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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1901
Page
4
Orrville and Wooster items report injuries from a hay wagon fall, a bicycle crash, and a threshing engine explosion. Local officials discuss bonds for lighting, water works, and paving bricks. Deaths, marriages, divorces, and a police case appear alongside invitations and wedding plans in a broad, community-focused update.
The Pennsylvania Lines offer an eastern trip on discounted excursion tickets to New York with stopovers at Buffalo for the Pan American Exposition and Niagara Falls, plus sea shore trips to Atlantic City Cape May and other resorts. Low rates apply July 25 and August 8 with a twelve day return limit.
Excursion tickets to Buffalo for the Pan American Exposition are on sale at Pennsylvania Lines ticket offices. From Wooster Ohio fares include: return in ten days at 3.10, return in fifteen days at 9.50. Period tickets with return by Oct 1. Special coach excursion tickets valid until midnight of Thursday after sale day, Tuesdays at 5.15. Tourist tickets via Buffalo to Canadian resorts also available with a Buffalo overnighter option for Pan American viewing, time tables via G W Leyda Wooster Ticket Agent.
The Board of Education in Worcester City adopts a plan to replace a long list of textbooks with revised Physical Geography and Rhetoric texts and to seek trustworthy men and women for a primed canvassing role. The ad offers 40 paid positions, cash pay, references required, and a self-addressed stamped envelope for responses. An additional note promotes a trip to Cedar Point with a $125 incentive.
W P Snyder will sell one carload of Kitinore horses at Wylie Smith's 10¢ barn on Evat North Street Wooster O on Saturday August. The load will include eight or ten head to feed to ten horses, balance good stock. These horses were bought in the best horse district to Missouri and should prove sound investments for profit. Horses can be viewed at the shown stables on Friday August 2.
An open meeting asks if the bishop rode to the conference in a Pullman car. The bishop replies with a wry quip that he came by train, noting an easier way to travel, in a humorous exchange reported by the Boe-tow-Obriatian Register.
Announcement for summer outings via the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad with a $1.25 rail fare to Cedar Point. Wooster to Lake Erie region special train departs 7 am, return 7:30 pm, baggage car for baskets and bikes, Wooster merchants close for the day. Services organized by local committee with stadium and band involvement.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company will sell excursion tickets from all stations west of the Ohio River to Chicago at one fare for the round trip for the Baptist Young People's Union of America International Convention. Tickets are valid for return until August 24 with deposit and payment of 50 cents.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad offers one way settlers tickets at reduced rates to southern and southeastern points. Sale runs on first and third Tuesdays of June July August September and October. For details contact a local B&O ticket agent or General Passenger Agent B N Austin in Chicago.
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