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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1877
Page
3
A dense compilation from Wooster and surrounding areas includes train times, local notices, mortality and crime items, university commencement notes, temperance and sports chatter, street repair concerns, and social events. Names include J J Gtloodaune, Dan Snyder, and various residents. mentions West Lebanon vigilance, Wooster University commencement, and a July Fourth celebration.
The Wooster High School class of 1877 graduated at Quinby Opera House on June 21 with an overflowing audience. Speeches covered man and nature, democracy, national character, and virtue. diplomas were awarded as Rev Hughes gave benediction.
Citizens of Wooster and vicinity plan a July 4 concert at Quinby Opera House with tickets at 50 cents. A grand festival at Quinby’s Grove on Beaver Street near the UP Church follows Friday and Saturday evenings with bands and choirs, lights, and an enjoyable season highlight.
Prof Pixley and Mr S M Grannis perform at Quinby Opera House on Wednesday evening July 5. Admission 50 cents. advance tickets at Belknap. The prior Pixley and Grannis concert at Quixotic Hall drew strong praise from multiple papers describing it as highly enjoyable and entertaining.
A trial at Wooster on June 29 1877 invites all Wayne county manufacturers to compare Thomas engines with rivals. The event aims to prove small engines’ threshing power and overall performance against heavier units, with Samuel Brenizer as agent for J Thomas & Sons. The notice also lists university prize awards and degrees conferred at Dormencement with multiple named recipients and institutions.
A violent, thirty second cyclone hit Shreve at six P M on Monday June 25 causing at least one thousand dollars in damage. It toppled a Dr Young structure and J B Winebrenner cottage, tore four windows from Young’s building, demolished A Bront’s barn, damaged A Tidball and Everly properties, wrecked the depot roof, and destroyed Lovett Foltz’s planing mill smoke stack with scattered timber and ruined chicken coops and pens. No injuries reported.
Buckley Spink of Montgomery Township died at his residence near Freeport on Saturday in his 84th year. He moved to Wood County in 1837 and developed a large tract into a handsome farm now run by his son. A series of family deaths hit within a year. He was brother to Shibnah Spink and Gen Cyrus Spink.
Notice announces a general meeting at Castle Hall Morgenstern Lodge No 41 K of P on Thursday evening July Sth with Supreme Representatives Grand Chancellor and other Grand Officers expected. Rising Star Lodge No 22 invited to participate. attendance urged by all members.
An 1877 notice lists coal sales by E O Harrington with various building materials and a sales push for water coolers at Day's Stove Store. It includes a long roster of names with a request to state advertised when claiming letters at the Mansfield post office.
The item lists several June nuptials in Ohio including Howman Van Swerengen in Congress andities in Wooster and Orrville with ministers and venues. It ends with a light verse about a speedy groom and a witty editorial nudge in the Democrat column.
Mrs Nancy Kean wife of A C Kean Esq died aged 39 years in Bake township Ashland county Ohio after brief illness. She had lived in Plain township Wayne county before moving to Ashland eight years ago. A devoted Methodist Episcopal Church member for 24 years, she was honored as wife mother and friend and is mourned by church and family as they look toward a hopeful reunion. Cox
An upbeat, rhymed vignette touts Bissell Brothers on the Square at No. 1. A couple in fine attire sing of the store's cheapness and wide stock including carpets, linens, corsets, fans, gloves, muslins, and shorthold wide prints. The refrain promises the low prices and top quality of Bissell's dry goods.
Market notes show eggs butter and cheese steady. lard and dried goods with bagged salt retail prices. Wool, flour, corn, rye, oats, barley, timothy, flax, clover seed, and wool also listed with varying bids. Wheat and corn prices cited for Pennsylvania and Minnesota. pork beef and hams quoted. cheese and eggs steady to quiet.
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