Wooster News Briefs From November 1902
Wooster items report Charles F Barrett injuring his foot moving a desk at Barrett foundry. Frank Naftzger and Jacob Mougay buy sixteen acres including Naftzger ice pond for 2550 dollars. Beulah Atkins and Charles Rice wed November 6 at Wooster. Union Pub House canvassing for Fireside University. Mrs Mina B Smith seeks divorce from Benton B Smith after 24 years and four children. Fire damages Mrs Eason’s home on Bixler Avenue. loss about 300 dollars, no insurance. James Manley Jr loses four fingers in a threshing accident. surgical amputation. Brakeman William T. Smith fatally injured in Crestline, Kentucky. Ad list, B&O railroad earnings, and treasury data shown. Hunting season opens Monday. Several marriages and births noted, pensions adjusted, arrests for fines, and local deaths including Alexander Parcell. Siam crown prince Vajiravadh passes through Wooster en route west. Weekly church meetings in Wayne Presbyterian church with Lord's Supper planned. Olga Harter to teach in Milton district No 6 after district halted earlier hire. Mansfield News notes Mausoleum design contest for John C Larwill family in Wooster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles F Barrett
Barrett Foundry
Frank Naftzger
Jacob Mougay
Naftzger
Death of a Pioneer Thomas A Brown Dies at 82
Thomas A Brown aged 82 died at home in Clinton on Thursday November 6 due to old age. Born June 22, 1818 in Clinton Township he lived and farmed in Wayne County all his life. He married Mary Bird on March 5, 1845 in Monroe Township. Survived by daughters Mrs Curtis Sidle Mrs Wm Craig Mrs J Sullivan and son Elmer Brower and Ludema Brown. Funeral services were held Saturday at the residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas A. Brown
Clinton
Thomas Aadhey Brown
Wayne County
Clinton Township
John
Mary Brown
Virginia
Mear
Mr. Brown
Monroe Township
Himes County
Mary Bird
Curtis P. Sidle
Wooster
Redistricting Wooster City Council Deliberations Begin
Wooster officials discuss dividing the city into wards under a municipal code provision. The act requires wards equal in number to council members, aligned near county lines and streets, with wards housing roughly equal populations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wooster
Local Social and Church News Briefs
A Pleasant social will be held Saturday evening at C B Whonsetter’s home. Hervey Hawk returns from Cleveland for Sabbath. Earnest Sell heads toward Wooster this week for work. The Ladies Missionary Society meets next Thursday at Mrs Chas Alleshouse’s home. Miss Huffman of Wooster visits Miss Clara Wiles this week. Mr and Mrs White were pleased by the Presbyterian church dinner Monday. Abe Lebu’s horse died Thursday evening on the road home from work. Miss Millie Lichty plans to return home from her eastern visit this week. Bridges east and north of town will be rebuilt as materials arrive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayne Presbyterian Church
C. B. Whonsetter
Hervey Hawk
Cleveland
Earnest Sell
White
Presbyterian Church
Abe Lebu
Resd
Millie Lichty
Marriage Licenses Issued To Area Couples
Orrville couples Henry Denbrook and Manda E Binor and Charles Rice with Beulah Atkine of Wooster receive licenses. Geo W Cary and Mary M Munsor of West Salem. Willis D Wilsom and Suaste BE Aukerman of Burbank. Arthur M Downes of Crestline and Majol E Taylor of Shrove. Joseph Freidel of Cleveland and Mrs Mary J Bookhart of Doylestown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Denbrook
Manda Ebinor
Orrville
Charles Rice
Beulah Atkine
Wooster
Geo. W. Cary
Mary M. Munsor
West Salem
Willis D. Wilsom
Suaste BE
Aukerman
Burbank
Arthur M Downes
Crestline
Majol E. Taylor
Shrove
Joseph Freidel
Cleveland
Mary J. Bookhart
Doylestown
Warden Pursues Nonresidents Hunting Near Shreve
Game Warden Michael Bauer targets non residents hunting near Shreve and Biacheyville without valid licenses. License costs 35 dollars and must be issued by the clerk of court under state law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Bauer
Shreve
Biacheyville
Wooster City Council Extends Electric Railway Franchise
Special Wooster city council session debated amending the ordinance granting a franchise to the Love Land and Southern Electric Railway. The amendment extended construction and operation with conditions, including Liberty Street restrictions. A protest petition circulated among signers. heated debate continued past 11 PM. Probate court proceedings followed, with guardians, executors, and administrators filing inventories, accounts, and estate petitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wooster
Love Land and
Southern Electric Railway
City of
Quinby Avenue
North Market
Liberty
J B Taylor
Liberty Street
Public Square
Buackeye Street
A J Fredrick & Co Smith & Lautzerhoeer
Louis Mandros
Proctor & Ciail
McClarrae & Jones
Jos. Bloomberg
H A Hart
AE Cox
Andrew Massaro
Edward Young
John McSweeney
A. D Metz
Wo. Shibley
Susanna Fisher
Frank W. Miller
Col. Hard
Yea
Fisher
Kinney
Vanever
Zimmerman
Ney Aylaworth
Schad
Walter
van Nest
Kisling
Board of Trade
Natural Gas, Company
Transfers of Neal estate and probate actions listed
Executors and guardians named for Henry D Biggs Christian Swank and J Leatherman estates filed inventories and bonds. Numerous transfers of real estate recorded including lots in Shreve Franklin township Jefferson and Chippewa townships with prices from 10 to 4800 dollars. Names include Branty Denny Booth Devarmon Yarnell Harrison Bodartacher Cornell Lessiter McAfee Dunham Martin Skeen Brown Wuintersteen Mowery Wertz Kook Nafziger Campbell Zellers Nafziger Reichenbach Rasor Fang Amfang Hills and Hilla.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iheamie
Resahine Ll. Ge
Branty W. ON
Denny
Minnie MM. Denny
Shreve
Michael Booth
John Dz. Devarmon
Loverna
Franklin Township
Frederic Bodartacher
Amiel Cornell
Sugar Creek Townalup
Charles W Lessiter
Thomas L McAfee
Jim Morgan
Thevinus L. McAfee
Jeferson
Emma P. Dunham
Buebaed
John M Martin
Susan Gingrich
Haughaman Township
John Kook
Mary Stauffer
Frank Naftzger
Canaan Township
O Campbell
Lina Brown
Parker D. Campbell
Congress Township
Arilla Zellers
Frank Nafteger
Catharine Reichenbach
Charles W. Reichenbach
East Union Township
Anna Rasor
John Amfang
Chippewa Township
Miriam Hilla
Oscar A. Hills
Ida F Hilla
Wooster
Progressive Farmers Club Meet At Tristman Home
The Progressive Farmers Club will gather at D. S. Tristman’s home at 10 a m on Thursday November 20. The program includes Music Roll Call a West Point fact Declamation Making American Citizens lectures on Taxation and Public Expenditures and The Farm and the Hired Man with papers and discussions. Officers will be elected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. S. Tristman
West Point Military Academy
Mary White
Taggart
Ann Cutter
Mra
C. E
Whorne
P. G. Thing
Oficars
Prohibition Vote Returns and Official County Results
Official election returns list Prohibition voters in Wayne County for Secretary of State Andrew L. White across townships and precincts. Abstr act of votes shows state district and county offices with party tallies for Bigelow Laybin Cassingham Stevens Eason Taylor Adair Funck Hough and others. Start dates for newly elected officials are given, with January 5 1908 for certain posts and February 6 1903 for Probate Judge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayne County
Andrew L. White
Prohibition
Baughmas
Barton City
Orrville
Maraballville
Canaan
Burbank
Creston
Chester
Chippewa
Clinton
Congress
Wea
Congress Village
Union
A. Franklin
Greene
Amithyil
Malton
Rittman
Starling Paint
West Lebanon
Saltcreek
Frederickaburg
Sugarcreek
Wayne
Wooster
Wooster City
Bigelow
Laybin
Cassingham
Stevens
Eason
Taylor
Adair
Funck
Hough
Casa
Sheriiff
Rameey
Common Pleas
Death of Mrs Olive Bushnell at 74 in Wooster
Mrs Olive Bushnell aged 74 died the evening of November 9 after a long illness from heart and lung diseases. Born in Warren Ohio she moved to Wooster from Granville about 28 years ago. She was a faithful Baptist church member. Survived by daughter Miss Gertrude Heaton of Wooster. Funeral services were held Tuesday at the residence 6 Market Street with interment in Weester Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olive Bushnell
Warren
Wooster
Granville
The
Baptist Church
Gertrude Heaton
Market St
Weester
Local Public Sale At D F Enfield Farm
D F Enfield will hold a public sale at his residence three miles east of Wooster on the Honeytown road on Friday November 21. Readable items include 3 head of horses 7 head of cattle 1 sow and 6 pigs farm implements hay by the ton and other farm goods. Sale starts at 12 o'clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. F. Enfield
Wooster
Honeytown Road
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Aingr
Evanta
Homer
Beulah Atkins
Thoraday Avening
Neal
South Market Street
Union Pub House
the Fireside University
Supt. Haupart
Mina B. Smith
Applecreak
Benton B. Smith
S. B. Eason
Bixler Avenue
James Manley, Jr
James Manley
William T. Smith
Pennsylvania
Glencore
P W. Young
Irvin
Daisy Kettering
Margaret MaccArthur
Nora Smith
A. Schappacarsee
Treasury
Reserve Fond
Charles QC
Langall
Ellyn Shipley
Board of Education
Henry Cravenstott
Bloomington
Ben Strock
West of Wooster
David Smith
Overton
Della Yates
Alliance
Alexander Parcell
H. S. Snell
S. Buckeye
Henry Sta
George Wallace
John Wallace
Loudonville
Hiram Fieher
J W. Lehr
Misa Rowena Fowler
Columbus
Angus MccDonald
Mullen
Idaho
Levi Moyer
Wayse County
Tobe Myers
Bia Coulder
James Todd
Millersburg
Jie
Hiram Sears
Western Seamen’a Friend Society
Lake Erie
Charles Hurst
Pennsylvania Lines
Frank Mallory
New Brighton
Mahie
Vajiravadh
Crown Prince of
Siam
Pennsylvania Limited
Chicago
St Leuis
Olga Harter
Marshallville
Milton Two
Mise Harter
Mansfield News
Jehn C. Larwill
Larwill
RL. Adair
Harry B. Bertollette
Frank V. Bertollette
Laura Keister
Goldie
Sylvia Keister
Joseph Gindlesperger
Thomas Howey
Charles Cooper
Vernekca Himmelaback
Pater Schmidt
Vale E. W. Warfel
Henry and
Isa Warfel
Dee
Teuiah Biggs
Henry—D. Biggs
Anthony W Wells
Christian Swank
Robert ,Kollert
da Kojlert
Morris D. Heyl
Ora
Herbert Heyl
Progressive Farmers’ Club
David Pryor
N. Gaspheat
Petit Jury
Honner
Cornell
Lehr Tesday
Richey Va
Ohio Salt Co
Fultz Va
Bacher
Ponder Va
Shively
Brick Co
Bartlett& Co
Lowe Et al
Swinehart
Maller
Whitman Vs. Railroad Co
Brown Va
Houser
Oliver
Chestown
Winkler
Hosmer
Starling Hardware Co
Alem
Ecreek
Eva. Bushnell
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