Local Happenings Parade in Stark County and beyond
Miss Edith Eisebrei visits Akron and Miss Pearl Kittinger sails to Norwalk for months with friends. George Leahy, once of this city, now in Columbus insurance, visits Massillon. Daughters of Liberty plan ice cream festival at 170 West Main. Stark county Pomona and Fairmount Granges meet near Alliance. Township ed board to hire fall teachers. one position open. Heirs of Mrs. Everhard donate a hundred library volumes to Charity Botch school. Dr. Gardner reports large Western crop prospects, especially wheat. Wes ley M E church Ladies Aid presents birth anniversary tea set. Welsh Union church festival at EB Evans' grove. Howells Coal Co disorganizes after sale to Massillon Coal Mining Co. Flynn-Frantz wedding at St. Marys. honeymoon in Chicago. Youngstown council annexes Nation al Steel works. plant valued at 15 million. OSU Pharmaceutical Society diplomas issued including Baltzly. Norwalk man Snable’s self-inflicted gunshot. recovery uncertain. Weather bulletin notes Ohio crop conditions for week ending June 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daughters of Liberty
Anna Marks
West Main Street
George Leahy
Columbus
Massillon
Leahy
H. B. Kuhn
Dayton
V. S. Brown
Kuhn
Brown
Stark County
Welsh Union Church
EB. J. Evans’ Grove
Justus
Stanwood Band
Old
Howells Coal Company
Thesday
Massillon Coal Mining Company
James A. Flynn
Clara Y. Frantz
George Frantz
H. V. Kaempker
St. Mary’s Church
Thomas Carver
Ella Frantz
Stanley M. Baltzly
Z. T. Baltzly
Baltzly
John Snable
Norwalk
Daisy Gibson
United States Weather Bureau
Ohio
TWO WEDDINGS AT ST MARYS AND EVANS MILLER MARRIAGE
Leo C Weible and Ida L Halter wed at St Marys church in a Wed morning ceremony conducted by Rev H V Kaempker in front of about 300 guests. The couple will reside on Wooster street. Fitz Evans married Frank C Miller at a North Mill Street home with 20 guests. they will live at 117 West Street Akron after June 26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo C. Weible
Ida L. Halter
St. Mary’s Church
H. V. Kaempker
John Weible
Anna Halter
Halter
New Berlin Road
Geo. Halter
Massillon
Weible
Wooster Street
Evans-Miller
Fitza Evans
Jacob Evans
North Mill Street
Frank C. Miller
Akron
George Darsie
The
Christian Church
Taxable property gains by Massillon wards
Assessors report shows total personal property value rising to 738 452 from 684 889 this year with gains by ward: First 6768, Second 31697, Third 11993, Fourth 3100. Board of equalization may raise the amount further. last year it boosted the tax return by 1300.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massillon
Board of Equalization
Third Ward
Fourth Ward
General Miles press on Senate Philippine vote failed
Washington report recalls General Miles asking Senator Hoar to delay the Philippine bill to reveal damaging army conduct. Hoar declined citing an existing agreement to vote next Tuesday. The exchange sparked widespread comment as Miles considered using new disclosures to influence the outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Record- Herald
Washington
Senate
Miles
Hoard
Massachusetts
Hoar
Philippines
Sentnor Hoar
Presidents of Coal Roads Claim Wage Scale Impracticable
New York June 11. Presidents of leading coal companies affected by the anthracite strike publish letters and telegrams with United Mine Workers officials. Baer Truesdale and Thomas cite impracticability of a general wage scale, differences in coal types, and declining output per worker as core objections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Mitchell
United Mine Workers
United States
Wright
Commissioner of Labor
Baer
Central Railroad of New Jersey
Truesdale
Lackawanna
Thomas
the Erie
AID FOR THE STRIKERS PUSHED IN MASSILLON
A committee led by Thomas Kineray and Henry Rummine, formerly of this district now in East Saginaw Michigan, met Mayor Bell to solicit funds for 2,100 striking Michigan miners. They plan to begin in Massillon in a few days and a district committee may be named to aid strikers in West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Kineray
Henry Rummina
East Saginaw
Mich
Bell
Michigan
Messrs. Kineray
Rummine
Massillon
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Miners Strike Across West Virginia Grows Despite Guards
June 11 reports from Fairmont Keystone and Thurmond detail a widening West Virginia coal strike. United Mine Workers officer William Morgan arrested for injunction violation. Strikers gain at some mines while others hold firm, extra guards and firearms arriving, and mass meetings in Glen Jean vow to stay out until concessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keystone
W. Va
Great Flat Top
Tug River
East Bank
Thurmond
New River District
Loup Creek
Glen Jean
Plans for Brewing Company Incorporation in Canton
Canton June 11. Plans for incorporating a brewing company with capital of 75 000 or 100 000 were discussed at a largely attended meeting in K C T M hall. John A Brobst was elected president John F Weiss secretary and William F Schumacher treasurer A second stockholders meeting is set for next Tuesday. The Stark County Telephone Company linemen ended a two week strike after concessions including a nine hour day at 2 50 and the discharge of a foreman who held out. The strike disrupted service in Alliance and Canton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton
Salem
J. P. Fawcett
R. W. Taylor
Joseph M. Higley
Youngstown
New Brewing Company
Fnemen
Stark County Telephone Company
J. W. Kennedy
Canton Union
Pension checks issued to Mrs McKinley and Mrs Garfield
In Columbus on June 11 the first pension check for Mrs McKinley was issued for 652.75 with future quarterly payments of 1250. Mrs Garfield also received a similar quarterly pension through the same agency yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Mc Kinley
United States Pension Agency
Garfield
Mystic Shrine Imperial Council Meet Opens
Nearly two thousand Mystic Shrine nobles gather in San Francisco for the twenty eighth annual imperial council meeting. Delegates come from Boston Chicago Cleveland New York Philadelphia Cincinnati Kansas City St Paul Denver Buffalo and many western and southern states. Local members attend to visitors as a lively hotel crowd forms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Cal
Mystic Shrine
Imperial Council of the Order
Boston
Chicago
Cleveland
New York
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Kansas City
St. Paul
Denver
Buffalo
Texas
Arizona
Indiana
Tennessee
Michigan
Oregon
Wisconsin
Iowa
Establishing a Mission School in Souj Bodak Persia
Massillon church figures plan a mission school in Souj Bodak Persia with a goal to raise $200 to $250 to fund an instructor for the new school. Rev L H Burry of St Pauls Lutheran plans subscription drives among his congregation, naming Massillon Lutherans in the title, and sending funds through Rev Baba Shabbaz who is linked to Persia missions. The moving appeal notes Shabbaz’s prior Massillon visits and his work among cave-dwellers, with a casual product plug for Rocky Mountain Tea at the end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. H. Burry
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Souj Bodak
Persia
Barry
Massillon
Pergia
Soeaj Boolak
Baba Shabbaz
Also Mentioned on This Page
Edith Eisebrei
W. H. Stout
Uhrichsville Chronicle
City
Pearl Kittinger
East Greenville
Ladies’ Aid Society
Wesley M. E. Church
John Ritter
HIVE
Ida Halter
Weible—Evans Miller
Miners’ Committee
William Morgan
Fairmont
R. W. Tayler
Independent
Greatest Store
Gaylight Store
Folwell
Seerucker
Toile-ilu-Nord
Ize
Madras
Japan
Alexandria
Mystic Shriners
Mr. Shabbaz
Castle
Rochester Shoe Co
Rochester
N. Y
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