East End Ironton, Ohio

The following stories were abstracted from area newspapers about the happenings around East Ironton in Lawrence County, Ohio. These notes are very helpful in learning about what life was like in the 1870s and 1880s.

IRONTON REGISTER,  THURSDAY,  OCTOBER 05, 1876

• Mr. I . C. Dovel is expected home from the Centennial on Saturday.
• The Rev. Charles Helwig, the German M. E. minister stationed here for the coming year, has arrived and entered his work.
• B. R. Lane has been on the sick list for some days, having to adjourn school.
• Wm. Tetts’ youngest child, a little girl, died last Sunday of whooping cough.
• The immersion of five members of the colored Baptist church at the East End Ironton, Ohio wharf last Sunday was witnessed by many people.
• At our next writing, we will be able to tell you how we are off for Republicans up here in the Fifth Ward.
• Preparations are being made for erecting a frame building in the Murdock orchard, corner Second, and Sycamore streets.
• Bowen and Clark sold a lot of lumber this week in the East End, Ironton, Ohio, to Wise & Co.
• An unusual number of small boats are lying along the shore, which is of a suspicious character, to say the least of it.
• At a meeting of the Fifth Ward Republican Hayes club on Tuesday night, an interest showed business, and you rest assured that the Fifth Ward will do its duty next Tuesday. They were meeting again on Friday evening.
• The attendance in the East Ironton schools is unusually large, and it is worth noting that the scholars speak in the highest terms of their superintendent and teachers.
• Chris. Glasser, our veteran butcher, has turned his shop around and fronted it on Third Street.  Added another room, put in a new front, and generally improved the place.  Reform is what Chris. stresses.      JACKPLANE.

IRONTON REGISTER,  THURSDAY,  NOVEMBER 01, 1877

• Rev. Reinhart paid his friends in this part of town a short visit the past week.
• C. C. Bowen started with his store boat, “Bonanza,” for Cincinnati last Monday.  His family accompanies him.
• Geo. A. Phifer has entered the hardware business in New Richmond, Ohio.  He was in town the past week to buy a stock of hoop iron.
• Wm. Collins launched a large coal barge near the East Ironton wharf, which he had repaired for a Pittsburg company, last Saturday.
• The Newman Lumber Co. has added very much to the attractiveness of their office with a fine collection of shrubs and plants.
• Albert Clark has rented C. C. Bowen’s property on Third street and will be a resident of the 5th ward.
• John Everly, a boy 18 years of age, was severely injured by a falling mass of stone in a quarry just back of town last Saturday.
• Lawless & Adkinson, the contractors on the Ice Creek bridge piers, expect to complete their work by the 20th of November.
• The Alice Furnace was compelled to stop last week for want of coke.  Since then, the Company has received eight barges, and the furnace is again in the blast.  The Belfont also received coke this week.
• On Sunday, October 21st, Robert Kilgore was missing from his home, as we stated in last week’s REGISTER.  The boy’s fate remained a mystery until the 26th when his body was discovered floating in the river, a short distance above the wharf boat.  On the Sunday morning in question, Robert went to Sunday School at the Presbyterian Church, where he was a regular attendant.  From there, it is supposed he went directly to the East Ironton wharf, intending to take his joe-boat to the lower wharf, and being subject to fits, no doubt fell overboard while in one of these and was drowned.  The remains were buried at Kelly’s cemetery on Saturday, the 27th.
• The Newman Lumber Co. has been putting a cargo box on one of R. R. Hudson’s barges.
• James H___, a painter who formerly worked here, is reported to have been drowned from a steamboat above here.                  JACKPLANE.

IRONTON REGISTER, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1881

• John W. Phillips has sold his fine span of gray horses.
• John Harr’s little boy came near being drowned near Belfont furnace one-day last week, where the boy was at work.
• Newman & Rodamor have a large contract in Huntington, one in Ashland, and one in Portsmouth.
• Francis Prine has added an addition to his residence on 2nd street and repainted the entire building.
• The new steamboat hull being built by Bill Collins is well underway.
• Mrs. C. Glaser lost a fine mare last Thursday.
• Thomas D. Kelly is putting up an addition to his home on 3rd street and otherwise improving it.
• We think of no time when better health prevails in this part of town than at present.
• The old Martin house on R. R. Street (do not have end of this)

IRONTON REGISTER, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1883

• The new school building will soon be ready for the inside finish.
• Charles Hughs has sold his property to George Miller.
• The Mittendorf property on Second street, occupied by Miss Lucas, has been purchased by Mr. Duis.
• Houses to rent are in great demand.
• Newman & Rodarmor’s sawmill makes between forty and fifty thousand feet of lumber daily.
• G. W. Thompson is preparing plans and specifications for a handsome two-story residence for Henry Mittendorf, corner of Fifth and Washington streets.
• The cows are a much greater nuisance on the streets than the hogs.
• This morning May 16th, cold enough for frost.
• The German M. E. Minister has asked to be released from his charge here and will remove to Indiana.
• Mrs. Thomas T. Hall’s mother from Middleport, Ohio, is visiting her.     JACKPLANE.