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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1899
Page
2
The page blends advertising notices with sermons urging temperance, condemning saloon interests and urging votes against licensing. It cites local figures and events, notes advertising rate policies, and promotes abstentionist positions linked to McKinley era politics. It argues moral duty over party alignment.
A Wooster platform asserts that divine law requires suppressing alcohol, denounces licensing as complicity, and pledges to dissolve government liquor ties. It urges initiative and referendum, calls for voter alignment, and warns liquor interests threaten church, schools, and reform.
Mrs Sarah Bacher returns home from Akron where she spent the winter with her daughters. Hostler improving after brain fever. Dnarus Sp Bebbard and mother reside at Orrville. Squire Hatfield buys William Caskey s threshing outfit. James Coe contracts to deliver stone to Readsburg and Springville. Mrs Hattie McCoy hosted friends for a pleasant last Tuesday. Mrs Joseph Taggart of Wooster honors her daughter M r Javison over Sabbath. Albert McFaddan reports a promising wheat crop. Miss Amanda Walleck visits Miss Stella Downing then returns home to Sevill e. Adam Detwiler ill with inflammatory rheumatism.
Trains halted two hours after a west bound freight split in two near North Lawrence and Barton City. Six box cars of merchandise and one car of machinery were wrecked, broken into pieces. Wooster wreck train moved to Londonville at 4 a.m. Tuesday to clear the line.
Washington April 25. Today's statement of the condition of the treasury lists available cash balance of 233,077,487 dollars and a gold reserve of 242,612,204 dollars.
Wooster M E Church prepares to celebrate its second dedication anniversary on May 7 with morning and evening services led by Rev D H Moore of the Western Christian Advocate. The event aims to clear the church debt and features local and visiting speakers and attendees.
The smallpox patients around Frederick are improving with only one new case, 14 year old Jebnié Manarz, reported Friday. Postmaster W. I Ober says there are 16 infected. all show mild symptoms and quarantine rules of 20 days are enforced. Several named residents are listed as affected or in contact, with others from out of town. Authorities hope eradication through strict isolation and publisher notices countywide.
An advertised salve from Lanhach and Boyd claims to treat a wide range of skin and related conditions including rashes sores fevers and itching. The copy guarantees satisfaction or money back and notes a pile treatment per box.
The Rittman Salt Works push toward completion as a 6 by 6 foot shaft is finished and machinists are set to position it. They plan a car transport from Wadsworth to the plant for worker commuting and expect to begin operations in about 60 days.
Rail project on the Ashland and Wooster line between Ashland and Jeromeville struggles to hire track laborers. General Manager Harry R. Smith contemplates hiring Italian workers if local manpower remains scarce, while stressing preference for citizens. Also announced are excursions to Columbus and San Francisco and a Louisville trip tied to associations, with special return dates and pricing.
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