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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1890
Page
5
In the heat the retailer touts special low prices to clear out men’s and boys’ clothing. The stock includes suits, pants, summer coats and vests, shirts, and undergarments with the promise of the largest selection and lowest prices while preparing for incoming fall stock.
The paper announces a three month trial offer at 25 cents for new readers running to after the November election. Subscribers in clubs may receive five Weerkly Ballerin copies for three months for one dollar cash in advance. Includes birth notice for Mr and Mrs J M Wilkinson. A car-load of live poultry was shipped east by Van Wert dealers. Mrs O J Comer fell Wednesday and was injured sufficient to keep her in her room.
The ladies of the English Lutheran church will serve lunch and ice cream during the fair. A freak of nature. W Webster Sr owns a hybrid pear tree in bloom, the bloom blamed on a drought. Body Found. August Ruess, drowned at Manitou Beach August 5, was found by boaters Monday. Water well No 8 expected to finish tomorrow and promises a near inexhaustible supply.
Engine No 20 of the Mackinaw, repaired in the Marshall shops, runs south on its first trip with engineer Richards at the throttle, marking a return to service after extensive repairs.
Van Wert’s first baseball team beat the second nine 20 to 5 on Wednesday. The second nine played well but against the stronger team could not prevail. A bit more practice might benefit both squads.
Ellis was convicted by Mayor Balye on circumstantial evidence for posing as an advance agent of the Sells Bros. show and obtaining money from W. Fronefield. He received a forty dollar fine plus costs and thirty days at the Toledo workhouse, with observers noting his likely guilt and urging reform.
George Miller, jailed on a charge of shooting a colored woman in Liberty township, once dodged a Darke County mug shot with moustache dye, tried to poison himself, and now stirs quarrel among inmates while hurling vile language at visitors. His behavior suggests unstable moments but appears driven by stubbornly malicious motives.
Last week two women canvassers sold indelible oil paints, patterns, and instruction for one dollar with a cloth or china painting lesson. They offered a full outfit after the lesson and many ladies paid up to seven dollars. Post visit, locals found paints and brushes cheaper at home dealers, and some losses are blamed on the canvassers.
A young man from Toledo was struck by a switch engine on the O H and D track at Lima on Wednesday and died soon after from his injuries.
The article praises this year’s county fair with rising stock quality, especially Van Wert County stock in horses, cattle, hogs and sheep. Demand for stalls exceeds capacity as exhibitors bring in outsiders. Groundwork and improvements proceed two weeks before opening. public support urged. Also notes Sells Bros. Barrett show success, operations, and strict management. a Toledo workhouse inmate update. and a Convoy Lutheran mass meeting August 24 with speakers from Wittenberg College.
A severe wind storm yesterday morning around five o'clock caused widespread damage in the county. It uprooted fences and blew roofs from barns, snapped trees, and left corn fields rolled and disfigured. North of town houses and barns were shifted or damaged. Enterprise escaped harm while the eastern area suffered heavily. The city reported no storm, and fair preparations were announced with the Bulletin planning tent space and headquarters on the fair grounds. A letter from Mr. Comer of Van Wert, Ohio, granted space for Bulletin operations during the September fair.
In Van Wert the workingmen push for new shops and factories to provide year round employment. They note long winter unemployment limits savings for old age and rainy days, predicting broader benefits for all trades and local merchants once manufactories operate twelve months.
Announcement by Mrs R Dettmer that she has moved her millinery stock to the room over G M Hall's dry goods store to dispose of it at figures well below cost as she intends to quit the business. Call and see me. Failed to Nominate Farmers' convention at Lima on Saturday aimed to nominate a congressional candidate. Delegates from district counties elected Roebuck chair and Lybold secretary. Price wanted endorsement but failed. Convention adjourned without a nomination or action.
C L Ireland, Pittsburg road agent at Middlepoint, swore out a warrant against Lucinda Oglesbee for assault with intent to kill after she allegedly fired at him Thursday night and again in the depot. Oglesbee, known as Ida Russel, was arrested and released on recognizance with a Monday trial set in the local mayor’s court.
Wednesday night Rev. W H Lilly tendered his resignation as pastor of St Mark's Lutheran Church effective September 1. He will assume the role of superintendent of the Van Wert schools and leaves behind a record of earnest service and church growth.
Mrs. Oglesbee, a Middlepoint resident, appeared before Mayor Balye after being arrested for the assault on L. Ireland. Her trial was scheduled for next Monday at 1 PM. Bond set at $400, paid in full.
The Delphos Courant notes grain and wool traders in Van Wert pay more for wheat rye corn oats and clover seed than local farmers receive in Delphos. It cites T S Gilliland paying 4 cents for wheat 36 cents for oats 52 cents for corn and 5.00 a bushel for new clover seed, while Delphos prices lag. It urges local growers to seek first class home markets and highlights muslin prices from Seelberg & Co.
A Presbyterian social and picnic at the residence of Mr. James Webster on Wednesday drew a large crowd. The Presbyterian ladies organized an elegant lunch and many attendees enjoyed the event.
A woman was jailed Wednesday night on a drunk and disorderly charge and the next morning fined five dollars plus costs.
A stream of visitors and movers winds through Lima, Ottawa, Defiance, and nearby towns as residents and guests travel to Cincinnati, Mackinac, Toledo, Fort Wayne, and Chicago. Names include Engleright Hoffer Tudor Davis Wappner Marble Bouton Dillie Chambers Hibbard Tuttle Noll Lance Longsworth Libenthal Brown Basque Brown Purmott Conn Allison Price Crooks Austin Williams Williamson Higgins Parmenter Klotz Bowser Kamfp Barnard Humphreys Evans Campbell and others.
Saturday L H Wise paid out over 500 dollars for railroad ties hauled to Van Wert by farmers from Mercer county nineteen miles away. It was the biggest tie day in more than ten years, with all ties hauled by horses. The City Band joined locals traveling to the Ohio City band contest, likely securing a prize. The Washington township ditch case in Probate court concluded after three days with the advocates successful and over thirty witnesses examined.
A requisition for materials to build the Mackinaw depot is approved with completion expected this year. The two story frame structure will house waiting rooms offices and lunch room downstairs and superintendent engineer and dispatcher offices upstairs. The project costs about 5000 dollars and the site is the present summer kitchen. The complex will feature a well patronized lunch room likely run by W H Grapes of Hotel Marsh.
The Democratic convention to nominate a State Equalization Board member for the district covering Van Wert Allen Auglaize Paulding Mercer Williams and Defiance counties will meet in this city on Tuesday September 9. Van Wert county is expected to have a candidate before the convention. SHAKER SOAP the best absolutely pure.
Capt J M Burns of the regular army inspected Company D and others of the Second Regiment O N G and reported all aspects including discipline instructions appearance arms equipment and clothing as good. In Valparaiso Rolo Browder, oldest son of Mr and Mrs J O Browder, rode his grandfathers cow and was thrown, suffering a compound fracture of the left forearm requiring Dr Loring’s care.
G W Sidle enlarges his dining hall at the fair grounds and intends to feed all attendees. He requests visitors to leave their baskets at home when they come to the fair.
The new Methodist Church at Shanes Crossing will be dedicated on Sunday August 31. The dedicatory sermon will be preached by Gen. W. H. Gibson at 10 30 o clock.
Coming events list the W I T U meeting in the M E church lecture room Saturday at 1 p m and the Daughters of Rebekah regular meeting Friday evening August 22 at 7 o clock. Important business will be transacted and all members are urged to attend promptly.
The Baptist Ladies Mite Society hosts a dime social at H. J. McLanglin on South Street Friday evening August 20 with free ice cream and cake. Proceeds aid seating debts. Hoaglin Grange Hall hosts an ice cream festival Tuesday evening August 24 to raise funds for carpeting the hall.
The St Marys chapel of the third presid ing elder's district of the Ohio econference A M E church will hold a camp meeting starting August 22 for ten days at Moser's beautiful grove a quarter mile east of Wren Station in Willahire township Pastor Rev J W Stewant leads. The W C T A of Convoy meets Monday evening August 25 at the M E church. All are invited.
L F Gackenheimer announces a savings inducement running from August 16 to October 18, 1890. With every 25 cent purchase customers receive a ticket for a chance to win a Cuban or Isla Parrot and cage. Exhibition at Ohio Drug Store. prices guaranteed. act now to enter.
The fair schedule includes a balloon ascent and parachute drop on Wednesday September 3, to be performed by a famed flyer from Delphos rather than Prof Kulp, with a price under Kulp by fifty five dollars. Report notes crowd interest and past successes, plus local booster notes and related town crime and business items.
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