The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-03-28
BY THE WAY.

| Alliance over the Pennsylvania Railway
company's tracks, which was commenced
! Wednesday, will be the biggest bridge
building undertaking that has been put
forth In the county for some time One
hundred men will work on the structure.
The Canton Bridge company has the con
tract for the iron work.
The bridge will be put up by the county
commissioners, the city of Alliance and
the railroad company comparatively. 1t
will raise the street several...feet and put
the business around the depot up above
the railroad tracks which will tunnel un-
der
This bridge has been talked of for
twenty years. The crossing of the tracks
made the place very dangerous and several
people have been seriously hurt besides
the town greatly inconvenicnced
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Over at East Liverpool the telephone
company has cut rates and inaugurated
new plan for residence telephones. 1t is
proposed to get punches of subscribers on
the same wire. The service is Just the
same and the only difference is that when
you are talking all the rest of the people
on that wire can hear what you say, If
they want to listen. In East Liverpool,
on this plan, the company has made
rate Of S24 a year with two phones on one
wire SlS for three S15 for four and s12
for five.
Thus, IL five families use one wire they
get service for 81 month cash.
Manager McKelvey, of this city, stated
Thursday that the company here had not
made any cut in rates.
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Robert II. Folgcr, Esq, the oldest prac-
ticing lawyer at the Stark county bar,
who has lived in Massillon so long that
the mind of man runneth not back to the
time when he was not there is evidently
not much of a theatre goer. Mr.. Folger
| lived in Massillon long before there was
such thing as an opera house, but since
| its establishment he can successfully
claim that he has never seen play within
its walls. He yielded TO the extent of
hearing dramatic readings by Edwin For
rest and Olive Logan, at Bucher's opera
house, and has attended few political
gatherings but he has steercd clear of all
sorts of theatrical performances
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! The friends of Mckinley in Washing
ton, writes Walter Wellman, are delighted
over the news of Mr.. Medill's accession to
! their ranks. Private letters from the
great editor received in this city leave no
doubt of his advocacy of Mckinley for
president. The buckeye governors adj
mirers say Mr.. Medill will prove tower
Of strength to their candidate, for it is the
best answer in the world to the objection
that Mckinley is not satisfactory to the
republicans who are conservative on the
tariff question. The Mckinley boomers
claim they are going to have practically
everything between the Gulf of Mexico
and the great lakes, between the Hudson
and the Mississippi river
".
Charles Hauptfler bailiff Mt the court
house in searching for some books Satur-
day morning came across some old ac-
count books of letters Lamborn & Co.,
who had a general store in Alliance back
i'm 1913. The old charges were quite in
tercsting. The prices of many of the
articles varying u great deal from those at
the present time. Tobacco at that time
sold for 25 cents pound, coffee 10 cents Il
pound, carbon oil 25 cents a quart, cigars
three for cent, sugar cents, calico II
and 20 cents a yard, brown muslin 8
cents yard, gingham 80 cents, butter 10
cents pound, eggs cents n dozen in
trade Flannel sold for 33 cents yard,
bleached muslin 20 cents yard while
oats brought 1881 cents a bushel and corn
20 cents bushel. Six rows of pins sold
| for cents, and one-half pound of cut and
dry tobacco cents. Silk handkerchiefs
sold for 56H cents each and fine silk hats
at $2.61. Two quarts of timothy seed
sold for cents quart while bacon was
only cents a pound. Flax sold for 9
cents pound and rags at cents. Rice
was cents a pound, lard 3 cents, pepper
25 cents and New Orleans molasses sold
! for 30 cents a gallon. White lead brought
! SO key, and eight-penny nails 81 cents
n pound. Shoes for women sold for rs
cents pair, mems boots So So and chill
drens shoes 20 cents. The taxes ON IS
acres of land in that part of the country
are charged up at Sl.SS, bull sold for
| SIS.
| The four figures for the tower of the
court house arrived in Canton Friday
morning and are being placed i'm position.
| The figures are made of sheet copper,
and are hollow. The model was first
made by Mr.. Hamilton, the artist who
designed the base relief figures on the
| front of the building. The figures weigh
$50 pounds apiece. The four figures oc-
cupied an entire freight car in their jour
ney from Salem. The railroad company
charged double flrst-class freight rates for
their transportation, but only realized "a
! little over So for the freight The figures
are twelve feet tall and are held in place
by a rod running down through the fig
ures into the base stone. The contract
price for the four placed in position is
! SO, 000 There Is much speculation as to
what they are intended to represent One
old farmer from near Robertsville says
they are to represent the tQree commission
ers who built the new court house, and
the fourth one is the devil who inspired
the idea
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Maple sugar and molasses making has
now commenced in this county. 1t Is u
little late this season and growers say
that the year will not be very good one.
There has not been enough of those hard
freezes at night and warm thawing days
to make the sap run very freely. Com
pared to a few years ago there are very
few sugar camps operated In Stark county
now, There are still some very good