Wayne County the Way it Was - Part 20
- Michelle Wood: SWCD
- June 6, 2010
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The coal consumer in Wooster will likely pay more money for coal next winter than last. Strikes in coal fields last spring have boosted the wholesale price, and dealers will not make any more money it they increase the retail price eight per cent. Anthracite coal is expected to bring ever higher prices in proportion than soft coal.
EXPECT TO PASS THE ORDINANCE
Monday, in all probability, will be Wooster’s lazy “Insane” fourth. The city council will meet Tuesday evening and the ordinance making it a penalty to sell or use fireworks within the city limits will be up for the third reading. It is confidently expected that the ordinance will pass. The number of injuries in Wooster Monday may have some effect upon the councilmen in voting for the measure Tuesday evening. A member of the of the city council stated Saturday that business men who handle fireworks have spoken to him, urging that the ordinance be passed as he claimed merchants made but very little profit on fireworks and that the handling of them was more bother than anything else. Prominent Wooster people have also approached councilmen and urged them to pass the ordinance.
CARS SMASHED AT SMITHVILLE
Friday night at 8:30 a bad wreck occurred on the Pennsylvania Lines just west of Smithville. An eastbound freight which was running ahead of the 18 hour train between Chicago and New York was trying to make a siding near Smithville when the flange on one of the cars broke demolishing five cars and derailing several others. None of the trainmen were injured beyond a slight shaking-up although the train was running at a high rate of speed. Several hundred feet of track were badly torn up causing a couple hours delay to the flyer. The Alliance wreck train was quickly brought to the scene, and with the crew of the Wooster work train the road was cleared before midnight.
TOO OFTEN THE CASE
Editors do much for every reform, but they do it more heartily when people support and encourage them with words of approbation. Too often the editor hears from his readers only when they disapprove. Nothing helps the growth of a town so much as the local newspapers. We get inquiries about the town every week and requests for sample copies containing some special feature in reference to the town. We make reply to all these inquiries and send out sample copies as a general thing, at our own expense. But the newspaper enterprises are never quite so thoroughly appreciated as they should be, and while such publications are usually devoted to the upbuilding of the municipalities where they are published, it is a well-known fact that the poor editors of such literature are very frequently compelled to feel contented with out of town compliments paid to them for the good they have accomplished in the past and are likely to do in the future years to come.
THE BIG TEN CENT SHOW
The Grahame Stock Company which plays at the City Opera House all next week needs no introduction to the play patrons of Wooster as the excellent impression made on previous visits and the fact that the company is said to be better than ever should be of material benefit in filling the Opera House at every performance. Mr. Grahame is playing all return engagements for the next few weeks and is presenting a repertoire of all new plays and vaudeville features. The opening play Monday night is “The Red, White and Blue,” a romantic comedy drama, the most appropriate play obtainable for Independence day celebration.
Secure your seats in advance at Horn’s for 10 and 20 cents, no higher.