The Rochester Sentinel 1879
The Rochester Sentinel 1879 Published every Saturday by BITTERS & DANIELS Saturday, January 4, 1879 LOCAL and MISCELLANEOUS Mrs. G. I. MILLER is occupying her new millinery room. Wm. NEWCOMB again owns a farm in Richland Township, having recently purchased the HOLMAN place for $4,500. Frank ZARTMAN, Harry ARMANTROUT and their country cousins from Denver, attended the Rip Van Winkle show Monday night. Adam AULT and John CATES will start for Texas next Monday, to view the country and prospect generally. The mercantile and professional business of our place is represented at present by A. STRONG & SON, dry goods, groceries and hardware; C. H. BERRY, dry goods and groceries; Milo BRIGHT, drugs and books; A. ONSTOTT, tinware; F. DILLON, carriage and wagon maker and general blacksmithing; A. A. GAST and VALENTINE & STARR, boots and shoes; A. STANTON, chairs; O. CRONWELL, furniture; Dr. A. JOHNSTON, and Dr. C. F. HARTER, physicians; Mrs. H. VALENTINE, milliner; . Our village is surrounded by well-cultivated and high-productive farms, owned, controlled and tilled by an industrious and intelligent class of farmers. Among the older, most successful and substantial I would name D. WHITTENBERGER, J. H. DAY, J. N. ROBINSON, J. BRIGHT, T. J. McCLANAHAN, H. W. BALL, H. BLACK, E. STRONG, Dan. DANIELS, J. A. BOWER, S. TOWNSEND, Wm. BITTERS, J. E. SLAYBAUGH, I. PONTIOUS, P. RADER, J. HOFFMAN, S. MILLER, J. WHITTENBERGER, Wm. WHITTENBERGER, Jr., A. CURTIS, A. GRINDLE, H. PRESSNALL, H. BRYANT, Wm. BRIGHT, M. RICHARDSON, Wm. THOMPSON, M. MIDDLETON. And now occurs to my mind the names of several who were once citizens of our place and vicinity, but have sought other homes.
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