Dayton Items

There is no particular excitement over anything in our little town at present, except over Lehmann’s circus, which is billed for here tomorrow. Of course every one will attend and drop their quarter to assist the showmen in paying their expenses.

I was not able find any information on Lehmann’s circus, not even an ad in The Free Trader. A Google search turned up nothing. Mr. Lehmann’s circus must have been a very small one, which of course it would have been if it came to Dayton.

Mr. Chas. Burch, the superintendent of the Paper Mill, and Miss Carrie Larson, of Rutland, were married at Ottawa last week.

Mrs. Jesse Green returned from a five or six weeks visit at New Orleans and vicinity.

The tile works are having a very heavy trade this fall. They are manufacturing the best tile in the market and the famers in this vicinity say they have tried all other kinds, but like the Dayton tile best. Four carloads were ordered Monday and one more today.

Mr. Joseph Green is fixing up a piece of land across the river where he is raising small fruit and “garden truck.”

The brick works have turned out a few good brick, but are not in good running order yet.

“Harry” Green is agent for A. J. Van Liew’s Nursery of New York. He is canvassing throughout the county.

Our schools are running successfully under the instruction of Misses Crane and Miller, of Ottawa.

Farmers about here report a good corn crop, tiled lands especially giving a heavy yield. One or two farmers who tiled quite extensively last year say they will more than pay for them on the increased yield of this season.

OCCASIONAL¹

1. The Ottawa Republican, October 2, 1885, p. 5.