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Ashtabula County Bicentennial 2011

Ashtabula News 7 May 1879

The Weekly Welcome 7 May 1879

The Weekly Welcome 7 May 1879

Mayor Morrison’s new store building is nearly completed. It is a decided improvement to that part of the street.

Street commissioner Abeel is doing a good job on Main street by filling in the bad places with gravel.

Mrs. John [...]

Ashtabula News 30 April 1879

The Weekly Welcome 30 April 1879

The Weekly Welcome 30 April 1879

The warm weather of the past week has been improved in garden making. The small boy is happy with a straw hat and bare feet.

The report of the death of Mr. McKenzie on Saturday last, was untrue.

One of [...]

Ashtabula News 23 April 1879

The Weekly Welcome 23 April 1879

The northerly winds have driven the ice into this port, which interferes very much with the work of dredging. The tug James Amadeus while breaking a passage through the ice, broke her stern bearings and is disabled for the present. One of the mud scows while dumping [...]

Ashtabula News 9 April 1879

The Weekly Welcome 9 April 1879

The tugs, S.P. Smith, James Amadeus and Fanny Tuthill with two dredges and four mud scows in tow, left Cleveland last week Monday for Ashtabula, and when off Fairport they encountered ice, and there being a strong wind blowing, were obliged to make that port. They were [...]

Ashtabula News 2 April 1879

The Weekly Welcome 2 April 1879

The Weekly Welcome 2 April 1879

On Tuesday of last week, Martin Conner, a young man employed as fireman in Hitchcock’s Shop, in adjusting a belt to a steam-pump, had both bones in his right fore-arm broken.

Mr. Geo. Willard, the oldest merchant in town, made [...]

Ashtabula News 12 March 1879

The Weekly Welcome 12 March 1879

The interment of the body of Mrs. Morrel, who has been kept since her sudden death last Dec. in the receiving vault, took place last Saturday. There were two small children buried the same day.

A tramp called at the M. E. Parsonage on Saturday morning for [...]

Ashtabula News 26 February 1879

The Weekly Welcome 26 Feb 1879

Ed. Welcome

There were four funerals in town last week.

Only about a dozen kinds of weather during a day and night for the last few days.

Some changes are being made in town; firms are moving out and new ones moving in; DuBois & Co moved [...]

Ashtabula News 12 February 1879

Mrs. Ralph Foreman, of New Lyme, who came here about three weeks ago, is slowly recovering, and doing as well as could be looked for.

Last Friday evening some of our citizens got up a four horse sleigh load, went to Jefferson spending the evening at Hon. E. H. Fitche’s, pleasant times is reported.

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