Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-08
ASHT4B ULA co UNITY.
News of the Week Boiled Down by
the JOURNALS Young Men.

Peach and cherry trees are in full
bloom.
The Geneva Times will issue cam
paign edition during the next eight
months.
The Farmers National Bank of Ash
tabula declared their usual 81 per cent.
dividend on Monday last.
@-On the first OF this week. Wilber
Mann, of Plymouth. loaded his second
car load of hoops-4o, o,OOo-destination
Sharon.
Mr.. Albert Fields, for many years
landlord of the Fisk House. in Ashtabnla.
mas removed to Fredonia, N. Y, there to
engage in the hotel business.
"A number of members of Bowers Post
visited Austin Post, q. A. r., at Austin
burg, last Friday evening, and were very
pleasantly entertained.
Miss Greenlee's concert at Amboy
was grand success, and all present
were highly pleased. By request this en-
terta1nment was repeated Thursday
evening.
Warrants were issued May Sd for
taking Svbil Avery of Kingsv1lle, and
Amelia A. Foster of Pierpont, to the
Cleveland Hospital for Insane, they hav-
ing been declared insane.
On Sunday night last young man
named Arthur Dougherty, aged about IS.
a resident OF Kingsville, attempted to get
on board of a freight train as 1t was pas
sing Conneaut. The funeral was held on
Tuesday morning.
Our Orwell correspondent says: Billy
Williams of our village mas a Democratic
cat 16 years old. as lively as kitten.
Also Mrs. S. B. Dodge, OF New Lyme, has
Republican canary singer 90 years old.
A correspondent at Andover, dating
21st ult., says: Mr.. Allen. who has been
prospecting and drilling for oil. for some
time, in this vicinity. is meeting with
very gratifying results, as oil of fine
quality and in paying quantities has been
discovered.
business at North KingsviIle is boom
ing at present. On the first two days of
this week there had been shipped from the
depot there three carloads of potatoes
two of sand. one of lumber and cne OF
hoops; and there are still to be shipped
this week three car loads of lumber and
three of sand.
John Mcclellan and Ed Crowther, OF
kingsville, got into dispute on Satur-
day evening last, and Mcclellan being
the stronger, threw Crowther to the
ground, stamping and bruising his face
severely. On Tuesday Mcclellan was
given hearing and bound over to Court
in the sum OF $500.
Thirty six students of Pierpont Cen
trail High School attended the recent
County Examination there. OF this num-
ber thirty one received valid certificates.
One year ago tWenty-eight applied and
years ago twenty applied and nineteen
were similarly awarded.
AT the late session of the Ashtabula
County Musical Convention, held in
Book Creek, the old board of officers
were reelected as follows: A. l.. How
ard. OF Kingsyille. President; |. W.
Wheaton. Geneva, Vice President; G. S.
Harvey, Rock Greek. Treasurer; N. F.
Capron. Conneaut, Secretary.
Mrs; Emma Stephenson Wheeler: the
wife of F. C. Wheeler, of Harpersfield,
died very unexpectedly of heart difficult
ty Sunday, about l O'Clock p. M. The
funeral took place Monday, a large con-
course Of people attending, not more than
half of whom were able to gain admit
tance to the residence, where the services
were held.
Three men giving their names as
James Shay, Walter H. Stevens and
Thomas Brennan, were arrested at Ash
| ia bula on Thursday last by Lake Shore
detective and brought before Justice
Heath for trial. They were found guilty
of violating the law by stealing a ride,
having boarded the cars at Mentor. In
default OF payment of fines they were
taken to Jail at jefferson to work out the
same.
The Annual County Convention OIL
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will be held in Conneaut on Thurs.
day, May 1ath. The meetings will be
| held in the Congregational Church; the
| morning session at 1890, the afternoon
| session at 2 O'Clock. There will be q
mass meeting in the evening at O'Clock
All are invited to attend the meetings o
| this convention, and learn something
about Woman's work in the cause of tenn
| perance.
| Court convened in Jefferson on Mon.
day, Judge Shermon on the bench. The
Grand Jury went TO work in the after
| noon, and on Monday it was thought they
would probably he in session the entire
week if they were even able to ge
| through then. 1t is very seldom, if at all
that SO many transcripts have been sen
up between courts as during the past va
cation. The work Of the Grand Jury will
be mostly that of liquor cases, the MAORI
ty OF which are from Rock Greek ant
| Plerpont. On Tuesday the petit jur,
! were discharged until Wednesday morn
ing.
The Ashtabula county Educationa
Association Will meet in the town hall
Conneaut, O., Saturday, May sth, 1880
| Progranmes 10:la a. M. opening eXercis
es; 1890 IA. NJ, address, IA lesson il
Anglo Saxon,o &. W. Waite. Ashtapula
IL a. m. address, s'Mental Develope
ment," l.. b. Durstlne, Conneaut; II :5t
a. M, essay. advancement" G.. V
Mead, Richmond; - m., dinner, toasts
responses. etc.: 1:15, p m., essay, aeon
versation," H. Z. Morris, Marlette; .
p. m. address, "Reading," A. l.. Arne,
Jefferson; Discussion; :05 p. M, address
Living Matter" Continued from Jan
uary meeting) Dr.. F. a. futile, Jeffer
son; Discussion, 2 40 p. m., question box
Members and visitors Will please prepar
er; Laura Burnette. Secretary; A. II
Viets. E. IL. Alger. Mrs. j, p. Treat, En-
ecutive COMMITTEES.
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