The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-11-06
ATwATER.


in town Friday on collection business,
He has several properties here.
Word from H. d. Smalley, who went
from here to Junction City, Kansas,
for his health recently, says he is en-
joying better health and that their
new house was ready furnished for
them on arrival there.
Charles Parkins and Joseph Lang
on Saturday moved the household
good of the latter's son-inlaw, who
has purchased the Newell farm, from
Limavil,e to his new home.
Walter Miller, of San Francisco, who
is visiting his father, Alonzo Miller,
visited friends in Alliance Saturday.
Mr.. Miller left the farm the winter
preceding the st. Louis fair, where he
worked during the winter. got a job
as gatekeeper during the fair and
went to California with a firm ex-
hibiting there He is now travelling
salesman for an east ern machinery
manufacturing company.
The heavy rains have delayed po,
tato digging, of which there are many
acres yet in the ground.
L. D. Roath, foS years butcher and
retailer near Limavi]le, recently sell.
ing out to Frank Drayer, is looking for
a location for a meat market at Alli-
ance.
w. G. Carlisle and son, John, were
Alliance visitors Saturday.
The township trustees settled by
check with representative of road
scraping machine which has been on
trial here for several weeks. 1t was
the second machine tried from the
same company and fills the bill.
Harry Broadway, employed at Alli-
ance, visited his parents here over
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Defiuter, who have
been occupying the G. NJ Winder
home, have gone to Shalersville dur
ing the potato digging season, working
for his brother-in-law, Mr.. Smith. 1t
seems strange one should go so far
to pick up potatoes, when men are
getting as high as 50 per day, board
and horse keep right here in Atwater.
Mrs Lucy Ann Winder received an
invitation to a wedding at Balize,
British Honduras, at the Cathedral OF
the Holy Redeemer, on Friday morn
ing, November 9, at 8 o'clock, of
Carrie Edna Morlan to Edward W. L.
Franklin. Though Mrs. Winders
maiden name was Morlan, she knows
of none of her kin in that corner of
creation and will look up the family
tree before taking passage.
Adam Petre is on the sick list. Mr..
Petre talks of having a sale in the
spring and renting his farm to his
son, Clarence.
An ex-butcher saw a retailer in a
nearby town making sausage. In a
batch of some 40 pounds of meat he
saw him put seven quarts of water,
explaining that it STUFFED better"
Then some preservative out of a
bottle was added with the explanation |
that by. adding the water this was
necessary to make it keep. Chicago
packing house alleged methods seem |
to have become infectious.
Everett Unger broke down his |
wagon on Tuesday while taking a |
heavy load of potatoes to Atwater.
E. T. French left his shop in care
of Mr.. Hutton and went to Ravenna
Tuesday, but it is believed that Ell
wood went after marriage license.
Charles Woolf bet the cigars that a
field of corn belonging to Powell Whit
tlesey would yield 500 bushels OF ears
1t measured up All and the smokes
are up to Charley.
"Chub" Carlile has the contract OF
delivering the stone for Powell Whit.
tlesey's new house. He was unloading
car load of Berea stone Tuesday.
Mr.. Whittlesey will build fine dwell
ing in the spring, the lower story to
be veneer brick and stone, upper
story wood. A sawed stone cellar
floor is one feature of what will prob
ably be the best house in Atwater.
Mrs. Mary Hicklen and daughters,
Cora and Bertha, while crossing the
G. & P. tracks at Bolton Saturday,
came very near losing their lives. One
line dropped, pulling the horse directly
on the track in front Of box car
being switched. Luckily they were
able TO regain the line.
Henry Bartholomew, who had baK
cry and restaurant n the old postofice
room for two weeks has closed doors
and is now in Alliance, foreman ovel
a gang of men in a crate factory there
Two of our potato and apple buyers,
Messrs. Leder and Yarian, to settle
little dispute as to the prowess OF
each In "catch-as-catch-can wrestling
repaired to a corner of James Days
barn Monday evening. Each wagereG
g dollar he could throw the other and
at it they went. Lyder downed his
man and they arose and went at 1t
again. Yarian measured his length
on the green sward. Lyder demanded
his "plunk" and Yarlan rendered
S20 hill which tha Eaat WatarfOrd |