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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1882
Page
3
Local dispatches from Wooster cover court activity, university admissions, and social visits. Mentions include grand jury sessions, readings at United Presbyterian church, arrivals of lawyers and clergy, and updates on Wooster University events. Also notes on planned fall millinery, housing seeks, and nearby political and civic chatter.
August 1882 special orders authorize Wooster City Guards to transport and subsist to Toledo from September 4 to 9 1882. Captain J N Clark directs engagement of subsistence and transport with the unit to assemble at the Wooster Armory for revampment duty.
In Holmes Wayne Coshocton factions debate Judge Voorhes and Judge Sample over term limits and party loyalties. A letter from Stilwell Appleton’s year 1881 notes temperance, whisky, and candidate selection while recounting Wooster and Coshocton county politics and public reaction.
William Jacot fourteen year old son of Julius Jacot of James Hallowell's farm south of Wooster was injured when a gun discharged while he sat on a fence waiting to shoot. The right hand was torn with heavy damage to fingers and thumb and face suffered thirty shot entries. Dr Mower treated the wounds with chloroform. William was taken to Dublin for care under Dr Holts.
The Annual Grange Hiene and Laur vest Tome Meeting of the Patrons of Husbandry of Wayne County will be held Friday at Botts grove one half mile west of Applecreek. Arrangements aim to make it the best meeting ever with notable speakers. A Morthy Master of the National Grange may attend. Farm products and home industry items will be collected. Expect good music, dinner, speeches, and general good order. attendees urged to bring baskets. No huckstering. political candidates asked to electioneer elsewhere.
A missionary meeting on August 24 at the First Presbyterian Church drew attendees from Savannah and Shreveport and included discussions among Baptist, Methodist, and United Presbyterian groups. Dinner was provided and social interaction encouraged, aiming to renew interest in missions.
Excursion by Fredericksburg and Maysville fdrnet Bands to Cuyahoga Falls on Saturday. Salt Creek’s entertainment last Sabbath interrupted services with no morning church activities. Rev J G Madge of Dalton Ohio will preach at United Presbyterian Sunday due to Rev W S Harper illness. No Presbyterian service next Sabbath due to pastor absence. On Wednesday the 30th Rev John M Kyle married Miss Ora Martin of this place with Rev W S Harper presiding. The newlyweds depart for Cedarville Ohio then sail for Brazil in October as foreign Presbyterian missionaries.
Market roundup from Wooster shows weekly pricing on hams shoulders and potatoes, with new onions and granulated flour. Timothy and Wheat seeds priced per bushel, Clover and Hay values noted. sparse legible figures indicate overscale figures and incomplete units amid the listing.
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