Good Old Days 5/26/11

8 years ago

May 28, 1886

We are requested to state the street sprinkler on Main will discontinue if property owners do not contribute more liberally toward its support.

Bleeker, Spencer & Hoare, contractors, builders, brickmakers, etc., have in their employ about fifty white men, working at the brickyard and on different contracts in this city. They also give employ to twenty-five Chinese wood choppers who work by contract.

Garfield will soon be made a money order post office by order of the department.

At the close of business Monday, 905 shares of capital stock in the Whitman Building and...