The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-03-19
M MELANGE.

a heart-breaker for fair.
The Honorable United States John.
ston (D is said to have just come to.
Squire Reigner and A. u. Bordner
deserve the support of the people of
Canton and Canton township.
A girl who can bake bread OF dough
Cut out her own garments and sough
Sweep, wash and cook,
Can a husband soon hook.
For she knows all a woman need nough.
Chicago News.
1t is said that one of the decisions
that Judge McCarty will hand down
in the near future will be on the ap
pointment of commission to investi'
gate the workhouse.
II. w. Smith is a safe and reliable
man. He has handled the funds of
Canton township in manner that
suggests his reelection as township
treasurer. 1t is important that the
funds be in trustworthy hands.
"Will we play ball in Salem the COM
ing season." pensively queries the Sa'
lem News. No, it may be confidently
stated you will not. Your representa-,
tives may go out on the field, strike
at ball occasionally, swear at the
umpire and want to fight their antag.
onists, but they will not play ball.
Buckeye State.
In his Say" Douglass, of the Salem
News, says: Another Canton man
gets a plum that will take him away
from the city, and groans are heard
in the direction of Youngstown. 1t
is in order for the Youngstown papers
to remark that there is some excuse
for the unusual activity upon the part
of the Canton board of trade in sour
rying around for new industries and
more people. Something must be done
to fill the gap in the population.
Canton is going to be the centre Of
an electric railway network that will
add Importance to the city. Canton
is going to have new factories and is
going to move right along and take its
proper place in the list of Ohio com.
munities. Now let us have a mayor
who will fit.
We desire to amend the Youngstown
indicators statement that the Mans
field cartoonists are very bad by insist
ing that they are simply abominable.
Whoever that Shield fellow is, he ought
to have had the experience he attempt
ed to show that burglar had. The
News man is little better. Mansfield
is showing bad discrimination in tar
ring Dowieites and letting it's bum ar
lists run at large.
"The spring in the shade of the ever
green tree,
Was as clear and cool as spring
could be;
But when approached--I remember 1t
we'll
A croak and a splash on the clear sur
face fell,
Then the water was rily as most any
thing,
For a big, green frog leaped into the
spring"
But it is evident that something
bigger than a frog got into the race
containing Mr.. Shocks shocking water.
The "Melange" man of the Canton
News-Democrat should improve the
time from now till Monday. We ex
pect St. Patrick's day poem from him
Monday evening.-Salem News.
Dear Douglass, il you'd manage and
plan
With your Office force shy OF a man
The political pot
Kept getting real hot
And you bolted your meals while you
ran,
You would not take it as an affront-
Disappointment would not seem SO
When our muse with warning
Patrick's day in the morning,
Failed to do poetical stunt.
Judge McCarty has decided that
Contractor Watson is entitled to his
money, which decision, so far as that
is specially concerned, will be re-
ceived by the people with some salts.
faction. Mr.. Watson did the work and
ought to be paid, but there is a further
responsibility resting somewhere
There is no warrant or authority OF
law for building bridges to cost $4,000
without going through certain forms
which were not gone through in this
instance.
Henry E. Bullock on Saturday was
nominated for council In the city OF
I1aet Jivernool Mr. Bullock is 26 years