The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-03-01
CANTON CATEGORY.
A Few Minutes With the Local
News Of the Day.
Stray Bits of Intelligence Arranged in q
Concise Form for the Reader
With Limited Pime---The
News Boiled Down.

ing Canton friends.
c. A. Gates, of Massillon, was in the
city yesterday on business.
If your enemy speaks i'll Of you, live
so that no one will believe him.
Z. C.Card is doing duty as constable
for Justice Fulmer for few days.
A divorce has been granted John G..
Buss from Rachel NJ. Buss, on the
ground Of adultery.
Attorney William Koons, Of Mt
Vernon, is in the city attending to
some legal business.
w. 0. Walton, of North Amherst, o.,
visited E. E. Miller, of this city, over
Saturday and sunday last.
c, b. Squire, of Akron, passenger
agent for the Atchison, Topeka Il
Santa Fe railroad, is registered at the
Barnett.
The sun Vapor Light and Stove
Company, of Canton, renewed their
street lighting contract with Newark,
Ohio, last evening, for hye years.
Married, on February Esd, by Rev
John Wilson, at the Methodist parson.
age, Mr.. Ben. F. Fhckinger, OF sandy
vile, and Miss Maggie T, Chase, Of
Canal Dover.
The work on the Dueber Works still
progresses. The Hampden building is
about completed, and presents mag,
nifcent appearance. The Dueber
building is well along toward compile
tion.
Married, February %, 1888, at the
residence of Henry Wagner, West
Main street, Massillon, o., by Rev. B.
F. Booth, Mr.. Louis F. Wagner and
Miss Ann Maria Powell, all OF this
city.
Henry c.. Fogle left for Minnesota
last evening. He was accompanied by
Miss Osborne, an accomplished young
lady with the type writer, Mr.. FOgle's
family will not leave probably before
May.
Mr. Fred w. Davis has purchased the
Fulton Meat Market on East Tuscara-
was street. This gentleman has long
experience in the business and will
handle none but first-class stock. The
DEMOCRAT wishes him success.
Mrs. Lizzie Duff, wife of Mr.. Charles
Duff, residing above Werner Il Balls
store, died last evening at o'clock, of
congestion of the brain, aged 48 years.
The remains were taken to Pittsburg
for burial at 2:27 o'clock this after
noon.
Peter Keller will offer for sale at his
residence in Lake township, one mile
east of Hartville, on March 10, two
mares, one yealling colt, two COWS,
seven head of young cattle; eighteen
head young ewes, chickens and farming
utensils, hay, etc. Terms easy.
J.. J. Bost will offer at public sale at
his residence in Canton township, 2l5
miles west of Canton, on March T.
eight head of horses, span of mules, fif.
teen head hogs, thirteen head cattle,
and farming utensils Of all kinds. a
credit of eight months on all purchases
of 80 or over.
George Helman will offer for sale on
the Sprankle farm in Pike township,
five miles east of Navarro, on March
%, six head horses, five head milch
cows, six head young cattle, one 4-horse
wagon, reaper and mower and other
farm and household utensils. Terms
made known on day of sale.
Representative Monnot arrived home
last Saturday and will return to Column
bus tomorrow, the General Assembly
having adjourned until Tuesday. Mr.
Monnot called at the DEMOCRAT office
and in answer to an enquiry as to the
prospect of his school book bill passing
the Senate, expressed himself hopeful
He will address the Senate Committee
in favor Of the measure "Wednesday
evening.
Friday afternoon, While laborers were
removing the debris from the cellar OF
the odd Fellows hall at Augusta, the
scene of the recent conhagratiOn, they
discovered a human skull and a por
ton of cervical vertebrH of human
body. Search was instituted for the
body. but it had been reduced to ashes
by the fire. Who the victim was is a
mystery. 1t is thought he was a tramp
who gained entrance through cellar
door and going to sleep was crushed
and burned when the upper floors fell
Massillon Independent: Well, if
Massillon ever expects to make stir
in the busy world, she will have to be
annexed to some progressive, wide
awake city, and Canton, it seems to us,
is the city which can lift Massillon out
of her present Obscurity.-CANToN
DEMOCRAT. Massillon is not so hidden
in any obscurity, though it may seem
so to those who read the emanatiOns Of
the mind -befogged writer who furnish
ed the text for the above remark, and
whose efforts to say something are sug-
gestive of a mule in kicking straps.
Massillon is moving on, and that, too,
at a rapid pace.
The work to make he {. 4 G. II. II. a
standard guage road is being pushed
with all possible vigor. The bridges
and trestle works between Cleveland
and Newburg have been strengthened
and widened, and broad gauge sleepers
have also been laid, Supt Wardwtll
has heen absent for week making ar