Traveling Through Time With the Shelby County Historical Society
Excerpts from newspapers. TOPIC: 100 YEARS AGO
Compiled by Doris Dilbone in February, 1999

100 Years Ago -February 1899

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Got It On Sam
This time the joke is on Sam, meaning Sam Piper. That was the cause for smiles among the clerks at Piper's Dry Goods Store Tuesday morning. Sam has figured quite prominently in playing jokes on the clerks in the store and they sought to get even with him.

He had made arrangements to move to his new home on north Ohio Avenue Tuesday. The clerks loaded a wheel barrow of trash Monday night and Tuesday morning when Sam was ready to begin moving he found the loaded wheelbarrow on the sidewalk in front of his home.

Among the rubbish in the wheelbarrow was a pair of Sam's old shoes and his minnow bucket. A few of the placards on the load were as follows: "We move in the cool of the morning," "Sam's shoes," "Our first load." Many people who passed the loaded wheelbarrow could not help but laugh when they saw it.

Sidney Daily News, February 17, 1899

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Chicken Thieves at Houston

Chicken thieves have of late been making raids upon some of the coops in the vicinity of Houston. A little over a week ago O. L. Kerr, of that village, lost twenty chickens. On Monday night of this week C. M. Wick, of near that village, had seventy five chickens, six ducks and two turkeys taken.

Tuesday morning he went to Piqua from where in company with Chief of Police Adams he went to Fletcher where it was found that a load of poultry answering the description of his had been disposed of by C. J. Hoechst, who had been given a check for $20.45 in payment for same. Mr. Wick identified the poultry as his own and was given a bill of it, a part of the poultry and a part payment in money.

Just before Mr. Wick called Chief Adams had received a letter from M. W. Thomas making inquiry as to the whereabouts of Hoechst who was wanted for embezzlement. It seems that early in the season Hoechst had been employed by Thomas to buy poultry and had been advanced $100 by him. He had made but one delivery amounting to $18, and never afterward showed up. Hoechst was located Tuesday night at the home of his brother in Piqua and Wednesday morning he was taken to St. Paris by the Marshal of that village on the charge of embezzlement.
Sidney Daily News, February 14, 1899

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