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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1899
Page
5
The Democrats of Wooster City and Township conducted a Saturday afternoon primary to nominate candidates for municipal and township offices.
The American Sunday School Union plans its seventy fifth anniversary celebration in Philadelphia on May 26 with Morris K. Jesano of New York as president. A special arrangements committee led by Clarkson Clothier and including Wm H Wanamaker and others will host speakers from across the country. The academy of Munic has been secured for meetings. the union has organized over one hundred thousand Sunday schools in seventy five years and spans the United States. Funeral notices for Miss Clara Bell Donley and George Core record midwestern and local bereavements. community updates cover residents’ illnesses and visits.
Local reports note muddy roads lingering and sugar prices rising. Agricultural and civic items include drilling progress at Braustetter oil well, schooling and election news in Wooster, Rittman, and Cayuga areas, along with obituaries, public notices, and court decisions.
A claim that Electric Bitters can cure a wide range of ailments including back pain malaria kidney troubles insomnia and melancholy. The advertisement touts the tonic as a vegetable mild laxative and blood purifier restoring vigor with a 50 cent bottle at Laubach and Boyd's Drug Store.
In Loudonville Ohio on March 7 a divorce petition was served against Dr OC N Houseton by his wife Emma Shaffer. The suit seeks absolute divorce alimony and restoration to maiden name with adultery cited as the charge. Attorney W J Welrick represents the plaintiff and the proceedings were described as highly dramatic.
The Ohio company at Rittman started a new salt well. A strong brine stream issued from the well. After pumping, bright pea sized crystals washed up, shining like diamonds and taken as souvenirs. Geologists in Cleveland and Columbus found no parallels, noting the crystals are free from lime and earthy substances.
A jumble of notices lists deaths in Kawt Union Peoria and Applecreek with ages and burial places. It notes long-time hotel keeper Geo Gore of Applecreek and Mrs Imhoffa Urbana with burials in Findlay. Also mentions David Weaver and Mrs Osrolina Goebner dying in Cleveland and Wooster connections. The item references Narcisea Smith Springer Cleveland author and a funeral at her home on Bridge Street.
Thoe Corran aged 19 son of Daniel Curran of Chippewa township died of heart trouble while driving with his mother to Wadeworth. He died on his mother's bosom. funeral held Monday from St Powter and St Pauls Catholic church conducted by Father Lindesmith.
County Commissioners sold $3000 of County Ditch bonds to secure funds for Lite Chippewa Ditch No MH. The issue comprises five bonds of 600 dollars each with 5 percent interest. They were arranged by J R Overholt for Wayne Co National Bank at a premium of 125 50.
Special examinations of the head stomach liver and kidneys listed with terms like orig sputum and tas to aid diagnosis. Appears as a diagnostic guide with references to BowMan 12702 and UTORE mM Toc Fo and related acronyms.
A long OCR list details services for various churches including CHURCH DIHROTARY METHODIST EPISCOPAL, WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN, FIRST PRESBYTERIAN, UNITED PRESBYTERIAN, ENGLISH LUTHERAN, BETHANY BAPTIST, SEFORMEL UMARCH, JAMES SPOTISOPAL CHURCH, THE DISCIPLES CHURCH, and more. It includes service times, Sunday school, prayer meetings, pastors names, and addresses such as University areas, North Beaver Street, Market and Larwill, and North Buckeye. The text is garbled but conveys weekly worship schedules and church leadership.
A daily edition notes an assisting case filed by Townsend, with details omitted due to fragmentary OCR. The report centers on legal action and represents standard newspaper shorthand for ongoing court activity.
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