The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-12-03
ATWAGER.

Atwater, Nov. pa. N. Thomas.
formerly of this place, now of Canton
was one of the many on the firing
line here the past week.
Mrs. Jamison, after nursing her
sister-in-law, Mrs. e. Thompson, of
Cleveland, through a sickness, re-
turned home Saturday.
Mrs. Prudence Dibble returned from
visit at Alliance with her daughters.
May McKinzie and Eva Sickle. on
Monday.
Jacob Eyer and sister, Mary, were
Alliance visitors Saturday, and Mary
stopped over Sunday with her sister,
Annie, who is with B. F. Smith & Son.
Edgar Lodge has bought the Wes-
ley Kelsey farm of II acres on the
Marlboro and New Baltimore road;
price $4,000. He will not move til
April 1, and meanwhile will sell the
farm he now lives on.
Albert Carlisle will get the square
timber for the bank barn he is to
build in the spring on the Erwin farm,
from his farm near Virginia Corners.
The Snyder farm of SO acres, across
from Jack Kennedy, sold recently to
Pennsylvania parties for $4,000 an
acre.
William Erwin, who owns a large
farm in this township, but has his
home at Bourbon, Indiana, near
where he owns LOO acres of much
higher priced land, also owns a grain
elevator at the above place, valued at
$l4,OOO.OO, which he Is about trading
for a large tract of timber land in
Northern Michigan.
James Matroon, the most successful
bee keeper in this vicinity, has har-
vested ton of honey from his indus
trious little workers this season.
Mr.. Green, who has rented the
large Loomis farm east of the Center,
was visiting Sunday among his old
neighbors. He keeps a large drove Of
COWS, and he like many others is up
against the feed proposition. Many
have been feeding their cattle for two
and some even three months on feed
stored for the long winter ahead. Mr.,
Green is experimenting with good re-
suits with buckwheat bran at $500
per ton in place of wheat bran at
$500. He has, used three tons to
date.
nDOut oV hlhiSLerS Ol the BOSpel
dropped off mere Tuesday. AS a nat
ural consequence every rooster in
town promptly hid his head, except
those that had lost theirs in a legiti-
mate way. M. e. district conference
was the occasion of the visit.
Thomas Wiley has no charge" in
view, nor will he accept a "call'
anywhere as a preacher, though he
may look the part, since the receipt
of a large dry goods box by express
recently. He has a brother-in-law in
Michigan who does exhort the Mich
iganders to mend their ways. who
wears good clothes, and he has an
oVerstock of them little the worse for
wear. This accounts for our neigh
boris clerical appearance along about
this time every fall, little before
Xmas.
A sight that furnished food for
thought was two cider barrels in a.
neighbor's back yard last Thursday.
The barrels were full. but the food
for thought" came when a woman ap-
peared on the scene, member of the
'Women's Suffrage Club" that was
convening there that day, and placing
one end of long tube to her mouth,
this lady placed the other end into the
bunghole of one Of the barrels and
drew by suction copious draughts of it
therefrom and seemed to relish the
same. Once gone deponent pos
sessed of curiosity supposedly belong
ing only to the fair sex, performed a
like process, and found apple juice Of
saucy snappy kind and he smacked
his lips and sucked some more. But
yes, Portage county voted dry and
we helped to do it-but-O. well,
what's the harm anyway-it'll be vim
egar by and by.