Philip Meyer

 Brookville Democrat

(for no good reason)

Feb. 17, 1898

Philip Meyer and W.J. Zacharias are each having bowling alleys erected. Brookville will soon be strictly up to the latest fad.

1902

Given away.

Philip Meyer will give away a gallon keg of Hudson Rye whiskey to the man guessing nearest the correct gallons in the "monster cask" of Hudson Rye whiskey now on display at his place of business, Brookville. Contest closes Nov. 1, 1902

1903

Young men wanted to learn bar-keeping. Philip Meyer, Brookville

Girl wanted to do general housekeeping. Philip Meyer, Brookville

1904

Four-year-old bourbon whiskey from this date to the holidays for$3 per gallon -- Philip Meyer.

1906

Philip Meyer fined

Philip Meyer, the saloonkeeper, was arrested about 5 o'clock Tuesday morning by Marshal Sottong and placed in the calaboose. Later that day he was taken before Judge McCammon and upon entering a fee of guilty, was fined and costed the tune of $9.80 for drunkenness. The case against him for selling liquor on Thanksgiving is set for trial before Justice McCammon for Thursday. 

1907

Adam Fehlinger has moved his family here from Batesville. He is now head beer slinger at Philip Meyer's saloon while Philip is away on a short trip. 

December -- Last Wednesday week, Mrs. Jacob Meyer was called to New York City on account of the serious illness of her son Philip. She arrived there Thursday morning at 9 o'clock and said death by typhoid fever claimed his spirit at 6:30 the same evening.

The remains of Philip Meyer, age 38, that were shipped from New York City to Cedar Grove arrived there Saturday. Undertaker Klotz took the remains to the home of Mrs. Jacob Meyer, the mother of the deceased.

Brookville American, June 1852

Connersville

On Friday last we visited our neighbors on the canal above us. Connersville is decidedly a pleasant place, and by a judicious use of some of their spare capital might make it decidedly more so.

They have the means. There is not probably a town in the state of the population with as much real capital. Yet they have not made a single turnpike, nor any other improvement, except the large amount they invested in the canal.

And they may make as many canals and railroads as they please, they will never be truly independent, and suited for the enjoyment of home and domestic life, until they have good common roads.

Railroads will not add to the business of the place, as much as it would for them to run turnpikes west to Fairview, northwest to Benton, north to Milton, east to Brownsville, and south to West Union. These roads they need, and they will have them as soon as they can be cured of leaping too high and too far.

The prospect was favorable on Saturday last for the speedy completion of the railroad from Hamilton, Ohio, through Oxford, Liberty, Connersville, to Rushville.

Arrangements by which this is to be effected have been entered late with the Cincinnati and Hamilton Company.

Notes: West Union was also known as Everton.

Connersville did invest large sums of money in the Whitewater Canal, which helped boost a large furniture industry -- dominated by oligarch William Newkirk -- by providing hydraulic power.

Link to the Newkirk mansion (beware of eventual link rot).

Joaquin's comments

Dillsboro News, 1909

(pointless but interesting)

CRYING NEED, AS HE SEES IT

Companies of Irritated Divines Came to the Front with Order to the Waiter

Joaquin Miller is to establish a colony of poets in Fruitville, Cal. Mr. Miller, discussing this colony recently said:

"We poets will, of course, argue and squabble. That will be delightful. Arguments and squabble. over Matthew Arnold, Swinburne, Tennyson and Keats are pleasant and sensible things, you know. They are not like political or religious arguments, which in their bitter rancor always makes me thing of three Maine divines.

"While three Maine divines were supping together, two of them began to argue about the comparative religious merit of the royal houses of Stuart and Orange. The argument became heated. The divines grew excited and angry.

" 'William III, was a great rascal,' " roared the first, as he struck the table with his fist. A great rascal, and I spit on his memory!'

"The second divine, turning very red, shouted:

"No, it is James II that was the rascal. I spit upon his memory!'

"At this point the third divine rang the bell, and said gently to the waiter:

" 'Spittoons for two, please.'"

Notes: Joaquin Miller was a notable poet/novelist from the late 1860s forward into the early years of the 20th century. He was allegedly born in Liberty but also claimed to be from Cincinnati.

He left Indiana with his father in the 1850s and ended up in Oregon, where he worked several professions until he became prominent as a poet.

Poets in those years were celebrities. Miller's life also included a divorce after he abandoned his wife and children in around 1870, spending his time becoming famous in Europe and maintaining several affairs with prominent women. His wife exposed him in a letter that appeared in many U.S. newspapers. Oddly, toward the end of his life, 30 years after his divorce, he reunited with Amanda. They had 3 children. 

Miller's first name was Cincinnatus Heine (Hiner, Homer) and at least one story said he was born in the "Wabash" district of Indiana in 1841. His Find-a-Grave page says he was born in Union County, Indiana.

His opinions were highly respected by newspaper and magazine editors of the day.

If such a poets colony was created, it's not important enough to research. Miller died in 1913.

I have another blog item on him. HERE

Base Ball, 1904

 Brookville Democrat, 1904

The base ball game on Sunday at Fairfield between Blooming Grove and Bentley Batters vs. Fairfield Fans, resulted in favor of the former. The score was 12 to 18. Jonah Swift of Blooming Grove pitched swift balls.

The Rumbler Base Ball Club will give its first ball in the Town Hall, Brookville, on Thursday evening Oct. 6. The Brookville Orchestra will furnish the music. Everybody is invited. Tickets, 50 cents.

The Brookville baseball club went to Liberty last Friday, where in one of the best games of the season, they defeated the Liberty club by a score of 6 to 5. This makes two out of three for Brookville with Liberty this season. The boys were well treated and report a fine time.

Harrison News -- Frank Riddinger, one of our base ball players, has left the Vincennes cub and joined the Greensburg aggregation. He plays first base and has an excellent record. He enjoys the reputation of being one among the few ball players who does not drink intoxicants of any kind, and is always in excellent condition when "play ball!" is wafted to the breeze by the umpire.

A very large crowd of enthusiastic citizens and baseball "fans" and "rooters" went to the ballpark at this place last Sunday afternoon to see the game between Brookville and Oxford, which was a one-sided affair. The weather was everything that could be asked for and the boys played ball for all that was in it. The Oxford team brought a few "rooters" along but when the Brookville team got to work, they did not have a chance to "root." It was a good-natured crowd, and everybody wanted to see the Brookville boys win. And they did win. The score was 18 to 0. The Fairfield team will play here next Sunday.

The Fairfield Base Ball Club defeated the Brookville club Sunday afternoon on the grounds of the latter, the score being 17 to 14.

Grocery ads from 1930

 

The American Dream

 Appliance ads from the Brookville Democrat, summer 1949

College Corner

Liberty Express, Feb. 12, 1915

COLLEGE CORNER

Complains of the Disadvantages of a "Border Town"

College Corner is in a situation with many disadvantages.

As to the quarantine: The depot and stock yard being located in Indiana, livestock from that state alone may be shipped out and then only to an Indiana market; while Cincinnati is a preferred market. Thus the interstate quarantine regulation works a hardship on local livestock interests.

Again, in interstate fares, the railroad is charging one-sixth to one-fifth more fare from here (Indiana side) east-bound, on account of passing over the state line. Because of this, people who make long trips east go to Oxford to board the train; while Oxford people going west for the same reason come here to buy tickets.

It thus seems the railroad is in many cases not gaining in the interstate transaction as regards this town. Likely a more remunerative condition would exist if passenger rates were figured on a flat rate basis without considering the state line, for travelers are getting "wise" and save money buying tickets as stated above. The present schedule of rates, though legal, is a discrimination.

-- College Corner News

Note: The "quarantine" was generally in effect all over the country as the government attempted to slow the spread of hoof-and-mouth disease among cattle. Regulations varied from state to state.