The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-01-12
RaVenna Markets.
RWYer&' Prices.

No coal famine here as yet.
Flour has advanced peg
Thos. Jenkins is still confined to hi
bed, but is improving.
z. Il. Richardson, Esq has been con
fined to his bed for several days.
Judge J. 8. Carpenter, of Akron, was
| in attendance in Court on Monday.
Bro. Minich, of. the Kent Bulletin,
made us a short call Monday a. m.
H.Y. Beebe, Esq, has been confined
to his house by sickness for a week
past.
I'D. King started for California on
Tuesday. He expects to be absent a
month or more.
J.S Marvin & Son are going out OF
the grocery business, and offer their
goods at cost, for the next 80 days.
The Universalist Church will give
an entertainment one week from next
Tuesday evening.
Detective Jake Lohrer, Capt. Hoehn
and Prosecutor Hadden, of Cleveland
were In town Saturday.
WV. Dunnavant, Division Passen-
ger Agent on the N. Y. p. O., made
us q pleasant call on Monday.
II. II. Stevens, Esq, of Cleveland,
was in town on Tuesday, and made
the PRESS office pleasant call.
Seymour Il Helt's carriage works
will be moved to the rear end of The
odore Grundel's lot.
The FarmeRs' Institute will be held
at the Town Hall, Ravenns, Tuesday
and Wednesday next, 18th and 18th.
The jury in the Barnes murder case.
at Chardon. failed to agree and were
discharged, after being out two days.
J.H. Nichols Esq, has moved his
law effiee to the rooms in Empire
building recently occupied by A. E.
Seaton.
A pleasant entertainment was given
at the residence of ii. d. Seymour, by
the Parish Workers, Of Grace Church,
and consisted of recitations and music
Alexander Scott, Sr., cue of the pio-
neers of Portage county, died at his
home in Palmyra, on Monday. Janu-
AIRY End, of old age. He was a well
known, respected and influential cit
izsn.
Workmen commenced Monday to
tear down and remove the ruins of
the old Exchange. Mr.. Henry CARTS
Is drawing the rubbish and timber to
his brick yard. where it will be used
for burning brick.
Frederick Williams, one of Raven
mas old and respected citizens. died
GU Tuesday morning, at his residence
on Spruce street, after a hong illness,
Had he lived until March he would
have reached the age of 50 years.
Next Sunday forenoon, Mr.. Arthur
A. Stearns, General Agent of Buchtel
College, will occupy the Unlversalist
pulpit and give an educational address
on 1.-The Coming of an Educated
People,"
The subject of establishing grade
for the streets of Ravenna was talked
up at the last meeting of the Council.
1t seems to us this should be done be-
fore any more work is put on the roads,
so that when Improvements are made
they may be permanent.
Mr.. John Bartholomew died at the
residence of his son-in-law, w. A.
Jenkins, on Chestnut street, Monday
last. of pneumonia, aged SO years.
Funeral services will be held To-Day
(Thursday) and the remains placed in
the vault at Maple Grove Cemetery.
We are informed that an insurance
agent in town had written a pelicy
on the glass factory only q few mo-
ments before the alarm was turned in
from that establishment. The agent
felt much better when he learned that
the fire was out.
Tt is rumored on the street that the
Crown Flint Glass Works are to be
purchased by parties who have an
abundance of capital and the ability
to run them successfully. We hope
the rumors may prove true, and this
important industry may be again in
operation in the near future.
After going down 27OO feet more OIL
less, the Ravenna gas we'll has finally
been abandoned and the lease of the
ground given up. The derrick and
machinery are still on the ground and
there is talk Of forming another com.
pany to drill deeper.
One day last week T. L. Parsons
brought in string of nine splendid
black bass, the largest weighing foul
Il
pounds, which he had caught in 6
few hours fishing through the ice
The sight of the big mouthed beautie.
made the heart of every lover of tn,
rod beat just trifle faster.
The sight of a man returning from /,
days rabbit hunting, carrying grous'
openly through the streets, causes u
to again remark that the season TO
shooting birds is over for this year
If we had q game warden who ceult
be induced to pay some attention t.
portions of the game laws besides thos
relating to ferrets, these open viola
tions would be less common.
Newspaper publishers receive man
etfers to exchange goods for advertis
ing space, most Of the propositions be
ing fc 40 to 90 per cent. of the dealer
price in advertising and the balanc
in cash, and include everything In