The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-09-22
FRIDAY, September p 1871.
Town AND COUNTY MATTERS.
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opinions.
Findlay was visited by horse thieves again
last week.
A wash board mandatory has been started
in NorFalk-
Speak well Of all men, otherwise let silence
seal your lips.
The reverend seOundrel, OF Bowling Green,
has gone west
The Clyde Fair commenced on Wednesday
and closes to-day.
The Episcopal Church in Elyria was sold
last week for $3.50.
We saw man 50 drunk on Sunday, that he
eoOLdn't follow his nose.
The Seneca County Fair commences October
10th and closes October l4th.
The Fremont Post-ofice has been made an
international money order Office.
Some Of our young people are sitting up
nights, watching for the first frost.
Who viii take the lead in arranging for a
course of lectures the coming winter.
About nine thousand boxes Of peaches have
been shipped from Clyde this season.
There is much immortality in Findlay. Dea-
con Fred should labor with the suiners.
The State Fair commences at Springfield on
the 18th, Monday and closes on the 18th.
The Stevenson Brothers. of Townsend, are
the champion grape growers of this county.
The attendance at Oberlin College, this sea-
son, is said to be larger than for many years.
Don't the State want the bridge, at this
place, to put among its historical collections?
The Reflector Office published a daily during
the County fair, held at NorwallZ, this week
A citizen Of Lima, named BurlShart, CON-
mitted suicide by taking poison one day last
week.
Two-thirds of the distance between Toledo
and Tifiu, had been graded for the new
Railroad.
Some charitable genius has suggested that
instead of saying aOld maid" we should say
femme sole.
The Office of the Atlantic and Pacific Tele-
graph Company, has been removed to the store
of Perry Close.
The Grand Lodge of independant order or
Good Templars Of Ohio, will meet at Akron
on October 4th.
S. Grey of NOrwalk raised 800 bushels of
potatoes of the Early Rose variety from five
eights Of an acre.
Rev Lyman h johnson, Is announced to
preach IN front of the Court House, on next
Thursday evening.
An elopement occurred at Put-in-Bay, last
week. A youth of % and lass of sweet l6
were the psrlicipators.
The Jewish New Year I, ,632 commenced on
Friday last. The holidays were generally OBJ
served by the Jews Of this city.
An eminent physician has recently disco7-
cred that, in nine cases out of ten, night-nare
is caused by owing bill to the printer.
The attention of our readers is called TO the
new advertisement of Hermon q Wilson which
appears this week. Ponder it carefully.
The fuHeral Of Andrew HOdes, who died on
Monday last, WIS attended on Wednesday
morning, by a large concourse of people.
The Mansfield Herald and CirclevilIe Her.
aid are having an interesting debate, as to
whether the waters of certain river run up
or down.
There were Loss pounds blackberries, and
1880 pounds peaches shipped from Norwalk,
from July 18th to September 18th of the pres
ent year.
The store of Rice & Cheeny, at Genoa, was
entered by burglars, a few nights since, and
goods to the amount of several hundred dol
lars taken.
The Young Mems Library Association, at
Norwalk, have engaged Anna Dickinson, John
B. Cough aid Horace Greeley, to lecture the
coming winter.
A moonlight festival was held at Oak Har-
Dor, on Wednesday evening Of last week, in
honor of the return from Europe of Mr.. and
Mr Charles Roose.
The Presbyterian Society have commenced
holding their aid societies again. The first
one of the season was held last evening, at the
parlors of the church.
Those whose duty it is should see that the
road leading up to the cemetery from BallvilIe
is put in better condition. It is almost i'm
possible to drive over It.
Sayles A. June has been awarded the con-
tract for the boiler and other sheet iron work
for warming the Court House. The contract
for piping was LET to a Toledo firm.
In most of the towns and cities where the
price of beef had been ruling as high as here,
the butchers have put the price down, of late.
The highest rates still prevail here, however
Mr.. Matthias Pershing, residing near Clyde,
we understand. was killed by q train on the
railroad, on Tuesday last. The particulars
we could not learn. His loss will be very
much regretted in community.
Bring your wives and mothers, step mothers
and aunts, your children and children's chill
dren, your own and your neighbors sisters,
and every thing within your reach, to the fair,
on the 4th 9TH 9th and 7th of October.
There viii be sale at the Court House
door, on Saturday next, of tables, chairs, iron
doors and various other articles, rendered un-
necessary by the improvements in process in
the different rooms. There is a chance there
for bargains Go and buy.
The Norwalk Reflector says that more first
class houses are in process Of erection, this sea-
son, in that place, than any previous season
for many years. The fact that NOrwalk is
marching right along cannot be denied. It
has the elements of prosperity and they are at
work.
Sister Foster, OF the Fostoria RsUis'0 ack-
powIedges the receipt of complimentary
ticket to the Military Ball, at this place, last
week. which was for the "Editor of ReUiesC
and Ladies'" but says her "girls" would not
come with her, and she had to remain at
home Too bad, entirely.
The Reunion Of the both Ohio took place at
Castalia. on the 18th. The assemblage owing
perhaps to the poor facilities for getting to the
place, was not large, but the best of feeling
prevailed. The citizens had made ample ar
rangements for entertaining a much larger
crowd. Short speeches were made by Col
DeWolf, Col. Stevens aud Chaplain Wheeler.
Owners Of hogs are about to remonstrate
with Council for having the Marshal issue no.
tices warning people not to throw slop, &C., Oh
the public streets or alleys. They fear they
will be obliged to buy feed for their hogs now
and as one man alone owns about 40 which ar'
permitted to roam at large the feeding process
will be costly, and not renumerative since The
decline in pork. How long will the public
allow themselves to be vietimized in order tha'
men who wish to shine in Council may carry
the vote of hog owners?
Upholstering -Tschumy & Doncyson
ara prepared to do all manner of upholstering
Give them a call The additions which they
have recently made to their extensive facilitie'
makes their establishment one OF the best Il