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Newspaper
The Perrysburg Journal
Location
Perrysburg, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1908
Page
1
The WO W band offers an excellent program at Tow Hall on October 21. The band has promoted Perrysburg and deserves town support with 25 cent tickets.
This fragment notes a yearly fair tied to the Fair Company past twenty six years with near record attendance and rising revenue, highlighting it as exceptionally successful within the era and comparing to prior years.
The fair showcased top displays including notable inogeat exhibits and a crowd winning pace record. Dewey G. of Pontiac set a new mile time of 2.08% in the free for all pace. A stellar animal show drew special attention while security kept disruptions away. Music featured multiple bands, including Brad, Van Doren and Bowling Green military, with four balloon ascensions praised as among the best yet.
Ada J. Croom of Vaughn Miss credits Dr King’s New Discovery with curing a severe rough and looming cough after months of illness. She reports rapid relief and urges others to try the remedy sold at Wo Cometack & Bons drug store with a trial bottle free.
A rear freight car collision with a passenger train near Sugar Ridge, Ohio, killed four aboard and injured many. Victims include George Gogsler, Lester Puller, Richard Rideout, and Thomas Craine, with others injured or treated at Toledo and Columbus facilities. Engineer Smith and fireman narrowly survived after reversing to avoid the crash. Coroner and prosecutor summoned as rescue and recovery operations continued through the night.
Seventy two students enrolled in the High school with twenty one in twelfth grade. Attendance is excellent and interest high as work progresses smoothly. Corinthian and Ionian Literary Societies organize with officers Frank Powel president George Shiple president Charlotte Tole secretary. Girls form a basketball team coached by Miss Dermitt and plan to host visiting teams in winter. Mr Ray Zachman enters High school as eleventh year student. Eighth grade work starts with full attendance and interest. J Paul Zachman joins from Gibsonburg. American literature studied with Bryante poems memorized. Art work under Miss Hughs focuses on nature studies. Seventh grade totals: boys nineteen girls eighteen. Pupils show readiness after vacation. Continued on Fourth Page.
Five percent five year bond issues totaling fifty thousand dollars were sold Monday by the county commissions at a premium of 1065.50. Comparisons show stronger market and rising premiums since two months earlier when fifty thousand dollars sold with a premium of 899.75. Bidders included Hoehler and Cummings Toledo 106.50, Hayden Miller Cleveland 1061.00, Well Roch Cincinnati 890.00, Fifth Third Bank Cincinnati 876.00, Central Trust Cincinnati 500.00, Sensonguad Mayer Cincinnati 1044.00, Security Savings Toledo 202.50, CBE Denison Cleveland 1017.75, Cleveland Trust 1000.50, Barto Scott Columbus 753.00, Otte and Hough Cleveland 765.00, Field Long Street Cincinnati 755.00, First National Cleveland 1087.60, Provident Savings Clinton 880.00.
James Timmons, former lieutenant of Company I, 6th O V L, now residing in the Soldiers Home in Dayton, was warmly greeted at the fair. He once ran the Perrysburg Journal from 1866 to 1889 and now offers an Emancipation Proclamation souvenir designed with a steel pen by R Morris Swander.
Harold Stratton age 20 of Bowling Green dies at home after two months illness. He never recovered from injuries from a three year old Medora North Dakota railroad wreck. David Musser 33 dies of typhoid fever in Portage, buried at Waterville Ohio. Henry Kraftwach 65 dies at Hastings Lutheran church service. survived by wife and four children after long residence in Wood County.
An advertisement touts Bur dock Blood Ritters as a cure all for heavy and impure blood causing a muddy complexion headache nausea and indigestion. It promises to enrich thin blood and restore health by making blood rich red and pure.
At the Wood county fair a hot air balloon burst into flames soon after lifting, the aeronaut leaving the craft to avoid danger. The parachute opened but failed when struck by a sand bag, causing a fall to the ground and spreading horror among spectators who realized no crew member was aboard.
Excitement in the Broadway Gypsy camp near Bowling Green as a woman attempted suicide by turpentine. A doctor pumped the stomach, restoring the woman, whose throat and mouth were severely burned. Earlier, camp tensions rose from a marriage dispute between tribal factions and a elopement.
The North Baltimore Beacon endorses Charles RK Nearing for Probate Judge, calling the office a position of trust and praising his mental fitness and moral character. The Republican voters of Wood County, by act at the February 11 primaries, placed their stamp of approval on his candidacy and the paper predicts his administration will honor voters’ good judgment.
Safe crackers blew the Weston post office safe Monday night securing two dollars in cash and twenty three dollars in stamps. The old safe was ruined. funds were not kept there. Tools used were stolen from Abbott's blacksmith shop. Sheriff Roach was summoned and is pursuing the perpetrators.
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