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Homestead Furniture sets May 8 as Woody Day

  • May 1, 2010
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Antique car enthusiasts and the general public alike are invited to visit Homestead Furniture on Saturday, May 8, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. for Woody Day. “This will be an opportunity to view one of our most challenging, yet satisfying projects we have ever completed,” said store owner Ernest Hershberger. Homestead Furniture craftsmen completely restored the wooden section of a 1941 Buick...

Grand opening celebration at Local Roots slated for May 15

  • May 1, 2010
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One year after its initial public meeting, the Wooster Local Foods Cooperative, Inc., announces the grand opening celebration at Local Roots Market on Saturday, May 15, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. From an empty county-owned building and a big dream for a year-round local foods market, the cooperative has moved swiftly over the past year to open, staff, and stock Local Roots with a wide variety of...

BCF youth cut odds for benefit mower raffle

  • May 1, 2010
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The senior high youth from Berlin Christian Fellowship are planning a short term missions trip to Anchorage, Alaska in July. They will be serving a small inner city church that ministers to both the Eskimo people group and to Caucasian Americans. Their work will include performing construction projects, setting up a computer network, cleanup projects, and conducting a Bible camp for the Eskimo...

Lions Club members roar into district convention

  • May 1, 2010
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Lions from local and distant Lions Clubs gathered April 17-18, for a district convention at the Shisler Conference Center in Wooster. District governor Steve Thornton presided over the event, which included a presentation of colors from the Wooster Police Department Honor Guard, and special music from the College of Wooster’s all female capella group, the COWBelles. Distinguished speakers...

Wayne County the Way it Was - Part 16

  • May 1, 2010
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TWO LIGHTS ON PUBLIC SQUAREThe changes being made on the public square by the Wooster Electric Co. in which the pole in the center of the square is to be taken out, also include the placing of two arc lights there instead of one, as has been the case. One light will be hung between the Rich Hardware store and the Smith & Lautzenheiser grocery, while the other will be swung across to the court...

Wayne County the Way it Was - Part 15

  • May 1, 2010
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A CAUTIONARY TALEMr. Newman (chief assistant to the State Fire Marshal) told his experience with Evangelist Williams when he was called to the Tabernacle here to see if it was safe from fire. “We entered the building. There were eight borrowed stoves (you know what kind of stoves you can borrow in December), and you could see the fire through holes in all of them. The pine boards close to the...

Wayne County the Way it Was - Part 14

  • May 1, 2010
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NEARLY GOES OVER BRIDGEA farmer from Doylestown came very near losing his team of horses late Tuesday night on Wooster avenue; but for some reason or other he turned to his right just before he crossed the Wolf creek bridge, and drove off into the trestle of the traction company. By the aid of some of the people going by, he managed to unhitch his team, and pull the wagon back onto the pavement,...

Wayne County the Way it Was - Part 13

  • May 1, 2010
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LAWSUIT FOLLOWS FEVERA scarlet fever scare at Mt. Eaton has resulted in a lawsuit. It was found that scarlet fever turned out to be scarlet rash, and the one victim, Miss Beulah Graber, had a rapid recovery. Her sister, Miss Mary Graber, teaches school at Kidron, and the Board of Education there, when they hear that the teacher’s sister was suffering from scarlet fever ordered her to close the...

Wayne County the Way it Was - Part 12

  • May 1, 2010
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SUNDAY SHOWERThe sudden and entirely unexpected shower of Sunday evening detained many people in the various churches. It did not look much like rain when they started for church, but shortly after 7:30 the drops began to descend, and they fell fast. After the services some set out bravely for home, while others lingered in the church or sought temporary shelter in neighboring doorways. These...

Wayne County the Way it Was - Part 11

  • May 1, 2010
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W” MEANS WAR AND “P” MEANS PEACE WHEN LOCUSTS RETURNThis is the year that the seventeen year locust is due again, and in a few weeks he will make his appearance in the farms of the middle west. At least the authorities on locust lore and superstition are sure he will and they have never been mistaken in the past. No one seems to know exactly where the seventeen year locust comes from, but...