Wayne County the Way it Was - Part 5
- Michelle Wood: SWCD
- April 14, 2010
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Motorman Harry Johnson, who pilots the limited cars to and from Cleveland was surrounded by posies when he came in at 1:15 Thursday. Seventy-five baskets of pansies, consigned to Smith & Lautzenheiser, grocers, were piled around him, covering all of the available floor space not taken up by the motorman’s feet. When the car got to Wooster several baskets had to be moved before he could get out.
WHEEL CAME OFF
Al Caskey stopped rather suddenly on the public square at three p.m. Thursday. He was hauling a load of fertilizer west on Liberty street. A nut on one of the axles came off, and the front wheel of the wagon went soon after, leaving the corner of the wagon fall to the street.
CELESTIAL CLOCK
A good story is being told on a Wooster woman who say Halley’s comet the other morning about 3 o’clock. So enthusiastic was she that she had her little son get up to see the wonderful celestial visitor, telling him that he would not likely live to see the next visit of the comet. Not content with having her little boy see the great sight the enthusiastic mother awoke her mother-in-law that she might see the great sight. Just then the little boy exclaimed “Mamma, that the court house clock we are looking at.” The family went back to bed but the mother says she cannot understand how she came to see the clock from that window.
SOME TYPE OF CANNON
A slightly historical incident occurred at the News office Thursday morning. When the Syndicate ad was placed on the front page of this issue one of the office employees stated that the line of type in the ad (the line referred to is “The Syndicate,” at the bottom of the large ad on page one) was specially purchased to print the description and history of the cannon on the public square. At the side of the cannon in the north part of the little space at the soldiers monument, there is a description of the cannon, and the type used to print this was bought for the purpose of J.F. Marchand, then proprietor of the Jacksonian. The type came to the office when the company purchased the Jacksonian, and has been used at times ever since.
CENSUS WORKERS STARTED WORK
Bright and early Friday morning, April 15, Uncle Sam’s human interrogation points, otherwise known as the census enumerators, started out on their inquisitorial mission and will occupy the next fifteen days in storing up information which is to serve in determining how much of an increase there has been in your Uncle Sam’s family during the past ten years and other matters of interest the government would like to know about us. Wooster should have at least 7,000 population.
You have known or will know the census enumerator by his badge, which bears the inscription, “United States Census, 1910.”
Treat him kindly. It is out of no personal curiosity on his part that he asks you a lot of questions about yourself and your relationship. That’s a part of the job and you may rest assured that so far as he is concerned he don’t give a continental when you were born, whether you own your property, the nativity of your parents, and the other bunch of questions that he must hurl at you in completing the information that he is to secure.
Don’t take up any more if his time than is actually necessary. The enumerators have only fifteen days in which to complete their work and it is going to keep some of them busy getting through on time.