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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1882
Page
3
Wooster and vicinity show a flurry of activity with visits, travel, and a range of small town events. The eighth Regiment O N G camps at Minerva August 22 for a week while residents hear about travels, pestering accidents, and civic measures, including a Palmer avenue bridge project and a drive to improve water supply.
Card of Thanks from Mrs E F Curry and Miss Jessie Curry ask for heartfelt gratitude to friends for sympathy and tender care after a departed loved one. Notices include a theater production update for Chette at Grand Opera House and a crime report about a $200 theft by a teenage-looking dwarf. Also, death of John Curry in Oswego and August issue preview of St Nicholas magazine with travel and literary features.
The East Union Sabbath School Convention will meet July 30 at 2 p m at Carr's school house with devotional exercises topics on the Holy Spirit conditions of teaching and the nation s hope. Evening session at 7 30 features Sabbath school interest and polite conversation. Weather permitting the grove may host the event. Reverend D M Skorye presides. New music teacher Prof Erwin will teach in Mansfield, with Wooster public schools to gain music supervision next year.
A new song and chorus titled Owl Crape at the Floor by Edward J Abraham appeals for piano or organ players. Priced at 40 cents single or three copies for $1.00, orders go to F W Hermic Publisher 180 Elm St Cincinnati Ohio.
For sale three horses and a platform spring wagon. Enquire at the Heraup office. Gone East for a large stock of new goods arriving next week. Big bargains in first class goods offered by Warri Bros. & Steve r.
Community observers report a vigorous drive to fund the Killbuck Road project. By four o’clock yesterday afternoon subscriptions totaled over 51000 with many donors still to respond. engineers note progress and expect further funding to finish grading and bridge work.
The Re Union of the 16th O V I set for August at Quadds Lake includes three days of receptions, parade of comrades, minutes, dues, and toasts. Speakers include Gen Aquila Wiley and Col Philip Kershner with music, singing, and old war songs. sleeping tents and meals provided.
The Bethel on South Street faced a $1,550 note after the benefactor died and heirs demanded payment. The pastor, with generosity, received $800 in a settlement, and $100 has been raised by subscription. Parishioners and Wooster residents are urged to contribute via C Windigler, pastor.
Farmers enjoy harvest season with grand crops. Charles Atkerman to preach tomorrow at Lutheran Church near Canaan. Calvin Elliott to preach at Presbyterian Church in Gon. Isadore Slutz visiting Dayton friends and relatives in this vicinity. Ice cream gathering at Mrs Slutz's residence Thursday evening. Al Zuver purchased the remaining threshing machine parts from Thom Unsell and a fine new wagon.
A doubtful ad promises a trial bottle of igelow's Positive cure will cure colds coughs consumption whooping cough and lung diseases. It invites readers to Laubach Donnelly's drug store to test the remedy at no cost.
A vintage ad touts Dr Jones Red River Tonic as a universal cure available at Donnelly's for 50 cents a bottle. It also hawks Griggs Glycerine Salve as a guaranteed sore healer for 25 cents through Laubach & Donnellys, promising relief for cuts, wounds, pimples, and piles.
Farmers urged to visit R. M. Wix-Bigler on South Walnut Street to obtain No. 1 machine oil. The ad touts its suitability for various machine purposes and claims it to be the best available in West Virginia.
Brief notice touts special inducements offered by the Burlington to travelers. It promises payment to readers of its advertisement and hints at details found elsewhere in the issue.
Community religious gatherings are announced with camp meetings from the 9th to 31st and August dates noted. The list names preachers and instructors including I W Wilby J H Vincent T DeWitt Talmage and several reverends and doctors among attendees.
Colorado excursion rates announced by the Pennsylvania Company and Pittsburgh, Gilat St. Louis Railway Company for July 15 to Denver and return. Ticket sales run through September 25, 1882. National Mining Exposition opens August 1 in Denver, inviting broad regional promotion.
The notice outlines sales to be held at the Court House unless stated otherwise. Avery versus Taggart Bros proceeds include undivided halves of certain lands in section 86, township 13, with appraisals around $1,940 and $1,943 plus a lot in West Salem valued at $325. July dates implied.
The Wooster markets report corrected weekly figures by John Wittawan and Timoth. It lists apples oats rye and other produce with prices per ton or per bushel. Grain and flour options include flax and clover sale details and unit prices.
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