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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1900
Page
2
A noisy notice indicates change of editorship and subscription updates for a local paper. It mentions an upcoming change of address services, renewal terms, and advertising steps for readers, with references to payments and eligibility. The fragment suggests an official notice about mailing and publication year plans.
The Prohibition party in Obia In convention pledges to drive out the liquor traffic by forming a new political alignment. They condemn legalized alcohol as a public nuisance and urge outlawing manufacture sale importation and inter-state transport of beverages. They call for equal status with brothels and gambling halls and urge abolition through a united anti liquor campaign. The platform also asserts women’s suffrage and criticizes existing laws and party politics as hindering progress toward prohibition.
A garbled schedule lists devotional sessions and lessons led by various teachers including Misa Joanie Warner and Mre John Talbot. It mentions normal season activities in Holy City with dates September 7 14 21 and a Friday 7 30 pm board meeting in the Board of Education Room.
National Prohibition ticket lists John G Woolley of Hitoots for president with Henry B Met as vice president. It includes Rhode Island slate with Secretary of State Knox Montgomery, Greene County Judge E J Pinney, Onondaga dairy and food commissioner M Beott, and Crawford school commissioner Samuel A Gillette. Start date listed as Onneyess 17th, J H Dickason of Wooster.
Smithville residents and families are listed with visits and travels. Mra Gattleman and Frankie returned from Angels Ind after visiting her brother. Martin Wenger attended a reunion in Qorreville and Aveot as a guest of U V 7arrdt Dr Gowa. Pear Eharly Lae Miller hosted Minas lena Minhier and Joli Pedbuid visited Alliance. Alvin King visited Me dipa and Montrose. Mise Marie Smith returned to Boston Mass for school work.
An examination by FB Kline of Wooster and Irai Schmiener of Orrville reveals misplacements and miscodes in the Wayne County Treasury ledgers. Totals show funds directed to various accounts and outstanding balances, with the report noting irregularities and requesting further clarification from Transomer A. W. Brack and officials.
An alert warns against using ointments for catarrh containing mercury as they spoil smell and derange the system. The genuine Matea Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney & Co Toledo contains no mercury and is taken internally. Sold by druggists at 75 cents per bottle with directions for Toledo manufacture.
The Progressive Farmers Association shifts its Sept 27 meeting to L R Bowman’s home instead of J M Grady’s. The program includes music, recitations, talks on the bail system and Horicon industry, and October planning, with residents invited to attend the Jefferson event.
The document from the National Prohibition party meeting in Chicago outlines a platform to prohibit alcohol nationwide, critiques McKinley on the canteen issue in Cuba and the Philippines, and argues for enforcing prohibition as a national policy to protect morality and finances. It denounces liquor influence in government, warns of trust and monopolies, and calls for ballot support to sustain prohibition.
Fragmented OCR item lists multiple place names such as Lodi and Wellington with train references and daily service notes. The text is garbled, offering no coherent event, date, or clear entities beyond scattered station names and routes.
Under the new time card trains will stop as follows effective Nov 19 1899 North Central Standard Time Route No 101 9 00 p m Wooster Nos 07 7 20 a m 108 4 55 p m 109 1 05 p m O A & C RAILROAD AT ORBVILLE No 27 Ex 4 65 am No 2 Mall 10 5 am No 36 Ex 103 am No 38 Fx 4 12 pm No Mail 3 22 pm No 28 Ex 10 00 pm
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