Democrat And Standard, The (Newspaper) - June 30, 1903, Coshocton, Ohio and ISM COSHOCTON OHIO TUESDAY JUNE 30 1903 New Series Volume 2 No 51 GETS Stamping and Enameling Plant For Thai Village COMPANY WITH A Big Bonus and Effort of prising Citizens Lands an important Industry The Lafayette Stamping and eling company of West Lafayette was organized last Saturday with a capital stock of The board of directors chosen con- sists of D A Raiff W H Sweenie H Ed LeRetilley liam Gorseline C E Miller The board of directors has been with D A Raiff president W H Sweenie vice-president J M Kirk secretary H A Sicker urer Articles of incorporation have been taken out to do business under the laws of Xew West Lafayette citizens have in- sured this company a bonus of realized from the sale of and the company will proceed with the tion of two brick buildings of sive proportions for carrying on the business of the manufacture of stamped and enameled goods A plant of this character located at Debuque Iowa of which Mr Sweenie has had superintendency is to be moved to West Lafayette with its machinery and equipments and some new machinery is to be added The output of this plant be chiefly culinary articles for tic use and sheets for sign work articles made of sheet iron or are enameled and thus made beau- tff ul and lasting All sorts of kitchen ware and cooking utensils are to be manufactured and the face surface of signs made of tin or sheet iron given the enameling coat in tion for printing Officers of the say their expectation is to have the f in operation by the first of November President Raiff announces that he will not assume the management of the business until the first of next April which until that time will be under the direction of vice-president Sweenie It is presumed that this venture may grow into a business of large Though with some feeling of regret that this enterprise was not located in Coshocton we late the enterprising citizens of West Lafayette on their good fortune in landing so important a ing industry READY WRITER TAKES A REST Xo sketch of olden times in Coshocton from the pen of Rev W E Hunt in this paper When the ar- ticle came in which was printed last Friday at the end was written Finis for the I want to take a rest for a few weeks This series of a nun dred during last six been of much general interest to the public and many of our subscribers have ex pressed a keen appreciation of the multitude of interesting facts and in therein related They will re that they are ended or suspended We hope Rev Hunt will at no very remote day resume for our readers further narration of his recollections of early Coshocton BASE-BALL BREVITIES OF LOCAL INTEREST Fountains Win at and Indians Lose at West Lafayette The St Louis Stars did not shine with exceeding brilliancy in the game with the Fountains at Park Saturday afternoon The visiting team was composed of live young ladies and four players of the opposite sex As players three of the girls did fairly but as coachers and kickers against the decisions of the umpire all were stars of the first magnitude There was a large crowd in ance including many of the fairer sex and the game furnished plenty of amusement for all notwithstanding the fact that the Fountains won ly by a score of Iti to 4 DIFFERENT AT LAFAYETTE On the same afternoon the Indians of this city played their first game of the season with the West Lafayette college boys on the grounds of the latter and were treated to a cient amount of to have covered up anything less colossal than the postal department scandal at Washington The score 12 to 0 tells the awful story of how the college boys ered the untutored savages from the Coshocton but the In- dians are all right at that They played great ball last season and with a little more practice and of team work will later on be able to give any team in this section a strong argument ATHLETICS TTP IT The Coshocton were also up against it good and hard in their game Saturday afternoon at son with the Panhandle Athletics It a decidedly off day with the both in the field and at the bat and only succeeded in ting two men across the home plate while the Dennisons piled up a score of 22 A STRUGGLE FOR Probably the greatest game of the season will be the one to be played on the afternoon of the Fourth at Park between the Fountains and the Coshocton Athletics This be the first game of a series of seven in a contest for supremacy Both are in excellent tion and a great game is in prospect PROSPEROUS CHURCH YEAR The West Lafayette M E church is closing a prosperous year ary collection largest in the history church One hundred sions during this conference year to Mt Zion and West Lafayette M E churches The West Lafayette M E church is being repaired at ent Rev Geo E the pastor is held in high esteem by his congregation SUNDAY MORNING WRECK While a freight train was pulling through this city Sunday morning the forward truck under an coal car pulled out causing a wreck The wreck train was summoned from Dennison and the track was soon cleared for the pass- age trains as usual A FAREWELL SERVICE A farewell preaching service was held in Grace M E church Sunday Sunday and hereafter the new auditorium is to be used for most of the general church services and the old auditorium hereafter chiefly for Sunday School and worth League meetings Sunday evening's good-bye services were made up of short addresses and fine singing Rev W E- Hunt was present and the first to give a short talk of a reminiscent Miss Grace Carr read a brief history of the growth of the Methodist church in Coshocton Mrs St Clair read an in- paper on Out of the old and into the new Miss Em- ma Manner gave a spirited talk on the growth and work of the Epworth League Bert McKee read a pape full of pertinent for the young in striving for the higher life A S Caton gave a brief account of of the status of the Methodist church and work in the city of Olympia where he now lives The addresses were in- with charming choir ant dnet singing PROFITABLE BERRY Daniel Gribble who in recent years came from Tuscarawas county anc purchased the farm known as the Sayer place in White Eyes township last Friday marketing his strawberry crop to shocton dealers During iast fi weeks he has sold to Mr Smith of the Park Hotel Grocery worth of strawberries and to another ton dealer worth Then he sold direct from the patch for lawn fetes in village and country neighborhoods several dollars worth making about three hundred dollars income from a straw patch of three-fourths an acre This sum was realized in a period covering less than thirty days I Only a very little help had to be hired f in picking besides the work of the five members of the Gribble family and in the meantime all the other work connected with a general crop cultivation of the farm was kept up Is this not a surprisingly large in come from four weeks operations on three-quarters of an acre on a steep hill OF INDUSTRIES Merger of Local Concerns DEAL IS CONSUMMATED Unites in One the Premium and Coshocton ing Companies A big business deal of much local and of general has been brought to a successful ue as a result of which the ton Manufacturing Company of this city and its branch the Coshocton Novelty Company of Council Bluffs owa have been absorbed by the Pre- Manufacturing Company of President Weisner of the Pre- left Saturday for Council Bluffs to take an inventory of the plant at that place The plant of the Wooden Company of city was recently purchased by the Premium and when the de- tails of the present merger have been completed the business of the four concerns will be under one ment The terms of the transfer of the Coshocton Manufacturing Company's and amount of cash in- have not been made public but it is understood that mayor E C Rinner who was the principal holder in the Manufacturing Com- pany is in the new deal with a big of Premium Shortly after the purchase of the Wooden Novelty Plant the Premium commenced the erection of a big factory building on Cambridge street immediately in front and ing the works of their new purchase and as soon as the new building is completed the plants of the Premium and Manufacturing Companies will be PITY IN In Gives Further tion to Library Site ASKS FOR NEW OPTIONS Takes Six Feet Off Rodgers Lot to Widen a Section of Sixth Street At special meeting of city council Friday final action was taken widening a section of Sixth street by purchasing six feet off the Rodgers lot for There was a feeling among members of the council that the price was exorbitant but the action had been taken by the former council making the deal and fixing the price there seemed nothing for present council to do but close the transaction Dr McCurdy made a motion that the city auditor upon re- of a deed from Mr be authorized to pay him for the six motion carried to the balance of the lot for brary location Mr Rodgers said cil could its pleasure about ing it for next thirty days It was supposed all along that feet were to be taken orT the lot to widen the street leaving fifty feet by for the library at council meeting six feet were to the street leaving but feet in width for brary Mr Rodgers since said to of the library board that he would let the between rear of lot and the theatre site the library lot for making for the with the width cut to 4 feet The for library -ite a fund of only for the purchase of cite for library A motion was adopted authorizing the board of to NEW AUDITORIUM OF j GRACE M E Completed and Will Be Ready For Dedication Next Sunday The new auditorium of Grace M K church corner of Fourth and Walnut is now completed aud program issued for next 1 Sunday Joyce one of the talented men high in authority in government of the M K church be here to officiate in the dedicatory also the of the church running back including Pope Wilson and a half j The new auditorium will be a to those who have not seen it It is almost in tions and appearance with a seating capacity of over twelve hundred built at a of nearly It a gigantic undertaking but been carried to a successful issue by the determination and self-sacrificing the Grace congregation We opine that our generally do not fully comprehend the importance anil magnitude of this improvement not only promoting the pleasure and convenience of the people of the city but in its business aspect as a furnisher of profitable NEWSY NOTES CLOSELY CUT Which Briefly and ly Tell the Story OF COSHOCTON EVENTS employment for mechanics running of thousands of dollars moved into it- Tn the interim the cure a- for the library plants will continue to Se operated at location as they sav proper and their present locations The local plants and the one at Bluffs are ail doing a splendid outness and it is expected that the merger will result in even more factory returns to the management and to stockholders As a result of this combination the Premium at once takes prominence as one of the largest plants of its kind in the state and under mit them to the council at the next regular FALLING SCAFFOLD CAUSES INJURIES Which Resulted in Death of Harley at Warsaw ent efficient management it is Harlev Bowers of Warsaw a voung I married man who was injured bv a bable that it will continue to fall died and flourish MRS GRAY'S FATHER DIES AT CLAYSVILLE Of Paralysis After a Period of III Health John Gourly father of Mrs George M- Gray of this city died at his late home in Claysville Pa last Friday morning his death resulting from a stroke of Deceased who had long been in feeble health was 67 of age and was one of Claysville's most sub- stantial and citizens ing accumulated a fortune in business Mrs Gray was visiting her parents her father experienced the stroke of paralysis which to have a fatal termination and Mr Young Bowers was engaged in painting a house when the ing gave way beneath him and in the fall he was struck on the head by a heavy piece of timber fracturing the skull An operation was performed on Thursday when several pieces of bone which were pressing on the brain were removed But only relief afforded and afier lingering until Sunday the injured man expired as above noted The young man was held in general esteem and his tragic fate de- by many friends whose pathy goes out to the afflicted wife in her Funeral exercises and into the tens in value It adds a significant to the thetic in architectural ments in citizen should feet a pride no matter what may be the denominational Here something counting for the ial welfare of the city as well as for the betterment of humanity along spiritual lines a temple of worship to the Triune God which in cent proportions and elegant ments is not surpassed by many if any churches in cities having a population of fifty thousand And so we say that there should be a full recognition of what has been undertaken and the Methodist of shocton and a willingness to lend a helping hand if need be in ing the building fund of Grace church officials sufficient to leave the prise free of indebtedness The reader cannot be given any clear of the features of the exterior and tv of the interior of the new building by it be seen to be and at the dedication next Sunday there is likely to be more than can find entrance to the mammoth auditorium In some of the other city churches next there will be but one vice and in of them none thus leaving their congregations free to attend the Grace church DEATH COMES TO J G POMERENE State Senator and Well Known land Lawyer Dies of Consumption received by family friends here Friday brought in- formation from Cleveland of the death of G Pomerene He had been ill with consumption for several months Early last spring he went to Honduras with a party of er- in the hope that the trip would benefit him but no improvement came He was one of the first court that achieved reputation in Cleveland for and for many was rated the leading man in stenographic in that t city which several years ago he re- will take place forenoon for the active practice of the iaw I Mr Pomerene like all the name vras an unswerving Democrat and a year ago last November elected of the State Senators for the PRICES FOR THRESHING The threshing machine owners of better world i and a wife son and two Mr Gourley frequently visited oats 2 cents rye 5 cents m this city and has many friends j othy 25 cents These are higher j or more years the de- here by whom his death is regretted j than have heretofore prevailed j j a law here the The Gray hardware store was not j in -one though there of njs late Judge J opened for business Saturday out of respect to the memory of the de- ceased and Mr Thomas Gray went to Claysville to attend the funeral which occurred on Sunday RURAL CARRIERS GET A DAY OFF An order has been issued by the fourth assistant postmaster general whereby all the rural letter carriers of the country will quit work on the of July and celebrate the an- of their country's ence has not been the custom heretofore to give the rural carriers a Holiday on the Fourth not much uniformity of charges made oy the threshers of the different It is now as nearly all the machine ers to the county association a uniform price will be maintained throughout the KILLED BY A BASE BALL While Newton Vanhorn son of Geo Vanhorn of Warsaw aged 16 years was a spectator at a game of base ball six o'clock last evening he was struck on back of the head by the ball and rendered unconscious was dead In an hour he C Pomerene and during months he here he established a general acquaintance among the and business iren of ton He was a man of much ability of sterling character affable Jin ners and made friends of all who knew him Mrs J C and Frank E Pomerene left here yesterday ing to be present at the funeral pointed for two o'clock The strike at mines has been settled and all the men re turned to work yesterday morning Together With Neighborhood and Other items of Interest For the Hasty Reader Tod Johnson the painter had an arm painfully lacerated by a fail roin a ladder last Friday Ladies of the Woman's Relief corps vill hold a lawn fete in court evening of the Fourth of July JT The Camping ire in camp at the six-mile dam on the Walhonding for two weeks of ng and recreation The M E church services in West will he held in the town tall July and 12 as the church is repaired The D d grocery quit icss Saturday evening the stock ng been sold to Dawson and t is now being The date of the annual Dresden Picnic been set for Saturday August 22 Picnic will be in grove Mrs Samuel McKee died last at her home south of West Interment of remains vas made Friday in the Plainfield An eight months old daughter of Mr and Rodock on Bank street Saturday the re- were taken to Shawnee Perry county for burial The ladies of the Presbyterian church will give a Promenade So- cial at the store afternoon ind evening of Thursday July 2d Ice cream and cake will be served in West Lafayette are now cooking with natural gas John Kissner has the gas piped into that village from wells a little tance out that were drilled several months ago Samuel of Lafayette ship graduated a few days ago at Mt college receiving the degree Bachelor of If is oration was Instrument for the tion of the Anglo-Saxon Race The summer school of West ette college Regular teachers will have charge of the work There will be six weeks school and six days in the week which will make the equivalent of seven weeks school for the weeks tuition of Clyde Dawson born and raised in Tackson township this county was drowned while bathing on the ware coast last Sunday He had re- cently graduated in a law school at Washington His age was 25 years and a wife and one child survive him The number of Firemen who have given five of volunteer service in the Fire fighting it is ascertained make a list of about They will be given and will be excused from jury duty military service and poll tax on road working John Holland and Perry lain of the West Lafayette vicinity report that clipped the fleeces from sheep during shearing season of the year commencing in March and ending about the middle of this month Holland sheared 3.500 and Chamberlain 1.750 A large audience witnessed the Children's Day exercises at the M P church Sunday evening when an ex- program was rendered in a highly entertaining manner ing credit upon the young performers and upon those who had the ment of the exercises in charge A profusion of beautiful floral tions about the altar and choir loft were a pleasing and inspiring feature of the occasion
