Movement for Better Roads session inspires mass meeting
A massillon good roads convention opened in Schworm's hall with 150 attendees from business and farming communities. Col. W. H. Moore outlined the national plan, endorsing state funding of 25 000 to 50 000 dollars, cash road work payments, and prisoner labor for quarrying materials, with local and state delegates to advance the cause through the Columbus convention and future meetings.
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Massillon
Schworm’s Hall
Board of Trade
National Good Roads Association
H. S. Bates
Frantz
H. A. Croxton
National Association
Col. W. H. Moore
Association
Ohio
Cincinnati
Columbus
General Assembly
Moore
Illinois
Board of Control
Congress
Croxton
S. A. Conrad
Austin Hay
John Weiler
Jonas Eschliman
Henry Friend
Samuel Killinger
Frank Murray
E. J. Sprankle
H. C. Brown
J. C. Albright
C. A. Gates
Nathan Moffit
Henry Clay
J. R. Lawrence
Samuel Sterne
George Leeper
Amos Mase
Henry Foltz
Martin Dodge
The
Colonel Moore
Col
T. P. Cow
Rixey Lectures on Funding Perry Township Project
National lecturer Colonel Rixey led an afternoon session with J G Bradburn and Captain William Bradburn. They discussed funding strategies for Perry township including state aid, county commissioners support, and small contributions from town residents. The local organization will decide the exact plan.
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Rixey
William Bradburn
J. G. Bradburn
Moore
Perry Township
National Association
Farm land may be condemned for railroad expansion
Agents are securing options and purchasing farms as Wheeling and Lake Erie plans a new line from Bolivar to Orrville. Aimed for spring work, the project includes a double track, terminal yards, shops, and a hospital. Some options lapsed, others stand, with possible court action if land acquisition stalls.
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Justus
Jacob Leifer
Leiter
I. B. Douglass
Jof Dalton
Wheeling & Lake ‘Erie
John Pontius
Canton
John Bimeler
Zoar
Douglass
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad Company
Bolivar
Orrville
Navarre
Sugar Creek
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Baltimore & Ohio
Canton- Akrons Railway
Massillon Good Roads Association Formed at Convention
The Massillon Good Roads Convention led to the creation of The Massillon Good Roads Association. S. A. Conrad was elected president with J. J. Wise and Clark Metzger as vice presidents. City and township officers were named, a January 27 meeting set by, and plans discussed for state aid road legislation in Ohio.
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Good Roads
Schworm’s Hall
Massillon
Good Reads Association
S. A. Conrad
J. J. Wise
Clark Metzger
Richville
Per. Lee Hunt
I. M. Taggart
A. B. Camp
Perry Township
A. B. Mase
Bethlehem
Bates
William Bradburn
Association
T. P. Rixey
National Association
Ohio
Columbus
General Assembly
Rixey
M. E. Church
Col
W. H. Moore
Colonel Moore
Julius Caesar
Rome
United States
National Good Roads Association
National Good Roads Associations urged for permanent roads
A meeting endorses the National Good Roads Association's ideas and calls on county commissioners and township trustees to adopt permanent road building on scientific principles. It urges legislative action to sustain a statewide system, with expert supervision and local cooperation to improve streets, roads, and highways nationwide.
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Naetional Good Roads Association
National Good Roads Association of
United States
Local Good Roads Association
National Good Roads Association
Calls on the Treasury Show Ohio Budget Demands Rise
Columbus January 13 No heed to governor pleas for cutting state maintenance costs. Auditors budget shows appropriations rising to 13 357 533 for 1906 and 1907 from 12 310 510 two years earlier. Cleveland state hospital seeks 506 508, with 30 000 for farm land 10 000 for an industrial building and 10 000 for a cold storage plant. Road and canal upgrades seek 150 000 each, canal rehab 150 000 and Miami and Erie improvements 256 000 may threaten canal stockholders’ claims. Mansfield reformatory and Massillon hospital request for extensive improvements. Beat Parlor matches 8 1/2¢ a dozen taxes P J Schwalin Co East 9th Street.
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Columbus
Pattison
Herrick
Ohio
Guilbert
Cleveland State Hospital For the
Cleveland Institution
Cleveland
Boad
Ohio Canal
Miami and Erie
Cincinnati
Dayton
Fchances
Miami and Erie Canal Transportation Company
Mansfield Reformatory
Massillon Hospital For the
Brutal Murder in Chicago Shocks City
Mrs. Frank C. Hollister was found strangled with copper wire on Jan 18 in an alley near 868 Beiden Avenue. Richard B. Ivins, 24, confessed to the killing after saying he attempted to assault her near his workplace. He then went home and slept through the night as detectives investigate this case.
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Chicago
Associated , Press
Frank C. Hollister
Beiden Avenue
Richard B. Ivins
Mrs. Hollister
Ivins
Brokers' Assignment in Cleveland Stock Firm
Parsons Snyder & Company brokers with offices in the Harmon hotel made an assignment today via attorney A Smith. They are members of the Cleveland stock exchange and the consolidated exchange of New York, having done much business for Peed W Prior who died by his own hand last Tuesday afternoon.
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Cleveland
Associated Press
Parsons, Snyder & Company
HoNenden
Ted. A. Smith
Cleveland Stock Exchange
Consolidated Exchange of
New York
Peed W. Prior
Philippine tariff debate with sparse attendance in House
Washington January 13 Less than twenty members were present when the House met at 11 o clock to continue the tariff debate. Mr Gaines Tennessee spoke first in favor of the bill as a step toward free Philippines. The state department has been informed that former President Morales left San Domingo yesterday aboard the US ship Dubuque for San Juan Puerto Rico.
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Washington
Associated Press
House
Gaines
Tennessee
Philippines
State Department
Morales
San Domingo
United States
Dubuque
San Juan
Puerto Rico
New Steel Plant Opens in Homestead Borough
Pittsburg Jan 13 Operations were begun today in Homestead borough for the erection of large steel mills authorized by the United States Steel Corporation at an expenditure of 7 000 000. An epidemic of typhoid fever prevails in Wilkinsburg adjacent to this city with over one hundred cases and several deaths.
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Pittsburg
Associated Press
Homestead
United States Steel Corporation
Wilkinsburg
Calumet Fire Prizes Seven Men Trapped Underground
In Calumet Michigan January 13 Associated Press reports heroic but fruitless rescue attempts for seven men trapped underground in the Tamarack mine fire. Gas overcomes entrants and all hope of saving them alive has been abandoned.
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Calumet, Mich
Associated Press
Liabilities of Denison Prior & Company Seen Soaring
In Cleveland Jar 13 well informed financial circles estimate the firm Denison Prior & Company faces liabilities not less than 1.2 million dollars. Forgeries of bonds are believed to total about 450 thousand dollars.
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Cleveland, Jar
Associated Press
Denison, Prior & Company
Bonda
Three Days a Week Plan Returns to Ohio Assembly
Governor Herrick urged a business like, short session and a working week. Columbus reports the old plan of three working days a week has been readopted. Committees meet Tuesday to Thursday mornings, with Senate and House sessions at 1 30 p m. optional Friday and Monday sessions exist but often lack a quorum.
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Columbus
Herrick
General Assembly
Phillips
State House
Assembly
Senate
House of Representatives
Canton Reclaims Lost Football Funds and Local Tax Update
Canton auditors report Stark county cigarette tax cases nearly resolved with most dealers paying assessment and penalty. Some suspects will face prosecution early next week. Constable Bamberger’s delayed transfer of four vagrants to Massillon workhouse prompts a city police coordination. Local Catholics plan mass attendance at Massillon federation meeting with delegates from county societies.
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Canton
Oberlin
Stark County
Mas Sillon
Thomas Brown
Steve Billings
North
Walnut Street
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Massilion
Bamberger
Massillon
City
A QUEER MIX UP IN NOBLESVILLE MARRIAGE LICENSES
In Noblesville Indiana on January 13 a marriage license was issued to Ellis Carey 27 and Mary Gentry 47 the latter being Careys first wife who had died the previous year. The report notes a confusing sequence with Carey now married to his deceased wifes daughter.
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Noblesville, Ind
Associated Press
Ellis Carey
Maryf Gentry
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Massillon Good Roads Association
A. Conrad
Ture
the Treasury
P. J. Schwalin Co
East
NEW Steel Plant
Cassie
Associated Preas
Nathan Loeser
Cassie L. Chadwick
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
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