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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1880
Page
3
The Western Female Seminary at Oxford Ohio will open for pupils September 1. An advertisement provides further details. The Mite Society will meet at Mrs Isaiah Jones's residence next Wednesday afternoon with full attendance requested. Train schedules on the P Ft W & C Railway have been changed. readers should consult the corrected time card in today’s paper.
Persons seeking a serviceable wagon should visit the Clark Bouton hardware store to see the Dunkirk Wagon. The advertisement claims this wagon offers advantages that set it above all others.
To Cox tractors. Attention is called to the advertisement of the Trustees of the Pleasant Township Division of the Van Wert Paulding Michigan Railway for sealed bids for furnishing ties grading on the line of the road.
Last Wednesday the M. EK. Mite Society ladies and many friends gathered at the Van Wert HI House to assist Mrs. Cole in rearranging for a public reopening. The effort is commendable and supports the house’s community role.
The Communion of the Lord's Supper will be administered at St. Mark's Lutheran Church Sunday morning at the usual service hour. Preparatory services are held Friday evening. The Episcopal service at the Lutheran Church is postponed to Friday evening July 16.
Moonlight excursion over the Narrow Gauge trail on the 14th to Wert's Grove for the M E Sabbath School picnic. A band will accompany riders and efforts aim to make it a pleasing season event. Our Columbus team of marksmen scored well at Columbus earning three prizes. Members listed include J W Hetrick H Potterger D M Borland John Rison F Heigley C Collier R Allingham A Jones R Craig and Jas Grandstaff.
The Friends will hold a camp meeting at the Fair Grounds in Lima from the 17th to the 25th. Warm meals and luncheon will be served on the grounds. Ministers include Miss Savilla Kring of Canton Mrs. Frankie Pier Con voy E M and B K Jones Van Wert W W Watts Delphos and Rev Trolliver of Lima assisting.
Last Monday night burglars forced entry to the Shoop saddle and harness shop on Main Street by prying a side window. They stole about nine dollars hidden in a desk, likely taken by someone familiar with the premises.
A twelve year old son of Mr. P. Miller was badly injured at Longsworth's handle factory on Tuesday. He was caught in a saw, losing his left hand and having his fingers and thumb torn. Amputation above the wrist was required. Doctors Ada Reid and W N Longsworth performed the operation. he is reported to be recovering. Lunch tables will be set for Sabbath School picnic attendees.
A incident from Independence Anniversary celebrations reveals a boy Vernie Lynch was shot in the thigh by a 22 caliber ball from a toy pistol. The ball remained embedded, the wound painful but not dangerous, serving as a warning to parents and youths who buy toy pistols.
In Logan county Ohio a man named Wil Kump entered J Cassell & Son's gun store during business hours pretended to buy a revolver. After being shown how it could shoot Kump asked to be loaded again and pointed the weapon at his heart. A bystander George Wise tackled the gun while Lee Cassell hid. Kump was jailed and his brother fetched him home Ada Ohio. A separate incident reports a youth, J E Montgomery, injuring his thumb in Mercer county while handling a gun and requiring amputation.
Sprinkler used 390 barrels of water on Wednesday. Taxes due by the 20th. Local notes report rail workers returning home, poetry readings at a picnic, and a new pumping engine at the water works. English farming discusses hare and rabbit issues and lease rights, plus Garfield’s crisis rhetoric and Lincoln’s death aftermath. Harvest updates, town moves, and community events fill the week’s pages.
Miss Mary Hornley visits Convoy and Mrs Dr Stutsman visits Dayton. Mr Sanford Purmort returns from St. Louis while Brian Snow visits town. Princess Clark attends music school in Ft Wayne and Annie Evers is elected teacher in Union School. Colonel I N Alexander gave a Fourth of July oration at Antwerp. KE Thomas 1579 principal at our High School visited en route from Quincy Ill. Dayton Frank returns to Ft Wayne to finish studies and pursue garment cutting at Iskee West Institute. J A Sweveland reports Republicans in Tipton and Howard counties well organized.
No family can remain long in ill health where they use Electric Bitters. They are a reliable family medicine saving hundreds daily and reducing the need for pills. For sale by Hini & Wilson's at fifty cents per bottle. An excursion to the M. E. Sabbath School picnic runs Wednesday the 14th on the Narrow Gauge Railway to the grove at the road’s southern terminus.
O. P. Clark & Son announce a demonstration of the Eagle grain drill inviting farmers to inspect the new implement and assess its features and potential advantages for field work.
To Lumbermen we offer 160 acres of timbered land within four miles of Van Wert. The tract is priced so that the timber alone can cover the purchase cost. Sale handled by Saltzgaber and Glenn.
Buckien's Arnica Salve advertised as the best salve for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands and all skin eruptions. Guaranteed satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents. For sale by Hitt and Wilson Van Wert Ohio.
To first class farmers in sums to suit from one to five years. No commissions or agents fees. No charge for drawing and recording mortgage. Don't mortgage your farm to Eastern capitalists and pay large commissions for the privilege. Use home funds.
The Eagle Stave Company offers 83.25 per cord for White Ash Stave Bolts 32 inches long from wide sap timber split like Elm bolts. They seek White Ash Heading Bolts 32 or 37 inches long and advise placing wide sap timber in Stave Bolts and narrow sap in Heading Bolts. Heading Bolts from Black Ash Maple Sycamore Linn and Cottonwood may be sawed 37 inches. They pay 0.14 per block for Burr Sweet or White Oak Heading Blocks sawed 23 inches. GEO. H. MARSH.
General Garfield replied to a young West Virginia boy asking for missionary money. He sent one dollar, praising the boy's handwriting and citing support for the missionary cause.
A Illinois girl testified that girls commonly show their love letters to fifteen or twenty peers to arouse jealousy, describing the customary practice in such relationships during the breach of promise case.
A Chinese Mason, buried with order and homeland rites in Virginia City Nevada, attracts attention as a loud brass band of Mongolians leads the hearse and a wagon bearing roast pig for the grave. Women in Chinese dress, stalls of celebratory items, and paper streamers mark the funeral procession amid festive displays.
An old saying on horseshoe luck is recalled as Dexter enjoys lifelong free boarding at Bonner's stable. A Nebraska man, failing to notice a tied horse, was captured by locals and hanged for luck, a grim reminder of superstition.
An eccentric resident of Elton Tennessee believed the nation desired him as president. Jokers sent a bogus telegram claiming nomination in Chicago and another from Cincinnati. He hosted a large dinner for town youth and delivered a grand acceptance speech.
A child turns the pages of a scrapbook and studies a famous photo of recently hatched chickens. With a serious gaze he concludes that they emerged because they feared being boiled.
The Cincinnati convention gave Wade Hampton of South Carolina strong applause, drawing criticism from some papers. The New York Graphic defends the remark by noting Hampton’s leg was once kicked by a mule and asks if the pain was less than a cannon ball, and whether the cannon ball would have removed it.
The column reports moves on a farmer Wim Heath building near Tomlinson Church and Dr J Jones teaching singing at Whitfield Church. It notes Dick Elliston switching engines on lines and thirteen car loads of freight last week. A Bluffton excursion party visits with Democratic leanings highlighted and a drunken accident as a bottle breaks.
Ilurrah for Garfield notes harvest finished and marriages occur. Mr Christ Sluffman wed Miss Lizzie Klein by L B Shaffer. Liberty Center Public School closes for summer. Weldy of Van Wert plans a writing school. Excursionists travel on the T D and B A R. Beldon seeks a grain merchant. A solo Fourth of July celebration ends with a toppled vehicle. Van Wert Agricultural Society head W N Morgan aims to add a fox chase at the upcoming fair.
A nostalgic verse celebrates grandpa’s barn as a summer hub of play. Swallows nest, redbins rustle, and children’s voices echo with school’s end. The poem recalls the cool, wide barn inviting summer sunshine and carefree days, whose memory grows with time.
A letter from Christatin Hannnti of Youngstown Ohio credits St Jacobs Oil with curing decades of neuralgia in his wife after weeks of use. He claims the remedy is more effective than doctors and urges others to try the product.
An old advertisement warns of child illness and urges prompt care. It markets SHILOHS CONSUMPTION CURE with prices 10 50 and 1 00, Shilohs Porous Plaster for back pain, and SHILOHS CATARRIL REMEDY with nasal injector, all sold by L. F. GACKENHEIMER.
In our community some suffer from Dispersia and Liver Complaint Indigestion Constipation and General Debility. SHILOH'S VI TALIZER is guaranteed to cure them and is sold by L. F. GACKENHEIMER.
Public health notice warns kidney diseases threaten both sexes and urges timely action. It touts Prof. Guilmette’s French Kidney Pads as the rapid cure, with druggists ready to stock or order them as requested. Bee reports the advertisement by L. F. Gackenheimer.
JOAN HAERTEL of Premont Indiana says years of rheumatic pains vanished after using St Jacobs Oil. Her legs were drawn, neighbors called her Crooked Heartel, now she feels well enough to dance as in youth.
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