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Methodist church.Hotel Built US* the Herbert hotel erection. Thentu vfciiiiauwas in VintonIn*roe#sa of _______A14^ vlIlloI,^oek, Wentz building:, Rausch block, Relfr Manufacturing Co. plant. v**s Manufacturing Co. plant, iln/ ° °h,° ^traction Light Co. d'u'st5 ianlt;1 many °ther Important ln-2S- and buiIdin*3 were not in existence.in c^,zens ®*nd business menentinn ™y’ 811 dead now’ were Va1* Torn . tntZ’ Fred Wentz. Samuel Rtreh V acob A- Horn, Henry W. IteevA* E* Heeves, Jabez^ Theodore P. Peter, Dr.HiriTft8 H’Brannon* Hr. E. C. Lewis, -Mvorl r ®*ence» Henry Scheu, John I)ei« V A* Hostetler, Christiani D Baker. U. C. Dear-R s Qf' * Scott* George W„ Crites,sWlnffngiUff’ Charles SHngluff. Al. hart Tr Ern°st Wentz, Fred Bern-t)r p \r*0 ?ornhart. John Wassem, Ori Wagrner and many others.Prorril a *ew of the men who were Eminent in those days still sur-Among these few are Attor-The Reeves Banking and Trust! has a membership of more thancompany is another institution of excellent standing with a capital stock of $125,000. A. J. Krantz is president. The State Savings Bank. \H completing a new building which j is one of the finest in the city.Prominent among the organiza-1 tions of the city are the Chamber j of Commerce, the Kiwanis club, the! Rotary club, the American Legion j and the Y. M. C. A., besides flourishing fraternal orders, and! churches. Public playgrounds, three | theaters and a country club take care of much of the recreational activity, although the ample facilities offered for indoor sports by the new j American Legion building are utiliz- j ed to the fullest extent. A hospitalof 50 rooms is maintained.The affai r, school in theVive.£renrJy V\* H°stf lpTr- Dr. ° S. Welty. Andrpu, V, , n Houis Breitensteln, Ream r a Thomas Kemp, Harry [j d ’ * Cooper, Plin Vinton and*.u* Ward.the v!Witil Spain lent color tofited and D°V°r W“ vastly exa number of Dover boys®arnhfi* IUd,njr the late Hu*°th*»son of then su-schools, who;art and Brooks Pfeiffer William Pfeiffer, fl!?1 indent of DoverService °rUy after his discharge fromC0A******* the Reeves Tron a lar^tn ln du*y °I that year drew•rick Z Cr0Vl The ,ate Ned Rod-M chairman of the meetingChamber ot CommerceDuring 1922 the chamber of com* ] merce worked on a platform of 12 , planks, with successful results in ! most instances. It has been instrumental in securing a firm to build a new hotel, which may be started soon it a suitable site is secured. It has aided in securing paving of sev-A city zoning plan, fos-ehamber is now before and a city plan corn-being formed. Play-j being secured through foundation. A white j way has been established in several downtown streets as part of a city beautification move and a clean-up j campaign will bo staged in May. Work on better housing and better sewerage avstenis has brought good results, and a move toward close*' cooperation with farmers has been started. The proposed city park measure was lost, but the committee j representing the chamber is still ieral streets, tered by the i th« council, f mission is grounds are the Harmon1400.The First Methodist Episcopal church was also early in the history of the city, being founded in 1 832. It now has more than 500 members and has several well organized subsidiary societies.The city is well located as regards communications, having the C and M, and C and P divisions of the Pennsylvania railroad, the Cleveland Lorain and Wheeling division of the B and O railroad, and the N. O. T. for traveling and shipping facilities.Schools arc Goodschool system is a first grade with one of the finest high buildings of any small city state.Dover High school is of the first I grade and of the highest rating al -i lowed by the state department of public instruction. Four courses are offered, including Latin, General, Commercial, and Vocational — the later offering a different curriculum j for boys than for girls.Within recent years French has ! displaced German as an elective subject. Manual training and Home Economics are elective in all years of every course. Credit is allowed in vocal music and orchestra, and while these subjects are elective, fully seventy-five per cent of the pupils enrolled avail themselves of the splendid opportunities afforded in the former, and two orchestras of upward of twenty pieces are maintained. Athletics is taught in a creditable manner, with a view toward making it a means to an end rather than an end Itself.The elementary course is one of marked thoroughness. Vocal music and art are competently taught in
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Canton Sunday News
Canton, Ohio, US
Sun, Mar 11, 1923
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