The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-01-31
Munn MAnaILLon MupIo.


A Woman with Handsome unin Gives
Ohin Muti0--John Miiler Whh Dive
More Chin Muaio--home Dance huAio--
Some Odd Fellows Enthusiastically Chat
in Musical oadenees-'Aii Kinds OF
Music,
MAksnL0N, o., jan, 20,
Miss Laura NJ, Johns leetured In the
Peoples Hall last evening upon wo'
mans suffrage, Tue audience was
largely and mostly composed OF ladies'
a few men dropped M, however, TO
learn what mean, horrid thinga they
were for not allowing women 10 yote,
Mrs q, NJ, overland preaided. Mrs,
Johns does not look like q professional
woman's!rlghter or like one supposea
one OF that genus TO look, manly with
highly developed bumps Of strong
mindedneas, and OF an uncertain age
She was an agreeable, rather pretty IT.
Tie woman, who talked In a rapid, naive
way, that was pleasant and made a
strong plea for her hobby, She de-
sorlbed how women voted IN her home
In Kansas, how her BALLOT brought TO-
form into the municipalities OF tho
state, how Prohibition waa enforced
aud dcns OF inlquity we're closed by the
ballo' Of women, How the newspapers
had lied In saying that only bad women
voted and good ones were Indifferent
And then she grew r%lghteopsly indlg
nant over the Injustice OF denying wO'
mon tho ballot The African slave,
ignorant illtterate had been granted
the ballot, and woman was worse than
the slave In this respect, someof Mrs
John'a statements, however, were so
strange, that they are here giyen' She
said that women owned one'haf tho
taxable property and paid half the
taxes Of the country speaking OF reg
istratlon, she said that women were not
a whit more unwilling 10 tell their ages
than men, that they voted ~ intelll'
gently as men aud that the officers Of
O~acalOWga, % kaugaa town entirely gov
erned by women In %peticOata, were Just
as good ~ any male officers could be
Mrs, aud Mrs, George List will glyea
birthday party on Ihufeday evening,
Feb, Z, at their home on East fremont
street, to celebrate Mr., Lists list birth
day.
A mania for solving wire and chain
puzzles has struck this city Half the
population may be seen In their leisure
hours Wrestling with the "missing link,
Mr.. Il, O., Wells, OF Pittsburgh Is spend
ing a few days with friendsin this city,
Society young people OF this city have
a hop Ia the |, o. y, +, Hall this even
Ing. @. Il. Porter A, q, Corns, W, A.
Uiman, G, T.. Kicks, w Il. Russell and
w. X, Warwick are the committee Of
arrangements,
The friends Of Mr. Lewis Gels, the
we'll known East Main street resident,
will push him aS u candidate for coun'
Gil IN the Fourth ward.
Hoddle Harrison Fields, son OF John
Fields, the barber died yesterday morn
ing, aged II, after q long sickness Of
brain aud nerve trouble,
II 10 stated upon good authority that
Mr.. A, B0erner, now visiting In New
York, will In a short time take an i'm
pOrtant position In the Finlay Brew
ing company nj Toledo.
James Mech, a prominent Doyles'
town attorney, stopped In the city last
night on his way 10 court NJ Wooster,
Mr.. John Muller visited friends In
Canton yesterday,
The installation Of the officers Of
slppo Lodge, !. D, q, Il, held lat uighl
was one long TO be remembered Dis
trict Deputy Jerry Brewer Installed the
following; N. q, J. w. Hisey; V, g.
j. II. Fisher; recording secretary
Charles $, King; permanent secre'
tary, Charles lIigginbotham; treasurer,
n 4. Oehler; warden, VIM, Nader
conductor, Chas, Stevens. right sup
porter 10 noble grand, George Mong;
left supporter 10 noble grand, ID, Il,
Nenuell; right and left scene support
r'H Nm, Wiseman and o. =, Kline;
right and left supporters 10 wee grand,
! A. slater and Dan Grill II; inside
guardian, George Young, And now
comes the strange part Of the proceed
ings, |Conolusiyely proving that o wo'
man can keep u secret Geo Young
the i%anitor Informed those present that
he had lost q key and they would there
tore have to pass out through the din.
ing room. They did 90, and lol their
eyes we're astonished by as complete q
banquet a8 mortal could wish spread
out and prepared for them by the
Daughters of Rebeocah, After disp0s.
ing OF the banquet, dancing and card
were the amusements, and the
festivities continued until II o'clock,
Jean Baptiste Morrell was fined $500
yesterday morning by Mayor Frant2
for being drunk and d%isorderly,
Three persons spent the night in the
lookup; two men aud one women; all
Of no account