Local Happenings and Community Notes
Births, engagements, and visits fill the week with Mr and Mrs George Hunter announcing a daughter born Sunday. The Lisbon election favored wets by 156. Jacob Bullinger visits Masillon and Pigeon Run while Laura Russell’s engagement to Albert Phillips is informally announced. Various house sales, charity events, and street projects appear amid church notices and local council shifts.
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George Hunter
Dielhenn Street
Lisbon
Jacob Bullinger
Chicago
Masillon
Pigeon Run
Laura Russell
Albert Phillips
Newark
N. J
Henry Werling
North Mill Street
Oscar W. Bammerlin
Obituary notices for several local residents
Infant Elden Elmer Ries died after a ten hour illness at 20 East Main Street. Hiram Umbenhour aged 54 of near Pigeon Run died early Monday. funeral plans unsettled. Miss Anna Taylor of Massillon died in Edgewood Park Pa at 19. body to Massillon Thursday. funeral Thursday. A J Harvey died Monday at 73, formerly of Wayne County. body sent to Wooster. funeral today at 2 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elden Elmer
John Ries
East Main Street
Hiram Umbenhour
Pigeon Run
Willard Umbenhorr
Alliance
Anna Taylor
Massillon
Edgewood Park
Charles E. Taylor
N. B. Gleason
William H. Kirkland
A. J Harvey
A. J. Harvey
Massillon State Hospital
Wayne County
Wooster
Nature's Lesson and Then a Dog's Watchful Nonsense
A poetic meditation on duty and brightness contrasts with a canine note on instinctual vigilance. Included are reflections on human forgetfulness and acts that brighten lives, a quip about dogs and home defense, and a light joke about a missing apple told as a child’s exchange.
Admission of Territories in Doubtful Senate Vote
Washington June 25 The omnibus statehood bill is the main Senate concern as Senator Quay seeks to discharge the committee on territories for immediate action. Democratic House members plan a Friday night caucus to push tariff and trusts in the campaign.
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Washington
Senate
Senator Quay
Committee On Territories
Friends of
Congress
Beveridge
Committee On
Territories
House
Democratic Congressional Committee
Griggs
Senate Committee On Immigration
National Capitol
F. B. Thurber
Cuban Committee
Cuba
Platt
Venezuela in foment as revolution threatens Castro
Washington reports from Caracas cite a grave situation in Venezuela amid the ongoing revolutionary movement against President Castro. The U S Navy Department stands ready for any emergency while details of Bowen’s cablegram remain unpublished. The Philadelphia Record notes scarce Independence copies and the fading original document in Washington with a history of photographs and copyrights.
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Washington
State Department
United States
Bowen
Caracas
Castro
Navy Department
Venezuela
Philadelphia
Department of State
James D. McBride
Philadelphia Record
Uhrichs ville Fire Ravages Ellery Store
A Monday evening fire at Fred Ellery's department store in Uhrichsville threatened the large brick building in the Evans block. The blaze started near the east windows by the pool room and spread to the wall. clerks raised an alarm and the fire company quickly extinguished the flames after two water streams were directed into the room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uhrichsville
Fred Ellery
T. J. Evans
Mayor Bell to retire from Glass Bottle Blowers Union
Massillon Mayor Bernard Bell will resign from the national executive board at the Atlantic City convention in July. Local delegates argue to keep him, but he plans to attend the wage conference and convention, with Massillon represented by Jacob Annen, W. J. Dunlap, John Kelcher, Henry Miller, and William McKergin. The city’s glass plants will close next Saturday after a strong season, with 32,500,000 bottles produced. Repairs and expansions include Reed & Company storehouse, new lighting and water plants, tempering furnaces, and increased blower force at Massillon Bottle and Glass and related firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernard Bell
Glass Bottle Blowers’ Union
Atlantic City
Mr. Bell
Massillon Blowers
Albany
Ind
Warwick
Coshocton
Massillon
Reed & Company
Lehra
Massillon Bottle and Glass Company
Faith Lutheran chapel marks tenth anniversary celebration
The Faith Lutheran chapel anniversary observance runs Sunday June 29 with services led by Rev G W Lose and visiting ministers including Rev H P Long who began the mission. A new bell will be dedicated Sunday evening after a Friday service by Pastor Love.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Faith Lutheran Chapel
8. P. Long
Columbus
St. Paul’s Church
Toppan Confesses to Thirty One Murders
Boston June 25 Jane Toppan declares to Judge Fred M. Bixby that she murdered thirty one people using morphine and poisons and started fires as a nurse. Experts doubt parts of the confession but may not find conclusive evidence to refute her account.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Jane Toppan
Taunton Insane Hospital
Fred M. Bixby
Perons
Miss Toppan
Bixby
Supreme Court rules county salary acts unconstitutional
Columbus June 25 the supreme court declares most county salary acts invalid. The Guilbert vs Yates suit ends fee based pay for county offices, reverting officers to fees in hand and back fees due. Auditors in Hamilton and Cuyahoga counties gain about 10,000 in uncollected fees and will draw about 50,000 annually.
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Columbus
Supreme Court
Guilbert
Yates
Pickaway County
Hamilton
Cuyahoga
Prices at Massillon Market Today for Grain Hay Straw and Wool
Market list shows wheat at per ton, loose hay at 39, straw at 85, 90 and 6 00, corn at 70, oats 45, Clover Seed 5, Timothy Seed 2.00, rye 56, barley 50, flax 1 50, wool ranged 12 to 14, potatoes per bushel 65 to 70, white beans and butter eggs not fully specified.
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Independen
M. P. Hobbs
Wilmot
James A. Koehler
Mary Putnam
Beach City
L. ©. Spidle
Green Street
the Knights of Columbus
Lorain
Bridgeport
Wheeling
Bell
William Berry
Massilion
Schworm
James Gauntlett
Tremont
A. Morgan
Wooster Street
Stanwood
Elizabeth Ertle
Mathias Ertle
Anthony P. Kilway
St. Mary's Church
Thorn Street
Dorian Nichols
San Francisco
Navarre
Nichols
William Nichols
Samuel Noftsinger
S. Higerd & Son
Riddle Coach and Hearse Company
Ravenna
William Vaughn
Sperra
State Hospital
Edward H. Herman
Herman Bros
South Mill Street
Justice Sibila
Columbus Bader
Bader
Myer’s Church
W. H. Stewart
W. 8. Adams
A. Krider
William Wefler
Samuel Hornberger
Henry Snyder
Daniel McFarren
J. 3. Wefler
Lodge of Perfection
Scottish Rites of Masons
St. John’s Day
Meyer's Lake
Baltzly
P. P. Kirchhofer
A. Miller
S. Hattery
R. Heggem
J. A. Shoemaker
Secowd
Massillonians
Akron
St. Bernard Catholic
Knights of St. John
Catholic Mutual Benefit Association
Harmonia Band
Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling
Richland & Mahoning Railway Company
Summit County
Akron Transfer Railway Company
Akron & Newcastle Railroad Company
D. P. Reighard
Pittsburg
Ohio
Main Street
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Megadore
Richland & Mahoning
Wheeling& Lake Erie
C. W. French
Mansfield
Cleveland
Anna T. Uackman
Philadelphia Bulletin
Tommy
In Blowers’ Union
Tinuance
Glass
Faith Chapel Sunday
Z. T. Baltaly
Mas
Mr. Slusser
Slusser
Jonas M
Keim
Juney
Uth
PN Ear
Hayner
Troy, Oo
THE
Hayner Distilling CO
Fifth St
Dayton
Wisconsin
Michigan
Chicago & Kerth Western
Sunener
Gleveland
Superior Street
Carr & Taylor
First National Bank
Cor. Main
Erie Streets
Hudson Rye
W. H. Ertle
Clouse
Cleveland Ave
Fourth St
Canton
Erie St
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