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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1886
Page
5
Rolled Wheat, Oat Meal, Cracknells, Pretzels, California Fruit, Starch, Soaps, Washing Powder, Buckets, Tubs, Flour, Washboards, Meal, N. O. Molasses, Golden Drip Syrup, XXXX Syrup, Sorghum Syrup, Maple Syrup, Syrup in kegs and pails, Pure Maple Sugar, Rice, Hominy, Coffee, Dried Apples, Dried Peaches.
The Butterin proclaims volume twenty eight and a bonafide circulation of sixteen hundred copies. It notes strong support, a large county paper status, and a low annual price of $1.50 with a fully paid up subscriber list.
Mr. J. H. Johns placed an ice wagon on the streets last week, crafted to order by the Van Wert Carriage Company and displaying fine workmanship. Neighbors surprised Mrs. John McCoy at her Ridge township residence for her forty fifth birthday with about one hundred sixty attendees. Mr. W. M. Taggart reports clipping sixteen pounds of Merino wool from a three year old sheep this spring, inviting farmers to beat the record.
An editorial urges residents to remove filth from premises amid stinking pig pens and foul basements. It cites a basements visit in the business district, calls for health officer action, and notes the New Restaurant advertisement as a contrast.
Coming events list skating at the Pavilion Saturday evening with Hiestand's Band. Admission 16 cents, skates 10 cents, own skates 5 cents. Ye Great Concerto at Grand Opera House on Washington Street in Van Wert. Yeoman and women singers from the Methodist meeting house perform sacred and worldly tunes with skilled instruments on June 15 at 8 pm. Refreshments free during intermission.
City council met Friday with all members present approving minutes and a funds ordinance. A Wall Street improvement from north of Elliott to be pursued. several police and building posts named. deputy marshals elected. sidewalks to be constructed or repaired. and a pest grounds sale power reconsidered. Adjourned to June 11.
Church notices announce Children s Day observances at First M E and A M E churches with sermons on early training by N M Mitchell. The Fourth quarterly meeting is set for June 20 at First M E while the Baptist church resumes preaching next week after a two week lull due to the pastor s Dayton visit.
Local gossip reports unusually good crops and town happenings from Grand Opera House concerts to shoe shops. Notes include a child injured by a fish hook, a bank financial statement, Knights of Pythias officers elected, and mayoral troubles with chicken thieves and bottle row.
Detectives pursue a $10,000 express robbery with no success to date. Arnold's Tobacco Store offers over 50,000 pounds of plug and smoking tobacco at cost. News includes deaths of Elias Johns Jr. and a 15-year-old stepson, a funeral, a Goodwin death from consumption, and local business ads from J.B. Longsworth & Co.
We have a nice lot of buckwheat well cleaned for seed. For prices call at the People's Mills.
A long column lists visits and travels of locals and guests from Antwerp and nearby towns. Names include Mrs. M. Burdge in Shanes Crossing, Rev. J. F. Crooks, J. J. Snook, Samuel Wagner, Dr. J. Priest, S. W. Long, J. Y. Todd, James Redrup, W. S. Manville, F. M. Capper, Miss Tuttle, Rev. H. Kohn, T. J. Jones, Mrs. Howard Brown, M. W. Granger, M. J. Dye, H. Williams, O. Marlin, G. W. Standiford, C. L. Wallis, C. F. Manship, F. R. Converse, Frank Webster, Joe McKim, Wesley Ralston, Joseph Stuart. Also notes on local political activity, including pike debates and a county farmers meeting on road construction.
The Wiltshire Gazette resumes publication after an absence. Bro Detter states it is now substantially established and will be published henceforth and forevermore. Citizens are urged to support the paper to keep it alive and healthy in the future.
Since the last report Judge Dailey issued licenses to wed for Jacob Scaer and Lizzie C Miller John W Everett and Maggie Clingel Reuben Hinderliter and Emma Morehouse John Ford and Ida Cisco and Ellsworth Anson and Icy Phillips. One please do not publish.
Letters from the people praise the Hoaglin Grange Hall gathering as the county’s most enthusiastic and profitable in years. Farmers discussed production versus consumption, with remarks praising readers and thinkers and hospitality extending to a generous dinner.
More than 300 locals attended the Celina band reunion last Tuesday with 19 bands performing. The event drew a crowd too large for the venue and the Mackinaw carried about 2000 passengers as officers provided courteous service. Prof Hiestand's band and Wiltshire ladies band were highlighted favorites. a Van Wert baseball victory of 7 to 6 occurred during the day. Arnold sells plug tobacco at 20 and 25 cents per pound, and a list of letters waiting at Van Wert post office for the week ending June 9, 1886 is published. A Lima paper notes A C Rumble, son of ex-commissioner Rumble, has patented a railroad crossing and sold rights to the United States for $50,000.
At a singing school near Spencerville last Friday night two intoxicated country boys were denied entry. A fight erupted with knives drawn leaving both seriously wounded. one collapsed from blood loss and nearly died. Slades sold new white fish pickerel herring and mackerel.
William Sheets died in May 1886 at age forty three. A member of Convoy Grange No. 1583 P of H the group resolves to drape the charter for thirty days and spread the resolutions in minutes and to notify the family and local papers.
Market invoice lists live poultry and eggs with prices for chickens turkeys geese ducks and spring chickens. Also shows rag and volume figures among the offerings.
The text presents a boastful pitch for a light, efficient binder harvester. Claims include folding by one man in five minutes, passing an eleven foot gate, the lowest elevator and largest drive wheel, single-chain operation with no extra gears, lightweight reel, quick motion cutting apparatus, and a mix of malleable iron cast iron and wood in construction. It invites examination for appearance and performance and challenges rivals to test in grain.
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