Miscellaneous Wooster items from March edition
Local notes report Florian Schaffter ill at home on South Walnut. visits from Joseph Jeffries and family. Land sale of 20 acres near Spick Street reservoir to Prof. C E Thorn for $2. Roy Spencer from Toledo visits amid his father-in-law Andrew Sunne decker’s illness. Various city updates include a fire of miscommunications, hardware shop features, a shooting accident, and upcoming University Concert Co. tour to Lisbon with stops at Bellefontaine Lima Piqua Wapakoneta Kenton and Bell Center.
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PS. Thing
Broonington
Spick Street
C. E. Thorn
Call
Roy Spencer
Toledo
Andrew Sunnedecker
Wayne Tasuship
Ira Drozen Morday
Honsicker Chas
Wert Biberty Street
Toom
W. Os. Severs
Wooster
Millbrack
Mr Sellers
A E Snyder
Relivfto
Michael Seip, Jr
Mammond
Michael Seah
Serb
University Concert
Lutheran congregation selects new pastor
After March 26 services led by Rev Archbald of the university the congregation of the Lutheran church held a call for a pastor. Rev Geo W Baglar of Youngstown was voted in 134 to 4 and will move from Wooster where he preached recently.
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Archbald
Wade
Ashland Lines May Link Cleveland & Southwestern Route
Ashland may gain an electric line uniting northern and southern system ends via a Cleveland & Southwestern route. Colonel Hard, directing preliminary work, reports strong local support and potential financial backing from Cleveland capitalists. Easter date calculations are discussed by Bishop Hartley in a separate note on the holiday's timing.
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Ashland
Connert
Cleveland & Southwestern
Ashland -Times-Gazette
Cleveland and Southwestern Co
Times Gazette
Colonel Hard
Wooster
God ix
G &S S
Cleveland
C & SW
Met
Colonel Hards
Unia
Movable Festival and Easter Date Confusion
The piece discusses Easter Sunday being movable and the difficulty of fixing its date. It explains how the date can range from March 21 to April 25 depending on lunar and solar calculations and notes how, if certain rules shift, the celebration could move earlier or later in the season.
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Hartley
Euster
Who
Colminbas
Plans for brick corner building end long grocery era
Plans completed to replace the Nolle Brothers Grocery with a two story brick building from Liberty Street to the rear structure. Andrew Massaro, owner of the adjacent old building, may join with the Nelle brothers. Contracts expected to close soon as plans are accepted. corner site valued for business.
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Nolle Brothers Grocery
Liberty Street
Srate
Andrew Massaro
Nelle
Wooster
Desertion case filed by Mrs Anna G Shriner
Mrs Anna G Shriner of Canaan township petitions for divorce from ZNuv A106 at Pr rbank alleging they wed there, have a daughter eight, and she has supported herself for more than three years while he absented himself. she seeks divorce and custody of the child with alimony. Attorney: Al Metz for Mrs Shriner.
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Anna G Shriner
Canaan
Shriver Acks
al Metz
Mre Shilser
Burning Stumps and Farm Fire Alarm In City
Excitement rose Saturday night as a bright glow and cracking sounds prompted fears of a barn fire. Later reports identified the blaze as a large pile of etutyps on Isaac Rich wine farm, with flames spreading to dry grass and fences. Prompt fighting prevented greater loss to buildings and nearby structures.
Highly Prized Portrait Of Wooster Native Eckert Leader
A Wooster portrait depicts Gen Thomas Eckert, longtime head of the Western Union Telegraph Co., a figure of national and worldwide prominence. Locals who knew him in Wooster recognize the image as the man they once knew, praising his rise to leadership in the telegraph industry.
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W. L. Kastone
Western Union
Gen. Eckert
Woeste
Wooster
New York
Tom
Eckert
Greatest Telegraph Company
Annual Tax Assessors Near Wayne County Visit
Auditor M N Hough issues annual notice for Wayne County assessors to visit his office on a Saturday in April to receive blanks and instructions. The piece notes many hold-over assessors and changes in precinct leadership after last fall’s electoral wave. A spring tonic advertisement for Hullisters Rocky Mountain Tea follows.
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M N . Hough
Wayne County
Democrata
Repubdlicans
Insaiditur
Commercial Bank of Wooster Opens With 50000 Capital
The Commercial Bank of Wooster began business Tuesday under state law in Wooster. It operates as an offshoot of Shape Co and offers general banking plus safety deposit boxes. Albert Shape presides over the board with W R Barnhart Jr as cashier and Martha Miller as bookkeeper. The bank replaces the Albert Shape Co with reorganized structure, while Wooster Building and Loan Association remains active nearby.
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Commercial Bank of
Commercal Bank
Albert Shape
W R Barnhart, Jr
Albert Shays de Co. Sutwk
Commercial Bank
Eston Peekinprugh
Wooster Bulldiggand Loan _association
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Florian Schaffter
South Walnut Eoreet
Joseph Jeffries
Rennsaelor
Ind
Wayne
Adams Esprers
Cleveland & Southwestern Railway Co
Flack & Eyman
Liberty and
Grant Streets
Gigve Smith
Grrenteat
Wooster Hardware Company
Wataingne
Thie City
Lemer
Aliore Boatalte
Milton
Sherif Brower Borewitz
Bonewitz
Los
Sisrere Bonewitz
Frank Naftzper
Ee Stig Hiv
East Liberty Street
Jose
Tuewlay
A. E Bechtel and
Southville
Mra Eeward McCormick
Plank & Gray's Mill
Muer
Millbrook
Azo
Five
Costa
van Nest
Lee
Zeigler
Englar
Rev. Smith
Lutheran Church
Stan Blockmart
Globes
Whelesala
Falco
Stein- Bioch
Sis
Excert Satiec
Troy
Norfolk
Col
Hard Sanguine
Movable Festival
Wooster Hardware Co
Wwe
Norway
Scenis Es Pte
Daliv
Saathioe
Hullister
Rocky Mountain Tea
Laubach & Boyd
Sutscribe
William Annat
Wilton
Brussels
Axminster
Roxbury
Kashmir
Japan
Cli
Yocums’bixler
Business College Reporter
H. G. Yocum
Bus
Mor. Oo
M. Yocum
Sec’y
Tal
Astoria
Hawes
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