02 Feb 1900
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Newspaper
The Perrysburg Journal
Location
Perrysburg, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1900
Page
1
A joint meeting was held Thursday evening June 25 with the councilmen Pinkhelper Hann and Kilogier and all trustees. A motion to sell cemetery lots in the new addition at 10 per lot for township residents and 15 for non-residents was adopted. Cemetery Trustees were authorized to give notice of sale by advertisement in the Journal. Meeting adjourned.
The electro mailroad company awarded the contract for a new car barns and repair shop at this place to James Turnbull of Toledo. The brick building, 87 by 100 feet with a 20 foot height and gravel roof, will house twelve cars and include a trainmen room, machine shop, armor room, and smaller rooms. Estimated cost between five and six thousand dollars, completion in six weeks, with work starting when the Jerry City extension opens.
A plot by prisoners to attack officers and seize jail keys was discovered last Friday. James Brandon, Clauda Martin, Underwood, and Large, among others, plotted to overpower the sheriff and deputy, steal the jail keys, and escape. They were caught while preparing weapons, punished briefly, and confined. The report also mentions a letter praising Dr King’s New Discovery for pneumonia and lung disease, with sale price details.
Fragmentary OCR notes indicate a mailing to Nickelae Road addressed to General Pink in Cleveland with an Oblaide date in February. The readable text is sparse and unclear on full details or the purpose of the mailing.
Perrysburg's electric light plant now runs to the entire satisfaction of all parties. A two story powerhouse houses two dynamos for street and commercial lighting, supplied by Bissel & Co of Toledo. The Fort Wayne dynamo powers 1360 lights, the Warren alter puts out 600 incandescent lamps. The plant uses coal to fire boilers nightly and is run by Witzler and assistants. Water mains to the river and an artesian well with a 1200 barrel tank prevent outages. The system, built at about 110,000, is a home institution and aims to expand to domestic water and lawn irrigation services.
In Lime City a Saturday meeting at Ross hall drew a large crowd as Michigan parties consider building a sugar factory. G. P. Smith chaired the gathering and outlined beets as a profitable crop. A 6,000 acre production goal was set with a committee of farmers to secure capital and urging farmer participation.
A fragmented OCR item mentions barn, tar, and day-to-day farm terms with unclear names. The readable bits point to a rural notice or brief about cattle or storage facilities but lack coherent context or actionable details. No firm entities or dates are identifiable.
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