October, 1899 |
Compiled by Doris Dilbone in Oct.,
1999 |
Might Not Go
Ed Wooley, son of G. H. Wooley, who enlisted
in Company G, 31st U. S. Infantry, is now at the camp near San Francisco where he has
smallpox. He writes home he is fearful he will not get to go to Manilla with his regiment.
Shelby County Democrat, Oct. 6, 1899
Royon, Russell Get the Nod
The Republican Senatorial convention assembled at
Piqua Tuesday and organized by electing Judge J. I. Allread, of Darke county, chairman. J.
E. Russell, Shelby county, was selected secretary. The name of J. C. Royon, of Shelby
county, was presented as the candidate for Senator. Mr. Royon is well known to the people
of Shelby county. He practiced law in Sidney for several years and for ten years he has
been connected with the firm of R. Given & Son in the manufacture of collars and fly
nets. Mr. Royon owns a large farm in Loramie township and is a conservative Republican and
a man of a high sense of honor, whose integrity no man will question.
Shelby County Democrat, Oct. 6, 1899
Workers Gather
A meeting of the Workingman's Club was held in the
Grim building on south Ohio avenue Tuesday night.
Shelby
County Democrat, Oct. 6, 1899
Oysters Stir Conflict
The oyster supper at the K. G. E. hall last
Saturday evening was a success and all enjoyed a very pleasant time, until about the close
of the supper, when a few of the young men of our vicinity got into a wrangle, but by the
timely interference of some members of the order peace was restored.
Shelby County Democrat, Oct. 6, 1899
Milliners
Open
Beautiful Displays Being Shown At Different Stores.
As this is the season of t he year when the ladies are anxious to know what is to be worn
for fall and winter in Millinery and dry goods, a great many of them have been out this
week visiting the millinery openings which are being held at Miss Boucher's, Wm. Piper's and I.H.Thedieck's stores.
Shelby County Democrat, Oct. 6, 1899
Well
Drilled at Ballou
Arrangements are being made to put down a test well
for oil on the farm of George White southeast of Ballou. The derrick has been erected for
several weeks. The machinery and engine arrived this week and the work drilling will soon
be commenced.
Shelby County Democrat, Oct. 6, 1899
Back from Gold Rush
George Kraft, who went to the Klondike gold fields
last spring, arrived home Tuesday. The Dutch band and a
large number of George's friends were at the depot to meet him.
Shelby County Democrat, Oct. 6, 1899
Met
Hometown Boy in Klondike
George Kraft, who returned from Alaska this week to
spend the winter at home, met Anthony Rheinish, formerly of this city, at Nome, Alaska.
Rheinish has been away from Sidney for over twelve years. He was twenty years of age when
he left. When he left home he said he was going to California. During all the time he has
been away he never wrote home and this is the first information his folks have heard
concerning his whereabouts. There was no apparent reason for his leaving home as he did.
He is now located at Nome city and has an interest in some mining claims in that vicinity.
Shelby County Democrat, Oct. 13, 1899
Before Astronauts
Miss Ida LeRoy, the lady aeronaut, who made balloon
ascensions during the street fair in Sidney a few years ago, was injured at Flora,
Indiana, Wednesday of last week.
Shelby County Democrat, Oct. 13, 1899
Before
the Mayor
Gertie Jones, an old offender, was taken before the
Mayor Monday afternoon on a charge of loitering. She pleaded guilty, was fined $10 and
costs, and sentenced to jail for ten days on bread and water. This is the sixty time that
she has been before Mayor Nessler, on various charges.
Shelby County Democrat, Oct.13, 1899
Before the Rest
Balmy L won the last heat in unfinished 2:18 pace
at the Wapakoneta fair Friday. The time was 2:161/2. She was awarded first money.
Shelby County Democrat, Oct. 13, 1899
And Again
Balmy L won the last heat in the unfinished pacing
race at Columbus last Saturday. Immediately after the race Theodore Sarver, her owner,
sold her to C. C. Jerome, the millionaire horseman of Chicago, for $1000. 
Shelby County Democrat, Oct. 27, 1899
Another Equine Triumph
A match team of geldings belonging to J. O.
Connell, of Orange township, took premiums at the fairs at Sidney, Troy, New Bremen and
Bellefontaine.
Sidney Journal, Oct. 20, 1899
No Luck
At All
Parkos, the umbrella mender, of Piqua, was a
visitor here to-day. He seems to be having some pretty hard times lately. A few weeks ago
he was arrested by mistake, he says, in Sidney, and put to a lot of trouble and assessed
the costs. Last week at Union City he was struck by a freight train and painfully hurt.
Altogether the fates have been against him.
Troy Record - Shelby County Democrat, Oct. 27, 1899
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