New Vienna, Ohio local news from October, 1884
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| 1884 New Vienna News - Oct. 4 Highland Weekly News p.8 October 8, 1884 |
1884 Oct. 1 Additional New Vienna News includes Mrs. J.C. Santee, James Nevin, E.W. Stein. --Highland Weekly News 1Oct1884p8
1884 Oct. 8 Ellsworth Abbott, a local Blacksmith has gone West to a new location; Gregg & Ervin dry goods merchants have sold out to a party in Findley who are moving the goods there; the St. George Hotel is still "to let" but is looking like a habitation for ghosts. --Highland Weekly News 8Oct1884
1884 Oct. 15 Methodist Church to be dedicated next Sunday. [The building at Church & 2nd Streets, would be destroyed by lightning in 2002.] --Highland Weekly News 15Oct1884p4
1884 Oct. 22 - There were no fights of any importance on election day; the tile kiln [near RR depot] has many orders for shipping tile; Mr. Hale, popular undertaker, has been very busy; Major Asa Higgins [veteran of Civil War], has been drilling a platoon of sixteen ladies and gentlemen who make a grand appearance in local political rallies. Gregg & Ervin who were reported to be sold out, have divided their goods instead and Mr. Ervin will remain here. --Highland Weekly News 22Oct1884p4
1884 Oct. 22 - Mr. Gregg of Gregg & Ervin Dry Goods Merchants, has moved his share of the stock to Bellefontaine; James Ervin has removed his family from Blanchester and is now residing in New Vienna; death of Nevin infant. --Wilmington Journal 22Oct1884p3
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1894 New Vienna (Ohio) News - Oct. 4
Hillsboro News-Herald p.4
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1904 Oct. 5 Hugh Terrell improving after being severely injured by corn binder; Right-of-way is being secured for a Wilmington-Hillsboro traction line [electric railroad, this plan must have been abandoned later]; Parents of children attending the Snow Hill school are agitated on account of an epidemic of throat trouble, evidently caused by drinking water from a well adjacent to the school building. --Wilmington Journal 5Oct1904p1
1904 Oct. 12 New Vienna needs more people but housing is in short supply. The Harrison Hotel has been put in first-class repair and rented to families. Dr. G.R. Conard has been in active practice for forty years. C.F. Irons is retiring. He has lived in NV for 15 years and has operated his business [hardware?] for 12 years. [Irons was builder of Irons building where Daye Hardware was later located on W. Main Street.] --Wilmington Journal 12Oct1904p1
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1904 New Vienna (Ohio) News Oct. 12 Wilmington Journal p.1
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From HH regarding the Methodist Church and other news of 1884: My recollection is that the cornerstone of the UMC read "1876". Believe the 2nd story was added later which would account for the 1884 date. Those must have been Boom Times in NV as the Baptist Church was 1881 and the Irons Building about that same time.
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