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The Sharon Herald November 17, 1899
The following excerpts from the Friday, November 17, 1899 edition of The Sharon Herald (Vol. 36, No. 29), were reprinted in The Herald, Sharon, PA, in the Sunday, November 17, 1999 edition. Thanks to The Herald for allowing us to use this material and to Beverly Liston. The names of the people are highlighted. Any notes in [ ] are my own remarks and were not in the reprint of the paper.
THE
SHARON HERALD FRIDAY,
NOVEMBER 17, 1899 TELEPHONE
NO.8. BRIEFLY TOLD
The Erie railroad announces that its winter schedule will go into effect
on Sunday, November 26.
Margaret Roderick has sold a 60-acre farm
near Vienna, Trumbull county, to August Anderson,
of Youngstown,
The annual collection for the Home Mission Board will be taken at the
First Presbyterian church on Sunday morning. Burgess F. F Davis is building a five-room frame house on Brooklyn avenue, East Hill. John Cook & Son have the contract.
The heirs of the late Walter Pierce, of
Sharpsville, have received $20,000, the amount of a policy in the Equitable Life
Assurance Co., of New York.
Mrs. Agnes Borham has sold her house and lot
on Vine street to Max Rosenblum for $1500. The sale
was made through the real estate agency of J.A. Wright
E.J. Bleakley and Lee
Sterling go to Sharon to-morrow to assist in the construction of fifty
new houses to be erected by a manufacturing industry. - Franklin News.
The well-bred stallion Coitsville jr., has been sold by D.
McNabb, of Hickory township, to ex-Commissioner W.
H. Gilkey, of Shenango township. Price $497.50.
General Ballington Booth, commander-in-chief
of the Volunteers of America, will deliver a lecture in the Methodist church on
Friday evening next, the 24th inst. Admission free. Union Thanksgiving services will be held in the First Presbyterian church on Wednesday evening, the 29th inst. Rev, U.L. Mackey, pastor of the U.P. church, will deliver the sermon.
Stillings & Jones, the marble dealers,
have removed their shop from Sharpsville street to the room opposite
Stambaugh’s flouring mill, owned by the estate of the late James
Thompson. M.V. Hoagland has sued Wm. Howard in the Trumbull county courts to recover $256.27, alleged to be due on a contract for a farm in Brookfield township. He wants the land sold to pay his claim.
Frederick Miller, who attempted to commit
suicide last week by taking carbolic acid, has been discharged from Buhl
hospital. He claims that reports attacking his character caused him to commit
the act.
Sharon Circle, No. 1, P.H.C., will give an entertainment in P. H. C. Hall
on Monday evening. A fine program has been arranged for the entertainment, which
will be free to all members of the order and invited guests.
The Sharon Waterworks Company are contemplating a number of extensions to
their plant, with a view to supplying the outlying districts. Streets not
already supplied with water by the company will also be included.
Pauly & Son’s store, at Transfer, was
burned to the ground early Friday morning, together with the entire contents.
The loss is estimated to be between $6000 and $7000, on which an insurance of
$5000 is carried. A spark from a railroad engine is supposed to have started the
fire.
Suit has been entered in the Mercer county courts by Mrs.
Harvey Knee, of Shenango township, against the estate of the late I.
D. Cole, of this place, for the payment of a check of $5000, which
plaintiff alleges had been drawn in her favor by Mr. Cole. The case will come up
for trial at the December court
Kinsman was visited by a destructive fire on Tuesday, property to the value of
$8000 being destroyed as follows Park Hotel, of Frank
Haifner, loss $2000, insured Bates & Brackin's
store room, loss $2500, insurance $2000; Sicily Bros. stock of furniture, loss
$2500, insurance $1275; Kinsman Canning Company, stock $1000, insurance $800.
A barn and its contents on the in Pymatuning farm, near Brockway, belonging to Fred
Miller, of Youngstown, was burned to the ground last Thursday evening. It
contained about twelve tons of hay and one hundred and fifty bushels of corn in
the shock and about fifty bushels of unthreshed wheat. Fire is supposed to have
been started by an incendiary. The
election of a colonel to fill the vacancy occasioned by the expiration of the
commission of Col. Kreps was held at Greenville,
Tuesday evening. It was conducted by Col. E.V.D. Selden,
of Oil City, colonel of the 21st regiment, and resulted as follows: Colonel, W.
T. Mechling, of Butler; lieutenant colonel, F. C.
Baker, of Meadville; mayor A J. Davis, of
Clarion.
Daus Brothers will move into their new
quarters in the Farrelly block, corner of west State and north Water streets, on
Monday. The room has been handsomely furnished, a large portion of the fixtures
being from the noted barber supply house of T. J. Collins
& Co., Toledo, Ohio, and presents a cosy appearance. The Messrs.
Daus take pleasure in showing their friends through their up-to-date
shop.
A big hunt took place near Orangeville on Saturday, 25 hunters on a side
participating, and a large quantity of game was secured. The professor of the
Orangeville schools was captain of one side and Elmer
Brown captain of the other. Brown’s side won by a narrow margin in over
1700 points, and were given a banquet by the losers. The proceeds are to be used
to purchase an organ for the Orangeville schools.
Franklin is to have a new manufacturing plant which will furnish
employment to over 200 men. The company will manufacture pneumatic tools, air
compressors and mining tools. The patentee has some large manufacturing plants
in different parts of the United States. Messrs. J.C.
Sibley and Charles Miller are large
stockholders in the new concern, and state that work on the plant will start in
a short time.
Engineers are still figuring on the possibility of converting Mosquito
creek into an immense storage basin in order to create an adequate water supply
for Youngstown. The present plan is to construct a dam 25 feet high. This will
back the water for nine miles and flood over 5000 acres of land. Ten miles of
highways will be inundated, necessitating the opening of new roads. The vast
reservoir will be within the boarders of Trumbull county. - Warren Democrat.
Mr. James G. Dallas, residing north of town,
has bought what is known as the Duncan farm from the administrators of the
estate of the late John Ashton. It is in Pymatuning
township, near where Mr. Dallas lives, and comprises 106 acres, and has an
excellent house and other buildings on it. He will take possession the first of
next April. If friend Dallas keeps on adding a few more farms to his domain they
will run him as the grange candidate for supervisor up in Pymatuning. The
team of Sharon Circle, No. 1, P.H.C., were the recipients of favorable notices
for their fine work at the union meeting of the circles in Cleveland, held last
Wednesday evening, one of which, from a correspondent of the Youngstown
Vindicator, is as follows: After the initiation exercises a degree team from
Woodland Circle, of Cleveland, and a team from Sharon, Pa., gave an exhibition
drill. They displayed wonderful aptness in the floor movements. The Sharon team
has a great reputation for its efficiency. Each drill team was composed of six
gentlemen and six ladies. PERSONAL AND SOCIAL
To Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wishart, East Hill,
a son.
Mrs. Gil. Boyd, East Hill, is visiting
relatives in Cleveland.
Mrs. Alice Hadley, of Pittsburgh, is
visiting relatives in this place.
Miss Edna L Morey, of Dilworth, Ohio, is
visiting Mrs. D.C. Morris, south Main street.
Mrs. J.S. Fruit will entertain, at cards, at
her home on the East Hill, Saturday afternoon.
The X club will meet this Friday evening, at the home of Miss
Marian Love, south Water street.
Mr. Godfrey Carnes, of Pymatuning township, is
slowly recovering from an attack of lumbago.
Mrs. E.W Moore has gone to Sharon on a visit
to her sister, Mrs. Alex. McDowell. - Franklin
News.
Mr. Bordly S. Black, of Franklin, visited
his daughter, Mrs. John Hannah, Shenango street,
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Morrison left on
Thursday afternoon for Washington, for the opening of Congress.
Mr. J.W. Hyde, a former Sharon business man,
visited relatives here last week. He is now located at Humphreys, Westmoreland
county.
Mr. Perrine Cole, who was burned by an
explosion at the Ella furnace, West Middlesex, Saturday evening, was removed to
his home in Sharpsville on Wednesday.
The Rev. Dr. D.B. Lady, of Greenville, will
preach at the Reformed church, Sharpsville street, next Sunday morning and
evening at the usual hours. All are invited.
Mrs. B.F. Stetson and mother, Mrs.
Eleanor Mixsell, of Elma, N.Y., are visiting relatives and friends here.
Mrs. Mixsell, who has been in ill health for some time past, will make her
future home in Sharon.
Hon. and Mrs. Alex. McDowell and Mr.
and Mrs. Ed Buchholz entertained at cards last evening at the McDowell
residence on the East Hill. They will also entertain this, Friday evening, and
on Monday afternoon.
Rev. L.P. Goerrig, who recently resigned the
pastorate of the German Reformed church, left today for New York and will sail
Saturday for Berlin, Germany. He will take a course at one of the leading
theological seminaries in that city.
Rev. J.E. Campbell, of Hartstown, of
Crawford county, delivered a fine sermon to a large congregation at the U.P.
church Sunday morning. Rev. J. A. Bailey, of Mt.
Jackson, at one time pastor of the church, delivered the sermon at the evening
service. Miss
Mary Stansfield and Mr. John E. Millard, a
popular young couple of Sharon, will be married on Wednesday next. A reception
will be given in their honor that evening, at the home of the bride’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Stansfield, Andrew avenue.
Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Jones, and
children, of Lisbon, Ohio, are visiting Mrs. J.’s father, Mr.
Edward Willson, West Hill. Mr. Jones has accepted the position of manager
of the Republic Iron & Steel Co.’s mill, at New Albany, Indiana, and will
leave for that place on Monday. Mrs. Jones will remain in Sharon for some time.
Mr. and Mrs. James Martin, who had been
visiting the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Ashton,
Penn avenue, since returning from their wedding tour, left Saturday for
Louisville, Kentucky, where they will spend a greater portion of the winter. Mr.
Martin and his brother Thomas, are pilots on the southern rivers and make their
headquarters there. The latter’s family left Monday for that city.
Mr. J. M. Evans, of Sharon, one of the
speakers in the campaign of 1896, is in town. Thursday evening he addressed a
large and enthusiastic meeting in P.H.C. hall, corner of Seventh and State.
Friday night he addressed another equally large audience in P.H.C. Hall, Kessler
block, on upper State street While here he will initiate a class of 400 members
into the Protected Home Circle, Erie Dispatch. Diphtheria
has broken out at Greenfield and it is feared that it will become epidemic. The
public schools in that vicinity have been closed. Last week Charles,
the 2-year-old son of Dr. Seidl, was stricken with
a malignant form of the disease and his death took place Monday at 3 p.m. At 8
o’clock that evening a second child, an infant 5 weeks old, also died from the
disease, and a third child is not expected to live.
Mr. Samuel Robbins, of Oil City, is a
teacher who seems to have been eminently successful in training several of his
young lady pupils in the way he would have them go. He was married a few days
ago to Miss Emma Cross of Sandy Lake, and the News
of that place says: Mr. Samuel Robbins, of Oil
City, and Miss Mary Emma Cross, of this place, were
married at Franklin on Wednesday, Nov. 1st. Mr., Robbins is a half brother of Mrs.
George McMullen and is related to a number of our people. He is an old
soldier, an old teacher and is at present a justice of the peace in Oil City.
Miss Cross is a well known and popular teacher. She was once a pupil of Mr.
Robbins as were also his three former wives.
Major John A. Logan, Jr., of Youngstown, who
was killed in the Philippines on November 12, during the battle of San Jacinto,
was widely known throughout this section. He served through the campaign in Cuba
and was recommended for promotion to brevet lieutenant colonel and colonel for
gallantry in the field. He was discharged May 17, 1899, and appointed major of
the 33rd volunteer infantry July 5. He
arrived in Manila October 27. He was the only son of the distinguished General
John A. Logan. In 1885 he married Miss
Edith, daughter of the late Chauncey H. Andrews,
of Youngstown, and has since made that city his home, dealing largely in blooded
horses. He is survived by his wife, three children and his mother. It is
expected that the remains will arrive in Youngstown in about five weeks.
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