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

100 Years Ago - October 1899...Pg 3

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, 1899horse head 2.gif (187332 bytes)

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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