The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-15
OUR. ANCIENT BRETHREN.
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Joseph Richardson, Commissioners, thl
| following orders were passed:
"Pay David Baigette three dollars ant
| fifteen cents for taking the return of thu
| last annual election from Lake town
| ship to the Clerk of the county.
"AlsO pay George Bair three dollars
| and fifteen cents for taking the return
of the election of Justice of the Peace
from Lake township to the Clerk OF the
| county.
Meeting Commissioners, June 9th
| 1907; listers returns is put down as thu
14th at $46.51, and that John Matthew bC
appointed to collect the same.
"Order No. 244-Pay John Matthew
| twelve dollars and twenty cents for list
! ing taxable property for this present
| year in Lake township.
"Pay Jacob ShennebergeT fifty cents
for appraising taxable property in Lake
| township"
Commissioners meeting September
Sth, 1907. Order No. 1858: Pay Christopher
Bair S3.l5 for bringing the returns OF
the election of Justice Leonard from til,
town of Canton to the Clerk of the
county.
December 7th, 1907, Christopher Bair
was paid $3.15 for bringing election re-
turns from Lake township. June 18th,
and that George Bair collected the same,
and George Bair was paid $11.50 for
listing property in Lake township in
1908. and Daniel Carter was paid 80 cents
for appraising property in Lake town
ship in 1908.
commissioners meeting 9th June,
1908, Eli Baldwin and Elijah WadswOrth
were each paid $l3 "fOr services in
going to and returning from and at
tending as Commissioners to fix the seat
of Justice of Stark county"
December 5th, 1908, Commissioners
paid John Updegraff $3.15 for fetching
Sheriff's receipt for return of an cleo
tiOn held in Canton for the election of
electors of President and Vice President
United States.
This is no doubt the first OTganiza-
tiOn in the territory of Stark county for
taxation and for holding elections, and
the persons who were appointed to carry
the same into effect. As early as 1906,
however, the license to keep a tavern in
Canton, Osnaburg and Nimishillen was
fixed by the Judges of the Court at $3.50"
PIONEER PICKINGS.
The Portage and Summit pioneers
band is grand.
Judge Underhill makes an excellent
master of ceremonies.
Three hundred men paid ten cents
each admission to the Fair Grounds yes
terday.
All of the Stark county townships
were represented at the pioneer picnic
yesterday.
Henry Bechtel, of Jackson township,
is the next oldest pioneer after Daniel
Dewalt, now the president.
Township vice presidents of the Pho
neer Society should make out full death
lists each year for the secretary.
Many old friends and neighbOrs, who
had not seen each other for years, shook
hands at the Fair Ground yesterday.
DIR. A. NJ. Sherman, of Kent, secretary
of the Summit and Portage Old Pho
neer's Society, is a most genial gentle
man. He enjoyed the o. P. picnic
greatly.
Over a hundred old pioneers from
Summit and Portage came down to the
picnic on the COnnOttOn yesterday.
They had no reason to complain OF their
treatment while here.
Judge Raff's grafton received many
quiet comments of approval among the
audience at the pioneer picnic yester-
day. 1t was masterly speech and de-
served all the credit it received.
The Canton ladies who so gracefully
the tables in the Fair Ground
dining hall at the picnic yesterday re-
ceived many encOmiums from visitors
and the country brethren. They de-
served it.
At the picnic of the Old Pioneers yes
terday the appearance of so many ven
cradle pOssessOrs of gray heads, weather
beaten faces and tOil-wOTn hands created
a feeling of profound respect in the
minds of thoughtful men of younger
All honor to our early set
tiers, who, having borne the heat and
burden of the day, now enjoy the we'll
earned fruits of their labOrs,