The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1909-03-25
ATWATE ER.

Atwater, March 19-Sam Ellison was
painfully pinched the other day while
loading a car with lumber.
Henry Hick has a nine weeks old lamb
that tips the scales at 321A pounds.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Nash, of New Bal
timore, concluded a visit to the county
seat Wednesday.
Henry Hick has a contract with a
Randolph operator of inCubators for
big brood of chicks to be hatched early
in June at sc per, eggs furnished.
George and Mrs. Weldy are looking
ahead to the day when their remains
will be consigned to the cold damp
earth-not. They have put up $500 for
two upper berths eternal in. the up-to-
date CatacOmb building at Alliance.
There are others who have chilly feel
ing come stealing DER them when they
think of that last long repose under
ground where before the mourneTs are
out of sight their bed is filled with wa
ter as was the case of a prominent man
buried not over year ago not thou
sand miles from Atwater.
L. M. Maxwell don't want the earth
nor all the maple syrup thereon made
this spring. In short he got his fill of
day and night work in his sugar bush
and gave his kinsmen, Joe Thomas and
Fred Wick, of Marlboro, whirl with
his sap buckets this week.
Ed. Hillyer, who died suddenly Sunday
night at his home on Arch street, ALI
ance, was an Atwater boy. His father,
Dan, lives now at Atwater center. Ed.
worked for many years on the farm for
Fred Talcott, who pronounced him the
best hired man he ever had.
Loomis, the man who bucked up
against the Atwater school board in con-
wi I
Wolcott and the state of Ohio, in Tetus-
ing to send his two s and 10 year old
children to school in a wagon and beat
the above in a suit seems TO have them
yet at a stand still. He yet sends his
children-not. The fact that our high
school is not a centralized school COM
plete of the entire township, but three
schools being sent here gives Loomis the
pole perhaps in the get away. Then ii
is being said threats of retaliating on
certain members of the board for alleg
ed unlawful acts may or may not have
weight in dropping the matter as a
rather live wire TO be handled with COM
fort.
Frank Martin Is very low with pneu-
monia at the Powell Whittlesey home.
He contracted a cold while driving for
Paul Hamilton, funeral director.
That this has been the most strenuous
sap season seen Tor many seasons is
admitted by al participants. AS proof,
we submit one familys experience with
$50 trees, all latest sugar fixtures A
son was called from Lorain. This made
the force as follows: To rush the boil
ing, in daY and night shifts, two men,
To gather the sap, two men with lady
driver. Two other ladies of the house
"syruped orr and canned the goods,
which left the grandfather, a former
rolling mill boss, as chief superinIend-
ent over all and his wife to provide the
bodily sustenance in the house, Yet
with all this force and expense some
people would like to buy their maple
sugar for soc a gallon and want II good
and thick and light colored and IL
pounds heavy,
We clod-hoppers cause a mild sensa-
tion when we go 10 the city and rubber
to see the top story OF the skyserapers
and are called hay Seeds" green
goods" pumpkin rollers" and other pet
names. But we're having our session
now and it's our time TO laugh. How ?
Pittsburghers are coming out and buy
ing our farms and we fold away our
mortgages at six per cent per annum and
watch them perform. Green? Well, rath-
er Witness an incident or two taken
from life: An ex-salooB keeper frOm Al
leghany buys big farm with a thin
soil at a thick price. With farm comes