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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1902
Page
2
About ten stockholders are requested to attend a meeting at the Heratn-Printing Co office on Saturday February 22 at 10 a.m. All stockholders are urged to be present.
The WERA LD appeals for final donations to reach $40,000 with Wayne County target at $2,293.36 and outside funds $19,126.99 remaining. Cleveland and churches statewide are urged to contribute before the Feb 18 deadline as residents race to finish the tally by Thursday 9 a.m. with $1,729.64 left in Wayne and $18,934.39 elsewhere.
Miss Lulu Conrad of East Liberty street was in a sleighing mishap with a German Lutheran church crowd. Her left eye swelled and glasses broke. after repair she found she could see better without them, a surprising improvement she hopes becomes permanent.
Receipts show mixed results with meat and livestock items varying in price. Lambs steady for prime weather while overall market remains slow. hogs and sheep noted with light sales and several price points across commodities and regions.
The Appointed Day nears for the Wayne county fund drive to raise $40,000 for Wooster University’s rebuilding. Subscriptions flow in from individuals including Mrs. Wm B Thaw, Rev Henry Nelson, A C Humphreys, and others. outside contributions total about $70,000 to date. Wu Tang Fang and Simon Yandes are among new donors. a former student, Albert P McKellop, also sent $26. Several local subscribers and donations from Rich & Blough’s list total many small gifts, with overall encouragement to contribute or offer labor.
A Washington Times item criticizes a department store ad slogan offering personalized umbrellas. The columnist calls it an act destructive of neighborly feeling and asks readers to imagine carrying an umbrella with another’s name on it.
Twenty three Wooster M E church members drove to Creston Tuesday night and surprised their pastor Rev. Deeds, who had been conducting revival services there. church members in Loudonville desire to retain W L Neal as pastor after revival work.
The Italian soprano Mme Albani arrives in London hoping to sign with Colonel Mapleson but is misled by rival impresario Sir Gye. He fakes a contract at Covent Garden, urges her to sign, assuring a better offer. She agrees, remains with Covent Garden, and later marries Gye's son.
A fragment mentions Japan's "Kim Ga Yo" as a concise national anthem and cites a translated Royal Auction theme. It also recounts a Roman empire auction after Pertinax, with traders and cashiers described in archaic terms. A London anecdote asks a passerby where a street leads, answered as the “Justette river.”
In a brief, archaic note the author describes a hypothetical headless cabbage and a turf ripened crop as part of a braided plant lineage. Cabbage, turnips, and lettuce are linked as relatives sharing a common ancestor, with a distant parent plant from which their traits descended.
A clipped excerpt shows a tense exchange between a young woman and an older admirer. He calls her an iceberg, while she retorts with a sharp, dismissive line about vulnerability and old flames, amid a charged, icy exchange.
The fragment recalls Peter Cunningham recounting an evening meal and a novel soup made from calves’ tails. Douglas Jervold, a notable figure described as the prince within England, is referenced as commenting during that time.
A terse dialogue about a man who aspires so forcefully that upon death the great cities of the world will dispute his birthplace. The exchange features Young Jones declaring the aim and Young Brown noting the cities will blame others.
A Chicago News fragment laments a person who succumbs to low mood on the broad road to ruin, urging restraint and grace as Mary is urged to offer a reat. The piece critiques personal temperament and societal pressures in a brisk, opinionated tone.
The second entertainment event on the Citizene Course fundraiser drew a large audience Tuesday evening. The program featured a variety show with vocal solos, a piano solo, impersonations, a comedietta Alice in Wonderland performed by the Dorm Girls, a silent drill, and an allegory titled Columbia Upholding Education Before the World. It included numerous performers and a university band detachment, highlighting acts by Mesdames Palmer, Ohligher, Leopold, Lipm, Dix, Maize, and others, with a large roster of student participants and regional groups.
Prof J A H Dickason spoke at a Putnam County farmers institute on Friday noon and traveled 200 miles raising 2650 outside the county for the University fund. He then preached at Wayne County church on Saturday and at Jackson church 12 miles north of Wooster on Sabbath morning, securing about 150. A trip to Canaan yielded 50 more, then 27 miles to Mt Eaton for an evening service with a brief vesorel that night adding 140.
Sherman Long of Canaan and Sophenia Snyder of Madisonburg were married by Rev. W Hyde at Orrville on February 6. Lewis Hare of Blackleyville and Mies Laura Geyser of Burton City also tied the knot, according to the set of notices from Orrville.
A bill favorably reported in the Senate prescribes death for willful murder of the president, vice president, or line of succession, within U.S. or jurisdiction. It also punishes attempts with death and imposes 20 years for instigating killings, with accomplice penalties equal to principals.
An old advertisement promises a one hundred dollar reward for impossible catarrh cures and features testimonials for Cheney and several Toledo druggists. The notice touts Hall’s Family Pills and a price of seven cents per bottle, urging readers to buy from druggists.
SMT OVI A.S Piilinger visits family. Mrs Norris and Mrs Gilbert bound for Orrville. Kinmar of Madisonburg at Wheeling Depot with KE R Webner. James Gilmore arrives in Mas aillon. Miss Jessie Yoder from Barbarton teaches at home. Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad adds four big new engines for freight. Four fancy sleighs bought by Smithville residents. Wooster University talent show praised. Mr Vanovar from Wooster ships hay. Creston heads this week. Miss Nolan Sweinford of Olivesburg visits Cass Swanger. Mrs John Mischler Jr visits parents. Wooster-area visits enchant locals. sleighing excellent.
The Ashland and Worcester Railway announces a new timetable effective January 27 1902. The schedule details train times and routes serving Ashland and nearby towns, guiding passenger travel and freight movements across the line.
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