12 Jul 1905
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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1905
Page
1
A catalog of women apparel shows wool skirts silk skirts and duck skirts with sale prices ranging from 5 cents to 12 dollars. Items include silk shirt waist suits wool suits wash suits and covert jackets in various qualities and quantities.
Around 75 Hungarian workers arrived in the city to begin work for Natural Gas Co. The Mohican Oil & Gas crew sets up on the Cellier Printine lot, with pipe in transit toward Wooster and an expected Wooster arrival by August 1.
A Republican man asks how the factory is faring and £. B. Childs replies that business is brisk with orders arriving by mail. He says they are pushed constantly, may need an addition, and has recently added four more girls to the staff.
Mrs Nathan Weamer near Applecreek and Mrs Will McCalmon of Orrville hosted a social gathering. Attendees included Mrs White and C White, W K McCalmon and Gerry of Orrville, Geo Sutter and family of Canton, Mrs Trompour of Loudonville, S Brubaker and wife of Sterling, Wm Kabule and wife of Applecreek, Geo Webb and children of Alliance, Geo Fultz and wife, Wilmot Snyder and wife, Edna and Earl Snyder, Mary Webb of Wooster, Mrs Minnie Girmen and three children of Mansfield, plus Miss Ethel Hilder Alma Appleman Nathan Weamier and Will Weamer.
Rev J T Hoak and wife vacationing in Denver Col. James Stingon improving after sickness. Will Aikenhead and family visited Wooster this week. Sine Lions and Orrville club meet Wednesday. United Presbyterians ice cream festival at Peter Buchanan Jr home West Main Friday evening. F B band to provide music. Rev W H Hubbell and wife, Mrs S O Hubbell and others from Wooster visited. Houston Rhodes of Wooster visited Dalton.
Lakefore residents report return visits and family travels. B F Seibert of Mansfield returns home after a stay with his father. Mrs Kathern Austen visits her brother Rev Otto Spreng. Benjamin Metzler and son of California plan to relocate here. Rev Teeple delivers temperance lectures at United Brethren church aiding youths. Mrs Teeple sings. Rosa Windigler of Shelby visits relatives. Mrs Adrian Mann returns from Wadsworth. son Harrold stays with uncle for summer. Rev Smith baptizes three at the Methodist Church Sunday morning.
The column records multiple obituaries and notices: Clayton Leroy Shoup born June 23 died July 3 with interment July 4 in Wooster cemetery. Catharine Zarlenge aged 2 6 of Hed Monday night died of scarlet fever with funeral and Catholic cemetery burial. Michael Cusack aged 74 died at brother Edward Cusack’s home with funeral from St Mary’s church. Also 50th wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Saltaman with six sons and one daughter and sixteen grandchildren noted. July 4 celebrations include baseball scores 6-5 and 9-6 and fireworks. Events include local resignations, illness, visits, choirs, and an electric railway right of way from Barbank to Polk.
The Baptist church of this city reports Rev Lockhart has handed in his resignation to take effect September 1 and expects the church official board to sever the pastoral relation soon. The move follows a call received from a prominent Baptist church in Cincinnati and aligns with the minister’s wish to save the city.
July events include visits among families from Hermanville to Akron and Wooster. Miss Effie Draper wed Cliff Eby at the United Brethren parsonage and they planned a Kenton visit. Wooster friends and local society members attended the ice cream festival held by the United Brethren Sunday school and a bank offering meeting is set for July 16 with IFIG assisting.
An ice cream festival will be held on the lawn of Plainchurch four miles west of Wooster on the Blach forvie road on July 15. Everyone waited for the event to begin.
Farmers are informed this is the time to purchase mill feed and grain. Bran per ton costs $18, middlings per ton $19, pure corn and oats chopper per ton $20.
Marriage licenses issued for Benjamin Buttermore of Ruffs Dale Pennsylvania and Anna Hixson of Woontester.
A quirky clipped passage touts pretty girls and a sailor hat image, then pivots to promote Rocky Mountain Tea Laubach & Boyd with a plug for subscribing to The Republican. The tone resembles a newspaper ad teaser blending poetry and marketing.
In Topeka on July 10 Governor Hoch announced he will demand the resignation of State Treasurer T T Kelly for improper conduct after a conference on state funds lost at the defunct First National Bank. The matter likely goes to court amid legislative changes and legal challenges.
Wilkesbarre telegram reports James J Farrell a Plymouth resident and former assistant chief of police along with his two children traveled to visit kin when a cousin John Leo recently discharged from an asylum rushed them with a razor. Farrell discovered later on the grass and he and Leo killed themselves. Both died instantly in a mountain confrontation.
The International Socialist congress opened in Baden with officials banning foreign members from speeches to avoid German politics. Herr Bebel, socialist leader of the Reichstag, attacked Prince von Buelow for prohibiting M. Jaures of the French chamber from speaking at Bertin.
Ashley Smyser and wife in Overton awoke to a cellar entry by two burglars who stole about $20 in cash and a gold watch. The homeowner fired two revolver shots at a fleeing man, missing. Neighbors organized a posse with bloodhounds to trail the suspects, but rain and scent issues delayed progress as farmers awaited word of any capture.
Fire at Ireland and Mathews Manufacturing causes 100000 in damage. vaudeville actor John J L Merkle commits suicide in a New York hotel after shooting machinist Joseph Kublitcheck. In Columbus a man kills a burglar. J H Thomas shoots an intruder in Natrona pa. Paxinosa Inn fire destroys the resort. Peachock Develops notes legislative actions on Supreme Court Justice Warren Hooker.
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