The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-12-31

There is deep trouble ia the Woman,
Relief Corps OF Canton, and the Outsid,
newspapers since sunday have beeI
printing highly illuminated accounts
The first puDucatiou was IN a Pittsburl
Sunday paper, and now All the dailies II
northern auu eastern Ohio are DISCUSSING
the scandal and enlargiug upon il. We
did not intend TO even refer to it, but sucl
highly ColOred and tXIggtrAted accounts
are flying over this city to the serious
detrimenL of the w. II, &. Jnat we have
concluded tlat II would be better for al
conceruedto to print the facts. BY printing
the facts, private scandal mOngprs will bt
out of a job. The fact tnat neither OF oul
Canton dailies have printed the affair has
tender in our Judgment TO increase tht
volume of noise OF that good SIZED body
OF people, 10th male and female, who rol
scandal over their gltJ tongues as d
sweet mor5el. Some OF The outside papere
shave sought to intensity tue furore. Her;
is IA paragraph from tie Cleveland Presa
OF yesterday, which is a spec men:
The WOmen's relief corps at Canton Is
well named, for the dear girls are reliev-
ing their minds at great rate. One mem
Der Is accused of getting away with the
funds, and she retaliates by claiming that
her accuser has been too sociable with q
-dashing comrGde. Go IL, girls There $
nothing like relief for the o'erchargeu
heart
4 ne origin bL the NTOuDle between the
Two canton ladies' Of the WOmAn's Relief
Corps dates back to the time when Mrs,
Ada +. Clarke was President OF the W, Il.
Z. OF Ohio, and Mrs. Emma Rooms was
Secretary aud Treasurer. These are the
two highest houors respectively in the
Rift OF the Corps. The ". Il. Z. is an or
ganlz4tlou OF loyal women banded to.
geth"r for charity to aid the worthy and
unfortunate comrades Of the Grand Army
who have fallen INTO hard lines by the way
SIDE, anu their widows and orphan child
rem. Hence 1t is deeply deplOrable that
these noble women should fail out.
Oh, It's fearful sight,
when children Of one family
FAN out and Chlde and light
Quite recently Mrs. Clarke received an
anonymous letter, which annoyed her very
much. L. seems to be quite the racket i'll
Canton To get anonymous letters. During
the past two years the editor of the NEWS
DEMoCRAT has received several, all very
unpretty and some threatening. 1t will
be remembered that the latter days of the
pastoral services Of the Rev. DE-.
Muller were rendered quite miserable
by the anonymous letters he received. If
there is any wretch of either sex that
ought to b despiscd, il is the writer and
sender of an insulating, anonymous let
ter. Mrs. Clarke placed this letter in the
lbscds Of an expert in Cleveland, who also
had some specimens of Mrs. Koons' hand
writing. Just what report this expert
made we are not informed, but we learn
he claimed the disguised hand OF the
anonymous letter bore a close resemb-
lance in its quiIks, p's, q's and rs to Mrs.
Rooms handwriting, and this is the origin
of the GOODNESS which eliminated in war
between these two estimabIe ladies of
the W. r. c. We trust the women of the
w. r. e. and the comrades of the G. A.
X. will unite now 70 have this quarrel
stopped.
ter interviewed Mrs. Clarke. Mrs. Clarke
desired no further publicity regarding
the affair, but talked freely Of what she
knew about the matter.
"Regarding tie Pain Dealer report that
charges of a serious character were
made,n said Mrs. Clark, "there is no
truth in it. The charge against Mrs.
Rooms was made by me, as considered II
my duty 10 do SO. Mrs, kOOus and have
nc trouble whatever, my relatiCns with
her being purely Of Dueiness character.
Things had come to such pass that some
one was compelled 10 take action and
preferred the charges. Or course you
understand that the Woman's Relief
Corps is a secret organic alton, and can
not talk beyond certain line.
AS regards any charges against me,
can say that no charges have been pre-
ferred, and none were ever !ntlnated.
Not one cent of money entrusted 10 me is
missing, nor has one dollar been nisap-
propriated Mrs. koonsi is
A DANGEROUS WOMAN.
She called upon me ono day last week
and desired that Withdraw the charges
against her, for friendship sake. told
her that she should not consider me her
friend after had made charges against
her. l absolutely refused to withdraw
the charges and she then tried intimida'
ton. l refused to be inundated and
stated that the charges would have TO
stand against her.
Mrs. Clark stated that she did not desire
any newspaper publicity. VI am sOiae-
what annoyed" SHE said, and perhaps
gexed, but | am not worried. | have call.
ed together the State Council and have
demanded an investigation OF my man
aRement of loca! council. | have not re-
quested il but demanded it. If when the
council meets Mrs. Koons has any charges
to make will be there"
A NEWS. DEMOCRAT reporter also called
on Mrs. Koons this morning. Mrs. hooDs
refused to talk on the subject. The re-
porter learned, however, that she had pre-
ferred formal charges against Mrs. Clarke,
rejecting on her financial management.
These charges contain four counts and
we're drawn by a leading Canton lawyer.
1t was also learned that Mrs. Rooms had
placed copy OF the charges, with the
evidencein the hands of G. G. Bow, prose
cutting attorney with the prayer that he
present the matter TO the Grand Jury,
Mrs. Koons denied empbatically that
she ever sent an anonymous letter to Mrs.
Clarke. She says further that the copy of
her hand writing that Mrs, Clarke sent to
the Cleveland expert was not her hand
writing, but that of her husband, who did
the writing in the W. II. G. account book
for her, This proves (thinks Mrs. K.)
that did not write the anonymous letter.
L = Ilals. a..
oath bound organization, and the above
are all the facts thst can be obtained,
that, in any way, concern the community.
naafb NJ Mra 1aooh KAUFMAN