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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1880
Page
3
People wanting to attend the Knights Templar meeting in Chicago can buy round trip train tickets at this station valid on all regular trains from the 15th to the 21st for 3.80 dollars.
The Narrow Gauge locomotive is sent to Messrs Bass Co of Fort Wayne for repairs and will be finished and ready for duty one week from next Monday. Freight and general road business will resume then. In the meantime the Hand Car Express runs regular trips carrying passengers and express packages.
The Van Wert County Teachers Institute will convene in High School Hall next Monday at 9 a.m. Professor J. DeFord, former Ottawa Public Schools superintendent, will teach Grammar Geography and Theory and Practice. H Tuttle will cover Mathematics. Other instructors from a distance will attend for an enjoyable session. All county teachers are urged to attend.
A Van Wert youth Clemson was arraigned for stealing a saddle from Christ Horstman. He had prior misdeeds and was bound over in 200 dollars, facing jail if he defaults. Church notices and local events fill the rest with meetings, sales, and a public auction announced by E. D. Stewart at Van Wert.
Camp notes from the Daily Bee recount Old Blue Betty a drum carried by Eli H. Stukey and later by his father during the War of 1812 and his son John in the Civil War. The drum is a family heirloom to be preserved within the Stukey line for generations.
The Herald items report a Lima man fined for indecent exposure at Fort W. and C. depot, a ten foot high cross placed on a new Catholic Church spire, and a temperance lecture by John Darnell in front of the Commercial Bank. The Gazette notes a factory dry-house fire at Mark & Dunan’s, minor burglary attempts, and sixteen carloads of Lima residents traveling to Wapakoneta with many more by car.
Town Council meets this evening. A health board gathering at the Mayor's office. Temperance lectures to start on the 20th. Locals report street incidents, a fire alarm, thefts of harness, and a fight on Main Street. Observations on Garfield and Pendleton affairs, and civic notes from nearby towns.
GEO. H. MARSH, secretary, advertises prices for Number One White Ash Heading Bolts. 38 inch bolts paid at $4.00 per cord and 32 inch bolts at $3.50 per cord. Sale at Eagle Stave Factory.
Miss Alice Grove visits relatives in Cleveland. Mr and Mrs Rev Robert Edmund of Van Wert visit Madison township. Mr W E Gearing and family from Pittsburgh and Mrs M Gearing of Wooster guest of Mr and Mrs W H Himmelreich. Mr A A Frazier of Zanesville has week long town visit and will likely improve after Wooster University honors. Paulding and Putnam counties award bridge contract at Little Auglaize near Joseph Grover home. wood structure goes to Mr Wilson of Van Wert.
A. L. Teubner announces reduced prices in the Dry Goods Department to clear space for new stock. Bargains include hosiery and fancy goods as part of a limited sale.
General Weaver the Greenback candidate speaks in Montgomery urging a fair count and warning against the destruction of free ballots in Alabama and beyond. Wade Hampton’s Staunton remarks defend Southern traditions while challenging Northern betrayal, framed by editorial comment in New York Sun and Chicago Inter Ocean.
Our Correspondent reports new residents John McNeal J C Lestie W H Boroff and others moving in or away from the area. Soldiers return to Columbus for reunion while marriages rise with two weddings this week. New babies born to the Anderson Vangundy and Decker households.
Local notes report grain prospects hindered by low rainfall and hopes for more rain. Jones Richards opens a new boot and shoe firm with a large sign by H A Brown. Miller Myers near completion on a Rowland Evans house and planning a new schoolhouse. Dr W Williams notes eggs shipped locally exceed those from other routes. A $35 reward offered by W S Jones for the mischiefs that tied up a barn and wagon last Tuesday night.
From our Own Correspondent the thermometer reads forty to one hundred degrees. Health is good and politics loom with Liberty at the fall polls. Garfield gains support while LeFevre spurs talk of bolting. A buggy accident injures John King near Van Wert. Wheat and corn yields mixed with apples and acorns noted amid a generally abundant season.
Over 500 000 bottles of Shilohs Cure sold in recent months with more than 2000 consumption cures reported. Coughs Croup Asthma and Bronchitis yield at once. try it for lameness back side or chest. Sold by Druggist L F Gackenheimer.
Mr S Read buys 40 acres adjoining his farm while Mr S Slack builds four dwellings. Prospects for corn are excellent though wheat yields are down. Mrs M McCracken lies in ill health with Dr Small attending. Hancock builds a barn near Sawyersburg. James McCall buys a new threshing machine as land buyers gather from Allen County. Miss Iowa Collier closes her Sawyersburg school as improvement accelerates.
Gala day announces Forepaughs famed menagerie circus exhibit in Fort Wayne on Monday August 23 with fifteen elephants, lions and tigers, giraffes, trained dogs and horses, a high wire act, balloon ascent, grand parade, electric lights, and reduced rates with excursion trains.
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