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Newspaper
The Rittman Press
Location
Rittman, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1925
Page
4
Highlights and quick notices from Willard and nearby towns include July victuor records on sale at A L Ebert’s Music Store. Local residents and visitors report weekends with family and church groups, funerals, vacations, and social visits to Chippewa Lake, Niagara Falls, and Wooster.
Local residents and visitors appear in a long list of social activities. Names include Glenn Monee, Mr. and Mrs. Wenger, Miss Jane Spade, O. B. Wenger, W. G. Spade, Mrs. Fawcett, Rev. Lawrence Spence, Charies Newman, and many others. The item mentions vacations, family visits, weddings, church group outings, and removal sale notices at Barnard Hamilton with discounts on watches clocks and diamonds. Several Akron and Cleveland trips are noted along with community events and college visits.
Milton Township farmers petitioned commissioners to widen straighten and deepen the Main Chippewa Little Chippewa and River Styx from Sterling to the Stark county line to end yearly floods. The measure would affect about 300 landowners and remove flood damage including washed wheat on the Gatehouse farm near Doylestown.
Dr. R. V. Bangham of Wooster and E. J. Hambleton of Ohio State University search Wayne County for wild barberry that carries wheat rust. The extension department of agriculture at OSU directs the effort. Early results show barberry growing wild here and few roots found.
Cyrus Stauffer family reunion near Orrville gathered fifty relatives last Wednesday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Stauffer, parents of eleven children of whom nine survive, also have twelve great grandchildren. A picnic supper and casual games filled the day with visiting. Attendees from here included Mr and Mrs Chris Wenger and family, Mr and Mrs John Wenger and two children, Mr and Mrs Marvin Wenger and two children, Mr and Mrs Robert Wenger and two children, and Mr and Mrs W G Spade and daughter Esther.
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