The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-12-26

VIC WISH O0A ASeAOS4oS s<0'S1S&e~1S -
and everybody a Merry Xmas and a
Happy New Year.
The attendance at the Church of
Christ Sunday school last Sunday
was 176, which is considered quite
complimentary to this school.
Turkey was retailing at 65 cents
a pound this week, and dealers were
unable to supply the demand.
There will be dance in the 10.
o. F. hall on Christmas night; also a
leap year dance on New Years night.
Another oil we'll drilled in on the
Huffman farm has proven dry well.
This makes three in row; the Huff
man farm seems as dry as the rest of
the state.
AT the Xmas exercises in the
Congregational church Tuesday even
ing collection was taken for the re-
lief of destitute Armenians, which to-
tailed $186.50.
The American Express Co. has a
new horse at work on the Medina
route. The faithful old nag so long
on this route went to "horse heaven"
dUOut CeH udyS dSo.
A marriage license was issued on
Tuesday to Pearl Chittock of E.North
street and Robert A. Birkbeck, of
Wadsworth. The couple will be mar
ried on Christmas day.
Medina stores and streets were
packed with Xmas buyers on Monday
and Tuesday afternoons, while the
largest crowd of the week was ex-
pected in town on Wednesday.
The Kenilworth Gift Shop, at the
Wall drug store, was something a lit
tie new for Medina. Quite large
number Of shoppers had their "think-
ers" quickened by the display so
shown.
Medina will have another doctor
in the person of r. A. Brintnall, who
after the first of the year will open
an office in the west wing of the old
Alden property, next to the l. O. O. F.
block.
F. L. Harding this week succeed
ed Wash Washburn as village treas
urer. Mr.. Washburn resigned the po-
sition several months ago, but the
books were never turned over until
this week.
"A new pool room and barber shop
will be opened the basement of the
Hallock building shortly after the
first of the year. Mr.. Will Lanphear
will assume charge of the pool end of
the business while Bert Wilson will
have control of the barber shop.
-Workmen are engaged in tearing
out the front of the Fem building on
North Court street, formerly used as
the Moore garage, and will install an
entirely new frontage. The building
as soon as the remodeling is COM
pleted, will be occupied by Funk's
restaurant.
The Christmas season is crowd
ing into the background almost every
thing else, and among other things
the progress in the Roosevelt memoir
ial project. But it is a good season
to make small contribution to this
worthy sentiment, and a contribution
can be made at any bank in Medina.
Chicken thieves out York way
are showing more or less generalship
in their pilfering. Farmers say
that some one is making visits sew
eral days apart, to the same coop,
and only taking three or four at a
visit. In this way only the careful
farmer, who counts his flock OCCASION
ally, will miss the ones taken.
What is said to be one of the
largest trees in the county was felled
on Monday of this week by workmen
for the Alderfer Crate Co., of Sharon
The tree, an elm, was located near
Weymouth, and measured over six
feet across. The stump when cut had
800 circles and it resisted the COM
bined efforts of four men and a huge
saw for II minutes.
A petition was filed Wednesday
morning by Mrs. Carrie Jones asking
for a divorce from Edward E. Jones,
on the grounds that Jones had a wife
living at the time of their marriage.
She asks that her maiden name of
Carrie Beard be restored. Jones is at
present confined in the county Jail,
awaiting trial on the charge of
bigamy. Since his arrest it developed
that he had served some time in the
Ohio penitentiary, having been sent
up in 1917 from Akron on charge of
burglary and larceny.
Carpenters working on the Old
Phoenix Bank completed their part of
the work Wednesday and went home
for Christmas. There has been some
delay in securing the marble for the
completion of the improvement, but
when it arrives it will be a small Job
to install it. When completed the
Phoenix will have very handsome
lobby, and the officers and employees
are to be congratulated that they will
have such commodious quarters in
which to care for the business of this
popular institution.
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