Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-10-11

BEING Neaos Notes contributed By our
Special Correspondents and gathered from
our Exchanges.
"Signa,' writes as follows from Oberlin.
under date OF the 4th inst.
AS in our last, we gave a brief account
OF the matter of Importance connected
with the College. In this article we will
treat more Of town matters. Improve
ments are steadily going ON in the way of
new stone sidewalks and crossings, and
in the grading and fixing of the streets.
rhe tine theological building is compiet-
ed as far as tine roof. 1t is four stories
high with basement story. 1t is built by
days work and not by the job, in order to
secure durability and not have the work
slighted. One ON going to it and eXamin-
ing it, is impressed with the fact that work
let by the job is not as thoroughly done as
can be performed by competent workmen
hired by the day. 1t is the strongest and
| most economically built building l have
ever seen. There will be lecture rooms,
recitation rooms and study rooms in it,
The study rooms are to be heated by CRATES
the lecture and recitation rooms are to be
heated by furnaces.
The new Union School building is pro-
crossing slowly. The stone work is near
ly completed. 1t is to be about eighty by
one hundred feet. The brick block, in
progress of building by Mr.. Wooster,
| which is situated on South Main street,
is reported that he has failed and has
made an assignment.
The brick block east of the Park House,
| on East College street, is nearly complet-
ed. It is being built by Mr.. Veits, who
| owns the Park House, and he is connect
| ing the two together. Report is current in
town that the Mayor has been found out
| to be defaulter, having used about seven
| hundred dollars OF the town money and
| having made no account of it. The mat
| ter is to be examined into by the town
council next week. He was thought to be
| an honest man by the citizens of Oberlin,
and was reelected Mayor, last election
Doubtless his pecuniary matters were SO
arranged as to need more money than he
| had, and so he was induced to use town
money. We are glad to say that Oberlin
has very competent man as Marshall
| He allows no loafing on the corners of
| noises in the streets. He finds safe
place for all men who have had too much
| to drink, and so keeps the streets free
from staggering drunkards. 1 am glad to
| say that have not seen as much drunk
| enDess in Oberlin in two years as have in
other towns in one day.
The town has been putting in some new
cfsterns this Summer. for the fire depart
ment. They hold about two hundred bar
reis each, are filled from the creek, and
| the water is not used for anything except
a fire. A report of a shooting affray is in
circulation this evening, but was unable
| ~ san Poh oASuloAS. l iois A1diNCy AcC-
tured last evening before the Teachers
Institute. His subject was 1.-THE Methods
of Teaching Gramrlar,' He showed how
teachers could make the dry study OF
grammar very interesting.
GEAUGA COUNTY.-Our correspondent
in Hiram writes as follows under date of
the 7th:
We have recently been favored with
some very entertaining and instructive
lectures. The first was by Gen. Garfield
on the Lighthouse system of the U. s.
| The speaker gave US a careful history of
the progress made for the last two thou
sand years in the matter OF lighting har
bors and a review of the progress made by
science in the construction and illumina-
tion. He told us that whatever faults our
sbeil hem ser seTyee Ice hRs Whole ,bo Of
system, and that upon it we may look
with pride.
The second lecture was delivered by
Rev. w. F. Day, D. D., of Warren on the
subject, How not to grow Old,n The
speaker cpntendea that there was
nothing that SO tended to make one grow
old as mental laziness, and he produced
numerous inductiOns from the va ious
professions to prove his point,-so long as
a man shall continue mentally active he
will not become old.
The citizens OF our town have construc-
ted n sidewalk from the drugstore to the
church.