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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1906
Page
5
Local brief from Orrville and Massillon area. Notables travel for visits and hosting guests, including Shultz in Cleveland and various families in Akron and Summit Street. School resignation, Eagle lodge expansion to Orrville, obituaries, and public notices on mail rules and local weather summaries accompany a stream of civic and social updates.
The Amphion Choral Society must raise 600 dollars in six months to clear debt. A concert at the music hall next Monday evening June 18 will feature a 125-voice chorus and local soloists, with music set for July 4 festivities.
List of unclaimed letters includes names such as Mallman Mrs May Petree Mamie Aston John Borrer T Brew Win Burgtau Thes Edwards D Griffith wm Fart Mat Kariddl Leo Bayler Jas McColla Wm Maser I A Merl Gilbert J Rathy Anald Robinson James Schafer Matta Shaffer Geo Sprankie C F Tulsoaré Harry Wallace Clarence Web r A Wenholting B Zimmerman A N E O C S Miss Ancient Order Hibemmass Massillon Branch No 4 C M B A Foreign Kis Stefan Monsieur le Maire. Callers must say advertised to receive letters. Loris A Kaous O M
Fire broke out Sunday afternoon in a Massillon Paper Company straw stack area after a box car fire. Firefighters fought flames into the night with three hose lines, keeping the blaze alive through Monday morning. Loss is estimated at 800 to 1000 dollars. both straw stacks were a total loss.
Obituary notices list Mrs. Missouri Klotz age 87 of 111 Canal Street died Monday at 4 am from paralysis. Funeral from daughter Mrs. William Jones 13 Muskingum Street Wednesday at 2 pm. Survived by one son Nathan M. Klotz and two daughters Mrs. Jones and Mrs. C F McDaniels. Interment Massillon Cemetery. Also Andrew Mutter 55 formerly of Massillon died at county infirmary. Survived by brother George Miller and sister. Funeral arrangements later. Abram Yant 72 died at Home Hotel Canton. Survived by brother Solomon Yant of 1121 Henry Avenue Canton and widow Elizabeth Yant died nineteen months ago. Born February 13 1834 in Canton. Bricklayer by trade. Funeral arrangements later.
The nineteenth Hammer family reunion was hosted by Mr and Mrs John Gill in Canal Fulton. About two hundred attended from Cleveland Youngstown Canton Akron and Massillon. Dr Wise Andrew Hammer W A Maline and Frank Labbe spoke. 620 members were noted in the family. Officers elected included Andrew Hammer president Barney Wire secretary and Frank Labbe historian. Planning committee named with W F Scenario Barney Wise and Clement Hammer. Next reunion site undecided.
McLain offers three greenhouses with ten thousand feet of glass and two heaters plus piping. Willing to sell part or all on site. option to buy quickly via Yant column ads.
At Dillonvale Ohio a mass meeting May 27 pledged to join the Western Federation of Miners in a body. A letter from coal miners in Ohio was read at the UMWA convention stating readiness to desert and commit all Ohio and West Virginia miners to switch allegiance. The proposition was referred to a committee.
Knights of Pythias and Rathbone Sisters schedule memorial exercises for Sunday June 24 with Rev V W Wagar delivering the annual address. Buckeye Quartette to provide music. members meet at 3 p.m. to ride to the Massillon cemetery for ceremonies starting around 4 p.m. Graves in other cemeteries to be decorated as in past years. two local lodge members died this year.
Miss Lizz e Rohr wife of Philip Rohr and Ferdinand Kiko were wed at St Marys church with a reception at the Rohr home and a barn dance to close the day. The ceremony followed by a reception for 130 guests and a dance in the Rohr barn. Mr and Mrs Kiko plan a new home on Kracker street. In JOHNSCON-MARTIN Miss Jennie May Jettston and Cheires A. Martin married at the bride’s parents home with a small gathering and a supper before a Chicago wedding trip aboard an evening train. Martin directs the Pennsylvanias railway electric signal three miles east of town. A Piles remedy ad follows.
Canton plans for a $20,000 county infirmary building were outlined with bids to be submitted Thursday at 8 pm. Architects from Massillon Canton and Alliance participate. a state law allows commissioners to proceed without a public vote up to $50,000. The old infirmary is deemed unfit, and no fairgrounds barns will be built due to funds shortage. Judge and Mrs Bow mourn loss of daughter Josephine aged eight from peritonitis. Funeral Thursday at 10 am from their home. Westlawn cemetery interment.
The notice advertises a summer travel album by Wisconsin Central Railway promoting Waukesha Waupaca Fifield and other resorts reachable via the line. It invites readers to request the illustrated Summer Book with details on how when and where to go and the cost. Applications go to Jas C Pond G P A Wisconsin Central Railway Milwaukee Wisconsin.
A morning blaze in Baltimore destroyed the Savannah dock of Merchants and Miners and the steamer Essex. Most of the Essex crew are accounted for. Later reports recovered bodies of Atkinson Costello and Manuel Gvelle, with two men still unaccounted for, feared dead.
Davenport June 13. Secretary Grilk of the Iowa Republican central committee said a Shaw telegram printed in Iowa showed the secretary met with the President before a Lincoln club meeting. Grilk asked if Roosevelt was taking sides in Iowa politics. Secretary Loeb replied no message was sent and no interference planned in Iowa or any state.
Washington June 18 The Republican steering committee of the Senate considered adjourning Congress as soon as possible after next week and saw no obstacle to the plan. The House sent the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill to conference. The Senate adopted the conference report on the national quarantine bill, which now goes to the President for signature.
Rain greeted the homecomers in Louisville as Armory hall filled for the gathering. Mayor Barch and Governor Beckham delivered welcomes with Beckham as presiding officer. Henry Watterson gave the principal address followed by ex-Governor Francis of Missouri.
The body of Thomas Robison, an English visitor who had taken part in local amateur theater as a clog dancer, was found on Point Pelee island in Lake Erie. Friends in Massillon, including William Nicholas and J. Emerson, identified items on the body linking it to Robison. He had left Massillon for Cincinnati in April en route to Canada, with speculation he died in the lake during a spring storm.
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