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COUNTY BMW i Jill -i t : A U VOL XXXI WAUSEON, OHIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1913 NO. 34 ,j f , y!LLftGECpUNCIL Council, Preparing for Its Demise -Will, Leave Wauseon Well Lighted Three New Light Agreements -Acted On. Financial Status of the - -Tillage.' ' ' ;, . ' , ' Therts remains but one more regu lar meeting for the present council and at the meeting last Monday even ing there was evident in the actions and conversation of the members the fact that they' were looking forward to their final dissolution and their departure to the indefinable "some where where the spirits of depart ed councils may be supposed, to rest or roast. The general subject fit the meeting luuuuuy iiikui migni we:i nave Deen "light" and the action .taken by the council mign wen ie summed up in the mandate "Let there be liorht in Wauseon!" After the usual routine business Mr. John Hatt presented an agreement signed by property own ers on North Fulton street, to nay the difference in cost for boulevard lights, . me same as" mose already installed, on North Fulton from Jefferson street north to Hickory street The Coun cil accepted the agreement and or dered the amount now paid for light ing that section of Fulton street ap plied on the new system. This prac tically completes the lighting of our main street entirely with the mod ern Boulevard system and it will be at night a "White Way" from South Park, north to the Wabash railway crossing. No sooner was the Fulton street lighting question disposed of, than an other agreement signed by the prop erty owners around South Park was presented and accepted by the council. This action means that 'South1 Park will be surrounded by a system of the boulevard posts and that part of the town - which has been anything but a "blaze of g'ory" at night, will be brought from darkness into light, but the end of the lighting question was not yet. Mr. Harry .Gingrich presented a proposition to place the iron posts on Beech street from Ful ton street to Snoop avenue; he said that the T. & I. Railway company, through .the general manager had in. timated their desire to turn the elec tric current into a row of boulevard lights on Beech street and do away with the present overhead' lights. According to the terms of their franchise, the T. & I. Ry. must furn ish light for Beech and Depot streets, so that the only cost of the change to Wauseon will be simply the first cost , of the posts. Mr. Gingrich stated that it would take about 13 posts and that citizens and business firms had already guaranteed a number of these, he also stated that there was some 500 feet of the frontage on that street, that was public property and stated that he would like to know what the Council would do toward furnishing posts. . The Council after consideration passed a motion to furnish four posts kind the light committee were instructed to super intend the installation of the costs. The School Board will be asked to furnish three posts. This will doubt less end the progress in town light ing for this season and it is certainly a good record. 1 Permission was granted Messrs. Fields and Nofzinerer to change the route of moving the Trondle black-l emith shop from Ottokee street' to Fulton street; the building is to be moved from its present location on Jefferson street to the extreme north end of Fulton street. It may he interesting to note that during its life of two years the pres ent council has increased the bonded indebtedness of the village, just $7, 200 and this covers the cost of inter sections on the various street im provements that have been put in; this entire amount might have been raised by next year's taxes without having exceeded the maximum rate. The Mayor of Wauseon was a mem ber of the "Budget Committee" who determined the monies to be raised by taxation for public use in the year 1914 and from him we glean the information that the amount for Wauseon village is $1,347 more than last year and at the same time the rate is less than it has been for many years, 12 810 tnills; added to this is 6-10 mills levy for state roads which is added by the state to all levies and does not come within the maximum rates. The total rate for 1914 will be 13 3-0 mills or 2-10 mills lower than it has been for many years. The outlook for the new year and the new council is, to say the least, encouraging. Orders Drawn, Land Deals, New Cases in Court, Marriage Licenses, Pro bats Court, -Etc. Warrants Drawn. Newall B. Newton Co., Supblies ... Franklin Printing Co., sup. Attd... Jam, White, judge election Cha. H. WllUie tax redemption!. . . Florin Filea, Sten. St caae ...... Harry Kimball, witness J. P.' Slater A Noble, aervicea Sol. Com. , . . Win. Doriot, bridge work Geo. Porter, ditch work 1. B. MeQulllin, fee insane caae ... Clara MeQulllin, asst. insane eat ... Abraham Willaon, ditch work ...... J. H. Barden, ditch work V. A. Griffin, ditch work May Goraueh, witneaa lee $ 4.40 2.26 1.00 . 291.87 6.26 . 2.10 . ' 2.00 8.26 . 169.06 , 16.48 8.62 . 22.60 . 21.00 . . 18.00 . 1.00 Transfers. Elza Rarick to Ruben and Mary Stahl, lot No. 8 block 7, John Gam bers division to Fayette, $1,200. Jas. Sanderson and wife to Ches ter E. Thompson, 80 acres in section 36, Pike township, $4,500. J. A. and Ada M. J. Brethauer to William D. Fisher et al, lots 134 to 140 inclusive John Gambers addition to Fayette. ,$1.00. J. C. Palmer to L. U. Wallace, un- divided one-half interest in lot' No. 409. Wauseon. $75.00. ' Martin C. Palmer to William' A. Luthey, land in Franklin township, $1.00. William H. and Cora L. Mercer to F. Mercer, lets No 377 and 378, Wauseon, $1.00. Samuel A. Biddle et al to Nora V Ruppert, 34 acres in section 31, York township. $1.00. Fred and Belle Porter to Otto : Schlegel, lot No. 96, Donnally's ad dition, Waus'eon, $60.00. Mary and Jos. Griesinger to Har len E. Greisinger, lot No. 32, Pray's addition, Delta, $250. Chas. and Grace Isabelle Lewis to Geo. and Lizzie Holerger, lot No. 27, Sartrent's addition Delta, E1100. Caroline Schlegel et al to James McArthur, 19 acres in section 22, York township, $2900. Laura ' and A. M. Buhrer to Clar a n WnV,. 1M. XIn Aft onA Al Murbach's 3rd addition,' Archbold, . $2,100. Walter R.' and Jessie M. Tule to Archie M. Smith, 25 acres in section 20, Gorham township. $1.00. Walter R. and Jessie M. Tule to Archie M. Smith, parcel land in Fay ette, $1.00. Ella S. and M. E. Ellsworth to Smith and Tule, parcel land in Fay ette. $250- Alex and Rosa Grime to Emil Gushman, 40 acres in section 32, uerman township, $u,UUU. Probate Office. Guardianship of Lucille Munzer et al, nnal account confirmed and Ad ministrator discharged. Guardianship of Floyd Phare, final account confirmed and guardian dis charged. Guardianship of Clara Eicher. fin al account confirmed and guardian discharged. Guardianship of Clair Hab'e, final account confirmed and guardian dis charged. - - Guardianship of Ruth Ellen Lantz, et al, 2nd partial account confirmed. Estate of Georgia E. Weber, final account confirmed and administrator discharged. George J. Oakley administrator vs. Flora S. Beech et ai. Fred H. Wolf appointed guardian ad litum. Sale of real estate found necessary and appraisement ordered. Sale bill tiled in the estate of Mar tin C. Palmer. Mimster'3 license issued by the court to Gilbert A. Edmunds, of Met amora, O. George T. Thomas, executor, vs. Frank T. Bartlett et al. Hearing on petition ' to complete land contract. Court ordered executor to make deed to purchasers. Will of Harry A. Hoffman, will ad mitted to probate and record. Widow elected to take under said will. Proofs of publications and notice of appointments filed in the estates of Maria Winzler and Henry Futter. Guardianship of Christian is. Kupp, 1st and rinal account filed, hearing set for Dc. 29th, 1913. Estate of Allan S. Trowbridge, fin al account filed and hearing set for December 29th. 1913. Carl D. Trow bridge ' appointed testamentary trus tee of Mary Eva Skinner, under the will of Allan S. Trowbridge. ' Estate of Sophrama Oakley, . ap praisement filed and application to sell at private sale filed and granted by the court. Order of sale isr-oied. Same returned and filed and deed or dered. Estate of John F. Raker, letters of administration issued to John W. Chamberlin. M. B. Hoyt, F. S. Woll cott and Alfred DeLamar were ap pointed appraisers. . Will of George J. Uray, applica tion to probate filed. Notice to wid ow and next to kin issued. Hearing set for Dec. 10th at 1 p. m. Guardianship of Arthur Leichty et al, letters of guardianship .issued to Mary Leichty. instate of Henry Yeager, final ac count filed. Hearing set for Dec. 29, 1913. Will of Joseph Valter, certificate oi filing petition to contest will, in Com mon Pleas Court filed. Marriage Licenses Wauseon, and Lillian M. Barnes, 18, Wauseon. Louis N. Mossing, 20, farmer. S wanton, and Lena Paulsen, 22, Swan ton. , Michael Scanlon. 37 bal 1 player. Toledo, and Laura Rebeau, 34, Arch-bold. Frank L'Estel. 21. farmer Swan- ton, and Mabelle J. Clifton, 19, Delta... Amos J. ' McDonnall. 24. farmer. Colton, and Ruby A. Parish, 22, Del ta. - Fred F. Fitzimons, 43, carpenter, Delta, and Minnie J. Murray. 37. Delta. Chester M. Harm, 22, farmer. Lib erty Center, and Mabel A. Anderson, 18, Delta. . , Samuel F. Rashley. 30. insurance man, Detroit. ' and Hazelle M. Van darslen, 25, Fayette. ' New Cases in Court . William A. Valter and Mary L. Nickel vs. Nancy Valter et al. Con test of will. ' William J. Harper vs. William T. Sentle et al. Foreclosure and equit able relief. PUBLIC ECONOMY A Citizen's Suggestion as to the Care of Public Investments Town Streets and Country Roads Can Highest Efficiency Exist Without Economy? ' A citizen of Wauseon made a re mark the other dav that brought with it a suggestion which we be lieve should be carefully considered by those who have the interests of our town at heart. He said: "It is a shame to turn over the fifty or six ty thousand dollars of the peoples money invested in streets during this past season to someone who has no knowlegde of how these streets should be cared for; the village should employ some competent person pre ferably an engineer to devote his en tire time to the care of the streets." We believe that there is much of good hard common sense in the above remark. As a matter of fact it is mighty poor economy to invest good money in town streets or country roads and then let them practically alone and uncared for until they are worn out, which will not be for very long, and then repeat the process of investing, more money to build them new, when a 'comparatively small amount of money, expended in intel ligent and competent care of such streets or roads would keep them in good condition indefinitely. - But its the peoples- money per haps that makes a difference, and then, it makes work for contractors and keeps up the "High Cost of Liv ing". No absolutely indestructable never-wear-out, take-care-of-itself road or street building material has as yet been discovered. A road or street doesn't wear out all over at once, it starts to wear out in spots; the old maxim, "a stitch in time saves nine" applys in the matter of streets as well as the small boy's breeches; the point is to have some one on the job who knows how and will take; the stitch in time. In order to save (?) the Deodes money and at the same time save a public official from having to spend part of his time either t the infirmary or his rich relations, a well meaning council does sometimes aDDoint the marshal, elected by the people at the . stupendous salary of ?150 per year, to be street commiss ioner, at the rather moderate salary attached to that office, by combining the two offices one man can get near lv enoup-h to sunDort himself and family providing there isn't much of a family. But this isn't all of the system, a city engineer must be em nloved to establish erades and look after the plans and estimates for sewers and street improvements, be sides the city engineer an inspector WAUSEON. BOYS DECEMBER 6th ' DAY, TOMORROW, ..... X sjj'?, w4"f 1 Tomorrow. Saturdav. Wanspnn will be turned over to. Wauseon's boys and their annual tae dav.- This is one of the great days of the year, when every one wears a smile and a white and blue tae and willino-lv drops in a coin for the helping of the boys work of the town and vicinity. This is the third tag day under the management of the Boys Brotherhood and it is hoped that it may eclipse all former days. During the past two years the boys have divided the net proceeds, with the City Hospital, their offerings to the institution amount ing to about $150; this year one half of the proceeds will be p'aced in a fund for the promoting of a public recreation' park and swimming pool for all the children of Wauseon, something that is needed and would prov a source of enjoyment and pleasure and profit to the hundreds of Children of our town and schools. It is hoped every one will get behind the boys in this proposition and "make "Tag Day" a great "starter" for the recreation park proposition. Twen- l ty-f our boys will start out promptly j at 9 o'clock and make a canvas of the ; residence district of the town, polite jly cal'ing at the houses and receiving any ottering ready for them. Sixteen young ladies will begin early down town and solicit the down Itown sections, and will continue their ! efforts all day. You will help them jby purchasing a tag early. Wear the tags where they may be seen, so the solicitors will not ask you to pur chase the second time. The tags will be sold from five cents up to any sum that may be willingly given for' them. must be employed in event of there being any public improvements in process. Why not employ a street commis sioner at a reasonable salary who could, except in cases of special emer gency, combine these offices; a man who is an engineer, capable of di recting the proper care and mainten ance of the streets and also seeing that his own plans and specifications are carried out on public improve ments ? We are willing to admit that the marshal's salary is nothing for the village to feel proud of and that its nothing against the marshal as a man. or against the council that with kind intentions and in order to"econ- wjpjwiiv nun BViCCIi cuiiuma- sioner. if he doesn't hannen to be fully qualified for the job. Further more we do not wish to "knock" nor have we any "strings" to pull, but simply by way of justifying our sug gestion, we want to remark that we are not convinced, just as an illus tration, that the condition of Fulton street; north, where the county has been installing a new culvert, which has made it necessary for teams to be stopped and loads taken off from wagons and carried across, automo biles to be stalled and much "elo quent" language to be wasted; a con dition that has existed for weeks, would have been necessary under the management of a man qualified and equipped to deal with the emergency. We have a beautiful town, and we have some of the best people in th world in it; we want the town to grow more beautiful and we believe that there is room for improvement in all .of us; in 'order to facilitate pro gress and in the interests of efficiency and economy we believe the citizen's suggestion should be seriously considered. There, will be a meeting of the members of the civic league at the library building on Monday evening, December 18th, at 6:30. The object of this meeting is to learn if there are any families in Wauseon or vicin ity in need of assistance. MKS. LUU1SL.L.A HAM, Sec. If your skin is scratched by a rusty nail, apply Hanford's Balsam at once., Ityill prevent blood poison. Subscription Price Advances to $1.50 January First, 1914. f Reasons For Increase Restated. Watch for Blue Pencil Mark on Your Mailing Label. Only three morb issues of the Tribune before January 1st, 1914, at which time we are under the necess ity of raising the price of the Trib une from $1.00 to $1.50 per year. We have previously explained thbugh the columns of the Tribune our reas ons for making this advance but in order that all of our subscribers may understand our position we wish to restate these reasons as briefly as possible: 1. There has been a very consider able increase in the cost of all mater ial used by us in the production of The Tribune. ' 2. There has been an increase in the price of labor in the past few years amounting to fully 33 1-3 per cent. 3. In order to maintain our office in efficient condition, keep up the quality and standard of The Tribune, support our homes and meet our re sponsibilities as citizens and taxpay ers, it will be plaii to our patrons, that in consideration of the fact that it costs us from 33 to 50 per cent more to produce the paper, the increase is necessary. . Many of our subscribers have paid in advance at the $1.00 rate and there is still opportunity to secure The Tribune for this price by paying the subscription before January 1st, 1914; after that date we shall be compelled to adhere strictly to the rate of $1.50 per year. We are anxious to clear up our books by the first of the year and in orden to remind those who are in ar rears for subscription we shall place a blue pencil mark on the mailing label on the paper. If these subscrib ers will kindly settle or notify us of some future time when they will set tle we shall be very grateful. All solicitors will wear identification badges so the public may know they are authorized to receive the offer ings. The boys who make the canvas will meet at the Brotherhood hall at 6:30 Friday evening to receive tags and instructions and the young ' ladies will meet at Brotherhood hall at 7 o'clock Friday evening to also secure their instructions for the day's' work. Every one should boost for the day, even if you cannot give an offering, speak a kind word for our Wauseon CLINTON TOWNSHII1 GRADED UNION All interested in Sunday school work make your plans to attend these meetings of the Graded Union which will be held every two weeks on Monday evening at the Library building. The next meeting will be December 15th, at which time there will be decided a motto and keynote, etc. 'Come, dig, know for thyself about this great world wide move ment the Sunday school. Twenty-three counties of the state received front line pennants at the last state convention. Fulton coun ty's pennant will be on exhibition at the Graded Union. At the regular meeting of the Graded Union on last Monday, even ing at the Library building the nomi nating committee submitted the fol lowing report which was adopted: President C. J. Ives. Vice President R. E. Edgar. Sec. and Treas. A. W. Winegar den Division Superintendents. Elementary Mrs. Samuel Ruppert. Secondary S. A. Miller. Adult M. L. Alstetter. Department Superintendent M. L. Alstetter. Grade Vice Presidents Cradle Roll Mrs. B. G. Bowman. Beginners Miss Albert Steumpel. Primary Miss May Leu. Junior Miss Florence Bayes. Intermediate S. A.' Miller. Senior Mrs. John Hatt. Adult M. L. Alstetter. ' Department Vice Presidents Home Mrs. Lewis Seidner. Teacher Training Bert Seigel. Temperance Mrs. Harley Hill. Missions Mrs. J. H. Williams. Sarah E. Beebe Cook, wife of R. R. Cook, a former pastor at Tedrow, passed away at the home of a daugh ter, , Dr. Ethel Cook Carpenter, of Lansing, Mich., Nov. 21str 1913, at the age of 62. She was there for medical treatment, they think for cancer of the liver, and all was done that kind loving hands eould do. She was a great worker in the church and Sunday school. Her Sunday school class and friends kept flowers at her bedside, which was a great comfort to all, during the eleven weeks of prostration. RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT The God whose Kingdom ruleth over all, has again entered within our ranks and removed from our midst our comrade, W. P. Fouty, a member of Losure Post, No. 35, G. A. R., Wau seon, Ohio. Therefore, be it resolved, that in the passing of Comrade Fouty the Post has lost a member in good stand ing and that his absence from our meetings will be sadly missed by all his comrades and rurther be it re solved that Losure Post extend to the widow of the deceased and his family our most sincere sympathy and mourn with them in their loss of a kind husband and father and that these resolutions be printed in the county papers and recorded in our Post Journal. P. H. BAYES, I. F. HOFFMAN, S. J. BOYERS, -. Committee. TO MY PATRONS Last year the Princess Theatre of fered you in a musical entertainment the Salisbury Family which was re ceived well by the musical lovers of Wauseon. ' On next Wednesday night, Decem ber 10th, the management has the pleasure to announce another big musical and minstrel show given by the Pritchers Lady Minstrels. The entertainment is o the highest class and praised highly by every news paper in the country. Remember that all attractions playing here are under guarantee or your money re funded after the first act. Seats will be on sale at Fink & Haumesser's. ) Yours very truly, W. W. CADDELL, Manager. Not Beyond Help at 87. Sleep-disturbing bladder weakness, stiffness in joints, weak, inactive kidney action and rheumatic pains, are all evidence of kidney trouble. Mrs. Mary A. Dean, 47 E. Walnut street, Taunton Mass., g writes: "I have passed my 87th birthday, and thought I was beyond the reach of medicine, but Foley Kidney Pills have proved most beneficial in my case." Fink & Haumesser. Christmas Gifts for Mem OUR STOCK OF SUITABLE CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR AND BOYS IS HERE ! MEN . 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HATS AND CAPS: Find 'out what size HE wears and surprise HIM with a nice Fur cap. TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION are the many articles that men and boys of all ages would appreciate and which may be found in -our store. CLOTHES For Men, Young Men and Boys. Our Suits and Overcoats either in Ready to Wear or Custom Made rank second to xnone in any particular, including the price. DOMITIO &, RUPPERT Merchant Tailors and Clothiers YOUR FURS AND HIDES will b Unned and manufactured the right war, If sent to THE BLISSFIELD ROBE AND TANNING CO. Yea do Bat Iut to' par a fancy price for a For Coat, Far Robe, Far Mittena, For Rug or for a Beautiful Far Set for your wife, when 70a farn iih the Hide or Far. Send at rear hide and Far and we will make roa Btefai and valuable Far Garment at a mall coat. ' ' ' Yen take bo chance when roa addrea your hlppint- tag; to The Bliaalleld Tannery. We haTC dene baaineu here for fifteen rear and dona it right for thousand of customer. 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Vpmfo&CB Hammers Kcommend the whole tiamond Edge Line "fipjygftfe Eqgsisji QtfumrPiEDGB" JOHN A. ORON Hardware, Stoves and Auto Supplies Princess Theatre ONE NIGHT ONLY, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 10th Bigf Musical and Minstrel Entertainment Given by the r: . Pritchers Lady Minstrels One of the cleanest Musical Shows on the road today You will like the Music You will like the Songs You will like the Girls Dontfailto see the Parade PRICES Reserved, Adults, 35c and 50c; Children, 25c Curtain rises at 8:15 sharp. Christmas Shopping Now On Before buying elsewhere,- come in and look over our line for. these reasons: . 1st We carry the best line of goods that can be bought for the money. 2nd. We can save you money on every article, i A few suggestions for useful and-appropriate gifts, which we carry, are Wearever Aluminum Ware, Silverware, Food Choppers, Coffee Percolators, Carving Sets, Electric Sad Irons, , . Asbestos Sad Irons, Toolsf all kinds, Express Wagons, Sleighs, Skates, . ' Pocket Knives. The best of all is the Free Sewing Machine which can be bought at reduced prices during this month. t Schlatter & Howards i .