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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-06-13

David Oberlin, a pioneer of Stands
church, was found dead in bed Sunday
night. At about l2 O'Clock his children,
who had been to church, returned home,
and going to their fathers room inquired
into his condition. They received no an,
swer, and upon entering they found him
lying motionless upon the bed. Mr.
Oberlin was 65 years of age and leaves q
wife and three children.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-06-13
WHAT PEOPLE SAY.

To OUR READERS: The editor of the
Stark County Democrat solicits contribu-
tions similar to those found blow on any
subject. If you have any opinion to ex-
press, and reminisence to relate, any piece
of news to tell, send it in and we will be
pleased to publish the same. / Editor
Stark County Democrat.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-06-13
Iuatns Postonce.

Thursday, June goth is the day and
date selected by the Wearstler family to
hold their sixth annual reunion at the
beautiful home of Jacob Buchanan, near
Justus. The Wearstler family have al
ways welcomed their friends at their rs,
unions and they will do likewise this
year.
j. W. Wearstler, the secretary has his
hustling clothes ON and says the reunion
of '05 will be the most successful one Of
them all.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-06-13
LICENSED TO MARRY.

To the following persons marriage licenses
have been granted: Arthur +. Nesbit and
Nellie McKitrick, of Canton; Henry W.
Waltner and Mary f. McCartan of North
Industry; Albert l.. While and Elizabeth j.
Keel, of Canton; William d. Jones and Maggie
Rummins Newman
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-06-13
Richyille News.

RlChlNlIIe, juno II.
Rev. Hostetter has built new fence
around his church.
Quite a number of our people attended
the Fulmer reunion at Canton Saturday
Mrs. Leeper wife of DR.. J. p, Leeper,
deceased, died at her home west of town
Saturday. Mrs. Leeper was 81 years old
Children's day was observed by the Re-
formed Sunday school on Sunday even
ing.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-06-13

These hot days fellow can't get a cold
drink of water about the square. II the
fountain in front of the court house was
SO fixed that ioe could be put in, which
would keep the drinking water cool, there
would be some satisfaction in getting a
drink there, but as 1t Is the stuff don't
quench a fellows thirst. Constable Jack
man.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-06-13

Mrs. Elizabeth Bowman, wife of ex-
Mayor Samuel G. Bowman, of Massillon,
died Sunday after long sickness with
cancer. She was 6S years old and has
lived in Massillon for B5 yeas
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-06-13
John sHETLAY FnnNn.

John Shetlay, the old man who left his
home on West Third sreet Monday morn
ing, was found this morning in Cleve-
land by his son-in-law, Thomas Guyton-.
He was brought home this afternoon.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-06-13
COURT House NEWS.

This morning the attorneys for officer Stacy
appeared before judge McCarty with a motion
to continue the case against the client until their
September term of court The motion set forth
three points to sustain the request. First, that
there were important Witnesses whose names
had not yet been learned. Second that the
defendant had not been able to properly con
suit his attorneys; and, third, that at and since
the time of his shooting the man for which he
is indicted for manslaughter, the press has
published reports that have caused the public to
be prejudjced against him. He believes the
sentiment against him will subside by next
term of court. The judge granted the motion
and the case goes over.
$1,000 Alimony.
Judge McCarty also heard the case Of Sarah
VS.. Jacob Race Of Massllon. The former was
suing for alimony and upon the evidence at
hand the court awarded her 81, 900.
Divorce Granted.
Catharine A. Crubaugh with attorney Crane
of Alliance and half a dozen witnesses came
before Judge McCarty this morning asking for
a divorce from William J. Crubaueh The
testimony showed the husband to be guilty of
drunkenness, non-support and abandonment
anu " utCItb VI ulNOTCt was kTuubtu anu thO
plaintiff restored to her maiden name of Cath
arine A. Horner.
An Unfaithful Wife.
Attorney J. A. JeHers appeared in court this
morning with petition for Julian Crooks in
which he asks for divorce from his wife
Mary Edna Crooks. He alleges that she has
been unfaithful and has been guilty Of divers
acts of iutidelity. They were married in Can
ton in 1888.
Probate Court.
In the estate of Barbara Holes the will has
been admitted to probate.
Emma E. Albright was appointed guardian
of Herman Albright of Massillon.
Cbas. i. McLain was appointed guardian OF
L. X. Hammer of Massillon.
In the guardianship of Mabel Geib, of Lake
township, petition to sell land filed.
In the estate of John A. Black, Of Perry
township, inventory and apprasement filed
and order made to sell personal property.
In the estate of Levi Stump, of Perry town
ship, petition to remove administrator filed
Notice ordered.
In the estate of John Pfender, Canton,
final account fled
In the estate of Jesse Thorton, Canton
James A. Montgomery appointed admin
istrator.
Casper Thomas, of Paris, township ad
judged insane
In the estate of James L. Rudy, Perry
township, inventory and appraisement
filed.
Leona Case appointed guardian Of Roy G.
Case, of Alliance.
In the assignment of Elmer S. Ball peti
tion to sell real estate filed.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-06-13
A NEW SCHEME,

Sunday q tramp coming from Alliance
to Canton, represented himself rs Special
OfIler Stacey of the Ft Wayne road, and
secured So 25 from fellow tramp. The
police were notified, but the man who
represented the officer Is not to be found.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-06-13
spECIAL NnrInE

trustees, | should be in favor to buy the ex.
pensve stone crusher is not true. never
spoke about the matter while being your town
ship trustee, and wouldn't like to be blamed
for something what don't deser,e.
JOHN CONRAD.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-06-13
FELL OUT OF THE Hay NOW.

Willard l.. Steele, residing at 97 Charles
street, fell from hay NOV about $3.50 this
morning and fractured both bones in the right
fore arm. DIR. Chamberlain called and rem
dered surgical attention,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-06-13

Says one of Stark County's eading far
mers; The Stark County Democrat is
the paper for the farmers and they will
all learn 1t sooner or later Every one
should take It.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-06-13
Strawberry EXHIBIT.

The Stark County Horticultural Society will
hold its June meeting at the fair grounds on
June 10th. This is the annual strawberry ex.
hibit and everybody is invited
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-06-13

The people are pleased with the Stark
County Democrat Why? Because they
learn more news than from any other
paper
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-06-13

INOR SALE--A Perkins Windmill of the best
~ quality. twelve foot wheel and fifty foot stee
tower, at reasonable price. Inquire of
m30tf y. q. RAFF.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-06-13
NOTICE TO READERS.

Do not for get that the "Stark County
Democrat" has more correspondents news
in than any county paper published in
Stark county Price 81 per year.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-06-13

Karl's Clover Root viii purify your blood,
clear your complexion, regulate your Bowels
and make your head clear rs bell. 2be SOC
aud 81 90, and sold by Canton pharmacy, Frod
p. Schanafelt and Ed X. Young.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-06-13

Mrs. T. s. Hawkins, Chattanooga, Tenn,
says: "Shiloh's Yitalizer saved my life
consider it the best remedy tor a debilitated
system ever used.n For Dyspepsia, Kidney
or Liver trouble II excels. Price rs cts. Can
ton Pharmacy, Fred p Schanafelt and Ed IL
Young.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-06-13

Hot, Of course It's hor, Take the Even
ing News and learn all the latest hap
penings by sitting still and keeping cool.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-06-13
An Unfaithful Wife.

Attorney J. A. Jefiers appeared in court this
morning with petition for Julian Crooks in
which he asks for a divorce from his wife
Mary Edna Crooks. He alleges that she has
been unfaithful and has been guilty Of divers
acts of iufdelity. They were married in Can
ton in 1888.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-08
Obituary..

HoLMEs.-On Wednesday evening" May /,
at the home of her daughter, Mrs George
Howes, passed from this life Mrs. Priscilla
Riker, wife of the late Edwin c. Holmes
and daughter of the late Captain Isaac
Riker and his wife Nancy Dame. Mrs.
Holmes was born in Dover, n. H., Christ
mas day, 1916, but, with her fathers family,
came TO Montpelier in early childhood. She
was married to Mr.. Holmes, January TO-
1898, going at once to her new home in Ran
dolph, Vt. In 1871 they returned to Mont
pelier, which became from that time their
permanent residence. Since the death of
her husband in 1871, Mrs. Holmes has re-
sided with her daughter. OF five children
but two survive, Mrs Howes and Edwin G.
On Saturday, May 4, kind friends assembled
to pay their last tribute of respect and at
tend the burial service, and in the softest
air OF May afternoon, and amid a profu-
sion of lovely flowers, of which she was so
fond, all that was mortal of our friend was
laid away in Green Mount Cemetery. Mrs
Holmes was naturally of a quiet gentle
temperament, always best adapted to shine
in the home circle, and this was the place
where she was most truly known and APP
preciated Those who casually met her
felt instinctively her kindness Of heart, as
| shown by her gracious presence and gentle
dem eanor. Her deep affection for her fam
lily and kindred was a strongl Unmarked
trait of her character; never, surely, had
children a more loving mother, and never
ter rewarded than by the untiring devotion
of her children, who were constant to the
last in their loving ministrations. Mrs.
Holmes was stricken with paralysis some
six years since. from which she never en-
tirely recovered, though able to walk about
and minze with the family but for two
years preceding her death she suffered
much, physically and mentally, requiring
constant care. During the long illness, her
patience, appreciation and sweetness of
| spirit were continually manifest But the
end came at last, the worn spirit ceased its
struggles, and life peacefully passed away,
her children submissively yielding her up.
having the blessed assurance that she has at
last found her home. her loved ones and
her Savior. Beloved Shade, to what star
in Gods universe thou speedest, we do not
know; but tarry in thy course moment
and look hence, for we have come to kiss
the dear eyelids down and to fold the dear
hands for the last time. And though we be
dumb with grief, thy vision, instinct with
the yonder immortality, shall comprehend
the reverence, the gratitude, and the love,
| that in our hearts abound" j. H.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-08
Misuses of Memorial Day.

The subjoined article from the New
York Tribune is worthy of very serious
consideration, and its precepts should
be needed on Memorial Day in every
community, large and small, in all this
land:
1T has been said that Americans have
too few holidays. l fear that we do not use
properly those we already have. In the
first years after our terrible civil war, when
the nation was all aglow with thankfulness
for the return Of peace, when the soldiers
were more Of reality than they are in
these days, it was resolved that one day in
the year should be set apart in which to re-
member them, especially those who had
died in battle or prison pen, or by disease,
and it should be the proud duty of the sur.
vivors to meet and decorate those lowly
graves. By voice and example let us show
that we do not countenance the use OF the
day for games or noisy carousal Already
one of our leading cities is making arrange
ments for baseball rally on the coming
Memorial Day-a city, too, that was among
the first to send its volunteers to the front,
and is now, as always, intensely patriotic.
Is it not mistaken in thus permitting its
Young men TO devote this day to careless
sport? The years have gone by, and we
have learned to exist without those whose
presence once seemed indispensable to our
happiness, and question il 1t has not been
partly the fault of those who lived through
those stirring days of triumph or gloomy
defeat that the generation born since then
show so little reverence for day that
should be held in the tender and solemn
retrospect AS a member of the G. A. R.,
ask my comrades everywhere to unite in
expressing our disapprobation of devoting
this one day in the year to horse trots, base
ball and other sports. tits not so unseemly
to use the ever-glorious Fourth for jubilant,
even noisy, rejoicing, for the day itself com.
memorates cause for jubilee. We float the
flag over our school-houses, and teach our
boys to salute and reverence it, but as soon
as they are grown to the dignity of college
youths or to manhood we cease to impress
on them the beauty and dignity Of observing
the day which the nation set apart in
memory OF those but for whom there would
have been no country, no flag TO love. Shall
this be 80, or shall we strive to keep
Memorial Day sacred to the use for which 1t
was designed?"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-08
Pleading the Baby Act.

In its own amiable phrase, the St.
Johnsbury Republican scolds away"
at the WATCHMAN because it has been
stirring up the fish and game league
and officials for their apathy or indiffer-
ence, or failure from some cause, to take
cognizance of and make some effort to
arrest and punish the deer-slayers in
Essex county. Is the contemporaries
scolding" inspired?
The Republican refers to numerous
prosecutions " set on foot by the League
for violations of the fish and game laws.
The WATcHMAN has not denied that
prosecutions, numerous or other
wise, have been made. What the
WATCHMAN was criticising is the fact
that almost under the eye of the secre-
tary of the League, who is also one of
the fish and game commissioners
charged with the execution of the laws
relating to those interests, hunters from
New Hampshire have come into the
state and engaged in wholesale and
wanton slaughter Of deer and escaped
with their booty, UNPUBLISHED and APP
parently without any effort to arrest
and punish them. The slaughter has
been wanton as we'll as wholesale, if
the reports are true, and we credit
them. Deer have been hunted and
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-08

and we were rushing into the midst Of 1t.
At thirty five minutes past four we reached
Halsted station. Every window In the
train had a passeng RS head sticking out,
and the platforms were crowded with those
who we're interested in the unusual sight OF
such a storm in a prairie country. The
train men held a council of war. Directly
in front OF us, but a little to the left OF the
railroad track, and about three miles dis
tant, was a cyclone making, as 1t seemed,
straight for us. At first it looked like an
immense black smoke rising from coal
pit, and spreading out in the shape of a tun-
mel as 1t reached the clouds. IL was as black
as midnight, quarter of u mile in diameter,
and whirling around, as the sun goes, from
east to west, with such rapidty that we
could see the angry, broken edges Of the
column, throwing out smoke, water, great
punches of corn stalks, limbs OF trees and
timbers which had been gathered in its
course
After climbing to the highest points of
water tanks, etc, to as certaiu the probable
course this monster was likely to take, 1t
was decided that II we proceeded we should
run directly into 1t and the whole train be
certain aud terrible wreck; that II we re-
NAMED where we were, we should GER
tainly receive a portion of the shock, and
our only pro Der course was to go back. SO
the signal was given and our train backed
down the line to safe distance, and we
had the satisfaction of seeing this tremen-
uOuS RlauJ Oh INSTRUCTION p AIS across our
track and off to the northeast. A heavy
rain began to fall soon after the cyclone
passed us, and the effect was magical. The
crazy waltzing around OF the black mass
was checked by strong persistent gusts of
rain, which seemed to break up. and after
little to restrain, the motion OF the whirl.
ing column. And so, its power spent, we
saw it dissolved and its force dissipated,
leaving only disconnected punches OF the
black, smoky mass scattered here and
there. We found, however, that our car
was full of sulphurous smoke whether it
came from the cyclone or the startling vivid
flashes Of Lightning, we can not tell. We
soon came up to the track of the cyclone
and found where it crossed the railroad. 1t
cut swath of over one.fourth of a mile
wide, tore the telegraph poles from the
earth or broke them like pipe stems, throw
ing them to great distances about the fields
Trees were torn up or skinned alive where
they stood, roofs taken off, many houses
and outbuildings demolished, horses and cat
tie killed, and we since learn several lives
were lost"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-08

shot down, while cooped up in their
yards, and the further advantage of a
time when the snow was crusted has
been chosen by the poachers. These
things have bean charged by corre-
spondents. "Venison has been fonnd
in the woods" writes one, after the
warm days of spring had given it dis
agreeable odor." Deer seem to have
been killed in wanton, wasteful sport,
and their carcasses left in the forests to
rot.
The Republican thinks "the League
has had a peculiar condition of things
to deal WITH" because the people of
Essex county will not become inform.
ers. This is pleading the baby act.
The conditions in Essex county are far
less peculiar than those which ex-
listed on Lake Champlain few years
ago when illegal fishing there was
broken up. The officer in charge of
that movement got no information from
the people of the locality Of the depreda-
lions. Quite the contrary. Nevertheless,
he knew what was going on there, and
he had way of being at the right place
at the right time, and of capturing the
poachers. He sometimes encountered
the business end of a revolver and was
resisted by people with knives and axes
and bludgeons in their hands, but he
got his men every time, jailed them or
sent them to the workhouse and broke
up illegal fishing. The condition of
things over in Essex county is far less
difficult. The trouble there is not a
new one. 1t has existed year after
year. Fish and other game, as we'll as
deer, have been the sufferers. Every
year correspondence in this paper has
called public attention 10 the matter,
and the correspondents complaints
have been enforced by editorial COM
ment. This year the deer-slaying may
have been somewhat more extensive
and brutal than usual, and by dint of its
enormity has forced itself upon official
attention, too late, however, for remedy
The deer have been slain, the poachers
are safe, and the season has ended.
Possibly no one is to be blamed, but
very naturally the inquiry arises, What
are fish and game commissioners, and
what is fish and game league, for if
not to know what is going on in the fish
and game regions, and to detect and
punish just such violations of law and
the commonest precepts of honorable
craftsmanship as these in the forests of
Essex county?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-08
Encounters q Cyclone.

Colonel Fred e. Smith, state Inspector OF
finance, is in the West looking over invest
ments in that part of the country. In a let
ter received on Monday he gives a vivid
description OF his observation Of cyclone
in active operation, and of his narrow es-
cape from direct encounter with the mon
ster We are permitted to publish the fol.
lowing extract;
En- route from Topeka to Hutchinson,
on Wednesday afternoon, May /, we had a
novel and not altogether agreeable expe-
rience. The day was very hot, and as we
sped over the prairie at forty miles an hour.
we watched the great banks OF clouds in
the west with much interest, for occasion.
light looking so very hard and angry that
we felt terrible storm must be coming,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-08
JOhnsOn's Encyclopedia.

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umes Of Johnson's Encyclopedia for which
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