Democrat And Standard, The (Newspaper) - February 17, 1903, Coshocton, Ohio f 4 f w v c m o c rat and 1844 COSHOCTON OHIO FEBRUARY New Series Volume 2 No REMINISCENCES OF EARLY COSHOCTON Notes and Notions of Time Incidents OF A DALE CENTURY AGO Something of Newspapers in ton in Other Days and Now or of Harris and did much good work in bringing the Age on its way Col- lier went to New Mexico Raton and Search and Meek took charge of the Age In a little time J F Meek had sole charge and gave much thought and labor with evidences of success During Collier's time the office was in the opera house Mr Meek put it in the building now occupied by the Eureka on Main St between 2nd and 3rd streets C B McCoy and the Age Publishing company have been in the succession and hare put in office full outfit and it puts a very great difference between the Age of to-day and that of 1856 when I first saw it In another article I may give some recollections and impressions of Editors of papers than the two I found in the town I came to it By Rev Win E Hunt Looking out the window of the home the Johnson house on Second street above Chestnut where I was entertained over Sunday on my ond visit to I observed a sign reading The building was a one story affair having two small rooms badly weather en and with good ventilation by son of broken glass The fact that I had been told that the wife of the editor was a good church woman of mv faith and that she and her band had been to hear me the day before and my general inborn regard for me to call on the editor on Monday morning I was courteously received and a friendship was scon formed that was a very one for long years That editor was Asa G Dimmock I had not been long in Coshocton until I visited jn his office the editor of The Progressive The of- fice was in the second story of the building on southeast corner of ond and Chestnut streets Access was had to It by a somewhat unsteady Outside there was about rooms a good deal more than dinginess and dirt as then com- mon to printing offices The editor was Asa Hillyer as lean and cadaverous and taciturn as Dimmock was portly and I was im- pressed by the fact that both men were sons of father was a Baptist minister whose labors had been given to central sylvania and father had been a widely known Presbyterian minister laboring many yearsin ark N J Dimmock had long been a per man in Cadiz and in urg He had also been active in politics and had come to Coshocton after having filled for some the office of Warden of the Ohio Hillyer was a lawyer by profession but having limited tice had takei up the work of nine the Asre in an urgent necessity both for himself and which was just then in a state o and had not settled into the well shaned it be- came Neither the editors nor the were very as I first knew them experience availed him much and things improved After a number of years he read up law enough to be admitted to the bar BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM The primary purpose of the CRAT AND STANDARD is not as an ad- sheet but a purveyor of the local and general news and good ly literature It devotes some of its columns to advertising and it costs a little more to get an advertisement in it because it is worth more to the advertiser than any other paper in Coshocton county The of this paper is regarded in fixing ad- rates FORTY THOUSAND FOR NEW THEATRE Modern Opera House Prospect in AN UP-TO-DATE PLAY HOUSE COMING EVENT OF IMPORTANCE To Farmers Is the Institute to Be Held at West Lafayette The Farmers Independent Institute to be held in town hall West ette Friday and Saturday of this week Feb and 21st promises to be of more than usual interest to mers and a large attendance is There will be three sessions Friday afternoon and and two sessions and afternoon An extended program of exercises has been prepared which includes ad- dresses by prominent institute ers upon topics of especial interest to farmers Vocal and instrumental music will enliven the sessions and all who at- tend be abundantly profited as well as entertained DIED IN LOS ANGELES Information was received here last week of the death of the wife of French H- Thornhill of Richwood Union county O which occurred Tuesday at Los Cat where Mr and Mrs Thornhill had srone to spend the winter Mrs Thornhill has been in delicate health for the last ten years her trouble being weakness of the lungs The maiden name of the her Company Incorporated Location Stock ing Soon to be Commenced Articles of incorporation were sued last week by the secretary of state to T J Hanley John Williams William Rodgers John C Adams and Joseph Callahan authorizing the of the Coshocton Opera House Company with a capital stock of The location of the theatre is to be on what is known as the Hesket erty corner of Main and Sixth streets now owned by William The building is to be such as to make an up-to-date modern house and Architect E W Hart of Columbus is already at work on the plans The present intention is to have a building 110 by 65 feet with a stage 60 by 35 feet and a seating somewhere from one thousand to twelve The auditorium is to be on ground Soor with one cony and a few private boxes The stock of the company is common and preferred All the common stock is taken and sub- scribers for the preferred stock are in fight so that the money for ing forward the project is at once available Mr Hanley says that work on the excavation for the foundation will commence in a few days and building rapidly carried forward and maoTe ready for business before the ensuing summer is ended The management of the theatre is to be committed to Mr Callahan SUB DISTRICT PRESIDENT GREEN LIBRARY PROJECT IN MUCH DANGER Property Selected for Site Sold to Others PUBLIC LIBRARY TO BE CLOSED Feeling Toward Carnegie of Labor Organizations Operating to Kill Library Prospects Two or three of the labor tions of have protested to the city council against accepting Mr generous offer to erect public library building for and the project to be thereby held in abeyance The c of council that had been appointed by that body to cure an option of purchase for the Richie property was slow in action and last eek that property was sold to Mr Pope of the pottery company for residence purposes All of the members of council tome weeks aco voted to accept Mr Now some of them seem to between two in the matter of proceeding further and arranging the details for receiving the bequest of certain bor men hostile to Carnegie have de- this condition of things and it cannot now be divined what the outcome will be- As we understand it these ing labor organizations assume tude of hostility because they feel that Mr Carnegie who offers the gift of has not always been establishment of a new saloon an ad- gambling den and another bawdy house The members of the library board who have labored unceasingly for years to maintain the present library giving liberally of time and means to develop it into a useful agency for the mental and moral betterment of the city are much discouraged at the want of appreciation of the effort and the hostile spirit manifested to place the library on an enduring basis and at a meeting held Thursday ing took the following Whereas the funds on hand are on- ly sufficient to pay the rent of this room for the period of our and Whereas there seems to be no parent source from which for the maintenance of a public library can be obtained and Whereas there to be a sition on the part of the public to de- cline the offer of Mr Carnegie ou the ground that should have a and not a public library therefore be it Resolved that after April 1st this library be closed to the Hc until such time at who are in favor of a purely library have evolved means for the building and maintenance of one NEWSY PURELY PERSONAL MINOR MENTION OF HAPPENINGS In Society's ple Who Visit and Are Visited Visits Zanesville to Adjust to be Held William Green of this city dent of No fi Ohio deceased was Hattie Howe and J diction United Mine of girlhood was parsed in Clarke township this county Later ner home was in Coshocton with her and prosecuting attorney of j er and sister but since her marriage the county He was shrewd clever the home has been at The and charitable and had a wife who a woman of sweet was a woman of much taste ana veritable helpmate even in office work At one xime he got caite forehanded and erected the building now owned bv Judge Roche on Third street just north of Main for a newspaper office and home sition and lovable traits of character and has friends here ATTENDED MEETING William Burns last week attended Just the had been the sixth annual of the Ohio in an old tumble down frame near city hall Iv the office was in the building once the Age corner Second and Chestnut streets where it re- mained until 1572 when it was moved the building on east side of public square now the well appointed offices of the semi-weekly DEMOCRAT health having failed he took for a time Mr McGonigle from Cadiz as associate editor and er Mr John C Fisher now the Nestor of the Press in shocton became a partner and after a time sole editor and proprietor the paper steadily gaining in make-up in circulation and in Mr Dimmock died at his old boyhood home in Pennsylvania in May 1870 of some form of Hill Yer after conducting the Age a short time was succeeded by Joe W Dwyer A little later Mr Hillyer removed to His home while here was a house just south of W H Robinson's on Eighth Robinson's first wife was a sister Mr last State Association of School Board Members held at Over one hundred Ohio cities were sented by school officers at this ing Mr Burns was chosen second vice-president of the Association and was also appointed on a committee of three to prepare a new constitution and for the organization to be reported at next annual ANOTHER THEATRE PROSPECT Mr Rittenhouse owner of the Park hotel makes known the fact that he is about to sell the property to uel Weller a wealthy pottery facturer of that if sale is made the purchaser will remodel the hotel and build a modern opera house in the rear with an arcade entrance through hotel to see it stated that Miss Hunt will continue in the We are glad y P time at least to his friends and office or a time at America went to Sunday where he was called to assist in ad- justing be- tween the miners and operators of the Bolen mines It is announced that a ly to organized labor That may be true but does a feeling of personal dislike toward a rich and generous man in New York furnish a valid son for beating the good people of Coshocton out of something that would be a great and perpetual It is not of the least concern to Mr Carnegie Coshocton his offer of or it It cannot be any disappointment to him if it is nor cannot have a weight in any way of al annoyance and it not at all Iv that he wf 1 ever know of the and Insult people I are to manifest toward him But the thing that is thereby is the annihilation of lie library privileges and E V Coe is visiting near ton Miss Iva McCoy spent part of last week in Pittsburg William Arbogast of Columbus is visiting relatives here Mr and Mrs Mark Love spent day in Newcomerstown Mrs M D is tives in New Philadelphia J A Palmer is spending a few days at Cambridge Springs Mrs Lake B of Toledo visiting in this city H D returned Friday from a business trip to New York F E returned from a in H J of visiting her daughter here L T r ami K o Solby ami K Pomerene are hon from New irone on the road a- a scale com- the pe of Coshocton and vicinity t The result a deprivation for a generation of the in- j j Tj week her nien and j lather ampbell near women and and Newark J H MAXON The Newark papers of last Saturday say that John H Maxon formerly of the Coshocton Gas works has been missing from his home at Gallipolis for last two that his friends are greatly worried over his continued absence from home and are looking up every clue that ises to lead to his It will be remembered that on Feb 3 Mr Mason took out a marriage license in Cincinnati asked that its issuance be kept secret and sought to return the papers when he learned that secrecy could not be maintained Next day he was known to be in Columbus and it is claimed that since then family friends know nothing of his ments or whereabouts unusually capable very kind and position in Indeed Miss Hunt is urv at Washington and more discharging the the over to L of Probate than most of S who was being the men who aspire to that or vice versa The araw in his time was over the in CONDITION IMPROVING The wife of Thomas McConnell of Bethlehem township who was SheTs en paralysis while spending an evening at Keene about a week ago was reported In an improved condition yesterday Consciousness has ed but the paralysis renders Her daughter Elliott Towa the second story of a frame building I Taylor of Seward county is f 1 ft n since torn down on Second stree about half way between Main and Chestnut Harris went to Kansas arrived last Saturday on a visit among relatives and friends Mr Tavlor was born in Coshocton co and and became the is quite well known by postmaster at in that state dents of Dresden and vicinity This Dwter spent the later years of his is his first visit to Ohio since 1886 in Transcript life in New Mexico where in connec tion with the Delanos of Knox ty he was interested in cattle ing His first wife was Titus of second was Mrs S nff Marcia Medberry Se some years while on a visit with his wife to some friends in New Hampshire Capt T W Collier was the NEWSPAPER E B Connor was called to land Guernsey county last week bv the death of his mother We are inclined to believe that Donley will pan out O K Probate Neutral less the right and husband publ are to be obtained The boy j or girl in the community totally able to buy a book or pay the yearly t V subscription for a magazine has he j recorder a her privilege of a well equipped and well managed library and reading room where the good things of papers peri Mrs Fribley who has been visiting 3 j Ii P Gallagher returned to her home in New Philadelphia Friday and books can be gleaned out cost The boys and girls of rich parentage do not so much feel the need of a public library as those less favored in worldly goods for the rich can have good publications in their homes Not so with the and the public library to this class is a benefaction and an agency for good and for intellectual enjoyment that cannot be calculated Mr and Mrs of came here last week on learning of the paralysis affliction of Mrs Thomas McConnell Mrs Lucy Dye wife of the late Furman Dve of near ex- to live with her daughter Mrs Laura Carr at Signal Mrs William Mrs S H and Miss Burns are ing their at the home of Mrs this a settling down to sensible before this beneficent library on by Frank H and Harriet L- C sition is allowed to languish and The same minister n sibly fail of realization Here is a golden and such do not knock at the door of a married Harry Young and Ennis Sheldon afternoon oftener than once If they oc Frank Half a hundred of the lady friends Kane paid her a or they gone observance of her of a feeling of silly or third birthday let coolly of CUT Which Briefly and ly Tell the Story Together With Neighborhood and Other Items of General Interest For Hasty Readers A year old daughter of Kate van Second street The sleet has prostrated many tele- phone wires and greatly crippled the service Revival meetings are in progress at the Disciple on Eleventh street Rev Freer an eloquent evangelist will the pastor Bell slipped and fell one day last week at her home in east part of the city and sustained a broken rib The injuries were attended to by Dr Edwards Frank Whittemore of Keene goes into the grocery here of March taking the of James Preston who has been with Mr der for several years Nelson Bruce died Friday at his home in Conesville of pneumonia aged twenty years He was employed on the railroad section and was a young man much liked by his asso- Marshal Maple has had notices ed along the streets calling attention to the section of the law forbidding pitting on the sidewalks or street crossings The penalty for doing is from to Mrs Ethel A Veo has brought suit against the Panhandle railroad com- pany for the death of her band T A Veo last December in a collision near here She damages Jones a mine worker who resided in this county for perhaps a dozen but moved to a year ago died in that city week aged sixty A wife and children i v him Galbraith of Highland county been d by the terian societies of West nel Hill and New their tor The will to the parsonage in about April 1st Superintendent Platt of the city schools has obtained the consent of Dr Butler professor of the Chicago university to deliver the address at the annual commencement exercises of the Coshocton high school next June Rev A J Sever returned home Friday from McArthur O where he has been engaged in revival meetings for three weeks the result of his forts having been to add more than a score to the Disciple church there You know how the weather is at your Well that about the condition of things from Montana in the extreme west almost to New York on the east and so far south as Texas A fierce storm of almost zard force all over the country The Knightd of Pythias district meeting will be held at Zanesville day The district is composed of shocton Guernsey Morgan and A number of Grand Lodge arc expected and the unwritten work be exemplified and endeavor to conclude j wa- called to List Friday j is illness of j and her brother-in-law R A nell of arrived what is best for and our on of the is RECEIPTS OF CHURCH SUPPER The M P church ladies Friday noon served dinner for ten cents in Armory hall out of the abundance of good things left from their supper the evening before About 170 were served with dinner The church ers are delighted with their measure of success the receipts of supper and dinner being close up to 8230 dren in the way of available the rood things that are offered for a higher intelligence and the helpful education that comes with the privileges of good literature God save Coshocton from the puerile the unreasonable and thru and to conspire to destroy a lic library by which our boys and girls are made brighter and better and yet manifest no displeasure over the News Mr and L S of Colorado are visiting relatives here and in the Warsaw neighborhood This is Mrs Bloom field's first here since her marriage and ture for the west 34 years ago Dr Finley of the dental firm of Wernette will start Wednesday morning for Chicago will spend a few days with sister and other friends and from there will go to Des Iowa for a brief visit with relatives He ex- to return in a week or ten days office has received a program of the Institute to be held at Saturday Feb 28 with a note saying that the teachers of county are invited to at- tend Prof A E Hosmer of this city is on the program for an address on Music in The month old child of Mr and Mrs Charles McCleary of Dennison was found dead in bed Sunday morning Its parents formerly lived here He is an engineer on the railroad Re- mains of infant brought here day and buried in Oak Ridge
