Massillon Surveyors Leave City for Pittsburg Line Study
Pennsylvan ia surveyors who had worked in Massillon since December 1 departed for Pittsburg to report to headquarters. They mapped land north of Massillon toward the state line and explored a possible eastward double track route from near Stone Quarry Hill toward Canton, noting a straight east line could bypass Massillon.
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Corps of Pennsylvania
Massillon
Pittsurg
Massillon Corps
Railroad Company
Pittsburg, Ft Wayne & Chicago
Louisville
Wooster
Pennalvania State Line
Stone Quarry Hill
Meyer’s Lake
Canton
Maximo
Eisteddfod at Canton to feature world’s largest choir line
Secretary W A Davis of the Welsh Singing Society reports the Fourth of July eisteddfod in the Auditorium will be a record entertainment with the greatest number of singers ever assembled. Entries include multiple city choruses in scores of voices, plus seven male and five female choruses competing for prizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton Morning News
W. A. Davis
Welsh Singing Society
Wheeling and
Martins Farry
George Rowland
Utica
N. Y
I. R B. Daniels
Canton
Mount Carmel
I. R. Hopwood
Pittsburg
John Harris
Cleveland Chorus
William J. Davis
Alliance Chorus
Toe Cut Off In Pennsylvania Freight Train Incident
Peter Nalbach of 462 Sheridan Street Canton suffered a severe injury at Pennsylvania station on Thursday at 1 45 PM. He walked along the south platform when an eastbound freight train approached, lunged against the locomotive and was drawn under it. The left big toe was severed. He was transported to Mt. Airy hospital by police patrol wagon. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Peter Nalbach of Navarre.
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Peter Nalbach
Sheridan Street
Canton
Pennsylvania Station
Mt. Airy Hospital
Navarre
Convention Arrangements For National Encampment Planned
Miss Bertha M. Martin national president of the Daughters of Veterans returns from Chicago and Minneapolis where she arranged quarters at West hotel for national officers. The national encampment of G A R W R C and D of V will be held in August in Knights of Pythias lodge room at the Masonic temple. A Daughters of Veterans tent No 1 was formed in Minnesota with 35 charter members. Delegates including Ohio and Massachusetts will travel by special coaches on a picturesque route for the Dayton department encampment next week. Miss Martin not seeking re election Chicago shows a leading candidate.
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Bertha M. Martin
Park Street
The
Daughters of Veterans
Chicago
Minneapolis
Grand Army of the Republic
Woman’s Relief Corps
Knights of Putinas
Masonic Temple
Miss Martin
No 1
Minnesota
Longfellow
Mre. I. K. Martin
Minnesota Department
Thirteenth Avenue
M. E
J. K. Martin
Torrence
Fowler
Ohio
Massachusetts
Department of Ohio
G A. R
W. R. EB
D. of IV
Dayton
Miss Martini
San Francisco Sufferers Fund Receives Massillon Donation
Money forwarded by J. M. Taggart of Merchants National Bank, for the committee appointed by Mayor Frantz to aid San Francisco sufferers, sent $301 to city authorities. The Massillon drive had yielded few donations in recent days.
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J. M. Taggart
Merchants National Bank
Frantz
San Francisco
Massillon
Marblehead Sails From Panama To Guatemalan Ports
The United States cruiser Marblehead has sailed north from Panama. It is expected to stop at Guatemalan ports to protect American interests and investigate reports that the steamer Empire aided revolutionists at San Jose Guatemala.
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Washington
Associated Press
Marblehead
Panama
Brewery Fire Destroys Weat Virginia Plant
Huntington West Virginia June 9 The Weat Virginia Brewing Company plant burned early today. Origin of the fire is unknown. Ice plant and storage cellars were saved. Loss placed at 200000 with most of it insured.
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Huntington
W. Ve
Associated Press
Weat Virginia Brewing Company
Commencement at Canal Fulton Students Bow to Public
The Canal Fulton high school class of 1906 held a commencement in the high school auditorium before a good sized audience. Superintendent Morris of Alliance Public Schools delivered the glass address on the money value of an education and Fecht provided the class history. The orations praised steady effort and duty, with the poem Little Things by Esther M. Groff stressing the influence of small acts in life and success.
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Canal Fulton High School
Morris
Alliance Public Schools
Fecht
Esther M. Groff
Continents
Cora Meyers
Canal Fulton
John H. Foeht
Palulah Porter
Amy Hoover
Elizabeth Sora
Nellie Kittinger
A. R. Mayer
Suerintendent Focht
Half Finished Work and Valley of Childhood Orations
A commencement program lists a processional anthem salutatory and orations by Mabelle Ginther and Esther Groff with Miss Cora Meyers delivering both the valedictory and class oration. Superintendent Focht presents diplomas as Rev. Me vauley and Rev. Klotz offer prayers.
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F. G. Mevauley
Mabelle Ginther
Cora Meyers
Esther Groff
Dorothy Focht
J. E Morris
Alliance
Focht
W.B. Moulton
Board of Education
H. S. Klotz
Child Kept in Cellar Sparks Humane Action
Canton residents report Mrs. Elizabeth Howard keeps her 5-year-old Willie in the cellar in girl’s clothing since birth, fearing kidnapping by the former husband. Humane officer notified. Also note: over seven hundred attended the Bair family reunion at the county infirmary Thursday. advertisement for Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea at 85 cents.
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Canton
Elizabeth Howard
East Third Street
Willie
Bair
Lightning Strikes Wilmot Man Hurting Jacob Hudson
Jacob Hudson of Wilmot was struck by lightning in a thunder storm while in the woods two miles from the village, paralyzing him and killing one of the two horses he drove. He was carried home by his son and woke Thursday morning slightly deaf but otherwise recovered. a money lending advertisement follows.
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Jacob Hudson
Wilmot
Mr. Hudson
New Teachers Join Massillon High School Faculty
Massillon Ohio May 25 1906 new teachers Esther M Treadly from University of Michigan and Emma Shaw Lowe from Radcliffe College join high school faculty. Several resignations accepted including Blanchard Pontius and McLaughlin. Salaries fixed. enumeration shows 4546 children ages 6 to 21 with 2838 boys and 2208 girls.
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Board of Education
Miss Blanchard
McLaughlin
East Street
Misa Pontins
Franklin
Esther M. Treadly
Athens
Misa Treudly
Massillon
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
Emma Shaw Lowe
Radcliffe College
Worchester
Eather M. Treadly
A. B. Oberlin
John Ellis
M. Smith
T. J. Teeple
Manley
Clark
Susie Graybill
Viola B Pepper
Cesare Graybill
Charlotte Smith
Jennie Kitt
Emma Kratech
Alice Young
Mary Bowman
Mary Null
Florence Crone
Sadie Sibson
Ella Buch
Mary Crone
Nettie Miller
Nellie Evana
Christia Erwin
Lavina Marr
Clara Morris
Emily Wheeler
Ivan Sprankle
Arletta Yost
Julia M. Coxsee
Kathleen Brosnan
E. Blanchard
S. Pontius
Buildinga
Board of Examiners
Ella D. Shoemaker
Edward R. Albrecht
Wendell P. Fox
Hospital Notes From Massillon Aims at Sewer Plan
Superintendent H C Eyman returned from Columbus with plans for a sewer line and filtration beds to be reviewed by the state board of health and Governor Pattison. The hospital garden grows corn potatoes and tomatoes as eighty feet of well drilling fails to strike water. pig pens advance while a new entrance on the Navarre road is planned for June 22 board meeting.
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H. C. Eyman
Columbus
State Board of Health
Pattison
Canton
Massilon State Hospital
Board of Health
Eyman
Ohio
Anthony Fink
Carpenter Monsholder
Hospital Board of Trustees
Navarre Road
Operators Stand Firm as Ohio Miners Press 1903 Wage Fight
Adjourning of the joint conference does not end the strike. Miners insist on the 1903 wage scale and will contribute 5 percent of wages from organized mines, while the national board allocates funds to Ohio to sustain strikers. Sunday Creek opens nonunion West Virginia mines. stores in Hocking Valley close. 320,000 weekly from national board plus state funds aim to pay about 3 dollars weekly to each striker.
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Columbus
Ohio
National Executive Board
John H. Winder
Sunday Creek Company
Hocking Valley
Hocking
West Virginia
Green
State Executive Board
Editor Ephraim Eshelman Found Dead in Wooster Hotel
Ephraim B Eshelman editor of papers at Chillicothe Akron and Columbus was found dead in his bed at a Wooster hotel. He had served in the state legislature.
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Wooster
Associated Press
Ephraim B Eshelman
Chillicothe
Akron
Columbus
Blackburn Chairman Elected by Senate Democrats
Washington June 9 Senator Blackburn of Kentucky was chosen chairman to succeed Senator Gorman at a Democratic senators meeting. He succeeds Gorman as party leader in the Senate with the vote of the majority of the Democratic group.
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Washington
Blackburn
Kentucky
Gorman
HILDREOTH SENTENCED Mt. Vernon June 9
Mt Vernon June 9 sentence given in a case involving Sheriff Shell’s death. Local coverage notes a verdict and subsequent punishment for the killer. Details remain limited in the readable fragment.
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Mt. Vernon
Shell Lay
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Woos
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Beauty
Rocky Mountain Tea
Baltzly Company
the Daughters OF Veterans
Alliance Public Schools, de
J. H. Focht
Canton Humane
Hollister
Cleveland
C. Ringle & CO
Ohbio
Uate
Emma S. Lowe
Hospital Notes
Dener
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