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Newspaper
The Rittman Press
Location
Rittman, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1915
Page
3
The page records community notes from Sterling with editor contact details and notices. It mentions farm and local business advertisements, railway times, and social visits, plus weather and resident movements. A stray paragraph references "the floating negro population" leaving Sterling due to cold weather and returning south.
At the Sterling lodge WS of P on December 7 at Castle hall the following officers for a six month term starting January 1 were elected: Chancellor Commander F So Wright Vice Chancellor Ned Reynolds Prelate Bert Barnhart Master of Work Don Wright Master at Arms Co L Caster Master of Exchequer George McBride Master of Finance Harry Fortney Keeper of Records and Seal David Johnson Trustee D B Graber Inner Guard William Smith Outer Guard Md Carnahan. They will be instated at the lodge’s first January meeting. The lodge plans organizing a lodge at Rittman with expected attendance from Sterling lodge for the Rittman institute.
At chapel Monday morning the program included recitations by Roscoe Miller Ruth Amtutz and Ruth Vener dialogue by Calvin McCoy and John Johnson and a song by Arthur Jordey and Donna Smith. The literary and social rally at the schoolhouse Friday evening featured a Girls box and Boys box reminder to bring money. Sterling teachers Merle Amstatz and visitors Covington Joe Neff Fo Tart and Beulah Nepp attended the Teachers Institute in Wooster on Saturday December.
A years old note describes John Graber Sr dying after an accident with a sausage grinder while helping to process meat. His son John Graber Jr. was injured using the same grinder, with the story presented as a cautionary demonstration.
Tracy Morrieen recently visited his uncle in Florida where he winters and serves in the soil service drawing 1590 dollars yearly plus expenses. Mr Mommsen is married and his wife accompanies him in Florida. J. Shank remains in Wooster hospital with favorable bedside reports amid hopes for recovery after surgery.
The U B Church announces Bible School Sunday at 9:00 led by H A Slemmons, preaching at 10:30 and 7:00. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7:00 led by E T Boone, class leader.
The Mennonite Church calls for preaching every Sunday at 10 30 a m and Sunday school at 9 30 a m The group seeks Bible truth lovers for edification and salvation of the lost The notice asks attendees to bring someone with them and join in prayer if possible
Mrs Celestine Pape died suddenly Friday evening in Sterling from acute indigestion and heart disease. She was 73 and had only just reached home before collapsing. Funeral services were held Monday at the Catholic church in Rittman with burial in the southeast Sterling Catholic cemetery. She is survived by husband Celestine Pape and four children Joseph Pope Mary Watt Celestine Wheeler and Anna Pape.
Emma Bucher of Mansfield and Fred Widmer of West Virginia, while working at the Beny Mmbach home, rode to Sterling in a buggy. A hen laid an egg on the seat while the buggy was parked, and Mise Er did not realize it until they reached their destination. She calls it a mean trick by the hen to lay eggs where people may sit.
In a Speedwell home Mary consoles Tom as Elsie and Bob seek gifts. The father endures fatigue yet revels in a child filled Christmas. The scene closes with Mary’s tearful resolve and a promise of a quiet, shared family bedtime.
Hopewell grew from a railroad siding to a booming wartime town with mills and factories employing thousands. Fire and lawlessness marked its rapid rise. police were organized, major streets bore high land values, and newcomer rents soared as housing and businesses sprang up around munition factory activity.
The Wars of Derby proposes enlisting Red Cross workers into the British army without compulsion. He urges replacing single men with married or older men, and asks military authorities in France to recall serviceable Red Cross personnel of military age for reinstatement to fighting ranks.
A fragmented excerpt reports on a Kansas man involved in a deception about a roll or money. The text mentions thieves and a stamped envelope and a drop box, with unclear sequence of actions and outcomes.
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