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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1897
Page
3
A chaotic mix of local items reports Wooster events including a 4th of July celebration plan, church and club activities, arrests, and a busy week with jail, camp plans, and public notices. Highlights mention KR A.M. degree, county executives, bank closings, and Independence Day plans across Wayne County.
Correspondence reports the wedding of Caroline Sigrist to L. D. Bair at the Sigrist home in Medina Ohio with Rev H C Martindale officiating. Guests included Pauline Sigrist and A Winfred Sigrist among others. Also noted is J lb Weavers’s 24th birthday celebration and community gatherings with music, recitations, and a changed sewing and kitchen garden meeting schedule plus bets over McKinley and Bryan flavoring local chatter.
A Y P 8S C E of the Christian church plans a lawn fete at Mr Henry Myers residence on Spruce street next Tuesday evening June 29 with a good program refreshments and a general good time promised Rev F H Simpson of Masaillon QC will preach in Christian church Shreve Sunday evening July 4. Dime sectel Wednesday evening June 30 at Mrs J Good's on West Market street Orivil for Lutheran church. Mansfield Fresbytery meeting Thursday morning in U P church Key W H Slabbell of Wooster ordained installed pastor of Dalton U S congregation. Rev Mc Crea presided Rev J E Spranger addressed the pastor and Rev J O Campbell D D of Wooster spoke. Presbyterial Missionary Society Convention followed. Ladies of Albion and West Salem M E churches raised funds for India Albion $720 West Salem $39. Children’s Day services observed by Sabbath Schools of Methodist Episcopal and First Presbyterian churches Saturday morning and Bethany Baptist last evening. Large congregations. Repositories of children and adults pleasing. Well attended Sunday School association program at Marshallville for Greene and Baughman townships with a strong showing and value. German Evangelical Lutheran pastor Rev Geo L Heck Sunday School 1:15 pm standard time. English services 7 pm. Y P S C E 6 15 pm. First Presbyterian Rev O A Hills preaching at 10:30 am and 7 pm. E Societies meet 4:30 and 5:45 pm. United Presbyterian Rev J O Campbell D D pastor Rev Thomas Pollock to preach morning with Lord’s Supper observed. evening service planned.
The Wooster Ohio post office letters awaiting pickup on Saturday June 26 1897 include Gentlemen Campbell Rev W T and others. Names listed for ladies include Mrs Eliceph J F McRouand M Megadore with one uncertain entry Rev H Dowling of Burbank attended the Myers reunion visiting Mr and Mrs W P Myers. Local notes mention Miss Ad Hershey visiting Grace E Myers. Mr and Mrs W P Myers and Mr and Mrs A H Myers of Wayne County traveled to Myo adore area. Doylestown Journal reports Frank Kissinger to sue B&O railway over death of his son David Kissinger due to a collision while engine crew focused on maintenance.
Fragments from Wooster Daily chronicle list visits and travels of locals. Knox of Sidney and Orr of Orrville attend business in Wooster. several residents head to Denver for visits. continued notes on patients, professors, and officials, plus a long roster at the Democratic State Convention.
Partial readable names Abraham Urafe and Barbara Myers appear with Wm H Gilson and Delpha M Williams in a fragmented notice, suggesting a legal or matrimonial context but details are incomplete and uncertain.
The Wooster post office will open Monday July 5 1897 from 10 to 11 a.m. and 4 to 5 p.m. A general delivery by carriers will operate in the morning. J. F. Marchand is postmaster.
In Canton this morning the State versus Ohio J Searight of Fredericksburg began trial for alleged embezzlement of 4259.62 while acting as administrator for Lucinda McCuillough. Prosecutors R W Fanck and Capt J B Taylor led for the State, McClure and Smyser for Searight. expected to last three days. Sheriff Garver later sent Charles Berbert to Canton work house for 30 days and $50 fine for resisting an officer. Judge Taggart granted Sallie Hazlett of O reston a divorce from Charles Hazlett for gross neglect, with $500 alimony and restoration to her maiden home.
A severe morning collision near Millersburg involved three Akron Rubber Works excursion trains and a Baltimore and Ohio line train. Dozens injured, several seriously. one man later died in Akron City Hospital. Rescue efforts and conflicting accounts follow as investigators seek fault. The wreck damaged engines and baggage cars. return trains carried wounded to Akron while others continued to Hiawatha Park.
1 000 cords of stave bulta delivered at the Wooster Saw Mill. For further information inquire at the mill. De Fowler's Ext of Wild Strawberry praised as excellent for summer complaints, especially with children. Wm Held, 66 College St., Buffalo, N.Y. d22-4-0-0.
District notices detail Saltcreek township and Clinton township board actions. Plans include Millbrook school house to be built on the old fire site, with contract to be awarded July 234 and decisions pending on design. Local parents express preference for retaining teacher W. Myers amid board debates.
All Around Wayne County reports the 102d UV annual reunion in Orrville on August 12 13 with social events. Mentions Dr J L McGhie moving from Mansfield to Burton City and brief regional travel chatter. Also notes a 25th wedding anniversary for W A Jo tan and wife of Shreve, and various local incidents including a tuberculosis case in West Stockfield and a funeral in Shreve. Also covers Dutch notes on a railroad accident injuries in Creston, a paper move from Fredericksburg to Navarre, a Dalton block construction, and a Cleveland excursion on July 4 with the O. & A. & O. parlor car details.
At a weekly Wooster Preserve Committee meeting on Saturday the 26th, 110 shares were subscribed by 95 farmers and 15 citizens. The group urges Wooster business leaders to back the Pickle and Canning Co, predicting vast local jobs, land value gains, college funds for children, and strong profits even without dividends. They plan to organize June 8 to start the venture and call for rapid community assistance.
The Greene and Baughman townships Sabbath School Association held midsummer sessions with praise services and papers on Sabbath School progress. Speakers from Marshallville Orrville and Wooster addressed topics on teaching methods, foreign elements in schools, and discipline, followed by evening services and missionary programs.
Special to Wooster Republican Orville. Henry Forrer, a 73 year old farmer near the village, drowned himself in a swill barrel Sunday after an early morning fire. He kissed his wife and baby, then placed his head in the barrel and died. His body was found by the hired man and his son. Forrer, born in Lancaster County on August 18, 1823, leaves ten children, eight living. No cause given, but fears of poverty haunted him. Funeral at Lower Church. Market notes mention Winkler selling teams and crowded sale events.
A clipped Wooster market page lists grain and produce prices corrected by W D Tyler and Craighead & Co. items include Wool Woolunwashed 10 to 150 per unit, Wheat per bushel, Barley, Clover Seed, Timothy Seed, Flax Seed, Bran, Middlings, Butter per pound, Ham and Shoulder prices, Beans, Potatoes, Wood per cord, Onions, Chickens, Apples, and more with varied quoted rates and unit measures.
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