawmill to connection prompt service guaranteed and prices lowest on North Mill Street.
Frank E Gibson promotes a mixed goods store featuring fancy and staple dry goods notions carpets lace curtains wallpaper window shades and domestic hardware. The listing highlights a first class machinery department with fresh stock and guaranteed prices at Pioneer Black Dalton U.
The clipping showcases multiple small ads. S J Goudy promotes groceries and fresh eggs with a new block on Matin Street. Schultz Wagon Co advertises Spring Wagons and carriages from the public square works. A H Arick offers furniture, undertaking, and embalming from 25 Pioneer Block Dayton Ohio.
Builders say all steps toward the electric line are in progress after the project began at Smithville. G B Bartholomew has placed orders for trestle work, with supplies rolling in as specifications finish. The company publishes a map and director list including Bartolomew Rudy Holm Cousins Buchanan Ryall Buckner.
Hiram Wolf of Dalton with Blanche B Brinker of North Lawrence Edward J McAfee of Wooster with Ira M Blechly of Plain township Ned Henry Reynolds with Elizabeth Semple of Sterling John Ciconetto with Annacostina Domasetto of Wooster Elmer L Crosby of Applecreek with Anna A Harford of Fredericksburg
The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad offers round trip tickets at reduced holiday rates to Chicago St Louis Pittsburgh and intermediate points on December 23 24 31 and January 1 with return until January 6. Consult agents for details.
A Cleveland Leader list tracks mine disaster deaths from January to December 1907 totaling 2 160, detailing 28 fatal incidents with locations from Clinton Indiana to Jacob's Creek Pennsylvania. The compilation highlights 1907 as the most deadly year on record, contrasts with 1906's 1 600 deaths, and notes several catastrophes in West Virginia, Germany, Mexico, and South Africa.
Authorization received at Wooster post office to establish station No 1 in Hubbell's grocery store for money orders registry business stamps and postal supplies. Miss Myrtle Hubbell named clerk. Opening set for January 2 1908 serving northeast residents and university students.
Le Raysville merchant O S Woolever endorses Bucklen’s Amica Salve claiming it cured his piles twenty years ago. Ad touts it as a cure for sores wounds burns and abrasions available for 25 cents at A J White’s drug store.
The record lists various local businesses and agencies including the Royal Insurance Co and The Phoenix Insurance Co of North America alongside White's Pharmacy in Dalton VA. It notes trustees of Sugarcreek township to hold regular meetings on the first Monday each month at the Town Hall in Dutton and lists Samuel Woods Rudy Studer L.8 Berg as trustees.
Notice to stockholders of the Kidron Telephone Company that the next annual meeting and election of directors will be held Monday January 20 1908 at Kidron at 1230 p m. Jac P Sommer president M Gerber secretary.
An old medicinal advertisement touts Dr Kings New Life Pills as the quick cure for dangerous deadlock in liver and bowel function. It promises guaranteed satisfaction or money back at A. J. White's drug store for 25 cents.
The Rev Srl R Hicks 1908 Almanac ready for delivery and surpasses prior editions with a colorful cover fine half tones and astronomical engravings. It includes complete yearly Hicks weather forecasts and is priced 35c by mail 30c on newsstands. Word and Works monthly magazine offers forecasts month to month at 1 a year and accompanies subscriptions from The Gazette Printing Co Dalton Ohio.
A five year old girl from one and a half miles east of Dalton Ohio writes to Santa in December 1907 asking for a doll a sled oranges candy and a doll for her sister Ethel. She asks Santa to come early so he can come in and warm.
Christmas Day post office opens at eight in the morning and closes at 1 p m. Mail will be delivered by carriers and the evening mail will go out as usual. H L B Jameson.
An old Bluffton Banner column urges readers to return home when tired or seeking consolation fun reform or better behavior. It cheekily links home life to improvement, then promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a quick cure for colds available from A J White.
Wilbert Wenger visits Sonnenberg. Henry Shoub and wife attend services. Public sale prospects emerge for local settlers with names including Baumgartner Amstutz and Geiger. Wedding announced for Andrew Hofstetter and Dinah Amstutz at Sonnenberg church with ceremony planned Dec. 28. Notes on land inspections by Lehman and Loganville in New Mexico. Obituary for Catharine Lehman nee Amstutz, aged 79 years 6 months 8 days, buried near Canton Ohio with German hymns.
The notice states all accounts should be settled by January 1 as new rules are to be adopted at that time.
Eastbound trains Nos 2 and 6 leave Dalton at 11 55 a m and 5 50 p m arriving Pittsburgh at 4 30 p m and 10 50 p m with connections to Wheeling Coshocton Zanesville and intermediate stations.
Canton Ohio ascent carried by Frank S. Lahm at 12 53 p m Friday rose to altitude and landed eight miles north of New Castle Pa at 3 40 pm. Lahm praised the voyage as pleasant and safe, with Gordon Mather and Joseph Blake aboard. Thousands witnessed the event, the first in a Canton Aero club series.
A downtown school teacher explains subtraction using ten dollars with purchases totaling eight dollars and fifty cents. A pupil asks why the teacher did not count change, revealing a humorous misstep in teaching style.
Arlington Lodge No 775 meets Mondays in Wertz Hall Main Street visiting brothers invited E B Erwin N GC Will E Scott Montrose Council No 156 U O A M meets first and third Tuesdays in Wertz Hall Martin Street visiting brothers invited Also Dal ton Roling No 73 F M C Pree meets first and third Saturdays in their hall Main and Mill streets A St Arick W R C W Horn W8.
The Cleveland South Western and Columbus Railway Co lists Wooster locals to Chippewa Lake with many daily departures from early morning to night. Cleveland Limiteds run at 7 15 am 12 15 pm and 2 15 pm from Public Square. Wooster and Cleveland locals plus Wooster Limiteds have frequent service and excursion rates may apply. For details contact C M Lovett agent or J D Wilson G P A Wooster Ohio.
Parcel of 80 acres three miles northeast of Dalton and six miles east of Orrville on the Orrville Massillon road. Includes seven room brick house two dwellings, bank barn, spring house, shop, timber and cultivated land. Water, good orchard, and necessary outbuildings in repair. For particulars contact E. B. Martin Burton Ohio or R F D No.3 Orrville via Orrville Exchange.
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