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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1889
Page
8
Pay Mert Bealletin adds to a growing town, new houses under way, mills running full, and merchants busy. Scott precincts now vote in the Mayor's office. the community welcomes new buildings, river of visitors, and ongoing improvements as residents report strong trade and activity.
Local notes report a pipeline link between Van Wert and Mercer field, a ditching near Tomlinson M E church, and a three week school vacation. W L Jackson moves a schoolhouse for George Griffin. Miss Lizzie Morgan of Venedocia visits Enterprise. R T Bevington returns from Middlepoint. R T Edwards suffers typhoid fever. Mrs Morgan and relatives from Chicago visit D J Edwards family.
Hurrah for Baxter signals strong support amid late rains that helped farmers husk corn. Democrats grow uneasy while Republicans expect a large township gain this fall. Camp Ferris 380 meets twice monthly with steady enlistment and local club officers named. Neer finishes fall school term and plans winter term. Lutheran church dedication set for November 17. Edwards ends fall term with two week break before winter term.
An advertisement compilation touts Castoria with lines about childhood use and claims it cures catarrh asthma sore throat bronchitis and consumption. It promotes Lane's Family Medicine free trials and a spurious liniment for horses. Sold by L F Gackenheimer and Hines and Son in Van Wert Ohio.
The ad claims ZoaPhora offers painless development for girls and lasting relief for women, preventing prolapse and sleeplessness and curing palpitation and nervous breakdown. It promises safe change of life and a healthy old age, urging readers to contact the Zoa-Phora Medicine Co. in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
30,000 have been sold in three years. Mrs Mary E. Beale appointed local agent to teach the Champion Fitter system for cut and fit. Van Wert dressmakers endorse the method as profitable and valuable, with Myrtle Graves, Carrie Hoyt, Jennie Burns and others signing the notice.
The town sees visitors from Lima and Allen and Paulding counties while teachers John Wolfe and John Cotton take posts in Centerville and district nine. Oil wells near T M Berry and Elijah Arnould farms are noted as gassers. Gas lighting may come to Olive M. E. Church. Prohibition and temperance appeal to voters as a law to close Ohio saloons is urged.
An old medical patent remedy touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a trusted teething aid from a leading nurse and physician. It claims to relieve pain and cure dysentery and diarrhoea and wind in the bowels, listing a 25 cent price per bottle.
P Strotber and Brother advertise J J Case Plow Works steel and combination plows Jay Eye See two wheeled sulky plow Little Giant three wheeled plow Albion spring footh harrow Clark s cutaway harrow and all steel reversible harrow Engines boilers saw mill threshing machines Halliday sectional and U S solid wheel wind pumps Wagons buggies road carts and farm mill supplies Repairs promptly attended to.
James Mosier and wife visit a boy. Perry Harvey heads to Colorado and claims a five year absence. Minnie Coil and Harvey stay with aunt Mary Sands. Ed Sours dodges a near miss Sunday night. Blanche Severns visits Mercer county to see a sick aunt. John Shaw trip to Michigan to see Ephriam. Lincoln Sand buys ponies from Mrs. E DeCamp last week. Mrs. Wagner returns from Franklin county. Addie Anderson visits sister Lizzie Grove. Henry Fair hosts singing Sunday. Grove district school starts Monday with Crate Leathers as teacher. Republicans hope for victory with a strong ticket and urging unity.
Miss Emma Ireland spent Sunday at Lima. Lew Snellingbarger started for Michigan. William Ireland of Lima was in the vicinity last Thursday. G. W. Bope of Van Wert was in the area on business. Oscar Blair of Bluffton visited N. A. Posey Sunday. Owen Hughes returned home from Nebraska. Elmer E. Thompson visited relatives in Antwerp Paulding county last week. Young Lybarger of Ridge township was here last Sunday. James Williams spent last Sunday with relatives in Van Wert. Miss Libbie Tipple visited relatives in Venedocia Thursday.
Isaac H of Wartsboro New York describes severe eczema covering his body with hair loss and raw sores. After trying doctors and hospitals he used Cuticura Remedies and three bottles of Cuticura Resolvent plus Soap and were cured at about six dollars. He endorses the products as essential for skin and blood conditions.
Owner offers fifty acres near the Van Wert court house with pasture water and a good house, stable, and sheds for twenty cattle. Sixteen grade Jersey cows with four heifers, most in milk or to calve, plus a fine bull. Herd offered as a single sale to dairy-minded buyers. farm rental available for one to five years on cash terms. Grand opportunity for profitable dairy business.
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