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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1901
Page
1
A long list of exam prompts covers arithmetic conversions including acres and meters, weight and currency practice, fractions and percentages, and volumes. It also asks for definitions in math and basic geography and history concepts with multiple pointed questions on U S government and notable events.
This excerpt requests inflection of nouns for possession such as Father Fox Horse Silas James Men Boys Peoples Ladies and naming four auxiliaries usable as principal verbs with examples. It also asks to explain passive and progressive forms with sentences, present ten sentences using capital letters, provide sentences with clauses modifying verbs subjects and objects, identify adjective-forming parts of speech, and diagram a passage about hills and streams with childlike feet and waters.
Rumor states Dohner declined a $46,000 offer from a soda ash plant company for his 160 acre Easton property along the Doylestown road, four miles north of Marshallville. The rest of the item notes civil action over a debt from Tony Zarlengo and a Sugarcreek Sugarcrock Teachers Institute program with speakers on schooling topics.
A wide collection of short items notes patients and events in Wooster and Wayne County. Mentions 741 patients at a depot, a stroke case, school and college notices, a county agricultural meeting, local marriages, deaths, real estate sales, and upcoming events at the Armory with dates.
Charles Sample, a mail carrier known as Foundies Stream of Water, from Funk between Lake Fork and Funk, was found Thursday afternoon in a stream near Lake Fork. He had left Monday to hunt, did not return, and was discovered after a search. No foul play suspected. death remains a mystery. He was about 40, unmarried, and supported a widowed mother.
Louis Y. McClure of West Liberty Street had his premises closed Friday by Sheriff McCoy under an execution in favor of Mrs. Johnson for 266.19 dollars. McClure had written creditors offering 40 cents on the dollar after detailing his finances and seeking time to settle.
Porter Felix, a farmer from near Marshallville, sues Wayne County Commissioners for 4800 damages after a bridge in Chippeway township gave way on Sept 28. Felix and his team were thrown into the stream, seeking 4500 for injuries and 300 for damaged horses and wagon. The petition says commissioners were notified the bridge was unsafe and failed to repair it.
Peter Kuhn of Clinton two died at Massillon hospital on Monday January 7 at about 64. He was taken to his son William's home near Fairview for the funeral January 9 with interment at Fairview cemetery. Four children survive.
Alexander Graber died Sunday at 11 a.m. of typhoid fever at age 41, son of Fred Graber of Paint Two. Four children survive. wife died a year ago. Funeral Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Wooster cemetery. James Muttersbaugh, 53, died Sunday morning in Canaan of pneumonia. wife and four children survive. He was brother to Mrs. Geo B Miller and Mrs. L Y McClure of Wooster. funeral Tuesday at 10 a.m. Keller E. Rockey dies in Mexico.
Wooster Shale Brick Co stockholders met in W. C. Yost’s office. Directors increased from seven to nine: J. R Naftzger, Frank Naftzger, D. C. Curry, W. C. Yost, Chas. Curry, Andrew Branstetter, Samuel Metzler, John Stevens, Daniel Heller. W. C. Yost elected president, J. R Naftzger vice president, D. C. Curry secretary-treasurer.
An eastbound Pennsylvanian freight derailed at Shreve at 6 p.m. when a wheel broke, sending about a dozen cars across the tracks between the depot and tower. Wooster Alliance and Crestline wreck trains were sent to clear the debris, and the line remained blocked until midnight for clearance.
Keller E Rockey aged about 38 son of the late Henry Rockey of Wooster died Saturday in Mexico City where he had resided six years. He left Wooster 18 years ago to enlarge pictures, working in San Antonio and then in Mexico where he was reportedly successful. The family asked S R Stone in Mexico for shipping costs and were quoted 1000 in gold, but chose to place the body in a vault awaiting brother John Rockey’s arrival.
Charles Zmatt of Alliance was acquitted at the Alliance trial last week after being charged with cutting Will Con rad of Wooster.
The Twelfth Annual Farmers Institute meets Friday and Saturday January 26 1901 at City Opera House Wooster Ohio. Program includes lectures on beef cattle breeding and feeding dissemination on farm improvement and legistlation with addresses by W Bishop Frederick Taylor and F L Allen. Evening sessions feature music and recitations with Mba Romans noted as lead speaker.
Local notice touts Dr F J Cheney & Co Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy. It offers $100 to anyone it cannot cure, claims internal use treats blood and mucous membranes, and lists Toledo Ohio address and a testimonial list.
The January term of court with Judge 8 B Eason on the bench began Monday morning. The grand jury was impaneled after dinner and appointed O W Rickenbach as foreman and Samuel Horner as bailiff. Last notice to city taxpayers extends the December tax installment to January 20 1901 due to legal limit.
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