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

100 Years Ago - November 1899

Presbyterians Give Thanks
The ladies of the First Presbyterian church served Thanksgiving supper in the new parlor. A social time was spent and a delightful informal musical program was presented. Miss Clara Amos, Mrs. C. W. Benjamin, Mrs. C. E. Tenney, Albert King and Jesse Wilson played and sang several selections. The proceeds amounted to about $94.      Sidney Daily News, Dec. 1, 1899

One of Many Halloween Parties in Sidney Howard B. Dill and wife, Misses Nellie Honnold, Rose and Anna Kummer, Mamie Bird, Maud Lyon and Messrs. M. R. Line, Harry C. and Harry W. Collins, John Binkley, Steven White and Harley E. Kah were entertained to a Hallowe’en party at the home of Miss Laura Applegate on Franklin avenue last evening. The house had been handsomely decorated in Hallowe’en fashions, pumpkins with faces cut in them being hung in the different rooms. An elaborate oyster supper was served and a very pleasant evening was spent by the guests present, enjoying the hospitality of the hostess. Sidney Daily News, Nov.1, 1899 No Real Damage Reported Hallowe’en was celebrated in the usual way among the young people of the city Wednesday evening. Small boys were about in their usual Hallowe’en mischief but no serious depredations have been reported to the Police. In general the night was a great deal quieter than it has been for many years.   Shelby County Democrat, Nov. 2, 1899

Enquiry About Sidney’s Founder
Dr. H. Mallory, of Hamilton, in a letter sent to this city, says: "It would be interesting to me to know when the town of Sidney was laid out. It must have been at an early period in Ohio’s history, for I remember of hearing the name as early as 1830. In the year 1807 my father purchased a farm in Botetourt county, Virginia, from Charles Sterritt, who moved to Ohio in that same year, and with the money which my father paid to him for his farm, he purchased from the government the land on which the beautiful, flourishing little city of Sidney now stands. Mr. Sterritt made frequent visits back to his old home and was always the guest of my father during his stay in the early years of this century, and from this fact his name became a household word in our family. Charles Sterritt and Sidney, Ohio, possess to my mind a charm and peculiar fascination. Little did that old Virginia farmer imagine when he settled on what was then an unbroken forest that in less than one hundred years all of his broad acres would be covered by magnificent private residences, crossed by beautiful streets and on every hand the hum of industry.   Sidney Daily News, Nov. 28, 1899

No Easy Mark
Last night as Chris Fenneman, of Anna, was returning from Wapakoneta and crossing Loramie bridge one mile south of Botkins, two men attempted to hold him up. One stopped his horse while the other grasped Fenneman by the arm. He was not going to be robbed without a fight. Consequently they rolled down the embankment, Fenneman kicking his opponent in the bowels, laying him out. The other by this time had fled. Besides a fight Fenneman received no injury. Sidney Daily News, Nov. 28, 1899

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