The following excerpts from the Friday, November 3, 1899 edition of The Sharon Herald (Vol. 36, No. 33), were reprinted in The Herald, Sharon, PA, www.sharon-herald.com in the Sunday, November 3, 1999 edition. Thanks to The Herald for allowing us to use this material and to Beverly Liston. Any notes in [ ] are my own remarks and were not in the reprint of the paper. >From page 4 of the newpaper: ______________________________ Workmen have begun the erection of the splendid mausoleum and chapel which Mr. F. H. Buhl will erect at the entrance to Oakwood Cemetery, the details of which were give some months ago. It will be of granite and cost upwards of $50,000. The Erie railroad handled more freight in Sharon during October than for many years past and from present indications the rush will continue indefinitely. Freight Agent. G. C. Leighton has increased his force of clerks to five in order to transact business with dispatch. The Monthly Tea of the Ladies' Missionary Society of the Presbyterian church was held at the residence of Mrs. Alex Mc Dowell, East Hill, yesterday afternoon, and was addressed by Mrs. Greer, formerly Miss Donaldson, of Greenville, a retired missionary from China. Landlord McFarland, of the Commercial Hotel, Greenville, will erect a handsome three story brick hotel at the corner of Main street and the E. & P.R.R. in that town. It will be of colonial style and built of buff brick. It will have 34 bed rooms, with five baths, etc., and will front 67 feet on Main street and run back along the E. & P. 81 feet and occupy all the ground between the latter and the Shenango River. Married in 1867, separated in 1890 and application for divorce in 1899 is a chapter in the life of Erwin Fell and Lizzie Fell, of Orangeville. On Thursday the former filed his petition for divorce, claiming willful absence, cruelty and gross neglect on the part of his wife. The petitioner claims that the wife drove him from home nine years ago and although he has a life interest in a farm of 106 acres in Pennsylvania defendant refuses to let him share in it. He now wants a divorce. - Warren Democrat. PERSONAL AND SOCIAL Miss Grace Perkins, West Hill, is visiting friends in Meadville. Hons. Jos. W. Russell, of Warren, was a Sharon visitor on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Bell will arrive in Sharon today from Denver. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Henri Hoelzle last Thursday morning. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Irvine on Sunday night. The Acorn Club will give its annual Thanksgiving ball at Ashton hall on Thursday evening. Rev. S. M. Holden, rector of St. John's, is expected home today from a vacation of a couple of weeks spent with friends in the east. Mrs. C. N. McClure has returned from a visit with her mother, Mrs. Dr. Savage, at Weston, Ontario, Canada, and with friends in Mercer. Dr. and Mrs. T. W. Morgan have returned from their wedding tour and are now at home to friends at their residence on Logan avenue. Mr. Alfred Williams, South Penn street, who had been confined to his home by a slight attack of paralysis, is able to be around again. Captain G. F. Fischer returned home on Saturday from a trip to Europe, on which he was absent from about four months, visiting many places of interest in the country. A. W. Johnson, the well known Hubbard horseman, has filed a petition in bankruptcy in the United States court at Cleveland. His liabilities are stated at $3,530 and his assets $110.90. Mr. G. C. Mathers, for some years manager of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s office in Sharon, resigned on Saturday. He will engage in the real estate business with Attorney J. H. Elliott. Miss Tilda Frampton Duncan formerly of Sharpsville, was married at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Duncan, in Cincinnati, on Wednesday of last week to James Buchanan Lantz of Cincinnati. A pretty little poem by Mr. Chas. W. Townsend, formerly principal of Sharon schools, was published in the Pittsburgh Dispatch a few days ago, from which we take it. It will be found at the head of these columns. Miss Celia Thaxter and Mr. James Edwards, both of this place were married at Jamestown, N.Y., the forepart of July and succeeded in keeping their marriage a secret until this week. Mrs. Edwards has made her home with Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Haun, Prospect Heights. Mr. and Mrs. James Martin, who had been visiting in Louisville, Kentucky, and other cities in the south for the past three weeks, arrived in Sharon on Tuesday and will visit the latter's parents. Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Ashton, Penn avenue, for a few days. They expect to leave for Pittsburgh through the forepart of next week. The coming-of-age anniversary of the Solid Comfort Fishing Club will be celebrated with a banquet at Mercer on Thursday evening, Dec. 7th. The Club held its first encampment at Sugar Lake, near Cochranton, in 1878. Besides the members of the club and their families all the guests of the Club at their several encampments, as far as possible, will be invited to the reunion. Hon. Joseph Robison, who visited his brother, Hon. David Robison, Hickory township, for several weeks, returned to his home in Blair County on Tuesday. The former is 84 years old and the latter 82, together with Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Love, aged 84 and 82, respectively, took dinner the beginning of the week with Mr. and Mrs. Jos. C. Givson [Gibson?], near Hermitage, the combined age of the guests being 382 years. The Cleveland papers announce that Mrs. Albert Rumsey, formerly well known in Sharon as Miss Mollie Mesdersmith, has applied for a divorce from her husband on the ground of neglect of duty. Rumsey took a reporter along to see them "break away." And that he might see that "because we're sawin' off we're not sore on each other," and that "there wasn't no hard feelin's; just a plain business transaction of dissolving partnerships, see?" James Robinson, near Edenburg, and Miss Jessie McCreary, daughter of Robert McCreary, of near Sharon, were married on Wednesday, November 1. Mr. Robinson was formerly a resident of Shenango Township, and for several years was engaged in the dairy business, which made him well acquainted in this city. About a year ago he purchased a fine farm near Edenburg, to which he will take his bride. Mr. Robinson is an excellent young man and his wife a popular young lady. Each have hosts of friends who will wish them success and happiness. - New Castle News Mr. W. M. Bucholz of Leechburg, a former resident of Sharon, and Miss Anna B. Lang, of Pittsburgh, were married on Wednesday evening, October 25th at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. C. C. Lang, in the latter city. Rev. Dr. Geissinger, of the First English Evangelical Lutheran Church, officiated. They came to Sharon yesterday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bucholz, South Main street. They will make their home in Leechburg, where Mr. Bucholz is manager of a large drug store. Mr. William E. Dickson, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Dickson, Shenango street was married at Bellevue, near Pittsburgh, on Tuesday evening. The Pittsburgh Times of Wednesday morning says of it: A pretty, but quiet wedding of last evening was that of Blanche Olive, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Young, of Bellevue, and William Elbert Dickson, of Sharon. The ceremony was performed at 7:30 o'clock at the home of the bride's parents, Sheridan avenue, Bellevue, by Rev. George C. Shaffer, pastor of the Bellevue Methodist Protestant Church, in the presence of about seventy-five guests. An informal reception and wedding supper followed the ceremony, and last evening Mr. and Mrs. Dickson left for Sharon, were the groom is chief chemist at the plant of the Spearman Iron Company. They will be "at home" at 17 South Water street, Sharon, after November 16th. The bride wore pink organdy over white silk, with a white sigret and black velvet bands in her hair. She carried pink roses. There were no attendants. The house decorations were of pink and white. At a pretty luncheon given Monday afternoon for the bride by Mrs. Albert Travis, of Bellevue, the guests were the twelve members of the Young Woman's Club of the Bellevue Methodist Protestant church, with which Miss Young was connected and received, a dainty wedding token in the form of a set of berry spoons, which being engraved with the name of one of the members of the club. <more>