Democrat And Standard, The (Newspaper) - April 3, 1903, Coshocton, Ohio T COSHOCTON OHIO FRIDAY APRIL New Series Volume 2 No 26 REMINISCENCES OF EARLY COSHOCTON Notes and Notions of Time Incidents STORIES Something About Coshocton Taverns and Hotels and Their Keepers Earlier and Later Years By Rev Via E Hunt The Tavern keepers of whom there was most mention in my earlier dence in Coshocton were Charles liams Adam Johnson Wright ner Wilson McGowan Benjamin Ricketts Alexander Hay Samuel Morrison Bowers and T Lewis and Of all these traditions were touching Charles Williams ly because he was the first He kept a house on Water street above nut A Perry was run in con- with the house and both in- were widely known to and movers Stories were still rife of big dinners and famous balls for politicians and the militia and for court attendants The favorite tavern for many years was the brick the northeast corner of Second and Chestnut This was the ing point for the stage to The oldest hotel is what is now known as the corner of Second and Main streets There was a hotel for many years on the southwest corner of Chestnut and Second streets For some years for man and beast was in a large log building ing where the Spangler mansion now stands corner of 4th and Chestnut Drovers with their flocks and herds were cared for at John near the Catholic church though many preferred to push on a little further out of town with Stryker Morgan who had a ern just east of Morgan Run About the time of my House was opened Mr Johnson had put a third story this was the first three ig in the town on his brick residence on Second street half way between Main and Chestnut streets and leased apartments for Wm balL an old gentleman originally as was Ms wife from Allegheny county who had made quite a reputation in keeping the house be- tween Coshocton and Millersburg I have noted two things in Gardiner after it was first opened No more popular or successful lord essayed the work than Price Ed Standen has for a number of years successfully managed the house The first hotel built came to the town was the Railroad or Arlington House corner of Main and Fifth streets whose salient historical points of interest I gave in an article a few weeks ago The landlords there had a short tenancy and while Messrs Robinson Hoover Gardiner son Seward and Hackinson all were pleasant fellows and did a fair ness their impression on the by reason in part of their short stay was not specially marked The McDonald House now the ca corner of 3rd and Main streets was built in 1880 by Ebenezer who came to Coshocton from Dresden about 1859 and made some money as a carriage builder He leased the house to G A McDonald no relation and still residing here in the graph business Under his ment the house established a class reputation especially for its table The later landlords are fresh in the minds of my readers At ent Mr Hugh Gamble is the Lessee of the house Dr James B Ingraham for many years practicing medicine in this city built the Park Hotel opposite the Court House in The house is the largest and best appointed in many respects at this writing in the city Numerous landlords with ing success have been in charge and have kept up with the modern fied methods of hotel keeping con- with the free and easy licking and practices of their predecessors in pioneer and stage coach times Mr Ball a long time conductor on theB O railroad is at this writing managing the Park For a number of years Jared thorne kept a hotel on Chestnut street near Second in the building a part of which is now used for the boarding house Mr thorne undertaking this work bad been engaged in merchandizing first at to which place he moved from the State of Delaware then in O and then in Coshocton His intelligence and good nature and the help of bis excellent Family made the house quite a ite stopping place with a large class of people James Robertson kept this house a little earlier returning after a brief experience to his farm in Keene township In all my observation few places of the size of Coshocton have had as a rule better public houses or people carrying them on more creditably Pew classes of people are more iy related to the welfare of or can do more to give a place a desirable reputation POINTERS IN LOCAL POLITICS Something of the Merits o Democratic Nominees Facts and Reasons Why Democrats Should Win in the Election of Next Monday Remember the ward candidate next Monday The Democratic ward tickets are well balanced In the matter of the choosing of a mayor next Monday the concensus of opinion is that it will be the decision of the voters by a large majority to let well enough alone The of the important office of city treasurer will be faithfully performed if George T Ayers the Democratic nominee is chosen sonally Mr Ayers is a pleasant and affable gentleman always courteous and accommodating and hence makes one of candidates on the city ticket Better yet he is an honest man There will be no ling of city funds if are in Mr Ayers He certainly merits the support of every cratic voter next TALKING ABOUT THE FLAVOR'S PATRONAGE Some Claim to Know Mow It Will Go if Smith Wins A Republican who claims to Those doing this business specially trained class and in almost DO case does it come down from what he is talking about imparted t are not a group of his factional political chums ltow on a street corner one day this week People who have in if Smith was elected Mayor next lier cays been in some tion later in life turn ing the country over few young men faction of bis party in a way to are in the business And then in t make them sick when disposing of every Instance of success in the j his He said that it was impo more requisite is the landlady The ether position at the disposal of Tidball house was quite a favorite j the mavor unless he swore allegiance witb traveling men and no woman has bring ever netter filled tier position f I found a home he never nad consorted and baby and self in that house j with the Bulletin crowd He cited the winter of the fact that when some of the A little way down the street of the American House now the i Bahmer and Smiley ers Hotel kept by Ellis D Jones j UP a farewell banquet a few had been in the same business in ings before their departure as sort of Wellsburg W Va and in Roscoe j testimonial of good will and clever He was a veritable Boniface rotund I and rosy with twinkling eyes and not very in He had a big run of Neither his house nor the Tidball bouse kept any bars but there was plenty of juice just across the street from either When I first applied for rooms at the Tidball house the addition was For Assessors in Wards one two three and four Joseph Charles Wilhelm Fred Goss and ry Miller the Democratic nominees will do the work right if they are chosen They are men of good ment and will go about the ment work with a conscientious re- gard for the rights of every ual They will do to tie to Their election means that there will be a fair deal all not completed and there seemed some doubt about my being able to get satisfactory I went to see Jones and tie declared he would like awfully to take in the young preacher and if I came would give me the best he could but j n times his was a pretty Tough house P feeling toward them to which the leaders of the Age faction of the Re- publican party were invited not one of them went near the festal board McCoy Himebaugh Smith and all the Age stayed away from the banquet and let it be known that they would have nothing to do with the Bulletin so much as willing to sit at same table with Bahmer and Smiley after their friends had been at the expense of and he was afraid it might not be pleasant The prospect for me ing lodgings seemed poor indeed In the extremity the Sheriff Price or ratter perhaps his wife a capital landlady before and after- wards offered quarters in his house which with the jail just west of it stood on the public square about where the court house now stands The church at that time was on the square and the location in the sheriff's house would have been quite ient But I had a little squeamishness about being so close to the jail and did not quite like the idea of getting into the custody of the Sheriff so ly in my ministerial course and after a few weeks spent in of T S Humrickhouse and Joseph K Johnson apartments were furnished me in the second story of the Tidball House where I remained until I moved to the fine spread It is not within our province to criticise Age followers for not going to the Bahmer and Smiley though we do not think any of them would have been compromised or con- by showing this scant courtesy And Mr Smith being the distinctive candidate of the Age tion of his party could not be ed to do aught else than bestow his official gifts on persons who affiliate dole out REALTY COMPANY ORGANIZED The Coshocton Realty company in- some days ago with a cap- ital stock of completed its i j tv tuc T first parsonage standing where now Monday evening Its board w is the Fountain store The Tidball House after being kept for a year or Thomas McBride subsequent to giving it up was taken in by Harrison Price and was kept by him until 1870 when he took the Empire Hotel built by Addison M Williams at Sixth and Walnut streets and run for a brief period by Seth of directors Selby H R are M Q Baker E O McCurdy Henry ardson Prank Selby This board was organized by electing Dr H R president M Q Baker vice president E O treasurer ry Richardson secretary Andrew Weisner for president of the Dr H R McCurdy seph L- Rue and M H George Charles Craig Ed S Brink and Gus for members of council from the four wards of the city are nations in which all the Democratic voters of the city take pride Pre- suming that all eight of these men are elected the personnel of the new council will be ly or individually the Democrats for council surely fill the Propositions come from cans to vote for candidates on cratic ticket for board of public vice if in exchange some Democrat will vote for the Republican date for mayor or some one or more of their nominees for council It seems that part of the Republican ticket was made for trading purposes The Democratic nominees for board of public service will be easy winners without can votes obtained by trading crats should not countenance any such dicker Under the provisions of the new code the position of city solicitor takes first rank in importance and no person not fitted by natural ability legal education and habits of taking industry should be elected thereto Howard E Hahn the cratic nominee is a young attorney of irreproachable character well read in the law constantly improving and growing in the profession sessed of affable manners and bitions to excel in all his He will honor the position to which be will be elected next Monday One year ago E C Rinner was elected mayor of Coshocton for two years The new municipal code came in and cat him off with one year He commenced his administration under the village form of government A few months later th is was transformed into a city government A few weeks eminent was transformed by the new code So Mr Rinner has had all sorts of in three forms of local government in less than one year and knocked out of twelve months of the term for the people elected him Nothing stable nothing continuous changing to new conditions that at first could not well be understood has given Mr Rinner no fair show to say nothing of robbing him of one year of his term Notwithstanding dis- incidents Mr Rinner has made an excellent record as mayor and the people owe it to him to give him re-election next Monday The sense of fairness in the public mind will not allow him to be cut off with one year when last April he was elected for two years Democrats reject every proposition to trade candidates All of the men on your ticket are competent faith ful and honest and hence merit port If for personal reasons you arc quite an to have any candidate on our ticket elected you do not ha veto trade votes to him a winner All candidates on Democratic ticket will be elected i there is straight voting by our party friends There is really no serious contes between party nominees for members of board of public service The Democrats have presented such su nominations that men of both parties concede their election by large majorities Messrs Hutch inson Shaw and Tish are so admirably fied for good service on this board and their locations are so well adjust ed that they are assured not only the full Democratic vote but of the support of scores of Republicans who think it to the best interest o the public that the best men ob- should be placed on this very important board Will H Manner candidate for city auditor deserves the support of every member of the cratic He has an education and business experience which ably fit Him for the position He is young and aggressive yet tive enough to enjoy of the people of this city With a thorough knowledge of and the industry and ambition to do things in the right way at the right time give every assurance that the financial transactions of the city will be kept and every public interest safely conserved Mr ner can and his entire time to the discharge of the duties of this office if elected THE CONTEST FOR MAYOR TUNE HAS CHANGED Former Abuse of W A Smith Now Dealt Mayor Rinner The Age's candidate for Mayor is words of commendation in its columns this week Some months ago when Mr Smith was a member of the council the Age denounced Him n unmeasured hat he favored a private corporation against the interests of the that his conduct was not only and disgraceful but that he vas untrue corrupt and deserving the ensure of the entire He vas published as a boodler a r of the trust the people had reposed n him and forfeiting the respect of constituents The at a o-s for words harsh enough to ex- its disgust for what it called Smith's perfidious record In the meantime Smith has not his belief or rule of conduct The Age perchance has We thought and said at the time of the Age's onslaught on Mr Smith that its editor was doing him a great about him in scandalous terms ust as certainly as we know now that the Age is promulgating inexcusable landers and glaring falsehoods against Mayor Rinner But the Age's abusive fulminations o not go with thinking people of Coshocton now any more than did its ribald talk against a few months ago DEATH OF MRS Mrs Maria L Geidel died at the of her son Charles H 1 east Chestnut street Monday vening aged nearly 74 years She was born in the city of Nev York nly Forty years of her life were passed in Roscoe Daring the ast seven years her home has been in his city Her husband died 25 years ago Her illness with Blight's dis- ase extended over the past year her to the home She was a consistent Christian and faithful member of church from arly girlhood Admirable traits of made her life useful and won her many friends Burial was made Wednesday in the Roscoe cemetery with funeral vices conducted by Rev Huffman The parties pushing a ing enterprise for West Lafayette have yet a few lots to sell It is ex- that the full number will be disposed of by April 8th which is the date for the drawing to take place town Jsall How Rinner Deals With Sunday His Administration Endorsed By Re- ligious Organizations and Best Citizens of Community Republican party workers for eral past have been vibrating about the streets of Coshocton ing complaint that some of the saloon keepers are violating the laws lating the liquor and charging mayor Rinner with negligence of duty This is the same old complaint that comes up every year a few days before the spring election if the mayor be a Democrat The burden of the complaint is that saloons are not kept closed on there is business done through the door The Daily Age has been ing this allegation and reasons it out that it is the plain duty of the mayor to be found sitting on the rear door step of each one of the twenty-three saloons in the city every Sunday from to ten o'clock at night to see that no one goes in or comes out There may at times be some tion of the Sunday closing suspect there is but have no personal knowledge of it If any resident has information proving violation of the Sunday closing law all he has to do to the violator punished is to make coir plaint before the mayor Mayor Rinner has repeatedly charged the policeman to be vigilant and report to him any infractions of the Sunday law The records in the mayor's office we are told show more fines collected for such violations of the law under Mr administration of less than a year than in twice that iod of any former mayoralty tration A few months back Mr Richisson was arraigned for allowing saloon door to be unfastened on Sunday He paid a fine of and cost therefore Then Mr Gross was brought up for allowing back door to be open on Sunday He was fined 810 which he paid Brooks Johnson was next re- by the police for alike offense He also paid to the mayor and costs A little later Mr Londquist is arraigned on a like charge He was assessed and The next complaint was against James j only a few days ago He paid the mayor and costs The police have j not been able to discover any Sunday open saloons doors since If any one nows of Sunday liquor selling enrich the city treasury or more by taking the case before the mayor Mayor prompt and rather support in every effort to enforce the laws of our city Respectfully R M TEMPLE And here another commendation of the June 5 1902 E- C Mayor The of the ex- committee of the Coshocton Young People's Union composed of the Young People's ties of the different churches wish to express to you their hearty dation of your action in enforcing the closing law We beg to Mire you that in all ing to the moral welfare of our town you will receive our earnest support Very respectfully DR ST CLAIK Pres And here is a- similar only fuller and TO TUE MA YOU VXD OP At the meeting of the Young Union of Coshocton held at the M E church Tuesday July 8 it was the unanimous desire Union express its gratitude to both of you for the measures taken by you in the interest of law and order We would thank the council for prompt response to our request for the passage of a curfew ordinance We thank the Mayor for enforcing the ordinances in regard to Sabbath observances and slot machines We ask that you do not allow a single backward step but that each move may be an advance toward a cleaner and higher form of ship Representing as we do the majority of the of the city we can of the sincere support and cordial of the Christian people of the community in all such movements Sincerely PEOPLE'S Mr Under date of July 15 1902 Rinner received the To THE The Woman's Christian ance Union desire to express their preciation of your efforts to enforce Sunday closing ordinance The results are already being favorably upon by strangers passing through the city Very respectfully Pres A And yet in the face of all these hearty commendations of Mayor course the editor of the Age continues to repeat daily that Mr Rinner has done nothing and that all he has done has been wrong Pity the sorrows of this Simple Simon sort of an individual It will now be in order for him to attack and malign the above named persons and PURELY PERSONAL MINOR MENTION OF RECENT HAPPENINGS In Society's ple Who Visit and Are Visited severe dealing with offenders as very gratifying to our and to certain of the religious bodies who heartily commended the mayor These facts are perhaps cnown to everybody in except the editor of the Daily Age ho has not yet found out how Mr Sinner deals with slot machine To enlighten the Simple Simon editor we append a few of a number of endorsements of Mr course voluntarily sent to him Here is a letter from George M ray candidate on the Republican icket for COSHOCTON O Mav 26.1902 E C Mayor MY DEAR read with ure your letter as found in the Age under date of May 24 I did not vote or you for mayor in the recent ion but I am glad to see you take bis stand and you should by every good citizen Believing hat if you will enforce the law as per your letter you will have the sympathy and support of all good who were opposed to you in the election as well as those who supported you I beg to remain Very truly yours GEO M GRAY The following is from Mr Temple who is also a candidate on the ican ticket for COSHOCTON O May E C DEAR I desire moat heartily to commend your action in ordering the oons closed on Sunday Although I lid not have the honor to support you or mayor I assure you my earnest William Burns is visiting in Mrs Berea Miss Sadie Smith is visiting in Col- Miss Olga Schauwecker is home from Oberlin college Mr and Mrs Samuel McCullough are visiting in Medina M Q Baker left Wednesday for a trip to New York and Boston Miss Mary Moore is home from Oberlin college for the spring tion Miss Louise Glover has returned from a visit in Springfield and nati Mrs E Lybarger of Spring Mountain has been the guest of Mrs I J Baker Miss Rose Marsh of Pittsburgh is a guest of the Renfrew family near Canal Lewisville Mrs Dan McConnell of ton D C visited her sister here this week Mrs G A Hay Miss Vernal Aronhalt started evening for Olympia ington to join her father G A Hay and Joseph were in Cleveland this week attending a convention of axle manufacturers Miss Etta Sharpless a teacher in the Pittsburg schools is spending this week with her in Bedford township The New Century club meeting was held at the home of Miss Mary Rue Chestnut street Monday evening The program consisted of three pers Franco-Prussian Miss Leila Biggs Miss Shirley Fisher German Farm Miss Rue Miss Rathbone was a guest of the evening I
