Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-11-30

Elmore Items From our Local Cores
pondent, "M."
The "Elmore Library Association" and the
Gilmore Amateur Dramatic Club" both re-
Gently organized, are in active operation now.
In the Library Association rooms may be
found neat files of all the principal Daily and
Weekly newspapers, Periodicals and Magazines,
of the day. The subscription price for gentle
men is five dollars per year, or three dollars
fr six months; Ladies, two and one half dol
lars per year; one dollar and fifty cents per half
year; or monthly in proportion. The rooms
are open from 9 o clock A. M. to 10oclock r. NJ.
during the week, and from 2 TO 5r NJ. on the
Sabbath 1t is one of the incest institutions that
any town can boast of, and supplies a want
long felt by the reading public.
The Dramatic Club gave their first enter
tainment Wednesday evening of last week, ard
it was very creditable affair indeed. Fitzball's
great drama: "The MomentOus Question" was
well rendered; as was also Morton's laughable
Farce: "a Regular Fix" The scenery was well
painted, and the stage machinery was gotten
up at great expense and in style unequaled
in small cities. The entertainment given by
the Club, was for the benefit of the Library
Association. The next one will be given on
Wednesday evening, December 5lh. The bill
for the evening includes vocal and instrument
al musc-COurtney's great Drama: Time
Tries All, )" and Romance Under Difficulties "
The receipts of the first entertainment place
the success of the Club beyond all question.
There have been many substantial i'm
provements in our town this season, among
which must notice the brick block on Rice
street. which shows front OF l3I feet, and is
80 to 100 feet back, and "a feet high. This
building covers the burnt district and was built
by the several parties burned out last win
ter. The new brick block on the corner of
Rice aud Toledo streets, built ly Messrs F.
Wilson and Co., is the finest building, and the
largest in the county II is IA feet front on Rice
street and so feet on Toledo street. 1t is 36
feet high, and has two large rooms below; one
of which is Occupied by the proprietors as a dry
goods store, and is finished off in style second
to none in the West.
large number of very fine dwellings have
been erected here This season, and many more
commenced, so that, all things considered, we
can boast of more substantial improvements
than any town of twice its size in the State.
"A man living in Genoa and cIerkng for Mr..
Habelow has for some time been suspected of
taking money from the till, and his employer
lately set trap for him and found to his own
satisfaction that he was guilty. With the aid
of Mr.. John Jenny he succeeded in bringing
him to a settlement, the suspected clerk pay
ing $IlOO, the amount stolen being estimated at
$1sOO.
The clerk has been considered a respectable
man and the community was much shocked at
the unexpected disclosure, but the public indig-
nation is greatly excited by his confession, that
he had on one occasion stolen some money and
when he thought it was about to be discovered,
put it in the pocket of boy who was clerkiDg
in The store, charged him with stealing it. and
was the means of his being sent to Jail for
crime of hich he was innocent.
Politically by, dnt of hard work, we cut
down the Democratic majority from 35 to S. and
we still hope and labor on, knowing that the
time is not FIR distant when the lost power will
be regained, and the affairs of our town placed
in the hands of loyal, progressive party. The
recent summersault of the Chicago Times,
whose action is sanctioned by many influential
Democratic papers, has taken the wind out of
the sails of some of our more intelligent oppo-
nents, and they stand all aback not daring to
say word. accept the inevitable" and that
inevitable "Nigger." Ali it's bitter pill-a
merited punishment and the Democratic party
must walk through the dark valley of humilia-
ton with banners trailing in the dust, while
the Union party, victorious, like John Browns
soul, goes marching on.