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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1890
Page
2
A fragmented menu listing corn juice dishes and various tobacco plugs with prices and quirky items. It mentions breakfast items like corn juice, Nimrod, Vaees plugs, and smoking tobacco preparations, plus a few pastries or cakes and miscellaneous goods. The scene reads as a curious, period style item with odd pricing and product names.
Van Wert Bulletin reports street grading on West Court Street funded by town labor and county stone. A Northwestern Ohio baseball club forms, leasing Burt meadow for early games, with players listed. Local notices include lost letters and a serious fall at the Arcade block, plus the school board selects Rev W F Lilly as superintendent, replacing Cowgill.
A Fourth of July celebration in Van Wert featured a gun salute by Capt. David Rison and Cols. Anschutz and Jackson, a long parade led by O. D. Swartout and W. H. Mozier, and a balloon ascent that failed after a dramatic, unsafe parachute drop. Despite balloon trouble and a misfired display, crowds enjoyed a pyrotechnic show, a bicycle race won by Byron Smith, and a robust industrial parade with many local firms participating.
A Fourth of July fire devastated Henry Kundert’s livery barn and damaged John Sharger’s brick block, with angels of flame leaping through the wind. Firefighters battled the blaze amid shifting winds, saving some properties but leaving Kundert with about $2,000 in losses and Sharger around $3,000, plus limited insurance. The blaze also touched nearby outbuildings, threatening much of the First Ward before being controlled. Also reported were deaths in the community, including Israel P. Adam, Rev. E Litzman, and Rev. Y B Riley, with details on their funerals and survivors. A te a room dwelling offer appears at the end.
Oil men are thick in the county. Brick plans, circus bookings, and a whale hoax headline a Delphos update. Population rises to about 4501 with Ward 3 leading growth. Fireworks, balloon fizzles, and a hot Fourth are reported alongside burglaries, a highwayman incident, and new teacher appointments.
A string of personal notices from Van Wert details Col I N Alexander’s illness and various visits by prominent residents and visitors to the area. It lists dates, hometowns, and affiliations, including ex-mayor Browder, Gen A Jacobs, and others, with travels to Paulding, Delphos, Lima, Carey, and Toledo among towns mentioned. Also notes political pension interest and school reports for Swamp College and Pleasant township.
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