Local Happenings and Community Notes in Massillon
Births, illnesses, travels, and events populate the week in Massillon. Theodore Hock's daughter joins the Wellman Street family. Mrs. Snyder returns from Akron and lies ill. John Spidle visits Wooster. the Barry rector attends Capital University trustees in Columbus. Local option vote in Sugarcreek township. John Loftis fined for Sunday opening. Interurban to adopt summer schedule. May Coxsee plans a private drawing school. Socialists plan county ticket meeting. city saloon changes hands. Mahon ill in Delaware. Diamond Rubber to add tire plant space. long‑time Pennsylvania Railway conductor John Altafler dies. Mrs. Germa Campbell fined in Canton. 91‑year‑old James Cornell in divorce suit. brewery workers enjoy Muskalonge outing. St Joseph’s lawn fete raises funds. cigar makers elect delegate to Baltimore convention. Pennsylvania freight wreck near Wooster. Roberts family to spend ten weeks on Atlantic coast. St Timothy’s services extend to Aug 1. funeral for Mrs Chantry Piper held with local and out‑of‑town attendees. EWSPAD
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Hock
Wellman Street
B. Snyder
Akron
Young Street
John Spidle
Wilmot
W. S. Spidie
Wooster Street
L. H. Barry
Columbus
Capital University
Earl Frazier
Ubrichsville
James Hannan
Newman
Susan Long
Lisbon
Massillon State Hospital
Kittenger
Lakeside Park
Sugarcreek Township
John Loftis
Alliance
May Coxsee
Cleveland
Cleveland Art School
Trades and Labor Assembly
Massillon Council
Knights of Columbus
Canton Council
Cleveland Council
Cigarmakers’ Union
Hell
Henry B. Sibila
Baltimore
Pennsylvania Railroad
Wooster
C. M. Roberts
Atlantic Sea Coast
St. Timothy’s Church
Canon O. E. Watson
D. W. Davies
Theological Seminary
Gambier
William Pierce
Kenyon College
Chantry Piper
West Cherry Street
J. Wilson
John Arnold
M. Boyle
L. Clementz
B. Sheehan
Duncan Merrell
C. Kiefer
Piper
E. A. Andrigg
Mary Easy
Mansfield
Adam Fogel
Orrville
Flora Spellman
New York
Thomas Mellon
Joseph Kern
Ravenna
Funeral notices and deaths in North Lawrence and Massillon
Obituary items report the deaths of Mrs Celia Baker at North Lawrence and John A Fiegenschuh in Massillon, with funeral details from St Mary's and local churches. The 18 month old Charles Russell Hamsberger dies of lung fever in Navarre, with a burial planned in Smoketown. Mary Welshenbaugh dies of pneumonia at 41 West South Street, with services at Harry Stilgenbauer's home in Duncan Street. The report notes Fiegenschuh's residence and business as Massillon agent for Herancourt Brewing Co. and his membership in St Mary's church and the Protected Home Circle. The article lists multiple other death notices and funeral times across the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Celia Baker
North Lawrence
Charles Hampberger
Navarre
John A. Fiegenschuh
East North Street
Karl
Harold
Massillon
Herancourt Brewing Company
Cincinnati
St. Mary's Church
Charles Russell Hamsberger
Charles Hamshberger
Smoketown
John Baker
Bright
Mr. Mottershead
West Brookfield
Mary Welshenbaugh
Joseph Welshenbaugh
West South Street
Harry Stilgenbauer
Duncan Street
Welshenbaugh
Stilgenbauer
Pastor Adams Married in Tuscarawas Township Home
Miss Florence C. Maxhimer wed Rev. William S. Adams in a ceremony at the bride's parents home west of the city. The couple will live at the parsonage of the Reformed church of Tuscarawas township after July. The report also notes the wedding of Catheryn Weber and Louis Wittmann in St Marys church with Rev Kaempker officiating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence C. Maxhimer
Frank Maxhimer
William S. Adams
Adams
Reformed Church
Tuscarawas Township
Weber-Wittman
Catheryn Weber
Louis Wittmann
St. Mary's Church
H. V. Kaempker
Mary Weber
Weber Street
Wittmann
Russell & Company
Canal Dover Crime Report Details Brutal Assault
A Canal Dover special to the Plain Dealer describes Laura Bucher a seventeen year old girl abducted and assaulted at the Second Street School House grove where four young men laid in wait. Adam Lantzer and others were arrested and a preliminary hearing was set for 9 o clock Thursday. Local outcry follows the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canal Dover
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Laura Bucher
Adam Lantzer
Second Street
Lantzer
George Botz
Abraham Edwards
John Jones
Joseph Franck
A Good Cough Medicine Endorsed by Druggists
Chamberlains Cough Remedy is praised by druggists for family use and customer satisfaction. Druggist J. Goldsmith of Van Etten NY says he has sold it five years with complete results. Also notes its effectiveness for colds and grippe. Sold by E S Craig Z T Baltzly and Rider Snyder. Mention of DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve curing a long standing facial sore of a man from Portsmouth VA.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
J. Goldsmith
van Etten
Ja Grippe
E. S. Craig
Z.T. Baltzly and
Rider & Snyder
Newman Briefs and Nearby Town News Notes
Local items from Newman and nearby Wilmot Stanwood Green Oak recount visits by residents to Canton and Massillon, a school lawn festival June 22 to raise funds for baseball uniforms, a lightning strike on the John Sadler home, coal mine activity, and furniture and roof work. Other notes cover church events streetcar rumors, and regional reunions with multiple residents listed.
Richards-Bachtel Reunion Marks New Union at Highland Park
The Richards and Bachtel families held their annual reunion at Highland Park near Greentown with over a hundred members. The event celebrated the extinction of two old organizations and the formation of a single expanded lineage tracing roots to 1805 in Stark and 1707 in Switzerland, with representatives from every state and territory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Assoxtows
Richards- Bachtel
Highland Park
Greentown
John
Catharine Richards
Plain Township
Stark County
Green Township
Summit County
Martin Bachtel
America
Switzerland
United States
Richards-Bachtel
Robert H. Evans to Build Richville School House
The Richville avenue school project bids were opened by the board of education. Three bids covered the complete building, two were for major parts, with additional bids for portions. Robert H. Evans & Company submitted the only full-build bid at 38700.41 dollars. John Meinhart & Son led partial bids. The Massillon labor preference rule applied, and the structure is to be enclosed within ninety days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richville Avenue
Board of Education
Robert H. Evans & Company
John Meinhart & Son
Stree- Lines
Life saved by Chamberlain's remedy in Missouri tale
AK Lafs lette of Gregory Landing Clark County Missouri credits Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy with saving his life nine years ago after a doctor said he could not live. He recovered quickly and keeps the remedy on hand. Sold by E S Craig Rider Snyder and Chas W Cuppies. DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve offers pile relief without surgery. Beware counterfeits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Brown
Putsmouth
DeWitt
Chas. W. Cupples
West Tremont Street
Rider & Snyder
East Main Street
Chamberlain
Lafs Lette
Gregory Landing
Clark County
Missouri
E.S. Craig
T. Baltaly and
Rider &Snyder
Chas. W
W. Tremont Street
E. Main Street
Also Mentioned on This Page
Julius Schneider
Schuster Brewing Company
West Main Street
Charles Schaibley
Stephen K. Mahon
Delaware
City
Diamond Rubber Company
Jobn P. Altafler
Pennsylvania Railway Company
Germa Campbell
Canton
James Cornell
Summit
Brewery Workers’ Union
Muskalonge
St. Joseph's Church
Church Lawn
Schworm
Pastor Adams
Florence Maxhimer
Weber-Wittmann Baptists
John Sadler
Stanwood
Green Oak
Alonzo Smith
Perce
J. W. Myers
East Greenville
A. L. Morganthaler
T. E. Masters
D. E. Rowlands
Thomas Powell
Marie Griffiths
Board of Education of
Lawrence
Canal Fulton
No. & Kittinger & Stock
Thomas J. Morgan
Crippen
Lima
Elizabeth Edwards
Independent Want
Wilmot Briefs
Witwer
Lare
Leonard Goodman
Fred Nauman
Petevelsnd
Clarence
Clayton Brenner
Arthur Oberlin
East Union
J. B. Shilling
W.D. Oberlin
C. H Tinkler
Buffalo
Jerome Hagan
Guven Oax
Singhass
Laura Stanbaugh
William Weaver
Belle Wynn
Levi Eberly
Lincoln
Neb
Yager
Berg
Eliza Emick
Chiliman Springer
Shultz Wagon Company
Zaida Arnold
Esta Lyons
Bertha Erb
William Miller
Mary
Stella Ruch
Florence Baer
Lulu Oberlin
Collegeville
Joseph Oberlin
Paul Wampler
Bay City
Mich
William Levers
Leota
Hal Hullinger
Norah Lawrence
Acorn Rebekah Lodge
Siter Dixon
Elizabeth Farmer
Campcreerk
Campcreek
Boughman
Boughmaan
Warstler
Simon Warstlers
Justus
Berry
Cross Roads
Tracie Snyder
C. M. Podrman
Thomas Collier and Family
J. C. Keller
Zachariah Boughman
Cross 1 Roads
Wilmot Band
Brookfield Doings
BrookheLp
The
M. C. McConnell
Terre Haute
Ind
L E. McConnell
Nellie Haverstock
Henry Friend
Daniel Friend
G. Graves
M. E. Church
Amanda Rosenberger
Golden Ralston
Cana Fulton
Esther Ralston
J. W Richards
Lake
Samuel Pre Bachtel
McDonaldsville
F B. Richards
Lillian Myers
W .D. Theobald
J. W. Richards
Isaac Rachtel
Ft. Wayne
Lund
A. K. B. Richards
Ransom Richards
Jesse Woods
Brimfield
Frederick Cline
Ida Cline
John Silk
Henry A. Bowers
L. W. Lichtenwalter
Charles Angstadt
Wok
ROYAL
Royal Baking Powder CO
Hin
York
Robert H. Evans
Naw Spa
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