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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1877
Page
3
A barrage of notices from Wooster covers real estate sales and auctions, school commencements at Wooster High, band contests, a wedding in Auburn Indiana, and public concerns over hackmen and local crime. The report notes property values, wool purchases, church dedications, and a police court action against a local hackman, with emphasis on community events and civic issues.
Mt Pleas ant Pa native Will DeGriffin of this county has invented a self opening and shutting railway gate for crossings along railroads across the United States. The model proves highly effective and may become a major invention of the age. Will is described as energetic and enterprising, with substantial time and money invested, and well wishes are extended for his success.
Rising Star Lodge No 22 Knights of Pythias calls members to meet at Castle Hall on Tuesday evening June 19 at 8 o'clock sharp. Ete Grant, Chancellor of the State, is expected. Jebel Clark will report on the Grand Lodge session and discuss attendance at the Supreme Lodge festival in August in Cleveland.
A garbled list details 19 college chapel events on Friday June 15 and Saturday June 16 with times around 74 PM and 11 AM. It mentions annual exhibitions of the Athenean Literary society, commencement services, Baccalaureate sermons, annual addresses by professors W G Moorehead and J oM Wor Whoode, senior class meeting, and literary society meetings.
County Commissioners condemn the old court house after a petition from citizens. A committee found the walls sprung and many panes broken, calling the structure unsafe and unfit for occupancy. Charles Gasche assisted the examination confirming the dangerous condition.
From this office a Commencement Annual will be issued next Wednesday. It will include a full history of the University since its foundation, a complete report of Commencement exercises, the Baccalaureate Sermon, full Class Day coverage, and notices of all speeches and lectures. The publication will have at least twenty pages, sold for 6 cents, with preorders at the News Depots. Delano Jeffries, a Western Theological Seminary professor, delivered elocutionary entertainments in this place on May 20 and 30, praised as extraordinary by newspapers and confirmed by hearers.
The 9th Annual Reunion of the 120th Regiment C. V. I. held at Chippewa Lake drew an estimated 10 000 to 15 000 attendees. Veterans from multiple regiments joined in patriotic speeches by Captain William G. Myers and others, with notable absence of General Garfield and an aborted evening parade due to weather. The event formed plans for future reunions and a regimental fund to defray printing and postage costs.
The Wooster District of the Northern Ohio Conference met at Apple Creek on June 4 1877 with many ministers attending. Proceedings covered sermons temperance reports organ planning for future sessions and elections of officers and lay delegates.
The Baptist Church ladies announce festivals in the Lecture Room on Friday and Saturday evenings June 15 and 16. Guests will be served with strawberries ice cream cake lemonade coffee biscuits and cold tea. Entertainment runs from 7 to 11 o clock each evening.
At the June meeting the Commissioners set the 187% tax levy for various funds. County fund five mills, poor fund, bridge fund, county debt retirement, and building detract plus state levies 9 10, totaling 6.9 10 mills. This is a nine-tenths mill increase over last year. Wooster adds 43 mills for gratia levy, plus 8 mills for cemetery. Total levy reaches twenty twent one tenths mills at 229 dollars per hundred.
The Grand Arts Band and Orchestra of Canton present a concert Monday evening June 18 1877 at Quiby Opera House. Soloist Miss Bila Daugherty of Canton will perform. Reserved seats are 75 cents, general admission 25 cents. tickets at Keaps Book Store and after 4 pm Monday at the door. The Canton Orchestra compares with Currier’s Exposition Band of Cincinnati.
A June 1877 physician meeting at Dr Dalton’s office adopted resolutions on the death of Dr W Bertolett. The committee praised his zeal and courtesy to colleagues and mourned him as a useful, honored citizen and kind husband and father. Heartfelt sympathies were extended to his family.
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