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Newspaper
The Rittman Press
Location
Rittman, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1919
Page
6
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The fourth annual reunion and Home Coming of Virtuous Hall School in Can an township will be held Saturday June 21. Former teachers pupils and families are invited to bring baskets for a noon picnic dinner. A ball game music and speeches will mark the day with WWI veterans returning to share in the festivities. Rev. Wm. E. Feeman and attorney W. G. Paterson of Wooster will speak. Jos. Kennedy president Minnie Licht secretary.
An infant was found on a porch in Doylestown Monday morning. The baby, well dressed and healthy, has no identified abandoner. A temporary home was arranged by Truste Zimmerman of Chippewa township with plans to move the child to Wayne county children’s home later.
Irvin C. Rich and Amanda Brodbeck of Sterling secured a marriage license at Wadsworth last week and were married there Tuesday by a Mennonite minister. The couple will reside in Sterling where the groom runs a meat market.
William F. Reynolds of Mansfield and Grace E. Wilson of Wooster with Rev. E. EB. Young. Blam Z. Fréy of Orrville and Kath ryn Swartz near Wooster with Rev. E. E. Young. Dr. George C. Essick of Congress and Margaret F. Ginter of Wooster with Rev. A. O. Becker.
Wadsworth Paint Factory advertises Old Standard Prepared House Paint at three dollars and fifty cents per gallon. This price appears in a concise catalog note for household painting supplies.
University of Ohio experiment stations report early blight in potato crops. Browning leaves and tip death signal disease favored by rain and cool nights. Pathologists say Bordeaux mixture applied every 10 days can control the blight and beetles respond to arsenate of lead or paste formulations.
Ohio Experiment Station plant pathologists outline a three week after petals fall first spray and a second spray three weeks later using Bordeaux mixture with arsenate of lead to combat codling worm. Apple blotch remains prevalent, with upburn sunscald and moth injury noted this season but no fire blight yet. a bulletin on Apple Blotch is mailed free to Ohio planters.
Wayne county assessors filed returns showing a personal property duplicate increase of 1,277,305 over last year. Despite county residents buying over 5,000,000 in government bonds and securities, which are non taxable, tax duplicates rise to 83,180,276.
Notices posted at the Ohio Salt Co. and Ohio Boxboant Co. indicate employees will receive their usual full-pay vacations. The period starts immediately and typically runs through October. under prior practice, each employee earns one half day of vacation for every month worked that year.
Joseph W. Romsey, longtime deputy to Sheriff Liutzenheiser since January, resigned to become a road inspector. Wayne Garver of West Salem was chosen to replace Romsey and immediately began duties as deputy sheriff.
Joseph Franks of Marshallville served with the 102nd regiment at the front in France. He was shot in the leg during a battle. the bullet passed through one leg and lodged in the clothing of the other. He removed it from his clothing and now keeps the bullet as a relic in his pocket.
The agricultural committee in Washington approved an amendment to repeal the daylight saving law within the agricultural appropriation bill and recommended it favorably to the House. Passage chances are described as good with little opposition expected.
A man giving the name Nick Moykick was arrested at Sterling Saturday and jailed in Wooster awaiting a hearing on insanity. He claimed work in Barberton and displayed delusions that his food was poisoned, refusing to eat. He sat on the floor and crawled under his cot in custody.
Heirs of Ferdinand and Magdalene Moine deceased with guardian Elizabeth Moine offer farm property at public auction on June 14, 1919 at 1 PM. Located 2.5 miles southwest of Rittman, Wayne County, 4 miles southeast of Sterling, the 110 acre farm includes 86 tillable acres 24 timber acres with a 12 acre heavy timber, a frame house, bank barn 88 by 44, and wells. Farm sold as whole or in parts 50 40 and 20 acres. Appraised at 9130 must sell for at least two thirds value. Terms cash or one third cash one third in one year and one third in two years, secured by mortgage. Also sale of telephone land roller hay tops water trough and other articles.
County agents across Ohio schedule farm meetings at multiple stations from June to July to study plot work and soil fertility. Meetings list locations such as Mt Healthy, Owensville, Troy, St Clairsville, Wooster, Paulding, Strongsville, Findlay, Canton, and Wooster with dates in June and July. Ohio State University and the Ohio Experiment Station will provide speakers on crop problems.
County commissioners did not receive any bids last Friday for building a barn on the infirmary farm estimated at about zero dollars. Contractors say they cannot secure enough labor to complete the work, and the improvement will likely be postponed beyond a year.
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