Wayne County the Way it Was - Part 6
- Michelle Wood: SWCD
- April 14, 2010
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Miss Urshal Mickley, aged about 19 years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Mickley, was terribly scalded about 11 o’clock Tuesday forenoon at her home on north Portage street, says the Doylestown Journal.
She was doing the family washing and had removed a partly filled boiler of hot water from the stove. She started with it for the porch on the north side of the house and was just passing through the door when she slipped and fell to the floor, the entire contents of the boiler being thrown over her.
The unfortunate woman was quickly removed to her bed and Dr. E. H. McKinney summoned. Upon examination it was found that she was scalded in a terrible manner on the right of her face, neck, chest, across the stomach, on the right hand and on the right limb from the knee down to the foot. The most severely injured part is the lower part of the right limb.
While her injuries are painful her condition is not considered serious.
A HOMECOMING FOR ORRVILLE
A big Home Coming Week or Street Fair for Orrville in 1910!
How does that strike you? Don’t you think it’s about time that we hold some sort of a celebration, a good, big, rousing affair, such as Orrville is capable of?
True, we have been so busy the last several year that no one has had time to stop and think of the matter – and we are just as busy yet – but it will pay us to pause long enough to show the outside world what we have been doing these years.
Let us get busy and start the movement right now for a big Home Coming week this fall. We can give a celebration that will be worth while and we can get Crowds.
BUSY WORK
Judge Weyegandt is about the busiest man in Wooster these days. In fact Judge Weyegandt has been very busy ever since he went on the bench. Recently he has been hearing those big cases over at Ashland, has been on the bench at Millersburg, and for some time he has been presiding here. Each morning the judge is down in his office at 5 a.m., and he works until it is time for court to commence at 8:30. In the evening it is the same thing.
REVEREND COACHES MILLERSBURG
The Millersburg baseball team, which reached the city at noon, is being coached by a minister this year. His name is Red. Poat, and he preached in the Lutheran church at Millersburg. A week ago the Millersburg team was defeated by Orrville. Rec. Poat saw the game, and he saw some weak points in Millersburg’s work. By the way, Rev. Poat formerly pitched ball for Minneapolis in the American association and he knows the game. When he saw that the Millersburg team had some material, he decided to help them, so every afternoon this week he has been showing the players the inside points of the game. Rev. Poat came to Wooster in an auto on Friday afternoon to see how well his protégés would play against the strong Wooster team.
IN SEARCH OF THE COMET
Eugene Carlin was up at 2:30 o’clock Friday morning. He wanted to see the comet, so when he got awake, he dressed and remained up until 4 o’clock . Then he took a walk down Bever street. He could find no place from where he could see the comet, so he turned around and walked north. Mr. Carlin tramped up to the University, but it was too cloudy, and he did all for nothing. “All I got was two good drinks,” said Mr. Carlin Friday. “One at the Bever street water trough spring going up, and another at the same place when I came back.”
LONG DROUTH ENDS SUNDAY
The long drouth in Wayne county, which during the past week or more has assumed proportions that caused anxiety, was broken Sunday morning by a steady rain that lasted for about nine hours. It started to rain at 2 a.m. Sunday morning, and there was a steady downpour, a soaking rain which was eagerly absorbed by the dry ground. The rain was certainly a welcome one to farmers, and also to people in the city. Farmers who had sowed their oats wanted rain to make it grow, but none came, and the ground was very dry for this time of the year. In the city many cisterns were empty, but Sunday’s rain filled them up part way again. Cool weather, which followed the rain is not expected to stay, and in a few days everything will be growing finely.