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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1886
Page
8
Our Correspondent reports Lazzie Roush remains very poorly and seems to be worsening. Grandpa Klinger suffered a partial sunstroke last week. Dora has begun to ripen. D Everson prepares the foundation for a new dwelling. A Sunday school celebration is planned for the 28th on the Ridge, with details to follow next week.
An assortment of local notes reports farming activity and social visits. John Roat and John Beck threshing yielded an excellent harvest. Flora Whitman to visit relatives in Logan and Champaign counties next Saturday. O G Wicksy held a log rolling with about eighteen neighbors clearing ten acres. Prohibitionists are scarce locally but voters favor temperance through proper channels. Wise bought a ton locomotive for a western timber road expected to boost business next winter. John Daily and Jake Sands sold rights for seventeen counties for two thousand dollars after a trip through the eastern state.
Melrose reports a successful camp meeting while Zion M E Church suffered lightning damage during a thunderstorm. Mercer county visitors include Harvey Coil and mother, Charles Anderson and mother, and William Sands family. Crop prospects show hay and oats good, wheat strong, but corn weak. Latty telegraph operator found jewelry at the Melrose camp, offer available to claimant. Community youth gatherings praised for sociable, energetic growth.
The item list reports many dry wells in York Township. Mrs. Joseph Ross of Shasta is ill. Wheat is mostly threshed. John Painter builds a large granary while Joseph Wallam constructs a frame to store farming implements. Handwerk brothers thresh, hog cholera hits, and local eateries and markets are mentioned.
Dixon items report Cory Purkeypile family planning Dixon county as future home and wheat plowing starting. Oats yields cited with Nail and Baxter goods, plus prices. Local news mentions schoolhouse work, visitors, jokes on women crops, postal letters, and Mexican trouble with Cutting sentenced in Texas and border tensions ahead of possible war.
Mrs Wents remains ill while Mr A L Mark improves. Mendon guests of Mr M Parents Sunday. threshing by Weaver and Bennit, strong wheat. Sept 1 picnic at Hirn grove Monticello invites schools and baskets. accident injured horse on bridge. births: Smith girl Tucker boy Bean girl. G r Parrot of Mercer died milking cows. Grandmother Garee 84 dies. funeral by Rev Holland with six children. Mrs Rebecca Burnett dies. interred Wright Cemetery.
Plowing has begun for a new wheat crop in Ridge Township. Mr. and Mrs. M. H. McCoy attended the Niagara Falls excursion. A house warming at Mr. Allen's last Friday kept guests out until daylight. Frank Boroff asked for details. Mrs. E. M. Hire and daughter Lillie F visited J. W. Nail's family. Frank Shoop scouted organ needs and left one on trial at Levi Parry's. Miss Fanny Chambers and Charlie, college students, stayed with Miss Ella Nail. An old anecdote about dining with hats on ends with a humorous French remark about serving oneself.
Notes from Yorkville report slow progress on Jennings prairie ditch work. Visits from Fayette county resident Mr Pleasant Hire. David Wright threshed 979 bushels of wheat. Mrs. Mary Ann Thomas visits Dakota. Rev. Marlin preached at Zion. villagers request his return. Obituaries: Grandmother Garee died August 13 1886 aged 84 years 2 months 26 days. funeral by Rev. Holland. Rebecca Burnett died August 15 1886 aged 58. funeral by Rev. Marlin. leaves three children.
A local correspondent reports on Tally township farming, noting threshing, good corn, and grain yields. Mentions a scribe from Blue Creek, a 40 acre purchase, and church connections while inviting regular updates from readers.
The Grand Union Hotel near Grand Central Depot offers stylish rooms fitted at one million dollars total, priced from 31.00 daily under a European plan. Elevator access, restaurant, and horse cars plus elevated rail service connect to all depots, inviting families to live better for less than at other first class hotels.
Colonial era advertisement letters claim Blood and Liver Remedy and Nerve Tonic restore health for biliousness nervousness dyspepsia constipation and liver stomach and bowel regulation. Endorsed by C A Tracy Wa H Sterner J M Phelps and J W Farwell & Co with sale through L F Gackenheimer Van Wert Ohio dated Feb 13 1885.
Dyspepsia and liver and kidney troubles improved after using Burdock Blood Bitters, with a testimonial from Joseph Landon of Chester Vermont. He and his wife report rapid relief and renewed ability to work, thanking the makers.
Fragmented notice reports a sale of Synvita Blackberry Blocks by a person identified as Anna aged six on April 8 1986. Details are unclear due to garbled text. The legible portion mentions satisfaction and a note attributed to WELLER.
The Executive Committee announces the Van Wert County Institute to be held in Van Wert starting Monday August 23 and continuing through the week. Instructors include Prof J W Knott from Tiffin City Schools and Prof D R Boyd from Van Wert Schools.
Property listing for 40 acres near Gilberts Mills a mile north of the Van Wert county line offered for sale or exchange in Van Wert. Seller accepts a team of horses as partial payment. Jones and Wizaon.
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