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Newspaper Stories From The Days Of The Interurban
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The stories that follow are from period newspapers and are a sample of those included in our monthly newsletter. They are displayed here in chronological order starting with March of 1907. You can read them in the order displayed or click the links in the table below to jump to selected months. Check this page for updates each month and join our organization to receive our monthly newsletter with additional stories (now available by email or regular mail).
January 1907
1. With the new year came new talk of the building of a Cleveland to Sharon electric railroad.
2. In early January 1907, fare increases and fare reductions took place on the Geauga interurbans.
3. During January 1907, passengers sued and passengers settled claims for personal damages caused by the C. & E. wreck of June 14, 1906.
4. In mid-January 1907, Creditor William Gatesasked the court to order the immediate sale of the C. & E. due to insolvency, The railroad's receiver sought similar action near the end of the month.
5. In January 1907, Mrs. T. H. Chardon promoted the building of an electric railroad from Chardon to Little Mountain.
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The Geauga Republican, Wednesday, January 2, 1907, Page 1
Burton
The milk in the northwest factory is being pasteurised, or heated nad quickly cooled, and shipped to Cleveland on the C. & E.
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The Geauga Leader, Wednesday, January 9, 1907, Page 8
Middlefield
A new schedule of passeger rates has gone into effect on the Eastern Ohio Traction road. The fares between Middlefield and Cleveland and between Burton and Cleveland the same as before, but the rate between Middlefield and Lake Punderson, Junction, and Chardon is 5 cents more.
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On account of the heavy rains and snow of the last the water was up over the C. & E. track west of here on the Cuyahoga flats last Friday. Several acres of cabbage that has not been gathered at Stafford's stop, were under water.
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The Geauga Republican, Wednesday, January 23, Page 5
Hurricane works Havoc
The weather of Sunday was in direct contrst to that of Saturday a typical spring day. So warm was it that doors and windows inmany residences about town were open. Passengers on the Cleveland 7 Eastern railway rodewith the car windows opened.
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The Geauga Republican, Wednesday, January 30, 1907, Page 5
Home Department
Mrs. C. E. Chase and Mrs. Harry Stanton, of Huntsburg, have received $250 and $200, respectively, for inruries sustained in the C. & E. wreck in Chester late June.
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Woman Railway Promoter
Monday's Cleveland News contained a large picture of Mrs. T. H. Eaton, of Chardon, and an account of her efforts and success in securing the right of way for an electric railroad from Chardon to Mentor via Little Mountain.
Mrs. Eaton says she was offered several months ago, a thousand dollars by a railroad man if she could get the consentsof all the owners of property through which a railroad between Chardon and Mentor would pass. Whether the offer was made in good faithis probably a question, but Mrs. Eaton went to work and says she has secured consents from all but two of the property owners, who live at a distance, and she anticipates no trouble in getting theirs.
Mrs. Eaton has not received the thousand dollars, but she is expecting some pay for her work from an elecrtric road, probably the Cleveland, Painesville & Eastern, which she says has interest in the project.
Chardon people and all residents along the way would be glad to se such a road built.
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February 1907
1. On Monday, February 11, 1907, a serious wreck occured just west of Scotland Station when eastbound and westbound cras collided.
2. Throughout February 1907, special C. & E. cars take groups to and from special events.
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The Geauga Republican, Wednesday, February 13, 1907, Page 5
Home Department
The regular C. & E. theater car from Cleveland to Chardon on Saturday nights, has been discontinued, the car only running as far as Gates Mills now. The present management of the Eastern Ohio Traction Co. is evidently curtailing expenses where possible, for the time schedule has not appeared in the city papers of late.
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Trains on the lake Shore Railroad were behind schedule time last week, consequently the morning papers, which come via Painesville, were not received at the usual hour. Other bundles, however, arrived about noon over the C. & E. Chardon people are good patrons of all the city dailies, and hundreds of copies go out on the rural mail routes.
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The Geauga Leader, Wednesday, February 13, 1907, Page 5
Burton and Vicinity
The Burton Civic Improvement Society ladies started out last week to run a special excursion to the Torrey meetings in Cleveland. At the start there was much interest in the matter, but when the E. O. T. tried to make the ladies pay an exorbitant price for the car, the sentiment quickly changed and no excursion was run. The usual price for a special car from Burton to Cleveland and return is $30 to $35 but the company tried to work the ladies for $37. This was more remarkable when it is known that they charge the Chardon ladies only $32 for the same purpose. This company does not seem to know when it is the best policy to be fair with people along the lines. The ladies did right in refusing to be over-charged in this way and it will probably be a long time before the company sells another special car to Burton people.
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The Geauga County Record, Friday, February 15, 1907, Page 1
Cars Crash and Burn To Ashes
Mix-Up In Orders Cause Wreck On C. & E. Road Monday Afternoon Chardon Men Hurt - Dispatcher Discharged
A dozen persons were injured, at least two seriously, in a trolley wreck on the Cleveland & Eastern railroad near stop 22, in the woods beyond Scotland Station, at about 4:30 o'clock p.m. Monday, when two heavy motors came together on a curve. The cars telescoped for about a third of their length, neither leaving the track. The stoves were upturned, starting a blaze, which soon cosumed both cars. A mix-up is said to have caused the wreck. The compartments in the front part of both cars, one of which was the mail car, undoubtably saved the lives of passengers, nearly all of whom seated in the rear of both cars.
The most seriously injured were Homer P. Mathews and Ed Van Gorder, of Chardon, who were returning from their work at Gates Mills. The former sustained several broken ribs on his left side, and painful bruises about the chest. Mr. Mathews was suffering greatly Tuesday morning. Van Gorder's left arm was broken below the elbow, and he was badly wrenched about the the hips and body.
The injured were brough to town on a car about 7 p.m. Van Gorder was removed to his home in Bickle's ambulance, and Mathews was driven home in a sleigh by his brother. The injured were attended by Dr. F. S. Pomeroy.
When the crash came, both Mathews and Van Gorder were able to make their way out of the wreck. Then Van Gorder collapsed. A summer residence nearby was broken open, and he was carried into it and laid on the floor. He later revived, and suffered greatly from the cold, he said Tuesday. He was brought to town on a cot, but Mathews was able to set on a chair.
Jack Doud, motorman on the Middlefield freight car, occupied a seat with Mathews, but escaped unharmed.
It was nearly an hour before a wrecking crew arrived, and the track was not cleared until nearly 10 p.m., although transfers of passengers to cars were made about 7 o'clock.
The eastbound car was in charge of Conductor W. C. Shattuck and Motorman M. Mertaugh. The crew claims to have recieved orders at the power house to meet two cars at Scotland.
The west bound cars, 18, was in charge of Conductor E. Hollicky and Motorman G. A. Brower. This crew claims to have recieved orders at the Junction, directing them to meet two cars at Scotland. Arriving there an order was received to meet one at Summit, which was a 'lap' order. (Note that The Geauga Republican version states: This crew claims to have received orders at the Junction, directing them to meet one car at Scotland and one at Summit).
Circuit Judge Peter A. Laubie, enroute to Chardon to hold court, was in the wreck. He was slightly bruised on the shins, but was on the bench Tuesday morning.
It was reported here that the mail was destroyed, and that adiamond consigned by Parsons & Cook had also been lost in the flames. The firm received word of the safe arrival of the gem in Cleveland, Tuesday.
Lloyd McNaughton, of Chardon, who was on the car, saw the approaching trolley, and he knew that a crash was inevitable. He stood in the aisle, firmly grasped the iron seats on either side, and braced himself for the impact. So great was the shock, that he was thrown face downward on the floor, and the broken parts of the seats he held in each hand. His knee was hurt and he was bruised. Climbing out of the car, he saw the mail clerk with three mail sacks. The latter told him that he had saved all of the mail matter from the flames.
Other Chardon people who were on the cars and received a shaking up were Hartley Palmer and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mashall and two grandchildren. George Sherman, a former resident of this place, and brother of Mrs. L. R. Smith, of Chardon, was bruised.
J. O. Snyder, of Tiffin, O., who was on his way to visit Middlefield relatives, came on to Chardon, where he remained overnight. He was thrown against a seat and his mouth was badly cut.
William McJunkin, a member of the State Railroad Commission, conducted an informal investigation of the wreck Tuesday. His investigation did not bring out evidence additional to that already known as to the cause of the wreck. According to his statement and that of R. D. Beatty, receiver of the line, the mix-up was caused by a 'lap' order issued by Dispatcher Foster from Gates Mills shortly after o'clock Monday afternoon.
"No man but Foster could have prevented that wreck," said Beatty yesterday. "It would not have happened but for that lap order. He has been relieved from duty."
"It's and accident that is liable to happen on any single track road, steam or electric," said the railroad commissioner.
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The Geauga County Record, Friday, February 22, 1907, Page 1
Local Happenings of the Past Week
From the Jefferson Gazette: "There are intimations that criminal prosecution will be brought against a certain street railway promoter who was given money to organize a railway company to operate a line between Jefferson and Chardon. The man received $125 to obtain charter and pay fees to organize company. No charter was obtained, it is claimed, and the money has never been returned."
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The Geauga Leader, Wednesday, February 27, 1907, Page 5
Burton and Vicinity
The special car that will take the Burton contestants and their friends to the tri-county high school contest at Chagrin Falls this week Friday, will leave Burton at 1:00 o'clock that afternoon,and will be filled with an enthusiastic lot of Burton high school friends. Any one who has not yet secured a for this car and for the contest should see Prof. Mills at once.
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A prominent citizen made a suggestion at Chardon the other evening for the operation of the C. & E. electric road that might be adopted; that the company should run a wrecking car and crew with each of its regular cars.
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March 1907
1. In early March 1907, the death of C. D. Cahoon, chief engineer for the proposed Middlefield to Sharon electric railroad, was reported and it was predicted that his death would delay the building of the road.
2. In mid-March 1907, The Geauga Leader editor and C. M. Pierce, promoter of the Middlefield to Sharon electric railroad, feuded over the status and promise of the road.
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The Geauga County Record, Friday, March 1, 1907, Page 1
Seventy Will Go From Here
To Interscholastic Contest at the Falls in Special Car, Friday - An Interesting Program
. . . A special car will leave Chardon for Chagrin Falls promptly at 11 o’clock, Friday morning. There has been a great demand for tickets for the trip, and 70 have been sold. The car will be crowded, and the sale of tickets has been ordered stopped. Because of this, many will be forced to stay at home. The number left, however, is not enough to warrant the charter of another car. It is understood that there will be a reception given at the close of the contest to the visiting schools by the Chagrin Falls High school.
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The Geauga Republican, Wednesday, March 6, 1907, Page 5
Home Department
The recent death of C. D. Calhoun, of New York, chief engineer for the Cleveland & Sharon electric railway, and president of the Eldenbel Construction Co., which is to build the above named road from Middlefield to Sharon, will be a severe loss to the project, and probably tend somewhat to again delay the work.
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The Geauga Republican, Wednesday, March 20, 1907, Page 5
Home Department
The Cleveland Press says that a petition to have the Eastern Ohio Traction Co. sold in order to pay the claims of himself and others, was made by Cyrus Millard, Friday. His claim is for $317.
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H. P. Mathews, who was badly injured in a C. & E. wreck some time ago, is able to be around again, but he has not recovered sufficiently to resume his employment as machinist at Gates Mills. Mrs. Mathews, who was injured by a street car in Cleveland last fall, sustaining a broken hip, is recovering very slowly. She is able to get around the house with the aid of crutches.
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The Geauga Leader, Wednesday, March 27, 1907, Page 1
History of a Week
Last Monday morning while Mrs. Dan Boss of Newbury was in Burton, her little daughter Emma, aged twelve years, in company with another little girl named Mitchell, aged eight, secured the money from the children’s banks and went to Cleveland by a C. & E. car. The girls were missed and followed to the city by the mother who, with the aid of the police, recovered them near South Euclid, and they returned home Tuesday. The Boss family live on the Punderson farm, and the Mitchell family in another part of the town.
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The Geauga County Record, Friday, March 29, 1907, Page 1
Saw the Sap Run
Roy Sellers and Ray Brown, “copy boys” in the Cleveland News office and initiated into the mysteries of a “sugar bush,” were guests of Miss Gertrude Cowles, last Sunday. The boys were on the square at 5:20 in the morning, waiting to get the first car out of the city. They hardly slept the night before, for fear they would not arise in time, and were all excited with the prospects of the morrow. Hosford’s sugar bush was visited and after absorbing a sufficiency of the maple product, the boys left for the city in the evening, enthusiastic in their praise of country life.
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April 1907
1. Throughout April 1907, the fraternal societies of Geauga County, the Masons, Odd Fellows, and Rebekahs, used special cars on the C. & E. to visit their neighboring lodges.
2. During April 1907, the Geauga County courts heard the Zollar, Green, and Waltz cases, all touching on electric railroad matters.
3. On Monday, April 22, 1907, the intercity mail schedules for Chardon, Burton, and Middlefield were changed. The C. & E. railway post office was discontinued and mail began to be delivered by pouches carried on regular cars.
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The Geauga Leader, Wednesday, April 10, 1907, Page 1
Additional Burton Locals
The C. & E. electric road advertises a special excursion at reduced rates to Cleveland for the theatre this Wednesday. Burton people wonder if it will be as sometimes heretofore, that when they get to the station they find no reduced rate tickets on sale and then have to pay full rate.
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The Geauga County Record, Friday, April 12, 1907, Page 1
Bainbridge
Most of the milk shippers on the Erie sold their milk for 13 and 14 cents for April, and the summer months to Oct. for 12 cents per gallon. A few shippers on the trolley line sold for 12 cents for April and 10 cents for the summer. . .
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The Geauga County Record, Friday, April 19, 1907, Page 1
Our Secret Societies
On last Monday forty-six Odd Fellows from the Garrettsville lodge, came to Chardon in a special car, and were guests of Chardon Lodge I. O. O. F. at the regular meeting that evening. The visitors’ third degree team performed the work upon one candidate of the Chardon order. The robes and other paraphernalia of the Garrettsville team were brought to Chardon via the overland route. The members of lodge from abroad were entertained at the Chardon House for supper, and an elegant lunch was served in the hall later in the evening. There were also Odd Fellows in attendance from Huntsburg, Burton and Middlefield. The Garrettsville car left Chardon at 11 o’clock p.m. The meeting was one of the best and largest ever known to the local order; the capacity of the hall being taxed to its utmost. The order at Chardon is in a prosperous condition, and its membership is rapidly growing.
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The Geauga Leader, Wednesday, April 24, 1907, Page 5
Burton and Vicinity
By order of the Postoffice Department a change went into effect in our mail service on the C. & E. electric road Monday. By its provisions the postal clerks on this road are relieved, and a system of closed pouches substituted. Burton will get pouches from Cleveland at 8:10 a.m. and 3:10 and 7:10 p.m.; from Chardon at 7:10 p.m.; from Middlefield at 8:40 a.m. and 5:40 p.m.; and will send pouches to Cleveland at 8:40 a.m. and 12:40 and 5:40 p.m.; to Middlefield at 8:10 a.m. and 5:10 p.m.; to Chardon at 8:40 a.m. We will continue our connection with the B. & O. railroad post office by way of Middlefield. This we hope will prove an improvement in our mail service.
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May 1907
1. During May 1907, there remained a glimmer of hope that the Middlefield to Sharon electric line would be built.
2. In early May 1907, Judge Peter Laubie, a victim of a recent C. & E. accident, sued the road for damages.
3. On Saturday, May 4, 1907, the work car rear-ended the line car at Summit Hill, with resulting injuries.
4. On Thursday, May 23, 1907, the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court ordered that sale of the property of the Eastern Ohio Traction Co.
5. On Sunday, May 26, 1907, a new schedule for the C. & E. went into effect.
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The Geauga Leader, Wednesday, May 1, 1907, Page 4
Middlefield
W. F. Ainsley drove over the proposed Cleveland & Sharon electric line last week and made a large number of photographic views for use of the company.
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The Geauga Leader, Wednesday, May 1, 1907, Page 5
Burton and Vicinity
Rab, the Hitchcock family’s Scotch Collie dog, was killed by a C. & E. car last Thursday.
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The Geauga Leader, Wednesday, May 1, 1907, Page 8
Middlefield
On account of the change of mail service on the C. & E., the editor of The Leader will hereafter visit Middlefield every Monday instead of Saturdays as heretofore. This will enable The Leader to give later Middlefield local news and will greatly improve the paper for the benefit of our Middlefield readers. The Leader has more readers in Middlefield and vicinity than any other paper and gives more news of interest to those readers than any other paper, and we shall improve this service in every way possible. The Leader’s list of readers is constantly growing because Middlefield people get more news that they are interested in as well as like the independent tone of the paper. Further, it is the Leader’s intention to establish a new paper in Middlefield as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made.
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The Geauga County Record, Friday, May 3, 1907, Page 1
Lost His Only Tooth
The Eastern Ohio Traction Company has been made defendant in another damage suit case. The plaintiff is Judge Peter A. Laubie, of the Nineteenth District Circuit Court. The Judge was a passenger from Cleveland to Chardon on the car that was wrecked in the head-on collision, near Scotland several weeks ago.
Judge Laubie says his false teeth and only natural tooth, which was a great aid in holding the imitations in place, were seriously damaged in the accident. He claims that the entire row of false teeth were broken and the natural one loosened.
On Monday Laubie brought action against Robert D. Beatty, receiver of the E. O. T. lines, for $2,000 damages.
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June 1907
1. Throughout June 1907, surveyors worked to identify the route of the proposed Cleveland to Sharon electric railroad. The Geauga Leader of Burton feuded with the The Times of Middlefield as to which newspaper provided accurate information about the line.
2. On Wednesday, June 19, 1907, wholesale merchants from Cleveland rode the C. & E. to visit all the towns along the electric railroads of Geauga County in an effort to cement relationships.
3. On Monday, June 24, 1907, Gates Mills was subject to a heavy cloudburst that caused significant flooding. The power house, car barns, and contents suffered some damage.
4. On Tuesday, June 25, 1907, George Birrell, one of the directors of the Cleveland & Sharon electric railroad, was shot and killed in Kinsman.
5. On Tuesday, June 25, 1907, the advertised sale of the Eastern Ohio Traction Company was held in Cleveland. Only one division, the Chagrin Falls and Garrettsville division was sold, with the other divisions remaining under receivership and the jurisdiction of the courts.
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The Geauga Leader, Wednesday, June 5, 1907, Page 1
The new Burton Industrial Co. has over twenty-five acres of peppermint set out and it is coming on as well as the unfavorable weather will permit. This company has still about twelve acres of this Cuyahoga swamp land that will be planted to potatoes and corn. Their tract is all on the south side of the C. & E. railroad, while on the north side the Stewart Co. has many acres in horseradish and other special market crops. Monday those tracts were nearly all under backwater caused by the heavy rains.
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Pleasant Hill
A lady on the car going down Gates Mill hill asked the conductor if the power brakes didn’t work where they would go to and he replied that it depended on her past life.
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Chesterland
The debris of two bad wrecks is still lying beside the tracks between the Caves and county line as a warning of what passengers may expect.
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The Geauga Leader, Wednesday, June 5, 1907, Page 5
Burton and Vicinity
The annual reunion and picnic of The Geauga Leader Reporters Association will be held at Chesterland Caves on Friday, June 21, all day, with Mrs. Mary L. LaMoreaux of Chester, as hostess. The Program Committee is preparing an interesting program for the occasion, and there will be the usual picnic dinner. The Caves is a very pleasant place for such a gathering, with all facilities such as tables, dishes, hall, piano, etc., and every Reporter and Editor, past and present, is urged to attend. The C. & E. electric cars run within a few steps of the entrance. Remember the date, Friday, June 21, and let all be present. C. J. Hale, president; Mrs. Geo. Bossart, secretary.
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The Geauga County Record, Friday, June 21, 1907, Page 1
Local Happenings of the Past Week
Two special cars arrived in Chardon Wednesday evening at 7 o’clock, carrying the members of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. The wholesalers called upon their customers here, and after a short talk with each one, left for the return trip.
Express Business Sold
Definite plans have been agreed upon whereby the United States Express company will assume control, probably within the next 10 days, of the Electric Package company. The package company does all the express business on the interurban entering Cleveland, which comprises the Cleveland and Southwestern, the Northern Ohio Light and Traction company, the Cleveland, Painesville and Eastern; the Lake Shore Electric and the Eastern Ohio Traction company. This express business has been the bone of much contention, principally between the Gould interests and Senator Platt’s company. - Ex.
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July 1907
1. Throughout July 1907, the C. & E. provided transportation for a number of excursions made by local churches and societies.
2. In mid-July 1907, the surveyors walked off the job when the Eldenbel Construction Company failed to pay them. The newspapers reported serious concerns about the continuing viability of the project and raised the possibility of fraud and abuse by the promoters.
3. In late July 1907, paving was begun on South Street, necessitating a project for C. & E. crews to relocate the track.
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The Geauga Leader, Wednesday, July 3, 1907, Page 8
Middlefield
The receiver of the Eastern Ohio Traction company, operating several lines of tracks, offered the property for sale in Cleveland on Tuesday, first as a whole and then by divisions. Bidders were very few. The Garrettsville division was bid in by H. P. McIntosh, of Cleveland, in the interests of the Eastern Ohio Traction Co. general mortgage bondholders for the upset figure of $152,400. Traction men thought the division worth that price for the old rails and wire. They do not think it can be operated at a profit. McIntosh does not know whether the Garrettsville division will be operated or dismantled. If it is continued in operation it will be through a traffic arrangement with the road from which it has been dismembered. No bids were received for the eastern division between Middlefield and Chardon and the Chagrin Falls division from Cleveland to Chagrin Falls. It is likely that these divisions will be reappraised and then offered for sale again.
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The Geauga County Record, Friday, July 26, 1907, Page 1
Paving South Street
Work on the South Street paving job was begun last week, when E. Fletcher, foreman for the Enterprise Paving and Construction Co., of Cleveland, with a force of seven men started operations at the C. & E. turn, by tearing out driveways and laying sewer pipe to carry off the water and insure drainage.
About half the curbing stone are on the ground, but only three carloads of paving brick had arrived up to Friday night. Only two teams were employed at hauling the brick from the B. & O. yards, and this work is proceeding slowly. Collinwood brick are to be used on the job, and several carloads are on the way here.
The curbing stone are a whitish sandstone, machine cut from the quarries at North Amherst. The grade stakes and all the preliminary work of Engineer Phelps is completed, and the work is to be carried on as fast as possible after the paving brick are on the ground.
Mr. Fletcher said Monday he expected to have the street ready for the bricklayers as far as Claridon road by Saturday night of this week.
Chardon laborers will be hired as near as possible, and $2 a day is offered. Many men will be needed on the work. The brick will be laid by three or four expert workmen in the employ of the company, who are now competing a city contract in Cleveland.
The largest cut on the job will be 2 feet, near the Hathaway residence. This will straighten out South Street perceptibly at this point, where the east side of the street has been allowed to stand 3 feet higher than the west side for no one knows how many years. When the pavement is laid it will be possible to drain the east side of South Street near the Square.
The pavement will be 20 feet wide at the beginning, and 24 feet wide from Cemetery Street to the Public Square.
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The Geauga Leader, Wednesday, July 31, 1907, Page 1
South Newbury
The electric railroad company paid Lee Bliss for the horse which was recently killed by stepping on a live wire. The settlement was prompt and satisfactory.
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The Geauga Leader, Wednesday, July 31, 1907, Pages 4 and 8
Middlefield
The developments in the C. & S. railroad matter since our last issue are not of a very encouraging nature for the future of that road. There was a conference held in Cleveland last Friday, in which C. M. Pierce of Middlefield, F. B. Morgan, of Cleveland, Mr. Clendenin and the Secretary of the Eldenbel Co. of New York, took part. It is given out that the conference decided to pay the debts contracted for the recent surveying and to finish the survey. Mr. Ray of Detroit, was elected chief engineer for the work. Aside from this the general tone of the talk, semi-authoritative, is very discouraging as to the completion of the road. This shows that, while The Leader’s railroad news is not always “authoritative” it has proved more reliable in the past than that which was claimed to be “the only true and reliable from an authoritative source”. The Leader sincerely hopes that some understanding may yet be reached between the contending parties to the misunderstanding and that the road may be completed.
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August 1907
1. Throughout August 1907, the newspapers expressed grave doubts over the prospect of completion of the Cleveland & Sharon electric railroad. While the Middlefield Times remained optimistic to a fault, the Burton Geauga Leader continued to question if the project would ever be finished.
2. In August 1907, the South Street paving project in Chardon progressed rapidly, with brick laying started near month end.
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The Geauga Republican, Wednesday, August 7, 1907, Page 5
Home Department
The B. & O. railroad fare from Chardon to Painesville is only 20 cents. Until the 2-cent law was passed, 35 cents mileage was always charged. The fare between Chardon and Middlefield over the C. & E. electric line is 45 cents each way nowadays, instead of 40 cents, as formerly. The B. & O. fare between the two points is 25 cents, and about all the travel to the county seat from Middlefield-Parkman way comes over the steam road, the amount thus saved for the round trip amounting to more than the price of a hotel dinner. It is nearly as cheap for Chardon people to go to Cleveland as to Middlefield over the electric railway.
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The Geauga Republican, Wednesday, August 7, 1907, Page 8
Middlefield-Sharon R’y Outlook More Promising
Middlefield Times
In the light of what has transpired during the past week, the Times was again correct in reserving judgment in what seemed to be bad faith of those at the head of the Cleveland & Sharon Railroad project.
As was stated in our issue of a week ago, conference was held in Cleveland last Friday, at which was present every person who could in any way be of service. What precipitated this conference was the failure of the surveying party to receive their pay. Also, as previously stated by the Times, this unfortunate circumstance was the result of a misunderstanding. And right here it may be said, and which goes a long way toward showing good faith in the Eldenbel Company, that at the conference, when approached on the subject, both Mr. Clendenin and Mr. McConchy stated with emphasis that the Eldenbel Construction Company were not only going to build the road from Cleveland to Sharon, but were under contract to do so.
As to the salaries of the surveyors, with equal emphasis they declared their determination to see that the men were fully reimbursed. They are still of the opinion that it is not their duty to bear this expense. But be this as it may, as a result of the conference the Eldenbel Company assumed the indebtedness.
President Clendenin and Secretary McConchy left Cleveland Friday night for Springfield, Ohio, and certain points in Michigan, expecting to arrive in New York again in a week or ten days, and promised that the money due the surveyors would be forthcoming within a fortnight.
The failure of the surveyors to get their pay was as great a surprise to Mr. Morgan and Mr. Pierce as to any one, and prior to the conference, being unable to account for the ugly circumstance, in justice not only to the public, but to themselves as well, immediately sought to verify statements of Mr. Clendenin concerning certain expenditures. Among these was the payments said to have been made to the National Bank Note Company, of Philadelphia, for the engraving of the bond plates. It will be of interest to our readers to see the following excerpt from a letter from Charles H. Elliott, president of the national Bank Note Company, to Francis P. Morgan, in reply to one written by the latter gentleman seeking to verify his belief in the integrity of Mr. Clendenin:
Philadelphia, July 27, 1907.
Mr. Francis P. Morgan, President,
Cleveland & Sharon Electric Railway
Co., Cleveland, Ohio.
Dear Mr. Morgan:
Your letter of July 23rd was duly received at this office, but has not been answered because I have been away.
I agree with you in having the highest regard for Mr. Clendenin; in fact, I like him very much and I believe, to the full extent of his ability, is absolutely honest and straight. The delay on the bonds of your Company previously was caused entirely by matters outside of our control. At the present time the delay is with us, and the cause of it is that the transferrer we had left us and out our press (which cost us $2,000), entirely out of commission. We have just got it fixed, but the new transferrer we had was under some kind of a cloud and left the city, and we cannot get another one before Monday, the 5th of August. This one is coming in temporarily to get this work of yours finished. This will put the binds behind the time we expected to get them out, but we cannot put this work outside of our own establishment because of the safeguards that we throw around it. But this is the only delay that we have had in our establishment.
The order has been a most unsatisfactory one in many ways, and has caused the writer more anxiety and thought, with the possible exception of one order, than he has ever had to handle, simply because he was powerless to prevent the delays that occurred entirely outside of this establishment.
With kindest regards, believe me,
Most sincerely and truly yours,
(Signed) Charles H. Elliott, President.
In another letter from Mr. Elliott to Mr. Morgan, bearing date of July 19, he writes:
“I have had a good payment on the binds. They are progressing as rapidly as could be wished, or is possible, with the way I received the copy. We expect to have them finished by Aug. 7.”
Another large and absolutely essential item of expense was the drawing up of the trust deed. The preparation of this important document requires the knowledge of an expert legal brain, and an idea may be gleaned of why this is, so when it is known that the attorney’s fee for drawing up this deed was $700, and that no lawyer who is qualified to do the work at all would attempt it for less than $500. The deed is a voluminous paper, and must so carefully and thoroughly drawn that it will be acceptable to the Trust Company and its trained legal specialists. This work has been done acceptably and was sent to the Trust Company Tuesday morning, properly signed.
It has been reported much of late that Mr. Morgan is a vice-president of the Eldenbel Company, and this report has been accepted by many as fact and twisted into all manner of fantastic forms. As a matter of fact Mr. Morgan received notification some time ago that he had been elected a vice-president of the Eldenbel Company, but knowing that the responsibilities of such a high position would seriously interfere with the personal attention which he desired to give the Cleveland & Sharon project, he straightway declined to accept of the appointment.
Mr. Pierce, who has been continually subjected to innuendo, has used every effort to get at the facts in this matter, and why should he not? In assailing this gentleman it is well for his traducers to bear in mind that for every dollar they will lose in the event of this railroad project not being consummated, Mr. Pierce will lose four. Mr. Pierce, since the conference of last Friday, is more encouraged than ever on his belief in the good faith of the Eldenbel Company and their financial responsibility.
Anyone who cares to take the time may get reports from every person connected with the Eldenbel Company, and we have taken the time to do this. The men not only have a high financial rating, but each and every one is regarded as of the strictest integrity and of a disposition to do as he agrees.
Then until we are hurt let us restrain our howls. Until it becomes pretty certain that this road of which we are all so desirous is nothing more than a delusion, let us not brand the promoters as malefactors.
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The Geauga County Record, Friday, August 23, 1907, Page 1
Bridal Couple Foils Guests
Rice Throwers Board Car But Intended Victims Detour and Drive to Painesville
In the presence of 100 guests, Mr. Clyde Goodrich and Miss Bessie Bickle were united in marriage Wednesday evening by Rev. H. F. Miller, pastor of the Disciple Church, at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Bickle, on North Street, at 7:30 o’clock.
Despite the warm reception that had been planned for them at the 9 o’clock car, the happy couple were a target but a few seconds for the large quantities of rice and confetti that were in the pockets of the waiting guests outside because - they got away.
While Mr. and Mrs. Goodrich were partaking of the wedding supper someone learned that they were to be driven in a surrey to the car, and that the surrey was in a barn adjoining the Park Hotel. Those in quest of such a carriage found it in Goodrich’s barn, all hitched and ready for action.
The surrey was quickly transferred to the Park House barn. Meanwhile the bridal couple waited in an upstairs room for the carriage to appear. But it didn’t for some time afterward, and then when it did, without horses.
The horses were unhitched, and the carriage drawn down to the house by some of the guests. Someone discovered the horses in the barn, and they were brought down to the house also, and hitched to the surrey in the front yard. The trip to the car was ready after the ropes and sticks attached to the rear wheels were removed.
It was nearly 9 o’clock when two of the guests were sent ahead to hold the car for five minutes. Then the bride and groom appeared at the side door, and after running the gauntlet of a hundred hand-fulls of rice and confetti were in the carriage in an instant, and being driven rapidly toward the C. & E. station.
The excited guests followed, but the horses were too swift. With cries of “Hold the car!” and “Pull the trolley!” they dashed across the park, to the car but the bridal pair were not there. They waited. Then they got on the car and rode to the South Street curve. But still no bride and groom.
It was afterward learned that Mr. and Mrs. Goodrich had not intended taking the car at all, and had driven down Water Street on their way to Painesville. They were joined there Thursday morning by Mr. and Mrs. John Bickle and daughter Beatrice and Mrs. Maria Turner, en route to a trip to Woodstock, Ont., via Niagara Falls.
It was a sorry looking wedding party that got off the car at the South Street curve.
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The Geauga Leader, Wednesday, August 28, 1907, Page 5
Burton and Vicinity
Last Thursday the members of the Burton Band and their friends to the number of fifty went by special C. & E. car to Euclid Beach and enjoyed a very pleasant outing.
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September 1907
1. During September 1907, the prospect of the Cleveland & Sharon electric railroad actually being built remained in doubt. The local newspapers continued to criticize each other as to the reliability of the information provided and the bias that it might contain.
2. In early September 1907, the two newest cars in the C. & E. inventory were brought to Chardon for show purposes.
3. By mid-September 1907, the station buildings on the C. & E. had been repainted red to in lieu of the previous yellow color scheme.
4. On Saturday, September 14, 1907, James McGee was killed by a C. & E. car in South Euclid.
5. By the end of September 1907, the laying of new ties over the entire length of the C. & E. line had been nearly completed.
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The Geauga Leader, Wednesday, September 4, 1907, Page 1
History of a Week
Henry Hossler, C. & E. conductor, is out again after a long sickness with typhoid fever in Chardon.
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With a trolley line to Thompson Ledge in operation it would not be long before the historic “hump” would be lined with summer homes of the well-to-do. Northern Ohio’s beauty spot is a trifle inaccessible just at present.
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The Geauga Leader, Wednesday, September 4, 1907, Page 8
Middlefield
We are informed that the promoters of the C. & S. road are trying to sell the unused ties, etc., to other roads. The Leader would suggest that the people who put up the money for this deal should have something to say about how, when and for whose benefit this property should be sold.
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There are a lot of people in Middlefield and Mesopotamia who now wish they had taken The Leader’s advice in the C. & S. railroad deal, to be sure there was no swindle in that project before putting their money into it. And they are all wondering where the $30,000, the $8,000 and the $17,000 went to. Very little of it was ever paid out for work on the line, and - Who has got it? Perhaps the promoters can give us some more reports on the ability, reliability and responsibility of the New York and London financiers who are backing the project. But who has pocketed the money that our people put up for actual work at the several stages of the game? And are the people who have been schemed going to let the money stay in the pockets where it seems to have slipped to? Perhaps the Times will continue to urge the people to support this gift scheme.
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Negotiations are still pending for the purchase by the Northern Ohio Traction, of the Cleveland and Chagrin Falls line, of the Eastern Ohio Traction Company. The various parties have not yet agreed. It is understood that H. P. McIntosh, who purchased the Chagrin Falls & Eastern line, will not sell for the price he paid for the property. Northern Ohio people want the Chagrin Falls line in exchange for guaranteeing the principal and interest of the second mortgage bonds. Some of the directors of the N. O. T. & L. are opposed to the purchase at any price at the present time, believing that the property can be bought cheaper later. The Chagrin Falls line and the Cleveland & Eastern line will likely be re-appraised soon and again offered at public sale. This new offering will likely take place in September.
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“The surveyors will be paid off next week” - this is “authoritative.” The optimism of the Times in the C. & S. railroad deal is certainly sublime. How much of that $17,500 was paid for publicity?
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Here is some more authoritative railroad news: - Bonds of the proposed new Cleveland and Sharon Electric Railroad have been delivered in Cleveland the past week by the National Bank Note Company of Philadelphia, and the same have been paid for. While it is true that conditions recently have been such as to cause some persons to encourage the belief that the company was dilatory, developments of the last few days tend to prove that the Eldenbel Company has not been and is not idle. The surveyors have not yet received their money. . .
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The Geauga County Record, Friday, September 6, 1907, Page 1
Big Increase In Railway Traffic
Both Electric and Steam Roads Carry Record-Breaking Number of Passengers
Since the change of the passenger train schedule on the B. & O., officials at the local station say that the passenger traffic and receipts have greatly increased, are continuing to do so, and that this year bids fair to be one of the most prosperous in the history of the Chardon station. Not only is the increase noticeable in Chardon, but at many of the stations on the lake division. Frequently of late have the coaches been so crowded that women have been forced to ride in the smoking car. It would seem that the new change is better liked than many thought it would be when first announced.
During the past two months the Cleveland & Eastern Railroad hauled more passengers out of Cleveland than any other suburban electric line running into the city. Employees of the road say that the traffic has been enormous, every car being filled with people standing. The country through which the Cleveland & Eastern Railroad passes insures one of the prettiest rides that can be had in the State.
Chardon is fast growing in popularity with Cleveland people as an ideal place in which to spend the summer, and not a day passes but many city visitors are here. This branch has long been the most paying one. For four days beginni ng last Saturday passenger traffic broke all records.
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The Geauga County Record, Friday, September 20, 1907, Page 1
Struck and Killed by a C. & E. Car
James M. McGee, 38, residing near Gates Mills, was struck and killed by a Cleveland & Eastern car at South Euclid, Saturday.
McGee had alighted from a car in front of his brother’s home, Dr. A. C. McGee, South Euclid, and as he walked around the rear of the car was struck by a car on the other track. The crew of the latter car did not see the man in time to prevent the accident.
They picked him up in an unconscious condition and carried him into his brother’s house, where he expired shortly afterward. McGee is survived by two daughters.
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The Geauga Leader, Wednesday, September 25, 1907, Page 5
Burton and Vicinity
A crowd of about 400 people came over from Painesville on the B. & O. special train to the fair. After getting to Middlefield in good time in the morning, they encountered difficulties with the C. & E. electric service and many did not get to Burton until after noon.
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October 1907
The Geauga Leader, Wednesday, October 2, 1907, Page 5
Burton and Vicinity
Monroe Warner, a Cleveland engineer, assures E. W. Morley of Andover, that the proposed Cleveland, Chardon and Meadville electric road will be built in the near future, but on account of the tight money market there will be no work done on it this year.
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J. E. Wales, who for nearly a quarter century has ably managed the Lake Punderson pleasure resort, has rented Mrs. J. B. Lawrence’s house in Burton village and has moved his family to it. This move marks the passing of the famous and beautiful Lake Punderson as a public pleasure resort. Mr. Wales has sold off the personal property connected with the resort and the buildings are being torn down preparatory to removal from the place; nearly all the land surrounding the lake has been bought by W. B. Cleveland for private purposes. This is a matter of great regret to the people of this county as the place has for many years been the principal picnic place of this section. The lake is one of the largest and most beautiful bodies of water in the state and it ought not to be shut up from access by the people. The Leader would like to see a law passed that would allow the people the right to enforce a public privilege of using these little beauty spots.
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If a rumored movement materializes we may not be without a Lake Punderson pleasure resort in the near future. W. B. Cleveland has bought up nearly all the land surrounding the lake, but the present Punderson farm corners onto the water for several hundred feet, and it is proposed that a new resort be established on this land. It is claimed that the surface of the lake is no man’s property and can legally be used by anyone who can get onto it without trespassing on any of the surrounding land. For this reason it is said that Mr. Cleveland cannot control the lake until he secures control of all the surrounding lands. Mr. Cleveland can buy this big Punderson farm for $15,000, but even after that the C. & E. railroad owns a large frontage, and no one can prevent that company unloading train loads of passengers onto the lake, if this claim be true. This new Punderson resort will be about midway between the two roads of the E. O. T. Co.
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The Geauga County Record, Friday, October 4, 1907, Page 1
Paving Nearly Done
The paving of South Street is completed almost up to the south end of the Chardon House. Work has been stopped for several days owing to shortness of slag, which is now expected to arrive any day. The pavement is now being used up to Booth’s livery barn, and drivers use the driveway between the barn and the hotel to get onto other streets.
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Theater Car To Run Again
C. & E. Track Car Off Months Ago - To Give Chardonites One More Chance
That the theater car on the Cleveland & Eastern Railroad is to be put on again will be welcome news to many Chardon people. It will run next Saturday night, and continue as long as it will be given good patronage.
“It costs considerable to run the car through,” said Agent F. D. Hollis, Tuesday. “When it is not well patronized the company is at considerable loss. That is why it was discontinued a few months ago. The C. & E. will try the experiment again. If the car was well patronized, it would be run twice a week instead of only once. Whether it is a permanent feature of the road depends entirely upon Chardon people. The theater car is a great convenience, not only for people who wish to attend the theater, but for those who have other business in the city. Chardon people should prevent its discontinuance again.”
Several Chardon people will attend the play “Way Down East,” at the Euclid Avenue Opera House, Saturday evening.
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The Geauga Leader, Wednesday, October 9, 1907, Page 5
Burton and Vicinity
The E. O. T. Co. is doing a lot of work this season improving the C. & E. tracks and making them safer for travel. Several gangs of trackmen have been at work nearly all summer and the track was probably never in better or smoother condition than now. New ties have been put in nearly throughout the whole line and the track gravel-ballasted, so that it is in fine condition. The whole work is being pushed as fast as possible with the intention of getting it completed before winter. The theatre car will be put back on Saturday evenings and will be continued as long as patronage warrants. New cash and ticket registers have been put into all the cars, which will be much more convenient for the conductors than the old slip check system.
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The Geauga County Record, Friday, October 18, 1907, Page 1
Cleveland Society Here
The Cleveland Dorcas Society of 80 ladies came to Chardon Wednesday of last week in two special Cleveland & Eastern cars. They were met in the park by Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Conkle, and escorted to the parlors of the Methodist Church where dinner was served. After enjoying an afternoon in walking about Chardon streets, they left for the city late in the day.
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Walked the Trestle
The Cleveland & Eastern passenger car due in Chardon at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon, struck and split a switch at the Y near the trestle, with the result that passengers had to walk up town. Traffic was tied up from the trestle to the South Street depot until 8 o’clock in the evening. West bound passengers were forced to walk from the square across the trestle to take cars for Cleveland.
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The Geauga County Record, Friday, October 25, 1907, Page 1
Munson Man Courts Death
Persists in Sleeping on Railroad Track Even After Struck by C. & E. Car - Head Bruised but Not Seriously
John Smalchnop, 45, who was arrested at his home in Munson, Oct. 6, by Sheriff Cowles, on the charge of threatening to injure his family, was struck by a Cleveland & Eastern car at the Junction Tuesday evening, and missed death by a small margin. As a remembrance of the occurrence Smalchnop has a bruised head, but otherwise is none the worse for his narrow escape.
The same thing that led Smalchnop to the County Jail was responsible for his penchant to lay on the railroad track. He was intoxicated - not mildly.
Smalchnop had been waiting for the 8:50 car to arrive from Burton. Wandering up the track to the bridge over the river near the Junction, the spot struck him as one particularly conducive to a nap.
The car was going at a rapid rate, when the motorman and conductor saw the form of a man lying close to the rail, at one side of the track. They were unable to stop in time to avoid striking Smalchnop.
Hastening back, expecting to find the mangled remains of John, the motorman and conductor picked Smalchnop up in a dazed condition, and wondering what was the cause of his sudden jolt.
Smalchnop was put on the car, and taken to the Junction. Here he kept passengers, who were waiting for other cars, busy in keeping him off the track. Despite his close call, Smalchnop was bound to settle himself for a nap squarely across the rails.
He was put on board the next Cleveland-bound car. Had it not been for other passengers waiting for the Chardon car, Smalchnop would probably have been again struck and not escaped so fortunately.
Smalchnop, after his hearing in Justice Patchin’s court, promised to be good, and was released on the bail of two weeks’ good behavior.
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November 1907
1. During November 1907, a project was started to lower the interurban track on South Street to street level.
2. During November 1907, mudsling continued over responsibility for the money lost by Middlefield and Mesopotamia citizens in the Cleveland & Sharon railroad fiasco.
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The Geauga Republican, Wednesday, November 6, 1907, Page 5
Home Department
Persons living along the C. & E. railroad should bear in mind that a special car will leave Senator Dollivers’ lecture Saturday evening, Nov. 16.
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Cars Must Stop
The Supreme Court has handed down a decision that it is not sufficient that motorman merely ring his bell or gong when he sees a horse staring at his car. He must bring his car to a stop. Unless this is done the company can be held liable for damages.
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The Geauga Leader, Wednesday, November 6, 1907, Page 1
At the County Seat
The Village Council recently passed an ordinance requiring the E. O. T. Co. to lower their track on South St. to a level with the pavement.
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The Geauga Leader, Wednesday, November 6, 1907, Page 5
Burton and Vicinity
W. B. Cleveland has commenced suit in common pleas court to recover from L. L. Punderson a small piece of land which he claims the Pundersons are keeping him out of possession of. Mr. Cleveland has bought nearly all the land surrounding Lake Punderson, and this small piece in litigation would complete his ownership of the shores of the lake excepting that owned by the C. & E. railroad company. The land in question measures a fraction less than five acres.
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The Geauga Leader, Wednesday, November 6, 1907, Page 8
Middlefield
The Times, in a two column article last week, again shifts the responsibility for the failure of the Cleveland & Sharon electric railroad from the shoulders of those terrible “London swindlers” to President Clendenin of the company. The Times says: Mr. Clendenin has agreed to meet the C. & S. contributors face to face in Cleveland this Wednesday and tell “what has become of the money”, information The Leader has long been endeavoring to smoke out. The article admits, as The Leader recently suggested, that the voluminous documents giving the standing of the Eldenbel Co. which were circulated last fall and winter to induce Middlefield and Mesopotamia people to chip in, were frauds. The “authoritative” reports of the Times may after a while get the swindle sifted down to the bottom where it belongs. The Times makes a dirty stab at the reputable Middlefield and Mesopotamia people who do not take much stock in what it has to say about the C. & S. affairs; but that paper cannot deny that the opinion of these reputable citizens has been much nearer the truth than its so-called “authoritative” reports, and that very little that the Times has had to say about the subject has been verified by subsequent events. The Leader believes than an electric road will some day not far distant be built over the C. & S. route, but it will never be built until more creditable backing may be found for the project. The climax of the Times’ latest story seems to be to give standing to two men who, it may be, are being raised up to promote another revival of the project.
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The Geauga Leader, Wednesday, November 13, 1907, Page 8
Middlefield
“According to the Times,” the C. & S. muddle is to be settled within ten days. That is, the attorneys for President Clendenin and for the C. & S. are to confer and report, “escrow” and “eat-crow”, etc. - and then will the money filched from the good people of this section be shown up? At the meeting in Cleveland last week “the Times says” but little satisfaction was gotten out of Mr. Clendenin who was “actually forced” into having his own way with the conference. The Times’ “authoritative report” compiled into one piece would make a most comical farce-comedy for the pleasure of the reputable Middlefield and Mesopotamia citizens whom it abuses for not taking it seriously.
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Several Middlefield and Mesopotamia people were in Cleveland one day last week attending the C. & S. conference.
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The Geauga Republican, Wednesday, November 20, 1907, Page 5
Hunters Numerous; All Game Suffers
Hunters alighted at every station along the Cleveland & Eastern railway, but the greatest number were seen at Middlefield, where men with guns were so numerous as to give one the impression that perhaps the town was under martial law.
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C. & E. Track Being Lowered To Grade
As the result of a conference between Cleveland & Eastern officials and City Solicitor Parks, held last week Wednesday, the work of leveling the street railroad track to paving grade on South Street was begun Friday morning at Claridon Road, where the cut begins.
The village furnishes the teams necessary to do the plowing, and will move out the trolley poles. The C. & E. furnishes all labor for shoveling the dirt, and pays $50 towards the cost of removing dirt from a strip 11 feet wide, the expense of which would ordinarily, we are informed, belong to the village to pay.
Some of the teams employed are hauling the dirt away for it, without cost to anyone, and some teams were called by the Street Commissioner to work out poll tax assessments. It will be necessary for the village to hire some teams. Part of the dirt is being thrown upon the parking, where it will be used in grading down to the car track. New ties and ballast will be installed, and a first-class job completed by the company. The railroad track will be moved about 2 ½ feet nearer the street curbing and a siding will be installed in front of the C. & E. station.
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December 1907
1. December 1907, a quiet time for the electric railroad - no accidents noted and no rumors about new lines.
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The Geauga Republican, Wednesday, December 4, 1907, Page 5
Home Department
Over 30 Chardon people will go to Cleveland in a special car Thursday evening, to witness “Ben Hur.”
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Belding-Ballard
A quiet wedding took place in Chardon, Sunday, Dec. 1, at the residence of Mrs. Ella Baldwin, on East King Street, when Mr. Edmund Belding, of Claridon, and Miss Elsie Ballard, of Chardon, were united in marriage in the presence of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Ballard and Mrs. Baldwin. Rev. T. D. Phillips performed the ceremony at 1 p.m., and the bride and groom left town on the 2:50 car for Chagrin Falls, where they will make their home for the present.
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The Geauga Leader, Wednesday, December 4, 1907, Page 1
South Newbury
Sunday violators of the game law learned an expensive lesson last week. Now, Mr. game warden, look after the ferrets a little, for there are plenty of them. Look in the pockets, or coat-lining, of the yellow coated gentry on the street cars who come out every day from the city and towns. There is plenty for you to do if you want to “get busy.”
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The Geauga Leader, Wednesday, December 4, 1907, Page 5
Burton and Vicinity
Geo. Varney and wife will soon move from Burton to Gates Mills where he has been employed for several years by the C. & E. railroad company and where she will conduct a boarding house for railroad men.
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The Geauga Leader, Wednesday, December 4, 1907, Page 8
Middlefield
Martin & Harris of Cleveland, have erected a derrick at the B. & O. siding here to transfer logs from the C. & E. electric to the B. & O. cars for shipment to their mills in Cleveland.
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The Geauga Republican, Wednesday, December 11, 1907, Page 5
Home Department
J. B. Grimm & Co. want, immediately, a fifteen acre farm, with good buildings, near the western part of Chardon on the electric railroad. Cash.
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We learn that the Cleveland & Eastern officials do not intend to construct a siding in front of the local station on South Street until spring.
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The Geauga Leader, Wednesday, December 18, 1907, Page 1
At the County Seat
Receiver Beatty and Supt. Doyle of the C. & E. railroad were in town Dec. 9, coming in a special car to inspect the recent improvement.
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The Geauga Leader, Wednesday, December 25, 1907, Page 1
History of a Week
Conductor Henry Hossler of Chardon, who has been very sick for a long time with typhoid fever, is again on duty on the C. & E. railway.
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