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Newspaper
Coshocton Weekly Times
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1909
Page
4
Two warrants totaling 113 were issued for services by county secret service detectives under the Dean law. Milton Kitchens to receive 50 dollars and John M Clark 63 dollars. Prosecutor McDowell said the men were hired to gather evidence for the April grand jury and that no appointment notes were kept to avoid publicity.
In Western Knox County Mt Vernon on a Wednesday afternoon a shepherd dog bit three children and two others including Homer Bishop. Charles Bishop suffered severe wounds requiring fifteen stitches. The trio, plus two bitten adults, are to be treated at the Pasteur Institute in Chicago tonight as fear of rabies spreads among locals.
B H Busby of Frazevebure pled guilty Friday to assault and battery on Cayter Clark a former schoolteacher. He was fined $25 and costs in probate court at Zapenville. The punishment included young Dusby’s four month sentence. The report notes an assault by the father following the incident. Also mentioned is a promotion of Mother Gray’s Australian Leaf as a regulator for female health issues with a sample offer.
May 14 item roundup from Spring Mountain lists Misa Myrtle Didinger and Edwin Robinson in Cambodon last Saturday. Akron visitor Frank Kroenapple stayed with Jospeh Kroenapple family. Misa Carrie Hagelbarger vacationing at home. Chicago harvester firm moves main office to Akron. July plans for Miss Clara Hett in Coshocton. Harry Bichle back from Akron three months’ work. Mrs Rose Reynolds of Warsaw hosted by Mr and Mrs Hagelbarger. John Schodorf and Thad Kroenapple joined Koofs initiation in Coshocton. Howard Jones and Miasy Javrie Pail Wes attended in Wastn tots.
Mr and Mrs George Conley of Orange Street report a pair of feathered songsters building a nest over their front door. The birds appear settled and likely to raise the summer there, causing a domestic disturbance of sorts as the robin pair occupy the entryway.
A major fire Wednesday night completely destroyed a two story frame store owned by Clyde Wheeler near the Wheeling and Lake Erie passenger station in Conesville. Flames from a rear shed raced through the building, destroying coffins and furnishings from Wheeler's undertaking shop valued at about $600, partly insured. Wheeler’s loss in the building is estimated at $900, and school furniture damage in the township runs around $180, totaling about $1,080. The funeral car previously stored in Mooney barn was saved from the blaze.
In a Wartime era anecdote a Humane Officer named Vensal is described as gaining broad powers and being urged to perform ministerial work. A witness recounts a transformation after a sermon, while other fragments mention a Bucklen Arnica Salve testimonial and various local notices about individuals and a Masonic lodge event in Plain view.
Twenty four workers at the Grown brick plant at Parral arrange to leave for their homeland. They have raised $46,000 and will transfer it to a Mengariam money before traveling in second-class aboard a freight train.
The following names were successful at the teachers' examination in Mag 1st or One Year Chase. Long roster includes Kinner, Wilmer Blau, Hiram Dulin, Wilbur Williams, Ross Deeds, Lloyd B Hall, Willard Beall, Lawrence Graham and many others across multiple years, with several entries for two, three, and five year completions.
A method described by a Scientific American correspondent explains cutting a hole in ice and suspending a blanket to block sun rays, lighting the water so one can see fish and objects beneath. The account notes using a small boat with a blanket over a hole to observe the pond bottom and recover lost items or bodies when water is clear.
On last Thursday the motion for a new trial in the State of Ohio v Howard F Lawrence was denied by Judge Weygamit. Lawrence was sentenced to imprisonment in the state penitentiary with hard labor for five years, but without solitary confinement, and to pay court costs. Execution suspended until May 36 to allow filing of a petition in error in the circuit court. The Holmes County case involved Coshocton lawyers and many citizens.
John Little aged 68 a prominent resident of Nellie died Friday morning after a year long illness of complications. He leaves a son Matthew of Nellie and a daughter Mon Edward Williame of Blisefeld. Funeral services were held Sunday morning at 1020 at the Little home. The action against H A Darling inventor of the Darling Gas Burner charged by Henry Clark with overfining money under false pretenses has been continued out of court.
James H. Watson, who has served one year of a six year sentence for assaulting his stepdaughter, was paroled by the state board of pardons after a year at the Mate prison. He wired Coghocton friends for $25 to post the parole bond, a fee to cover potential re-arrest costs and refunded at term end.
Freese of Mohawk owns a hen and a nest of chicks. A rat and three kittens share a barrel nest with the hens brood under the hen’s shelter. The mother cat and kittens rely on the hen as a surrogate mother for three weeks. The owners wonder how the cat would treat the hen’s chicks if left with tabby care.
Barnum & Bailey’s Greatest Show on Earth arrives Friday May 21 offering a parade of trained elephants playing musical instruments and bells, a variety of acts including fox terriers, an African ape with a pony, educated cats, donkeys, and a sixteen stallions riding display. Featured riders include the Konyot family and Ella Bradna among others. Also noted is a marriage license issued to Wayne A. Mullett and Lillie Preatoum.
Eastbound Pennsy freight crew reported a dark object resembling a man in the Muskingum river near Rock Run four miles south of Coshocton. A rescue party searched banks from Rock Run to Franklin using cars and auto patrols but found only a可能 log, and the body’s presence remained unconfirmed.
The second and third assessors submitted their annual reports to Auditor Randle Thursday with detailed tallies. Tiverton shows horses 173 value 13175 cattle 425 value 7425 sheep 2663 value 5935 dogs 279 value 1825 and total personal property 12590. special district horses 65 value 4750 cattle 199 value 2965 sheep 405 value 930 hose 116 value 645 total personal 23490. MIL Creex lists horses 363 value 93210 cattle value 15390 sheep 5428 value 12660 dogs 374 value 1775 total personal 80982 843 dogs listed.
Wet weather slows corn planting as farmers linger on plowing. wheat and pasture thrive while fruit trees in full bloom promise abundance. Mrs. Starkey’s body from New Philadelphia returns to Conesville for burial. local items note a federal prison inmate in a Franklin County incident and a jailer attack.
Notice to teachers outlines monthly elementary certificate exams and scheduled tests for high school and special certificates on select Saturdays. Applicants pay fifty cents entry, five cents for return, Patterson entrants supply stamped envelopes, and the Board provides stationery. Questions draw on Keith's Manual, with The Ohio Teachers' Reading Circle selling a copy.
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