Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-02-28
LOCAL ITEMS.

l iAoH CuCFch.
beta" has been up west among tn
numbering regions.
FRESH FISH were brought into marke
last week in limited quantities.
THERE is said to be about twenty feet 0
water in the harbor at Fairport.
| .BOoK-KEEPING may be taught in a les
son Of three words-never lend them.
J. II. AVERY has just received largt
| invoice of new spring styles of hats ant
caps.
WE are under obligations to D. W. Mead
for copy OF the Ohio Agricultural Report
for 1873.
THE largest assortment of sheet music
in town for sale at the JOURNAL office
Call and see it.
Two runaways this week-neither o
which, fortunately, resulted in seriou:
damage or accident.
The series of lessons in elOcution TO be
given at Willoughby by Professor Kidd
were commenced on Thursday last.
A NEW harness-shop has lately been
started, by W. W. Higgins, over the
clothing store of Hadeler & Darrow.
has been removed to new quarters on the
corner ofJackson and st. Clair streets.
A BURNING chimney on the Stockwell
House, on Tuesday last, created some ex-
citement and led to a false alarm of fire.
PRESENT prospects indicate an abundant
I" harvest of maple sugar this season.
Lovers of this delicacy will rejoice accord
ingly.
ployea at the P. & Y. Depot-temporarl-
ly filling the place of Ill. 3. Steele who is
away.
OUR agricultural Department. has
much of interest this week and our pat
rons will find it well worthy of careful at
tention.
A BUNCH OF keys was found a few days
since, near the L. s. & NJ. 8. Depot, which
the owner can recover by calling upon Off
Ger Hale.
r. NJ. MURRAY has been elected Treas
urer of the Literary Club. to fill the vacan-
cy caused by the resignation of A. P.
Baldwin.
DURING the Lenten season, services are
nesday, Thursday and Friday evenings of
each week.
The Painesville Ice Company have
made arrangements to receive what far
ther quantities of ice they need, from Lake
Michigan waters.
LAST Sunday was Washington's BIRTH
day, but here, as well as in most other
sections, no especial observance of the an
niversary was made.
PROF. SPAULDING reports that last
week was marked by greater number of
absences by reason of sickness than any
preceding week of this term.
WE learn that Jonathan Sanborn, a
former resident of this place, recently
died at Carrollton, Louisiana, but have re-
ceived no additional particulars.
THE meeting of the Literary Club was
held on Monday evening of this week in
stead of Friday in order 10 avoid inter-
ference with the lecture of Prof. Kidd.
THE Disciples meetings in Chardon, at
which the Rev. DR.. Moore of this place is
assisting, are reported being full of zeal
and interest on the part of those attending.
ON Monday night the drunken yells of
some half-dozen roughs disturbed the
sweet slumbers of those residing near the
central portion of the town. No arrests.
STRAPPED shoes will be fashionable the
coming spring and summer. So says a
follower of the fashions. But good many
are strapped for shoes even in the winter
THE funeral services Of j. W. Webster,
an old and well-known lake-captain, who
died at his residence in Fairport last
Tuesday was held this-Friday- morn
ing.
REMEMBER that this week closes the
time during which those patrons who de-
sire to receive yick's Floral Guide for
1874 can do SO under our offer to send it in
place of the .Souuenir.
BY the terms of the contract made on
VIENNA and Shepherd OF Meadville. the
new Methodist Church is to be completed
by the first of November next.
THE cheapest aud best place to get any
and every variety OF plain or ornamental
job work is at the JOURNAL office, No. IA
Main st. Satisfaction guaranteed in all
cases, both as to work and price.
CLERKS of sub-districts should remem-
ber that the law was changed on the 18th
inst. and that they are now required TO
give notice of the election of directors at
least six days prior to the election.
AT meeting held at the residence OF C.
C. Jennings, on Tuesday evening last, a
Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry was
formed. The new organization includes
some of the best farmers of the vicinity.
JUST as people had begun to congratu-
late themselves that they had seen the last
of winters ermine. up came another storm
which clothed everything in a dreary man.
tie of white, if it did not make good sleigh
ing.
A correspondence from East Claridon
iCdShSu uo bOO law PAtDiASAbioh i"St
week and the news is almost too old for
| this issue. Our friends must send their
communications so as to reach us by
| Monday afternoon.
WE are under obligations to Seth Mar.
shall, of East Saginaw, for the volume
"Annual Statement of the Business OF
Saginaw Valley.'' At some future time
we may reproduce some of its most
interesting statistics.
FEBRUARY came in on Sunday and goes
out on Saturday, thus being composed OF
four exact weeks, and each day of the
week occurs an even number of times.
This will occur but twice again in the
present century in 1885 and 1891.
WHILE attending business meeting at
the Stockwell House, on Monday evening,
Eli s. Young was suddenly taken so ill as
to be unable to be carried home and it was
not until Wednesday morning that he was
sufficiently recovered to leave the hotel.
WE are informed that trains on the P.
& 7, 3. r. will commence running to
Middlefield by the middle of next week,