Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-02-23

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"A license to wed was granted Mon
day to Chester N Stone, %, and Mary
Nj. Shiple, %, both OF Roachton, O.
George Shires OF Miami, while
driving through Tontogany on Thurs
day last, was severely injured by be-
Jog thrown from the track, by the G.
Fl. & D. train. Both horses were
killed and the wagon demolished.
The Wood county Horticultural
Society will meet at the home OF Mrs.
e. w. Klatz, east OF Bowling Green,
near Center church, on Wednesday,
Feb. %. A good program has been
prepared. All interested are invited.
The Odd Fellows of Fort Meigs
lodge, No. TIA, have issued invitations
for banquet and ball 10 oe given this
(Thursday) evening at the Odd Fellows
hall. The Rebekahs will serve the
banquet and arrangements are such as
10 guarantee g00d Time.
Send in your news items, don't be
afraid to tell us when you have visitors,
or that you visit, or entertain, get
married, are sick, or have a fight, or
in fact anything you know that some-
one else doesn't know. We won't
charge you anything for telling US the
news-but we will charge you $l.00 per
year for telling you!
AN exchange says: Two-thirds OF
all the sugar in the world is now pro-
duced from beets. California is the
principal beet sugar producing state.
The sugar producing area OF the world
in less than half century has been
shifted from the tropics northward
and the farmer of the temperate zone
has shown ability not only to compete
with the low-prlced labor of the tropics,
but in doing so to reduce by one-hali
the cost OF the articles produced.
-Elma Moore has begun proceedings
in common pleas court against Joseph
e. Moore for a divorce. The petition
states than they were married ON the
9th day of December, 1897, and that
one child has been born OF said mar.
riage. The plaintiff alleges that the
defendant has failed to provide hel
with the necessaries of life, and tina,
she has been compelled to support SAID
child. She also states that when theil
child was but three weeks old the de
fendant struck the plaintiff with his
hand and that he has spent much o
his time in the society of wicked
women. =
Ladies, try our $500 atu s2.5(
shoes. For style comfort am wearing
qualities they cannot be Eaten. WI
believe in giving you bur money
worth. ART FINKBEINER.
Gid Blanchard, who is now in Pas
cola. Mo-, sends the JOURNAL phot'
of one of the big trees OF that section
The tree is of the red oak variety ant
is estimated to contain II 900 feet. Th'
photo also contains the face and foru
of the Sheriff of that county, who is 81,
feet and two inches in height, and i
standing erect near The stump OF tn,
tree, his head not coming within foo
of the top side OF the tree as 1t is lyinI
on the ground. Mr.. p. says their ney
mill will be completed within tw
burg and remove his family to thei
Missouri home.
= Trombley now has electric car sci
' vice, the Bowling Green line bein
, extended to that point and cars bein
I placed in operation on Friday last.
Q "plugn run has been put on, specis
4 car running between b. e. and Iron
o bley. The fare has been placed at
;, cents for return trip between b.
). and Trombley. The track betwee
J. Trombley and Jerry City has not bee
ballasted and is therefore not in cond
d tion for running cars. The work
v ballasting will be completed as rapid
j. as possible in order to get the cars ru
ninglDYer the entire route. A big fee
J. wire has been run out to the end OF I'll
:. line to serve as ''booster" for Il
o electric current The new car bar
q have been commenced and it is Q,
y pected will be completed within abo
six weeks.