Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-07-13
THE CHRONICLE
WEDNESDAY, JULY Is, 1870.
LOCAL and

S&A o40 49,
The Girard furnaces go out of bias
this week.
Our farmers are now in the midst Of
wheat and hay harvest.
The Brier Hill furnsces are blowing
out and will stop operations for the
present.
Olympia Lodge No. IS, Rebekah Deg,
will hold its next regular meeting on
Friday evening next.
Gov. R. c. Powers, of Mississippi, is
expected to visit his relatives in this
county, during this month.
ICanfeldis goingt to have a hank with
a capital of $50, 900. One of the Board
of directors is Mrs. Eliza Jennings.
"A chestnut sorrel mare was stolen
from the pasture of J. ]. Holiday, in
Vienna, on Sunday night last. See adj
vertisement of reward offered.
The officers elect of Mahoning Lodge
Nc. %, I. o. o. F., of this city, were duly
installed, on Monday evening last, by
Special Deputy D. NJ. Lazarus.
Orwell Agricultural Society will
hold its 18th Annual Fair on Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. srd, 4th,
and 5th.
By request we this week publish
the confession" of I. N. VanGorder,
now in the ~Penitentiary, in regard to the
WOOD County arson case.
"A young man, son of Andrew
Reeves, had one of his hands cut of,
while at work in the Niles planning mill,
few days since.
Our statistician would have it in last
weeks paper that Champion, in 1869,
raised sc, ia bushels of faxseed. That's
good for high; but he had better left off
one of the SIS.
Don't consume your time, ink, paper
and stamps, writing communications to
the CHRONICLE, unaccompsnied by your
name. We think we have said this same
thing before-or swords to that effect"
Mr.. J. W. MCleery, of johnson,
brought to our Office, a day or two since,
a bunch of timothy heads, a sample lot
from a meadow of last years seeding,
each of which measures ten inches in
length.
The house of Edward Hodges, on
the west side, wa burglariously entered,
before daylight, on last Monday morn
ing, and a pocket book belonging to Mrs.
Hodges, containing about Eve dollars,
was stolen. No arrests.
1t is reported that Mr.. A. Troxel, of
Mecca, made an oil strike, a few days
since, the well producing from ten to
fifteen barrels per day. 1t is located in
the neighborhood of Powers Corners.
The Mecca oil sells readily at SIS to $50
per barrel
In a portion Of last weeks edition of
the CHRONICLE, Autographed blunder
occurred in the article giving an account
of the Golden Wedding in Kinsman-
the word sixteenth" occurring in the
article where it should have read
Si1tieth.
"A meeting of the stockholders of the
Ashtabula & n. L. R. r. Company is
called to meet in Ashtabula, August g,
to vote upon the sale of the road bed,
right of way and franchises to the Y. &
P. R. r. Company, for the purpose Of
completing the road.
The talked of strike of the coal min
ers, in the Mahoning Valley, it is now
understood will probably not come off
until November, or about the time the
demand for a winter supply becomes
urgent. tits said that the recent threats
of a strike didn't scare the employers
worth a cent.
We have been requested by several
of our citizens to announce that a public
meeting will be held at the Court house,
on next Saturday evening, July 18th, to
nominate candidates for members OF the
Warren Board of Education, to be voted
for at the election soon to be holden for
that purpose.
Our meadows are beginning to show
a rank growth of the yellow daisy1
pest introduced by western seed. A far
mer told us, a few days ago, that he has
this season pulled up by the roots all the
daisies growing on his place, and thinks
that is the only way to prevent them
becoming a widespread nuisance.
An accident occurred on the Niles &
n. L. R. R. on the 4th inst, to a man
named Jones, IN engineer at Tod &
Wells coal mine, Mineral Ridge. In
attempting to get off a train at Washing
tonYille, he fell between two cars. and
n of his arms was so badly crushed as
to require amputation, DR.. Woodwork,
of this place, amputated the limb.
MIR. Daniel Thompson brought TO
our office. a few days ago, samples OF
wheat heads, harvested by him, this
season, of two varieties, the commca
red and the triple" or "Tod wheat
The heads of the latter variety are
double the size of the common, and are
well filed with plump grains. He also
left some specimens Of tall timotbv-six
feet one inch high.
Miss Roxa Wilcox, who has been a
teacher in the Warren High school for
seven or eight years past, was pleasantly
surprised, a few days since, just as she
was about to leave on the cars for her
home in New York, by the presentation
Of nice gold watch bearing the inscrip-
tion-"Presented to Rord WTlcOz 6y her
Warren Pupils" The watch was from
the establishment of Messrs. Yautrot&
ALL