Wayne County the Way it Was - Part 2
- Michelle Wood: SWCD
- April 14, 2010
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Wellington Matz just couldn’t help making the councilmen laugh Monday night. Mr. Shupe was the busy councilman Monday evening, and he was on the floor many times during the evening, taking an active part in the discussions. They were talking about Bloomington well drilling. “Now during the past 36 hours I have been talking to some gas men–” That is as far as Mr. Shupe got with his talk. Mr. Matz looked at him and interposed, “I believe it.” President Craig rapped for order.
HAD A FIGHT
Adolph Rosenberry and his hired hand, Lewis Garver, engaged in a fight at the Rosenberry home just north of Mt. Eaton Sunday. Garver wanted to use his employer’s new buggy to drive to Brewster, but Rosenberry wanted Garver to take the old buggy. High words followed, and then each one of the men struck the other once. Garver, it is said, has a memento of the fight in the shape of a right cheek swollen to an abnormal size.
LARWILL WANTS $5000 DAMAGES
John F. Larwill Saturday filed a petition in common pleas court asking for $5,000 damages from Peter F. Shelley. The petition is the result of the auto accident which occurred on West Liberty street some months ago when Mr. Larwill was struck by an auto. He claims to have been injured in the accident, and says Shelley was negligent in the fact that he was driving the machine which struck Larwill. A.D. Metz is his attorney.
CHICKENS GO ON A RAMPAGE
Spring fever has not affected Wooster chickens. While the return of warm weather Saturday may have developed symptoms of general laziness in humanity, chickendom was not affected. In fact Chief of Police Johnson thinks Wooster chickens were more energetic Saturday morning than they have ever been before.
The trouble all came about because these chickens exercised themselves by scratching in neighbors gardens. One woman reported that after she had spent a dollar and a half to have her posey beds fixed up a neighbor’s chicken had distributed the bulbs miscellaneously over the lot. Another reported that her onion and lettuce beds had been simply ruined and that she wanted that neighbor to keep his chickens penned up. And so it went.
Chief Johnson was busy hunting up the owners of chickens and instructing them that a city ordinance compelled them to keep their chickens on their own premises. He was first in one part of town and then in the other. Many like instances, it is supposed, remained unreported to the police, but enough complaints were made to thoroughly convince Chief Johnson that chickens had gone on a rampage.
BUSTER BROWN HERE SATURDAY
Buster Brown and Tige will be in Wooster next Saturday afternoon and will give an entertainment in the west window of the Freedlander store that cannot fail to amuse a large number of children. Buster and Tige are sent out by the Buster Brown Hosiery Co., and they do some stunts that make even the older people watch them with interest. The entertainment is a novel one, and is especially for children. It will be free too. It is very seldom that this big hosiery company consents to have Buster and Tige come to a city as small as Wooster, but as the Freedlander store is one of the really large clothing stores in this part of the country, the company has made an exception, and the management Monday received word that the entertainers would be here Saturday.
SOCIALLY SPEAKING
A very delightful four course dinner was heartily enjoyed by the ladies of Annat’s alterating department Tuesday evening. The hostesses were Miss Flora Stevens and Miss Emma Unger and the affair took place at the home of the former. After a pleasant evening of music and merry conversation, the guests departed for their homes.