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From: Cathy Burnsed <>
Subject: [INWELLS] News items from Wed Jan 17 1900 Bluffton Banner
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 19:54:24 -0500


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>Surnames: Harter, Sowards, Chalfant, Shepherd, Cotton, Graham, Buckner,
>Mounsey, McIntire, Decker, Clark, Ashbaucher, Markley, Kinsey, Arnold,
>Mock, Brown, Mullis, Flum, Krewson, McCorkle, Hartman, Smith, Buckingham,
>Schott, Fox, Blocher, O'Brien, Conrad, Stalter, Klopfenstine, Eichhorn, Burris
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>I have a very tattered and incomplete copy of this newspaper, and am
>posting names and news items that may be of interest.
>
>TOWNSHIP VICE PRESIDENTS
>George Harter - Jefferson
>T. J. Sowards - Lancaster
>Abner Chalfant - Harrison
>Sanford Shepherd - Nottingham
>Lewis Cotton - Union
>William Graham - Rock Creek
>John Buckner - Liberty
>Geo. Mounsey - Chester
>Phaniel McIntire - Jackson
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>D. N. Decker, of Barbers Mill, left Thursday for Hagerstown, where he will
>visit a few weeks. He was accompanied here (sic) by his brother George.
>
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>OUR FIRES.
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>The city of Bluffton had, last year, just thirteen fires. April and
>October were months that showed none. These thirteen fires cost $737.50
>to fight them, that is, the firemen drew that much, not counting
>chemicals. This is an average of $56.73 cents per fire and is certainly
>a small cost when the results are brought into consideration. The worst
>fire of the year was the Myers & Fetters hoop mill fire which cost $134.25.
>
>If the department had a new ball nozzle its fire equipment would be
>greatly improved, as they are immensely better than the style now in use.
>
>While our fire fighting apparatus is not as costly or as flashy as that of
>some other cities yet the boys do the work in good shape and you may rest
>assured that you will be well looked after if you have a fire.
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>R. L. Clark of Buckeye was in the city Thursday enroute home from a short
>visit at Lima, Ohio.
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>Miss Nettie Ashbaucher and Miss Bertha Markley went to Lima, Ohio,
>Thursday to visit relatives.
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>Mrs. Essie Kinsey and children returned to Craigville Thursday after visit
>with her mother, Mrs. Emma Arnold.
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>Mrs. Mabel Mock, daughter of Wm. Fox and wife is the mother of a ten pound
>boy. They are at the home of her parents and both are doing well.
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>County Commissioner Asa S. Brown, of Rock Creek township, has rented his
>farm to Mr. Mullis and will move to this city and make it his future home.
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>Albert Flum and J. S. Krewson, of Ossian, were in the city completing the
>transfer of a portion of the McCorkle farm to Mr. Flum. He now owns 40
>acres of the farm.
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>Mrs. Wm. Hartman and daughter Minnie returned from New Haven where they
>visited a daughter and sister. They were guests of friends here Wednesday
>night and went to Craigville today.
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>Samuel B. Smith, aged 73 and a prominent citizen of Huntington, is
>dead. He was the owner of the Grand View Hotel block and was for many
>years a saloon keeper, but was not in that business the past few years.
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>Dr. Buckingham, who lived near Geneva, was found dead in bed Wednesday
>morning. He lived with his two children, his wife having been taken to
>the insane asylum a short time ago. Death was due to intestinal cramps.
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>John Schott, of Nottingham township, was arrested Wednesday by Constable
>Fox on a charge of bastardy preferred by Sarah Blocher. He was brought
>before Squire O'Brien, tried and bound over to the circuit court. His
>bond was fixed in the sum of $150.
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>A jolly crowd of nine persons came in from Vera Cruz today and went to
>their home near Ft. Wayne. In the crowd were John, Eli, Mrs. Lea, Minnie,
>Katie, Jacob and Alpheus Conrad, Henry Stalter and Albert Klopfenstine,
>and they have been visiting relatives at Vera Cruz and Geneva.
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>Prof. Louis D. Eichhorn left Thursday for Pittsburg, Pa., where he will
>begin a course in vocal study under eminent instructors. He will remain
>until spring and we are certain that the people of the smoky city will
>appreciate his rich voice before he leaves, for he will not remain there
>long until he will attract attention and be requested to sing. His
>gentlemanly bearing will also win him friends.
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>We have just received a copy of the Salem, Ohio, News which contains as a
>leading article a discussion of the question "What have the Home and the
>State a Right to expect from the School?" by W. P. Burris. The article is
>a very able one and will no doubt attract wide attention. Mr. Burris was
>superintendent of our schools from 1881-7, since which time he has had
>charge of the schools at Salem, Ohio.
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>Superintendent Rogers, of the northern Indiana hospital for the insane at
>Logansport, has issued an order that no patients shall be brought to the
>institution unless they have been previously informed where they were
>being taken. He finds that relatives of demented persons frequently
>observe secrecy in insanity preceedings (sic) under the inpression (sic)
>that the subjects will give less trouble if they are enticed to the
>hospital. Such measures almost invariably have a tendency to excite the
>patients, and render their menta (sic) condition more alarming.


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