20 Feb 1907
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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1907
Page
1
The Yard on W. Henry Street near Ballimore and Ohio Depot offers oak pine poplar native timbers sawed to size window frames doors sash cedar shingles and all building materials. Quotes available for various lumber needs to supply builders.
Reports from Dalton note Teachers Institute in Cleveland last weekend. A new rural route will begin April 1 improving mail service. Parsonage fund drive by U P church officials progresses. Social events include Exvexy club banquet at Gundy hall and a large gathering at Wu Weaver’s home. Rev Findlay and Rev Hobwell lead evangelistic efforts, with Dr F E rope presenting March 6 sale of property and horses. Construction of new houses planned this summer with contractors and carpetters busy into fall.
Maysville reports its quietest social season in 26 years as locals note visits from Jotu Hotacre and Milton Hughes family members. The town band plans a sale to settle accounts, July Johnsold remains ill, and an outbuilding fire caused by unknown origins destroyed meat and carpentry tools. A worker named Geo Frease observed the blaze.
Overton February notes the town's residents: Mrs. Mattie Walton severe rheumatism and complications, Will Spidar entertaining a woodchopper last week, Will Carroll ill, Mother Spitler feeble, and Henry Bronson family visiting. A horse died after striking an iron piling. post mortem revealed a fatal hip bone fracture causing hemorrhage. loss affected one near the writer.
A list of recently paid bills includes Fret Post Co supplies for surveyor's office, Van Dare Iron Works repairs for county jail, chairman coal oil, Barret Bros supplies for auditor's office, Harpy Reiman electrical repairs at county jail, G S Zaring coroner's inquest, Hocher repticine conots and bricks, Ohio v Reporter for probate judges office, Joseph Rine ditch work in Milton township, J J Schalfiv tax collection, G W Shortleff erroneous tax collection, Matilda M Smith dog taxes, F Olrich temporary bridge, D M Aluvaugh county allot repairs, Wasner circuit court bar list, Cole Printing for sheriff's office.
Flowing letters remained unstated in a Wooster post office list dated February 18. Names include Ackérmit, John Bigden, E. D. Ek, Frost, David Hastilled, E. McCay, Mrs Rexd, Merle, and G T.
Public notice outlines eleven rural carrier routes around Wooster, Ohio, with route lengths from 22 to 29 miles and house counts from 90 to 136. Changes include route extensions from Wellersville to Wooster, new Route No 1, and reassignments to serve Daltn and surrounding towns. An exam for new rural carriers is set for March 16 and applications are due by March 6 at the Wooster Post Office.
Local notes report the Dramatic club will present Former Huskies and other selections this Saturday evening February 23 with admission 15 cents. A golden wedding for Mr and Mrs Michael Hans is announced for March 12 at the old homestead south of the village. Jacob Bowers visits with his daughter at Masaill on. Chas Orr and Grace remain ill. Mina Scot visits Jefferson and Springville. Mrs Litchfield and Nelson Shaw and wife of Medina are visiting friends. Two young men will vote in 21 years and are staying with Ells fetter and Riley Bowman, with Mrs L D Snell of Wellington.
February items report Nicholas Maurer visiting Nash ville friends, Mike Lillich and wife attending their uncle’s funeral at New Philadelphia, Esther McClelan visiting Taylor Wolga mot and wife, Evyrman and wife at Mrs Adam Eyman’s funeral, Mrs John Hess’s illness, Sylvia Saurers ill with pneumonia, Steason Brown selling Beblanch lot for $600, Edna Brown visiting Cuya Falls, Latte Aid society to host a social at Nossbaner’s hall February 23, and a Standard Male quartet lecture slated for February 28.
Ninety years old Jacob Lutz received tokens of love for his birthday on February 14. Community notes cover visits, social events, and local updates from Smithville including school board changes, a probate administrator appointment for Jacob Otto, and discussions on pension increases estimated at about 18 percent.
Washington's Birthday national holiday prompts postoffice closure Friday Feb 22 after 10 a.m. One morning delivery by city carriers, no rural deliveries.
Feb 20 notes indicate spring weather returning and outdoor work starting. Several residents recover from illness, including Mrs Henderson and others. Ora Zimmerman Lloyd and Clarence Fisher join Ewing Woodward for a Sabbath visit with John Batdorf. Easter exercises at Bethel proposed with prayer and teachers meetings weekly. William Fair Jr returns from Florida trip. preaching at Bethel Sabbath afternoon at 2 80 o'clock.
An advertisement extols Allcock's original porous plaster as a trusted pain reliever used for sixty years. It asserts careful ingredient selection and manufacturing standards, claiming simple, pure components. Also noted is a real estate deal: Calvin Fry purchased the Samuel McQuiege farm near Wooster for 200 acres at $20,000.
The jury selection in the murder case of Harry White, one of three boys indicted for the death of Thomas Bye in Alliance, began Tuesday afternoon. White, aged 18 with chestnut hair and a sturdy frame, studied juror names with his counsel as absent jurors arrived and two veniremen failed to appear.
The jury selection proceeded at a slow pace after dinner with several candidates rejected for circumstantial evidence or personal connections. White showed interest in juror quality, while others like Stanley and Ayleworth were excluded or excused for beliefs on punishment and health.
Mrs. Sarah Maurer aged about 75, widow of John Maurer, longtime Wooster resident, died Saturday at her daughter Mrs. Frank Messner's in Cuyahoga Falls. Remains brought to Wooster Monday for interment. funeral held at 2 p m from her South Market Street home, Rev Johnson officiating. Interment in Wooster Cemetery. Survived by John W. Maurer of Wooster, Charles Maurer, Mrs. Wi-Patton of Newcastle, Pa, Frank Messner of Cuyahoga Falls, Mrs. Fred Merrett of Columbus.
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