The Yellow Springs Historical Society wishes all a happy Thanksgiving.
Items from issues of the Xenia Daily Gazette:
04 Dec 1895
A dispatch to the Cincinnati Tribune from Springfield has this piece of news, which, if true, will be read with pleasure by many friends of the family named: “Yellow Springs is alive with gossip over a reconciliation that is of deep interest in Cincinnati. Several years ago ex-Mayor Means of Cincinnati, who has a palatial home at Yellow Springs, and his wife quarreled and parted. Mrs. Means with her daughters occupied the residence at that city, and he lived with his family in New York. A reconciliation was brought about by the prospective marriage soon of a daughter, and ex-Mayor Means and his wife have again joined fortunes, much to the delight of their many friends.”
19 Nov 1896
Judge Ingalls, who purchased the Yellow Springs House recently is busily engaged at work in making improvements which will make it a summer resort not to be excelled in this section. A fine lake for bass and trout is being constructed and will make fishing, when it is fully stocked up, that will make the heart of the angler glad. The old bowling alley will be changed, by tearing away the top story, and a stable constructed from it, while the lower story will be made into a dance hall and play room for children.
23 Nov 1896
Patrick Quinn, of Yellow Springs, who was convicted of drawing immoral pictures on the blackboard of a school house near that place, has had his sentence suspended on a promise of good behavior in the future. Quinn’s youth and previous good character, as attested by his teachers, caused the court to take such action.
24 Nove 1896
Yellow Springs Review:—While a number of workmen were engaged in moving the Bowling Alley on the Yellow Springs grounds up the incline, across the creek, yesterday afternoon, a defective hook on one of the pulleys, by means of which the building was being moved, suddenly gave way causing the building to slip back the incline, a distance of about eight feet. Mr. Thomas Fitzgerald, who was at the rear of the building on the southwest corner, blocking the rollers, in jumping from the wall from which the building was being moved, fell upon the pile of stone in his endeavor to get out of danger, breaking his left leg just above the ankle. He was carried to the hotel and a carriage summoned, when he was taken to his home on Xenia avenue. Dr. Marquart dressed the injured member and he is now doing as well as could be expected.
26 Nov 1896
The crowd of foot ball players from Springfield, who came down this morning had no end of sport over a wedding couple who boarded the train at Yellow Springs. The groom was a young man named Frank W. Hughes and the bride was a pretty little girl who before her marriage was Mattie Eleanora Halstead. Well, the boys entertained them with such songs as “Wedding Bells” and “There’s Only One Girl in this World for Me” until they were tired, and the happy couple heaved a long sigh and looked a bit relieved when the crowd left the train in this city.
28 Nov 1896
Judge Ingalls, of the Yellow Springs House, will soon have his dam completed, and his pond full of fish. He will also have a pond expressly for trout. The Judge is sparing no expense in making this famous hotel one of the most attractive places n the country. The hotel is open year around for guests.
24 Nov 1897
A barn on Dr. Baldwin’s place, at Yellow Springs, burned last night. It was located just at the edge of the village, on what is known as the “polecat” road. All the live stock was taken out, but some implements were destroyed. The loss is covered by insurance to the amount of $500, with Lawrence Vail, of this city.
03 Dec 1906
LETTER IN A BOTTLE RETURNED TO WRITER
Yellow Springs News:—On her trip to Niagara Falls, this summer, in going from Buffalo to Detroit, on the steamer “Western States,” Mrs. Annie B. Fowler, nee Mrs. Annie Barley, of this place, cast overboard, after they ran out of sight of land, a bottle containing a letter, giving date, and stating where and when it was “consigned to the waves” and asking the finder to return it to her telling where and when it was found.
The letter was recently returned to Mrs. Fowler, having been found by Mr. Benjamin Sider, two miles from Fort Colbern, west on the Canadian side.
Mrs. Fowler prizes the letter that reached her after its voyage on the turbulent waves of old Erie and has placed it in her scrap book as a memento of her trip. Her niece, Miss Mable Mitman, of Dayton, Ohio, and friend Miss Ida Ault, of Union City, Ind., who were with her threw a bottle over board also, but they have not heard from theirs yet.
24 Nov 1914
Antioch College went to Tiffin to-day, where it meets Heidelberg College on the football arena. Antioch will play Wittenberg college at Yellow Springs on Thanksgiving day.
07 Dec 1916
The Yellow Springs Gymnasium class will have their minstrel Tuesday evening, Jan. 2nd, in the opera house. The Girls’ Minstrel last year was quite a success in every way and this entertainment promises to be as good, if not better, than last year. There will be an entirely different stage setting from anything that has been seen in this town. The songs are all catchy and the jokes new and spicey, especially the local jokes. Don’t forget the date, Jan 2nd,
