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

100 Years Ago - May 1899

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 While After Mushrooms
Howard Hendershott, H. C. Jones and Harley Kah drove to the Loramie reservoir yesterday morning to hunt for mushrooms, promising their friends to bring back a good supply. After traveling over all the country in that vicinity Kah got tired and went to their buggy to rest. Jones and Hendershott continued hunting and not being familiar with the country, they got lost. They walked and walked for many miles but could not find their way back to the buggy. Kah realized that the boys were lost and began to look for them. He drove up and down all the different mud roads in that vicinity. He finally found the two boys tired out and ready to come back to Sidney, saying that it would be their last mushroom hunt. They found six mushrooms divided as follows, Kah one, Hendershott three and Jones two.
Sidney Daily News, May 10, 1899

Now at Manila
Mrs. H. H. Miller last Saturday received a letter from her son Henry, who is at Manila a member of the 17th Regiment, U. S. A. He states that they are under marching orders and were expecting a big fight the evening the letter was written. The insurgents have captured 1,864 of their men. They are along the firing line and had a skirmish which lasted about 24 hours. Eighteen men were killed and forty-two wounded.
Sidney Daily News, May 9, 1899

Will Go To Germany
Daniel Dickas, wife and little son Frederick, will sail from New York City on June 10, on the Hamburg and America line steamer Pennsylvania, for Hamburg, Germany. From Hamburg they will go to Herzogerarach, Buyern, Germany, where they will spend several months visiting Mrs. Dickas’ parents. They will visit a number of cities in Germany before their return. They will return home by way of Paris, France, London and Southampton, England.
Shelby County Democrat, May 26, 1899

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