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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1895
Page
5
Republicn Printing Co announces ad deadlines for notices and notices to be in by 12.00 noon for Wednesday October 2 1898 with daily rate changes and publication details for programs sales bills and debates.
Scattershot notes over early autumn Wooster happenings. Prison counts and a coal rush for homes, a fatal attack east of Canton, a horse stolen from Fredericksburg, and schoolyard injuries. Local court cases include Massaro and Zarlingo fence dispute outcomes. Council water policy shifts, paving progress, and street safety. Society weddings, hunts for firearms, crime warrants, and Prohibition meeting attendance highlighted.
Councilman Samuel Bell travels to Columbus on business while Rev J D Irons and M C Touch attend Ohio Synod events in Mansfield. Local weddings, studies in Cleveland, and fresh church notices fill the notes alongside arrests, fair attendance, and plans for a new city art hall.
A wave of brief notes from Wooster and nearby towns lists residents visiting Akron Galion and Mt Clemens. Notables include H B Smith returning from business, J W McElherry in Wooster, and Rev J J Wilson taking a church post in Lorain with others moving or visiting family and friends.
Reid Dysart and Eva Meton along with Reyessey Sigler and Jennie M Conn appear in a sequence of names in a local community notice. Oliver Rush and May Reed are also named among the listed individuals in this public record.
A Friday 8 p m gathering in the mayor’s office will outline preliminary steps for Wayne county’s centennial celebration next August. The meeting urges full representation from Wooster and surrounding areas to ensure a fitting observance.
Cider-R Eason of Springville advertises his patent cider recipe and daily operation except Sundays. He claims the process yields the cheapest and best cider and invites patrons to visit for supply during market hours.
Pennsylvania Lines offers excursion tickets to Loudonville for the street fair. Tickets are 90 cents round trip from Wooster with return valid through October 4. Sale runs Wednesday and Thursday October 2 and 8.
The H J Heinz Co. received the last pickles of 1895 on Saturday and reported a yield of about 40,000 bushels. The crop was so large eight extra tanks were built, snow-barred with a temporary roof, and next spring the firm plans a plant addition to handle future crops. The pickles are described as superior, and the company intends to increase next year’s acreage.
The Conterno's 9th Regiment Band of New York played at City Opera House to an appreciative but modest crowd in Wooster. Soloists Miss Nina Bertini Humphreys and Signor Victor Clodio drew multiple encores, with Clodio delivering a powerful Il Trovatore duet. The program featured overtures by Des Tannhauser Wagner and Williams Tell, plus several solos and marches. Conterno and two sons accompanied by Dr G E Conterno and Dr G W Conterno.
Thomas Taylor aged 21 living two miles east of Shreve died Saturday evening after playing ball at Millbrook. He mounted his bicycle to return home and fell from the wheel in the yard, dying shortly after. The death is reported as sudden and distressing.
Uncalled letters for the Wooster I C week ending September 28 1805 include Armstrong Thoms3 Hays James LH Barett R Mr Kendrick Frank H iS D Crow KC Works Richard Chairman Humane society Patterson has Davis John 2 Kickenbaugh Mrs Mandy Dennison V7 G Swartz Ernest O Persons must state advertisement date when calling for unclaimed letters Jonun F SIARCHAND PM University Notes and Personals
J and Mrs Dickason visited their brother Prof J H Dickason today in Savannah. Miss Mary Lehman aged 1800 is improving and may miss several weeks of classes. Miss Mary Meeks of 1894 left for Concord New York to continue work with freedmen. last year’s efforts show promise. Last evening 75 Kappa Alpha Tkasts members and friends were hosted at Capt and Mrs W O Beebe's College avenue home.
Levi Conrad of Sminthvilte moves to Sterling to teach in Doylestown public schools this year. Adair fills six Wayne county teaching posts. Sterling and nearby districts report open sessions and large attendance as of September 23. Nor ton township superintendent dispute leaves Houriet in question. temporary appointment given to C. M. Lehr of Delaware. The Republican office offers Cleveland Weekly Leader subscriptions for $1 per year.
Public notice runs a misprinted ad offering 25 cents for 25 words or less and a week’s rate of 40 2b cents in the Daily Republican column from Wooster. The fragment outlines a pricing scheme for small notices with unclear terms and a weekly option.
An all day programme is prepared for the Canaan veterans reunion on October 1 in Canaan QO. Events begin at sunrise with a salute, then a business meeting, dinner, and a full schedule of music, readings, and speeches led by Rev. L. O. Edmonds, Capt. W. P. Van Doorn, and others.
Veterans group records a lively Gigan Post G A R meeting with reports on Louisville encampment and Chicamauga battlefield dedication. Gen Wiley chronicles battlefield ceremonies. Akron attorney Henry Ward Ingersoll dies at 62. Buckley Post quartet famed for 102d A V I reunion and Watterson speech on peace.
The North Ohio Methodist Episcopal conference adjourned this morning after voting on the male-only delegate amendment. The report shows Cleveland 36 Yes 315 No, Sandusky 63 Yes 415 No, Wooster 1 Yes 822 No 650, Mt. Vernon 44 Yes 68 No. Mansfield district did not report. Dr. M. F. Warner elected president of Baldwin University. First year applicants admitted on trial. Wooster District appointments listed including George Mather presiding elder and numerous assigned pastors across Applecreek to Wooster.
Wayne County records show multiple warranty deeds transferring parcels in Dalton Canaan Ches ter and Wooster to various buyers including J A Douglass Amos Myers and Elizabeth Reid. Several deeds list prices from 1 to 850 dollars with notes of other valid considerations and administrative deeds involving Christina Herr Daniel Bachwalter and John Herr.
Marriage licenses issued include Joseph Fischer Jr and Sidney Mc Afee, Frank B Sanger and Sadie Emma Hartzell. Additional names Samamoora Lawrense and Ara miotha Harsb- appear in the record fragment.
The jury found Stephen A Fortney of Akron guilty as charged in the indictment for bigamy. He wed Hannah Sullivan Nov 17, 1891, in Pittsburg and Mary McElhenle Feb 28, 1893 in this city. He claimed a non marriage when before the magistrate and has been jailed since Christmas day 1894. Other cases heard include George W Flory charged with pocketpicking and robbery and Mrs Mary Strouse indicted for shooting at Miss Maggie Webb with intent to kill and carrying concealed weapons, pleading to assault and obtaining fines.
Judge Irvin Baker released from jail on own recognizance. Guardians flee bond set at 81000. Admins appointed, bonds set, and petitions filed to sell real estate. Hearings scheduled for Oct 4 Oct 28 and Nov 1 involving accounts and removals. various executors and guardians named.
Readable fragments describe injuries and accidents in Orrville Applecreek and Creston. Notable items include Tacy Phillips cutting eye injuries, a horse killed after a farm accident, a house fire near Orrville, and a child scalding. Community movements include residents moving to Wooster and Sterling and farm labor shortages.
Holmes County court records reveal Edward Cosper of Fredericksburg suing Alfred Slutz for $10,000 in slander over alleged statements about Cosper robbing Slutz. The suit cites four alleged incidents between 1894 and 1895 involving Robbery, indictment, and Cosper’s acquittal. A.J. Thomas represents Cosper.
Local Wooster market report lists corrected prices for wheat flour corn oats barley seed milk per hundred weight and other goods. Includes butter lard cheese beans potatoes onions apples peaches chickens turkeys peaches and various meats with notes on October 4 market directions and crop conditions across the region.
Frank Smith of YpAlanti Michigan relays a testimonial from C Potter of 119 Hamilton Street Ypsilanti about Pyramid Pile Cure. Potter claims a year of itching piles cured by one box with permanent relief and notes it is clean convenient painless and free of opiates. Advertises Pyramid Drug Co Albion Michigan offering treatise testimonials and distribution at 50 cents to $1 per package.
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