PAINESVILLE TELEGRAPH 1885 © Judy J. Stebbins 7/11/2020

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PAINESVILLE TELEGRPAH --A 5 yr. old daughter of Frank Smeltz, of Painesville, Ohio Newcomerstown, had her clothing catch fire and J. F. Scofield, Editor and Proprietor she was burned to death. --Hosea Townsend, the oldest pioneer of New Jan. 1, 1885 Thursday London township, died recently, age 91. --Dr. Carlin, of Findly, who has been in Montana p. 1 BUSINESS DIRECTORY the past summer, was accidentally shot and also MUSIC his 3 yrs. old son, while standing in the door of Mr. S. B. Hamlen. Vocal, Piano and Organ his ranch and witnessing the capture of a Teacher, north side Public Square, Painesville. desperado. PHYSICIANS --Watt Henry, of Akron, beat his wife to death Rebecca S. Amidon. Physician and surgeon. while he was intoxicated. Office corner of Main and St. Clair streets. --Capt. James Green, of the 29th O.V.I., died at his Residence 67 Mentor Ave. Diseases of Women home in Akron last week. and children a specialty. Painesville, O. --The dry goods store of Frank Baker, at East ATTORNEYS Claridon burned down Friday. Homer Harper – Attorney and Counselor at Law

A. A. Amidon – Attorney at Law p.3 MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS Morley & Rich – Repository Building, Corner State and Washington streets. Painesville, Ohio DENTISTS Geo. H. Wilson, D.D. S.– corner Main and St. Clair Streets Wm. H. Fowler– Dentist, Milwaukee Block over Lockwood Brothers’ store PLANING MILL, & C. D. Donaldson & Son – manufacturers of flooring, doors, sash, blinds, brackets, molding, &c. Shop rear of Wilder’s Building, State St. HARDWARE C. O. Child – General assortment hardware, paints, oils, glass, &c.; 55 Main St. NURSERIES Local Brevities Avenue Nurseries – Jayne & Cole – 2 miles west --Mr. Will Childs, of Hamilton, Ontario, was of Court House on Mentor Ave. home for the Christmas holiday. Hiram Bowhall – two miles east of Post Office, --Mr. J. Willey Smith is back from a trip of several Painesville, Ohio weeks to the west. New Foundry -Solon Hall, Painesville --Mr. & Mrs. Robert Manchester spent Sun. night in Painesville on the way to Buffalo. p. 2 col. 1 Mrs. Polly Kiger, age 111, died at her --Mr. Dan Hays, who has been in Buffalo the past house in Fairfield Co., O. She once sewed a season returned home last week. button on Geo. Washington’s pants. --Mrs. George F. Rogers is visiting in Toronto. --Cornelius Altman, a renowned manufacturer of --Mr. O. J. Robinson, of Laramore, Dakota, will Canton, died suddenly Friday at age 58 yrs. spend the winter in Painesville. --Mrs. Philip Pratt, of Geneva, suffered a shock of p. 2 col. 3 State and Neighborhood paralysis last week.

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Jan. 1, 1885 Madison --Mr. & Mrs. Aaron M. Wilcox and Mr. Peter Cook, Delos Hitchcock, of Cleveland, were the guests of Mrs. Stickney, G. A. A. Wilcox and family Christmas. Shaw, Albert --Miss Eliza Wilcox and Miss Agnes Childs will be Kennedy, Mary guests of Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Doolittle, in Williams, Adelia Hamilton, Canada. Woodworth, Adelaide --Misses Mary and Emma Morley, daughters of Painesville Mr. & Mrs. John Morley, of St. Clair St., are Fitzgerald, Michael visiting relatives in Saginaw. Fitzgerald, Mary Jane --Miss Emma, youngest daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Cook, Caroline Alexander Hamilton, formerly of Painesville, died Huntington, E. at the home of her parents in Grand Rapids, Kirtland Mich., of consumption on the 19th ult. Stewart, Gilbert --Mr. D. E. Gregory, of the Cowles House, this city Willis, Franklin and Miss Emma L. Jones, of Hartford, Trumbull Hanscom, Lewis Co., were married in Warren last Tuesday. McFarland, M. S. --Bert and Gray Casement, sons of Mrs. D. T. Mentor Casement, of Wood St., are home for two weeks’ Hodgson, Davie vacation from St. Paul’s school at Concord, New Hayes, Emma D. Hampshire. Willoughby --An interesting letter from Mr. A. M. Thompson, Presley, Jerry of the Chicago Tribune editorial staff, describing Short, Sidney S, life in Dakota is on page one of today’s Jerome, Ashel Telegraph. Mr. Thompson is a brother of Mr. J. Greer, Oliver S. J. Thompson, of Perry. --Mr. & Mrs. Roswell Hays and Miss Hays, Note from Hon. A. G. Riddle daughter of Mr. Dan Hays, were called to Kansas Washington, D. C., Dec. 23, 1884 City some two months since, due to the illness of My father settled his family, then a wife and 5 their daughter, Mrs. DeForest Brooks; she is now boys, in Newbury, Geauga Co., in the fall of 1817. out of danger, so they have returned. My brother must have taken the Telegraph its first year and until his death in 1824. My oldest Happy New Year! brother, Almon, renewed the subscription. I wish The ladies will be at the Temperance rooms on to renew the relationship of paying subscriber to New Year’s Day to receive gentlemen and lady the Telegraph. friends. The ladies will not all be present at the same time. Unionville ----W. H. Soper came home for a short vacation and took Mr. Hardy’s place in the store while he is out sick. —The event of the past week was the marriage of Miss H. E. Pettingill to Mr. E. G. Mead, of Tenn. They were married at the home of Mrs. Hoag, sister of the bride. The bride wore brown ottoman silk. Willoughby Plains --Miss Mary and Alice Griswold are both home for their winter vacations. Real Estate

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Jan. 1, 1885 --John Davern, the Nickel Plate section boss, who --Mr. T. Newton, of Defiance, is spending some has injured by falling from a handcar, is now back time with his brother, George. to work. --Mr. & Mrs. T. Zeeley have moved down --Mrs. Jasper Brewster fell and broke her collar nd somewhere near the marsh. bone on Dec. 22 . Willoughby --Mr. Arthur Shumway formerly resided in --Charles Haggart was in town last week. Madison and graduated from our public schools. --Last Friday, Miss Emma Pease was married to He is connected with the Cleveland Herald Mr. Alva Little of your city. editorial staff and has just returned from a trip --Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Penfield are at New Orleans. around the world. Mr. P. will exhibit his tile and brick machinery at Perry the World’s Exposition in that city. --G. H. Cowdery is at his father’s house with a --Capt. Mulhollan was in town. He is a badly sprained ankle from roller skating. Willoughby boy who commenced as a sailor and --Mrs. B. Sinclair was married on Thanksgiving rose to command a large vessel which is in the Day to Mr. D. Tucker, of Huntsburgh, where she coal trade. now resides.

Kirtland South Thompson --George Russel has erected one of the best --Miss Mandane Patrick and Miss Allie Cashen barns in Lake Co., on his farm a quarter mile are home for the holidays from Painesville. south of the Temple. --Mr. J. Winterstein has moved into the house --Mr. Nelson Martin, owner of the old Gillett with Mr. E. Morehouse. place, a mile south of the Temple, has put up a --Mr. George Sidley had a Christmas present of a substantial dwelling house. nice cutter from his brother, Rev. R. A. Sidley, of --Mr. Isaac Long is seriously ill. Sandusky. Mentor --Mr. & Mrs. George Jackson, of Chester, are --Mr. & Mrs. N. C. Belden, of Mayville, N.Y., expected this week at his father’s, Mr. William surprised their relatives, the Tyler and Aldrich Jackson. families last week. --Charlie Strong, who has been attending school --The Carver house is finished and Mr. J. P. in New Jersey, has returned and is attending Rexford has been doing some very fine school here. ornamental painting there. --Miss Hattie Tillotson, of Ashtabula, is spending --Mrs. Otis Haskell is again in very poor health. a few days with her aunt, Mrs. Joe Strong. --The families of Daniel, Stephen and Truhand South Madison Hart along with other relatives were invited to --On Christmas evening, Mr. Andrew Ralston, join in a Christmas surprise party at the home of wife and two children were thrown out of their Mr. Arthur Hart, in South Mentor. cutter as it was going down a hill. Mr. R. broke --Miss Cora Goodell, of Ill., is the guest of her his left arm and rode 4.5 miles to get it set. cousin, Miss Alda Hart. --Mrs. Eunice Ferguson and her sister, Elizabeth, --Miss Carrie Lattin is visiting relatives in the left Monday for New York. Mr. George Furguson, southern part of the State. formerly of this place, is there also and taking lessons on the piano. Madison --Miss Mary Ross is not expected to survive long. --Benjamin Hayden and Horace Ensign, of LeRoy Cleveland, spent Christmas at home. --Mrs. Alva Loveland, formerly Miss Candace Sprague, was buried last week.

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Jan. 1, 1885 Kirtland --Three was an annual reunion of the Bedell --Isaac Long died, age 66. He was born in family on Christmas Day. Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, July, 1818. When --Mr. & Mrs. Dell Phelps had a baby girl. Mr. I. he was 15 yrs. old, the family moved to Kirtland Phelps is now a grandpa. O. When he was 24, he married Sabra Tremain, Surprise Party of the same place, who survives him. In 1856, he Last Sat. was the 59th birthday of Mrs. C. T. came to Kirtland to live and lived here until the th Wright, of Perry. She was surprised by friends day of his death, Dec. 29 , 1884. He leaves a who brought supper and a beautiful hanging wife, two sons and three brothers. We say of lamp. Isaac Long, he is resting from his labors. Belle Plain, Kansas - Harry Blair writes a letter to Geneva the editor about Oklahoma. --The Grand Jury at Jefferson, considered the case of Lewis Webster, charged with the murder Married of Mr. Perry Harrington. They returned a verdict --Dec. 23rd, Mr. John W, Webster, to Miss Hattie of indictment for murder in the first degree. L. Talmadge, both of Painesville. Perry --In Geneva, O., on Dec. 24th, Mr. George M. --Mrs. H. H. Smith fractured her hip in a fall down Cranston, of Painesville, O., to Mrs. Anna E. the cellar stairs one day last week. Cone, of Geneva, O. Mentor Headlands --Dec. 24th, at the First Church Study, Mr. Frank --Mr. & Mrs. Roswell Hays are back from an C. Jennison, of Willoughby, and Miss Libbie extended visit to their daughter, Mrs. DeForest Hughes, of Mentor. Brooks, of Kansas City. --At the home of Mrs. E. L. Hoag, of Unionville, Willoughby on Christmas Eve, Eben G. Mead, of McMinnville, --We have three roller skating rinks in evening Tenn., and Miss Hulda E. Pettingill, of the former operation. place. Madison --Misses Mertie Bailey and Stella Blair are visiting For Sale - A cottage with five rooms. E. E. friends in Buffalo. Johnson. --Dr. George Preston, of Warren, Pa., spent a few For Sale – Delaware Co. Creamery and Blanchard days with his brother, M. O. Preston, last week. butter worker. N. C. Frost, West Mentor, O. --Mr. Richard Harrison and his sister, Miss Hattie For Sale – 200 wooden sap buckets newly Harrison, are home from school in Oberlin for painted. J. P. Merritt, Madison, O. the holidays. Wanted to Exchange - One Waltham watch, or Mentor open buggy for one good cutter or a pair of bobs. --Miss Florence Rose, with her little nephews, C. A. Nowlen, Mentor George and Willis Newcomer, started Tues. for For Sale – A quantity of corn stalks. G. W. Nye & Hoboken, where Miss Florence intends to spend son, Painesville the winter with her sister, Mrs. General Newcomer. Jan. 8, 1885 Thursday --Old Mrs. Maloney, who is over 100 yrs. old, is in very poor health. p.2col.1 --Mr. & Mrs. B. F. Youngs are visiting their old neighbors, Mr. & Mrs. Buel Butler. --Cards have been received by Mentor relatives for a wedding reception Jan. 7, given by Dr. & Mrs. Abner C. Moore for their daughter Lulu, who married H. G. Redington, last month. Dr. Moore is a Lake Co. boy.

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Jan. 8, 1885 Local Brevities --The marriage of Mr. Bradford Doty and Miss --John Frost, age 79, a veteran printer and Jennie Ingersoll, took place last Wed. at the publisher, died in New Lisbon last week. home of the bride’s mother, Mrs. Amelia --Mr. Daniel Warner Jr. reached home last week Ingersoll, on Jackson street. and will remain during the winter. --Henry King goes as a new student to Oberlin. --Miss Myra Hall, of Willoughby, is the guest of --Fred Grier spent his holiday vacation at his her cousin, Mrs. C. C. Pease, of Washington mother’s Mentor home. street. --Mrs. E. Caddle is receiving a visit from her --Charles De Jones, a prominent iron worker and brother, who has just returned from his old member of the council at Niles, dropped dead home in England, and is now going into business Monday morning. in Cleveland. --Mr. C. S. McCormick, of the Niles Independent, South Madison was in town the last of the week, called here by --Deacon & Mrs. F. E. Benjamin were surprised the death of his grandmother, Mrs. Lydia Foster. on New Year’s Day by the appearance of all their --The organ given away on New Year’s Day by children and grandchildren. The children gave Mr. Geo. E. Kile, fell to the lot of Mr. R. H. their mother a good sum of money to purchase Baldwin, of Montville. herself a pair of spectacles. --Mr. Alva Brown, of Mentor, is still in feeble --Thursday evening, Mrs. Harriet Gill was taken health at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. H. with bleeding from the nose and bled for four Hart. hours before it could be stopped. She is at this --Mr. A. J. Cook, who has been confined to his writing not expected to live from one hour to the house by sickness for 3 years, was on Main St. next. She is about 69 yrs. old. Monday for the first time during that long Resolutions of Respect are printed for Dr. H. C. period. Beardslee who died, by his fellow practitioners --Mrs. Lydia Foster, age 88, died at the home of and colleagues. Charles F. House, M. D.; D. J. her daughter, Mrs. R. McCormick, Washington Merriman, M.D. – Committee street, New Year’s Day. She was a native of Rhode Island, but had been a resident of LeRoy Painesville for many years. --Mr. Walter Mosher has lately had two severe --Mr. Jonathan Stickney has been seriously ill for attacks of bleeding at the nose. two weeks. --Little Florence Potts, youngest daughter of Mr. --Mr. W. W. Nevison, formerly of Painesville, & Mrs. S. J. Potts, was very sick last week but is now lives in Lawrence, Kansas. better now. --Mr. Irving P. Larned, of Mentor, left for Chicago to assume a position in the office of the Sherman p.3 House. --The old colored man, who has for many years been known as “Ginger Brown,” died Monday. He was a slave and came to Painesville soon after obtaining his freedom. Sudden Death of Mr. C. Buell Christopher Buell died suddenly last Thursday. He had dinner New Year’s Day with his son-in- law and daughter, Mr. & Mrs. A. A. Lee. After church that evening, he complained to Mr. Lee of feeling faint. Mr. L. L. Farris who was walking by was asked to assist him to him in walking home. They

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Jan. 8, 1885 --Dec. 30, at the home of the bride’s parents, H. only took a few steps before Mr. Buell became Bradford Doty to Miss Jennie Ingersoll, both of very weak and was taken back to Mr. Lee’s. He Mentor. soon became unconscious and died. He was 61 --In Dewittville, Chautauqua Co., N.Y., Dec. 31, yrs. old and an honored resident of Painesville. 1984. Helen, only daughter of the late Darius He leaves a widow and two married daughters. and Rachel Scofield and Oscar E. Allan. The body was placed in the vault at Evergreen Cemetery. Probate Notice

Jan. 15, 1885 Thursday

p. 1 col. 8 An Old Resident Passes Away --Oliver W. Warner, a pioneer of Ashtabula Co., Abel C. Barto, died at his home some two miles died in Geneva last week Wed., age 84. east of this city, Jan. 4th, 1885, at the age of 68 --Charles Evans, of Ashtabula, in the woods yrs. chopping, was hit by the limb of a tree and will A Christmas Surprise probably lose the sight of one eye. There was a very enjoyable affair which took --John W. Rodney an aged farmer of place at the home of C. H Boyd, in Perry, last Newcomerstown, was attacked by his Jersey bull Thursday. Over 30 relatives of the family were which almost killed him. invited to join them in keeping “Merry --Robert Windress, age 20, fell from a Cleveland, Christmas.” Mr. & Mrs. R. Corlett, of Concord, and Pittsburgh railway bridge over Tinker’s uncle and aunt of the host, were surprised with Creek, a distance of 100 feet to the rocky bed an elegant silver tea set presented to they by below. He cannot recover. their nieces and nephews, Mr. & Mrs. C. H. Boyd --Dr. Bevington, of Freedom, accompanied by and Mr. & Mrs. E. C. Boyd, of Perry, Mr. & Mrs. Miss Eva Elliott, of Atwater, were crossing the F. C. Tuttle, of Thompson, Mr. & Mrs. Collins and railroad track when a train hit the buggy killing D. T. Boyd, of Cleveland. the doctor and injuring the young lady. --The Hayes Buckeye Canning Factory, in Fowler, Married Trumbull Co., was burned last week. --At the Cowles House, New Year’s evening, Mr. --Ashtabula Record: Chas. Norris, of Fostoria, Fayett Leland to Miss Fannie A. Warren, both of formerly of Windsor, died at his home in the Huntsburgh. former place a few days ago. --Charles Birch, died in Lowellville, Mahoning Co., last week at the age of 102. He was a native

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Jan. 15, 1885 of England and was one of the soldiers sent to America in 1812. He fought and was wounded in the battle of Waterloo, June 18, 1815. He settled in Scotland after the war until 1851, when he came to America. He leaves three sons and two daughters.

Lake County Delinquent List for 1884

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Jan. 15, 1885 --Miss Clara L. Martin, of Cleveland, is the guest of Mrs. A. G. Reynolds, St. Clair street. --Mrs. J. W. Alexander, of Mentor Ave., has gone East to visit her sister, Mrs. F. D. Janvier. --Mrs. E. W. Kelley, of Jonesville, Mich., spent Sunday at the Stickney homestead, Concord. --Mr. & Mrs. W. Van Clief, of Lyons, N. Y., are visiting relatives in Madison and Painesville. --Mr. L. Freitag has gone South for several months. --In Erie County Common Pleas Court, D. C. Wilson was granted a divorce from Mrs. Elizabeth K. Wilson. --Harvey Morse, age 79 years died at his residence in Kirtland Tuesday of last week. He was one of the earliest settlers in this county, having settled in Kirtland in 1816. --Mr. Edward Hitchcock, of Northfield, Minn., Painesville Town Lots arrived in the city on Sunday and spent the night with Mr. & Mrs. Albert Malin. --Mrs. L. A. M. Little, writing from Wayne, Nebraska, where she has been since Nov. 1st says the temperature was 27 degrees below zero on Jan. 1st. --Mrs. H. Bush, of Tenn., cousin of Mrs. Albert Morley, of State street, has been her guest for several weeks. --Miss Mary A. Warner has gone to New Orleans p.3 Exposition with her nephew, Mr. & Mrs. Fred Warner. They will go to Mexico to remain through the cold season. --The Port Huron, Michigan, Times of Jan. 2, contains a notice of the death of Mrs. Asa Larned of that city. She was a sister of Wm. A. Mallory, formerly of Painesville, and was for many years a resident of Chardon. She was 79 yrs. old. --Mr. & Mrs. Jacob Kelley, of Chicago will return here in the spring and their daughter-in-law, Mrs. Walter Kelley, nee Marshall, will make their home with them. --Thirty-two years ago, Mr. James McAdams killed a calf and had the hide tanned and made a pair of boots from it which he wore 12 yrs. He then made another pair of the same hide which Local Brevities he has worn for 20 yrs. which do not appear to --Miss Nellie Lohmyer, of Cleveland, is visiting be half worn out. Miss Susie G. Larned, Mentor.

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has been in bed ever since and cannot be moved Jan. 15, 1885 without much pain. He resides with his son, H. G. Lyon, on River street. --Mrs. Dr. Pease is an invalid and resides with her sisters, Misses Ruth and Mary Hastings, on Union street. --The family of J. A. Rogers, late of Ashtabula, will return to this place in a few days to reside. --Emory Crawford of this place is building a roller-skating rink on Second street. --The little son of Mrs. W. Collister is quite sick. --Mr. & Mrs. B. Taylor, of Lockport, are visiting friends here. --Rev. Mrs. T. S. Hodgson, a daughter of A. W. Gunn, is visiting at her father’s. --John Buckley, of Collamar, visited his parents, Mr. & Mrs. Hugh Buckley on Sunday.

--George Sharp goes to Wickliffe to reside. Sudden Death Mr. John Evans, residing some ways out on Jackson street, died very suddenly Monday. He had been in the city part of the day and returning home complained of a pain in his knee and sat down for a few minutes. He was found later to be dead. It was a case of heart disease. He was formerly a resident of Cleveland, and purchased the property on Jackson street some time ago. Thompson --Mr. Dan Sanford has moved into the house Geauga County owned and formerly occupied by G. T. Ransom. --S. L. Chapman, dealer in clothing and jewelry --Mrs. G. A. Moseley is very low from cancer. has failed. Hon. B. B. Woodbury has taken --Mrs. Katie Echternach (nee Moseley) is at possession of the store under a chattel home for a short time. mortgage. Mr. Chapman had held the office of --Elmer Stevens is attending school at County Treasurer for 4 years. Austinburg. --Newton S. Kellogg, of Claridon, is one of the ---Noah Moseley, an old and respected citizen of petit jurors for the Feb. term of the U. S. District this place, is failing fast; there is little hope of his Court. recovery. --A. P. Cook, who has been for the past two years For the Telegraph in Bismarck, Dakota, visited his old friends in this Mrs. John Tear was given a party for her birthday place lately. on the 7th inst. at the home of Capt. John Tear in --The firm of Bodman and Fletcher has been North Mentor. dissolved. --J. P. Treat and wife of the Geneva Times, were South Thompson lately in town. --A Mr. Prentice, of Trumbull, has moved into Mr. R. Warner’s old house. Willoughby --Elias Strong is spending a few days with his aunt --Last Thursday, Mr. O. S. Lyon, age 93 yrs., had in Ashtabula. a severe fall and injured his hip and elbow. He --Mr. R. Patrick has returned to Rock Creek.

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Jan. 15, 1885 LeRoy Officers of LeRoy Grange were installed at J. W. Doncaster’s Sat.

--Mrs. A. A. Ray is visiting her parents in Ashtabula. --Mrs. Olive Sprague is improving. --F. O. Hovey is improving. --Seth Hill, of the firm Hill Brothers, has bought the Quine house and moved it near the mill.

House and Lot for Sale – P. D. Lynch has a house and lot for sale on Oswego street. Would exchange for land in the country. Painesville

Jan. 22, 1885 Thursday p. 1 col. 5 Pioneer History by C. C. Bronson Mrs. A. J. Goldsmith was born in Hinsdale, Berkshire Co. Mass., April 29, 1787, and was Abigail Jones. She married June 6, 1808 to Jonathan Goldsmith. This poem is from Mrs. Goldsmith:

State and Neighborhood --Mr. O. H. Coon, of New Lyme, has thus far shipped over 7 tons of poultry to New York. --Mrs. Garfield denies the story that she has a gold mine in North Carolina which yields a large revenue. --The editor of the Norwalk Reflector, Judge F. Wickham, celebrated his golden wedding last Wed. --Wm. Broadrich, a railroad man, of Shelby had his left eye destroyed by a splinter from a steel rail which he was unloading. --The Sentinel of the 15th records the death of Noah Hoskin, one of the oldest residents of Jefferson. He was born there in 1816.

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Jan. 22, 1885 --Two brothers, Harvey and Louis Priest, of Delaware, drank cider and then slept on the railroad track, where they were killed by a passing train. --Wallace Mead, age 15, was chased and attacked by an eagle at Xenia. He is now in the hospital badly pecked and clawed. --Two masked men entered the house of John Wales, three miles south of Clyde, and with a Local Brevities revolver held at his head compelled him to tell --Willis Wakelee has returned from Sargent Co., where his money was. Dakota. --John Wetzler, age 24, died at a station house in --Mr. Thomas Smith is serious ill. Mansfield Sat. --Mrs. Joseph Fuller, age 81, one of the oldest --John Swim, a 99-year-old tramp, was found residents of Madison, died last Thursday. sleeping in a cow shed in Delaware Co. He had --Mr. Charles S. Field, of Warren, has been $2,138 on him when he was taken to city prison elected Grand Master, of the I.O.O.F., of Ohio. and searched. --Miss Howard, from Mass., is visiting her sister, Mrs. E. G. Wetherbee, of Mentor Ave. --A. McReynolds, age 80, and for many years a prominent member of the Cuyahoga Co. bar, died last week. --Mr. & Mrs. Chester Lockwood, of Cleveland, were among the guests at Gen. Casement’s Monday evening. --Lucius Turner tapped his sugar bush and had a successful run. Burton Leader

--C. M. Hale, a Painesville printer, left a few days since to take the position of foreman of the Ottawa, Illinois, Journal office. p. 2 col. 2 Ashtabula Record The body of Charles Burch, of Denmark, was found Thursday morning lying on the railroad track near Kinsman. It is supposed he was killed by a passing train during the night. He was a single man and lived with his widowed mother in Denmark. p. 3 Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P. O.

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Jan. 22, 1885 Barnes, D. J. Halstead, Charles Holcomb, D. M> Dayton, F. J. Dayton, A. B. Ensign, Elizabeth H. Painesville Brown, Elizabeth H. Brown, Marvin H. Stockwell, Betsey Rich, John Ladd, S. T. – heirs Higgins, Clara B. Stricken with Paralysis Mentor Mr. L. W. Ackley had a severe stroke of paralysis Gulliford, F. w. last Wed. He was found on the floor or the barn Guilliford, L. D where he had been doing the milking. He was Wetherell, W. H. assisted to the house by two men passing by. He was unconscious for a while but rallied the next The Party of the Season day. Later – He died this Wed. morning at 1 a.m. Dec. 18th was the 56th birthday of General J. S. He was an old resident of Painesville and for Casement. His wife invited a small party of many years carried on the jewelry business friends for Monday in honor of the occasion. retiring a few years ago due to ill health. He was 75 yrs. old. Willoughby --W. H. Roberts has a “chickery.” It hatches out Death of Mrs. James R. Ford of Akron th chickens by heat produced with petroleum and Mrs. Ford died Jan 19 at Akron. The Ford family electricity. came to reside in Painesville at an early day, and --Miss Edith Penfield has gone to St. Louis, Mo. James R. Ford was the first agent of the Geauga --B. F. Jenkins is a member of the Bee Keepers’ Iron Co. They moved from Painesville to Convention at Erie. Vermillion in 1833. Mrs. Ford was the sister of the late Gov. Tod, of Ohio. She leaves four children: G. Tod Ford, Mrs. Wm. H. Upson, of Akron; Mrs. Sarah T. Peck, of Youngstown; and Mrs. John F. Earl, of New York. Her granddaughter, Miss Upson, of Akron, graduated at Lake Erie Seminary in 1883.

Common Pleas Court --The case of Catherine C. Post vs Village of Little Mountain Painesville. The case was continued to next Fri. --Miss Eva Sherman is attending school in Real Estate Ashtabula. Madison Wheeler, Francis L. Warren, Addie B. Westlake, Emanuel Seamans, Dwight Drought, George

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Jan. 22, 1885 --Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Merrill has a little girl as a Mentor New Year’s gift. --Mrs. Hannah Jordan has gone to Buffalo as a --Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Andrews, had a son on nurse. Sunday morning. --Mrs. Daniel Hart and Mrs. Gilbert are in very poor health. Card of Thanks - Mrs. John Evins and daughter --Mrs. Crowl is very sick with malarial typhoid print a card to thank friends for their aid and fever. Mrs. Kate Holmes is her nurse. comfort in their hour of need. --Mr. Will French, who went to California a few Died months ago due to lung troubles, is expected --In Thompson, Jan. 18, 1885, Mrs. Elizabeth, home in a few days. He is not much improved. wife of G. A. Moseley, age 53. She had been a --News came last week too late for publication of resident of Painesville for many years. Remains the sad death of Mrs. Carrie (Tuttle) Barnes, wife to be deposited in Evergreen Cemetery. of E. P. Barnes, of Cleveland. She had been sick --J. D. Traver, died at his residence on Wood two weeks when the typhoid fever took a new street, Jan. 18, age 78 years. He leaves four turn, aggravated as it was by heart disease. Only children, Miss Mary Traver, Mrs. J. C. Kendrick, a few months ago, she was a bride. The remains Mrs. J. H. Ayer, of Painesville, and Mr. David were taken to the home of her father, Mr. Wm. Traver of Kirtland, O. Tuttle for services, then to the vault in our Mentor Cemetery. Surprise party th Mr. & Mrs. Manley were surprised on the 14 by Madison the arrival of 50 or 60 friends and neighbors for th --Mr. Lyman Stearns, of Bradford, Pa., was in their 11 wedding anniversary. They were given town last week. a black walnut extension table. --Mrs. Joseph Fuller, of North Madison, died last Thursday at the age of 81 yrs. Stray Calves - Dr. E. B. Root is looking to find two Thompson grade Jersey calves which strayed. --Noah Moseley, one of the oldest and most respected of our citizens died last Sat. He leaves The Estate of John Collister, deceased. four children, two sons, Noah F. and Charles C., Thomas Collister is the executor of John Collister, both at present at home, and two daughters, dec., late of Concord, Lake Co., O. who are married and living in the west. South Madison Jan. 29, 1885 Thursday --Mr. Willman Bliss has shipped to the eastern p. 1 col. 8 State and Neighborhood markets nearly a thousand dollars’ worth of --John Kelly, a prominent coal merchant of dressed poultry. Bellaire, died of typhoid fever. --Mr. Montgomery, of Trumbull, is visiting with --Rock Creek Banner – Henry Hoyt climbed a tree his brother, Levi, in this vicinity. 14 feet from a big oak with a big bee hive on it, --Mr. Elliott Hills had a number of bushels of oats put a pole across from where he was to the limb, stolen a few nights ago. walked over, sawed off the limb and got the --Miss Gracie Griswold is on the sick list. honey.

South Concord p. 2 col. 4 Obituary --Mr. & Mrs. Jessie Curtiss have another son. Harvey H. Morse died in Kirtland Jan. 6, 1885. He --Mrs. Fred Colburn, of Ansonia, Conn., is visiting was an old pioneer. He was born in Washington, her father, Mr. J. F. Smith, the 19th being his 84th Berkshire Co., Mass., March 10, 1805. His father birthday. was John Morse. He was directly descended

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Jan. 29, 1885 --Mrs. Nancy Cole, widow of Luther Cole, died at rd from Samuel Morse, who emigrated from her home in Lafayette, N. Y., on the 23 isn’t., at England with his family 250 years ago, 1635. the age of 80. Mrs. Cole was a sister of our John Morse, the father of Harvey H. Morse, townsman, Mr. John House, and formerly traded his farm in Mass. for land in Kirtland. resided in LeRoy. Harvey was married Oct. 4, 1834, to the daughter of Deacon Holbrook, who came to Burton in 1815, and to Kirtland in 1816. He was buried in the South Kirtland Cemetery. H. G. and H. J. Tryon, Henry Booth, S. C. Carpenter, A. Myers, and A. Williams bore his body to the cemetery. p. 3

--Mr. N. M. Duston lives in Dundee, Michigan.

Real Estate Madison Tucker, Asa Johnson, Pearl A. Painesville Streator, W. S.

Gray, Ira Local Brevities Mentor --Mrs. Wm. Slade, of Cleveland, is the guest of Losey, Sylvia P. Mrs. H. C. Gray, St. Clair street. Whitney, Maryette --Mr. L. P. Gage leaves this week to visit his ranch Lapham, Sarah in Indian Territory. Lapham, Lydia --Mrs. W. B. Straight, of Hudson, is the guest of her mother, Mrs. S. A. Tisdel, St. Clair street. Common Pleas Court --Mr. James Miller of Maquoketa, Iowa, formerly The case of Catharine C. Post vs the Village of of Madison, is visiting relatives in Painesville. Painesville was decided by the jury in favor of the --Mrs. Shem Smith and daughter, Carry, formerly plaintiff, for $5,000. old residents of this city, are visiting Mrs. Lon F. Geo. B. Durban vs A. R. Hurd. Judgment for McAleer. plaintiff. --Madison Index: Mr. Sherman Dayton has taken S. W. Smart vs P. H. Brooks. Judgment for to himself a wife. plaintiff. --Mrs. George E. Treadwell, of New Castle, is James C. Fargo vs Martin Noonan and A. Wilcox visiting her mother, Mrs. Thomas Greer, on Erie & Co. street. --While Mr. Cal Arthur, of Perry, was in the woods, last Wed, with his father’s team, they became frightened and ran away. --Mrs. Weltha Phelps, widow of Milo Phelps, died rd in Rio, Wis., on the 23 instant, age 90. She was a pioneer of Painesville.

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Jan. 29, 1885 --Miss Minnie Baker, of North Mentor is very ill. --Old Mrs. Haley was buried last Thursday. She had made her home with her son, Mr. Dan Haley, and was over 80 years of age. Willoughby --Mr. J. H. Boyce, the miller, is in a precarious situation with heart disease. A Bona Fide Surprise --Mrs. Hills, the late wife of J. C. Hills, formerly a Some friends of Mr. J. H. King, of Mentor Ave., merchant of this place, a few days ago died of th surprised him on his birthday, Jan. 24 . He was consumption at Kansas City. Her remains will be 71 yrs. old. brought here for burial. Perry Concord --Mr. O. Manchester, of the Middle Ridge has --Mr. H. S. Fay lost a valuable cow Sunday. sold his farm, known as the Cunningham place to --Mrs. Louisa Fitch has had an attack of Mr. Brooks, formerly of Ashtabula Co. diphtheria. Willoughby Plains --Abner Morse, Mrs. Jesse Emerson and Richard --Mrs. S. W. Brown is confined to the house with Emerson have all been sick, but are better. rheumatism. --Mary Drake is going to N.Y. for several months. --Mr. E. Stockwell is sick with dropsy and --Jonathan Stickney is improving slowly. rheumatism. Hopes are entertained of his LeRoy recovery, --C. C. Carter and family, of Dakota, are visiting at --Mrs. J. C. Campbell is worse. E. W. Taylor’s. --Mr. Ollie Story and Willis French are home from --Mrs. R. A. Bartlett slipped and fell on the ice Cal. where they went for the latter’s health, but one day last week and cut her head and face. he only got worse. --Mr. Otis Warner an old resident of LeRoy, died --Mr. & Mrs. Lewis Kelley have a little girl. at the home of his grandson, Otis A. Warner, Jan. Mentor Headlands th 19 , 1885, age 85 yrs. He had lived in LeRoy Miss Mattie Hungerford was the guest of Miss about 60 yrs. For many years, he and his son-in- Addie Owen over Sunday, law, J. A. Warner, carried on the lumber --Miss Adell Graham is visiting friends in business. Mr. Warner was married three times. Collinwood. His last wife died Sept., 1883. A short time before --Mr. John Byrns is better. her death, his daughter, Mrs. Esther Warner, --Two prizes were awarded at the school house died very suddenly, and in the Nov. following, for the spelling match: One to Ralph Tear and her husband, J. A. Warner died. The deceased one to the youngest daughter of Capt. D. R. was a brother of Oliver Warner, of Unionville, Ingraham. who died a short time ago. Madison --Charlie Childs and David Bliss left for Kansas last Mentor week to seek their fortunes. --The surprise party for Mr. & Mrs. Fred Baker --Miss Clement, of Willoughby spent a few days was an immense affair. Over 150 guests were of last week with Miss Lottie Hall, on West Main present. Some of the gifts given were a pretty street. service of blue and white china, and a set of silver --Mr. D. H. Roe, of Chicago, is spending a short knives and forks. time in Madison. --Mr. Chas. Hart is building a house near his --Mr. L. K. Ritscher has gone to Newark, N. J., to grandfather, Mr. Stephen Hart. attend the funeral of his father. --Mr. Mathew Dickey was given a surprise --Mr. & Mrs. C. E. Lovett had a daughter born birthday party on Friday. last Tuesday.

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Jan. 29, 1885 For Sale – Cattle --Dr. H. A. Sherwood and family have gone to In order to reduce my stock, I will sell a number Mystic Bridge, Conn., where he will practice of short-horn cows and heifers. O. Baker, South medicine. Ridge, Perry. --We regret to record the death of Mr. Jasper Brewster which occurred last Monday. He was Feb. 5, 1885 Thursday born in Washington, Berkshire Co., Mass., in p. 1 col. 8 State and Neighborhood 1798, and moved to Madison with his father’s --Mrs. G. H. Hardy, of Solon, age 35 died from the family in the winter of 1817, having made the effects of a fall on the ice. journey with an ox team and sled. He was a --The large planning mill of D. C. Curry & Co., lineal descendant of William Brewster, a Wooster, was destroyed by fire Thursday, prominent leader of the Plymouth colonists. January 23, 2020 --James Engle, a brakeman on the Panhandle Thompson road, fell while switching in the yard at Dayton, --The new Methodist Church was dedicated and both of his legs were cut off just below the yesterday. Albert M. Stocking, of Painesville, son knee. of Capt. Stocking, of South Madison, had the --Mr. C. T. Schuren, of Cleveland, went to contract for building above the foundation. Youngstown last week and put up at a hotel. He --Mr. & Mrs. John Plank have returned from was found the next morning dead, suffocated by visiting friends in Wayne and Ashland Counties. gas. --Mr. & Mrs. Murray, of Wisconsin, are here. --Miss Ruth E. Markham, a compositor in the They came to attend the funeral of Mrs. Sentinel office, Jefferson, and Mr. O. B. Laughlin, Murray’s father, Esquire Moseley, which of Munson Hill, were married Thursday. occurred on the 19th. p. 2 col. 1 Died --In South Madison, Jan. 8th, Mrs. Harriet Gill, age 69, Mrs. Gill was a daughter of Col. Luther and Lucy Trumbull. She was a native of Groton, Tompkins Co., N.Y. accompanied her parents to Madison, Ohio in 1829, where she has since resided. In 1835, she married John Gill, who died p. 2 col. 5 in 1855, leaving her a widow with six children, Concord Prize Contest four of whom survive her. Mrs. Emma Morse won a year’s subscription to --At her late residence in Cleveland, Jan. 11, of Harper’s Monthly. The school prize typhoid fever and heart disease, Mrs. Carrie C. (Shakespeare’s poems) went to Miss Hattie Barnes, age 27 yrs., 6 mos., 10 days, wife of E. P Corlett. The B School prize (Hawthorn’s Twice- Barnes and youngest daughter of Wm. B. Tuttle. Told tales) to Miss Annie Oliver. The following The remains were brought to her father’s took part in the contest: residence in Concord where funeral services Haskell, Martha Miss were held. Hubbard, A. Mrs. --In Akron, Jan. 18th, 1884, Mrs. Julia A. Ford, age Fitch, Frankie Miss 77 yrs., 11 mos. Hubbard, Nellie Miss Married Merrell, Correll In Kirtland, Jan. 21, 1885, at the residence of the Rogers, Edward J. groom, L. C. Foster and Mrs. Harriet A. Churchill, King, Fred A. of Chardon. Fitch, E. M. Mr. Tuttle, Roy A.

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Feb. 5, 1885 --Mrs. F. Gates, of Washington St., has been --An employee of the Cleveland Rolling Mill Co., confined to her bed most of the time since last named Charles Zimmerman, was crushed to fall. death by iron ore while loading it on cars. --Mrs. J. W. Alexander is home from Brooklyn, N. --Conneaut Reporter: On Sunday the youngest Y., where she has been visiting her sister, Mrs. F. child of Mr. & Mrs. M’Keever, on State street, D. Janvier. She went to Amherst, Mass., to see was seriously if not fatally scalded by pulling a her brother, George Steele, who is attending teapot off the table. The little one was just school there. learning to walk. --Mr. H. W. Tibbals and family have moved to Ad: J. Q. Darrow – Men’s, Youths, Boy’s and Detroit, Mich., where Mr. Tibbals will be Children’s clothing. Painesville, Ohio connected with the Tomlinson Art Gallery. --Mrs. Isaac Gillett, over 90 years old, is still p. 3 confined to her bed most of the time. She told a story to her sister, Mrs. Aaron Williams, about a cousin of theirs whose husband kept a country inn and in accordance with the prevailing custom sold liquor. She could not keep him from selling it, but she gave bread to the wives and children of the husbands to whom liquor was sold. --Mrs. James Mason, widow of the late Judge Mason, of Cleveland, spent a few days in the city with her cousin, Mrs. C. C. Pease, of Washington St. Mrs. Mason and her daughters, Miss Mason Local Brevities and Miss May, are the guests of Mrs. Garfield in --Mrs. J. R. Price, of Cleveland, is visiting at the Cleveland. She will later return to Saratoga Childs’ homestead, St. Clair St. Springs where her mother, Mrs. Buel, and her --Mrs. D. J. Sherman, wife of the editor of the brother, Dr. Robinson, are at present. Ashtabula Standard, died last week; age 61. Real Estate --Miss Nellie Case, of Wilson Ave., is the guest of Painesville her cousin, Mrs. Laura K. Axtell, on the Park. Sawyer, Daniel --Harry Elias left for Milwaukee, Wis., Thursday King, Jane E. to occupy a position with the wholesale crockery Warner, S. C. house of Avery, Smith & Co. Page, E. S. --Mrs. Albert Pepoon gave and enjoyable euchre Mentor party on Thursday evening. Whitney, Maryette --Clyde, the son of Mr. F. Gates, is one of the boys Prentiss, Noyes B. at Hudson College, who has not been quite well Hayes, Emma D. of late, and was obliged to come home for two Andrews, Oliver weeks. Mentor nd --The New Lisbon Journal of the 2 records, the --Mr. & Mrs. Warren Gilbert have been death of Mr. Freeman Morrison, age 81 yrs. He entertaining relatives from the east, during the was a pioneer of Columbiana Co. He was father past few days. of Mr. D. G. Morrison, of this city. --Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Humphrey, of Willoughby, --Mrs. Emily Kerr, of Liberty street, gave a family called on Mentor friends Saturday party including a few intimate friends on Sat. --Mr. James Doty has purchased the grocery that is spoken of as one of the most pleasant stock of Mr. C. Prentiss. social gatherings of the season.

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Feb. 5, 1885 --Wm. Houliston injured his shoulder in a fall last --L. Jacks has closed his drug store for the week. present. --Mrs. E. Atkinson is a very sick woman. --Mr. Orson Root is teaching at the Mountain and --Frank H. Durban, of Collinwood, died of typhoid Frank Ferris is teaching in the Storrs & Harrison fever on Tuesday, age 35. District. --Arthur Fowles, of Wabash, Ind., is visiting his Little Mountain parents here. --Miss Paula Zielie is on the sick list. --R. C. Bates is making improvements to his drug -Miss Lizzie Manchester is recovering from store. diphtheria. --G. S. Eddy is going to the west to look after --Mr. Fred Manchester has killed 200 rabbits. some Government land which he is entitled to by --Mr. & Mrs. A. H. Sherman were called to a law of Congress. Ashtabula last week to attend the funeral of Mrs. --Mrs. A. Young is unwell and confined to her Daniel Sherman on the 29th. house. --At the oyster super social held at the home of --Frederick Payne is not improving in health and Mr. Azariah Pinney on the 29th, Miss Electa there is little hope of his recovery. Pinney won the beautiful quilt. --Mrs. S. Miller, who resides with Mrs. Storm, is Madison quite sick with fever, --Mrs. James Frazer, of Cleveland, is visiting the --Miss A. Pelton had her elbow dislocated. family of Rev. J. G. Fraser. --Rev. Frank M. Hall went out sleighing on Sat., th --Mr. D. H. Roe returned to Chicago, several of his 49 birthday. his former employees accompanied him. --John Dowan, an old resident of this place, died th South Thompson on Sunday of old age, in his 89 year. He had --Mrs. Albert Allen is very low and cannot survive suffered from rheumatism for 30 -40 years. but a short time. --Mrs. G. Osmond is finally getting better. Geauga County --Mrs. William Sidley and Miss Maggie Sidley --Dr. Frank S. Pomeroy, of Montville, is attending have been spending a few days in Cleveland. medical lectures in New York City. --Emma Spencer is visiting her sister, Mrs. John --Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon M. Chase, of East Claridon, Morse, of Perry. are visiting friends in Michigan. --Mr. Frank Jackson and sister, Hattie, and Miss Housewarming in LeRoy Lucy Fitch, of Chester, are spending a few days in One of the most enjoyable events of the season this vicinity. was the housewarming of S. J. Potts, Jan. 27, --Mr. & Mrs. John Cashen have a new daughter. when more than 100 friends and neighbors met --Mr. Guy Switzer died very suddenly Sunday of in their fine new residence. Miss Sophronia heart disease. He was about 30 yrs. old. He Carter sang “The old Musician and his Harp” and leaves a wife and a son. The remains will be Will Kelly and Miss Lida Kewish sang songs taken to Stark Co., his former home. together. Olney Bates and his two sons played Willoughby numbers on their horns. --G. W. Tryon, a son of Hon. & Mrs. H. G. Tryon is Card of Thanks – Mrs. Nancy Ackley thanks her very sick at Hudson where he is preparing for many friends and neighbors for their kindness college. and sympathy through the sickness and death of --Mrs. Kizzie Hastings is suffering from a severe her husband. attack of inflammatory rheumatism. Her son, Married Bennie, is suffering from nervous headache In Cleveland, Jan. 28, `885, at the home of the brought on by hard study. bride’s parents, 663 Superior street, Mr. W. M. --William Durban is quite unwell. Werner, of Painesville, and Miss Bertha L.

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Feb. 5, 1885 Legal Notice Keener. The bride was formerly a resident of George Nye, and Trustees of the First Disciple Painesville. Church, of Painesville, Ohio vs Ohio Christian Wanted - Cheap breeding mares wanted. O.. J. Missionary Soc. Re: Real estate on Jackson Robinson. Painesville street, Painesville, Ohio. For Sale – The Everett homestead in Richmond, p. 3 Has a letter in the Painesville P. O. two miles north of the court house. Isaac Everett, Painesville Estate of John Evins N. O. Gilbert is the adm. of John Evins, dec., late of Painesville, Lake Co., Ohio.

Probate Notice

For Sale – P. H. Towel, Concord, Ohio, is selling a Local Brevities span of gray mares, full sisters, 6 and 7 years old. --Mrs. Anna M. Bellows, of Gloversville, N. Y., was the guest of Mrs. A. M. Frisbie over Sunday. --Mr. & Mrs. Samuel K. Gray, of Liberty street, Feb. 12, 1885 Thursday entertained a party of friends on Monday night. p. 1 col. 8 State and Neighborhood—Mrs. --Mr. Seymour J. Kelley is convalescing. George Zeigler, of Wellsburgh, died from the --Mr. Harry Bosworth, of Adelbert College, spent effects of a fall received at a skating rink. the Sabbath in the city with his parents. --Financial troubles caused James McCarthy, of --Mr. & Mrs. H. E. Hayes, (nee Morley) of Wayne, Champaign Co., to commit suicide. Cleveland, were in town as guests of Mrs. Albert --Charles C. Floom, for several years a successful Morley. dealer in groceries in Massillon, died Thursday --H. C. Vancor had the misfortune to have two of from the effects of excessive drinking. Age 30 his fingers, smashed in a cogwheel, Friday. and leaves a wife and child. --Robert Law, of Conneaut, proposes to build a --Eli Hall, employed in stock yards at East Toledo, flat boat and ride on it from Conneaut Creek to fell down and a spike entered his head. He is New Orleans. likely to recover. --Mr. Charles Durban skated one hundred miles --Conneaut Reporter David Sharp has obtained at the rink, Monday inside of ten hours. He was judgement against the city of Erie for injuries successful over nine competitors in winning the received by falling through a hole in the prize of a pair of skates. sidewalk. --Mr. & Mrs. W. M. Werner held a reception at --Jefferson Sentinel: Miss Mary, daughter of their home on State street, Tuesday. About 50 Horace Wolcott, of this place, who has been and ladies and gentlemen were present. suffering for years, died on Sunday. p. 2 col. 1 Nathan Benjamin, said to be the oldest Mason in Ohio, died at Dayton last week, age 94. p. 2 col. 5 Notice of Sale Frank J. Jerome, adm. of Landon Smith, is selling land in Painesville.

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Feb. 12, 1885 --Mr. Henry Tucker and Mr. Edgar Stetsin are numbered with the sick. --Mr. V. Phelps, of LeRoy, has closed a very successful term of school in the Winterstein district, and his brother, Arthur, closes another at Footville this week. --Mr. J. B. Foskett and granddaughter return to --Mr. C. D. Adams yesterday received their New Hampshire home this week. intelligence of the death of his brother, Mr.

Harrison Adams, at his home in Edwardsburg, Mentor Mich., on Monday of this week, age 73 yrs. Mr. --Mr. William Durban has been very sick and was Adams was formerly a resident of this county not able to attend the funeral of his son. and for some time, when land travel was all by stage, kept a popular hotel in Perry.

Real Estate Madison Burns, Fanny Burns, Gilbert Wade, Julia A. Smead, Ellen H. Smead, Harrison W. Smead, Jas P. Smead, Harriet W. LeRoy Warner, Otis

Warner, Otis A. --Miss Emma Cleveland has been sick with Perry measles, as has also her brother, George, who Blach, Dan E. picked up the disease in Cleveland. Last week, Craine, Philena L. the mother, Mrs. Cleveland, was taken ill with Painesville the same disease but is now somewhat better. Brainard, Noah --Mr. John Cudney is very ill at present with Evins, John pleuro-pneumonia, and little encouragement is Warner, Otis given by his physicians for his recovery. Later— Warner, Otis A. Mr. Cudney died. He leaves a wife and three little Kirtland children. Webster, A. J. Perry Long, Sabra --Mr. O. Manchester has bought the Isham place, Sanborn, A. E. located opposite the North M. E. Church on the Sanborn, Liva B. Middle Ridge. Willoughby --Died on Wed., Fred, only child of H. G. Whiting, Wing, Ord R. Unionville Roberts, Lottie --Mr. Hardy’s son, Charlie, has been very sick Beebe Ezra with membranous croup. Brown Hiram – heirs Willoughby Brown, Ethan A. --Charles Sharp has been sick with pleuro- South Thompson pneumonia. --Mrs. Albert Allen remains about the same.

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Feb. 12, 1885 --John Havener, with his son and brother were --Thomas Nash, of St. Louis, is visiting his mother walking on the train tracks in Cleveland when here. they were struck by a locomotive. Both the men --Mr. & Mrs. H. F. Smith have moved into their were killed and the boy maimed for life. house on First street. --John Babb, age 81, died in Wooster last --Frederick Payne died Sat. night, age 22. Thursday. He is said to be the oldest red man in --Mr. & Mrs. G. N. Davis, of Cuyahoga Falls, have the United States and the oldest Mason in Ohio. been visiting the family of J. Shennan. p. 3 Letters uncalled for at the Painesville P. O. as --Miss Jennie Law, the only daughter of Mr. & of Feb. 18, 1885: Mrs. David Law, died Sat. night, age 19.

Died On the 4th inst., Freddie, son of Henry and Rose Whiting, in Perry, age 12 yrs., 3 mos., and 6 days. For Rent – The boarding and sale stable occupied by Z. H. Curtiss will be for rent from April 1. S. Burridge

Feb. 19, 1885 Thursday p. 2 col. 4 State and Neighborhood --Hiram Atkins, was a wealthy farmer, who lived in Norwich, Huron Co., with his second wife. He had three children by a former wife living with Local Brevities him and a hired man. On Wed. morning, the --Mr. M. L. Saunders, of St. Paul, Minn., was in house burned down and the bodies of Mr. Atkins the city over Sunday. and the children were found. Mrs. Atkins and the --Mrs. T. L. Bartlett has been seriously ill with hired man had taken a west bound train at 2 a.m. congestion of the lungs. Detectives are hunting up the fugitives. --Mr. T. R. Green, of New York, was the guest of --After a courtship of eleven years, Lydia Harris Mr. & Mrs. R. S. Wood last week. and James Mumma, of Dayton, eloped one night --Mr. Harry S. Barstow, of Columbus, Ohio, made last week. a short visit to his parents the first of the week. --Mintie Morrison has obtained a verdict in the --Mr. & Mrs. T. L. Perine entertained a pleasant Mahoning Common Pleas Court for $6,500 company of young people on Monday evenings. against the N. Y. P. & O. R. R. for the death of her --Mr. R. J. Schweninger in the Stockwell House brother while in the employ of the company as a block, has everything thing in the line of a first- brakeman. class undertaking establishment. --A Toledo laborer named John Mahoney was --A brilliant wedding occurred in St. Paul’s crushed to death by the caving in of a bank Episcopal Church, Cleveland, last Wed., when where he was at work. He leaves a wife and Harry K. Devereux and Miss Mildred A. French, seven children. daughter of Mr. Julius E. French, were married. --M. H. Pancost, of Geneva, lost all his fingers on --Messrs. Barnes & Searl have disposed of their one hand by a saw at the skewer works. stock of drugs and groceries to W. M. Werner, --Miss Etta Steward, a prospective heiress of who will continue the business. Steubenville, married her father’s coachman. --Mr. Cassius Palmer is expected at the Palmer --Mitchell Lyon of Jefferson, age 57, died homestead tomorrow (Thursday), from San suddenly last week of heart disease. Francisco, where he went in late November. He may move his family here very soon.

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Feb. 19, 1885 --Mr. Solomon Youmans died suddenly Sat. He worked as usual Friday, ate dinner, went to the barn to see to the cattle and was half an hour later found unconscious. He regained consciousness once and then became unconscious again. He was born in Colesville, Brown Co., N. Y., came to Ohio when 14 yrs. old, lived here 52 yrs. He married Mrs. Harriet Hyde, who with two daughters, survives him.

Willoughby --Sidney Wilson, of Adelbert College, was home last week on a short vacation. Obituary --Mr. & Mrs. McKinnie are at O. H. Sharp’s, taking Died at Charlotte, Mich., Feb. 13, 1885, Jerusha, good care of their brother, Charles O. Sharp, who wife of the late W. H. Gaines, age 66. She died at this writing, is worse. of atrophy of the liver after a long illness. She --Mrs. O. N. Barber is visiting in Kingsville, leaves a daughter, who has had to part with both Ashtabula Co. her parents in the last 13 months. She was buried --A few days ago, J. C. Hills, a late merchant in by the side of her husband in Lake View town here died at Kansas City and his remains Cemetery. will be brought to town to be buried by the side Death of Mrs. Mary Davis of his late wife, who was buried here about two Mrs. Davis, widow of the late John Davis, of weeks ago. Kirtland, died at Mentor at the home of her --Mrs. C. D. Clark was called to Detroit last week th brother, Mr. William Lawrence, on Feb. 14 . She by the sickness of her mother. was a sister of Mrs. Emily Kerr, of this city. She --On Sat. evening, the Crawford-Collister skating died of congestion of the lungs. The remains rink was opened and many came here from were taken to Mentor Cemetery for interment. Euclid, Collinwood, and adjacent towns and filled the rink to its fullest capacity. Compliment to and Old Resident --W. T. Slayton is confined to his house by An Omaha correspondent of the Boston Evening sickness. Traveller, writes about a former Painesville boy. --Charles O. Sharp died on Sunday of typhoid Mr. P. P. Shelby, the general freight agent, is pneumonia, age 43 yrs. nearly 40 yrs. old and a native of Painesville, Perry Ohio. He started his career as a brakeman in --It is rumored that Dr. F. H. Todd is again to favor April, 1866, on the U.P.R.R. In 1876, he was Perry as a resident. elected to the lower branch of the Nebraska Mentor legislature. --Mr. & Mrs. Will Conklin, of Chicago, are at the George Rose homestead for a time. Willoughby Plains --The news that Mr. Joseph Rudolph has gone --Mr. & Mrs. E. N. Hyde have a son and heir. into the “summer hotel” business with Mr. Avery --There are many sick. Mrs. N. P. Downing is was quite a surprise to Mentor neighbors. under the doctor’s care. --The family of W. H. Wetherill are expected here --Mr. Philip Barnhardt has been sick for some soon. Mr. W. has purchased the home of F. W. time and it is feared he cannot recover. Gulliford, at the Center (the Bradly place). --Mr. Willie French, who has been sick nearly two --Mrs. Mary Davis, of your city, died very years, died Sat. night. suddenly, Sat., at the home of her brother, Mr. William Lawrence. Mrs. Davis came to Mentor a

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Feb. 19, 1885 short time ago to visit her niece, Mrs. Warren Dickey. --Miss Emily Griswold died at the home of W. Dickey at the Center Tuesday.

Thompson --Mr. Charles Green and others have been cutting and putting up ice from Mr. H. Mathews’ pond. LeRoy --Charlie Keneipp, of Nebraska, but formerly a resident of LeRoy, is visiting relatives and friends in town. --Mrs. Noble, of Ashtabula, is visiting her sister, Mrs. John Harrison. --Jacob Teachout, an old resident of LeRoy, died on the 7th, age 85.

Madison --Mr. & Mrs. H. J. Saxton have returned from New York. --Mr. Charles Smead is slowly recovering from injuries received from falling from the stairs at the roller-skating rink two weeks ago. --Feb. 10th, Richard Harold, the night watchman on the Lake Shore discovered the body of Dennis O’Conner, who was a section hand, about 60 yrs. old, who is supposed to have been struck by a train and instantly killed. For Sale – One span of matched bay horses 5 yrs. old next spring. L. K. Locy, Hambden Mentor Headlands For Sale - A few choice Plymouth Rock Cockerels. --Mr. Ernest Slitor, of Cleveland, made a quick O. S Crowl, Mentor, O. visit to his father recently. Found - Cross cut saw with single handle, also a Kirtland whip. R. N. Skillthorp. --Mrs. Jenkins, a resident of Kirtland, died last Fence Posts for Sale Wed. She was the mother of Mrs. Turk, of our Second growth chestnut fence posts for sale village, and would have been 85 yrs. old in cheap. Wm. Edwin, North Madison, O. March. Her husband died two years ago at the age of 91. They were married 64 years. Feb. 26, 1885 Thursday South Madison p. 2 col. 4 State and Neighborhood --A brother of Francis Headly, of Michigan, is --Simon Haukey, a businessman of Akron, died visiting relatives hereabouts. recently from injuries received by being thrown --Mr. Jay Scott and family, formerly of this place, out of his sleigh. now of Kansas, have returned and plan to live --Ashtabula Telegraph: In digging a gas well at here for a while. the harbor, Anthony Prarie, John Fratus, John --Mrs. Ada Day is visiting relatives in Lenox.

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Feb. 26, 1885 --Albert Weed, son of Mr. Delos Weed, of LeRoy Foster and Joe Jackson were working on the well had both bones of his left leg broken when a tree when the gas exploded killing John Fratus and he was chopping fell on him. severely injuring Foster and Prarie. John Fratus --Friends of Mr. P. Brick gave him a surprise party was about 28 yrs. old and leaves a wife and an one evening recently. th infant child. --The 85 birthday of Mr. Dudley Crofoot, of --New Lisbon Journal: J. Tanny, age 97, died at LeRoy, was observed Monday by a gathering of East Palestine one day last week. about 40 friends and neighbors. His daughter, --Bellefontaine is the highest point in Ohio, being Mrs. Tanswell, provided an excellent dinner. Mr. 1540 above the sea level. Crofoot has been a resident of LeRoy for about --T. J. Goldsmith, of Youngstown, has a collection 60 yrs. of 600,000 stamps, some of them 297 years old. Death of Col. Russell The Harrington Farm Col. David Russell died at his rooms at the Cowles st The Harrington Stock Farm at Rock Creek, House on the 21 . inst. He died of enlargement Ashtabula Co., O., is another of the growing of the prostate gland. His daughters were sent breeding establishments of Northern Ohio. It for: Mrs. A. W. Pratt (nee Agnes Russell), of Red was established a little over a year ago. Wing, Minn., and Mrs. W. J. Pratt, of Des Moines, Iowa. Mr. Russell was born in Richfield, State of p. 3 Letters uncalled for at the Painesville P. O. New York, from whence he moved to Detroit, as of Feb. 25, 1885: Michigan, and several years later moved to Cleveland. He was one of the early members of the Cleveland Grays. In the winter of 1832-33 he came to Painesville where he has since resided. His body was deposited in the vault at Evergreen Cemetery.

Local Brevities --Mr. J. Houghton purchased a dressed hog Monday, of R. E. Phillips, of Montville, which weighed 685 lbs. --Mr. & Mrs. Horace F. Newcomb celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on the 19th. Index --Mr. H. Pincus received some Columbia River Salmon by express from Portland, Oregon. --Mr. Cecil Pomeroy, of Painesville, will make the cheese at the Chardon factory the coming season. --Mrs. Henry K. Raynolds, of Orange, N. J., has been seriously ill for two weeks. --Mrs. W. T. Culbertson, of Mentor, age 48 died very suddenly Tuesday of heart disease. The remains were taken to Wooster for interment.

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Feb. 26, 1885 Mentor August G. Hatry vs the P. & Y. Ry. Co. All property Mr. & Mrs. Myron Tuttle, of Fargo, Dakota, were of the railway company ordered to be sold. guests at the Aldrich homestead a portion of last week. --Mr. Melville Blodgett has been very ill with pneumonia. --Mr. Norman Frost spent a portion of last week in Warren. --The family of Mr. W. H. Wetherly arrived several days ago, and that of F. W. Gulliford left for Virginia last week. --Mr. Milan Clapp has been very ill at his home in New York City. --The family of Captain James Smith, who live in southern Kansas, write that they have had to keep a fire in their cellar a good part of the winter to prevent everything from freezing solid. --Mrs. Martindale, the mother of Mrs. Thomas Willoughby Morley, has been quite well all winter, although The funeral of Charles O. Sharp was largely she is 86 yrs. old. attended at the house of his father, O. H. Sharp. --Mrs. Jennie Barnes is very sick and her friends Madison have little hope of her recovery. --Miss Ada Lee, of Cleveland, is home on a visit. --Miss Clara Sanford, of Cleveland, is visiting at --Miss Frankie Ensign teaches in Chester, O. Rev. F. M. Hall’s. --Sunday morning when Samuel Ross and his --Willie Baldwin, of Chicago, was visiting at J. H. sister were on the way to church, the sleigh Boyce’s last week and got up a tandem sleighride turned over, throwing them out and breaking for the benefit of six young ladies Saturday. Miss Ross’ arm. --Miss B. Comstock, of Euclid Ave., is at Mr. & LeRoy Mrs. J. T. Robinson’s. --There is considerable sickness around now. --Mrs. M. D. Law is still at her parental home. Josephine Doncaster was quite sick with --Miss O. Graves is visiting with Miss Violet diphtheria and Willie Kewish had an attack of Jenkins at her father’s. inflammation of the lungs. –Mr. Ezra Graham, an --Miss Frank Storm is still unwell and Miss Eva old citizen of LeRoy, died of consumption last Waite takes her place at the organ in Grace Thursday, age 70 yrs. He leaves a wife and seven Church. children. --Hiram G. Lyon was home over the Sabbath this week. His father, O. S. Lyon, is still confined to his Letter from Mexico – from Orizaba, Mexico, Jan. room by sickness. 9th, 1885. Describes the area and customs. --George F. Law, of the class of ’86 in the In Memoriam – by Nettie King, Mentor, Feb. 19 Philadelphia Medical College passed an 1885 examination in the junior class and is entitled to Miss Emily Griswold. She was 67 yrs. old and was be called doctor. born in Mentor and was a sister of Mrs. Chas. Tuttle and the late Isaac Griswold and Mrs. Nathan Goodell. Married - Feb. 23, Miss Hattie Dyer of Painesville, and Thomas S. Belden, of Avon Springs, N. Y.

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Feb. 26, 1885 Local Brevities Obituary --Benjamin Cowles, age 80, died in Chardon last Died in south Mentor, at the home of his week. daughter, Mrs. Julius Hart, on the 9th inst., Alva --Mrs. J. Lacy Pierson, of South street, leaves Brown, age 88 yrs. He was born Aug. 16, 1796, home on Thurs. to visit her sister in Newark, N. J. in Palmer, Hambden Co., Mass., and married --Mr. S. K. Stage has purchased the roller rink. April 13, 1820, to Miss Sally Anderson, and --Mr. & Mrs. Franz Warner, of Bryon, have been moved to Kirtland in 1827, where he resided 46 visiting Painesville friends the past week. years. He had five children, of whom, Mrs. Julius --Mathew Bostwick, age 67, an old resident of Hart alone survives. He survived his wife by but Painesville, died rather suddenly last Friday. a few years. --Zora Bennett, of Perry, has been drawn to serve For Sale – F. F. Bernard, Nurseryman, is selling on the U. S. Grand Jury, Cleveland, in April. his residence in town, on Wood Street. --Mr. H. W. Britton, of Cleveland, was in town For Sale - Joseph Myer, Painesville is selling his Friday. He says he may possibly return to house and 7 acres of land on State street. Painesville to reside. The Estate of Joseph Fuller --Mr. & Mrs. C. Harrington, Mr. Arthur Baldwin William E. Fuller is the executor of Joseph Fuller, and Mrs. Beardslee are among the visitors at dec., late of Madison, Lake Co., Ohio. New Orleans. --Mr. & Mrs. N. S. McAbbee and son, of Prospect St., Cleveland, spent the Sabbath with Mr. & Mrs. Mar. 5, 1885 Thursday H. Green, of Erie St. p. 1 col. 8 State and Neighborhood --Mr. C. Devoe left Friday to visit his old home in –William Pedan, age 99, soldier of 1812, died in Newark. Wellsville last week. --Mr. & Mrs. C. L. Keener, of Madison, will attend --M. H. Gilkison, the first male child born in the Inaugural ceremonies at Washington as Mansfield, died last week, age 74. guests of Col. W. T. Fitch. --Henry Ryder, of Austinburg, celebrated his --Mrs. H. P. Sanford and Miss Sanford, of State golden wedding recently and the day following street, have been visiting their relatives, the was taken sick and died. family of Rev. R. L. Ganter, in Akron. --Charles Paddock, of Cleveland, engineer on the --Mrs. J. F. Scranton, of West Main street, N. Y. P. & O. R. R., died last Wed. from injuries Geneva, has been dangerously ill for four weeks, received by falling under the wheels of his but great hopes are now entertained for her locomotive and having both legs cut off. recovery. --Henry Jennings, while working about some --H. C. Durand, of Painesville, and S. C. Carpenter, machinery in the Akron flouring mill, had his of Kirtland, have been drawn to serve as petit right arm caught between two cog wheels and jurors in the U.S. District Court at Cleveland, April pulled out of the socket. The injury was fatal. term. --The funeral of Nellie, daughter of Mr. Potter, of --Mr. & Mrs. J. S. Bartholomew, of Grand Forks, Geneva, residing in South Broadway, was Dakota, are here and will stay until April 1st. attended by the members of her Grammar --Franklin Stone, age 74, an old resident of school class. Ashtabula Standard Geauga Co., died in Chardon last week. He was p. 3 the father of Wallace Stone, of Chardon, and Mrs. S. Burridge, of this city. --Lake Co. has one inmate at the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home at Xenia, John Miller. We are entitled to three.

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Mar. 5, 1885 --Mr. Ernest Woolever, of Rock Creek and Mr. p. 3 col. 3--Died: Louisa May Casterline, March Calvin Hurlburt, of Youngstown, are in town. 4th, at the home of her father, Mr. Z. F. --Fred Vrooman, a middle-age man, fell at the Casterline, age 22 yrs. Only last Nov., Mr. skating rink and broke his leg just above the Casterline lost his wife. ankle. This is the first skating accident of any He has one remaining daughter, age 15. consequence. --Mr. R. R. Latham, of the Middle Ridge, and Sudden Death Frank Wood are seriously ill with pneumonia. Mrs. Abner Allen, of Madison, died on Sat. She Real Estate was a nurse and had dressed many babies for the Madison first time—over 100. She was often a member Atwood, Geo. of the family of W. W. Dingley. Thompson, Nathan Atwood, Phebe Dixon, R. Hill, J. Almeda Berry, Lemuel Hall, A. A. Moseley, Albert N. LeRoy Crofoot, Julia A. Skillthorp, Robert N. Phelps, Arthur C. Phleps, Verner M. Phelps, Isaiah Perry Manchester, Orsemus Brooks, Gifford, L. Axtell, Eliza a. Axtell, Lucian V. Concord Underwood, C. s. Brown, Geo. Barnes, Edward P. Tuttle, Lloyd G. Madison Painesville --Miss Hattie Barton, of Kingsville, is visiting Miss Little, Lydia A. M. Chloe Colby. Brakeman, R. J. --Dennis O’Neill, an indigent person, was taken Rooker Jr., Jesse to the county infirmary last week. Rooker, Lillian Jessie --Mr. A. B. Childs will take his family to Kansas Mentor next month where he will engage in farming. Durban, Jane E. --Dr. Dwight Johnson, of Conn., is to locate in Glazier, N. P. Madison. Guilliford, Cora L. --Mrs. Serena Allen, widow of Abner Allen, died Weatherell, W. H. suddenly last Friday. Hodge, Edwin E. --Dr. Will Patch, a recent graduate of Western Woodbury, Benj. B. Reserve Medical College, in Cleveland, is at home on a visit.

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Mar. 5, 1885 of him completing the course of study at the Willoughby Cleveland Medical College. --There was a 5-mile race on skates at the rink Sat. night. Young Edward Maloney won the prize A Letter from the City of Mexico in about 20 minutes. Another letter from our friend in Mexico, Jan. 27, --Hiram G. Lyon was at home over Sabbath. 1885. Everyone goes out to their meals which --J. H. Boyce is out again though he is not much are cooked over charcoal in the open spaces of better. restaurants. --A. E. Miller intends to engage in the clothing and tailoring business in town. Old Snowy Winter – A. G. Riddle gives his --G. W. Clement presides over the Soldiers’ recollections of cold winters. In 1815, snow fell Monument Fund. in Burton in the middle of June to a depth of 4 or --S. W. Smart, the banker, is hauling stone for a 5 inches. new block of buildings on the southeast side of Married Erie street, opposite Kennedy & Son’s new --At the home of the bride’s parents, near building in the village. Painesville, Feb. 25, 1885, Rev. Wm. W. Curtiss, --Miss Nellie Flickinger has gone to Westerville, Missionary to Japan, and Miss Lydia V. Cone. Ohio, to see her sister, Mrs. Todd., who is in a Died th critical condition. April 9 , 1883, Alonzo West, age 65 yrs., 4 mos., 3 days. Mrs. Lydia West, wife of Alonzo West, Concord died Dec. 30, 1884, 65 yrs., 6 mos., 6 days. Both --Miss Lennie Huntoon, who has been visiting in died in Oakley, Saginaw Co., Mich. Cleveland the past winter, returned home last Wed. Charity Ball - In an article in the Times, Des LeRoy Moines, Iowa, regarding a charity ball given Feb. th --B. F. Wright is on the sick list. 9 , we see the names of our friends, Mr. & Mrs. --Robert Skillthorp has bought the farm owned W. J. Pratt, formerly of this city. Mrs. Pratt, the by Mrs. Ansel Crofoot. daughter of Col. David Russell, was one of the --G. A. Wright has bought a farm in the loveliest of Painesville’s society belles. Mr. Pratt, northwest part of Hambden known as the Bigsby the nephew of Mr. Pliny Pratt, was at one time a farm. member of the old mercantile firm of P. Pratt & --I. Phelps has sold his chair factory to his sons, Co.—Since preparing the above for publication, Arthur and V. M. Phelps, who will continue the Mrs. Pratt has been summoned here to the business. bedside of her dying father. Mrs. W. J. Pratt and Mr. A. Pratt, his son-in-law, from Red Wing, were Mentor present. --Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Fitzpatrick are attending the New Orleans’ Exposition. Probate Notice --Clark Hendryx is at home from Hiram College for spring vacation. --Miss Dollie Parker, of Munson, is very ill at the home of her cousin, Mr. Chas. Parker. --Little Maud Harmon is very sick with black measles. --Bryon Carpenter received a basket of flowers from our Mentor ladies a few days ago in honor

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Mar. 12, 1885 Thursday --Miss Mary Smith, daughter of Mrs. Landon p. 2 col. 1 Mr. & Mrs. S. W. Perry, of Berea, closed Smith of the Avenue, has been an invalid for the damper on the hard coal burner and retired many weeks past. to bed early. At 9 o’clock, their son returned --Mr. & Mrs. Ed. Baker, of Erie St., were surprised home and found his parents unconscious and the by a party of friends calling upon them. rooms filled with gas. Mr. Perry died the next --Mr. M. L. Saunders, of St. Paul, Minn., was in morning, age 76 years. the city yesterday enroute home from New York, where he has been under medical treatment for p. 2 col. 6 State and Neighborhood several weeks. His health is much improved. --Peter Buchtel, age 84, pioneer of Summit Co., --Mrs. H. L. Bastow, of Jackson street, has had a died last week. period of long continued failing health. --Mr. H. N. Smalley, an old and respected --Mr. C. M. Tenney, formerly of this county, th businessman, of Jefferson, died Wed., at the age wrote from his home at Fayette, Wis., March 4 of 75. that at different places it has been 42 degrees below zero. p. 3 --Mr. B. F. Stephens of “Cedar Lawn,” Flatbush, N, Y., has been in the city for a few days on business with the Painesville Water Works. Mrs. Stephens and her father, Mr. Wicks, and Mrs. Brainard, Mr. Stephen’s sister, accompanied Mr. Stephen to Niagara Falls to see the ice bridge. --Mrs. Martha Curtiss lately of this city, writes to a friend from 196 Orange St., Newark, N. J., of the death of her aunt, Mrs. Condit, her mother’s sister. Miss Irene Barlow, is the sister of Mrs. Condit. Miss Barlow is known in Painesville as the youngest sister of the late Mrs. Lyman Root, whom she used to visit here.

Local Brevities --Mr. J. Healy Morley, of Cleveland, paid his mother a visit last week. --The report that Mr. S. K. Stage had purchased the skating rink is not true. --Mr. John Brennan is in town today. He has located in Buffalo and purchased the Terrapin Lunch Rooms. --Mr. J. H. King’s brother and family, of Denver, Col., are visiting them at their home on the Ave. --We notice by the Falls City, Nebraska, Journal, that Mr. Theodore Pepoon has retired from the paper and his son, Percy Pepoon, has assumed control. --Will Woodard went to Willoughby Sat. night as the champion skater of Lake Co. and engaged in Death of Walter Duffey a competition with the champion of Collinwood, Mr. Martin Duffey received a telegram from the coming out second best. Sec. of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers

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Mar. 12, 1885 at Denver, Colorado, announcing the death of his South Thompson son, Walter, Sunday night from rupture. He had --Emma Spencer is spending a few weeks with been in Colorado for three years and running a her sister, Mrs. John Morse, of Perry. locomotive since last Nov. He was 25 years old --Mrs. Switzer may lease her farm to a Mr. last Dec., an only son. The body was forwarded Stowe, of Montville. to Painesville. --Willie Croft will assist Mr. Frank Gee on his farm the coming season. Mentor --Miss Dell Dutton is to teach the Burg School the --The basket of Flowers presented to Dr. Byron coming term. Carpenter was from his Cleveland friends not the Mentor ladies as was stated last week. --Mrs. Daniel Hart was surprised by a party of relatives on Wed. of last week for her birthday. LeRoy --Mr. & Mrs. J. B. Whipple have added a baby girl to their family. --Ida Jepson, youngest daughter of S. H. Jepson, Willoughby was accidentally shot through the arm last week --Mr. C. C. Fitch, the blacksmith, moved his by a boy named Asa Bascom while playing with a family to Brooklyn, N. Y., last week. revolver. --George Cline fell in the skating rink and broke --Mr. & Mrs. W. M. Baker have added a son to his right arm. their family. --Mr. & Mrs. E. D. Congden, the bride and groom, --Del Williams and family left here last week for have returned to Mr. Stockwell’s, their their home in Muskegon, Mich. Willoughby home. --Deacon T. S. Harbach has been appointed Little Mountain cemetery trustee in place of C. O. Sharp, dec. --Mr. Hamilton Carver, who has been ill with lung --Hiram G. Lyon was at home over Sabbath. He is complaint, is slowly recovering. suffering from Bright’s disease. --Mr. Jacob Lewis, of Owosso, Mich., is a guest of --Mrs. W. A. Lillie does not seem to gain much Mr. J. W. Babcock. strength. --Mrs. E. C. Tyler, who is prostrated with paralysis, is now under the doctor’s care. Perry --Mrs. H. H. Shephard, who has been a very great Concord sufferer with a cancer, is now very low and --A party of 17, from Hambden, gave Mrs. cannot survive long. Maunder a surprise party on the 61st birthday. Mentor Headlands --Mr. Samuel Rogers is dangerously ill with --Mr. J. W. Titus is visiting friends at congestion of the lungs. Independence, Iowa. --Jason Jewell had what is supposed to be a Madison stroke of apoplexy several weeks ago. His mind --Mr. & Mrs. A. Boyer, formerly of this place, are seems to be affected as he cannot control all his visiting in town. movements. --Miss Hattie Warner fell and broke her arm --Mrs. John McGorin is very low of a stroke of while skating last Friday. paralysis. --An indigent family by the name of Spaulding --Mr. James Oliver lost his youngest child by were ejected from the premises they were membranous croup. occupying. The two older members of the family were taken to the Infirmary.

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Mar. 12, 1885 Sheriff’s Sale: D. W. Jones vs Alvin R. Hurd. Real estate in Willoughby will be sold.

Mar. 19, 1885 Thursday p. 2 col. 4 State and Neighborhood Local Brevities --Mrs. Mary Ann Borer, of Shelby, age 70, was --Mrs. John McGorin, of Concord, died last burned to death by her clothes taking fire. Her Sunday. invalid husband lay on his bed within a few feet --Mrs. W. W. Wass, nee Knight is visiting friends of her but was powerless to save her. in Mississippi. --Mr. & Mrs. Fred H. Rogers have a baby girl. p. 2 col, 5 Wooden Wedding --Mrs. F. W. Dingley, of Erie St., has been very ill The fifth wedding anniversary of Mr. & Mrs. C. for some time. M. Luce occurred Monday, and the evening by --Abraham Powers, well known as an extensive invitation some 150 of their friends met at their coal mine operator in the Mahoning Valley, died home on State street. Sunday at age 65.

--An auction sale of the farm stock, implements and household furniture belonging to Mr. E. E. Hodge, of Mentor, will take place on the 28th inst. --Mrs. Lewis M. Powell, of Chicago, formerly Miss Edith Mathews, of this city, is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. George K. Raynolds, of Washington street. --Mrs. Jackson Armstrong, of Cincinnati, is at the Lockwood homestead visiting her old home for two weeks. --Miss Minnie Bacon, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. W. L. Bacon, who has been dangerously ill for five weeks has improved. --Miss Gussie Hine is convalescing from malaria. --Miss Nettie M. Hine, daughter of Mr. Homer Hine, left Thursday for Ada, Ohio, to enter the Normal College. --Mrs. F. D. Gates, of Washington St., is still an invalid and confined to her bed. p. 3 --The Cleveland Herald, which was established by our townsman, Eber D. Howe, 66 yrs. ago, has ceased to exist. Its subscription list has been turned over to the Leader and the printing presses and type to the Plain Dealer.

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Mar. 19, 1885 age 94 yrs. Mrs. Abigail J. Goldsmith, a cousin of --The 90th birthday of Mrs. Sophia Branch was Mrs. Perry, living in Painesville, is 97 yrs. old. observed at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. Mrs. Perry has a cousin, formerly of Mentor, O., W. Munsell, 1178 Case Ave., Cleveland, last Sat. but now living in Iowa, Mrs. Clarissa Dilley, who Mrs. Branch was a native of Vermont, came to is 94 yrs. old. Mrs. Perry lives with her grandson, Ohio in 1816, living for many years in Trumbull N. P. Payne, ex-Mayor of Cleveland. Co. and afterwards in Kirtland and Mentor in Lake Co. Her husband died in Mentor in 1869. She has had 9 children, of whom, five are now living: Darius Branch, Chardon; Bruce W. Branch, West Union; Mrs. O. S. Haskell, Mentor; Mrs. Elsie M. Merrill and Mrs. C. W. Munsell, Cleveland. Mrs. Branch is a pensioner, her husband having served in the war of 1812.

Died - In Grand Island, Nebraska, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Luther Powel, Jan. 11th, 1885, Gilbert Curtiss Sr., age 89. The deceased moved from Parkman to Mentor about 9 years ago, and one year ago, went to Grand Island. He was father of Mrs. E. E. Hodge, of Mentor.

Mrs. Paulina Perry, of Cleveland Mrs. Paulina Perry’s 91st birthday occurred March 14, 1895. Mrs. Perry is the widow of the late Nathan Perry and mother-in-law of U. S. South Madison Senator H. B. Payne, both of Cleveland, O. Mrs. --Mr. Charley Woolever is visiting friends and Perry is the daughter of the late Captain relatives in Springfield, Pa. Abraham Skinner, who moved his family from Willoughby East Hartford, Conn., to Ohio in 1805. There are --R. M. Perkins was in town on Friday, visiting residents who remember his sons, Abraham, with friends. Washington and Augustus. The location of her On Thursday, Mrs. Geo. Pelton was very sick and father’s house on the Grand River is now covered not expected to survive long: today she is more by the modern mansion of her nephew, Mr. comfortable. Homer Hine, whose beautiful place is known as --Mrs. James Campbell, nee Maria Downing, died Riverside. Eleazer Paine, another pioneer from and the funeral was on Thursday. She died of Conn., came to Ohio as early as 1803. Several of “quick” consumption, age 43 yrs., 10 mos. his grandchildren are still living here, namely: --Dr. Robison has rented the “Sorter farm” to Mrs. B. D. Chesney, Mrs. Caroline Ford, Franklin Thomas Northcut for a term of years. Paine Esq., and his sister, Miss Mary Paine and --Mrs. D. A. Arnold has returned from Toledo others. Mr. Clarence A. Hine is the great- where she went to visit a sick child. grandson of Capt. Skinner. Mrs. Perry comes --Dr. E. E. Flickinger has been solicited to settle in from a family noted for longevity. Her oldest Cleveland and practice his profession there. sister, Mrs. Mary A. Hine, who was a member of LeRoy the family of her son, Mr. Augustus Hine of this --George Lace moved to Collinwood. city, and the mother of Mrs. Henry Wick and Mrs. --Mrs. R. A. Bartlett is in quite feeble health. Dudley Baldwin, of Cleveland died two years ago, --A. F. Ober has been very sick with congestion of the lungs, but is getting better.

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Mar. 19, 1885 --Harry Jewel is very sick with lung fever at his --The Misses Lena and Eva Upham, of Kirtland, brother’s in Perry. spent last Sabbath at the Center with the family --William Gilbreath is to remain in the Ledge of Ira Bates. house another year. --The friends of M. W. Foshay will be glad to learn of his ordination; he is located at Litchfield, O. Surprise Last Sat., a few relatives of Mrs. M. H. Winslow st Mentor planed a surprise party for her 71 birthday. Her --Miss Will Kerr is in Oberlin, spending some time daughter in Illinois, Mrs. Lamson, sent several with her mother. yards of handmade lace, and her son in Detroit Perry sent an express with nice things including a very --There was a family gathering at the home of nice dress with all the trimmings. Moses Thompson to commemorate his 85th Married birthday. --At the home of W. T. Cowles, Concord, March --Mrs. M. A. Ball was married on Sat. to Mr. 19, 1885, Mr. Ward Richmond, of Chardon, to Henry Strong, of Bridgeport, Wis. They will live in Miss Florence Hodges, of Concord. Bridgeport. Mr. Strong was formerly a resident --At the home of the bride’s parents, 47 Fulton of Geauga Co. St., Cleveland, March 11, 1885, Mr. Egbert S. Madison Tanner and Mrs. Helen E. Palmer, daughter of --Mr. W. J. Ford has sold out his hardware Mr. & Mrs. C. O. Barrett, all of Cleveland, O. business. The name is G. W. Blackmore & Son. They come from Ellicottville, N. Y. A poem is printed To the Father and Mother of --Mrs. E. F. Ensign has returned from a visit in Willie French. LeRoy, N. Y. For Rent – A house on Erie St. Mrs. C. Willoughby Plains Huntington. --Mrs. James C. Campbell is failing slowly but For Rent – Six acres of land, good house and surely. barn, good well of water. Mrs. John Purtel, --Mr. Geo. Hayes is quite sick at his brother, Painesville, O. Frank’s. --Mr. Schuyler Baker is also sick. Mar. 26, 1885 Thursday --Mr. Philip Bernhardt is no better. p. 1 col. 6 State and Neighborhood --Mrs. Anna Johnson has left the Plains to join --Wm. Peden, age 99, soldier of 1812, died in her husband in Iowa. Wellsville last week. --Mr. & Mrs. Scribner are visiting her father, Mr. --Edward Huzzy, of Ashtabula, had a trip hammer Earl Palmer. descend on his hand and his fingers were Thompson mashed to jelly. --O. E. Talcott, was buried last Friday. He was 58 --Thomas Stafford, postal agent on the and had lived in Thompson all his life. He leaves Ashtabula & Youngstown route has resigned. He a wife and three daughters and one son. The has served 14 years without missing a day. youngest daughter being about 15. --Mr. Charley Woolever is visiting relatives in --A child of Mr. & Mrs. J. E. Foskett, the death and Springfield, Pa. funeral occurring on the same day as that of Mr. Talcott’s. It was an only child but 8 months old. p. 2 col. 4 Mentor --Herman. H. Malin (eldest son of H. B. Malin), a --Mr. Thomas Northcote has rented the farm of single man 34 yrs. old, was sick but a few days Dr. J. P. Robison for 5 years. with lung fever.

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Mar. 26, 1885 Madison --Mrs. Frank Murray, of Tuscola, Ill., is the guest --Miss Lina Sunderland took the prize for fancy of her sisters, Mrs. Abner and Mrs. Erastus skating at the rink last Tuesday evening. Parmele. --Mrs. Joanna Young is very low with pneumonia. --Messrs. B. F. Kerr and Frank Smith are now among our Mentor boys who are in business in p. 3 Cleveland but still making their home in Mentor. --Dr. L. H. Luse spent a part of last week with his parents in Orange. Mentor Headlands --Several families departed last week from Black Brook for Iowa, which will be their future home. --Mr. John Brooks and Mr. Ed. Hayes leave this week for Kansas City, Mo., to engage in the brick business. South Thompson --Jessie Tucker and John Cashen’s children are quite sick. Local Brevities --Miss Mary Croft and Paul Stetson are getting --Mr. Seymour Kelley is still confined to his better. house. --Mr. J. Alexander has rented the Flahaven farm --Mr. George W. Viesey has been confined to his for the coming year. room by sickness the past week. --Mr. H. Kreighbaum was called to Indiana by the --Miss Leora Seymour, of Ashtabula, has been severe illness of his father, but his father died visiting friends in Painesville for several days. before he got there. --Miss Abbie Arnold, of Cleveland, spent a few --Mrs. Switzer rented her farm to a Mr. Mills, of days last week with Miss Bertha Taft, of Erie St. Harpersfield, formerly of Wayne Co. --Mr. Warren French, of Fremont, was the guest of Mr. & Mrs. H. L. Barstow for a few days. p. 2 col. 5 State and Neighborhood --Mr. Orrin S. Skinner, who has been in the house --Wesley Peters, age 85, an old and prominent all winter with a broken leg, is now able to get citizen of Lancaster, died recently. Five brothers outdoors. and two sisters, all above 70 years of age, --Mrs. B. W. Morgan, of Pittsburgh, Pa., is attended his funeral. spending a few weeks with her sister, Mrs. John --Geo. Harrison, of Fremont, has been confined R. Morley, on the Park. to his bed for 13 yrs. with paralysis. Last week he --Mr. Daniel Clark, of Huntsburg, and Miss Ruth joined the Rawson Post, G.A.R. A. Kemp, of Geneva, were married the 15th inst. --Mr. & Mrs. G. E. Skinner, of St. Paul, Minn., Geauga County were the guests of Mr. & Mrs. Z. S. Wilson for a --Hopkin Smith, who has resided in this county few days. 54 years, died on the 13th inst., at the home of --Mrs. Myron W. Bailey and Miss Bailey, wife and his son, Guy Smith, in Munson, age 80 yrs. daughter of Judge Bailey, of St. Albans, Vermont, --Mrs. George H. Garrett, of Warren, has been are stopping a few weeks at Dr. F. Urann’s, 15 visiting in town. Wood street. --A. M. Fitch, of Wellington, will soon open a --Mrs. Emily Kerr and her daughter, Miss Mary clothing store in this place. Kerr, Richmond street, are both seriously ill. Chardon. March 23rd. Miss Frank Kerr is at home caring for her mother and sister.

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Mar. 26, 1885 retained his interest. Mr. Kerr was a cousin of the --Mr. W. W. Branch Jr. came home Thursday late Leonard Case, of Cleveland. night for the purpose of packing up his furniture and moving with his family to Charleston, Va. Back in His Old Quarters --The initial number of the Washburn, Wis., Bee, Mr. W. M. Werner has repurchased the stock is on our table. Mr. Frank S. Dunbar, a former and goodwill and is again settled in his old Painesville boy, and Allan T. Williams are editors quarters, 76 Main street and opened last and proprietors. Monday with large additions of new goods. His ---Miss Louisa Seeley, of this city, went to insurance business will be continued at the old Washington to be present for the Inauguration. office over the Savings and Loan Assoc. under She purchased a ticket and attended the grand the management of Mr. S. W. Richardson. ball. --Mr. John R. Morley and family have moved Real Estate from St. Clair street, to the house known as the Madison Henry Williams’ homestead on the Park. Selby, Orland --Mrs. A. E. Mead, mother of Mrs. C. H. Frank, of Cady, J. N. this city, died at Brattleboro, Vermont, March Weeks, Luther K. 21st. She came to Painesville last summer to Sohn Charles F. reside with her daughter, but several months Grapes, F. M. ago, being in ill health, she went to Brattleboro Keil, Chas. A. for medical treatment. The remains were taken LeRoy to Bridgewater, Conn., her former residence for Curtiss, Mary burial. Barber, Mrs. --Mr. & Mrs. F. N. Smith, of Elyria, are guests of Kissick, Margaret Mr. & Mrs. L. A. Porter, Washington St. They Clague, John R. came by invitation for Mr. Porter’s 66th birthday Rogers, Eliza K. anniversary. Clague, Edward J. --Mr. Chas. Loughridge, son of Hon. Wm. Ball, Geo. C. Loughridge, of Iowa, and nephew of Mrs. Ball, Mary A. Augustus Hine, of this city, passed the Painesville examination of the Illinois bar and can practice Dickey, W. C. law in the state of Iowa. Dickey, Mathew Crandell, Elizabeth The Death of Levi Kerr Chamberlain, Susan B. --From the Cleveland Leader and the Cleveland Burridge, S. Plain Dealer, Mar. 22 and 23rd. Levi Kerr was Burridge, Geo. P born in Mentor, O., June 25, 1822, and at the Wadsworth, Jas. B. time of his death was 63 yrs. old. He was the only Barnes, Geo. W. son of the late Judge Daniel Kerr, of this city, who Inglehart, Margaret, was for many years President of the Geauga Pratt, C. J. Bank of Painesville, O. He married Miss Mary Pratt, Chas. J. Blanchard of New York City. He was engaged in Kibbee, Harriet A. refining oil at Titusville until he sold out his Purcell, Mary A. interests to the Standard Oil Co. Levi Kerr, in Philbrook, Mary Ann company with John Roach, organized the first Schilling, Henry line of Brazil steamships, and organized the Paige, R. K. Havana line of steamers in which Mr. Kerr Steele, Geo. W. Card, W. H.

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Mar. 26, 1885 Wilson, Eva M. Fowler. Wm. H. Keener, C. L. Forgason, E. F. Hine, Homer H. Warner Jr., Dan Warner, Daniel Lynch, Michael F. Shepherd, Martha Bond, Lillian J. Smith, L. Stockwell, Betsey Sumner, Wesley B. Sharp, Peter Wilson, Z. S. Roddick, Geo Johnson, Julia A. Barnes, Harley Kirtland Hoose, Cornelius Hoose, W. L.

Hoose, Geo. Rice, Nettie S. Death of Levi Kerr Gridley, O. B. Sat. Morning the New York Herald contained a McWethy, A. dispatch from Florida giving an account of the McWethy, Andrew J. fatal accident. Mr. Kerr left Cleveland two weeks McFarland, M. S. ago yesterday. He took the train two weeks ago Yaxley, W. H. for Painesville to visit his sister. On Sat., a week Mentor ago, he sailed with friends from New York on the McWethy, Amos steamer Newport. The steamer Newport McWethy, A. J. entered St. Augustine last Wed. and the party Parker, C. F. disembarked. They went by rail a distance of 15 Doty, James A. miles to a landing on St. John’s River and took a Willoughby steamer for Palatka, and while on the way Mr. Gridley, Orrin B. Kerr accidentally fell overboard and was lost. McKewan, Ella Cleveland Leader, March 22nd. Phelps, S. W. Corning, W. H. LeRoy Phelps, Mary C. --Mr. & Mrs. R. N. Skillthorp have a little son. --Mr. & Mrs. Albert Searl have another daughter. --I. P. Adams and family, of Uniontown, are visiting friends in town. Perry --Mrs. H. H. Shepherd died yesterday after suffering a year and a half with cancer.

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Mar. 26, 1885 --An old gentleman, James McMahan, of Little Mountain Bucyrus, was assaulted by a rough, and in trying -Mrs. William Foster, of East Kirtland, died at her to defend himself had his hip broken. home, March 21, age 91 yrs. --S. K. Shedd, of Youngstown, had a stroke of Willoughby paralysis while writing at his desk, Thursday. --Mrs. D. Clark is expected to return home from --Prof. H. P. Gatcell, age 72, formerly proprietor Indianapolis tomorrow where she attended the or a water cure on Little Mountain, died in funeral of a sister. Asheville, N. C., Thursday. --Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Reeve and two children are --Geo. Hunter, New Lisbon, gets a second-degree visiting their parents in town. verdict for killing Gertie Phillips. --Miss Venora Jenkins, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. F. --Mrs. Mary Willis and Dr. Ayres, of Homer, Jenkins, died of typhoid fever, age 14, last Sat. Licking Co., think they have found native diamonds among the pebbles of a creek. A Card – Z. F. Casterline and Clara G. Casterline --The Burton Leader records the death last Wed. express thanks to friends and neighbors for their of Mrs. Polly Hubbard, age 84. kindness and sympathy during the long illness of --Henry C. Cassidy, a young lawyer, has received their sick ones and in their sad bereavement. the appointment of Postmaster at Youngstown. Married --Joseph G. Whitney, an aged citizen of --In Talleyrand, Kansas, at the home of the Conneaut, died of heart disease. bride’s uncle, John Cole, Feb. 4th, 1885, Mr. Walter D. Barnes, of Talleyrand, to Miss Matty K. p. 2 col. 5 Married th Pike, of Painesville. --In Perry, March 19 , 1885, at the home of the --In New London, N. Y., March 22, 1885, at the bride’s parents, H. C. Lockwood and Zana A. home of the bride’s father, Mr. Horace Clark, Mr. Rowland. Arthur J. Lyon, of Painesville, and Miss Emma E. --In Geneva, Ohio, at the home of the bride’s th Clark, of New London, N. Y. sister, Mrs. Homer Lockwood, March 25 , 1885, --Married at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. Charles M. Tyrrell to Miss Alida C. Lansing, of near Painesville, March 12th, Arthur Beardsley Painesville. and Luretta Bowhall. Died Ad: L. A. Trumbull, a full line of groceries and In Thompson, March 19, 1885, of congestion of provisions. Main Street, Painesville the brain and pneumonia, Winifred Agnes, only child of Will W. and Addie G. Snedeker, age 13 p. 3 mos., 18 days. Auction Sale – H. W. Munson will sell cows, horses, wagon, buggy, etc. on his farm two miles north of Hopkins’ Corners in Mentor. For Sale – Mrs. L. C. Pease, Washington St., is selling a lot on Mentor street containing 5-6 acres. Also, her house and lot on South street. Team for Sale - J. M. Crofoot is selling a span of matched brown mares, 5 yrs. old. Painesville For Sale – J. L. Parmly is selling and sow and pigs and five shoats. Local Brevities Apr. 2, 1885 Thursday --Mr. W. C. Andrews leaves tonight for Hunter, p. 2 col. 4 State and Neighborhood Dakota.

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Apr. 2, 1885 --Mrs. M. S. Curtiss, who spent the winter with eastern friends, returned to Painesville today. --Mr. J. S. Bartholomew and family, Mr. Cass Palmer and several from Madison, left Monday night for Dakota. --Mrs. John Pelton, of Willoughby, daughter of Mr. L. Baker, of our city, died last week after an illness of four weeks. --Mr. Henry Mathews, of Canton, O., son of the late Dr. David Mathews, is the guest of Dr. Samuel Mathews’ family State Street. --John Hoadley bought a pony team from Robert --Mr. George E. Kile invited 75 of his gentlemen P. Briggs, at Painesville. Burton Leader friends Friday evening for a tea party. The boys --Mrs. Delos E. Goldsmith, of San Franciso,Cal., all say they had a jolly good time, the tea was has purchased a lot on Washington street, and is coffee, and the supper was a sumptuous one. building a cottage, which she will occupy this summer. Real Estate Transfers --Mr. & Mrs. W. W. Smith, of Grand Rapids, Painesville Mich., who spent the winter with Mrs. Smith’s Lamar Jr., H. A. parents, Mr. & Mrs. O. Baker, of Perry, returned Parish, Emma J. home Thursday. Barnes, Harley --Mr. C. W. Stanhope, of Perry, had his jaw Barnes, L. M. broken Sat. when unloading logs. Willoughby --Mr. G. W. Barton having decided to go south Miller, Olive C. will rent his place and sell at auction, on the 11th Shroder, Oswold inst., his stock, household furniture and farm Schipke, Hugo implements. Brews, Robert --Mr. W. H. Young, who went to Mexico to make Brews, Margaret W. a second visit to his brother, writes that his brother died previous to his arrival. --Dr. W. H. Fowler has just vacated the rooms in Milwaukee Block which he has occupied for 27 yrs., and moved to the rooms recently occupied by Dr. C. F. House, No. 174 St. Clair street.

--Mrs. Luana Craine, wife of G. W. Craine, a former resident of this city, died in Garrettsville last week. The body was brought here to the home of her brother, Mr. O. G. Tuttle, Erie street for the funeral.

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Apr. 2, 1885 --Mrs. John Pelton, nee Louisa Baker, died last week, age 38 yrs. She leaves a husband, a daughter and two sons. Her parents, Mr. & Mrs. L. Baker, formerly resided here where the deceased was born. Her remains were taken to Mentor. --On Thursday there was a 10-hour skating race at the Willoughby rink. John Clark, age 17, brother of W. T. Clark, the druggist, skated 116 miles; Mr. G. Fuller scored 112 miles. W. Fowler, 98 miles; and F. Jones, 88 miles. --Mrs. Ebenezer Brown died Sat. night of cancer, age 67 yrs. She has been in Cleveland the past five months for medical care. --Mrs. Maria Holmes died on Thursday. She had been visiting a neighbor and complained of a pain in her head. She was 73 yrs. old and was an early settler of this place. --Jesse Rutland has been appointed sexton of the cemetery. --Mr. & Mrs. C. J. Richardson received a visit from their cousins, Dr. and Mrs. Dr. Weeks, of Girard, Pa., both in the practice of medicine. --On Sat., Gilbert Cowan and Edward Maloney had a three-mile race at the rink. Gilbert won the prize in less than 15 mins.

Madison --Ralph Morey broke his arm skating at the rink.

--Mrs. Ruby (Bissell) Maltby died las Sunday from brain fever.

--Mrs. Fremont Dow died last week, of Funeral of Levi Kerr consumption, also the daughter of Mrs. Luke Details of his funeral in Painesville. He was Riley, of the same disease; both of North buried in Evergreen Cemetery. Madison. Mentor Willoughby --Mr. & Mrs. Robert Moffett and family returned to their old Cleveland home last Wed. Mr. Abram Rexford and family have already taken

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Apr. 2, 1885 Maple Brook Stock Farm – A. C. Pepoon has possession of the Moffett property as their Jersey Service Bull, Prince of Palestine. future home. Horse for Sale - A heavy horse, works well --Mr. Fred Warren and his bride (Miss Hattie everywhere. A. A. Amidon Hammond) spent a portion of last week with Mentor relatives. The Estate of Joel Doolittle --Miss Carrie Lattin has returned to her home M. R. Doolittle is the adm. of Joel Doolittle, dec., with her aunt, Mrs. Hodge, after spending the late of Lake Co., Ohio. winter in the southern part of the state. --Mrs. Frank Rexford (formerly Miss Nellie Apr. 9, 1885 Thursday Carpenter) is in very poor health. It is believed p. 1 col. 7 Old Time Records there is no hope for her recovery as she has been Article by Mrs. L. L. Kewish, Leroy, of old records a great sufferer for a number of years. she has of Col. H. E. Paine, her grandfather, and --Mr. & Mrs. B. F. Young have returned to their Eleazer Paine. old Mentor home. p. 1 col. 8 State and Neighborhood --Mrs. W. Wilcox, of Rock Creek, has been visiting --Charles E. Miller, Ravenna, bank cashier, died here. of pneumonia. --E. S. Conwell, a young Cleveland druggist, took Unionville the wrong drug for insomnia and was found dead --Mrs. Canfield’s folks, who lived opposite Ed. in his bed. Cleveland, have moved to Madison. --Artemas Luce, one of the oldest citizens of Kirtland Kingsville, died Wed. He was upwards of 90 yrs. --Mrs. Foster, many years a widow and one of old. the earliest settlers, died last Thursday, age over --Mr. David Lynn, of Canfield, who was gored by 91 yrs. a vicious bull, died last week after intense --Yesterday was the funeral of Mrs. Ezra Holmes. suffering. Ezra Holmes died 25 years ago. Willoughby Plains --Mrs. Maria Campbell died on the 10th, age 43 yrs., 10 mos. She was the daughter of Mr. Wm. Downing. She leaves a husband and four children.

--Mrs. C. J. Richardson and son, Clyde, have been in Conneaut visiting her parents. Weather:

For Sale - A good span of work horses, J. M. Baker, Concord, O. For Sale - Pair of dappled gray horses, eight years old. Amos Breed, Lane Station Situation Wanted – Wanted situation as a housekeeper for a widower with one or two children. Miss Mary Lewis, Willoughby, O. New Dress Making Shop - Mrs. Geo. Rivers, Miss W. Bedell, are prepared to do all kinds of p. 3 Extra dressmaking at the Slee House, Washington St., Real Estate one door west of Liberty. Madison Bissell, Edward Bissell, Edward M.

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Apr. 9, 1885 --Mr. Charles B. Drake, of Concord, and Earl Griffin, Nathaniel Morris, of Perry, have been visiting friends and Freeman, Raymond relatives in this section. Perry Perry Garner, J. M. – heirs Garner, J. Leslie Patchin, John C. Patchin, Isaac A. Painesville Nolan, Alvin E. Parmly, James L. Baker, Hannah Perkins, David J. p. 4 Woodman, B. H. Durand, Lucius Nolan, Owen E. Willoughby Dickey, Harriet M. Gray, Myra Wared, Jonathan Bricksford, Thomas

Madison --J. W. Stray expects to start on a trip through the West son. Local Brevities --Mr. Allan Gray, of this city, is visiting his mother at her home in Philadelphia. --Miss Cornelia Gray, of State St., is the guest of her cousin, Mrs. Laura Kerr Axtell, on the Park. --Mr. & Mrs. George P. Burridge have a baby girl. --Conneaut Reporter: D. W. Phillips has sold his home on Buffalo street and is going to move to Painesville. --Mrs. Almosina F. Stebbins was declared insane by Judge Shepherd and taken to the Cleveland Asylum for the Insane. --Mr. Howard Potter, of Reading, Pa., is spending a few days with his sisters, Mrs. S. R. King and Miss Potter, Washington street. South Madison --Mrs. Wilbur F. Smith, of Painesville, with her --Mrs. Mary Emerson arose from bed the other two children, is visiting her old home at General morning and fell to the floor to all appearances Miller’s. Mr. Miller was born the last day of the dead, but returned to consciousness. week, month and year of 1800. Austinburg Cor. --Mr. Ralston and family intend to move down Ashtabula News north soon. --Mr. Lawrence Wilson, formerly of this county, now of Larned, Kansas, has recently opened a real estate and loan business.

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Apr. 9, 1885 Death of Frederick S. Winston The Elections Mrs. J. F. Scofield writes a lengthy article about the history of the Winston and Storrs families. South Madison --Mr. Charles B. Drake, of Concord, and Earl Morris, of Perry, have been visiting relatives in this section.

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Mentor --Mr. & Mrs. A. Bills have moved to the county seat. --The family of F. W. Green has returned to Mentor to their old home. -Miss Cora Goodell has entered the training school for nurses, in Cleveland. --Mr. Fred L. Larned, of the Adams Express Willoughby Office, Cleveland, wrote ot his father that he is the possessor of a 10 lb. boy.

For Sale – Young cattle, pigs and a small flock of sheep. B. P. Lathrop For Sale – A No. 1 cow for sale. R. E. Allison, Perry, O. The Estate of Mahala Prentiss S. B. Baker is the adm. of Mahala Prentiss, dec. late of LeRoy, Lake Co., Ohio.

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Apr. 9, 1885 the editor of the Exponent, age 72 yrs. He was Probate Notice born in Columbia, Herkimer Co., N. Y., Aug. 14, 1813. He leaves a wife and six adult sons. --Mrs. Henry Sackett, of Andover, while laboring under mental aberration, jumped from a second story window and walked to Jefferson in the night. --Ruth Knox Bayard, relict of Thomas M. Bayard, died at the home of her son-in-law, E. E. Kent, Esq., in Bainbridge,Tues., of pneumonia. Ad: A. A. Lee – Groceries, Drugs, Medicines, Garden and Field Seeds – 178 State Street

p. 3 Apr. 16, 1885 Thursday p. 2 col. 1 John S. Arnold, a prominent citizen of Massilon, died of heart dis ease while visiting the Exposition at New Orleans. --A man name Schweitzer, age 80, died when a house burned down in Lenox, Ashtabula Co. p. 2 col. 4 Henry Meier, a stone mason of Akron, fell from a delapidated bridge on the Ohio Canal, striking his head, causing instant death. The leaves a family of 8 children. Local Brevities p. 2 col. 5 State and Neighborhood --Mr. & Mrs. Fred Searl, of St. Clair St., have a --Mr. Artemus Luce, one of the oldest citizens of baby girl. Kingsvile, died last Wed., age 90. --Mrs. Ellen Seymour, of Ashtabula, is in the city --Rev. J. K Hallock, died at the home of his son, E. for a few days. A. Hallock, at Conneautville, April 3, age 87 yrs. --Mr. & Mrs. R. J. Schweninger have a baby girl. --Mrs. Charles McBridey, age 102, died recently --Mr. Samuel Burridge, of Mentor Ave., is in Bedford township, Coshocton Co. She never convalescent. cooked a meal on a cook stove, having always --Mr. E. W. Taylor, of LeRoy, stated that ued the old-fashioned fireplace. yesterday they had six or more inches of snow --R. C. Wilson, a prominent businessman of and good sleighing. Arcadia, Hancock Co., suicided last week. Cause --Mr. Eri Thompson, for over 40 yrs. a resident of financial loses. Painesville, died last Wed., age 84. --An 11 yr. old boy, of Canton, August Isler, driver --Mr. T. F. Safford, for the last 15 yrs. a railway of a milk wago, was struck by a train while postal clerk, died last week at his home in crossing the track and fatally injured. Ashtabula. Remains were taken to Auburn, ---Wm. Closs, age 59, of Akron, died suddenly of Geauga Co., for interment. heart disease last Wed. --Mrs. Jane Kelley Ames, wife of E. J. Ames, died --Chagrin Falls Exponent: John Robinson, of this at her home in Erie, Pa., on the 8th inst. Mrs. place died Sat., age 80 yrs. He came to Newbury Ames was a sister of Mr. J. H. Murray and Mrs. when a small boy and resided in that town, Jabob Morse, of Concord; Mr. E. W. Kelley, of Russell and this place ever since. Jonesville, Michigan; Conductor Kelley, of the --Died at his home in LeBoeuff, Erie Co., Pa., April nd L.S. & M.S. R. R., of Cleveland; and Mr. S. J. Kelley 2 , of pneumonia, John D. Stranahan, father of and Mrs. S. B. Parker, of Painesville.

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Apr. 16, 1885 Legislature, which position he held for two --The two-story house of Mr. A. N. Babbitt, of terms. In 1880, he married Miss Freeman, of North Mentor, and occupied by Mr. I. P. Titus Warren, whose death occurred several years was burned down Friday. ago. Of their six children, Mrs. Backus is the only --The two-story house of Thomas Cahil, on survivor. Sanford street, burned down Friday night. Real Estate Approaching Marriage Perry We have received an invitation from Mr. & Mrs. Patchin, John C. William G. Deshler, to be present at the marriage Patchin, Isaac A. of their daughter, Mary, to Mr. Randolph Concord Stephen Warner, on April 28th, 1885 in Cram, Harvey Columbus, Ohio. Fair, W. C. Eighty-fifth Birthday Painesville Mrs. Mary Merrill, who has been spending the Cram, Harvey – heirs winter with her daughter in Willoughby, passed Fair, W. C. her 85th birthday in the company of her four Matehws, Stephen children, Mrs. J. Malkin and Mr. J. H. Merrill, of Raynolds, Catharine M. Willoughby; and Mr. E. H. Merrill and Mrs. Capt. Raynolds, Carolone C. Geo. O. Baker, of Painesville. Ogborne, Henrietta S. Mathews, Edith M. Common Pleas Mathews, George M. The jury in the McCrone case came in with a Axtell, Laura K. verdict of guilty of manslaughter. Thompson, Louisa Kirtland Pitcher, Olive S. Pitcher, Kurt Colloway, William Colloway, C. W.

Madison --Mrs. Thomas King, of Cleveland, is visiting in town. --Mrs. Johnson, an elderly lady, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. H. Baker, Sat. --The funeral of Bert Burdick took place last Death of George Mygatt Thursday. Hon. George Mygatt, died in Cleveland April 12th, Willoughby Plains at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Lucy M. --Mr. Walter Tyler met with quite a loss last week Backus. He was born in Danbury, Conn., and at when robbers came into the house at night and an early age moved with his father, Comfort S. took silver knives, forks, napkins, plenty to eat, Mygatt, to Ohio and settled in Canfield, then in and his best clothes. Trumbull Co. He moved to Painesville in 1836 to --Mr. Milo Hyde and daughter are down for a take the position of Cashier of the Bank of short visit to his father and mother. Geauga which he held for ten years. He then --Mr. J. P. Rumbaugh and family have moved to moved to Cleveland and was made President of the Gunn farm. Mr. Chambers having moved to the City Bank of Cleveland. In 1885, he was Mr. Glazyer’s. elected to represent Cuyahoga Co. in the Ohio

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Apr. 16, 1885 --Mr. Frank Hayes has bought and moved into Married th the house occupied by Mr. S. Smith. --In Columbus, Ohio, April 8 , Mr. R. P. Briggs, of --Miss Eliza Curtis is spending some time with her Painesville, and Miss Bertha L. Rudey, of sister, Mrs. T. Kelley. Cleveland. South Madison --Mr. Ira D. Granger intends to go to Kansas in Auction Sale August. N. C. Frost is changing his business so is selling --Henry Loveland intends to move on to W. W. cows, bull, yearlings, wagon, scales, etc. on April Branch’s farm soon. 23, 1885. --Mr. Anderson Ralston and family are to move Farm for Sale – The farm known as the John into the house owned by John Fowler. Prentiss farm, in LeRoy, containing 60 acres. LeRoy Inquire of E. A. or R. J. Prentiss. --Rev. John Keim has moved back to Wooster, For Rent Cheap – A good house; good horse Wayne Co. Ed. Nighman has moved to barn, soft water, well fruited. D. O. Carter, Hambden; Mr. Mower, of Wayne Co. has moved Painesville onto the Payne farm which he recently Hay for Sale - W. L. Bacon, Painesville purchased. For Sale – Seed Barley. E. V. Prouty, Concord

Apr. 23, 1885 Thursday p. 1 col. 6 Letter from Oregon – E. P. Branch writes from Oregon to the people of Painesville. They had a very mild winter in Oregon. The most snow they have had was 2 inches in Dec. p. 1 col. 8 State and Neighborhood --Roger Hoffman, a brakeman, fell from a moving The Avenue train in the yards at Collinwood last week and was killed.

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Willoughby --Mr. M. Wells and family intend to move to the southern part of the state. Mentor --Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Hodge have sold their Mentor homestead and moved to St. Joseph, Local Brevities Missouri. --Mrs. C. Bohl, of Galion, O., has been spending --Mr. & Mrs. Waldo Parmelee have decided to the past week with her sister, Mrs. R. J. make their home for the present with Mr. Abner Schweninger. Parmelee. --Mr. & Mrs. James H. King are on the way to New Haven to visit Mrs. King’s parents.

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Apr. 23, 1885 Callender, Sarah E. --Miss Minnie Bacon, daughter of Mr. W. L. Hine, Homer H. Bacon, died this morning. Gould, Hattie J. --Dr. F. C. Price, of Tenn., was in town Wed. Condon, James --Dr. D. J. Merriman is back from Howell, Mich., Brooks, Martha H. where he was called by the death of Mrs. Gray, H. C. Merriman’s mother. Durand, Lucius --Mrs. Clarence S. Day, who has been visiting her Woodman, B. H. mother, Mrs. B. Stockwell, Washington St., left Young, Sally S. yesterday for her home in New York. Huntoon, Tryphena C, --Mrs. S. W. Curtis, who has been spending the Ingersoll, Jennie winter with her mother, Mrs. M. F. Dixon, on Kahoe, James Erie street, left yesterday with her two children Kahoe, Ann to join her husband at Fargo, Dakota. Pratt, Almarin --Mrs. M. H. Reynolds and daughters, of Grauss, Henry W. Casement Ave. have moved for the year to Grauss, Edwin S. Mount Union, Ohio. Mr. A. Bills, late of Mentor, Gage, Mary has leased and will occupy the homestead during Gage, Elmer their absence. LeRoy --On April 29th, the 98th birthday of Mrs. A. J. Cowin, W. W. Goldsmith, she will have an informal reception. Sanford, Ann --Mr. S. Burridge recently opened a first-class Hunt, Abram crockery. Hunt, Abigail --Mr. Isaac H Andrews, who recently suffered Evans, E. B. some injuries by an accident to a train on the Mower, Presly Valley road, is still at the home of his parents in Kirtland this city. Thompson, John Found Dead Thompson Lydia J. The dead body of Thomas Marro, of Perry, was Thompson, Rebecca A. found lying on the floor back of the horses in the Willoughby Planters’ House barn Tuesday evening. He was Brown, Ebenezer 41 and he had no family. The opinion is that he Langell, Daniel died from excessive drinking. Ferguson, A. D. The Webster Trial Ferguson, H. D. The trial of Lewis Webster for the murder of Hills, S. F. Perry Harrington in Geneva, O., on Dec. 17, 1884, resulted in a verdict of murder first degree. Willoughby --Miss Josie Clark has gone to Indianapolis to Real Estate visit her sister. Madison Geauga County Deforest, C. H. --Mr. & Mrs. J. C. Hollis lately visited friends at Monosmith, Reason Batavia, N. Y. Hopper, George H. Mentor Shaw, Nettie --The funeral services of Miss Addie Merrill will Hodge, O. S. be today at the Methodist Church, in Stevens, Frank Willoughby. She died quite suddenly last Friday Painesville at the home of her uncle in Willoughby. She was

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Apr. 23, 1885 a graduate of Lake Erie Seminary and an excellent teacher.

Unionville --Mr. Dwight Martin goes to housekeeping in his father’s house, that Mr. Hardy has just vacated. Mr. Hardy moves into the Sherwood house opposite Zalman Sherwood. Madison --Miss Stella Parks is visiting in Michigan. Local Brevities --Mr. & Mrs. Byron Blakely celebrated the 25th --Mr. Vincent Nims, who has been engaged in anniversary of their marriage April 13th. business in Cleveland the past winter is now at --Dr. Will L. Patch left Tuesday for Silver Cliff, his home, Mentor Ave. Colorado, where he intends to locate as --Mr. & Mrs. Jacob Kelley, recently of Chicago, physician and druggist. Ill., will soon occupy the pleasant residence Married owned by Mrs. D. T. Casement, Wood St., and At the home of the bride’s sister, Mrs. Philo occupied the past winter by Dr. Urann’s family, Smith, Madison, April 21, 1885, Mr. Parker F. who have moved to the Perkins’ home on Hardy and Miss Marion Frink both of North Washington St. Madison. Real Estate Transfers Bicycle for Sale – Full Nickel Expert Columbia for Madison sale cheap. In good condition. Geo. Blackmore. Dixon, A. R. The Estate of Rufus B. Dayton Dayton, F. J. Perry Bosworth is the adm. de bonis non of Rufus Dayton, A. B. B. Dayton, dec., late of Madison, Lake Co., O. Curtiss, A. B. Cows for Sale - Two new milch cows for sale. G. Buell, Julia A. E. Stevenson Perry For Sale – New milch cow and pigs for sale. D. Haines, L. H. Graves Skinner, Jane Administrator’s Sale - S. B. Baker, adm. of Lucas, Lucy Mahala Prentiss will be selling heifer, steer, Ball, Geo. C. buggy, hay, corn, etc. of the estate on May 9th, Painesville 1885. Gates, Freeman Goldsmith, Anna B. Apr. 30, 1885 Thursday Amidon, H. N. p. 1 col. 8 State and Neighborhood Amidon, S. B. Donaldson, D. Donaldson, E. T. Steele, George W. Tinker, Martha E. Stiles, Charlotte E. Kirtland

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Apr. 30, 1885 --Homer Spencer will join his brother Milford, at Humphrey, J. J. South New Lyme Institute and remain the latter Hughes, W. B. half of the term. Hurd, A. R. --Mr. James Uden and his brother, George, Jones, D. W. intend to leave for England, their childhood th home, May 11 . A Sad Death Madison Mary Frances, the little daughter of Hon. P. P. --Henry Walding, of Painesville, was in town over Shelby, of Omaha, died at the home of her Sunday. mother in Cleveland, on 22nd inst. of --Mr. Alanson Bailey, of Toledo, was in town last membranous croup. The remains were taken to week visiting his aged mother, Mrs. Harlow Omaha by Mr. James Shelby, of Painesville, to be Bailey. buried beside her mother. She was a lovely child --Mrs. Walter Van Gorder left for their new home between 6 – 7 years old. The last four years she in California last week. had resided with her father’s relatives in --Mr. J. W. Strong, formerly a clothing merchant Painesville and Cleveland. in this place, has located in Sturgis, Mich., where he will go into business. Death of H. N. Buys --Mr. J. W. Harris, of North Madison, died last Died in Painesville, at his residence on Jackson Sat. of pneumonia. street, April 24, H. N Buys, age 75. Deceased was born in Waterford, Saratoga Co., N. Y., came to Willoughby Painesville 32 years ago where he has resided --Miss Katie Lynch has returned from the South. since with the exception of two years spent in --The family of Benjamin Ellen have moved into Conneautville, Pa. He died from paralysis of the River street. nerves of the heart. He was buried in Evergreen --There was a fire Friday night which burned Cemetery. many stores and dwellings in Willoughby. Mentioned: S. W. Smart’s dwelling, Mrs. Bartholomew’s millinery, and the Miss Susie Mentor Austin’s residence, J. W. Stewart, R. Y. Carroll, H. --Mr. J. Kudor has offered his farm for sale, and Granger, W. Thomas, O. F. White, J. S. Ellen, Mrs. rumor has it that he intends going to Arkansas. C. R. Chapman. South Madison --Mr. Russel Baily has been dangerously sick, but Mentor Headlands is now slowly improving. --Mrs. Mary Brooks and daughter intend to visit --The death of Mrs. Sarah Wright Fowler friends in Canada this season. occurred in Middlebury, Ohio, on the 18th inst. --Mr. Thad Byrns, of Collinwood, was the guest She formerly was a resident of this county for of his parents last Sunday. many years. She was 95 yrs. old. LeRoy --Alton Williams has moved on the farm owned Geauga County by Mr. Gould, better known in this section as the --- D. C. Kellogg has been adjudged insane and old Carter farm. taken to the Newburgh Asylum. --E. W. Taylor is quite sick with sciatic South Thompson rheumatism, not able to leave his bed. --Mr. Jim Winterstein contemplates removing to --Miss Nellie Donovan will teach the summer Wisconsin soon. term in Paine’s Hollow. Miss Belle Bates teaches the school at the Center.

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Apr. 30, 1885 In Memoriam --W. W. Cowan has sold has blacksmith shop and Mrs. Jemima Harrison, widow of the late Wm. th farm to Asa Sanford, of Thompson. Mr. Cowan Harrison, Esq., of this town, died April 30 , 1885, has moved to Thompson. at the home of her daughter, Mrs. S. A. Everest, --Frank Stiner has sold his farm of 124 acres to of Irvington, Ind., age 86 years, her body being parties in Cleveland by the name of Hazard. brought to Painesville for interment. She leaves four children, Mr. Wm. Harrison, of Sturgis Brown Leghorns Mich.; James J. Harrison; Mrs. S. A. Everest, wife John H. Freeman, Painesville, O., is selling a of Pres. Everest, of Butler University, Ind.; Mrs. S. choice, pure flock, that is hard to beat. A. Barton, wife of G. W. Barton. She was born at th For Rent – Henry Wilson has 55 acres of good Margate England, Jan. 11 , 1799, was married to pasture for rent. Wm. Harrison March 11, 1826, arrived in this The Estate of Thomas Marro. H. M. Mosher is country and settled on their farm two miles west adm. of Thomas Marro, dec., late of Perry, Lake of this town Sept., 1832. Co., Ohio. Obituary May 7, 1885 Thursday Cynthia Bates Wheeler, wife of A. E. Wheeler, and daughter of the late Austin Bates, died of p. 2 col. 2 State and Neighborhood consumption at her home in Painesville, April --James Reed Jr., of the Ashtabula Telegraph, 16th, 1885, age 38 yrs. She leaves a husband and belongs to a fire company. In attending a fire, the one little girl 9 years of age. other night, his hand got tangled with the hose Willoughby and three fingers of his right hand were stripped --Mrs. C. R. Chapman has gone to Tarrytown, to the bone. New York. --Chas. E. Whitney, a Toledo young man, has --L. D. Austin, of Toledo, was here to visit the been missing since November. Last week, his ruins of his old home. body was found in the Maumee River. Whisky --Julius E. French, of Cleveland, visited his sister ruined him. here last week.

--Mrs. Learn was called to Auburn, N. Y., by the Madison death of her mother. --The clothing store of I. S. Childs was burglarized --By some means, the remains of the late J. C. last Sat. Hills, of Kansas City, but recently of this place, did --Mr. Albert King, died last Friday of pneumonia, not arrive here for interment until the first of this age 71 yrs. He was born in Orange Co., N. Y., and week. with his father’s family came to Madison in 1818, Unionville where he had resided 67 years. In early --Titus Gale has a new house and new picket manhood he was connected with the fence. His place is one of the most pleasant in management of the Arcole Furnace Co., which town. was situated near the east line of the township --Captain Ball, who moved here from Cleveland on the North Ridge at its junction with what is 9 or 10 yrs. ago, died last Wed. of heart disease. known as the Dock Road. His body was taken to Cleveland where his --Mr. Thomas King, of Cleveland, and Mr. Frank relatives reside. King, of Atchison, Kansas, were present at the funeral of Mr. Albert King. Obituary Willoughby Plains Minnie Bacon died April 22, 1885, at the age of --Mr. Henry Bernhardt, who has been sick the 33 yrs. She had been in delicate health for years past winter died early Sunday. and the disease that ended her life was organic

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May 7, 1885 --Miss Mary Field has returned from Michigan brain trouble. She leaves a father, mother, where she has been spending the winter, and is brother and sister. now home at “The Maples.” --Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Moodey and baby Moodey, Legal Notice of Minneapolis, are the guests of Mr. C. D. Adams Emeline A. Crocker, as adm. vs. Eliza Mixer, Emily and daughters, State street. C. Collins, Minnie Chapin, Frank Munn. --Mrs. Charles D. Woodbury, of Calliope, Iowa, is Eliza Mixer and Emily C. Collins, who reside in the guest for the summer of her sister, Mrs. C. R. New Hampton, Chickasaw Co., Iowa, and Minnie H. Stickney, Mentor Ave. Chapin, who resides in Joliet, Will Co., Ill., and --Mr. & Mrs. Norris P. Stockwell and family of th Frank Munn, who resides in Braidwood, Will Co, Glasgow, Scotland, will sale for the U. S. June 5 . Ill., will take notice that the plaintiff has filed a --Henry Leland, working at the Geauga Furnace, petition to sell land to pay the debts of Erastus had an accident when a heavy cinder cut an Crocker, deceased. Land is situated in Madison, artery in his wrist requiring surgical aid. Lake Co., Ohio --Samuel Philbrick, one of the early settlers of st Chester, Geauga Co., was buried May 1 , age 85. p. 3 --Mr. L. W. Williams, of St. Clair St., who has been so long confined to his house by rheumatism, is now able to walk out into the yard. --Mrs. D. T. Casement will leave Thursday for Cincinnati to visit her sister, Mrs. Jackson Armstrong. She will also visit her sister, Mrs. Geo. L. Reis, at Knoxville, Tenn. --Mr. Edward R. Paige, of Prospect St. Cleveland, has rented the beautiful residence on the North side of the Park from Mr. Joseph Sedgebeer for the summer. Mrs. Sedgebeer thinks of visiting her daughter, Mrs. Charles A. Wheelock, of Boston, and other friends during the summer.

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Local Brevities --Mr. C. H. Gardner, of Cleveland, visited Painesville friends Monday night.

--Mrs. S. B. Webster is in the city for a few days Birthday Reception visiting her daughter, Mrs. A. Malin. Mrs. Abigail Jones Goldsmith extended an --Mr. H. F. Barstow, of Columbus, spent the invitation through the Telegraph to her friends Sabbath with his parents, Mr. & Mrs. H. L. and family to assist in celebrating her 98th Barstow. birthday, April 29th. Three daughters, one son, --Mrs. F. G. Blythe, of Cleveland, is the guest of ten grandchildren, and three grt. grandchildren her sisters, Mrs. C. R. H. Stickney and Miss M. L. were with her and more distant relatives. Heard, of Mentor Ave. Among the guests from abroad were her cousins, Mrs. H. B. Payne, wife of Senator Payne, Mrs. Dudley Baldwin, Mrs. Alfred Phelps, and Mrs. X.

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May 7, 1885 For Sale - Albert Carroll, Concord, has one horse X. Crumm, of Cleveland, and her granddaughter, and one threshing machine for sale. Mrs. F. G. Blythe, also of Cleveland. Her cousin, Farm for Sale – Russell Hastings, Willoughby, to Mrs. Clarissa Dilley, age 94, of Iowa City sent a close estate is selling 175 acres, fruit, grain, and letter. Congratulations were sent from her son, grazing land. Delos E. Goldsmith, of San Francisco, Cal. p. 4 List of Premiums for the Lake Co. Agricultural Birthday Anniversary Fair to be held Sept. 22 – 25 The 93rd birthday of Mrs. Hannah Burridge was celebrated a few days ago at her home on State May 14, 1885 Thursday street. Mrs. Burridge has seven children living, p. 2 col. 4 Letter from Monteagle, Tenn. April, four sons and three daughters. All were present 18, 1885 except Dr. Levi S. Burridge, who is in Paris. Nine Mentions Mrs. J. W. Cook, of Perry, who has grandchildren and seven grt. grandchildren were been there all winter. She leaves in a few days present. Mrs. Eunice Pleasants, of Perry, the for Baltimore to visit her daughter and son-in- sister of Mrs. Burridge, was there, also. These law, Rev. J. Vernon. Miss M. M. Stewart and Miss two sisters are the only remaining members of L. Samson, of Bedford, are also there. The their father’s family, five brothers having died. scenery is grand. Mountains and waterfalls, Three of these brothers, Dr. Eleazer, Dr. Samuel natural forests covering miles. and Dr. Levi Parmly were well known dentists in this country and Europe and their services were Willoughby frequently required by the crowned heads and --The heirs of Mrs. Harriet Hastings, sold to S. W. the nobility of different countries. Mrs. L. G. Kies, Smart, the banker, the Hastings farm of 175 a granddaughter of Mrs. Burridge who was acres, 70 acres are on River street of this village. present at her 92nd birthday, has since died. --Weather: We had a slight fall of snow of May 9th. Obituary ---R. C. Brinkerhoff has sold out his hardware Died in Middleburgh, April 18, 1885, at the home business to H. S. Raplee and will move his family of her nephew, S. W. Smith, Mrs. Sarah Wright to California this season. Fowler, age 95 yrs., 7 days. Mrs. Fowler was a sister of Mrs. Nancy Smith, with whom she spent the last two years of her life. Sarah Williams was born in Easton, Mass., April 11, 1790. At the age of 11, she moved with her parents to Ashfield, where in early life she was married to Solon Wright. They had two daughters. The deceased being early left a widow, came to Thompson, Geauga Co., O., in 1834, and was afterward married to Mr. Fowler, of Munson, a few years later being left again a widow.

For Sale - A few hundred Souhegan Raspberry plants for sale. Ed. H. Merrill Wanted – Horse - F. W. Carpenter wants a good kind, sound horse. Wanted - A span of horses about 16 hands high 6-8 yrs. old, good roadsters. G. Rose

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May 14, 1885 p. 3 Letters uncalled for at the Painesville P. O. as --Mrs. A. L. Brown died Monday of cancer, age 52 of May, 13, 1885: yrs. She leaves a husband, children and Ladies grandchildren. Chapman, Sylvia Miss Cay, Jane Mrs. Mentor Chaple, Martha --Miss Lizzie Loomis, of Wahpeton, Dakota, is the McLaian, Mary Miss guest of Mentor relatives. Miller, Benj. F. Mrs. --We were pained to learn of the feeble health of Merrill, Wm. Mrs. Mrs. Will Hayward, formerly Miss Helen Loomis, Palmer, Dora Mrs. now a resident of Dakota. Sherdin, Florence, Miss Perry White, Mary Mrs. --F. M. Swift, of the Middle Ridge, sold his place Walsh, Maggie Miss to E. C. Sawdy and has bought in Claridon. James, Elizabeth Miss Madison Gentlemen -Mrs. O. T. Mason, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Allerdice, Mark Mr. Ingersoll, on River street. Bieter, F. J. --Miss Hannah Smead, of Rantoul, Ill., is visiting Breetenstein, E. C. her relatives in Madison. Duesoll, James J. --Mrs. L. H. Kimball and son are visiting in Detroit, Fowler, W. F. Mich. Insarbain, Henry LeRoy Johnson, H. N. --E. W. Taylor is better. Johnson, L. H. --Mr. Samuel Huston and wife, of Grand Island, Lee, Sammie Mr. Neb., are visiting friends in town. Shamburger, L. K. --Mrs. E. E. Doncaster is visiting in the west. She will stop at Omaha to visit her uncle, Col. H. E. Local Brevities Paine. Then she will go to Weeping Water, Neb., --Mrs. Seabury Ford, of Burton, is the guest of to visit her daughter, Mrs. E. E. Jones and other Mrs. A. L. Tinker, Prospect St. friends. --Mrs. R. L. Ganter, of Akron, is the guest of Mrs. H. P. Sanford, State street. Geauga County (Chardon) --Mrs. W. G. McCall, of Youngstown, is making a --Mrs. King, wife of Elder D. R. King, of Geneva, long visit to her mother and sister. was buried at this place last week. --Mrs. Thomas R. Green, of New York, is the --Mrs. Charles Cannell, of Titusville, Pa., is in guest of her sister, Mrs. R. S. Wood, of Liberty St. town. --Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Moodey have gone to --Enos A. Hayes is on the sick list. Ashtabula to visit Mrs. Moodey’s brother, Geo. --The son of John Williams, age about 2 yrs., was Paine Jr. recently drowned in a cistern. --Miss Susan B. Anthony arrived at Jennings Place --Dr. C. R. Sanderson, of St. Louis, Mo., was in Tuesday and is the guest of Gen. & Mrs. town. Casement. --Mrs. Nate Harvey, of Lima, O. has been visiting --Miss Jennie Riker, of Erie St., leaves Thursday here for several weeks. for Hudson, to spend the summer with her aunt, --D. E. Rider after several months’ absence in Mrs. G. B. Straight, Illinois, has returned home. --Mr. & Mrs. W. G. Hawkins and daughter left Monday for a two week visit to the old home of Mr. H. in Newburgh, N. Y.

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May 14, 1885 Merkel, A P. --A son of Mr. A. B. Glenn, who lives on the east Jones, Lake F. side of the river, broke his arm Sat. by falling Boerner, Frederick from a grape vine he was swinging on. Crellen, Thomas A. --Mrs. George L. Kile, the mother of Mr. G. E. Kile, Perry with her daughter and nephew, has come to Edwin, Thomas Painesville to live. She has taken the house Edwin, William owned by Mrs. Dyer on Liberty St. Isham, Andrew L. --Mr. Noble Thompson and family leave for a two Manchester, Orsemus month stay at Lynchburg, Va. Mr. Thompson Swift, F. M. bought two or three city lots in Lynchburg and Sawdey, E. D. will build two dwelling houses on them. Concord --Our old friend, Ex-Auditor C. C. Field, lives at Jewell, Francis the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. D. Swezey, in Hoose, Ezra Painesville. Chardon Republican Hoose, Harriet --Mr. S. M. Barber, formerly of Painesville, lives Painesville in Amenia, Dakota. He made maple sugar there McAdams, Phebe H. this year as an experiment. Clapp, Geo. C. Austin A. A. Addition to the Fair Grounds Brown, Mahala J. The Directors of the Lake Co. Agricultural Soc. Ferguson, J. B. decided to purchase some 4 acres of land of Mrs. Perkins, Wm. L. Wass and to build about 60 rods more of stock Morley, C. H. sheds and a new Hall. Gates, Freeman A Serious Accident Goldsmith, Anna B. Mr. William Gaffney, a baker in the employ of Amidon, H. N. Mr. A. D. Work, on Sunday, had the two-year-old Amidon, S B. child of Mrs. Chase in his arms showing it some Donaldson, D. kittens in a dark stairway behind the cellar. He Donaldson, E. T. stepped back and fell to the bottom of the stairs. Alexander, J. W. He held firmly to the child which escaped serious Kirtland injury although both were picked un insensible. Holmes, Ezra Mr. Gaffney had three broken ribs and a cut on Squires, A. P. his forehead that needed stiches. Mentor Byron, Hattie A. Death of Mr. Isaac A. Ogborne, of Cincinnati Youmans, S. A telegram from Cincinnati was received Sunday Youmans, Harriet A. by Mrs. Geo. K. Raynolds of this city, announcing Youmans, Jennie the death of the husband of her sister, Henrietta. Bryson, Hattie A. He leaves a wife, son and two daughters. Brooks, Susan M. Quincy, David Real Estate Dickey, Harriet M. Madison Linehan, Margaret Fraser, M. M. Rexford, Cassius N. Mulchay, Catharine Smith, John H. LeRoy Moffett, J. A. Evans, E. B, Rexford, Abraham H. Culbertson, Wm. T.

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May 14, 1885 Henry W. Mather, gave a speech. The third son Brooks, Jefferson is Plinney F. Mather. The three grandchildren, Titus, Israel P. Frank, Harry and Clinton reside in Cleveland. Edwin, Frank V. Adrian Fisk, a brother of Mrs. Mather, was Culbertson, Harry present from Adrian, Mich. The Fisk family came Willoughby over on the Mayflower. Hitt. W. J. Wicker, C. W. For Rent – Mrs. Maria Hill, No. 7 Nebraska St., Holmes, Ezra has six good rooms, newly papered; good pantry, Squires, A. P. woodshed, well and cistern. For Sale - A good horse for sale. H. F. Haskell, Perry Center For Sale – Mrs. Lucy Beardsley, Mentor Ave., has a horse, phaeton, harness and a cow for sale. Farm for Sale – The farm known as the John Prentiss farm, situated in LeRoy. R. J. Prentiss, LeRoy

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--James H. Smith, a prominent businessman of Warren, committed suicide by shooting himself. South Thompson --Mrs. Young, of Munson, is spending a few weeks with her old neighbor, Mr. J. Alexander --Messrs. James and George Uden are going to England. --Drs. A. B. Allyn, of this place, and L. H. Tillotson, of Painesville, have formed a parentship and opened an office in the Bliss block. This is a much-needed want for Thompson. Mentor A Golden Wedding --Mrs. William Mills, of New York, spent a few Printed invitation: days last week with the family of her brother, Mr. Nelson Corning. --Mrs. Will Haynard, of Dakota, spent a few days last week with her aunt, Mrs. Harriet Dickey. --The tenant house on the Garfield farm has been sold to Mr. Mike Riley, who has been moving his possessions to his lot near the home of Mr. Austin Riley. --Mrs. Edward Dickey, of Willoughby, and Mrs. The sons presented their father with a gold Mary (Loomis) Seeley, of Wahpeton, D. C., are watch and their mother with an easy chair visiting relatives and old friends here. upholstered in colors of old gold. The oldest son --Mr. Isaac Sawyer died at his home yesterday. Mr. Ira A. Mather, has written a poem for the He was one of the pioneers of this township. occasion which is published. Another son, Mr.

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May 21, 1885 --Mr. Eli G. Bunnell has almost entirely lost the LeRoy use of his legs and arms by palsy. --Will Collister and wife, of Oregon are visiting at South Madison her father’s, Mr. E. W. Taylor. --A daughter to Mr. & Mrs. Asa Sanford, now of --Olney Bates has sold his threshing machine and LeRoy. clover huller to Messrs. Will Baker, Frank --Mr. W. N. Stearns is teaching school at the Crofoot, and Alton Williams. Olney Bates bought Gore. the sawmill known as the Oliver Talcott mill, in --Mrs. George Hill has gone to Kingsville to visit Thompson, and moved there. her sister. Madison Unionville --Miss Phoebe Ensign is visiting at Kelloggsville, --A few days ago, Smith Humphrey, who lives Ashtabula Co. about one mile east of Unionville was riding on a load of stone with Irwin Custin. In getting off the p. 3 wagon, he fell and the wagon passed over him breaking three ribs and smashing up one leg. The doctor thinks he will recover. --Richard Clark, who has been hired for the season to Eugene Warner, fell from the roof of a barn and broke his left arm. Legal Notice th --Mrs. Polly Adams died May 11 at the house of Eathan A. Prentiss vs Rodney Prentiss her granddaughter, Mrs. Stearns, who lives in The defendants, Sylvia Hungerford and Abner this place. She was 82 yrs. old and has lived with Hungerford, who reside in Loda, Illinois; Jessie E. Mrs. Stearns for 5 or 6 years. Valentine, Elipha R. Valentine, as guardian of sail --Mr. Cyrus Sterrett and his two children have Jessie E. Valentine, who reside in Chicago, Ill.; the measles. Lilla M. Rowley and Orlando Rowley, who reside in St. Paul, Minn., will take notice that the Thompson plaintiff filed a petition for partition of a 60 acre --Porter Roath has purchased and moved into tract of land known as the John Prentiss farm in Uncle Jonah Hodges’ place in the west part of LeRoy Township, Lake Co., O. Thompson. --Henry Wilber, a member of the I.O.O.F. was Local Brevities buried last Thursday. He died of heart disease. --Mr. Geo. Rivers is again on the streets. --Mr. A. L. Cole teaches in the Center School. --O. S. Crowl, of Mentor, advertises berry crates --Our blacksmith, A. E. Sanford, has exchanged for sale. places with W. W. Cowin, of N. E. LeRoy. Mr. --Mrs. J. F. Scofield, Washington St., gave a Five Sanford’s three boys now have a sister. o’clock tea on Friday, in honor of Miss Frances F. Willoughby Fisher, of Cleveland. --J. S. Hastings leaves for California today, under --Mrs. J. S. Casement left Jennings Place Tuesday the advice of his physician for the purpose of for Coldwater, Mich., to make her sister, Mrs. I. regaining his health. He has a bronchial M. Clark, who is in ill health a short visit. difficulty. --Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Merrill, of Leavenworth, --Mrs. W. L. Todd and child are in town visiting at Kansas, are in the City. Mr. Merrill is an old her parental home. resident of Painesville having lived here from th --On the 9 inst., Mr. Edwin Judd and Miss Helen boyhood until he moved to Kansas a few years Page were married. ago.

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May 21, 1885 Kerr. He was a trustee of the Case School from --Mr. Geo. Abbey, of Northeast LeRoy, left at our its founding and always took a deep interest in it. office a few days ago a large well-preserved pear picked from one of his trees late last fall. It is of Council Meeting good flavor. A resolution was offered and passed authorized --Mr. Mark D. Herring, who went to Cal. from B. W. Smolk, to place signs on the lamp posts and New York in 1849, on the first steamer that made buildings at street corners, designating the name the trip is now for the first-time home on a visit. of the various streets withing the corporation He is the guest of his sister, Mrs. Sherman limits. Bosworth, and his niece, Mrs. W. S. Stacy, of this city. The County Fair --Mrs. J. L. Bloomingston (nee Miss Fanny Drake), On p. 4 this week is an updated List of Premiums of Chicago, and her cousin Mrs. C. W. for the Lake Co. Agricultural Fair. It contains Chamberlain, of Ashtabula, were in the city on many important changes from the list published Friday until Monday visiting old friends. two weeks ago.

Real Estate Obituary of Mary F. Shepard, of Perry, Ohio LeRoy Mary F. Shepard, wife of Henry H. Shepard, was st Hazzard, W. W. born on the old Butterfield place, April 21 , Hershey, Wm. O. 1838, and died March 22, 1885. She was the Painesville daughter of Calvin and Emeline Hutchins, Wass, Emma spending several years of her childhood in Perry. Palmer, Isaac She moved with her parents from Perry to Palmer, Lorinda Ashtabula Co. She taught school several years in Skinner, A. – heirs Ashtabula and Lake Counties. She married in Cahill, James 1858 to Henry H. Shepard, of Perry, Ohio, and Noonan, Bridget commenced housekeeping on the banks of the Alvord, Horace Grand River in Harpersfield in 1860 to 1865, Harrison, Wm. when they moved back to Perry where she lived Harrison, James R. until her death. About 1880, cancer (from which Kirtland she died) first made its appearance near the right Lee Edward breast. Two operations over the years were done Lee, Henry W. to remove it. She was the mother of six children, Willoughby two dying in infancy. Hastings, J. S. Hastings Russell Married Compton, Esther H. --At the bride’s home, May 19, 1885, Rev. Geo. Smart Samuel W. R. Merrill and Miss Mary M. House, both of Hastings, Mary P. Painesville. Died th A Magnificent Gift May 19 , after a few hours’ illness, the infant By a deed dated Painesville May 13, 1885, Mrs. daughter of Mr. & Mrs. W. A. Breed. Laura Kerr Axtell transfers to the Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, real estate valued at For Rent – Fifty acres of pasture land. Z. S. $107,000. The gift was made in compliance with Wilson, Painesville, O. a wish expressed by her brother, the Late Levi For Sale - A two-seated Phaeton, good as new. T. L. Perine, 368 Painesville

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May 21, 1885 --Middlefield fails to support its newspaper and The Estate of Anice Johnson - E. B. Taylor is the the Independent has ceased to exist. adm. of Anice Johnson, dec., late of Painesville, --Chagrin Falls Exponent: Elder and Mrs. C. A. Lake Co., Ohio. Kleeberger took their departure for Madison, The Estate of Lansford F. Smith – D. J. Merriman Ind., where Mr. K is to serve a large and wealthy is the adm. of Lansford F. Smith, dec., late of church of his denomination. Concord, Lake Co., Ohio Real Estate May 28, 1885 Thursday Madison Stevens, Frank p. 2 col. 1 Mr. John McGill an old and feeble man Martin, A. M. Mrs. of Ashtabula, has just been granted a pension for Miller, R. S. the loss of his son in the war of the Rebellion. Miller, Margaret A.

Bennett, L. L. p. 3 Perry Barnes, W. W. Barnes, A. W. Painesville Corkins, John Bly, C. W. Wheeler, Sylvia R. Smith, W. F. Lamunyan, Caroline Leland, Major J. Willoughby Hurlburt, Sarah E. Local Brevities White, Cyphron S. --Mr. & Mrs. W. F. Hewins, of Geneva, were in the city over Sunday. South Thompson --Mrs. E. Pratt, of Tiffin, is visiting her parents, --Mr. H. Gretten is making some repairs on his Mr. & Mrs. N. Brink, Erie St. house. --Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Root, of Tecumseh, Mich., are --Mr. Joe Tucker and family, of Grand Rapids, visiting Painesville friends. Mich., have been spending a few days in this --Mr. Seymour Kelley is failing and his physician vicinity. gives no hope. --Mrs. George Finney and children, of Chardon, --Mr. James G. Kerr, of Chicago, is visiting friends spent the Sabbath here visiting old friends and in Painesville. neighbors. --Mrs. A. H. Tucker, of Ravenna, was the guest of Mrs. L. A. Thorp Sunday and Monday. Mentor --The Index writes that Mrs. John Kellogg, age 76, --Mrs. George Wheeler is in Cleveland the guest of Madison, has pieced a bedquilt since March 1st of Mrs. Hutton. containing 3, 363 pieces. --Miss Dora Hart is very ill with congestion of the --Mrs. Aaron Wilcox has returned from lungs. Hamilton, Ontario, where she has been visiting, --The family of Mr. Cottrell in South Mentor have her daughter, Mrs. Charles E. Doolittle. been terribly afflicted having lost two promising --Mrs. L. O. Barstow and children, who have been boys, age 11 and 13, within a few days, with a spending the winter in the city, leave today for disease which resembles pneumonia. New Haven, where Mr. Barstow is now located.

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May 28, 1885 South Madison Willoughby --Miss Lydia Hill, of Cleveland, is now visiting --Cephus Gillett & Son are making an unusual lot friends and relations in this section. of baskets this spring. --Mr. Charles Holbrook, of Madison, intends to --G. W. Clement, Esq., on the 16th inst., was move back into his house next to that of his admitted to practice law by the Supreme Court father’s on the river road. of New York. --Mrs. W. L. Todd had a severe relapse, but is Kirtland more comfortable now. --Mr. M. A. Worthington, a citizen of this --Mrs. J. H. Dewart, of Owatonna, Minn., is township, for the past 5 or 6 years, died on visiting Mrs. N. C. Smith and others in town. Thursday of last week at the age of 80. --Miss Glen Penfield, on Sat. evening returned Obituary th from Houghton, Mich., to attend the wedding of At his residence in Mentor, O. May 17 , Isaac her brother at St. Louis, this week. Sawyer died in his 80 yrs. He was the second son --Mr. Raymond C. Penfield, of the firm of J. C. of Joseph Sawyer, who came to Mentor from Penfield & Son of this place, and Miss Minnie Pompey, Onondaga Co., N. Y., during the Botsford, of St. Louis, Mo., were married last summer of 1811, having lived in East Mentor 74 Wed., at the First Presbyterian Church in that yrs. He was the last survivor of family of 6 city. brothers, whose history was identified with --F. W. Gibson, of Philadelphia was visiting at Mr. Mentor and Lake Co. Five of the brothers with Law’s, the guest of Dr. G. F. Law, last week. their parents, are buried in Mentor Cemetery. --Thursday, Mrs. James B. Barnes died of He was born July 26, 1805, and was married consumption, age 26 yrs. She leaves a husband Sept. 1, 1829, to Miss Rachel O. Ferry, of th and children. She was at Huron Street Hospital Pompey, Onondaga Co., N. Y. She died Aug. 15 , for a long time and a great sufferer. 1874. His remains were taken to Mentor Cemetery and laid to rest by the side of his Madison beloved wife. --Mr. Henry Walding, of Painesville, was in town Sunday. Died --Mrs. Boyd, of Simcoe, Ont., is visiting her May 23, 1885, Mrs. S. D. Burr at her former parents, Mr. & Mrs. D. S. Hall. residence, Concord, O. She was a daughter of --Miss Frankie Ensign, who has been teaching Clark Potter, an was born Jan. 6, 1837. In school in Chester, O., is at home. Crawford Co., Pa. She was married Oct. 23, 1884. --Mr. N. F. Morey and family have moved to Saybrook, Ashtabula Co. June 4, 1885 Thursday Concord p. 1 col. 7 Pioneers of LeRoy --Mr. & Mrs. David Cole on Johnnycake Ridge, But little is known of the first settlers of the have a son and Alva Brown a grandson, just 4 town. They came, they lived, and they died. In days old. 1802, Col. Amasa Clapp, of Mass., gave a tract of --Mrs. Burr, formerly Miss Potter, was buried last land in the then “far west,” to his two sons, Paul Sunday. and Elah Clapp. They came on foot or on --Miss May Huntoon has gone to Montclair. N. J., horseback through trackless forests. The site of to visit her sister, Mrs. Lillie Goble. the first house built in the town is still to be seen. Perry It is on the farm now occupied by James Quine. --Warren Butler, who has been sick for some Paul Clapp was married but left his family in months, has been taken to the Infirmary for Mass. Elah was a bachelor. In 1803, Spencer better care. Phelps came from Mass. In 1805, Paul Clapp

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June 4, 1885 --Mrs. George B. Pratt and her son, Carl, of moved his family to the wilds of Ohio, and the Chicago, are spending the summer with Mrs. same year John and David French came from Pratt’s mother, Mrs. C. C. Pease, of Washington Mass. and located land. The next year, Patty St. Clapp, age 11, a daughter of Paul Clapp died, and --Dr. Gardner went to Greenville, Pa., to attend the same year the first white child was born in the wedding of his brother, Mr. Charles Gardner, the town, a daughter of Spencer Phelps. In 1807, of Cleveland, and Miss Hattie Vaugn, of Elah Clapp married Rebecca French, a sister of Greenville. John and David French. They had 3 children: --Mr. Charles Brayton, of Cleveland, is a nephew Ogden born 1808, Amasa born 1810, and Octavia of the late Rev. J. A. Brayton, of this city. born 1812. Ogden died in early childhood. Amasa --Mrs. Dudley B. Wick, of Cleveland, with her Clapp is still living in the south part of town. He children, has been making a short visit at her married Sophia Beebe in 1833. She was a Painesville home on the Park. daughter of Ezra and Lydia Beebe, who came to --Mrs. Walter Kelley, nee Marshal, is with the Leroy in 1831 from East Haddam, Conn. They had family of Mr. Jacob Kelley, Wood street. 8 children, two of whom are still living, Mrs. --Mrs. B. B. Park leaves Wed. for Louisville, Amasa Clapp, and Allen Beebe, of Geneva. Kentucky, to visit her brother, Dr. S. A. Foss, and Octavia Clapp married Rupert Foster in 1845. her sister, Mrs. John Kennedy. She died Jan. 10, 1883. Rupert died Nov. 10, --Geneva Times: Hart Ward Esq., of this place, 1883. They had no children. Elah Clapp died sold his home on West Main Street and with his about the age of 25 and his widow married Wm. family has taken up residence in Painesville. McMillan, by whom she had one son, James --Mrs. O. W. Tinan, of Cleveland, arrived at the McMillan. He died in 1837, age 21. Mr. McMillan home of her sister, Mrs. John Spencer, South St., died in 1862, age 76, his wife in 1853, age 61. Friday to attend the funeral Sunday of her friend, Written by Mrs. J. W. Doncaster. Mrs. H. L. Barstow. --Morley & Rich are placing a monument from p. 2 col. 1 J. C. Davis, of Niles, was murdered at the Quincy, Mass., quarries on the Hitchcock lot East Liverpool, Ohio, last Wed., by a man named in Evergreen Cemetery. The base is 8 feet square Angus Bratt. and two feet thick. The height of the monument --Another accession to Mormonism, four will be 35.5 feet. hundred in number, landed in New York from --C. H. Morley, of Fort Scott, Kan., has purchased Europe some days ago and at once started on the the Wm. Perkins homestead on Washington St. journey to Utah. It must be gratifying to Mrs. Morley to know the home is still to remain in the family. p. 3 Real Estate Madison Billington, George I. Billington, Lucy Leroy Green, Francis Richards, J. S. Richards, Miranda J.

Painesville Local Brevities Axtel, Laura K. --Mr. & Mrs. John Bower, of New Castle, Pa., who Kerr, Emily have been the guests of Mr. & Mrs. S. K. Gray, Noble, Lydia P. left for home on Monday. Gardner, A. L.

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June 4, 1885 many family connections. Mr. McGennis was Kirtland struck with paralysis of the lungs and lived one Tuller, A. hour. He leaves a wife, two sons and a young Tuller, G. M. daughter. Tuller, Wm. Mentor Obituary Hart, S. H. Juliet, wife of Mr. H. L. Barstow, died May 29. Hart, T. G. Since the death of Mrs. Thompson (two years Hayford, Mary R. ago), Mrs. Barstow’s health has been gradually Willoughby declining from consumption. She was 58 yrs. old Bernhard, P. and had for more than 50 years lived in our Bernhard, B midst. The remains were buried in Evergreen Bernhard, Henry Cemetery. Bernhard, Elizabeth Willoughby Higgins, C. J. The sons of Chester Palmer were here visiting Austin, E. N. the parental home for one day. --Miss Jennie Lyon, of Cleveland, made a short Common Pleas Court visit to see her grandfather, H. G. Lyon, who is 95 yrs. old. --Dr. E. E. Flickinger was at his parental home to see his sick sister, Mrs. Mary Todd. --Mrs. Warner, the mother of Mrs. J. F. Robinson, is here on a visit. --The remains of Hannah Fuller, of Wickliffe, were brought here for interment. She died of apoplexy. --Mr. & Mrs. W. A. Bates, of Hartford, Conn., are visiting their daughter, Mrs. H. H. Wells. --Mr. R. C. Penfield and his bride returned to their home last Tuesday. Madison --Mrs. Shipley, of Cincinnati, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. A. H. Stockham.

Death of John W. McGennis, of Chicago

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June 4, 1885 June 11, 1885 Thursday Perry p. 2 col. 1 John King, of New Philadelphia, Ohio, --Last week occurred the statement that Warren was caught in the cog wheels of a clay grinding Butler had been taken to the Infirmary for better machine and fatally crushed. care, whereas it should have read Byron Butler. --Conneaut Reporter: A company has been organized in Rock Creek for the purpose of Mentor Headlands forming a settlement in Tennessee and they will --Miss Fannie Hobday is making her niece, Miss leave sometime this month. Mary Slitor, a very pleasant visit. LeRoy p. 2 col. 3 South Thompson --Mr. & Mrs. E. M. Tuttle, of Eagleville, Ashtabula --Warren Morehouse has moved into the house Co., are visiting friends in town. with his father. --Mrs. Unice French, nee Downing, is better. --Miss Minnie Sumner, of Bostwick Corners, graduates from New Lyme Institute the 11th. Died --Rumor has it that Mr. Nickerson has sold his --In Painesville, May 28th, 1885, Mrs. E. A. Seeley, mail route to Mr. Myron Murphy, of Montville, age 21 yrs. Remains were taken to Geneva for and will soon go to the far West to join his sons. interment. --Mrs. Albert Allen died of cancer Thursday, age --In Painesville, May 27th, 1885, Mr. S. Cone, age 60 yrs. Her daughter, Cynthia, gave her loving 75. care.

Mentor Mentor ---Mrs. H. C. King spent most of last week with --Mrs. Rebecca Wyman, of your city, was the her mother in Aurora. guest of her relatives the King family. --Miss Dora Hart is better, but her brother, Mr. --Mr. & Mrs. H. N. Munson are receiving a visit Ellsworth Hart, is very low with the same disease, from their cousin, Mr. R. J. Cullings, of New York. pneumonia. --Dr. Luse has a fine crayon portrait of Mrs. Kezia --Old Father David Gray passed away very gently Sweet, lately deceased, which has just been Friday and will be buried from his home in South finished by Miss Emma Case, of Mentor. Mentor today. The remains will be taken to Willoughby Chardon for burial. He was 104 yrs. old. --On the return of R. C. Penfield and bride, Mrs. J. W. Penfield gave a large reception party last For Sale – A Deering self-binder. Jas. H. Friday. Stamberger, South Mentor. --Mrs. Elizabeth Storm was given a surprise party Lost - Mrs. T. R. Woodruff of Mentor, lost a last week for her 66th birthday. brown sacque. --Mr. John O. McCabe, of New York, married Probate Notice Miss Iva E. Holmes. Madison --Mr. Charles Lyman, of Lincoln, Neb., made a short visit to his parents, Mr. & Mrs. Geo. Lyman last week. --Mr. & Mrs. J. L. Wood are visiting friends in Nebraska. --Mr. Milton Frisbee left last week for Chicago with the last carload of machinery belonging to D. H. Roe &Co., who have moved from this place to that city.

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June 11, 1885 --Street signs are now on the lamp posts at every --Mr. Chas. Yetman, the Nickel Plate station corner. agent at this place, is visiting his mother in --Mr. & Mrs. Robert Manchester reached home Claridon. Tues. after his successful engagement of 42 weeks with Leavitt’s “Rentz-Santley Company.” st LeRoy He will be home until Sept. 1 . --Arthur Wilson has moved to Olney Bates’ --Common Pleas Court reversed the decision of house. alimony in the case of Eliza Ann Ingersoll vs --There was a party at J. W. Doncaster’s on Sat. George W. Ingersoll. to celebrate the 11th birthday of his daughter, --Will Higgins, left the Newburgh Asylum Josephine. Monday and walked to Painesville to his South Madison mother’s house. The Sheriff took him in charge. --Miss Lydia Hill is on the sick list. --Rev. Peyton Yelverton Morgan, of Trinity --Mr. Elis Perkins, in G. Stickney’s sawmill, has Church, married Miss Mary Sterling, daughter of sawed in 48 days, 343 logs. Dr. Sterling, of Cleveland. --The ladies’ aid society meet this week Thursday with Mrs. Nelson Scott. --Miss Nellie Drake, formerly of Concord, now of Perry, and L. L. Morriss and wife, also of Perry made a short visit to this section. p. 3

Seventy-fifth Anniversary The First Church in Painesville was organized in June, 1810. Special services will be held in observance of this anniversary.

Real Estate Painesville Fitzgerald, Mary J. Local Brevities Roony, Thomas --Will Hennessey has a salt water turtle weighing McCrone, John 120 bs. Donohue, Wm. --Mrs. O. T. Hutchinson, of Warren has been in Kirtland the city since yesterday. Morrison, Candice --Mrs. Joseph Moulton, of Winchester, Mass., is Morison, Carry L. the guest of Mrs. S. B. Hamlen. Willoughby --Mrs. F. F. Budd, of Utica, N. Y., is spending time Presley, Jeremiah – heirs at the home of her parents, Mr. & Mrs. H. W. Fergason, Martin Payne, called here by the illness of her sister. Sheffield, Ephraim --Mrs. F. D. Janvier and children with maid, are Clark, Harriet E. expected to arrive in the city next week, to make Dewey, Ella D. their summer visit to the family of Mr. J. W. McDogald, E. A. Alexander on the Avenue. Hawley, David R.

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June 11, 1885 grandchild. His remains were interred in Resolutions of Respect are printed by the Equal Chardon Cemetery by the side of his wife who Rights Assoc. of Painesville for their deceased died in 1861 at age 78. member Juliet A. Barstow. Married At the home of Mrs. M. A. Brakeman on May 31st, 1885, Joseph P. Cessna, M.D., of Avila, Ind., to Mrs. Elizabeth K. Wilson, of Painesville. Died In Concord, O., June 8, 1885, Mrs. Adeline Andrews, wife of Guy B. Andrews, age 58. Remains go to Massena, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., for interment.

June 18, 1885 Thursday p. 2 col. 1 Two little sons of Joseph Sullivan, of Ashtabula, aged 6 and 8 yrs. were drowned Monday while bathing in the river.

p. 3 Letters uncalled for at the Painesville P. O. as of June 17, 1885: Ladies Baughman, Ellie Miss Hall, Nellie Miss Holcomb, S. L. Mrs. King, S. A. Mrs. Rice, Sarah Miss Ryan, Anna Miss Thompson, Louise Mrs. Thompson, Julia Gentlemen Alling, Jos. Mr. Bernard, E. J.

Bosh, C. A. Obituary of a Centenarian Byson, A. M. David Gray died at Mentor, O., May 29, 1885, age Crowe & Patchin 104 yrs., 7 mos., 9 days. He was born in Pelham, Downing, J. J. Hampshire Co., Mass. Oct. 20, 1780. At the age Hurt, Frank of 25, he moved to Madison, N.Y., and after a Hauploeton, P. J. residence of 13 years, moved to Chardon, O., McGarvie, R. W. arriving July 1, 1818. He came to Mentor Centre, Potter, Adams April 30, 1867, and moved to South Mentor, July Rice, Milton H. 30, 1874, where he lived until his death. He was Spaulding, Dan M. the father of 10 children, only four of whom Lisette, S. A. Mr. survive him. The oldest now living, Mr. Ely Gray, Vrooman, Joseph of Mayfield, O., is 75 yrs. old. He has more than Wetherell, W. H. 20 grandchildren and about 40 great- grandchildren; and at least one grt. grt.

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June 18, 1885 --Mrs. E. G. Wetherbee, Mentor Ave., is visiting Local Brevities her mother at New Bedford, Mass. --Mr. Frank F. Wood has gone to Racine, Wis., to --Mrs. Geo. W. Morley and four children, Mr. A. practice dentistry. H. Morley, of East Saginaw; and Mrs. Fred H. th --Mr. J. Y. Tisdel, of Middlefield, age 79, died Morley and child sail from New York June 27 recently from the effects of having a cancer and will spend an indefinite time in Germany. removed. --Mr. E. W. Morley, of East Saginaw, Mich., was --Mrs. S. C. Hickok, South street, went to in town enroute to Philadelphia where his wife Cleveland to visit her daughter, Mrs. J. M. Hart. has been spending some time. One the way --Mr. & Mrs. George W. Kinney, of Geneva, were home, they will stop in Painesville so Mrs. guests of their son, Mr. E. O. Kinney, a few days Morley can visit her parents, Mr. & Mrs. Jacob last week. Kelley, Wood St. --Mrs. A. B. Gardner, of Chagrin Falls, with her little granddaughter, Katie, visited Painesville Death of F. W. Tinker friends last week. Ford W. Tinker died at the home of his father, A. --Miss Sadie Robinson, of Wheeling, W. Va., is L. Tinker Esq., Prospect St., Wed., age 31 yrs., spending a few weeks with her sister, Mrs. D. R. after a short illness. He was born in Painesville Davis, Washington street. and has resided here the greater portion of his --Mr. C. S. McCormick of the Niles Independent, life. He was proprietor of the City Mills. He arrived in town Sat. and will be the guest of his leaves a wife and parents. mother for a week or two. --Mrs. Wakelee and Bryon and Oscar Wakelee, Finale of the Cat Story mother and brothers of Arthur B. Wakelee, have Last week was the story of Mrs. Henry Wolfe’s gone to Toledo to attend the funeral. cat which had three kittens which Mrs. Wolfe --Information is wanted of John Crofts by his drowned. The cat in despair went in search of parents, John and Elizabeth Crofts, formerly of her kittens and was found to have baby rats that Bugstalley, England, but now residing in Wis. she was nursing in her box. This week, Mr. --Mrs. Edward Hitchcock and children of Thomas Cat got in the box and killed the rats. Northfield, Minn., are the guests of Mrs. A. Malin, St. Clair St. Murder and Suicide --Mrs. E. N. Rich, nee Miss Frankie Benjamin, of News reached here Tuesday of a terrible tragedy Fort Dodge, Iowa, will arrive in Painesville this committed in Toledo by Arthur B. Wakelee, a Friday to visit her parents. former resident of Painesville. Monday, a sister --Miss Howard, of New Bedford, Mass., the sister of Mrs. Wakelee went to her house and finding of Mrs. E. G. Wetherbee of this city, sails for it closed climbed through a window and found Europe June 27th with Miss Randolph and the Mrs. Wakelee dead, bathed in blood on her bed. Lake Erie Seminary party. Her jugular vein had been cut with a razor and --Mrs. Fred Downer, of Auburn, N. Y., returned not three feet away was the body of her husband home Tuesday after a three week visit with her with two bullets in his heart. Mr. Wakelee was a parents, Mr. & Mrs. E. T. Donaldson. jealous man and from letters he left he blamed --Mrs. J. N. Downer, of Mentor Ave., is home Billy Brown and Alice for his troubles. In another from N. Y. and Canada, where she has been letter he left money for funeral expenses. They visiting friends. Her son, F. K. Downer, from had no children. Auburn, N. Y., accompanied her. Real Estate --Mr. & Mrs. James Wilson are the guests of Mr. Madison & Mrs. Colby, St. Clair street. Billington, George I. Johnson, Mary A. Johnson, Benj. H.

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June 18, 1885 leaves a wife and daughter, a sister, Mrs. Knight, Lee, F. of Covington, Ky. Green, Hannah J. Holbrook, Emma J. Hall of Pebble Rock Lodge, No. 535, I. O.O. F. LeRoy prints resolutions of respect for their deceased Ackerman, Charles member, Henry Wilber. Manley, Sirena Painesville South Madison Avery, Matilda C. --Sunday, the barn of Monroe Scott was burned Sherwood, W. H. Mrs. down with cutter, wagon, carriage, etc. Fire is Kirtland supposed to be incendiary. Holmes, Ezra Perry Squires, A. P. --The funeral services of Andrew Bowen took Mentor place at the family residence Tuesday. He had Mack, Frank been in poor health for several years. Mack, Henry LeRoy th Hart, J. F. --Died at Brighton Park, Ill, May 26 , Miss Minnie Alderman, Reuben W. B. Mills, adopted daughter of Dr. & Mrs. J. L. Rice, Horace Mills, age 16 yrs. Mrs. Mills will be remembered Harvey, Wm. here as Miss Lucy H. Whipple. Willoughby --Amos French is very sick. Skiff, Lottie E. --R. J. Hibbard has gone to Rock Creek to see his Smith, Jennie F. brother. --Mr. & Mrs. Parsons, of Madison, spent the Common Pleas Court Sabbath with their daughter, Mrs. David Upson. --Arnold J. Bowen vs. A. D. Barrett --Dimmie, daughter, of Orlin and Maggie Loomis, --Homer L. Carroll vs Ida A. Carroll died Sunday, age 6 yrs. --Susan E. Goodrich vs Albert Goodrich. Madison Dismissed. --Mr. L. S. Brown, of Willoughby, spent part of --L. C. Mathews vs Wm. M. Reynolds, Adm. last week in town. --Horace Steele vs Leonard Anderson. Dismissed. --Mr. Wright Lyman and family, of Chicago, is --A. R. Buher vs Myron W. Cobb. Dismissed. visiting at the home of his father, Mr. Geo. --Richard Drayton vs Ayzetenna Drayton; divorce Lyman. --D. A. Warner vs Charles Butler. Dismissed. --Mrs. J. G. Fraser and children are spending the --Monroe Bros. vs W. F. Vrooman. summer in Conn. Death of Capt. J. B. Kilbourne --Mr. W. H. Genung has contracted for the boring J. B. Kilbourne died at his home on State street, of a gas well near his foundry on the Middle last Friday, and a protracted and painful illness of Ridge. several months, age 62. He was born in Hudson, Willoughby Plains O., and came to Painesville about 36 yrs. ago --Several of the Plains people attended a surprise where he has since resided. During the war, he birthday party for Elder W. A. Lillie as it was his th was with Gen. Sherman on his march to the sea. 70 birthday. He was Capt. of Co. I., 10th O.V.C. He was a boot --Mr. & Mrs. A. Cole have a baby girl. and shoe maker by profession. About 12 yrs. ago he lost his only son, a young man about 16 yrs. Willoughby old, and some years later his oldest daughter. He --Henry Carroll, late of Munson, now resided in the house with his son, Frank, in our village. On the 8th inst., he was 71 yrs. old, and he walked

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June 18, 1885 p. 2 col. 3 Mentor from Munson to this village, 12 miles, on that --Mr. Will French, of Waterbury, Conn., with his day. He was born near Painesville in 1814. mother, has been visiting their relatives, Mr. & --Mrs. R. C. Brinkerhoff is visiting her sister, Mrs. Mrs. Robert Murray. Lindenberger before leaving for California. --Mrs. Harriet Dickey has just returned from a --Mrs. McWethy goes to Kansas to reside in a few little stay in Akron with her daughter, Mrs. Helen days. Pardee, where she also met her granddaughters, --On Sat. Dr. Weber performed an operation to Mrs. Will and Mrs. Ed. Sawyer, of Beaver, Utah. cut a cancer from the tongue of Mrs. J. Philpot. --Mr. Will Aldrich, of Offords, Pa., walked in She is well pleased with the improved condition unexpectedly to visit his Mentor relatives after of her health. an absence of a year and a half. --Mrs. J. H. Herrick, of Clyde, has been a guest of --Miss Maggie Daniels will graduate from Mrs. O. S. Skinner in town the past week. Painesville High School this year. She has made --Miss Myra Hall was given a surprise party on her home with her sister, Mrs. John Sanborn, Sat. while attending school. --Mr. & Mrs. A. Atwater and little son, of Mentor Bloomington, Ind., are again enjoying a summer --Miss Emma Murray has returned to her post in visit at the home of their mother, Mrs. Sophia Columbus as Sec. to the office in one of our State Munson. Asylums. --Mr. Ed. Swain, of Paulding, is visiting his mother --Mrs. Joseph Rudolph is receiving a visit from in her new little home at the Center. her sister, Mrs. H. Horn, of Allegheny City. --Mrs. Willard Hart, of Conn., is the guest of --Mr. & Mrs. Henry Randall, of Chardon, with relatives here. In her honor, there will be a Hart their little daughter, Grace, were guests of their reunion on the grounds of Mr. Stephen Hart, the Mentor relatives last week. coming week.

June 25, 1885 Thursday Unionville --Mrs. Cook from New York is visiting her p. 2 col. 1 Henry Struble, age 60, a well-known daughter, Mrs. Goddard, of this place. farmer of Brookfield, while shingling his roof, fell --Mr. & Mrs. Parker, of Terre Haute, Ind., are 30 feet to the ground and was instantly killed. visiting at Mr. Cone’s, who is father to Mrs. --Arthur J. Grover, the suspected murderer of Parker. Also, Miss Cone, of Painesville, is Granville G. Loomis, of Orwell, Ashtabula Co., spending some time with her cousin, Miss Gertie was arrested last week in Menominee, Wis. Cone. --Clara, wife of S. S. Smith, cashier of the savings Willoughby bank at Chardon, died very suddenly at the home --On Thursday, William Downing, one of S. W. of her parents in Garrettsville, last Wed. Smart’s farmers, fell from a scaffold and cut a --At Warren, Tuesday, the famous McCaslin large piece of skin loose from his forehead by divorce suit was decided granting a decree to hitting a piece of iron. The skin was sewn back on Mrs. Henrietta McCaslin with custody of the two but will leave a permanent scar. children. --Mrs. S. Fowles is at Camben, N. J., visiting her daughter, Minnie Witherby. --Stowe Kennedy, of Weeping Water, Kansas, is visiting his old home here.

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June 25, 1885 --Mr. John Castle, of Concord, exhibited a Sharpless variety of strawberry this afternoon measuring 6 x 3 ¾ inches. --Mr. Ed. Gilmore has a 12 lb. boy. --Mr. & Mrs. S. H. White and daughter, of Detroit, are the guests of Mr. & Mrs. L. E. Miller, Washington street. --The Painesville friends of Miss Harriet Parsons regret that she is not to return to the Lake Erie Seminary. Kirtland --Mrs. J. A. Towle, and children of Ripon, Wis., --Mr. George Allen is still seriously ill. are guests for the summer of Mrs. Charles O. --We are pained to learn that Mr. N. Markell, one Higgins, State street. of the old settlers of this township, can survive --Mr. Louis F. Griswold, formerly of this city, was but a few days. recently elected an officer in Company I., of the LeRoy noted Ninth Regiment, of New York City. --Charles Ackerman has sold out to Delos --Mr. & Mrs. W. D. Swezey are attending Manley. Adelbert College commencement, their son, Mr. --Olney Bates sawed 49 cords of wood for E. Field D. Swezey, being one of the graduating French and H. F. Callow in 5 hours. A big story but class. it is nevertheless true. --Hon. H. G. Tryon, of Willoughby, will be a Madison candidate for the office of State Senator. --Mr. N. Stratton has exchanged the Eldorado --Mr. & Mrs. Frederick A. Preston and family and Rink with Mr. Clapp, of Thompson, for a farm of Mrs. C. F. Willard, of Evansville, Ind., will spend about 200 acres in that town. the summer at the Willard homestead, State The rink is now used as a store room for about street. 25 carriages. --Messrs. Will and Frank Doran, of Dallas, Texas, have been the guests of Mr. H. H. Hine since Sat. p. 3 They came north with 25 car loads of cattle which they sold in Chicago. --Mr. Orland Selby, of Madison, was in the city a few hours yesterday. He is one of the old residents of this county, moving from Portage to Painesville in 1827, and then to Madison in 1828, where he has since resided. --Mr. & Mrs. A. C. Hayward, of Bayfield, Wis., have issued invitations to the marriage of their daughter, Miss Matie J. Hayward to Mr. Frank S.

Dunbar, on June 24, 1885. Mr. Dunbar was a Local Brevities former resident of Painesville. --Mrs. Robert Gregory goes to Erie today to visit --Miss Martha H. Mathews, daughter of Dr. & her son. Mrs. Samuel Mathews, has opened a school with --E. C. Gates, who has been attending college at Miss Clara G. Shepherd in St. Louis, a “French and Hudson, is home for the vacation. English Boarding and Day School for Young --Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Suplee, of Philadelphia, Ladies.” The institution is known as Hosmer Hall. were the guests of Mr. & Mrs. Augustus Hine, Miss Mathews had been a teacher at Lake Erie last week. Seminary, Wellesley College and Greylock Institute, Mass.

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June 25, 1885 Lake Erie Seminary

Class motto: Do the good, think the beautiful.

Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the First Church of Painesville Original members of 1810:

Real Estate Madison Headley, Frances Sterns, Ziba Merriman, Edwin Wright, Saphrona Huntoon, Elbridge, G. Bidwell, M. C. Mrs. Bidwell, Jennie Cook, Genevieve

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June 25, 1885 water beneath. A search was instituted for the Green, Elizabeth H. body and it was not found. The next day, his Manly, Delos uncles, H. and A. W. Smead, and Lomar Loveland Painesville and Herbert Pike went down the north side of Babbitt, Warren the river and found the body. Gregory, D. E. Mentor Mentor Hart, L. D. --Several deaths within the past week: An infant Village of Mentor son of Levi Burridge; Mrs. Frank Rexford, nee Nellie Carpenter, formerly of Painesville; and The Funeral of Mr. & Mrs. Wakelee Mrs. Bishop. Toledo Evening Bee, June 17, 1885 Willoughby The funeral of Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Wakelee --Mrs. W. Brain and her brother, Joseph, with a occurred this afternoon at the home of Wm. E. horse and buggy had a tumble on the “dugway” Brown, 131 Huron street. The brothers were hill last week. The buggy was smashed but the indignant at the statement concerning the sad horse and parties came out with a few scratches. affair made by their sister-in-law and had a --The family of J. Brinkerhoff, of Plymouth, O., further examination made of the unfortunate are in town on a visit to their friends. man’ body this morning. The doctor stated --Mrs. LeRoyal Taylor is convalescing. Wakelee was not diseased and had never been. Mentor Headlands --Mrs. Mary Brooks and daughter, Edith, are July 2, 1885 Thursday spending the summer with friends in Canada. --Mr. & Mrs. Miles Barnes, of Burton, were the p. 1 col. 6 Sidney Rigdon – The Man Who guests of Mr. & Mrs. Edward Brooks part of last Wanted to Succeed Joseph Smith Salt Lake week. Tribune Perry At Belleville, Richland Co., Rigdon at one time --Jessie Perry’s house near the Red Mill burned pretended to be an angel of the Lord and jumped down last night. from a cliff into the water and was found out when he was dragged to shore. After the killing p. 3 of Joe Smith at Nauvoo, Ill., Rigdon aspired to become head of the church, but Brigham Young was chosen. p. 2 col. 3 Madison --The funeral of Mr. D. W. Amidon took place Sat. --Mr. Frank Manchester, of La Barge, Mich., and Miss Adah Lee were married at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. & Mrs. D. Lee last Thursday. --Miss Daisy Safford, one of the graduates of the public schools, gave a large party in honor of the Local Brevities graduates of ’85 last Friday. --Mrs. L. A. Finney, of Lincoln, Neb., is visiting --Our community was shocked on Wed. Painesville friends. afternoon by the news of the death of Bennie --Mr. O. T. Hutchinson, of Warren, is spending Dodge by drowning. He was swimming with the week in Painesville. friends when he found a boat a short distance --Mr. W. F. Broughton, of Geneseo, Ill., is visiting above the dam. He thoughtlessly sprang into it in Painesville friends. and it was carried over the dam into the boiling

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July 2, 1885 Morison, S. R. --Mr. E. W. Keene and wife, of Bristolville, O, Skinner, Avis were visiting friends in Painesville last week. Warner M. J. --Mrs. N. S. McAbee, Prospect St., Cleveland, is Lynch, Ellen visiting her parents. Mr. & Mrs. H. B. Green, Erie Perry St. St. John, Chas. --Mr. Lewis Burnham, of Collinwood, who was Mellen, E. E. injured in a fall two weeks ago, is now with his Kirtland parents on Erie street. Holmes, Ezra --K. A. E. Bell, and old resident of Mentor Ave., Walley, J. H. died suddenly at his home on Mentor street, Mentor Friday. Skinner A. --Mrs. Altha Hoadley, of Burton, the sister of Burr, S. D. Mrs. A. L. Tinker, Prospect St., has been the guest Wales, W. J. of Mr. & Mrs. Tinker since the death of their son. Tanner, Chas. --Miss Fannie Safford, of Cleveland, is the guest Dickey, W. C. of her aunt, Mrs. H. N. Hyde, St. Clair street. Willoughby --Miss Lizzie Wilson, daughter of Mr. Hudson Holmes, Ezra Wilson, of Faribault, Minn., Miss Ilda Cory, Walley, J. H. daughter of Rev. J. B. Cory, of Cleveland, and Miss Louise Harvey, daughter of Prof. Harvey, of I.O.O.F. – Cornucopia Lodge, No. 212 this city were of the party with Miss Randolph Resolutions of respect are printed for their and Miss Mays sailed from New York on the deceased member J. B. Kilbourne. Britannic last Sat. LeRoy --Our oldest pioneer, Ezra Bates, died June 26, Captain Seth Ledyard Phelps 1885, age 83 yrs. He was born in Chesterfield, The sudden death of Mr. Phelps in Peru has Mass., April 25, 1802, and moved with his caused deep sorrow to many friends. He was parents to this town Aug. 9, 1809. He was born in Parkman, Geauga Co., June 13, 1824. His married May 14, 1829, to Miss Mary Hungerford. father, the late Alfred Phelps, was an officer in He leaves three sons, Ira Bates, of LeRoy; Olney the war of 1812. Seth passed the early years of Bates, of Thompson, both married; Addison a his life in Chardon. He studied in the naval bachelor, living with his father. Mr. Bates leaves academy at Annapolis, and served in Mexico. In one sister, Mrs. Egbert Valentine, of Concord. 1850, he was one of a scientific expedition to Chili. In Oct., 1853, he married the daughter of High School Commencement Gen. Maynodic. Two years ago, President Graduates: Arthur sent him to Peru. Claire F. Luther Miss Margaret Daniels Real Estate Miss Nellie Brick Madison Albert G. Dickinson Corlett, E. C. Miss Grace A. Hough Corlett, W. A. Donald Reynolds Gill, Harriet E. Miss Grace W. Trumbull Stratton Jr., N. Henry McFarland Clapp, E. J. Miss Mary J. Paine Painesville Miss Hattie L. Robinson Lyman, Pluma E. Miss Agnes Boalt Harry W. Woodward

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July 2, 1885 Madison, the found a man living there by the The Estate of Elvira Raplee name of Ladd. He formerly lived in Dalton, Mary P. Mixer is the executrix of Elvira Raplee, Berkshire Co., Mass., also Dr. Merriman, from dec., late of Madison, Lake Co., O. the same place. When they got to Painesville, Dissolution Notice they found a land owner and purchased two lots The firm of D. Donaldson & Son was dissolved in LeRoy. They sold their horses for $100 each April 1 by mutual consent. E. T. Donaldson will which they gave in payment for the land and continue the business. returned to Mass. on foot. On Oct. 3, they Notice to the Public started with an ox team and a wagon and James Fairchild Smith gives notice that no person reached what was then Geauga Co., on Nov. 3, or persons are authorized to create any debt which was Heman’s 21st birthday. He returned whatever for him or in his name. to Mass. in 1821 and married Miss Anna The Estate of K. A. E. Bell Reynolds They had 10 children; six still living. His J. B. Burrows is the executor of K. A. E. Bell, dec., brother, also returned to Mass. for a wife and late of Painesville, Lake Co., O. married Miss Freelove Brown and had eight children, six are still living. July 9, 1885 Thursday col. 6 Probate Notice p. 2 col. 1 George Brewster, of Warren, was fatally injured by a falling tree. p. 2 col. 4 Reunion of the Williams Family Forty of the Williams family met on June 27, 1885, at the home of H. S. Williams in LeRoy for a reunion. Mr. S. B. Baxter, of LeRoy, was chosen President, and Mrs. B. E. Burr, of Montville, Sec. After dinner, a beautiful easy chair was presented to Mrs. W. A. Davis, nee Sarah Williams, by her husband, it being her 65th birthday. The 27th was also the birthday of Mrs. H. S. Williams, who received gifts from her husband. Next was a brief account of the journey from Mass. to Ohio by S. D Williams (now deceased) and his brother, Heman Williams, now living in Concord at the age of 88 yrs., 7 mos. He had put the account on paper and it was read by his daughter. Lanesborough, Berkshire Co., Mass. June 17, 1817. S. D. Williams, age 22 and his brother, Heman, age 20, talked of finding a home in the western states. Some neighbors said that boys, who would think of going five or six hundred miles into the wilderness, were wild and had better be kept at home. On June 17, 1817, the boys saddled their horses and headed west. They followed the Mohawk river to Utica, then to Rochester, then south to Genesee Co. to Batavia. Continuing on to Buffalo the traveled along the shore through Pennsylvania. When they reached

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July 9, 1885 --Mr. Julian C. Hoskins died of consumption at p. 3 the home of his mother, on the Middle Ridge, June 29th. --Mrs. Campbell, of Mass., is vising her brother, Mr. P. T. Safford. --Mr. Fred Vrooman, a member of the G.A.R. post, who broke his leg a few months ago at the skating rink, broke his leg again drilling at the G.A.R. Hall last Friday.

Willoughby --J. H. Foster has painted his house and new veranda. --Mr. N. Markell, who lives near Kirtland, lies Local Brevities prostrated in a critical condition. He will survive --Mr. W. Wadsworth has gone to Girard, Pa., to but a few days. He is one of the old pioneers. be absent some time. --Mr. & Mrs. R. Drake, of Berrien Co., Mich., --Mrs. C. W. Field, nee Hine, of Cleveland, is visited relatives here for a week. visiting at Mr. Homer Hine’s, Riverside. --Mr. & Mrs. C. L. Durban, of Cherokee, Cal., are --Mr. & Mrs. Frank S. Davidson, of Cleveland, to spend some time with their brother, G. B. were the guests of Rev. W. L. Davidson over the Durban and wife, in town. Sabbath. --Rollin Wellner and Omar H. Reeve were among --Mr. H. M. Mosely, of East Paw Paw, Ill., is the graduates of the Adelbert College, Cleveland. visiting friends in Painesville and Thompson. --Last Monday, Earl, a son of Mr. & Mrs. Allen G. --Mrs. A. S. Drake and children, of Cleveland, are Carroll, age 2, died of spasms. visiting Mrs. Drake’s parents, Mr. & Mrs. W. B. --Frank Daniels has gone to Duluth for his health Slocum, Erie street. and from there to California, and will go to --Mrs. Conley and Mrs. Batcheller, of Westfield, Oregon if necessary. N. Y., have been visiting their sister, Mrs. J. P. --J. S. Hastings is at Paradise City, Nevada, visiting Barden, during the past week. with Henry Stewart and others, recently of this --Lucius E. Judson, who has been a student at place. Amherst College for the past year, is spending his vacation with his parents on Erie St. Perry --Mrs. Chadwick, the aged mother of Mrs. Dr. --One more of our oldest citizens died on Sat, Sherwood, died suddenly Sat. July 4th, Col. E. Stratton, age 82 yrs. --In the St. Paul Daily Globe of a recent date, we find a very flattering article of one of our Died Painesville boys, Mr. Anson Bateham, who is --Albert N. Moseley, age 31, died in Thompson, engaged in business in that city. July 3rd, of consumption. --Mrs. E. Darragh, of St. Paul, Minn., and her son, --In Mentor, June 20th, after a long and painful Edward Darragh, who recently graduated from illness, Helen, wife of F. J. Rexford, age 40 yrs. the commercial course at Notre Dame University, South Bend, Ind., returned Thursday, For Rent - George C. Curtiss has one nice large from a short visit to Painesville friends. room on second floor, on Main St., to rent.

Madison --Mr. Melville Strong, of Little Silver, N. J., was visiting in town last week.

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July 16, 1885 Thursday --Mr. Wm. H. Johnson has been elected the first p. 3 mayor of the incorporated village of East Mentor. --Miss Minnie Babcock, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. James A. Babcock, left Monday for Saratoga, N. Y., to attend the National Teachers’ Convention. --Miss A. E. Kimball will also attend the National Teachers’ Convention in New York. --A few days ago, Mr. Billington and family, who live at the Mud Mill, left their house alone for the day and on returning early in the evening, found it had been entered by tramps who helped themselves to a bountiful supply of provisions. --Mrs. Charlotte Hathaway, on July 14, 1885, celebrated her 101st birthday. --Mrs. Ruby Justus was stricken with paralysis while walking Sat. afternoon. She was taken to her home on Jackson street, where she has since

been in a critical condition. Local Brevities

--Mr. Harry Brooks, son of John Brooks, is home Real Estate from Italy. LeRoy --Mrs. Wurt A. Breed has gone to New Haven, Green, Frances Conn., to spend the summer at her former home. Richards, J. L. --Mrs. F. Clapsadel left last Friday for a visit with Richards, Miranda her brother’s family in Jamestown, N. Y. Madison --Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Preston left Tuesday for Miller, R. D. New York City for medical aid for Mrs. Preston. Warren, E. N. --Mrs. Frank Tillottson, of Cleveland, has been Warren, A. E. spending a few days with her sister, Mrs. J. A. Benton, Julia Babcock, Mentor Ave. Waterman, Frank --Mrs. A. F. Woolson, son and daughter, of Matteson, A. N. Philadelphia, are spending the summer at her Ruggles, Ida father’s, Alex. King, on State street. Mentor --Mr. & Mrs. I. S. Johnson, of Warsaw, N. Y., are Walderman, R. spending a few days at their sister’s. Mrs. Geo. Hart, S. M. H. King, and their brother’s, E. H. Johnson. Perry --Mrs. Samuel Mathews is expected home from Perry, O. H. Chautauqua today, Wed., with her relatives Mr. Parmly, Lovinia L. & Mrs. Charles Dean, of Washington, C. H., Ohio. Rowland, J. w. --Mr. Lorenzo Hitchcock, of Illinois, is visiting his Rowland, Emma A. sister, Mrs. D. B. Clayton. Mr. Hitchcock was a Painesville former resident of this county, leaving here 48 Clague, John R. yrs. ago, and this is his first visit back in 21 yrs. Parmly, James L. --Mrs. Kate Hover and daughters leave Thursday Kershaw, Ellen for Milwaukee to visit relatives. Blackmore, Susan

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July 16, 1885 Wilcox, A. Mentor Briggs, R. P. --Mr. Lewis Johnson, of Chicago, is visiting his Goodell, Addison brother, Wm. H. Johnson. Vanderveer, W. J. --Mr. Alfred Armstrong has a new house nearly Willoughby completed on his place, a few rods south of Main Crobaugh, Sarah street, in the village of East Mentor. Ellen, Linda

Board of Education: O. Sawyer, E. Burridge, W. D. Mather, Wm. Sawyer, Edward Ingersoll and W. H. Johnson.

Madison --Mr. David Palmer, of Seward, Nebraska, is visiting in town. --Mrs. H. E. Kellogg leaves today for Colorado to be gone some time. --The infant son of Mr. & Mrs. Howard Wood died Sat of cholera infantum. --Calvin Walters, son of J. D. Walters, died Wed. of brain fever. He received a slight sunstroke on the 4th and after arriving home became delirious and remained so until he died. --Mr. F. W. Sykes, age 78 years, died at the home of his son-in-law, Mr. R. F. Couch, last Wed. The remains were taken to Ashtabula for burial.

Willoughby --Miss Jennie Lyon, of Sault St. Marie is visiting here at her uncle’s and grandfather’s, H. G. Lyons on River street. --Mr. Cephus Gillet got his right thumb cut in a basket grooving machine last week. --Mrs. Mary Woolsey now resides with Mrs. K. Hastings, on River street. --Mrs. Harriet Clark and her daughter, Annie, have gone to Portland, Conn., to visit their old homestead. --Mrs. Iva McCabe has moved her residence to New York City.

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July 16, 1885 --In Painesville, July 4th, Mr. William Manning, --Mrs. W. L. Tod is making a visit to her father-in- age 65 yrs. He was born in Ireland in 1820, came law at Brunswick. O. to New York in 1838, and finally moved to LeRoy Painesville in which place he has since resided. --Mr. & Mrs. Goss, of LaFayette, Ind., are visiting He served in the late war from 1862 until its at her father’s, Mr. S. B. Baker. close. --Mr. J. Wallace is suffering from a stroke of paralysis. The Estate of Parish Joice Wesley J. Babcock is the executor of Parish Joice, West Mentor dec., late of Concord, Lake Co., O. --Miss Antoinette M. King is in Tiffin. Farm for Sale --Mrs. Wagner, a sister of Mr. W. H. Brewer, of An excellent farm of 60 acres for sale at a the Lake Shore road is quite ill. bargain. Due to ill health, E. S. Colgrove is selling --Frank Aldrich and family, of Knoxville, Tenn., his farm in Perry. are the guests of Mr. E. T. C. Aldrich. --Mrs. James H. Angier gave a five o’clock tea on July 23, 1885 Thursday Wed. in honor of her cousins, Mrs. Ed. & Will p. 3 Letters uncalled for at the Painesville P. O. as Sawyer, of Utah. of July 22, 1885: Willoughby Plains Ladies --Mrs. Nettie Willey and two daughters, from Brick, Annie Miss Highwood, Ill., are visiting her father, T. Card, Julia Miss Richardson, and her brothers. Cumferson, W. H. Ms. Dunerick, Marion Chace and Hathaway Deffly, M A. Mrs. The organization known as the Chace and Griffith, J. H. Miss Hathaway reunion was held on June 10, 1885, at Hendershot, M. Miss the home of John C. Hathaway, now a resident Harrington, Mary Mrs. of Cleveland. G. L. Ensign attended and wrote Huston, Samuel Mrs. about the day. Lanely, Mary Mrs. Lester, Charlotte F. Miss Married Malden, Mary Miss --July 8 at the First Church Parsonage, Geo. J. Manly, Carrie Miss Owen, and Sophia Wolf, both of Fairport. McClary, Mary Miss Obituary Morgan, G. W. Mrs. Died in LeRoy, June 11, 1885, of inflammation of Murray, Ellen Miss the bowels, Dimis, little daughter of Orlin and Shepherd, Clara Miss Maggie Loomis, age 6 yrs., 10 mos. Shepherd, Daniel Mrs. Died Tuttle, Mary Miss At his home on Little Mountain, July 1st, Parish Williams, Carrie Mrs. Joice, age 83 yrs. He never had a sick day in his Wright Ealle Miss life. He was a native of New York state and had Gentlemen been a resident of Lake Co. for half a century. He Adams, C. D. was the youngest and last survivor of a family of Clausen, H. C. 11 children. Collins, M. H. --Died June 24, of pneumonia, Henry G. Hall, Dolan, Eddy formerly of Lake Co., at Antrim, Mich., age 38 yrs. Hootyborn, H. Leland, C. P.

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July 23, 1885 --S. P Davidson, brother of Rev. W. L. Davidson, Manly, Everet of our city, has started a newspaper in Kenneth, Moses, & Ryan Kansas, the Democrat. Mershon, D. F. --We are in receipt of the Utica, Ill., Blade, Obrien, Tim published by C. M. Hale, a former Painesville Ryan, Patrick typo. Reed, Edna Warnee, J. S. Wilson, D. S.

Local Brevities --Mrs. Sadie Post, of Richmond, is visiting friends on Long Island. --Mr. Lucius Rust, of Loudonville, Ohio, has been visiting friends in Painesville. --Mr. Harry A. Thomson, of Perry, left Tuesday for Devil’s Lake, Dakota, to remain until winter. --Mrs. Henry Nottingham, left “The Maples” last Thursday to visit her mother in Palmyra, N. Y. --Weather: Last Thursday the temperature was 95 degrees in the shade. Quite a number of people were overcome with the heat. Monday --Mr. & Mrs. Robert Manchester were given a the temperature ranged from 90 – 100. surprise party for their 10th wedding anniversary --Mr. E. D. Brooks, of Owosso, Mich., has a Tuesday evening. position as clerk and stenographer for Storrs & Harrison Co. Nurserymen and Florists, of this Willoughby place. --Mr. & Mrs. F. H. Dewart and children, of --Fred Amsden, and East Ashtabula boy, was Waverly, Ohio, are visiting at Mr. G. W sunstruck Monday while riding along in a spring Clement’s. wagon and was found unconscious on reaching --On the 10th inst., Mrs. H. B. White celebrated home. her 85th birthday at the home of Mrs. D. C. Miller, --Mr. & Mrs. Herbert L. Moody, recently from on River street. Minneapolis, have come to Painesville to reside. --Mrs. Orr and children, of Syracuse, are at --Mr. Frank H. Pierson has secured a position on Chester Palmer’s on River street. the New York Herald. --Mrs. L. Ellen has purchased from Mrs. Crobaugh a lot on River street and intends to build on it. --Mr. V. Page has gone to Kalamazoo to visit friends there. --Mr. Roswell H. Stanhope, son of C. W. Stanhope, on the North Ridge, has gone to Madison Columbus, O., for treatment of his eyes. --Mr. J. L. Wood has returned from Nebraska. --Mrs. J. W. Bergen and children, of Brooklyn, N.Y --A party from Cleveland are to camp at Spring Y., are visiting Mrs. B’s parents, Mr. & Mrs. Grove on the Lake Shore in Madison, this month. Ludlum, of Richmond. --Mr. John M. Tilden, an old resident of Madison, died at his home in the east part of town, last Wed.

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July 23, 1885 Painesville --Mrs. Blanchard, of Boston, is visiting her Parmly, James L. parents at the Paige House. Steele, G. W. --Mr. Levi Benjamin is slowly recovering from a Durand, Lucius cut with an ax which he received while chopping. Alexander, J. W. Obituary Mentor Mrs. Rebecca Chadwick died in Painesville, July --Mr. & Mrs. I. D. Rowley and daughter and Mrs. 4, 1885, age 86 yrs. She was born in Norwich, Myron Winslow, all of Silver Creek, N. Y., are Conn. With her husband, she moved to Lockport, visiting the family of Mr. B. A. Smith. N. Y. and then came with her husband and family --Mr. & Mrs. John March, of Mishawaka, Mich., to Lake Co. One year ago, last October, she came are visiting her brother, Mr. Hiram Whitney, to Painesville with her husband forming a part of --Mrs. Forest, of Clinton, Ill., is with her mother, the family of Dr. Wm. H. Sherwood. Two weeks Mrs. Doty. before her death, she was much depressed by --Mrs. Emerson, of Toledo, is visiting her being told of the death of her youngest child, daughter, Mrs. C. F. Parker. Chas. Chadwick, who died in St. Paul, Nebraska, --W. Canfield, a veteran of the late war, is at his of consumption. father’s, Fred Canfield. Died th --Mr. & Mrs. J. T. Harrington had a baby girl. --In Madison, July 15 , 1885, Mr. John M. Tilden, South Madison age 80 yrs. He was a son of Dr. Ithamar Tilden, rd --Mrs. Sylvia Starks, of Erie, Pa. is visiting and was born Oct. 23 , 1805, at Braintree, relatives in this section. Vermont, moving to Ohio in 1831. In 1836, he --Mrs. Lyman Miller is not expected to survive purchased a farm half way between Unionville long. and what was then called Centerville, where he --Miss Junia Benjamin is visiting at her sister’s in has since lived. Geneva. The Estate of Eliphalet Stratton --Miss Angie Brewer, of Washington, and her B. S. Belknap is the executor of the estate of sister, Clara, of Cleveland, are the guests of Mr. Eliphalet Stratton, Dec. late of Perry, Lake Co., O. & Mrs. H. N. Griswold. The Estate of Salmon Cone --The carpenters are at work in Munroe Scott’s Isaac W. Cone is the adm. of Salmon Cone, dec., new barn. late of Painesville, Lake Co., O. Perry --A. D. Orcott & Sons are to build the new school July 30, 1885 Thursday house in District No. 4. p. 2 col. 2 Ulysses Simpson Grant died July 23, --J. J. Burrows and family, of Rochester, N. Y., are 1885. visiting friends in this section, their former p. 2 col. 3 News Items: --David W. Scott, age 73, home. an old resident of Akron, fell dead last Tuesday. --Mrs. D. C. Hamblin, who has been sick --Charles Meyer, of Cleveland, fell from a third- sometime, is very low. story window causing instant death. He was 35 yrs. old and leaves 2 children. Real Estate --Rufus Kellogg’s barn near Gregg’s Corners, LeRoy Ashtabula Co., was struck by lightning last week Manly, Delos and burned down. Ackerman, Charles p. 3 Letters uncalled for at the Painesville P. O. as Kirtland of July 20, 1885: Moiletor, Jacob Kelly, E. L.

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July 30, 1885 --Miss Glenn Penfield, the prima donna of Willoughby, is home again. Madison --Mr. I. S Childs has sold his stock of boots and shoes to Mr. W. J. Ford of this place. --Mrs. Sloan and son, of Ironton, are at the home of her mother, Mrs. Elisha Wood, to spend the summer.

Local Brevities Willoughby Plains --Miss Ida Dean, of W. C. H., Virginia, is the guest --Mrs. Ella Graves, of Perry, has been visiting her of her cousin, Mrs. Samuel Mathews. father, T. Richardson, and her brother, the past --Miss Gertie Connelly, daughter of J. B. K. week. She returned Sat. with her sister, Mrs. Connelly, of Columbus, is the guest of Mrs. R. P. Nettie Willey. Briggs. --Miss Hattie Baker, of Painesville, has been --Mr. David Jameson, of Newcastle, Pa., spent spending some time with her aunt, Mrs. O. Perry. the Sabbath with his aunt, Miss Susan Blair, Erie Street. South Thompson --Mr. L. M. Miller and son, Frank, of Detroit, were --Mr. Henry Tucker has returned from Michigan. the guests of Mr. M’s sister, Mrs. W. F. Smith, --Mr. James Huffman had a yearling calf killed by Tuesday. lightning. --Willie Edwards Root, of Cleveland, formerly of --Miss Mary Ann Croft died June 24, 1885, age 21 Painesville, has gone for a trip to Lake Superior. yrs., 7 mos.,3 days, of consumption. She was --Mr. & Mrs. Homer Hine, Riverside, has issued born at Youngstown, Nov. 20, 1864, coming to invitations for the marriage of their daughter, South Thompson, April 24, 1870, with her Agnes, to Miner G. Norton, Aug. 5th, 1885. parents, where she has lived ever since. She --Mr. Zeri Judd and Mrs. C. M. Belden, of leaves a father, mother and a number of Madison, leave for Utica, Montana, tomorrow. brothers and sisters. Mrs. Belden will join her husband who is in the West Mentor stock business there and Mr. Judd goes to look --Little Freddie son of Mr. & Mrs. Johnson, died at the country, on Friday. The funeral took place at the --Miss Louise Holt, of Willimantic Conn., as come grandparents’ home, Mr. & Mrs. Tribby. to Painesville to remain hereafter with her relatives, Mr. & Mrs. L. A. Porter.

Real Estate Madison Dow, Harriet A.

Baker, Stephen A. Concord LeRoy Loomis, Amelia J. --Mrs. Lucile Crafts, while riding with her brother Loomis, T. w. on the 20th, was thrown off the wagon when the Gray, James E. seat gave way. Her arm was broken near the Painesville elbow. Baker, Susan J. --Mrs. Austin Bates, age 70, died very suddenly Pierce, Francis at her home in LeRoy on Wed. night. --Mrs. Beckman, with her sister, Miss Porter, of Willoughby Mahoning Co., are visiting friends here.

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July 30, 1885 --Mrs. R. L. Ganter has been spending a few days South Madison with her brother, Mr. A. P. Sanford, on the Park. th --Mr. Anderson Ralston and family intend to --The 30 was the wedding anniversary of Mr. & move into a house owned by Mr. Ziba Stearns. Mrs. Tom Richardson, of Perry. --Mrs. Louilla Benedict, nee Dewey, intends to --Mr. T. B. Wire was united in marriage last leave the first of the month for the west. Thursday to Mrs. Anna B. Marvin.

Died At his home, No. 20, Jessie street, Cleveland, July 24th, Reese M. Johnson, age 67. He moved from Painesville to Cleveland a year ago. He came here from Middlefield about 20 yrs. ago. The remains were taken to Middlefield for interment.

For Sale – H. R. Dickinson has a two-horse family --Mrs. E. T. Frisbie, of Bank street, and her son, carriage and a two-seated single carriage for John T. Doolittle will visit Colebrook, Conn., Mrs. sale. Frisbie’s early home. --The funeral of Miss Martha Viall took place Aug. 6, 1885 Thursday Tuesday at the home of her brother in Mentor. She died in Huron Street Hospital in Cleveland. p. 3 Her remains were taken to Willoughby for burial. --There was a reunion at the home of Mr. J. B. Hopkins, in LeRoy, July 21st, in honor of Mr. Hopkin’s mother, who was 93 yrs. old that day. --Wm. Connoly was taken before the Justice last Thursday on the charge of cutting with a knife with intent to wound the person of John Brock, night watchman. Bail was furnished for him. James Connoly, charged with disorderly conduct in beating a police officer of the village; Peter Dowling, charged with drunkenness and

disorderly conduct; Cornelius Mahoney, charged Local Brevities with intoxication and disorderly conduct. All --Mrs. George B. Pratt has been the guest of her were arrested and plead not guilty. cousin, Mrs. D. B. Wick, in Cleveland.

--Mr. & Mrs. Curtis Holgate and two young sons, A Narrow Escape from a Fearful Death of Defiance, have been the guests for several Mrs. E. T. Booth, of the Stockwell House, on days of Mrs. L Sessions Steele, Mentor Ave. Thursday visited Camp Lakeside and lifted a --Mr. G. C. Curtiss and son, G. W. Curtiss left vessel she though contained water but it had Monday for Hunter, Dakota, to harvest 425 acres gasoline in it which ignited from a stove. In one of wheat. second, her sleeve and back of her dress were on --Mr. Jonathan, Stickney, age 89, has been fire, and the back of her hair. Her hand and arm seriously ill since Sat. were badly burned before the fire was --Dr. D. C. Wilson, of Huron, was on the way extinguished. home from the east. He was accompanied by

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Aug. 6, 1885 East Mentor Death of Micajah L. Adams --Mrs. Winslow is entertaining her sister, Mrs. The Joliet, Illinois, Daily Press of July 30th gave the Sloan of Van Wert, Ohio. following information about the death of a LeRoy former resident of Painesville, and brother of our --Died at her home in LeRoy, Aug. 3, Mrs. Amasa fellow citizen, Mr. Charles D. Adams. Clapp, after a short illness. While Mr. Adams was watering his horse at the --Frank and Eva Woolever had a baby boy on corner of Hickory and Exchange streets, the June 19, 1885. horse became frightened and started to run. Mr. --Mrs. Hannah Tanswell is very sick. Adams jumped from the buggy and in doing so --Mrs. Elna Goss leaves this week for her home landed on his head and shoulders and received in LaFayette, Ind. injuries that terminated fatally July 19, 1885. He --John Adams and family, of Uniontown, are was over 60 yrs. old and was the son of the late visiting friends in town. Captain Benjamin Adams, of Painesville, Oho. --B. F. Bedell has gone to Michigan. The family consisted of eight sons and two daughters. The deceased has resided in Joliet Willoughby since 1840. It is claimed M. L. Adams discovered --Miss Thressa Lyon has been very sick with coal in the state and hauled the first load to cholera morbus. Chicago. He built the first foundry and the first --Mrs. Nettie, daughter of Dr. E. G. Clark, is pottery in Joliet. improving in health. --Skiff Sheldon has returned to Houghton, Madison Michigan. --The home of Charles Holbrook and its contents --Mrs. J. W. Hutchinson has gone to Saybrook on burned down about midnight, Aug. 3rd. a short visit. Perry --Miss Abbey A. Moses and Mr. H. S. Downing, of --A quiet wedding occurred here last Thursday, this place, are husband and wife. at which Mr. T. B. Wire and Mrs. Anna B. Marvin --Miss Gertrude Penfield left on Sat. to visit with were married. Miss Sieberling at Akron. South Madison --R. R. Roberts and his family have moved to this --Mrs. Synthia T. Drake, of Concord, is visiting at place. Mrs. Luman Wheeler’s. --Miss Ada Smith and T. S. Burnside, of Cleveland, --Mr. Glen Griswold fell from a tree he had are in town. climbed to look at a bird’s nest. He broke his left --Mrs. Clinton Waite has returned from the arm near the wrist. Indian Reservation. --Mr. Luther Hill, of Chardon, spent the Sabbath --Miss Delia Woolsey is being treated in Huron in his old home. Street Hospital, at Cleveland, for Bright’s --Miss Elsie Randall, of Unionville, spent last disease. Sabbath at her old home. Geneva Geauga Co. --The Eagle Lock Co. has closed their shop here --A five-year-old son of Mr. Brewer, of Hambden and moved back to headquarters at Terryville, was seriously hurt Sat. Hay was being unloaded Conn. from a wagon in the barn. The horse was pulling --Mr. Pelatiah Smith died yesterday morning of hard and the iron in the whiffletree came loose paralysis. and struck the boy on the side of the forehead --Chestnut Grove, the new summer resort on the making a hole in the skull large than a silver half lake Shore, has quite a number of campers. dollar. Surgical aid was needed. --Dr. A. L. Bennett is spending the summer in Kansas.

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Aug. 6, 1885 --Geo. N. McGonigal, of the well-known insurance firm of Hopkinson, Parsons & Co., of Cleveland, recently died in this place at the home of his mother, age 40 yrs. He was a son of the late Samuel McGonigal, one of the pioneers of Chardon.

Real Estate Madison Aug. 13, 1885 Thursday Killcawley, A. p. 3 Letters uncalled for at the Painesville P. O. as Killcawley Ann of Aug. 13, 1885: Painesville Ladies Hayes, D. Brown, Mary Owen, Geo Case, Kittie Miss Huntington, E. Sandust, Minn White, Caesar Strother, R. M. Mrs. Hoyt, Caroline W. Wilkes, Hattie, Mrs. Vorce, Daniel Gentlemen Kirtland Belkman, Ralph S. Smith, Geo D. Brockway, Rewel Tinkham, Walter S. Brown, W. F. Willoughby Gleasen, W. E. Reeve, Joe Gilleon, Edward Meigs Reeve, Eugene I. Gilbreath, George Phillips, W. F. Married Sheldon, Geo Y. July 30, 1885, Monticello G. Gillett, of Painesville, Turner, Charley and Edna L Reed, of Chardon. --Aug. 1, 1885, William Glover and Anna Local Brevities Thackwell, both of Willoughby. --Dr. Van Rapp is seriously ill at his home on Died Jackson street. --At her home in LeRoy, July 23rd, 1885, Dinah --Mrs. Cornelia Rogers, of St. Clair Street, has Bates, age 70 yrs. Dinah Patterson was born in returned from Edinburgh, Pa. Ovid, Seneca Co., N. Y., in 1815, moved with her --Felix Doran, Dallas, Texas, reached Painesville parents to LeRoy, Ohio, in May, 1833, and the Tuesday for a few day’s visit. following January settled in Hambden, Geauga --Miss Jennie Underwood, of Cleveland, is Co. July 11, 1834, she was married to Austin visiting her sister, Mrs. Frank Curtiss, Erie Street. Bates and soon after commenced housekeeping --Mrs. Carson, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. in LeRoy. The lived together for nearly 36 years Mitchell, is visiting friends in Detroit. before her husband died. She had six children, --Mrs. William Young, of Newark, N. J., is the three survive. guest of her sister, Mrs. J. L. Pierson, South street. Probate Notice --Mr. & Mrs. W. G. McCall, of Youngstown, have been spending the past week with Painesville friends.

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Aug. 13, 1885 dress. Among the guests --Miss E. B. Wing, of Bloomfield, and Mr. C. L. Lewis, of Boston, are the guests of Miss Palmer, State street. --Mrs. Anna Schultze, of Cleveland, spent a few days last week with her cousin, Mrs. Augustus Hine, Mentor Ave. --Mrs. L. M. Miller, of Detroit, accompanied by her daughter, Bessie, spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. W. F. Smith, Mentor street. --Miss Matie Johnson, formerly of this city, now of Cleveland, is visiting her sister, Mrs.

Armstrong. --Mrs. A. B. Drake, who has been spending Mrs. Hathaway – Died at 101 Years and 22 Days several weeks with her parents, Mr. & Mrs. W. B. Mrs. Charlotte Hathaway died Aug. 5th at her Slocum, has returned to her home in Cleveland. home in this village. Palmyra Courier --Mrs. George B. Pratt and her cousin, Mrs. Mrs. Hathaway was the mother of Mrs. Henry Dudley B. Wick, will leave Cleveland on Sat. for Nottingham, of Painesville. Lakewood. --Mrs. O. G. Tuttle was called to Crestline last Willoughby Thursday by the illness of her mother, who died --Mr. & Mrs. H. Carroll went to Buffalo, N. Y., on soon after Mrs. Tuttle reached her. a visit to their sons on Sat. last. --Mrs. Julius Byles, of Titusville, and her children --Miss Mary Austin, of Toledo, is visiting at her are expected to arrive her on Thursday for a visit grandfather’s, A. P. Barber, Esq. of a few weeks to her parents, Mr. & Mrs. Imri P. --Mrs. Maria Freeman died Tuesday of last week, Axtell, Erie Street. age 65 years, and was buried on Wed. --The death of George Allen, of Kirtland, --D. C. Hutchinson, of Milwaukee, but formerly of occurred Monday at the age of 49 yrs. He leaves this place, was in town a number of days. a wife and six children. --Last Sat., while Henry Campbell was on his way --Mr. & Mrs. Edward Doran, of Carrara, Italy, are to Chester with a load of brick and sitting on a visiting at the Doran Homestead, in Concord. spring pole seat on the wagon, a spring broke Hymenial and threw him to the ground. The injury was an The marriage of Miss Agnes Hine, third daughter internal one with much hemorrhage and of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Hine, and Mr. Miner G. soreness and he lays in a critical condition. Norton, of the law firm of Marvin, Ladd & Norton, Cleveland, O., took place at “Riverside,” Unionville th the residence of the bride’s parents, Aug. 5 . --Gracie Barnard, from Windsor, is visiting her Miss Mabel Hine and Miss Lou Darrow were uncle, Mr. Goddard. bridesmaids. The bride wore a dress of rich --Fred Goddard is attending the Teachers cream satin combined with brocade satin and Institute at Rock Creek. escurial lace, diamond ornaments and a large --Rev. Dr. & Mrs. H. Cooper from Waverly, N. Y., bouquet of rosebuds the same color as the are spending their vacation at Mrs. Cooper’s old home.

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Aug. 13, 1885 Obituary From the Orange Co., Florida, Reporter, the death of a former resident of Perry, Lake Co., O.: Dr. A. B. Crosby died July 21st, age 38 yrs. of a protracted illness. He was left an orphan at 10 yrs. of age. At the age of 21, he graduated in

East Mentor chemistry and pharmacy from the University of --Rev., & Mrs. W. B. Hendryx have a baby boy Michigan. He was the founder and editor of the born Aug. 6th. Minneapolis, Kansas, Sentinel. --Miss Addie Jordon goes to Buffalo Wed. intending to make that city her future home. Married Madison --Riley W. King, of Port Orange, Florida, and Mary --Mrs. Thomas King, of Cleveland, is visiting in R. Kehres, of Painesville, Ohio, Aug. 5, 1885. town. The Estate of John M. Tilden --The funeral of the mother of Mrs. John Brown J. F. Tobey is the adm. of John M. Tilden, late of was held at North Madison last Sunday. Madison, Lake Co., Ohio. --Mrs. Henry Patrick died last Friday of typhoid fever. Mr. Ralph Patrick, of Chicago is in town having been called home by the sickness of his Aug. 20, 1885 Thursday mother. p. 2 col. 1 G. R. Atkinson has been appointed Postmaster at Burton, Geauga Co. LeRoy --Dr. H. P. Fricker, of Ashtabula, has been elected --Another one of our pioneers is gone. Mrs. Anna superintendent of the Institution for the Blind at Clapp, nee Beebe, died Aug. 3, 1885, age 72 yrs. Columbus. Mrs. Clapp leaves one brother, Mr. A. C. Beebe, of Geneva, Ohio. She leaves a husband. p. 2 col. 3 News Items --J. G. Bates, formerly of LeRoy, but late of --A. B. Martin, of Geneva, has been granted a Ashtabula, died last Sat. The remains were back pension of $1,000. brought to LeRoy for burial. --Geo. Brinley, of Findlay, was killed and scalped by Indians in Nebraska. South Madison --Mr. Ira D. Granger and family are visiting p. 3 friends and relatives in Williamsfield. --Mrs. Lyman Miller is living but is very low. --Mr. David West has purchased a new clover huller.

Death of Mrs. Sunderland Died at Minneapolis, Mrs. J. Sunderland, on July 29th, 1885, of heart disease. Mrs. Sunderland will be better known as Miss Laura A. Tone, who taught at the Baptist College and the city schools and married about four years ago the Rev. J. Sunderland. She leaves a little girl three years old and a baby boy two weeks old. The remains were Local Brevities taken to Ottumwa for burial among her --Mr. Charles Boalt has returned from Ahnapee, husband’s relations. Iowa State Journal Wis.

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Aug. 20, 1885 Austinburgh, age 40 yrs. The remains were taken --Mr. W. S. Branch, of Parker, Dakota, is visiting to Montville for burial. Lake Co. friends. --Mr. & Mrs. A. Miller, of Collinwood, are visiting Painesville relatives this week. --Joseph L. Wood, an old resident and for many years a leading farmer and stock raiser of Madison, died on Monday. --Miss Pepoon and Miss Helen Pepoon will return to Fox Lake, Wis., this week, to take charge of the Seminary there. --The house and barn of Mr. M. C. Rockafellow, --Mrs. J. S. Casement went Tuesday for Cold several miles north of Chardon, were struck by Water, Mich., to visit her sister, Mrs. W. Clark, lightning on the 12th. He was milking a cow in the who is ill. barn and both cows on either side of him were --Mrs. Charles Smart, Washington St., struck by lightning and killed. entertained a large party of ladies to tea on Fri. --Jay House, son of Mr. S. R. House, had his team runaway this morning and was thrown out. Changed Hands Mr. E. Gill has sold his newspaper, the Madison Index, to Mr. B. A. Hayden. He had owned the newspaper 5 yrs. Mr. B. A. Hayden is the son of our townsman, Mr. J. B. Hayden.

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Captain Geo. E. Paine entertained some 60 of his old comrades in arms, members of C. F., 19th O.V.I., Tuesday night and this morning they left for Johnson’s Island. Captain Paine had arranged war relics (muskets, swords, bayonets, canteens, etc.) in the parlor and on the walls were hand --Mrs. J. N. Downer, of Mentor Ave., left for a bills and circulars printed in 1861. During the visit to her brother in Rochester, N. Y., and to evening in a meeting in the Grand Army Hall, visit her sons in Auburn, N. Y. She will visit her Capt. Paine was presented with a gold-headed native place Saratoga Springs. cane by members of his old company. --The Middlefield Messenger is the name of a An Old Citizen Passes Away new paper just started at Middlefield, Geauga Benjamin D. Chesney died suddenly Sat. while Co. by Arthur R. Woolsey. seated at the breakfast table. He was born in --Mrs. Landon Smith has sold her house and Warren, Trumbull Co., O., Sept. 13th, 1807. He grounds on Mentor Ave. to Mr. E. G. Wetherbee. came to Painesville in 1825 and for 6 years was --Mr. & Mrs. F. A. Tillotson and son, E. G. chief clerk of the old Geauga Iron Co., when he Tillotson, of Cleveland, and Mr. & Mrs. H. P. was made agent and occupied that position until Knapp, of Chicago, visited friends in Painesville. 1839. He was county recorder in 1843 and 1846. --A correspondent from Jefferson writes: In 1850, he was elected County Auditor and Theodore F. Goodrich, of Michigan, formerly of served continuously for 30 yrs. in that position. Montville, Geauga Co. who came to Jefferson to In 1880, he retired from active business. visit his uncle, Mr. B. F. Ruggles, died Aug. 13th at

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Aug. 20, 1885 --Rev. Andrew Wilson, of Ravenna, was in town Real Estate Thursday to preach the funeral sermon for Geo. Madison A. Allen, who died last Monday. Sohn, Charles F. Willoughby Plains Corlett, T. P. --Master Ray Richardson is in Conneaut visiting Corlett, J P. his grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. Silas Green. Simmons, Mary --Mrs. S. W. Brown intends to start Tues. for a Perry visit to Delaware, O., where she has uncles and Lazall, Judson A. other relatives. Graham, Ellen L. Madison Painesville --Mrs. Fannie Saxton and son, Harry, leave today Gray, H. C. for New York State, where they will make their Nichols, John home. Nichols Henrietta --Mr. Joseph L. Wood died at his home in the Raynolds, Catherine M. west part of town Monday, age 64 yrs. Johnson, Roxanna East Mentor Ayer, Pearley --Mr. & Mrs. W. H. Johnson arrived home on Ayers, James H. Friday evening. Ayer, Hamilton P. --Mrs. Jerry Root, of Tecumseh, Mich., visited Nellis, Libbie G. Mrs. Harrington last Wed. Pancost, S. G. --Mrs. Deal, of Chicago, with a daughter has been Moodey, Herbert L. visiting her aunt, Mrs. A. Harrington. Stockwell, Betsey Concord Wilson, M. J. --Miss Hannah Murray has become blind. Warner, Daniel --Jonathan Stickney is very low, not expected to Foote, Caroline live. Maltby, Elizabeth --Mrs. Higley has gone to Mayfield to visit her Dickinson, H. R. daughter, Mrs. Farr. Reynolds, M. Helen --Jason Jewell had another stroke last Sat. Dutton, L. M. --Miss Cora Weigel, of Fairview, Pa., has been visiting her uncle, S. W. Weigel. LeRoy --Mrs. Fryberger, of Hamilton, Canada, and Mrs. --E. Callow is on the sick list. B. W. Smith, of Cleveland, are stopped a few days --Mrs. Carrie and Ettie Wright returned last week with Allen Smith. from a visit at Cherry Valley. --Miss Mattie Harvey was back after two years’ Willoughby absence in Michigan. --Benj. C. Reed, of Oshkosh, is visiting the family of J. V. Viall Esq. --Miss Edith P. Penfield and Miss Coombs have gone to Bowling Green, New York. --J. S. Hasting’s post office address is still at Paradise Valley, Humboldt Co., Nevada. --Eugene Reeve has purchased a farm from his father on the east side of the Chagrin River. --Mrs. Dr. Scott, of Toledo, is in town visiting Mrs. Mary Woolsey—they are sisters. They were among the early settlers of Painesville.

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Aug. 20, 1885 Local Brevities --Miss Lizzie Gardner, of Chagrin Falls, is the guest of Painesville friends. --Mrs. George B. Pratt, and son, Karl, expect to return to Chicago this week. --Mrs. Harry Green, of Erie, Pa., is visiting the family of Mr. & Mrs. H. B. Green, Erie Street.

--Miss E. B. Wing, of Bloomfield, is the guest of For Sale - E. P. Wheeler has two new milch cows Mrs. C. H. Greer, Erie St. for sale. --Mrs. W. G. McCall and Miss Fisher have been to Erie, Pa., to visit their brother, Mr. George Fisher. Aug. 27, 1885 Thursday --Mrs. Alvira Eaton, nee Sanborn, of Grand Rapids, Mich., is expected here soon to visit p.2 col. 1 Painesville friends. --Mr. D. M. Eddy is ill and in a critical condition. --Mrs. F. L. Somner, nee Merrill, of Cleveland, has been the guest of Miss Mary Bartlett, St Clair St. --Mrs. Franz G. L. Warner and son, of Dakota, are p. 2 col. 3 News Items visiting Mrs. Warner’s parents, Mr. & Mrs. D. --A valuable slate quarry has been discovered in Childs, of South St. Boston, Summit Co. --Mr. & Mrs. Samuel P. Chesney, of Jacksonville, --John H. Titus’ chair factory was burned down at Ill., guests of Mrs. B. D. Chesney return home on North Kingsville Monday night. Sat. --Mrs. Robert Russell, of Champion, Trumbull --A young son of Mr. Lewis Garner at Lane Co., committed suicide Monday by hanging. Station fell on a scythe last week severing a Cause, temporary insanity. thumb and forefinger. --The remains of Hon. Seth Ledyard Phelps, --Dr. I. B. Hargett, for many years a Homeopathic United States Minister to Peru, reached practitioner in Cleveland, has located in Washington Tuesday. They were met at the Painesville and opened an office in the depot by his son-in-law, Chief Clerk Levellon A. Milwaukee Block. Brown, of the State Dept. The burial will take --Mr. Noble Thompson has returned from place at Oak Hill Cemetery. Mr. Phelps was a Virginia with the determination to make that native of Geauga Co., O., where many of his state his future home. He will close up his friends still live. business and move there this fall. --Mr. J. W. Babcock, of Little Mountain, is p.3 entertaining his sister, Mrs. A. L. Putnam, of Weedsport, N.Y., and his daughter, Mrs. S. T. Goddard, of Owasso, Mich. --Mrs. Horace Prentice and her son, Will H. Prentice, of Buffalo, visited Painesville friends from Friday until Monday. --Mr. E. W. Kelley, of Jonesville, Mich., and his daughter were in the city today to attend the funeral of Jonathan Stickney. --Mrs. Amanda Wilkins, of Prospect Street, was 77 yrs. old on Aug. 25th.

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Aug. 27, 1885 he moved to Ohio and bought land in Concord. --Mrs. J. B. Stubbs, son and daughter, of Chicago, He engaged in the iron business for a number of are visiting Mrs. Stubbs’ parents, Mr. & Mrs. S. C. years operating a blast furnace. In 1846, he built Hickok, South St. a grist mill and in 1866 sold it to Mr. H. S. Fay. He --Someone entered the pasture of Mr. Monroe and his wife were married 64 yrs. They had nine Masters and cut the tail off a valuable Jersey children, only two of whom survive, Mr. G. A. cow. Stickney, of Madison, and Mrs. Captain J. N. Dyer.

West Mentor --Mrs. Beckwith and Mrs. Frost, of Evans, N. Y., are the guests of Mr. & Mrs. N. C. Frost. --Mr. H. F. Green was advised by his doctor to go --Mrs. Seeley R. King, Washington St., was to the South Cleveland Hospital for more skillful ordered by her oculist of Cleveland, to the treatment. He is exceedingly nervous and has Adirondacks for the benefit of her eyes. She chronic difficulties. went to Little Mountain as a more sensible Concord choice. --H. S. Fay is down with lumbago. --Mrs. Kibbie is very low with a tumor and has Real Estate been sick about 6 months. Madison Mentor Headlands Town, H. E. --Miss Fanny Hobday is visiting her niece, Miss Griswold, E. A. Mary Slitor. Fellows, F. F. --Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Hunt, from Cleveland, Turney, C A. have been visiting their parents, Mr. & Mrs. Fellow, Polly M. Keroper. LeRoy Willoughby Potts, W. F. --Mrs. C. J. Komar is some better. Potts, S. J. --Mr. & Mrs. Eugene River’s little child is sick and Potts, B. W. not expected to live. Teachout, Maria S. --J. O. Humphrey Esq. is putting a slate roof on Huston, Maggie his house on River street. Baker, S. B. --Mr. A. J. Orr, of Syracuse, has been a guest of Perry Chester Palmer for a few days’ past. Lockwood, Rosetta --Mr. S. Warner is a banker of Emporia, Kansas, O’Conner Chas. and is visiting old friends in Lake Co. Painesville --Mrs. Frank M. Hall is confined to her bed. Her Clayton, Wm. mother, Mrs. Higgins is with her but has also Fredebaugh, Frank been taken sick. Mentor --During the last year, (since Sept. 24) there have Shields, Jas. been 26 burials in the Willoughby Cemetery. Shields, Helen Mrs. J. C. Hill and Mrs. Maria Holmes died out of town. Another Pioneer Gone Jonathan Stickney died at his home in Concord East Mentor Aug. 23, 1885. He was born in Grafton, Vermont, --Mr. & Mrs. Dr. J. R. Johnston, of East Liverpool, Dec. 25, 1796, and on Sept. 1, 1821 married in O., are visiting with their daughter, Mrs. Keck, at Paris, New York, to Miss Sophia Avery. In 1826, the M. E. Parsonage.

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Aug. 27, 1885 widow, name Parthena Mingus. She married --Miss Ara Radcliffe returned home to Thompson James Hamilton, who lived in Newburg, fifty Sat. She was accompanied by her cousins, the miles away. They heard that in the Marsh Misses Delia and Anna Sackett, who spent Settlement there was a man by the name of Sunday with her. Moses Parks, who had been a Baptist preacher --A few days ago, Mr. Irving P. Larned brought and they made the long ride to him to be home a bride, Miss Nellie Lohmeyer, of married. Cleveland. Married Madison --Aug. 25, 1885, Mr. A. J. Custin, of Unionville, to --Mr. L. K. Ritscher and family are visiting in Mrs. E. M. Day of Painesville. Newark, N. J. --Aug., 25, 1995, Mr. Herbert Harris, of --Mr. Curtis Cady, of Lansing, Mich., is visiting Cleveland, and Miss Mamie T. Beach, of friends in town. Madison. --Mr. & Mrs. H. C. Studley and Miss Mary Tilden, Farm for Sale of Cleveland, are visiting at the home of Mr. P. T. Mrs. A. M. Carson, of Erie St., Painesville, has a Safford. farm belonging to the estate of John B. Carson, --Mr. Addison Kimball was elected a director of of 80 acres on the Bissell Road, for sale. the Exchange Bank of Madison to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Eliphalet Stratton, of Leo. L. Parmly – Bartlett Pears Perry. I shall have less than a thousand baskets of --The funeral of the late J. L. Wood occurred at selected Bartlett pears. Those who had none last his late resident last Thursday. year should try them to see what a pear should be. Postponed to Tuesday, Sept. 8 The Estate of Benjamin D. Chesney Due to the inclement weather Tuesday, it was Benj. E. Chesney is the adm. of Benjamin D. necessary to abandon the Pioneer Meeting and Chesney, dec. late of Painesville, Lake Co, Ohio. it was decided to postpone it for two weeks. Mr. C. C. Bronson was going to read two articles at Receiver’s Sale the meeting but cannot be here in two weeks. He John W. Alexander, executor of Geo. W. Steele permitted us to make extracts (below). vs Eliza McCormick et al. Land in Painesville In the spring of 1797, Lorenzo Carter and Ezekiel Township will be sold. Hawley arrived and took up residence in Cleveland in the family of Major Carter. The first Sept. 3, 1885 Thursday marriage on the Connecticut Western Reserve p. 2 col. 1 One of the oldest Master Masons in was in July: Chloe Inshes to a Mr. Clement from Ohio, John Gray, residing near Millersburg, died Canada. The second marriage was in what is on the 27th. called Mentor, Geauga Co. There being no p. 2 col. 3 State and Neighborhood townships at the time, they designated the --A shingle and cheese box factory and a barn localities by the name of settlements. This owned by James Aldridge, and a barn owned by wedding was at the Marsh Settlement in 1799. It Dr. Brayman, in Pierpont, were destroyed by fire was west of Black Brook near the lake shore. In last Thursday. 1798, Col. Alexander Harper, Major William --Willie Coe, of Montville, was suddenly killed by McFarland and Ezra Gregory with their families the falling of a derrick in Skinner’s stone quarry arrived at what is since known as Harpersfield, at Windsor Mill, on Sat. He as buried in Ashtabula Co., from Harpersfield, Delaware Co., Montville. He was the son of Almon Coe and was N.Y. In Major McFarland’s family was a young but recently married. Burton Leader

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Sept. 3, 1885 --Sat. evening Mrs. Charles H. Frank, on the Park, Real Estate had an enjoyable card party. Madison --Mrs. C. G. Treadwell, of New Castle, is visiting Wyman, Nancy her mother, Mrs. Thomas Greer, Erie St. Jones, J. H. --Harry Barstow is ill at Columbus, Ohio. LeRoy --Mrs. Isaac Gillett, Washington St., is again in Birge, L. comfortable health at the age of 92 yrs. Birge, C W. --Mr. & Mrs. S. W. Pierson leave Friday for a visit Fowler, Elizabeth to their daughter, Mrs. S. E. Fink, in Mansfield. Painesville --Mrs. Wm. Young, the sister and guest of Mrs. J. Payne H. W. L. Pierson, South St., left for home Tuesday, Sept. st Howard, Peter 1 . Kirtland ---Miss Bingham, of Cleveland, is visiting her Smith, Geo, D. sister, Mrs. Charles Brayton, at the Seth Marshall Hoose, Warren L. homestead. Willoughby --Mr. & Mrs. W. M. Werner have moved into one Scanlan, Jos. of Mrs. Colbert Huntington’s new houses on Erie Scanlan, E M. Street. Kenney, Maria --Mr. B. H. King, of Joliet, Ill., has been at the old Scanlan, Edward homestead a few days, called by the continued Westropp, Patrick illness of his mother. Westropp, Elizabeth M. --Benjamin Pepoon has been in failing health for Busby, Catharine A. some weeks past. p. 2 col. 5 Sheriff’s Sale --Mrs. Frank Dewey, Erie St., has had a long Alvin L. Tinker vs. George L. Ingrim et all. illness and there is faint hope of her recovery, Land in Painesville, Lake Co., O., will be sold. --Mr. H. F. Green, of Mentor, was Wed. declared insane by Probate Judge Shepherd and taken to p. 3 the Asylum at Newburgh. --The friends of Mr. & Mrs. Albert D. Malin honored them with a picnic party at the lake on Tuesday for their 16th wedding anniversary. --Mrs. Moses Moodey, of Northampton, Mass., and her daughters, Miss Nellie and Miss Florrie, are the guests of Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Moodey, Bank Street. -Mr. & Mrs. A. D. Crofoot entertained a company of ladies and gentlemen to tea in honor of Mr. & Mrs. Watkens, of Hinsdale, Mass., on Aug. 26th. --Mrs. Dr. Rosa, of Washington St., age 87, is gaining physical strength.

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Sept. 3, 1885 which he was fleeced out of $2,500 by some of the family. Mrs. Bateham and Miss Minnie are sharps with a lottery scheme. convalescing, but Mr. Charles Bateham is still in critical condition. Reunion of Battery C. th --Mr. A. P. Teachout died at his residence in The 19 annual reunion of Battery C, First Madison, age 74, of consumption of the blood. Regiment, O.L.A., was held on the Fairgrounds in --Mr. Gurdon Chadwick had a partial stroke of Painesville Thursday and Friday of last week. paralysis Thursday affecting one side and his Following are the names of those who speech. responded to the Roll Call: --Mr. & Mrs. Imri Axtell, Erie St., gave a brilliant evening reception to their young friends, Aug. 22nd, to introduce their daughter, Laura, into society. --The little daughter of the Rev. & Mrs. W. H. Gallagher will be baptized in Trinity Chapel this week. The name to be given is Julia Trinita. --Miss Alma Paige recently gave an evening party and an excursion party on Col. Paige’s special car, to Youngstown, to twenty young ladies and gentlemen in honor of her friend and guest Miss Florence Judd, of Flint, Mich. Birthday Anniversary Mrs. Harvey Woodworth recently celebrated her 80th birthday by a gathering of relatives and friends numbering 30. From out of town were: Mrs. N. H. Wickoff, of Chagrin Falls Mrs. C. C. Gleason, of Geneva (the only sisters of Mrs. Woodworth) Mr. & Mrs. L. C. Woodworth, of North Madison --Mrs. W. H. Gifford, nee Skinner, and her Mrs. C. L. Alliman, Madison (the daughter of Mrs. daughter, of Syracuse, N. Y., have been the W.) guests of Mr. & Mrs. Homer H. Hine, at Riverside Mrs. S. C. Carter, the eldest daughter is east with for a few days. Mrs. Gifford is the daughter of her husband. the late Abraham Skinner. To add to the pleasure of the occasion, a bride --Mr. Arthur Malin and his cousin, Miss Clara and groom, Mrs. Harris, nee Beach (the oldest Brewer, a graduate of Lake Erie Seminary left grandchild) with her husband, Mr. Herbert town Aug. 23rd for Colorado for the benefit of a Harris, of Cleveland, were present. During the milder climate. last few months, Mrs. Woodworth has spun 15 --Mr. & Mrs. J. B. Scoville, of Ashtabula, runs of yarn which tends to show she is still celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary on active in old time housewifery. Monday evening. They were given an elegant gold band china set of 75 pieces. Among the In Memoriam guests were Mr. & Mrs. Myron Dutton and Mr. & Mrs. Naomi Cheney, age 85 yrs., died at the Mrs. Curtiss, of Painesville. home of her son, D. C. Hill, Esq., on Prospect St.,

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LeRoy --A daughter to Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Downing. --Mrs. Ada Kennon, of Mankato, Minn., is visiting friends in town. --Henry Cowle and his two sisters, Emma and Resolutions of Respect are printed by the Mary, of Chardon, spent last Sunday in town. Madison Grange No. 819 for their deceased --Mr. Will Parsons, of Madison, who has been member, Joseph L. Wood. spending a few days with this uncle, David Upson, returned home last week. Willoughby --Mrs. Jerusha Bates, of Ashtabula, who has been --Miss Florence Wilson has returned from spending a short time with her mother, Mrs. Arizona. Jane Wilson, returned home Thursday. --J. S. Hastings is visiting his brother in Gilroy, Cal. --Mr. & Mrs. C. W. Gillett have a baby girl. Madison --Rev. Melville B. Chapman, a son of C. R. --Mr. Wm. Balch, one of the early settlers of this Chapman, of this place, received the degree of township died at his home on the Middle Ridge Doctor of Divinity at the Union College at Mount last Friday, age 92. Union recently. --Mrs. Ella Morse, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Samuel East Mentor Stratton, died Sunday morning of consumption. --Mr. Albert Teachout died Monday of consumption of the blood, age 72 yrs. He had been a resident of Madison for nearly 40 yrs. --Mr. Nathan Thompson, a very worthy citizen of

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Local Brevities --Miss Bertha Sherwood is visiting in North Madison. --Mrs. Frank W. Dingley, of Erie St., is still in critical condition. --W. R. Burrill, of Solon, Maine, is visiting Mr. W. F. Benedict. E --Mrs. I. A. Sunderland, of Madison, is visiting her sister, Mrs. A. B. Gardner, of Chagrin Falls. --Mrs. W. T. Easton, of Grand Rapids, Mich., is p. 2 col. 1 the guest of Mrs. Martha S. Curtiss, St. Clair St. --Mr. & Mrs. Elijah Warren, of Geneseo, N.Y., are visiting Mr. & Mrs. Henry A. Warren, Mentor Ave. --Mrs. J. H. King and Miss Jessie King, Mentor Ave., are visiting Mrs. King’s parents in the p. 2 col. 5 State and Neighborhood vicinity of New Haven, Conn. --Major McKinley will speak in Chardon, Sept. 18th. --John Knight, of Akron, while in a boat hunting accidentally discharged his gun killing himself. --Wm. Boyd, of Ashland, fell between, the wheel and the bed of his wagon and was so badly crushed that he died shortly thereafter. --Chardon Republican Augustus Huba, a foreigner about 24 yrs. old while working in Huntsburgh, got his foot caught in the revolving cylinder of a threshing machine and it was horribly mangled. Medical aid was summoned and his leg was amputated below the knee. --Mrs. N. K. Hubbard left his morning for her home in Fargo, Dakota. She was accompanied by p. 3 her niece, Miss Minnie Tisdel, who will spend the winter with her.

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Sept. 10, 1885 Bedell, Frank --While Mr. & Mrs. E. H. Rich are in New York and Madison Boston, their children will stay with their Mitchelson, A. E. grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. J. M. Benjamin. Waterman, James --Some evil-minded persons smashed all the watermelons in the patch of Mr. R. F. Benedict Willoughby on the east side of the river. --Mr. & Mrs. F. E. Hay, of Ill, were in town for a short time. --H. Y. Crobaugh is breaking ground for a new home on River Street. West Mentor --Wm. Wetherell has gone to Elmira, N.Y., which makes another vacancy in the Garfield band.

-Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Preston left the Willard homestead on Thursday for New York for medical aid for Mrs. Preston, who is now at St. --Mr. & Mrs. James Lawrence are at Mr. William Elizabeth’s Hospital. Lawrence’s. --The infant children of Mr. & Mrs. E. G. --Mr. & Mrs. Lewis Hart and two children are Wetherbee and Mr. & Mrs. Ralph K. Page were visiting at Mr. T. G. Hart’s. baptised last Thursday by Rev. Dr. T. B. Wells, of --Miss Fannie Hutton, of Cleveland, has been Minneapolis, Minn. Mr. Horace Steele and Mrs. visiting her aunt, Mrs. Ruth Crowl. E. G. Wetherbee are the godparents of Horace --Mrs. Adelaide Rudolph, a niece of Mrs. Raymond Paige. Mr. & Mrs. R. K. Paige are the Garfield, has been made professor of Latin in the godparents of Azel Howard Wetherbee. State University of Kansas.

Family Reunion The Crofoot family held their annual reunon th Sept. 9 at the home of Mr. A. D. Crofoot, on State St. There were over 60 relatives present. South Thompson Real Estate --Homer and Milford Spencer are attending Painesville school at South New Lyme. Huntington, Laura --Mr. Austin Cole is to teach here this winter. Sedgebeer, Mirza L. --Miss Minnie Sumner will teach in the Orwell Mentor public schools. Covill, Moses --Eddie McBerney has returned to his studies a Covill, Edward Cincinnati, being a senior in the public schools. Willoughby --After a long and peaceful life, Mrs. Mary Jacques, Justeen Jackson, wife of Wm. Jackson, of this place, died Arnold, Julia A. last Sat., age 80 yrs. She leaves a husband and LeRoy five children. Kellogg, J. E.

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Sept. 10, 1885 Unionville --Don Barnes has secured a position in Chicago. --Mate Hoag, who has been spending her vacation at home, goes back to school this week.

Moseley-Abbey Sept. 2nd, the home of Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Abbey, of Madison, was the scene of the wedding of their daughter, Myrta, to Mr. Charles C. Moseley, of --Mr. Nate Thompson, died last Tuesday, age 85 Thompson. Seventy or more invited friends yrs. He was born in Pa. and came to Ohio when were present. They left on the evening train for a young man. He lived in this community about the West to visit friends in Wis., Ill., and Iowa. 60 yrs. Obituary Died in Kirtland, on July 6, 1885, Nicholas Mentor Markell, a resident of Kirtland since 1817. He --Mrs. Lewis Hart, of Mass., is the guest of her was born in Palatine, Montgomery Co., N.Y., in cousin, T. G. Hart. 1811, and was 5 yrs. old when he came to --Mr. A. D. Quinby has opened a shop over the Kirtland. In 1818, the family moved onto the store of R. Radcliffe. farm now occupied by George Stokes. In 1835, --Miss Miara M. Radcliffe expects to enter the he married Elizabeth Russell; they were married Lake Erie Seminary as a student. 50 yrs. He leaves a widow and daughters and --Mr. & Mrs. L. J. Dorwin and daughter, of sons. Of all of his father’s family, five sons and Buffalo, N.Y., were guests of Mr. & Mrs. B. A. four daughters, only two brothers remain, Smith, over Sunday. Benjamin, age 78 and living in Kirtland; and --Mrs. A. L. Patterson and son, Shelly, of Chicago, James a resident of Mentor. returned home after visiting friends in Mentor for several days. Died --Miss Frankie Babcock, who has been living in Died in Painesville, Aug. 25th, of paralysis, Mrs. Bowling Green, O., for the past year, arrived in Rubie Justus, age 38 yrs. She leaves a bereaved Mentor Thursday. Her sister, Mamie Babcock, mother. The remains were conveyed to left for the east on Friday. Evergreen Cemetery.

Willoughby Plains Probate Notice --Misses Cora Kelley, Ella Brown and Della Hopkins expect to attend school in Willoughby this fall and winter. --Mrs. Emma Vrooman, who lived her years ago, but whose home is now in Michigan, was visiting her relatives on the Plains. --Miss Alice Griswold expects to be a teacher at the Seminary.

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Sept. 17, 1885 --Mr. Carlton Coates, of Pearl street, went to his --A meteoric stone weighing 140 lbs. is said to stable Friday to do his chores, and was later have fallen in New Haven, Huron Co. found him lying back of his horse in an unconscious condition. Dr. Merriman A Card of Thanks pronounces it a fit. To our numerous kind neighbors, who gave us their untiring and sympathetic aid during the --Mrs. George Frank, of Kirtland, was taken long and critical illness of our little daughter, dangerously ill Sat. night believed to be caused Grace. Lloyd Wyman, Mary Wyman of Perry by a slight stroke of paralysis or apoplexy. Mrs. Frank and sisters had been arranging for a p. 3 meeting or reunion, to take place at Waukegan, Mich., and was to join her sister, Mrs. Geo. E. Howe, of Conn., at Painesville station last night. Mrs. Howe was telegraphed of her sister’s illness and leaving the train proceeded at once to Kirtland. Mrs. Frank is now improving.

Real Estate Madison Dodge, Alice B. Potter, Daniel Perry Perry, Jesse

Perry, David P. Painesville Local Brevities Smith, Electa C. --Mr. George S. Fancher was in town Monday. Wetherbee, E. G. --Miss Cara Oliver is visiting her grandparents in Mentor Burton. Covill, Moses --Mrs. S. A. Tisdel has returned from an Wakefield, Augustus enjoyable visit to friends in the west. Willoughby --Mr. & Mrs. A. H Samson, of Loda, Illinois, are Smith, Jane visiting Lake Co. friends. Frith, Wm. --Due to weather, the Pioneers have decided to Dodd, Lizzie give up the reunion for this year.

--Miss Minnie Stubbs, who has been the guest of Obituary her grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. S. C. Hickok for a Died at Coldwater, Michigan Sept. 9, 1885, Mrs. number of weeks, returned home last week. Clymena Clark, wife of Isiah M. Clark, daughter of --Miss Nellie Drake, of Detroit, formerly of the late Charles Jennings and only sister of Mrs. Painesville, is visiting Mrs. A. D. Sturges. J. S. Casement, Painesville. Mrs. Clark was born --Mr. Claire Luther passed his examination for at the Jennings homestead in 1833 and was 52 admission to Adelbert College last Thursday. years old at the time of her death. She was --Mrs. L. A. Porter, Washington St., left home last married in Sept., 1861, and has resided in week to visit her uncle’s family at Newhampton, Coldwater 22 years. She leaves a husband, an Iowa. Mrs. Porter went in company with Mrs. N. only child, a daughter, and sister. The remains K. Hubbard and her niece, Miss Minnie Tisdel, were taken to Evergreen Cemetery. who were enroute for Fargo, D. T.

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Sept. 17, 1885 West Mentor --Miss Emma Toles, of Burton, is visiting friends in Mentor after an absence of 10 yrs. -Mrs. Hannah M. Jordan, of Buffalo, arrived Sat. and will visit her sister, Mrs. T. G. Hart. --Miss Cora Goodell is receiving a visit from her mother and sister, Mrs. S. D. Goodell, of Barrington, Ill. Willoughby --Edward Buffington had the flesh on his right hand striped off by accident. --Charles Wright, of Grand Rapids, Mich., was in town last week visiting his relatives here. The company were warmly welcomed by Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Adams and Mr. Martin Adams. Rev. Heman Williams, who was born on Nov. 3, 1796, contrasted the hardships of those pioneer times

with the progress and prosperity of the present. LeRoy Coming to the wilds of Northern Ohio on --Mrs. D. Hill died at her home in Thompson, horseback from Berkshire, Mass., in 1817. He Sept. 12. built a mill in LeRoy Township in 1819. Mentor

--Mrs. T. G. Hart is receiving a visit from her Married sister, Mrs. Jordan, of Buffalo. Sept. 8, 1885, Mr. Frank E. Morse and Miss Cora --Mr. & Mrs. A. H. Samson, of Loda, Ill., are Elliott, both of Perry, Lake Co., Ohio. visiting her mother and others here. Mrs. Died Samson was formerly Miss Martha Shuemaker, --On Sept. 15, 1885, at the home of her daughter, of Mentor. Mrs. G. O. Baker, Painesville, O., Mrs. Mary --Mrs. J. F. Radcliffe, of Hersey, Mich., visited Merrill, age 86 yrs. Deceased came from England with friends in Mentor last Friday. She came to to Painesville in 1852, since which time she has Painesville, to place her daughter, Lutie, in the been a resident of Lake Co. Since the death of her Lake Erie Seminary. husband, which occurred several years ago, she

has spent the most of her time with her Madison daughter, Mrs. Baker. ---The only student Madison sends to Oberlin --Died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Dr. College this year is Homer Kimball, and we wish Sherwood, in Painesville, Sept. 23, 1885, Gurdon him success. Chadwick, age 85. Concord The Estate of Dinah Bates Reunion of the Adams Family O. W. Basquin is the adm. of Dinah Bates, dec. Sept. 12th, 1885, a pleasant company assembled late of LeRoy, Lake Co., Ohio. at the residence of Mr. & Mrs. E. E. Adams, of The Estate of Jacob Morse Concord, Ohio. The occasion was the first annual Geo. Morse is the adm. of Jacob Morse, dec., late reunion of the Adams Family. of Concord, Lake Co., Ohio. Sheriff’s Sale John Jouglin &Co. vs Frank Willard Box of tools and clothes will be sold.

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Sept. 24, 1885 Thursday --Miss Gertrude Penfield has left Clifton Springs, p. 2 col. 2 State and Neighborhood and now is a student in the Ladies’ Seminary, at --Dr. Donziger, age 80, the oldest practicing Auburndale, Mass. physician in Canton, fell on his doorstep the --Mrs. S. Fowles has returned after a number of other day and fractured his thigh bone. Due to weeks visit in New Jersey. his age, there are no hopes of his recovery. West Mentor --An old man named John Higgins, employed in --Mr. Robert Murray on Monday left Mentor unloading gravel from the cars at Mantua enroute from Piqua to visit his son, B. M. Murray Station, was struck by a large shovel and and family. received what is feared are fatal injuries. LeRoy --Mrs. Hiram Mason left last week to visit friends p. 2 col. 5 Perry in Illinois. --The funeral of H. A Brewers oldest child, a son, --Mrs. E. W. Taylor returned home last week took place yesterday. from a visit in Dakota. --Datus E. Abel, one of the early settlers of Perry --Arthur Wilson has bought the old house of S. J. died at his home on the River road last night. Potts and moved it onto his mother’s farm. Mentor --Arthur Densmore had his hand badly cut last --John Sweeney, of Chicago, is visiting old friends Sat. with a knife while threshing. here. --Mrs. Don E. Williams returned home last week --Mr. B. U. Dimick, of Sandusky, O., was the guest from Michigan where she has been visiting over Sunday of Mr. B. A. Smith. friends for a few weeks. --Mrs. Dr. Leland, of Trumbull, is the guest of Willoughby Plains Mrs. Dr. Bixby. --Mrs. Chas. Palmer, of Lisbon, Dakota and three --Mrs. H. A. Upson, of Geneva, spent Sat. and sons are visiting her many friends on the Plains, Sun. with her sister, Mrs. Curtis, at the home of also Mrs. Clarence Durban and two daughters of Dr. Bixby. the same place are with her parents, Mr. & Mrs. --Mr. J. C. Warren has sold his small farm to Mr. Dan Hopkins. Camp. Unionville --Mrs. Laubchere, nee Mattie Parsons, of --Mrs. Hodges died Tuesday. The doctor called Cleveland, who has been with her mother her disease landers, a very rare disease of the several weeks, caring for her during an illness, nerves which goes to the brain. She leaves a returned to her home Sat. accompanied by her husband and son. mother. Geauga County Madison --Mrs. Amanda M. Wilson, who has been ill for --One of our oldest citizens, Mr. Bissell died about two months, is now convalescing. Thursday. Married th --Mr. John Carrigan is home with his new bride. --At Warren, O., Sept. 17 , 1885, at the home of --Mrs. J. W. Crocker is with her sick daughter, the bride’s mother, Henry E. Riker, of Painesville, Mrs. W. C. Walding, at Lansing, Mich. to Delia A. Kingsley, of Warren. Willoughby Died --Mrs. H. C. Dawson has returned from Jefferson --Died at Welaka, Putnam Co., Florida, Aug. 22, after several weeks’ visit to her old home. Olive Ann, age 8 yrs., 4 mos., youngest child of C. --Mr. & Mrs. J. H. Wilber have returned after a F. and Emily Waldron. th number of days’ visit in Geauga Co. --In Perry, Sept. 28 , of paralysis, Datus E. Abel, age 74.

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Sept. 24, 1885 --Mrs. Helen M. Rockwell, now of Chicago, p. 3 widow of the late Timothy Rockwell, of Painesville, was a guest at Lake Erie Seminary over Sunday. --Miss Eva Young, Erie St., left for Utica, N. Y., where she will enter Mrs. Piatt’s Young Ladies Seminary as a student. Mrs. M. L. Warner, Miss Eva’s grandmother, accompanied her to Utica. --Mrs. Wm. Young died at Hot Springs, Arkansas, on Tuesday. The body will be brought to Painesville. --Miss Sadie Bateham, of Mentor Ave., leaves Tuesday from Memphis, Tenn., where she has accepted a situation as a teacher. Miss Bateham

had to resign her situation in the public schools Local Brevities of Vineland, N. J., due to the serious illness of --Shirley H. Towles, of Cleveland, spent some different members of the family at the Bateham days in the city last week. homestead. --Mr. C. A. Willard, of Muncie, Ind., is at the --Mr. & Mrs. Brown, of Madison, Wis., enroute Willard homestead, State St. for Willoughby and Cleveland, dined with their --Mrs. Lucy A. Gates, of Petoskey, Michigan, is cousin, Mrs. Charles Smart, Washington St. on visiting friends in Lake and Geauga Counties. Monday. Mrs. Brown, was previous to her --Mr. B. Daggett, of Bristol, Vermont, a former marriage, the widow of a brother of Mr. Eugene resident of Kirtland, is this week visiting his Lake Pike, of Chicago. Mrs. Brown visited the burial Co. friends. lot of the Pike family in Evergreen Cemetery. --Mrs. Josephus Huntington was well enough to --Mrs. Colbert Huntington, Eris St., is the sister- go to Ashtabula, accompanied by her daughter in-law of Julian Huntington. He is the father of Mrs. Sedgebeer, a few days since. Mrs. Lucy Tombes. Mr. Huntington is one of the --Mr. John D. Preston, of New Orleans, is the pioneers of this section and the son of the guest of his brother, Mr. Frederick A. Preston. second Governor of Ohio. --Mrs. S. A. Merrill, daughter of Dr. Urann from

Boston, Mass., is visiting her parents and sister Silver Wedding at their residence on Washington street. Mr. & Mrs. Augustus W. Post entertained a large --Mr. C. L. Rich, wife and daughter of Auburn, company on Friday at their new residence on N.Y., were the guests of Mr. & Mrs. J. M. Cherry Hill in honor of their 25th wedding Benjamin on Wednesday and Thursday. anniversary. --Mr. L. N. Camp, of Cleveland, has purchased the In Memoriam fruit farm of Mr. John S. Warren, adjacent to that Mr. & Mrs. Charles Willard with their son, of his brother, Mr. C. A. Camp, of Mentor. Charles, and two young daughters, Isabelle and --Mr. Charles L. Lewis has returned to Boston to Charline, came to Painesville in 1866 to reside. continue the study of music. “Belle” became the wife of Frederick A. Preston, --Mr. Frank Blackmore has a baby boy. but only lived one year. Charline, the younger --Mrs. S. R. King, of Washington St., will leave daughter, was born at Muncie, Ind., Aug. 20th, Thursday to go to the Sanitarium at Danville, N. 1849. She married Mr. Preston in 1877 and went Y., where she hopes that her health may be to Evansville, Ind. to live. They had three benefited by medical treatment. children, Charles Willard, now 6 yrs. old; Charline --Franklin Paine was named by the Mayor as Isabelle, 5 yrs., and Frederick, 18 months. Police Justice.

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Sept. 24, 1885 Charline Willard Preston died Sept. 19th, 1885. She leaves also a widowed mother. The remains will be buried in the family burial grounds at Muncie, Ind. Dr. Hunter, of New York, the cousin of the late Mrs. Frederick A. Preston, died of heart disease 12 hours after her death.

Real Estate Madison Whiting, A. J. Holbrook, Chas. Warren, James Isham, M. B. Perry O’Conner, Charles D. Klein, Samuel Willoughby Metcalf, Preston A, Rogers, Florence E.

Funeral Service The sermon given by Rev. W. H. Gallaher for the funeral services of the late Gurdon Chadwick is printed in full.

The Estate of Jonathan Stickney S. B. Baker is the executor of Jonathan Stickney, dec., late of Concord, Lake Co., Ohio.

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Oct. 1, 1885 --Mrs. Lucinda Sumner, of Danville, Ill., is visiting --Horace Morse, of Concord, has moved to her mother, Mrs. Cornelia Rogers, at the Collins Cleveland where he is engaged in business. Morse homestead, St. Clair St. --Miss Clara C. Carpenter, of Buffalo, is the guest --Rev. & Mrs. J. B. Cory, of Cleveland, have been of Mrs. L. A. Thorpe, State St. visiting Mr. Cory’s parents, in Green, Trumbull ---Mr. Vincent Nims, Mentor Ave., is on an Co. extended trip to Chicago, --Mrs. S. A. Tisdel, St Clair St., went to Madison --Mr. J. Moulton, of Winchester, Mass., was in Tuesday to visit her sister-in-law, Mrs. Elizabeth th the city Sat. enroute home from a western trip. Cady on her 85 birthday. --Mrs. S. R. House, Mentor Ave., is visiting Mrs. T. S. Baldwin, nee House, at Vineland, N. J. --Miss Bingham, of Cleveland, was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Charles Brayton, Bank St. --Mr. Harry Brooks, of Ashtabula, is visiting his cousins, Mr. & Mrs. Charles Lovelace, Mentor

Plains. --Mrs. J. Willey Smith, formerly of this place, now of Cleveland, is the guest of Mrs. F. J. Jerome on the Park. ---Mrs. E. P. Troup, of West Farmington, O., has been spending some time with Mrs. F. D. Gates, Washington St. --Mr. & Mrs. J. M. Price, Fifth Ave., Cleveland, spent a few days last week with Mrs. Asa Childs. --A barn at Fairport owned by Mr. Wm. Wales burned Tuesday night. --Mr. Noble Thompson with his daughter, Miss Mattie, and his grandson, left this morning for their future home, Lynchburg, Va. --Mrs. J. V. N. Yates, of Cleveland, is spending a few days with her cousin, Mrs. Charles Brayton, --Mrs. Mary Parker, of Parkman, sister-in-law, at the Marshall homestead, Bank Street. and Mrs. S. B. Morse, of Windsor, niece of the --Mrs. Cullen Palmer, of Madison, had her hip late Julian C. Huntington, arrived in the city last broken on the Fair Grounds Thursday by being Friday on their way to visit their relative. It was run against and thrown down by a carriage. a sad surprise to them to meet the remains of --Miss Annie L. Gage, State St., went last week to the deceased at the Lake Shore depot. Lassalle Seminary, Mass. to enter as a student. --Mrs. S. C. Carter’s mother is Mrs. Harvey Mr. L. P. Gage accompanied his daughter. Woodworth. --Mr. & Mrs. Horace Richards were married Thursday evening. An Accident --Mrs. B. B. Park and Miss Park, South St., have On the last day of the Fair, Mrs. William Clayton gone to Kewanee, Ill., to visit relatives. Mrs. Park with some plates of fruit in her hands was will also visit her sister in St. Louis. descending the stairs of the old hall when her --Miss Amanda Hurd, of Kewanee, Ill., spent a foot caught and she fell to the bottom of the few days with her cousin, Mrs. Charles Lovelace stairs landing on her face which strangely was at Mentor Plains. not even scratched, although parts of her body were severely bruised.

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Oct. 1, 1885 business. For the past ten years he has resided in Wedding at Warren, O. Cleveland. He was buried in Evergreen Mr. Henry Riker, of Minneapolis, and Miss Delia Cemetery. The remains were accompanied by his Kingsley, of Warren, Trumbull Co., were married widow, his son, Warren Current and family and Sept. 17th, at the home of Mrs. A. L. Kingsley, the by Mr. E. Hance, brother of Mrs. Current, of bride’s mother. The bride’s dress was a North Eaton, O. combination of lace and white albatrosa trimmed with lace, tulle veil confined with white Lake County Fair – Friday’s Trotting ostrich tips and a corsage bouquet of the same First race was a 3-year-old colt race. Three plumes. Mr. & Mrs. L. B. Riker are the parents of entries: the groom, who live in Painesville. Temple, owned by W. H. Willard, of Willoughby- won Second Close of the Webster Trial Maud, by E. H. Neff, Painesville – Won Third The second trial of Webster ended Sat. in Indicator by W. P. Church, Unionville- won First Warren, O., with a verdict of guilty of murder in Stallion Race the first degree. Entries: Jim Schriber owned by W. H. Potts, Cleveland – Death of Orson Wilson Won First Died at his residence in Concord, Lake Co., O., Gen. Casement owned by W. P. Church Sept. 24, 1885, Orson Wilson. He was born in Henry Clay owned by Wm. Berger, Ravenna, O. Winstead, Conn., Sept. 18, 1803. He came to D. H Gold Dust owned by A. Goff, Gustavus, O. Ohio when quite a young man and on Jan. 20, Three Minute Race 1831 married Huldah N. Munson in Mentor. He Entries: moved into the house where he died in April, Captain owned by H. Carroll, Painesville 1833. He was postmaster of Concord for many Ildrin owned by Lewis Parker, of Mentor -won 3 years. He leaves a wife, one son, Henry, and one heats daughter, Mrs. D. A. Clark, of Murray, Iowa. L.G.T. owned by L. G. Tuttle, of Painesville Death of Julian C. Huntington Elizan owned by Sam Wilber, Burton Died in Ashtabula, Sept. 23rd, 1885, Julian C. Lakeland Boy owned by H. Waite, Willoughby Huntington, age 90 yrs. He was born in Norwich, Four-Year-Old Colt Race Conn., March 29, 1796, and in 1807 came to Eider Alley owned by Wm. Berger, Ravenna – Painesville with his father, who purchased what won was then known as the Walworth farm which David Mitchel owned by J. D. Alderman, embraced the two farms afterwards occupied by Hartsgrove deceased and his brother, Colbert. At the age of Fanny F. owned by H. Fry, Geneva 16, he enlisted in the Connecticut militia and Nim Rod, owned by W. S. Church after his discharge returned to Painesville. Free for All Race Twelve years ago, after the death of his second Jim Schriber owned by W. H. Potts, Cleveland, O. wife, he moved to Ashtabula where he has since – Won resided with his daughter, Mrs. Lucy Tombes. Brady Boy owned by Ashley Stevens, of The body was buried in the family lot in Collamer, O. Evergreen Cemetery. Nickel Plate owned by Dan Keith, Geneva, O. Death of James Current Catharine owned by John Steine, Cleveland, O. Died in Cleveland Sept. 25, 1885, at his residence Pacing Race of typhoid fever, James Current, age 66. He lived Printer Boy owned by J. B. Whitney, Willoughby in Painesville about 20 yrs. during the most of – Won which time he was engaged in the hotel Black Prince owned by A. Bill, Painesville

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Oct. 1, 1885 --Mr. A. S. Hardy, of Unionville, is on the sick list. Mentor --Mrs. H. H. Ferry, of Kingsville, is visiting her old --Mr. Asa Larned, of Port Huron, Mich., is visiting home. his brother, E. Larned. --Mr. Samuel Murphy, of Otsego Co., N.Y., is --Mrs. Ed. Marshall, of East Saginaw, Mich., is visiting his brother, Sumner, in North Madison. visiting her husband’s sister, Mrs. Bert Duer. They are so much alike you can hardly tell them --Mr. Abram Rexford had a log fall on his apart. stomach or at the low extremity of the lungs --At the Fair on Thursday, Mrs. Cullen Palmer yesterday and it is feared he is injured internally. stumbled while trying to move out of the way of He is suffering intensely. a carriage and broke her hip. She is 65 yrs. old. --Master Sterling Barber, of Cleveland, spent a --Mr. Harry Cook and wife start for Cleveland few days with his cousins, Charlie and Willie Wed. on a visit to his brother, Dr. Cook. The two th Duer. families will each celebrate their 6 wedding anniversary at the home of the doctor on West Mentor Thursday. --Mrs. Browne, of Ashtabula, is visiting her sister, Mrs. T. G. Hart. In Memoriam --Mrs. J. Lewis has returned from Chardon. Died in Hot Springs, Arkansas, Sept. 22, 1885, Mrs. A. S. L. Young. She was born in Blandford, Mass., in 1806. Her greatest delight was going about doing good. For a number of years, Mrs. Young has been living in Hot Springs with her Perry daughter, Hattie N. Young. The funeral was at --Mr. Ferdinand Haskell and wife returned to the home of Mr. H. Cole. Burial was at Evergreen Perry Sat. after an absence of several months. Cemetery. --A telephone from Sandusky announces the death from paralysis of M. F. Cowdery, a former Married resident of this county. He was 70 yrs. old on At the First Church Parsonage, Sept. 1st, 1885, Aug. 31, 1885, and died Sat. Sept. 26th, 1885. He Samuel H. Facey, of Chagrin Falls, and Miss Sarah was the oldest of a family of ten children, seven Snyder, of Russell sons and three daughters. He was the first to --Sept. 23, 1885, Michael J. Conley, of Chardon, pass away. and Alice F. Stewart, of Kirtland. --Sept. 24, 1885, at the parlors of the First Willoughby Church, Horace Richards, and Miss Dora Taylor, --Oscar Reeve and family will leave town for both of Painesville. California a week from next Wed. --At the home of the bride’s parents, Sept. 26, --Mrs. Maggie, granddaughter, of the late Harvey 1885, Mr. Edgar Bryant and Miss Charlotte Sharp Esq., of Willoughby, died at Indianapolis Hoffman, all of Painesville. last Friday, also at the same time and place her child. The remans arrived here Sunday with the For Sale – Cucumbers for pickles, fresh and in funeral at the home of Mrs. Sally Sharp. brine. H. H. Shephard, Mentor Ave. Madison For Sale at Low Figures – One family mare and --Mr. & Mrs. E. P. Morgan, of Cleveland, and their filly, Roadster colt, one stallion, one good cow, daughter, Mrs. Haines, of St. Louis, and Mrs. J. B. one open buggy, one spring wagon, one cutter, Merriam, of Collamer, are visiting at L. H. plows, cultivators, etc. W. L. Baker Kimball’s. Wanted- A good girl to do general housework. A. --Mr. Lambert Lott, a well-known resident of D. Barrett, 82 Mentor Ave. North Madison, died this Monday.

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Oct. 1, 1885 while walking across it Sat and was found dead For Sale – A. W. Johnson is selling from 5 – 20 Sunday. acres of land near Black Brook crossing. Splendid --Mrs. J. D. Hennessey will occupy a part of the soil with a living stream of water. brick residence of A. B. Turney on North St. Clair St. Her daughter, Mrs. J. J. Wilson, is a member of her family at present. --Chardon Republican: Stephen P. Miller, of Huntsburg, while engaged in threshing, fell from a scaffold a distance of 14 feet, killing him instantly. --Edwin Marshall, son of Mrs. Raphael Marshall, is ill with typhoid fever in Michigan but it is now thought he is improving.

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-Mrs. Eugene S. Pike is spending a few days with her sister, Mrs. J. H. Morley, enroute to Chicago. --Miss Clara Brewer is at Mrs. Louisa Malin’s on Local Brevities the Park. She came from Colorado to Painesville --Miss Gertrude Ranney returned to Cleveland with the remains of her cousin, Arthur Malin. A Tuesday. sad journey. --Mr. M. F. Wilson, of Chicago, was in the city the --Mr. Horace Alvord had his collar bone broken first of the week. when his buggy overturned last night. -Mr. Albert M. Stocking and Miss Elmyra Hausch, --The Painesville friends of Mr. F. D. Brown, will of Thompson, were married Monday. be pleased to learn of his appointment as local --Mrs. Helen Dutchers, of Mansfield, O., is Treasurer of the Union Pacific Railway, with visiting her brother, Mr. Carson Baldwin, on the office in Omaha. east side of the river. --Mrs. James A. Garfield has offered her --Mrs. Soloma Gardner, of Cleveland, Cleveland residence for sale. The house is an grandmother of Dr. A. L. Gardner, of this city, imposing brick mansion. died last week at the age of 82. --Mr. E. B. Adams, of South Bend, Ind., reached China Wedding Painesville Sat. called here by the death of his --Mr. & Mrs. Albert Ford, of Perry, celebrated sister, Mrs. G. W. King. their 20th wedding anniversary by a reception --Heber R. Hollis, an old resident of Ashtabula, a last week. harness maker, fell from the Nickel Plate bridge

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Oct. 8, 1885 Painesville; and E. B. Adams, of South Bend, Ind. Death of Arthur B. Malin Mrs. King was married about 54 yrs. ago. Arthur B. Malin, son of the late Enoch Malin, died Capsized at Canon City, Colorado, Oct. 3, 1885, at the age Last Sunday a fishing boat with four men named of 28 yrs. Failing in health last year, he was John Gibson, Fred Fredebaugh, William Brown, advised to try a western climate and went to and Simeon Simpson was overturned by a Canon City, Colorado, accompanied by his sudden puff of wind about one and one-half cousin, Miss Clara Brewer. miles off Fairport. The men of the lifesaving station were soon out there and rescued them. Real Estate Madison Willoughby French, Harriet I, --Dr. E. E. Flickinger has taken up his residence at Bennett, Walla Emporia, Kansas. Cornelius, W. J. --Henry Carroll has returned from his farm in Cornelius, M. A. Munson. He put up a new barn there. Hodgerney, Lewis --Mrs. C. M. Parker, of Lincoln, Neb., is visiting McDonald, Julia A. her parents at the Powell House. Cady, O. H. --Mr. S. Short’s barn in the south part of the town Baker, Clarrissa A. was destroyed by fire last week. Selby, Almena ---C. A. Strouch, of Eau Clair, Wis., is the son-in- Painesville law of Mrs. Elizabeth Storm, of this place. He was Bissell, Mary called to Circleville to the funeral of his mother. Dow, R. F. --Mrs. L. D. Austin, of Toledo, is visiting her Kirtland father’s family, A. P. Barber, of this village. Curtiss, Augustus H. Call, Albert W. Mentor Dyer, Andrew Baker, C. W. Scribner, Martin O. Babbitt, A. N. Mentor Willoughby Covert, Stephen Hodgson, Willis

Passed Away --Mr. Franklin Parker is still confined to his room Mrs. Sarah Adams King, second daughter of the with sickness. late Capt. Benjamin Adams, and widow of the --Mrs. Henry Earl is also confined to her room late Geo. W. King, died at the family homestead, due to sickness. Oct. 2, age 71 yrs. She was born in Maine in 1816 LeRoy and came to Painesville with her father’s family --Mr. & Mrs. Enoch Beardsley have a little in 1830. She leaves two sons, Charles H. King, daughter. who resides on the homestead, and Benjamin H. --Mr. Reuben Smith, of Geneva, Ashtabula Co., King, of Joliet, Illinois, and four brothers—the was visiting in town last week. last of eleven children—Peter Adams, in Illinois: William Adams, of Chicago; C. D. Adams, of

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Oct. 8, 1885 Probate Notice Madison

The Estate of Datus E. Abel, Deceased H. M. Abel is the adm. of Datus E. Abel, dec., late of Perry, Lake Co., O.

Oct. 15, 1885 Thursday p. 2 col. 6 The Estate of Lambert Lott L. Remsen Lott is the executor of Lambert Lott, dec., late of Madison, Lake Co., O.

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Mentor Headlands --Miss Addie Owen is teaching in our fall school. --Mrs. Wesley Brooks, and son, Siegle, have arrived in Iowa and will stay 4 weeks. A Surprise Party Jefferson Gazette: On Tuesday a surprise party Local Brevities was given to the members of the family of W. H. --Mrs. S. B. Baker has gone to Indiana to visit her Seely by members of Mr. Seely’s church and daughter, Edna. other friends. --Miss Lizzie Lee is visiting in Ashtabula. From Colorado --Mrs. James E. Chambers, St. Clair St., is visiting Extract from a letter of J. H. Morley to his friends friends in New York. here from Colorado where they have been --Miss Minnie Costly, of State street, is visiting spending the summer. her parents in Edinburg. --Mrs. Lucinda Sumner accompanied by her, Married mother Mrs. Cornelia Rogers, has returned to In LeRoy, at the home of E. W. Taylor, Oct. 6, Danville, Ill. 1885, Mr. Samuel S. Carter, of Detroit, Mich., and --Mr. Gus McClure returned to Painesville Sat Miss Amy E. Arnold, of Warrensville, Cuyahoga and opened the Rink Monday evening. Co., Ohio. --Mrs. Dr. Beardslee, who has been visiting her Died daughter, Mrs. Nathan Prescott at Derry, N. H., In North Madison, Oct. 1, 1885, Esther L., has returned home. daughter of Harvey W. and Ida O. Billington, age --Mrs. Thomas Green, of New York, is the guest 3 yrs., 9 mos., and 18 days. of her sister, Mrs. R. S Wood, Liberty St.

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Oct. 15, 1885 Regiment, O.V.I., was held in Parmly Hall, Painesville, Oct. 8 and 9 1885.

--F. W. Swezey, son of Mr. W. D. Swezey, Erie St., has gone to New York to study law. --The little daughter of Mr. & Mrs. S. Simpson, of Fairport, was drowned in the cistern of her grandmother, Mrs. Owen, yesterday.

Real Estate Madison Lockwood, James B.

Lockwood, Irwin L. Brakeman, Rollin R. Brakeman, Marcia A. Amidon, S B. Concord Clapp, Richmond Clapp, George C. Dunahm, Sally Kirtland Willis, Franklin Sheffield, Matilda Mentor Hart, Stephen H. Good, Cora M.

Four Anniversaries The services at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, were of more than ordinary interest yesterday, it th being the 15 anniversary of the pastorate of Rev. R. L. Ganter, D. D., and the 50th anniversary of the organization of the parish. It also happed that the 20th wedding anniversary of Dr. & Mrs. Ganter and his 50th birthday comes this week. Obituary Mr. Joel McMasters, an old resident of Perry, Reunion of 105th O.V.I. died in Sherwood, Mich., Oct. 1st, 1885, age 70. The tenth annual reunion of the surviving The body was brought to Painesville by his veterans of the brave One Hundred and Fifth

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Oct. 15, 1885 --Mrs. James Quine is on the sick list. bereaved wife for burial in Evergreen Cemetery. --Mrs. E. W. Taylor is still quite sick. Mrs. Julia Ober was the only child that could be --Mr. & Mrs. William Davis have a 12 lb. boy. present. He was a resident of Perry for over 17 yrs. Four years ago, he moved to Sherwood, Mich.

Willoughby --Thomas C. St. John, of Omaha, recently of this place is suffering from paralysis in his legs so that he can only walk a little. G. C. St. John Esq. went to visit him. South Madison --Mr. O. S. Skinner is moving to Cleveland.

--There will be a pumpkin pie festival at Levi Montgomery’s this Thursday.

Mentor --Mr. & Mrs. John Ennis left for their home in New York state yesterday. --Miss Bertha Lamb, of Chardon, visited friends here Sunday. --Invitations are out for the golden wedding Funeral Services for Mrs. A. S. L. Young anniversary of Mr. & Mrs. James Prouty for Mrs. Young’s funeral was last Thursday. She died Thursday evening of this week. at age 79 yrs. She had been a resident of our city --Mr. & Mrs. C. F. Parker and little daughter, about 8 yrs. Daisy, returned home from Pennsylvanian Wed. The Library Association prints resolutions of Mr. Parker intends to move his family soon to respect for their deceased member, Mrs. S. L. Scranton, Pa., to engage in the business of hotel- Young. A copy to be given to her sister, Mrs. J. L. keeping. Whetstone. --Miss Anna L. Darrough and Miss Lizzie Hickman, Bartlett – Bartlett both of California, have been the guests of Mrs. th C. C. Viall the past week. Married, Oct. 8 , 1885, at the residence of the bride in Edgerton, Ohio, Elder Asher C. Bartlett, Kirtland of Monroeville, Ind., and Mrs. E. A. Bartlett, One by one the old pioneers of Kirtland pass widow of the late Elder N. N. Bartlett, formerly away. This time, it is Julius Pierson. He was born pastor of the Church of Christ in Painesville, in Derby, Conn., Feb. 7th, 1814. Came to Kirtland Ohio. They have the same last name but are not in 1826 and married May 8th to Miss Mary kin. Wright, of Ashtabula Co., O. His industry, Died kindness of heart, sterling honesty and integrity --Nicholas H. Foley, age 29 died, Oct. 4, in was proverbial. He died Sept. 20th of heart Painesville, of congestion of the brain. --Died at her home of her brother, Z. Sterns, in disease. He leaves a widow, three sons and a th daughter. Madison, Sept. 25 , Mrs. Sarah Miller, formerly of Thompson, age 76 yrs. after three months LeRoy prostration with paralysis.

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---H. N. Munson and T. C. Radcliffe were elected Oct. 15, 1885 Justices of the Peace for Mentor township on th For Sale Oct. 13 . D. J. Webb, Perry Ohio, is selling Comet, a Morgan mare, three years old. Took first premium at the Lake Co. Fair.

Oct. 22, 1885 Thursday --Harrison Wilbur, of Geneva, was bound over to p. 2 col. 3 State and Neighborhood the Common Pleas Court on a charge of petit --Peter Young, of Massillon, was instantly shot larceny for stealing underwear from a store. while removing his gun from his carriage. --Messrs. D. Frank Post and C. H. Alvord have ---Conductor David Baker was killed by a switch purchased the grocery stock and goodwill of Mr. engine on the Nickel Plate road Sat. night. S. R. King and will continue the business at the --Mrs. Barbara Biehler, of Crestline, spilled coal old stand. oil on her clothing while filling a lamp, and --Mr. & Mrs. E. F. Forgason, Nebraska street, burned to death on striking a match. were given a surprise party for their fourth Col. 5 Sheriff’s Sale – Wesley L. Beach, adm. vs wedding anniversary. George Quigley. A thresher will be sold. --Mrs. E. Dow, widow of the late Dwight S. Dow, was in Painesville last week as the guest of Mrs. p. 3 Byron Wakelee. Mr. Wakelee died in Cleveland, Oct. 1st. He was born in Madison, Lake Co., O., in 1846. The remains were interred in Evergreen Cemetery. Died – Stephen H. Hart, of Mentor, died at his residence on Wed., age 76. Funeral services at the home of his son, T. G. Hart, Friday. Field Day at Hudson -The First Annual Field Day of Western Reserve Academy at Hudson, was on the 12th.

Local Brevities --Miss M. J. Tucker, of Cleveland, is the guest of Mrs. Byron Wakelee. --Mrs. I. A. Ogborn, of Cincinnati, is the guest of Mrs. Stephen Mathews and Mrs. George K. Raynolds.

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Oct. 22, 1885 three children; two have died. Their little boy Obituary was the first to go. Then their daughter Eva, who Mr. Datus E. Able was born in Rensalaersville, had married Col. Albert Barnitz and died within a Albany Co., N.Y., Oct. 31, 1811, and came to few short months. The surviving child, Editha Ravenna, Ohio, in 1816. When 18 yrs. old, he became the wife of Mr. George Blish, of Mentor. moved to Perry and has since made Lake Co. his Mrs. Libbie M. Dille, of Greely, Col., arrived on home. He settled on a farm in the south part of the anniversary eve and was present. Perry in 1849, where he died Sept. 20, 1885. Little Mountain A Sad Return --Mr. K. F. Way has brought his wife home to Mr. & Mrs. J. A. Newcome and children returned share his joys. We wish them much happiness. from their trip to Nebraska last Thursday. Their Madison stay in the west was shortened by a strange --Wm. Buell has purchased H. E. Kellogg’s drug affliction which befell Mrs. Newcome. She had stock and is fitting up the shop in first class style. experienced pain in the first finger on her right --David Barnes has purchased one of the large hand which became intense during the journey. warehouses of D. H. Roe and will move it onto The physical in Nebraska pronounced her case a his lot beside the barrel factory. Mr. B. will very serious one and feared blood poisoning manufacture barrels. should set in. Once in Cleveland, she learned she --O. S. Craine is in town. He is employed by D. H. would lose her finger, but her arm could be Roe, at Chicago. saved. --Mr. S. D. Galpin fell from a tree and has a broken rib and other severe injuries. Real Estate --The friends of Miss Gertie Carnahan gave her a th Madison party for her 16 birthday on Friday. Whiting, A. J. --Mrs. Roe and daughter, Ella, start for Chicago Holbrook, C. J. on Thursday to visit her son, Herbert. Amidon, D W. Amidon, Caroline Mentor Perry --Miss Juliet Comstock and her niece, Miss Gertie Patchin, Addie A. Elsworth are visiting friends in Mentor. Gardner, H. W. Concord Foster, Daniel C. Horton, M. F.

Horton, Willie M. Thompson Painesville --Jacob F. Hausch died at his home last night. Armstrong, Celestia L. --Oct. 4, 1885, Mrs. Hanson Basquin died. She Tillotson, Earl S. had been a great sufferer for many years. Huntoon Tryphena --Oct. 1st, in the house of Jacob F. Hausch, his Lynch, Mary daughter, Miss Eva, married Harry F. Atkin, of Barns, L. M. this place. Sherman, Charlotte M. --Mr. Jesse Scott, late of Dakota, is getting his new house, on a part of the Talcott farm, ready Golden Wedding for occupancy. th Mr. & Mrs. James Prouty celebrated their 50 --The funeral of Mr. J. J. Comstock took place on wedding anniversary at their home on Mentor Oct. 10. He had been in failing health for several Ave. on the evening of Oct. 15, 1885. They had years, yet his death was sudden. He came from

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Oct. 22, 1885 R. L. Simpson and Annie E. Simpson thank their New England 40 yrs. ago and located in South kind neighbors and friends who assisted them in Thompson. About 20 years ago, he moved to their late bereavement. Bostwick’s corner, where he has since resided. He was the youngest and the last of four From Oneida Co., N. Y. brothers. His age was 74 yrs. Sept. 28, 1885, E. S. Colgrove writes to the editor --Oct. 5th, 1885, another wedding took place, this from his boyhood home. time at the home of John Hausch, his eldest Married th daughter, Elmyra, married Albert M. Stocking. Oct. 15 , at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. They will make Painesville their home. Herbert G. House, of Painesville, and Miss Clara Bailey, youngest daughter of Dr. J. Q. Robinson, West Mentor of West Newton, Pa. --Mr. Benjamin F. Kerr has gone to Cincinnati to Died resume the study of law. At the home of C. W. Hathaway, Painesville, O., th --Mr. N. C. Gilbert stepped on a nail which passed Oct. 16 , 1885, Mr. Silas Thayer, age 57 yrs. He nearly through his foot crippling him at present went to California about three years ago for his and causing him much pain. health but received no benefit. He returned LeRoy home two months ago, since which time he --Frank Wolever has moved to Perry and taken failed rapidly. He leaves a wife and two children, charge of the Red Mill. Mrs. C. W. Hathaway, of this city, and Mr. Eugene --Fred Harrison has the frame of his house up. Thayer, of Hambden. Remains were taken to Hambden and placed in the vault. Concord Prize Contest The prize of an Unabridged Dictionary was Obituary awarded to Jay Hathaway, of Painesville. The other contestants were: Fred King, of Painesville Cyrus Warner, of Chardon H. E. Hovey, of Chardon Miss Martha Haskell, of Concord Miss Jennie Leuty, of Concord Miss Anna Corlette, of Concord Edward Rogers, of Concord The school prizes (Life of Bonaparte and Franklin) were awarded to Eva Button and Anna

Oliver. Oct. 29, 1885 Thursday Drowned p. 1 col. 7 Letter from Nebraska – Letter written Oct. 13th, 1885, at the home of her grandmother, to the editor from Table Rock, Nebraska, Oct. 16, Mrs. M. A. Owen, Fairport, by falling into a 1885, by May E. Howe. She met Mrs. Cowles, a cistern, only daughter of Mr. & Mrs. R. L. sister of Mrs. Parker, widow of Lewis Cowles of Simpson, little Bertha May, age 2 yrs., 8 mos. Austinburg. She saw cabinet pictures of the The remains were laid to rest in her sisters, Betsey, Cornelia and Martha Cowles, grandmother’s yard where she liked to gather whom she used to see in her youth. Also, Edwin flowers. and Alfred Cowles, and Boudinot Seeley and his A Card of Thanks wife. She saw Mr. & Mrs. Homer Austin, of Kansas, a grandson of Judge Parker’s. A son and

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Oct. 29, 1885 Local Brevities daughter of Mrs. Lewis Cowles are living at the --Mrs. J. S. Churchward is going to join her sister, old Cowles homestead in Austinburg with their Mrs. Bigler, at the Sanitarium at Elmira, N. Y. aunt Martha, now over 80 yrs. old and the only --Mr. & Mrs. T. B. Bellows, of Cleveland, spent survivor of a family of nine. last Sunday with the family of L. L. Kewish, of LeRoy. col. 8 State and Neighborhood --L. Laboree, proprietor of the hotel at Rochester, Lorain Co., while hunting in a boat on Savannah lake, fell overboard and was drowned. --Thomas T. Eckert, general superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph Co., has to pay $8,000 of a judgment against him from 40 yrs. ago by Miss E. Fleming, now Mrs. Mary E. Bartal, --The home in Mentor owned by Mr. Mike Swain for breach of promise. and occupied by his mother, was burned --Warren Tribune George Forder, of Milton, had Monday. shown his will to his principal legatee, John M. Forder, before his death. After George’s death, his will could not be found and a duplicate was drawn. George was a bachelor and his brothers and sisters and their children now contest the will. A farm of 500 acres in Milton valued at $100,00 is involved. --Dr. D. C. Wilson has again taken up his residence in Painesville. He will open an office in p. 2 col. 2 Mrs. Quayle Found the rooms formerly occupied by Dr. Fowler, over The dead body of the missing Mrs. James Quayle, the store of John S. Lockwood, in Milwaukee of Cleveland, was found Sat. in the lake in the Block. boulders which form a breakwater for the west --Dr. C. S. Pleasants, a former resident of this pier at the mouth of Doan Brook. The body had place and a dentist in Lake and Geauga Counties, been in the lake probably for the entire time that died at Canandaigua, N. Y., Oct. 18, 1885. His Mrs. Quayle had been missing. It is thought in remains were taken to Perry for burial. her disordered state of mind, that she threw herself off the pier with suicidal intent. The Real Estate interment was a Lake View Cemetery where two Painesville sisters of Mrs. Quayle are buried. School Board Coleman, W A. p. 3 Kirtland Spear, Sarah A. Gillespie, John Whiting, Ella M. Harris, Cassius Mentor Woodford, David Hammond, Mark Willoughby Miller, A. C. Miller, Diana L.

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Oct. 29, 1885 --Mrs. Joseph Strong is visiting relatives and Family Reunion friends in Ashtabula Co. Oct. 22, 1885, the Doncaster family held a --Nee Miss Kate Breninger and husband of reunion at the house of J. W. Doncaster in LeRoy. Brooklyn N. Y., have returned here and will The weather was delightful and there were 20 occupy the house now occupied by Mr. Wm. guests. The next reunion will be held at the Sobers. home of Mrs. R. A. Bartlett, of LeRoy, who is the oldest living member of the Doncaster family. West Mentor --Mr. & Mrs. C. S. Johnson, of Munson, spent the Obituary Sabbath with Mentor friends. Stephen H. Hart was born in Winstead, Conn., --H. E. Cleveland is taking a vacation of a few days Aug. 17, 1808. He came to Ohio when 17 yrs. old at the home of his parents of this place. and with the exception of one year has ever since --Rollo F. Richardson has returned from New lived in Mentor, and for more than 50 yrs. on the Philadelphia, where he has been staying with his farm where he died. He was married in LeRoy, uncle during the summer. Jan. 25, 1837, to Lucretia Ring, who died May 25th, 1879. Willoughby --Al. Carroll’s new store will soon be occupied. Old Times --Ben Ellen’s new home is near completion. The Leader on Sunday published an interesting --Mr. D. A. Arnold is out again after many weeks letter from Hon. James A. Briggs, of New York, of sickness. describing his arrival 53 yrs. ago in Fairport. He was 12 days from Lanesboro, Berkshire Co. Mass. South Madison to Fairport, by stage coach, railroad, canal line --Miss Amanda Turney, who has been visiting boat, canal packet boat, and steamboat. relatives in New York for the past two years, has returned to this place with her niece, Miss Bird Mentor Turney. --Mr. Charles F. Parker and family have moved to --Mrs. Ida Turney, of Springfield, Pa., has been Scranton, Pa. visiting at her old home in this place. Madison --Guy Chapman and Alfred Hawkins, of --Pete Rice drank too much Sat. night and spent Mechanicsville, spent last Sabbath at Mr. Sunday in jail. Shepard Woolever’s at this place. --T. A. Gould is the new manager who has leased th the Eldorado Skating Rink. Died - Oct. 28 , 1885, Henrietta D. Sanford, age 24 yrs.

Nov. 5, 1885 Thursday p. 2 col. 4 State and Neighborhood Mentor Headlands --James C. Claypool, for 30 yrs. leading wholesale --Miss Fanny Hobday is spending a few days in shoe dealer of Columbus has become insane. North Bloomfield, Trumbull Co., O --David Woolcott, of Jefferson, has been --Mr. John Brooks and Miss Carrie Brooks are suffering aberrations of mind for some time past expected here soon from Kansas City, Mo. and on Friday was taken to the asylum at --Autumnal Service or Glad Tidings Day was Newburgh. observed last Sunday at the M. E. Church. --While hanging up his gun, Mr. Fred Whelpley, of Ashtabula, received a part of the contents of South Thompson

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Nov. 5, 1885 Local Brevities the barrel into his left hand. His little finger had --Yardmaster Lory, of Ashtabula, was killed Sat. to be amputated. while shifting cars. --Geneva Free Press: Dr. S. S. Burrows, of this --Mr. & Mrs. W. J. Ford, of Eureka, Ill., are visiting place, received a dispatch from Green Cove at their old home in Burton. Springs, Florida, on Sat., with the sad news that --Mr. Geo. A. Nye, of Allegan, Mich., was visiting his brother, C. C. Burrows has that day lost his his Lake Co. friends last week. right arm in the mill where he was at work. --Miss Jennie McClary is visiting in Chardon, the guest of Miss Alice Crowningshield. Probate Notice --Mr. James McCue gave us a number of winter squash of the Boston Marrow variety.

--The business portion of Geneva lying east of the main street was destroyed by fire Sunday night. --The boot and shoe store of Johnston & Hollenbeck of Middlefield, was robbed Thursday night.

p. 3 Letters uncalled for at the Painesville P. O. as of Nov. 4, 1885:

--Mr. & Mrs. Zenas Wilson, Erie St., went to Utica, N. Y., to visit their niece, Miss Eva Young. --Miss Lillie Ellsworth, of this place, has gone to Cleveland, where she has accepted a position in W. W. Williams’ Book Publishing office. --Wichita, Kansas, Beacon: G. W. Clement Jr., of Lake Co., Ohio, arrived last night. He graduated

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Nov. 5, 1885 Circuit Court at Columbia Law School and will locate here in the law business. --Edward Rowe’s funeral was in Cleveland Tuesday. He died from injuries received while section boss on the Lake Shore Railroad. He was for many years a resident of Painesville. --Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Hoffman, who have so long been members of Judge Sterling’s family, are now located in Cleveland, O. Their daughter, Real Estate Ida, remains at Lake Erie Seminary. LeRoy --New York Home Journal: Mrs. James E. Richards, M. J. Chambers, wife of the Northern Ohio Journal, of Richards, J. L. Painesville, Ohio, and daughter of the late Green, Francis Thomas LeClear, artist of this city, is visiting her Gould, Harris sister Mrs. William H. Beard. Parmelee, James --Captain Mervine Thompson, of the steamer Painesville Henry Chisholm, died suddenly of heart disease Palmer, Isaac – heirs at his home in Mentor, Sunday. Palmer Isaac N. --Capt. John E. Post, of Fairport, was given a Ogborn, Henrietta M. surprise party for his 50th birthday on Oct. 21st. Ogborn, Wm. H. Perry Common Pleas Court Abel, Datus E. Abel, Henry M. Boyd, Mary L. Abel, Henry M.

A Tribute of Affection Description of the funeral and flowers for Henrietta D. Sanford. She died last Wed. The remains were placed in the vault at Evergreen Cemetery.

Golden Wedding

The 50th wedding anniversary of Mr. & Mrs. Lord Sterling was on Nov. 1, 1885. About 50 ladies and gentlemen surprised them Monday evening. Mr. & Mrs. Sterling were married Nov. 1, 1835 in Lima, Livingston Co., N.Y., Mr. Sterling’s native town, the bride’s native place being Conn. The ceremony changed her name from Miss Sterling to Mrs. Sterling. They first lived for 20 yrs. in Willoughby. In 1855, they moved to Painesville and since that time their home has been in this place.

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Nov. 5, 1885 --Mr. Martin Hopkins and family, of Kirtland, List of those present: have moved to East Mentor. --The body of little Harry Shields was brought from Geneva today and buried beside his father, who died here last fall.

Married At the Cheese Factory in Perry, Oct. 27, 1885, Mr. James W. Murphy, of Perry, and Miss Ida Hall, of Madison. Died --In Painesville, Nov. 2nd, 1885, Samuel Moody, age 69. --Died in Painesville, O., Oct. 30th, 1885, of necrosis of the bone, Minnie D., eldest daughter of the late M. B. and Mrs. J. C. Bateham, age 29 yrs., 7 mos. Madison Lemuel Parish vs Mary J. Parish in Common Pleas Court. The Plaintiff has filed for a divorce

--Mrs. Patchin, of North Madison, prepared a charging her with adultery and gross neglect of birthday party for her family on Sat. for her 75th duty. birthday. Rosa Strausser vs Christian Strausser in --Mr. Allison Cady has lost the sight in his left eye. Common Pleas Court. The Plaintiff has filed for Some three months ago, a piece of steel flew divorce charging him with extreme cruelty. from a pick and struck him in that eye. Farm for Sale - Henry Mack, Painesville, O., is Willoughby selling his farm of 107 acres located on Jackson street on town line between Mentor and Painesville. The Estate of Eliza Harrison A. A. Amidon is the adm. of Eliza Harrison, dec., late of Concord, Lake Co. The Estate of William Harrison A. A. Amidon is the adm. de bonis non with the will annexed of William Harrison, late of Concord, Lake Co., Ohio.

Auction Sale C. Clark is selling his livestock and farm implements, etc. on his farm in Perry, on Nov. 17, 1885, at 10 o’clock a.m.

Mentor Nov. 12, 1885 Thursday --Mr. & Mrs. Peters and Miss Kane, of Pittsburgh, p. 1 col. 8 Pa., are visiting the family of Mrs. W. D. Mather. --Mr. & Mrs. Fred Parmelee are moving to Titusville, Pa., this week. --Captain Thompson died early Sunday. His remains were taken to Cleveland for burial.

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Nov. 12, 1885 p. 2 col. 4 State and Neighborhood --A large barn belonging to Mervin Tidd, of Howland, Trumbull Co., burned down Wed. night. Incendiary. --Miss Sadie Robinson, of Wheeling, W. Va., is --C. M. Brockway, city editor of the Sandusky the guest of her sister, Mrs. D. R. Davis, Register, died Thursday of typhoid fever. He Washington St. leaves two children prostrated with the same disease. --A. B. Merrill, of Newton Falls, had just moved into his new $10,000 house and on Wed. morning it was fired by an incendiary and burned --Mr. & Mrs. Herbert House have started their down. married life in a home of their own on South St. Clair street. --Mr. & Mrs. R. F. Benedict celebrated Wed. their 59th wedding anniversary. --Someone took the wagon of Mr. R. F. Benedict, east side of the river last Sat. night, and tore it apart, scattering it all over the neighborhood. --A large wedding reception was given on Wed. by Mrs. S. R. House, Mentor Ave., in honor or Mr. & Mrs. Herbert G. House.

Real Estate LeRoy Clark, Chilon W. Hall, Anson A. p. 3 Perry Clark, Chilon W. Hall, Anson A. Painesville Fuller, Benj. F. Warren, John S. Palmer, Isaac Finnerman, Martha Dowen, Ellen Corkins, Sophia Clapp, Geo. C. Austin, A. A. Gould, Harris

Local Brevities Death of Eber D. Howe Eber D. Howe died at his home in this city last night, age 88 yrs. He was born in Clifton Park, Saratoga Co., N. Y., June 9, 1798. At the age of 14, he enlisted and served as a soldier in the war of 1812-14. In 1819, he established the Cleveland Herald in connection with Ziba Willes.

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Nov. 12, 1885 --Martin White vs Asbury Presley In 1821, and in the spring of 1822, he came to --James F. Smith vs Adaline Andrews et al. Painesville where he issued the first number of --State of Ohio vs Alonzo P. Barber. the Painesville Telegraph on July 16, 1822 with --B. H. Woodman vs Jesse Richardson. five advertisements and about 150 subscribers. He severed his connection with the Telegraph in Death of an Old Pioneer 1835, since which time he has lived a quiet and Judge Eben Newton, one of the old pioneers of rather retired life. the Reserve, died suddenly at his home in th Canfield, Mahoning Co., on the night of the 5 . Obituary He was 91 yrs. old and had just returned from a Samuel Moodey whose death we mentioned in trip to California, which is thought to have or last issue was born in Painesville, Jan. 8, 1816, overtaxed his strength and was the immediate and has made this place his home for all that cause of his death. In 1851-52 represented the nd time. He and his father, Robert Moodey, 32 District in Congress. purchased the stock of drugs, etc. of Mr. Hills and for many years conducted business under the In Memoriam name of R. & S. Moodey. He built a block on the Minnie D. Bateham, died Oct. 30, 1885, age 17. corner of State and Main streets. Mr. Moodey Set apart at the age of twelve, to a well-nigh leaves one son, Charles A. Moodey, who resides hopeless invalidism, she read books and was at the homestead and with whom the father proficient in literature. She learned Greek to made his home at the time of his death. read Plato. She wrote poetry which was published in “Young Folks Rural,” “Little Corporal,” “Advance” and the “Congregationalist.”

West Mentor --The funeral of Mrs. Ezra Hoose was held at her late residence on Sunday. Mentor

South Madison --Mr. Nelson Stearns will teach our winter school. Willoughby Plains --Mrs. John Kelley and Mrs. John Bernhardt are quite sick. Circuit Court --Mr. E. N. Hyde and family have moved to --George W. Steele vs the Little Mountain Assoc. Canton; he expects to make that city his --Julia A. Kirby vs Andrew J. Carroll headquarters. --Jas. L. Frisbie, adm. vs Jason Jewell --Wm. E. Hulett et al vs Thaddeus Fairbanks. --Elizabeth Rooker vs C. O. Demerrit --Ann B. Chambers vs. James T. Gilmore. --August G. Hattry vs the P.&Y. Ry. et al

--Geo. K. Raynolds vs Condit, Fuller & Co. --Bridget McArdie vs Elisha Cook

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Nov. 12, 1885 --Probate Judge Austin, of Lucas Co., was in town Concord last week looking after the estate of his father. --Tom Brichford is building a new dwelling house hear the school house, heretofore known as the

--Israel Curtis and wife, of Joliet, Ill., are visiting Maple Grove School House. old friends in this area. Mr. Curtis was an old Passing Away friend and a schoolmate of Garfield’s at Chester. Mrs. Lucinda Durand sends a letter to the editor Story of how a boy at school gave Garfield a bad from Odin, Ill., Nov. 2, 1885. She writes that haircut to be mean. Stephen Hart, of Mentor, who recently died had Perry been groomsman at their wedding in 1828 and --There were two deaths in Perry the last week. in 1878 was at their golden wedding at their John S. Young, who has been an invalid some 20 homestead in Mentor. She thanks Mrs. Alfreda yrs., and Mrs. Kate Haskell, wife of E. B. Haskell Ingersoll for a bouquet made of autumn leaves Jr., who has been a sufferer from cancer a few and evergreen from the trees and shrubs on the months past. lot where her husband and daughter are buried, --Chilson Clark and wife are home again after tied with a satin ribbon. nearly a year and a half in Kansas. Mr. Clark is so well pleased with his new home that he sold his farm in Perry to Anson Hall, of Madison, and contemplates making Garden Plain, Kansas, his permanent home. --The barns formerly owned by Horace Norton have been bought by Dr. Ashley and moved onto his premises. Unionville --Eugene Warner’s little son, George, has been very sick with inflammation of the bowels. --Mrs. Will Latimer, who was taken sick in Wayne Co., has so far recovered so that she has returned to her home.

Madison The Estate of Samuel Moodey --Mrs. P. C. Watson is afflicted with creeping Charles A. Moodey is the executor of Samuel paralysis. Moodey, dec., late of Painesville, Lake Co., Ohio. --Miss Sadie Patrick has a new piano, a present from her father. Nov. 19, 1885 Thursday --A barn belonging to Palmer Shaw, who lives p. 1 col. 8 State and Neighborhood near the Arcole road, was burned down; --John Hine, of Chardon, who was convicted of supposed to be the work of tramps. Two years incest five years ago, escaped, was found in ago, Mr. Shaw lost his house. Munson Wed. and placed in Chardon jail. Willoughby --Mr. N. T. Robison, an old citizen of Norwalk, has --Mr. T. H. Burr and family go to Beloit, Wis., to been missing since last Oct. reside.

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Nov. 19, 1885 Mentor --A large flouring mill owned by Daniel Fribley, --Mr. T. R. Wickenden, of Toledo, was the guest Evansport, Defiance Co., was destroyed by fire on Tuesday of Mr. T. C. Radcliffe. Mrs. Wed. Wickenden is Mrs. Radcliffe’s niece. --Mr. Kuder’s oldest son is in Columbus to attend a Commercial School in that city. --A vicious dog broke loose on Tuesday and attacked Emma Canfield, age 8, biting her severely on the legs. South Madison

--J. W. Haskell, a prominent businessman of Ashtabula, died on Thursday. p. 2 Ad – Post & Alvord, Teas, Coffees, Tobacco Willoughby and Cigars. Everything in the grocery line. --W. T. Clark has sold out his stock of drugs to Dingley’s Old Stand, 57 Mains St. George F. Law.

--Dr. J. L. Sherman has been appointed a member p. 2 col. 4 Madison of the town Council in place of J. C. Ward moved --Mr. & Mrs. E. Gill were visiting friends in to Painesville. Cleveland over Sunday. --Miss Nettie Clark, a daughter of Dr. E. G. Clark, --Byron Sunderland and Chas. Johnson are who has been sick a long time, was better having a week’s vacation from Geneva Normal Monday. School.

--W. G. Cook started for Missouri on business p. 3 relative to the Bidwell sisters, who have several thousand acres of land in the southern part of that state. LeRoy --Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Wilson have a little girl. --The fall school at the Center was taught by Mr. A. C. Phelps, a graduate of Austinburg Institute; and Miss Emma Cowle, a graduate of Chardon High School.

Perry

Local Brevities --Mrs. T. L. Bartlett, St. Clair St., is seriously ill. West Mentor --Mrs. J. A. Gough, of Stuart, Iowa, is visiting her friends in Painesville

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Nov. 19, 1885 following were then the only families or nearly so, on the town plat:

--Mr. & Mrs. Horace Steele were the guests of their daughter, Mrs. Dudley B. Wick, last week.

= --Rev. & Mrs. S. B. Webster, of Euclid, were in the city by invitation of their daughter, Mrs. A. D. Malin, to celebrate Mr. Webster’s 72nd birthday on Nov. 17th. --Mr. B. E. Chesney, Washington St., has been confined to his bed for two weeks with an attack of bilious fever.

Fairport Items The relatives and friends of Mr. G. W. Root and family, 25 in number, gave them a surprise party to celebrate Mr. Root’s 37th birthday. Common Pleas Court --Samuel P. Hathaway vs Frank Brainard, adm. --Wm. E. Hulett vs Arthur Waterman --Wm. E. Hulett vs John Cunningham --Mr. C. H. Morley and family have gone to --Daniel Warner Jr. vs A. H. Garfield Cleveland to reside. Mrs. Morley takes charge of --Catharine Prior vs the American Express Co. the Cleveland Lead Works while Mr. F. H. Morley --R. K. Paige, receiver vs Stephen Mathews is with his family in Germany. --S. W. Viall vs James Allen --Quincy Corporate Granite Works vs Morley &Rich --Mary O’Connell vs Thomas O’Connell, dismissed. --James R. Jones vs T. H. Burr, Treas., dismissed. --Wm. Wicks vs Fred Baker, settled, no record. --Lucinda M. Bowen vs Joseph T. Bowen. Divorce granted.

A Nebraska Farm The Pawnee, Nebraska Press of Oct. 28 contains

the following of a visit to the farm of our former The Late Eber D. Howe townsman, Mr. Orville D. Howe. The editor of Extracts taken from his Autobiography and the paper visited the neighborhood of North Recollections of a Pioneer Printer. In 1822, the Table Rock precinct. On leaving the town we

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Nov. 19, 1885 p. 2 col. 3 State and Neighborhood arrived at farm of Supt. O. D. Howe. He has 200 --James Hamilton, for several years, postmaster acres about two miles east of the Nemaha. He at Monroeville, Huron Co., died last week. has 25 acres of orchard. Mr. Howe told us his --Henry Sackrider, of Findlay received fatal apple crop this year would amount to 600 injuries by a falling tree which he chopped down. bushels. His residence is a fine two-story --Thomas Willis, of Port Clinton, while pressing building with a large cellar. The editor had hay, was caught in the machinery and received dinner with Mr. & Mrs. Howe and their what are considered fatal injuries. intelligent daughter. p. 3

Obituary Died in Mentor near Little Mountain, of paralysis, Mrs. Harriet Jewel, wife of Ezra Hoose, age 54 yrs., 7 mos. She was the only daughter of Francis and Betsy Jewell, who were among the pioneers of our county and who are still living on the old homestead. Mr. & Mrs. Hoose had been married 32 yrs., 1 month. They had one daughter, Mrs. Ed. Baker, and one son, Albert, who with his wife lived at home.

Married In Perry, O., Nov. 11, 1885, Mr. Monroe Hall, of Local Brevities Perry. O., to Miss Jennie Malich, of Geneva, Ohio. --Mr. Harry A. Thomson, of Perry, returned home Died from Dakota Sat. --In Painesville, Nov. 14th, of typhoid fever, Henry --Mrs. Julius Weed, of Jackson street, is visiting Tanswell, age 63. friends and relatives in Cleveland. --On Nov. 17th, 1885, W. Harry, eldest child of ---F. M. Benedict is spending the winter in Wm. H. and Allie A. Dyer, age 8 yrs., 2 mos., 17 Lansing, Mich. days. Funeral will be at the home of Mrs. T. L. --Mrs. D. L. Johnson and Mrs. Ed. Johnson, of Bartlett, St Clair street. Burton, were the guests of Mrs. Willis Cay last week. The Estate of Nicholas Markell --Mr. A. Webster left at this office a sweet beet S. C. Carpenter is the adm. of Nicholas Markell, weighing 25.5 lbs. dec., late of Kirtland, Lake Co., O. --Mr. L. A. Trumbull will ride 500 miles to eat The Estate of Morris Smith Thanksgiving dinner with his parents in Earlville, Stephen Thayer is the executor of Morris Smith, Ill. dec., late of Concord, Lake Co., Ohio.

Nov. 26, 1885 Thursday p. 2 col. 1Vice Pres. Hendricks died today of apoplexy. --One hundred and six years, six months, and twelve days was the age of a Mrs. William Leonard, of Corry, Pa., who died on the 20th inst. She was born in Carighalt, County Clare, Ireland, May 9, 1779.

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Nov. 26, 1885 --Dr. H. M. Camp, who has been practicing Mentor medicine in Huntsburgh more than a year past, Ingraham, Marion and who is recently married, is building a house. Ingraham, Freeman E. Willoughby Moses, Nelson Manly, Delos Hubbard, Emily J. Beck, G. L.

--Mr. George L. Everitt, who went to California in Lillie, W. A. Oct. of last year, writes that he is now employed Gibbons, Lucinda M. as associate editor of the Daily Alta California, Drake, Sarah S. published in San Francisco. Clark, Sarah E. --Mr. W. L. Baker will move his family to Chicago in a few weeks. He has purchased an interest in 1835 – 1885 the Sun Electric Light Co. in Chicago. Mr. & Mrs. H. H. Clapp, of Mentor, will on Nov. th --Died in Toledo, Nov. 21st, at the home of her 30 , have completed 50 years of wedded life. sister, Mrs. Wm. Breed, Mrs. Antoinette Brooks, Their house will be open in the afternoon of that wife of John F. Brooks, formerly of this city. Mrs. day from one till six o’clock to any friends who Brooks had lived in Painesville on Mentor Ave. may wish to congratulate them on reaching “This for many years with her family. She leaves a Golden Fifty Years.” husband and an only child, Henry Clyde Brooks. Death of Mrs. Sterling --Mr. George Colwell brought a pumpkin Mentioned: Her children Mary and James; her weighing 87.5 lbs. into the Telegraph office. It niece Mrs. E. B. Thomas, of Cleveland; her sister, made good pies. Mrs. Dr. Streator; a niece Mrs. Benedict; a niece --Mr. & Mrs. Randolph S. Warner, of Columbus, of Judge Sterling, Mrs. Knight, of Cleveland; a have been visiting Mr. Warner’s parents at niece of Mrs. Sterling, Mr. E. I. Baldwin; Mrs. J. S. Unionville. Mr. Warner has drawn a prize with Casement, Mrs. James King, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas his marriage as Mrs. Warner has the reputation Hoffman. The remains were place in the vault at of being a beauty, possessing intellect, culture, Evergreen Cemetery to await interment. innate goodness and large wealth. In Memoriam th Real Estate Mrs. Ellen E. Sterling – Fell asleep, Nov. 19 , age Madison 75 yrs. She died of pneumonia. Ellen E., Hart, W. D. daughter of Lord Sterling was born in Lyme, Mitchelson, A. E. Conn., in the year 1810. While she was very Concord young, the family moved to Chenango Co., N. Y. Smith, Henrietta and settled in the town of Pitcher. She was one Warren, Albert C. of eleven children. She was married Nov. 1, 1835 Warren, Helen M. and came with her husband to Willoughby. Painesville After 20 yrs., the moved to this place where for Taylor, J. H, 30 yrs. Mrs. Sterling has been identified with all Village of Painesville that has been best of our social life. Baker, W. L. Joughin , Ernestine Dickinson, H. R. Smith, W. F.

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Nov. 26, 1885 Madison, and Miss Alice R. Reigert, of Thompson. Died At Milledgeville, Georgia, Oct. 20, 1885, Sofronia F. Marshall, widow of the late James Goddard, of Macon, Georgia, age 81 yrs.

Sheriff’s Sale Philip Herbold vs Robert J. Schweninger. Part of LeRoy the stock of furniture in the store at No. 110 Main St., Painesville, will be sold.

Administrator’s Sale Emeline A. Crocker, adm. of Erastus Crocker, Willoughby dec., is selling land in Madison, Lake Co., Ohio.

Sheriff’s Sale Ann A. F. Brakenridge vs Lorenzo D. Gulliford. Land in Mentor, Lake Co., O., will be sold. Willoughby Plains

Dec. 3, 1885 Thursday p. 2 col. 3 Some patents granted to local citizens: C. S. Bird, Elyria, rotary engine J. King, Cleveland, pupilometer W. R. Gerrard, Cleveland, injector Mentor Geo. Faulbaber, Cleveland, seat back --Mr. J. T. Harrington and family have moved to Nathan Hemenway, Parma, metal packing Painesville. J. A. Long, Akron, wheel for agricultural implements T. F. Beideler, Cleveland, wrench Jno. A. Topliff, Elyria, furnace

C. G. Zipf, Cleveland, damper Madison

--Miss Minnie Allen, of Jefferson, is visiting Miss p. 2 col. 4 State and Neighborhood Flora Cook. --James C. McNeil, proprietor of the Akron steam --Mr. Asa Childs and Mr. Dan Bailey, both of works died Thanksgiving Day. Buffalo, were in town the past week. --Dr. Charles H. Stimson, an old and prominent --W. H. Bliss is shipping large quantities of physician of Newark, died suddenly last Wed. poultry from here to eastern markets. --Julius Gillman, of Hazelton, near Youngstown, --Wm. Genung has put in place a heating furnace quarreled over a game of pool and was killed. in the basement of the Baptist meeting house which is his own invention. He is a skilled mechanic.

--Horace Towne, of Hartland, Huron Co., was Married found dead in the words near Norwalk last week. At the home of the bride’s parents in Thompson, Suspicions of foul play. O., Nov. 18th, 1885, Mr. Perry E. Kinney, of

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Dec. 3, 1885 --Born on Nov. 23, 1885, a son to Mr. & Mrs. --George P. Beers, a former resident of Dudley B. Wick, Superior St. Cleveland, mysteriously disappeared from Chicago, Nov. 22, 1885. He was a young man of good habits. p. 3

--We have received wedding cards announcing the marriage of Augustus V. Smith and Caroline A. Wells in Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 5th, 1885.

Local Brevities --Mrs. C. C. Beardslee has moved to Cleveland. --Mr. & Mrs. W. C. Gray, of Piqua, O., left for home yesterday.

--Michael Lynch died Nov. 25th, of typhoid fever at his home on Jackson street. --Mr. Geo. Viesey’s house, on South St., burned

--Captain Alva Bradley, the well-known ship down Monday night. owner of Cleveland, died Sat., age 71 yrs. --Mr. & Mrs. John Carter, of Titusville, were the guests of Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Alexander over Thanksgiving. --Mr. A. E. Fenton leaves to day for Dakota.

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Dec. 3, 1885 -Lew Hodgerney won the prizes at the rink Sat. Real Estate evening in the barrel and candle races. LeRoy --Will Cornelius treated a number of his young Potts, S. J. friends to an oyster supper on Thursday. Weed, Chas. S. --Mr. & Mrs. John Ford and Mrs. Dean, of New Painesville York state, and Mrs. Thompson, of Ashtabula, Underwood, Laura are visiting in town. Fitzgerald, John Rivers, Geo M. Concord House, Herbert G. Willoughby Burr, Thos. H. Green, Olive S.

In Memoriam A tribute to Mrs. Antoinette J. Brooks whose death was announced last week. She was buried in Evergreen Cemetery next to her baby boy, John Clayton, who died at one year old. Mentor Headlands

--Miss Fanny Hobday returned from her visit in on a steamboat near Buffalo. Trumbull Co. --Miss Carrie Brooks is home from Kansas City, Mentor Mo., to visit her parents, Mr. & Mrs. DeForest Brooks, for Christmas. --An article from the St. Louis Globe Democrat of th Nov. 12 , regarding a reception given by Mrs. C. LeRoy H. Allen and her daughter, Miss Allen. The dresses of the lady guests are described. Among the guests were Dr. & Mrs. Newington, the parents of Mrs. Penfield, nee Newington, of Willoughby Willoughby, Ohio

Madison --John Blair is in Toledo. --Mrs. H. H. Ferry, of Kingsville, is in town. --E. G. Huntoon, of Collinwood, was in town last week. --H. G. Gill’s little son, Clayton, has been ill three weeks with scrofula. --Mr. & Mrs. S. B. Serage, of Wellington, are here Married visiting relatives. --At the home of O.A. Warner, in LeRoy, Nov. 29 --Miss Cora Flower visited in Willoughby last Mr. Addison Bates and Miss Ann J. Tear, both of week. LeRoy, Ohio. --Mrs. Plympton and daughter, Stella, who left --At the residence of the bride’s parents, Nov. 28, here about 5 yrs. ago, are in town on a visit. Mr. Wm. T. Wade, of Warrensville, O., and Miss Lida J. Kewish, of North East LeRoy, Ohio.

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Dec. 3, 1885 --Mrs. Malkin, of Willoughby, is the guest of her Died sister, Mrs. Capt. Geo. O. Baker, Erie street. In Mentor, O., Nov. 26, 1885, Walter Franklin, --Mrs. Josephus Huntington, of Erie street, is eldest son of Giles F. and Eivaette L. Pinney, age spending the winter with her daughter, Mrs. 20 yrs., 9 mos., 24 days. Sedgebeer, on the Park. --Martin Carroll, an old resident of Lake Co., died Horses to Winter – E. Jenkins has facilities for last Sat, age 78. wintering a number of horses, large pasture, --Dr. A. S. Lovett, of Erie, Pa., spent the Sabbath water, hay. Price. $1.25 per week. with his father’s family, on South St. Clair Street. For Rent - The former residence of Dr. H. C. --Mrs. W. F. Smith and Miss Georgia Smith, Beardslee, No. 46 Erie street, will be for rent Mentor Ave., have issued invitations for a th after Dec. 1. Inquire of Mrs. Capt. Andrews, State Bonnet Reception, Dec. 11 from 3 to 8 o’clock. street, or Mrs. C. C. Beardslee, Care Sherwin, --Mr. H. Trulson has just received a letter from Williams & Co., Cleveland California announcing the death of his brother, Edward. It was just a little over a year ago, that Dec. 10, 1885 Thursday his brother sent a letter, that he had gone with a fishing party which left San Francisco, Sep., 1884, p. 2 col. 3 State and Neighborhood for Alaska, that the boat was wrecked and --George V. Kemp, suicided last week by hanging. fourteen of the seventeen on the boat perished. --Peter Cooper, age 70, was struck by a bursting stone in the shears factory in Elyria, and received fatal injuries. --John Gould, of Aurora, has been engaged by the Wisconsin State Board, of Agriculture to deliver thirty lectures on dairy matters. p. 3 & 4 Is a Supplement page with the President’s message to Congress. p. 5

Local Brevities --Mr. Frederick Preston has gone to Muncie, Ind. --Captain A. W. Stiles, of Ashtabula, was in the city Thursday. --Mr. W. C. Reed, who has been east for several months, returned to the city yesterday.

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Dec. 10, 1885 Mrs. Hover won the prize, missing only four Real Estate words in her reading. Perry Axtell, Lucius V. Axtell, Leonadus A. Concord Severance, Lyman M. - heirs Severance, Martha S. Painesville Severance, Lyman M. - heirs Severance, Martha S.

Willoughby --Geo. F. Law on Friday moved his stock of drugs and groceries into Carroll’s new block of buildings opposite his old store. --Charles Haggart is in town for a month or six weeks.

Death of Samuel Hayward Hon. Samuel Hayward, of Conneaut, died suddenly on Monday of last week. In 1869, he --Mr. J. Masury of this place is in Cleveland was elected to the State Legislature. Afterwards, erecting a number of dwellings on his land there. he formed the Conneaut Mutual Loan --Eli G. Bunnell visited his daughter at West Association, was elected its President and filled Dover. this office until his death. --J. W. Penfield has adopted a new role in his family—that is a family orchestra. They have Oratorical Contest daily concerts. The Senior Class of the High School held a contest in the audience room of the M. E. Mistletoe for Kissing Purposes Church. No English lady considers her home decoations Mr. Chas. Curtiss opened the declamation complete, until a little sprig of Mistletoe, is hung contest; followed by Don Reynolds, Albert over one of the doors on the inside of the house. Daniels, of Willoughby, Mr. A. D. Hobart, Edward If a gentlemen discovers a lady standing under Rogers, Harry Woodward and Miss Elmie the Mistletoe, he has a right to kiss her. Warner, of Chardon. Albert Daniels of If this honored custom becomes as popular in Willoughby won. Miss Elmie Warner being the America as it has for centuries in Europe, it will only lady contestant won the lady’s prize; but be largely due to the Emporia, Fla., Gazette, she rendered her selection so admirably that she which is published in Volusia Co., Florida, which was fairly entitled to the prize. Next was the has prepared packages of Misletoe for sale (a pronouncing contest. Four in the audience were parasite and a native of Florida), which it will brave enough to try it. Mrs. Hover, Mr. Roy send to any address upon receipt of five 2 cent Skinner, Miss Grace Hough and Henry Andre. stamps to cover postage.

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Dec. 10, 1885 --Arthur J. Grover is now on trial at Bowling Obituary Green, Ohio, for the murder of Granville G. Anna L. Cowles, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. W. T. Loomis, of Ashtabula. Cowles, of Concod, died Nov. 30, 1885, age 8 yrs., 5 mos., 25 days. She was the light and p. 3 sunshine of the household and the joy and sun of her grandfather Hodges. She was an only child.

Married At the bride’s home, Dec. 8, 1885, Mr. John M. Green, of Hebron, Nebraska, and Miss Eva Viets, of Madison. Local Brevities Died --The will of Martin Carroll, dec., is on file for In Thompson, Nov. 30, 1885, of scarlet fever, probate Thursday. Alice, only daughter of Jay D. and Cora Tillotson, --Mr. Levi Mason, engineer on the steam barge J. age 4 yrs., 5 mos. S. Fay, is home of the winter. --Mrs. Louise Holt, of Washington St., has gone Probate Notice to Minneapolis to visit her brother. --Miss Robinson, of West Newton, Pa., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Herbert House, South St. Clair St. --Mrs. James E. Chambers, St. Clair St., is back from a long visit to relatives in New York. --Mr. & Mrs. Fred N. Porter, of Elyria, will spend Christmas with Mr. & Mrs. L. A. Porter, Washington St. --One of the barns of Capt. E. Burridge, in Mentor was burned Thursday and several head of cattle perished in the flames. --Bert and Gray, sons of Mrs. D. T. Casement, are Dec. 17, 1885 Thursday expected home Sat. from St. Paul’s School, p. 1 col. 8 State and Neighborhood Concord, N. H., for the holidays. --P. F. Lovejoy, and old resident of Ashtabula, --The Progressive Euchre Club will be died Friday, age 61. entertained by Mr. Henry Fowler, at the --Sheriff James Lee, of Stark Co., died suddenly at residence of his parents on South St., next Fri. his home in Canton last week. --Captain Hedgeman Wines, a veteran of the war of 1812, died in New Lisbon recently, age 89. --James Rundle, of Hazelton, is held on a charge of murder. He struck a man with a billiard cue on Thanksgiving Day and killed him.

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--Mr. H. C. Stebbins writes from Albion, Boone Co., Nebraska about the weather. --Mrs. L. W. Ackley was given a surprise supper party on Wed. --Mrs. T. K. Butler will spend the winter in Olean, N.Y. --Mr. B. S. Rice, of Lisbon, Dakota, is in Painesville to visit his mother two or three weeks. He has a half section of land in Lisbon which he has worked successfully for the past two years. --Mr. & Mrs. J. H. Britton left for Los Angeles, Cal., for the winter. Mr. Britton represents the Van Dorn Iron Co. --Mr. Geo. E. Kile has disposed of his stock in the boot and shoe trade and is now opening, in the room recently occupied by Mr. F. W. Littlejohn, an extensive stock of jewelry and silver ware. --Mrs. Robert Murray is presently a guest of her brother, Nathan Wheeler and family, at Bridgeport, Conn. Mr. Wheeler is the President of the Wheeler Sewing Machine Co. --Mr. Charles Chesney, of Dunbar, Dakota, is home for the winter. --A letter from Mr. Robert Manchester, dated at San Francisco, states that he is now engaged at the Bush Street Theater at the city for a 10-week engagement. --The marriage of Mr. Silas. L. Thompson, of the Saving and Loan Bank, of this city and Miss Caroline L. Pond, will take place, Dec. 17th at 2 o’clock at the home of the brides’ parents in Warren, Ohio.

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Dec. 17, 1885 Willoughby --Council entered into a contract with Globe --Mr. & Mrs. Geo. Cleveland presented their little Electric Light Co., of Bucyrus, O., for 40 electric daughter to the public last week. street lights. --On Sabbath morning, last Rev. D. F. --Mr. F. W. Littlejohn has purchased the stock Wilberforce, D. D., of Sierra Leone, West Africa, and goodwill of Mr. Geo. E. Kile and moved his a Prince by birth, preached in the M. E. Church. goods to the old stand of Mr. Kile. His father, many years ago being so pleased with Rev. D. K. Flickinger, named his son after him and Real Estate is known by the name of Rev. Dr. Daniel Perry Flickinger Wilberforce. He was fully educated by Bowen, Kate M. the United Brethren Church under the care and Bowen, Adelia direction of Bishop Flickinger of this village. Painesville Smith, R. D. Geauga County Bartlett, Frances Wilcox, A. M. Kerr, Emily Johnson, J B. Palmer, Isaac – heirs Palmer, Lidora L. Kirtland

Little, Isaac Geauga County Gilson, L. J. --William Paine has returned from Dakota. Randall, H. J. --Mr. & Mrs. B. F. Pease celebrated their 20th Clapp, Payson, C. wedding anniversary by entertaining a large Bond, Ira number of their friends. Bond, Mary E. Madison Mentor --Mr. & Mrs. Ezra Chaffee have gone to Omaha, Dickey, Harriet M/ Neb., for the holidays visiting friends. Woodford, David ---Mr. H. W. Wetmore has sold his farm in North Laubscher, Mary L. Madison to Mr. Geo. Jefferson. Mr. Wetmore Parsons, Geo. E. seeks a new home in the far west. Willoughby --Miss Eva Viets married Mr. John Green on Dec. Lloyd, John T. 8, at the home of the bride. On Wed., the couple Moses, A. L. started for their western home. Mr. Green is in Ingersoll, C. H. business at Hebron, Neb. There were Glines, F. C. accompanied by Miss Jessie Viets, a younger

sister of the bride, who on her arrival at her Green-Crofoot destination, is to be married to Mr. John Miss Carrie Crofoot and Mr. F. D. Green were Collister, also of Hebron. All of the above are married at the bride’s home on Main St., this from Madison. city, Dec. 15, 1885. The only person invited --Mrs. A. W. Pancost and child, from South Bend, outside the family was Dr. A. L Gardner, family Ind., are visiting her parents, Mr. & Mrs. physician. The groom received a present from his Freeman. father of a deed to a house and lot in Perry. The --Ralph Ensign is in Topeka, Kan., in the employ bride received a gold watch and chain from her of an electric light manufacturing company. parents.

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Dec. 17, 1885 Died th --Mrs. C. M. Gillett is failing in health. --In Perry, Dec. 20 , 1885, Reed A. Vesey, age 42 --F. C. Allen, our freight and express handler, had yrs. a son born Monday morning. For Sale – G. F. Callander is selling one mare and Kirtland one horse. Good family horses. --Mr. & Mrs. Orin Holmes are here in Kirtland on The Estate of Margaret Higley an extended visit from their home in Minnesota. W. N. Carothers is the executor of Margaret There are a few left, who remember Lori Holmes. Higley, dec., late of Concord, Lake Co., Ohio. who settled on a farm now owned by A. E. Sanborn as early as 1816. p. 4. Of Interest to Horsemen Billy Bunker, the pacer, better known in Mentor Painesville, as the Harmon Carroll colt, has won --Miss Cora Simmons, of Chicago, Ill., is the guest distinguished honor the past season at Denver, of her aunt. Mrs. L. H. Luse. Colorado, showing a quarter in 33 seconds, and --Mr. & Mrs. E. L. Gilmore, of Painesville, have half in 1:10 in the last heat of a hotly contested been visiting at the home of S. Justus. free for all trotting and pacing match at Jewell --Mr. & Mrs. J. T. Harrington, of your city, spent Park Track, Denver. When it is remembered that Sunday with his parents, Mr. & Mrs. A. this is Bunker’s first season on the tract, the Harrington. performance is unsurpassed. --Mrs. Mary Pratt is the guest of her brother in Cleveland. --Miss Eliza and Laura Marshall, of Cleveland, Dec. 24, 1885 Thursday visited their sister, Mrs. A. A. Duer, last week. p. 2 col. 4 Letter from California --Miss B. E. Casey is teaching school in the A. Phelps writes of his experiences in traveling Sleeman District in Kirtland. with 190 other tourists by train to San Francisco. --Miss Eva Bassett has been spending a few There were many delays across the desert weeks with friends in Cleveland. through New Mexico and Arizona caused by --Rev. Wm. Dowling left for his home in Marion, water spouts, washouts, and disturbances of the last Monday. track.

Perry p. 2 col. 5 State and Neighborhood --On Thursday, Reed A. Vesey, of this place, died --Skating on Geauga Lake last week. of heart disease. He was born in Perry. He leaves --Frank Olds’ cheese factory, Chagrin Falls, a wife and four children. burned last week. --Mr. Daniel Sherman, of the Ashtabula Standard, has received the appointment of postmaster of that city, --Wm. H. White, telegraph operator, Cleveland, was cleaning grease spots from the clothes of his only son with gasoline which he had on the stove in an open pan, the gasoline took fire,

communicated to the clothes and the child was Married burned to death. On the 15th inst., Thadford B. Dayton, of Painesville and Mary E. Slitor, of Mentor Headlands.

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Dec. 24, 1885 --Miss Clara, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Wm. p. 3 Clayton, Wood St., celebrated her birthday Dec. 19th by inviting young friends to a party. -The funeral services of the late Veron Wright will be at the home of his parents on State St. --Mr. & Mrs. Peter Kleeberger are spending the holiday with their daughter, Mrs. Kennedy, in Youngstown

p. 3 col. 1 Estate of Martin Carroll Harmon Carroll and Thos. S. Harbach are the executors, of Martin Carroll, dec. late of Mentor, Lake Co., Ohio. Weather: Yesterday was spring like and today the temperature is 45 degrees. Last year at this Local Brevities time the ice in the river was 6 inches thick and --Miss E. G. Wing, of Bloomfield, is the guest of there was good sleighing. Mrs. C. H. Greer, Erie St. --At the skating rink, Jimmie Coe won the heat --Mrs. Churchill, of Toledo, is visiting her sisters, last Wed. night. Mrs. Charles Smart and Mrs. Howell. --P. O. Cook, a former resident of Madison, and for many years a druggist, died in Grand Rapids, Michigan, last week. --Mrs. D. C. Allen, widow of the founder of the Conneaut Reporter, died at her home in Conneaut last Thursday.

Real Estate Madison Amidon, S. B. --Mr. C. T. Wright, of Perry, fell from a ladder on Pershing, H. B. Monday breaking his arm near the shoulder. Weeks, Luther K. --Miss Gertie Warner, of Elyria, went to Madison Sohn, Charles F. to spend the holidays with her parents. Pope, Matilda --Rev. A. E. Dunning, D. D., of Boston, Mass., Crites, C. S. spent Sat. with his sister, Mrs. C. H. Frank. Thompson, Nathan --Arthur J. Grover was given the verdict of Moss, E. murder in the first degree for the murder of Moss, J. Granville G. Loomis, of Ashtabula Co. Execution Warren, James set for April 9th.

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Dec. 24, 1885 Woodsworth, A. Woodworth, Geo. C. Freeman, R. Griffith N. Perry Mason, Levi Murphy, Maurice Murphy, Eliza Mentor Headlands Lapham, H. C. --Dec. 15th, the home of Mr. E. D. Slitor was filled Lapham, Geo. E. to capacity for the wedding of his daughter, Gibbs, H. L. Mary, and Thadford Dayton, of your city. The Painesville bride was becoming in brown silk. The couple Lyman, Pluma E. will spend their honeymoon at his home on Masters, Delia A. Jackson street. Kirtland Willoughby Martin, G. W. --Frank Edwards will be at home during the McCann, Alvena holidays. Willoughby --Miss Belle Hanson will be at home during the Bogen, Rebecca holidays. Steward, Gilbert --Mrs. Henderson, of Lincoln, and Mr. & Mrs. J. Stockwell will spend the holidays in town.

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--Jennison vs. Larych. This case involves an action for recovery of the value of stacks of grain destroyed by fire, caused by sparks from the defendant’s engine while threshing.

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Dec. 24, 1885 Boston, Mass. Mr. & Mrs. Knights and family settled in Painesville at an early date. Their son, Dexter, was for many years a resident of your place. Most of the family lived or died there. The deceased married Elijah Woolsey. Two of her sisters, Mrs. Asa Howe, of Chicago; and Mrs. Dr. Scott, of Toledo, survive her. Her remains were placed in the vault where they can be seen by those who were not able to be at the funeral.

Concord --Mr. & Mrs. Henry Maunder have gone back to their hold home in Allegheny Co., N. Y., on a visit. --Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Rogers have gone to spend the winter with their son, Frank, in LeRoy, --Mrs. Fairchild Smith is very low and her recovery is doubtful. --Mrs. Cullen Palmer has been sick for several months, but little hope is entertained for her recovery. Her daughter, Mrs. Helen Emerson, is Written by John Curtis on her second visit from Benton Harbor, Mich., to see her. Mentor --Mrs. Dewitt Clark, of Murray, Iowa, is visiting --Mr. & Mrs. Geo. Blish entertained the her old home, relatives and friends. Progressive Euchre Club Friday. --Miss Maggie Murray expects to start in a few days for Minneapolis to visit her sister, Mrs. Stillman.

South Madison --Died Dec. 12th, Mrs. Nancy Pike, age 85 yrs. --Mr. Healy, of Huron Co., has been visiting his --Miss Hattie Hill, of Thompson, is spending a few sister, Mrs. A. Rexford days at her old home.

--Miss Blanche Loveland leaves today for Illinois. Married --Mrs. Sarah Morris, of Perry, is now stopping at Dec. 10th, 1885, in East Painesville, Mr. Alonzo B Mrs. Luman Wheeler’s. Turney and Mrs. Athalia M. Stuart were married Kirtland at the residence of Mrs. Carson Baldwin, a daughter of the bride. The only guests were Miss Gibbs, a granddaughter of the bridegroom and Mr. Paine and his bride from Eagleville, Ashtabula Co., Ohio.

Turkish Baths in Chardon A. C. Bower has secured the services of a good lady to give Turkish Baths at his house, formerly the Burnett House, Chardon, O. These baths are a great remedy for rheumatism, colds, chills,

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Dec. 24, 1885 --Mrs. Moses Moody, of Northampton, Mass., is ague diphtheria, syphilis, and all diseases caused in the city visiting her sons and their families. by blood poisoning. Free hack to and from all --Mr. & Mrs. N. L. Lee left for Dakota Monday trains. Ladies baths are on Tuesdays and Fridays; night to take charge of Mr. Fenton’s farm. gentlemen’s baths are on Wednesdays and --Miss Delia Lamson, of Bedford, is spending a Saturdays. It takes 2. 5 to 3 hours for each bath. few days with Miss Mary Paine, Mentor Ave. --Mrs. C. S. Hicks, of Warren, Ill., is visiting her Dec. 31, 1885 Thursday parents, Mr. & Mrs. Geo. Abbey, of LeRoy, ---Mrs. E. D. Rich is spending the holiday season p. 2 col. 3 State and Neighborhood with her sister, Mrs. O. W. Lee in Sturges, Mich. --James Wells, one of the original settlers of --Mr. James Coe won the sixth heat of the two- Ohio, died at his home in Wellsville, last mile race (skating rink) for the championship of Thursday, age 97. Lake Co., last Sat. --A laborer of Youngstown named Thos. Lynch, --Mr. Harry F. Barstow, of Columbus, spent while walking on a railroad track was struck by a Christmas with his father, Mr. H. L. Barstow, in train and died in 30 minutes. Painesville. --J. P. Caldwell, prosecuting attorney for --Mr. & Mrs. E. A. Fenton are visiting friends in Ashtabula Co., was last week married to Ida M. Bristol. Baldwin, daughter of the Mayor of Jefferson. --Mr. B. St. John, of Elba, Wis., is visiting his --A young woman, May Dond, jumped from a father, Mr. Sanford St. John and other relatives. third story window to the pavement on Ontario --Miss Mary Huntoon, of Concord, who is visiting street, Cleveland. She received fatal injuries. her sister in Verona, N. J., is dangerously ill with

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--Miss Sarah Palmer, of State St., gave a dinner party on Monday evening, in honor of Mr. & Mrs. Silas L. Thompson. Local Brevities --General & Mrs. S. F. Pierson were the guests of Mr. Geo. M. Hoyt, who has been seriously ill, is Rev. & Mrs. S. W. Pierson, on South St. convalescing slowly.

--Miss Margaretta Morley is home from school in Philadelphia to spend the Holiday. --Mr. Albert Paige, of Akron, was the guest of Mrs. D. R. Paige, State St., Christmas.

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--Mr. Will Lathrop, our townsman, makes Christmas cards and has sold his larger etchings for one hundred dollars each in New York. Humane Society

--Weather: Dec., 1885, has passed into history as having been nearly “as pleasant as May.” No sleighing, considerable rain, muddy roads, frosty nights and rough roads.

Seventy-Ninth Birthday The seventy-ninth birthday of Mr. Thos. Smith was taken advantage of by a company of his friends to pay him a visit and give him a party.

--Mrs. H. Holcomb, Mentor Ave., was stricken Sunday night with paralysis affecting one side and also her speech.

--Died, Eliza Brewer Hubbard, daughter of Mrs. Lester S. Hubbard, at Sandusky, O., Dec. 28th, age 18 yrs., 10 mos., 16 days. Miss Hubbard was a granddaughter of the late Dr. Charles P. Livingston, formerly of this city.

Death of John M. Hickok John M. Hickok, son of Mr. & Mrs. S. C. Hickok, died at his home on State street last evening, age 36. After a long and patient suffering, our young

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Dec. 31, 1885 Durand, C. W. Wedding Anniversary Fuller, Mary w. From the Times, Des Moines, Iowa, Dec. 12th, Houghton, Jerome 1885: On Dec. 5, 1872, in Painesville, Ohio, Mr. Johnson, Chas. S. William J. Pratt and Miss Mary Russel, were Willoughby married. The couple celebrated their 13th Cross, D W. anniversary with a tea and a game of Progressive French, Julius E. Euchre. Pike, John Pike, Edwin T. Death of Miss Maria V. Rosa Miss Maria V. Rosa, of Madison, whose death is Madison noticed in our Madison correspondence, was a --Harry Walding spent Christmas at home. daughter of the late John Rosa and niece of the --Mr. & Mrs. John Carrigan are at home for the late Dr. Storm Rosa, of Painesville. She had been holidays. a teacher for many years in the public schools in Madison. Her only brother, Dr. Arthur Rosa, was a surgeon in the late war.

Real Estate Madison Church, A. T. – estate Church, Catharine Burdick, E. A. --Mr. & Mrs. Dr. Cutler and daughter Grace, of Pope, E. G. Cleveland, spent their Xmas with the family of Amidon, A. A. Mr. Samuel Stratton. Fuller, F. J. --Miss Blanche Morey, of Saybrook, formerly of Nestlerood, J. Madison, and Miss Gracia Smith, of this place, Keener, C. L. expect to attend Oberlin College next term. Keil, C. A. --Louis Crandall, who went to Dakota three years LeRoy ago is in town for a few weeks. Atkins, N. J. --Last Thursday, Mr. Arad Woodworth died at his Churchward, J. I. home on Safford street, of liver complaint, age Perry 78. He had been a citizen of Madison for 30 yrs. Amidon, A. A. On the same day, Ernie, son of Joe Heartwell, Fuller, F. J. died of a disease resembling catarrh in the head Belknap, E. S. and throat. Orcutt, G. W. --Two members of the same family died on the Painesville same night in two different places. Miss Maria V. Barto, A. C. – heirs Rosa, died of a tumor on Sunday night. The same Barton, N. E. night, her stepfather, Mr. P. Philes died. He had Cleveland, Moses A. been returned from Newburgh as an incurable Cleveland, S. A. and placed in the county infirmary. Death Cleveland, Mary A. robbed Mr. Philes of his first wife and two Miller, Alonzo children, a son who died in the army and now Miller, Mary J. Maria. This leaves Mrs. Philes the sole survivor Mentor Fuller, J. W.

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Dec. 31, 1885 of the family. She is over 70 yrs. of age and very Willoughby feeble. --Mrs. Agnes Paine is in Bedford on a visit. --Mr. Norval Woodworth, of Woonsocket, Rhode --Mr. E. Losey is in town visiting his mother. Island, was in attendance at the funeral of his --Lewis Armstrong is still at Syracuse visiting father Arad Woodworth. friends. --Frank Carroll Esq. was in town over the Mentor Sabbath. --Mrs. M. H. Winslow is visiting friends on Waite --Mrs. Asa Cottrell gave a party on Friday Hill. afternoon. --Miss Nettie Munson, of Oberlin, is home for the --Mrs. Iva McCabe, of New York, is visiting friends holidays. in this vicinity. --C. A. Smith, of Cleveland, was the guest of Mrs. --Dr. and Mrs. Dalrymple, of Warren, were with Sarah Sawyer over Sunday. Dr. Davis on Christmas. --Mr. & Mrs. G. Laubscher, of Cleveland, have --Mrs. Thoressa Pease gave a Christmas dinner to been visiting her mother, Mrs. T. Parsons. her sisters last Friday. --Cull Templeton, of Bradys Bend, Pa., has been --Mr. & Mrs. E. J. Allen, of Chardon, visited their a guest at the home of E. Burridge for a few days. friends on Christmas. --Mrs. O. M. Davison being so much better, her sister, Mrs. Derbyshire, has gone to her home in Michigan. --Mr. & Mrs. S. Fowles have gone visiting at Fort Wayne. --H. C. Stewart is in this place again visiting his father’s family. He resides at Willow Point Station, Nevada.

LeRoy --Mr. & Mrs. Addison Bates entertained their friends at their home. --Charles L. Armstrong and Edward Scanlan left --Mrs. Edward Proctor, who has been sick a long on Tuesday for St. Andrews, Washington Co., time, is getting better. Florida, to seek work on the new railroad now --The Joshua Bates family held their annual being built there. reunion at James Callow’s. The relatives of Mr. & Mrs. E. A. Callow met with them and gave Concord them a present of a black walnut extension table.

Willoughby Plains Unionville --Mr. G. C. Newton has gone to Defiance to see --Mr. Earl Cone was brought to his home in this his bother. place from Painesville sick with pleurisy, but is --Master Wilber Hyde is spending vacation with getting better. his grandparents. --Mr. M. V. Palmer has returned from Paulding to spend the holidays with his family. --Mr. S. M. Downing, was 40 yrs. old on Dec. 26th. His friends gave him a surprise party and presented his with a rocking chair, a lamp, and a complete set of Shakespeare.

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Dec. 31, 1885 p. 3 col. 9 Married At the residence of the bride’s father in Jefferson, O., Dec. 23, 1885, Mr. James P. Cadwell, Prosecuting Attorney of Ashtabula Co., to Miss Ida M. Baldwin. Legal Notice Freeman Gates vs Frank H. Willard Frank H. Willard, whose place of residence is unknown, will take notice that Freeman Gates filed his petition in the Court of Common Pleas, Lake Co., Ohio, against the above praying for the foreclosure of a mortgage made by Frank H. Willard to plaintiff.

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