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The Sharon Herald November 3, 1899
The following excerpts from the Friday, November 3, 1899 edition of The Sharon Herald (Vol. 36, No. 33), were reprinted in The Herald, Sharon, PA, in the Sunday, November 3, 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.
<From page 4> Soft falls the sunlight on the field. Shorn of its fiercer rays. Coloring with crimson and with gold The green of summer days. The purifying mists drift lightly down Veiling the distant hills. The frail age of orchards and of vine The air with incense fills. So, in the Autumn of our years, Life’s pulses softly run, With game hope and faith undimmed, We view our setting sun.
Briefly Told. Rabbit shooting season began on Wednesday. A new restaurant is to be opened in the basement of the Shenango House block in the near future. There have been one hundred amputations in Mercer hospital this year with a number of cases yet for operation. Truant Officer J. W. Mason, of the public schools, has purchased a lot on Victoria Avenue, West Hill. He will build a residence on it. The business of the Bessemer Gas Engine Company at Grove City is increasing so rapidly that they have broken ground for a large addition to their works. M. V. Hoagland, the dairyman, has purchased a lot on the West Hill, in Brookfield township, from Mr. George Tribby, of this place. Consideration private. Wm. Hall has purchased a lot on top of West Hill in Brookfield township, from Luke Madden, the Erie railroad baggage aster in this place. The consideration was $205. The warehouse of J. H. Muntz and Co. at Greenville, stored with blankets, robes, hardware, etc., was burned on Monday night causing a total loss of several hundred dollars. Chas. A. Carson of Conneaut, O., employed at the Aschman steel works, had his leg broken on Wednesday afternoon by a steel beam falling on it. He was removed to Buhl hospital. Burgess F. F. Davis, agent, has sold five lots on Logan avenue, three to Elmer Stewart, the lumber dealer, one to Thos. Ramage, and one to Thos. Hobbins. Also two lots on Ohio street to H. F. Achre.
Work has been commenced on the foundations for two six room frame dwellings on
south Water street to be erected by S.
Herrmann. One will be
occupied by Mr. and
Mrs. Andrew Clark, the latter a daughter of Mr. Herrmann. Charles Hyde, of Orangeville, was thrown from his wagon Wednesday, at the corner of west State and Porter streets, by the vehicle coming in contact with the curb. His left arm was broken below the elbow. He was removed to his home. Workmen have begun the erection of the splendid mausoleum and chapel which Mr. F. H. Buhl will erect at the entrance to Oakwood Cemetery, the details of which were give some months ago. It will be of granite and cost upwards of $50,000. The Erie railroad handled more freight in Sharon during October than for many years past and from present indications the rush will continue indefinitely. Freight Agent G. C. Leighton has increased his force of clerks to five in order to transact business with dispatch. The Monthly Tea of the Ladies’ Missionary Society of the Presbyterian church was held at the residence of Mrs. Alex Mc Dowell, East Hill, yesterday afternoon, and was addressed by Mrs. Greer, formerly Miss Donaldson, of Greenville, a retired missionary from China. Landlord McFarland, of the Commercial Hotel, Greenville, will erect a handsome three story brick hotel at the corner of Main street and the E.& P.R.R. in that town. It will be of colonial style and built of buff brick. It will have 34 bed rooms, with five baths, etc., and will front 67 feet on Main street and run back along the E. & P. 81 feet and occupy all the ground between the latter and the Shenango River. Married in 1867, separated in 1890 and application for divorce in 1899 is a chapter in the life of Erwin Fell and Lizzie Fell, of Orangeville. On Thursday the former filed his petition for divorce, claiming willful absence, cruelty and gross neglect on the part of his wife. The petitioner claims that the wife drove him from home nine years ago and although he has a life interest in a farm of 106 acres in Pennsylvania defendant refuses to let him share in it. He now wants a divorce. – Warren Democrat. PERSONAL AND SOCIAL Miss Grace Perkins, West Hill, is visiting friends in Meadville. Hons. Jos. W. Russell, of Warren, was a Sharon visitor on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Bell will arrive in Sharon today from Denver. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Henri Hoelzle last Thursday morning. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Irvine on Sunday night. The Acorn Club will give its annual Thanksgiving ball at Ashton hall on Thursday evening.
Rev. S. M.
Holden, rector of St. John’s, is expected home today from a
vacation of a couple of weeks spent with friends in the east. Mrs. C. N. McClure has returned from a visit with her mother, Mrs. Dr. Savage, at Weston, Ontario, Canada, and with friends in Mercer. Dr. and Mrs. T. W. Morgan have returned from their wedding tour and are now at home to friends at their residence on Logan avenue. Mr. Alfred Williams, South Penn street, who had been confined to his home by a slight attack of paralysis, is able to be around again. Captain G. F. Fischer returned home on Saturday from a trip to Europe, on which he was absent from about four months, visiting many places of interest in the country. A. W. Johnson, the well known Hubbard horseman, has filed a petition in bankruptcy in the United States court at Cleveland. His liabilities are stated at $3,530 and his assets $110.90. Mr. G. C. Mathers, for some years manager of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.’s office in Sharon, resigned on Saturday. He will engage in the real estate business with Attorney J. H. Elliott. Miss Tilda Frampton Duncan formerly of Sharpsville, was married at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Duncan, in Cincinnati, on Wednesday of last week to James Buchanan Lantz of Cincinnati. A pretty little poem by Mr. Chas. W. Townsend, formerly principal of Sharon schools, was published in the Pittsburgh Dispatch a few days ago, from which we take it. It will be found at the head of these columns. Miss Celia Thaxter and Mr. James Edwards, both of this place were married at Jamestown, N.Y., the forepart of July and succeeded in keeping their marriage a secret until this week. Mrs. Edwards has made her home with Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Haun, Prospect Heights. Mr. and Mrs. James Martin, who had been visiting in Louisville, Kentucky, and other cities in the south for the past three weeks, arrived in Sharon on Tuesday and will visit the latter’s parents. Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Ashton, Penn avenue, for a few days. They expect to leave for Pittsburgh through the forepart of next week. The coming-of-age anniversary of the Solid Comfort Fishing Club will be celebrated with a banquet at Mercer on Thursday evening, Dec. 7th. The Club held its first encampment at Sugar Lake, near Cochranton, in 1878. Besides the members of the club and their families all the guests of the Club at their several encampments, as far as possible, will be invited to the reunion. Hon. Joseph Robison, who visited his brother, Hon. David Robison, Hickory township, for several weeks, returned to his home in Blair County on Tuesday. The former is 84 years old and the latter 82, together with Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Love, aged 84 and 82, respectively, took dinner the beginning of the week with Mr. and Mrs. Jos. C. Givson [Gibson?], near Hermitage, the combined age of the guests being 382 years. The Cleveland papers announce that Mrs. Albert Rumsey, formerly well known in Sharon as Miss Mollie Mesdersmith, has applied for a divorce from her husband on the ground of neglect of duty. [Mr.] Rumsey took a reporter along to see them “break away.” And that he might see that “because we’re sawin’ off we’re not sore on each other,” and that “there wasn’t no hard feelin’s; just a plain business transaction of dissolving partnerships, see?” James Robinson, near Edenburg, and Miss Jessie McCreary, daughter of Robert McCreary, of near Sharon, were married on Wednesday, November 1. Mr. Robinson was formerly a resident of Shenango Township, and for several years was engaged in the dairy business, which made him well acquainted in this city. About a year ago he purchased a fine farm near Edenburg, to which he will take his bride. Mr. Robinson is an excellent young man and his wife a popular young lady. Each have hosts of friends who will wish them success and happiness. - New Castle News Mr. W. M. Bucholz of Leechburg, a former resident of Sharon, and Miss Anna B. Lang, of Pittsburgh, were married on Wednesday evening, October 25th at the home of the bride’s mother, Mrs. C. C. Lang, in the latter city. Rev. Dr. Geissinger, of the First English Evangelical Lutheran Church, officiated. They came to Sharon yesterday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bucholz, South Main street. They will make their home in Leechburg, where Mr. Bucholz is manager of a large drug store.
Mr. William E. Dickson,
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Dickson,
Shenango street was married at Bellevue, near Pittsburgh, on Tuesday evening.
The Pittsburgh Times of Wednesday morning says of it:
A pretty, but quiet wedding of last evening was that of Blanche
Olive, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Young,
of Bellevue, and William Elbert Dickson, of Sharon.
The ceremony was performed at 7:30 o’clock at the home of the bride’s
parents, Sheridan avenue, Bellevue, by Rev. George C.
Shaffer, pastor of the Bellevue Methodist Protestant Church, in the
presence of about seventy-five guests. An
informal reception and wedding supper followed the ceremony, and last evening
Mr. and Mrs. Dickson left for Sharon, were the groom is chief chemist at the
plant of the Spearman Iron Company. They
will be “at home” at 17 South Water street, Sharon, after November 16th.
The bride wore pink organdy over white silk, with a white sigret and
black velvet bands in her hair. She
carried pink roses. There were no
attendants. The house decorations
were of pink and white. At a pretty
luncheon given Monday afternoon for the bride by Mrs.
Albert Travis, of Bellevue, the guests were the twelve members of the
Young Woman’s Club of the Bellevue Methodist Protestant church, with which
Miss Young was connected and received, a dainty wedding token in the form of a
set of berry spoons, which being engraved with the name of one of the members of
the club. DEATHSRev. David Probst, a pioneer Welsh Baptist preacher and well known in Sharon, died at Youngtown last Friday, aged 86 years. He was born in Wales on Christmas, 1814, and in addition to the Welsh Baptist Church of Youngstown [he] organized congregations at Niles, Girard, Churchill, Coleburg, Hubbard, and other places. Surgeon W. T. McAdam, the youngest son of the late Rev. W. T. McAdam, at the breaking out of the Civil War pastor of the First Presbyterian Church here and afterwards chaplain of the 57th Pennsylvania Volunteers, died recently of yellow fever at Key West, where he was located as a member of the Army Medical Corps. Relics from the Philippines Rev. George P. Donehoo, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, has been presented with a number of relics gathered in the Phillipines, principally on battlefields, by Rev. Joseph Hunter, of Jamestown, the “fighting chaplin” of the famous Tenth Pennsylvania Regiment, which saw hard service in that country.
The most interesting article in the collection, owing to the fact that it
once belonged to the noted Aguinaldo, is a small piece of decorated china plate,
one of the dinner set found in his residence at Mololoe when the Tenth captured
the city. Almost equally
interesting, from historical standpoint, is the cane made from the wood of the
Spanish warship, Velasco, which was destroyed in Manila Bay by Dewey’s fleet,
and which is tipped with a mauser shell. Two
vicious looking knives with long blades and sheaths, similar in outline to a
machete, are the formidable articles of the collection.
They were picked up on the battlefield at Poloe after the Filipinos had
been defeated and to all appearances had been used with effect.
The curiosities of the collection are a piece of this shell and a sharp
double pointed bamboo thong. The
former is used by the natives for window glass and is often beautifully
decorated, making a pleasing effect. The
bamboo thong is a specimen of the mode of warfare waged by the Spanish against
the Filipinos. They were
distributed over the fields near the Spanish entrenchments, one point being
driven into the ground, and were so effectively covered by the high grass that
many a Filipino was almost impaled during a charge.
Rev. Donehoo values the collection highly and takes pride in showing it
to his friends. Mercer County Odd FellowsThe following is a report from D.D.G.M. I.O.O.F. George Tribby, and is addressed to the member of said craft: To the officers and members of the I.O.O.F. for the jurisdiction of Mercer County, Pennsylvania; Brethren: I have completed my work as District Deputy Grand Master of the I.O.O.F. of Mercer County and find the lodges in excellent condition, being perfectly harmonious and prosperous, increasing in membership and finances, the order now has 1,077 members in good standing in the district and an aggregate wealth of more than $50,000, while our sick list has been very heavy, some lodges have paid out for weekly benefits over $1,300 during the year, and yet their treasury is in good condition. The district paid in the past year, $267.45 educating our orphans. I visited the home at Meadville, Pennsylvania on October 17 and found 54 children, ranging from one two fourteen years of age, all of which were being cared for as well, if not better than they could have been if their parents were living, everything comfortable in every respect and a beautiful place. All of the children, except four attend public school in the city, the four not attending not being old enough. George Tribby. New Business Block. Mr. P.I. Kimberly has bought the several properties of G. W. Mason and others at the corner of Vine and Pitt streets, at present occupied by Squire Thomas; G. W. Mason and others and, it is said, will begin the erection soon of a fine three story brick business block thereon, in which he will have his offices, apartments, etc. The property has a frontage of about 80 feet on Pitt street. The proposed block will be a handsome improvement to that part of town. Stoves and Tinware We have opened a store on south Dock street and offer to the public a full line of the celebrated Triumph stoves. A full line of Tinware also in stock and second-hand stoves purchased. Stove Repairing a specialty. Goesler Bros., south Dock street. Formerly with the Graff Stove Co.
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