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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1898
Page
8
A necrology lists over one hundred neighbors laid to rest in Oakory during the year, with January through December entries naming infants, adults, and elders by name and age. The memorial notes the steady world beyond their deaths and marks a census of local lives lost.
Free sample box of Dr King New Life Pills offered by mail order. Local notes mention university events, teachers visits, and a list of county examination certificate recipients for December 1897 including H A Bucher Daisy Warner Jennie Baubenolt and others.
James Rennie Reed of Nebraska visits Reedsburg for several weeks. Miss Katy Brant and her Ashland sister, with their uncle William Brant, stay in town. Miss Dollie Premer of New Pittsburg and Miss Maggie Fortnney also visit. Rev Bechtel preached at the Reformed church last Sabbath. Rev Hassenpflug closes his Chester meeting early due to diphtheria. George Kauffman of Wooster spends the Sabbath with local friends.
Wooster telegrams recount visiting relatives and students from Chicago, Des Moines, Ann Arbor, and Alpena. Clergy, teachers, and university figures attend meetings, lectures, and church events while residents and alumni return for the new term. A chiropodist anecdote shares a humorous remedy for corns.
A fragmented report notes Ethel White's illness and family ties of the Blackleyville aunts, social events at Miss Jessie Mati’s and Epworth League activities at the Wiles residence. It mentions a house fire destroying a home, with 600 bushels of corn and $1600 value, amid a December incident and a burial a week prior.
An English visitor learns the local sense of the word biddle amid Philadelphia pride and slang. The piece notes usage around phrases like she is a biddle and they are biddle, along with a fragment about Pennsylvania Lines selling interchangeable tickets to Harrisburg Baltimore and Washington at two cents per mile.
Passengers may use all Central Passen tickets without rest for travel to Cleveland via the Akron & Ohio Railway Company. Note current policy allows same‑company tickets at present for tickets to see and ride, with general patos to a i not clearly readable.
The fragment notes visits and family gatherings around New Year. Iife visits Rijphard in Pittsburg and Annie, Grable, Yoder, Houge, and Davis attend gatherings. Isaac Steele's Cleve family and M. H. attended Sabbath meetings. Emma Rohr's family hosted a Monday gathering.
The Wooster campus hosts an illustrated electric science lecture by Prof Louis Favour of New Tank praised for its marvels. The talk is presented as a cornerstone of modern civilization powered by electric science. Single tickets are 35 cents.
The notice advertises wedding cabinets souvenir cards and school closing exercises items available at the Herald Office located at the northeast corner of Public Square Wooster.
Train connections and stop times listed for the Cleveland, Wooster and Muskingum Valley routes. No. 27 Ex 4 55am, No. 2 Mail 10 38am, No. 35 Ex 9 42am, No. 38 Ex 3 20pm, No. 3 Mail 3 25pm, No. 28 Ex 10 33pm.
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