The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-07

man.
Business was little dull last Satur-
day
Comet -catchers are getting quite nu-
merous.
Wapakoneta is to have another horse
fair soon.
JAMES EDWARDS has repainted the
front of his building.
FRED. GLEssNER is going to put new
roof on his house.
Keep a sharp lookout for pickpockets
and swindlers.
OIIARIsA & Cos new baggage wagon
is quite nobby.
Berea stone for paving continues to
arrive.
Destroy your thistles; likewise your
weeds.
The new pavements have greatly i'm
proved East Lima Street.
The sporting fraternity are enjoying
themselves hugely.
A wagon loaded with stone broke
down on Main Street Tuesday.
A great many strangers are in town
attending the races.
The gentle pattering of the rain was
heard Wednesday afternoon.
The whole county is enlivened by the
busy hum of human industry.
The Findlay Flax Mills are buying an
immense amount of fax straw.
WM. OPPERMAN is building a frame
dwelling on East Lincoln Street.
MILES VANCE is building neat frame
dwelling house on Putnam Street.
There is to be Union Sunday School
picnic near Cory tomorrow.
The walls of GEO. MYERS new resi-
dence are rapidly going up.
JACOB FETZER has erected a fine brick
dwelling on West Main Cross Street.
Sandusky Street is rapidly coming up
to Main in the extent of stone pavements
Communion services were held at the
English Lutheran church last Sabbath
The Wapakoneta Democrat has been
sold to ROBERT MCI1URRAY for $1,000
Masons have commenced laying brick
on BICKELHAUPT's new block.
Many of our citizens are having Berea
stone walks put down in their front
yards.
There is not water enough in the river
here to give IA decent bath to a Toledo
frog.
Twelve ear loads of coal have arrived
at the Branch depot during the last ten
days.
There were no services held at either
the Methodist or Congregational church
es last Sunday.
We are glad to meet our old friend
and fellow-citizens, SAMUEL KEMBLE,
Esq, of Bryan, Oh our streets yesterday.
The freight train bound south on the
l.. f. 4 ID. Ry., reached here two hours
behind time, Wednesday.
FRED. CARLIN had one of his hands
severely cut last Sunday by the careless
handling of Il knike.
The march of the walking brigade
Oh the streets these evenings is like the
tramp of the Mulligan Guards.
Little EMMA ROTHCHILD was thrown
from her pony last Sabbath, narrowly
escaping injury.
Mr.. WILLIAM q. MOORE has been ap-
pointed agent of the L. f. & l.. Ry., at
Arcadia, Mr.. karin having resigned.
One of the most convenient things in
Findlay is O'HARRA & Cos omnibus
and baggage line.
CALLAHAN & SNYDER have just fin
ished and run out, for b. F. HYATT, one
of tn finest pony phetons in town.
SPAYTH had his delivery wagon upset
on the base ball ground Tuesday after
noon. while trying to turn around.
We advise the fellow who scrapes the
cat-gut OH the street in the rear of our
Office, and calls 1t fiddling, to go west.
SAM'L RAMSEY, of Pleasant township,
has sold his farm of 157 acres, to JESSE
EDGINGToN for so, 500.
Don't allow yourselves TO be robbed
by pickpockets or swindled by gamblers
during the races.
The pavements on South Main Street
are still in a miserable condition, and it
is time they were repaired.
Large quantities of buiIding-stone are
being taken from the different quarries
about town.
And still the building goes on. E. p.
JONES is putting up a brick house on
East Main-cross Street.
The floor of the bridge over Eagle
creek, on Main Cross Street, is in a very
bad condition and should be repaired
The liveliest activity prevails in all
branches of the manufacturing business
in this place.
Mr.. JACOB PEPPLE raised nine hun
dred bushels of wheat this season on
the farm of JOHN c. RICKETTS,, in Eagle
township.
j. A. Blair, assistant cashier of the
Savings Bank, is lying very sick with
cerebro-spinal meningitis.-TIfn TriJ-
HHe-
The |. o. o. +. Dedication at Ne
Comb comes off next Wednesday, Aug.
u, 1874, and will be. an interesting oc-
casion for those of the mystic links"
The newly discovered comet is a bob
tailed one; therefore the people need
have no fears about its touching the
earth
Gus. BALDWIN has torn down a part
of his shed, but we have concluded not
TO mentios it until he removes the re-
mainder
Rev. J. g. RUHL has taken charge of
ms new congregation at Kenton. He
will remove to that place with his family
in few weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. r. CARHAHAx. Mrs..
Il. w. GALLOWAY, Mr.. q. F. PENDLE-
TON and Mr.. E. \. HUBER are at Wau-
kesha Springs, Wisconsin.
Mr.. CHARLES HALLowRLL has about
completed fine brick blacksmith shop.
in East FindIay, Just beyond Eagle
creek.
The Carey Camp Meeting begins on
the 10th inst. and continues until the
18th, The C. S. & c. RR. will sell
round trip tickets at the rate of 2 cents
per mile.
There is probability that the con-