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that year and was succeeded by the late F, If. Shaw.The year 1898 was marked by many Important events for Dover, It flaw the dedication of the large new St. Joseph’s Catholic church, the completion of the first Fast Ohio f*as Co. line through this territory, the beginning of negotiations whereby the Reeves Iron Co. mills were sold to the American Sheet Tin Plate Co. which was merged into the Stoei Corporation; the completion of the Tuscarawas County Telephone Company’s first lines, and many other important industrial changes.The same year saw the beginning of the struggle for a municipal light Plant. The municipal waterworks been built in 1896 but the town refused to pay $70 a year per light Tor the oldtime arc lamps for s reet lighting. In November the citizens voted 564 to 192 in favor of a 51 o,000 bond issue to build a municipal light plant but court Injunctions and other obstacles de-a' actual building until many.ears later when a new and larger bond Issue was authorized.In 1898 Dover was without sewer mi 8tretL pavlngr. A proposal to is-•ana for the beginning of a[tar]r sewage system was voted down 407 to 832.Um ? “speakeasy” was a prob-' is ^en tbose Pr®-Volstead daysR £ «ced by the fact that MayorIV eb announced that he ia open war on “Sunday speak-» es olIow*nff a conference with Christian Weber of the Mora-^.rCh’ Rev‘ A C- Huff. Pastor pJ ® F,rst Methodist church, andWftT' ®autman- Pastor of the German Methodist church.Hotel Built In 188* the Herbert hotel was in erectlon- The Vinton T)nv ' building:, Rausch block,^Janufacturingr Co. plant, v_r *8 Manufacturing: Co. plant.n °hl° Ttractlon Light Co. dust^)8, many othlt;r Important insistence buildine3 were not inleading: citizens an.s
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Canton Sunday News
Canton, Ohio, US
Sun, Mar 11, 1923
Page 37
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