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Newspaper
Coshocton Weekly Times
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1907
Page
2
The society adopts a solemn resolution paying sympathy to the widow and family of a respected member recently lost. The committee notes the deceased’s service and generosity and a copy is sent to the husband and sisters, with notices to local papers for publication.
The notes list dozens of locals visiting relatives or traveling to Canton Columbus Cleveland Philadelphia and Windsor across a week. Names include Louis Brendel Witt Wisely Miss Bean Gamble Mrs M Rippethoof Hollom Miss Lucy Weer and many families with trips to Columbus Zanesville Cambridge Dresden Canton and Detroit among others.
Keene visitors Mr and Mrs W fel and ebtitten Leland and Aliee of Coghocton visited Mrs Ella Bell Sunday. Rev Wallace preached at the M E church. The Ladies Aid of the ML FE church plan a meeting at 2 pm August 3 at Mr Hannah Haittock’s home. Levi Pew family of Roscoe visited Go i Cooper. Eichaar Bell returned to Mitsburg. Mrs Adam Kisaner and daughter Villah of Panthingame visited John Endsley. Mra Bora Lynde travels to Newark for visits. John Adare plans travel to Alliance and Cleveland after morning. John Adare left this morning for a stoppage to Alliance and Cleveland.
Notices and travels of local residents fill the page with visits to relatives in Chicago Freang thia week and Columbus trips for family and social events. Attendees include Miss Grace Bartholomew from Urichsville and the Renfrew and Crawford families visiting Kenton and Medina.
The restoration of the canal boosts inland trade notably in the Massillon coal district. Modern trials on the Miami & Erie canal test six 80 foot steel boats with gasoline engines and a concave center chamber to reduce bank damage, each costing about 3000 dollars as a potential speed solution.
Farmers in Waldo township pay $2 a day for harvest help while thirsty workers drink cheap beer instead of water. Local harvesters push to finish threshing quickly, with demand for lumber and squid noted as part of the improvised scene.
Robert Cusick and John Harvey, seventeen year old visitors from Cedar Point, were assaulted by Coshocton youths on Main Street. Cusick received facial injuries with both eyes swelling while Harvey was struck bodyward and escaped unharmed. Cusick reported no prior trouble.
Mr and Mrs C D Brooke return from a pony trip down East on a Saturday night pleased with the excursion. They visited Pittsburg Baltimore Washington Jamestown and New York aboard an Old Dominion line steamer then to Philadelphia and Atlantic City. They met Mr Prindle at the White House door and praised the Virginia Exposition, noting a grand Dress Parade and a stirring speech by the Virginia Governor.
Frank McGill of Ceshocton announced his marriage on April 25 to May Judd of Los Angeles. The couple met on a railroad journey and wed in Pittsburgh after correspondence by mail. They recently settled in South Sixth Street and may move to Los Angeles in the fall.
Marysville Ohio July 21 On her answer and cross bill to the suit of Attorney Eli Stickles a divorce was granted to A A Stickles by Judge Broderick She charged extreme cruelty and failure to provide a decent dress She received most of the defendant possessions including an 8000 fruit farm a 2000 house and a fifth of an acre in California plus custody of their eleven year old daughter
The Canal Lewisville Auxiliary W. F. M. will hold its annual outing at Wolfe's Grove near Lewisville on Thursday August 1 starting at 11 a.m. Lunch will be provided for all visitors and a program precedes dinner at 1 p.m. All are welcome to attend.
The funeral of Mrs Elizabeth Johnson, who died at her home on Second Street, was held at 2:30 p.m. from the residence. Interment followed at Oak Ridge cemetery. Pallbearers were J. W. Casingham, Ed Hanlon, William Burns, John Hay, J. K. Robertson and James R. Stewart. Attending were her son Thomas Johnson and family of Pittsburgh, sister Mrs Margaret Kinkade of Pittsburgh with son John Kinkade of Philadelphia, and nephew Samuel Irvine of Pittsburgh. The young woman rescued from a watery grave by Mr Fairbanks has recovered except for the shock of the cold water.
Acting Secretary Newberry and President Roosevelt discussed forming a naval experts board to investigate target construction and operation. The board will consider automatic spraying in handling rooms, turret drill changes, and improved shutters to limit sparks, with findings to be reviewed by a new board.
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