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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1896
Page
3
The Wester Republican announces copy deadlines by 12 o'clock noon for advertisements to appear that day. Notices of entertainments festivals and sales will be published in the Daily and Weekly Republican if submitted near the office. otherwise standard rates apply.
A column from Wooster area pages notes Easter decorations brightening Craighead Co and Proctor Onai stores, a thief stealing pies and lard from a fridge exterior, and a heavy spring shower. Wrecking crews cleared a Perrysville freight wreck involving seven oil carloads with no large fire. Also mentions Suburban club events, Kauke Chapel address by Dr Josiah Strong, and Wooster High School Alumni meeting with officer elections.
The sheriff’s sale listed several parcels in Chester township. Zimmermang & Co v John W Wasterday included 53 acres appraised at 600 and sold to Mrs Mary E Easterday for 1380. Lot No 4 in Overton was appraised at 415 and sold to Mrs Mary Easterday for 280.
Social notes report the College Chorister Club will present a concert on April 7 and the City Opera House hosts the one night only Old Deestrick Skule show. A birthday party for Nathaniel Mowery featured neighbors with baskets and a celebratory dinner. Also noted is James E. Snyder declining a Republican ticket nomination for Justice of the Peace in Wooster Ohio on March 26, 1896.
Wooster O March 30 1896 list of letters remaining at Wooster post office on Saturday March 28 1896. Also local ads for coffee at 30 cents per pound, Craig head & Co furniture and undertaker services, W Y Landis agent, and Harding & Co plows and farm implements at the old stand near City Hall Court House.
To accommodate subscribers to THE WEEKLY REPUBLICAN this office will take subscriptions to the QCleveland Weekly Leader at $1 per year cash with order attending them entirely without further trouble to the sup see Call at REPUBLICAN Office.
A Knights of Pythias lodge banquet in Wooster honored George Faber's quarters with speeches and musical numbers. Yet attendees, including Sheriff Garver and Judge John McClarran, faced disappointment as Loudonville brothers from Tentonia Lodge failed to arrive due to a railway stoppage. The evening featured toasts, talks on Pythian teachings, and performances by Mrs. Faber, Dan Funck, and several local speakers, ending near midnight with guests departing fulfilled despite the absence.
notices report pastors John Boyd and Walter Reynolds moving to new charges, marriages of John Boyd and Martha Casterton in New York, a Newark attorney’s daughter Annie Kibler dies in Denver, Wooster graduates and local deaths, and local ads note store sales and eye service events with Dr. Platt visiting Apr 17 18.
A woman claiming to be the widow of Gen Whitaker visited Iayld Norton's home near town and told a strange tale. She says she lives in Cleveland with a $3,000 pension and heads a Woman's Relief Corp chapter. She traveled with a son from Cleveland to attend a friend's wedding, was in an accident at a railroad crossing, and requested Norton drive her to the train to Cleveland. No official investigation has been reported, leaving the veracity uncertain yet intriguing.
Wooster market report lists prices for wheat rye oats corn barley and flax seed with flour and wool quotes. Produce items include butter eggs beef white beans potatoes onions and dried apples with per pound or per dozen figures and dealers Frick Tyler and ghost & Co.
The Orrville Court of Common Pleas hears multiple cases including Boydston vs A C B Co for 310,000 damages over a fatality, Celia Freisch's divorce from Winfield Freisch with 300 alimony, and various notes and mortgage disputes. Cases involve W Wertz vamer and other defendants with fraud and forgery defenses, juries retiring and verdicts given, and viewing of the death scene of Mrs Boydston.
Searight, a prominent Fredericksburg resident, was arrested on a charge of embezzlement after returning from Wooster. The warrant, issued by Frank Dile as executor of Licinda McCullough estate, cites a shortage of $4,000. Preliminary hearing held. Searight detained on $1,000 bond, later reduced to $8,000.
On April 3 the County Commissioners will let the earthwork contract for the long overhead bridge over Big Killbuck and the Pittsburg Ft Wayne and Chicago tracks in Wooster township four miles south of Wooster. The job involves moving 4334 cable yards of earth to form a big fill. The railroad supplied two iron spans of 74 and 76 feet and built the wooden apron and approaches at one end. The county provides the remaining east and west aprons and approaches, totaling 236 feet in length and tall enough to clear the tracks.
The Republic report says Jacob Weller, over 90, native of Lancaster County Pennsylvania, settled near Smithville Wayne County. He joined the Mormon church at Kirtland, moved to Nauvoo, then to Salt Lake City, becoming a bishop. He visited Wayne and Ashland counties and addressed Wooster. He was son of Joseph Weiler and uncle to J. P. Van Nest.
The Ames council debated street repairs and crossing safety, heard on the year’s water finances and the Apple creek pumping plan, and approved multiple resolutions including street improvements and bond actions. Several notices touched beall avenue sidewalk costs and Bowman street assessments.
Wm Ferris of Chicago urged council to buy a wheeled road-scraper trade machine highlighting city needs. Sullivan warned of dangerous guard rails on Palmer street bridge over the P Ft W C BR line and moved council to notify railway officials. motion carried. Ordinance approved paying bills of 170.87 before adjournment.
In Burbank Ohio on March 28 1896 at Mrs. Sarah A Kepps home Rev N Lewis united Vernon K Stair with Irene Repp and Vertal H Stair with Ida V Repp twin brides and their grooms are twin children of local families. Guests praised the event and a repast followed. Nearby news notes include a school elocution class entertainment Rev Sperry moving to the Evangelical church and local residents purchasing millinery stock and house changes as March proves lively.
Orrville Ohio reports a swelling Little Chippewa flood, a log crossing tragedy, and a missing 85-year-old man presumed drowned. A widow’s window frame injury, a horse sale draw of buyers and 1200 attendees, plus school entertainments, McKinley badges, and local gossip about Stella Humphrey Tobias romance.
A Pyramid Drug Co advertisement touts Pyramid Pile Cure as a cheap safe effective remedy for all forms of piles. It claims prompt treatment prevents serious disease progression and cites testimonials from diverse U S readers. Each package 50 cents includes a treatise on piles causes and care.
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