Limb & Weidner (1924 – 1925) Second Term Mayor

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Marcus Limb & Helen Weidner
1924: May, Considered to run for the office of Ohio Secretary of State.
1925: February. Investigation of the operation of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ home began and continued through 1928.
1925: Part of campaign for selection of Applecreek as site for the Northern Ohio Institute for Feeble Minded Persons.
1925: November, Ran for Mayor of Wooster, 3rd 2-year term, against Wm. H. Black and lost in a close race.

Articles regarding the Northern Ohio Institute for Feeble Minded Persons can be found at: Wooster, Wayne Co, OH.

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Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 7 January, 1924
pg 2
Attorney Will Talk At Kiwanis Meeting
Charles N. Meade, attorney, will be the speaker at Tuesday’s meeting of the Wooster Kiwanis Club. Gladhanders for the meeting are Mayor M.R. Limb, George Limb, William Long and D.C. Murry. The attendance prize has been offered by F.E. Boigegrain.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 8 January, 1924
pg 8
Spink Street Paving Again Is Requested
Street Resurfacing Also Discussed as New Council Takes the Helm.
A petition to pave Spink street from…..and to the end…
Mayor Limb said he was in favor of resurfacing Liberty street 30 feet wide, leaving eleven feet undisturbed on each side.
Petitions for the resurfacing work will, it is expected, be presented to council by the next regular meeting. This will permit the city engineer to go forward with plans for actually doing the work.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 15 January, 1924
pg 3
Kiwanis Club Committees
J.V. Coxon, president of Kiwanis, Tuesday announced the personnel of the club’s committees for the coming year.
Attendance—Chairman Neal Bowman, Fred Figert, Ed Mott, Louis Snavely and Earl Strock.
Business Standards and Methods—Chairman Walter Buss, Jos. Kuhles, O.H. Larwill, Fred Perkins and Ross Schoolroy.
Classification—Chairman J.E. Proctor, Earl Dalby, Chas Loehr, Roy Martin and O.M. Yocum.
Education—Chairman Frank Bough, Roy Grady, Luther Platt, Wallace Ryall and John Schellin.
Finance—Chairan Ray King, D.S. Connelly, Sam Graber, Wm. Kramer and Harry Pope.
Grievance—Chairman Francis Warner, Julius Diehl, J.R. Jamescon, Arthur Packard and Wm. Smith.
House—Chairman Max Johnson, John Bywater, Chas Hawk, Lawrence Mull and Herman Retzler.
Reception—Chairman Al Kittinger, Walter Kerr, Wm. McCullough, Clark McIntire and Chas. Williamson.
Inter Club Relations—Chairman Carl Ellenwood, Julius Kaltwasser, Chas. Lautenschlager, Walter Odenkirk, Joseph Spettigue and Wm. H. Mills.
Laws and Regulations—Chairman Daniel Funk, J.J. Kinney, John McSweeney, George Severance and Harry Walter.
Membership—Chairman Carl Reese, Wayne Hart, George Limb, Fred Redick and J.R. Weimer.
Music—Chairman R.C. Paul, Harry Elliott, Clyde Gault, DeVere Kauffman and Don Weimer.
Program Chairman—Ernest Taylor, Ernest Hole, Chas. Hunt, S.M.F. Nesbitt, Notre Shoup and Clark Blackman.
Public Affairs—Chairman J. Frank Jackson, Lyman Adair, G.J. Ebright, M.R. Limb and Wm. Long.
Publicity—Chairman Ed Hauenstein, Arbor Derr, D.C. Murray, Francis Whitaker and Wm. Zorn.
Good Roads—Chairman, Jos. Cohan, Myron Bachtell, E.C. Bonner, George Palmer and Roy Smith.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Friday, 18 January, 1924
pg 2
Society
Thursday Club
At the annual business meeting of the Thursday club held Jan. 17th, with Mrs. Guy Fichards, officers were elected as follows for next year: President, Mrs. Clifford Foss; first vice president, Mrs. Marcus Limb, second vice president, Mrs. J. Edward Harris; secretary, Mrs. Donald Dickason; treasurer, Mrs. Thomas Jacobs. Program committee, Mrs. Guy Richard; city federation committee, Miss Harriett Troutman. The club will meet on Thursday, Jan. 24th, with Mrs. Halloran and McNutt, hostess.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Friday, 18 January, 1924
pg 2
Society
Thursday Club
At the annual business meeting of the Thursday club held Jan. 17th, with Mrs. Guy Fichards, officers were elected as follows for next year: President, Mrs. Clifford Foss; first vice president, Mrs. Marcus Limb, second vice president, Mrs. J. Edward Harris; secretary, Mrs. Donald Dickason; treasurer, Mrs. Thomas Jacobs. Program committee, Mrs. Guy Richard; city federation committee, Miss Harriett Troutman. The club will meet on Thursday, Jan. 24th, with Mrs. Halloran and McNutt, hostess.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 19 January, 1924
pgs 1 & 8
Economy For Next Ten Years Urged By Limb
Mayor Suggest Tax-Reducing Commission to Ease Burden on Prop. Owners.
Approximately Half of City Annual Revenue Needed to Pay Bonded Indebt’n’s
A hard pull for ten straight years is faced by the city of Wooster to meet maturing city bonds and interest payments on bonds.
This is apparent from figures which have been compiled in the office of City Auditor Grace M. Wile at the request of Mayor M.R. Limb.
“The figures show,” the mayor pointed out, “that an average of $52,380.97 becomes due each year for ten consecutive years, which means that it will take approximately half of the city’s total annual revenue to pay them.
“If we can meet the payments, however,” the mayor continued, “during these ten years, the sledding will be much easier, unless the city in the meantime, keeps adding as much to its debt as it pays off. The payments drop abruptly from $55,000 in 1933 to $18,000 the year following, $12,000 in 1935, $10,000 in 1936 and sums less than that in all future years.

Will Urge Economy
Mayor Limb declared he intends to urge upon council the importance of rigid economy in order that the city may reduce its bonded indebtedness.
The total city debt at the present moment is $441,685.10, exclusive of special assessment bonds. There will also become due on these bonds interest charges amounting to $186,367.87, making a total amount needed to pay the bonds when they are due of $628,052.97.
“If we had a commission to devise ways and means by which more economy would be exercised over a period of years, rather than more commissions to devise ways and means to spend more money, I believe the city would be benefitted,” the city’s chief executive continued, as he studied the figures. Even if one administration practices economy, another may come along and undo all the good that has been done. A commission to curb spending would, in my opinion, be of real service.”

Must Refund One Issue
Former City Auditor Fred E. Faber believes that the city can pay off all the debts as they become due except the $75,000 issue of railroad bonds which mature in 1932. He expressed the opinion that it would be necessary to refund those bonds, on the basis that all bonds are now refunded, payments being made each year through the sinking fund created for the purpose.
The total amount of bonds and interest each year in the future is as follows:

Bonds and Interest Coupons Due.
Year Amount
1924 $ 44,675.93
1925 54,849.30
1926 30,956.20
1927 30,496.21
1928 43,508.59
1929 44,321.84
1930 57,985.59
1931 31,549.34
1932 129,764.94
1933 55,693.13
1934 18,234.38
1935 12,525.63
1936 10,069.38
1937 9,695.63
1938 9,321.88
1939 8,215.00
1940 7,387.30
1941 7,072.50
1942 4,817.50
1943 3,652.50
1944 $ 3,517.50
1945 3,382.50
1946 3,247.50
1947 3,112.50

Total $ 628,052.97

Of the $44,675.93 due during the current year, $30,000 is for interest payments. The interest charges decrease slightly each year. The largest single issue that becomes due in one for $7,000, issued in 1909 for the city’s portion of Buckeye and Henry and Walnut street sewers.

Big Issues Ahead.
In 1925 one issue of $21,000, issued in 1905 to extend a water main to the glass plant and make other improvements, falls due. In 1930 a $25,000 issue of water-works bonds issued in 1920 becomes due. The $40,000 city hall bonds, refunded in 1913, are being paid off at the rate of $1,000 each year. These with the $75,000 railroad bonds, constitute the larger issues which must be met or refunded.
There is also a deficit of about #18,000 in the special assessment sinking fund, due to the fact that former city councils, up to recent years, frequently remitted paving or sewer assessments, or reduced them, without making provisions for paying them from some other source. For instance, when West Liberty street extension was paved, assessments against several lots were materially reduced after the street was paved. The paving bill was paid, but those property owners who secured reductions are paying in lesser amounts, and now, with the ninth and tenth assessments coming in, the funds are insufficient to meet the bonds that come due. It will be necessary, probably during the present year, to take some action to correct this condition.

Revenue Available.
Figures obtained from the office of County Auditor William E. Heller discloses that the total amount of revenue the city will get this year, providing everyone pays his taxes, is $105,485.11. The city’s tax duplicate is $13,879,620, and the tax rate is $2.37 per hundred. This will create a total revenue of over $300,000. The state, however, gets $4,163.89; the county gets $56,212.46; the township gets $13,087.96; and the schools get $161,697.58.
Out of this sum of $105,485.11 the city must meet the bond obligations of over $44,000. It has been planned, however, to create a reserve and the present division calls for $55,474.23 to be diverted into the sinking fund. This leaves $4,021.88 for the general fund; $1,941.60 for the health fund; $15,671.47 for the safety fund; $27,598.43 for the service fund and $693.42 for the poor fund.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 22 January, 1924
pg 3
Buttar Admits Selling Cider
East Henry Street Grocer is Fined $100 and Costs Before Mayor Limb.
Nick Buttar and Mrs. Buttar operate a small grocery store at 619 East Henry, and, according to police, they sell more than butter.
In fact when a police officer followed a man yesterday who had been arrested for intoxication recently, he saw him enter the Buttar establishment, and emerge a short time later with a package that, when the officer examined it, proved to be hard cider.
The cider was taken as evidence, and officers raided the establishment late in the afternoon. Complaint had been made that liquor other than hard cider was being sold there. Officers however, could find no trace of it. In the cellar they found the barrel of cider.
Buttar was arraigned before Mayor M.R. Limb last night, plead guilty to the charge of illegally possessing liquor, and was fined $100 and costs.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 22 January, 1924
pg 8
Plans Ordered To Re-Surface Local Streets
Council Favors Spink Paving, and May Also Pave East Bowman Street.
Refuse to Join With Commissioners in Grading Street in North End.
Wooster city council last night on motion of Councilman Walter E. Peck, ordered City Engineer C.L. Orr to prepare plans and specifications and present council with estimates of the cost of resurfacing East and West Liberty street and North and South Market streets.
No petitions for the resurfacing of any of these streets have been presented but property owners on all of them have urged council to go forward with the proposition. What final action will be taken will depend, it was understood last night, upon the cost of the proposition both to the city and to the property owners.
On West Liberty street, Mayor Limb pointed out, at least one block will require a new foundation Chairman J.M. Ginter suggested that the city should, in connection with the resurfacing, make up with the county commissioners the matter of replacing of the Christmas Run bridge on West Liberty street which, he said, was never intended to carry ? traffic it has been caring for.

May Pave East Bowman.
Endorsed by Mayor Limb and meeting the approval of practically every councilman was the suggestion that the city enter into an arrangement with the state and county to pave East Bowman street from Palmer street east to the turn in the road, in connection with the paving of the Wooster-Smithville road this season. Councilmen believe the city may be required to take care of only five feet of the paving, with the county and state doing the remainder.

Cold Meeting Night.
The council meeting took place on about the coldest night of the year. Seven o’clock, the time to begin, found councilmen huddled around the stove in the mayor’s office, while the fragile gas stove in the council chamber was making a futile effort to warm up the room. When the meeting was over Chairman J.M. Ginter suggested that instead of the formal motion to adjourn council’s resolve to have its members “hunt up a place that’s warm.” Despite the cold, every member of council was in attendance at the meeting.

Favor Spink Street Paving.
Councilman A.D. Reed reported favorably upon the paving of Spink street from Bowman to University, and suggested that the one block of University street from Spink street to Beall might be included in the project. Councilman W.E. Peck was authorized to learn the attitude of the college towards the project. City Solicitor W.A. Mougey was instructed to draw up the preliminary legislation for the improvement of Spink street for presentation to the next meeting of council. If the college approves of paving University street, it was indicated, the two streets can go forward under one letting and one contract.

Blessing Allotment.
Acceptance of the Blessing allotment plat was delayed last night when Councilman G.N. Coffey pointed out that the lot number “3005,” was a duplicate, it being already on record in sub-dividing lots in the Smith allotment. Engineer Orr was authorized to correct it.

Against Street Grading.
Councilman Reed reported unfavorably upon the acceptance of the proposition of the county commissioners for grading and widening the street leading west from the north end of Quinby avenue. Mayor Limb stated that the commissioners, some years ago, had changed that road from down in the ravine to straight up over the hill and had never finished the work of making it passable. Service Director Walter cautioned council that if the city did one bit of work on it, the city would be recognizing it as a street, whereas, in his opinion, it is not now a street, but a road and has never been accepted by the city. Councilman Clyde Miller declared that in his belief the city had no business spending any money on the thoroughfare.

Bridge Discussion.
The discussion on the street grading project brought before council a general talk on bridges and bridge funds, Mr. Miller stating that the city pays over $6,000 into the bridge fund of the county each year. He suggested that under one plan the county can return three-fourths of this to the city and that the city might in this way, create a bridge fund, Mayor Limb stated that he believed this would not be the time to make the change, since the county had for years been getting the city’s bridge money and not building bridges in Wooster.
“Let them build us some bridges with what we have already paid them,” he suggested.
City Solicitor Walter Mougey stated he believed the county commissioners were bound, in law, to take care of every bridge within the city of Wooster.

Henrietta Street Cost.
Council enacted the assessment ordinance for Henrietta street, the cost per foot to the property owners being $7.45.
Councilman Shambaugh stated that residents of Dardon street, who built walks last year, are anxious to see ???? walks laid in Western avenue, and 400 feet on Rebecca street.
Councilman Kistler stated that on Sough Buckeye street a great many persons who have poor walks are willing to replace them but first want the assurance that a “certain party” will also lay a new walk. “This party,” Mr. Kistler said, “seems to slip out whenever anything is done on the street.” Mr. Kistler was requested to bring the matter to the attention of the street committee and service director in more detail.
Mr. Shambaugh asked if something could not be done to prevent the drainage of water from alleys running north from High street, down into the street. Solicitor Mougey recalled that it was at one of these places where he slipped and fell with a bucket of milk.
Mr. Reed stated that dirt washes out of an alley on Gasche street near the Bogner property.

Sewer Gets Airing.
The old problem of disposing in some manner with the open sewer between Buckeye and Bever streets, south of Bowman street, was brought to council’s attention by Councilman Peck, who asserted that so much garbage is dumped there that the situation is a menace to health. After some discussion of the matter President J.M. Ginter referred it to the public property committee.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 29 January, 1924
pg 3
Taking Down Numbers of Cars With Old Licenses
Automobile drivers who expect to rely on the excuse of “I haven’t been using my car at all” if their machines are tagged for not having a 1924 license attached after Thursday, may be surprised.
Local police officers, Mayor M.R. Limb and Traffic Officer Samuel Manson have been busy for some days writing down license numbers of all cars not equipped with the new licenses.
Local authorities are planning to enforce the law after Thursday unless the state backs down on its announced intention of refusing to grant further time. Nearly 100 names are on the list of those who are driving cars with old licenses. The new tags are obtainable here, it is pointed out, and officers see no reason why autoists should not put them on their cars.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Friday, 1 February, 1924
pg 1
Harry Walter Plans To Quit City Position

Disagreement With Mayor Over Administration Matters Cause of Resignation
Service Director Harry Walter is about to step out of the “cabinet” of Mayor M.R. Limb and engage in other business, according to information obtainable Friday.
Mayor Limb, asked about the matter, stated that Mr. Walter had offered to quit but that, up to the present, no definite arrangements had been made.
Asked if he had selected a possible successor to Mr. Walter, the mayor replied in the negative.
“I won’t coax anyone to stay,” the mayor declared in discussing the resignation of the service director.
The mayor and service director have not been in full agreement in certain matters of administration policy for some weeks, it was rumored today.
Mr. Walter, loath to comment on the subject for publication, and asserting that any statement on the matter should come from the mayor, indicated he had suggested to the mayor that another man be selected to succeed him “while we are still friends,” rather than to go on in disagreement.
Mr. Walter was appointed to the position when Mayor Limb took office in January, 1922, and served during all of the mayor’s first term. No change was made when the mayor began his second term, January 1, 1924.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 4 February, 1924
pg 2
Personals
Mayor M.R. Limb returned Sunday from Xenia where he attended a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Xenia Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ home. He reports more than 200 gallons of fine maple syrup have already been made at the institution this year.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 5 February, 1924
pg 1
Rupp Held to Grand Jury For Assault Upon Lichty
Walter A. Rupp was brought to Wooster Tuesday by the marshal of Marshallville and was bound over to the grand jury by Mayor M.R. Limb under $500 bond for assault and battery.
The charge was preferred by Jacob Lichty of near Creston. Lichty, as told in the Record yesterday, declares that he assisted to free Rupp, who was pinned under an automobile near Marshallville and that after he probably saved the man’s live, he brutally assaulted him, injuring him quite severely. Rupp, it was asserted, was intoxicated.

1924: Street paving was a topic that we may now take for granted, but was a practical concern for developing towns becoming more dependent on automobile than inter-urban trains.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 5 February, 1924
pg 5
Ask Planning Commission To Outline Paving.
Council Requests Ten-year Program as Guide for Legislative Action.
A formal request to the newly created city planning commission that it map out a ten-year street paving program for Wooster was made by city council last night after the subject was brought to council’s attention by Councilman W.E. Peck.
“I want to raise the question of whether Wooster has reached the point in its growth and development for a systematic scientific plan of paving.” Mr. Peck asked. “It seems to me that we pay attention only to such cases as are brought to our attention by persons interested, and that we may be neglecting paving in certain sections which need it even worse than those which we are asked to make improvements. Our plan is haphazard, at the best. Would it not be practical to make a scientific survey, determine which streets should be paved, and then, taking cognizance of the state of city finances, improve them in the order of their necessity.”
City Solicitor, Walter J. Mougey, Mayor M.R. Limb and Councilman Clyde Miller explained that council, in the past, has not sought to force improvements on any part of the city where there was not almost a unamimous demand for them by property owners, this policy having been adopted because, in street paving especially, property owners pay nearly the whole of the cost. It was pointed out that there were also so many requests for improvements that council was continually refusing some of them because of lack of funds, rather than seeking new places where improvements could be made.
Solicitor Mougey, however, declared that in his opinion a general survey would be an efficient guide for council in street improvement work, and he suggested that it was a task right in line with the duties of the new planning commission. Upon Mr. Peck’s motion which was unanimously adopted, the commission was requested, “at the earliest time possible” to present to council a comprehensive, ten-year program of street improvement.

Not On City Property.
Councilman Joseph Kistler reported that the open sewer between North Buckeye and Bever streets, which his committee had been asked to investigate, was not on city property. Council referred the matter to the board of health.

Spink Street Resolution.
The resolution to pave Spink street from Bowman street to University, a distance of 1,800 feet, was given first reading. Since council is waiting for a decision by property owners on University street as to whether or not they want to pave the block from Spink to Beall avenue, the resolution was given only first reading. City Engineer C.L. Orr reported that the estimated cost for a brick pavement 26 feet wide would be $33,500, or $9.29 per foot front for property owners.

Plea for Emerick Street.
Messrs. Simon Brenner and Mr. Pfeister of Emerick street, appeared before council in behalf of the petition to improve that thoroughfare. Mr. Pfeister, in his remarks, asked if council could not, at least, provide gutters to carry off the water so that the street could be made passable. They expressed themselves very much in favor of paving the street, declaring that the great majority of those living on the thoroughfare wanted the improvement, and that opposition came from owners of vacant lots. It developed also that property owners on West Bowman, from Grant to Emerick, are being enlisted in the improvement project.

Scovel Paving Up.
E.L. Nixon and others were present to make inquiry about the progress being made with ligislation to pave Scovel avenue. The estimate for this street was before council last night, the estimated cost being $12,750 for brick and $10,600 for asphalt, the length being about 800 feet. The property owners were informed that the matter would, in all probability go forward with any other paving that is done this year.
Joe Rose and others were present with a plea that property owners on Rebecca street be compelled to lay some 400 feet of new sidewalk. This matter is already before council.
In discussing the paving program, Mayor M.R. Limb suggested that if some paving is to be done, then the two or three streets where work is contemplated should be grouped into one contract, so that a contractor would find it worth while to move his equipment here for the task.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 5 February, 1924
pg 5
Cost To City May Call Off Resurfacing
Estimates go Before Council, But no Further Action in Matter is Taken.
That the cost of the work to the city of Wooster may cause city council to definitely decide against the resurfacing of East and West Liberty streets this year, loomed large today following last night’s council meeting when no action was taken, further than to hear the estimates of the cost.
City Engineer C.L. Orr informed council that the estimated cost on East Liberty street would be $19,000 for a 32-foot strip of resurfaced street, $1.60 a foot to the property owners, $22,000 for a 42-foot width of resurfacing, costing property owners $1.18 per foot, and $25,000 for a full width resurfacing, costing property owners $2.10 per foot.

West Liberty Cost $25,000
On West Liberty street a full width estimate was the only one made because the portion taken up by the car tracks would not be resurfaced, and the width of the street becomes less at Grant street. The cost on West Liberty from the square to Christmas Run bridge was estimated at $25,000, with approximately $5,000 additional for putting in 2235 square yards of base from Columbus avenue east nearly to Grant street.
Tentative figures compiled at the meeting of council showed that the cost of paving two blocks on Spink street would be $33,500, and two blocks on Scovel avenue $12,500, a total of $45,000, with a cost to the city of only about $3,500.
The resurfacing of East and West Liberty street would cost less than $50,000 with the city’s portion being, according to figures compiled by Mayor M.R. Limb, about $28,000 or $29,000.

Warns About Bonds.
“From the standpoint of economy for the city, and in view of our present bonded indebtedness, I would prefer to pave streets here where there are no improvements rather than resurface Liberty street,” the mayor told council. “I am not opposing the resurfacing, but I am worrying about that $28,000 added bonded indebtedness.”
Service Director Harry Walter raised the point that while a considerable amount of bonded indebtedness falls due within the next ten years, much of this was issued by vote of the people and is met by taxes over the 155 mill limit. He contended that not all of the bonds coming due must be refunded through proceeds of the four mill levy made for the sinking fund here, and thought the city might undertake the resurfacing without being unduly extravagant.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 29 March, 1924
pg 7
Resolution No. 1073
Declaring it necessary to improve College avenue from East North street to East Larwill street by paving with brick or other suitable material
Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Wooster, State of Ohio, three-fourths of all members elected thereto concurring
Section 1—That it is necessary to improve College avenue, from East North street to East Larwill street, in the following manner by paving the same with brick or other suitable materials
Section 2— That the grade of said street as improved shall be the established grade now as now existing and that the grade of the curb shall be the same as provided for in the profile and specifications
Section 3—That the plans, specifications, estimates and profiles of the proposed improvement, heretofore prepared by the Engineer and now on file in the office of the Director of Public Service be and the same the hereby approved
Section 4—That the whole cost of said improvement, less one-fiftieth thereof and the cost of the intersections shall be assessed by the foot front upon the following described lots and lands, to-wit All lots and lands, bounding and abutting upon the proposed improvement which said lots and lands are hereby determined to be specially benefited by said improvement, and the cost of said improvement shall include the expense of the preliminary and other surveys, and of printing and publishing the notices resolutions and ordinances required and the serving of said notices the cost of construction together with interest on bonds issued in anticipation of the collection of deferred assessments, and all other necessary expenditures.
Section 5—That the assessments so to be levied shall be paid in ten annual installments, with interest on deferred payments at the same rate as shall be borne by the bonds to be issued in anticipation of the levy and collection thereof; provided that the owner of any property assessed may, at his option, pay such assessment in cash within thirty days after the passage of the assessing ordinances
Section 6—That bonds of the City shall be issued in anticipation of the levy and collection of assessments by installments and in an amount equal thereto
Section 7—That the remainder of the entire cost of said improvement not specially assessed, including the cost of intersections together with the cost of any real estate or interest therein, purchased or appropriated and the cost and expenses of any appropriation proceeding therefor, and the damages awarded any owner of adjoining lands and interest thereon, and the cost and expenses of any such award, shall be paid by the issuance of bonds as provided by law
Section 8—This resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.
Passed March 17, 1924
J.M. Gintner
President of Council
Attest—Grace R. Wile, Clerk
Approved March 20, 1924
M.R. Limb, Mayor.
March 22-23

Resolution No. 1074
Declaring it necessary to improve Scovel avenue from Pearl street to Pine street by paving said streets with brick or other suitable material
Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Wooster, State of Ohio, three-fourths of all members elected thereto concurring
Section 1—That it is necessary to improve Scovel avenue from Pearl street to Pine street, in the following manner by paving with brick or other suitable materials according to the plans and specifications prepared by the Engineer of the City
Section 2— That the grade of said street as improved shall be the grade now established by said city and that the curb shall be the same as shown by the plans, specifications and profiles
Section 3—That the plans, specifications, estimates and profiles of the proposed improvement, heretofore prepared by the Engineer and now on file in the office of the Director of Public Service be and the same the hereby approved
Section 4—That the whole cost of said improvement, less one-fiftieth thereof and the cost of the intersections shall be assessed by the foot front upon the following described lots and lands, to-wit All lots and lands, bounding and abutting upon the proposed improvement which said lots and lands are hereby determined to be specially benefited by said improvement, and the cost of said improvement shall include the expense of the preliminary and other surveys, and of printing and publishing the notices resolutions and ordinances required and the serving of said notices the cost of construction together with interest on bonds issued in anticipation of the collection of deferred assessments, and all other necessary expenditures.
Section 5—That the assessments so to be levied shall be paid in ten annual installments, with interest on deferred payments at the same rate as shall be borne by the bonds to be issued in anticipation of the levy and collection thereof; provided that the owner of any property assessed may, at his option, pay such assessment in cash within thirty days after the passage of the assessing ordinances
Section 6—That bonds of the City shall be issued in anticipation of the levy and collection of assessments by installments and in an amount equal thereto
Section 7—That the remainder of the entire cost of said improvement not specially assessed, including the cost of intersections together with the cost of any real estate or interest therein, purchased or appropriated and the cost and expenses of any appropriation proceeding therefor, and the damages awarded any owner of adjoining lands and interest thereon, and the cost and expenses of any such award, shall be paid by the issuance of bonds as provided by law
Section 8—This resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.
Passed March 17, 1924
J.M. Gintner
President of Council
Attest—Grace R. Wile, Clerk
Approved March 20, 1924
M.R. Limb, Mayor.
March 22-23

Resolution No. 1072
Declaring it necessary to improve Spring street from College avenue to North Buckeye street by paving said streets with brick or other suitable material
Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Wooster, State of Ohio, three-fourths of all members elected thereto concurring
Section 1—That it is necessary to improve Spring street from College avenue to North Buckeye street, in the following manner by paving with brick or other suitable materials according to the plans, specifications and profiles of the proposed improvement prepared by the Engineer of the City
Section 2— That the grade of said street as improved shall be the established grade as now existing and that the grade of the curb shall be the same as provided for in the profiles and specifications
Section 3—That the plans, specifications, estimates and profiles of the proposed improvement, heretofore prepared by the Engineer and now on file in the office of the Director of Public Service be and the same the hereby approved
Section 4—That the whole cost of said improvement, less one-fiftieth thereof and the cost of the intersections shall be assessed by the foot front upon the following described lots and lands, to-wit All lots and lands, bounding and abutting upon the proposed improvement which said lots and lands are hereby determined to be specially benefited by said improvement, and the cost of said improvement shall include the expense of the preliminary and other surveys, and of printing and publishing the notices resolutions and ordinances required and the serving of said notices the cost of construction together with interest on bonds issued in anticipation of the collection of deferred assessments, and all other necessary expenditures.
Section 5—That the assessments so to be levied shall be paid in ten annual installments, with interest on deferred payments at the same rate as shall be borne by the bonds to be issued in anticipation of the levy and collection thereof; provided that the owner of any property assessed may, at his option, pay such assessment in cash within thirty days after the passage of the assessing ordinances
Section 6—That bonds of the City shall be issued in anticipation of the levy and collection of assessments by installments and in an amount equal thereto
Section 7—That the remainder of the entire cost of said improvement not specially assessed, including the cost of intersections together with the cost of any real estate or interest therein, purchased or appropriated and the cost and expenses of any appropriation proceeding therefor, and the damages awarded any owner of adjoining lands and interest thereon, and the cost and expenses of any such award, shall be paid by the issuance of bonds as provided by law
Section 8—This resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.
Passed March 17, 1924
J.M. Gintner
President of Council
Attest—Grace R. Wile, Clerk
Approved March 20, 1924
M.R. Limb, Mayor.
March 22-23

Resolution No. 1071
Declaring it necessary to improve Spink street from East Bowman street to University street and University street from Spink street to Beall avenue by paving with brick or other suitable material
Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Wooster, State of Ohio, three-fourths of all members elected thereto concurring
Section 1—That it is necessary to improve Spink street from East Bowman street to University street and University street from Spink street to Beall avenue by paving with brick or other suitable material
Section 2— That the grade of said street as improved shall be the established grade as now existing and that the grade of the curb shall be the same as provided for in the profiles and specifications
Section 3—That the plans, specifications, estimates and profiles of the proposed improvement, heretofore prepared by the Engineer and now on file in the office of the Director of Public Service be and the same the hereby approved
Section 4—That the whole cost of said improvement, less one-fiftieth thereof and the cost of the intersections shall be assessed by the foot front upon the following described lots and lands, to-wit All lots and lands, bounding and abutting upon the proposed improvement which said lots and lands are hereby determined to be specially benefited by said improvement, and the cost of said improvement shall include the expense of the preliminary and other surveys, and of printing and publishing the notices resolutions and ordinances required and the serving of said notices the cost of construction together with interest on bonds issued in anticipation of the collection of deferred assessments, and all other necessary expenditures.
Section 5—That the assessments so to be levied shall be paid in ten annual installments, with interest on deferred payments at the same rate as shall be borne by the bonds to be issued in anticipation of the levy and collection thereof; provided that the owner of any property assessed may, at his option, pay such assessment in cash within thirty days after the passage of the assessing ordinances
Section 6—That bonds of the City shall be issued in anticipation of the levy and collection of assessments by installments and in an amount equal thereto
Section 7—That the remainder of the entire cost of said improvement not specially assessed, including the cost of intersections together with the cost of any real estate or interest therein, purchased or appropriated and the cost and expenses of any appropriation proceeding therefor, and the damages awarded any owner of adjoining lands and interest thereon, and the cost and expenses of any such award, shall be paid by the issuance of bonds as provided by law
Section 8—This resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.
Passed March 17, 1924
J.M. Gintner
President of Council
Attest—Grace R. Wile, Clerk
Approved March 20, 1924
M.R. Limb, Mayor.
March 22-23

Resolution No. 1070
Declaring it necessary to improve East and West Liberty street from the Pennsylvania railroad tracks westwardly to station 42 plus 00 by resurfacing said street with asphalt and proper binder
Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Wooster, State of Ohio, three-fourths of all members elected thereto concurring
Section 1—That it is necessary to improve East and West Liberty street, from the Pennsylvania railroad tracks westwardly to station 42 plus 00 in the following manner: by resurfacing said street with asphalt and proper binder, in accordance with the plans, specifications and profiles of the proposed improvement prepared by the City Engineer.
Section 2— That the grade of said street as improved shall be the established grade as now existing and that the grade of the curb shall be the same as provided for in the profiles and specifications
Section 3—That the plans, specifications, estimates and profiles of the proposed improvement, heretofore prepared by the Engineer and now on file in the office of the Director of Public Service be and the same the hereby approved
Section 4—That the whole cost of said improvement, less one-half thereof shall be assessed by the foot front upon the following described lots and lands, to-wit All lots and lands, bounding and abutting upon the proposed improvement which said lots and lands are hereby determined to be specially benefited by said improvement, and the cost of said improvement shall include the expense of the preliminary and other surveys, and of printing and publishing the notices resolutions and ordinances required and the serving of said notices the cost of construction together with interest on bonds issued in anticipation of the collection of deferred assessments, and all other necessary expenditures.
Section 5—That the assessments so to be levied shall be paid in ten annual installments, with interest on deferred payments at the same rate as shall be borne by the bonds to be issued in anticipation of the levy and collection thereof; provided that the owner of any property assessed may, at his option, pay such assessment in cash within thirty days after the passage of the assessing ordinances
Section 6—That bonds of the City shall be issued in anticipation of the levy and collection of assessments by installments and in an amount equal thereto
Section 7—That the remainder of the entire cost of said improvement not specially assessed, including the cost of intersections together with the cost of any real estate or interest therein, purchased or appropriated and the cost and expenses of any appropriation proceeding therefor, and the damages awarded any owner of adjoining lands and interest thereon, and the cost and expenses of any such award, shall be paid by the issuance of bonds as provided by law
Section 8—This resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.
Passed March 17, 1924
J.M. Gintner
President of Council
Attest—Grace R. Wile, Clerk
Approved March 20, 1924
M.R. Limb, Mayor.
March 22-23

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 22 May, 1924
pg 2
Personals
Mrs. M.R. Limb and Mrs. Chas. Barrett were guests at the Randall Barrett home, Mansfield, Wednesday.

The Evening Tribune
Marysville, Ohio
Saturday, 31 May, 1924
pg 1
* * *
Up to date the candidates for state offices who have filed their formal petitions with the secretary of state are as follows:
Governor—State Senator J.F. Burke of Elyria, James A. White of Columbus and former Governor Harry L. Davis of Cleveland, all Republicans.
Lieutenant Governor—Former Representative John F. Harrison, Fredricksburg; Charles H. Lewis, Harpster; Rev. Edwin Reed, Delaware; State Senator David A. Liggitt, Belle Center; State Senator J.F. Atwood, Columbus, and Carl A. Mcgee, Cincinnati, all Republicans, and former State Senator Thomas W. Latham, Monroeville, Democrat.
Secretary of State—Thad H. Brown of Columbus, Republican, present secretary of state.
State Auditor—H.E. McCollister of Columbus, Democrat, and State Auditor Joseph T. Tracy of Columbus, Republican, for re-election.
State Treasurer—E.E. Denune of Columbus, Democrat.
Associate Justice, State Supreme Court (two to be elected)—Harlan F. Burket of Findlay and Associate Justice James E. Robinson of Marysville, Republicans.
Governor Vick Donahey, Democrat; Attorney General C.C. Crabbe of London, Republican; State Treasurer Harry S. Day of Fremont, Republican; Lieutenant Governor Earl D. Bloom of Bowling Green, Democrat, and Associate Justice R.M. Wanamaker of Akron, Republican, are all expected to file for re-election to their respective offices.
List of other announced or expected candidates who have not yet formally filed includes the following:
Governor—Congressman John L. Cable of Lima, former Congressman Roscoe McCulloch of Canton; Joseph B. Sieber of Akron, reputed Klan candidate, and Homer Durand of Coshcoton, “beer and light wine” candidate of 1922, all Republicans.
Lieutenant Governor—Former Representative Huston T. Robins of Chillcothe, C.D. Boyd of Middletown, former State Senator R.G. Davis of Hamilton, former State Senator A.A. Galbreath of Rogers, and former State Senator Frank E. Whittemore of Akron, John E. McCrehen of Columbus, and Mrs. Wilma Sinclair Levan of Steubenville, all Republicans.
Attorney General—Bert B. Buckley of Dayton, Republican, and Prohibition Commissioner B.F. McDonald of Newark, Captain Thomas H. Morrow of Cincinnati, John W. Winn of Defiance, and D.F. Dunlacy of Ashtabula, Democrate.
Auditor—C.N. Greer of Dayton, Democrat.
Secretary of State—Mayor Marcus Limb of Wooster, Democrat.
Associate Justice—Frank W. Geiger of Springfield, Republican.
Indications now are that at least three Republican candidate for re-nomination for second terms will have no opposition in the August primaries. They are: State Auditor Tracy of Columbus, State Treasurer Day of Fremont and Secretary of State Brown of Columbus.
There is still plenty of time for opposing candidates to weigh in against any or all of these officials, but so far not an opponent for any one of them ha been mentioned. All three are “first termers.”

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 9 July, 1924
pg 5
Children’s Home Youth Will All Se Circus With Kiwanis Hosts
The youngsters at the county children’s home will have an opportunity to enjoy the Hagenbeck-Wallace circus which comes to Wooster on Friday.
Mayor M.R Limb received word from the management today that free tickets would be given to each youngster at the home.
Yesterday the mayor presented the matter to the Kiwanis club and E.P. Mott was placed in charge of a committee that has agreed to go to the Home, get the children, take them to the circus, entertain them, and take them back to the Home again.
It promises to be an extraordinary day for the children who do not have more than their share of holidays.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 2 August, 1924
pg 2
Will Enforce Traffic Laws More Strictly
Attention has been called by city officials that local traffic rules are not being obeyed. The absence until recently, of parking markers on the streets in the congested district due to the new paving, has perhaps contributed some to the laxity, but in the future the laws will be strictly enforced.
There are ten laws in the code and the new “Slow” signs on streets entering through streets makes eleven that will be enforced. They are as follows:
In backing out of parking spaces and in entering traffic, the machine entering the traffic is responsible for safe entry.
Machine must be backed only sufficient to gain clearance to enter traffic going on the right side of the road.
Park within the lines and where there are no lines, park along and close to the curb; avoid fire plugs, street, alley, and driveway intersections
No machine will be brought to a full stop on Liberty street except in regular parking spaces.
Machines will not make a complete turn on any street except at street intersections. Alleys are not street intersections.
Stick out your hand as an indication that you wish to stop, or turn, and give the machine in rear plenty of warning.
Two horns blowing at intersections, don’t keep machines apart. You are both responsible for the safety of yourself as well as the safety of the other fellow.
Long machines or large moving vans must not park on Liberty street, keep the end gate closed and don’t use the American flag in the place of a red rag as a danger signal.
Don’t ride on the running board, don’t over crowd the driver’s seat. Sixteen inches must be allowed for each person.
Ordinary care does not require a pedestrian to stop, look and listen for automobiles before crossing a street.
Slow signs placed on the street mean just what they say.
“It would be a difficult matter to point out which one is most disobeyed,” said Mayor Limb, “but I believe that the ones breaking the parking ordinances are the most frequent offenders.”
Drivers must park absolutely within the painted lines, and where lines are not painted, they must park parallel to the curb, he said.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 2 August, 1924
pg 2
Can’t Keep Sign A Secret
Police have been having difficulty in keeping the state sign at the corner of Beall Avenue and Bowman street, pointing to Akron, Ravenna, Kent and Warren, covered up.
“We covered the sign up,” said Mayor Limb, “because that road is closed and it only misdirects traffic. As soon as the road is open we will uncover it.”
This sign has been covered several times, and each time the covering has been taken off.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 2 August, 1924
pg 2
Refused Permission To String Banners
Advance agents of the Redpath Chautauqua were refused permission today by Mayor Limb to string their banners from pole to pole here.
Several were up this morning but were ordered taken down.
“There is a City ordinance against such measures,” said the mayor, “and what we refuse one, we cannot grant another.”
The Chautauqua agents were however given permission to place “A” boards in town to advertise the attraction.

Akron Beacon Journal
Akron, Ohio
Monday, 27 October, 1924
pg 1
Young Mother Held For Killing Child Soon After Birth
Tells Police She Strangled Babe Because It Hadn’t Chance To Live
Father Disowns Infant.
Wooster, O., Oct. 27.—A picture of stoic calm. Mrs. Blanche Tobias, 21, appeared before Mayor M.R. Limb today for arraignment on the charge of murdering her baby son, Homer Lloyd, two weeks old.
“Yes, I’m guilty,” she said before the mayor could complete the formal question. These were the only words she spoke at the hearing. She was remanded to jail to await grand jury action.
Her husband, notified yesterday of the child’s death, went to the infirmary last night for the body. He took it to Smithville, near here, where interment was made today. An older child, Elsie, two and half years old, was placed in the Children’s home today.
Returning to jail, Mrs. Tobias repeated her admission that she had killed her baby boy, “because it wouldn’t have a fair chance.”
Husband Denies Baby
“My husband wouldn’t believe the child was his” she said, “I thought it was better dead. Yes I killed it and I’m not sorry. The law can do what it will, the baby’s safe from a hard life, where people would sneer at him because my husband said he wasn’t his father.”
The woman was taken to the county infirmary by neighbors about two months ago, after a violent quarrel with her husband. She was found almost unconscious in the yard and said her husband had beaten her, claiming the child soon to be born was not his. The man was bound over to the grand jury, but later a reconciliation was effected.
Tobias saw the infant and again denied that he was its father.
“I held its nose with two fingers and with my other hand I choked it,” said the mother without emotion. “It died in about two minutes.”
Prosecutor C.O. Fritz will ask an early indictment of Mrs. Tobias, who has been left alone in her trouble. Neither her husband nor other relatives have yet visited her since her arrest.

The Sheboygan Press
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Monday, 27 October, 1924
pg 1
Mother Strangles Own Baby
Says Husband Would Not Acknowledge Child As His.
[By United Press]
Wooster, O.—Speaking without visible emotion, Mrs. Blanche Tobias, 21, pleaded guilty today of murdering her own child, because “my husband wouldn’t believe the baby was his, and I didn’t think my boy would have a fair chance in this world.”
“Yes, I’m guilty” she said in a quiet, firm voice when arraigned before Mayor M.R. Limb here, on a first degree murder charge.
Previously she had confessed to Prosecutor J.C. Fritz she strangled her two weeks’ old son, Homer Lloyd Tobias, Sunday.
Following her arraignment she calmly repeated her admission that she had killed her boy because “he never would have had a fair chance in this world.”
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Cleveland, O.—“I did not believe my baby would have a fair chance in this world—because my husband refuses to believe the child legitimate.”
With this explanation, Mrs. Blanche Tobias, 21, of Wooster, near here, admitted today to authorities there she strangled her two weeks old baby Sunday.
Prosecutor J.O. Fritz of Wooster today filed a first degree murder charge against the mother.
Admission of the killing came, according to Fritz, after Mrs. Tobias was confronted with a physician’s certificate which indicated the child had been strangled to death.
“I pinched my baby’s nose and pressed his throat. He died right away.” Mrs. Tobias told Fritz, he said. “My child would never have had a fair chance in this world; he didn’t look like his father.”
The husband, George Tobias, denied parentage of the child.
Two months before the baby’s birth, George and his father, Joseph Tobias, were charged with brutally beating the expectant mother. The charges were dropped when a reconciliation was effected.

Dalton Gazette
Dalton, Ohio
Thursday, 11 December, 1924
pg 8
Fined For Shooting Quail
A fine of $50 and costs was assessed by Mayor M.R. Limb Thursday last, against William Gessling after the latter entered a plea of guilty to the charge of shooting quail. Gessling maintained he shot at one quail he saw running on the ground because he wanted it for a member of the family who was ill, and that when he went for it he found the shot had killed a total of five birds. The incident which happened west of Wooster, was reported by Deputy Game Warden Wm. Holcomb, who investigated it.—Wooster Record.

The Plain Dealer
Cleveland, Ohio
Tuesday, 13 January, 1925
pg 1 & 5
Donahey Takes Oath Beginning Second Term
Plain Dealer Bureau.
21 S. High Street,
Columbus, O., Jan. 12.
At noon today A.V. Donahey stood in the hall of the house of representatives, raised his right hand and took the oath that started him on his second term as chief executive of Ohio.
A few moments before 12, O.T. Marshall, chief justice of the supreme court, and Judges Robert H. Day, E.S. Mathias, James E. Robinson and Thomas A. Jones, all wearing their black robes, filed down the center aisle of the hall and took seats below the speaker’s desk.
A little later Gov. Donahey appeared, walking at the right of Lieut. Gov. Charles E. Lewis. They were followed by Adj. Gen. Frank D. Henderson, Lieut. Col. John C. Volks, assistant adjutant general; Maj. Marcus Limb, mayor of Wooster, and Lieut. William H. Lyle of Cleveland, aides.
Behind them came Attorney General Charles C. Crabbe, Secretary of State Thad H. Brown, Treasurer of State Harry S. Day, Auditor of State Joseph T. Tracey and Jacob A. Meckstroth, secretary to the governor.
The members of house and senate had gathered in joint session. Hall and galleries were filled. The only decorations were floral offerings.
All rose as the governor entered, including the chief justice, who administered the oath to the governor and the lieutenant governor. Lieut. Gov. Lewis then was presented by his predecessor, Earl D. Bloom.
Mr. Lewis, seated at the side of Harry D. Silver, speaker of the house, introduced Judge Mathias, who administered the oath to Secretary of State Brown.
As the latter started to repeat the words, the first field gun that was firing the governor’s salute in the state house yard boomed and windows rattled.
Judge Robinson then administered the oath to Attorney General Crabbe; Judge Jones to Auditor Tracy and Judge Day to Treasurer Day.
When the ceremony was completed, the governor took his place at the clerk’s desk, faced the microphone through which his address was broadcast and commenced reading from the lengthy manuscript his secretary handed him.
He was greeted with applause, as were each of the other state officials who had taken the oath. The audience, during the reading of the message, was quiet and attentive; there was no more applause until he finished.
The reading consumed nearly an hour and the governor grew visibly fatigued, but his voice remained clear.
When he finished, the supreme court filed out, followed by the governor and his party and the simple ceremonies ended as the joint session dissolved.

Wins by Rugged Honesty.
Gov. Donahey thereupon entered into his second term, which he preceded by two terms of four years as auditor of state.
A candidate in 1920, he won the nomination without a contest but went down to defeat at the hands of former Gov. Harry L. Davis of Cleveland.
When the latter refused to try for a second term, Gov. Donahey defeated Col. Carmi A. Thompson of Cleveland, and this fall, when Gov. Davis again won the nomination it was only to go down to defeat at the hands of the man he had beaten four years ago.
This, in spite of the tremendous plurality given President Coolidge and all other Republican candidates on the state ticket.
When Gov. Donahey faced the legislators today, he confronted a group of men with whom he has been almost constantly at war from the time he first entered upon his duties as auditor of state.
From that day forward he was a constant thorn in the side of the general assemblies that came and went and this enmity existed without regard to party line.
The governor’s popularity, however, was based largely upon his reputation for rugged honesty and fearless independence of party leaders.
Time after time he clashed with the last legislature and he set a new mark as a veto governor.
This year, however, finds both governor and legislative leaders somewhat softened. All have protested their willingness and eagerness to co-operate and it is an open secret that many of them voted for Gov. Donahey in preference to Mr. Davis and some even worked for his election.
Opinions differ as to how far Republican and Democratic leaders will be content to let the governor and legislators go in an effort to work out a program based on something other than a desire to win political advantage.

The Dayton Herald
Dayton, Ohio
Thursday, 5 February, 1925
pg 4
Doors Guarded As Xenia Home Probe Is Begun
Final Attempt to Prevent Secrecy will be Made Despite Hopelessness.
Competitive Bidding To Be Aired At Start
Frequent Changes in Personnel at Institution Also Will Be Questioned.
Xenia, O., Feb. 5.—In the national guard armory, with a plainclothes sentinel standing at the door, a committee from the Ohio senate today opened its investigation of Sylvis Garver’s operation of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ home.
A last-minute attempt to force the committee to open its hearing to newspaper men was to be made by Senator Robert Adair of Wooster, one of the committee-men.
Expect Failure.
Adair, however, admitted that his attempt likely would fall short of its aim, as Senator L.G. Marshall, chairman of the committee, and a resident of this county, is determined that the investigation shall be secret.
Marshall said he may give Garver an opportunity to testify before the committee.
One of the first questions to come before the investigators is that of determining whether the competitive bidding law has been violated in buying food for the home.
Too Many Changes.
Another charge contained in the affidavits turned over to the senate by Governor Donahey, who ordered the probe, is that since Sylvis Garver took over the home there have been too many changes in his staff.
One senator told the United Press that 110 matrons have served in the home’s 32 cottages in the last three years.

Stay Two Days.
The committee and women came to Xenia from Columbus Wednesday night. Senator L.T. Marshall is chairman of the committee. He said the committee would be in session all day Thursday and Friday with possible night sessions in order to hear all the 40 witnesses who have been subpoenaed for those days in Xenia. It is not expected that the committee will be in session over Saturday. Further sessions may be held in Columbus.
The majority of the persons summoned are employes of the home, chiefly matrons and teachers. Several Xenia business men and two doctors are on the list which the committee would not permit being made public.
Judge Frank Allen of Washington C.H., a Republican hold-over member of the trustee board of the home, has been called to testify here, Senator Marshall said. Other trustees of the home may be called before the committee in Columbus. The other trustees are: D.Q. Morrow, Hillsboro; Charles Gebauer, Cleveland; Otto Noble, Columbus, and Marcus Limb, mayor of Wooster.

Ignores Criticism.
“Their petition had no merit at all,” said Senator Marshall referring to the unsuccessful efforts made by Marcus Shoup, counsel for Garver to secure an injunction blocking the probe. Senator Marshall paid little heed to criticism from friends of Garver because the committee is holding executive sessions from which Garver and his counsel are barred.
“This committee is not sitting as a court. It is simply an investigating body. It has no authority to make decisions; it can simply report the result of its investigation to the senate and governor and there its authority ceases.
No open and formal charges were ever made against Garver. In fact Attorney General Crabbe, who advised that the committee meet privately, said an open meeting in the nature of a hearing would be improper,” said Senator Marshall.
Don V. Parker, of the attorney general’s force, is assisting in the probe. There are three lawyers on the committee; Senator Marshall, Senator Robert L. Adair of Wooster and Senator Roy L. Gillen of Wellston. Other members are: Senators Nettie B. Loughhead of Cincinnati; Maud C. Wiatt of Cleveland; James R. Hopley of Bucyrus and George E. Lauby of Akron.

The Dayton Herald
Dayton, Ohio
Saturday, 7 February, 1925
pg 1 & 2
Testimony In Orphans’ Home Probe Is Ended
Senate Committee Concludes First Stage of Investigation at Xenia.
Xenia, O., Feb. 7.—Following the termination, Friday afternoon, of the local sessions of the senage standing committee on the Ohio Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans home, which spent Thursday and Friday here conducting an investigation into conditions at the institution, Senator L.T. Marshall, chairman of the committee, said that he was satisfied with the testimony that had so far been introduced.
The Friday afternoon session of the secret probe, which was held in the armory of the local national guard company, was terminated in time for members of the committee to get early trains for their homes. They were eager to be home for the week-end and all were very tired. For that reason a number of employes of the institution who had been subpoenaed but had not been called to testify were discharged as witnesses. Whether they will be called at the adjourned sessions in Columbus Senator Marshall was unable to say.
Denial Expected.
Superintendent Sylvis Garver’s complete denial of the accusations made by other witnesses in evidence, was expected, committee members said. He was under examination nearly three hours, Friday. Mrs. Garver was not called. Charles Gebauer, of Cleveland, D.Q. Morrow, of Hillsboro and Judge Frank Allen, of Washington C.H., trustees of the home were also examined Friday, as was Prof. W.S. Sackett, principal of the Home schools and Dr. W.H. Finley, a leading Xenia physician. Testimony regarding matter involving some of the trustees which developed at the probe, was denied by the board members mentioned when they were under examination.
Nature of the testimony rendered secretly before the investigating committee was not given out. Senator Marshall and other members of the committee held that to make any testimony known would be unfair and not in keeping with the plan of a private investigation.
The committee has held no conference since the probe opened and what its action will be cannot be determined. Other testimony to be introduced at the expected adjourned sessions in Columbus will probably be heard before the committee will get together and discuss its report. Transcripts of all the evidence taken will be submitted to the senate and Governor Donahey with the committee’s report, Chairman Marshall said.
The term of D.Q. Morrow, of Hillsboro, a Republican member of the Home trustee board, will expire in April. The term of Frank Allen, a Republican trustee of Washington C.H., terminated last April and he has been golding over. This leaves two places on the trustee board to be filled by Governor Donahey. The only Donahey appointee and only Democrat now holding membership on the board of trustees is Marcus Limb, the mayor of Wooster.
The two other members are Otho Noble, of Columbus, and Charles Gebauer of Cleveland.
Sylvis Garver was appointed superintendent of the Home to succeed Joseph P. Elton, of Hillsboro, by former Governor Davis, in April, 1921. Elton is a Democrat and his removal was due to his political faith. He had twice been head of the institution, serving for a number of years each time and had an excellent record which was shared by his wife, Mrs. Margaret Elton, as chief matron. Mrs. Elton is now matron of the Girls’ Industrial School at Delaware to which she was appointed by Governor Donahey.
Mrs. Garver, present chief matron of the institution, was before her marriage Anna Noble, an ex-pupil of the Home. Rules allowing increased freedom among the young people of the Home, more social affairs and outside diversions were adopted under the Garver administration.

The Akron Beacon Journal
Akron, Ohio
Thursday, 19 February, 1925
pg 15
Wooster Wants Help With Grade Crossing.
Medina, Feb. 19.—Mayor M.R. Limb of Wooster has revived the effort to obtain protection at the dangerous grade crossings in Creston, following the killing of Budd Jordan a few days ago. Mayor Limb wrote to Gov. Donahey on the subject, who has replied stating that the communication had been referred to the state highway director for investigation.

The Dayton Daily News
Dayton, Ohio
Saturday, 28 February, 1925
pg 3
Ten Witnesses Are Examined.
Xenia, Feb. 28.—Ten witnesses were examined at the resumed senate committee hearing of the charges against the administration of the O.S. and S.O. Home in Columbus Thursday, according to Senator L.T. Marshall, Xenia, chairman.
The hearing will be resumed again next Thursday. J.P. Elton, former superintendent of the Home; Marcus Limb, mayor of Wooster, and member of the Home trustee board; Otto Noble, Columbus, member of the board; Edward Radcliffe, Delaware, former chauffeur at the institution and Mess Jennie Nesbitt, Columbus, former teacher at the home were among witnesses examined.

The Akron Beacon Journal
Akron, Ohio
Tuesday, 21 April, 1925
pg 27
Police Obtain Confession To Alleged Acts
Shreve Resident Admits He Cashed Bad Checks Amounting To $124
Chief Conducts Grilling
Arrest Follows Actions At Fredericksburg—Used Millbrook Man’s Name.
Wooster, April 21.—Fred Anderson, of Shreve, R.D. 1, was bound over to the wayne county grand jury here late Monday afternoon on a charge of forging checks following his arrest here Monday morning. Anderson is alleged to have admitted forging checks several months ago amounting to $124.
The trial was heard before Mayor M.R. Limb. No bond was fixed for Anderson’s release.
The alleged forger was put through a severe grilling by Henry, chief of police, after his arrest. He admitted forging three checks, of $42, $42 and $40 amounts several months ago, police said.
Tore Up Checks
Anderson was arrested after an attempt to cash a check at a bank in Fredericksburg. The cashier refused to cash the check and Anderson is alleged to have torn the check. His action aroused the suspicion of the cashier who called police but Anderson was already out of town before police arrived.
He was arrested shortly afterwards on the outskirts of Wooster. He is alleged to have used the name of Charles E. Keiser, of Millbrook. The amount of the check presented at the Fredericksburg bank is said to be $21.50.
Police believe that the man had cashed forged checks in Millersburg and Loudonville but Anderson denied the charge.

The Akron Beacon Journal
Akron, Ohio
Saturday, 9 May, 1925
pg 15
Former Akron Man Sent to Workhouse
Smithville Hotel Owner Fails To Pay $1,000 Liquor Fines.
Wooster, May 9.—C.C. Kimball, wealthy restaurant and hotel owner, has been taken to the Canton workhouse, after refusing to pay a fine of $100 that was levied against him by Mayor M.R. Limb, for the possession of liquor in his hotel in Smithville last week.
Kimball is well known in Wooster and was a big real-estate dealer in Akron during the war. It was said that all of his money is in his wife’s and children’s names. Also his restaurant in Wooster is in his daughter’s name, called Kimball Sisters restaurant.

The Enquirer
Cincinnati, Ohio
Sunday, 7 June, 1925
pg 32
Home Issues To Decide Battles
Of Mayoralty Aspirants in Most Ohio Cities.
Organizations Said To Be at Low State.
By Herbert R. Mengert.
Special Dispatch to The Enquirer.
Columbus, Ohio, June 6.—Reports from over Ohio recently appear to give indication that extraneous issues like the Ku Klux Klan, prohibition and such things are not to play as important a part in the selection of Mayors of Ohio cities as they did two years ago. All surveys seem to show that the Klan is on the wane and that the issues of religious bigotry and prejudice are being washed out in the sober second judgment of the people.
This story is brought back to the Capital by those going about the state. They admit political interest is at a low ebb, but there is the feeling that underlying sentiments of the populace are veering against religion in politics.
The factor that appears to be taking prohibition out of municipal issues is that liquor is just as easy to obtain under prohibition. Candidates who were elected two years ago under promises to “clean up” the bootlegging rings could in many instances be confronted with opponents who had exactly the same sort of pleas.
The public, if the scouts are not all wrong, set this down as a sample of partisan “hokum” and prepare to look at the tax rates and condition of the streets and things of more consequence than discussions of prohibition.
Bootlegging has come to have a definite place in the social organization and the “booticians,” as some one called them, are beginning to attain to the Scriptural place of the poor improvident. Does not the Bible tell the people that “the poor you shall always have with you?”
Nor do people appear to care for partisan labels. In municipal affairs people look to the man, as they have come to do in sate affairs, too, in Ohio in recent years. These things are mentioned because the lists of municipal candidates are made out next week in nearly all the cities that still have the old forms of government. The final date is June 12.
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Probably never in the history of Ohio were the party organizations weaker than they are today. There ws a time when they ran the city organizations and denied strong men renominations when they did not perform on minor matters to suit the “bosses.” Today the organizations eat out of the hands of popular officials.
An illustration of the tendency was seen in Toledo only a few days ago where the cohorts of Walter Folger Brown begged Mayor Bernard H. Brough, a successful Mayor, to stand for another term. he declined, as he expects to stand next year for the Sixth District Court of Appeals against Judge Samuel N. Young, an appointee of Governor A.V. Donahey, whose selection was opposed by many influential Toledoans.
Vice Mayor Fred J. Mery, former State Representative, is likely to be chosen to succeed him, while the Democrats are at sea over a candidate.
Contests in the primaries are to be few. In this the partisan organizations are to reap the benefit of the Sullivan law, enacted two years ago over the Governor’s veto, which forbids a defeated primary aspirant from running independently in the general election. The alternative of disaffected interests is to wait until the November election and make insurgent movements really hurt.
In Chillicothe there is a sample of the rebel tactics proposed by friends of Albert Scholl. Mayor A.P. Minshall is seeking a renomination as a Republican and is to be forced to run two gauntlets, the first as against a flock of primary contenders, including Walter S. Story and Rudolph Sriesheimer, and the second in a contest with a Democrat, as yet not selected, and with Scholl.
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In Newark the Democrats are to have a contest for the nomination for Mayor, James Swartz, grocer, being entered against Andrew Jackson Crilly, veteran office holder. In Mt. Vernon, where the present Mayor has been on trial for allowing a 25-cent poker game to go unmolested, the Democrats expect to offer the people a reform administration and have picked out R.L. Jones, high school teacher, church worker and reformer, to run. It may be a campaign between the advocates of the great American game of “raise huh” and the uplift.
In Wooster, down staters are casting an eye on Mayor Marcus Limb, Democrat, to see what sort of showing he makes. Limb has been touted as a prospective piece of timber for state office. His race at home is to be watched. The Republicans are looking for a gladiator who can “trim the Mayor” and have a number under survey, including George W. Palmer and former Mayor Forbes Alcock. In East Liverpool, Mayor Charles Brown, a pronounced dry, has opposition for another Republican nomination with John Leighhue as his opponent.

Dayton Daily News
Dayton, Ohio
Saturday, 4 July, 1925
pg 9
Fails To Appoint
No Action By Board On O.S. and S.O. Home Superintendency.
Xenia, July 4.—The board of trustees of the O.S. and S.O. Home failed to select a successor to Sylvis Garver, as superintendent, at its meeting last night.
It was announced another session would be held within a week, either in Xenia or Columbus.
In the meantime, Charles Brill, foreman of the shoe department, will fill the post. He was given a temporary appointment this week.
Maj. Marcus Limb, Wooster, presided over last night’s meeting.

The Akron Beacon Journal
Akron, Ohio
Thursday, 6 August, 1925
pg 21
Crippled Veteran Is Charged With Theft.
Wooster, Aug. 6.—Lysle Fesler, crippled World war veteran, who was surprised while removing money from a cash drawer at the C.S. & Co. car barns office, was fined $10 and costs before Mayor M.R. Limb, and agreed to move out of the city immediately.

The Times Recorder
Zanesville, Ohio
Wednesday, 12 August, 1925
pg 11
Partial List of Ohio Nominees For Mayor
Columbus, O, Aug. 11.—(AP)—The following is a partial list of nomination for mayor throughout the state in today’s primary election, unofficial returns tonight show:
Bellefontaine—James Detrich, R; Mr. Gibbon, D
Ironton—J.A. Moulton, R; C.W. Golden, D.
Marion—Earl Hazen, R; John A. Abel, D.
Logan—G.H. Richester, R; E.F. Bright, D.
Portsmouth—Ralph Calvert, R; John P. Jones, D.
Alliance—Carl Hary, R; Ira E. Stevens, D.
Bellaire—F.E. Conwell, R; William Kompart, D.
Mansfield—J.C. Ports, R; Karl H. Stander, D.
Dover—Perry J. Tovart, R; Peter J. Groh, D.
New Philadelphia—Oliver J. Demuth, R; William Hurst, D.
Washington, C.H.—R.G. Allen, R; V.J. Dahl, D.
Wooster—William H. Black, R; Marcus R. Limb, D.
Lorain—William A. Miller, R; William F. Bramm, D.
Elyria—William N. Harding, R; Henry Hinkson, D.
Warren—John H. Marshall, R; William Kilpatrick, D.
Kenmore—H.B. Johnson, R; Samuel Goodman, D.
Chillicothe—Walter S. Story, R; J. Robert Bunning, D.
Willard—E.N. McMorris, R; Frank Wallace, D.
Ravenna—W.A. Lyons, R; A.H. Austin, D.
East Liverpool—J.S. Wilson, R; Ralph Benedum, D.
Barberton—Carmen Taylor, R; W.A. Witmer, D.
Fostoria—L.W. Gibson, R; Edward A. Kurtz, D.
Kent—John B. Gillespie, Jr., R; W.I. Harvey, D.
Tiffin—R.R. Hayes, R; John Dreitzler, D.
Troy—George H. Stokes, R; Summer McClain, D.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday 12 August, 1925
pg 1
Black And Limb Are Nominated For Mayor
Kauffman Is Rep. Nominee For Solicitor
Fourteen Hundred Votes Are Polled by Electors in City of Wooster.
[SEE GRAPH]
William H. Black, Republican, and Marcus R. Limb, Democrat, were nominated yesterday as the candidates of the two parties for mayor of Wooster.
Voters will select one of them to be the city’s chief executive for the next two years, at the election in November.
Oscar Kauffman defeated David Taggart for the Republican nomination for solicitor in the only other contest.

Limb Majority 104
Limb received 379 votes to 275 for Van Over, a majority of 104. He carried the third ward and the second ward, while Van Over had majorities in the first ward, and in his own, the fourth. Limb carried nine of the fifteen precincts, five went to Van Over, and the remaining one showed a tie vote. Limb is now serving his second term.
Black scored an impressive victory over his two opponents, demonstrating the assertion made during the last few days that he had the backing of a majority of the leaders of the local Republican organization. He counted 383 votes, three more than were cast for the Democratic opponent. Former Mayor Forbes Alcock was second ? with 190 votes, with Geo. W. Palmer close to him with 177. Black had a plurality of 192 votes and a majority over both his opponents of 15 votes.

Kauffman 84 Ahead
Kauffman received 384 votes to 300 for Taggart.
Democrats nominated no candidate to oppose Kauffman. Names of several candidates were written in, but to be nominated, a candidate must get eight per cent of the vote cast, about 60 in this instance. There were 18 votes for Walter J. Mouget, eight for Benton G. ?, three for A.D. Metz, three for ? Hoover, two for Judge W.?. Weygandt and one each for W.R. ? Wayne Hart, Ed Leies, Glen ?, F.M. VanOver and P.F. Ault.
A total of 1403 votes were cast for mayor, a trifle less than ? the precinct, and probably twenty-five per cent of the total vote.
The count was make quickly last night, and within an hour after the polls closed first precincts were reporting. By 8:30 practically all of the vote for mayor had been reported, and at 9 o’clock, a complete tabulation of the vote for mayor and solicitor was available at the Record office, where a considerable group of interested persons gathered to examine the figures.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday 12 August, 1925
pg 1
Charge Nickelson With Transportation of Girl
Telem Nickelson, who until recently had been employed in Wooster as a chef, was bound over to the grand jury by Mayor M.R. Limb today under $1,000 bond.
Nickelson was brought back to Wooster today from Elyria, where he was arrested yesterday. A charge was made against the man by Prosecutor J.O. Fritz to the effect that he transported and obtained transportation for one Dale Miller from Wooster to Elyria, for the purpose of having the girl lead an immoral life.
The girl, who had worked in a local restaurant, was located a few days ago at Elyria, and now is at the hoe of relatives at ??.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday 12 August, 1925
pg 3
Resurfacing Local Street
Highway Traffic is Detoured Today While Work is Going on.
Traffic over the Lincoln and CCC highways was detoured just west of the city today while The General Asphalt company was applying a thin coat of asphalt to the stretch of road within the city limits on the west side of the fair grounds. From the B. & O. switch leading to the brick plant to a point near the turn the brick surface was being recovered through arrangements made by Manager Sam Pace, of the paving company, and local city officials.
The city has been paying $9 a ton for asphalt in Kentucky. Pace is laying this batch for $8 a ton and paying the cost of labor himself, having agreed to do this to keep his men busy part of this week. The company will begin next week to put the asphalt coat on Emerick Bowman and North Grant streets.
Mayor Limb stated today that the company may, when the fair grounds job is completed, do some asphalt patch work on North Market street.
City Engineer C.L. Orr stated this afternoon that a part of the money received from the auto tax fund will be used to pay for the resurfacing work now in progress.
The asphalt on the job in progress today is 16 feet wide leaving a berm of three feet of brick on either side.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday 12 August, 1925
pg 3
Held To Grand Jury
Ben Scarcella waived examination before Mayor M.R. Limb last evening and asked to be bound over to the grand jury on a charge of assault and battery preferred by Elmer Amstutz. The charge was preferred following a fight between the men at the Wooster Farm Dairies Co. Bond was fixed at $100.

The Rittman Press
Rittman, Ohio
Thursday, 13 August, 1925
pg 8
Foster Daughter Of A.L. Shook Has Thrilling Experience
Mary Louise Kennedy, foster daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.L. Shook of Bloomington, had a serious experience last Friday night.
Miss Kennedy was returning to the Shook home from a nearby residence when a stranger asked her to get into his machine.
Miss Kennedy at first refused, but then entered when the man advised her he would leave her out of the car at her home.
When the girl entered the machine, the man put the car in operation and drove most of the night, returning her to Wooster early Saturday morning.
A.L. Shook, a former Rittman boy, foster father of the girl, in company with other Bloomington citizens searched for her during the night without availing anything.
On Saturday night Clair Anderson of Wooster was arrested who admitted his guilt in the case. Mayor Limb bound him over to the grand jury under bond of $1000.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 13 August, 1925
pg 3
General Wooster’s Early Arrival Is Hinted For Close Study Of City Named In His Honor
Vague reports were in circulation today to the effect that General David Wooster will heed the suggestion of Mayor M.R. Limb that he come to Wooster by automobile or train or airplane instead of clinging to his regular mode of travel by horseback.
The general’s messenger was sent back by train, and should have arrived on Tuesday. Although festivities in his honor being planned here will not take place for several weeks it is rumored that the General is anxious to make a rather extended stay here, and that he may drop in almost any day, spending the intervening days in enjoying the scenes in and about the city named in his honor.
It is even reported that he will be registered at Hotel Wooster — wherever that is — and, in all probability, will remain incognito for the time being, desiring to keep his identity secret in order that his formal and official welcome will lose none of its interest or pomp or ceremony, so that this occasion will mark his first public appearance.
General Wooster, however, is reported as a rather emphatic individual, prone to express his opinions without fear or favor, and it is deemed possible that some of his impressions of this city will “find their way into the public print” as he would express it from time to time.
His intention to come here, and the letter of welcome addressed to him by the mayor, have excited much interest in his visit, so that his coming is awaited with great interest.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 13 August, 1925
pg 3
Calls Meeting To Plan Suitable Reception For General Wooster
Mayor M.R. Limb today called a meeting for next Wednesday at 7:30 o’clock p.m. at the council chamber to make preliminary plans for the reception to be tendered General David Wooster when the latter visits the city named in his honor.
The mayor authorized the Record to extend an invitation to delegates from all civic or fraternal organizations interested in this event, to be present at this meeting to have a hand in the development of plans for the affair.
Indications point to a celebration on a much larger scale than was contemplated when the suggestion of having General Wooster come here was first made.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 13 August, 1925
pg 3
More Asphalt Repair Work
Beall Avenue, from Bowman street north to the Beall Avenue school house, has been treated with a coat of asphalt by The General Asphalt Co., thus eliminating the rough spots on this roughest part of the street.
The Lincoln highway, west of the fair grounds, for several hundred feet, and Spruce street, from Market to below Vine are other streets that received similar repair treatment during the week.
Some patch work on North Market street is in contemplation, Mayor M.R. Limb said Saturday.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 17 August, 1925
pg 2
Arrested for Fighting, He Hits a Peacemaker
A man who gave his name as Rocoo Terzino was arrested last night at the intersection of Massaro avenue and Pittsburg avenue, and locked up, charged with disorderly conduct and intoxication. Police were told the man started a fight with his brother-in-law, John Grandee, who attempted to step in as a peacemaker, and received a punch on the jaw as thanks. Officers found a knife on the street which, it was said, Terzino had threatened to use on his opponent.
Mayor Limb assessed a fine of $10 and costs when the man was arraigned at noon.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 18 August, 1925
pg 7
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Council Gives Freedlanders Bridge Right
Enacts Ordinance Permitting Construction of Passageway Over Alley.
Wooster city council last night enacted an ordinance granting permission to The H. Freedlander Co. to build a passageway over the alley west of their present West Liberty street store, to connect with the building on the west side of the alley, which is being remodeled for store purposes by the same company.
The ordinance was enacted over a protest voiced by Judge L.R. Critchfield, attorney for O.B. Shlossnagel, who recently secured a temporary injunction restraining the construction of the bridge. Judge Critchfield argued that adoption of the ordinance would establish a precedent by council in granting private interests right in public thoroughfares and that it would, in the future, make it more difficult for council to preserve its streets and alleys free from obstructions. Mr. Shlossnagle, in addressing council, asked for delay until Nick Amster, Shlossnagel’s employer, returns.

Permit Signs
Councilmen expressed the opinion that the courts would protect Mr. Amster’s rights and that they were not interested in a controversy between the two firms. It was pointed out by Councilman Coffey that council has an ordinance prohibiting any signs being erected in the streets, more than three feet out from a building. Mr. Coffey contended that this ordinance, by implication, gave property owners the right to erect signs within the three-foot limit, and he argued that this was a general ordinance granting private interests rights in public streets.

No Obstruction
The committee on streets, of which Councilman F.A. Shambaugh is chairman since the resignation of A.D. Reed, reported that the committee had studied the matter thoroughly and was favorable to granting the right, since the passageway was 12 feet eight inches high, would not interfere in any way with traffic, and would be of benefit to the public in making a safe way from one store to the other.
Upon the suggestion of Mayor M.R. Limb, a section was included in the ordinance by which the Freedlander company agrees to remove the bridge now in use when the new one is completed. Herman Freedlander, who was before council, stated this would be done within two weeks after the new passageway is completed.
Mayor Limb had taken the matter up with Fire Chief Snavely, who, after a careful investigation, reported that the passageway met all state requirements concerning fire hazards and was not considered a menace.

Safeguards City
The ordinance throws some safeguards around the city’s interests, guaranteeing the city against any damage claims that might arise from its construction and providing that the passageway shall be removed within 30 days if council at any time, in the face of changing conditions, deems it an obstruction.
Mayor Limb answered a charge that he had given his consent to the construction whereas the authority to do so was in council, by stating that in many similar problems, action is taken after he consults one or more committee members of council, in order to eliminate the necessity of council holding numerous special meetings.
Work on the bridge was not resumed this morning since it is held up pending a decision by Judge Starn on the injunction brought by Mr. Shlossnagle.

Light on Cushman Street
The matter of providing a larger light or an additional light on Cushman street was referred to the committee on lights.
The budget ordinance of the next year, asking for approximately $52,000 for the city’s needs was adopted by council. Mayor Limb stated that the sum asked is $1,058 less than the city was supposed to get during the present year.

Resolution For Reed
A resolution was adopted calling attention to the fine service rendered the city by A.D. Reed, chairman of council’s street committee, who resigned at the last meeting, going to California. His faithful service, tireless work and willing co-operation were stressed in the resolution. All members of council and other city officers signed the resolution, a copy of which is to be sent to Mr. Reed.
Mayor Limb, before the close of the meeting, called attention to co-operation the city is receiving from the East Ohio Gas Co., the M.W. & O. Tel. Co. and the Wooster Electric Co. in the matter of moving poles or wires and installing new pipes along streets which are being improved.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 19 August, 1925
pg 3
Meet Tonight to Plan For Wooster’s Welcome
Tonight at 7:30 o’clock, at the mayor’s office in city hall, representatives of various local club and fraternal organizations will gather to map out plans to welcome General David Wooster, after whom this city was named.
The representatives will receive general suggestions upon which to work to make a really big event in Wooster.
The meeting was called by Mayor M.R. Limb who urges individuals who are interested and representatives of all organizations to be on hand to make plans.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 20 August, 1925
pg 1
Several Bids For Autos
Several local automobile companies, including E.C. Brenner, The Champion Buick Co., Johnston Bros., the Reo Company, the Coppock Motor Co., submitted bids today to sell the city a truck for the police department. Mayor Limb stated at 2:30 p.m. that the board of control has not yet determined the lowest and best bid.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 20 August, 1925
pg 1
Two Men Are Fined
Sam Busson and Joseph Vetter, arrested last night on the premises of the Kilne home, West Vine street, were arraigned before Mayor M.R. Limb today. Busson was fined $50 and costs for driving an automobile while intoxicated and Vetter $25 and costs for having been intoxicated.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Friday, 21 August, 1925
pg 12
More Drinking Fountains Can Be Used Here
First Four Finds Places Down Town and Quench Thirst of Pedestrians.
Residents of Wooster and visitors in the city were quenching their thirst today from the second of the four white sanitary drinking fountains being put in place in the business section.
The first fountain was erected a few days ago at the south side of the public square. The second one was completed yesterday in a corresponding position at the north side of the square, in front of the offices of The Wooster Electric Co.
Two more are here, ready to be installed, one on West Liberty near ?? and one on East Liberty, north side, just east of Buckeye ?.
The fountains were bought by the Women’s Federated clubs.
“We think they are well placed,” said Mayor M.R. Limb today. They supply the business section ?. Now, wouldn’t it be fine if some other organization would buy four more just like them? We could put them out a couple of blocks each way from the square, one down near Beall avenue or Liberty, and one near Columbus avenue, one up near the Methodist church and one on South Market, near Henry.”
The mayor indicated that if some organization would supply the fountains the city will do, as it has done in this case, take care of the cost of installation.

NOTE: A special celebration in honor of General David Wooster, in whose honor the city of Wooster was named, was planned for October 1925. See Wooster, Wayne Co., Ohio.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 25 August, 1925
pg 2
Personals
Mayor and Mrs. M.R. Limb and two children returned last evening from a weekend trip to Xenia, where the mayor attended a meeting of the trustees of the Xenia orphans home and from Chillicothe, Ohio, where they attended the American Legion convention yesterday.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 25 August, 1925
pg 3
Mary Johnson Is Fined $500 By Mayor Limb
Enters Plea of Guilty to Selling Liquor From Premises in Wooster.
Mrs. Mary Johnson of South Walnut street, was fined $500 and costs last night before Mayor M.R. Limb after she entered a plea of guilty to a charge of selling liquor.
Officers, it is reported, have been watching the Johnson premises for some time because of rumors that intoxicating liquors have been available there.
Mrs. Johnson arranged, immediately after being fined, to pay the amount of the fine, and the case was closed up today, $500 being added to the city treasury. Mrs. Johnson was released from custody last night.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 25 August, 1925
pg 3
Two Men Are Fined
Charles Orr was fined $25 and costs before Mayor M.R. Limb last night after pleading guilty to a charge of having been intoxicated. John Santangelo was fined $15 and costs on a similar charge.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 26 August, 1925
pg 4
Let Auto Contract Soon
No contract has been made by the city for the purchase of an automobile for the police department and a truck chassis for the fire department. Mayor Limb stated today that a decision may be reached in the matter in the course of the next few days. Several bids are considered very good and are close.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 29 August, 1925
pg 2
School Water Satisfactory
Water analyses of the sources supplying city schools, and other public needs, were ordered some time ago by Mayor M.R. Limb and reports have been received concerning several. Among the samples sent in were several samples of city water on which no reports have been received. The analysis has shown the following:
Beall avenue school, satisfactory.
Pittsburg avenue school, satisfactory.
Walnut street school, satisfactory.
Parochial school, satisfactory.
High school, satisfactory.
Strock filling station, satisfactory.
Wayne Co. Court House, satisfactory.
Miller well, West Liberty street, doubtful.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 31 August, 1925
pg 3
Costly Trip, No Elderberries
Tro is Nabbed Here For Being Intoxicated.
Tony Monahan, his good wife Mary, and Thomas Murphy, a friend of the family, traveling in an automobile and accompanied by one pint of whiskey, whisked down from Cleveland yesterday with the intention of gathering some elderberries. They planned to use the elderberries to fortify the family home against the ravages of a hard winter.
Good intentions, however, often go wrong and so they did in this case. The occupants of the car misjudged their capacity for red liquor and when they got to Wooster the coils of the law tightened about them. They had not even caught sight of an elderberry patch.
Monahan was fined $50 and costs for driving an automobile while intoxicated, Mary was fined $25 and costs for bing intoxicated, and Mr. Murphy drew a like sentence from the court of Mayor M.R. Limb.
And the trio went back to Cleveland without any elderberries.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 3 September, 1925
pg 2
Fined For Driving With a Cutout Open
Edward Markey was fined $5 and costs before Mayor M.R. Limb last night for driving an automobile with the cutout open. Police indicated today that other arrests will follow for similar offenses unless the practice is abated immediately.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 3 September, 1925
pg 10
Signing City Bonds to Give Contractors Money
Final steps are being taken this week by city officials to deliver the $1180,000 issue of street improvement bonds to the treasurer of state who will accept them on behalf of the Ohio Teachers’ retirement fund. As soon as they are delivered the contractors paving local streets will be able to get that part of their money which is due up to the present time.
Mayor M.R. Limb and City Auditor Grace B. Wile each must sign the 372 bonds twice, making 1,500 signatures in all that must be affixed before the task is done. The city’s official seal must also be placed on each bond.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 8 September, 1925
pg 4
Fined $250 In Liquor Case
Earl Franks, who lives in Bloomington, was fined $250 and costs on Saturday before Mayor Limb for having liquor in his possession. Franks has been employed in Akron. Officers found only a small quantity when they placed him under arrest.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Friday, 11 September, 1925
pg 7
Kiwanis Aggregation Trims Medal Pavers
The baseball team from the Medal Brick and Tile company found tossing the playground ball a little different from passing pavers last night and got the short end of a 15 to 4 score with Mose Hole’s Kiwanis team.
In spite of the one sidedness of the score, the game was much better than the score would indicate. Both teams scored in the early innings and the Kiwanis, while they were at it, scored more than enough to win.
Louie Snavely had a busy evening. He gathered in several long ones in center field and then scored four funs to help the offense. Joe Kuhles made the circuit three times.
Maines pitched for the Lunchettes. Good support by King and Hole helped him over the rough spots.
Shumaker started to pitch for the brick makers but had very little to puzzle the hitters. With Tom Smigh on the hill the Kiwanians were set down scoreless until the seventh, when three runs were chased over.
The Station and K. of C. teams were also booked to play last evening. Neither team had a full nine in the field and a pick up game was played. While scores were not as plentiful as expected no effort was made to keep track of them and the game was finally called on account of darkness by Mayor Limb, who got tired calling balls and strikes and wanted to go home.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 12 September, 1925
pg 5
Kiwanians On Winning Side
Capture a Majority of Athletic Events in Dual Meet With Rotarians.
Kiwanians for the second consecutive year, emerged victorious over Rotarians in a duel athletic meet held yesterday afternoon, culminating in a picnic supper at the new high school park.
Rotarions proved their unquestioned superiority in golf, winning six matches, losing three, and tying two and when it came to the after eating events of balloon racing and hoop racing, they were again predominant.
In the interim, however Kiwanians won decisive victories in horseshoes, baseball and in the tug of war so that when a final total of points was amassed, it was found that the younger organization was ahead, 70 to 55.
The contestants in tennis broke even, each side scoring five points through winning one match.
The baseball score was 26 to 2 in favor of the Kiwanians, who started a merry go round early in the fray and turned on the power almost any time they wanted to take a ride. The lineups were:
Kiwanians — Shamp, c; Maines, p; Murray, 1b; Kuhler, 2b; Hole, ss; King, 3b; Wile, lf; Snavely, cf; Whitaker, rf.
Rotarians — Dickason, c; Weiser, p; Miller, 1b; Boles, 2b; Limb ss; Gibbens, 3b; Bowman, lf; McIntyre and Smith, cf; Prosser, rf.
Kiwanian horseshoe pitchers won seven games out of nine, taking each one of the three sets.
The tug of war started out as an eight on a side affair but ended up with a majority of the members of rival clubs on opposite ends of the rope, the trend of which was in a general Kiwanis direction.
The feature of the balloon race was Congressman John McSweeney’s feat of sitting squarely upon his inflated sphere just about the time he got it to the edge of the creek. It was disastrous for the balloon.
Bill Curry is still looking for the accommodating referee who told him there was no water in the creek just prior to the hoop contest. He took his hoop right across the creek and followed it through.
Dr. G.N. Luccock’s ability as a ball player had remained one of the secrets of his life until he was placed on third in a game that followed the regular contest.
John D. McKee, Kiwanis president, was presented with a “dime and pin” by members of the baseball team which changed its name from the Roughnecks to McKee’s Angels. Clyde Miller, as a councilman, appeared out of order when a vote was taken in the matter. That was just after Mose Hole pressed the electric button that sent Miller and several other diners to their feet in a most impromptu manner.
The house committee of both clubs provided an excellent lunch which came as a climax to the sports program.
One of the events of the later afternoon was a tour of inspection of the park, led by Edmund Secrest, a member of the park board.
A considerable number of the club members in attendance admitted that it was their first visit to the new park and all of them were surprised at the progress which has been made.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 15 September, 1925
pg 2
Society

Fed. Of Women’s Clubs
The first meeting of the year, of the Wooster Federated Clubs, was held at the high school, Monday afternoon. Mrs. F.E. Boigegrain presided. Plans for the new work for the coming club year were explained by the president. Mayor Limb notified the Federation that 150 street signs had been ordered in compliance to the request, made last spring, by the Federation. Plans were discussed for placing signs along the highway, notifying tourists of the new rest room. An appeal from residents of Pearl street was heard regarding observing traffic rules at intersecting streets on account of the danger to little children attending kindergarten. Pearl street is one of the newer streets which has just been paved and speeding seems to be a daily occurrence. Residents report several near accidents to children attending the Beall Avenue school. The next meeting will be Monday, October 12th.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 16 September, 1925
pg 2
Speakers Talk Of Constitution
Several Organizations Met Last Evening in Memorial Hall For Addresses.
The organizations which in Memorial hall held a joint meeting last evening under the auspices of the Sons of Veterans to observe Constitution week. Commander Wilmot Snyder of the Sons of Veterans camp was in charge of a program of music and speaking. He called upon representatives of different orders and responses were made by Comrade John Bryant for the G.A.R., by Major M.R. Limb for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Congressman McSweeney for the American Legion, Attorney H.R. Smith for the Sons of Veterans, Miss Orra Brown for the Daughters of Veterans and Mrs. A.R. Williams for the W.R.C. Miss Allen was pianist for the opening and closing songs and for Miss Ruth Faud in her vocal selections.
At the close of the program Rev. S.M.F. Nesbitt gave an inspiring address. The chief addresses of the evening were given by Attorney H.R. Smith, Mayor Limb and Congressman McSweeney.
Mr. Smith showed what the constitution guarantees in each American citizen and pointed out that some of the blessings guaranteed by the constitution are lost because the American people do not go to the polls on election days as they should. He urged a wide spread revival of going to the polls to vote.
Mayor M.R. Limb spoke of the good work being done in the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home in Springfield of which he is a trustee. There are 700 orphan children i the Home and each is cared for carefully and attentively by the matron and superintendent. A number of Wooster’s organizations send supplies to the Home during the year.
Congressman McSweeney spoke of the interpretations of the constitution, pointing out that the first great interpretation was that of the Monroe Doctrine, the second the freeing by Lincoln of the colored people, the third the establishing of the independence of Cuba and the fourth the assistance given to the saving of civilization in the world war. He urges the revival of the unanimity of endeavor in time of peace that characterized this country during the world war.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 19 September, 1925
pg 2
Two Men Bound Over For Burglarizing Home
Wade Miksell, 22, and John Buchanan, 18, were today bound over to the grand jury by Mayor Limb after a hearing in his court. The men are charged with burglarizing the home of Luther Henshaw, north of Wooster, during the day of Sept. 3, while Mr. Henshaw and family were at Chippewa Lake.
The men confessed to the burglary in court and said they stole a watch, a shot gun, two fountain pens, a gold ring, $5.50 in money and a basket of eggs. The latter they said they sold in Wooster.
Mikesell and Buchanan were arrested by Sherif Bucher and Deputy manson and brought to the county jail to await a hearing. Bond was fixed at $1,000 each.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 21 September, 1925
pg 8
Governor Donahey Is Asked To Come To The Wayne County Fair
Plans for Wayne county annual fair, which comes next week, have been completed by Secretary W.C. Foster and the association’s officers.
There will be exhibits that will fill every available space in the buildings. Already all the space is taken in the building given to exhibits of the farm and garden. Secretary Foster has received enough requests for space to fill each of the other buildings.

Band Music Three Days
The fair board will treat all visitors to band music on three days, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. This has never been done before, but the board feels that the music will be enjoyed each day.

Governor May Come
Governor Donahey may visit the fair on Thursday. Mayor Limb has been in communication wit the governor to see if he can arrange his official work to be here. Governor Donahey has replied that he would greatly enjoy visiting the fair and may be able to arrange his affairs so as to come.

School Exhibits
As usual there will be the large assortment of school exhibits and the display will be finer and more extensive than ever before. Pupils have planned for months to make displays of their handiwork.

Horse Racing
There will be fast steppers here for the big card of races that has been arranged by the fair board. Liberal purses are offered.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 22 September, 1925
pg 10
Start Paving Program For Coming Year
Council Sees New Truck at Fire Department and Discusses Tax Dollar.
City Solicitor Walter Mougey suggested to members of the city council last night that plans be outlined very soon for carrying forward next year’s paving program.
Residents of streets in Wooster who are anxious to have paving improvements under ? are matters by getting in touch with their ward ?and by getting up a petition ?. It is probable ?? will have a ?? year outlined ?? those who de?? have to wait ?? as well as ?? should be included.

Takes Much Time
Solicitor Mougey pointed out that because of the length of time it requires to whip a paving program into shape, an early start is imperative. Councilmen were inclined to agree with him.
Mayor M.R. Limb suggested that there are some short streets where paving was considered this year and which may be included in next year’s program. He mentioned Ohio street, two blocks on Columbus avenue, two blocks on Pine street and a gap in East South street east of the railroad crossing.
The mayor also advocated some construction work to further divert storm water, notably from North Market street into the old stone sewer, and suggested other minor improvements.

Asks For Chairs
Council held a rather brief session and finished it by going to the fire department where they complimented city firemen for the fine job they are doing of building a body on the Reo truck purchased as an additional fire unit. Before going to the department, councilmen discussed the proposal of Councilman Kistler that additional chairs be provided for the department.
“When friends of the men enter the department,” Kistler said, “they have to be invited to sit down on the running board of the Segrave truck.”
The department, council indicated, would get some chairs, and Mayor Limb agreed to the suggestion.
Council adopted an ordinance to proceed with the construction of the sewer on Maiden Lane and Maple alley.

Drag For Streets
Following a suggestion by Councilman Coffey that the city should have a drag to go over cindered streets, Mayor Limb reported that the service department has this under consideration and that one will be provided very soon.
Councilman Harry Elliott reported that the C.S. & C. has failed to keep its paving in repair on Market and Quinby avenue. He also reported that when East Liberty street is flushed the cigar stubs from in front of the cigar stores are carried down South Buckeye street to a point near South street, where residents object to their accumulation. Both of these matters were referred to the service director.

The Tax Dollar
Councilman Coffey presented figures he procured from Auditor W.F. Heller concerning the distribution of the tax dollar. Of each dollar paid in taxes in Wooster, 40 cents goes to pay off bonds, he stated. Each tax dollar is divided among the subdivisions as follows: to the state, one cent; to the county, 18 cents; to the township, three cents; to the schools, 48 cents; to the corporation, 30 cents. Slightly more than 40 per cent of the city’s thirty cents goes into bonds, leaving less than 18 cents for actual city expenses.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 23 September, 1925
pg 1
Peddler is Fined $25 And Costs Here Today
H. Bonhof, who plead guilty to a charge of peddling without a license was fined $25 and costs before Mayor M.R. Limb today. He was selling aluminum and graniteware dishes. Bonhof had just twelve cents in cash left after he paid his fine.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 26 September, 1925
pg 10
No Reduction Soon In Water Rents, But Collections Increase
No immediate further reductions in water rents are contemplated in Wooster, according to Mayor M.R. Limb, who also pointed out today that the placing of meters will have to be done gradually.
When a meter is installed, the consumer pays for water after it is used. Under the flat rate, he pays in advance. If all were changed at once the department would get in all money for six months.
“Water collections before Mr. Yoder became service director,” the mayor said, “were $16,000 each half year. The director made almost a house to house canvas in his search for consumers who were not paying or were not paying what they should have been paying. New consumers were added and the collections mounted to $25,000 for a half year. Since then there have been two reductions, one on the users of very large amounts of water and the other taking off one of the increases that had been made some years ago. One of these reductions amounted to over $3,000 and the other to $4,000. In spite of this the department’s recent July collection exceeded $22,000. The increased revenue has come about through a thorough systematizing of the department and Director Yoder deserves credit for what has been accomplished.”

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 5 October, 1925
pg 2
Personals
Mayor M.R. Limb has returned from Xenia, O., where he attended a meeting of the trustees of the Xenia home. This week the mayor will go to Tiffin to act as one of the judges in the competitive drills of Ohio Commandery, Knights Templar.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 5 October, 1925
pg 3
Widen Road In Smithville
State Will Let Contract on October 23rd.
That section of the Portage Road through the village of Smithville will be widened before winter, according to a letter received by Mayor M.R. Limb from Highway Director Schlesinger. The mayor took the matter up with Governor Donahey at the request of Smithville citizens who were almost convinced, some days ago, that the highway department had given up the improvement for this year.
A copy of a letter that was written to Mayor D.V. Mishler of Smithville was sent to Mayor Limb, in which it was stated that bids for the work will be received on October 23. It is likely that the award will go to the Griggs-Anderson Co., which is widening the remainder of this highway.
The State Highway Department had suggested that the section in Smithville be at least 20 feet wide and had asked for help from Wayne County and from Smithville. Upon receipt of the definite word that neither county nor village funds were available, the state has decided to go ahead with the widening to 17 feet, despite the fact that this is considered inadequate by the department.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 5 October, 1925
pg 3
Paint Street Names On Curbstones Here
Painting names of streets on the perpendicular portion of the curb at street intersections is to be given a trial here, Mayor M.R. Limb stated today. The mayor was impressed with signs of this kind he saw in Columbus.
“I also noticed along the highway,” he said, “that the state is using asphalt patches for brick roads, just as we are doing here in the city.”

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 6 October, 1925
pg 5
Four Men Are Fined
Four men, none of whom were residents of Wooster paid fines of $25 and costs before Mayor M.R. Limb yesterday and last night, having been arrested over Sunday on charges of intoxication. They gave their names as Evertt Christian, H.A. Stafford, Chas. Layton and James Killough.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 6 October, 1925
pg 10
Resurfacing Of Market St. Is Revived
Council Decided to Determine What Present Sentiment is on Project.
Is sentiment of the residents of North and South Market streets still in favor of resurfacing the thoroughfare?
The street committee of Wooster city council, F.A. Shambaugh, chairman, J.W. Otthouse and H.E. Elliott, was instructed at last night’s meeting to find out.
If sentiment is the same as last spring when the petition for the work was circulated, council may include it in next year’s paving program, it was indicated.
Because of the large amount of street improvement made this year, the city did not have sufficient money to go ahead with the Market street project.Some money was spent on the street this year in the way of patching the worst holes, and, on North Market street, the patches are quite extensive.
Mayor M.R. Limb told council that it would be necessary to provide next year, for the improvement of a block of East Bowman street from Bever street to College Avenue. A new concrete base must be put in and then a new top. The estimated cost is $5,000. It is proposed to assess probably half of the cost against the property owners, as was done when Liberty street was resurfaced.
Councilman Jos. Kistler called attention to the need of a light in Curry Court, for sidewalks on Prospect street south of Henry street and to the necessity for removing dirt from Maple Alley, where it was dumped to fill private property.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 8 October, 1925
pg 6
Just-a-Line
or-Two
Found, another reason why Coach Boles has good defensive football teams. In Wednesday’s mail he received a letter in which Denison plays and some other information were given. No name was signed, nothing to tell who was responsible for the dope except three hurriedly scribbled initials at the bottom. After much study Coach deciphered M R L and finally made out that they meant Marcus R. Limb. Now when it gets to the place that the Mayor goes out scouting, the next thing to expect is that Chief Leiner will take a hand in helping get the needed information. Guess His Honor must have enjoyed seeing Fritz and Mowrey of Wooster high with Wittenberg playing against Russel of Wooster with Denison when the former won 13 to 7 last Saturday.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Friday, 16 October, 1925
pg 1
Applecreek May Seek State Institute
Grafton Site Water Supply Is Inadequate
Several Hundred Would be Added to Community if Home is Built There.
A site near Applecreek, southeast of Wooster, may receive consideration for the state’s proposed new institution for feeble minded persons.
Some years ago a site near Grafton, northwest of Medina, was selected for this institution, but the question of an adequate water supply has never been satisfactorily settled, and there is, at present, considerable likelihood that the Grafton site will be ultimately rejected.
With this situation existing, Mayor M.R. Limb, on a recent trip to Columbus, suggested a site near Applecreek to J.A. Meckstroth, secretary to Governor A.V. Donahey. This morning Mayor Limb had a letter from the governor’s secretary setting forth some details in the matter, and suggesting that if citizens of the vicinity of Applecreek are interested in procuring the institution, they should make formal application for it.

Consults Applecreek Folks
Wayne Hart, president of the Wooster Board of Trade, took the letter to Applecreek today and conferred there with several prominent men of the town. They agreed that the proper thing to do was to give it consideration and to decide whether it is the sentiment of the community to launch a campaign to get the institution.
President Hart assured the Applecreek men that if affirmative action is taken, the Wooster Board will do everything in its power to aid Applecreek citizens in their campaign.

Add Many People
The institution, it was pointed out, would mean the addition of several hundred persons to the community. There would be patients in the home and also a personnel staff, the latter consisting principally of physicians and trained nurses, together with caretakers and laborers.
“The institution would afford a market for a large amount of produce and provisions,” Mayor Limb said in discussing the matter today.
“I suggest the Applecreek location because of the very fine water supply in that community,” Mayor Limb said.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 17 October, 1925
pg 3
Applecreek Citizens Send Committee Here To Hold Conference
A committee of Applecreek citizens sent word to Wayne Had, President of the Wooster Board of Trade, this morning, they would come to Wooster this afternoon for a conference in the matter of seeking to locate the proposed state institution for feeble minded persons in that vicinity.
Applecreek’s remarkable water supply is one of the chief assets to give it consideration, for it is because of doubt as to sufficient water supply that the Grafton site has not been accepted.
Applecreek folks shown the letter received by Mayor M.R. Limb, suggesting that Applecreek make formal application, became interested at once and talked the matter over last night. Their trip to Wooster today was the result.
“A state institution of this kind would add materially to the business of the community,” the mayor said today. “Down at Xenia, where I happen to be a member of the board of trustees of the orphans home, I’ll venture to say that at least $5,000 is spent each month for food alone. It practically all is purchased in Xenia.”

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 19 October, 1925
pg 8
Car Is Wrecked And Driver Pays A Fine
A.C. Keightley, of Findlay, was fined $50 and costs before Mayor M.R. Limb yesterday, having been arrested Saturday night after his car was ditched out at the end of Pittsburg avenue. He was charged with reckless driving. Keightly, it was stated, was hurrying to Alliance when the accident occurred. H.C. Cramer was fined $25 and costs for intoxication.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 20 October, 1925
pg 3
Equipment At Water Plants Has Been Sold
Mayor Reports to Council on the Condition of City’s Funds.
The disposition of equipment in abandoned Wooster waterworks stations was detailed to council last night by Mayor M.R. Limb.
The East Ohio Gas Co., he said, is paying $50 a month rent for the Bloomington building for a period of five years and will then pay $75 a month for another five years. They have the use of the building and twenty feet on each side. The company also paid $1,000 for the pumps which the city had owned.
The W.E. Wright Co. purchased the old boilers at the Applecreek station for $125, M. Shapiro purchased the junk there for $175, and the W.Z. Kerns Co. the boilers at the Killbuck plant for $500. Other materials at the Killbuck plant sold for $550. The old building there was torn down and the material used to construct a four-car garage.
The money from the proceeds of these sales, the mayor said, went into the waterworks fund.

Balances in Funds
Conditions of the city funds was also reported by the mayor. He said another Ford truck had been purchased since the last council meeting but that $4,214 remains in the general fund. Normal expenditures of $500 a month, he said, will leave a balance of $2,500 in this fund at the end of the year.
Out of the safety fund, he reported, was purchased the new truck for the fire department and the police car. The fund has a balance of $8,254 and normal expenditures will leave a balance of $3,700 at the end of December.
The health fund will have a balance of $3,400 January 1, unless ordinary expenditures are exceeded.
The balance in the service fund Oct. 1 was $13,895 and ordinary expenditures will leave a balance of $6,195 January 1.
The waterworks fund, the mayor said, will not have a balance, expenditures requiring all of the available funds in the department’s treasury.
There is a balance of $5,000 in the automobile tax fund, the mayor told council.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 22 October, 1925
pg 6
A Masquerade On Halloween On The Square?
A masquerade on Hallowe’en night, with the public square as the center of festivities, is under discussion at the present time.
Mayor M.R. Limb today suggested that a “part” of this kind might be a suitable solution to hallowe’en difficulties.
A certain amount of energy is bound to be extended on that night, he pointed out, adding that if it was directed in the direction of wholesome enjoyment downtown, the residential districts would be comparatively free from the usual pranks.
The street dancing was suggested along with the masquerade, but up to the present time no definite arrangements have been made.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Friday, 23 October, 1925
pg 3
Men Seeking City Offices
Two Ladies Asking Support From Voters November 3rd.
Two Kaufmans and one Kauffman are candidates for office in Wooster, a study of the ballot discloses. O.D. Kaufman is the Republican candidate for solicitor. Devere Kauffman is the Republican candidate for treasurer, and Harvey Kauffman is the Democratic candidate for councilman from the third ward.
O.D. Kaufman for solicitor, and Miss Grace Wile for auditor, are the only candidates who have no opposition, except the two men selected for candidates for the board of education, one by the Democrats the other by the Republicans.
There are two women in the list, Miss Wile for auditor, and Mrs. Jennie Allis for council in the second ward.
The two complete tickets include:
REPUBLICAN TICKET
For Mayor
William H. Black
For President of Council
Clyde Miller
For Treasurer
Devere Kauffman
For Solicitor
O.D. Kaufman
For Council at Large
Max Bloomberg
O.D. Blough
S.E. Smith
For Ward Councilmen
First — Joseph Kistler
Second — Jennie Allis
Third — C.O. Williamson
Board of Education
C.P. Foss
J.W. Hocke

DEMOCRATIC TICKET
For Mayor
Marcus R. Limb
For President of Council
J.M. GINTER
For Auditor
GRACE WILE
For Treasurer
RAY KING
For Council at Large
GEORGE N. COFFEY
JOHN W. OLTHOUSE
J.R. WEIMER
For Ward Councilmen
First — BEN McILVAINE
Second — FLOYD A. SHAMBAUGH
Third — HARVEY E. KAUFFMAN
Fourth — harrison miller
Board of Education
J.W. HOOKE
C.P. FOSS

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 24 October, 1925
pg 3
Little More Than One Week to Election Day
“Did you ever see such a quiet campaign,” Wooster voters are asking each other as election day is only a little more than a week away.
Aside from the candidacies of the two men opposing each other for mayor, names of the other candidates were hardly known until the tickets were printed last evening in the Daily Record.
Practically none of the candidates for the lesser offices has done any work towards getting votes.
Next week, it was hinted today, will see the campaign warm up, especially the mayoralty fight in which Mayor Limb, Democrat, is opposed by William H. B.ack, Republican.
Both have been busy “building fences,” recently, and supporters of each have expressed confidence that their candidate would be returned the victor.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 24 October, 1925
pg 3
Need Some Music For Hallowe’en Celebration
“I have been getting numerous favorable responses to the suggestion that we have a downtown party on Hallowe’en night,” said Mayor M.R. Limb today. “Those who have spoken to me about it feel that a masquerade parade and street dancing would be very satisfactory. The only thing we haven’t got is the music. I would be glad to have some suggestions for a solution of this angle of the affair.”

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 26 October, 1925
pg 10
Limb’s Record As Mayor
Waterworks Plant Rebuilt Without Bond Issue.
(NOTE:—Mayor M.R. Limb has prepared a series of six statements for consideration by the voters of Wooster in which he points out the accomplishments of the four years of his administration, and on this bases is asking for re-election on November 3rd. One statement will appear each day this week.)

No. 1 — Water Works.
In the water department there has been installed in the place of a steam driven rotary pump, two electrically driven rotary pumps each with a capacity of almost two million gallons a day, either giving twice as much as the city needs, ?ere stand by unit gasoline driven rotary pump with approximately the same capacity. The cost of operation under the steam driven pump including the booster station was about $70 per day. The cost of operation of the new system including the booster station is about $43 a day, a saving of $27 a day.
It was also necessary to maintain the Applecreek and Bloomington stations in connection with the steam driven apparatus. Now these plants have been dismantled and the machinery sold. The Bloomington plant has been rented to the East Ohio Gas Co. and the Applecreek plant is used for storage purposes.
A concrete building to house the plant has been constructed, making the plant fireproof. The entire addition of the three units and the building construction has been done out of water rent receipts. There has been no bond issue.
— Political Adv.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 27 October, 1925
pg 10
Limb’s Record As Mayor
Waterworks Plant Rebuilt Without Bond Issue.
(NOTE:—Mayor M.R. Limb has prepared a series of six statements for consideration by the voters of Wooster in which he points out the accomplishments of the four years of his administration, and on this bases is asking for re-election on November 3rd. One statement will appear each day this week.)
No. 2 —
The service department has purchased and placed in the water system 16 car loads of four and six inch pipe, connection up many dead ends, and extending the mains on many streets, keeping growth with the city’s needs. It has placed new six inch hydrants on new downtown lines so as to give better fire protection in the closely built-up district; all without further bond issues. This cost has been taken out of water rent receipts.
The meter rate was reduced on the large consumers during 1924 and a like reduction of about 25 per cent was made in the flat rate on the rent collected in 1925. This has all been accomplished without a bond issue. Water rents must pay for the operation, extension and replacement of the plant.
The cost of operation has been reduced from $70 a day to $43 a day. Many were placed on the list of consumers who did not pay water rent or who did not pay sufficient or in proportion as other paid. This has increased the revenue from $16,000 a half year to almost $24,000 a half year.
(Political Adv.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 28 October, 1925
pg 10
Limb’s Record As Mayor
Waterworks Plant Rebuilt Without Bond Issue.
(NOTE:—Mayor M.R. Limb has prepared a series of six statements for consideration by the voters of Wooster in which he points out the accomplishments of the four years of his administration, and on this bases is asking for re-election on November 3rd. One statement will appear each day this week.)
No. 3 — Street Cleaning
Four years ago a horse drawn sweeper did the work, leaving the dust along the street and the dirt at the curb to be taken away later by horse and wagon. It required an entire day and the employment of the sweeper, team and four men to accomplish the cleaning of Liberty street. The Flusher will do the same work, with absolutely no dust, clean it cleaner and requires but two men, taking but three hours to clean the entire length of the street. $24.00 dollars a day under the old system and about $6.00 dollars to accomplish the same work with the Flusher. No bond issue. This flusher was bought out of fines collected.

Street Grading
The city purchased out of fines collected, one tractor, scraper, plow and grader. Under the old system it required two teams and four men to do the grading of the streets. This was an outlay of $24.00 a day. With the equipment purchased recently more is accomplished and at an outlay of $10.00 a day. The ladder can be extended over a larger field and more can be accomplished at a far smaller outlay of money.
(Political Adv)

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 29 October, 1925
pg 14
Limb’s Record As Mayor
Waterworks Plant Rebuilt Without Bond Issue.
(NOTE:—Mayor M.R. Limb has prepared a series of six statements for consideration by the voters of Wooster in which he points out the accomplishments of the four years of his administration, and on this bases is asking for re-election on November 3rd. One statement will appear each day this week.)
No. 3 — Resurfacing Streets
Hauling cinders at thirty-eight dollars a day was an expensive operation in the resurfacing of our streets. By the purchase of a large truck these cinders are being hauled by the city employees at ten dollars a day, this including the pay of the men and the gas for the machine. This is a saving of twenty-eight dollars a day.
In the repairing of small holes and depressions in the brick streets little could be accomplished by taking out the brick and replacing them. The depressions were far in excess of the amount that could be repaired by our labor forces. Therefore it was decided to patch these streets with asphalt, accomplishing the same purpose at one-fifth the expense and with one-tenth the time and labor. considerably more has been accomplished in the way of repairs to streets in this way than could have been accomplished in the old way of repairing and at far less expense.
The money saved is being used in cutting back some of the intersections. The automobile has brought about conditions requiring a radical change in the construction of streets. Where the radius at the intersections has been eight at the streets and four at the alleys they are being cut back to twenty’s, thirty’s and forty’s at the streets and fifteen at the alleys. This work is being done at what are considered to be the most traveled and dangerous intersections.
The surface of our paving was changed from brick to asphalt first because it costs less money, second because it gives a smoother surface with the travel making less noise and eliminating all the dust and dirt that collected between the bricks. It is easier cleaned and kept clean and far easier repaired. There is no question about the brick making a good surface for a street but the administration believes asphalt better for our purposes.
— Political Adv.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 29 October, 1925
pg 14
Schools Asked To Run City
Mayor M.R. Limb has extended an invitation to the city schools to have pupils effect a city organization and conduct the business of Wooster one day during Education Week, which comes in November.
Last year this invitation was accepted and the young men and women had an interesting experience in conducting the affairs of the city for the one day.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Friday, 30 October, 1925
pg 12
Limb’s Record As Mayor
Waterworks Plant Rebuilt Without Bond Issue.
(NOTE:—Mayor M.R. Limb has prepared a series of six statements for consideration by the voters of Wooster in which he points out the accomplishments of the four years of his administration, and on this bases is asking for re-election on November 3rd. One statement will appear each day this week.)
No. 5 — Finances
The city was not entirely out of debt even in running expenses when the present administration took office. We are now and have been for some time past been paying as we go, discounting bills where the same will save the city money, as any business would do under the circumstances. We are living within the income of the city, and will continue to do so. We are asking for no more money from taxation, in fact, we ask for about fifteen hundred dollars less for next year than we received this year to run the affairs of the city. The bonded indebtedness is being paid off as required by law. There is no alternative, it must be done. Special improvement bonds have been issued for the paving of streets. This is taken care of through the sinking fund under the careful guidance of President Clyde L. Moody, L.C. Boles, William Gray and John Weiser.

The Sewer System
Several streets have been sewered. New storm sewers have been put in in an effort to take away the storm water. Intakes have been placed at several points and the water directed into the storm sewers in an effort to relieve parts of the city affected by high water in cases of heavy showers. We have a good system of storm sewers running north and south, which were not used to their capacity. Several storm sewers running east and west have been placed in good condition so that the water can be taken off before it hits the down town district. We are taking advantage of the natural outlets in an effort to relieve portions of the city of an excess of water.
— Political Adv.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 31 October, 1925
pg 3
Election Is Near, Result Much In Doubt
Supporters of Rival Candidates Claim They’ll Draw Opposite Party Support.
A unique campaign for mayor was drawing to a close Saturday, with the election set for next Tuesday.
Neither the Democratic nor Republican organizations, as such, have played any important part in the contest. It has been largely a battle between the two candidates.
Observers declare that, as a result of this condition, the vote is going to be “very much mixed up,” and that party lines will be largely forgotten by the voters. Supporters of Mayor M.R. Limb declare he will receive many Republican votes, while backers of William H. Black, his opponent, insist that he will make deep inroads into the Democratic vote.
As a result of this condition at the head of the ticket, astute politicians are making no predictions concerning the outcome in contests for other offices, notably council.
For council at large three men are to be elected. The Democratic candidates are Geo. N. Coffey, J.W. Olthouse and J.R. Weimer. The Republican candidates are O.D. Blough, Max Bloomburg and S.E. Smith. The three candidates receiving the highest vote will be elected.
In voting for candidates for the Board of Education, voters should remember that to make a vote count the name of the candidate desired must be written in and an “x” mark placed before it. There are no names of candidates for the Board of Education printed on the ballots.

NOTE: This article does not specifically mention M.R. Limb.
Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 31 October, 1925
pg 4
William H. Black
For Mayor
[with photo]
William H. Black, Republican candidate for Mayor, lives at the South-west corner of Bowman and Bever streets, where he owns his home. As a boy he worked on a farm and sold books to earn his way through school.
He was admitted to the bar in Illinois where he practiced law in Decatur for twenty-five years. He was appointed Master in Chancery in Macon county, Illinois, which office he filled for twelve years. He came to Wooster, Ohio, nine years ago to educate his son in the public schools, develop his farm in Plain Township and practice law. He has been a successful lawyer and business farmer.
If elected Mayor of the City of Wooster, he will administer the City’s business as he would his own. He believes in a sane business administration, and that taxes should be reduced. When he came here Wooster had a population of about six thousand and the streets ? been paved and other improvements have come along as a natural ??? in a progressive city. He will consider and appoint what few appointments he may have to make, men with ability and competence. He has made no pledges or promises and he has no political friends to reward or political enemies to punish.
He believes in the enforcement of law. He believes any one guilty of burglary or of a felony should be bound over to the grand jury. He thinks justice should be tempered with mercy when mercy is due.
He believes in a square deal, a courteous hearing and a fair decision for all who may have business to transact with the Mayor.
He will co-operate with the Board of Trade and business men in every way possible to secure more factories for Wooster. He was an active member of the Chamber of Commerce before he came here.
He is a member of the Masonic Lodge, The Modern Woodman of American, the Presbyterian church and the Board of Trade of Wooster.
Your support will be appreciated.
Political Adv.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 31 October, 1925
pg 10
To The Voters Of Wooster
Wooster’s mayor, a candidate for a third term, has set forth what he claims to be his record.
He claims new water pumps were purchased without a bond issue. He forgets that these were paid for in large part by surplus funds from the last bond issue.
He boasts of having reduced water meter rates 25 per cent. He fails to say he had formerly boosted the rate 25 per cent.
He says he increased the water fund from $16,000 to $24,000. Why does he not tell you he did this by raising the water rates 25 per cent till he became a candidate for a third term, also that he sold the old equipment purchased with former bonds? Should not this latter money have been applied on these bonds?
He says he reduced the expense of street cleaning from $24 to $6 per day. Has he forgotten depreciation on equipment, up keep, repairs, and the interest on this large investment?
He boasts of his street flusher. When this was bought all streets were to be flushed once a week. When was your street flushed?
He takes credit for improvements he says he made out of the city’s funds which other mayors did not provide. The preceding mayor had $19,000 per year to spend. The present mayor has had $29,000. Also the new auto and gasoline taxes have vastly increased his funds.
He brags about electrifying the water plant. Former mayors laid the plans, but the rate was then prohibitive. Improvements by The Wooster Electric Co., happened to reduce these rates during his administration. Why is he entitled to the credit?
Four years ago he said a third term for a Wooster mayor was too much. Is his argument any the less effective today?
Republican Campaign Committee. — Political Adv.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 31 October, 1925
pg 10
Limb’s Record As Mayor
Waterworks Plant Rebuilt Without Bond Issue.
(NOTE:—Mayor M.R. Limb has prepared a series of six statements for consideration by the voters of Wooster in which he points out the accomplishments of the four years of his administration, and on this bases is asking for re-election on November 3rd. One statement will appear each day this week.)
A Four-Year Summary
The means of pumping sufficient water to supply all the city’s needs at all times has been provided. No bond issue.
Sixteen car loads of water mains have been added to city’s water system. No bond issue.
Many streets have been resurfaced, corners cut back, streets and alleys cindered. No bond issue.
We have collected practically $16,000 in fines in the past four years. Purchased out of these fines, one flusher, used for cleaning streets and fire fighting; one six cylinder Buick police car; one Reo two ton truck for the fire department; one International two ton truck for the street department; two Ford dump trucks for the street department; one one-ton truck for the water department; one concrete mixer for street repair; one Ford tractor, grader, scraper and plow for street grading; one asphalt repair outfit; one Ford roadster for the engineering department. We have completely motorized the several departments of the city, making it possible to accomplish more work at a far less expense. During the four in office, no city property has been vacated for any purpose whatsoever.
By and with the consent of the city council, the old machinery at the Applecreek, Killbuck and Bloomington water plants has been sold. They were useless to the city and a source of expense for maintenance.
Figures show the following growth in waterworks collections. 1921, $32,734.98; 1922, $31,199.45; 1923, $38,521.31; 1924, $50,626.65; 1925, $47,287.86. The reduction on meter rates cut the 1925 collection $1,700, and the flat rate collection $4,300, a total of $6,000.
We have given our personal attention at all times and in all places. We have made mistakes, all of us do, but making an honest effort to give this city an honest, conscientious and businesslike administration of its affairs, we have accomplished a tremendous amount of work with a comparatively small force of labor. This in part was due to efficient management but more to the men who entered into the spirit of their work and gave to the city at all times full value for the pay they received.
We have assisted in the solution of the city’s water problem and the extension of its water system. We have replaced the old horse-drawn equipment in all the departments of the city with motor efficiency at a far less cost. We have placed the city’s finances in good condition, so that all bills can be paid promptly.
All of the statements made in the six articles published this week can be verified by the books of the city auditor, the waterworks department and the board of sinking fund trustees.
Thus we rest the case with you, Mr. and Mrs. Wooster voter, trusting that, if you have appreciated our efforts, you will cast your ballots for a continuation of this policy.
— (Political Advertisement.)

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 2 November, 1925
pg 7
Everything Ready For The Election
As far as members of the county board of elections know everything is ready for Tuesday’s battle of ballots for candidates. Judges and clerks of election have been qualified for each precinct and one judge in each precinct has secured supplies from Clerk Skelly of the board. Most of the supplies were handed out by Mr. Skelly on Saturday from his office on the third floor of the courthouse. A few odds and ends of work were cleaned up today by Mr. Skelly and other members of the board, which will be available at any time on Tuesday should an occasion demand their attention or presence at any designated place.
The impression among voters is that large votes will be cast in Wooster and Orrville with a dropping off of the usual number in many townships and municipalities. In several townships the only issues of a local nature are the election of township officers and the casting of votes on school issues.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 3 November, 1925
pg 10
Close Mayor Contest Ends At Polls Today
Returns Will be in Tonight on Candidates For City Offices.
Wooster voters were going to the polls today in large numbers, casting their ballots for candidates for mayor, other city officers, officers of Wooster township, members of the city board of education and on the three proposed amendments and the school levy.
Each voter, when he entered the booth, received six ballots, one of which appeared to be a joker. It was to elect a justice of the peace. Neither the terms of L.R. Bolus or William Yost, however, expire for more than a year, and there were no candidates of the place. Many voters wrote in the names of Bolus and Yost, while others returned the ballots blank, or put in other names.

Both Claim Victory
Up until this afternoon neither candidate in the contest for mayor was by any means willing to concede defeat. It was admitted that the most vigorous campaign had been waged by William H. Black, Republican, and his backers and confident claims that he would be elected were being spread broadcast downtown during the day.
Supporters of Mayor M.R. Limb, however, were equally confident that the finish would see their favorite win on the basis of his record as mayor.

Forget Party Lines
Political observers all agreed that a great majority of the voters were forgetting party lines and were of the impression that the candidate who could secure the most votes from the opposite party was the one who would be returned a victor.
An interesting and reputed close contest was being waged in the first ward between Joseph Kistler and Ben McIlvaine for city council.
Names of all six candidates for council at large were included in the discussion of probable winners, with some inclination to believe that O.D. Blough would be high man on the Republican side and G.N. Coffey on the Democratic side.
Indications during the day were that voters in large numbers were writing in the names of C.P. Foss and J.W. Hooke as members of the Board of Education.
The county board of elections will be in session tonight to get returns from Wayne county precincts on the amendments which are being voted upon.
The Record will endeavor to gather figures on the city ticket during the evening but it will probably be ten p.m. before anything definite is known concerning the result.
Village and township officials were being elected throughout the county.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 3 November, 1925
pg 10
Get Estimate On N. Market Resurfacing
Council Committee Also Reports Favorably Upon Paving Columbus Avenue.
City council last night instructed City Engineer C.L. Orr to draw up plans for the resurfacing of North and Sough Market streets. Upon the estimate of the cost the finance committee will permit this work to be done next year.
F.A. Shambaugh, chairman of the street committee, recommended that two blocks on Columbus avenue be paved, despite a small percentage of signatures. He reported that seven houses on the street are rented and that there are five corner lot properties, whose owners have not signed.

Talk of Larwill
Councilman G.N. Coffey inquired if it might be possible to link the remainder of West Larwill street with Columbus avenue, and the matter was discussed for some time. Councilmen were not unanimous in their opinion as to what portion of the cost Glenn Drabenstott would be willing to bear. Under an old contract he could demand free street paving, but council is not disposed to complete the contract under these terms.
An ordinance levying special assessments for paving the alley north of Liberty street was adopted. The cost per foot front is $3.29. A similar ordinance was adopted for the Rebecca street sewer, the cost being 97 cents per foot.

Include East Bowman
Councilman Olthouse included the block of East Bowman street from College to Bever in the paving program for next year. Solicitor Walter J. Mougey suggested that if the resurfacing could be carried west to Market, all of Bowman between Beall and Market would then be resurfaced.
Councilman J.R. Weimer asked if Solicitor Mougey had made further progress with the North Bever street water problem in which Judge Swartz was concerned, and he replied that no agreement could be made with Judge Swartz in which he would agree to pay for water. It was suggested that at the end of an eight-year term of agreement made with two other property owners there, the water supply to the Swartz home would automatically stop. Council with this explanation appeared to be inclined to delay actual suit to shut off the water now, although the matter is still in the hands of a council committee.

No Fire Plugs
Councilman Joseph Kistler reported that there are no fire plugs on either Vine street or Leroy street. The matter was referred to the committee on fire.
Councilman Harry Elliott reported a sewer intake on North Walnut street filled up. The matter was referred to the service director.
A delegation of residents of Park Drive, extending north from Saybolt Avenue near the north end of Columbus Avenue, appeared with a request that their street be drained and cinders hauled. Those who own autos are also troubled with frequent punctures because of the hauling there, some months ago, of material from a house torn down in the downtown section. Mayor Limb promised the street would be filled with the next arrival of cinders.

M.R. Limb lost his bid for a third term as mayor of Wooster.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday 4 November, 1925
pg 1
Black Defeats Limb In Mayoralty Contest
Meeting The People At Their Doors Helps Mr. Black Win Office Of Mayor Of Wooster
“I am very, very happy over the result, and I want to thank everybody who had any part in the campaign that resulted in my election as mayor of Wooster, yesterday,” said William H. Black, attorney, today, accompanying his declaration with a generous smile.
“And just put that ‘THANK YOU’ in capital letters, he advised.
Commenting upon the ins and outs of the campaign and various reasons why this and that happened or didn’t happen, Mr. Black is convinced that his house to house canvas was in a large part responsible for his success.
“I met the people and they seemed glad to see me,” he said. “From them I learned many things that will be of value to me as mayor. I learned some of the things they want, and which, so far as possible and expedient, they will get. I was very cordially received everywhere, and in analyzing the vote I find that in sections where my welcome was the warmest, I got the most votes.
“There were other things, of course,” Mr. Black continued. “I am obligated to numerous prominent Democrats, and to a great many in the rank and file of the Democratic party. I believe that the fact that Mayor Limb was a candidate for a third term had much to do with my success and his defeat. I encountered much sentiment against a third term. Prominent leaders in my own party had a large part in my success, too, and they did valiant service for me, especially in the few trying days at the close of the campaign.
“There are always surprises in a vote, but on the whole it came out much as I had expected.”
Mayor-elect Black stated that he would give some time between now and January 1, when he takes office, to the task of selecting such appointees as are to be appointed.
“I will not be ready for some time,” he predicted, “to actually make my selections.”
The mayor-elect plans to make himself available down town for the transaction of the city’s business, and declares he will give the office of mayor all of the time necessary to handle the business connected with it.
“I am particularly interested in having every city employee show courtesy to everyone,” he said. “That is one thing I am going to insist upon as mayor. A city officer is a servant of the people.
“I am also much interested in the city’s manufacturing growth, and want to do everything I can to assist the Wooster Board of Trade in procuring new industries for this city. I also want to give my efforts towards making every manufacturing institution already established here glad that it selected Wooster as its place of operations.”
Mr. Black intends to continue to devote a small part of his time to the management of his farming interests in the southwestern part of Wayne county.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday 4 November, 1925
pgs 1 & 5
Black Defeats Limb In Mayoralty Contest
Majority 164, Each Winning Half Of Wards
Black Sweeps Democratic Strongholds, While Limb is Victor in Third Ward.
William H. Black, Republican, was elected mayor of Wooster at yesterday’s election over Marcus R. Limb, by a majority of 164 votes.
Black, in winning, did the unprecedented thing of carrying every precinct in the Democratic first ward, and of sweeping the fourth ward with a majority of 163.
Mayor Limb, on the other hand, caused a real sensation by repeating his performance of two years ago in carrying the third ward, the bulwark of Republicanism in Wooster.
He also carried the second ward, normally Democratic, but his majority there was less than the usual Democratic majority.

Forget Party Lines
All of which goes to show what, as had been indicated preceding election day, voters were not divided along Republican and Democratic lines in this campaign, as they have been in other years.
The vote was as follows, the “*” indicating successful candidate.
Mayor
Limb (D) – 1579
*Black (R) – 1748
President of Council
Ginter (D) – 1522
*Miller (R) – 1543

Councilman at Large
“Coffee (D) – 1513
*Weimer (D) – 1457
Olthouse (D) – 1142
Smith (R) – 1035
Bloomberg (R) – 1243
*Blough (R) – 1522

Council 1st Ward
McIlvaine (D) – 307
*Kistler (R) – 310

Council 2nd Ward
*Shambaugh (D) – 233
Jennie Allis (D) – 219

Councilman 3rd Ward
Harvey Kaufman (D) – 397
*C.O. Williamson (R) – 613

Council 4th Ward
I.E. O’Hall (R) – elected.

Klan leaders were taking some of the credit today for having caused the upset in the first ward which wiped out the Democratic majority there. They claimed to have backed the successful ward councilman in this ward, Joseph Kistler, who defeated Ben McIlvaine, Democrat, by a majority of three votes. Klansmen were said to have support of Devere Kaufman for city treasurer and J.M. Ginter for president of council.
In the second ward the anti-Klan vote did not go so heavily for Limb as his supporters had reason to expect.
The very intensive campaign of personal solicitation made by Mr. Black, together with a somewhat general opposition to a third term were other main causes advanced for the result of the balloting.

Third Ward Sweep
Mayor Limb’s most ardent advocates were more than pleased over his sweep of the Republican third ward, where he won three out of the four precincts, and the men who aided Black in his campaign were just as pleasantly surprised by his overwhelming victory in the normally Democratic fourth ward. The winner’s majority there was 162, just one less than his total margin of victory.
In a hectic finish to an otherwise quiet campaign, voters were really warmed up at the finish, and over 3,300 votes were cast, a record breaking number in a mayoralty contest.
Much interest was shown in the result, which was not definitely known until about 11 p.m.

How They Reported
The first precinct to report was ? of the third ward, where Limb received 171 votes to 135 for Black. Limb represented a loss from the Limb vote of two years ago, Black securing more than C.O. Williamson, the Republican candidate in 1923. This precinct was followed by two in the first ward, where Black’s majorities first showed his developing strength. They were countered by the Beall avenue school precinct, where another Limb majority was shown. Then came two other precincts which gave Black a distinct lead. At this time his supporters felt confident he could not be beaten, but when the next few precincts came in his majority was reduced to 37 votes, and with nearly every precinct showing a new surprise, an anxious evening was spent by all. When thirteen precincts out of 15 had reported, Black had a majority of approximately 100 votes. His election was conceded at this time, which was nearly 11 o’clock, but at the Record office, where a considerable crowd had gathered for returns, the audience lingered for actual final figures. It was after midnight before they were available.
In the meantime there was much interest manifested in the vote for city council, but quite early in the night it was apparent that three men, Coffey and Weimer, Democrats, and Blough, Republican, were easily leading the ticket. More complete returns only served to boost their majorities.

One Close Fight
The contest for ward councilmen only developed one really close fight, noted earlier in this story, with Joseph Kistler, Republican candidate for re-election, being returned the winner. F.A. Shambaugh, Democrat, was re-elected in the second ward, C.O. Williamson, Republican, won in the third, and I.E. O’Hall, Republican, in the fourth.
The new city council will have two brand new faces, Dr. O’Hall and O.D. Blough. Coffey, Weimer, Kistler and Shambaugh are members of the present council, and Prof. Williamson served one term prior to 1923. There are four Republican and three Democrats in council.
Grace Wils, Democrat, and O.D. Kauffman, Republican, were elected auditor and solicitor without opposition.
It was early apparent that Devere Kaufman, Republican, had defeated Ray King, Democrat.
The first returns indicated that the special school levy had carried, and the majority in its favor continued to grow as more complete returns came in.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday 4 November, 1925
pg 2
Not For Third Term, He Say
Mayor Limb, Analyzing Vote, Gives Reason For His Defeat.
Sentiment against giving an official a third term was responsible for the defeat at the polls yesterday of Mayor M.R. Limb, in the opinion of the mayor himself.
Smiling, and not at all crestfallen because of his opponent’s victory, Mayor Limb this forenoon discussed the result of the vote.
“I feel confident that opposition to a third term is what defeated me,” he said. “I don’t believe it was a repudiation of the service I attempted to give as mayor, and I can’t believe it was the Klan. Down in the first ward, where the voters socked it to me, a Klan candidate for council won out by only three votes, the Democratic candidate running far ahead of me.
“You may just say,” the mayor added, “that I shall now go back to the practice of dentistry instead of listening to the family and neighborhood squabbles, trying to work out plans for improving streets and doing the hundred and one things that have occupied so much of my time during the past four years.”
“There are many worse things than being defeated for mayor. I shall be very glad for the relief that will come along with getting back to private life, and I know that Mrs. Limb is really glad that things have turned out as they have. I have no regrets at all. I tried to do the best I could for the city and in all my official acts I kept in mind the city as a whole, not some individual, or some group of individuals.
“I’ll be right here in the Downing block, practicing dentistry with nothing to interfere with my vocation.”

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday 4 November, 1925
pg 3
Black First Attorney Elected Mayor in This City For Thirty Years
William H. Black is the first lawyer elected as mayor of Wooster since Justice of the Peace William C. Yost was named back in 1889, more than thirty years ago.
“Just before me was James Woodworth, a lawyer, and a short time before, Judge Swartz was mayor,” Justice Yost recalled today.
Since Mayor Yost, Wooster’s mayors have been Lemuel Jeffries, M.M. VanNest, F.M. VanOver, Forbes Alcock, George Fisher and M.R. Limb.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday 5 November, 1925
pg 2
Majorities Not Changed
The official count of votes, as made by Miss Grace Wile, city auditor, made no changes in the results of Tuesday’s election, and, in fact, did not change the figures on the principle candidates as reported by the Record yesterday.
City council, the vote showed, is Republican by three votes — the majority by which Joseph Kistler was elected in the first ward. he received 310 votes to 307 for McIlvaine. All other councilmen were elected by larger majorities. In the second ward Shambaugh received 288, Mrs. Allis 215, a majority of 73. In the third ward Williamson received 613 to 397 for H.K, Kauffman. In the fourth, O’Hall was given 479 votes to 292 for Miller.
The vote for councilmen at large was Blough 1541, Coffey 1523, Weimer 1458, Bloomberg 1234, Olthouse 1142 and Smith 1030.
For mayor, Black received 1743 against 1579 for Limb, a majority of 164. Miller received 1543 for president of council against 1522 for Ginter. Kaufman received 1832 for treasurer against 1208 for King. Miss Wile, for auditor, received 2145 votes, and O.D. Kaufman for solicitor, 1832.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday 9 November, 1925
pg 2
Personals
Mayor M.R. Limb returned yesterday from a two-day trip to Xenia, O., where he attended a meeting of the trustees of the Xenia orphan’s home. A considerable amount of constructive business was transacted by the board.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday 9 November, 1925
pg 10
To Make Report On Water Near Applecreek
Health Officer J.E. Monger has promised Mayor M.R. Limb that he will make a special report on analyses of water samples taken from the vicinity of Applecreek, where a site has been proposed for the state institution for feeble minded persons.
Citizens of Applecreek, working in conjunction with the Wooster Board of Trade, are awaiting a final report on the availability of a tract near Grafton before going any further in the matter of presenting the merits of their locality.
“The more experience I gain in the matter of the orphans’ home at Xenia, the more convinced I am of what a fine thing this institution would be for this community,” Mayor Limb said today. The mayor is president of the board of trustees of the Xenia home, and is in direct touch with the financial expenditure there.
“Establishment of this institution would provide a market for a great variety of products, for it would add several hundred persons to the population of the community,” the mayor said.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Friday, 13 November, 1925
pg 1
Thursday Club
The regular meeting of the Thursday club was held Thursday afternoon, Nov. 12, at the home of Mrs. W.D. Tyler, North Market street.
The topic for discussion was “The State Federation and Its Work.” Mrs. M.R. Limb presided and gave a splendid introductory talk. There was a deviation from the usual papers and talks were given by Mrs. Guy Richard who reported in a splendid manner the district meeting in Youngstown. Mrs. Henry Boigegrain, president of the City Federation, gave a splendid talk outlining its work and purposes. In the intermission Mrs. Grace Howard played beautifully several selections on the piano, and Mrs. Norman MacDonald favored the club with Scotch songs. The main speaker of the afternoon was Miss Genevieve Cline of Cleveland, president of the Cleveland Federation of Women’s clubs. She told the club of the work of the Cleveland Federation a? appraiser. The meeting was enjoyed by all the members and at the close of the meeting the hostess served delightful refreshments.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Friday, 13 November, 1925
pg 12
Stop Signs Stolen And Heaviest Fine Awaits Persons When Caught
The heaviest fine available in Mayor M.R. Limb’s assortment of maximum fines will be handed out, he said today, to the person or persons who stole several of the “stop” and “slow” signs recently erected.
“Unless they are brought back by tomorrow,” the mayor said today, “I shall feel free to put on the heaviest fine I can assess against the guilty persons. Those who may think taking these signs for souvenirs is a good joke, will have reason to alter their opinions if any of the signs are recovered by police.”
Work of putting up the signs stopped by the inclement weather of yesterday and today, will be continued as soon as the weather improves.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 16 November, 1925
pg 3
Costs About $60 To Be Candidate For Mayor
It costs just about $60 to run for mayor of Wooster, according to the expense accounts of Mayor M.R. Limb and Mayor-elect Wm. H. Black. The expense accounts of each candidate total just a little under that sum, according to the records of V.M. Skelly, clerk of the board of elections. Both of them list the same avenues of expenditure, newspaper advertising, cards and mailing expenses.
Of all of the other candidates for office, none spent in excess of $5 in addition to their filing fee. Several candidates spent nothing at all, while some others paid from $1.50 to $3 for cards which they passed out.

This humorous story does not mention M.R. Limb but relates to the story above, 11/13/1925.
Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 17 November, 1925
pg 6
Have “Stop” Sign Crew As Hunting Party Gets Back With 62 Rabbits
One party of seven hunters brought back 62 rabbits yesterday, the largest “one party” accomplishment of the day reported to the Record. This party included Herschel Smith, L.T. Snavely, George W. Palmer, Dr. I.E. O’Hall, Carl Landes and two others. The police department, it was reported today, suspects these men of having stolen several “stop” and “slow” signs reported missing. They were used, it is declared, to direct the rabbit traffic into the path of their gunfire.
There was at least one other hunting feat yesterday that deserves mention. Ira Batdorf, so far as replenishing the family larder is concerned, exceeded the work of the parties named above. Mr. Batdorf had shot a rabbit and got a real thrill when he flushed out a pheasant. He fired and got the pheasant — and also a calf that he didn’t know was just ahead of the pheasant. Mr. Batdorf paid the farmer $15 for the calf and veal dinners are the order of the day at the Batdorf home.
Coach Boles bagged two pheasants, which made him as happy as a school boy. This gave Coach a perfect week-end, the other achievement being the defeat of Akron on Saturday.
Prosecutor J.O. Fritz has been very careful to “keep it secret” but the fact remains that Joe shot five rabbits yesterday and only came home with two. The others “escaped” through a hole in his hunting coat.

This humorous story does not mention M.R. Limb but relates to the story above, 11/17/1925.
Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 18 November, 1925
pg 3
Baggage Man Shoots Rabbit, Stops Train And Gets His Game
Probate Judge Charles C. Jones and F.A. Shambaugh, city councilman and Pennsylvania Lines signal service man, were hunting yesterday along the B. & O. near the Holmes county line. Their four Alabama hounds were trailing a rabbit on a hillside some distance from the track when they saw a train approach.
In order to keep the dogs from possible accident both hunters walked toward the hill. The train roared in on the scene and as the hunters watched they were amazed to see the luggageman open the side door of his car, aim at an object the hunters did not see, and then pull the trigger of his shotgun.
A wave of his hand gave the engineer the signal to stop. The baggageman leaped from his car and picked up his rabbit, gave a merry ha, ha, to the Wooster hunters, gave his engineer another signal and the train choo-chooed happily onward.
Shambaugh, it is declared, has made up his mind that in the future he will confine his hunting expeditions to the right of way of the Pennsylvania, where railroad crews do not qualify as expert shots from moving trains.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Friday, 20 November, 1925
pg 1
Gov. Donahey Here Today
A.V. Donahey, Governor of Ohio, was a Wooster guest for a short time, this afternoon. Governor Donahey stopped here for Mayor M.R. Limb, a member of his staff, and Mayor Limb accompanied the Governor to Youngstown, where a state armory is to be dedicated this evening.
Adjutant General Henderson, General House, General Rush, Col. Volka, and other lesser military lights also stopped in Wooster to see Mayor Limb on their way to Youngstown for the same purpose.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 23 November, 1925
pg 2
Fined $250 For Having Liquor At A “Party”
A fine of $250 and costs was assessed against Mrs. Irene Boose, wife of Merrill Boose, by Mayor M.R. Limb today when she plead guilty to a charge of having been in possession of liquor when officers raided the Boose living apartments on North Walnut street last night between 11 and 12 p.m.
Eight persons were present in the rooms when a fight broke out, police were informed. The occasion is reported to have been a rabbit supper with pre-Volstead refreshments in the form of wine, although some of those present said no rabbit was served.
When police reached the scene, several of the eight persons were gone and these were being rounded up today and questioned as to their participation in the party. Marcella Cotterman told police she and her gentleman friend, Earl Henderson, had just dropped in as the fight started and that their only offense was in trying to get the trouble settled.
Mrs. Sadie Kline, said to have been a participant in the fight, was fined $50 and costs on a charge of disorderly conduct. She was released Monday forenoon.
George Lawrence was fined $50 and costs for having been intoxicated.
Mrs. Boose was remanded to her ??? and was making an effort during the day to raise the money to pay the fine.
?.?. Longfellow was fined $50 and costs for his participation in the fight.
??? faced a charge of ??? a place where ?? was held. His ?? $?? and costs because of assistance he gave police when the arrests were made.
Another person present was Harry Kline and police were also told that a ninth person was there, although they did not have his name ? as of every on those present had not been fully disposed of this forenoon.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 24 November, 1925
pg 2
Woman’s Fine Paid
The $250 fine imposed on Mrs. Irene Boose in Mayor Limb’s court yesterday for possessing liquor was paid and Mrs. Boose released. Geo. Lawrence was fined $50 additional for resisting an officer. A fine of $50 and costs was imposed on Marcella Cotterman. Larry Kline was fined $50 and costs for intoxication.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 25 November, 1925
pg 6
Just-a-Line

or-Two
Mayor M.R. Limb is watching with interest the work of a football team which he initiated that is down at the Xenia Soldiers’ & Sailors’ Orphans home where he is president of the Board of Trustees. Through his suggestion a coach was procured at the beginning of the present school year. He has developed a fast team which has won four games out of five played.

The Daily Times
New Philadelphia, Ohio
Saturday, 28 November, 1925
pg 3
News Items Of Ten Years Ago
Miss Helen Weidner, who is attending school at Wooster University, and her friend, Miss Florence Gongwer, Ashland, also a Wooster university student, have returned to school after visiting Miss Weidner’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Weidner, South-side.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 1 December, 1925
pg 4
Fifty Applications For Wooster Cinders
Three more carloads of cinders were received at the Pennsylvania station today for distribution about the city, making a total of 65 car loads for the year.
“These will likely be the last cars for this year,” said Mayor M.R. Limb today. “There are still places for them. The service director recently had fifty applications on file from persons who wanted cinders.”

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 2 December, 1925
pg 11
State Orders Reservoir Cleaned
Cover For Bloomington Reservoir Suggested, But Not Emphasized.
As forecasted at the time an inspector was here in mid-November, W.H. Ditto, chief engineer of the state board of health, has recommended that the Bloomington reservoir be thoroughly cleaned to improve the condition of the water which passes through it.
In a letter to Service Director W.W. Yoder, copies of which are also sent to Mayor M.R. Limb, city council and Health Officer Dr. E.W. Douglas, Mr. Dittoe says
“Steps should be taken by the city officials to improve conditions at the reservoir. The ideal solution would be the construction of a covered reservoir, or a covered standpipe at this site. However, conditions can be much improved immediately at a comparatively small cost. The reservoir should be thoroughly cleaned, and a tight fence constructed around the reservoir to prevent trespassing and also to keep animals away from the reservoir.
“The remainder of the waterworks system of Wooster is in comparatively good condition and the condition of this reservoir should be remedied to insure that a safe quality of water is being delivered to all of the residents of Wooster. Action should be taken by council to enable the director of public service to proceed with the improvements recommended. Kindly inform this department as to the progress made in obtaining this improvement.”

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 3 December, 1925
pg 3
Four More Carloads of Cinders Are Received
“We are making an effort to provide cinders for every spot in the city where they were requested,” said Mayor M.R. Limb today, “In addition to the three carloads which we procured the last of last week, four additional carloads have come in. The city’s three trucks are engaged in hauling them.”

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 5 December, 1925
pg 1
Charles Adams Director Of Service
Will Succeed Wm. Yoder When New Mayor Begins Administration.
Charles M. Adams, 39, office manager for The Holmes Construction Co., will become Director of Public Service and Safety under the administration of Mayor Wm. H. Black, who assumes the duties of his office on January 1.
Through a provision of the law which provides that a director of service cannot begin his work until the second week in January, Mr. Adams will not officially become the director until the second Monday in the month.

Succeeds Yoder.
Adams will succeed W.W. Yoder, who has served in this capacity during the latter portion of the term of Mayor M.R. Limb. One of the chief accomplishments of the Yoder administration of the affairs of the office has been the increased water rent receipts, through a careful re-checking of all water services in the city.
Adams has been with the Holmes company during a period of four years and in the opinion of Mr. Black and his advisors, is excellently qualified for the post. He has been in charge of the street paving operations in Wooster and has thus familiarized himself with a great many local conditions. He has gained expert knowledge of general construction work, and the direction of groups of workmen, and has handled the Holmes company’s payrolls in a most efficient manner.
Mr. Adams and his family have taken up their residence at 646 College avenue. Before coming to Wooster with the Holmes company, Mr. Adams resided in Wellington, Ohio.

Numerous Applicants.
“I have had numerous applicants, and have turned down some very excellent men,” said Mayor-elect Black today, “but I am confident that in Mr. Adams I have secured the ideal man for the position.”
The appointment of Mr. Adams is the first one to be announced by the mayor-elect, and may be the only one to come before he takes office, and probably for some little time thereafter. It has been predicted without confirmation from any authoritative source, that at least one local patrolman may be superseded before the administration is many weeks old.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 5 December, 1925
pg 2
Personals
Mayor M.R. Limb was a business visitor in Columbus, today.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 9 December, 1925
pg 7
Family “Works” Charity Folks
Mayor Again Suggests Need of Organized Effort in Christmas Giving.
“I am going to make the same suggestion that I made two years ago about organizations pooling their Christmas giving,” said Mayor M.R. Limb today.
“I believe that several organizations, like Kiwanis, Rotary, and the Women’s Federated clubs, should each select representatives to a committee and should advise other organizations about their charity work at Christmas time. This committee could investigate to determine who is really entitled to assistance.”
“In making this suggestion I have in mind one particular case with which city officials had experience only yesterday. A family has been getting considerable assistance from the city, and has been seeking even more than it got. When a careful investigation was made we found this family has several barrels of potatoes and more than 100 cans of fruit in the cellar, had two bushels of pears that were rotting, although the parents wouldn’t let the children eat them, had other provisions, and, more than that had purchased during the fall 600 pounds of sugar, nearly all of which went into the making of wine. We also found that one of the younger members of the family recently bought three pairs of silk stockings and gave them away as a present.”
The mayor’s idea is that this family is not entitled to help, but that it will get a lot of help because it will seek assistance unless Christmas giving is on an organized basis. This one, he stated, is an extreme case, but there are others which receive more Christmas help than more deserving ones do.
The experience the city has had in dealing with needy folks would be at the service of a committee selected to direct Christmas giving.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Friday, 11 December, 1925
pg 6
Suggests City Collect All Garbage
Mayor Would Also Have Rubbish Hauled Away Under Service Dept.
Suggestion for an improvement in the city’s system of garbage and rubbish collection came today from Mayor M.R. Limb.
“While the men who are handling the city’s garbage disposal business are doing very well under the circumstances,” the mayor said, “the service could be improved, and I believe it could include the removal of rubbish too.
“My suggestion is that the work be done by the city service department. We own sufficient trucks to handle the business, or, if there are not enough another could be added if necessary. Wooster families are paying an average of $4 annually for garbage disposal and from $2 up for having ashes and rubbish hauled away each year. I believe a tax of $5 on each residence and possibly a little more upon business houses in proportion to the amount of material they have to be removed would cover a fund sufficient to pay for the service very nicely.”

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 14 December, 1925
pg 2
Hold Shotgun, Two Men, And Automobile
Police today were holding a small sedan, a shotgun, and two men arrested last night on a charge of having been intoxicated. The men had less than $10 between them. They gave their homes as Carey, O., and were bound for Akron when officers shortly before 8 o’clock, took exception to the style the driver was using. They gave their names as H.B. Tinsman and Eugene Pahl.
Tinsman was fined $50 and costs and Pahl $25 and costs at noon today by Mayor Limb.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 15 December, 1925
pg 9
Five Fined In Gambling Raid
A fine of $100 and costs was assessed against Mike Rose in Mayor Limb’s court last night on a charge of keeping a place where gambling is permitted. Police raided the establishment conducted by Rose in the east part of the city early Monday morning and arraigned four men who admitted they were playing cards for money.
Joe DeLucca, Carmen Massaro and Jim DiScipio were fined $20 and costs each, while the fine of Walter Pike was raised to $30 and costs because the court discovered he had given another name instead of his own.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 16 December, 1925
pg 3
Minimum Sums Of Tax Funds To Be Slashed
Budget Commission Indicates Schools and City Must Get Along With Less
Persons charged with the responsibility of expending Wooster tax money, conferring last night with members of the county budget commission, discovered that a voracious and undesirable intruder named Mr. Sinking Fund had stepped in ahead of them and consumed all the pie and cake and much of the remainder of the tax feast.
The commission, they found, was doling out only prison fare rations of bread and water, and not putting any jam except raspberry on the bread either.
Consequently, from all indications today, all departments that share in the tax money will be given considerably less money than they have requested.

Some Drastic Economy
It may mean a shortening on the school year or elimination of some of the newly added high school courses, some drastic economy in the administration of the city government and possible cancelling of a part of the street paving program, and delay in the development of the new city park.

Ask More For Schools
Members of the Board of Education were the first to be heard last night when the meeting began. A score or more of interested spectators, aside from more than that number of city, school and sinking fund officials, were on hand. The board’s budget, submitted by Ray Miller, clerk, was approximately $156,000 for running expenses and $66,000 for sinking fund. In addition to this there was a deficit of $27,000, which, it was suggested, might be funded. The total minimum amount asked was about $224,000 when the figures were rechecked in detail. J.J. Keister, president of the board, stated that the amount was about $41,000 more than was received last year and he and other members of the board declared the deficit was there because the board had not received last year what it asked for in the matter of current expenses. Supt. G.C. Maurer declared that if Wooster wanted the kind of schools that prevailed years ago, such schools could be operated at a lower cost, but that in his opinion, the Board of Education had been very careful to eliminate all waste and that the money sought was nearly all for fixed charges, such as salaries, bonded debt, fuel and supplies.

Cannot Cut Cost
“I know that this board is willing to sit down with any other group of men and receive any suggestions about reducing the cost of conducting our schools,” Mr. Maurer said, “but I do not believe the cost can be cut without seriously impairing the system. It must either come thru a reduction in salaries, which would mean the employment of cheaper teachers; in shortening the school year; or in eliminating a part of the courses that have been introduced.”
There were a few remarks on the part of citizens represented concerning the cost of the high school building, which Supt. Maurer stated was $575,000, including the equipment. A school built to equip the same number of pupils was completed in Cleveland recently at a cost of $1,500,000, Mr. Keister suggested.

Want School Levy
President Keister informed the commission that 65 percent of the voters of Wooster cast their ballots in favor of the special three mill levy for school purposes. He stated that special levies in the past had benefitted not only the board of education, but the city, because all available sources of revenue had been “pooled.” This time, he said, the board of education was asking for all of the money produced by this special levy.
“We expect this commission,” he said, “to give the Board of Education its share of ordinary tax receipts and then to add the full amount that will come from this levy after the levy is reduced from three mills, in proportion to the duplicate increase,” he said. It is estimated that the special levy will produce between $45,000 and $50,000.

$8,500 For Library
James A. Shamp, speaking for the trustees of the library, placed the institution’s needs at $8,500, which includes the maintenance of the public library and the salary of a librarian at the sub-library at the high school.
Mayor M.R. Limb and City Auditor Grace B. Wile submitted the city budget, asking for $47,000 for sinking fund, and $64,000 for running expenses, a total of $111,000. This, it was pointed out, included $12,000 for park purposes.

For City Park
James B. Rahl, Edmund Secrest and A.D. Metz, members of the park commission, stated they required $4,000 for maintenance of the park and the remainder for development and to pay a part of the indebtedness to the Board of Trade. After some dickering, a sum of $?,000 was suggested for park purposes of which all but $1,500 was to be pared from city funds. The $1,500 Mayor Limb said, represented the decrease asked by the city from that which was appropriated last year. The mayor pointed out that the city is not asking for any increased amount.
During the conference it developed that about 40 cents on each $1 paid in taxes in Wooster goes for sinking fund purposes. Members of the Budget Commission were emphatic in their declarations that unless the issuing of bonds for county road paving, for city street paving and for building school houses is stopped, there will be no money left for operating expenses.

Schools and Gasoline
Supt. Maurer pointed out that while amounts seem large, yet it was a fact that the people of Ohio pay no more money to maintain their schools than they do to buy gasoline for their automobiles, and that one hears no complaint about the cost of gasoline.
The commission gave no intimation of its final action. Prosecutor Fritz and Auditor W.E. Heller represented the commission. Miss Florence Limb, county treasurer, having found it impossible to attend. It was the general supposition from the trend of remarks however, that the commission would make further reductions in the budgets that were classed as “absolute minimums” by the city departments represented.
Members of the commission had indicated some days ago that they had no intention of permitting Wooster’s tax rate to exceed two mills.

NOTE: A very long and detailed article that I may transcribe some day if I’m really bored.
Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 21 December, 1925
pg 7
Officials Of County Study State Report
Some Suggestion And Some Findings as Noted by the Examiners.
County officials have been studying for a week or more the report of State Examiners, Walter Garrison and Bladen Marshall, covering the period from October 1, 1923 to July 23, 1925, part of which was under the terms of present officials and part under terms of their predecessors.
As noted in the Record some days ago, the report lauds in general, the work of the men who have been and who are now in charge of the various county offices.
In some other instances there are suggestions for some changes in method, and a few criticisms of policies that have been followed here in the past.
About 200 Findings
Two Major Groups
Loaning County Funds
Owe on Road Contract
Sums Paid Back
Owed by County
Some Not Paid
The Wooster Daily Record, $60.53 alleged to be due as an overcharge for advertising; Martin and Myers, error in bill, $8; Ohio Law Reporter Co, same, $1.75; Standard Oil Co., same, $9.12; Baldwin Law Publishing Co., same, $10; M.R. Limb, excess fees, $12.50; A.C. Whonsetler, same, $8.50; F.R. Read, same, $17.95; E.D. Knecht, same, $32.30; Lewis Bolus, same, $8.36; W.C. Yost, same, $55.70; James Scobey, same, $53. These are all fees that were collected on criminal cases tried in the courts of the above named officials.
Against Cost Plus
Question on Road Map
On Dog Catcher
Some Extra Payments

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 22 December, 1925
pg 12
New Mayor Is An Observer In Council
Street Improvement Work is Shelved Temporarily in Financial Crisis.
Mayor-elect William H. Black made his first appearance before last night’s meeting of city council and contributed his maiden speech before that body.
The mayor sat through a session of an hour and a half, witnessed the council’s procedure, heard the “swan songs” of several retiring members, listened as council formally approved his bond, and then was called upon for remarks.
“I am glad to be here,” the mayor-elect said, “and I thank you for approving my bond. From what I have heard here this evening, it appears as though our work during the coming year will depend largely upon the final decision of the budget commission.”
City solicitor Oscar Kauffman was also present, but left before the session ended.

First Swan Song
Harry Elliott, the first to sing the “swan song” expressed his thanks at having been permitted to serve in council, declared he had enjoyed it very much and that he had received much benefit from his experience. Mr. Elliott succeeded A.D. Reed several months ago.
President J.M. Ginter was thankful because council had gotten along so well in its work, pointing out that with few exceptions the members had voted unanimously on major questions after they had been thrashed out in detail.

Suggests Picture
City Solicitor Walter J. Mougey complimented council upon the time and attention the members had given their work and told of the pleasure he had received serving them as legal advisor. He suggested that council should have a picture of the group to hang on the walls, saying that there was but one picture of council there. In that same connection he told of the regret of members of the bar association that pictures of all common pleas judges were not in existence. Mr. Mougey’s suggestion was taken up by councilman Elliott and tentative arrangements were made to have the picture made at the meeting in January.

The Mayor’s Bond
The bond of Mayor-elect Black for $1,000 was signed by W.F. Kean, E.C. Brenner and C.M. Gray. It was approved upon motion of Councilman G.N. Coffey.

Paving Program Doubtful
It was demonstrated at the meeting that at least a part of the year’s street paving program is doubtful because of the lack of funds. Early in the meeting a protest, containing the names of more than 30 South Market street property owners was presented, asking that resurfacing that street be deferred. Councilman Kistler spoke in favor of the protest. Councilman Clyde Myer declared that if other councilmen had attended the budget commission meeting last week they would have been amazed at the general financial status of the county and city and urged caution. He suggested that the protest be placed on ? this ?.
Mayor M.R. Limb urged the establishment for next year at least of the resurfacing of both North and South Market streets predicting a sharp cut in money available to the city from the budget commission. He stated that in the smaller allotments ??? from $? to $800 or $300 these amounts had, in most instances been paid from the service fund but that in resurfacing projects where the city ? half ? is not possible and that heavy bond obligations ahead necessitate rigid economy now.

Balance ?ands
The mayor read council a report of the city’s present financial condition. On December 1st the General fund had a balance of $3711.12, the safety fund $5,481.93, the health fund $??.17, and the service fund $6,275.08, he said. Average monthly withdrawals from these funds are $500, $1350, $150, and $2300 respectively, which will leave balances in all of them at the end of December. In the park fund there is a balance of $9.06 and in the waterworks fund, $1,288.70, all of which will be required for this month’s expenses.

Recommends Plug
Councilman Coffey’s committee recommended the establishment of a water plug on Leroy street when the service department is ? to install it. Mayor Limb estimated the cost at $3?? because it would be necessary to lay several hundred feet of six inch main. He believed it would not be practical to add this fire plug until the latter part of next year. The committee’s report was accepted.
Councilman J.W. Olthouse reported on an automobile case and The Pennsylvania tax assessment suit, referred to in another article in this issue.

Read Resolutions
First reading was given to three resolutions contemplating street improvement. One was to pave ? Avenue from Liberty street to Larwill street. The second was to pave Pine street from Bever street to Beall avenue. The third was to resurface North and South Market street. Because of the financial situation, and also to await the attitude of property owners on these streets, the resolutions were left on first reading. One protest, that against resurfacing South Market street was received. It was pointed out that last year protests on some streets came in after legislation was well under way, causing a serious complication.
In the spirit of the season, council adopted an ordinance authorizing the city auditor to pay all monthly salaries for December on or before December 23rd.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 23 December, 1925
pg 12
Pays $25 Fine
William Stout was fined $25 and costs in Mayor Limb’s court when he plead guilty to a charge of intoxication.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 24 December, 1925
pg 3
Thinks City Will Have Enough Cash To Run
Mayor M.R. Limb believes that the money provided for the city services fund next year will be ample to meet the absolute needs of the department.
The addition of considerable machinery to the department in the last year, including ? and street repair machinery enables this work to be done at less cost then formerly, the mayor pointed out. The gasoline tax should also provide additional revenue in his opinion.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 29 December, 1925
pg 10
By-the-way
Mayor M.R. Limb according to a story that reached the By the Way man from the mayors residence was on the point of going the city police department some extra special orders to dig up a bootlegger or two on Christmas eve.

 The mayor’s little daughter, it seems, had a definite view about what she wanted for Christmas.
 “I want some bootleggers” she declared.

 After some questioning, however, the mayor found out that she wanted to ? on her feet and that what she really meant was zippers.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 30 December, 1925
pg 2
Will Give City Keys To Black
Ceremony to Take Place at City Hall Friday Morning.
Mayor M.R. Limb will give the city’s keys to his successor in office, William H. Black, at the mayor’s office in the city hall on Friday morning.
The ? for the procedure is 9 a.m. but because Mayor Limb intends to drive to Xenia, O., to attend a meeting of the trustees of the soldiers’ and sailors’ orphan’s home the time will be advanced one half hour it was indicated today.
Mayor Black upon taking office will probably have several announcements to make.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 31 December, 1925
pg 5
Mayor Reports Finances Are In Good Shape
On the last day of his second term as mayor of the city of Wooster, Mayor M.R. Limb today made public a report he has prepared concerning the status of the city departments. The report will be left in the hands of Service Director W.W. Yoder for submission to city council.
In his report the mayor cautions the continued need for strict economy and points out the major accomplishments of his own administration. Complete invoices of everything on hand in the various city departments are affixed to the report, a full account is given of the street improvements made and of other activities.
In connection with the inventories, the mayor added the following comment.
“The finances of the city are in good healthy condition at this time. We have not been compelled to anticipate the general revenue through the issuance of certificates of indebtedness. Such anticipation of the general revenue does not indicate a healthy condition of the finances: Nor have we been compelled to draw ahead for the payment of bills. In no way has the income of the future in any department been mortgaged. A healthy balance, unincumbered, remains in each fund.
“The balances as shown by the books of the city auditor today, subject to a few last minute bills that may total $100, were:
General fund, $3,593.76.
Service fund, $3,798.89.
Safety fund, $3,020.79.
Health fund, $3,772.22.
Waterworks, $282.61.
Park, $9.06.
Auto tax, $2,314.45.
Special assessment improvement, $32,318.71.

Fewer Improvements
“In the matter of improvements, if the city desires to conserve its operating funds and to have sufficient amounts to provide for its ordinary operating expenses, it will be necessary to refrain from extensive improvements wherein the city is to bear, if not all, a considerable part of the cost of the same. Under the present law provision must be made for the liquidation of the funded indebtedness and the interest thereon; the levy for said purpose taking precedence over the levy for any other purpose for which the city has to provide, hence any increase in the bonded indebtedness means a corresponding increase in the levy for the sinking fund and interest, and a consequent decrease in the levy for the operating funds of the city. The city’s portion of most of the improvements in the past four years has been paid out of the operating funds, thus avoiding any increase in the indebtedness, also saving interest.
“The several departments of the city have been completely motorized, one piece being added to the fire department, one 2 1-2 ton dump truck, two 1 ton dump trucks, one 1 ton truck, one tractor, plow, scraper and grader, one concrete mixer, one asphalt repair outfit, including the necessary equipment for cutting back street intersections, one Ford coupe, one Buick six cylinder touring car. These have been added to the several departments as needed.
Motorization is saving the city at least $60 a day, and far more work is accomplished.

Suggests Sinking Fund
The water department is in a good healthy condition, as there is not likely to be any necessity for extensive extension of the city mains. The income from this source should be sufficient to not only meet all operating expenses but to create a sinking fund for future expansion, extension and repairs. In the matter of extension of mains 15 car-loads of pipe, most of which has been 6 inch have been placed in the ground, 15 new fire plugs have been added, four drinking fountains, purchased by the Federated Women’s Clubs, have been set up, and twelve more are now in the hands of the water department, ready to be placed as soon as weather will permit.
Stop and Slow signs, purchased by the city, have been placed at street intersections. The names of the streets should be placed on these signs.

Urges Caution
“Much responsibility attaches to the council as a legislative department of the municipality: It behooves each member of the council, in order that he may be fully qualified to rightfully perform his official duties, to fully acquaint himself with the financial condition of the city as well as with the city’s needs, then he will be better able to judge of the city’s ability to carry on any improvements. Fortressed with this knowledge as to his authority under the law, each councilman should be prepared to intelligently act and thus properly conserve the best interests of the city.
“Respectfully submitted.
“M.R. Limb, Mayor.”

Limb & Weidner (1926 – 1930)