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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1897
Page
3
A partial OCR fragment references a dated notice from January 21, 1807, with unclear names or places. The legible portion preserves a historical timestamp but lacks full context or events to identify the subject or actions described.
The 6 a.m. temperature stood at six degrees above zero. Notices discuss Hoyt's A Trip to Chinatown and Franz Abt’s Cinderella. Local social events include a birthday surprise for Mrs. Hugh Shields and a Wooster Dry Goods shift. Train delays, coast hazards, and civic enforcement on hats and coasting are reported along with multiple short community items. The Wooster Debating Society plans to open January 28 with Lincoln vs Washington debate and music.
In Saturday’s Daily Wooster figures many visitors and residents on short-term journeys. F W Platt of Delaware is in the city. Judge Wolfe returns tonight. Mrs May Thoburn visits Dr J D Beer’s home, while Miss Katie McAnanery visits her parents. Nathan Y Landis of Philadelphia arrives after a death in Massillon brings relatives. D Y Landis’s funeral draws Osnaburg residents and Massillon kin. Local notables and merchants attend a banquet for Judge Wolfe. Several locals prepare to move to West Newton Pennsylvania for plow manufacturing jobs. Families from Massillon attend the funeral. Additional notes mention travels of BR Reed, J Simpson granted pension, Rev James Houston to educate children in Wooster, and other brief city movements.
Wm BK Sligh and Lillie M Fisher Warren Moore and Elvie L Hich ards John Ii Houser and Elma E Koster J Goodheart and Emma Arnold Thomas F Downs and Charlotte Hye T E Steiner and Laura Mickard Joseph Vevery and Dora South
The third January meeting of the Thursday Club featured Miss Clara Darstine presenting the House of Romanoff in the 17th century, with Miss Miriam Hills offering a second paper on Paul the Pope and Paul the Friar. It covered Italian national conditions and history alongside Russian topics.
A fragmentary ad promotes a ready to mix preparation priced at 18 cents. Claims promise a safe craft and tests of experiments, urging Vogt in the Roma to try at least one package. Craighbad & Co. markets the product as water-ready.
The McClure Store and Houge Furnishing Store advertise marked down prices for various goods, highlighting discounts on household items and appliances. Shoppers are invited to visit the stores to see reduced prices and special offers.
A terse ad by xpert watchmakers and jewelers claims they can match factory work quality. Located at Bradehaw, weat ide Square, the notice emphasizes versatile watch and jewelry repairs and related services.
Fragmentary text claims a remedy “preverepcien” better than another medicine for curing colds and similar throat or lung troubles. The garbled source lacks clear entities, dates, or verifiable facts to confirm efficacy or origin.
A Wooster banquet by the Wayne County Bar and local business men honored Judge Norman M Wolfe of Mansfield who has served briefly on the Wayne County Court of Common Pleas docket. The event featured a formal dinner, toasts, and speeches praising his conduct and the smooth clearing of cases. Wolfe expressed gratitude and reflected on his stay in Wooster as a highlight of his career.
A Wayne County Bar banquet praised Judge Wolfe for his improvements in procedure and his influence on the bar and citizens. Col. Eason and Col. Eason led a toast to him, noting his 45 years at the bar and role as the first County Clerk under the new constitution. The gathering ended with unanimous approval of the sentiments expressed.
Fraim Blund as Daily Judge Wolfe presided on Saturday over Frost v Mowery et al. The trial showed Nathaniel Mowery held property from Thomas Mowery with liens unpaid to Wayne County National Bank, Jacob Frick, Adam Kurtz estate, Charles Tomler, among others, and the court ordered sale of the homestead farm after lien attachment. A paternity case in Common Pleas, Dora Sands v VU Cherro, went to the jury with defense challenging a prior marriage. the court upheld validity and instructed a verdict of guilty. Circuit Court terms and jurors were announced for Wooster, with evangelistic and church revival activities noted.
In Fredericksburg the session opened without business in Common Freas Court this morning. Most work focused on overruling the motion for a new trial in the James G. McCoy v. Jos. Jones case. The jury in the Fredericksburg beer bottle case against Charles Woodruff failed to reach a verdict and Judge Taggart discharged them about 100 o clock.
A Canton newspaper excerpt cites a Canton Ashland and Canton Railroad talk with H B Camp of Akron as a proposer of a possible Ashland to Canton extension. The informant suggests non steam or electric motive power, possibly compressed air, and notes three route possibilities with work likely to start in spring weather.
Instructions describe using Woolsoa for many household needs including toilet, baby clothing, fine flannels, delicate goods, blankets, and upholstery cleaning. Each cake includes fall directions. Craighead.
The text indicates union meetings at Sunday afternoon, Tuesday and Thursday with Evan gelistic services. The readable fragment suggests a religious gatherings schedule under evangelistic outreach.
Reported temperatures ranged from 14 to 22 below zero across multiple locations including Bloomington and Cedar Valley Districts, with the Onlo Agricultural Experiment Station showing 17 below and continuing frigid conditions. Train delays, halted mail, and hardships for residents followed as boiler and water-line repairs strained services. the Daily Republican published under strain after plumbers battled frozen pipes and relied on extra help from Geo Clapper to print.
The Rittman community notes the marriage of Mr. k O Getsinger and Miss Isole M Sigier at the bride's home on Wednesday evening January 20. Only close relatives attended though widespread goodwill is reported. observers hope the couple's life together brings happiness amid a winter of severe cold in the region.
In two incidents a stove range exploded injuring I D Hyans and his wife at 35 Beall avenue and harming Mr and Mrs Evans and their son Howard near Mullins Coal Co. home. H A Haller of 116 West Liberty Street reported a blast that wrecked his kitchen, with frozen pipes ruled out and coal explosion suspected. Boiler bursts flooded three rooms at H Hoffstatt residence on North Market Street as plumbers rush to assess damages.
Millbrook and nearby poultry lovers were disappointed when the Millbrook poultry show was postponed from last Friday to Friday and Saturday January 2 and 3 due to the death of Mr Worts wife. Mr Worts will attend with a large crowd expected to gather for the rescheduled event.
A weather battered Apple Social at the Statlers in Reedsaborg drew about 60 attendees. Guests formed apple names from number letter tickets, then competed in writing verses about their apple, with prizes including a 63 inch circumference apple pie and a 17 inch diameter pie.
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