The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-06-14

day. The figuring might be done In
Chicago, but the living would have to
be elsewhere.
Hon. Hoke Smith is serving his Sec
ond term as member of the school
board at Atlanta, Ga. Hoke is furnish
ing practical example Of how to run
campaign of education.
President McKinley's personal state
ment, in which he declared his inten-
tion not to seek third term, was
jolt for Chauncey Depew, whose inter-
view had scarcely become cool.
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The empress of China will return to
! Peking in September after spending the
summer away from home. II is not
likely that she will be pleased with the
manner in which the allies have taken
care of her household during her alb
sence.
Ex-Lieutenant Governor Jones, of
Youngstown, has engaged quarters at
Columbus for the week Of the Republi-
can state convention, so says a Colum-
bus paper 1t does not state, however,
whether asa stipulated in the contract
for the quarters that there should
be lightning rod in good condition
close at hand.
Pettigrew says that he would rather
vote for Hanna for president than for
David B. Hill. Has Mark Hanna apol-
ogized for entering Pettigrew's state
and making speeches?
| Ohio now has 2l5 new lawyers as the
result of the recent examination at
! Columbus. There will be demand for
nearly as much as bunch Of shingles
to be hung TO the breezes by the sprigs
Of the law.
They have new horse at the patrol
station in Alliance, and people have
been going daily to the station TO ad-
mire the animal. Between gazing on
the horse and playing croquet the in
habitants of the East End city will
have no difficulty in putting in the
time.
81 think il is timeto demolish the fc-
tion that there is an unwritten law es-
tablished by Washington that no presi-
dent may accept a third term" declar-
ed the Hon. c. H. Grosvenor, the Ohio
congressman who has peen regarded
as the spokesman for the administra-
ton, and the words were scarcely In
print when the head of the administra-
tion spoke against third term. When
he recovered his breath Mr.. Grosvenor
might have asked the question which |
made Mr.. Catchings famous, Where
was at?"
The canvassers for the new city d.
rectory in Akron have completed their |
work in connection with which they
took complete census OF the city. 1t |
is claimed that the Summit City now
has $4,000 people, a fair increase over
the number shown by the federal CEN
sus. Youngstown is not to be outdone, |
however, in the matter of claims, for
the directory canvassers over there /
claim that the list Of names indicates
a population of 10000, an increase of
about three times that shown in the
figures for Akron. As 10000 was the |
number claimed by Youngstown for
months before the federal census was
taken there is no reason why the peo-
pie of the town should not be happy, |
now that they can make a bluff at |
making their original figures good. 1t |
is Akron's turn NOW to say something |
II would seem that In this day OF |
newspapers when all sorts OF skin |
games are exposed, the lightning rod |
man and the patent right agent would |
find few victims, but the story comes |
from Columbiana county that mum.
ber Of prominent and wealthy farmers
have been caught on patent churn,
as If the ordinary ups and downs OF
life were not sufficient. Notes given |
to the agent of the churn are turning
up in the banks, and, like death and
taxes, they cannot be avoided. Settle
ment Of that kind Of paper occasionally
is likely to give a man some valuable
experience, but many fail to profit by 1t
Monday afternoon the state brought
mp the question of submitting the EVIL
dence Of bloodhounds In murder case
on trial at Mt. Vernon, this state. The