General Wooster Day

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 13 August, 1925
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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
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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
Wednesday, 19 August, 1925
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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
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Thursday, Oct. 15 Will Be Gen. Wooster Day
Making Plans For Parade, And Celebrations
Pioneer and Present Times Will be Contrasted by Unique Special.
Thursday, October 15, was selected last night as the date for the city’s formal welcome to General David Wooster, in whose honor this city was named.
At a meeting held in the city council chamber last evening, the band committee of The Wooster Board of Trade was made the executive committee in charge of the event, and empowered to select a general chairman, appoint sub-committees, and proceed along other lines to plan for a mammoth celebration.
One of the big features of the day will be a parade in which all of the city’s business establishments, factories and stores, and the civil and patriotic organizations, will be urged to enter floats. Prizes, it is supposed, will be offered for the most unique floats in the parade.

Co. K Certain.
Captain Walter R. Yost has already promised that Company K will be out in full strength, and will act as an excort when the famous general arrives in the city.
A program committee will be selected to arrange a special program for the occasion, the chief feature of which will be an address of welcome to General Wooster and the General’s response.
General Wooster, it was pointed out today, was a real hero and martyr. His ancestors came to this country from England, with “Worcester” as their coat of arms, later it was changed. During the Revolutionary war Gen. Wooster was in the thick of the fighting and was one of General Washington’s most competent aides. He was slain in battle at the age of 35 years, just at a time when his brilliant work as a military commander had ? win him distinction.

Never Capitalized
Many years afterwards, when Wooster was laid out by the pioneers here, the name of the revolutionary hero was selected for this town. This city has never capitalized its good fortune in being named in honor of so worthy a man. Cleveland, an ardent admirer of General Wooster’s work pointed out today, holds in high esteem one Moses Cleveland, who was a mere surveyor, and other Ohio cities have been named for men far less famous than the patron saint of Wayne county’s seat of government.
General Wooster’s return in spirit is to be made as realistic as possible. The committee, it is reported, is grooming Walter C. Kerr to wear the revolutionary war uniform of the city’s hero. Other uniforms of revolutionary times are to be provided and a real contrast affected in the things that were then, and the things that are now.

Bring Out Contrast
The whole idea of contrast of pioneer days and present days will be carried out, as much as possible, in the celebration of the event.
Mayor M.R. Limb last night promised the committee the use of Liberty street from the public square east to Buckeye street for the evening, when a carnival time will be enjoyed, with a band concert, dancing, concessions and other features of entertainment.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 24 August, 1925
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Shoved under the door of the editor’s office this morning was a plain envelope, sealed, which being opened, disclosed a note from none other than General David Wooster.
While no explanation came with the note, it is hinted in certain quarters that it carries out a prediction made recently to the effect that the General, plans for whose welcome are being made here, has slipped quietly into town and will remain incognito until the time arrives for him to show himself in uniform. The General, according to this information, will slip around town unnoticed and unrecognized, and make certain comment, giving his own impressions of things he sees. In order to let the distinguished man for whom the city was named, air his opinions freely, the Record prints his first note herewith, and will publish others that may come from him in the days preceding his official appearance here.
This is what was written on the single sheet of paper that came from the envelope
YE EDITOR
“I feel that perhaps the merchants of cloth and haberdashery as well as those who sell plows and other artisan tools here are more diligent than I have ever observed. Their warehouses and shops are beautiful with the art of the cunning spinner and certain needle women, as well as the cunning craftsmen in iron and steel. It is wonderful how the people of the county side come here to barter. But with all this shy do they fence their shops about with so many carriages without horses that the wayfarer cannot stop to refresh himself and engage in barter? Surely wisdom would say it would be better for them to walk to work than to lose the barter of those who fare past their shops.
(General) DAVID WOOSTER

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 25 August, 1925
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Who Is General Wooster? Read and Learn
Ben Douglass, in his History of Wayne County, written in 1878, has preserved for this and succeeding generation a great amount of interesting material about pioneer life in Wooster and Wayne county. When the book was written, there still survived numerous men and women who were among the community’s first settlers.
The historian’s work includes, written in the author’s graceful style, a sketch of General David Wooster, who is scheduled to return “in spirit” for a celebration to take place in October.
The General’s coming has stirred up much interest in who he was. The sketch of his life is herewith reproduced from the pages of the Douglass history:

Wooster.
The seat of justice of Wayne County was laid out in the fall of 1802 by the proprietors, John Bever, William Henry and Joseph H. Larwill and is 377 feet above Lake Erie, and was made the seat of justice for the county May 30th 1811.
It was so named by Hon. Joseph H. Larwill, in honor of the celebrated Major General David Wooster of Revolutionary renown and a member of the old and distinguished family bearing that name.

Sketch of General Wooster.
David Wooster was born at Stratford, in Connecticut, March 2, in the year of our Lord, 1710. The strictest scrutiny of his earlier record furnishes but a meager detail of his boyhood. He was a man of prepossession personal appearance, of rare intellectual culture and accomplished education. His collegiate course was exact and scientific answering the punctilious curriculum of Yale in 1725.
When the colony constructed what was then called “the guard-a-costa” to be employed defensively in case of assault by Spanish cruisers in 1739, he was designated as second in command, and shortly was appointed Captain. At the close of this service he married a daughter of President Clapp of Yale College, a lady said to have admirably suited to encounter the dangerous scenes which were already flinging their dark and ominous shadows upon the future. Valiant women always make braver, courageous men; and Mrs. Wooster had firmness, power and resolution of mind combined with exquisite refinement of manners, which aided him immensely in the subsequent experience of his life.

Helps Capture Fort.
In 1745, when Colonel Burr raised a regiment in Connecticut to join the troops destined to act against Louisburg — a seaport village on the eastern coast of the Island of Cape Breton, an insular colony of British North America — Captain Wooster was appointed to the command of a company of that regiment and occupied an active part in the reduction of that considerable fortification. After its capitulation, he was ordered to take charge of the cartel which was sent to France for exchange of prisoners. He was not at that time permitted to land in France, but hastened to Great Britain, where he was received by aristocrats, the dwellers of the Court, and velvet sandaled Royalty itself. He even became a favorite of King George, who presented him with a Captain’s baton in a regiment of Sir William Pepperell, with half pay for life.

Lives Tranquilly.
After one of the Aix la-Chapelle treaties, and the recession to France of the fortress mentioned, Captain Wooster retired to the serenities of home and the sanctities of private life. For awhile he lived in tranquil seclusion in New Haven, when the sky lowered again and the mutterings of the Titans of war were heard in the distance. In 1750 he was made Colonel of a regiment, but was not fated to remain there long, as he was soon advanced to a Brigadiership, which office he held until the peace of 1763, when once more he withdrew to the pensive shades of retirement.

A Business Man.
We find him next in New Haven, an enterprising public spirited man, engaged in commercial pursuits. We believe, at one time, he was appointed Collector of Customs of the port of New Haven. And now beams, in faint but terrible lines upon the horizon, the test hour to men of place and power. The cloud, not larger than a man’s hand, grew rapidly, and men had to decide. General Wooster named his position from the beginning, and when the bloody logic of Concord and Lexington was sought to be taught in the school of despotism, although courts had received him, kings had honored him — honored him with office — and although he held the king’s seal, he renounced everything, and poured out “the tinkling crimson tide that plays upon the heart’s red brink” for freedom from oppression and the independence of his country. and with the forethought and prescience of a wise man, he comprehended the necessity of the hour, and while Ethan Allen and Arnold executed the drama of the capture of Ticonderoga, we must award to General Wooster a full share of the honor of the conception of the plot of that hazardous and momentous enterprise. He even went to Canada with Montgomery and for awhile after that gallant soldier fell had supreme command.
In 1775, after a successful vote for the creation of an army, Congress appointed him third in rank among Brigadiers upon that occasion. In 1776 the epochal period of the national life, he saw much bitter service though as it was in the inception of the Revolutionary contest, few substantial laurels were achieved, the contest raging long afterward. In the same year he was appointed Major General of the militia of Connecticut, with a supervisory control of the military stores, which were kept near Danbury. The British had a jealous eye upon these provisions, and with a force of two thousand men under Tryon, sought their capture, and succeeded.
General Wooster, with seven hundred raw recruits, attacked them April 27, 1776 but forced to retreat, received a fatal wound. He had, however, the comfort of dying in the sacred circle of his family, on the 2nd of May, 1777. His last words were “I am dying but with the strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence.”
His remains were ensepulchered at Danbury, Connecticut. On June 17, 1777 Congress voted that a suitable monument should be erected to his memory, but measures never were inaugurated to execute the resolution. His grave was not identified until 1854 when by an act of the Legislature of that State, the cornerstone of a monument was laid.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 26 August, 1925
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General Wooster says:
Egad I am glad I fared into this bailiwick. It is positively refreshing to take a walk about and observe the charming and dainty womenfolk of the place. I find their attire rather alarming but am getting used to it. My Aunt Tabatha would give me a rare wigging had she observed me staring with all my eyes. Withal each one of the ladies observe a becoming modesty of deportment and an independence that is all that I had hoped that an American girl might be. Oh, I sometimes sigh for my vanished youth.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Friday, 28 August, 1925
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General Wooster says:
Zounds, I am as dry as a desert. Seeking to find a tap room I was informed by the night watchman on the square that there were none. Well, well, I fancy I will have a hard time to forget my craving for a generous muggin of ale. The Colonial government, it appears, has passed a bill preventing the sale of liquor. Of course I will uphold the will of the assembly as a loyal American, but zounds, it is surely a huge cross to bear for one of my nature.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 29 August, 1925
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General Wooster says:
Surely strict and certain measures are needed to bring to book the drives of those horseless carriages that go rocketing about on the street. Signs say “Slow” or “Stop” — at certain corners but many do not heed the order. Damme, a corporal and file from the old army would give these pranking cavaliers a rouse. I wonder why the town council does not hire certain stout lads to cudgel these lawless once until their eyes are sharp enough to see these signs and heed them.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 31 August, 1925
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General Wooster says:
The modern language spoken by the American of 1925 is very hard to understand. I fared out to what a man called The Experiment Station. After I had trudged miles on wooded drives past acres of fine grain, pens for bullocks and swine, and observed the white fowls in a huge enclosure I wondered why the man called it an “experiment.” I would have sworn every thing about the big farm was a settled fact.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 1 September, 1925
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General Wooster says:
I have a good one for my friend Benjamin Franklin. You know that today I rode in a huge car that was propelled by this electric force that Friend Ben coaxed from the cloud by means of his kite string. The longer I stay in this village the more I think that I am going to enjoy myself here.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 1 September, 1925
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Gen’l Wooster Day In Hands Of Three Men
General Wooster Day, set for Thursday, October 15th will be planned in all of its details under the direction of a board of managers, composed of W.G. Whitaker, G.A. Hudson and Frank E. Boigegrain.
This committee was selected by the Board of Trade band committee, which plans to give the triumvirate active assistance.
The board of managers held their first meeting this afternoon and outlined tentative plans for the big event.
Committees are being chosen and some of them will have work to begin immediately if the celebration is to take on the proportions which have been indicated for it.
With six weeks remaining, however, committees will have an opportunity to work out all of the details nicely.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 2 September, 1925
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General Wooster says:
A fine statute erected to the memory of our fellow patriots of the war fought in 1860-65 stands on the public square in the town of Wooster. In the interest of good military discipline would it not be proper to have the fellow scrub his uniform or if he can not do it for fear of being arrested some stout lad armed with a brush and some soft soap might give the soldier statute an appearance fit for inspection.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 3 September, 1925
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General Wooster says:
I observed today that this bailiwick has a foot ball team. Whatever is this game of football? A young man tried to tell me. From what he said I believe positively that I am going to be very enthusiastic over the aforesaid game.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Friday, 4 September, 1925
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General Wooster says:
“Thrift would indicate that the stage coaches that make journeys for hue and who occupy a large place on the public square should be required to contribute to the public purse or keep from this place. They provide no place for their passengers to seek shelter from the weather nor no place for bookings to be made. The dirt and grease must be cleaned from the paving and other abuses are noted. Woe betide the hapless ? who occupies their space notwithstanding he may have ? moneys to barter with the shop keepers. They would hustle ? to the gaol and put him in the public stocks for taking a place that they have no right to.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 5 September, 1925
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General Wooster says:
Zounds, it fair makes me creep. I refer to the horrible noises on those horseless carriages when your musicians finish one of their selections. The horns and drums make a sweet harmony and after it is finished these graceless scamps who sit in these carriages without horses ? ? savages. If they like the music they should clap the ??? well played sirs.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 8 September, 1925
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General Wooster says:
It is high time that the night watch was recruited by a few more stout fellows. Foot pads could be making merry and purses may be taken even from large strong boxes. By Godfrey, sirs I feel that the night marauder that engages in this traffic should be pistoled without warning.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 9 September, 1925
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General Wooster Says
In faring about the streets of the village I noticed a large number of fine horseless carriages drawn up in front of one of our larger residences. “And is a wedding to be held there?” I queried a passerby. “Naw,” he replied after the fashion of the modern American. “Them autos are jest used by the carpenters and brick masons that are fixin’ that house over.” I gathered that the artisans of today are sufficiently in funds from their labors to be able to ride about in these machines. General Washington would have scarce believed that the nation we founded in tears, poverty and suffering, should have indeed grown so rich as this.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 10 September, 1925
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General Wooster Says
On taking my morning constitutional I noted a large company of children proceeding together. Being curious I followed. Presently we came to a large building occupying a section of a beautiful park. It was a school building. Zounds what a building. The continental ? would have thought ? in Buckingham ?. The Head Master, a certain Esquire Maurer, was ? showed me every ?. After leaving I thought ? it is no wonder that the American youth are great ? given great thoughts to think.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Friday, 11 September, 1925
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General Wooster Says
What is the word? Funnyfellow. I was passing a group of boys and I asked them where the posts were made up desiring to send an epistle to my friends in the colony of Massachusetts. After they had given me certain directions to a place called the office of the posts one of them said, “He’s a Funnyfellow.” Now if the term is respectful I shall go no further but if it is unrespectful I shall search the young varlet out and cane him soundly.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 12 September, 1925
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Gen’l Wooster Committees Named
Men in Charge of Various Phases of Event Will Make Plans Today.
The General Wooster Day board of managers, composed of F.P. Boigegrain, W.G. Whitaker and G.A. Hudson, meeting with Chas. Adams, secretary, and other members of the board committee of the Board of Trade, have selected their committeemen for the event.
Announcement was made today that these committees will meet on Tuesday evening at the council chamber at 7 o’clock, and the manager makes a special request that all whose names appear below be present. Each committee chairman is held responsible for his committee.
General Wooster Day is less than a month away, and committees will have much work to do before the project can be “put across” on the day ? out for it.
The committeemen who will meet Tuesday are as follows, the first named in each instance being the chairman.
Finance — Max Bloomberg, Neal Bowman, Harry Walters.
Parade — M.R. Limb, L.T. Snavely, Walter Yost.
Entertainment — Wm. Zorn, Walter Kerr, R. Taylor.
Publicity — R.P. Crawford, E.H. Hauenstein, A.R. Williams.
Athletic Events — C.W. Ellenwood, E.M. Hole, John Weiser.
Decoration — Leo Crites, Simon Brenner, A.E. Taylor.
Music — Warren Keister, B.C. Baker, DeVere Kaufman.
?? — Judge W.E. Weygandt, Wayne Hurt, Walter Mougey.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 14 September, 1925
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General Wooster Says
It ill behooves a guest to criticise too sharply the conduct of his host but it does seem needful to call attention to some of our shop keepers who, by the way in which they keep the main entrance to their shops cluttered up with packing boxes while taking stock from them that has lately arrived by transport. After I had rapped my suffering shins for the third time while trying to keep out of the way of ladies who were passing I was sharply put to it to keep from shouting for the guard to clear the streets. Smartness and order are large virtues. We soldiers know that and I would relish putting these careless fellows in their places with a corporal and file.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 15 September, 1925
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Cash Prizes Opportunity for School Children For Essay
Any boy or girl attending grade school or high school in Wayne county is invited to participate in a General Wooster Essay contest conducted by the Daily Record.
The Record is offering a first prize of $10 in cash, a second prize of $5 in cash and a third prize of $2.50 in cash for the best, second best and third best essays submitted.
In addition to these cash prizes the Lyric theatre, of Wooster, is offering $10 in prizes divided as follows:
One dollar’s worth of tickets to the authors of the essays ranked fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth in the contest, and fifty cents worth of tickets to each of the writers of the next ten best essays.

Will Have Judges
Competent judges will be chosen to pick the winners.
Each essay shall be written legibly on one side of the paper only, and no essay shall be more than three hundred words in length. Neatness and penmanship will be determining factors in judging the essays especially where two essays are of otherwise equal merit.
The contest opens today and will extend until Monday October 5th, but all essays must be in the Record office by the evening of Monday October 5th. Those received by mail at a later date will not count. I will therefore, not be safe to mail essays to the Record later than Saturday night from points outside of Wooster. Those not completed before Monday morning October 5th shall be brought direct to the Record office or mailed at the Wooster post office or on some Wooster rural mail route.

To Print Winners
The time for the ? the contest is fixed in ? that the judges may have two or three days to select the ? winner. The prize winning essay will be published during the last few days prior to the General Wooster Day celebration which comes on October 15th.
There are no other restrictions except that the essay must concern General David Wooster, the revolutionary military leader in whose honor Wooster city was named. A supposedly ? narrative sketch of the general is given in Ben Douglass’s history of Wayne county and Mrs. Glenn, librarian of the Wooster public library, has accumulated some data for reference work that may prove of value.
It is probable that in libraries of Wooster and Wayne county particularly among families whose ancestors have lived here for a century or more there may be some reference works containing more information about the revolutionary war hero than is found in the Douglass history or in the library references.

Should Interest All
Wooster and Wayne county school children should be interested in General Wooster. The Record invites the cooperation of teachers in interesting their pupils in this contest and in assisting their students in finding all about who and what General Wooster really was. The teachers are requested to announce the contest to their pupils.
Another announcement concerning the contest will be made in a day or two. All pupils interested however are urged to tackle the task of gathering information at once. Provision will be made whereby younger pupils will be on an equal basis with those attending high school.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 15 September, 1925
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General Wooster Says
Yesterday, I had the felicity to observe the detail of men who have for their duty the prevention of a conflagration in the community. I was delighted. Every piece of machinery and apparatus was shining with polish and ready for instant service. Furthermore there was a smartness in discipline and obedience to orders that showed unmistakable military origin. The quarters were well kept and uniforms brushed and put in order. The Commandant, Colonel Snavely, and his merry men have my greatest commendation. I shall take the matter up with the military governor of the colony. I felt a dozen years younger when I witnessed their evolutions. I feel that this branch of the service shall have frequent visits from me.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 16 September, 1925
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Ten Dollars for Xmas Presents to Pupil Who Wins Gen’l Wooster Prize
Ten dollars to spend on Christmas presents for mother and father and sisters and brothers and friends is what some Wooster or Wayne county boy or girl will have when the judges decide the winners of the General Wooster essay contest, announcement of which was made in the Record yesterday.
The Record hopes that pupils in all parts of Wayne county will participate in this contest, for there is a lot of available information about the famous old revolutionary hero.
The closing time is October 5, so there is no time to lose.
No essay must exceed 300 words in length. It must relate to General Wooster. The essay which gives the most information about General Wooster, or the one which takes up some phase of the old hero and portrays it in the most interesting manner will be the winner.
There is more than the first prize of $10, too. There is a second prize of $5 and a third of $2.50. These are offered by the Record.
In addition the Lyric theater is offering one dollars worth of tickets for each of the five next best essays and fifty cents worth of tickets for each of the ten next best essays.
It’s worth going after, boys and girls, so start early.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 16 September, 1925
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Gen’l Wooster Celebration Growing
Two-Day Event is Now Planned, With Mammoth Parade in Four Sections
Stating that the possibilities for the celebration of General Wooster Day, October 15th, had outgrown all original plans, Chairman F.F. Boigegrain of the executive committee for the celebration, announced last night at a meeting of all the committees in the city hall that it had been decided to hold a two-day celebration, Thursday and Friday, October 15th and 16th.
The announcement expresses the ? for the project that has ? Wooster since announcement of the projected entertainment was made some weeks ago by the Board of Trade and the Wooster Board of Trade band.
Last night’s meeting of the committees was in the nature of reports from the different chairmen and making of plans.
Mayor M.R. Limb, chairman of the parade committee, submitted the general route of the parade which was approved. The parade will consist of four sections each one starting from a particular ?? from the square on each of the four streets leading north, south, east and west and ?ing to the place of starting in a route roughly following the line of a cross which will ??? procession ??? marching past ?? to be erected ?? of the square.

Will Have Pennants.
Chairman L.C. Crites of the committee on decorations announced that General Wooster pennants will be ??? and homes and business places. He suggested that the pennants ? be erected in the shape of a frontier ? house. His report was approved.
Chairman Max Bloomberg of the finance committee ? that the ?? was waiting for an estimate on the amount of money needed. Figures were furnished him and he stated that there would be no ?? furnish ??.

To Invite Governor
?? entertainment committee ?? briefly on progress. ?? made ?? Governor A.V. Donahey ??? appear. The first day will be given over to General Wooster’s reception and the second to his entertainment. All stores will be ?? Concessions and sports will furnish entertainment. From ?? of the county and surrounding towns Wooster will entertain one of the largest crowds in its history.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 17 September, 1925
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Wants to Know Who Will Have the Floats
Mayor M.R. Limb, chairman of the parade committee for the General Wooster celebration, wants all persons who are planning to enter floats in the parade to send him a card noting this fact.
“We want every factory and every business house to provide a float to make this a real parade,” the mayor said. “Our committee wants to know just what plans to make. We will assign a place in the parade to each one and they will get places largely in the order in which they enter.”

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 17 September, 1925
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Wants to Know Who Will Have the Floats
Mayor M.R. Limb, chairman of the parade committee for the General Wooster celebration, wants all persons who are planning to enter floats in the parade to send him a card noting this fact.
“We want every factory and every business house to provide a float to make this a real parade,” the mayor said. “Our committee wants to know just what plans to make. We will assign a place in the parade to each one and they will get places largely in the order in which they enter.”

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 17 September, 1925
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General Wooster Says
I wandered out to a large estate at the northern and western edges of the village. Certain dames and their Squires were playing the Scotch game of Golf thereon. I watched with admiration. I wondered to whom the estate belonged and accosted a bystander for information. He just replied with two words, “Country Club.” I have been wondering since whether this was a man’s name or that of an organization. Egad the way those balls flew. I wonder now if I could drive them so far. Great Sport, Damme Great Sport.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Friday, 18 September, 1925
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General Wooster Says
Totally unreadable.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 19 September, 1925
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General Wooster Says
I wandered up on the hillside in the northern part of the village and found an academy for learning consisting of many fine buildings of alabaster whiteness. I was informed that this was Wooster college. Zounds, it fair took me off my feet. Hundreds of stout young fellows were there and many fair demoiselles, all in pursuit of studies in the modern arts of language and science. The head master of the college the right honorable Charles Wishart, D.D., a minister of my faith, did me the honor to introduce me to the other preceptors and masters. I fairly reveled in the sprightly atmosphere of the place. I was interested in the young men. Egad what fine troupes they will make. I would like to recruit them for the colonial army. As I left I thought surely the people of this territory have done me, a humble soldier, much honor in giving my name to so fair a town and such a splendid college.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 21 September, 1925
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General Wooster Says
Pains for my reception here on the 15th of October are going on apace. And now the village of Orrville, a settlement of no mean proportions lying to the eastward, proposes to send a band of musicians to help do me honor. I am informed that these musicians will come and ask no pay for their service. Surely the people of that community are free handed and generous to a fault. Indeed their hospitality is equal if not better than that of our settlement along the sea coast.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 21 September, 1925
pg 4
Gen’l Wooster Meeting
The General Wooster committee members and the members of the Board of Trade band committee will hold a meeting Tuesday evening at 7:30 in the council chamber. Important action concerning the coming General Wooster celebrations will be taken.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 22 September, 1925
pg 2
Kiwanis Buys Two Fountains
Plans to Put Float in General Wooster Parade.
Kiwanis, at a business meeting held Tuesday noon, voted to purchase two drinking fountains at $25 each to be placed at the D. Nice corner and the Alvin Rich corner.
The fountains will be installed by the city service department. William Long, member of the club, volunteered to build concrete blocks at each fountain so they can be more easily used by children.
The club authorized the directors to make plans for ladies night in October.
President John McKee appointed a special committee to plan a float for Kiwanis in the General Wooster parade.
The coming of Explorer Donald McMillan on November 10th was discussed briefly.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 23 September, 1925
pg 4
General
General Wooster Says
I feel positively abashed. I was passing one of the merchants shops and saw a sign “Dutchess Trousers.” I asked a comely young spinster who the Dutchess was and why the Dutchess wished to wear trousers and she laughed me to scorn. I had to go away as soon as possible and drown my blushes in mighty potations from the town pump.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 23 September, 1925
pg 10
Parade To Be Feature Of Celebration
Other Committees Getting Along Nicely in Planning for General Wooster Day
The parade on the afternoon of Thursday, October 15th, is going to be probably the biggest feature of General Wooster Day, although committees in charge of other departments of the celebration are working hard to make their portions of the day’s doings come up to the high standard set by the men in charge.
At a meeting of committees held last evening the parade committee, consisting of Mayor M.R. Limb , I.R. Snavely and Captain Walter Yost, was given the help of members of the band committee to carry out its plan of securing each business house to put a float into the parade. W.G. Whitaker and F.E. Boigegrain of the general committee volunteered to interest each manufacturer in a similar proportion wand it was also stated that a number of organizations have signified their intention of participating.
The band committee reported that it will have at least three bands for the parade, the Wooster Board of Trade band, the Orrville Citizens band, and the Wooster high school band. It is expecting the services of others, too, before the big day comes.
The entertainment committee was authorized to go ahead with the project of procuring several big free acts for the occasion. For these the committee intends to expend considerable money, in order that very high class entertainment can be provided. This is considered one of the really important parts of the day’s events and the committee including L.C. Taylor, Wm. Zorn and W.A. Kerr are in touch with concerns which book attractions of this kind.
The meeting last night indicated that all of the committees are getting along nicely with their individual parts of the program and that the whole proceedings is taking shape nicely.
With three weeks to go and interest gaining each day, prospects are that the celebration will be a really big affair.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 24 September, 1925
pg 4

General Wooster Says
It is a matter of common report that certain members of the town guard did take rifles and ammunition from the armory and that they did leave some of the ammunition where certain small lads did obtain it, much to the consternation of the good wives of the community. At the next general muster I intend to be present and with the permission of the commandant I will give those bold soldiers a wigging that will cause them to observe better discipline. By the piper that played before Moses, the corporals of those files should be given pack duty for two hours. Ammunition, sirs, is to be used when needed. If it were my regiment these lads would sing a right merry tune before they took up their duties again.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Friday, 25 September, 1925
pg 3

General Wooster Says
It must be a right merry thing to be young and live at the present time. I have observed that the maids do most of the courting. In my day it was different. Egad, when one set out to gather a kiss then, it was like having plans to capture a city with an armed force. However, today — Well, I had perhaps better not continue, but I believe that a kiss from a pair of ruby lips is just as thrilling without a battle as with it.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 26 September, 1925
pg 3
Information For Those In Essay Contest
Librarian Locates Many References to Famous Old General Wooster.
Just a little more than a week remains for pupils of Wooster and Wayne county high and grade schools to submit essays in the Daily Record’s “General Wooster” contest.
The Record offers a first prize of $10, a second prize of $5 and a third prize of $2.50 for the best essays on General David Wooster.
In addition, the Lyric theater is offering five prizes of $1 worth of tickets each, and ten prizes of 50 cents worth of tickets each for next-best essays, making a total of eighteen prizes.
This is a fine opportunity for boys and girls of Wayne county. Essays must not exceed 300 words in length and must be written clearly on one side of the paper, with the name of the writer either at the beginning or end of the essay.
Competent judges will pass upon the merit of each of the essays after these submitted have been numbered and the names erased, so that judges will not know who offered the ones they select.
All essays must be submitted by Monday night, October 5th, to Essay Contest Editory, The Daily Record, Wooster, O.
Mrs. E.W. Glenn, librarian at the city public library, has been diligent in recent weeks in obtaining data on General Wooster, which is at the disposal of any boy or girl who calls at the library to secure information. Some of it Mrs. Glenn obtained by writing to libraries in General Wooster’s native state of Connecticut.
Mrs. Glenn reports the following references available at the library now:
Appleton, Cyclopedia of American biography, vol 6, page 611
Barber & Howe, Our Whole Country, Vol 1, pages 362-363
Carrington, Battles of the American Revolution, various pages
Douglas, History of Wayne County, pages 281-291. Extracts from an oration upon the Life and Services of General David Wooster, delivered at Danbury, Conn., April 27th, 1854, when a monument was erected to his memory.
Fisk, American Revolution, page 259
Headley, Washington and His Generals, vol 2, pages 323-324
Herring & Longacre, National portrait gallery, Vol 2
Letters from George Washington to Tobias Lear, page 75-76 (containing a letter written by Washington to General David Wooster)
Sappell, Records of the Revolutionary War, page 529
Revolutionary Characters of New haven, pages 39-46
This last reference is very important, giving interesting facts about his life, and also a picture of the General David Wooster house in New Haven. The book containing this material was obtained from the New Haven Historical Society. Through the courtesy of the librarian of the Danbury Public Library valuable material was also secured. This contest should appeal especially to the boys and girls of high school age, and if there are any questions to be asked the librarian of the Public Library will gladly help anyone who is looking up references.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 28 September, 1925
pg 8

General Wooster Says
I have seen by first football game. I would not have missed it for the best dinner that could be cooked. When they charged each other I felt for my sword and pistols, I was sure I would need them. How they fought. When I arrived at my lodgings I was so hoarse from shouting that I could scarce make myself heard to the servant who came for my order for the evening meal. I am going again. Whoope, my lad, it was great sport.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 29 September, 1925
pg 4

General Wooster Says
I have observed that it takes a very spry man to win an argument from a woman. It appears that while the men of the town have been smugly arranging a fete in my honor, the women belonging to a certain patriotic order had done me much honor some time ago by discussing my poor deeds in behalf of the colonies and that the children had written essays on my achievements. I wish to acknowledge at this late date my obligation to this order, and it is my hope that they may long exist to inculcate the principles for which we fought in the lives of the youth of the colonies.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 29 September, 1925
pg 4
Gen’l Wooster Night
General David Wooster committees will meet tonight at 7:30 o’clock in the council chamber. The various committees will make reports on what they have accomplished, and will outline new things to be done during the closing two weeks of the period for arrangements. Thursday, October 15th, will be General Wooster Day.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 30 September, 1925
pg 3
Ask Towns To Enter Floats
General Wooster Day Plans Taking Form for Two-day Celebration.
Unanimous action was taken last night by the committee in charge of General Wooster Day, to invite each town in Wayne county to enter a float representing that town.
Orrville, Dalton, Doylestown, Rittman, Creston, West Salem, Shreve, Fredericksburg, Smithville, Applecreek and others are invited to “get into the parade.”
Each town participating is expected to provide and decorate its own float, and to label it with the name of the town it represents.
The parade committee, which is interesting local merchants, manufacturers and organizations in entering floats reports considerable success, although it has found a disposition among many business houses to take the matter up slowly.
“The parade is going to be the big feature of this celebration if we make it so,” said F.E. Boigegrain, general chairman, “but we need everybody to make it good. If a business man feels he can’t provide a magnificent float, he can at least enter a decorated automobile.”

Lighting Chairman
C.L. Allis, of the Wooster Electric company, was made general chairman of the committee on lighting, and it is predicted that there will be some most excellent illumination for the night sessions of the big affair.
William Zorn, who reported for the committee on entertainment, declared there are plenty of concessions that can be secured for the carnival department of the celebration, but that the committee will not be certain of its free attractions until the latter part of the present week.

Tentative Plan
The tentative plan for the big event is to have the parade on Thursday afternoon, which will mark the arrival of General Wooster, and his formal welcome to the city.
Friday morning will be given over to getting over the night before.
Friday afternoon a program of sports will be given, and Friday night will be the second carnival night.
The matter of decorating is taking form. Several out of town concerns have expressed a desire to come here to decorate store fronts, furnishing their own material. At least one will be invited to come.
The local committee is printing General Wooster pennants, and plans also to print General Wooster muslin banners, both of which are to be sold at a low cost.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 30 September, 1925
pg 4

General Wooster Says
It is high time that some measures were taken against these careless persons who leave their automobile machines along the street in the night season without any lights on them to indicate where they are. I nearly bruised my poor old pate against one of them while going to my lodgings the other evening. On nearly every street in the town are two or three offenders of this kind. The night watch would have no trouble in making business for the magistrates if they would but exercise their duty in this matter.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 1 October, 1925
pg 4

General Wooster Says
I have been much ? and pleased by what is called the yearly fair, which is held in a spacious field on the western side of this town. I saw much to interest me. The fat bullocks, swine and draught horses. The marvelous exhibits of needle work by the deft fingers of our fair women, the many pleasing and studious exhibits of the work by our school lads and lasses and the crowds of well dressed country squires and dames and their sturdy sons and dainty daughters. I also observed with great appreciation the ? races by the trotting and pacing horses. Indeed I asked several ? on a ? of bay horses and increased my store of finance somewhat. The yearly fair lasts about a fortnight and I marveled at many of the ? for ??? was in a sad whirl when I ?? patronizing the giant wheel of the merry go round. But… cannot read the rest.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Friday, 2 October, 1925
pg 10

General Wooster Says
A band of stout lads from Moses Cleveland’s town, lying north of this village will attempt to defeat our hand of football yeomen, from the College of Wooster, during the week end half holiday. These visiting warriors are from a college called Case. I am not much worried about the outcome. I saw our lads preparing for the battle and the blows they gave and took showed that they were eager for the fray. A good dame gave me a preparation for the throat and my voice will be in good condition to help cheer our lads to victory. Zounds I have hard work restraining myself until time for the battle. I am afraid I entertain some very unchristian thoughts regarding the Case band of footballers. I hope that we may win fairly and that none will be hurt in the fray. I would risk several pounds sterling on the result but The Reverend Charles Wishart, Head Master at the college, informs me that it is not the custom to take or give wagers on the outcome of the contest.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 3 October, 1925
pg 8
75 Vehicles have Entered The Big Parade
Five Bands Will be here to Furnish Music for General Wooster Day
Seventy-five vehicles have already been entered in the General Wooster parade on Tuesday, October 15th, Mayor M.R. Limb , chairman of the parade committee, reported at last night’s meeting of the committees in charge.
“But we want a great many more than that, and we expect to get them, too,” the mayor declared.
Other members of the committee declared that they would be disappointed if every retail establishment in the city is not represented in the parade with a float. This is to be the big feature of the celebration, and its success hinges altogether upon the spirit of co-operation shown by the merchants, committeemen contended.

75 For Parade.
The 75 vehicles already entered to not include any floats from towns of Wayne county, each of which has been invited to enter a float representing their town. It also does not include the Wooster factories, which are in charge of a special committee.
The parade is to start at three o’clock Thursday, October 15th, according to present arrangements.
General Wooster will reach the city about 11:30 a.m. and will be formally welcomed on the public square. After a brief program there he will be taken to the Wooster Country club for lunch and then he will return down town to view the parade.

Have Five Bands
Five bands will be here Thursday, and the afternoon will be almost one continuous concert, with the parade furnishing the spectacular part of the program.
The evening program will be featured by free attractions and street booths.
Friday afternoon there will be more free attractions and a program of sports, in charge of a committee headed by J.E. Weiser.
Friday night will be a confetti ball with street dancing and a lot of entertainment.
It is planned to use the square and part of Liberty street for the celebration.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 5 October, 1925
pg 4

General Wooster Says
I fear I am becoming too critical, but I must call the attention of the town council to the condition of College street in the village. Some months ago gaps in the pavement were made to allow water pipes to be put into several homes. These gaps have not been filled. Now passengers in vehicles receive sad bumps as they proceed up and down the street. Visitors to the village say some sharp things about our town. Being jealous of the good name of the village I resent this slander. Surely the sturdy lads who work on the streets can fill these gaps. What ho, let us be up and repair the street.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 5 October, 1925
pg 4
Gen. Wooster March Is Placed On Sale
Copies of the General Wooster March are on sale in the city’s music shops. The march was written by Director B.C. Baker of the Wooster Board of Trade band and donate to the band for the General Wooster day celebration. The music is a catchy selection with words to be sung with the refrain. The copies on sale will be the only ones printed as the plates from which the music was printed have been destroyed by the publishing company.
The cover of the music has a fine portrait of Gen. Wooster mounted upon a prancing charger.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 6 October, 1925
pg 10

General Wooster Says
While strolling by one of the music shops on our main thoroughfare, I heard a comely spinster playing a lively ballad that had remarkable sweetness and time to it. I stepped into the shop and inquired of her what she was playing. She said it was the General Wooster March. Egad it astounded me. She further said that it was written by a certain Esquire, one Berger C. Baker, leader of the band of musicians who invited me to the town through the good offices of our Lord Mayor. The ballad was so pleasing that I had her play it for me twice over. Zounds I could hardly make my old shanks keep still. The ballad closes with a verse to be sung in which a pleasing sentiment is expressed in my honor. I fear that my concert will become so great that I will not be able to conduct myself in a seemly manner. I fear that I will utter some loud huzzaws when it is played on the horns of our musicians.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 7 October, 1925
pgs 1 & 9
Gen. Wooster To Reach City At 11 O’Clock
Full Details of Two-day Program Are Announced by Committee in Charge.
A definite program for the two-day General David Wooster celebration which comes next week was outlined at a meeting of the general committee held last evening at the council chamber.
The city will be gayly decorated and there will be “welcome” banners at each approach to the square. Pennants with General Wooster’s picture on them, and banners which also have the picture, will be sold in down town Wooster and also on residence streets for house decoration. Down town buildings will be gay with decorations.
General Wooster will be met at the Pennsylvania depot at 11 a.m. by an escort which will include some of Wooster’s present military officers and citizens. He will be escorted to a stand to be erected in the middle of the public square and there he will be welcomed in a brief talk by Mayor M.R. Limb . The General will then respond to the address of welcome.

Will Be Luncheon
At 12 o’clock the General will be taken to the Wooster Country Club for luncheon.
At 2 p.m. the first of a series of hour band concerts will be given on the public square.
At 3 o’clock comes the gigantic parade, which it is expected, will last for an hour and a half. There will be more than one hundred floats in line, and it is planned to have four bands, one to head each section of the parade, for which a unique plan has been worked out. One section will start up on Market street, near the high school, one on west Liberty street, one on East Liberty street and one on South Market. Each section will move towards the square, timed so they arrive simultaneously. At the square each will turn right and continue moving until each section has made the complete circuit. General Wooster will review the parade from the stand on the square.

Free Attraction
At 4:30, following the parade, a big free attraction will be featured. The committee in charge is arranging for a series of four free attractions, one for each afternoon and evening.
This first free attraction will conclude the afternoon program.
In the evening there will be a band concert from 7 to 8 o’clock and another, by a different band, from 8 to 9. From 9 to 10 there will be street dancing.

Friday’s Program
Friday afternoon’s program will start at 2 o’clock with an hour’s band concert. From 3 to 4 there will be a series of athletic events, including a scooter race for boys 9 to 12; a roller skating race for boys from 12 to 15; a roller skating race for girls; a tug of war between two factory teams; a footrace for boys, each ward school entering three to be selected by elimination at the schools; a sack race for boys; a balloon race; and a potato race for girls. There will be prizes for each event. The program is in charge of a committee headed by J.E. Weiser.
From 4 to 5 p.m. there will be another band concert and a free attraction.

Masked Parade
At 7 o’clock Friday night will occur the big masked parade, the second parade in two days and prizes will be offered for the persons who are masked best. There will be a prize for a man and one for a woman masker representing the Colonial period, in keeping with the spirit of the General Wooster occasion. There will be prizes for the best child maskers, under 12, boy and girl. Two prizes for the best fancy maskers and two for the best comic maskers.
Another period of street dancing, free acts and a band concert will follow the parade.
Numerous concessions will line the streets near the square, where the principal events will be held, and the committee in charge is looking forward to one of the biggest crowds Wooster has had in many years.

Town Enter Floats
Smithville and Rittman have notified the local committee that their towns will enter floats in the parade. The committee is waiting to hear from other towns. Villages that are not incorporated are not barred, but invited to join. They may send in floats and join the parade in the section of town where they enter the city, that is, on either North or South Market, or on East or West Liberty streets.
Special arrangements will be made for lighting. There will be extra illumination on the square, and store managers will be requested to keep the fronts of their places of business lit up until a late hour.
Stores will all be open during the regular business hours on both days, but not in the evening, except those places of business which ordinarily are open in the evening.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 8 October, 1925
pg 3
Pennants For Wooster Day
House to House Canvas for Their Sale Next Week
The General Wooster Day committee on decoration is going to start out Monday on a house to house canvas for the sale of General Wooster pennants, to be used for decorating homes.
The plan is similar to that used several years ago for a reunion of the 146th Inf., when all over the city, porches were gay with waving pennants welcoming the soldiers.
The General Wooster pennant has a large picture of the General at the top and is especially designed for use on porches.
The committee is anxious to have the cooperation of residents in all parts of the city and desires to have every home displaying from one to a dozen General Wooster pennants. Their sale price is to be ten cents each.
“The pennants will be an inexpensive way to decorate for the occasion,” a member of the committee pointed out today. “Enough for the whole front of a large house will cost less than one medium priced flag.”
A delegation of young men will start the canvas Monday morning.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Friday, 9 October, 1925
pg 3
Expects Over 200 Vehicles in Parade
“I believe we will have more than 200 vehicles in the General Wooster day parade,” said Mayor M.R. Limb today as he tackled the task of sending out cards to those who have already entered floats, assigning them to a place in the line.
“Considerably more than a hundred are already in,” the mayor said, “and they are still coming rapidly. I am trying to assign places so that a float entered by an East Liberty St concern will start in that part of the city and end there, so that it will not have to be taken across town to get its place, or after the parade is over. This is not possible in all instances, but is working out nicely in most cases.”
The parade committee is anxious to have all who plan to enter floats or vehicles get in at the earliest possible moment so that these assignments can be completed.
The parade will take place next Thursday at 3 p.m.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 10 October, 1925
pg 1
Gen’l Wooster Day Gaining Momentum
Over Two Hundred Floats Entered, and Decorator Comes on Monday.
The General Wooster Day project inaugurated weeks ago, planned carefully by committees, is gathering momentum rapidly in the closing days of preparation, and gives every prospect of bringing unprecedented crowds to this city next Thursday and Friday.
At last night’s meeting of the general committees, Mayor M.R. Limb , chairman of the parade committee, reported he has 220 vehicles listed for the parade. That, according to the committee statistics, means a line reaching from the square to the old Ohio House, to the Pennsylvania depot, to Columbus avenue and to the high school.

Present Trophy
Capt. Walter R. Yost reported that he s practically certain that the fine Plain Dealer trophy won by Company K at Camp Perry will be brought here on General Wooster Day and officially presented at the public square at noon Thursday, immediately after General Wooster is welcomed.

Decorator Coming
The committee also announced that Mr. Dean, Alliance decorator, will reach the city Monday morning with a crew of men and will undertake immediately the task of decorating buildings. He will arrange his contracts with each business place, and those desiring him to call on them are requested to telephone to Charles Adams, secretary, at the Holmes Construction Co. office, No. 321. Mr. Dean was here a few days ago, saw half a dozen merchants, discovered there was a general tendency to decorate in real style and went away saying he would bring in his crew and to to work.
The entertainment committee is wavering between two special free attractions and will announce its decision in a day or two.
The meeting of committees last evening was the most enthusiastic of any so far held. It developed that each committee has carried out its part of the work, leaving only the customary last minute details for the final days of preparation.

Will Have Aides
General Wooster, according to present arrangements, will be accompanied by two aides and an Indian guide when he arrives in Wooster at 11 a.m. next Thursday. He will be met at the depot by a military escort from Company K and a local welcoming delegation and be taken to the public square, where he will be officially welcomed by the mayor.
Then comes an afternoon of band concerts, the big parade, and an evening of fun, with a special program for the following day culminating in a masked parade in the evening.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 10 October, 1925
pg 3
Will Have Worthwhile Prizes for Maskers
Masking for the big final night of the General Wooster celebration is going to be profitable for the prize winners.
There will be a masked parade on Friday evening and prizes are being offered for the best colonial costume, the best fancy costume, the best comic costume, and the best juvenile costume. There are two prizes, one for male impersonators and one for female impersonators, in each class.
The committee in charge has not specifically announced what the prizes will be but it was clearly indicated today that they will be worth while.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 10 October, 1925
pg 8

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 12 October, 1925
pg 3
Full Page of Ads using General Wooster theme

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 12 October, 1925
pg 4
Full Page of Ads using General Wooster theme

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 12 October, 1925
pg 5
Full Page of Ads for General Wooster Day

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 12 October, 1925
pg 7
Gen’l Wooster Prize Events Are Outlined
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Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 12 October, 1925
pg 9
Another Event For General Wooster Day
Thursday and Friday promise to be big days in Wooster. With the arrival of Gen. Wooster, one of the largest public events planned for years will commence and will continue for two days and nights with a wide variety of amusements. In the Record’s columns today Freedlander’s announced Thursday evening as opening night for their new dry goods store. It is planned to be open from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., giving the public an opportunity to inspect the new store. Of course no merchandise will be sold during the evening. In Freedlanders’ advertisement today mention is made of a souvenir which will commemorate Wooster day as well as the opening of one of the most pleasant store ? in the city.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 12 October, 1925
pg 12
School Pupils Who Win Cash Essay Prizes
Picture Show Ticket Winners Also Announced in General Wooster Contest.
[Sadly the article is mostly unreadable.]
Gertrude Kauffman of West Larwill street, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ? Kauffman and a pupil in ? won the first prize of ? …

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 12 October, 1925
pg 12
Parade Plans Completed By Committee
Exactly 3 O’clock is Time Set For Start of Big Pageant on Thursday
[Sadly the article is mostly unreadable.]
Three o’clock Thursday afternoon has been set for the “zero hour” of Wooster’s big General Wooster Parade which will move from the public square from four separate directions and then continue in a ?….

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 12 October, 1925
pg 12
Wins Prize, And Then Quickly Loses Tickets
Glenn Jacobs, of the children’s home and a student at Yocum’s Business College came into the Record office this afternoon to inquire if his General Wooster essay had won a prize.
He was the writer of one of the essays that won tickets to the Lyric Theatre and his strip of tickets was handed to him.
Ten minutes later he returned and sorrowfully reported that the tickets slipped from his pocket on the street.
Glenn will be very grateful if the finder will return them to the Record for him.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 12 October, 1925
pg 12
Place Gen’L Wooster Pennants On Sale
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Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 12 October, 1925
pg 12
Saxophone Band Will Donate Its Services
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Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 13 October, 1925
pg 3
Huge Parade To Take Place On Thursday
Division of Floats and Their Assignment to Places is Announced.
The General Wooster parade committee today announced detailed arrangements for the start of the big parade on Thursday at 3 o’clock. It has been emphasized that all vehicles are to be in place early to move at 3 minutes to 3 so that the parade can start promptly at 3.
Mayor M.R. Limb chairman of the committee has ? each entrant a card saying where his particular ? is to enter the parade. In case numbers are not clearly understood at the time, the captain in charge of each section will explain.
A band is to lead each section of the parade, and these bands will play until they arrive within ? block of the public square where they will cease playing. The ? Farmers Insurance Co. band, which will be on the band stand in the public square, will then take up the music and play for the procession as it passes in review on the square before General Wooster.

Move Simultaneously
Each section will move simultaneously and they will reach the square together. Then each will turn right. The South Market street section, for instance, will march to the square east on Liberty, countermarch to the square, go north on Market, countermarch to the square, go west on Liberty, countermarch to the square, and proceed down South Market to the place of starting.
Entries in the parade up to the present are as follows:

South Market
Forming on South Market street north side of Madison Avenue facing South Market: Capt. C.P. Foss commanding: Wooster Board of Trade band, Daughters of American Revolution, Civil War Veterans, four floats, Women’s Relief corps, Sons of Veterans, Daughters of Veterans, Spanish American War Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Wooster Post American Legion, Women’s Auxiliary to Legion, The Wooster Brush Co., Buckeye street Boy Scouts, Netoppaw Camp Fire Girls, Harry Derr plumbing, Geo. France plumbing, The Wooster Pretzel Co., The Minglewood Coal Co., six vehicles, Geo. Laurel Heating Co., Milton Long radio ?, Bever street, Gray & Son coal dealers, three vehicles, The Mougey Ice Co., Schaffer & Black wholesale grocers, Kinney & Smith hospital, Hoffman Music Store, ? Flower Store, Geo. A. Fisher Granite Co., The A.B. Flory Co. grocers, Spruce Bros plumbers, Lautebaugh garage, three vehicles, Kauffman Music Co., Wooster News Store, Vine street, The Kelly-Springfield Co., The Buckeye Aluminum Co., The Harris Paint Co., Wooster Safety Stair Tread Co., Smith & Schott wholesale grocers, The Akron Brass Co., The Wooster Feed Mfg. Co., The Wooster Rubber Co., Shreve, Fredericksburg, West Lebanon, Mt. Eaton, Applecreek.

North Market
Forming on North Market street at high school South side of Bowman facing Market, Capt. G.G. McCoy in command: Wooster College band, Wooster Business and Professional Women’s Association, Rotary Club, Kiwanis Club, Wayne County Children’s Home, College of Wooster, six vehicles, Rab? Pharmacy, Faud & Straub meat dealers, Wooster Electric Co., The East Ohio Gas Co., two vehicles, International Harvester Co., Maurer Diehl plumbers, Radio Manufacturing & Service Co., R.R. Mayberry filing station, Chas Schmid insurance, J. Fredrick & Co. dry goods, F.C. Brenner auto dealer, three vehicles, Spigelmire Service Co., Droz Transfer Co., Johnson Bros. auto dealers, Miles Snyder bakery, Smith & Smith grocers, The Evergreens restaurant, Samuel McClarran auto dealer, Geo. W. Klinger coal dealer, The Wooster, Millersburg & Orrville Telephone Co., eight vehicles, B. & F. Transfer Co., Rope Transfer Co., La Vern Beauty Parlors, A. & P. Tea Co., Rueman Sterling Creston, Doylestown, Smithville.

East Liberty
Forming on Liberty street at Beall avenue west side of Beall avenue facing Liberty, Col. F.C. Gerlach in command: Orrville Military band, Champion Buick Co., three vehicles, Mann Bros. Laundry, The Service Plumbing & Heating Co., Service Lubrication Station, The Pfaus Reo Co., three vehicles, The Sweet Clover Dairy, six vehicles, Stark & Zarling restaurant, Messmore & Jolliff auto accessory dealers, Yarman, Orahood & Smith automobile dealers, The Wooster Milling & Grain Co., Elliott & Palmer Laundry, Derr Printing Co., The Gerstenslager Co., Feightner & Hauerstein meat dealers, The Coppock Motor Car Co. auto dealers, three vehicles, The Perkins Structural Steel Co., The Lauer Mfg Co..

Facing west at foot of Beall Avenue, The Danford Co. furniture, Liberty Flower store, The Gisinger Chevrolet Co., three vehicles, Carver grocery, Bresson & Bresson coal dealers, Wayne Electric Co., The Empire Milling Co., The Delicatessen Shoppe, Chas. Scott plumbing, The Toykraft Co., The Wooster Transfer Co., Mrs. Miller, Honeytown, Franks Tin Shop, Wayne Tire Co., Wooster Storage Battery Co., Marshallville, Orrville, Burton City, Dalton.

West Liberty
Forming on West Liberty street at Columbus Avenue, east side of Columbus Avenue facing Liberty, Capt. F.C. Redick in command: Wooster high school band, The William Annat Co. dry goods, McClure Stove Store, The Weitzel Dry Cleaning Co., Nick Amster Store, McIntire & Nixon furniture, Manges & Knoppenberger automobile accessories, Martin & Myers automobile dealers, five vehicles.

West South Street
H. Freedlander & Co., The Wooster Hardware Co., Zimmerman & Co. druggists, Woodman Lodge, Ohio Overall Co., Ideal Dairy, The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., Bevington & McCullough furniture, Canton Wright, No. 77, I.O.O.F. Pythian Sisters, The Wooster Equity Co.
North Columbus Avenue facing Liberty. The Wooster Implement Co., E.E. Palmer signs, The Frazier Hardware Store, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Daughters of America, The Medal Paving Block Co., Smith & Son coal dealers, The Tyler Grain Co.
North street. The Holmes Construction Co., R.B. Bucher dentist, Wooster’s oldest automobile, The Knights of Pythias, Wooster Street and Water Dept., ten vehicles, The Wooster fire department, five vehicles, West Salem, Congress, New Pittsburg, Reedsburg, Overton.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 13 October, 1925
pg 3
Maskers Will Meet At Arm’ry
Plans complete for the Friday Night Parade.
All those who will participate in the parade of masks on Friday evening, the closing day of the General Wooster celebration, will meet at the armory at 7:30, according to plans completed today.
The parade will start from that point and will be led by the Wooster Board of Trade band. Judges of maskers will be on the reviewing stand on the public square and handsome prizes will be awarded.
Prizes will be awarded for:
Colonial costume — Best gentleman, best lady.
Fancy costume — Best gentleman, best lady.
Comic costume — Best gentleman, best lady.
Juvenile costume — Best gentleman, best lady.

Dancing on Street
It has also been decided that the dancing on the street will take place from the American House east to Buckeye street. This will be Thursday evening. The street will be flushed clean and no traffic will be permitted. Stayton’s band will furnish the music.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 13 October, 1925
pg 10
Pennant Sale Is Progressing
The sale of General Wooster pennants was making real progress today, according to reports to the committee in charge.
“They’re going fine,” said L.C. Crites, chairman of the committee.
Every one who has taken a number the committee calculated would cover his territory is coming back for more.”
The committee today arranged to have the office of the Wooster Business Men’s Association handle the pennants there especially for float decoration.
The pennants are also on sale at the D. Nice store.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Tuesday, 13 October, 1925
pg 10
Who is Going to Be Gen’l David Wooster
Who IS going to be General Wooster?
A hundred times an hour that question is being asked as the arrival of the revolutionary hero nears. The man in whose honor Wooster was named died in 1777. But his spirit still lives here. In planning the event, the committee in charge gave considerable thought to the matter of picking the right General Wooster. Members of the committee, however, are guarding the secret closely, and declare it will not be revealed until General Wooster rides up East Liberty street and the throng recognizes his features through his Colonial costume.
“We know our selection will meet with approval,” said F.E. Boigegrain, general chairman, today but furthermore he would reveal nothing.
“Zounds,” saith the General. “I would fain know myself who I am going to be. No, I mean, who is going to be me.”

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 14 October, 1925
pgs 1 & 2
Gen’l Wooster Plans Are All In Fine Shape
Big Welcoming Demonstration and Parade Are High Lights for Tomorrow.
The last details for the two-day General Wooster celebration were being worked out here today, and all of the committees concerned in the project will be ready to declare tonight:
“We are ready.”
Tomorrow forenoon this city’s first General Wooster Day will see crowds gather from all sections of Wayne county, and a day of pageantry such as Wayne county’s seat has not witnessed since the centennial of 1896 will be in evidence.
Military pomp and ceremony will feature the arrival and the welcome of General Wooster, whose identity will remained a deep, dark secret in the hands of the committee today.
Coming in at 10:45, the General will be met by a military escort from Company K at the Pennsylvania depot, and he will be conducted up a gayly decorated East Liberty street to an even more profusely decorated public square, where the formal welcome will take place.

Will Be Mounted
General Wooster, his two aides and Indian guide, whose identities are also closely guarded, will be mounted. The General will wear the sword carried at Shiloh by Col. Wm. Tuckerman Shaw.
At the public square the address of welcome will be made by Mayor M.R. Limb , and there will be a response by General Wooster. Following this, General John R. McQuigg, another native Wayne countian, recently elected as National Commander of the American Legion, will give a brief address.
Adjutant General F.D. Henderson of Ohio, if he is able to come, will also be called upon for remarks. The program on the square is calculated to last a little more than an hour, the concluding feature of it to be the presentation to Company K of the trophy the local guardsmen won at Camp Perry, offered by the Cleveland plain Dealer. The trophy is a silver rifle in a glass case, and the presentation speech will be made by Capt. Tuggman, Col. Conelly, Major Cole, Major Allenby and other Cleveland officers will be here, the delegation probably including Col. Dudley Hard.

McQuigg Comes Early
General McQuigg is to reach the city at 10 a.m. and will be met at the square by a delegation of American Legion men. Officers of the Legion urge as many Legion men as possible to present themselves at the square at 10 a.m. to pay their respects to the new commander. The Legion will not, as announced yesterday, march in the afternoon parade.
Following the program on the public square the committees in charge and the visiting military officers will adjounf to the Wooster Country club for lunch.
They will return at 2 p.m. to the business district of the city, where they will listen to an hour’s concert by the Ohio Farmers Insurance Co. band of Leroy, O.

Parade at 3 O’clock
At 3 o’clock General Wooster and the other distinguished visitors will review the big parade from the special stand on the square. This parade promises to be one of the biggest demonstrations the city has ever witnessed. More than 200 vehicles have been entered. The parade will form in four sections, on East and West Liberty and North and South Market streets. It is figured that when the heads of the four sections reach the square, the rear ends of the sectors will be at the high school, the Ohio House, Beall avenue and Columbus avenue. Each section will turn right at the square and make a complete circle, requiring from an hour to an hour and a half for the procession. It will move quite rapidly because there will be no marching delegations.
Col. F.C. Gerlach, Capt. C.P. Foss, Capt. F.C. Redick and Capt. G.G. McCoy will direct the four sections.

Line Up at Two
Mayor Limb, chairman of the parade committee, announced today that these men will be in their places at 2 o’clock, an hour before the parade starts at assist in placing floats in their proper places in line.
“At five minutes to three,” the mayor said, “a bugle will sound and when the clock strikes, the parade will start.”
The mayor emphasized that last word, and absolute instructions were given not to wait one minute after that hour.
All those who enter floats are requested, therefore, to get them in line between 2 and 3 o’clock, and as early in that hour as possible, using the numbers sent out to get their locations.

Some Pretty Floats
Some very nicely decorated floats are going to be in the procession. They will represent Wooster industry, retail business, professional activities, civic and patriotic organizations, and not a few of them will be humorous.
A band will lead each of the four sections, and on the public square the Leroy band will play.
Concessions, operated for the benefit of the Wooster Board of Trade band, will be in operation all day long.
The Ohio Farmers’ Insurance Co. band is booked for a second hour’s concert at 7 p.m. and the Orrville Military band for a concert at 8 o’clock.
Free attractions are scheduled for 4:30 p.m. immediately after the parade and immediately following the evening concert by the Ohio Farmers’ Insurance Co. band.
Street dancing will be in order from 9 to 10.
Friday’s program includes an afternoon of sports and a parade of maskers and a carnival ball in the evening.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 14 October, 1925
pg 1
Wants Boy Scouts For Duty on Thursday
All Wooster Scouts are requested to report to Mayor Limb or Captain Yost at the public square tomorrow afternoon as soon as they are dismissed from school for such services as may be required by those in charge of the celebration. Please be in uniform, if possible.
H. Money,
Field Scout Executive

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 14 October, 1925
pg 2
No Parking On Main Streets
No automobiles will be permitted to park on East or West Liberty street or North and South Market street from 1 to 5 p.m. tomorrow, because of the parade.
From one o’clock until the time the parade starts, the committee also wants these streets kept free so that the floats can form on Columbus avenue near West Liberty, Spruce street and Madison avenue, first two blocks, two blocks of Beall avenue, and two blocks of Bowman street each way from Market.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 14 October, 1925
pg 2
Public Square Takes On The Celebration Atmosphere Today
The public square transformation was rapidly taking on celebration proportions.
The big stand erected in the center was being illuminated and before night it will have been decorated. In other parts of the square the committee lights headed by C.L. A? was busily engaged in stringing extra lights. These, with the brightness of permanent ? signs will ? the public square almost as light as day for the two nights of the celebration.
On the square, and in both directions, stores and offices were ? with bunting and flags, while General Wooster banners and ? added to the atmosphere of decoration and festivity.
The Merry Mixup was being constructed on the north side of the square and late this afternoon other concession booths were beginning to make their appearances.
Tonight is to be a busy one for many persons whose task it is to decorate floats. Many were at it today but the majority of the trucks which will be converted into floats were still in use today, so that the actual decorating work must be delayed until tonight.
Little transportation work will be done tomorrow, for practically every available truck has been commandeered and will perform as a float tomorrow.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 14 October, 1925
pg 3
More Pennants Printed For Wooster Day
On Sale at D. Nice Tonight.
Sale Essential for Decorating Funds.
According to an announcement from the decorating committee for General Wooster Day, more of the ten-cent pennants for home decorations welcoming General Wooster have been printed.
These additional pennants are on sale at the David Nice store and at the Wooster Business Men’s office in the Peoples Savings and Loan building.
Money received from the sale of these pennants is being used in decorating the city streets and the extra issue is to take care of prospective decorations to be hung across the street.
It is essential that the new issue be sold in order to complete the decorating plans.
The Nice store will be open this evening, and even tomorrow morning will not be too late to put up a few more pennants.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 14 October, 1925
pg 3
Old Firemen To Ride In Parade
The Wooster Fire department is making big preparations for tomorrow’s parade, and will make an unusual showing.
The new “made in Wooster” truck, built on the chassis by employees of the department, and painted there, will have a place in line with the other equipment. Everybody connected with the department is proud of this new piece of apparatus on which the last coat of varnish was being applied today.
Chief Snavely and his men have shined up the old fire engine and they have rigged up the old hook and ladder. The chief invited all members of the old Dex Tyler company and others to report at the department at 2 o’clock and ride in the parade atop the vehicle that became famous many years ago.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 14 October, 1925
pg 3
Ginter Will Haul Civil War Veterans
All Civil war veterans are invited to go to Memorial Hall at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon to ride in the General Wooster parade. J.M. Ginter, automobile dealer, will furnish machines and drivers to haul them in the line of march and permit them to pass in review before General Wooster.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 14 October, 1925
pg 3
Free Acts Are Booked
Three Are Scheduled for General Wooster Day.
William Zorn’s committee on entertainment for the General Wooster celebration announced today that it has booked three free attractions of merit.
One is Texas “Slim” Collins, the Australian whip cracker and knife thrower. His wife, Montana nell, works with him, and the pair do a hair-raising stunt that will provide a real thrill. Mrs. Collins stands against a wall while her husband throws knives, sinking the points deeply into the wood and so close to her that when the act is over, she cannot move.
The aerial Eckharts are booked to perform from a tight wire which was being put up today from the Alvin Rich corner to The Citizen’s National bank. This act is one of the best obtainable.
The LeCroix trapeze performers are the third troupe booked for the occasion.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Wednesday, 14 October, 1925
pg 6
Styles Of Long Ago Will Be Shown Here
As a special treat for those attending the General Wooster event, a number of costumes in the styles as worn during General Wooster’s life will be shown in Wooster. These costumes will be exhibited in Freedlander’s new store and it is planned to have a few shown on living models. In today’s Record Freedlanders give full particulars of an open house event which will be held on Thursday evening between the hours of 7 and 9. The Wayne county saxophone band will furnish music for the occasion and copies of General Wooster March will be distributed as favors. The General Wooster march was composed by B.C. Baker and published by the Board of Trade band. A few copies have been sold locally and received with much enthusiasm.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 15 October, 1925
pgs 1 & 4
Gen’l Wooster Is Given Rousing Welcome

Responds To Greetings In Brief Address
Wooster today welcomed the distinguished Revolutionary war hero whose name she bears — General David Wooster.
In a most military atmosphere the General, personified by Judge Carl V. Weygandt of Cleveland, was met at the Pennsylvania depot, conducted to public square, formally handed the keys to the city and then talked, in a most interesting manner, to the assembled throng, from a specially built platform.
A city gay with decorations was the setting for the drama which brought together the era of a century and a half ago, and the era of 1925. Flags and bunting, pennants and banners, prancing horses and military uniforms lent color to one of the most pretentious spectacles Wooster has witnessed since the Wooster Centennial in 1898.

Met by Escort
An escort from Company K, 145th infantry, commanded by Captain Walter R. Yost, marched to the depot to meet General Wooster. They found him accompanied by two aides and an Indian guide, these parts being taken by Miles Shamp, James Gimbel and Cloyd Sands. With proper military ceremony, he was conducted up East Liberty street, where flags waved and where windows, one after another, welcomed him with his own picture displayed on pennants.
Clouds hung low in the heavens as the blue-coated general and his escort approached the public square, the Wooster Board of Trade band in the lead, playing the General Wooster march. At the depot, just at 11 o’clock, the hour of arrival, the engine of the work train blew a long blast. Col. F.C. Gerlach rode beside General Wooster.
Congressman McSweeney, in his overseas captain’s uniform, joined the welcoming delegation on the platform.
The crowd that had been assembled for an hour was augmented shortly before his arrival by nearly all of the city’s 2,000 school children who had been dismissed early upon the order of Supt. G.C. Maurer, and who rushed pell mell to the public square to witness the welcoming ceremony.

McQuigg Here First
General John R. McQuigg, of Cleveland, national commander of American Legion, and a native Wayne countian, was here before General Wooster. Legionnaires of Wooster Post and from posts in Wayne county were here to greet him when he arrived at 10 o’clock.
It seemed especially appropriate that his first appearance in public following his election last week at Omaha, Neb., outside of the city of his present residence, should be in the town where he went to school and in the county where he first saw the light of day. Wooster Legion men were especially grateful for the opportunity to congratulate him upon his elevation to the highest office the Legion organization of America has to offer.

Many Military Men
The congratulating of General McQuigg was just subsiding when General Wooster reached the square. Other military officers were there to witness the welcoming. There was Col. Conelly, commander of the 145th Infantry, Major McNerney, Capt. Tuggman, Captain Conelly, Lieut. McCarthy, of his staff, Col. Allen, Capt. Kells, Major Walford, Capt. Ansberg, Major Cole, Major Chalmers, all identified with the regiment, together with Wooster’s own military officers, Col. F.C. Gerlach, Capt. F.C. Redick and Capt. G.C. McCoy.

The Mayor’s Welcome
Mayor M.R. Limb , himself a major in the reserve corps, gave the address of welcome.
“General Wooster,” he began, “I am sure that I express the sentiment of the citizens of Wooster as well as those living round about us, when I say to you that we feel honored and delighted to welcome you to this city to which your name has been given.
“We are proud to have with us the man who helped make us a democratic nation with high and far-reaching ideals which our progressive, broad minded men and women are still supporting and defending.
“From the beginning of time it has been the custom of man to name nations, states, cities and individuals for important events in history, or in honor of those who were the leading or outstanding figures along the pathway of time. We have taken your proud name as a symbol, an ideal for our aim, and we are especially pleased that you have honored us with this visit, that you may note the progress we have made.
“General Wooster, may I in the name of the citizens of this city of Wooster, present to you this key as a token of our hospitality and good will. You will always find the latch string of our doors on the outside, that they may be opened at your pleasure.
“Again, General Wooster, I cordially extend to you the welcome of the City of Wooster.”

Wears Famous Sword
General Wooster dismounted and went to the platform. At his side hung the sword that was carried at the battle of Shiloh by Colonel William Tuckerman Shaw, who held “the hornet’s nest” all day while the Union army made good its retreat. It was loaned him for the occasion by R.P. Crawford, who originated the present General Wooster Day project.
Judge Weygandt made a dignified General Wooster. His height and features designated the commander and it was a hushed audience that waited for his first words.

General Wooster Talks
They were addressed to the mayor.
“Most honorable mayor,” he began, and then, lifting his gaze to the throng, “and fellow countrymen.”
“It would, indeed, be unseemly, Honorable Sir, if I did not at once assure you of my deepest appreciation of your generous and kindly expressions of friendship and hospitality. Your invitation to be present on this occasion was received with intermingled feelings of delight and apprehension — delight because of the honor bestowed upon me, and apprehension because of the infirmities of one of my age. Dame Wooster and my apothecary strongly exhorted me not to even attempt to participate in your festivities. But I had an exceeding strong desire to visit the community named in my honor, and here I am.

Jolts in Dalton
Let me tell you a word about myself. i was born in Stratford, Conn. in the year 171-. This morning as we were jolting through your neighboring village of Dalton, one of my companions in a word somewhat sportive, I fear, remarked that the highway there must have been built about the year of my birth. Be that as it may, in my early years I determined to obtain an education in order to prepare myself for the duties of later life. I entered Yale college where I became so enamored of learning that I not only graduated in 1738, but also won the hand of the fairest daughter of Prof. Clapp, who was then president of Yale. I later became interested in military affairs and participated in the expedition against Louisburg in 1745. As a brigadier general I commanded Colonial troops in both French and Indian war and the Revolution.
“Let me assure you, however, that my military honors do not outweigh the honor you have conferred upon me by giving your fair city my name. Your county, I am told, was named after my sturdy and patriotic friend, General Wayne — a man of considerable parts — and it ranks as one of the richest agricultural counties in the entire United States. Although your city was founded 117 years ago, I was under the impression that it still remained a western village. Instead, I find it the chiefest city of your county and boasting a population of some 10,000 souls. Your humming factories, your busy trading houses, your splendid public schools, your great college and your thriving civic organizations all furnish abundant evidence of a community of the type so essential to any nation if it is to long endure.

Urges all to Vote
“There are many observations I should like to make if time permitted. I shall venture but one. I find prevalent among many people of this land the idea that this nation is so constituted that the sheer force of its present momentum must of necessity perpetuate it to the end of all time. This idea disturbs me greatly. I hear people say “It is no use for me to vote, or, I am so busily occupied with my business affairs that I cannot go to court and serve on juries, or in public office; or, I have no time to concern myself about matters of public interest. people who make those statements apparently believe there is something automatic or self perpetuating about a democratic form of government. Nothing, my dear friends, can in reality be farther from the truth. Can it be that the lessons learned in the bloody Revolution can so soon and so easily be forgotten? Indifference of voters means elections by minorities — a most dangerous thing utterly inconsistent with and foreign to the very idea of democracy. Unwillingness on the part of good citizens to serve as jurors or hold public office means miscarriages of justice and incompetence in high places. Lack of interest in public promotes individual selfishness and national disaster.
This great occasion of today was made possible through the efforts of your public spirited citizens. I earnestly felicitate you and trust that at some future time I may have the privilege of again visiting in your midst and rejoicing with you over the prosperity and happiness you have attained.”
General McQuigg at this juncture, made a brief address.

Get P.D. Trophy
Presentation of the Cleveland Plain Dealer trophy to Company K followed, and was one of the auspicious portions of the program. The trophy is a silver rifle in a glass case and was won by Wooster soldiers at Camp Perry.
Following this ceremony the audience was dismissed and General Wooster, visiting officers and chairmen of the local committee repaired to the Country Club for luncheon.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 15 October, 1925
pg 1 & 10
Gen’l Wooster Is Given Rousing Welcome

Parade Shows Much Novelty In Its Floats
Decorated Vehicles Represent Many Institutions of City of Wooster.
While the Ohio Farmers Insurance Co. band of Leroy, O. was giving a concert in public square this afternoon, floats of wide variety mobilized in the south, the west, the north and east sections of the city for the big General Wooster parade.
The pageant, portraying the industrial, mercantile and civic life of Wooster, with here and there a touch of the historical, was one of the most colorful the city has ever witnessed.
A band headed each of the four sections, and the streets were lined by crowds to view the spectacle.
The threat of rain, which hung over the city all forenoon, was apparently dissipated, for the next few hours at least, by 2 p.m. when the sun was shining quite brightly.
The parade proved a revelation to even those who were looking for the most, for it was truly a pretentious spectacle.
The following list of floats is that taken from the entries. There were some changes right at the last minute, a few additions, and some that did not enter.

South Market
Forming on South Market street north side of Madison Avenue facing South Market: Capt. C.P. Foss commanding: Wooster Board of Trade band, Daughters of American Revolution, Civil War Veterans, four floats, Women’s Relief corps, Sons of Veterans, Daughters of Veterans, Spanish American War Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Wooster Post American Legion, Women’s Auxiliary to Legion, The Wooster Brush Co., Buckeye street Boy Scouts, Netoppaw Camp Fire Girls, Harry Derr plumbing, Geo. France plumbing, The Wooster Pretzel Co., The Minglewood Coal Co., six vehicles, Geo. Laurel Heating Co., Milton Long radio ?, Bever street, Gray & Son coal dealers, three vehicles, The Mougey Ice Co., Schaffer & Black wholesale grocers, Kinney & Smith hospital, Hoffman Music Store, ? Flower Store, Geo. A. Fisher Granite Co., The A.B. Flory Co. grocers, Spruce Bros plumbers, Lautebaugh garage, three vehicles, Kauffman Music Co., Wooster News Store, Vine street, The Kelly-Springfield Co., The Buckeye Aluminum Co., The Harris Paint Co., Wooster Safety Stair Tread Co., Smith & Schott wholesale grocers, The Akron Brass Co., The Wooster Feed Mfg. Co., The Wooster Rubber Co., Shreve, Fredericksburg, West Lebanon, Mt. Eaton, Applecreek.

North Market
Forming on North Market street at high school South side of Bowman facing Market, Capt. G.G. McCoy in command: Wooster College band, Wooster Business and Professional Women’s Association, Rotary Club, Kiwanis Club, Wayne County Children’s Home, College of Wooster, six vehicles, Rab? Pharmacy, Faud & Straub meat dealers, Wooster Electric Co., The East Ohio Gas Co., two vehicles, International Harvester Co., Maurer Diehl plumbers, Radio Manufacturing & Service Co., R.R. Mayberry filing station, Chas Schmid insurance, J. Fredrick & Co. dry goods, F.C. Brenner auto dealer, three vehicles, Spigelmire Service Co., Droz Transfer Co., Johnson Bros. auto dealers, Miles Snyder bakery, Smith & Smith grocers, The Evergreens restaurant, Samuel McClarran auto dealer, Geo. W. Klinger coal dealer, The Wooster, Millersburg & Orrville Telephone Co., eight vehicles, B. & F. Transfer Co., Rope Transfer Co., La Vern Beauty Parlors, A. & P. Tea Co., Rueman Sterling Creston, Doylestown, Smithville.

East Liberty
Forming on Liberty street at Beall avenue west side of Beall avenue facing Liberty, Col. F.C. Gerlach in command: Orrville Military band, Champion Buick Co., three vehicles, Mann Bros. Laundry, The Service Plumbing & Heating Co., Service Lubrication Station, The Pfaus Reo Co., three vehicles, The Sweet Clover Dairy, six vehicles, Stark & Zarling restaurant, Messmore & Jolliff auto accessory dealers, Yarman, Orahood & Smith automobile dealers, The Wooster Milling & Grain Co., Elliott & Palmer Laundry, Derr Printing Co., The Gerstenslager Co., Feightner & Hauerstein meat dealers, The Coppock Motor Car Co. auto dealers, three vehicles, The Perkins Structural Steel Co., The Lauer Mfg Co..

Facing west at foot of Beall Avenue, The Danford Co. furniture, Liberty Flower store, The Gisinger Chevrolet Co., three vehicles, Carver grocery, Bresson & Bresson coal dealers, Wayne Electric Co., The Empire Milling Co., The Delicatessen Shoppe, Chas. Scott plumbing, The Toykraft Co., The Wooster Transfer Co., Mrs. Miller, Honeytown, Franks Tin Shop, Wayne Tire Co., Wooster Storage Battery Co., Marshallville, Orrville, Burton City, Dalton.

West Liberty
Forming on West Liberty street at Columbus Avenue, east side of Columbus Avenue facing Liberty, Capt. F.C. Redick in command: Wooster high school band, The William Annat Co. dry goods, McClure Stove Store, The Weitzel Dry Cleaning Co., Nick Amster Store, McIntire & Nixon furniture, Manges & Knoppenberger automobile accessories, Martin & Myers automobile dealers, five vehicles.

West South Street
H. Freedlander & Co., The Wooster Hardware Co., Zimmerman & Co. druggists, Woodman Lodge, Ohio Overall Co., Ideal Dairy, The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., Bevington & McCullough furniture, Canton Wright, No. 77, I.O.O.F. Pythian Sisters, The Wooster Equity Co.
North Columbus Avenue facing Liberty. The Wooster Implement Co., E.E. Palmer signs, The Frazier Hardware Store, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Daughters of America, The Medal Paving Block Co., Smith & Son coal dealers, The Tyler Grain Co.
North street. The Holmes Construction Co., R.B. Bucher dentist, Wooster’s oldest automobile, The Knights of Pythias, Wooster Street and Water Dept., ten vehicles, The Wooster fire department, five vehicles, West Salem, Congress, New Pittsburg, Reedsburg, Overton.
Last minute entries in the parade included The Wooster Farm Dairies Co., LaScipio Bros. Fruit Store, Stuller Dish Co., C.A. Wyre Orrville, three floats, Woodward and Ramseyer, Portage Path restaurant, Orrville Knights of Pythias, Hindman Dairy, and The Arrow Oil Co.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 15 October, 1925
pg 1
Defense Must Be Adequate, Says McQuigg
Legion Commander Gives Patriotic Address and Co. K Receives Trophy.
General John R. McQuigg, National Commander of the American Legion, gave an excellent patriotic address at the opening celebration of the return of General Wooster at the public square this morning.
General McQuigg pointed out the superiority of the United States over any other country as a place in which to live.
“Our government and laws may not be perfect,” the General said, “but they are made by man, and nothing made by man is perfect.”
In regards to national defense, General McQuigg said that the United States should have a defense adequate to itself, but that it should in no wise develop a tendency towards becoming a military power.

Presents Trophy
Following this talk Captain Tuggman, member of the Cleveland plain Dealer staff, presented the Plain Dealer Silver Rifle, a trophy for the company in the 145th infantry having the best rifle team, to Colonel L.S. Connelly, commander of the 145th.
Col. Connelly in turn presented the rifle to Captain Yost of Wooster’s Company K, who had the best rifle team at Camp Perry last summer.
The rifle will stay in the hands of Company K until the next encampment at Camp Perry when the companies of the 145th will contest for it again.

Keep It Here
“We intend to keep it right here in Wooster year after year,” Captain Yost said. “If other companies want it they can come here and see it.”
Then turning to the Company K rifle team, he said, “Boys, it is yours to have and to hold.”
Members of the team that won the rifle trophy for Company K are Sgt. Carl Fritz, Sgt. Milo Jolliff, Corporal Fritz Limb, Privates Dunn, Brown and Johnson.
Congressman John McSweeney, a captain overseas during the World war, gave a short talk which concluded the program.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 15 October, 1925
pg 1
Scrubbing Night Had Scores Of Devotees
There was more washing and scrubbing of automobiles last night in Wooster than there has been in many months. In all parts of the city, autos and trucks were given the once over with water and sponges before the gay decorations were put in place for today’s pageant and parade. The equipment owned by the city was made spick and span last night, both in the fire station and in the public service department.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Thursday, 15 October, 1925
pg 4
Brevities Of Celebration
The parade brought forth many interesting signs, but none more significant than that on the Toykraft float. It contained the picture of a stork and the declaration beneath it:
“This is a bird that keeps us busy.”

Many trucks were washed last night or this morning for the first time since they were purchased. It wouldn’t do, of course, to put new white cloth over a dirty truck, and then have muddy wheels project from beneath, so, in every instance, a float in the parade represented a job of washing before decorating.

Judge Weygandt will have an interesting souvenir of the occasion. The key that Mayor M.R. Limb presented him with is a brass key some five inches long that Hizzoner procured from a local hardware store, shined up to its utmost capacity for brightness and then varnished.

Traffic officers, furnished by the American Legion and Company K, diverted traffic from Liberty street at Buckeye all forenoon, while that section of the street was polished up for tonight’s dance. Traffic from the west was also diverted so that the final preparations on the square went forward unmolested by traffic.

School children had a big day. They were dismissed at 10:40 this morning to see General Wooster arrive, and this afternoon they were let out again at 2:30 to see the parade.

Knights of Pythias were willing to concede today that their ladies had more patience than they. Both started to give their floats the shingled effect by pinning paper napkins on diagonally. The ladies, using a Reo truck, finished the task. The men got tired of the tedious job and finished it in another manner.

The old fire engine paraded by the fire department is, in truth, a relic. Made in 1809, it is still in service, for the engine will run and perform its duties. The boys had it shined up nicely for the occasion.

The Minglewood Coal and Ice Co. produced a great lot of yellow balloons with General Wooster’s picture on them and the Minglewood sign on the opposite side.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Friday, 16 October, 1925
pg 1
Gen’l Wooster Coming Back Next Year
May Bring General Anthony Wayne as Added Feature of Fall Festival.
General Wooster’s return next year was predicted today as the city’s two-day celebration swung into its final phase.
The General Wooster celebration, it was suggested from many sources, can be made into an annual fall festival in Wooster here to a very good advantage.
One suggestion was that it could be broadened next year to include a joint visit from General Wooster and General Anthony Wayne, for whom Wayne county was named.
Committees in charge this year worked out the affair in excellent fashion, but those who have been most active see where improvements could be made in another year. If the event could include General Wayne, and thus interest every township and village in the county, “Mad Anthony” would be amazed at the number of “Indian fighters” the territory has produced.
It was suggested today that all institutions and organizations who had floats in yesterday’s parade, save their decorative materials for next year, since it is quite apparent that the success of this year’s effort means a repetition of the project, on a larger scale, next year.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Friday, 16 October, 1925
pg 2
By-the-way
The luncheon at the Country club yesterday was planned as a strictly stag affair and W.G. Whitaker, who engineered the event did some careful planning to keep it so. It took some diplomacy, it was hinted today, to shunt off wives of a couple of visiting military officers who came here with their husbands. All this was accomplished, however, without serious mishap, and the automobiles proceeded to the Country club.
On the way Whitaker glanced at the car following him. Then he burst forth into what his fellow passengers say that for Whitaker was a “veritable tirade” of abuse. When they finally got him to say what was wrong, he pointed to the car driven by C.L. Allis.
“He’s got a whole car full of women after all we’ve done to keep ‘em away,” he blurted out.
Then Whitaker learned that the “women” were the costumed aides of General Wooster, whose headdresses gave a distinctly feminine appearance.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Friday, 16 October, 1925
pg 3
Masked Parade Final Feature
General Wooster Celebration Getting Near the End.
The city’s General Wooster celebration will be brought to a close tonight with the masked parade and carnival ball.
The parade will form at the armory at 7:30 and will be headed by the Board of Trade band. Prizes will be awarded upon the basis of the decision of the judges, made in public square.
Cash prizes totally $35 will be given to the winners, $5 each to those copping each of the adult events and $2.50 each for the two juvenile prizes.
A concert by the Board of Trade Band, free acts by aerial artists and the entertainment afforded by the concessions will make it a “big night”, in the opinion of those who witnessed the revelry of last night.
Street dancing on East Liberty street last night was the biggest single attraction of the evening. The ropes held back a throng of hundreds who watched the dancers do the Charleston.
Concessions on the square reported a rushing business all evening, with indications being that the band will share generously as a result of the big celebration, especially when tonight’s proceeds are added.
A tremendous throng was down street last night, and an even larger crowd is indicated for tonight.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Friday, 16 October, 1925
pg 4
Living Models Again In Windows Tonight
The styles of old, which were displayed on living models last evening in the window of Freedlander’s new store, West Liberty street, attracted much attention.
So much, in fact, that the management made arrangements this morning to have the models back again this evening from 7:30 to 9 o’clock.
This will be the final appearance of these costumes, which were procured in honor of Wooster Days and show the styles worn during the General Wooster period.
Thousands of persons visited the new store last night during its formal opening. They admired the arrangement of the excellent dry goods store, the economy department, the beauty shop and other features which have been added. Souvenirs were given away.
The company really embarked in business in the new store a week ago, but delayed its invitation to the public to “come for a call” until last evening. From the standpoints of arrangement, display facilities, lighting and general convenience to customers, few business establishments in northern Ohio are superior to Wooster’s newest store.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Friday, 16 October, 1925
pg 5
Ancient Oldsmobile Refused to Function
The Oldsmobile one-lunger guided by a handle, and with a horn beside the seat, which R.R. Bucher planned to drive in the parade yesterday, balked at being exhibited in public and refused to “march.”
A sign, “Pioneer and Pals” had been fastened on the front and at the rear another sign, “Growing Old Together” would have been relished along the line of March.
“First time she ever refused to go,” Mr. Bucher lamented last evening.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Friday, 16 October, 1925
pg 5
General Wooster Baby
General Wooster Day was observed early at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Reich, Hancock street, where a ten pound boy made his arrival at 3:45 a.m., several hours ahead of schedule.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Friday, 16 October, 1925
pg 7
Today’s Happenings in Orrville
Orrville Represented
In the General Wooster parade on Thursday the Orrville K of P lodge was represented by a beautiful float drawn by two black horses. The float was a very impressive one. The C.A. Wyler Orrville Sales Co. representing the Hudson Essex company, also was entered in the parade. A large truck was used for the designating sign of the company. Many Orrville citizens, though not taking part in the parade, attended the celebration and enjoy it, many declaring it to be one of the best ever witnessed.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Friday, 16 October, 1925
pg 7
Judge Weygandt Praises Wooster’s Celebration
“The parade was the most cleverly executed one I have ever seen,” declared Judge Carl V. Weygandt last night, expressing his sentiment on the city’s General Wooster Day.
“The idea of forming in sections and marching to the square was an entirely new one to me, but it certainly worked out nicely. And gave those in the parade an opportunity to see at least some of the other portions of it.
“I have never seen anything in Wooster any finer than all of today’s celebration, and I think Frank Boigegrain, Walter Whitaker, Mayor Limb, R.P. Crawford and others who bore the burden of arrangements deserve a lot of credit for the way in which this thing was put on.”

Wrecked the Road
Judge Weygandt almost did not get here for the celebration. On his way down, with Mrs. Weygandt and their two sons, his automobile was sideswiped by another on a hill near Strongville. Judge Weygandt was going up the hill in low gear, having been stopped by road repair work at the bottom. Near the top is a curve, and a car coming from the opposite direction skidded on the wet road going around this curve and banged into Judge Weygandt’s car, damaging two fenders and the body. The car, however, was able to proceed to Wooster, after a delay of about half an hour.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Friday, 16 October, 1925
pg 10
Beauty Marks City’s Biggest Street Parade
Spectacle is One of Grandeur, Viewed With Pleasure by Huge Throng.
Yesterday’s General Wooster parade, in the language of the businessman, “went over with a bang,” and produced numerous displays that were of exceptional merit.
Without desiring to detract in any way from any of the floats entered, the Record will take a chance and say that among the outstanding ones were those of the Knight of Pythias, the Oddfellows, Kiwanis, Rotary, Daughters of the American Revolution, Pythian Sisters, The Toykraft Co., The Wooster Brush Co., and the Liberty Flower store. There were many others, some of them probably better than those listed above.

Beautiful Autumn Day
A beautiful autumnal afternoon lent beauty and dignity to the spectacle. After a threatening morning, the sun broke through the clouds during the noon hour exercises in the public square and by the time the parade was started through the business section, the sun was shining brightly, a warm breeze was blowing and the streets and sidewalks were dry and inviting to the thousands who either took part in the inspiring parade or watched the passing events from vantage points on curbs, in windows, in ?, and from other points of full vision of what was transpiring before their eyes. A few drops of rain fell at one stage of the parade, but the cloud quickly passed.
The weather was such that hundreds of people who would have been kept within doors on a stormy afternoon partook of the jollification in the downtown district, grew young and healthy again and for an hour forgot all troubles and aches and pains.
The Wooster Board of Trade band led the South Market street section followed by beautiful floats of the Daughters of the American Revolution and Daughters of Veterans, each of which had costumed ladies aboard. Civil war veterans enjoyed the occasion from comfortable Chrysler sedans furnished by J.M. Gintner. The Women’s Relief Corps. and other patriotic organizations were represented with good floats, each of which showed the result of much painstaking effort. The Wooster Brush Company had one of the really fine floats in the procession, and the Netoppew Campfire Girls displayed themselves in a Reo truck furnished by The Pfaus Reo Co. It was decorated by the girls, and was the only strictly juvenile display in the parade. The Shaeffer-Black Co. gave a display showing what quantities of Food Wooster consumes while the Mingletown Coal company’s display was an elaborate one of many vehicles, featured by Satan himself driving a load of coal labelled “hot stuff.” Milton Long entered a float with a radio that produced music along the line of march.
The American Legion, the Farm Dairies company, The Mougey ice Company, Willis Knight and Overland cars, each with beautiful cars profusely decorated. The Gisinger Mint Julep car had things on that looked good enough to drink. Other fancy cars followed representing the Music Shoppe, ?.E. Burris Dairy Co., Wooster Rubber company, the latter floating a huge balloon. Akron Brass company, Wooster Preserving company with happy girls eating large sized pickles, Bold Star Feeds, Arrow Oil company, Smith Brothers Plumbing and Heading.
The high school band played a lively quickstep for he procession following. Immediately begind the band was a mammoth flag, carried by a number of high school students and was followed by more beautifully decorated automobiles. The William Annat Co., The Weltzel Dry Cleaning company, Nick Amster, McIntire & Nixon, a galaxy of Ford cars some old and others new, the old one having been run 12,000 miles, Freedlanders with a pretentious float carrying laughing costumed young women, the Wooster Hardware company displaying a thatched roof of the house on an auto. Zimmerman’s drug store, The Ideal Dairy, DiScipio Brothers with a lot of boys devouring luscious bananas.
Canton Wright, I.O.O.F. with officers in uniform attracted much attention and considerable applause as did the Knights of Pythias float upon which were stationed the officers in uniform. There followed a float of E.E. Palmer and the Daughters of America float, a pretty conceit well executed with Daughter on the float. The Medal Brick company with gay girls in the auto, Bevington and McCullough, the La Verne Beauty Parlor.
Then came Wooster’s fire station display, led by the old steamer of 1869 vintage, in which steam was kept up during the entire parade and on which the whistle was kept tooting. Then came the ancient hook and ladder and the boys who operated it long ago. The fire fighting equipment was followed by the equipment of the public service department, it being the first time the entire equipment was assembled for public inspection. The old dump cart of the late Andrew O’Brien was attached to the new street flusher, contrasting old and new methods of cleaning streets.
The college band headed the next section and played for the marchers behind. The college’s display was that of Wisdom and it was a very striking float, a tutor giving instructions in wisdom to a pupil. There followed floats put in the parade by Harding and Company, Charles Schmidt insurance, Stuller the fish man, Kiwanis club with “Uncle Sam” on the float, The Wooster Electric company with “Ben Franklin” in a commanding position and with examples of lighting in days past and the present.
The floats following were those of the Rickenbacher auto company, the Oldsmobile, International trucks, J. Frederick and Co., Richard & Wile, Studebaker, Stromberg shock absorbers, Johnston Bros with Hudson and Essex cars, Allis Snyder baker, C.A. Wyre automobile dealer, Orrville, The Evergreen restaurant of Wooster, the M.W. and O. telephone company with a lavish display of material, the Portage Path Camp restaurant float, the Knights of Pythias Orrville and the Rotary club of Wooster, the latter being a beautiful example of art, well conceived and beautifully executed.
The East Liberty street section of the spectacle was led by The Orrville Citizens band, playing stirring music. This organization volunteered its services for the occasion out of courtesy to the Wooster Board of Trade band. The Champion Buick company’s decorated autos were first in line, followed by Mann Bros. Laundry and the Service Plumbing Co., with a contrast of conveniences in 1775 and today, a novelty that provoked much mirth. The Service Lubricating Co., the Pfaus Reo Co., and the Sweet Clover Dairy displays came next, the latter entering its delivery equipment all spiffed up for the occasion, the fine horses, especially attracting attention.
Messmore and Jolliff had a splendidly decorated float a feature being that the wheels, advertising General tires, appeared stationary. Yarman, Orahood and Smith exhibited Nash automobiles, The Wooster Milling & Grain Co, Elliott and Palmer, the Derr Printing Co., and The Gerstenslager Co., came next. The Coppock Motor company’s shiny cars, peopled with costumed ladies provided a decided attraction. The Perkins Structural Steel Co. and The Bauer Mfg. Co., with a float built of ladders were next in line, followed with a house on wheels, with the sign, “You furnish the Girl, We Furnish the Rest” entered by the Danford Co. One of the outstanding floats was that of The Liberty Flower Store, entwined profusely with flowers and smiling ladies within who tossed out roses along the line of march. Hotel Wooster, with one of the Smith youngsters in Colonial dress suit costume mounted on a decorated float was followed by entries by the Carver grocery and Bresson & Bresson coal dealers. The Wayne Electric Co., The Wayne County Realtors with a house, The Empire Milling Co., Chas Scott plumber, The Toykraft Co., with a gayly decorated float and an elephant “walking” on ahead, The Wooster Transfer Co., Mrs. Miller of Honeytown, the Franks Tin Shop, The Wayne Tire Co., and the Wooster Storage Battery Co. completed this section.
In noting the different floats as they passed, the Record’s reporters doubtless missed some of them. If any possible criticism of the parade could be offered, it was that the floats moved too closely together.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 17 October, 1925
pg 1
Masked Parade Will Be Held Tonight
Carnival Features Will End City’s General Wooster Celebration.
The parade of maskers, called off last night by rain, will take place tonight under the auspices of the General Wooster celebration committee, it was announced this morning.
Maskers will mobilize at the armory at 7:30 and will march through down town streets with the Wooster Board of Trade band in the lead.
Prizes, totaling $35, will be awarded for best costumes.
The Board of Trade band will give a concert following the parade, and concessions will operate full swing, all proceeds going to the Wooster Board of Trade band.
Trapeze and high wire artists will give the free acts that were omitted yesterday.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 17 October, 1925
pg 4
Wooster Daily Record

Wooster’s Great Celebration
The present is, probably, too near the General Wooster Day events to draw proper conclusions of the glorious enterprise. Many of the older residents say that the celebration was the biggest ever held in the city and that the industrial parade was far more imposing and pretentious than anything in the city’s past history.
Everyone is pleased to hear the older residents express themselves in this manner because public demonstrations, such as was held this week, live long in memories and if this week’s spectacle had fallen short of former observances, the older people would not have been slow in saying so.
The General Wooster celebration was good for all of Wayne county. The events brought together many friends, old and new, some from a distance, who marveled at the county’s evident prosperity. There is nothing the matter with Wayne county, one of the self-sustaining counties of the commonwealth. It is well that, once a year, the people of the county meet in the county’s capital for a fall festival, enjoy the fruits of their labor in recreation and meet in friendly concourse with friends and strangers, greeting anew the former and welcoming the latter.
Friendship, good-will and co-operation were the outstanding features of the fall festival just closed. Friendship and good-will started the plans for the event and co-operation carried the event to a successful issue. That it was a grand success, there is no doubt. It were well that the event be made an annual affair.
Wayne county is known far and wide for its annual Jackson Day celebration. Why should it not be known similarly for its General Wooster Day and, possibly in future years, for its General Anthony Waynd Day. These are the thoughts that come from reflection on the successful festival of the week. At least they are worthy of consideration.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Saturday, 17 October, 1925
pg 10
They Figure in General Wooster Celebration

Here’s a likeness of Judge Carl V. Weygandt appearing as General Wooster in this week’s celebration. The photos above are those of F.E. Boigegrain, chairman of the committee in charge, and R.P. Crawford, who suggested the General Wooster project. The Record is using them trough the courtesy of the Cleveland Press.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 19 October, 1925
pg 2
Want All Bills For Gen’l Wooster Day
Members of the General Wooster committee request that all bills be sent in very promptly as the committee wants to close up its work. Bills may be mailed to F.E. Boigegrain, W.G. Whitaker of Chas. Adams.

Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday, 19 October, 1925
pg 8
Remove Last Signs Of Big Celebrations
The special stand built on the square last week for the General Wooster celebration, was dismantled and carted away this morning, removing the last traces of the “big week” which ended with Saturday night’s masquerade ball.
Employes of the Wooster Electric company also removed the many special strings of lights used for extra illumination.
Saturday at midnight when the crowd broke away as the supply of confetti was exhausted and the concession stands quit business, members of the committee tackled the task of clearing away the debris. They worked until nearly 2 a.m.
Sunday morning, however, streets were clear of all signs of the celebration except the stand on the square and here and there some decorations. The majority of the decorations, however, were recomed Saturday evening.
Concessions did a fair business on Saturday night, not so rushing as on Thursday night. Committees in charge were still checking up today in the matter of bills, but it was indicated they will have upwards of $500 for the Board of Trade band fund as a result of the venture.

NOTE: The “General Wooster” movement continues for a time.
Wooster Daily Record
Wooster, Ohio
Monday 25 January 1926
pg 3
Gen’l Wooster Drill Team
All Experienced in Military Drill Invited to Join.
Plans are being made whereby the citizens of Wooster and Wayne County will have an opportunity to organize a citizens military drill team to be known as General Wooster’s Own Drill Team. Those behind the movement believe that many men who have in the past received military training will enjoy a winter refresher in the latest tactics of infantry drill.
All those who have had training in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, S.A.T.C., National Guard, O.R.C., C.M.T.C. or fraternal drill teams or other organizations are eligible to try out for a place on this team, and are invited to join the movement.
Those back of the movement are desirous of having constant attendance through the course, which is a purely recreational movement and carries no military obligation. Arrangements have been made to secure equipment without cost to the members of the team.
Plans call for the organization to be under way by Feb. 1st. The committee and all those wishing information about the movement will meet in the council rooms at the City Hall Friday, January 29th, at 7:30 p.m.