Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-29

Will alU ulu 10 Tue UeSI VI buCiI 0uihey
in extending our circulation In their re-
spective localities. He Is authorized to
make collections and otherwise settle
all outstanding subscription accounts.
PICNICs are numerous.
SUBSCRIBE for the JOURNAL.
HANDSOME feathers make gay girls.
ONLY five weeks to the Fourth of July.
THE lawn barber has begun his sum-
mer's work.
CAMP meetings will soon to be the pop.
ular amusement.
CRITICISMS on the monument now seem
to be the popular thing.
HAULING ice, these days, would be
very pleasant amusement.
THE Probate Court has been without
an interesting item for an entire week.
THE river at Fairport is now reported
as having clear eighteen foot channel.
J.F, HODGE, of Mentor, who has been
seriously i'll Is steadily regaining health.
On another page we publish beauti-
full and appropriate Memorial Day poem.
THE new grand stand on the base ball
grounds is rapidly approaching compile
ton.
For all kinds of job printing call at the
JOURNAL office. satisfaction always
guaranteed.
EVEN in our best markets it is frequent
ly difficult to draw the line between spring
lamb and mutton.
J.T. MARTIN and G. E. Doolittie have
dissolved partnership in the lumber busi-
| ness in Cleveland.
LALE County Common Pleas Court
opens here on Monday next. Judge
Woodbury. is to preside.
TUE
ed to have put In an appearance In Vari-
Gus parts OF the County.
THE PainesvIlfe base ball club expect
| to play q game with the Ashtabula nine
on Saturday of this week.
UP TO present writing Calendar has
| heard nothing of his horse ana carriage
| which was stolen last week.
The officers OF the P. & Y. r. R., report
business as not only good now but as
steadily and constantly Increasing.
THE programme tor Decoration Day.
on Saturday of this week, Will be carried
| out as published in the JOURNAL of last
week.
| LAKE County grafters are, most OF them,
| at least, again at home. Generally they
report the spring work as having been
good.
| LOOK out for your stoves and stove
pipes that all are safe. A little spark,
this dry weather, would serve to Kindie
| a large fire.
| THE High School Alumni have decided
to hold their reunion, this year, at Little
Mountain, but have not, as yet, fixed up
on the date.
SINCE the injury to his hand Steve Cor
don has established peanut and fruit
Il stand on the corner of Main and state
| streets.
| CORRESPONDENTS will confer special
| favor by sending their communication 8
/ SO that they will reach US on Wednesday
| OF each week.
ALL the banks will be closed on Satur-
day and the post Office and most of the
| stores will be also closed from noon un-
til four O'Clock.
/ The strawberry festival at the Nj. E..
Church, last Friday evening, is said to
have been very pleasant and moderately
successful. financially.
Ohio Teachers Association will hold its
next meeting at ChautauQua on the 18th,
14th, 18th and 18th of July.
THE weather during the past week has
been exceedingly hot and dry. On some
days the murcury has got its back up
even to among the nineties.
| E.. HAsKALL, for Perry and r. P.
| Harmon, for Kirkland have reported the
monument subscriptions from their re-
spective towns as being filled.
; THE surveying party for the Conotto on
Valley r. 3. returned to Painesvilie on
L w
pleting the line through to Wiiloughby.
FOURTEEN hundred and sixty two tons
of ore were brought into Fatrport last
Satu rday by the Richard Winslow-the
repo rted largest schooner on the lake.
IL On FRIDAY OF last week Alfred Parks
| of Kirkland, commit ed suicide by taking
: Paris green. No special cause, beyond
temporary insanity, is known for the act
DIR. YOUNG 10 busy at work rebuilding
his bath houses recently destroyed by
fire. The new building is already encl os
ed and will be completed early in the fall
VIM DURAND OF Mentor, has been very
sick for some little time and as we go to
press we learn that the probabilities are
he will not live more than day or two.
SOME of the stones for the monumen
have been SO heavy as to break down tn,
; trucks on which they we're hauled ant
! the ropes of the derrick by which they
. were raised into place.
HENRY E. MosRLEY, Of Grand Rapids
Michigan, but formerly of Painesviile
died in the former place on Tuesday last
: His rem aims were brought here on Thurs
J, day of this week.
/. THE Cricket Club has been out two o
/. three afternoons, this week, for practic'
|, games. The exhibitions of grace ant
skill were very fine and afford ed the few
!. spectators present great anu sement.
|. THE covered cutters across st. Clai
: and State Streets need enlarging. When
ever there is severe storm they fail il
r carrying off the water and threatened
!. floods in the up town Easements is thu
|. result.
A DAY or two since as John Kelley ant
T. Geo. Wass were driving from town thei
]. horse became frightened and spilled then
:. both out of the carriage. One or tw
black eyes and some scratches comprised
the main damage.
y ON Thursday Mayor Burrows and th
% members of the Council visited Cleve
land to inspect its Fire Department
Free transportation was furnished by tn
L. s. M. 8. r. r. Who wouldn't be
dignitary?
: ACCORDING to appointment the men
bers of the g. A. R. met ct their hall an
marched. in body to the Congregations
Church last Sunday evening where the
g. listened to the memorial service preacf
ed by the Rev. Mr.. Merrill.
, WITH customary enterprise landlor
,, Brennan 10 again at work on the Cowie
House, painting, papering, putting !
. new furniture and making various Othe
Improvements tending to promote tn
comfort and convenience of his guests.
" JAMES CALDWELL. the man who, som
time since, was sentenced to the penite
tiary for burglariZing the Church prem
= ises but whose sentence was afterwsrd
reversed by superior Court and wh
was awaiting q new trial, died last wee
in c Oncord.
A CURIOUS freak OF nature is to be see
= at Miller & Calander's, on State Stree
in the shape OF q knot which was take
from q tree on the farm OF d. N Bridge
Z. 1t was on a limb seventy feet from Il
!, ground and twenty feet out from the boo
= OF the tree and is about eighteen inch
through.
i JUST as we 20 to press we learn of
accident, happening Thursday night,
which two men named Ryan and Power
p living south Of here. were thrown fro
n. their wagon. on their way home, and Il
former was seriously If not fatally 1nju
. ed-but we have not been able to lea
the particulars other than that too mu
benzine was the cause.
A FEW days since Miss l. Hireaux,
Montreal, young lady attending MI