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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1886
Page
5
Readable line items show cracked wheat rolled wheat oat meal coconut soap washing powder buckets flour tubs washboards meal and a variety of syrups including maple sorghum and golden drip plus pure maple sugar and related containers. The list reads like a shop inventory or market notice with multiple pantry items and household supplies.
On Monday July 5 the post office will open 7 to 10 am and 5 to 6 pm. The Eagle Stave Company pays top timber prices and lists rate per cord for elm stave bolts basswood cottonwood and white ash. Licensed marriages are Warren N. Morrison with Fannie Wisher Willard Miller with Cora B Hitchcock and Willis W. Riley with Bell Van Gundy. Local ads urge Model Shoe Store close prices fireworks at Book Store and good bargains in white goods embroideries and laces. A boy injured by a gunshot fragment and a man cutting a finger with a sickle bar are noted along with various shop listings and parasol sales.
Council met Friday with all members present save Welsh. Minutes approved, street lamp request referred to committee, bills ordinance read and passed, new ordinance on street selling read first time. Mayor to publish notice trimming shade trees. Adjourned to Friday July 2. News notes include theft of a cow near Defiance and a horse from Trimble. suspect Utsey, 69, previously jailed, now under arrest after追 track by M Files and others.
Moebus offers complete line of Foreign and Domestic Fruits at half price. Also a Shaker Flannel sale at 844 cents a yard, with notes that these goods never sold below 15 cents per yard and are among the best bargains offered.
A diagram of Van Wert oil and gas well No 1 shows Niagara Limestone 375 feet, Niagara Shale 22 feet, with credit to Dr Corbin for the geological analysis. Also notes on new Republican Central Committeemen across townships and wards, a Ridge Township burglary, and local notices about shoe store ads, shoe bargains, sorghum price, tree trimming ordinance, and a July 1886 drill meeting for Western Reserve Cream Cheese Company.
The M. E. social will be held next Wednesday evening at Mr K Pearson's residence. The Lutheran Mite Society meets next Wednesday afternoon with Miss Sallie Davis on Kepler street. bring thimbles and needles. The Missionary Society of the English Lutheran Church meets Tuesday afternoon July 6 with Mrs Jacob Fenter on West Main street. Sunday school 9 am. Morning service 10 30 with a Fourth of July sermon. Evening service 7 45. Everyone invited.
Zion Baptist Sunday School Union announces a supper at Collett and Hornley’s hall East Main Street on July 7 1886 for the Union’s benefit. John W Jackson Superintendent J T Guy Secretary services July 4 include 10 50 am anniversary sermon Independence Day 12 noon Sunday School 745 pm lecture Judas Iscariot birth and death notes invitation extended A M E Church July events include baptizing at 1140 am Lord’s supper 3 pm festival jug breaking July 15 at Grand Opera House contestants named Eliza Hughes Fannie Johnson Minnie Hughes Libbie Brown and a rival from Paulding invited to attend N M Mrrewett Pastor.
A string of visits and social calls are recorded from Rome City to Van Wert, Celina, and surrounding towns. Notables include Master Billie Cole visiting in Rome City, Rev F M Porch aiding in Venedocia, and Prof D A Clippinger considering Missouri move. Also listed are travels to Brunswick Georgia and Lake Chautauqua for associations and business trips.
Attention Knights of Pythias Van Wert Lodge No 130 holds regular meeting Friday evening July 2 1546 to install newly elected officers full attendance requested. C L McFappen K of R & S. Sunday School Convention set at Grove Lutheran Church Ridge township July 3 4 with township officers elected Saturday evening and talks by C L Wallis. county president to announce Sabbath program. Good speakers expected.
A notice invites residents to town next Monday to witness fireworks and events. It notes new names joining the Battery list weekly and reports changes to a Pennsylvania company time card. The Presbyterian group eyes a Rome City excursion.
No. 1 Moss Mackerel discovered eight feet deep near a stump on Frisbie's commons, in the southeast town, prompting mystery opinions. Night work implies treasure hunting. Deputy Shoemaker says a buggy captured from confidence men by the Pritchard boys came from Spencerville with another horse and buggy near Enterprise. Liverymen garnisheed $60 and other property for their bills.
Charles Denman of Ridge township died suddenly of heart disease while at home Monday evening. Funeral held at Middlepoint yesterday conducted by Rev L M McCreery with Rev Corbet assisting. he was regarded as a valued county citizen. An obituary will appear next week. Also notes about Slade's syrup and Young America cheese. United Order of Honor officers elected for the next term are asked to attend the July 12 installation with list of officers.
The text notes Miss Luella Kear receives four hundred ninety seven words and Mrs W H Snyder four hundred ninety one words not counting proper names. The oil painting goes to Miss Kear and a set of A P McConahay silver spoons to Mrs Snyder. Other lists received with fewer words may be returned on request. A P McConaway Jeweler promotes Fair Dealing Word Hunt.
Conn Co advertises July Fourth items including watermelons ripe fruit and groceries. Slade's offers glass can sealing wax dishes and table cutlery. Fireworks urged to secure early while stock lasts at the Book store.
I bought the Furniture Business of J. F. Boehm & Co and will continue at the old stand selling goods cheaper due to cash-only purchases. R J Cavett invites contact. Also a notice warns against harboring Eva M Wooderson, who has left Francis A Woodrsson’s home, with a declaration to pay no bills for her. July 2 1886. Flags at the book store. Delphos Woolen Mills offers highest cash or exchange prices for flags.
The Prohibition party of Van Wert county Ohio plans a masa convention at Gililland's Opera House in Van Wert on Saturday August 7 1586 at 10 oclock a m. A full county ticket will be nominated for November elections. By order of County Centre Committee. A N Krout Chair Levi Fawcett F M Porch Sec Morgan A Morgan T J Jones Treas James E Thomas Wm Meada J W Clendening Horace Kohn E P Weagley Rufus Duprey James Fife A A Giffin D M Faber George Wirt Wim Wittig Caleb Hill S B Austin J M Jones W H Bobbitt J A Bower
The Republican County Convention is to decide the nominations. Announcements name 8. W. Converse of Jennings township as county commissioner and C. F. Manship of Washington township as clerk of the court. Friends support Manship and voters are asked to consider both names.
Lima forgery convict seeds, two years in penitentiary. Ottawa justice of the peace embezzled three thousand dollars and fled. Town celebrations set for Middlepoint Venedocia Wiltshire Convoy to meet in Van Wert. Clymer well shows promise as a producer. Garretson of Lima went insane and was sent to an asylum. Defiance soldiers monument misnames officers and directors. Political investors eye Van Wert or Clymer for a new Democratic paper. Oil well in Celina yields slim results and likely abandonment. Van Wert Times sale rumors cited with Foster and Kohn as organizers. Clymer’s retirement noted in praise from Delphos paper.
Letters from readers describe Evangelical Association’s 1883 decision to observe Children’s Day on the last Sunday in June. At Van Wert mission and Indiana Conference sites, churches were festively decorated with crosses anchors and evergreens. Collections for missionary society and local workers totaled 12.43, with separate sums from Zion Honglin township St. Peter Liberty township and Van Wert. The piece praises helpers and notes performances and declamations.
Rhoda F. Coones 22, of Caro Michigan formerly Deniston of Middle Point Ohio, died June 15 1886 in Delphos Ohio after a illness of consumption. She leaves a husband and one child. Burial was in Caro.
Market listings show wheat at 5 071, corn 30 32 per bushel, live hogs about 350, dressed 4 5, butter 6 10, eggs 9, chickens and turkeys listed with prices, geese ducks and spring chickens also noted, with rag and wool wash offerings.
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