Local notices and social updates from Wayne Township
A congested compilation of social visits deaths and meetings in Wayne Township includes John Himmel visiting his cousin Levi Downing in Ashland, a party at Miss Gussie Mowery for Miss Olive Dirck, memorial notices for James Mutersbaugh and Mrs Dan Hawk, CapT Col Musselman visiting Reedsburg, Rev Robison meetings at Bethel, and local farm and church events. Also noted are Gladys Smyser’s salon, Measles at Lyman Marshall, various illnesses, a farm sale, and community gatherings at the schoolhouse and Methodist church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mome
Arecia
Wayne
John Himmel
Tanee
Leviars
Es Downing
Ashland
P. W. Coy
Gussie Mowery
Olive Dirck
Qeedke Valley
James Mutersbaugh
Ere
Capitola Musselman
Reedsburg
Snader
Ry Hallman
Shelby
J. B. Wile
Orrville
John Lutz
Jeromeville
John Fortney
George Jackson
Alliancé
R. B
Congress
D. N. Snyder
Pleasant Home
Matthias Bardth
Burbank
J. F. Simon
Wayne Township Social Notes and funeral attendance
Wayne Township residents Janelle Bacher and George Haviland of Akron visited over Sunday with Miss Mary McFadden and family. Creston and Beach residents joined Mary McFadden Sr. for a visit last week. Mr and Mrs Charles Winkler attended the funeral of their aunt Mrs Hawk at Overton last Sabbath. Winkler attended the older sister Mrs Hawk on Sunday as well. His school will give a literary Friday evening this week on account of a local event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muddy Fork Creek
Jones
Swartz
South Main Street
John Chance
Pennsylvania
Maple Grove
Browne
Shrive
Cleveland
Janelle
John Bacher
George Haviland
Akron
Sunea i-Jos
Bacher
Trwin
Beach
Mary McFadden
Ann Bricker
Creston
Swith Yeliliam McPadden
Mere
Charles Winkler
Mne Hawk
Overton
Winkler
Mrs. Hawk
Local church gains members and guests visit in Sabbath notes
Prof Jacot unable to fill appointment hosts a guest from Applecreek. The Presbyterian congregation thanks Chas Alles for furnishing church seats with bookracks. Rev Gay leads growth with two new members received by letter. Various locals reported improving health and town news including a burial of Wm Hutchison, a new partnership dissolved, and business moves at Maple Grove, Millbrook, and Blackleyville. The Maple Grove Sabbath School organizes a Mpworth league with biweekly meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacot
Applecreek
Chas
Bert Somers
Creston
Wooster
Canaan
Pleasant Home Notes and School Winners
Prolific weekly item from Pleasant Home noting Rev C D Case preaching next Sunday, visitors from Pennsylvania, local students at Ada and Overton, and protracted meetings in February. Miss Snyder leads township spelling prizes with Margaret Snyder second and Lillie Wood third, praised for Pleasant Home School and teacher Fr Mason. Abe Strouse and family visit from Oklahoma. Dorcas family moved to Akron for work. Harvey McFadden excels in school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. D. Case Fiss
Nannie Wright
Pennsylvania
Siator
Darbaurh
Chas. Lindsey
Ted McVicker
C L. Gault
Ada
O C. Dyche
Sylivia Brown
Wooster
Elizabeth Galletin
Spencer
Harvey McFadden
Overton
Mowery
Kenton
Martin
M. E. Church
Abe Strouse
Oklahoma
Dorcas
Akron
Pleasant Home
Gertrude Snyder
Margaret Snyder
Lillie Wood
Mason Yankee
Twelfth Annual Meeting of Wayne County Farmers Institute
The 12th annual meeting of the Farmers Institute Society of Wayne County will convene at the City Opera House January 25 and 26 with a full program. Sessions feature lectures on beef cattle breeding, weed and insect control, silos, farm legislation, Hessian fly, and university training, plus recitations and music from local students and leaders including W Bishop F L Allen and S H Ellis among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers’ Institute Society of
Wayne County
City Opera House
Rey Deeds
W Bishop
Wooster
C. A. Hamilton
Pisin
Port Preasurer
James Stitt
F L. Allen
Kinsman
W. Rivenhouse
Springville
Oda Sibley
Kean
St. Ellis
Waynesville
Wm. Thompson
Cedar Valley
RM McCas
von Romans
Quaker City
Parkian Wooster
Bessie Thorne
Manley Rice
V. D_ Romans
Inrovement
Fr. L. Allen
Mabel Kean
P. S. Ibrig
U F. Wells
Shreve
F M. Webster
Grant’s Men Rout Insurgents in Hills Casualties Light
General Grant reports skirmishes south of Buloc mountain where 100 entrenched insurgents resisted before retreating into the hills. Four enemy bodies found and American casualties include one sergeant and one private of troop A Philippine cavalry. Separately, Philippine orders reveal many Filipinos convicted of murder with hangings or long sentences. Guardia de Honor band implicated. British Strathleven crew rescued by Ardgowan and landed at St Michaels Agores after sinking condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manilla
Grant
Buloc Mountain
Troop A
Philippine Cavalry
Washington
Philippines
Guardia de Honor
London
Strathleven
St. Michaels
Agores
Ardgowan
Pensacola
Pound
Barcelona
Innes
Savannah
Hamburg
Mass meeting in Barcelona seeks end to bullfights
January 14 reports from Barcelona show a mass meeting led by former mayor Senor Brebert demanding government suppression of bullfights. Speakers urged the national spectacle be erased from Spain, with several expressing hope it will soon disappear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barcelona
Spain
Senor Brebert
Wasmmerton
House of Representatives
Senate
House
Coal Fleet Heads South Amid Rumors of Expansion
Pittsburg reports 6,000,000 bushels of coal en route south with 2,000,000 more expected as Ohio markets rise. The moving fleet comprises 197 boats and 84 barges. Also noted are a string of distant items: London reports Samuel Lewis’s death, Ecuador railway foremen from Knoxville, a Fremont county miners’ sympathy strike, and violent incidents in Kansas and Kentucky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Ohio
South America
Knoxville
Ecuador
James McDonald
Washington Letter on River Harbors and Shipping Bill
Washington dispatch discusses the river and harbor bill with nearly $70,000,000 in subsidies aiding commerce while opposing lobby fights the measure. It notes Senate delays over army reorganization and rising shipbuilding debates, plus public demand for immediate passage and fears of blocked progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Senate
Iast
Notable robberies and killings across towns in January
A string of violent robberies and assaults reported from Gorham Maine to Lexington Kentucky includes the murder of farmer Thomas Moshier and the brutal attack on his mother, a bank robbery attempt in Portland, a farmhouse burglary in Versailles, and a hay fork attack on Rankin Clemens. Police pursue five masked burglars and other suspects as victims seek help.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Jam
Thomas Q. Moshbier
Rufus Moshier
Gorham
Moshbier
William Hands
Scarboro
Moshier
Cumberland
Charlies W Goss
City
Goss
Versailles
Henry Stroker
Stroker
Grant
Lexington
Budget Surplus Cited as Russia Plans Partial Military Cut
The Russian finance minister M DeWitte submits the 1900 budget showing a surplus of 72,443,450 roubles while noting heavy 1900 expenditures of 61,940,000 roubles due to Far East events. He says Russia will withdraw cops from Peking and cut Manchurian forces after urgent duties are completed, stressing a peace-loving czar and restrained power. Also mentions Conger reporting China’s plenipotentiaries align the joint note. Madagascar reports 50 natives drowned in a barge capsizing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
M DeWitte
Far East
Also Mentioned on This Page
Fe Rasta Saas Neers
Sete
New
Robison
Bethel
Dan Hawk
E. D. Hartman
Jacob Myera
Charley
John Randabaugh
Newa Pe Society
Ritz
Jacob Myers
the Bethel
Aphly
MT Pleasant
Wayne Township NO. 7
Ganaan
Sterling
Wm. Hutchison
Milton Township
J. C. Sample
J. J. Looknaugh
C Lance
P M. Good
E. S. Weimer
Joe. P. Rich
John Rich
Chicago
M Langsdorf
Canton
M.S Gish
Wissler & Fischer
Plain Center
John Yocums
Toledo
Mpworth Laapue
Millbrook Grocery
Artie Shank
G. W
W. McKee
Blackleyville
Perry Swart
Blanche Weltmer
James Sidie
Shirley
Roger Babb
VD Romans
Union Among Farmers
S H_ Ellis
The
Farmer and the Agricultural College
Frederick Taylor
F. L. Allen
Terence McMannis
W. J.greene
F. L. Allan
Widaynviler Doustoni
Society of Murderers
Timber Landa
Butte
Mon
Northern Pacific Railway Company
Amalgamated Copper Company
Montana
Paris
Bory
Menam River
Bangkok
Samuel Lewis
Florence
Colo
Fremont County
Mitchell
National United Mine Workers of America
Johnson Freer
Gallup
Erie
Ayenwoerth
Kan
Pva Roth
Fred Alexander
Alexander
Columbia, Ky
Frank Irvine
Creelsboro
Irvine
Joseph Vippend
Boden
Jax
George Lepper
Treasury
Lepper
Bucharest
Jodie
Niver
Ita
South Africa
J.B. Aons
Tacoma
Wash
Northern Pacific Overland
Solah
VERCO
Ulster
Raglan
PETS
Price Clothier
Block, Wooster
New York
William
Eddy
Bayonne
N. Y
Groubaoe
Russia
China
Earl Bi
Conger
Hay
Peking
Kitty
Marseilles
Mall
Madagascar
H. F. Crow
Downing Block
Nord Avenue
Winkler Horse CO
Orzilee
J. Winklen
William J. M
Ae Ee Saas
Fas
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