HOMETOWN HISTORY

September 10, 2020

150 Years Ago

Local: A large number of seedy tramps of both sexes pass through this county daily. They are not afraid of padlocks and manage to get into cellars and outhouses with but little difficulty. Farmers had better rub the rust from their guns. L.H. Blend has the contracts for erecting elegant new houses for A.C. Moody and E.M. Vosburgh on Elm Street. The houses will be nearly alike and built on adjoining lots between James Cope’s and H.N. Rowe’s to cost about $3,000 each. We have seen the plans and can assure our villagers of a handsome addition to the beauty of the place. Mr. Vosburgh has sold his lot on Grand Street to Rev. H.H. Allen, a one-fourth acre at $250. A clergyman had a milk-white horse, which, on account of his beautiful form, he called Zion. Having ordered his horse to the door, a friend asked him where he was going. “Why,” said he, “to mount Zion.” Rockford, Illinois recently had a baseball match between married and single women in which the latter won an overwhelming victory. Male spectators were ruthlessly denied admittance.

September 1870