The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-11-14
Cooked
AND PR|MED
New Measure is Ready to be Fired 1t
r Ohio Cities on Saturday Of
This Week.
SOME news NOTES FROM Capital.
(staff Correspondence

(Staff Correspondence
Columbus, Nov. 12. =. On Saturday
the new code law will become opera
tive The secretary of state will is
sue proclamation defining the status
Of the municipalities, denominating
their class, city or village. He will
also send certified copies of the law
to the mayors who will transmit them
to councils, which are charged with
many important duties under the code
One of the matters they will have TO
give attention to will be the redis-
tricting of municipalities. This must
Re completed by January The fix
ing or the salaries of the officers of
the new regime will be another mat
ter to be looked after by present coun-
ellis.
large crowd greeted President
Roosevelt during his brief stop at
Columbus Wednesday afternoon.
Fifteen minutes were spent here. in
changing engines. The president
looked, 10 be In perfect health and
mingled and chatted good naturedly
with those who were fortunate enough
to get within talking distance of him.
There is nothing stuck up" about the
president. He moves about just like
any citizen in the ordinary walks OF
life and grcets the people with unaf-
fected simplicity. He was on his way
to Mississippi where he expects to
slaughter few bars. He was given
an ovation here that was Of the siren
uous order.
Tue Ohio yicksburg battlefield COM
mission has filed a report with Gov
ernor Nash showing the funds expend-
ed in locating positions Of Ohio troops
on the vicksburg Military park. 1t
il also stated that at the request of
Captain .Yost. of Wellsville, command
er of "fost's captured Eattery" re-
cuite1 from Stark, Columbiana, Ma
honing and contiguous counties, a
monument would be erected to that
command. Through an oversight the
legislature failed to make provision
for this. The battery was an inde-
pendent one and was equipped with
artillery captured from the south at
TIE battle Of Champion Hills, Missis
sippi This is how it got its name.
The National Vicksburg Military park
commission has requested the Ohio
commission to locate the camp or
bivouac of each Ohio organization
that took part in the siege.
1t is thought that the secretary OF
state will be able to announce the to-
tai vote cast at the recent election by
Monday Less than 20 counties are
out and it is expected that all the re-
turns will ne in by Saturday. Some
200. COO guesses on the total vote were
made in the guessing contests of the
Cincinnati papers and the result Of
the count is being eagerly looked for
Stark reported Wednesday.
Robert Legg, of East 0feenville,
Starl; county, was here yesterday at
tending a meeting Of the executive
board of the United Mine Workers
of which he is a member. Policies
we're outlined for the next state con-
vention which will be held In this
city in January.
Senator George w. Wilhelm, OF
Stark, was in this tcity on Wednes-
day. His many friends; at the state
capital rendered him coincidence in
the recent Bereavement he has sus-
tained in the. death of his wife. Mrs.
Wilhelm had been an invalid for sew
cral years.
The thirteenth annual meeting of
the Modern Language Association of
Ohio will be held at the Ohio State
university, Nov. 2S and 20. Lizzie
Rour, Of the Canton high school. is
first vice president of the association.
Mrs. Greene-I called on the Venners
this evening. Mr.. Venners sang for
US. Her husband seemed surprised;
he said she never sang for him when
he was courting her.
Mr.. Greene-Evidently Mrs. Venner
is woman Of tact-Boston Trans
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