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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1880
Page
3
A son of Mr. Clinton Arnold five miles southwest of town broke a shoulder joint bone trying to handle an unruly colt. Dr. D L Corbin dressed the wound and the boy is now doing well.
Miss Rose is prepared to teach piano organ elementary harmony and sight reading. Her musical abilities are highly praised by competent critics and she deserves encouragement as a first class artist.
The First Van Wert Building Loan and Saving Association has stopped receiving dues as assets can retire all stock. This nine year five month old institution ends, a relief to many indebted during better times.
Saltzgaber and Glenn place a post office card and a bulletin board at the stair entrance to their real estate office. The boards describe numerous land tracts with special bargains offered by the firm.
After a ten month absence, Dr J W Underhill resumes medical practice in Gilli land. He will be at the Courthouse office from 9 am to 4 pm with residence at 29 North Walnut street. Also noted is Henry Billman’s severe hand injury from a circular saw and medical care by Dr H C McGavren.
A Sunday morning blaze from straw storage in the unoccupied Van Wert House Livery Stable spread to nearby stables and a hotel. Fire engines and volunteer efforts saved much of the town center, though the stable was destroyed and the hotel suffered fire and water damage.
Miss Ela Kershall of Middlepoint visits Jennie Ketchall. Joe McKim recovers from recent injuries and can ride out. Dora Cook returns from Fort Wayne M E College. Susie Wappner and Imma Troll of Mansfield visit relatives. J Ketchum and Alta visit Illinois. Capt. Neff of Cleveland visits to arrange hotel repairs and check insurance. Wallis of Dayton insures and adjusts Cole loss from Saturday fire. S F Stambaugh of Buckeye Insurance adjusts Van Wert House fire loss. Thompson of Ixno Mutual Insurance assists Neft fire appraisal.
Farmers urged to bring produce to A W Seoutta at 43 West Main Street Cols for sale or distribution. Local editor notes this is a public notice to suppliers and shoppers wondering about available market access.
A printer guidance urging omission of weather on both paper sides and mundane details. It warns to avoid puff pieces, unpleasant personalities, and unverified items. Emphasizes concise factual reporting and silence on contested or incendiary matters to prevent discord.
In a San Francisco setting a bashful man recounts a sunlit misadventure when heat and surf left him clothed only in a chest protector. Guests react with shock and a pianist interrupts as the crowd disperses amid laughter and fainting.
A Wisconsin man endured rheumatism for 24 years before using St. Jacobs Oil. After a few bottles, he reports being entirely well again, joining more than a dozen others who benefited from the remedy per W Reinhardt of Elmore.
From our Correspondent harvesting will be completed this week if the weather stays favorable. Rummel has purchased a new separator named the Minnesota Chief. Zion Sabbath School held a picnic in the grove near the church on July 4. All are invited. The corn in this vicinity looks splendid and promises a large yield. Miss Neath, Mrs. Mumma and Clark Wolfeak are on the quinine list. Allen Pancake's tile mill is running full blast turning out No 1 tile.
From our Own Correspondent the weather is pleasant and wheat cutting is finished. Miss Lillie Faurote has recovered from sickness. Miss Maggie Hughes, teacher in District No. 5, has closed her school until after harvest. Many locals plan an excursion to Bluffton, Indiana next Saturday to celebrate the nation’s day with festive activities.
Roads are muddy and weather hindered harvest but farmers progress with wheat mostly cut. Wages ranged from $1.50 to $3. Donart owns a March Harvester and Fred Shinner runs a self binder. Charley Vance leads Wiltshire tobacco and drug trade. The old water mill is a fire risk with close calls. S. Brock debuts with clean image. Dr. J. F. Shaffner completed township census enumeration. Frank Barber plans to join string music. I. L. Keopple builds a brick business block, first in Wiltshire. Some praise Cincinnati Convention. some oppose and shift to Sam Tilden. Masons held an entertainment.
A Liberty Township item praises the Liberty Center Grange Society and a Van Wert Wilshire Shanesville picnic with music from Van Wert and Wiltshire bands. It also recounts the Narragansett and Stonington collision in Long Island Sound, highlighting how calm passengers used floating items to survive and noting most fatalities stemmed from panic and hasty jumps.
A Baltimore boy, famed for past mischief with tomato cans and a cat duo, executes a new caper. He uses a penny to buy licorice, ties a ball cord to his mangy dog, and, with a quick dog chase, reels in the cord to steal the licorice and treks home with his harvest, possibly while flying a kite.
Physicians freely prescribe malt bitters as a nourishing strengthening and purifying remedy surpassing other malt medicines and liquors. They report fewer objections to malt liquors while praising its enhanced health benefits and usefulness.
The Plantyn arriving from Antwerp reports huge icebergs crowding the route and nearly forcing a halt to engines. Captain Falk maneuvers past the deadly float, with bergs up to 400 feet high towering near the vessel. No damage occurred.
A hut family endures hardship in a vacant lot near quarry ruins. The narrator recalls abuse from father and mother as he contemplates stealing to survive. A mild man with a holy book offers solace, leading him to a quarry where scripture brings peace and hope for a brighter, fairer world above.
A spirited Albany Journal poem lauds Jim Garfield as "at the front" in the Civil War and in politics. It ties his leadership to Lincoln Grant and Hayes, calls him cabinet maker and includes multiple refrains praising his front line role and patriotic rallying cry.
Anecdotes recall the arrival of a woman at a California mining camp in rough pioneer days. A daughter followed her husband with an infant and flour, and miners held a meeting to honor the family, granting them choice of a town block despite existing buildings.
At Pittsburg Landing a quick armed grab of flour occurred as a soldier in an infantry overcoat seized a barrel and walked off. Colonel Morton offered a supply return for signature. The man claimed to be Brigadier General Garfield of Ohio and demanded no receipt.
A Cincinnati Commercial writer extols the skunk praising its role as a vermin exterminator for crops and its potential to earn public favor despite odor, comparing it to country boarding houses and suggesting it may become a valued pet like a dog. The piece argues justice arrives late but arrives.
A Berkshire Bulletin correspondent advises pig keepers not to feed young pigs only strong grains. Provide milk with bran and shorts and roots or vegetables. If corn meal is used, mix sparingly until four months old, then increase grain while ensuring a generous mixed diet to prevent sickness and ensure fertility.
Electric Bitters quicken a general revolution in the medicine trade. They remove general debility biliousness loss of appetite and all bilious climate disorders. Fifty cents per bottle, guaranteed to satisfy or money refunded. For sale by Hill and Wilson's.
An advertisement claims kidney diseases are preventable and curable with Prof. Guilmette's French Kidney Pad. It notes wide praise from exchanges and predicts it may replace other treatments, with sales through L. F. Gackenheimer.
J G Starkey of Iowa City testifies after years of dissia and liver complaint that Shiloh’s Vitalizer, advertised in The Best I Ever Knew, entirely cured him. Sold by L F Gackenheimer at 75 cents.
Advertises West's Cough Syrup offering to forfeit $1000 for any cough cold or lung ailment cured by its use if directions followed. Sample bottles 25 and 50 cents, large bottles $1. Genu ine blue wrappers. Sold by Hill & Wilson or by express from Chicago issuer John C West Co. April 9, 1880.
Five hundred thousand bottles of Shilohs Cure sold and over two thousand consumption cures reported. It claims to stop coughs croup asthma and bronchitis at once and urges use for cough or croup to save life. Also promotes Shilohs Porous Plaster for lame back side or chest sold by doctors.
The article narrates the origin of the term dark horse from Sam Flynn and his coal black flyer Dusky Pete who won a race after appearing unlikely, then shifts to a June bug incident at a church, a Philadelphia to Jersey City train record, an international pigeon match plan, a college diploma anecdote, and a college student’s question about locomotive steering.
The loafers plot a feigned hunger scam on Montcalm Street from Woodward Avenue. The setup collapses when a six foot husband exits a house and strikes, injuring one tramp and ejecting both. The pair depart, battered and separated.
In Washington the Treasury says Senator Withers of Virginia saved about a million dollars by opposing the House resolution enforcing the eight hour law. The measure would have boosted costs for newly built public buildings and navy yard works by at least twenty percent.
A Lexington Kentucky census enumerator reports that among the first 110 families visited at least 200 children of proper age had not attended any school in the past year.
In a letter Blondin states plans to revisit America after European engagements and cross Niagara Falls at a height of 100 feet above the cataract, about 250 feet above the river bed, confident in overcoming the dangers. Other items note a granite wedge found underground near Atlanta, a mallet linked to St. Paul’s foundation, and varied curiosities from a sharp-edged era.
Notice announces a new partnership name for Wm Smith & Son and requests all debts to be settled in cash or note. Also mentions Mrs R Conn expanding millinery stock and Gilliland's delivering flour and feed at competitive prices. In California cattle and sheep counts are cited. The notice is dated June 1 1880 and signed by M Smith.
GEO Hi MARSH outlines paid pricing for White Ash Stave at 83.25 per Cord, Bolts 32 inches long with wide sap, and Elm style split. Heading Bolts use narrow sap and brush timber. Neading Bolts from Black Ash Maple Sycamore Linn Cottonwood at 37 inches. Heading Blocks sawed 23 inches from Burr Sweet or White Oak at fourteen cents per block.
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