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Excerpts from newspapers. TOPIC: 100 YEARS AGO. Compiled by Doris Dilbone in Dec.,
1999
100 Years Ago - December 1899
Christmas
Duty for Postal Workers
The post office will be closed on Christmas except from 9 to 10 o’clock in the
morning. The carriers will make but one delivery and one collection in the morning. Shelby County Democrat, Dec. 22, 1899
Did They
Have Call Waiting?
The first instruments of the Sidney Telephone company were connected last Saturday. Misses
Gertrude Bushwaw, Maud Hannaford and Mary Okenfels will be employed in the exchange
office.
Shelby County Democrat, Dec. 22, 1899
Patriotic
Poultry
George Henne received from a friend at Greenville Wednesday three chickens, each one
of a different color, red, white and blue. With the chickens came a card saying that they
were imported from the island of Luzon and were valued at $50. Shelby County Democrat, Dec. 29, 1899
William O’Leary, of the
police force, and Miss Emma Simmons, of Russia, were married at the Holy Angels church
Saturday morning by Rev. F. M. Quatman in the presence of a number of the near relatives
and friends, They will make their home on south Ohio avenue, where they went immediately
after the ceremony was performed. Shelby
County Democrat, Dec. 8, 1899
Rabbit
Grease
It is recommended that a good protection to fruit trees from wild rabbits is to put an
old cloth mitten on one hand, and take a box of axle grease in the other hand. Then take a
little grease on the mitten and rub up and down the tree. Shelby County Democrat, Dec. 15, 1899
Lights on
in Sidney
Louis Kah, Jr. now has his incandescent electric light plant in successful operation.
The plant is located on the Maxwell mill property in East Sidney in the building formerly
occupied by F. W. Bacon as a residence. Shelby County Democrat, Dec. 15, 1899
Like
Pachinko
John King has recently patented a toy machine. The machine is arranged that marbles
placed in separate grooves in the front part of the machine will roll to the rear and by
pushing levers these marbles are thrown into the upper rear part of the machine and roll
around to the front through a series of nails and drop into other grooves which are
numbered. Shelby County Democrat,
Dec. 22, 1899
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