William Larwill News Today

Here are interesting facts and firsts from Woosters long history, pulled from past "Bits and Pieces" columns.

Several years ago, former Orrville High School teacher Ned Hostetler wrote about the various U.S. presidents who traveled through Orrville. “The Sept. 7, 1880, edition of the Orrville paper,” Hostetler said, “printed a small item about President Rutherford B. Hays, his wife, Lucy, and General William T. Sherman traveling west through town. About a month later, on Oct. 12, 1880, a small item told about former President Ulysses S. Grant and his wife, Julia, traveling east through Orrville. ...