Democrat And Standard, The (Newspaper) - February 10, 1903, Coshocton, Ohio eurocrat DEMOCRAT DEMOCRATIC COSHOCTON OHIO TUESDAY FEBRUARY New Series Volume 2 No 11 REMINISCENCES OF EARLY Notes and Notions of Time Incidents OF A HALF CENTURY AGO Recollections of Aunt Letty and the Old Eating House Afterwards the Arlington Hotel By Rev Wm E Hunt For some ten or twelve years say from 1856 to Coshocton was the principal eating or feeding station for passengers on the railroad be- tween Cincinnati and Pittsburg The first eating house was that part of the building E- corner of Fifth and Main streets now occupied by Bob Dorsey's barber shop and the American Express A large addition was made to the structure about 1859 and after it ceased to be used as an Eating House it became and continued for years as a regular hotel called The ton Aunty Letty Thomas a quadroon with two sons and a ter octoroons ran the eating house in its earlier vears and afterwards Williamson and Seth Gardner R M Hackinson was the landlord of the Arlington and the property is dav the possession of his daughter Mrs Dr Frew Aunt family was the colored family in the town and with the Waring family up on Killbuck which had been brought there from the region of Richmond and manumitted by the former slave Master made up the entire colored population of the county in 1856 Aunt Letty had been brought from Washington city to which long vears went back spending her later days in keeping boarders for the Howard University at which one of her sons graduated and became a lawver in the Capital She a famous the Ole style and her eating house a great reputation Half an hour for dinner and many of the famous Generals and civilians the war were guests at the liable and stretched their limbs after- on the board platform in front of the house Abraham Lincoln did not stop for a meal but his special train on the way to his inauguration halted in front of the house and he appeared on the rear platform and made a brief address Gen Grant was twice at least a diner Gen Morgan the famous Confederate after his capture was given a supper there Captain Voorhees now circuit judge recalls the parlor of the house as the scene of a very Important event in his life And there are others who recall the old house with special in- A PRETTY HOME Lafayette Indicator For a small town West Lafayette has many good But the one now for Mr Burt is the most complete in town and of the design The workmanship seems of the best all through It is a ten room house with two stairways polished floors bath and water fixtures hot water heating handy as a dining car and everything The rooms are all al wood white walnut one black walnut one cherry two red oak five white oak and two halls white oak this wood coming from Mr Burt's farm The bath room is very Among the things which add to the beauty of the house is copper bevel plate glass fancy windows and the grill over the stairway One odd feature is the bay window which is a part of one room and runs past the partition and opens into another room This seems to have been built for family Mr can take his position in this bay window and either way Of the construction of this kouse Andrew Miller did the stone work with the assistance of John McCabe of this place and Fred Kutcher ef Besst and Ham Browning superintended the tering and were assisted all through bv Sim Fleming Wm of and J Miller of helped some Ham Burt of Coshocton put up the chimneys James West assisted by Carter the tinning and roofing Hykes Bros of Newcomerstown did the plastering assisted by Chas Beall and Frank Caton as tenders Chas Heiman of Coshocton helped by Jacob Scherer lid the plumbing Branthoover and Johnston of bridge assisted by C F Duffy and Hardesty put in the hot water system J C Davis of Newark put in the stairway Chas Fleming of with the assistance of Em- mett Ross and Chas Turner did the painting Mrs Burt did the most of the planning and Mr Burt paid the bills rr is NOW JUDGE DONLEY Judge Roche Retires and Resumes the Practice of Yesterday Judge T C Roche con- cluded his term of three years as bate Judge of Coshocton county and was succeeded by Mr who was elected last November It is the con- census of opinion among the members of the bar that Judge Roche in the of- fice of probate judge has been quite correct in his interpretations of the law was considerate careful and con- in his judicial thoughtful and courteous in his tions to the people having business with that office As indicating his gal acumen and clear conception of the law and his ability to correctly balance the scales of justice the fact is cited that in more than a score of cases appealed from his decision to the pleas court and to the circuit court he has not been reversed in the final hearing of any case In perhaps two instances he was ed in common pleas but later on in the This is a record of which Judge Roche may well feel He is now established in suit of rooms in the Hunt building where L D Schott has had his office Two ad- rooms have been fitted up making commodious and pleasant Judge Donley has yet to make a ord in the probate office His al and political friends feel sure that it will be a good one- Miss Hunt who has been the cient deputy in that office during the last nine years has consented to re- main and assist Judge Donley for a few months at least RIVER BRIDGE TO BE REBUILT Commissioners Contract For It With Canton Company The county commissioners last week contracted with the Canton Bridge Company to re-establish the bridge which has fallen into the river this side of Newcomerstown The contract provides first for the immediate tion of a temporary bridge for 8950 Then the old bridge is to be taken out of the water and put in position with all new parts that are necessary for New abutments on piling with piling for approaches to the bridge are to be put in at a cost of a total cost of 33.500 FINAL AGREEMENT ON WAGE SCALE Between the Coal Miners and Operators IN INDIANAPOLIS CONVENTION An Advance of About Fifteen Per Cent For the Miners in This State VALUABLE TIMBER TRACT Timber dealers and saw mill owners are constantly on the alert for the purchase of timber and year by year the timber tracts of the country are being cut away Values have ad- until fair prices are paid for good tracts What is said to be one of the best timber lots in Coshocton county is twelve acres in Virginia township belonging to David Balo The timber on these twelve acres which is largely whiteoak has been sold to the sawmill men Houser Trace for 81.150 The whiteoak is to be cut into timber for the railway com- When the timber on an acre of land in this county will sell for a sum closely np to 8100 we begin to late as to the probable value of ber in this country a generation hence SCHEME FOR NEW CARPET The Dresden Transcript says that the M E congregation of Trinway has taken a novel plan for the tion of a new carpet for their church Two ladies are to go to Coshocton and two to Zanesville and inspect carpets and each is to bring a sample of her first choice home Then on an ing not yet announced the samples will be exhibited at the town hall and the public invited to come and after looking over the samples be asked to vote on which one should be selected at five cents per vote The sample receiving the largest number of votes will then be the one for the church A short time ago G W Shirer of township sold his farm in dams township to H J Vinsel for but concluded that he would rather have the farm than the money and he gave Mr Vinsel to deed the farm back to Transcript After many days of session and earnest discussion in a convention of coal miners and mine owners held in Indianapolis an agreement was reached last Saturday by which a scale to govern the operation of minous coal mines in western sylvania Ohio Indiana and Illinois was signed by the operators and ers joint conference It advances the wages of pick ers and inside day labor per cent brings outside day labor up per cent over what was paid at the ning of the present year advances drivers per cent and adds 8 cents to machine mining The scale as reported was ratified by a vote of to 257 the opposition being from Northern Illinois The scale means an average of 15 percent announced President John Mitchell of the mine workers advance means from 20 to 30 cents a ton more on cost of tion in these four it means to annually Tht consumer will have to pay it- This was the operator's The scale that was signed will be used as a basis of settlement in 10 other States The price for mining is to be in- creased 10 cents per ton on one and inch screened lump coal pick mining in Western Pennsylvania thin vein the Hocking the basing district of Ohio and both the block and bituminous districts of Indiana 6 cents per ton on mine run coal pick mining in the bituminous district of Indiana and Danville the basing point of Illinois The price of machine mining is to be increased 6 cents per ton on screened lump coal in Western vein and the Hocking the basing district of lOc per ton on screened lump coal in the block and bi- districts of Indiana and 6 cents per ton on mine run coal in the district of Indiana and at Danville the basing point of Illinois The inside day wage scale to be as follows with the conditions of the day wage scale agreement of 1898 Track layers track layers helpers trappers bottom cagers 82 drivers trip ers water haulers and machine haulers where such are employed pipe men for compressed air plants company men in long wall mines of district of Northern Illinois all other inside day labor 82.36 age and dead work are to be advanced cent In addition to the above the tors verbally agreed that outside day labor shall be increased per cent- in Ohio Illinois and Indiana and that in the Pittsburg district there shall be an increase of per cent except where prices have been ad- during the present year In these cases increase shall be granted to bring the amount up to per cent- increase and where more than per cent was secured the wages shall not be reduced In the mines of the Monongahela Company j the advance shall be a straight one of 25 cents a day i The understanding of the miners here is that the new rate is 95 cents per ton in the Coshocton district DIED NEAR SPRING MOUNTAIN Mrs Elizabeth Williamson wife of Piatt Williamson of Monroe ship died Friday of cancer of the stomach She was the daughter of vid Brillhart one of the pioneer of Monroe was married to Mr Williamson in 1865 and had one son who died nine years The de- ceased was a consistent Christian and for many years a member of the church Interment of remains was made Sunday in Spring Mountain cemetery FIRST ORGAN LAST WEEK A number of pianos have been turned out from the factory during the last but the first organ made ready for the market was com- last week With a full ing force it is the purpose of the com- pany to turn out 30 pianos and 75 gans each month DRAWING CLOSE TO Are the Natural Gas Pipe Line Layers TO BRING US NATURAL GAS Large Force of Trench Makers and Pipe Placers Are on the Mid- Farm The large force of trench diggers and pipe layers for conveying natural gas to now approaching the city at the pace of about a half mile per day In their progress from Utica way they have now reached into borders of Jackson township perhaps seven miles west of Koscoe and are now on the Middleton farm The digging machine got out of ing order last week and sixty or more men are with pick and shovel making the trench ready for the pipe layers A more of like active oper ations will bring the completed line to Roscoe it is calculated HER ACCOMPLISHED She Rests From Life's Activities in the Sleep of Death Mrs Elizabeth Sheneman w of the late Thomas Sheneman died of dropsy Wednesday of last week at the home of her daughter J Lautenschleger on Sand Run Holmes county where she spent the last eral years of her Deceased was born in Hempfield Westmoreland county Pennsylvania Oct 1823 She left her native home when quite young and came with her parents to the southern part of Holmes county where the remainder of her life was passed She became the mother of six sons and three daughters with twenty grandchildren and twenty great-grandchildren vive to mourn the loss of a most ful tender and loving mother and grandmother All the children were present at the obsequies with the exception of a daughter Mrs John F Wise of coln Deceased was a sincere Christian woman and bore her suffering dent to disease and the feebleness of old asre with becoming patience and resignation She performed well her part in life and in her death has but laid aside the cross to take up the crown Rev D R Raiser conducted al exercises over the remains last Friday and interment was made in the Reformed cemetery at New ford RAILWAY COMPANY SETTLES Last week Mr Needham adjuster of claims for the W L- E made settlement with the widow and heirs of Thomas Maston killed by a train while loading coal at Pleasant Valley last fall The sum agreed on and paid was M A son who was badly injured in the wreck was paid in settlement of claim for damages- MEETING OF EDUCATION BOARD Teachers Vacancy Training Made Compulsory At a of the board of tion held evening the tendent of schools was empowered to make physical culture compulsory ex- cept in where the pupil incapable of going through the exercise No pupil will be excused hereafter from important branch of school work without a from his physician or by permission of teacher or the sical instructor Prof Talmage to the board the purchase of a piano for the Bancroft building for use in the marching an d drill movements of pils Board decided to make the Marion a teacher presented her resignation on account of ill health which was accepted and Maud Mohler was elected to take her place The resignation of W R ene as a member of the board of city received and accepted and W S Merrell was chosen to fill the vacancy A number of bills and accounts were presented and allowed CLOTHES CAME BACK On the Sth of Waldo Thorp a lodger at the ing house disappeared taking with him articles of el belonging to W H- Taft Last week Thorp was arrested in land for a larceny committed in ark When the prisoner arrived at he had on a gray overcoat suit of derby hat pair of ent leather shoes muffler pair of gloves and necktie all of which he had stolen here from Taft Mr Taft went to Newark and identified all these ar- ticles which were turned over to him by Sheriff Anderson of Licking ty At time of the theft the goods were taken from Taft's room at boarding house while be work in one of the Novelty factories Mr Throp is pretty sure of a trip to Col- after a hearing in court THE ARE GONE W 3 Bahmer and T F Smiley of the defunct Coshocton Bulletin left here last Sunday for Pittsburg We are privileged to note the fact that J F Meek J W W A Himebaugh E L Lybarger Rev ersole R M Temple T C Roche Lewis Fisher C A C B McCoy Will and other prominent who were so anathematized and totally an- by editorial are still here in business All men are apparently prosperous and none of them are likely to have to v away on account of lack of the common and business abilities necessary to make a living for their families in this community Ladies of M P church will serve supper at Armory hall Thursday ing and ask your patronage MARRIAGE AT NEW BEDFORD Walter A Lower and Miss Amanda C Benell were united in marriage on the at the Reformed church parsonage in New Bedford Rev D Raiser The newly ried pair will make their home in dina county where the has em- trent PAST FOUR SCORE YEARS Warsaw Neutral John G Elder was given a surprise Monday last by bis family He had reached the age of 81 on that day and without his knowledge his good wife had prepared a dinner and ed a number of the family to brate the occasion The guests were Mary J son of this village a niece Wm M Elder a brother and wife his sons John M and Samuel B and and grandson Clifford John G Elder was born on the river bend now owned by James Foster Jr and Mrs Zula Foster and on that part owned bv the latter He is the son of John and Elder were pioneers in this township If we re- member correctly John Elder Sr came here from Virginia John Elder was married in 1847 to Jane Simpson and they are both living at this time about one and a half miles south of this village Mr Elder is a very vigorous bright man for Our recollection of him i in following cradle with a rake 1 whilst cutting wheat on the bottoms i village and he made a lad to rake the wheat he cut down in a day BIG COAL SHIPMENT Daring the month of January of coal were shipped out of the Coshocton district over the Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad making an aggregate of over 33.000 mostly sent to Cleveland and Toledo and intermediate points DESERTED HIS WIFE It i- en out that William Irvine an employee of the Meek Beach company who married to ia Smith of Roscoe only a few weeks ago has deserted young wife and left the country going no one here knows where NEWSY NOTES CLOSELY CUT WAGES ADVANCED The section men on the W L E railroad are to have daily wages advanced on March 1st from 81.25 to per day About a score of these laborers live in BIBLE LESSONS THIS WEEK Rev J E Turner the noted tor in bible lessons will continue his work here throughout the week He will give instruction this afternoon and evening at the M P church and at Grace M E church the other after- noons and evenings to the close Which Briefly and ly Tell the Story OF COSHOCTON HAPPENINGS Together With Neighborhood and Other Items of General Interest For Hasty Readers The of the M P church will serve their annual supper in Armory hall on Thursday evening February 12th Mrs Nettie Beebe yesterday ed information of the death of her grandmother in the city of phia Martin Randies a young man aged about 25 died Sunday at his home in Bethlehem township of con- Schule an inmate of the county aged died Saturday were buried at Sunday Sullivan and Green who were at Indianapolis attending a con- vention of coal and operators have returned home The north bound passenger train on the W L E which has been eaving here at p m now leaves ten minutes p m Mrs Boigegrain a former resident of Coshocton died at the home of her daughter in Frazeysburg last day Her age was 83 years The mother of Mrs Andrew ner died last Saturday at her home in Portsmouth O- and Mrs Weiener eft at once to attend the funeral Attorney T H Wheeler tried the case of American Harrow Lowery in Warsaw Friday and won a verdict of for his client than seven or eight dogs were killed last week in the ville and Willow Brook neighborhoods that were afflicted with rabies Christian of near tic died last week aged about sixty He was a man of true tian piety and usefulness in good w S W Snyder the fur buyer has purchased worth of furs since beginning work in December and there yet remains about six weeks of the fur season Nineteen years ago this week the February floods in this valley were of the height to put the water up into Second The stage of water here made 1884 memorable -X Samaritan chapter of the local lodge of Masons had work in the al Arch degree last Friday evening and at the close of lodge enjoyed a banquet at the Empire hotel City Solicitor J L McDowell and Councilman Allen Holmes have gone to Dayton to attend a meeting of the league of municipalities of Ohio and expect to be away until Charles West aged 20 years died Thursday at his honre in Dresden from diphtheria The old baby of the West family died a few hours previous from the same disease The ladies of Sacred Heart church held a very pleasant and profitable at the home of Mrs C L Walker on Chestnut street last Thursday evening The net proceeds of the social were 833.10 I J Baker while in Columbus Thursday was thrown violently to the ground while alighting from a street car sustaining severe bruises and a dislocation of one wrist She was able to return to her home here yesterday The Chicago House Wrecking Com- pany last week commenced suit against the Coshocton Wall Plaster company to recover claim for ing engine Case went into common pleas court from docket of Justice Wimmer NEWSPAPER
