Ottoville Items - 1906

DD – Defiance Democrat

DH – Delphos Herald

LN – Lima News

PCS – Putnam County Sentinel

LTD – Lima Times Democrat

DC – Delphos Courant

VWTB – Van Wert Times Bulletin

FWES – Ft. Wayne Evening Sentinel

5-9-1906 LN

Traction Company is Incorporated

            Columbus, May 9 – The Cleveland Van Wert & Indiana Traction Company of Van Wert, was incorporated yesterday. The company proposes to build and electric line from Norwalk to Tiffin, Findlay, Ottawa, Kalida, Ottoville, Van Wert and other municipalities to the state line.

            Its initial capital is $10,080 and the incorporators are: I. R. Tudor, L. R. Bonetwitz, J. J. Humphreys, L. E. Gleson and F. T. Webster.

6-4-1906 VWTB

A team of Van Wert ball players were defeated by Ottoville, in a ten inning game, played in the latter town, Sunday afternoon. The score: Ottoville, 5; Van Wert, 4.

7-30-1906 VWTB

The local baseball team suffered defeat Sunday afternoon, at Ottoville, by a score of three to one. Van Wert secured ten hits and made two errors in the field. Ottoville hit safely four times and played errorless ball. The game was exciting throughout and would have been a victory for the locals, but for a blocked ball, which gave to Ottoville a lead of two runs and the game. Ottoville will appear here Tuesday afternoon, at Third Ward school ground, the proceeds to be donated to the Van Wert County Hospital Association.

8-1-1906 VWTB

The game of baseball between the Ottoville and Van Wert teams yesterday afternoon, at Third ward school ground, was won by the locals by a score of twenty to eight. With two out in the second inning Van Wert landed a man on the initial sack through a rank muff of a high fly to the middle garden, a hit which followed, a series of amateurish plays by Ottoville and some consistent stick work piled up a score of five runs for the locals. In the third inning Ottoville again made a balloon ascension and five more runs for the locals resulted. In the next five innings Van Wert sent ten more runners over the pan. Ottoville managed, through errors in the field and some timely stick work, to register eight runs in their innings of play.

8-6-1906 FWES

THE CURTAIN RAISER

Ottoville is over in Ohio. That's the most definite answer the rootors that accompanied the team here yesterday for a curtain raiser at league park would give. Judging from the ball team it must be a land of dog fennel and Jimsen weeds, a town that has the much used "tall and uncut" looking like a metropolis.

Somebody wrote to Mart Cleary that, the club was "some bumkins" and 'lowed by

crackey it could everlastingly lamhnsl the Shamrocks and brought some people over to see the battle. At the end of live innings the score was fifteen to nothing and the Shamrock players' tongues were hanging out from chasing around the bases. The Ottoville men had run after the ball until they were all tuckered out and the game was stopped In the Interest of humanity.

First Game

The Shamrocks took the bats in the first and with a total of six hits chalked up five runs to their credit. Brandehoff who essayed to do the principal stunt for the visitors, either had the stage fright or was outclassed beyond redemption. The Shamrocks clouted the ball at will, and in futile attempts to hold, the game down to a creditable score the boys relaxed their batting, which aided the visitor to retire them.

The second inning was not so bad. The Shamrocks retiring from the bat without a score. The third was the round that took the backbone out of the Buckeyes. Just after a few minutes the bases were full, time after time, only to be emptied by safe drives and red-hot grounders. Eight runs crossed the rubber before the spectacular exhibition, was arrested.

R.H.E.

Ottoville     0 0 0 0 0 --  0   3 8

Shamrocks 5 0 0 2 8 -- 15 10 0

Batteries—Brandehoff and Ladd; Robbins and Roman

8-25-1906 VWTB

Residents of Ottoville took thirty tubs of cat fish from the canal near that village, when the water was lowered in order that new locks might be built, and placed the fish in a stone quarry nearby.

11-15-1906 VWTB

EASY VICTIM

Ottoville Man Falls Into the Hands of a Friendly Stranger at Toledo

A Toledo paper says that Andrew Yochlin, from Ottoville, was an easy victim of confidence men at the terminal depot in that city, kindly passing over forty dollars to a poor, distressed individual with a New York draft for eight hundred and fifteen dollars and an imaginary corpse to be shipped home. Yochlin was waiting to take a train for home when he was accosted by a stranger. Friendship followed. The stranger had a grip and an umbrella at the depot and two more grips at a nearby hotel. Andrew became so friendly and accommodating that he offered to accompany the stranger to the hotel for the baggage. Outside the depot they met the stranger's partner in the guise of the baggageman. The baggageman informed Yochlin's new found friend that if he wanted  “that corpse to go on the next train he would have to put up thirty-five dollars more”. A draft on a New York bank would not go at all. It must be coin of the realm. The distressed stranger appealed to Yochlin for a loan of the desired amount until he could go down town and cash his draft Yochlin didn't have the change and accommodatingly passed over an even forty dollars. Then the man from Ottoville sat down in the depot to watch the empty grip and cheap umbrella for the stranger while he went down town to cash his draft. The stranger never returned and Yochlin postponed his return home l.ong enough, to notify the police.