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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1898
Page
4
The piece railes against partisan appeals and court costs while noting a Paulding county vote against a Republican commissioner. It critiques tariff policy, silver questions, and imperialism, praising or lamenting officials and clerks as voters reject seasoned figures.
A fragmented report outlines organizers of a movement against annexation opposing Philippine annexation and urging caution on foreign entanglements. It notes calls for tax increases, military readiness, and concerns over civil rights as the United States contemplates empire and dangers to national integrity.
An unclear excerpt reports Medea Pe Evesweisen appointed deputy clerk with local officials listing Higiliacs county and Miya as part of the governing body. The text is garbled but mentions teachers, workers, and local sites including a wooded area near Mt Suas with tentative plans and party alignments.
Indignation meeting denounces county commissioners for firing lawyer J G Rietle in a case against Franklin Carlo, county treasurer. Prosecution partner Trippy paid, Richie hired, court costs rise to 962.65, taxpayer money debated as political spite session heats up in local headlines.
Obituaries report J Reid of Van Wert aged about eighty as cause of death listed from paralysis and bronchitis after long illness. He leaves wife and three children, funeral at North Washington home with interment in Woodland cemetery. Also obituary notes Mrs P Morris aged seventy one of Maple Cocaine dies of consumption with services at Maple home and interment in Tumblusun cemetery. Mrs Thomas of York township dies at eighty one from paralysis with services held and burial in adjoining cemetery. Also Harrie longtime stove and tin store owner on West Main Street dies after dropsy, survived by wife and four children, funeral to be held afternoon with Woodland burial.
Personal notices list residents and visitors across towns. Burtsfield returns from trips to Philadelphia and New York while Mrs Tlarty Meacham of Toledo hosts. Several residents travel for Thanksgiving or visit relatives in Fort Wayne Columbus Greenville Van Wert South Bend and Paulding.
The Court of Common Pleas Oct term faced delays and adjournments while handling a mixed docket. Rulings include dismissal of divorce suits, injunctions, and property reclosures. several verdicts award damages, costs, or specific conveyances. a horse death in a railroad case netted $13 to the plaintiff. one case recounts a sentence to reformatories for larceny.
JW Mullen announces a neat lite barber shop beneath Pronefeld's meat market on South Washington Street. The note urges patronage and mentions loan terms, a savings plan, and stock dividends offered by L G Leasany, local secretary. David Spangler plans remodeling to repurpose his South Washington Street mill into EE manufacturing facilities, signaling local industrial growth. The Northwestern Ohio Teachers Association session moves to Tilia today and tomorrow due to smallpox in Sandusky.
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