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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1895
Page
5
Notices must be in by noon to appear in the Daily and Weekly Wooster Republican supplement. Insertion charges apply for entertainment bills programs tickets and related notices. Printing of notices due at the office on Wednesday May 22 1895.
Rochester Bankrupt Clothing stock shipped to Chardon Ohio. County Board of School Examiners held a 47-applicant class for teaching certificates. Smith and Keller to lay a drilled well for water trustees, starting Wednesday. Oberlin College ball team emailed for May date. Machinery from old paper mill loaded for Pittsburg. Wooster Shale Brick Co. workers shift to 12-hour days. Wooster brick chosen for Holmes County infirmary. J R Zimmerman used long distance Wooster to Chicago phone line, first such call. Memorial service planned for local soldiers. Supreme Court rules income tax feature of Wilson-Gorman bill unconstitutional. Fire alarm false at Liberty street. Jubilee Day plans and ticket sales underway. Parish notices, local church events, and community notices fill the page. Public and social notices include birthdays, school house bids, and local business ads.
Monday's notes show Will Aitkenhead Sundaying at Clothes line O P M Pinkerton at home for Sabbath William Linn Sr in Ashland county on bussages Mrs C V Hard to Columbus Major Robert W Liggett of Nashville Holmes Co city George P Atwater returns to Gambier W L Firestone not improving H B Odenkirk travels to Pennsylvania numerous visits to Mansfield Canton Cleveland and Wooster with many others listed including Rev J S Ross Grace Koas and S Shilling with a note on a violin historic detour.
Lumda McFadden and Isa Kerr, John Johnson and Maria Coulter, Herbert Slater and Olive Lawrence are listed as paired names, with Byron Kilgore and Minnie Lug nbuhl appearing in the same grouping.
The Board of Health organized for the year with Mayor Jeffries administering oaths to Anthony Letes and Charles F. Barrett. J. G. Sanborn elected secretary. Committees named: Finance Funck Lees Miller. Nuisances Leies Sanborn Barrett. Contagious Diseases Firestone Funck Sanborn. Food Barrett Miller Leies. Health Officer Dr. J. W. Lehr to stay. possibility of a sanitary policeman noted. Adjourning approved due to no business.
James Bowman Bever, born March 11 1842 in Wooster, died at his sister Mrs Owen Wilhelm’s home on Laall avenue after fifty years of pain. He could not speak but understood conversations via a special ring and was cared for by Mrs Wilhelm for 20 years. Funeral private at 4 p.m. Thursday.
John Cunningham, about 35, was killed on the PF W Carolina and around Massillon when he was thrown between railway cars while riding home deadbeat. His body arrived in Massillon and funeral is planned. He leaves a wife and mother.
Wooster markets report corrected figures for grains and produce. Wheat, flour, corn, oats, beans, barley, flax seed, timothy seed, clover seed, and butter prices are listed, with ranges per hundredweight or per pound. Also notes spring chickens, turkeys, dried fruits, and prices from Pend & Co., dealers in stock and choice butter.
A brief note highlights the value of advertising in Tax UBLICAN and the paper, claiming reach to all readers and a path to sustained commercial success.
Wooster's welcome meeting reviews plans for a large Baltimore and Ohio railroad celebration on June 6. Committees set parade time at 3 p.m. and arrange north south trains to bring excursionists by midday. A city mass meeting, fundraising target of 500 dollars, and participation by Wooster ladies and University of Wooster faculty are proposed.
Canton Wright of Patriarchs Militant will perform in the Odd Fellows prize drill this afternoon with the Eighth Regiment Band O.N.G. of Akron providing music. Numerous acquaintances traveled to Canton this morning including J.T Keister and wife, Jos Wilhelm, Frank Gerlach, Forbes Alcock, Fred Faber, and many others.
An advertisement urges readers to protect their families from colds coughs and throat lung diseases by trying Otto's Care a German remedy sold by Anbach and Boyd as sole agents. A free trial bottle is offered with larger sizes priced at 60c and 25c.
Advertises a jewelry store on the west side of Square featuring Sterling Silver ware in Mexican filigree work. Promises delivery of The Republican by carrier each evening for 12 cents per week. Includes notice to bring or send name for service.
Local edition promises rapid home delivery of daily news from the Daily Republican. Readers are urged to secure copies for up to date items and timely updates on events as they unfold.
Reports from the Ohio Weather and Crop Service indicate a cold wet week ending May 20 with frost on multiple mornings. Wheat shows some improvement while corn and early potatoes were frozen or destroyed. fruit crops including apples and grapes suffer heavy losses and garden crops are severely damaged across the northern section.
Orrville resident Jom Cunningham aged about 35 was killed when he sat on a boxcar bumper on a northbound train on the Ww & L E road. The death was ruled self-inflicted after friends and family gathered for his funeral in Orrville. Also reported: John Dornbach died at 49, a watchman at a Schlumacher elevator or cereal mill, after drinking poisoned beer. several other local incidents and a city council meeting discussing streets and sewers.
The article from Excel sior Springs honors Hon. A D Kimber of Wooster Ohio native to Wayne County and former mayor. Kimber, lawyer and Commercial club president, is praised for hard work leadership on school board city attorney and municipal progress. He is hailed as industrious and devoted to city and public interests. Prrrspunne Pa May 20 report notes seminary control committee vote 432 to 98. Presbyterian General Assembly accepted the report with minor changes and anti Briggs stance retained.
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