A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Ohio > Marion http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=2519 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=43290 Submitted by: barbrporter Article Title: Prospect Monitor Article Date: November 30 1905 Article Description: Bowling Contest; Local News; Summers to build in Marion; About Prospect; Hecker - Place Wedding Article Text: Bowling Contest The scores of the bowling contest Tuesday evening is as follows: Specials--Beavers 110, 159, 151; Gabriel 104, 129, 124; Gast 128, 159, 103; Little 148, 116, 116; Roberts 92, 128, 130. Totals 582, 691, and 624. Unions--Graham 131, 140, 137; Finefrock 145, 143, 122, Cox 104, 121, 113, Eversole 110, 144, 120; Hauck 1290, 129, 113, Totals 619, 677 and 605 On The Line Henry Money who has been living in Richwood will move back on his farm in the spring. Mrs. W. S. Moore spent Saturday at the home of Joseph Graham. Mr. Graham still continues in poor health. Mr. L. Ward who has been living on the Griffith farm moved his family to Franklin county Monday. C. E. Kagey and sister moved in the Farnum house Monday. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Boyd will entertain on Thanksgiving sixteen relatives from marion and aronnd Prospect. A. D. Gast and C. Kees attended the funeral of a relative at Pharisburg Sunday. J. A. Gast is under the doctor's care. Grandma Jones is in rather poor health. J. N. Aronhalt expects to move on the Mayfield farm this week. W. J. Fitts and family spent Sunday with relatives in Marion. CODDING Austin Mayfild moved to his new home in Prospect Wednesday. The same day L. N. Aronhalt moved from the osborn farm to Mr. Mayfield's place. Mr. Hamman the new merchant of this place, has made a decided improvement over his predecessors. The store is not open for a loafing place Sundays. L. R. Codding was in Iberia two days last week where he was having a fine monument erected on the family burying lot. The monument was purchased of P. H. Fackler, Richwood. Will Build in Marion Mr. G. H. Summers and wife, who was before marriage Miss May McPherson of Prospect, have moved from Dakota to Marion Ohio where Mr. Summers will soon begin the erection of large machine shops. To Mr. Summers belongs the honor of having sold the first Leader engine that was ever sold in South Dakota. Mrs. Hal Barrick who the past week has created quite a commotion in Marion has been charged in the Probate Court with lunacy by her husband. The hearing will be held in a few days. ABOUT PROSPECT Interesting Items of Old Times in and Around the Village and Vicinity Sometimes in early political days your place went Democratic, and on other occasions a mixed affair as at the recent State County and Municipal election. Your part of Marion county was as I have indicated in former articles, the southern part of the Black Swamp, the northern section of which such horrid stories were told about the loss of human and animal life, as well as stages being sunk and money lost in bags in the depths of the murky waters. I know how happy our old time sheriffs were when counties north of us were organized after Delaware county was cut loose from Franklin county in 1808. One of our old sheriffs William Mansur often had occasion to undertake the pursuit of misdemeanors, with a writ of arrest in his pocket, on horseback his saddle-bags under him, several rations and a boiled shirt in it well knowing that it would probably be days, weeks, perhaps before he would return and when he did oftener without his prisoner than with him--said when Delaware county got some other county to take the main part of the Black Swamp section off its hands it prolonged his life by several years. To-day since it was drained, it is the most fertile and beautiful section in Ohio, and your people feel glad to think you are part and parcel of this glorious heritage of rich soil and as you have proved it you know and appreciate its great value and are proud to say we are part of what was once the south end of the undesirable Black Swamp. Quite a while ago some of your citizens engaged in the business of importing a good article of horses both for stock purposed and for sale. Finding this profitable like any one should when he finds a good thing stick to it, so some of your people or their descendents are sticking to it all right. It was not far remote from your locality that N. E. and G. W. Money first introduced Spanish Mereno sheep and Short Horn cattle into Delaware county and not to be out done by the Moneys the Welches and Hoovers also engaged in raising fine wool sheep, that section owing to much of it being a portion of the Sandusky Plains was fully adapted to such purposes. This is the last letter to the MONITOR much as I regret it, I will not be able to write as the doctors say I must cease writing, thinking and reading so much. I am doing to much for one of my age, nearly seventy-eight, so good bye and good luck to the Monitor, D. W. C. L. Hecker-Place Mr. Harry Hecker of Prospect, and Miss hattie Place, of Waldo, were united in marriage last Thursday forenoon at Waldo. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Copenhave at the Reformed parsonage. The couple left on short wedding tour, after which the will make their home in Prospect. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ OH-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com