Newspaper article:Page 1 of Wooster Republican,published in Wooster, Ohio on Wednesday, August 15th, 1894 - December 14 2022
- Article title
- Tuesday August 15 1895 Ought to Be Made a Most Memorable Day for Wooster and Wayne County
- Newspaper title
- Wooster Republican
- Date of publication
- 1894/08/15
- Page number
- 1
- Organization
- Industry
- Other Services > Religious / Grantmaking / Civil / Profession and Similar Organizations
Full text
"Tuesday, August 15, 1895, ought to be made a most memorable day for Wooster and Wayne county, particularly since a happy co-incidence has fixed that date for the beginning of the reunion in this city of the Sherman Brigade. For a far greater event is commemorated on that self same day to wit, the one hundredth anniversary of the organization of Wayne county, then a part of the Northwest territory and long before its five great States were so much as though of. During the present week Defiance, Ohio, has show how great a celebration a city of Wooster's size can accomplish by going about it in the right way. Defiance honored the same man, General Anthony Wayne, who name honors our county and what Defiance did, Wooster can do, and in the same way get up a celebration that for importance and magnitude will be noted throughout the nation as that has been. To properly organize the city and county for such a celebration, the work ought to begin without delay, and the Wooster Board of Trade will prove its value by taking up the matter at once, and pushing the work in both city and county, for this concerns all of Wayne county. To begin with, Senator John Sherman should be secured at once as the speaker for the occasion, both because the boys of his brigade will be here and especially because he has been longer identified with this section as a public servant than any other man. Let Wooster go to work for its greatest, most memorable day."