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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1903
Page
3
In Columbus on March 10 the supreme court ruled no school board members will be elected in Ohio spring elections in cities with ward changes under the new code. Mrs Joseph Jennings died at her home near Willscreek at noon Tuesday.
Complaints surge at the mayor's office over residents letting chickens roam. A city ordinance imposes a $5 daily fine for each violation and one arrest has been made with more possible. Lava expands from liquid to solid as gas escapes violently from the mass.
Mr and Mrs Hugo Ashcraft return to Newton Kansas after five months away Bert Ashcraft accompanies them to April. Several residents travel for business and illness reports Mrs Ruth Magruder visits her grandmother Mrs Gamble in Warsaw. Teachers hired for Pike township sub districts No 3 1 2 4 5 Graham and Ashcraft families feature in postings. Multiple property sales and relocations noted along with a death and funeral service for Mary Gault.
Nellie W. D. Kissner was in Coshocton on business Tuesday. Charley Kissner was in Coshocton this week while coating the Nellie chapel. P. Darling shipped a load of fat cattle to the Liberty market Saturday and has since returned home.
Roscoe R D No 1 resident Charles Snedecker moved to Warren county to work for Williams milling. Mrs Nancy Lowery of Simmon’s Run is seriously ill with lung fever. Travelers report roads in the worst condition for years. A young group enjoyed a Saturday gathering at Jim Rose’s home. Mrs Charley Warren suffered a broken arm in a Sunday accident. A grade social gathering occurred Wednesday at Ja Kirker’s.
A reporter, in a strained interlude, asks about poker. Senator Guiray replies jokingly, offers a book to read, and ends the encounter with a curt good evening. The journalist departs stunned and breathless on the sidewalk.
Heavy rainfall caused a large earth and coal bank slide blocking four tracks near the James Moore sheep barns between Coshocton and Morgan Run. About fifteen feet of bank collapsed, delaying eastbound freight and suspending Wheeling and Lake Erie service. traffic resumed by 8:30. The slide was blamed on waters pooling in an old coal bank releasing as the Johnstown flood.
A father and son discuss the idea of a lawgiver. The old man recalls litigation years and claims law is not given but sold in small quantities at high prices. The boy cites a book asserting a great lawgiver, provoking the exchange.
A coal train derailed two miles west of Coshocton on Tuesday night after a rail failed. Eight cars were wrecked with one overturned. no injuries reported. Rescue crews from Wooster and Toledo worked through the night, lifting cars and clearing the tracks by noon as over a hundred men toiled. About seventy workers took breakfast at Land's restaurant.
A dialogue notes a resident denying public charity while expressing pity for the poor. The Boston Transcript cites the era’s irony as the cotton industry boom raises US raw cotton consumption by sixty one percent over ten years.
J. S. Speck purchases the interest of J. L. Smith in the Eureka laundry and will continue the business as before. Smith has not announced his intentions. Seeds from the agricultural department have arrived and may be obtained at the T. J. Hanley flour mills.
W A McCurdy reports results of the February 28 teachers exam at the city high school. Licenses issued for two years go to Miss Della Leech. for one year to several teachers including Eugenie Mohler Della Foster Amanda Clark and more. Coshocton county institute gather Avondale March 14 with morning arithmetic talk by Superintendent Haupert and afternoon round tables on discipline tardiness centralization wages reading and more.
The Industrial Edition of the Coshoc ton Daily Age issued last Thursday evening presents a magazine style publication. It features half tone cuts of prominent business men and the city’s leading manufacturing industries. The Age Publishing Company is praised for enterprise and recent success.
List of unclaimed letters includes ladies Miss Abbey Almarcy Miss Rosa Cox Mrs Pearl Smith Miss Jas ale Trimble Miss Annie Shephard and gentlemen Noah Foster Mr Elmer Liltbridge Jones and Carpenter. Recipients must say advertise and provide the date of this list to claim. CC B McCoy P M.
George Starrett, a well known local figure and former Walbonding conductor, was injured in a recent wreck on the Cleveland Lorain and Wheeling line. He has many friends in this community.
Miss Garnet Jones moved into the millinery section at the Fountain store this morning joining Miss Robertson. A Dandburg man crafted a compressed air engine half an inch high and dime sized, but it runs only while air is applied. Three of eleven dirigible balloons in fifty years have killed their inventors. A complete set for wireless telegraphy has been sent to Cuba by recent contact.
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