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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1903
Page
3
News notes report visitors from Russia to New York and Pawnee Bill's Wild West show in Wooster on Monday June 8. Local births deaths robberies, injuries, and court encounters are listed with names and places including Creston Wooster and Orrville. Memorials and post office updates appear among community notes.
A freight train collided with the 10 o clock passenger near the depot causing engine and baggage car damage. The freight engineer was badly scalded while two in the coaches were shaken but unharmed. The accident was blamed on a freight worker's carelessness as the passenger train approached. The note mentions local events including Commencement on Friday, sermons by Dr Black and Rev Patterson, and Decoration day exercises at the M E church.
University of Michigan student James Welsh takes first prize of 50 dollars in gold for The College Man's Party at the Interstate college students' oratorical contest held May 21 30. Ohio Wesleyan's Homer Rodeheaver earns second prize 30 dollars, with other notable orations by Herbert Boase Taylor University and Louis Adams Asbury College.
The Chillicothe high school held its Freshman-Junior Banquet on Tuesday night May 19 with a program listing Welcome messages by O Welday, and speeches by Charles Rice and Alice Fitch among others. The next night May 20 Wooster students gathered for additional ceremonies including toastmaster John Didcoct and Edith Fitch addressing the class of 1903 and 1905. The events continued with a 33rd Annual Commencement schedule spanning June 14 to June 18 at Memorial chapel, Kauke hall, and City Opera House.
Sixty members of the Given Post G A R marched from their hall to the City Opera House last Sunday at 2 pm for the annual memorial sermon preached by Rev J M Lockhart of the Baptist Church. The stage featured flags and flowers. the Baptist choir furnished music. invocation by Rev Raach, scripture reading by Rev Brauffer, and benediction by Rev Hickok.
Prof R I Chaddock delivers the commencement address on Thursday evening May 28 at Mineral City. Miss Jeasie Thomas of Orrville returns home from teaching for a year and is re-elected. Castalian Literary Society staged Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch in Taylor Hall with lively humor and philosophy. Sunday School singing and a theater party were well received. Cast includes Mrs Wiggs characters and many students. Dr S F Scovel to speak at Carrollton high, Wooster meets Case in Wooster Friday afternoon, Katherine Snyder elected Latin teacher.
The famous Pawnee Bill brings his Wild West Show Exhibition to our city on Monday June 8. The display grows larger with new features and a grand military review praised by audiences. Over a thousand people are employed including a Juvenile Wild West Show for children.
Frank Shipley aged 18 son of Charles Shipley, formerly of this city, was killed after being struck by an electric car on East Ninth Street in Kansas City. His body was dragged sixty feet and his lower limbs were crushed. He died before help arrived. Shipley was returning from a party. his father is noted as brother of Mrs. C. C. Adams and Mrs. C. O Langell of Wooster.
The fret and final account of Jesse B Wilhelm acting as administrator of the estate of Myrtella B Wilhelm will be heard in Wayne County Probate Court on June 8 1903. Judge Robert L. Adair presiding.
John Moore aged about 65 died at his home on S. Bover Wednesday night May 27. He served in Co 1,1020 V.S. during the Civil War. He is survived by his wife. Funeral services will be held Sunday.
The Century Club held its fifteenth annual banquet in the First Presbyterian church parlors with a program of tones and recitations. Adam F. Buchheit, veteran dry goods clerk, died at home on Heury Street Wednesday morning May 27 at age 62 from consumption. Born in Walbricken Germany he moved to the U.S. at 16 and worked for D Q Liggott and later for A J Fredrick & Co before retiring. he was a popular figure among farmers and their wives and leaves a widow and children.
In Wooster the funeral services for the deceased will be held Friday at 2 p.m under the Knights of Pythias, with interment in Wooster cemetery. The obituary notes two children from a first marriage and a son from a second marriage, with survivors including Fred Buchheit of Arkansas and Miss Cora Buchheit of Wooster.
A fragmentary story blends myth and parable as a tribe admires iron and a father tells his son a fateful dream. The tale contrasts wealth and power with wisdom and restraint, ending with a warning about pride and sacred metal lore.
The fragment describes a bronze Lion of St Mark with diamond eyes, held in ornate bronze, noting its eyes are claimed diamonds. It suggests uncertain origins across eras, possibly premodern before the current century, and hints at decorative ties to Assyrian art. The piece was once set on a pedestal to lift the evangel under its fore paws.
Louis Everhardt owner of the Everhardt feed bar a in the gully suffers a slight stroke while alighting from a train returning from the funeral of his daughter Mrs. Fanny Hayes in Akron.
The circuit court at Ashland suspended the sentence in the Leiner and Ramady case. Leiner is ordered to serve as county commissioner with no pay until the final hearing in Wooster in September.
The notice lists B&O rail excursion fares to multiple destinations from Ohio points. It covers dates May 26 to June 3 and extensions to June 30, returns until early 1903, and special tickets for various organizations. Additional routes include Cincinnati Lima St. Louis and California trips with home-seekers and settlers tickets.
May 8 market action shows cattle supply steady with prime and heavy classes quoted. Hog receipts feature medium prices around 6.30 to 6.75, while sheep and lambs show light supply and varied values from 4.50 to 7.00 for spring lambs. multiple grades listed.
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